Transcript of Happy Birthday, JuJu Gotti | Postgame Show

We will get to Juju in a second with some heartfelt feelings.

Happy birthday to him. I don't care.

Good luck.

I know it'll get forgotten. The games are the thing that matter. The results are the thing that matter. But the overturning of the red card, the way that it happened, where you're just this clearly using the United States tool as a propaganda tool, as a political device to get something that is easy to applaud done. We're all in agreement that that's ugly, right? It's not— that it's not the way that you should be doing things where the president of your country is calling in a favor to get a result overturned. Zaslav doesn't agree.

I mean, I kind of like the call.

It wasn't fair, the red card, and the appeals process needs to be ironed out. There needs to be more transparency. We did a grave injustice in my part, uh, for my POV. But, but this has opened up a whole can of worms. Now appeals are flying because they've just created this whole new rule. So I think France is already appealing, like a yellow for Olise. They, they, they weren't clear about how this came about. This caught everybody by surprise. It happened a day before the game, and Donald Trump is not helping Johnny Infantino. Not that that was his aim at all, because Donald Trump's looking to help Donald Trump. This makes Donald Trump look good. This is the rare World Cup-related dub that Donald Trump can have, and I'll tell you why in a second. But with every word that came out of his mouth today, and I just saw the clip, he dug a deeper hole for Johnny Soccer, as he likes to call him. This reeks of corruption because that is two entities that have their own reputation that is well earned. By the way, so this is not going away. This is ugly.

It's not how I wanted it to go. Granted, I definitely wanted Flo Balogun to play. This increases our likelihood of winning a lot more than if he were off the field, though I believe we would have been able to win this match with Ricardo Pepi in there. This is taking what should be a good thing, something that probably would have been celebrated as a good thing had it happened 72 hours ago, and making it a very controversial and divisive thing.

I'm good with it. I saw something that wasn't right. I don't care who called it in. I wanted Balogun to play. I want to win. And you know what? Anyone who looks at the United States like, you know, let's say they win this game tonight, maybe they win a couple more games. Like, yeah, but you know, you had the thing that happened with Balogun. Like, I laugh in your face. I just want to win. I just want to win.

For a president who is really smart when to go out and grab sports to legitimize him, especially during turbulent times, This was a very smart maneuver. Now, we do know Donald Trump to embellish a little bit, but it is, it is proven that he picked up a phone and tried to influence FIFA's decision here. It's the rare World Cup win because, I don't know if you've noticed this, Donald Trump has not yet attended a World Cup match. He is scheduled to hand out the trophy and attend the World Cup final, but he has not attended a match. Why is that? It's because in this country, soccer fans are more progressive. And if he chose any other random game out, even outside the US, he would be roundly booed because of how unpopular he is globally. We've seen on social media the White House tried to ride the coattails of the US soccer team's success with, you know, the White House tweeting out, defend the homeland and all these coded phrases for a team that openly defies what his policies are all about because they are made up of immigrants. You haven't— you are picking up the phone to get yourself a win on the back of a birthright citizen.

How embarrassing for you ultimately, given that that's somehow your second biggest L you caught when it came to birthright citizens this week. Malik Tillman, German, born in Germany. You can't do the same sort of rah-rah bullshit that you do typically when you go to sports. So what do you do? You find your easy win. He found it. He's good at that. But make no mistake about it, it's embarrassing he had to do it because this team is in open defiance of what he represents. This is just what Trump does. He uses corruption to his own gain, even if it's within sports. Oh, I'm sorry, don't you guys care about America? I bleed the red, white, and blue, baby.

That's what we do here. This is America, Jack. Let's bring Juju aboard here. Juju, hello, how you doing? Good to see you.

Thank you, brother. Good to see y'all as well, man.

Do we have a birthday today?

Yeah, I mentioned that already.

Happy birthday to him. I don't care.

Good luck, Juju. Have you gotten over— have you gotten over all the Jaylen Brown Celtics stuff? Are you on the side now where you've thought about it with your team, the Celtics, and you actually think it's a good trade?

I mean, I'm out of there. The Celtics, uh, salute Arivaderje. Like, I'm in the portal right now. Enough is enough. I don't like how they did my boy. And I think we need to stop putting so much or giving so much weight to what Colin Cowherd and them keep saying, boy, when he just clearly gave credit to Daryl Morey for the trade. So I'm like, we can't have it both ways. He— oh, he said this and they saying this, and oh yeah, thanks, Daryl Morey. How about get him completely up out of here, about out of my TV?

Wow.

Salute.

All right, wow, throwing him out of your television. Uh, so do we have any jokers then this weekend? Like, would Colin Coward be one of your jokers if you had?

