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The Suey Awards: Worst Mistake | Hour 1

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The Suey Awards: Worst Mistake | Hour 1

The episode of The Down Laboratory Show introduces the inaugural Sui Awards, celebrating "Worst Talking" through a series of comedic missteps by sports figures. From mispronouncing player names like "Jude Bellington" to botching phrases like "Bears lose," the segment highlights the absurdity and frequency of errors in sports commentary. The discussion expands to critique college football's rigid eligibility rules, arguing that the sport is already professional and that restrictive policies are outdated and illogical in the face of massive financial rewards. The hosts also explore broader cultural issues, including tipping norms and the emotional impact of being publicly called out for forgetting a tip. A satirical storyline about a missing Nicholas Cage movie, "Fortitude," and a real-life incident involving a massage tip gone wrong further underscore the show’s tone of irony and social observation. The episode blends humor with sharp commentary on professionalism, tradition, and consumer behavior in modern sports and services.

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- You are listening to The Down Laboratory Show in partnership with the Draft King Sports Act. Now live in all 50 estates. (upbeat music) - This episode of The Dan Labbittar Show is presented by Draft King Sports. Draft King's The Ground Is Yours. - We have a brand new Sui announcer. We have a brand new Sui trophy, and we have the first category of this our Sui Week. This hour, worst talking is the first award that we're giving. Why do you guys look and are you all dressed like a company softball team that is four and 12? Why is it that all of you look exactly alike today? - I mean, we had three weeks with Zazlow, and it's just-- - Yeah! - You know about the Richard Dan? He's changed me. - He's changed me. - Makes us look great. - All right. - We're having Thai food. - I look good in red, don't I? - I like lunch. - Dan thought Montreal had a lot of ties in the conference standings of MLS. Jeremy, why are you wearing a cowboy hat? - Oh, well, as you know, Dan, it's been my lifelong dream since last Wednesday to become a country music star, and y'all know how much I care about this, and it's been a dream of mine, so I decided to work on this passion project, really, no, there's no qualms about it, there's no facade here. I have wanted to do this for a really long time. - You regret the word qualms there, right? - Yeah, I didn't like that. And when it came out, I was like, ooh! - I really have, I've long worked at this dream. I've been writing down lyrics in my notes app for about 10 years now of, you know, the lack of trials and tribulations that I faced. You know, I really haven't faced much strife in my life, and so I wanted to authentically come to all of you in the audience and let you know how that felt. So my new single, "The Diary of a Personable Fella" will be dropping on Friday. I'm really excited to share this authentic and personal experience with all of y'all. - Is there, I see the parental advisory label, is there actually explicit content? - Oh yeah, oh yeah, no, this is from the heart, which means there's gonna be some real emotion, y'all. - Okay, the key to your impersonation is gonna be the y'all. How do you think Jonathan Taylor, in Indiana, feels about the fact that he's being paid for the next two years, $44 million, and Indiana's former punter, Pat McAfee, is being paid $60 million. How do you feel? How do you think Jonathan Taylor feels about that one? - Hey. - Play the "Stat of the Day" by the "Stat of the Day" music, Roy. ♪ Start of the day, start of the day ♪ ♪ It is the start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day ♪ ♪ It is the start of the day, the five highest paid dolphins this season ♪ ♪ Two, 55 million ♪ - Oh, no. Tyree Kill, 28 million. Jalen Ramsey, 20 million. - Come on. - Minka Fitzpatrick, 13 million. - A sealer in there somewhere. - Bradley Chobb, $11 million. - That cap is dead. - None will be playing for the Miami dolphins this season. - They have two players that are 30 years old. Zach Sealer, who's 30, and their punter that they just signed. - I wanted to ask you, Zazlow, about something that is happening in college football that I know you guys have talked about. I'm watching the televisions here, and Lane Kiffin says they will absolutely abide by whatever the SEC's eligibility rules are, but there is some doubt on what those eligibility rules are gonna be, because of course, Lane Kiffin has tried to test the boundaries and the limits of the rules by taking a player who had been waived by the Browns and taking him at LSU, and now you have a fight here where college conferences are trying to ban the ability of players going to the pros back to college, and I don't know what you guys have said about this, and I also don't know what people are saying about this, but I know how I feel about it, and I think that both fans and these conferences are being awfully