Transcript of Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)

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Wow, that is overly exuberant there. What just happened? What just happened that I wasn't listening to and did not hear?

She shamed me before we joined here because I don't have enough energy when she joins normally, so I wanted to make sure I fix that.

Well, she's going to be excited because she is sitting next to the number one football podcast host in in football for the last four years. God bless football has arrived. Diana, it has been lovely to watch the two of you, maximum Stugatz, and watch you two in the wild. Tell me about schmoosing out there on Radio We've been watching you, and it's been delightful.

Yeah, we've actually scared people away from our conversations over here. I've been spending the last 20 minutes catching up with stew. There's no conversation about football or family. I've just been complaining to him for the last 20 minutes. He's trying to help me here feel better about my space here on Radio Row.

She's been complaining about her set, Dan. She is not happy with her location here on Radio Row, and location is everything here on Radio Row Super Bowl week. I have done a lay of the land. I know where everyone is situated. Diana is not happy, but this is what Radio Row was all about. Right before she talked to me, she was cornered by Doug Cazarian. I mean, how about that? I'm stuck talking to Doug.

I look at Sue, I go, That's it. My setup is the Doug Cazerian of setups. It's just, you know.

Why are we taking out Doug?

Diana, has Stugatz promised you that he'll get you a better spot?

That is my setup. No. Here's my thought. There's not much What I can do. That's my colleague, Robert Mays. He's fantastic. He's got the football podcast on The Athletic. This is not a knock on Robert. Robert had nothing to do with this, but that's going to be the Scoop City set up. It's facing the bathroom. Yeah, it's bad. I can't even grab an athlete walking by, someone trying to sell a cart, nothing. You guys, I mean, this is just prime real estate. You can see everything.

Well, this is the number one football podcast in the world.

I get it. All the action here. I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to have guests walk up to our set and help decorate and maybe make it a little bit more electric. I've started already. I'm just going to hold this up. Scoop City, you can come by.

Diana, you deserve better than this. You're hustling. You're in Mobile, Alabama, last week. What is happening here? Who do the complaints go to? David, you've been making faces the whole time. Are you saying you feel like Diana is spoiled or something? Why are you making faces?

I just feel like the audience does not care about the setup, and they care about what you say, and they love you, and they love your show. For you to MF your setup, it just didn't interest me. I want to hear what you have to say.

No, what our audience cares about is salary cap talk. That's exactly what it is that they care about. By the way, leave Greg Cody alone. Is this what happens when me and Billy Gill aren't here? Everyone teams up and goes after the great, wonderful Greg Cody. I am outraged by this.

Didn't I just compliment him, by the way? I did take that crap back.

David, she just said that you bring so much to the show when we're talking about the salary cap, which is something we should never be talking about.

I really appreciate that you both are here, and we're sorry to have kept you waiting.

Stugatz is not entirely wrong, and he's especially not wrong that when Billy goes out with the stomach flu and Stugatz disappears, I have been, I'm not joking, in the last break, he will tell you, Greg Cody will, I held him to my bosom gently and told him, You know what? You've taken an unfair beating the last two hours because Billy and Stugatz are not here, and nobody is paying attention to where Greg Cody needs his feelings supported. I held him to my bosom. Yeah, awkward. And he forgave me because I explained to him, but however, the last two hours have been really good. They've been a bullying. They've been unfair. David Samson piled on. Not good for David Samson, not good for Cody. But David Samson hit him in the face twice with the microphone while interviewing him. Thank you, Stugatz, for standing standing up for Greg Cody because you're right. Can you tell me about the schmoosing out there? Can you tell me about... Because we were watching you guys, and basically, it seems like you're being paid to just meet people you really want to talk to.

Pretty much, Dan. Listen, I flew on a bird here. Jimmy Johnson was in the seat right in front of me. He was watching that Norman show. He had a couple of Heinegens. It was delightful.

His texts are probably so huge.

