Local Hour: Wokeatard, You B***h

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz Episode: Local Hour: Wokeatard, You B***h
Release Date: April 10, 2025

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Introduction

In the April 10, 2025 episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, hosts Dan Le Batard and Stugotz delve deep into pressing local and national sports issues, with a particular focus on the controversial figure Tyreek Hill. The episode, part of the daily “Local Hour,” is marked by candid discussions, introspective critiques, and sharp banter among the hosts, providing listeners with a comprehensive look into the intersection of sports, media, and societal values.

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Main Discussion: Tyreek Hill - A Double-Edged Star

Tyreek Hill’s Troubling Behavior

The core of the episode revolves around Tyreek Hill, a star player for the Miami Dolphins, whose on-field prowess is overshadowed by off-field controversies. Stugotz initiates the conversation by expressing deep concerns about Hill's repeated issues:

Stugotz [07:51]: "Tyreek Hill. Like, this is a moral one, isn't it? Just trading, like, all of your convictions about what an athlete should be as a person in exchange for very obvious speed..."

Stugotz criticizes the media and the sports industry for overlooking Hill's problematic behavior, emphasizing the dangers Hill poses to women and children.

Media Complicity and Image Laundering

The hosts examine how media outlets, including their own show, have contributed to lauding Hill despite his misconduct:

Stugotz [08:08]: "But look at what it forgives. What the speed forgives is pretty brutal, isn't it?... We made him a star here."

He admits to having previously celebrated Hill’s athletic abilities while neglecting to address his personal failings adequately.

Self-Reflection and Apologies

Stugotz takes a moment for self-reflection, acknowledging his role in normalizing Hill’s image:

Stugotz [10:31]: "Mike, I'm looking in a mirror here and I do not like what I see... I have not talked like this about him and it's easier to do when he's not that good anymore."

This introspection leads to a more profound apology, where Stugotz openly condemns his past actions:

Stugotz [35:19]: "I want to apologize to everyone in America and beyond for normalizing Tyreek Hill with the Miami Dolphins at that F1 race where I took a picture with him."

He expresses regret over aiding in Hill's image laundering and acknowledges the broader implications of such actions within the sports media landscape.

Greg Cody's Insights

Greg Cody joins the conversation, reinforcing the sentiment that the media and sports industry have low standards regarding athletes' personal conduct:

Greg Cody [32:21]: "But that is also a, you know, the responsibility of the league and of the Dolphins to make choices about what kind of people they sign and of what kind of people play in the league."

Cody highlights the systemic issues that allow athletes with troubling histories to ascend to stardom without adequate accountability.

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Broader Reflections on Sports Media and Society

Evolving Societal Standards

Mike Ryan articulates the challenges contemporary media faces in balancing athletic performance with personal misconduct:

Mike Ryan [12:42]: "I don't know if Greg wrote the Go get him column for Tyreek Hill, but Greg is a longtime columnist that has covered this team... Not every generation has been faced with these kinds of moral conundrums."

He underscores the unique pressures modern media faces due to heightened transparency and societal expectations.

Impact of Social Media

The hosts discuss how social media has amplified scrutiny on athletes, making personal misconduct more visible and harder to ignore:

Tony [12:56]: "It's always been bad to abuse women."

Mike Ryan [13:25]: "Because of the nature, we didn't have the same kind of access. So I do think that our generation is faced with a particularly unique challenge with how transparent and visible these things are."

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Notable Quotes

• Stugotz [07:51]: "Tyreek Hill. Like, this is a moral one, isn't it? Just trading, like, all of your convictions about what an athlete should be as a person in exchange for very obvious speed..."

• Stugotz [10:31]: "Mike, I'm looking in a mirror here and I do not like what I see... I have not talked like this about him and it's easier to do when he's not that good anymore."

• Greg Cody [32:21]: "But that is also a, you know, the responsibility of the league and of the Dolphins to make choices about what kind of people they sign and of what kind of people play in the league."

• Mike Ryan [12:42]: "I do know that to be true... athletes take over and athletes get the power everywhere because they can turn on a microphone and their fandom is huge."

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Conclusion

The episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz serves as a critical examination of the complex relationship between sports celebrity, media portrayal, and societal responsibility. Through candid admissions and thoughtful discussions, the hosts challenge both themselves and their audience to reconsider how athletes with problematic histories are celebrated in the media. The conversation around Tyreek Hill becomes a microcosm for broader issues within the sports industry, highlighting the need for integrity and accountability in both athletic performance and personal conduct.

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Final Thoughts

Listeners are left with an introspective look into the ethical dilemmas faced by sports media professionals and the importance of holding athletes accountable beyond their on-field achievements. The episode encourages a reevaluation of how fame and athleticism can sometimes overshadow critical personal behaviors, urging a more balanced and conscientious approach to sports journalism.