precious about the cis boom bar of what they want college football to be, when I just think we should call it minor league football, and let guys have 10 years of eligibility if they want. Like, let's stop making this about education. - So no classes. - And let's stop the stupidity, it's not about them being students, like, what are we doing? We're still hanging on, we're just slowly changing it, because they want it to feel like some sort of amateurism, when that ship is sailed, it's minor league football, it's a giant professional sport, Chris Wanky won a Heisman at 29 years old, just make it minor league football, like just stop with the nonsense, like if you want people to keep going to class fine, but eventually this is all going to break, if your governing body has no power, if judges are telling you, yeah, conferences, you can't do that, you can't do this with antitrust rules, look at what we have right now, okay? This is, I mean, professional football, NFL football, is the most lucrative league in the history of Earth. It's $20 billion a year annually. Nothing like that has ever existed, they've got a free minor league system. Basketball doesn't, baseball shirt doesn't, of course they want to protect their free minor league system. So just let the players go back and forth and just make it minor league football. It already is, we're just pretending it's not. We're sitting here watching this and pretending that this is about class and it's about education and it's about young people. It's not about any of those things and you know it's not about any of those things, like it's not, I don't even, we're being so pret, these conferences are being so precious about we've got to protect this thing and the whole thing is stupid, like it's just clear to me that the whole thing has already collapsed and we're just pretending and abiding by previous rules because the new rules are gonna be made up as we go along. - Yeah, I think it's mostly about like you're saying, you know, we're precious about the old rules. I think we're behaving as fans. I think we're behaving as normal fans who have always liked the way college football has operated and don't see any reason to change the way college football has operated. - Which just feels very sequential, right? You have four years in college. If you're really good, you got three. In dance point, like that's really interesting. Let's get 10 years. The guy starts at 18, he's out of 28. There should be a cap of how old you can be because at some point it's like you're playing with kids if you're a grown-ass man and like that is a little odd but that's an interesting point, like let's just let him play. - I do not want to limit earning potential and workplace potential for employees. You say fans like the way that it's been but that kept the players broke for a long ass time. We've changed it and once you allow the money and you've got to start changing all of the rules as, you've got to start with, I mean, of course, the lane kiffons of the world are going to try to do stuff like that and a judge is telling you they can't. They cannot ban the ability to go work. Like if you want to work as a professional football player, you have some options in Europe but they don't pay very well. The paying options are NFL and college football here and if we're already at the point says, like this change quickly, if we're already at the point where you're paying the quarterback $5 million, why are we still pretending that this is amateur in any way? Like once you get to the point that you're making the quarterback a million errors and 18-year-old, I don't know why you'd be precious about the rules unless it was just in protection of a bygone age that can't exist when you throw this kind of money at it. Once the money opens up these floodgates, you have to allow employees to be able to find work in this country. You cannot sit here and protect your thing that makes it so very precious that you're the only one who gets to hold onto the money anymore. Like you have to, you're not gonna pay kids with food from the commissary anymore. - Do you think fans have more of a problem with the player playing in a preseason NFL game and then going back to school for a fifth year of eligibility or the, you know, signing the NIL deal and then leaving the very next year so the contracts mean nothing. 'Cause I think the latter, fans have more. - I think football is so popular as that it does not matter what it is that we do here as long as your team has a chance to be the best team. That if your team, look man, Indiana was as stunning a sports story as we've ever seen because the whole thing is collapsed 'cause your conferences don't matter, your traditional powers don't matter. Nothing that used to be is still so except for the uniforms and how some people who are unwilling to change feel about it. And I get it, people don't like that kind of change but it's too late. Like it's already changed so much. What difference does it truly make? - There are all sorts of guys in college football right now. Didn't the Hurricanes had a tight end who's been there for McCormack for