Who is going to win MVP? Or make the Finals? | The Elle Duncan Show

On today’s episode of The Elle Duncan Show, Elle and Gary Striewski predict the future of the NBA as we enter the second half of the season. After that, Kevin Durant and Charles Barkley leadership beef, examples of why we’re too old, Justin Fields unfollowed the Bears on social, MLB spring training stories, and tipping culture.

3:19 – NBA fortune telling: predicting the second half of the predictions for NBA season
13:00 – Kevin Durant and Charles Barkley leadership beef
16:47 – People deserving of leadership praise
20:00 – Too old for this stuff
28:58 – Justin Fields unfollows the Bears on social media
33:03 – Storytime with Elle Duncan
37:02 – MLB spring training roundup
42:34 – Ndamukong Suh on tipping culture

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I just want to start by putting one up in the air for all my fellow at& teers oh who had a real struggle F down that’s not me real struggle with the service just like an NBA ref at the All-Star Game you ain’t getting no calls y’all got that Sal service man

Does anybody have Wi-Fi y’all got that sales service password you said that you damn near ran your car off the road from your home to the 15-minute drive here at ESPN’s headquarters because you felt that disconnected from the world L know welcome to the L Duncan show with Gary

Stry this is um it was a tough day for those of us that have that service y uh I woke up and um I do have wife Wi-Fi at my home obviously and I all of a sudden just to show you how I spend my mornings cup of coffee little egg whites the

Shade room and I started seeing people that were like it’s been four hours at first I thought I didn’t pay my bill but now I realized I just don’t have service and so we’re back we got service now but I got to tell you that 25 minutes not 15

Oh my bad 25 minute ride to ESPN headquarters I felt lonely I felt disconnected I felt like what if the world is ending right now and I’m just awesome listen to a downloaded Spotify playlist I don’t even know you wouldn’t want to know that impending Peril and doom is coming your way

Barreling down I 84 traffic at 75 miles per hour you wouldn’t want to know that yes I would if I was going out in that sense I’d want to be at peace I’d want to be in my silence I’d want to be listening to AM radio yeah all right L

You listen did you think we were under attack did you think that we were under a I’m not going to lie there was a couple times my husband was like it’s some damn Russians here we go again I got nothing I got nothing I don’t know if we’re allowed to wade into

Those Waters but Omar’s allowed to for sure sure we can just blame it on him uh Hey welcome to the show guys we back we are in this B and by back I mean the NBA so the one hand LeBron James lobbied fought used his cache and his good name

To get a full week off for These Guys these guys need a week of allak all right because let’s just remember that if you play in the allar game you don’t get a proper you get like a day or two off that’s not fair you

Don’t get to can you don’t get to hit the Riviera Maya crazy if you have to be in the All-Star game now the downside to that of course is that those in the media in the same way we were itching for cell service they were like we need

Something to talk about sh talk out that content because if not we’re gonna have to start talking about one another and that also happened when in doubt break glass in case of emergency we’ll go cowboy yeah facts dude but what about the Cowboys so what has Notre Dame done

Really the Ohio State yeah we are going to as the NBA season tips back off Thursday night action second half on the way so many storylines so we’re going to we’re going to put on our best fortune teller costumes in our mind and we’re going to try and predict some of the

Story lines that you’re going to see in the second half of the NBA season all a sudden at home with that chime when you think of a fortune teller who do you think of by the way when I think of a fortune teller yeah somebody with a

Glass crystal ball okay you don’t have like a per because I immediately go to Miss Cleo I know but then there was like that was like problematic for whatever reason well she was fake and she wasn’t actually fortune telling but I don’t think that was the problematic issue

That people decided to have can I tell you a real quick story just as we go on an addd tour so I was in New Orleans for uh the national championship Clemson LSU and we were doing a bit on Bourbon Street and uh one of the bits were

Meeting with a fortune teller sitting with a woman with a crystal ball and she would like predict NBA champion MVP awards whatever and then a couple of things for personal sake so it was me and perk and I walk into the room and I didn’t know how to approach her because

Of course she’s like uh a soothsayer there you go she could cast a spell up yeah dark arts I don’t know what they I don’t know what they’re capable of and she was wiping her crystal ball and you know me breaking the ice I was like oh

Does that thing get do that thing get dirty often she was like oh no the kids were just playing with it and I was like oh cool like are your kids here and she was like no no no the kids on the inside of the ball okay yeah

No that’s so and that and that but no but then I was like okay I understand there’s got to be some power to this sphere to this orb there’s got to be some reason why this ball has powers and I ended up liking what she said because