Transcript

[Dan Le Batard]

The kids are still at practice, and.

[Stugotz]

I have no idea what's for dinner.

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[Stugotz]

Who said that? Who's in my house?

[Dan Le Batard]

Don't play with me. Cause I'm not the one.

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[Greg Cody]

Oh, okay.

[Stugotz]

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[Stugotz]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Stugotz]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Stugotz]

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[Stugotz]

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[Stugotz]

Cuervo. This is the Don Levator show with the Stugats podcast. There are three things locally here, great things locally that I want to talk about that were content rich yesterday. And I also want to talk about everything that happened with Luca, because that's like, how great sports and stories can be and why. Why sports grab us that way. But I have to start with how yesterday's show ended with Stugots. The show ends and Stugatz looks at me and says, I think I'm going to miss tomorrow. I'm getting sick. This was after in the last segment, him loudly rummaging through his bag for lozenges because he's falling apart. After, I think, seven or eight months off and two days in to his heroic return, he says two things. One, I don't think I'm coming in tomorrow. I don't feel well. And two, I will never forgive you for not getting to Greg Cody's topic that he loves to clean toilets.

[Jessica]

Wow.

[Stugotz]

And then today he comes in because he's like, I had to come in play through sickness because I need to get to that Greg Cody likes to clean toilet story and Masters week Dano. But then right before the show starts, he's not feeling well. And he walks out again. So he's not here right now, but he will be. He'll be returning shortly. I'm confident of that. Right. He would not drive all the way over here and then just drive home sick. Correct. He's inefficient, but he's not that inefficient.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't know. It's kind of weird. I mean, is he just gonna be watching the show like Nico did the entire Lakers game last night?

[Stugotz]

See if you can just.

[Mike Ryan]

From a tunnel.

[Stugotz]

See if you can find him in the gar. If he's smoking a cigarette while trying to get healthy, or see if you can find him in the eating area. He's around here somewhere. And there are three good local stories to get to. Tony, thank you for looking for him that I didn't see him. There was a comprehensive one.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, we got. We have cameras.

[Jessica]

We got cameras.

[Tony]

I mean, it's just more eyes on than anything. Just making sure I don't.

[Stugotz]

You know, so.

[Mike Ryan]

Real gumshoe before.

[Stugotz]

Before we get to any of it, though. Okay. Because I really do want to talk about that. Lucas. Stories where we're losing the stories and a guy that we don't actually really know because he's from another country. Dallas knows him, but that we don't actually know. Wiping tears from his eyes because he's still crying after scoring, and then goes for 45. Like, I. I really do want to talk about this in a way that is, like, man, sports are the best. But before we get in to enter Miami and before we get to Tyler Herro, taking. Taking a bad shot. That's a great shot. It's a bad shot that I love. Shot.

[Jessica]

Yeah, it's a bad shot because he missed it.

[Stugotz]

Okay. But I just love it that the sport is there now, that it's like, no, I know. We got to get. And we all sort of understood, yeah, take. The open.

[Greg Cody]

Sport is not there, by the way. This office is there. The rest of the world was like, come on. Why did you take that shot?

[Mike Ryan]

Contextually, I think if you. The shot that he made right before that, it was like, oh, he's feeling it. He's heating up. And so, like, he gets an uncontested pull up three after forcing a turnover. You're like, okay, it's kind of like. It's kind of like the Jimmy Butler situation, which. With a much worse player pulling up in a three in Chicago, I could have been waking up from a coma three years ago and been informed that the Miami Heat have A huge regular season game that determines play in seeding against the Chicago Bulls at this exact moment in time for three consecutive years. I could have repeated that process and nothing would have changed.

[Stugotz]

My, my. Well, I'm going to get to that story because, like, there are three meaty ones here locally, because inter Miami, we've got the best soccer player in the world here, and it should be like, really celebrated all the time. Not. Not, you know, yesterday's topic where I'm looking at David Sampson and he's telling me how not important Luis Suarez is in Miami and he's just not qualified to talk about any of these things.

[Mike Ryan]

White guy, secret sauce.

[Tony]

By the way, Dan, Secret sauce made a huge, huge statement in the national championship game.

