Stu Gatz
Appearances
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
I don't I don't mean to shame you here. It's funny that you would take that into consideration when like it also seems kind of torturous, a thing to have to take into consideration to how do I figure out how to stand to have this conversation with Stanton near the dugout steps so that I could be on the top one.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Was there anybody who is consistently using their size to feel like they were bullying you, where you're feeling off of them that they're trying to do something here and I don't like it?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
He's like the first athlete to be good at Twitter. Yes, you unretired the late Carl Barger's number to give it to him in a great offense.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
I have never seen David that upset at an accusation ever. It wasn't him. That's my fault. But that happened around.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
But what was he trying to bully you with, though? Like when were you when was it so tense that you would feel some of what it is you're talking about?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Take us through some of that here, because you're at the precipice, really, of where it is some of this has broken down. I want to talk about NIL with you and Amin in a second. But the player having his own agency or her own agency and being able to tell their own story. Logan Morrison was one of the first athletes to be popular on Twitter.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Your your feeling as an executive was to create the Showtime series that about the franchise, about your team, because you wanted a kind of an attention, but you wanted an attention that was specific to your controlling it. Logan was saying, no, I get to control it. And you started that tense fight.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
There is no question, Dan Levitard show included, anybody else, that this guy is the best player on the planet. Whether he wins the Stanley Cup or the Cotsmite this year, there is no question about it. Stugatz.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
You know what? I'm going to have to stop everybody right here because he mentioned Lomo's dad's funeral and that opens the door to America's fastest growing game. Would you attend their funeral?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Would you attend the funeral of Tommy Hutton? No. Oh, no.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Oh, no. He's back on the broadcast. How many years was he a broadcaster for you?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Oh, no. Dave Van Horn.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Really? I didn't have you doing that. So that was David Horn. He was just ascending to heaven and that was his voice fading away as he left for the press box in the sky. I'm up, up and away.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Joe Girardi.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Josh Beckett.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
I can't tell you guys how much I love talking about death to this music. Put it on the poll here, Guillermo, please. Was Logan Morrison responsible for all player empowerment in the NBA? Would you attend the funeral? And I know what he's doing there because this one's super interesting to me. When he thinks about it on Josh Beckett, it's not even his relationship with Josh Beckett.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
It's, man, it would be really fun to catch up with those people at that funeral to remember that the best time of our lives. Like, I could go through that roster and probably get 10 guys that he'll go to those funerals.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Well, but the others, the teammates who will be there. Thank you, Billy. I do appreciate that Josh Beckett would not be speaking chattily from the coffin.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Lenny Harris. No. Wow. Firm. I'm sorry, Lenny. Ken Rosenthal.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Is that the correct word? Because this movie, it did capture my eye because it did look like the mask, the Cher movie that you're talking about, right? Where the head and face of someone is something that anybody would look at and it doesn't look right. Is deformed the proper way to say that?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
No, I don't know. I don't know the answer. The reason I'm asking the question, though, is because when I was watching that movie, I thought that movie took some real great chances there. I thought that movie was interesting in what it is that they were trying to tackle.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
I don't know. I didn't mean to get stuck there. I just wanted to explain the audience because when you said deformity, you didn't make it clear that it was the head, that it was the face.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
David, thank you for being on with us. We appreciate it. The name of the movie is nothing. I'm sorry. The podcast is nothing personal. David, what are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? What was that? What? What?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
So, yes, that is what happened. It was the proper thing to laugh at in Lewis's meager defense. He did say that the photo was jarring. And so he was trying to make an executive decision and he made a poor one. because he startled me and I wasn't able to get you out of here. So thank you, David. I appreciate, I appreciate the time. Nothing personal is the name of the podcast, the sporting class.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
I'm telling you that he does with John Skipper and they fight for who's got the higher chair. It is unlike anything, not my, nevermind business, not just business, sports business, any kind of business. There's not this kind of expertise talking this way about those things. Thank you, David.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
And obviously, you love any art that makes... I love any art that makes me think a little bit about something that I had not considered. And so when Lewis said the photo is jarring, it is jarring. The entire movie is... wildly transportive.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Like it takes you to a place that you might not have considered at all before with someone living a, trying to live a normal life with something that if all of us were looking at it, we'd be saying, if that happened to me, how is it that I would go through life? Could I be happy? Could I be myself?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Could I be somebody that was normal instead of sullen because my life, I can change my life's energies just by having a different attitude, no matter how I look.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
I want to ask you guys something else about a negotiation that's coming up. I think this one will interest people. Get me the sound, please, for when people don't want me to talk about sports media stuff, because I think this particular one is something that people might be finding interesting in what is about to be the golden age.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
of the streaming services are just going to fire hose money at certain personalities because of Netflix having one of its greatest periods ever now that they've just dipped a toe in sports.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
I think Amin's going to find this one interesting, okay? Because if Tom Brady is worth $375 million to do a job part-time over here, and if Stephen A. Smith and Pat McAfee and everybody tries to change, and the Kelseys try to change the economy of how many millions per year can you make doing this?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
I don't think in my entire lifetime covering sports, I have seen someone have more power from a broadcasting perspective than what Charles Barkley heads into here. Getting to decide whether he wants to work for ESPN because he got traded.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Going to bring in David Sampson here, but I feel bad for Amin because he just endured something that I would not wish upon others. And I do think sometimes that we lose perspective on certain things. For example, Maxie, Tyrese Maxie, is taller than A.J. Brown. He's taller than A.J. Brown. He goes in, dabs him up yesterday, and I'm like, oh, I didn't know that he was taller.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
And Charles Barkley has all the power over everybody because Amazon and everybody, everybody's gonna be bidding on Charles Barkley, not the entirety of the show. So he's in the position where he holds all the cards in a negotiation to work as much or as little as he wants when it's the golden age of we're going to pay tens of millions of dollars for this.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Because if Barclay's at $20 million a year now, and I understand the stratosphere is ridiculous, but he's going to have all of these giant entities saying, we want just you. You're your own network. You, you, it's not even just your show. We want just you. Because having you brings us whatever Tom Brady's bringing you because you've attached this particular name to what you do.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
And I just can't believe that's so with a man in his 60s.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Understood, but when you have everyone bidding for you and sports money is spilling all over the place at 20 million a year, there is nobody worth more, wanted by more people than this person. Like, you can say that, but everyone's going to be in the game trying to say they're the ones who have Charles Barkley.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
So I ask you guys... Do you think that this is a situation where you can find me a negotiation that someone headed into where he had more power, more in sports?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
But, of course, you're always getting fooled by the height of these people and how different some of these things are than you think they are. Amin went and saw the Wizards last week, and it is jarring. You don't get used to how good basketball is until you see it played that poorly. To realize that your perspective has changed.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
You might complain about what basketball is today, but the teams are so good that the Wizards exist and they're not a professional basketball team.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
That you just did that. That David Sampson was kept waiting that long.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
So you could tell us that bad teams are bad. No, it's your fault. That was the topic you picked to start.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
You think this is good soldier. What kind of army do I have? The worst ever. Oh, my God. Right? Look at him. Look at him. Like, this is the soldier who gets me killed in battle. It's like, aren't I a good soldier? I'm so good at soldiering.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
It's my fault that I threw the ball to him, and he's like, I didn't know you were going to ask me to dribble for this long.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
You also rattled him, Samson, because he could see your face and the disgust. And you actually tapped on your watch, which is an incredible, the watch, an incredible move to tap on your watch is like, man, Amin's really hogging all my time here.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
He tells me right before the microphones come on, I went to a wizards game last night or last week. That's still your responsibility.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Samson, your thoughts, though, on bad teams, like what makes them bad? Because what I'm saying about the Wizards, there are any number of bad teams in the NBA.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Thank you, Chris. For real expertise on what it is to run a bad team, David Sampson of Nothing Personal gives us, it's the perfect place to start. What was it like to be the Wizards those years that it felt like you were the Wizards?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Innings eater. He'll give you a five ERA. You'll keep throwing him out there. He won't get hurt. And he'll give you just give up five runs in six innings. And that's and you'll lose all those games.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
him jacob turner ricky nalasco nathan avaldi he's got a hang i'm far more embarrassed that mark hendrickson was an opening day pitcher there we go that's a good one that's the biggest embarrassment in my career you're playing it better not surprisingly than chris cody but you did understand that chris cody was just trying to and succeeded say a funny name like he was just looking through all of those rosters and trying to find one and then he conjured a shape when he said that funny name
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
And all of us thought to ourselves here who knew who he was talking about, oh, yeah, that square that David Sampson, like physical square, would throw out there for six innings because David Sampson needed an employee to go out there and throw six innings so they could get to losing their hundred games.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Somebody go out there every fifth day, cash this check and earn it because I need someone to spend five innings out there. That's the math you were doing with your business then, was it not? Like you admire this man because he was a good employee.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
