The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz XX
[0] You're listening to Giraffe Kings Network.
[1] Five, four, three, two, one.
[2] Greg tapping to start the post.
[3] Greg, are you tapping?
[4] What are you typing so eagerly right now?
[5] What is in your throat?
[6] It's a fine Venmo.
[7] If I'm being truthful I was Trying to get off my plate a loose end.
[8] Again with a loose end.
[9] A quick text, Miami Herald related, but I apologize.
[10] I didn't know that my soft typing was audible.
[11] I didn't know that lunch was still in my throat.
[12] My forgiveness, please, I solicit your forgiveness for being disgusting.
[13] It's a piece of chicken with a little pita.
[14] We didn't have very much time here.
[15] A lot of people are sick.
[16] It's a lot of excuse making.
[17] Sugats' mom died.
[18] God Bless Football is on Radio Row and part of the celebration.
[19] We'll be bringing in Pablo Torre.
[20] David Sampson, every reinforcement that Metal Ark has so that over the next three days you get maximum Super Bowl coverage.
[21] Juju, I made a terrible mistake earlier in the show, and I promised something here that puts you in a terribly awkward position.
[22] So before I put Jeremy's work in front of you and ask you for an honest appraisal of that work, I want to acknowledge what the awkward position is, and I will offer on the front end.
[23] And do you want to partake in this as an assessment?
[24] Or do you just want me to play the music again without comment from you?
[25] Or would you just prefer I not play Jeremy's rap song again?
[26] I want you to do whatever makes the world happy.
[27] Whatever makes you the boss, brother.
[28] So if you want to play it, let's play it.
[29] My opinion does not matter one bit.
[30] I disagree with that.
[31] I brought you on in order to get an honest assessment of this.
[32] I would really like to know your opinion.
[33] I really would like to know.
[34] But I don't know if we want to.
[35] want his honest opinion it puts juju in a bad spot as someone who doesn't want to be a hater at any time i'm just saying i'm not even saying i as soon as i heard the song i'm like i wonder what juju thinks of this and then i thought i don't think it's going to be positive and now i'm going to put him in the spot where he has to speak ill of somebody's work who put themselves out vulnerably you wouldn't put someone in that spot this feels like uh hey juju hi it's pablo it's me um what's up pablo how you doing i love your podcast man you kicking ass juju thank you Thank you, thank you, I mean that sincerely.
[36] I feel like I picked the worst time to pop in the studio.
[37] It smells of pita, Jeremy's palpably uncomfortable, and I cannot help but contract.
[38] Not just the disease that Dan was alluding to that's been floating around here, but also just the awkwardness from Jeremy.
[39] I think we're single -handedly keeping the Greek food industry alive in South Florida.
[40] We order Greek like four days a week.
[41] Is that bad?
[42] Is that a complaint?
[43] David Sampson is looking for ways to cut budget, and he thinks we should change up the food.
[44] He thinks it's too expensive.
[45] I love Greek the first five times I have it in a month.
[46] And then by the sixth time, I'm kind of like, I don't want Greek anymore this month.
[47] Okay, an important complaint to be making here during Super Bowl week.
[48] Juju, Greg, give me an opinion.
[49] Tell me what I should do here, because I've already put Juju in the tough spot, and it's hard to have a day where Juju and every awkwardness that there is here is second on the awkwardness scale behind only Gabe today in terms of things that I've done that are awkward.
[50] Okay, when we were playing golf Sunday, Christopher was shocked and flabbergasted that Ken...
[51] Kendrick Lamar and that song in particular happened to be on one of my Spotify playlists.
[52] I like the song.
[53] I thought it was a very clever parody by Jeremy, but I'm...
[54] I respect Juju's opinion.
[55] I value it.
[56] And if he thinks it was offensive or in any way not right.
[57] This is a bad spot for Juju.
[58] You know what I'm going to say?
[59] How about this?
[60] Also, happy Black History Month, by the way.
[61] I don't know if I can still say that.
[62] All right, Juju, I'm just going to ask.
[63] Juju.
[64] No, no, no, no, no. Don't ask.