She said I was going to live until I’m 93 there you go I got some I got some Runway left L um unlike like the NBA just 27 regular season games to go but that caught me off guard she was like yeah the kids who are trapped in the

Ball yeah I hate to tell you that she got that on Amazon um so let’s like think about some things that we’re gonna we’re going to use our fake crystal ball here we’re going to rub the air which looks very if you’re watching this on mute anyone that’s at a bar right now

Consuming ESPN2 is going to go why are they caressing the air it’s not yeah it’s just a ball yeah I’m just this isn’t making any sense for people on audio we’re just petting ourselves oh um I’m going to predict okay that no matter how bad they are

We’re going to spend hours talking about but what about LeBron and the Lakers as if there were any doubt l i mean all they need to do is be in the stadium so to speak of the play not off picture the play in picture to which they occupy

That number 10 spot all right and with 27 games to go all we’re going to focus on espe especially coming off of the heels of LeBron saying I don’t know how much time I have left oh my goodbye tour I don’t know if I want all this

Attention oh I don’t know how many championships I have left in me of course the time is running out so every single game for the rest of this season we’re going to talk about is AD the running M LeBron gave him basically the Baton to say you the face of the

Franchise anyway of course we’re going to be beating that drum the rest of the season so the Lakers did win six of their last seven games and 11 of their last 16 before the All-Star break so of course the question is always did the All-Star break kill any potential

Momentum here’s something that I’m also going to put on my Miss Cleo call me now rub my ball I think I feel like that’s stuff you can say but I can’t I think that Yannis an TMO yep very very soon is going to backtrack on these

Comments I just in general do not watch basketball so stats highlights how people play I have no idea and I I love it you know I love when I go to the game I have no idea who I’m playing and what they do makes it harder cap now when you say backtrack do

You just mean add some detail to that like no no no no no yes I watch film no no no no no no I’m not tuning in to TNT and ESPN Wednesday night tip off Wednesday night basketball rather what Giannis just said indicated that when he

Shows up every day he’s like what is this Russell Westbrook about yeah you play for the Clippers now bro what no get out well I can’t wait to see what you got yeah that’s crazy you coming off the bench bro that’s crazy that’s crazy this man is one of the best defenders in

The NBA they are forced to watch film study watch film it’s a thing that they have to watch so this idea that he just likes to like show up and see what they got cap no I I there’s so much believability in what he said do I think

That he bypasses the required film study of the team absolutely not but do I think that Giannis is spending off nights or Saturday Maes watching whoever might be playing those particular games no in the same way do you watch every program that’s on ESPN no not even close

And that’s I’m okay with that part where he took it too far and where I think he’s going to have to give some backtrack a little bit and give some more context is the idea that at the very end he says I don’t know who I’m playing I don’t even know who I’m

Playing I just like to see what it is when I get there that is not true it’s totally and at this point Giannis you’ve been in the league long enough you done played all these dudes before you already played them yeah in some cases eight nine times a year you don’t even

Need to watch the film about that also I love sort of like the the level and the the air of suspense that that could potentially hold he’s just like I’m going to pull up to fiser form today and we’ll see GNA roll the ball out and

We’ll see all right um You Want to make another prediction do you want here we go um H which one are we going with recapping January 23rd okay here’s one yeah wait you give me one I think that Doc Rivers there it is is going to find at least seven to eight

More excuses for why his team is waffling and you know what I think Giannis just gave him one what am I supposed to do my star player don’t even watch film his star players are being like Doc we don’t know why you’re here and then his former players his key role

Players are like Doc what are you doing what are you doing why are you taking over a team he’s like I I told him I told him not to hire me I mean you didn’t have to take the job yeah I mean you had that kush job with Breen and

Doris you were chilling you were Arena to Arena no pressure no Stakes you were just calling the games couple trips to the Chuckle Hut every night having fun making jokes but then all of a sudden you want to accept the job in one of the most pressure-packed franchise

Environments not just H fired a coach that was winning and not necessarily a market it’s not New York it’s not La it’s not those pressure-packed cities but it’s a pressure packed franchise because you have a top three player in the league who is two top three players

You’ had J Lillard too every single year Giannis is like I need more support otherwise I don’t know why I’m here even though he just signed the max extension and whatnot just to recap since January 23rd the Bucks have fired their head coach Adrian Griffin replaced him with

Doc Rivers who as you just said doesn’t know why they hired him they’re three and seven Damen Lillard this is all since January 23rd suggested that he’d rather play with bam atab bio than Yiannis and then of course Andre Dupo says he doesn’t watch basketball and because he doesn’t want any parts of

