The Dunlabata Show, in partnership with DraftKings, delivers a lively yet critical examination of current sports and media culture. It opens with a sharp critique of the Department of Homeland Security’s use of Brian Dawkins’ likeness in fear-based messaging, calling it a violation of personal dignity and American values. The episode then shifts to a nostalgic tribute to fictional high school principals, honoring Mr. Belding and Mr. Clark as cultural icons, with the latter becoming a symbolic centerpiece after the passing of Dennis Haskins. A central theme is the overwhelming sensory overload of modern sports broadcasting—particularly the red zone, where multiple games are broadcast simultaneously, creating a constant stream of action and distraction. This is further compounded by targeted advertising, like Wingstop’s QR code appearing mid-game, which manipulates viewer impulses. The hosts argue that this saturation reflects a broader societal addiction to stimuli, making traditional, focused viewing experiences like a single game or sitcom feel rare and undervalued. The discussion also touches on key baseball playoff stories, including pivotal matchups and injuries, with a strong focus on the emotional appeal of young pitchers like Peyton Toli. Ultimately, the show blends humor, nostalgia, and social commentary to question how entertainment has evolved into a fast, addictive, and often exploitative experience.
You are listening to the Dunlabata show. In partnership with the Draft King Sports Act. Now live in all 50 estates. This episode of the Dunlabata Show is presented by Draft King Sports, Draft Kings, the crown is yours. I have too much show today, okay? It's not just the Department of Homeland Security escalating now, it's beef with Brian Dawkins by saying, "We don't care if you want us to use or not use your likeness. We're going to use it anyway." We've got the baseball playoff starting, the WNBA. We've got hockey and basketball sort of announcing that they're here. And we also have the useless sound montage for the first time this season. Always one of the most popular things that we do. And about 10 other things. But Zaz keeps interrupting my thought process. And he's been doing it since he got in this morning. Don't forget that I want to do an homage to principal belding from Saved by the Bell. Yeah, he passed away yesterday, Dennis Haskins, RIP. So I shocked you this morning when I confused him with the father and Alf, because the father and Alf has a sorted drug riddled pass that has an assortment of things in it that are shocking. That when I learned it, I couldn't believe it, but I was confused with principal belding. So I knocked you off kilter when I said, I didn't want to talk about principal belding, because I thought he was the father and Alf. And I was offended for principal belding for you to even assume that there'd be something so nefarious in his past. He cared so much about those kids, based on high. Jude, you wants to talk about Jalen Brown and his sixers and some of the things that Jalen Brown said about cow herd and cowards. And you are sitting here saying, I want to celebrate high school principals, fictional principals. Yep, I got your top five fictional principals, Dan. You ready? Any online? No OLI. We don't have to talk about why not. Let's get to it. Number five, principal Anderson. Now you may remember, from Billy Madison, he had a secret. He was the revolving blob. He was a wrestler killed someone with his finishing move. His disgrace. And he had to try and hide that. He got blackmailed as a result. Can I take a guess as to why it is that there's no OLI? You'll never get it, but go ahead. I'm going to guess that somebody on your list had something that was sorted in their past and you couldn't actually mention them because you didn't know they had-- OK, I'm going to take it back. You did get it. Number four, principal skinner. The Simpsons, of course. Everybody knows that. I mean, come on now, Dan. It's a great one. Yeah, it's a good one. Number three, principal Strickland. You're a slackler, McFly. That's a great principal, right? It's a pretty good-- the bow tie helps. Yeah, number two, Mr. Belding. All right, he cared so much about those kids. Anytime they had a problem, they knew they'd go to Mr. Belding. He's number two, RIP Dennis Haskins. And number one, with a bullet. Mr. Clark, you know about Mr.-- Free Mr. Clark, right, Ju-Ju? Free Mr. Clark. That's right. You spoke crack sams. Mr. Clark from lean on me. Why, right, Ju-Ju? And why not, Chris is next to me. He's closest to me. Exactly. Why not, Dan? They used to call me Crazy Joe. Now they could call me Batman. Hey! Haskins. All of you had the same reaction that I did seeing Morgan Freeman on game day, right? We all-- Old. Ameri-89. Well, but America had the same reaction there. I feel like all of us were just aging sucks. And I don't know that I want to see Morgan Freeman at this age struggle to keep up when he's just-- he's just 89 years old. He's one of that for him. He's one of the stars in the TV show Linus, which is one of the great shows on television right now. And the character actually wears like a bandage on his arm because it's a condition he actually has in real life. So I want to get to our useless sound