[65] Here's what I will speak on behalf of Juju, and then we will move on.
[66] Juju thinks that's an excellent rap song for the contingent audience of Greg Cody.
[67] It was well received by Greg Cody.
[68] That's nice for everybody involved.
[69] Play the song again.
[70] I see fat people.
[71] Palenka on the trades, though.
[72] Luka being fat.
[73] Got him traded by Nico.
[74] Palenka calling up and tell him see you, bro.
[75] Go to Dallas, be the Euro super suit like Prozone.
[76] What's up with all these motherfucking Lakers trying to seem competent?
[77] The whole damn legal hate them.
[78] F*** them all in their drama.
[79] How many teammates in LeBron?
[80] I mean, it's too many options.
[81] Feels like every Hall of Famer, but John Stockton.
[82] Okay, that's enough.
[83] What are your thoughts, Juju, about the halftime, the Super Bowl halftime show in general?
[84] Is there anything that people...
[85] Wait, you're pivoting off of that real quick.
[86] Man, I had gotten generally positive feedback before this.
[87] Happy Greg Cody History Month, by the way.
[88] I like it for Greg Cody.
[89] Yeah, that's my audience.
[90] Hee Haw 3.
[91] You're pleasing the leader of your musical heroism.
[92] The singing sports writer, you have reached across the aisle, and the man who invented song on this show grants you approval for your song.
[93] Did a song about Sad Sad Radio Road that everyone's afraid to play.
[94] I do want to talk for a moment, though.
[95] Are we expecting anything from the halftime show that is a cultural moment?
[96] Whatever nerves...
[97] Kendrick Lamar has about playing the Super Bowl.
[98] This is going to be a pretty special misery on Sunday for Drake, no?
[99] To just watch this, to have to watch this.
[100] yeah the misery has already happened bro like i don't know if you saw the uh the uh the grammys last week he won five awards five grammys and he won them not necessarily just for him being a great artist he won them for not like us being the song of the year he won them for all the stuff that we thought like dang would they really play that part no they played that part and put the camera on taylor swift and she said Out loud.
[101] You dig me?
[102] You feel like so.
[103] And Beyonce.
[104] They put like the whole crowd in unison.
[105] Went crazy.
[106] So I feel like these last, these two weeks right here are just two weeks for Drake to just stay offline, stay in Australia.
[107] You know what I mean?
[108] Call your mommy.
[109] Remember who you love.
[110] You feel me?
[111] Let's talk about this part of it for a second.
[112] When you talk about epic rap beef disasters ending up with a loser having to watch the other on the Super Bowl after winning the Grammys.
[113] Which is the part in here that hurts the ego?
[114] most on Drake because when the headline of Drake suing the record company because not like us sold too much is not your top embarrassment moment, you have done some major public losing.
[115] So where does the Super Bowl, performing this song at the Super Bowl, where does it rank in terms of indignities for Drake on this timeline?
[116] I feel like at the end of the day, I've reached a threshold with Drake.
[117] You feel me?
[118] I don't even like singing.
[119] his name out loud no more because he is it's like he benefited from that same system for so long and then when somebody else got the benefit of that same exact thing that he's accusing them of i'm not saying that he he's not right uh his case that umg didn't do what he said they did but they've done it for drake countless times and now when you hurt you turn into a karen and now you want to report and sue everybody and i like how umg has stood on business they say look man nah bro we we not doing none of that and so i'm a fan of what Kendrick Lamar has done.
[120] And he warned you the whole time.
[121] He's so, hey bro, don't tell no lies about me. I'm not gonna rap y 'all now.
[122] I know y 'all don't understand too much of that.
[123] But I'm saying Drake was the one who baited Kendrick into this.
[124] Countless songs after song.
[125] It's like whenever Chris Cody hit the ball.
[126] I'm a fan of sometimes, you know what?
[127] You can't hurt me and then tell me how I'm supposed to react.
[128] You feel me?
[129] But at the same time, the second man is always flat in football.
[130] So you got to temper your reactions.
[131] I'm just processing still that Drake was in Australia trying to get as far away as possible from the United States to do anything resembling music.
[132] That's what I'm about to do.