So huge. Here's what he does, Chris. He holds his phone. Jimmy's getting old, but he looks great. He had a button down shirt. He holds the phone in his pocket on the button down shirt. I love that move. It's so great.

That's called I'm not caring about anyone trying to reach me. If you're putting it up there.

Order two Heinegens first order, one Heinegens on the second order.

Look, we really don't need to be this invasive on his privacy there.

I think it was Miller light.

It was fantastic. I'm just telling you what the man ordered. Listen, I have run into Ryan Leef. I've seen Andrew Perloff. I have seen everyone, Dan.

He didn't really pick I'm up, Steve. Wait a minute. Andrew Perloff and Ryan Leef is not a list of everyone.

That's what you love in for the uninitiated- That's like that is bare minimum effort on just dropping names on people you've seen.

You're selling us Tuesday Super Bowl week. Who's there? Perloff and Ryan Leif.

Yeah, but how about an airplane with Jimmy Johnson? That's great. That's pretty exciting. It's Sean Merriman in the airport.

Were you kicking the back of Jimmy's chair on the bird?

I was a little bit. I told Jimmy, the scariest call I make is the call I make to his house every time Dan wants him on. He laughed at that. We had a moment. He gave me a fist bump, and then he got out of there. That was it. That was the end of Jimmy.

That's good coverage. I'm glad that we sent everybody there in order to get all of the information on the drinking habits of others. Diana, is this week a bombardment of stimuli for you that you enjoy, or is it stressful?

Love it. Live for this. First of all, New Orleans is the best city. They should just have the Super Bowl here every single year. It's compact, it's close, it feels just like one big party in your town. I've only been here 24 hours, and I'm saying this. The food's delicious. Everyone is just happy to be here. I just think the energy, because it's so early in the week and you can feel it already, I can't imagine what this is going to be by Thursday and Friday. Just the fact that we start the week with a bomb of Miles Garrett asking for a trade, that was music to my ears because it actually was a little slow. There wasn't much going on. Now that becomes the thing everyone talking about here.

Well, walk us through what that means. Just take us through Miles Garrett exerting this means what's going to happen.

It means that the Browns are going to have to make a really hard decision. I don't think anyone thinks this is going to be easy. In fact, I had somebody in the league share with me yesterday that they just think this could get really messy because this isn't about a new contract in Cleveland for Miles Garrett, right? Because we've seen players do this all the time where they just want to get paid by the team that they're on. We saw it with Brandon Ayuk, we saw it with Deepo Samuel. They threaten, they stay. Lamar Jackson, they threaten, they stay. This is about winning for Miles Garrett. This is about him wanting to go be part of an organization that is built towards winning and getting closer to it, a situation that he doesn't feel is happening in Cleveland. Look, when you think about what he has seen from his vantage point, and he's around these guys, and he knows what their process is, and he knows what this future is going to look like, you can understand why he's probably not psyched about the plan that the Browns have, knowing that this probably all went off course when they gave to Sean Watson that deal.

The NFL is a league where teams can change their fortune from one season to the next. So for him to speculate that the Browns will never have a shot, that he can't win there. I think there is money at stake here. Diana, I just would point out to all of the great listeners here that your sources don't care where you are situated on Radio Row.

You'd be surprised.

Yeah, but she cares.

David, my issue with it is no one knows where I am, who I am. This is such a saturated place, and no one even knows where I work anymore. I wanted something with Just like, even an ice cream truck.

You wanted to announce yourself. You wanted to announce yourself in your new gig.

Maybe I should get a band, a marching band just around me.

But Diana, hold on a second. As someone who has admired your climb through the industry and the brave things you've done, correct me if I'm wrong, because my memory has been elusive on this. Wasn't the first year set up that we had at the Super Bowl something that made us feel small compared to what we used to have when we were at the Super Bowl, Stugatz? Because I was fairly awed by what we were able to do last year, at least in part because it represented a growth that stemmed from feeling exactly the way Diana does today, which is like, Man, we used to be a bigger thing, and here we landed a little softer than I would have liked.