montage. And I want to get to basketball camps opening because there's some good sound from an assortment of different camps. And I didn't even get to any of the LeBron related stuff. I don't want to make normal either what's happening with the Department of Homeland Security or what's happening with the New York Knicks. The fact that the Knicks are now in a place where they don't even want LeBron and LeBron was close to going there and wanted to go there and didn't go there just because they won the championship already. And he couldn't have the story of I help them win a championship. I don't want to make that normal. That's not normal that the Knicks are in such a good place that they don't want LeBron and that doesn't even hurt them to hear that LeBron would have gone there except for the fact that they won the championship. But getting back to this Department of Homeland Security story because I think everyone has grown very weary and the polling numbers suggest that everyone has grown very weary in general but very weary specifically about our government trampling what seemed to be some basic American core principles. And so when the Department of Homeland Security did some of its fear mongering with we're going to get out all of the people who aren't the safe white people, which is the scare tactic that's the undercurrent of all the fear mongering. They use Brian Dawkins' famous hitter, famously feared Philadelphia Eagle impeccable reputation as a violent man. And he told people that I very respectfully, I have very respectfully not given permission for them to use my image that way. And now today the Department of Homeland Security says, no, we're not taking it down. As requested by the NFL, the NFL requested it. We're not taking it down. Front office sports, DHS is playing lockdown defense at the border. We will use every weapon art, our disposal from A to X to keep American safe. You're just going to shake your heads at that and sort of see the weaponizing of government arms as propaganda tools, whether or not they trample someone even as tough as Brian Dawkins as his statement is. And he's a respectful man. But I really took that statement as I fear our government as well. I very respectfully declined to give them permission to use my likeness that way to fear and to spread something that feels unamerican and the government's answer as we don't care. Yeah, I mean, no respect is due to the people using that video. I mean, all old rules of decorum are out the window with our government now. I just don't understand, you know, there are court orders now that they completely ignore. Just we're watching democracy tremble right in front of our eyes. This has been a thing in music a lot. Like over the course of the last couple of years, as we've seen all sorts of different artists having to say, hey, please don't use my music, my pop song, my rock song to promote what it is that you're doing. We've seen nearly every pop artist say, hey, please don't do that except for, you know, the one at the very top who is married to a titan. Yeah, what a ridiculous era we live in. To this even even is a thing. Like for the government to even do this in the first place, what a goofy nation we are right now. What a goofy leadership we have. We are watching the crumbling of our actual structure and people just sitting around saying, yeah, I love this guy. I love the tea shame on y'all for loving them. This is not not an echo, echo chamber. Remember it terms up and a half go out there and vote. You ready for the useless sound montage? Is everyone ready for this Greg? This is always very popular. Usually it's Patrick Mahomes. His voice always makes us laugh with its squeakiness. Let's see who we have here on the useless sound montage. That's just with the doctor ordered. It's about getting back to the drawing board as a unit. But for me, all I can do is look myself in the mirror. At the end of the day, it's football, man. It's just roll up your sleeves and get to work. At the end of the day, we won the football game. We know in this league, either win or you lose. In order to win the game, you gotta make sure you don't lose it. The goal is to go on and on every week. We're trying to just go on and on each week, Jeremy. It's never easy to win in this league. I'm never gonna apologize for winning. It's three games into the year. We're not taking any vice-flowers. It's a one-game season from here on out every week. I think we really just have to take a week by week. All right, if I can make a better decision, I'll look at that and try to see where I can make a better decision. It's a four-core game, you just keep playing. We knew it'd be four quarters of football, and that's what it took. All right, I'll tell the guys this week, a divided house cannot stand. So we stand together through it all. We just got to lean on our brotherhood. We've got to lean on the family that we've created. No choice but to lock warms and run back into the fire. Overall, I mean, we win, but a lot of smoke detectors going off right now. We had to clean a lot of stuff up. You know, I tell we were resilient, just playing through the smoke. House was on fire today. They stuck with it. They hung tight. There's no offense and butts about it. You know, I don't know what