[Stugotz]

I will get to these other stories, but I wanted to begin with the plague that is Tyree Kill. And this is convenient for me to do this now, I will admit it, because I've spent a couple of years celebrating, oh, he's fast and great, and he's also dangerous to women and children. Has been almost the entire time we've known him. And maybe there's a he said, she said of some sort in another incident involving Tyree Kill. And I'm guessing, by the way, that if he's getting caught this much, he's probably not getting caught every time something like this happens. So you can go, he said, she said. But the man has proven to be dangerous to women and children, and we've known it for a long time. Like, that part has not been any kind of secret. We've forgiven it because he's fast and great at football and he rose right to the top of football and he's a menace who. Even if there's another side to what happened this time, what about all the other times that you just can't be trusted to be mature, not reckless, foolish. And it happened so much that I'm embarrassed by the way we've covered him in retrospect, because this happening again with an actual baby, a laptop thrown, allegedly, wife filing for divorce, kind of on the spot, bruise on her chest. Don't know how it got there. None of you were surprised by any of those details? Not a one. You believe all of them and you wonder what's being hidden there. And while he was wronged outside the stadium before a game, you've seen him and heard about him enough around women and children that you know him to be dangerous and reckless in all facets of his life. Like, you know enough information about why is there a fire at his house, why like, there's just a general recklessness there that I'm assuming will get him traded soon and he will get a fresh start somewhere else. Because as important as he is to the Miami Dolphins that sports hard, there's a lot of miles on that. And last year looked like the future of Tyree Kill. And what does he look like if he's not faster than everyone else in the league? Does everyone allow him to play despite him being dangerous to women and children?

[Jessica]

Yeah, there's a lot to unpack there. His trade value, I think, is cratering because of his age, because of the incidents that you mentioned. Because of the bad season he's coming off where his speed no longer seemed extraordinary the year before. It did last year. It didn't.

[Stugotz]

But look at what it forgives. What the speed forgives is pretty brutal, isn't it? Yes. Like, I know. I know I'm woke and moralist guy. And, yeah, I'm here to show you all my virtue. I know. But. But. And I'm telling you, on the front end, I've covered this person poorly. Like, obviously poorly. And it started as soon as he got here. Right. There was supposed to be a trade. He was going to get here to become a star. He was going to do our podcast. I was going to do his. Sure. That'd be great. That'd be lovely. I'm also going to ask some questions about these things. Oh, never mind. Welcome to how media and athletes interact as athletes take over and athletes get the power everywhere because they can turn on a microphone and their fandom is huge. And welcome to the trades all the media will make to buy all of the athletes who have all of those microphones and run off the people who were on television telling you woke. And Disney's woke morally, man. Tyreek Hill. Like, this is a moral one, isn't it? Just trading, like, all of your convictions about what an athlete should be as a person in exchange for very obvious speed so overt to the eye it can't be denied. Night faster than anyone in the league. Forgives everything. Forgives bruises on your wife's chest as she files for divorce. And I say all of this like it's allegedly yesterday, but we could do this. We know all of this is true. Like, he's dangerous, but we have enough information. We don't. He can keep trying to. He can keep trying to rehabilitate himself and football and sports will enable him because we made him a star here. You think ego and immaturity is going to go down when we make You a star.

[Mike Ryan]

Even when you include the times where the perception is he was wrong, even when we've kind of deduced no, he was wronged in this instance, there is still a pattern of behavior that you can't ignore. Constantly being found in bad situations, even when he's innocent. Like things like his house catching on fire while he's a victim there. You wonder what is going on in this life? What does this person's life look like? And it's been the case before you acquired him. And it's been ever present while he was here, while he was being voted by his peers to be the top player in the league. It is curious, though, that the Flames seem to get higher the second that arrow starts pointing down. And I'm just saying that.

[Stugotz]

Agreed. And I'm guilty of it.

[Mike Ryan]

As someone that's riding sidecar here on this dolphin.

[Stugotz]

Mike, I'm looking in a mirror here and I do not like what I see. Like, I have not talked like this about him and it's easier to do when he's not that good anymore. Like, I feel like an asshole too. I'm not even sitting here. I'm not hitting you with self righteous here.

[Mike Ryan]

Like you're owning up to it, but what naysayers will say is like you're owning up to it now. Awfully convenient when he's dipping buddy, but.

[Stugotz]

That'S what the moral conundrum is. And you sat out the Deshaun Watson Browns, and that's. I was amazed that you did it. You made a moral stand and you made it publicly. And you were right. I didn't do it that way. I. Well, this is. This is part of the problem, is it? Not like that even a voice like me, allegedly progressive, will. Will dance on the line of wherever it is that you find. Well, he really helps my team. He makes me feel good. He's interesting to cover a regional team for 25 years that hasn't won a playoff game in a longer drought than anyone but the Raiders, a team I've seen over the course of Greg Cody and my lifetime go from the winningest franchise in sports, a source of pride throughout the country, to a regional sports team that does not matter at all, at all nationally and does it for a quarter century.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm just trying to speak for parts of the audience, though. I made the decision that I made with Deshaun Watson and the Cleveland Browns. I have plenty of friends that were Browns fans that continue to tough it out. I don't judge them at all. I don't Judge anybody that has a Tyreek Hill jersey. I really don't. I know it's complicated in all facets of life, in art and in sports, you're gonna be faced with these conundrums, and you're gonna be hypocritical with a lot of them. Not every generation has been faced with these kinds of moral conundrums as pendulums in society swing. It's a complicated thing. I don't really fault anybody for it. I would say that we could have deduced from allegations, convictions, deals that were made, suspensions, reporting. That's been done even before he entered the league, while he was still in college. We could deduce this guy ain't great. He's not a good guy. He's certainly a good football player. He's an elite football player. But that's something that every Dolphin fan or football fan has to deal with on their own.