nine years? Like they're a handful of players. - Oh, school. - They're a handful of players in college who have been there for seven, eight years. And yes, they're injured. and red shirt years and medical red shirt years, but I'm asking you guys sincerely, like I get what it is that this does, okay? Because it limits opportunities for future young people if a guy can play for more than four or five years. If a guy can play for 10 years, then it makes it what? More competitive. Okay. All right, make it more competitive. - I saw Virginia that they beat NC State over the weekend. Their offense starting line, graphic popped up. Their right tackle, fifth year. Their left guard and their right guard, sixth year. Their center and right tackle, seventh year. - Oh my God. - Fans and alum, like part of what makes college sports, college football so special to most fans and most alum is they like feeling this connection. And if the players, you know, are, were pros and then are coming back and not even taking classes, you're not even really part of the school. And that's the part that fans and a love alum love the most. They love the school part. - I feel like you only like that part when you're like at the school. Like I haven't thought about a UM player going the class in a decade. - All right, but what school did you go to? - F-A-U. - Okay, well then I haven't thought about an F-A-U player going as like this just like if they're playing on the field, then they're eligible. - No, but the fan likes most winning. Like that's what the fan likes most. And I would say under what it is that I'm saying to you though you might absorb it as ridiculous, you develop more of an allegiance to a player who's there 10 years 'cause you're watching him all the time. Like it's, my larger point is simply it's already professional football. And you can't stop it by trying to return it to still being college football by handing a guy a couple of books and telling him to please go to geometry class. - Well, some of it is professional football. A lot of it isn't, right? Like there was games this weekend where I found myself looking and I was like, this is a sad game, right? First and foremost, the FSU game being on the CW. - Damn, did you watch it? - While St. Thomas, a local high school down here is on ESPN2, that was fantastic. - CW, it was New Mexico State versus Florida State in a half-empty del Campbell Stadium. It was the saddest thing I've ever seen. It went down to a guy on the sideline. I was like, who the hell is this guy? Look up for me, please. What New Mexico State's record is each of the last 10 years because people are saying that because FSU one by 17, there's some reason for hope there. And I just think of New Mexico State as something that exists at the very bottom of college football at all times. - Well, you saw what the line was on the game? - I was like 28 and a half. - 31 and a half, I think it closed that. So the only one by 17. - New Mexico State, just give me some season logs on what their records have been the last few years because I simply think of New Mexico State as something that exists to travel and then get beaten by others. - So they won four games in 2025. They won three games in 2024. They won actually pretty decent year in 2023 good recruiting class. They actually only lost five games. - Keep going though, I want like the last 15 years of New Mexico State football. - 22, they were kind of six and six. - Not a great either. - 'Cause there's a lot more else in W's but I'm trying to do the math. - For being honest, your Tony's looking at their full schedule. So while looking at, he's trying to assess what the record is. - 2021, they won two games. - Yes, is what we're doing. - No, I'm doing, you want to come do this? - No, it's okay, good. - That's what it's done right. - Okay, two wins in 2021. In 2020, a short and season, they actually went 500. - Are you sure? - They won one game and lost one game. - That's easy for you to count. - They put the two game, they lost to Tarleton. - They lost to Tarleton, 43, 17. Tarleton, FCS school. - Jeremy, can you do this quicker, more efficiently? - Since the turn of the century, they've been over 500 four times. - Okay. - That's not as fun, that's not as fun. (laughing) - I have qualms with that. - 2019. - No, no qualms. - No, I have a qualms. - No, there's no qualms. - 2019, they won two games. - Well, he just covered it. - 2018, they won three games. - He's scatting like year years. - Yep, put it on the pole, yes, he's the Android model. - They lost to Utah State, 60 to 13 ones. Click to the next season. - Put it on the pole. Do you know what a qualms at Levitard? - I used it correctly, okay, I used qualms correctly. It might not have been the best word. - No. - But I used it correctly, but it just wasn't the place for it. It really wasn't, the world was used correctly. But we're not good. - I'm sorry if a person will fall out Friday, everyone. - Down Levitard. ♪ There's sunglasses in boxes today ♪ ♪ But in my bed in the hospital ♪ ♪ Ending our lives all the same ♪ - Jeremy Tachi. ♪ It's the final night gown ♪ (upbeat music) - This