Postgame Show: Spliff Notes (Let's Be Kind to Each Other)
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Why the bleep is Dan Lebitard moving from an old journalist to a therapist without any training or degree? Shit is embarrassing. I have chosen the weird lane on South Beach Sessions of instead of getting the guest to cry, the host cries. It's weird. It keeps happening to me. I can't stop. I can't stop crying. All of a sudden Sam Morrill's like, why are you crying right now?

It is super strange. It happens again with Ted Danson. It's embarrassing every time it happens, but it keeps happening. I can't control it. Juju, thank you for being on with us yesterday. You were not critical at all. Everyone applauds you for not being critical, but I want you to be critical because I think you are the eyes and ears of the show. And I've checked out on much of the show's social media because our Reddick

got so poisonous because we didn't have as a show an enemy that I became the enemy and I'm like okay no thanks I'm leaving now this was nice while it lasted so I want to hear from you on the things that we're doing wrong the things that we're doing incorrectly the things that the audience is saying what do you have for us today anything or you're still on your positivity kick

It's not a kick for the same. You just explained how you say, Hey, it's become so toxic and poison that it just becomes a struggle at times to see this, like to see yourself talked about in this manner. People come to my DMS and they'd be not even DMS no more. People just send the messages and at me at the most disrespectful things. And then male mental health month, I can admit like, bro, I'd be reading some of that stuff. And some of that stuff, it, it,

It makes me insecure about myself. It makes it gives me the imposter syndrome of knowing that, dang, I deserve to be here because umpteen people have told me you don't deserve. You just you just this you you got your meal. And so some of the stuff actually gets through to me the same way it does everyone else. I'm no superhuman. You feel me? So that's why I'm just trying to be more positive, because I'm listening as well as listening.

reacting as I know I shouldn't listen to all of it, but

Just as a man in this mental health month, I can admit that some of this stuff just be affecting me. So I try to go a different angle. I'm not going to ramble. You took offense to the younger generation discounting Dave Grohl's success in his music career. And I think that's that energy is the exact energy I have when people discount Kalaya Copper, Breonna Stewart, Asia Wilson, just because they just learned about who Caitlin Clark is.

And I definitely understand how that happens. But I think it's up to us to exhibit patience and the willingness to encourage the inclusivity and not the frustration that comes with the entitlement of knowing. Like we have to be willing to teach each other and have the patience and it will serve the newcomers a little bit better if they have also have the willingness to willingness to listen and learn without the ego that's attached to their reputation.

Sorry.

I feel for you daily, Juju, because the young people around here, I noticed this for the first time with Mina Kimes a million years ago when she was just starting in the business. And I didn't have an eye because I'd been a columnist for such a long time, taking negative letters and everybody getting mad at me all the time that I didn't.

have an eye for just how corrosive social media criticism can be, even to people who have giantly popular Q ratings like you and Mina because of whatever it is about human nature that makes us notice the one negative comment instead of the 20 positive comments. But

I have felt for you pretty consistently because you're so good at this and to be good at it the way you are, you have to be obsessed with it. And your obsession with it makes it so that I feel like you're daily getting hit with shit that not only you don't deserve, because I know the merit of why it is you're hired and why it is that you work around here, but stuff that is truly challenging because you can't

as a job title, disconnect from it. You're not even allowed. I've had to check out on it and I've been for 30 years getting criticized. So I'm plenty, plenty used to it and I still had to check out on it.

Yeah. For the first time in my life, I've like, bro, like people who know me, this is how crazy for the first time in my life, bro. I'm more insecure than I've ever been. I'm used to knowing for a fact I'm better than dot, dot, dot. I'm used to knowing and saying that and breathing that and talking. That's why my energy comes off sometimes as it is, because I'm from the streets. Like I'm used to making sure that everybody out here know what the hell going on and I will do everything.

you know what I mean? Things to the contrary. You feel me? So this is my first time actually hearing criticism come at me. And I can't lie, it hurts my, it hurts my feelings. It hurts my confidence. It hurts my, just my overall excitement to be alive sometimes because I, I want to be a musician. That's still my dream, my ultimate goal. And people, uh,

And within this industry, they don't necessarily have the...