I don't want to do this. I don't want to do this.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
This is why you want to start with that topic, so that David has some expertise.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Taller than Volstad? Wasn't Volstad? I thought – wasn't Hendrickson like 6'10"? Do I have this wrong? He's a summer league guy. I thought he was a basketball player.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Oh, good call. Uh, when we talk tall people, I want to show you guys a picture here when I'm talking about the proportion of these things, because I don't think most people think listening to this, that Steve Kerr is big. He's tall. Steve Kerr is six, four.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
If you think of him as a player, you might not think of him as that tall, but this picture right here, I very infrequently feel small around people. That's Mike Miller, a shooter and Udonis Haslam, an undersized power forward. Um, The when you say these people are tall, David, you're perpetually feeling like that, are you not?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
I got to tell you guys.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
No, atmosphere I think matters more to college football than any other sport. You can't take a college sport, I know it's professional, they're paying the players, and bring it to an NFL indoor stadium in a city that's really not prepared for something like that. You can't do it. I propose the Rose Bowl for every national championship game.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
Safe place.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
Hell no. God, losing to that team up north is never a good thing.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
Stugatz. Don't do it. This is the Don Levitard Show with the Stugatz.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
It is shocking until you realize it's Jeremy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
You did it yourself?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
It's very easy to use.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
It couldn't be easier. You want me to set up the handle? I'll send myself some money.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
Just as a test.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
I'm sure it's too late, but I'll give it a try.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
Stanford Steve.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
Yeah, you don't have to watch five, though.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
There's Rocky one through four. You can skip five, and then I think it gets to Creed. So there's two or three Creeds, I think. That doesn't count.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
All true, except I read the book. I mean, listen to the audiobook. Stugatzbook.com.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
Yeah.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
Yeah, and just teaching you the book game, because you've never written a book. Greg and I have. We have another edition of the audiobook, a special edition coming out on Father's Day. Nice. Speaking of grifts. Very nice. Of your book coming out on Father's Day? Special edition, yeah. Wow. Why is it special? You're reading it. Okay. Did you just call your own book a grift?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
But don't say that part. No, but I'm just saying that's what they teach you in the book industry. I learned this a long time ago. They teach you, hey, the book is never, ever finished. It's never done. We never stop selling the book. There's always a Father's Day, a Mother's Day right around the corner.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
I was sent a picture from a Key West bookstore. Thank you to everyone at Key West that the book was sold out. The guy who took the picture was purchasing the final book in that store. It's amazing. Thank you to everyone. Seriously.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
It's me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
Here's another secret, okay? If, God forbid, it's not going to happen, but if the Phoenix Suns make it to the NBA Finals, do we start promoting the book like it's new again? I mean, Kevin Durant, championship rings? This is amazing. Let's hope it happens. It won't, but let's hope it happens.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
That's not the move to get him. I think they've run out of options, though, with Jimmy Butler, no? Like, if they have to take picks, they have to take picks. He doesn't want to be here.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
He wishes he was 35. Yes, his Instagram knows he's about to be 40. The way Dan wishes he was 50, like he said before. Yes.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
I agree with the Heat. I said it then. I still agree with them. I mean, he could put up those numbers in his sleep.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
What happens is you're left to ask those questions. That's the product of the workplace environment. You are now left to question, is Jimmy Butler actually trying his hardest when he's playing basketball? And I don't have the answer.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
But they did it.
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The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
He's also the guy, though, and I think his teammates would probably agree with this, that, you know, made them relevant. brought them at a time where the Heat weren't supposed to be relevant. Jimmy Butler became a player we never thought he'd become, and he led them to the NBA Finals and a couple of trips to the Eastern Conference Finals. Like, that's fairly amazing.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
But what if Jimmy is saying, I did the Heat culture thing, you may be the best player I've ever been at any point in my career, and the reward is what?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
To almost achieve that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
He's not. He's been nominated 29 times. He's won three awards. And the three times he won, everyone was bored. They were yawning. No one wanted Martin Short to win.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
How do you accidentally cut a line? Petty play.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
I'm writing it down.
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The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
Dan, I know you're feeling this, but is someone going to name names? I mean, anyone? Yeah, name names. I named myself.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
If we make guesses, will you guys tell us if we're right?
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The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
He honors the line.
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The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
He would never do that.
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The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
No one takes a line more seriously than Trevor Maddich.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
Tebow cutting a line would be amazing. Tebow would be great.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
Different airport, Dan.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
Really? No, it wasn't him. It wasn't him. How about the bear?
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The Big Suey: Lucy's Trip to the CFB National Championship
The bear? Nope. No. Joe Tess?
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The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
If there's a tie, and let me be clear, I don't think there is. There is no tie. You're the better columnist. You've been doing it longer. You've been doing it better than Dave Hyde. But if there is a tie, I guess it goes to Greg because he appears on this show once a week, Dave Hyde. He fills in for Joe Rose.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
What about the podcast? Well, you don't have Dave Hyde in here every week.
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The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
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The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
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The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
Tony's upset. Lucy is upset.
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The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
But this seems for Mike, and I think he's right about this, and he's been saying this for a while now, this is a sport-to-sport thing. This is about the product of hockey being better than the product of the NBA right now. And it's hard to disagree with that. It's a much more entertaining product. It really is.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
No, you're right, Chris, but you have no indication. You have to stack cups. That's why you have to do it. But you have no indication the Panthers are going to be bad anytime soon. You'll never get that from Dave Hyde, by the way.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
They played by division. They came in so hot.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
It was a mean comment. Dave Hyde's written four books. A means to an end.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
He's fins at 50, yes.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
I think you kind of like what's going on today. It was hockey versus basketball. That's a fun. Yeah, that's another fun. Sorry.
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The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
I mean, 12 charities, a little bit too much to each, right? How does he still not see how you guys are producing it?
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The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
The greatest NBA cup coach ever.
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The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
Izzy, get out of here. He doesn't love you.
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The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
Neck and neck is what you said.
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The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
We felt it. I'm feeling it now for sure.
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The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
Really? Neck and neck, huh?
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The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
Who's A? Who's B? They've had very parallel careers. Is Greg A? It's important, Dan. I mean, the Herald's top dog.
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The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
I didn't know what you wanted me to do.
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The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
You can't estimate a match. You can't do that. You've got to match dollar for dollar is what you have to do.
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The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
Not Greg's. Definitely not Greg's.
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The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
Well, I don't know, Arlene might be. Well, no, definitely not.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
Do you know that? We're going to have Patrick Sertan on with us in a little bit. Patrick Sertan was the greatest cornerback in Miami Dolphins history. And Patrick Sertan, his son... is now the favorite for Defensive Player of the Year, which took me aback because when's the last time a corner won Defensive Player of the Year?
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
Their pass rush was so good, at least in part, because Patrick Sertan was able to always cover the number one receiver well. He was unbelievable as a corner.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
Man, all right, both of them, father and son, next.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
Stugats, what a thrill this is. You might see right in front of you right now what might be the best cornerback in Dolphins history and is the second best cornerback on this particular call. I think I can say that. I could... I could probably say it better than that if I had another chance at it.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
But what we have on the line here, one cornerback is a three-time pro bowler and an all-pro selection at cornerback. But the other is also a three-time pro bowler and a two-time first-team all-pro selection at quarterback. And he's done it in four seasons.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
So I'm guessing that it breaks Patrick Sertan's heart and fills his heart to say publicly as a cocky cornerback that his son is already better than he is.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
Well, but do I say anything that's incorrect? Patrick Jr., or Patrick II, excuse me, can you tell me whether or not, what kind of memories do you have of your father's greatness? Did you know he was great?