is Levitard, show. (upbeat music) - We're not good talkers, and here is the evidence as we debut the Suis this week, worst talking. (upbeat music) - Welcome to the 2026 Sui Awards. - I'm Michael Beaumonti, the long time now retired voice of your Miami Heat. Many of you know me as the two minutes dose, middle dose guy, while others know me as Lual Deng. All right, let's get this party started. (audience applauds) And now, for the first time ever, here are the Sui nominees for worst talking. Dan Levitard matriculates through a sentence. - Why does he go into full coach speak when after listening to this Texas A&M pods, where he's like, well, we got a matric matric matric matriculate the ball down the field. (audience laughs) I'm asking, for us and the audience. - Well, we got a matric matric matric matriculate the ball down the field. - Tony Kalatiyud's attempt at wartime consigliary. - That's a Sean Penn movie. - Is it a, okay, fair enough, it is a Sean Penn movie. - He also wasn't a wartime consigliary. He hated the way I said that. - He said it again. (audience laughs) - Thought, there he goes. - Let's cut that up. (audience laughs) He's leaving? - Bye. - He's leaving. - Chris Cody did not complete his sentence. - On Sunday, James Winston, against the Lions, had five completed passes over 20 airy arts. Five of them he had on Sunday. The Steelers did not complete. (audience laughs) - Oh, Jeremy, you're not a complete. - You're gonna love his Italian guy in front. - He's a legend. - He's a legend. - He did not complete it. (audience laughs) - The Italian were losing the punch line of this stat now. - Stat now. - I made this about me. (audience laughs) - The Steelers did not complete a single one in the month of November. The Steelers, not a one. Did not complete a one. - Mom of me. - You don't do this. - I'm not a complete. - Oh man, don't do it. - Mike Ryan gets Flemmey. - You do the same thing with the coach that you do with the quarterback 'cause FSU was undefeated, but because-- - They are so tied. - Whoa. (laughs) You're right, Dan. - Wow. - That was a mochi. - You weren't froggy there. - They are so tied. - Sorry. (laughs) - Call it joke. - Wow, that was weird. Rough week. - They are so tied. - Whoa. - Tony Colauda-Yud gets lost in his sentence. - Dan, that would be the most unprecedented thing ever right in sports where a gambling scandal where the team was not let under the, under the, they didn't know what was going on. - Okay. - Spit it out, Tony. - Look out, look out. - They need to meet me there. - Look at him. - He lost all confidence. - Yeah, that was unfortunate. - A gambling scandal where the team was not let under the, under the, they didn't know what was going on. - Jeremy Tashay, skips the pass. - How did we skip the pass that his name is Striker? - Yeah, how did we skip the pass? - I don't even know what my brain did there. How did we, how did we skip past? - The fact that his name is-- - Yeah, I didn't know his name was Striker. - The fact that you were saying-- - I don't know, man. How did we skip the pass? - Dan Levitard can't say innings. - A game in which school bull strikes out seven in a row and they lose anyways 'cause it goes 15 innings. - You got that? - National Indigenous Peoples Day. - I'm gonna lie. - Yeah. - 'Cause it goes 15 innings. - Zazlow takes the Bucks Hole. - Can we just say the very obvious, and that is that in the year 2023, Jimmy Butler and the Heat took the Bucks Hole. - They did what? - They took the Bucks Hole. - Okay. - The Soul. - I heard Bucks Hole. - You think I said they took the Bucks Hole? - Look, you said they'd take that extra. - Yeah, you're the inventor around here of taking that ass, and they would anyone say, "I thought that's what you said to him." - You think I'd just take that ass, would say-- - I saw that Bucks Hole. - Jimmy Butler and the Heat took the Bucks Hole. - Chris Russo calls Bad Bunny, Bugs Bunny. - And that game was, again, unless you bet all sorts of props, read Chris Russo, I don't know how you stuck with it. I am. I'm not talking about Bugs Bunny at the half either. As I could care less, whatever his name is. Pat Riley screws up. Wemba Nyama. - Mambaya. (growls) - That's tough. - He did go right by us. - Mambaya, what did the Eastern Conference do to Pat Riley? - Mambaya, you're better than that. - Damn. - He said it, not us. - Mambaya, you gotta get that name right. Mambaya. - That's where you go, Wembee. Excuse me? - Mambaya. - Chris Russo, botches, cam, Schlittler. Let me start here, and then we'll get into Schlittler, who obviously was Panamp, I was Schlittler. (laughs) We kind of botched it, and he's like, I need to resay this. Rob Gronkowski screws up Emeca Egg Buka. - Rookie, sensation, wide receiver, out of Ohio State. Emeca Egg Buk, going through over a hundred guys. (laughs) Emeca Egg Buka. - I'm getting confused, Emeca Egg Buk. (laughs) - That kid's good. - Emeca Egg Buk. Chris Cody loses his breath. - That's at the Kendall Drive in Southwest 127th Avenue, Flanagan's Thursday, October 30th, $1,500 costume contest. Dave, what are you joining, dressing up as? - Jesus, Chris. Chris, you