the sacks say, and I think sacks can be liars. We'll watch this film, and it's not going to be as good as we want it to be. It's not going to be as bad as we want it to be. Man, it doesn't be ready for each moment. That's how I attack each play. The ebbs and flows, that's how the NFL football works. Like I said, there's ebbs and flows, and you can't ride them. We left points out there today. You know, you're always going to lean on the guys that you would probably figure you don't lean on. A game like this, our DNA soda. Our guys didn't blink. They didn't blink. They just kept going. And, you know, we were going to have to play 60 minutes. Our defense played their ass off. Thought we had a good operation all day, being in the noise. Then to the day, that's what's about as the players execute the play. To me, at the end of the day, you know, we all
look at ourselves first, we pull our boot straps up, we get our asses back to Frisco and we go back to work. You know the plans of the plans, the opportunities that you have or the opportunities you have, there's only two outcomes, you're going to lose or you're going to win. I don't remember what I was thinking honestly, it's kind of a blackout moment, if I don't remember anything right now. What happened in the game? Since I'm just kidding. No, I know I don't remember. The better we play, more we deserve to be shared. When you don't, you don't. That's what we live by, you know. Hold on, I'm not done yet. I'm on a little bit of a roll here, but I enjoy the moment. We talk about that right baller's life. It's easy everybody, all 11 of us, 11 of us, we have our hand in the pie. I think the guys are trying as hard as they can out there and we just have to try harder. Every week in the NFL is hard, it's just hard and the next week is going to be hard and the next one after that. No, it's what's in me, it's not what's on me. Just like I'm learning our team, I know you guys are tired of hearing that, I'm having to continue learning the stadium. You know, that's where your teammates need you the most, so that's when you've got to be on your your peace and cues as the most. No matter who makes the play, the play don't care who make it. It goes without saying, the them getting field goals instead of touchdowns is just really good. The first thing you have to do is what's necessary. After that, then you can do what's possible, then maybe the impossible becomes possible. Do you sleep well after a game like tonight or do you stay upon it? My grandson's in town for the first time, so I'll sleep pretty good. We are Alberta's keeper winning this game for Jackson, you know, 12 points and six times two. All right, it's for you. All right, that's 12. Just an endless stream of garbage debris and diarrhea, just useless. I mean, profoundly, epically useless sound. A couple of questions, what are peace and cues? I'm at a loss for what peace and cues are, and it's Defansky right. Can sacks be liars? Because I think sacks are truth tellers. I've never heard anybody say sacks or liars, sacks don't lie. I think they mislead. I think sometimes what they used to call a coverage sack. You know, if you're the quarterback and you're sitting back there for five seconds, holding the ball because you can't find a receiver and then you get sacked, that's sort of a lying sack because it wasn't the defense. It was the secondary that earned that fraudulent sack. But that was the one thing said that I hadn't heard before. Sacks can be liars. I think sacks tale the truth about your offensive line. You did spot on. You've heard a coach before say I have to learn the stadium? No, no, Joe Brady was saying about their new stadium. Just epically useless. Just they get in front of microphones. They've got a contractual obligation to meet the media. The dwindling media and they say nothing. Two different possible origins for peace and cues. Some have said it's when you were first learning the alphabet to make sure you didn't confuse them. And this is sort of just paying attention to things. The others saying pleases and thank yous. So peace and cues. All right, put it on the poll. Please that levitar show. Did you do you know what peace and cues are being on your peace and cues? Do you know what the peace and cues are? I wanted to ask you guys about something that appeared during my red zone experience. Over the last couple of years, the red zone has gone and it is crack cocaine. It is an amazing way to watch football. It is six hours unlike anything in entertainment, especially this last weekend of games where everything's a one score game. And you've got basically any one of the games except two could have been decided by a pass interference call a fumble. So just the the randomness of you're going to do all this analysis of who one and who lost and every single one of those games except two would have been altered if a referee just decides that something is a pass interference call that shouldn't have been. But I had gotten used to the red zone being totally commercial free. Seven hours, six hours of uninterrupted football. And last year they started sneaking in some ads. This year though, what I saw and I haven't seen this before. On my screen, as they're showing me football, I see the wingstop ad. I see the QR code