Juju Gotti joins the show to end the day and break down how today went. We recap the epic interview with Nick Turturro, Michael Kay and David Samson and Greg Cote's reaction to being placed alongside Dave Hyde. Plus, Greg and Juju make a bet in case they end up meeting in their Fantasy Football Championship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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I mean, crispy lineup. Crispy lineup.
Not really. That's just the lighting. Dude, the Monday Night Football, man. I went to Raiders and Falcons. Yeah. It was a great experience, but I was surprised how many Falcons fans wore Deion Sanders jerseys. But I thought there would be way more Michael Vicks and there weren't. There was like maybe two or three.
They just started making those jerseys back available, actually. Oh, for real? Because they, like Mitchell and Ness and the people who make the Deons, they didn't do that.
Oh, so that's why. I'm like, this is a lot of, because I remember when you had your Deon jerseys, I was like, wow, where'd you get that? And then I'm like, I didn't know there were this many Deon jerseys out there. Right, right. Hey, and mine, you know, mine from actually 1994.
Yeah.
That's what I'm saying. Like, you have one that was like a original prod, right?
I've rarely seen a game, and you mentioned that Monday night game, Falcons-Raiders, where I just look at it on the schedule and I'm like, why is this here? Why do I have two Monday night games? It's a terrible game I have no interest in. I mean, you went to it, so I guess it was good for you.
But I just remember looking at the schedule and just being like, I'm cool if that game just doesn't happen.
It's not only a game that you didn't need. It immediately ends Kirk Cousins' career in Atlanta. We didn't even talk about that today. And they won it. The team that won it. That's the wild part. The team that won it with 15 points has ended Kirk Cousins' career. And the Raiders do nothing but lose in that Antonio Pierce idea. Not a great one.
Standard of the day. Dan, there were a bunch of people walking around with signs that said, just tank, baby. The Raiders fan base is very into tanking.
Juju, I wanted to get into a couple of things from today's show today, but what I'm really hoping, because I didn't see any of the feedback, and I stayed with it way too long, and I regret certain elements of it, but I hope... No, you're laughing at a different thing than I am, Chris, because... Michael K. That too, look, there were three or four times today that I stayed with something too long, but my favorite of the things that I stayed too long with was just trying to rummage around... What are you smiling about?
Do you know...
I know what I think you spent too much time on.
Give me, let's see if it's the same thing.
Me versus Dave Hyde.
I love that so much. Oh, God, I hate that so much. I love it so much. I hate that so much. Now, Juju, what are your thoughts? Yeah, Juju, not one of your thoughts, but Juju, what did the audience think? Did I stay with that too long? Because Greg Cody was trying to be nice about things, but I noticed that when I put Dave Hyde in his company, he did not like it. I physically felt it next to me.
Dan, you are going to be pleased because that is not what the audience is ablaze about today, John John. So you're safe.
All right. Is it Amin and Mike Ryan going back and forth?
Look, they're always ablaze about something or other. I just have I would like to start by
just updating some polls first to give us some holiday cheer you feel me yes our office christmas party is a great time for enthusiasm and dreams or horrible obligations and 85 of the audience said a horrible ab obligation that's higher than i thought that's on me that's uh that's all right it's not really cheerful yeah okay how about this one okay do you like this company office christmas party all right 71 of the audience said no
Happy holidays, everyone.
We're having two of these today. We're about to have a white elephant. I mean, flew in from Vegas. I mean, flew in for this. Everyone keeps saying two of these. What's the other one? We've got one tonight.
That's the one that they send you. That's the two Americas. But also, it brought joy to my heart today that, because I know Greg don't listen to these post-game shows just routinely as I listen to the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody.
Yeah, with. Thanks, Juju.
You did me. But also, he said that he wanted to see the three-point layup. And if you refer to yesterday, I said, bro, three-point dunks. You feel me? If you dunk on somebody, three points.
You feel me?
It was Juju's first.
I think I worked a Steve Martin in there, if you listen back.
Juju had this many, many hours ago. He started changing the NBA rules long before Greg Cody started fixing the NBA.
Juju's one caveat was it has to be on someone, though. For it to be three points, you have to dunk over a defender. Okay.
Yeah, but then we still got it to the point where we needed to say that, yeah, it still needs some workshopping, but I think me and you, Greg, can get in the lab and pretty much come up with something by, I say, top of the year. Hello, let's have a meeting.
You know, a couple of them.
Hell yeah. Absolutely. I mean, they did a good, they tried to make it seem like he was in Vegas wasting time, but I was locked in to the tournament. It wasn't as, I didn't see the performance from the OKC that I assumed I would get, but at the same time, I was thoroughly entertained. Thoroughly.
Yes, and the people were asking for you, Juju. A lot of people were like, where's Juju? I said, he'll be back.
Yes, sir. Appreciate you, bro. And I want to shout you out, too, during this Christmas holidays, too. Like, during the break I took, like, bro, Amin is one of the funniest people in the world. So him sending me a little joke here and there or him just checking in with me, it lifts my spirit so much.
So in front of the whole world, bro, I want to say thank you and I appreciate you and your friendship throughout, just since I've known you, bro. Now you made it awkward.