okay? Chris, what happened there? - Thursday, October 30th, $1,500 costume contest. - Dan Levitard messes up Jude Bellingham. - How about Jude Bellington returning to the form of the pitch from two years ago? - And Jude Bellingham has been pretty good too. That's a fun thing. - Oh, what did I call him? - Bellington. - Gosh. - It's a fine. - Man, God damn it. - It was a funny joke though, you were so close. - Oh man, that hurts. - People get names wrong sometimes. - No, but I've been doing it more and more, and it's just debilitating. - It's okay. - How about Jude Bellington? - Zazlow gets emotional. - Like I was pulled over a few weeks ago. - Oh, fight through. - Shoked up. - Oh. - Get it, it's emotional. - No, take your time. - I get choked up sometimes when I talk about, you know, getting pulled over by the police. - Zazlow gets emotional again. - Do you expect Matt, you could chuck to be skating with a hangover tonight? - Tonight. - Oh. - I got emotional. - I get very emotional. - Yeah, cut that one. - I think you have that, you can chuck. I get very emotional. - Matt, don't worry. - Strike. - Tony Colaudiude tells us who he'd weather have. - 100% because then you look at what they have in JJ McCarthy and it's like, who would you weather have? - Who would you weather have? - Dave Damishek can't talk. - The person who insists that when they make a list of the, first, well, the first one is when they say of all time. - Zazlow screws up Bobby Portis. - You know what? That's just more time you're going to be standing around and waiting 'cause you're going to be standing next to Bobby Porti. Greg Cody botches Malachi Tony. - This year, not just Fletcher Marty Brown has been great. Malachi has been great. - Malachi. - Malachi, sorry, but in this case, I can't praise Miami enough. - Malachi. - I think they're an air tight. - Oh, is it? - It's not Malachi? - It's Malachi. - It's a biblical name. - It is Malachi. - I should be Malachi. - Yeah, I apologize for mispeaking. - Malachi. - Damn, Levitard has the sink shipping. - I think he's mentally broken 'cause this is a really hard job and he was kind of alone in doing it as the ship started to sink. It's so interesting to me to see. - The sink is shipping and Greer's the first one out. It's gonna-- - It's the second time. - This ship is sinking. - What did I say? What did I say? - The sink is shipping. - By the way, I'm not mad at that. I want to see a sink be shipped away like, that means it's over. - I'm glad you mentioned that 'cause the first time he said, I'm like, I've never heard that. - He caught it the first time, but then he just let it loose there. - Zazlow asks if the packers win or if the bear's lose. - Diana, did the packers win or the bear lose? Bear's lose. - Yeah, it was really bad. - Broo. (laughing) - That was so bad, Zaz. - Zaz, we're ready to turn that one in the post-Salt Tower right now. - We're gonna cover it in the student. She's off the note. - Bear's lose. - A mid-segment meeting. - I'm gonna hear that replay several times. - That was bad. - The packers win or the bear lose? Bear's lose. - Oh my god. - What a dork. - That'll never go away either. Bear's lose. (laughing) - Bear's lose. - It's plural. (laughing) - Yeah. - Dan Levittard messes up. - Bodikwa. - There are an assortment of Pittsburgh broadcasters who were trying to pronounce the word Bodikwa. - And Bodikwa. - Bodikwa, I'm sorry. Thank you. - That's a bad Dan. - Upward, upward, upward, upward, upward, upward, upward. - It's just, it's traveling. - I'm transition, Tyson's. - That's gonna be like Spowe with the pistons calling the timeout when you didn't have one. You're gonna wake up in the middle and I like Bodikwa. - On my deathbed. - On your deathbed. I'm gonna be next to you. And Roy's gonna be there. And be like, "I'm gonna forgive you." (singing) - Bodikwa. - Bodikwa. - Bodikwa. - Tony Kaladayud. Three-time champ. Bell champion. Talk about danger in the heavyweight division. Alex Penaida moving up for a. On just completely crazy three-time champ, belt champion in three different way classes. - What did you just say? - Tap out. - Alex Penaida moving up for a. On just completely crazy three-time champ, belt champion. - Zazlow gets excited about weapons. - Weapons. What a movie, David. I never would have watched it without my suggesting that I watched it. - Shitty, you want to know how that. What were the kids doing? How they go missing? - That's exactly right. - That's exactly well put. (laughing) - Shitty, you want to know how that. - What did I call David in the beginning? - I don't know, dude. - What's next? - Time. - Time. - Shitty. - It sounds like me doing fake him. - What were the kids doing? - Dan Levitard messes up cross-country about as much as you possibly can. - Are you an expert Jessica in the cross-country? - See ya, then! - See ya, buddy. - Bye now. - Get outta here. (laughing) - Almost to California, bud. - Cut it up. - Yeah, that's how he said it. - Or if he's an expert or not. - Cross- booty. (audience clapping) - Woof! - It's gonna start. - This is gonna be a bad year for me. - I didn't like that one then. - This is