Yeah, man, he definitely would be, but I got a packed house this evening. First off, my brother Josh Allen has started to learn how to golf, and admittedly I'm not a golf guy, so I don't know the golf rules and how you get better.

Yeah, this is how you do it, Juju.

This is exactly how you get better right here. This is Let me see that. Roll the Beautiful Bean footage. I'm not a golf guy because it's all—

I just feel like—

it's all in the hips. Purple shirt.

Yeah.

He need to get up though.

It's all in the hips.

It's all in the hips.

Tap, tap, tap.

How much does the brother in the fuchsia get paid to do this job?

Tap everybody.

Because I'm pretty sure if I went out there, I wouldn't get that treatment.

For the audio audience, there's a man on his knees and his face is at the center of Josh Allen's butthole.

Inches away. Holding with his two arms his hips as he does a shot.

Yes, it's a little bit aggressive.

Secondly, I got Brandon Ayuk, man. Enough is enough, bruh. I spared you for like 3, 4 weeks from this list. I don't know how early we want to start the CTE conversation, Dan, but I feel like this would— this would look like it early on, onset stages of it, in my opinion. Listen to what my boy had to say. To Jaylen. Damn, probably gonna text me, talk about something. You on my team now, you follow my rules. Boy, I'm a grown-ass man, boy. You gonna have to stop running behind your mama and I might believe what you talking about, but until then, he still plays for the 49ers, folks. He's talking to Jaden Daniels. It's getting out of hand. Have you seen any of this ass?

He's effing with us, right?

I don't know what's going on with him. Uh, he has thrown away a lot of money and, uh, he has spent a lot of time, uh, desecrating whatever it is that he's built.

Very strange.

Yeah, man, it's like I'm, I'm trying to spare him because it seems as though he's having whatever, uh, Jaden Ivey had going on earlier in the season. So prayers to you, but somebody need to snatch his phone expeditiously. And lastly, without video footage, when y'all brought up my boy Mike Vrabel, I had to put him on the list, man.

Yep.

What you going through right now? You cannot be seen not opening doors. You're supposed to be on the street side of the curb. All that little stuff, bro. You dropped the ball on this one.

Yeah, you're right. Terrible.

Put it on the poll, please. @LevittardShow. Does someone need to snatch Brandon Ayuk's phone expeditiously?

Yeah. And yeah. And you got to snatch Colin Cowherd off his television, apparently. Also a lot of snatching. Juju, we'll get to the polls in a second here, but let's, let's do the reverse then of Jokers of the Weekend. Do you have maybe any flowers to give out today?

Yeah, man. Mike said earlier in the, in the, in the, in the show, bro, Cabo Verde versus Argentina, man, that's definitely the best match I ever seen in my entire life. Bozinha is goated, my boy. The guy who scored the goal, like he said, the second goal, whenever I was just like, dang, It already happened to him. He scored the goal, ran into the crowd, kissed his girlfriend, and Messi and the referees had to wait on that shit, bro. Like, I'm sorry, y'all, y'all gonna have to take a break. I'm like, bro. And then as soon as the game came to conclusion, how the music just start playing without commentary, I was like, oh no, the dream is over. They've returned to, uh, Cape Verde to a hero's welcome as expected. But that team, that game, and salute to Messi as well for waiting after the, after locker room situation, getting a picture with all of them. All of them are posting his pictures, just being grateful to be on the pitch with somebody like Messi. Cabo Verde, these are for you.

Yes, really good stuff. Uh, Juju, let's get to our polls for today. What do we got?

Uh, @LebatardShow is where you find us on the polls, and you can vote all day and night. He will update— he keeps on top of this at all times, and it's important that the results get verified daily. Uh, what do you have for us here, Juju?

Should the immaculate inning be 3 pitches instead of 9? 67% of the audience says yes, it should. Yeah, that's in the closet.

Hey, we have a brief update. England has now submitted a formal appeal or informal appeal to have their red card rescinded. This is, as Jose Canseco once famously said on our show, that doesn't just open up a can of worms. That opens up a can of anacondas.

Is a classically trained penis definitely uncircumcised? 84% of the audience says yes, it is. Is Jalen Brunson the greatest Knick ever? 54% of the audience says yes, he is. Do you think of Adam Sandler as the spiritual center of love? 57% of the audience says no, they don't.

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Was Macho Man's marriage to Miss Elizabeth bigger than Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding? 79% of the audience says yes, it was. And last poll, do you walk 3 or 4 feet in front of your spouse? 66% of the audience says no. And those are your polls.

One more Trump quote for you here to close us out. Quote, the game tonight is going to be amazing. If they beat us, we'll say it was rigged, just like the election in 2020.

Biggest game in 20 years.