The first Super Bowl we did with Metalar work a few years back then. We were at a table right in the middle of the action. That's where I like to be. That's where all the local radio stations are. I have walked through that entire area. I'm throwing books like frisbees at tables, and they're promoting it for me, which I love it. They wave to me, Hey, you got But now we're on the outskirts. We're on the outside looking in, which I don't particularly like, but it is beautiful. That means you've graduated to one of the biggest shows, and in my case, the biggest football show in America in the history of American football. Diana is upset. She's upset because she is facing the bathrooms and the smoking area. That is not where you want to be Super Bowl Week, Radio Row. Perhaps in two years, Dan, she will graduate to where I've graduated to.

Great. My view will be you smoking cigs, just taking down a couple of heaters in between some of your interviews.

Yeah, but Dan's saying there are steps to this.

Oh, Michael Pitman's at my step.

I got a guest. Dan, Super Bowl, Radio Row. Jason Fitt is walking by. I mean, oh, my God. What is happening? I love this place.

Diana, I feel like a set facing a bathroom may be actually prime real estate. I'm with you.

Everyone pees.

Everybody pees. Maybe they're in there a little longer than that. You know what? When they're walking out of the bathroom, who do they see?

You might have gotten the primus real estate there is, Diana, because yes, put it on the poll, does everyone pee at Lebitard show? I believe that that is a... Anyone who comes through that facility who has to go to the bathroom, if you tell me, Hey, what can you have on Radio Row? That That or the field? I think I take that. I think I take the bathroom because that's where the guests will be at some point, at least in part to avoid Nester, Nasty Nester from Baltimore.

Yeah, let's do this. I know I'm not scheduled to come on this Friday because you'll have big-name guests, but maybe I'll pop on for about four minutes and just give you an update of how my week went, the first time representing Scope City here on Radio Royal at the bathroom.

Poop City. That's what I should change my name. Yes, that's good. That's it. Poop City. Just keep an eye. Yes.

Just call your Joe that the entire week.

Yes. Change all of your graphic imaging and change it to Poop City this week from the Super Bowl.

I want to see the report that Sal Powell has been to the bathroom three times in the last hour. I want something like that.

Maybe that's the play, is to just keep track of everyone's bathroom habits and just give updates throughout. It looks like today I'm interviewing Kirk Cousins and Drake May. While I'm interviewing, stop the interview with Kirk Cousins after I ask him, What the heck is he going to do next year? Be like, Quick update for you here. Pat McAfee just went to the bathroom for the fourth time in the last hour. Tell me more about what this experience is like.

That's good. Do you have a friend that you didn't stay in Minnesota?

Did you feel like you ever got a little too greedy? Because now you're in a position where you're going to probably be in Cleveland.

Yes. Poop City is great. I think what you also need to do is give us invasive reports from the Super Bowl of who's in there too long.

You should put a mic in there.

I mean, goal has been in there for a half hour.

Who's been in there too long? Because that's an unpleasant place. David Samson would never use that bathroom that way. There could be nothing happening in David Samson's life that would make him use the Radio Row bathroom.

Which is why if you're Billy Gill, you got a problem. Because Billy Gill, Diana, is going to be near you at all times. Eight times a day.

Yeah, he's not feeling good, just so you know. Billy ill.

Yes. Yes. Stugatz, where are we with this? Because one of the key things Billy does while at Radio Row is rein you in. So how problematic is it going to be or how much better is God bless football going to be because now we've got Stugats who can be less controlled.

God bless, football is never better if Billy's not here. That's just not the case. But Jenny is here, Dan, and you are familiar with Jenny. She will not let me walk 15 feet away from this place because I like to roam around Radio Row. I got to see Doggy. I got to see Diana. I got to be cornered by Doug Cazari, and that's what this week is all about for me. But Jenny won't let me have it.

She's an assassin. You were texting me about coming on.

It wasn't for this. It was to come be on your podcast?

Yeah.