[Tony]

I think, Mike, I think every generation has had bad athletes. It's just now the rise of social media. Now the rise of the media, you can open your phone and see them tweeting or them putting up a podcast.

[Mike Ryan]

Societal sensitivities have also shifted, too.

[Jessica]

Sure.

[Tony]

But I'm sure there was a lot of bad guys.

[Greg Cody]

It's always been bad to abuse women.

[Mike Ryan]

No, no, no. I understand that. And, like, our knowledge of it has been, like, totally, to Tony's point, with social media has been way amplified. There were guys that I was rooting for on the COVID of Sports Illustrated that had that stuff surrounding them that I just flatly didn't know had that kind of stuff surrounding them. Because of the nature, we didn't have the same kind of access. So I do think that our generation is. Is faced with a particularly unique challenge with how transparent and visible these things are.

[Jessica]

Well, this goes back to college, of course, with Tyrique abusing women and recidivism. Recitus. Recidivism. What's the word? Recidivism.

[Mike Ryan]

That's a tough one.

[Jessica]

That's a tough one. It happens. It happens. Right? It's a real thing. It's why people who are in jail tend to go back to jail, you know, and he gets no benefit of doubt now that that's the only thing I feel a little bit uncomfortable about now, when his house catches on fire, that's not necessarily him doing a bad thing. Last year, before the season opener, when the cops stop him and he's in handcuffs before the Dolphins game because of his past, you assume that he did something wrong. That's the first instinct. It turns out he didn't. The cops apparently were overly aggressive in this case here. His wife files for divorce. He apparently did something wrong, but we're looking with a magnifier at this. Okay. There's usually two sides to a divorce. I'm not apologizing for whatever he did or whatever his, his wife says he did, but because of his past, he gets no benefit of doubt. I'm not saying he should, but that's the situation he's in and that's a situation that he's built for himself.

[Stugotz]

If I may, in the middle of what Greg Cody said there again, his voice is a disaster.

[Jessica]

I got my. I got my water somehow better today though. I got my waterwork.

[Stugotz]

He tried to say recidivism didn't do it correctly, but also didn't define it for the audience. Really. So it was just word said poorly that many people don't know. Oh, just really poor communication, straight word, all those.

[Tony]

I was like, whoa, where'd that come from?

[Louis]

Very breathy.

[Stugotz]

It is the inability to stop being a serial offender or mistake maker.

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

If you're a recidivist. So I know you know, it's obvious and right, but it may not be.

[Jessica]

Yeah, I thought it was a common word.

[Stugotz]

Put it on the poll at Lebitage show. Do. Do you know the word recidivist and.

[Jessica]

Can you pronounce it?

[Louis]

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[Jessica]

What do I got here I got a Magnum condom. We won't get that out.

[Stugotz]

That's shocking. Stugats.

[Jessica]

Here's a picture of Christopher when he was like, three years old.

[Stugotz]

Right next to the condom.

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

Forever.

[Mike Ryan]

Never forget.

[Stugotz]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugach. The thing that I wanted to go back on is just in the middle of everything that you just said. And honest to God, it would be dark funny if it weren't the opposite of that. Just the phrase when his house catches fire. Like, just in the middle. In the middle of what has been Tyreek Hill's time here, there's a house catching fire. And we're all like, yeah, does look like something that could happen to him.

[Mike Ryan]

Even when there isn't. Like, even when there isn't foul play. There's weird things surrounding this guy's life. IG influencer injuring herself while he's doing. While they're doing football drills, breaking her leg, Right? Yeah. House catching on fire and getting pulled over and handcuffed before a game. There's just an undeniably weird, strange pattern of behavior. And that's the stuff that isn't technically breaking the law.