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
Patrick Sr., do you regard yourself as the best defensive back or the best corner in Dolphins history?
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
Patrick Jr., did you know those stats of your father? Seven and a half sacks? How many sacks you got?
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
Oh, but wait a minute. The reason that your teammates got as many sacks, got more sacks than anyone in the NFL this year is because you're back there as defensive player of the year covering people. So you didn't get the sacks, but you got the sacks.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
Who do you regard as in your class as a corner? Stingley, obviously, this postseason is getting a lot of talk. But when I think you're the favorite to win defensive player of the year, are you not? Like, who do you regard as as good as you at this?
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
But do you think you're the defensive player of the year?
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
Dad, what's the game you saw that you were like, oh, oh, he can shut down anybody? There are any games that you're a little scared before it because you're like, okay, this one's a challenge for my son?
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
Hold on, though. When you played, Sam Madison was the talker. You didn't have much of anything to say to anybody. You were better than everybody, and you didn't say much of anything. Are you telling me that in the stands at his games before you were a coach, you couldn't shut up because you were yelling at everybody?
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
Are you saying that you're sprinting right past him as he returns a pick six for a touchdown? You're just running next to your son?
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
Wait a minute. Who's more embarrassed there? Certainly your son is embarrassed. Is he not?
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
Sorry to the kid. But so explain this part to us. When you have the gratitude and the swelling of what is – Really proud love. How often will you... Like, what is the height of being moved by watching him play?
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
Justin Jefferson is not a broken clock, Justin Jefferson. I don't know. C.D. Lamb is not a broken clock. I don't know. I am listening to Patrick, but I'm looking at these extraterrestrials who are playing wide receiver, and I got to tell you, Dan, they're a lot larger than the ones you were guarding. They're a lot faster. Oh, hold up, hold up, man.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
Okay. Just back off, man. You know what? I stand corrected. Okay. Fair enough.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
Fair enough. I'm sorry. I deserve that for the disrespect. But I do marvel at the people your son is covering, and I don't know who he respects so much that he would say, yeah, that's a person who keeps me up a little the night before because I know that's going to be the challenge that's about as good as I am.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
Fair enough. Eric Moulds was also a handful. But give me some names. Give me the guys, Junior, that keep you up just a little bit. A little extra sleepless.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
You're just looking at your schedule. Do you have a schedule magnet on your computer right there?
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
Dad, is there anything in his physical mannerisms that you're watching him or that anyone in your family is watching and they see you in him when he's playing?
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
Junior, what does dad have to say to you after the game when his Miami Dolphins have put 70 points on your defense?
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
OK, I'm sorry I did that to you, but your dad seemed to be laughing.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
Your dad went to get drunk in the club. While you're suffering on the football field. You're allowing 70 points and your dad is hammered before the fourth quarter.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
So what you're saying, you were basically drinking to make the pain go away is what you're saying.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
For the players, absolutely. As he told you about that one, does your son know the score of that game? The game that sent Dan Marino into retirement. Does your son even remember the score of that game?
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
Your father allowed Jimmy Smith and the rest of those receivers to beat Dan Marino in his final game 63-7 in a playoff game.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
It was Marino's last game.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
You said boldest take from the week. The imaging behind me says boldest take from the weekend.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
Guys, thank you and congratulations. It really is a delight to see the son pick up the father's craftsmanship and take that Sertan legacy and make it something that shines even brighter than it did in Miami where it's shown plenty, plenty bright. Thank you, gentlemen.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
do you guys feel in general about how Chris delivered all of that?
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
The middle word in pedantic is always Dan. You guys put behind me And you said week, and I'm just trying to get the advertising right because we appreciate our sponsors. This is the first time one's making an appearance here. We're celebrating Quareville today. We want to show our sponsors that we love our sponsors. So I just want to do it right.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
You know what? You're generally correct. I would say that it is a life principle rule to, if you know the general meaning of what someone is saying, you become an asshole by correcting them when you know. except when you're trying to please sponsors with sponsored content and you want to make sure to get these things correct.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
I love that it's here. It's been a while since we had phone lines around here. I was surprised to miss the phone lines. I've always mocked the phone lines we used to have. I don't know if you guys remember this or old enough to remember. Remember this. You could go through some of this in the oral history, especially the super cuts, which I've enjoyed.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
We have done this kind of thing before where we have a hot take hotline. And what ends up happening is Stu Gatz ends up calling again and again on his way home.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
The other things that I wanted to get to today that I'm hoping that we have time for, they're an assortment of them. I am told finally, after much, much... Pushing and shoving. You guys finally have some gas bags of the week to give me. You guys finally have two competing gas bags. I've asked you to do it every week. We haven't done it for months.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
We did it like two or three times and then fell right into a ditch with a fart sound. Do you have good gas bags of the week to compete against each other? Yes or no, Chris? Are you confident? You keep telling me it's because your standard is so discerning that it's hard to get.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
Everyone's giving takes, and it's hard for you to find one that's gas bag worthy when all I hear is Dan Dockich over here saying idiotic thing after idiotic thing, but you guys aren't listening to real gas bags.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
Which do you think is better? Which one do you think should win? Well, let's find out together.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
That was after they lost to Jameis on Thursday night and then ended up losing four of their last five games.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
So that's against. OK, that's the one they won. And so he's saying after that, they went on a five game losing streak.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
Yeah. They lost all of those games by one by 14 plus points. So there wasn't really. Yes, they were playing against good teams, but there wasn't anyone in the league losing quite like that.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
Can you guys find for me? Because there was a historic cowherd take that aged most poorly as it regarded to instantaneous analysis on a famous quarterback of some sort that was spectacularly intergalactically wrong. And I've told you guys before that Colin Cowherd, like some others, has figured out that it doesn't matter what your words are.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
There is money to be made in being wrong, loudly wrong, as long as you just get it out there and it gets aggregated because credibility doesn't much matter anymore as long as you're just getting the eyes for whatever it is that you're saying. We will get to that in a second if I can remember it. But Jessica, I wanted to talk to you about this Brad Pitt scammer lady.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
Explain to me what is happening here with AI. I get fooled very easily by AI. Is this happening to the rest of you?
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
I thought that was Mike Ryan from this distance just popping up in the surgery room. I didn't even know, like from behind a corner of the surgery room because it's so far and it looks so incredibly fake. But I've got to think. that if I'm regularly being fooled by AI stuff that's not this crude, it's happening to everybody, correct? Especially the voice stuff, like the fake audio.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
How easy is it to fool you on all of this fake audio that they can make to sound exactly like Mike Tomlin is saying something he's not actually saying?
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
I found a clip here. It's a Lamar Jackson take, and I want to get to it in a second. I'll be really Josh glad when we get to it. I just can't believe how bad a joke that was.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
Really nice guy. What's he asking for? He needs 70K.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
I will acknowledge, though, that comedically, the syllable count name and visual of Josh Gad was perfectly chosen by Chris Cody. Like just as someone randomly calling you and they've got a name and the name is Josh Gad. I don't think you could have picked a better celebrity for me to like let that go to voicemail because I don't want to cash that favor.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
You say it's a good question, Jessica, but I will show you and have to show you, and it's not just because I've been sipping here Cuervo for about 40 minutes. I need to shine a light on what Billy just did there, which is he turned a conversation we were having that was already absurd about Josh Gad asking Chris Cody for money. Yeah, and then made it about a kidney instead of the money.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
Then made it about copay when all I want is the Lamar Jackson sound. So I'm only- My time.
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Hour 2: Would You Give Josh Gad Your Kidney? (feat. Patrick Surtain & Patrick Surtain II)
I am only willing to go so far with Billy on this. He's making me Josh sad. I want to play the Lamar Jackson sound on Colin Coward, please. This is the analysis as Lamar Jackson is coming out of college.
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
You're listening to DraftKings Network.
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
Things just got a little awkward there. So let me be the first on this show to congratulate you on the new wife, Vince. Congratulations on feeling whole, feeling complete. Let's talk tailgating. Yeah. When he was so disappointed in Dan, did you see his face? He looked so pissed off.