and I'm like, that's genius. They must spike like crazy by just planting in the middle of your football. Oh, yes, I want some lemon pepper wings. I need them right now. I can't even imagine how they can I'd love to see what the data is on what the spikes are when you're advertising live inside of a football game and inside of the crackiest part of football where you're telling people, would you like some wings right now? These wings sound especially delicious and here's the code for you. You can just get it right now. You don't have to wait for anything right now. I'm going to plant this advertisement in your life. I'm not going to I'm not going to do it during breaks from action. I'm going to do it when I know I have your attention because you're watching the 11 minutes of actual action that there are in football. It's a crazy thing to say but every game has about 11 minutes of actual action and I hadn't seen that ad but I'm like and that's how they're going to end up paying for everything here. They're going to end up paying for all of these things that they're overcharging you. The customer keeps getting more and more sports costs and the way they're going to make their money back even if you're not watching is they're just going to put the ads right in the action when you can't you can't skip past them. And I was wondering because I hadn't noticed it before. I'd never before seen a QR code immediately appear as the moment I'm hungry. They made me hungry. Like I wasn't I was not hungry before that. I was distracted by my football. And then when they said you can get this right now at your house. If you just just pay attention for a second fat man. They got my complete attention and they took me away from the football. What do they mean by right now? Like you do the QR code and then what? It pops up on your phone the like the app to order. Okay, but then right at your fingertips you can place an order. Then you got to wait 20 minutes. Right, but half hour. Then you're not hungry. I'll be delivered to you. I'm confused by your confusion. I just you know that you thought that the QR code would then like the door would knock instantly and the food would be there. That's what Dan said. You got to get it right away. I mean, you know, misleading. That is what you said there. I'm the only person in America who does not like red zone. I miss the tranquility of a singular game. I watch a singular game instead of red zone because I don't like the hurly burly of red zone. I like what's the game I most want to watch? I'm watching it. That's all I care about. You don't even watch a singular game. I've seen you grow in action. You walk around the house and there's a scroll at the bottom of the screen that periodically tells me updates me. Oh, but I can see I can see how this let's play the sound from yesterday. Okay, I want to get this from Roy here. I want without giving your father any context for him to tell me what it is that Scott Hansen is describing. Because I could see how this would all be too much for a young man, an old person, a young woman, a brilliant scholar, everything that I pipe into your veins here. Greg, you tell me everything that happened in this clip. You can see Jay Stroud takes it, throws it out of bounds. And they're going to have to check the clock there. That clock didn't go to zero. What are we doing? CJ Stroud somehow, and the ball was used. Pinsburg recovering the ball. How did the bagels lose it? The browns get into the end zone. Go ahead, touch down Cleveland. A box played by Cincinnati. And then somehow CJ Stroud threw it out of bounds. With one second left of the clock didn't expire. What is happening? What is happening? That's a good question by Scott. And then you get the background noise. The hushing noise in the background is so ridiculous. What was happening in that clip, Greg? You know, CJ Stroud did something weird and the brown scored. I don't know. You can't keep track of it. That's why I'm watching a singular game. It's quiet. I love the only 11 minutes of action. I love all the downtime. I like thinking to myself. They're in the huddle. They haven't even snapped yet. It's a boring part of the game. It allows me to record order. The play that just happened. And imagine the play that might be about to happen. That's football. You know, you don't want a constant overload of sensory magnetism. It's ill placed. I want to be calm when I'm watching a game. That's just me. Yeah, you know. I'm a small private individual. What is happening? And you know it. Reconoiter? Yeah. I've not heard that word before. Reconoiter, it's a difficult word to spell. It means to figure something out, to make sense of something, to Reconoiter a situation. At least I don't have the exact definition at hand. But that's the context for where it's used. I've always loved that word. Any word that has an "O" and an "I" and a "T" and a "1C" or two Cs. It's a difficult word to spell. And it's a word that you don't want to use often, but in just the right spot, it works. I heard that one time in my life and that was during die hard. That was when they sent in the SWAT team. Reconoiter. Reconoiter the situation. There you go. How's your milk? You sound parched. That's more milk there. I wish I had more milk. So Greg, come.