I'm busy. Okay. Jenny is really in charge out there. I hope that- He has a lot of guests. I don't know how many people- Everyone's got to poop. I don't know how many Metalark employees we have out there, but you guys were listening when we were talking about Cooper Cupp. I don't know what the main storyline is after Miles Garrett. I imagine the game story lines aren't quite in play yet. When it comes to Cooper Cupp and that, are we so now numb to the transaction that nationally, a receiver who for one year was a record-breaking receiver unlike almost any we'd ever seen, who connects very well with Stafford, that his career with the Rams is over and it's just this overt directly about money, and he doesn't really want it to be over. Does it matter at all that he won a championship there?

Yeah, it does matter. But let's just go back to the time right before the trade deadline. I think I was actually on the show telling you about how the Rams were calling around to different teams to move him. He obviously found out about that. He's known his time with LA was coming to an end. If they were showing that interest, and look, the Rams came out and said, No, we're not dealing him. I think it got a little messy in terms of the communication. David, you could speak to it better than any of us about what the best process is when you're inquiring. I don't think they were full on shopping Cooper Cup, but I can tell you there were three different teams that had conversations with the Rams about their interest in trading for him before the trade deadline. I don't think Cooper knew of it. I think after that moment, and if you remember right before the trade deadline, the Rams weren't great. I understood why that front office was looking to move him at the time. Obviously, the other side to this is the fact that he's been there for seven years.

He helped win them a Super Bowl. He's loved in that organization. I think after that moment and since then and understanding the future for them, I think both sides know it's over, and they both want to go in different directions despite the fact that they've had such a great time together.

Every great run comes to an end.

I understand that every great run comes to an end, but I also understand somewhere in our obsession with the transaction where it's okay to point out, Oh, I understand how Cooper Cup would be hurt by all of that. Yes, I know it's tons of money and I know it's business, and I also understand why he wouldn't love at the end that the organization would chew him up like that, even understanding that the organization doesn't really owe him anything other than a paycheck.

Yeah, I don't think players think that way, actually. I think that it is the exception, not the rule. I think players are very understanding. In terms of communication at the deadline, I was an executive who would communicate with my players when we were talking about them at the deadline and just tell them the truth. Yeah, of course, there are people calling on you. You're a good player. You want people to call on you in baseball.

Yeah, But he wants to remain there. Does he not, Diana? Do you not understand why he'd be hard about this? I'm not surprised that David would go maximum business on this. Employee is allowed to have human feelings.

No, I agree. But David, what about the positions you were in when you were just interested to see what that market would be that maybe you decide not to even tell the player about it because it's just light conversations. You're just trying to get a feel. Did that ever happen? And did you think that the player would need to be told that even if it was just flirting?

Yeah, there's a lot of It's like trying to see how much your house is worth and then pretending that you're rich because your house has gone up, but you're not actually monetizing it, so you don't have the money. We would often say, Hey, what would you give for Stanton? How badly would you want him? I wouldn't go to Giancarlo with conversations like that because you're having those talks every day, really, with other teams on all sorts of players.

I would assume that that is how it is that Luca ends up happening somewhere in there in the confusion of everything that happened there. Stugatz, what can you tell people? Because you're about to take over for the entire week. God bless football is celebrating itself, and football for the next three days in a way that I will say is gluttonous and flatulent and wonderful and award award-winning. You're going to basically start the Super Bowl party. As soon as you stop now, what are you looking forward to over the course of the week?

I am looking forward to every... First off, I'm looking forward to seeing Christopher Mad Dog Ruso because really, radio route doesn't start until until Mad Dog walks in. But Dan, we are loaded. I mean, I am telling you, I am looking forward to Justin Pew. I am looking forward to Reggie Bush, Ed Reid, Vernon Davis, Victor Cruz. Pukin Naku is going to join us. Greg, we're going to play him your song. Again? I am Very excited. Dan, you remember that? Those are good guests. We have Fannie Marco, of course.

Send him to the bathroom. Tell him to stop by myself.