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
Right. I like him as my quarterback. Well, no shit.
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
The face of shame, yes. Ooh, I did that.
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
I'm just glad to hear a nice love story. Look at the difference in faces between Whittingham and Billy.
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
Let me, yes, it's the difference between the chairs. It's the difference between the responsibilities of the chairs. Yes, that's exactly right. Why do you think? Billy hates sitting in that chair so much.
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
Nobody loves love like this man, Vince Woolfolk. It is so perfect. Witty, Jess, Billy. That encapsulates the entire show.
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
He said that they're still friends. I'm sure that's true. We didn't make it. We didn't make it. I'm with Dan. It's an awkward, odd way. It's a bit much. It's actually a nice way of saying it. That's what I mean.
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
He fooled me for 16 games!
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
I don't know. Dan, he's still going to get paid. He's not going to get paid what he was going to get paid a couple of weeks ago. But he had 35 touchdowns, 12 interceptions. And I look, and this is a product of the Jets just being a lousy organization. Last year, not this year, last year was his rookie year.
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
With Kyle Shanahan, he learned under that quarterback coach, that quarterback whisperer, and then came to Minnesota. And this is really his first full year as a starting quarterback. He gave you 4,300 yards, 14 wins, 35 touchdowns, 12 interceptions. I know he was lousy in the biggest game.
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
I mean, I hear you. I feel like Viking fans and those announcers should applaud Sam Darnold. The quarterback they drafted, the guy who was supposed to be their quarterback, J.J. McCarthy, went down and in walked Sam Darnold and got them 14 wins, got them relevant the entire year.
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
Stugatz! Things just got a little awkward there. So let me be the first on this show to congratulate you on the new wife, Vince. Congratulations on feeling whole, feeling complete. You know? Let's talk tailgating. Yeah.
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
I love that movie, Jobin. It's a great show. It's a great scene.
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
Oh, wow, this is so good.
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
It is because you're a woman. Women can't do that. Only Rodney Dangerfield can. Clearly. You have to have a penis to do that.
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
A playlist for Stugatz. Lazy.
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
Always needs to be better. Got it.
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
Correct. But at least the Bears haven't caught up.
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
Hawkinson, you got it. Aaron Jones.
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
He's holding it too long. Throw it, man. Yeah, things are moving really fast down there. He's scared too. Throw it, man. He's holding it too long.
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
The just run is great. It's so easy.
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
Both of them matter-of-factly, they really are surgically dissecting the Rams defense from up there.
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
Yeah, pocket presence.
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
Right, all those guys are doing when they do that is buying themselves the extra second or two that they need to get rid of the football. Right, a half a second maybe. But you're asking Sam Darnold in that spot, when you say just run, man, you're asking him to be Jaden Daniels. He's not Jaden Daniels.
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
Right. Jaden is the guy most teams are looking for, right? Cheap and mobile. And great.
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
You also have Justin Jefferson, so that's not what you're doing generally. Not a team strength to drive down the field, Sam Darnold, four yards at a time.
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
Sam did rush it 67 times for 212 yards this season, a career high. Four yards at a time.
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
He's gotten very good at it.
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
To the guys calling the game.
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Hour 1: Slappin Da Bass with Jordan Schultz
I hope Greg Olson's agent is ready for this negotiation, man.
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
What's the worst Super Bowl bet you've ever made? Do you have one?
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
If you guys had to guess. Seahawks.
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
How many bets on the Super Bowl do you think Chris Felica currently has, like right now?
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
At the time we're taping this, which is just over a week before the Super Bowl, if you had to guess the over or under on how many bets Felica has made on said Super Bowl, and I set the number at six, would you say over or under?
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
I'm saying yes. Anything.
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
It's over. It's over six.
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
He grabbed all the lines. Are you saying that he has a ton of parlays with the Super Bowl winner attached to him?
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
He's next level. You're right. But he also likes to let things play out. Like, he wants to know who's injured. He wants to know. He needs all the information. He's a professional. He takes this seriously. The Bear is with us right now. Chris Felica, our friend. We were discussing. We're about a week away from the Super Bowl. We were discussing.
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
I set the over-under at six, Bear, as to how many bets you currently have on the Super Bowl. Mikey said way over. I say under.
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
God bless football, Mike Golick. God bless football, Mikey A. God bless football, Gojo.
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
God bless football, Stu Gatz.
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
All right, so when would you actually hone in, though? You will hone in and say, here are the Bears' bets, you know?
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
Thank you. We are at New Orleans Radio Row Super Bowl week. Chiefs and Eagles coming up. And the Bear, Chris Felica, is going to join us in about 10 minutes to give us his gambling advice. Look at Mikey A's face. He's not even here and he's happy. I mean.
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
Slow down a second, Bear. I have a pad and a pen. I got to write this down. So hold on a second. Mikey, you writing this down?
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
All right, I heard Worthy, so go ahead.
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I'm sending that thing out to make sure the line doesn't move too much on me. That a boy. Real ball knower. He's right. Isn't he the bear to come help out now? Mikey A is the one who knocks.
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Okay, wait a second. Did you have the Mahomes over that year, the year he kept kneeling? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
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We're waiting for Billy to get here, unfortunately. Oh, jeez. Billy ill. He's a little under the weather.
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Guys, this is very exciting, and I'm sorry I didn't get to it sooner. The Bear is part of the Fox pregame show for the Super Bowl. I think the Bear would rather be on his couch watching the game, but he's going to be a part of the Fox pregame show. What are you doing for the Fox pregame show? That is amazing.
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Oh, Billy. And down in this city especially, you're just asking for trouble.
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Where do you rank New Orleans in terms of cities that host championship games?
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That's not good. Mike, so your dad thinks this is the best Super Bowl. Correct me if I'm wrong. The best Super Bowl city, New Orleans.
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I will tell you guys that the Bear was nice enough to invite me to dinner on Wednesday with Jeff Schwartz. He said I could bring a plus one. I'm not certain who that plus one is going to be. It might be Billy Gill, but Bear is asking me to have dinner at 515. I mean, holy shit, dude. I am old, but I'm not that old, man.
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Because it's a walking city. It's a walking city. It's not intimidated by the Super Bowl. Some cities when the Super Bowl comes to town, the Super Bowl becomes their whole personality. New Orleans is so much bigger than our little football game.
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Me and Schwartz, a couple of Jews cutting it up. How about that? Perfect.
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Very nice. Good job out of you. You can't do that in the pregame show.
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Right. Mikey A is mad that we're having dinner and he's not coming. He's very upset.
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I'm sorry. I tried, Mikey. Go ahead. Did you though? Did you though?
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Billy tried harder. He did. It is the fence. Go ahead. I believe that. I know you do.
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I love the term grasshopper. That's a great term.
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Yep. What have you consumed so far, Mike?
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I love you so much, Bear. I really do. By the time Super Bowl Sunday rolls around, how many bets will you have on the Super Bowl?
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But I would imagine like Gatorade color, coin toss, length of the national anthem, all that stuff is beneath you there, right? Is that fair?
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No, I know. But you like the prop bets as long as you know the outcome in advance. Correct. Like if you know it's going to be heads, you'll bet the coin toss. Correct. But how would you possibly know that?
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Aren't you promoting diabetes prevention? I mean...
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It's got to be minus 1,000.
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And you can't blame the defense for trying to time it and jumping off sides. Correct. You can't do that either. Something's got to give there, right?
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Yeah. I mean, you need to have diabetes in order to then prevent or stave it off. Exactly. Checkmate.
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Or you bet yes on the tush push. Love the tush push.
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But I'm with you. What's the best Super Bowl bet you've ever made? Like there's one that you remember, Bear. There's one you think back at. You're like, oh, man.
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You know what? I don't care that he doesn't have diabetes. That's what Radio Row Super Bowl winnings are about. I mean, come on. Oh, no. He's got diabetes.
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Oh, I have diabetes. Rest assured. The worst. Well earned. They are. I'm not giving Bill different. But, Stu Gatz, no, my dad went with the tried and true method of picking out food in New Orleans because we were talking about this the other night when we were walking to dinner. And when you walk around down here, as an outsider coming in, the locals probably know how to discern this.