I would say the fans of the show, they don't have the filter that I wish that they had. You know what I mean? They just say it. Even, even if you fans of the show that I have the DM from the last time you DM to me, it was a salute. I love you so much. And now it's turned into, ah, you're, you're so entitled. You just, uh, uh, free, uh, uh, what are they called? Rooney rule higher. They go, they're creative in their distance to me. Like I commend them, but it just, it hurts so much. And especially to see some of the people it's like former coworkers. We have getting,

I can tell burner pages. I can tell all this stuff, but sorry for rambling, Jessica. I'm just trying to just be open during this mental health month and just show that we won the championships in two sports just right now. But more importantly, it's just about being real. And speaking of being real, someone sent me a message on on IG and

Avery Bolano. A salute to her husband, whatever her name is. Hey, Juju, my husband's birthday is today. I was hoping you guys could give him a shout out. He had a double lung transplant in February and the show has been a big part of what has been a long recovery. It's his 39th birthday and he would love it if you guys could shout him out. He will obviously be watching. She didn't give his name, but shouts out to you, brother. We mean to

To have an impact on these people's lives means so much more than our opinions of what's happening and what's current events. Thank you, sister, for sharing that with us. And I will try to do a better job moving forward of just being involved and keeping the negativity out and just being a better example. I'm rambling. I'm so sorry. I don't care.

Good luck! Juju, I think the vulnerability that you're showing is something that everyone could really use. And I certainly appreciate it as someone who's dealt with my own mental health struggles to begin with. The bigger and bigger your platform becomes on social media or anywhere else, you only grow to kind of hear more of your insecurities thrown at you.

And that is something that's really tough to deal with. And you, I will say, and this is sort of behind the scenes, but you and I have had a lot of conversations about this. And I've always appreciated your mentality and your willingness to sort of just bring someone in and make them feel loved. And I think that's so much of what we try to do on this show. That's so much of what this show has done for you, for me as a listener for so many years.

And it is difficult to be vulnerable, but putting that out there the way that you are, I think helps so many people who are listening to this right now.

Thank you so much, brother. I love you, Jeremy. I want to say that in front of the world. I love you, Jeremy. I know as men we get so we can't be. Now I love I love you, Tony. I love you, Jessica. I love you, Lucy. I love you, Chris. I love you, Dan. I love you, Stu. Like you guys are my actual friends. Like I like my friends have dropped off drastically over the last few years from gun violence or just from just from health and concerns of that nature. So I really appreciate every second I get to spend with you guys. And I try to

exude that i know i come off too much i buy you shoes that you don't need or buy you shirts that you don't want but that's just my love language so i really appreciate all you guys and the listeners of the show i got your back and i will improve and be a better man and less emotional you dig me you guys know the pope is the minority shareholder in dominoes

That one I made up, actually. I was going to say, that one has to be Francesa. Juju, we love you, too. And everyone that's being mean, knock it off, because we all get mean comments, and it's not cool. Well, that should do it. I think that fixed it. Knock it off. Not cool. Hey, it's better than you making fun of Roy for a whole segment. Knock it off, Dan. That was funny, though. That's funny. Faceless cruelty, people. Knock it off. All right, we have made it from Amber and Becker.

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It's summertime. Go outside. I record a lot from my office with you and you've noticed it's sitting there yet. It hasn't been used. Well, now's the time. Summer's the best time to start that push. Right. Can we do it together? Not on the same bike, but we could join a class together. I used to do that. We used to have Guillermo Tan. I'd invite people. We'd all take a class together. Okay. So I think you're starting to get concerned about my health and my age, Billy. I,

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She was on it once and an instructor who was playing Grateful Dead tunes. Let's do that. Okay. Why don't we go for a run outside? Guided run. Peloton. Me and you. That's something we can do together. Okay. Turn on the app. Me and you go outside. Enjoy the summer. Call yourself a runner with Peloton at onepeloton.com slash running. All right.