[133] And still.
[134] And still he was caught.
[135] The idea that Drake doesn't, he literally has nowhere he can hide is kind of a special thing.
[136] I don't know if we've had, I don't know if any beef has resulted in a global surveillance state that will not allow the loser to at least go away.
[137] Like, you know, I mean, but he did that.
[138] He did the same thing to Meek Mill.
[139] He did the same thing with people he beefed him before.
[140] He went back to back on Meek Mill.
[141] And that was a call.
[142] I am.
[143] I am not here to say that Drake deserves our sympathies.
[144] I am just here to point out that it's pretty extreme and it's therefore very funny.
[145] But it is extreme.
[146] Like, I don't know if you're look, Drake doesn't have any friends right now.
[147] I don't know what he would be advised.
[148] I don't know where you go if you're trying to, you know.
[149] prove that you're not bothered by this, but a random bar in Australia.
[150] Got to go further, Drake.
[151] You got to go, I don't know, you got to go to one of those islands with like 50 people on it.
[152] Once you AI Tupac's voice and you put Snoop's voice on your own, Drake went a lot.
[153] He did a lot.
[154] You feel me?
[155] You can't walk up and punch a bully in his nose and get mad when you get slammed on your head.
[156] But salute to everybody involved.
[157] That's right.
[158] Salute to everyone, including Jeremy, Jeremy Song.
[159] We're going to be positive about Jeremy Song.
[160] Before we get to updating the polls real quick here, because Greg Cody is...
[161] legitimately mad about this.
[162] Forgive me for doing this, Juju.
[163] Greg Cody did write a column that the Dolphins should trade for Miles Garrett, and he's mad at me for not allowing him to talk about it seriously.
[164] So as you gather yourself here, Juju, and give us some poll updates, you have the platform now, Greg Cody, to give us your serious Miles Garrett opinion.
[165] Well, it's online if anybody wants to read it in its entirety, but I think what I wrote reflects how desperate...
[166] the Dolphins should be right now because they made the playoffs the two previous seasons to this past season when they were eight and nine.
[167] This team is nowhere close to being a contender in a packed AFC.
[168] behind Kansas City, behind Baltimore, behind Buffalo, and another handful of teams as good or better than Miami.
[169] Their defense was the best in 22 years empirically.
[170] You're saying everybody wants to add Miles Garrett.
[171] Their defense was the best in 22 years empirically by some standards.
[172] It was not a big play defense.
[173] They had 35 sacks, which was in the bottom five of the league.
[174] They didn't have many interceptions.
[175] They were not a big play defense.
[176] They don't have any player, even with Jalen Phillips and Bradley Chubb.
[177] healthy.
[178] They don't have a player who's going to change the way opposing offensive coordinators prepare to play Miami.
[179] They don't have anyone who's the best at his position.
[180] Tyreek Hill maybe was for his first season.
[181] He isn't now.
[182] The Dolphins have to be desperate.
[183] They have to be bold and desperate because right now they are not close to being competitive on a Super Bowl level.
[184] And if they don't make big swings like Miles Garrett...
[185] They're not going to do it with luck and good health and 13th overall picks.
[186] Tomorrow, Miami Herald column, the Dolphins need to get Cooper Cup?
[187] No, no. I think quite the opposite.
[188] Now you've gone too far.
[189] Very quickly, I think you oversold Cooper Cup.
[190] Not that bold.
[191] Not that desperate, you're saying.
[192] Cooper Cup is not a Hall of Famer.
[193] He isn't yet, at any rate.
[194] He had one extraordinary season.
[195] He's completely overshadowed by Puka Nakua.
[196] What do you mean I oversold him?
[197] He won a championship having one of the most historic wide receiver seasons in terms of productivity.
[198] productivity ever.
[199] That's a fact.
[200] As I said, he had one extraordinary season in his seven or eight -year career.
[201] That was the only season he made the Pro Bowl.
[202] He's a very good receiver who is not a Hall of Fame receiver.
[203] Juju, forgiveness here.
[204] Let's get to the polls.
[205] We cannot get to the polls.
[206] Let's close the postgame right there.