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It's all about can you put your head down on the pillow at night and fall asleep peacefully, okay? And listen, if you bet Mahomes and you win, great. I'm with you on this. You bet against Mahomes and you lose, you'll have sleepless nights for like a week, you know?
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You're so right. What's the worst bet you've made?
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Well, since you brought them up, what did you make of their coaching hire?
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Because as an outsider, you see all these signs, and it said, such and such, home of this.
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Or the original that. Yes. I have no idea if they're lying or telling the truth. And so Dad went and looked, and he found home of the whatever.
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He hopes that this is his last job in the NFL, and that's very important. We don't normally get a coach who this is the final destination for. Aaron Glenn wants this to be his final destination, so I like that.
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If only the team would make sense there.
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Do you want Aaron Rodgers back? Yeah, I know. That's an answer. It was such a good answer, man.
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No question. We'll get you out of here on this note. The Bear went to the University of Miami. He is a big Canes fan, big Canes supporter. Are the Canes back?
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So you researched this? No. No. He just saw the sign. I just fell into the sign.
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Carson Beck, your thoughts.
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Oh, yes, yes. Our next point. I can't wait. The 20 biggest myths about college football. And then we have a second point.
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It's like in the movie Elf when he walks in. Wow, world's best cup of coffee. Congratulations.
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I have Stanzik writing it already. Don't worry about it. We're good, okay?
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Bear, we love you. Thank you. I'm going to see you Wednesday at 515 for dinner. By the way, we're going to Denny's.
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I will have just finished up lunch, but I'll try to make it light. And we look forward to having you on later in the week. I want to know. This is what I want to know. If we have you on again towards the end of the week, if anything you said here today has changed. By the time we get to Friday, let's say, okay? I hope not, but it might. We'll see. We'll find out together. All right, Bear.
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Good luck to you on the pregame show. I'll see you in New Orleans. And I look forward very much to seeing you, buddy.
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No, it also reminds me, like every city you'll find, Joe's New York style pizza.
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Then you get in there, it tastes nothing like New York pizza. Oh, I fell right into the trap. Right into the trap.
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All right, so I do a thing called Weekend Observations. Demario Davis with us here. It's Super Bowl week. It's Radio Row. We will get to what he's doing on behalf of Ashley here. in just a second, but I was watching a game and Tom Brady, I do a thing called weekend observations where I just write down a bunch of sports observations in my notes. We try to make them funny and entertaining.
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And here's what I wrote down. This was Tom Brady. Okay. No one wraps up a ball carrier like the Mario Davis. That's my job, man.
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Oh, yeah. They served him fish that they imported from, like, California.
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But do you agree there is no one that wraps up a ball carrier like DeMario did?
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When did you know you were going to make it to the pros?
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You spoke it into existence.
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Wow. I cannot believe you said you set out. So you said at an early age, I'm going to be an NFL football player. And then you would not stop until you achieve that goal. That's incredible.
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That's pretty incredible. Are you having fun here in New Orleans?
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I'll gain too much weight if I stay here too long, man.
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I commend them for the false advertising, I have to be honest with you.
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Yeah, it suckered me and got my 25 bucks. It's the best. It's the Golic tried and true method here. If you're wandering a city near you, we can assure you, after a lot of careful experimentation, you'll have a good time. I don't know if it's authentic, but you'll have a good time.
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Right. Yeah, you're right.
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Well, it was great the last time they played, right?
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Well, they have the thing that can keep Patrick Mahomes off the field, and that's Saquon in a running game, right?
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Because you knew he was going to do it. It's just a matter of watching it play out, right?
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Now, what I will tell you is – I think people would be okay with Andy Reid on the field, by the way, as opposed to Patrick Moe. That's his machine.
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And I like that because you're saying for the first time Mahomes won't get it done. You're saying –
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Do you want me to ask you again at the end and you say Mahomes is going to get it done? But that way you have all sides covered.
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Okay. Which defense do you trust the most, though? Because defensive linemen, after quarterback, the D linemen are the best players on the field in the Super Bowl.
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Yeah, and spags on the other.
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Can you explain that? Because you're marveling at something. I don't think we talk about this all the time.
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We have no idea what we're watching. Yeah. So can you explain why that was so, like even to someone like you who's played the game your entire life, why was that so surprising to you?
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I'm surprised that you think – I'm not saying it's a bad city. I'm delving into this, right? But I feel like warm weather – now, we're getting good weather this week.
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So they saved it for that time.
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I know. So you're telling me Josh Allen had no idea that was coming.
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Tell us what – that's incredible. Thank you for breaking that down. Because, you know, as fans, we watch football, right? We're just watching the quarterbacks. We don't know what's going on inside the trenches, you know?
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Film doesn't lie, right? Film tells you everything you need to know. Tell us what you're doing on behalf of Ashley. You're doing great things.
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But I think Glendale, for me, was probably as good as it gets.
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You're a good man, I got to tell you.
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Well, you're a well-dressed man trying to do his part.
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Okay. And we did get into several cars.
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It's great to see the pride you have when you're telling those stories. Yeah, I mean,
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You surprised the nurse, right? New Year's Eve.
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This is one of the coolest things I've ever.
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But it's one of the great things I've heard.
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It's your Super Bowl week, man. Enjoy the highlight. You're hosting. You're the host.
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Everyone asking you, hey, where am I going to dinner? Where do I go? I need tickets. They're coming to you, right?
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Not for the teams involved. Not for the Super Bowl. It's all about you.
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All right. Doing great work with Ashley. Also, check out his foundation, Devoted Dreamers. He's also the best-dressed man here on Radio Row. Tell your wife she did a phenomenal job.
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All right. Appreciate you, man. Thank you, DeVar. Yes, sir. Okay, man.
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It's dad and Stephen A. Smith. Like Stephen A. Smith wanting to move the all-star game or game who the finals teams are because he wants a good – they got to handle two sites for that. That's a dangerous game. Super Bowl, we get one and everyone's got to bid for it. Like everyone's groveling to the NFL for the chance to do this.
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You cannot give yourself a curfew Super Bowl week when you're 35, man.
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Yeah, it's a great city. It really is. It's a great big event city. It is. It's a walking city.
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So I'm glad you brought up the combine because I tell Levitard all the time that if you just walk into St. Elmo's during combine week, you'll hear everything you need to hear.
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Right. That's past your curfew, though.
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That's how you're supposed to do it, right? The places you shouldn't be in.
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So Vegas, for me, that was a nightmare, like in terms of a Super Bowl.
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The NBA, they actually have to leave it up to the teams that decide to be the best. Sucker business.
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And not only that, it was like to get... Once you got to the media center, like to the front doors, you're still outside. You were just starting your trip. It took like 30 minutes from that point just to get into the media. It took me two seconds today.
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I know. It's pretty awesome. Tell us about the Football 301 on Yahoo Sports.
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It's crazy. How do you guys feel about the game? Like so many people are saying, hey – Not a fan of this game. Don't want the matchup. Had the matchup two years ago, even though it was one of the greatest Super Bowls we've ever seen. People seem to not want it again, and that's surprising to me.
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So I think it's interesting because Dan and I say every week, and I just had this experience with DeMario Davis, who explained to me why that corner blitz that Spaggs put on Josh Allen. He, like, actually took me through it as to why it was so special and how we actually set it up. Because Dan and I have been talking about this for years. We don't know what we're watching on Sundays. That's a lot.
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He is maybe – and I've had this discussion with him. He and I have become friends. But I've told him, like, I know he wants to maybe be a head coach again. Why leave this quarterback? Why leave this coach? Why leave this situation? There's nothing wrong with being the greatest coordinator that's ever lived.
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Different team, different game plan.
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So you're saying Andy and Bill are the coaches who are the best at getting their teams prepared week to week.
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Like is Sirianni doing it? I think Sirianni gets a raw deal.
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They've been to two Super Bowls, four years, playoffs, four consecutive years.
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That's not an easy thing. With the ego involved in this sport, think about that. He stripped himself of play calling responsibility.
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Oh, I mean, listen, Philly should be embracing him. He is Philly.
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Philly should want him to coach that team forever, man.