gonna be bad year for me. I think I'm gonna run away with all of the categories. - Tony came for your stuff a little bit. - That one is hotly contested. - Getting more Jeremy. Jeremy messed up a lot this year. - Dan Levitard. The Packers winner, the Bears lose. Bears lose. Jenna dan Sassilo. Shitty, you want to know how that. They say she's the Dan Levitard show. (upbeat music) - Speaking of wartime consigliaries. Are you guys aware that the LAPD is investigating that a Nicholas Cage movie, a World War II spy movie has just disappeared. The name of the movie is Fortitude. It's supposed to be Oceans 11, meets in glorious bastards and it's just disappeared. Nobody can find it and the LAPD is investigating where the hell the movie is. That Netflix is making so many movies and that they could just take a Nicholas Cage movie. That Netflix is making so many movies and Nicholas Cage is making so many movies that one of them could just vanish and it needs to be investigated. - So is this movie just gonna show up on YouTube at some point? - I don't even understand what you're saying here. It's not physical. This is a digital copy. You're saying someone stole what the computer, every hard drive it was on. They weren't saving it more than one place. It is a movie that Nicholas Cage made that has vanished. And so I want you to look up for me. What the LAPD is investigating. What are you shaking your fingers now? - All this trick in the book, that's a scam for insurance, Dan. That's a highly insurance scam if I ever heard one. Where's the movie? I don't know, it's gone. I have no idea. What was the insurance on it? Five million bucks. Oh, okay, I guess I'll take the insurance on it. - It does sound like an easy insurance book, Dan. - Insurance scam. I want to ask you guys to tell me how I should feel about a Larry David moment that I had in California, where I go into a place to get a massage. And it's $81 for an hour, okay? - Not bad. - I know it's very affordable. I was surprised at how cheap it was. - It feels shopping center cheap. - I was stunned by how cheap it was. And I give them $100 off of the top. And I forget that they gave me change because that's how I would tip on the massage. If $81 massage, I'd give $100. And then we'd be done with the transaction. But they gave me change. And so at the end of the massage, I walk out of the place. And I am in the street. And the masseuse chases me into the street and is yelling no tip, no tip. And it's simply because I forgot. And then of course, I give her the $20. But I'm saying to myself after I walk away, wait a minute, though, a tip is, it's not guaranteed. A tip is extra. I shouldn't be, I shouldn't be chased into the street and embarrassed even though, So she was right, like I meant to tip her correctly or more correctly, but I failed. I think there are some industries where it is just fully expected. Yeah. I think restaurants is the most well, especially because the servers they don't get paid well. I would imagine the masseuse gets paid a normal wage, right? I think that they probably need their tips. I don't and especially if it's a place, $2 an hour, like a waiter. No, but if it's a place though, that's giving you a massage as cheaply as $81 for an hour because that is pretty cheap by massage standards. If it's $81 an hour, that place probably isn't paying very well. I don't know if it was because it was a daytime rate or something else, but a weekday rate, but that place can't be paying the masseuses that well. So I have no objection to thinking that you deserve the tip. I have no objection to in that case, the tip being mandatory, even though I've told you guys that if a restaurant puts my tip into the bill, automatically it is all you're getting when you would have gotten more from me if you had not done that. But in this particular case, how am I to feel about the fact that in the street, someone is yelling. I know. No tip. I'm a coward. She'd come back out. I'd be like, sorry. Here's 40. Oh, I was embarrassed. It was an innocent mistake. But I was embarrassed. I was embarrassed not because she was calling me out on it. I was embarrassed because I had legitimately forgotten and she thought I was in a tipper. But once I, once I left and walked away a few minutes, I was like, wait a minute. It's not, it's not guaranteed the way this just ended was with the shame and embarrassment of me in the street just handing you $20 because I was indeed embarrassed. And she, by embarrassing me, she got an extra dollar because she was only going to get 19 a second ago. And now she got 20. Some people just have no shame about asking. I feel similarly when I'm ending an Uber or a rideshare, the driver that says, if you appreciate my service, please, like you ever have that where they like kind of ask you for a tip on the way out, I'm less likely to tip them. I don't know what they're doing there. It's like the, hey, if you appreciate everything, please give a good tip and I hear that and I make a weird face. The idea is always Uber. I don't have to tip. And then they reverse course and I'm like, no, you got to tip them because we don't pay