This has now hot potatoed the team to Damen Lillard saying this is Damian Lillard’s team now no no no pause so when I read the initial headline that Damen Lillard chose bamat bio instead of Giannis I was like that’s cap that’s one of the you know fake Twitter accounts

That just throw that out there to see if anybody latches on and then I saw the video and I was like oh oh okay so unless this is like an AI generated Dame Lillard Dame Lillard really said that and I I do want to add just a little

Sliver of of the other side he didn’t say I would rather play with bam aabo over Giannis Ando some kid on social was like give me your dream top five and he was like Steph KD LeBron myself bam a bio M and there was no followup from the

Kid right and then just totally yeah which you know kid if you’re listening kid a great follow there would have been like what about the guy literally you share a team with that guy doesn’t land in the top five for you instead the kid

As any Jen jenz or wood on Tik Tok just responds with that’s valid that’s valid that’s valid that’s what’s up that’s Val no that’s what’s up that’s what’s up that’s valid yeah you got the RZ like that that’s a dub no that’s a dub take

That’s a a dub take speaking of a dub take I love the sort of back and forth with Katie I have had such a journey with Kevin Durant yes I was on team Kevin Durant I felt like people calling him a cupcake or names because he chose

To go and join an organization that he knew were poised to Wi another championship some say oh it’s a soft move right you join the team that beat you the year before why would you do that don’t do that I was Pro Kevin Durant in that situation what he’s just

Supposed to just just supposed because you want him to just sacrifice the idea of winning a championship and like do do the right thing and do the more no like Chase the Rings that’s what you’re supposed to do I was with that through the years he shown some level of

Sensitivity to me that’s like a little bit annoying it’s like you you claim that you don’t care but man you’re all over Twitter picking fights with people always upset always having to defend yourself I will say this though Katie back in my good graces oh after a little

Bit of a back and forth of course started with Charles Barkley do we have that sound of Charles Barkley to me it’s got to be Booker he’s got to be your your mental leader and your vocal leader to a certain degree no disrespect to Kevin Kevin’s a follower

He’s not a leader he’s proven that on all his stops I’m not as charismatic as my peers I don’t have a personality that’s like fit for TV like my peers and a lot of those stories of what we talk about don’t get spoken about in the media and

That’s just really what it is it’s like you got to sell what you’re doing as well and I haven’t sold it enough you know and I feel like I don’t I mean I don’t I don’t feel like I need to I don’t feel like I want people to call me

A leader but I also don’t want people to say I’m not one either okay that was a little bit of a word salad so what so what’s our option don’t call me a leader don’t tell me I’m not a leader yeah but here’s what I will

Say Charles Barkley and Katie have had a thing for a long time and you know Charles accused him on the allar broadcast of not being a leader I actually appreciate what Kevin Durant said there as he was speaking to the boardroom something that he owns he had

A nice sit down where he talked about himself in his career and I think he’s right I think that he is a little bit of a stoic face he doesn’t have the Riz as the kids might say as some others he’s no Steph Curry you’re not going to put

Him on holy moly and watch him go that’s not his thing and he is right in that he doesn’t sell that he’s happy enough to people and that makes people believe that he’s always AG grieved that he’s a bad teammate that he’s not there for his

Team that he’s not likable and I think what he finally did was just explain this is my personality man and I’m I guess I’m not you know kiking enough for you you know there’s not enough shots of me like doing cool things in the locker room with my friends but his response to

Chuck was you’re not here you’re not in the gym with me you don’t come to these games you have no idea what my interactions are within um this organization and so it’s unfair because you don’t like my personality to make that a direct connection to my leadership ability and I think that it’s

It’s indicative of we’ve never heard or at least I it doesn’t come to mind we’ve never heard of an instance where any of his teammates ever disliked Kevin Durant I don’t think of course he had a little bit of a tiff with Russell Westbrook when they separated from each other in

Oklahoma City but I think at that point it was just Alpha of the team going up against Alpha of the team it was MVP versus MVP in that situation but I don’t think there’s ever been a situation where he’s been in a locker room and we start hearing the whispers of oh people

Don’t like playing with Kevin Durant we don’t rock with Kevin Durant and I don’t find any issue with him admitting that he’s not a leader because he’s been in the public eye since he’s been a teenager right and nobody had it figured out in their 20s everybody heard the

Outside noise and maybe thought to themselves okay well maybe this is how I should be acting but he sort of as he sort of matures as not just a basketball player but as like a grown man in his mid-30s now he is just realizing and comfortable with okay yeah no I’m not

Going to be that Rah R guy that people expected of me half a dozen years ago five years ago and now it seems like he is just content with where he’s at and I kind of reject this this this notion that he has to be a leader not everybody