Did Diana just get jealous about the GBF guests? Is that what we just witnessed? No way.

She has cousins in May. I got one of the best rookie coming on my show today.

I got to go prep, actually.

Right, and I got Fannie Marco.

And you have Bloody Mary. Don't forget that if Billy Gill gets better, Bloody Mary and whatever it is you guys are doing, you guys are resuscitating Don Schula. Are you not? I don't want to spoil too much here.

I think you've said enough. I think you've said enough. Diana, are you going to play May or May not with Drake May?

Oh, you have to.

Is that a game? Is that a thing?

Yeah, may or may not, of course. All right, we'll do it. Series of questions, may or may not. That's a fine. May means yes, may not means no.

Thanks for being Chris, thanks for the idea. Good contribution.

Diana, are you indeed jealous of Stugats' guest list? No, you can't be. You must not be.

She's jealous of my setup, Dan. That's it. That's all.

The thing is, I understand, especially as a woman, how ugly jealous can look on you. I'm trying to contain myself. But I'm staring over at K. Adams' set, and it looks like a palace. She's got couches. She's got a makeup artist, a hair stylist, a stylist over there. Someone's massaging her feet right now. I don't even have an outlet over there.

I can't charge you.

Look, I got to get over this. You got a bathroom, though. I am going to think about David this whole day, though. It's about the quality of these interviews, what I'm sharing with the listeners. No one cares if my nails are a cool color because I had someone do it for Super Bowl. They care about the inside, the intel. So David, thank you for your- Look, I want everyone to know, okay, and I will say this publicly, I don't saying it.

I know this is going to be so. Diana Rusini and Poop City are going to kick the ass of Adams all week long. She'll have her couches and she'll get her celebrity guests, and everybody will interact in a way that's fun and fine, but it won't have the information that Diana Rucini will get on Poop City. I'm willing to say that in front of everybody. All right.

Well, we will see you are really putting me to the test.

It will when you go on K Adam's show, though, right? I've never been invited. You're invited. Trust me.

No, you can't offer that invitation. You don't have that power over K Adam. I do. I don't think you realize what a rising star in the business she is.

Oh, I do. She's fantastic. But her producer already asked me, Hey, can you get me, not me, Can you get me Diana Roussini?

Yeah, I'm sorry. Because you became my booker.

You're the booking agent for Diana's too?

I mean, look at her set up. She has no one here with her. She's by herself.

I mean, someone read her with respect.

I am appreciative. Shut up.

They're always in my head.

So I am appreciative.

Shut up. They're always in my head. So I am appreciative. Shut up. They're always in my head. So I am appreciative.

Your mics are still hot, stew and Diana. Wouldn't be able to find her if she walked right past. Diana should help.

It's a guest called Urinate or Deficate.

Urinate or Deficate.

Urinate or Deficate. She needs to go. That is a good guest. Good luck.

What do you guys want to hear from Kirk Cousins since we're producing all my stuff?

I want Kirk Cousins on the show is what I want.

Urinate or defecate.

Yes, we can start with urinate or defecate with Kirk Cousins and then just ask him, Hey, that was pretty funny the way that happened. They gave you all that money and then your career was over after eight games.

You can ask whether he pees in the shower. Yeah.

Actually, how do you feel about this? I think this is the most fun game that you can play anywhere in sports. Kirk or Jerk? No, that's a good one. Kirk or Jerk. Kirk or Jerk is a good one. But I want to do, Would you attend their funeral? Is what I want to do with David Samson. I want to see if I can play this with Diana Rusini. It's hard to play it with liars, so I don't think I should play it with Stugatz. The thing that makes it difficult is that people... David Samson is very good at... He'll tell you the truth, even if it's uncomfortable. When I ask you, Would you attend the funeral of Glenn Geffner? What is your answer? Marlin's broadcaster, Glenn Geffner. How long was he in your employ as a broadcaster for the Marlins?