[Stugotz]

Okay. And it's also the stuff that's spilling out into public. Right. The house has to catch fire before, you know it's on fire on the inside. Like, we all get to see it once it catches fire. But let's just examine for a moment everything in the last four years as the Kansas City Chiefs let this person go and lost wildly exciting offense. This person, when he was in Kansas City said, we're going to win seven championships. And we could see it from there. Like, if you're going to play offense like that, and Tyree Kill is always going to be behind the defense, and Travis Kelce is going to become that. Tyree Kill leaves to become a star here and does so and does so with a great deal of cheerleading locally from the starved fans and journalists who were very excited to have a football team matter. And so in the places where the system falls on the woman, because I told you Anna Kendrick has done a great movie, a horror flick on Netflix, that the great danger to women by far is just men. Just the way that we are clumsy and violent and repressed and damaged and everything that you've seen happen in this country between men and women, when it doesn't really seem like men love women, it feels like a lot of times men hate women. Domestic abuse is an enormous problem throughout our country. And Tyree Kill, somebody that we knew, Mike just said Not a good guy. Do you know how infrequently sports television does not have that sports radio does? Good guy, bad guy. Like, just say, that's a bad person, a bad human being. Like, that's not something you see a lot in sports coverage coming in here. We were all part of Tyreek Hill's cleanup. And when I say we, you two max. Like, you two max. You cleaned up Tyree Kill on Hard Knocks for us because you told the story of, oh, look at how lovely it is with him and his wife and how beautiful it is that he's married. And nowhere do you see when he's on a livestream saying, if in another life he'd be a porn star, he really wants to be a porn star. That this.

[Mike Ryan]

And a police officer.

[Stugotz]

This is a person. This is a person that we have seen all of this play out in public. He has become a star. He's become a star in Miami. He represents the city and he represents this city this shitty.

[Mike Ryan]

And he's one of the few guys that have been subject to. I don't even know if Greg wrote the Go get him column for Tyreek Hill, but Greg is a longtime columnist that has covered this team. You know how infrequently the big swing for the major NFL proven superstar never really connects for the Miami Dolphins, it never fails in this market. Rallied around him after that electric first season. And they, they were convinced of all the. The NFL films whitewashing of this is a changed man and all that, because they were really excited to have someone like that. They had never really had someone like that outside of Ricky Williams. Tyreek Hill is one of the very few superstars that came over here and somehow got better, right?

[Jessica]

I mean, it had been since Dan Marino where the Dolphins actually had a guy who you go, this is the best player in the league at his position. We have what everybody else wants. That was Tyree Kill after the first season. And at that time, it's almost a feel good story in the sense that, okay, he had these problems when he was pretty young in college. It's been a few years. Now he seems to be clean. We're going to forgive, right? We're going to forgive.

[Stugotz]

He had problems on the Chiefs too. Look, look, look. We laundered him. Come on, man. Come on. Like Miami did some, some laundering here. We know what this is. It's fast. We like it. It makes us feel good. We'll snort it. We'll snort it. He makes the team as. Holy shit. The boy genius on the sideline look what happens when you got a fast guy who's faster than everyone else and he gets arrested outside the stadium and he's knocking over people on a boat and he's in. He's careening wildly through Miami.

[Louis]

Forgot about the boat.

[Tony]

Back of the head slap.

[Jessica]

Yes.

[Mike Ryan]

There's so many.

[Jessica]

That's true.

[Stugotz]

No. We laugh.

[Mike Ryan]

No.

[Stugotz]

But no, look, I'm. I don't know how to do this correctly without telling you that I am embarrassed looking back at the last three years.

[Louis]

Should we get you a mirror?

[Stugotz]

Yes, please. You know what?

[Tony]

A rear view mirror.

[Stugotz]

No, no. Get me. No, I want to. I want to look in the mirror and be disgusted by myself. Right. You put a mirror right here so in front of the camera so I could just stare at myself in public self loathing and explain to you just how embarrassed I. By what this show has done. I'd like to hear from Jessica on this because I have felt times talking about this that I am not strong enough. And I have felt that she has been maybe gentle in allowing our show to, to on Tyreek Hill specifically to let some stuff go that was that. It felt from where I was standing, like that would land on you as like, oh, these guys don't actually know how to talk about this.

[Louis]

I agree.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah. I mean, not everyone in Miami was thrilled about that signing. I think a lot of people, especially in the media, like to wash over the numerous problems that he had before he came here and just say, like, well, that's in the past now. You know, they never found him guilty of this or that, whatever. But that is also, I think, a, you know, the responsibility of the league and of the Dolphins to make choices about what kind of people they sign and of what kind of people play in the league. And time and time again, it appears, as we've seen with other athletes like DeSean Watson, there's a pretty low bar. Like, there's a pretty low bar you have to clear and then you can come back and play again and people will buy your jersey and cheer for you. So I don't know what there is really to say other than that, like, yeah, a lot of people do not respect women. They don't respect their safety. They don't respect their health. And so here, here we are. And this is not just a football problem. This is a problem in our country. It is a major, major issue. I don't want to get too political, but I mean, you look at all of the things that have happened in this country, especially in the last two years, it's not a country that respects women.