Is a general in the Army but you could be a damn good Sergeant yeah or a damn good Lieutenant sure people just assume that if you’re making that much money corre if you’re an MVP if you’re a former champion and a former en you know Finals MVP that you’ve got to sort of

Carry the pole but I’ll say this for the interest of this show let’s just say he’s not a great leader this is not a call out Katie this is a call up so we would just want to give you some examples of who we think exhibit incredible leadership people that you

Can take from and I personally think that the shift manager at the chickfila exhibits the best kind of leadership Gary in most cases they’re dealing with two drive-throughs all right yes the walk-ins yes the carry out option the in room dining option also the idea that you can get curbside they’re doing all

Of that to perfect execution and they are which I think is the most impressive thing getting teenagers in the midst of all that chaos children teenagers to say my pleasure yes every single time and that my friends is the kind of leadership that we all need this is not

Hyperbole I’m not saying this to get a reaction this is not an overe exaggeration on my part I’m not kidding and I I think I’ve tweeted this before I think because we’ll never mandate military service in this country even though I think we should I think every teenager every high schooler should have

To work if you don’t want to work at Chick-fil-A okay fine but have to work a customer service job and Chick-fil-A is the first one that comes to mind yeah because attention to detail oh yeah all right um just having just having General manners all right is what you get at

Chick-fil-A yes so you are great leaders those of you that work the Chick-fil-A managing shift um I have one more for you I think someone that’s exhibited incredible leadership is the person who come up with that stupid ass rule that you can’t wear white after Labor Day I

Mean think messages is this a good leader or a bad leader no it’s think about that Gary one person came up with an arbitrary rule out of nowhere and got an entire nation to abandon a color in their wardrobe because they said once the calendar day turns it’s over that’s

Incredible leadership after Labor Day yeah after la white pants literally yesterday I said that’s dangerous that’s what I’m saying so you don’t even know where that came from and you just adopted it and that is incredible leadership I just feel like sort of how I adopt the I only listen to

Country music between May and September that rule seems like it makes sense like white pants just seems like a summery into fall thing and then outside of winter so whoever that leader was I commend them there’s something called winter white do you have one very

Quickly before we get to the break I do old guys who eat fruit with a knife you’re just always is going to pay attention to that impressive you’re going to lead you’re going to follow them yeah how they do the sliver and then then when they eat the like apple

Slice off the knife it’s very dangerous I want to talk to you son yes sir I’m all ears very sex I got a couple more but I guess we got to go did you say it’s very sexy it’s kind of sexy watch out you’re flirting with danger baby

Watch out just random people in the airport going to be like L look L my Instagrams are going to look a lot different oh yeah that’s true those videos are about to go crazy coming up in a nod to Monday’s episode where we exhibited some textbook get off my lawn

Behavior we’re going to bring you a few big names who are feeling the same way I’m too old for this is still ahead on the L Duncan show yeah El was feeling some type of way Monday o the L Duncan show is everywhere every Monday and Thursday on YouTube

Wherever you get your podcast every Friday on ESPN 2 from 2: to 3 p p.m. Eastern tell somebody about it we’ like to have a good time man and if you do too then you’re all right with us if you ride with us we ride with you that’s

Right all right so if you watched the allstar game and you said what is a Kai sonat then this that’s crazy then this segment is for you this is just where we just basically just commiserate we let a whole bunch of old dudes just and complain because that’s what we do here

On the L Duncan Show starting with a colleague of ours who literally why can’t we start anything on time in the NBA why can’t we I’m going to sound like an old person here if it says 8 o00 I don’t want it I don’t want it to tip off

At 8:42 I’ve already told my kids they can watch the first quarter it’s a Sunday night guess what they’ve stayed up late like four straight nights because nothing starts on time in the NBA and it’s driving me crazy and I work for a broadcast partner can we please

Just start things on time in the NBA it’s out of control it’s absolutely out of control okay for our audio audience if you don’t recognize the voice that is JJ reck who has a podcast called the old man on the three so he quite literally is calling himself an old man and he’s

Just bitching and complaining say what you mean and mean what you say if you say 8:00 you better tip at 8:00 but because he works in TV now L everybody knows that if it’s an 8:00 Eastern start time that’s just when the pre-tip show starts and then you have

Your 8:15 or your 812 or your 87 he should know that yeah I mean listen we are in the business nothing nothing isn’t timed down to the absolute millisecond so these games that are scheduled at 8 they’re not tipping off at 842 he’s just getting his times wrong

He’s a little bit he’s a little bit miffed yeah but JJ should know that he’s working in that New York office man somebody should tell him like JJ you know that means like it’s just the hey Mike Breen’s goingon to welcome us into the broadcast we’re going to tee up for