That's nice of you to say, but I will say that the most awkward thing here is how we all blew past Greg Cody's totally insincere offer to meet twice with Juju about changing the NBA's rules.
Well, we have to. You can't do it by phone. You've got to meet. You're going to have an executive meeting.
We'll have people taking notes and doing meeting stuff. Yeah, but you're not going to do any of this. I want you to get together. Look, I've been waiting for back in my day for about six months. You don't do anything around here that you say you're going to do.
Yeah, that kind of thing. I mean, we move on with life. We grow. We expand. I wrote a Back in My Day book. You want to hear Back in My Days? There's about 100 of them in here. Maybe 150 of them.
We've heard all those.
No, you haven't, because some of them are original. Some of them have not been heard in 10 years.
We played the original here.
This is the 10th anniversary book of Back in My Days.
Three of them have not been heard, and one of them, three of them are allegedly new, and one of them you've done here already.
Greg, I'm going to suggest something to you because I've thought about this for Black in My Day several times. If you pull one from like seven years ago, will anyone remember?
Well, that's a good question.
I will. Only this one. Drawbridges.
That's my all-time favorite. See, he should rerun some of the best ones, but he won't do it. This guy.
Dan, also, $100 fine for killing Michael K in front of Michael K for some odd reason.
You always do that, Dan. When you're trying to celebrate someone, you kill them.
Whenever we find out a system, whenever we find out a new finding system, you're negative 100 already off the bat.
Okay, I just want to celebrate people and have them hear the things that I'd say at their funeral while they're alive. But it's your tone, though. It's just the way you say it.
You're too right. He was like, bro, did you hear something about me? And salute to that whole segment, bro. I had a smile on my face the entire segment. Even David Sampson asked. I was laughing at him today with the other brothers from the New York Brothers. Yeah.
i don't know you know it's caucasian two americas but i love all three of them brothers it was it was a great great segment and the whole time bro i was like dang this this is what it feel like like this is what this is the feeling that i had when i came into the show like the hijinks and they're just a fun like without a 10-year funeral like that's
Brilliant. Well, Juju, thank you. That hour felt very good to all of us. If we're doing this in traditional postgame, let's break it down style. But I love the number of things about that hour, okay? One of my favorite things is that David Samson got shoved right off to the side of his own segment.
And was resentful for it.
And we couldn't get rid of Michael Kay and Turturro. They didn't want to leave the show because, and this is a great question, why is Greg Cody wrapping Gibson? over there.
I was wondering the same thing. I'm not sure Turturro knew how to get off.
Well, both of them at any point could have just closed their computer or just hit leave on the Zoom, but I don't think they both, my favorite part of that segment was that the two of them at the end were still staring in and I will say to the audience, if you listen to this via audio, the thing that made me roar with laughing is that I was yelling at Lewis because I could see that Turturro and Kay were still there kind of trapped and I'm like, put them on the screen.
Put them so Likely staring. So that people can just see the confusion of why are Michael K and Turturro staring at each other as Greg Cody wraps a gift?
So Dan, you know, obviously I'm out in the room where Greg is wrapping a gift, but we know his mic is hot. So all of us are kind of speaking in whispers and we're having side conversations. And at one point I remember looking up at the screen to see kind of what you guys were on and I'm like, why is Nick Turturro and Michael K still here? It was like 40 minutes later, I'm like, they're still here?
I had said goodbye to them already.
I know. It was funny.
Michael K was like, if the Yankees would have did this or another, they could have easily went to L.A. and got their last game. And David Sands said, well, if I was age-feeding Kedunk, and Michael K was like, you won't and you won't.
You aren't and you won't. Right. I did kill Michael K. I will pay that fine at another time. Do you have anything else for us in the way of constructive criticism today? That Mike and Amin thing got heated over the defensive protection of basketball.
The people loved it.
Yeah, that definitely set the chat on fire. People love seeing him, and me personally, I can't tell what's a bit and what's real anymore, so I didn't lend any kind of emotion to it. I just saw it as two brothers who are talking shop, you know?
I will reveal to the audience I was surprised afterwards. Mike was legitimately, like, offended. You will not reveal any such thing to the audience.
We don't reveal. That's not what we do. Major penalty, five minutes, screwing comedy.
You hear that, brother? We don't explain what the show is. Like, you want that to be the post-game? Get your own post-game show.
Well, all I know is I love that brother. Michael, if you can hear my voice, just know I love you. People still love you online. People love a meme. It was like a Team Edward, Team Jacob situation. And so I think it was a healthy banter. Sorry if anybody was offended. I'm sure that wasn't anybody's intentions. But just know that it was great content, and I'm sorry if anybody was offended in that.
Much love, Juju. Thank you, sir. Yes, sir. Good luck in the playoffs, unless you play me. I got your son, Michael, first round. All right, go through him to get to me.
It's inevitable.
Yes, sir.
If you and I meet in the championship game, we got to make a bet or something like a friendly bet. I'm with it. Yeah.
If I beat you in the championship, you help me publish my next book and vice versa.
Okay, I was thinking of something a little bit less involved and serious, but we'll see what we can do.
Can't wait for that rule-changing meeting you guys are going to have. Yeah, two of them. Those two meetings. Yeah, we're going to get right on.
I'm going to have my people get with your people, and we'll get it done. Yep, over lunch.