Cody is in on a Greg Cody Tuesday. He's got his farewell column in the Miami Herald and on Sub-Stack. And I still want to ask you again to tell me, please, you watched your football Sunday. I'm going to play this sound for you again. I want for you to try to explain to me what you think is happening there. What games are being played here. You know the games. You watch them on Sunday. Tell me what's happening here. Jay Stroud takes it, throws it out of bounds, and they're going to have to check the clock. There, that clock didn't go to zero. What are we doing? CJ Stroud somehow. And the clock was used. Jays Stroud somehow. Jays Stroud was used. Jays Stroud somehow. And the clock didn't go to zero. What are we doing? CJ Stroud somehow. Is he toggling back and forth between two or three games? Three games. Three games. They're all on the screen. It's a triple bug. He's not toggling. All three games. The games that are on the screen are the deciding moments in Steelers Bengals. The last few seconds of Texans and Colts and Carolina Browns is swinging in the balance in the last five minutes of the game. They're all happening at the same time. You think that's too much. You think that's an overload because America would say you're wrong on this. America watched one game at a time. You mentioned that, but I think we've gotten so addicted to stimuli that the gift of Saturday and Sundays is that you're mainlining the addiction non-stop that there's action somewhere. In this case, nine games were being played. Eight of them were one-score games. And so you've got everything, it's just it is football at its maximum powers being snorted the highest proof of stuff, where it's all the late decisions in one of only 17 weeks are important. And any one call makes you a fool or the winner for the week. And it's just condensed to so fast that I think it feeds our best and worst sort of we need attention on something all of the time we're addicted to action at all times. And so even as this is happening, you're still in your phone as well, seeing what's happening everywhere else because that's not even enough. Yeah, that was my Sunday, like I watch it like Scott watched it. I got three TVs, quad box on two of them, the bills on the big one, but this Sunday I also had WNBA playoff games on my computer and on this screen, so it's like, I'm like, Scott, I don't need to hear him do it, but I feel what he's feeling. Pause. See, you all are why they do that. I'm not that way, you know, I don't like to multitask it. If I'm watching Red Zone for a minute and a half, which is plenty for me, and then I change back to the individual game, if I'm watching six games at a time, I'm not fully enjoying or comprehending any of them fully. My point is that I just played three seconds of your football Sunday. Like it was three seconds in your football Sunday. It was only three of the games that were being decided. And the stimuli is the fix. It's why the NFL sells heroin. It's not because it's one game. Oh, wait a second. Wendy, when that's not it's because it's not one game. It's nine. You're watching nine games and eight of them are being decided at the end. So everything, there's no law. It's not a team huddling up and you're just sitting there waiting for them to come out of the huddle. You're not doing it. You're not watching any plays that don't matter, you know. And so it really is the most distilled of stuff. But I wanted to get back to what we were talking about. The advertising works on you guys, correct? Because I was not in any way thinking of Wingstop. And then when I was done with that commercial, I'm like, Wingstop is delicious. I need to immediately get some Wingstop. And it's just commercials don't do that to me anymore because they don't grab me inside of what it is that I'm watching because I'm streaming most stuff. I wish they would have done it for little Caesars. You're an easy mark. I'm a fat person. Okay. I also know that if I have chronic to severe plaques or ISIS, I know just where to go. Down lebertar. I ain't never met nobody in the world. That's not hate on great nominations. Like who don't like blues clues, man? If you don't like blues clues, you're a loser. Ju-ju-gotty. Look, you get one pop print, that's the first clue. You put it in a notebook. Now what do you do? Blues, blues, blues, blues. Sit on the chair and think about it. This is the down lebertar show. You know what's weird. Let me just say one thing. I'll get off the anti red zone, rent. But why doesn't the red zone phenomenon apply to other forms of TV? Why aren't we watching six sitcoms at a time? Once or twice a year, ESPN does that with hockey, where all the games are staggered, like 10 minutes apart, and they just go game to game, you know, late in the third period. But I would like to hear how you think that would work with sitcoms. Well, about as well as it works with football, which is, you're watching six different things. I feel like I would have missed more. I missed more. I missed more. No, because in football, you're trying to concentrate on the game. You have Scott Hansen just bugling about three different games at a time, moments ago on succession. No, I love what he's saying here. Basically, what is happening with Greg? He's happening. It is. Jerry Seinfeld's punch line because MASH is on it at the same time, and they're talking over each other. That's what red zone is. It's a great bit, Dan. Dan Feld and MASH are the ones that you put next to my channel. Tell us about I dream of Jeannie. It's not. It's not. It's not. I gathered. It's not anything other, wasn't there a sitcom called Mr. Belvedere or was that a character? Yeah. Now you've got me just going down the rabbit hole of imagining my dad as the Scott Hansen for a red zone of sitcoms. Well, this