The game go to Commercial and then come back yeah he’s also exaggerating it’s not if the game says it’s starting at8 usually tip is 807 I mean we do this it’s not it’s not 84 unless you’re talking about NBA countdown starts at 8 of what you’re on and then the game

Starts at 8:30 at which point the game is going to tip at 8:41 but I guess you would be able to answer this better than me are like parent minutes similar to dog minutes like one minute feels like seven absolutely when you’re trying to put when you’re trying to get your kid

To go to bed I mean yesterday I was playing a video game with my kid and I kept throwing it like I kept trying to purposely lose so that we could wrap it up and go to bed you know and so I think that’s probably where he’s at he’s like

Every minute counts I got to get these dudes down but alas I’m with them also kind of in that vein if it says it starts at 9:30 I’m automatically out bye I’m so sorry Pack 12 I’m going to see you in the morning um you’ve got another

One you’ve got another old man just standing on his Popa getting angry you inspired a nation after Monday’s podcast because everybody was like you know what I got free reign then to just get stuff off my chest Dennis Gates you’re up next big picture of it all was our

Inability we got to do a better job we got to do a better job drawing files I think we suck at it we’re terrible we’re terrible at drawing files and we got to do a better job now who is Dennis Gates head basketball coach of Missouri Tigers

Basketball um after yet another loss um and he went on to say make sure y’all put that in there don’t censor it don’t bleep it out yeah for the sake of our jobs we have to sure it starts with f and rhymes with truck ducking your phone always thinks it’s ducking exactly like

What are we doing we’re Trucking um just want to because this is a new news and Information Program uh Dennis Gates’s team sucks at more than just drawing fouls okay they also just suck like at basketball 0 and three in conference play okay eight and 18 um on the season

Joel lardy they were the first one out like start of the basketball season they were out he was already out we’re all set are they going to get an invite to the invited tournament no also not that either just foul fouling drawing fouls that’s that’s an area of

Contention for them and also the rest of the basketball is also that he’s gonna be so disappointed that we had to bleep him out but I think we made sure everyone at home knows how you felt correct speaking of knowing how you feel uh Rick patino is in his first season at

St John’s and following his eighth loss in the last 10 games and in a game where his team blew a 19point lead Rick patino Lament LED and by lamented I mean he just threw everybody under the bus we are so nonathletic that we can’t guard anybody without fouling I think they’re very

Respectful they hear but they don’t listen it it’s taken me a month to get them to throw bounce passes actually two months to throw bounce passes even the Celtics when we lost I’ve enjoyed every minute being a Boston Celtic coach didn’t like the fact that we lost in

That following year but this has been the most unenjoyable experience I’ve had since I’ve been coaching you have any second thoughts of taking this job no not at all it’s not St John my team oh my favorite part is that after that he goes listen I don’t want to say anything

That I would regret oh so you wouldn’t just wipe out that whole entire little uh little diet tribe that you went off with there coach he was very upset with his team and here’s my thing yeah is that people are going to there’s going to be a function

Of the population that’s like I I you know what tough love for his kids you know we got a we that’s what he needs to do he’s a the famous Rick patino he knows basketball he wants to get the best out of them this is calling them to

The mat this is a come to Jesus meeting this is the same that Dion Sanders did when he went to Colorado and everybody said that he doesn’t know college football you don’t do that you’re a horrible person you’re not a leader of men when essentially Dion did the same

Thing he walked up into Colorado and he said y’all is trash you’re not good please go get in the portal no thank you y’all can leave y’all can leave at least he did that upon his first assessment Rick matino is doing this while they’re in season and I ask you a question that

I think is starting to become more more valid and more pertinent with this generation of Collegiate athlete how old is too old to actually be able to make a connection to your team Rick patino is 72 these kids are 18 and they’re the internet era kids 18920 there’s a

52-year disconnect difference these are kids who weren’t allowed to get yelled at growing up middle school high school now into college they’re not used to that they’re used to like safe spaces and things of that nature there’s a disconnect yeah and that’s why we start seeing coaches Gerard mayo and demo ryes

35 36 37 and those are the Now new leaders of men see but I think that there is a space to be able to like we talk about this on the women’s side with Tara Vander who literally started coaching before when Jimmy Carter was president before you were born and is

Now in her you know her players Tik Tok videos players that like Coach Cal who’s been doing this for a long time players that can recognize and evolve with the moment Tara knows that she can’t be the same Tara from the 80s and 90s or that

She was with that first Olympic you know Women’s Basketball team that she is with her girls at Stanford and so I don’t think it’s age specific I think it’s about reflecting on you as a coach and realizing that if your way is no longer the way and you still want to be