them anything. It's like, well, that's your problem. Not mine. Right. That was the beauty of Uber at the start. You don't even have to tip. We don't want you to tip. But I thought though that the tip in all instances was optional. They don't. And find more. I'm pretty sure this is, is this just an America thing? Because I don't think it's something that they do very, like your pins are notoriously not tippers when they come to a country baked in. When I went to London in Paris last year, I was so confused when we were at restaurants, like what's the deal with tipping and they're like, no, you don't do that here. They just pay them enough. Yeah. I like that better. Right? I just don't know how I'm, I was legitimately confused as I left because my instantaneous reaction was shame and agreeing with her genuine embarrassment. Of course you'd come out here. It's a mistake I meant to do this. It felt like an assault on my character afterward. It did not feel like that in the moment because I did agree with her. Like it was it was. What kind of place were you at? Can we start there? What kind of massage place did you go to where it was only 81 dollars, which is really cheaper massage and the masseuse is running into the parking lot chasing you for money. No. It wasn't the parking lot. It was Santa Monica Boulevard. It was like the chimes when you opened the door. There were no chimes when I opened the door, but it's just massage near me. It's what it's what I did. It's just the Google search. That's it's called. It's. It's. That is, you know what? That's a good name. Where you going? Massage near me. That is a sheet. That is actually a good. Don't say anymore. That's a free one guy. I got to open a franchise. I give business away like nothing. That is a good name. That is a great way to sort of Jerry rig the algorithms so that you can massage near me is absolutely a good name, but that's all that was is I just want. I didn't check any. I don't know whether you guys would. Would you guys check the comments and reviews because I didn't even do that. Yes. Make sure there's no sting operation. 100%. Yes. Yeah. I didn't do any of that. One of the code words to, you know, have the fun thing. I would have texted Sedano and said, where do you get your massages right here? So Simon Afram is the producer of fortitude and he's suing Netflix because apparently what it was is they were, you know, in a discussion, Netflix wanted a screening. They brought this unencrypted digital cinema package to Netflix for them to be able to watch and have a screening. And then after that happened on June 16th, on June 25th, he was informed by Netflix, hey, someone stole the footage. So he's now suing them not only for $165 million for the rights of the movie, but now he's suing them for defamation because of the way that they responded to that initial lawsuit. But I can completely understand it because this is a story of British intelligence operatives using unprecedented strategic operations that fool Nazi leadership and in it. Nick Cage is playing Dusko Popov, a Serbian playboy who was a real life double agent. I see the way that you guys all looked at me. I saw it in your eyes and you've got me being, we're still thinking it Bob Kraft and dirty Jed York. You got me. You guys have me being dirty. Jed York is what you guys have real dirty 81 bucks. You're like, what a steal. I mean, Kraft ruined it for everyone. You can't say I got a massage without people thinking that's just where you go. I get massages all the time at Lebedard show is where you vote on the polls. Are we still making Jed's is the name of the question at Lebedard show? I think that prostitution scam thing is more embarrassing because his name is two syllables. Your name is Jed York and I think it's made more embarrassing by the name Jed. Those details are, how much did you guys laugh at the details of an NFL owner, somebody who is wildly rich going to the equivalent of a trailer park, trying to fish out some sort of sexual favor for $140 from somebody who washes their underwear in a coffee machine? I laughed. The NFL is investigating this, correct? The NFL, I just can't imagine how embarrassed you are if you are Jed York. And this is what you have around the 49ers franchise. This is one of my puzzle pieces in this NFL conspiracy that I'm cooking up that I want to get off the ground. And I feel like I have all the pieces in place if you want to hear it then. The NFL, the San Francisco 49ers, they obviously, the situation came out with Jed York where they're like $140 trailer park. This is bad news. What do we do? We bring in Dejon Love, 49ers, fake wide receiver, all the sudden now, the entire news stream, the entire media is flooded with Dejon Love, who's a fake wide receiver for who? The 49ers, it could have been any team, but specifically the 49ers, Jed York and the San Francisco 49ers brass having cooked by the substation. And now they're employing Dejon Love to go out and do their bidding to completely clear Jed York of anything, timeline related on Twitter, on anything, now all we see of the 49ers is this person doing sand routes very