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Listen, I said this to Levitard. He got mad at me. But I said, if Sirianni wins this Super Bowl, he is the greatest Eagles coach in Eagles history.
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It's not the worst thing. Larry Coker had the greatest start, I think, in college football history as a coach.
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How about Fangs in terms of getting his team ready? Because this is such it's such a fascinating Super Bowl where you have Mahomes, you have Jalen Hurts, you have all this offensive talent, right? but the defenses are strong, the coordinators are great. It could be a low-scoring game.
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Set the narrative. Gojo, what are you smiling about?
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And he fell right into it.
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Listen, it was a great game two years ago, but now you have Saquon. And to Sirianni's credit and Howie Roseman's credit, to be able to get Saquon from the Giants, which is ludicrous and absurd. But you now have the guy, if he doesn't break one for 80, you can have those 11-play, 10-minute drives. The most important thing about him, we've kept Mahomes off the field.
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No, but I told Mikey A last week, okay? Forget about this. Last week, I said, I'm going to set the tone. Everyone's going to take Philadelphia because they have Saquon Barkley, and that keeps Patrick Mahomes off the field. You'll walk right into it.
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Right. X's and O's are important, man, just so you know. They are. It's on our car over there. Like, I know you want to try to drag out your personality and all that. No, we need X's and O's, okay? Let me be the jackass. You give us X's and O's, okay?
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No, I love the X's and O's, though. I really do because, again, we don't know what we're watching.
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I love it. It seems, maybe I'm wrong here, it seems like you think the Eagles have a pretty good shot here. I'm leaning Chiefs. Are you? Yeah. You're not going to be surprised if the Eagles win.
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I know top to bottom the Eagles are the better team, but I'm not betting against this guy.
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Yes, he set the narrative, and now you're in Stugatz's narrative. You're part of the Stugatz coaching tree at Radio Row. I did.
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I don't have a Land Cruiser here. I mean, oh, it's right here.
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Which part of football did you love the most? Was it the ball boy? Was it playing? Was it the coaching? Or is it this?
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I mean, ball boy is such a great time.
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Yeah, Chris Carter just like unhinged, right?
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There's a lot more Chris Carters than Randy Mosses. And I say that respectfully again. Two shots. He's done nothing to me, Chris Carter.
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It's very easy to not pick Philadelphia. I made a promise. Total opposite of Dad. After the AFC Championship game and after the Championship round, I made a solemn vow to myself. I locked it in a time capsule, and I opened it this week, and it said,
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Oh, really? Yeah, they hate it. Wait, what do you mean?
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You were throwing balls back into the game, onto the field of play, two referees. They needed a ball. Yes. And you're telling me you could not throw it overhand.
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Who was the ref? I don't know.
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Was there a ref you didn't like, and even though you knew he wanted you to toss it underhand, did you just beam them right in the face or something like that? Well, actually, speaking of Hockley.
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Oh, my god. That is so good. Football 301, Yahoo Sports. They're right next to us here on the Toyota Land Cruiser set. Nate, we appreciate this, man. I got you out of here before your curfew. Well, yeah. Appreciate it.
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don't pick against the chiefs there's going to be a million shiny objects out there they're going to tell you oh man the eagles they got so much talent on this roster look what howie roseman did this offseason it's so great don't do it right don't do it yeah i have to keep doing it i do eventually i'm going to be right i mean they're going to lose at some point the coin will land on tails at some point maybe uh go joe i was asking your dad last week uh because i think jason kelsey's in a uh
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is it a weird predicament, right? Oh, yeah. Where he's saying that he's rooting for the Eagles, but I don't think he's really rooting for the Eagles. And you should root for your brother, right? He's retired. And so I was asking your dad, had Mike played at... If Notre Dame had played, was it Alabama? Yeah. Oh, no.
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
If you went to Alabama and they played Notre Dame in the National Championship, would he root for you or would he root for Notre Dame? And he said he would root for you. Oh, absolutely. So, A, do you believe that he'd be rooting for you over his school? And B... Should Jason Kelsey be rooting for his brother over his former team?
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
He said he is rooting for Travis to do well. Yes. And you could have rooted for me to do well and still been fine if Notre Dame won. No, I wouldn't want a jersey to win. What if it had been one of your brothers? What if it had been Bob? You guys played in the NFL at the same time. Because kids are different.
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
I fully think if this is one of Jason Kelsey's kids and it's in the same spot, totally different. But if it's one of your brothers, and let's say you already spent most of your career in Philly, whole career in Philly, but Bob's playing in a Super Bowl with somebody else against the Eagles.
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
And Mike is right. Why is Jason feel the need to come out and root for the Eagles? He doesn't want the Eagles to win. The Eagles winning makes him look bad.
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
I do think he is like almost a mascot of that city, though. He was there for so long and was a part of so much winning for them. That's pretty tough to all of a sudden extract yourself from. I do think deep down where he plays, he doesn't talk about at parties, though. Those guys cry so much talking about each other and have such a loving relationship. There's no way.
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
Yeah, yeah. Mike, are these Super Bowls still tough for you to come to? Like, because you told me one time, like, they're difficult because you never, you wanted to, the first time you wanted to come to a Super Bowl was because you were playing. Right, right.
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
Yeah. I mean, if I can't get over that. Right. Wow. Who do you think is going to win, Mike? I think Philly is going to win. Who do you think is going to win, Cole?
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
I think Kansas City wins. Really? And you're taking the Chiefs. I'm taking the Chiefs.
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
I like your chances. All of us. The Bears next.
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
Mikey, remind me because it is very important to say the thing that everyone's going to say, but say it first.
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
And this will be the talk at Radio Row. I would say midweek, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, once they hear it from me and it starts spreading around Radio Row. So I want to be a trendsetter. I want to be the guy. Very important at Radio Row that you set the pace, okay? That you come out first.
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
And what I am telling you is what everyone's going to say, and they'll be ripping me off, is this Eagle team is better built to beat this Chiefs team than the last Eagles team was to beat that Chiefs team. because of Saquon Barkley, because of their ability to keep Patrick Mahomes off the field, and that will be their strategy. I said it first. They will run the ball.
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
They will run it a lot in an effort, not only because it's a strength of theirs, but also to keep Patrick Mahomes off the field. That's it. And they had to upgrade at center and everything.
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Okay. Oh, wow. This is the first retort of the week. This is amazing. Go ahead.
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Yes. Spags. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I get it. Spags. I get it. But I'm just saying, like, people are going to say, they're not going to really make a prediction. They're going to say, hey, if the Eagles win, it's because of that offensive line, because of Saquon, and their ability to do an 11-play drive, three yards at a time, for 12 minutes, that keeps Patrick Mahomes off the field. That's it.
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
You know who stopped Tom Brady? Who? Spags. Yeah. Well, you know who stopped Patrick Mahomes?
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He did? When? But Tom Brady won. Yeah.
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I'm not sure. It's a great question. I want to say no.
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Spags. Spags. No, that's not a rebuttal. Spags. How dare you, sir?
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Because he keeps... What Mikey is saying is they can try to run the football they want. Spags will have something ready for them that will prevent them from running the football and Mahomes will be on the field the entire game is what he's saying.
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He's going to beg Jalen Hurts to beat him.
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There's no way Jason Kelsey is rooting for the Eagles to win this game.
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I'm tired of it. I'm tired of the conversation. I'm ending the conversation by saying Jason Kelsey is not, not rooting for the Eagles to win the game.
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
Yeah, I do too. Listen, do you think the bear the first year he left college game day? Chris Felica, who's going to join us here in a couple of minutes. Do you think the bear was rooting for Stanford Steve the first year he was away from college game day? Stanford Steve was dreadful that first year. And I'm telling you, Felica may have acted like he was a concerned friend. Hang in there.
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GBF- Super Week: Welcome to Radio Row!
It's going to get better. He was cackling. He was delighted. And then Stanford Steed had one for the ages this year. And I'll tell you, the bear wasn't happy about it. I don't care what he says. No one in the history of anything wants things to get better after they leave.
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
Greg, termites would be a great name for a team, right? Toronto termites? Yes. I love that. It has to be a tea city.