Successful you’ve got to figure out how to approach it differently maybe Rick patino feels like he he knows his team better than we do maybe he feels like this is a teachable moment that this is how they’ll rally that they need to be called out I’m not exactly sure but I

Think that we all too often just say oh well if you’re old then you just aren’t of the way anymore we need these young guys in here we need the more relatable guys I don’t think that’s necessarily true there are plenty of you know septarian and seasoned people who are

Still making an impact in being successful but it’s also because they have figured out yes each year what it takes and we saw a lot of that um in reflecting upon Nick sabin’s career correct there’s people saying you’d be shocked at the idea that every year Nick

Sabin sort of would figure out what his people need and how he could approach it and he changed and softened over the years in order to meet that moment but you hit the the nail on the head when you said the adaptability of these coaches to change their way and some

Coaches maybe don’t want to I’m not saying Rick patino isn’t but I’m saying we probably see that in that era of Coach more than the current in this current ERA of Sports it’s a little bit of sports and it’s also of course plenty of social media fodder and when we

Return on the L Duncan show oh we’re getting into some drama one messy relationship has sparked a huge debate on social media just about deeper meaning into your follower account can you in fact mess with a girl that you unfollowed Justin Fields we’re going to answer that

Next we back on the L Duncan show uh likely you’re seeing as this NFL content continues in February the biggest question of the NFL off seon what will the Bears do with their quarterback Justin Fields it is a big question they’ve got the number one overall pick

A bear and what they do with that pick is really a domino effect for everybody else and who they could potentially earmark and people those Instagram slues because they’re on it man that’s a full-time job on it we like yo BT dubs Justin Fields unfollowed Chicago on

Instagram you guys they’re heading for a breakup it’s foreshadowing and Justin Fields joined almond raw St Brown’s podcast of course finally thank you we’ve been asking for it and was like no pump the brakes homie chill this is what he said what’s with the unfollow with the

Bears what’s up with that man bro I’m glad we talking about it because people why do people take social media so serious like but like why why you follow this and that like I still mess with the Bears this and that I’m just trying to take a little break I un followed the

The Bears and the NFL bro I’m not just trying to have football on my timeline like I know y’all mess with a girl EQ especially you just because you don’t follow the girl on IG don’t mean you’re not messing with him that’s true that’s true that’s fact do you want to stay in

Chicago or what’s up yeah of course of course I want to stay um I can’t see myself playing in another place but I love the city the city’s lit the the fans they’re you know they’re great and the people but um it’s a business I ain’t got no control over

Okay first of all for those of you in the audio audience I have watched enough Mory and Jerry and all these people with so-called body language experts that say someone’s lying when they look up in the air he was not making eye cont he looked

In the air the they like you wouldn’t be a bear he’s like uh yeah a bird sure that’s oh yep I sure he didn’t know the camera was right in front of his face because he was searching for it the entire time yeah from what looked like

Quite a nice Bungalow that I don’t imag I don’t imagine it was in streets of Chicago right now in February okay so but he has sparked this debate on social media very strategic of him though to say I unfollow the Bears and the NL NFL first of all Justin have you never heard

Of mute because you can mute people and not unfollow them at all and then none of this happens but is he right can you mess with a girl and not follow her on all of her social media channels something that I can’t speak of experience from absolutely not but I

Will say one of my best friends friends right now is hanging out with a girl and they don’t follow each other on Instagram okay it’s chaotic Behavior why I don’t know I don’t understand why is it chaotic it’s stupid well no but what I’m saying is Justin Fields might have a

Point people are like people are might be like what is he talking about if you’re messing with a person of course you’re going to be following following them on socials but I know somebody right now who doesn’t and it it’s not weird to them no and I guess it’s not

Weird to just feels wait are we saying the same thing yes I think it’s weird at all I’m saying I I think it’s I don’t think it means anything like to me social media is for the people who are not actually intimately involved in your life social currency is like the C some

People would rather have social currency than actual currency these days it weirds Me Out Gary when I see a married couple and they’re like just all over each other’s Instagram like get it girl I’m like you probably took that picture I don’t it’s it’s weird you literally

Have a peek at my life CU you have this life with me so why on God’s Earth do we have to follow each other on social media maybe I’m a little triggered here Gary I understand this I have a story I I can’t wait I saw this in the rundown

And I was like I’m going to shut up and buckle up for this story because it’s good Let me just give a people of a tease of what’s to come L shares a story about the time she went to HR for unfollowing someone on IG and I since replied

LOL well thank you you gave away the whole entire story well done I tell the story okay it’s one of those rare cases where you give the punch line and then you Backtrack on the joke well done so yes Gary I get this call uh at a place that