[Stugotz]

And there I feel complicit for however progressive you deem me as wolcotard. And there I feel, honest to God, in retrospect, as insufficient ally and getting caught up in all the same bullshit that we always do in sports. And you and I are veterans, Greg. Like, look, to whatever degree this can be, this can look and feel like grandstanding, of course, but Miami can't be proud that that represents it. Like, wherever it is, your sports allegiances lie. Really, We've got a guy in our huddle who just simply. I mean, I'm not being flammable on rhetoric. He's dangerous to women and children. But in moralizing like that, and I'm sure I annoy a whole bunch of people, and somehow what Jessica said was political. You tell me how it was political. I know how it's become political, but that ain't political. What she just did. We beat our women in America. Domestic abuse is a problem. Louis, I appreciate you trying the mirror look. No, no, please. I like this around serious subject matter. So let's just. Let's just show everybody what happened there. Because, Chris, Cody, I see you trying to produce the show, but I also see Louis in here with a mirror crawling around on the ground.

[Mike Ryan]

We got the shot. I mean, the optics are. Might be problematic anyway.

[Stugotz]

Just put the mirror.

[Mike Ryan]

Because it may appear like we're making light of this.

[Stugotz]

I know, I understand, but this is where we are. This is where we are. Don't clip this.

[Louis]

Yeah, talk to yourself.

[Stugotz]

Take a good look. Yes, this is me talking to me here. It's not even talking to the rest of the room. I'm not talking to Jessica because I don't even want to look at her. I can't look her in the eye like.

[Greg Cody]

Well, you never have been able to do that.

[Stugotz]

Whoa, she ain't wrong. I've got a mirror that's sort of in front of me, so this is close enough. All right, listen here, Levittart Wokitard. You. You've spent the last 25 years of your career looking publicly like an advocate for people viewed as lesser, crying for equality and whimpering every time somebody tells you, get off your high horse. You're self righteous. You're. You're out here virtue signaling for profit.

[Jessica]

Yeah, don't look at me. Look in the mirror.

[Stugotz]

Virtue signaling for profit. Thank you. You coach me here. This is the way to do it. Yeah, I like the right point. You know what? I do a lot of time blaming you guys for things While not being able to look Jessica in the eye. But I'm going to look right at me here. I have failed Miami as a journalist and gatekeeper like Greg Cody. Greg Cody, who advocated for a baseball stadium that made David Sampson very rich because it served Greg Cody in the content business. Tyreek Hill is good for business for one year. We're in business locally. South Florida sports have stunk for a really long time. We don't get to be nationally relevant at anything. Why do you think we're so obnoxious about the Heat and still caring about a Tyler Hero shot 79 games in to a playoff playing game? Because the last 15 years have been desolate, except for this one thing. And the Dolphins have always been. This has been a football town taken over by basketball. But the moment. Football is good. The moment. I'm sorry, I keep talking to you. I got to talk to myself.

[Jessica]

Falling out of the mirror.

[Stugotz]

All right. I'm falling out of the character Lebiton Wolkitard. Thank you, Louis. You bitch.

[Jessica]

Yeah, more finger pointing.

[Greg Cody]

I don't know if you should call yourself a bitch in this specific scenario.

[Stugotz]

Well, I thought that part was funnier. No, it was. Thank you, Louis. Your judgment is very solid. From behind the mirror.

[Greg Cody]

Point proven.

[Stugotz]

I. I don't like my allies here. I like it, too, but you. I like them. Me? No, I'm pointing at the mirror.

[Louis]

What did I do?

[Stugotz]

I'm pointing at the mirror here. When I said. I said. I said. I said allies, and it made me laugh. And I was looking for the ally joke, but Jess has me shook because now I don't know whether I can say or not.

[Greg Cody]

You should just call yourself a. Instead.

[Stugotz]

Finally.

[Jessica]

This.

[Stugotz]

All right, hold on. I'm going to take another crack at this.

[Louis]

The mirror's gone. Oh, you need the mirror back.

[Stugotz]

We got.

[Louis]

We got rid of the mirror.

[Mike Ryan]

We'll get the mirror back.

[Jessica]

Yeah, look in the metaphorical mirror.

[Stugotz]

Where'd the mirror go?

[Tony]

You gotta do a fake mirror, more like.

[Mike Ryan]

No, no, no. We gotta do the mirror.

[Stugotz]

Can I. Can I get some producing on this so I could do it?

[Mike Ryan]

Well, yeah, I'm just hoping Greg talks for a little bit so I can feed you lines in your ear.