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
I mean, a cardinal?
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
Stanford tree. Sort of goofy looking.
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
Well, it is. I mean, you've got to get it out.
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
I can answer that. You could say for 40 years.
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
So do I. Yeah, so do I. Just because he wants to be there. I mean, that's a good starting point.
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
It's a good list. It is.
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
He missed the glory days.
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
Glory holes.
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
Thank you.
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
The Glory Hole. The Hole.
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
It feels like a slight.
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
Mina, let me try it this way, because Greg and I were having this discussion about Jalen Hurts. In a weird world, if the Eagles could decide to play in the Super Bowl and they had to choose one of these guys to sit, Jalen Hurts or Saquon Barkley, which guy would they choose?
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
I would want to play the Super Bowl with Jalen Hurts, yes.
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
Will Shipley had four carries for 77 yards. Anyone could run behind that line. Sorry, Saquon.
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
Can I get the choices again? I got to write this down.
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
Mina just saw a photo of Dalton Kincaid with a Bills logo on his head. It's got to be Dallas. All right, Mina.
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
All right. Excellent work. She does that thing where she lies about telling you she's seen a movie just because she wants to be part of the conversation.
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
But not a podiatrist.
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
That's what this is about.
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
Duval. No, no. It is creepy.
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
That was good.
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
Yes. It is, but he changed his name to Bud to make it a perfect football name.
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
Too many AFLs. It's 11-20. It's true.
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
Excuse me. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
Well, he worked Sunday. Today's really his Wednesday.
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
Do you ever let a pet and then blame the dog instantly?
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
Every time.
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
I have the animals who fart the most. Cows, number one. Horses are number three. Termites, an upset, number two.
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
What? No way. Talk about an idle pet.
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Hour 2: Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson! (feat. Mina Kimes)
Press the gas. Exactly. Is that ganky? Yeah.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones' Glory Hole Comments (feat. Dianna Russini)
Welcome to the Big Sui, presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Lebitard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging.
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The Big Suey: Jerry Jones' Glory Hole Comments (feat. Dianna Russini)
That hasn't happened to you guys? I've done it. And now, here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face, and the habitual liar.
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Local Hour: Greg Cote's Jimmy Butler Take
It wasn't a great ending with Shaq. I know this. I'm not saying that Shaq was worse than this. Shaq won a title, though. Right, but it was bad at the end.
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Local Hour: Greg Cote's Jimmy Butler Take
Not a second. Not a second. What about other GMs? What about other GMs? What GM out there is like, you know who I really want on my team? You know what's going to bring us all together? A GM who needs him. Well, the Heat were stupid for bringing him in because he's done this everywhere he's been.
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Local Hour: Greg Cote's Jimmy Butler Take
No, you're right about that. Having fun on the internet with it.
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Local Hour: Greg Cote's Jimmy Butler Take
Billy, just say you're going to do a man on the streets and get the company to pay for it. Mm-hmm. Hmm. That's what Roy does.
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Local Hour: Greg Cote's Jimmy Butler Take
Just sitting right next to Brian Schottenheimer. Look, if you think I can't get out of my comfort zone, look at this idiot I just hired. No coaching experience. Brian is just like awkwardly like, okay, thank you. Thanks, coach.
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Local Hour: Greg Cote's Jimmy Butler Take
All right. No clapping. And Brian Schottenheimer feels the awkwardness and is like, I'll clap for you, Stephen. He has no choice.
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Local Hour: Greg Cote's Jimmy Butler Take
And by the way, I circled back because people after that were like, when's the date? Yeah, when is the date? And I went back to the sources. They don't know yet. Well, no, someone has to know.
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Local Hour: Greg Cote's Jimmy Butler Take
He lives in the city plantation for people that are unaware.
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Local Hour: Greg Cote's Jimmy Butler Take
You guys being offended by a cruise wedding with all the cruises you guys go on is hilarious.
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Local Hour: Greg Cote's Jimmy Butler Take
Us, at least do it on our terms. Now I've got the bride sitting and hoping, where's my wedding going to be? Where's everyone going to vote?
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Postgame Show: Spliff Notes (feat. JuJu Gotti)
They also had Justin Jefferson and Devin White and Greedy Williams.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
Why is Mad Dog so yellow in this clip?
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
This episode of the Dan Lebitard Show with Stu Gatz is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
Hashtag Lucy Challenged. It's the Super Bowl challenge. It's presented by Venmo. But yeah, we haven't really nailed down the exact challenge yet, Lucy.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
Not my fault. How about Lucy reads Stugatz's book live on YouTube?
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
He does that with me even at bowling. You'd think, like, in this hierarchy, he's supposed to pay for shit, no? No. At bowling, he's always like, you got these beers? Good. I just pick up the tabs.
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
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The Big Suey: The Iguanodon (feat. Lucy Rohden)
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
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Local Hour: The Prolific Dick Wolf
You're listening to DraftKings Network.
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Local Hour: The Prolific Dick Wolf
I believe that did happen with Tom Brady. Right. He wanted him out like two years before he was actually out.
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Local Hour: The Prolific Dick Wolf
Isn't this a bad strategy for Pat in general? Because aren't other players going to look at this and the treatment of Jimmy Butler at the very end here and be like, I don't want to play for an old bitter guy who's still mad about something LeBron James did to him at the very end.
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Local Hour: The Prolific Dick Wolf
Mash it all together. Mash. Mash. Hey, hey. Hey.
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Local Hour: The Prolific Dick Wolf
It's actually playing out in real life. It's a good idea by you.
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Local Hour: The Prolific Dick Wolf
He has won back-to-back titles. I don't disagree with him.
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Local Hour: The Prolific Dick Wolf
But you're saying if they're going comma there, they need to finish it off with a period. If the effort is to be grammatically correct, yes.
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Local Hour: The Prolific Dick Wolf
Greg, she's excited. Whatever she's sending you, she's excited about it.
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Local Hour: The Prolific Dick Wolf
It's a combination of the numbers and the messenger. I don't care, by the way, how fast he's running, if he's running fast, how often he's running. I don't care. That's his job. His job is to run. Here are stats that I care about, Dan. He didn't smile during the pregame. He wore Phoenix Suns colors a couple of nights ago. That was annoying.
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Local Hour: The Prolific Dick Wolf
And he sat a couple of seats away from any of his teammates. Those are the stats I care about. Quitter. That's it.
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Local Hour: The Prolific Dick Wolf
Yes, he has. I was delighted to see it.
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Local Hour: The Prolific Dick Wolf
I'm waiting for a QR code. Mike's going to take me out during the break, and I'll send what I owe for today's fine. I think it's $4.
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Local Hour: The Prolific Dick Wolf
What are you talking about? I know, but you love that show. I know you love that show. The Pyramid? Yes. I have watched it.
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Local Hour: The Prolific Dick Wolf
What I love about the pyramid is I think it has the best way of settling if you're going to win big money or not. Like, I think there's a minute there where you're just intrigued because you want to see if this person can fill the entire pyramid before 60 seconds is up with the right clues, right? I think that's the best way of settling a game show.
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Local Hour: The Prolific Dick Wolf
I want angry producers. We'll get to Greg Cody, but I would like to hear the angry producers being mad at Dan Patrick.
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Local Hour: The Prolific Dick Wolf
I hate the rounds that lead up to the final rounds in the pyramid. I don't like that. I just want to get straight to it.
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Local Hour: The Prolific Dick Wolf
Mike, nothing is in confidence. You know this. You've been working with Dan for a long time.
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Local Hour: The Prolific Dick Wolf
Oh, wow. I'm in. Two different departments. What does that mean? What do you mean?
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Local Hour: The Prolific Dick Wolf
Well, it's a different universe altogether.
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Local Hour: The Prolific Dick Wolf
It's just packaged differently.
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Local Hour: The Prolific Dick Wolf
It was mine. It was mine. I'm admitting to it. Do I owe double today because Greg is in? No, it's only on Tuesday. It was my phone.
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Local Hour: The Prolific Dick Wolf
You have to play them with confidence, Dan. You do.