For many, many years, but he then went rogue against Bruce Sherman and Derek Cheater when he got fired. I would zoom into Glenn Geffner's funeral, but I would not attend in person. Wow. He went into the middle stage from no chance to a Zoom to attend.

Diana Rusini, do you want to play this game?

Would you like to play- She doesn't know who Glenn Geffner is.

No, I'm not going to ask her about Glenn Geffner. I'm going to ask her somebody for her, Stugant. Okay.

Dan, I want to I'm in this game because I've thought about stuff like this, but I have to preface it with... The answer is going to probably be yes to anyone is I'm an Italian Catholic that lives in the Northeast, and it's a hobby to attend funerals for my people. It's just what you do. Everyone in my family goes to everyone's wake.

So do Jews, Diana, but the game doesn't call for that.

I don't believe that you would... Let me ask you this question. You're saying you would go to the funeral of Jeff Darrington? I'd speak at it.

No, you It's been best friend. How many?

What if there was a big story you were pursuing?

Forgive me.

No, this was- I don't cover the story. Take a selfie to it.

My bad.

I did not obviously know that Jeff Darlington was your best friend. That was not something I was aware of. Of course- I thought it was me. That ends up being a bad question. David Samson, would you attend the funeral of longtime Marlins broadcaster, Craig Minervini?

Minnie in the Midday.

Minnie? No, no. I enjoy playing cards with him. I enjoyed him. He does a good job. No. I would not. Sorry, Craig.

I am sorry, Greg. Would you, David Samson, attend the funeral of longtime Marlin's broadcaster Rich Walsh?

Oh, wow. No. What? No, I would not. I'm sorry that he will be dead, but I will not attend it. You guys all lie during this game. It's unbelievable.

Well, let's see. Diana, would you attend the funeral of Adam Gace?

That's my best friend.

I'd probably speak at it.

I would.

This is an outrage.

The game gets ruined when you play it this way.

We're learning David is the only one that can play this game.

No, no. What Dan is learning is that Diana is me. That's why we get along so well.

Mike Vrabel, you'll attend his funeral? Absolutely. Okay, you stink. He gets to every interview. Poop City, go where you find Diana stinking. Poop City, over by the bathroom on Radio Road. Can you do something for me? I'll attend. Thank you, guys. I appreciate it. He said yes to all your interview requests. They're so similar. They're so similar. Stugatz and Diana, they're disturbingly similar.

I don't think Stu would go to anybody's funeral, though. He would not be in convenience to that.

Well, I also I don't think that Diana has been going to funerals nonstop all year. I don't think that Diana actually attends as many funerals as she alleges on the air, but I may have that wrong. She really befouled that game. The game has not worked with anybody but David Samson. I'd like to play- came to Atlanta to cover the Super Bowl and after beating the freeze in a race at Truist Park. You got to be kidding me. It's still going. That speech in Cartersville, Billy is still looking that awkward.

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I will not be. I will not be participating in the Listener League again this week. I hope Billy Gill is. He will tough it out no matter his state because this is-Oh, he will. This is a difficult circumstance that he finds himself in.

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Don Levatard. Surely every time you're watching this, you recognize that your wife is laughing that she married Larry David.

I do, yeah. One of the great characters in the history of television, in my humble opinion. To my credit, my personality-In In my humble opinion, followed by to my credit.

To my credit.

It's amazing. My personality does predate Curve your enthusiasm. Stugatz. Oh, wow. I'm not going to say Larry David patterned himself after me.

All right, put it on the poll, please, Jude. You did Greg Cody, Copyright Being an Asshole, long before Larry David. This is the Dan Levatard Show with the Stugatz. There's something here I have not talked about for three days, and I'm curious about how it's being covered because I don't actually know how it's being covered. But I know that since Friday, this has been something that's available as a talking point point. And if I'd been watching all of the coverage on Deshaun Watson, I would wonder why there isn't more coverage on what's happening and being alleged on Justin Tucker in Baltimore, where it's nine women, five spas, and one would assume on the allegations, one would assume that he didn't have the great misfortune on what's being alleged of being caught every time he's doing this. We've got something that is big and might be growing, And we've also seen that the coverage does not have nearly the intensity that the Deshaun Watson coverage has had. And a lot of people are going to notice, oh, it's the quarterback being famous versus the kicker. And a lot of people are going to notice, oh, it's the the white guy versus the white guy.