I work to come to HR I don’t even know where the building is okay I have to search out this building of course I’m nervous HR I mean Lord knows I cuss like a sailor and I got a mouth on me and I was like it’s finally catching up to me

Someone reported me for my mouth or for the loud music that I play and I get there and I get called in and it’s very serious and we sit down and they’re like um do you know why you’re here today and I said no I don’t and you know

Everything’s running through my mind like oh my God I just bought this house I’m lose my job like what happened it’s like a nightmare and they said um you’re in here because one of your colleagues has accused you of unfollowing them on Instagram and I when I tell you I burst

Out laughing like I said wait I’m sorry I’m sorry let me stop you’re telling me I am here six hours after my show as a at the time 35-year-old woman to answer for why I unfollowed someone on Instagram and the HR lady kind of smiles

And she’s like uh yeah and I was like and that’s it come to find out this person was sort of um using me un following her on Instagram and some other people at this company that I worked at to basically say there was repeated um there was repeated examples of

Harassment that basically we were mean to this person because we were no longer following them on Instagram instead of what it actually was which was that I was just really tired of seeing thirst traps and they just didn’t make any sense to me and I didn’t care

Hair and so yes so when I say social media has gotten out of control I am coming from a place of got called to HR to answer for why I didn’t follow someone on an Instagram anymore true story yo that’s crazy what was the I’m not even going to

Call it Fallout or repercussions but what was the what came of this oh I the tropper we just wanted I just start I just started saying everything that I could think of about why I didn’t like this person and why I should not have to ever follow someone that I don’t like it

Was absurd it was absur and I’m doing it and I’m laughing because I’m like you know there’s this huge weight off my shoulders I mean I’m literally thinking okay how am I going to get another job and it quickly turned into just answer for why you’re not following this girl

So I just you know I went in and there was nothing that ever came of it again CU it was all stupid oh my God we’re adults we are grown people we P this person even older than me yep oh my gosh a completely unserious person so there

It is so next time if any of you guys out there are thinking about taking one of your co-workers to HR because they no longer want to follow you on X don’t do better get a life get a hobby get off the internet dude what the

Hell we’re gonna go to break I think yeah we’re GNA get off this subject that’s so bad coming up spring training is here and we’re going to tell you the most watched fangi in all of baseball what $10 word look it up I’m coming back

And why I learn the hard way you don’t want to blend in around David Ortiz If Sports and Reddit had a baby it’d be the El Duncan show find us every Monday and Thursday on YouTube or wherever you get your podcast and remember we’re on ESPN 2 every Friday

From 2:00 to 3 p p.m. Eastern Little buzzing about it it’s February and that means one thing spring training take me out to the Florida or Arizona and here are some of the biggest story lines you know L Duncan story lines anyway um MLB has some some

Questions when it comes to the Quality that they’re using of their uniforms as evident by some of these are ridiculous they’re literally see-through it’s literally you can literally see uh their pants tucked in R’s like hey eyes up here boys eyes up here shoh here oh who

It looked like he’s wearing boy shorts yes also known as boxers and the picture is suggesting like mhm hey girl let’s take a little BP I’ll bring the bat and the balls you ever seen Godzilla you want to I’m wonder if they’re doing that on purpose it’s kind

Of like a wink and a nod like hey ma’am just so that we just talk about the Garb of Major League Baseball finally men being objectified it’s what we’re all here for yeah I mentioned the most watched toe yes in all of baseball Aaron judge’s big toe is apparently more than a

Footnote PA for the D joke for the Yankees he says that the toe that he injured last year is going to require constant maintenance for the rest of his career and I’m just hoping if we’re going to be watching this toe this much that it don’t look like Shacks my

Favorite part of you having to read this is a little inside um a little little inside peak of what L hates okay it’s exposed feet L one of the funniest things she’s ever said to me we weren’t working here this was 10 years ago when

We were at nesson and she goes if I see your feet they better be headed One Direction and that direction was into the ocean into a body of water they better be walking into a shower or into a body of water do not bring your toes around me don’t be wearing the little

Flipflops that got the little rubber piece that separates your big toe from the other four the thong sandal that that gets you going unless there are toes underneath your sand a man should not have his feet exposed to the world I don’t want to see them I see these dudes

Walking around here at work you’re at work an elevator and your to I can see your hairy toes it’s gross it’s disgusting what it’s not fair that women can have their toes out but men can’t a well welcome to a women’s world there’s lots of things that aren’t Fair put feet

Away it’s so funny and lastly in our and lastly in our uh MLB headlines yes um the Cincinnati Reds used stuffed pigs this is good to practice auta Runners this is great and I don’t mean like stuffed pig like at Al luau I mean an actual like stuffed