is what is what's happening here is this is simply the what you're hearing. What everyone is hearing here is how it is that you confuse and befuddle an old man who doesn't want to learn anything. He thinks sitcoms is the same as six football games and it's just because football is happening too fast. He knows they all learn from me. It's the exact same thing, but you don't, you know, it's not the exact same thing. Greg, in six sitcoms, you have to be processing more information than did Joe burrow just fumble. Right. But earlier is there's only 11 real minutes of action in football games. That's why I feel like my method is the best. I got him on all the TV. So I'm here. Oh, play the fourth down, third down, second down. But I'm never confused like if it was a plot going on, I would miss it. When you step back from what it is that we're talking about, which is the NFL's hold on America, 11 minutes of action during three hours of television that no one has a complaint about. No one thinks it's moving too slow. No one has a problem with anything that the pace of games football has precious few complaints. There aren't a whole lot of people trying to fix much of anything about football. And the reason that they're most the valuable thing in American entertainment as a televised product is because they keep millions and millions of people at an appointed time in front of their televisions for 22 minutes of action between one PM and seven PM, 22 minutes of action per game. But if you throw them all together and make it all happen at the same time, the entire model has moved away from Greg's preference because everyone who's listening to me, very few people are going to agree with you on this, Greg, we're in an economy of stimuli that is nuts. We need more than we've ever needed. We're all addicted to our devices. And then what happens on Sunday is we're addicted to the escape. But breaking news. Foreign judge is not on the Yankees wild card roster. Jean Carlo Stanton is on the Yankees wild card roster. He has not played since April. How about that? Isn't Stanton still the highest paid Marlon? I believe so. Nope. Pete Fairbanks. Oh God. That's amazing right there. Pete Fairbanks, the highest paid player on the team. Till the boy you need to know. Oh my God. Does it? It tells us all we need to know. Yeah. Pretty much. I think Jeremy's about to tell us all we need to know on the baseball playoffs because I find Jeremy most tolerable when I'm talking baseball with him. But I don't think that that's a good show to do for the American public and I don't think I can get you guys interested in that show either. But the playoffs do start today and there are a number of interesting things, including the Phillies having to open with Luzardo because they had to wheeze to the finish line. And Chris Hale is still throwing 100 miles an hour somehow for the Atlanta Braves. But you got four games being played today. And Jeremy, how is it that you'll get this group of people? What subject matter? Can you give me a top five baseball storylines that will get this group interested in playoff baseball that begins today because I think you've got a tough crowd. I don't think Greg's interested. I don't think Zaz is interested. He's thinking hockey. I don't think Juju's interested. He's thinking WNBA. I don't think Roy's interested. He's thinking about the Panthers. I think Chris is your only hope because he does pitch clock with you. But I don't think he's that interested either. If we want to do it as a top five, let's start with what you brought up first. Hazus Luzardo against Chris Sale. So you've got Luzardo who was on track to finish top five in Saiyong.
probably will a South Florida kid went to Stomen Douglas, but he was hurt at the end of the year. He threw one inning at the end of September after making one start early in the month. They had to throw Zach Wheeler on Sunday because they were falling apart. And now it's Philly's Braves, a division rivalry, and you have Chris Sale, who would be the Saiyung if Jacob Mizorowski didn't exist. He had the best pitching performance of the year against the Dodgers earlier in the year. Now he's got a chance to go against Harper and Shoreburg. Right. What are you checking on your computer, not listening to anything Jeremy was saying? No, I was. Sale. What? Yeah, yeah. Does 100 miles an hour? Chris Sale, maybe. Are you checking your email? I was not. Is that what you were checking? Yeah, I was not. I was not. I was not. I was not. You're searching something in your email. You're not researching. Just looking at someone's computer. Number four, The Sickos Delight of the Astros and White Socks. You want to watch two bad teams play in a playoff game? You want to watch a team that went 81 and 81, the first ever division winner to not be above 500. Me? You got the best hitter in baseball and you're it on Alvarez. I compared him to a combination of big poppy alongside one Soto. And the answer I got from our expert was, yep. That's right. He's that great. And you got Jose Al Tuve, who is about to move into 13th place all time in playoff games played. What is that? What is that looking at? What is that? Look over his shoulder and tell me what that is doing there that's not listening to baseball. He's checking his any time minutes. You don't want to see Trevor Richards and Hwascarb for Azabon? 