Amin listens to our show every day, and something from earlier in the week caught his attention: the word "slapdick." What are the word's origins, and how will Amin find a way to take credit for its proliferation worldwide? And why is this show perpetuating its beef with Gary Ferman? Then, Billy may have apologized to the continent of Australia for dismissing their citizens yesterday, but he picked a new beef with Mariah Carey today. Plus, the Jacksonville Jaguars' new GM looks 12 years old, Dan spins the wheel of topics, and, at the end of the day, we need to talk about Myles Garrett. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the origins of the term 'Slapdick'?
I remember many years ago, Mina Kimes didn't know that she was being heard on Highly Questionable and she was talking and she was saying of listeners of this show That she didn't understand how it is that our audience could listen to all three hours of this a day, given how busy their lives are.
And the thing that has flattered me about both Amin and all his hustling and Dominique Foxworth somehow is that they still listen to all of it. And yesterday, evidently, this doesn't happen very often around here. But yesterday, evidently, Amin was listening and there was something about Slapdick that made him want to be a part of the conversation from afar.
When was it that Mike Ryan called someone a Slapdick?
He called Gary Furman a Slapdick.
Yeah, that feud has escalated to uncomfortable places.
Cool!
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Chapter 2: How has the term 'Slapdick' been used in sports?
Anyway, slapdick made an appearance on the show, and I thought it was an excellent word. It's a funny word, but I hadn't heard it for a while. And I don't know what a slapdick is. I don't know what it actually is. It's someone who's standing there and just slapping their dick?
Pretty much. That's what it comes down to. It's basically someone like a masturbatory. You're not doing anything other than just touching yourself, basically, as opposed to doing your job. And so slapdick was a word that we used in basketball all the damn time. He's a slapdick. What are those slapdicks up to? Everyone's a slapdick. Anyone who's not doing their job was a slapdick.
And I remember when I left basketball and I entered the media world, I used that term a couple of times and nobody knew what the hell I was talking about. Right. I even tried to use it on air at ESPN. Obviously, I couldn't say slapdick. So I created the euphemism or the clean version, the radio edit of slappy. He's a slappy as opposed to a slapdick, right? But nobody got it.
So I was like, maybe this is just something that we did. Billy, why are you looking at me in that way?
Because you're confused that people didn't know that something you made up, no one knew what the reference was when you just made it up.
Well, no, I was confused nobody knew what slapdick was. And then I went slappy to kind of clean it up.
Did you use it when you were mentoring Diana Taurasi?
1,000%.
You should be so lucky to be called a slapdick by Diana Taurasi. I think she would say, who?
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Chapter 3: Why is the show in a feud with Gary Ferman?
115 years old. That's older than David once.
Is it on the Don't Die documentary? Because that place looks great for some place that's 110 years old.
That really scary coach from Last Chance U, Jason Brown, tried to trademark Slapdick.
No, see, you can't trademark slapdick, man. Put it on the poll, Juju. Can you trademark slapdick? I'm trying to think of what a slapdick is, right? It's got to be a guy who is not just bad at his job, but bad at his job because he's lazy. He's not even trying, right? That's what a slapdick is. Somebody who wouldn't call around the league to find out if there was value for Luka.
You're not going to do this. Nico is not a slapdick. I'm not saying I agree with the move. I'm just saying, not a slapdick.
Okay, are you done? Do you have any more information for us on your deep dive on the slap dick?
I am really fascinated by the etymology, though, because you were like, what does it mean?
I think you guys think that that's what it is, but it's not just somebody who's there slapping their dick. I think the reason that Parks and Rec did it is because it's not actually even a curse. It's just a funny word. And the dick's almost implied. It's one word. I don't know what it is. And I don't think it's somebody who's just standing there slapping their dick.
Exactly. Dan, imagine this. Imagine if you hired like carpenters and they're supposed to be like. So a woman can't be a slap dick. Yes, of course a woman can be a slap dick. Never said whose dick is slapping.
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Chapter 4: What is the controversy with Australia about?
No, well, we don't need to go back. We're moving forward.
I want to do a backup Billy in this. They're not all criminals. Thank you. But... Most of them. Most of them are descended from criminals. The white ones, at least. They're not all criminals. Malia? The indigenous people, not criminals. That was their land.
Exactly right. Victims.
Thank you. Actually, even the ones who weren't descended from criminals are kind of criminals because they stole the land from the indigenous people.
If anything, I was standing up for the indigenous people yesterday, and that's not how they're choosing to see it for whatever reason, and that's more on them than on me, so...
Billy, you let them off easy. You said it was like $190,000 or whatever, less than $200,000. You let them off easy. It's a nation of millions that stole their land from someone else.
But Jessica did point out it was mostly pickpockets.
Well, yeah, it was like a lot of petty crimes.
There's a petty when they steal a whole continent? Crime's a crime. Thank you.
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Chapter 5: Why did Billy pick a new beef with Mariah Carey?
And Greg Cody, like anyone who has been listening to this for 20 years who reads the Herald from back then would take what Greg Cody was doing to Gary Furman as being insult by not putting him in tears below him. Like it was insulting what he was doing to Gary Furman.
Also maybe true.
But, well, this is his defense. His defense as he left the studio was the whole thing of, I'm just telling the truth.
If he's saying this, Gary would agree with me. I mean, it's hard to argue with that.
First time Chris has ever had Greg's back, by the way.
So Dan, this is the best comp I can make. And this one, Jessica, this will hit home for you. Have you ever seen video of Joe Montana being asked about the movie Rudy? Oh, yes. That's basically what Dan did. He went to Joe Montana and said, wow, how great was it to play with Rudy? And Joe Montana looked at Dan like, what are you talking about?
Great analogy. He's good at analogies. Confirming.
I guess that I was coming after the legend Greg Cody with not enough respect, and everyone here is just sort of saying it's okay for Greg Cody to be arrogant about, hey, I'm Michael Jordan, and this is Craig Hodges.
Mike called him a slapdick.
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