[Stugotz]

All right, hold on. All right, hold on.

[Jessica]

Fingerprints on it.

[Stugotz]

Hold on. Don't clip this. Don't clip this. Thank you. Lewis.

[Mike Ryan]

There are fingerprints it's impossible to hide on. Lewis. It's all right.

[Jessica]

Plus, there's a distracting sticker on the upper right corner of the mirror. Kind of an operation you guys run around here, Louis, just be the prop.

[Stugotz]

What are you laughing about?

[Jessica]

Look, I can filibuster on this for a second if you want to give Mike a chance. To give you lines, I. When. When. When the Dolphins signed for. Signed trader for Tyree Kill, I wrote a column, probably predictable, as you all might say, approving of the trade, cheering the trade, while also noting in the column, this guy's got a little bit of baggage.

[Louis]

I can't believe you would do that.

[Jessica]

Okay, he's got baggage, and we all knew it. And, you know, America is all about second chances and forgiveness. We love to think of ourselves as a country, as a people who give second chances. As a small example, in the Masters tournament beginning this week at Augusta, there's a player in the field, a former champion who just got out of jail. He spent two years in prison for abusing women. Okay? That makes him a bad guy to a lot of people. And in reality, this guy did time. But does he deserve a second chance? Does he deserve to be in the Masters field? And there's controversy about. About that right now in golf. It's the same thing with Tyreek Hill. He's a troubled person, okay? I don't know if that makes him a bad person. You know, we. A year ago, everybody loved Tyreek Hill, okay? We were overlooking a lot of stuff. And now, in the context of him coming off a bad season that suddenly makes him seem like an old retread player. This is magnified. What just happened? Okay? He's going through a divorce. I feel bad for him. I feel bad for anybody going through a divorce. But this is the bed he made. This is.

[Stugotz]

Well, speaking of the bed.

[Jessica]

I'm not apologizing.

[Stugotz]

Speaking of the bed he made. And thank you for the filibuster. I don't know how many kids he has by how many women, but it is fair to anyone who's saying that I am now choosing the perfect time to drag someone at minimum value. I understand your criticism. Let me get to my public apology for my part in this wolkotard. You. I want to apologize to everyone in America and beyond for normalizing Tyreek Hill with the Miami Dolphins at that F1 race where I took a picture with him. I wish to also apologize to my wife for the clothes I wore that day. I am culpable in helping launder Tyree Kill to Miami, the laundering capital of the world, and to sports. And I do have to also apologize to Mike Ryan, the greatest producer in the history of producing, for telling me immediately after taking that photo with Tyree Kill. This is probably going to age very poorly.

[Jessica]

The clothes.

[Stugotz]

But Aaron Jones didn't get in any trouble. Aaron Jones. I took a picture with him, too. That's the one that haunts me. Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

We were smart to not post the Tyree Kill one all that much.

[Greg Cody]

Almost like you knew it maybe wasn't a good look.

[Tony]

Oh, yeah, the outfit.

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Tony]

The white shirt with those black shorts and those.

[Greg Cody]

It was a bad look.

[Mike Ryan]

The shoes were too high.

[Greg Cody]

You can't wear a white undershirt as a regular shirt.

[Mike Ryan]

It was, like, blousy, but also snug. I don't know how you pulled that off.

[Jessica]

Just terrible.

[Stugotz]

I. I don't know that I've ever been more embarrassed by that. I'm not even kidding you. Like, I'm thinking back to what that outfit was, and it's just because it was oppressively hot and I needed to wear basketball shorts and something that wasn't hot. Because F1, you didn't need to wear basketball shorts.

[Jessica]

Shorts playing basketball.

[Stugotz]

But I had never thought for a moment, like, I don't know how it escaped my attention that this was a fashion pop culture event that you cannot dress that way for. Like, I. I don't know why it is I was wearing clothes that I would have gone and played pickup basketball in.

[Mike Ryan]

Formula one was Talladega.

[Stugotz]

I don't know how it escaped my attention that that Formula one was not Homestead, because that I'd be. I'd be fine dressed that way for Homestead.

[Jessica]

Well, you couldn't get on pit row. They require long pants and hard shoes.

[Mike Ryan]

The F. They do at Homestead, don't they?

[Jessica]

NASCAR does. You can't get on pit row in short pants. Look it up.

[Mike Ryan]

Not gonna look at me, Louie, but short pants. I was on pit road a couple weeks ago.

[Stugotz]

All right?

[Mike Ryan]

That was not going on.

[Stugotz]

All right, I wasn't. But hold on a second. Okay, so now I'm looking at this picture and I'm realizing, oh, my God, like, I was feeling so fat. And so that was also my blousy. That was my blousy gear.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, but at least you're not the dude picking your wedgie.