13th all time, huh? Amongst franchises. Good sell, Chris. Amongst franchises. He's boring you. It's more than all those franchises. Well Jeremy asked the question rhetorically, but I want to answer him. No. I'm not interested in watching two 500 teams in a playoff series. All right. Number three. Cubs, Padres, Peco Park. Two of the best offences in baseball. This is only in San Diego because the Cubs couldn't take three games from the Marlins. And San Diego Contra closed out a game. So you now have the Padres with Fernando Tati's junior, a team that was dreadful offensively in the first half of the year that since the trade deadline, top five in baseball, this is going to be a slug fest between these two teams. You got Tati's. You got PCA. This is going to be fun. Yes. All the wild card games are at the home team, correct? That's your own question, Zaz. Nope. Nobody was yet. It's all on them. We're going to have to see if two and one go a little bit faster because you've lost everybody. I don't feel like you've got something here. I'm still in. Number two Alex Breggman's broken face. That's it. Okay. Yeah. That is. He was in the on deck circle. It's wildly dangerous to me screaming foul balls being anywhere near the screaming of foul ball. Got one. I can't see on. He got hit right in the right eye and his like his the side of his face balloon to twice the size of his left side of his face and it's just terrible blood and unbelievable bruising. It's disgusting. He looks disgusting and yet he's going to play for the Cubs. And number one, my favorite pitcher in all of baseball, the guy who pitches with the most joy since Jose Fernandez, Peyton, Toli, we got Peyton, Toli at Yankee Stadium going against Cam. Chris, you'd love this guy. Holy, holy moustache, roly, poly moustache, enthusiasm, Boston loves this guy and Boston. The whole second half of the season or three quarters of the season, basically, they'll keep you under four runs every, every single game. No, they're, they're a lot of fun and their offense has really struggled over the last month. Like in September, their offense has been terrible. I'd be telling you the Red Sox would 100% win this series in Yankee Stadium. If the last three weeks hadn't been so poor offensively, last year, Cam Schletler basically burst onto the scene with eight shutout endings in a winner take all at Yankee Stadium against the Red Sox in the wild card round. You got left handed pitching in Toli and in Ranger Suarez who can go for the Red Sox, also guys out of their pen. You got the left handed hitters of the Yankees. You don't have Aaron Judd. Why are you nodding? Let me get you in to do a Peyton Toli right here. Ready? You want to hear what Peyton Toli had to say about the series? No, I don't. Wow. I'm still a flower knocker. You know, it's going to be a, it's going to be a whole lot of fun. I think it's, it's, you got to gain experience to be experienced. So it's the, I need five years of was a job prep to get the, well, I, how does it go? Okay. Walk with me here. Whatever the job says, you need five years of experience, well, you only got one year, but you're good. Like, you can go do your job. So it's kind of like that of, I've had a little bit of experience, it might not be all experienced that I need, but like, it's enough to go back to and to think about, reflect on how did they feel in that moment to where now we get to here and to try to be successful as possible. Sorry, that took a turn, but it was the best way that I could, I got middle Brooks laughing. Matters. Oh, I want to get a beer with that guy. I love him so much and he just gets these smiles on his face while he's pitching. He really does remind me of Jose Fernandez and that he's just got this childlike exuberance and also childlike vocabulary. I see Nick Offerman. That's what that's. There's a lot of, there's a lot of offer him in there. Yeah. So Greg, the B looks like an eight on that hat. Greg needs to go back to the old B. Excellent. Excellent. Excellent. Excellent. That's why P's and Q's are different in the alphabet because this is smile privates individual. That's it. A couple of times today, the catch phrase, are we on number one yet? Are we ready to unveil number one? Yes. You have unveiled number one on your podcast. Right. Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody. Yes. With. Yeah. Okay, I can't believe it has taken this long. I can't believe you has done this so successfully. I'm going to tease it for a second. We're going to do it at the top of the next hour. I hate it as well. I feel pretty completely like Jeremy failed to make any of you interested in the playoffs. Did he? He made small things. Did he make me interested? No. Did he make any of you interested? I watched it two o'clock game before the Panthers game, which is at five, so yeah, he's got me interested. But then you can watch the Yankees. They're at eight. No, just so hot. He's totally, dude. Yeah, I want to say the brother with the mustache. Yeah. I want to see what kind of game he has. Yeah. He's so fun. He is. He is fun and Aaron Judge and Otani not being available for the playoffs. It is funny and retrospect. Is it not that 18 months ago we weren't thinking about the idea? Yeah. Giant statue gods, probably going to break if they swing that hard and you make one of them pitch. Human body, not quite equipped to do all of that at six, seven, two hundred and fifty pounds. Like it's only the most obvious thing in the world. If they have to load, manage, and basketball, they're playing twice as many baseball games. And Otani, you're making him pitch and hit. And so of course, Judge is on the wild card roster. Why? Because the second half of the season, he hasn't been able to do any upper body exercises. If the top half of his body doesn't work, he can't pick up anything because he's a giant statue and he's going to break if you're making, play a hundred and fifty games. The NFL sells heroin.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The show highlights government overreach, criticizing the Department of Homeland Security for using Brian Dawkins' image in fear-mongering without consent, calling it a violation of American principles.