Animal well they heard Pablo sandavol signed with the Giants and they’re like hey hey we got him okay you’re mean he’s a panda not a pig I’m just playing actually he’s looking he’s looking like a spelt is he looking spelt hasn’t been in Major League Baseball since 2021 but

This is good because you have to be able to hit a mobile Target and I think nobody’s going to give a give give an award to baseball players being the most diced up like a Julian salad so this is like a pretty good body comp I think

It’s like adorable too anytime you can get like animals involved it’s so cute apparently there’s a couple of softball teams that feel the exact same way because in D2 softball arkans Tech right Central Missouri both have emotional support coaches that’s awesome um you’re looking right now a screen that has like

Jordan Jones head of this and and then just like a blood hound dog Mr Wilson look at those ears he keeps his ears and eyes to the streets and to the game big big guy big scouting guy yeah I’m wondering like do they get paid like is

There somewhere are they getting a 401k nine also I’m wondering if you’re the coach like that tried out to like get a like a coaching position and you’re like they gave it to a damn dog to a freaking dog said you didn’t have a budget what

Am i n Mr Wilson’s there to just bring some positivity um speaking of which I think it is important to have emotional support and I think come here Zeus we have an emotional dog here on the show as well this is sweet Zeus he’s such a good boy

For those of you that tuned in last week Zeus continues to climb the ranks for the L Duncan MVP he it he is a certified good boy in well I’m glad you said that Gary because um I know for a long time you’ve been campaigning for one very specific thing

On this show but I just want you to know in the same way he has leaped over you and the standings for MVP of the show Zeus is now on the show as well and I want everybody to get a good peek at that there we go nothing to see right

And there is the L Duncan show with Zeus and he’s a good boy Zeus you made the graphic buddy Zeus get out of here you didn’t even want it you still got it you’re a good boy all right coming up in domicans Su finally targets a group of

People who honestly need some humbling and that is service people working for tips gave it away that was a hell of a tease it’s coming up all right to close out the old Duncan show in domicans SU football player noted millionaire just decided to go on an absolute diet about why in this

Country do we tip he said he just spent some time abroad and they don’t tip and he went like 35 Tweets in a row about where tipping started and the Europeans and the this and that and the g which was basically just one long borish

Attempt to say I’m cheap and I’m sick of tipping who no no no I support indic Su in this this is crazy L you know tiban culture in this country has gone absolutely off the rails it’s banan is I am not taken away from any of the

Service industry workers you and I have both spent time doing that exact profession but it’s out of control I remember a time when the automatic answer when they were like the iPad just going to ask you a couple of questions was 10 15 and 20% maybe now now the

Boilerplate template is 18 20 and 25% oh I’ve that’s crazy L that’s crazy you can’t call me cheap cuz I still tip 20% restaurants and whatnot but this has gotten out of hand it makes the service industry worker feel awkward and also the recipient of the goods feel awkward

When we’re going in there for a good that cost six7 and then all of a sudden we have to add another 250 on top of that this is crazy L it’s not sustainable okay first of all you’re a serial killer if you leave 50 cents 35

Cents let me stop you there if you don’t leave whole round numbers as tip you’re insane it is so weird and beyond weird when people were like well I want to round up on my credit card so I’m going to leave this person $283 that’s fine no you suck second of

All I will agree that there are times where tipping is incredibly confusing like if I just dropped off my stuff at the laundromat like at the dry cleaners I TP why would why would I why is there a tip cup out front like why would I are

You the one doing it it’s all very confusing but this idea at least in this country that we shouldn’t tip then stop paying these people $215 because in service industry you can get away with that restaurants not paying minimum wage because you say they exist off of tips I went to Australia

It’s not a tipping culture okay and so in their mind they make enough money you’re inferring that they’re poor if they need to work for tips and so it doesn’t you don’t have to leave tips there because they’re paid well so if you want to stop tipping then pay people

What they deserve and what they earn and then we will stop tipping I’m stopping tipping right now well I went out to dinner the other night I got a round of drinks and it cost $62 for four drinks okay what was the tip supposed to be on that you leave if

It’s a if it’s a bar situation typically it’s $2 per drink and it used to be $1 per drink inflation Gary I don’t want to deal with it because our salaries aren’t keeping up with inflation I left $6 it was a 66 the idea that you just said

Salary is exactly why you have to tip you 2% unrelatable do you see this you’re never getting your name on the graphic this has been the L Duncan show damn it Gary if y’all want this tip you’re going to get this tip my salary precludes me from tipping

Shut up not in the 2% barely in the 10