A lot of people are going to notice it's the first guy versus the second guy. But this deviance and predatory behavior is something that I'm negligent in not talking about for three days. But I also do want to see as many facts as I can, and I don't think I can lend any benefit of the doubt on these allegations when there are this many and many different people, and there are receipts. It would go to a great... You'd be going to a great length to concoct all of this. I think the day and age is gone where you can dismiss this as gold digging when you have multiple accusers. This is a Baltimore icon who is presently, through allegations, my guess is, falling in disgrace right now in a way that's very different than Deshawn Watson did in moving from another city and to another city as hope. This is a guy who had a terrible season as maybe the best kicker ever. I don't know where these allegations align with that. It's secondary to what it is that we're talking about. But I do know that it's not being covered with the same intensity.

That can't be disputed, correct?

I totally agree with you. I've been following this the last several days, and it's very incriminating evidence. The benefit of doubt for me goes to the multiple women who are accusing and the women don't know each other. There's no sign of a conspiracy here. And Justin Tucker, we're talking about one of the few place kickers who's on a Hall of Fame path. This is arguably, notwithstanding the rough season I had last year, this is probably the greatest kicker, active, if not ever, and it should be getting more attention. And I really wonder if his NFL career survives this. I really have doubts about that.

But Dan, we had a show on Friday. I wasn't a year, so I'm pretty sure you guys didn't talk about it, but you control the topics that we talk about on the show. If you're going to sit here and wonder why it's not getting the same coverage, I think you should probably explain why you chose not to talk about it on Friday.

Yeah, that's totally fair. It was a two hour show, and I wanted more information to come in, and more information did come in over the weekend, but that doesn't excuse why.

But the initial Baltimore banner story was very detailed and had a lot of information in it. I don't think you can write it off as like, Well, let's wait and see what happens next. What happened next was that he put out a statement said none of it was true and that it was all bullshit. Then three more massage therapists came forward and said, No, this happened to us, too. One of them had a paper she allegedly wrote many years ago talking about it to her boss. Yeah, That information's- Totally fair. That's fine. But the initial reporting was also very solid.

I can take that criticism, and it's fair, and I'm apologizing for it on the front end in not getting to it. It's an easy trick to do to castigate others for behavior that I, too, I am guilty of. But it's hard not to notice what has happened since in the reaction. What are you shaking your face about, David?

That I don't want you to castigate your sofa not covering it. I covered it on nothing personal, and then something else came up, so I tried to cover it again. But we're in an exercise where you've got 300 minutes for a 50-minute show. The thing with Justin Tucker, it is a completely different allegation than what the allegations were against Deshaun Watson. Completely different. It Justin Tucker, I don't think, survives. I think that he will be let go by the Ravens because his performance tailed off this year. But I don't want to compare this to the Deshaun Watson. It's horrible, and he doesn't deserve... No woman deserves to have that done to them in a massage. But the allegations against Watson were far different, and I pointed that out on the show, and I don't think maybe that was a factor in you not doing it.

Well, I don't know what far different, though.

Deshawn Watson was accused sexual assault.

There were some different allegations also, but I think the similar thread is that in both situations, you have men in very powerful positions that are behaving inappropriately and making women uncomfortable that are hired to work for them. The comparison, I think, is fair in that it's in a similar situation, a similar setting.

The number of people who go and get happy endings, obviously, there's a power dynamic, whether you're Justin Tucker, whether you are Robert Kraft, or whether you are Mr. Anonymous going to one of the massage places. The fact is, when you go for that, when it's not the atmosphere where happy endings happen, that's when the issue happens. Because there are plenty of massage places where you go, and everyone knows what the price of entry is. My thing with Justin Tucker is that he was getting massages. The thing I didn't know is, were they in those spas where that's happening? Because It's just Sean Watson was getting them done purportedly as sports massages, and he was then assaulting the women. I don't know if Justin Tucker was at one of the strip mall places.