Hosts celebrate fictional high school principals, ranking Mr. Clark from *Lean on Me* as number one, with Mr. Belding from *Saved by the Bell* as number two and a tribute to his legacy after his passing.
The "useless sound montage" is a popular segment featuring chaotic, unstructured audio clips, including football game highlights and commercial interruptions, drawing criticism for sensory overload.
A major critique is the NFL’s strategy of broadcasting multiple high-stakes games simultaneously, creating a constant stream of action that overwhelms viewers and turns sports into an addictive, distracting media experience.
The hosts express concern over targeted advertising during football games—like Wingstop’s QR code appearing mid-action—arguing it manipulates viewers’ desires and exploits attention during critical moments of gameplay.
The discussion touches on the absurdity of media saturation, comparing football’s red zone overload to the impossibility of watching six sitcoms at once, suggesting modern entertainment is built on perpetual stimulation.
A key baseball playoff storyline is highlighted
The show ends with a nostalgic and humorous nod to Peyton Toli’s joyful pitching style, framing him as a modern baseball icon due to his childlike enthusiasm and success despite offensive struggles.
Summary:
The Dunlabata Show, in partnership with DraftKings, delivers a lively yet critical examination of current sports and media culture. It opens with a sharp critique of the Department of Homeland Security’s use of Brian Dawkins’ likeness in fear-based messaging, calling it a violation of personal dignity and American values. The episode then shifts to a nostalgic tribute to fictional high school principals, honoring Mr.
Belding and Mr. Clark as cultural icons, with the latter becoming a symbolic centerpiece after the passing of Dennis Haskins. A central theme is the overwhelming sensory overload of modern sports broadcasting—particularly the red zone, where multiple games are broadcast simultaneously, creating a constant stream of action and distraction.
This is further compounded by targeted advertising, like Wingstop’s QR code appearing mid-game, which manipulates viewer impulses. The hosts argue that this saturation reflects a broader societal addiction to stimuli, making traditional, focused viewing experiences like a single game or sitcom feel rare and undervalued. The discussion also touches on key baseball playoff stories, including pivotal matchups and injuries, with a strong focus on the emotional appeal of young pitchers like Peyton Toli.
Ultimately, the show blends humor, nostalgia, and social commentary to question how entertainment has evolved into a fast, addictive, and often exploitative experience.
FAQs
The 'useless sound montage' is a segment featuring random, often absurd audio clips during a show. It's popular because it provides humor and entertainment through unexpected and non-sequitur sounds.
The top five fictional principals are: 1) Mr. Clark from 'Lean on Me', 2) Mr. Belding from 'Saved by the Bell', 3) Principal Strickland from 'The Simpsons', 4) Principal Skinner from 'The Simpsons', and 5) Principal Anderson from 'Billy Madison'.
Brian Dawkins objected to the DHS using his image to spread fear, stating he respectfully declined permission. The DHS responded by refusing to remove the image, sparking concerns about government overreach and the weaponization of personal likenesses.
Fans dislike the red zone because it involves constant interruptions, ads, and multiple games being shown simultaneously, which overwhelms the viewer with stimuli and disrupts the peaceful, focused experience of watching a single game.
The Wingstop ad is significant because it appears unexpectedly during live football, using a QR code to immediately prompt viewers to order wings, demonstrating how advertisers exploit high-engagement moments to drive instant purchases.
The '11 minutes of action' refers to the idea that in a football game, only about 11 minutes of actual gameplay occur per game, with the rest being downtime, making it a rare and valuable moment of focused attention for fans.
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