slowly with the helmet on all right. Let's for a second here, move away from the Jed York story and watch this video and talk about how poorly this guy impersonated an NFL receiver while a building women out of like $1.2 million, right, because he was faking being a wide receiver for the 49ers by doing routes on the sand, wearing a 49ers helmet and not looking very athletic in terms of body type, also not looking very fast in terms of sand routes. I have seen videos of wide receivers and professional athletes working out in the sand. One of them look that slow as molasses as our guide Dejon Love. He really called himself love like that is that is real name for all we know, so the guy who's faking his credentials to trick 26 women out of $1.2 million, you're a rich wide receiver. His last name is love. There is a genius in him wearing number seven on the jersey, though, because you know that no one is going near cap or mix number right now on the 49ers, so you're not going to wear that. Well, there's some great stuff too of him explaining on his Instagram why Jake Moody was able to get number four, even though he has jewelry of number four, he said that when the 49ers sign him in the off season, that he's going to buy the number from Jake Moody, that he is going to buy all season details more details than needed, let's just watch some videos to fond digs working out in sand here on a volleyball court so that you guys can see what what real professional athletes look like when they're moving, they do not look like that guy who is wearing a 49ers on it and look like me out there.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The show debuts the "Sui Awards" with a humorous category for "Worst Talking," highlighting notable mispronunciations and errors by sports personalities.
  2. Hosts and guests make numerous gaffes, including misnaming players (e.g., Jude Bellingham as Bellington, Malachi Tony), confusing team names (e.g., Packers win/Bears lose), and botched statistics.
  3. A central theme critiques the amateurism of college football, arguing it has long been a professional sport and questioning the value of strict eligibility rules that limit player mobility and earnings.
  4. The discussion extends to broader issues of professionalism, tipping culture, and the absurdity of preserving outdated traditions in modern sports.
  5. A fictional story about a missing Nicholas Cage movie, "Fortitude," is presented as a satirical commentary on digital content theft and corporate accountability.
  6. A personal anecdote about being chased for a massage tip reveals discomfort with perceived expectations of tipping in service industries, especially when it leads to embarrassment.

Summary:

The episode of The Down Laboratory Show introduces the inaugural Sui Awards, celebrating "Worst Talking" through a series of comedic missteps by sports figures. From mispronouncing player names like "Jude Bellington" to botching phrases like "Bears lose," the segment highlights the absurdity and frequency of errors in sports commentary. The discussion expands to critique college football's rigid eligibility rules, arguing that the sport is already professional and that restrictive policies are outdated and illogical in the face of massive financial rewards.

The hosts also explore broader cultural issues, including tipping norms and the emotional impact of being publicly called out for forgetting a tip. A satirical storyline about a missing Nicholas Cage movie, "Fortitude," and a real-life incident involving a massage tip gone wrong further underscore the show’s tone of irony and social observation. The episode blends humor with sharp commentary on professionalism, tradition, and consumer behavior in modern sports and services.

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The Sui Awards are a comedic, satirical category introduced to highlight the worst talking in sports commentary. This year, it features nominees for the worst misstatements, name confusions, and awkward sentences in broadcasting.

Dan Levitard struggled to pronounce 'Bodikwa,' a name from a Pittsburgh broadcaster. The mistake became a humorous moment, highlighting how easily names can be mispronounced under pressure during live commentary.

The host went to a massage place for $81 and forgot to tip after giving $100. The masseuse chased him into the street, claiming he didn’t tip, which made the host feel embarrassed, even though he had intended to tip.

A Nicholas Cage spy movie called 'Fortitude' reportedly vanished from Netflix. The creator, Simon Afram, is suing Netflix, alleging the footage was stolen and accusing Netflix of defaming him in their response.

The host jokingly refers to the 'Bucks Hole' as a misstatement of the Heat's victory over the Milwaukee Bucks, using a humorous, nonsensical phrase that became a running joke in the show.

The show argues that college football's rules are outdated and overly protective of amateurism, suggesting that players should have up to 10 years of eligibility and that the sport is already professional in nature.

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