I mean, based on the reporting, no. It seems like this was a situation that none of these people wanted to be a part of.

It's nine women, five spas, and one would assume it's just the ones who have come forward.

I don't know if any statute of limitations is involved in this situation because most of the allegations did occur from roughly 2012 through 2016. However, we don't know yet what the ramifications are going to be. We don't know yet about possible civil suits arising from this. When I mentioned statutes of limitations, I don't know about criminal charges arising, but we haven't heard the end of this story.

Well, it would assume that it's the beginning of it. But once this story arrived as Deshawn Watson, the intensity was fierce and immediate and then only grew over time. Here, the intensity has not been fierce and immediate. And Justin Tucker, there are a number of reasons for that, right? It can be- But Dan, I hear you, but also Deshawn Watson signed the biggest contract in NFL history after the allegations against him. That's right. And he's more famous, but what's... And what? And so there's money involved as well, yes. And?

And I don't know. I get your point that we talked about him more because he's a starting quarterback, but he got to spend 11 games. He is getting paid $230 million. The consequences here are trade-off.

I don't know. Okay. Well, you do understand, though, it doesn't escape anyone's attention, right? Why it is that black people would notice the differences between the intensity of the coverage on the two things. And maybe it's money or maybe it's a color of a different kind.

I think we should 100% be covering both. And that's why I started this segment by saying, why didn't we We'll talk about this on Friday.

I think what we've mentioned is absolutely true. It's black and white, it's quarterback and place kicker. I think a lot of people are also very wrongly downplaying Justin Tucker because it did happen 8, 10 years ago. I don't think that's accurate.

What's the point of that, though? What is the distinction that we're making there between... What's the statute of limit? I don't think there's a statute of limitations on some of this stuff.

I'm not forgiving I'm trying to explain it a little bit. I think if all of these allegations were current and had happened in the past few months, there would naturally be more- I don't think that's much of a difference.

That's not right, Greg. It's not right, but I- I'm going to stop you and just ask you to think about this. You don't agree with that? No, because half of the allegations from the #MeToo movement and what they did in New York, which was opening up the right for women to say, Hey, this happened to me 20 years ago. We're going to toll the statute of limitations and make this year open for you to allege and get some if you can, some payback for what happened to you way back in the day. It doesn't matter when it occurred. Often, the rule of statute limitations is five years from discovery of an act. When you remember an abuse, then it starts to- Also, there haven't been any civil suits filed in this case.

To David's point, there haven't been any criminal charges yet.

There may be.

Well, if I recall correctly on how it is that it happened with Deshawn Watson is that once the whistleblowers come forward, the way that this tends to escalate is there is a rallying cry from an attorney where a number of different women then come forward with the freedom, permission, courage, length to do the same thing because if you had to guess here, what are you holding over your ears for, David Samson? What's happening?

We were just talking back here.

Okay.

I'm sitting back here saying, I just don't know, do we do this conversation well? I'm asking the question. Maybe that's why it's just like, if you're going to have this serious conversation, are you moving the conversation? Are we adding to it? I don't know if we do this well. I almost am glad that we don't. Maybe we should be drawing more attention to these things. Maybe that's not a good job by us as well. It's just- What's the way to do it well? I don't know.

Don't be scared, Chris.

I think the way to do it well is not to start the segment with people aren't talking about this when you didn't talk about it on Friday. That would not be how I would have started the conversation. I would start the conversation with, Here is another athlete that's been accused of doing something terrible. Why are we constantly in the position where women are being allegedly taken advantage of in these situations Why does our society allow this to continue to happen?

I was saying in general more than- That would have been a good way to do it. I don't mean us. I'm not talking about specifically this show. I mean, in general, does anyone talk about this?

That would have been a good way to do it.

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