[Stugotz]

That guy. That guy.

[Jessica]

Who is that? Is that Ryan Tannehill?

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. Wait, that is the dude from snl.

[Louis]

It is behind Dan's shoulder. It looks like him.

[Mike Ryan]

I think so.

[Louis]

It also looks like Daniel Tosh, but it's not Daniel Tosh, but it is.

[Stugotz]

The guy picking a wedgie.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. The only in date guy.

[Tony]

Marcelo.

[Louis]

That looks like Marcelo.

[Mike Ryan]

Zoom in on that.

[Tony]

Zoom in on that. Let's see.

[Louis]

That was before he was like, even. This is years ago, right? This is before snl.

[Mike Ryan]

That's a good catch, Dan.

[Louis]

He's looking at you. He's like, that's Dan lebaton.

[Jessica]

That is nice glasses.

[Mike Ryan]

Good catch, Chris.

[Louis]

Look at that.

[Stugotz]

Look at that wrinkled collar.

[Louis]

It's Domingo.

[Stugotz]

Look at that wrinkled collar.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, the collar's a disaster.

[Stugotz]

Oh, my God.

[Jessica]

It really is awful. But I love the fact that you're holding a water bottle as a prop to imply I take care of myself despite what I'm looking.

[Louis]

Daniel Tosh looked like for sure picking a wedgie.

[Stugotz]

This is like the inception of mirrors. Like, I'm.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm looking crazy photos.

[Tony]

No, that's Tosh. That's Tosh. Hold on.

[Mike Ryan]

Not.

[Louis]

That was one of, like, we knew that guy.

[Jessica]

A young Ryan Tanner.

[Mike Ryan]

That was a contact at Red Bull, but it's not Tosh.

[Stugotz]

Wow.

[Mike Ryan]

What a time capsule of a photo.

[Louis]

What a time.

[Stugotz]

Where's Stugat?

[Mike Ryan]

Do you think he planned to just sit out the Tyreek Hill segment?

[Louis]

Do you tell him where you were starting and that's why you left?

[Stugotz]

No, no, no, I don't. Do we have cameras outside? Do we have.

[Tony]

I still don't see him. I walked by.

[Stugotz]

Is his car still there?

[Mike Ryan]

Well, what's his car?

[Greg Cody]

You tell us.

[Mike Ryan]

Which loaner courtesy vehicle did he pull up in today? I'll go outside, see if I see a decal somewhere that says.

[Stugotz]

Wait, wait.

[Greg Cody]

How would we have more information on this than you.

[Stugotz]

Hold on. Well, wait a minute. Hold on. So hold on. What do you mean? How. Mike, hold on a second. I want to get a camera crew with you in tow. I want for you to do a live investigation of wherever it is that Stugatz is. If he is still in the building, I do not know where he is. I don't think he would get so sick that he would. That he would get here on Masters week and then leave again. I think he's going to do the show with us today. That's a long drive that he made.

[Jessica]

Yeah. I love that he planned a sickness, though, that he told you yesterday. I think I feel a sickness coming on.

[Stugotz]

I thought it was to avoid the drive, though. I didn't think it was to. I didn't think it was to drive here and then go home. But when Jessica says, you tell us no. I don't know if Stugatz is coming back or not, but I thought he was just stepping out for a minute. And so I'd like Mike Ryan to do an investigation to see where it is. Stugatz is. I don't think it's. I didn't tell him anything about Tyreek Hill. Well, we didn't talk about the show at all before it started today. So what do you.

[Greg Cody]

What did you talk about?

[Stugotz]

We talked about whether or not he wanted to work this morning.

[Louis]

Yeah, he looked like he was sick.

[Greg Cody]

Well, that could give us some clues about where he went.

[Mike Ryan]

He also did the thing where he messed up shaving, and so he had to shave the entirety of his face.

[Louis]

Not a good look.

[Mike Ryan]

I fell for him.

[Louis]

I'm getting this sign from the other room. Like, I don't think he's here anymore.

[Jessica]

Whoa. Really?

[Mike Ryan]

Let me check it out.

[Jessica]

Controversy.

[Louis]

And for the audio audience, I'm doing the throat where you're like, no, not happening.

[Jessica]

I did hear tires screeching outside the studio.

[Louis]

It's a loud parking garage. You hear every. Yeah, every time you turn, people go.

[Tony]

Around that corner way too fast.

[Louis]

It's also squeaky. It's. The ground is squeaky, though. I don't think they're going as fast as it sounds.

[Greg Cody]

It's the people that hit the corner going 45 and honk instead of slowing down for me.

[Jessica]

They should be arrested, those people.

[Louis]

It's extreme.

[Jessica]

Is it?

[Louis]

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