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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
I was probably like, that kind of thing. Something? Okay, no. The home run call was that kind of swing, that kind of thing. Stugatz. Oh. That's a good call. Thank you. And plus, it doesn't matter who's hitting it. Like, you're not tailoring it to a particular name. You know, all that jazz, you know, you don't got to do that. Oh, that would be a great call. That kind of swing, that kind of thing.
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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
This is the Dan Labatar Show with the Stugats.
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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
With quarterbacking, it always amazes me how we're afraid to admit what an inexact science the analysis of that position is. And the evidence is from where Tom Brady was drafted to Cam Ward. Anybody remember Todd Marinovich? He was supposed to be the next great thing. And he didn't even make it at all. And so it's, you know, milk plum if I'm going to throw in an old thing.
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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
Once we get to Milt Plum, we got it. That's not a real name. Milt Plum was supposed to be the next great quarterback.
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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
He was more reason than that. I think he played in the 60s. He was born in the 30s.
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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
He had a long career, but it was not the height of the NFL.
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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
Hello. There you go. So did Joe Namath. So did Joe Namath. That's right.
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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
But we didn't always know it. Look at some of the quarterbacks who had great seasons. They were written off five years ago. Jared Goff, Sam Darnold, Baker Mayfield. You know, we write off quarterbacks too quickly. Five years later, they're at the top of their game. Better statistical seasons than Patrick Mahomes had this year.
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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
It's because of college exploits like that that people thought he was going to be the next big superstar in the NFL, which he never became.
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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
He's right. How? It's a rhetorical question, granted. But you're right.
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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
Earl Woods. Again. It was already said. It's a funny name.
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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
Earl Woods is a funny name. I'm sorry.
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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
You all thought I was plum crazy. I wasn't.
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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
He tried to stretch an infield single into a double.
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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
this year that's a pretty good case i mean i think lamar should win it but lamar jackson has to win the mvp do you hear what he just said yeah that's never been done before i heard it all in one season i heard every second and you can make stats like that for jamar i mean the the the dual i mean jamar chase also he wins another mvp does he have more mvps and playoff wins
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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
Okay, Lamar Jackson. I don't have the stats in front of me. I'm not as smart as Jason. You don't like him either? As Jason. What? It's my brother's name.
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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
Lamar Jackson has, I think, like 47 touchdown passes and five interceptions, not to mention almost 1,000 yards rushing. Nobody does that. He has to win the MVP award. I don't care.
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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
41 to 4. You said 47. Okay, the ratio. I had the ratio right on the mark. 47 to 5 statistically is about the same as 41 to 4.
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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
El Jack has to win the MVP award this year, in my opinion. Granted, he was a Lobo, so I'm a little prejudiced in his behalf.
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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
That begs an explanation. Okay. Lamar, I had two fantasy teams, both called Lobos. Lamar started on one team, Jamar Chase on the other. Okay, so technically, again, I was right. But... Jamar Chase won the MVL award in a controversial decision over Saquon Barkley. Okay?
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The Big Suey: The Milt Plum Show
That's true. This is a new and unimproved Dan Levitar show with the Stugas.
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Hour 1: Limited Fake Stephen A. Smith Runs For President
The crowd size, guys, very big. That's Dan and Dan.
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Hour 1: Limited Fake Stephen A. Smith Runs For President
It's the opposite of a championship.
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Hour 1: Limited Fake Stephen A. Smith Runs For President
Our Dan loves taking photos with the people. Will the people love to be with him? Not really.
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Hour 1: Limited Fake Stephen A. Smith Runs For President
The Southern accent is all it's at now.
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Hour 1: Limited Fake Stephen A. Smith Runs For President
The New York accent test to me is around water.
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Hour 1: Limited Fake Stephen A. Smith Runs For President
Is it water? Water. Water. Not Water Long Island.
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Hour 1: Limited Fake Stephen A. Smith Runs For President
On 495.
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Hour 1: Limited Fake Stephen A. Smith Runs For President
Okay, they're not hurt. And we covered it.
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Hour 1: Limited Fake Stephen A. Smith Runs For President
You just referred to the Home Alone robbers by their gang name. The Wet Bandits. Is that how Daniel Stern is known? Number one, yes.
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Hour 1: Limited Fake Stephen A. Smith Runs For President
2% Stephen A. is polling in this one.
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Hour 1: Limited Fake Stephen A. Smith Runs For President
Please tell me it's more than 2%. I'll give you some of the details.
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Hour 1: Limited Fake Stephen A. Smith Runs For President
He did just sign with the major Hollywood talent agency.
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Hour 1: Limited Fake Stephen A. Smith Runs For President
He has no idea what anything is. Do you believe that someone writes that speech?
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
You're just walking down the street in New York with the World Series trophy? I would have to bring it. Unboxed. No cover, no sheet.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
I'm surprised David could carry the World Series trophy.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
This episode of the Dan Levitard Show with Stu Gatz is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings. The crown is yours. Who's Ed? I don't know.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
That guy was Christian McCaffrey's dad, for the record.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
Ed McCaffrey?
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
Right. Tom Brady did. But do you want to give Nick Sirianni all of that power? Really? Yes, I do. You want to see Nick Sirianni on a power trip holding the Lombardi with a ring? That's not the person that you want to see put an end to this, right?
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
Yeah, Man of the Year. It's called the Walter Payton. It's not the Moy. The Moy is not what it's called. W-P Moy.
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
Can I ask an insensitive question? Like amongst friends here, no judgment. Okay. Tamar Hamlin. Nominated for Comeback Player of the Year again. When is he coming back from this time? He's just bad? Yeah, he was not that good last year. Well, he was never good to begin with. But this was his best season. I don't know, three interceptions, come on.
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
But come on, this feels like a makeup award. Like, they meant to give it to him last year, and then they didn't. So, like, we'll just give it to him next year. They're low on nominees. People forget when the incident happened.
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
Don't they wear a special patch on their... Yeah, the Walter Payton. Yeah. Looks like Batman.
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
Bring an outfit change. Maybe people think I go more than once.
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
Have you guys noticed the ticket that Goodell gives away every single week is the exact same seat number? So he's constantly giving away tickets. What ticket? Every day.
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
Yeah, every playoff game they give Super Bowl tickets to fans who have done something for the team or whatever, right? And every single time it's the exact same seat number.
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
No, it's a giant printed out prop.
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
No. No, I know that it's not.
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
But they're holding two tickets with the exact same seat number. It's like, oh, we gave away two tickets, blah, blah, blah. And it's like they couldn't even put seats six and seven. They're both like seat six. They printed one thing multiple times. They take it city to city and they're giving away the same exact seat.
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
I think it's going to be very confusing, honestly. They're all going to get there and they're going to be in the same seat? Everyone's going to have the same seat. What's the usher going to do?
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
We have the Pro Bowl games coming up, and we pretend to care about basketball a little bit, but it's just not the same.
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
Bill should have forfeited that regular season game and not shown them anything.
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
Just keep an eye on it. I will. I'll keep an eye on it. Guys, come on. He's not saying anything. He's just saying watch it.
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
He's petitioning to get into the Hall of Fame like next year, right? Before kind of his career is not invalidated, but somewhat proven. Maybe he wasn't the secret sauce.
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
Well, no, but no one's doing that on air. That's just private talk. Private talk is different than on air talk. Dan, come on. You know that.
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
Maybe. The problem with today is there's so few football storylines that it's inevitable. We're going to have the same things, you know? Right. Only two games. We did the trade thing. I disagree.
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
Wow. Imagine Dan witnessing a crime and the cop has to take down exactly what happened. You'd be like, what the hell happened here? Can you dumb it down?
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast.
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
But how tall was the person?
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
The man must have been 8,000 ants tall.
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
It's so easy, guys. Venmo's very easy to use. You guys know how to do it. Stop making it seem like it's not easy. I paid my Venmo fines.
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
Just two clicks. Boom, boom. It's done.
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
Two-way player, looks like. He led the NFL in interceptions in 1942 as well. Wow.
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
But, like, if we're being honest, he just threw it up there, like, hoping that it found someone. Kincaid was open. He saw Kincaid. No, but he just threw it up. He just threw it up there, hoping that the play would happen.
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
He did need to catch that ball, but Josh was heaving it downfield, hoping something would happen. He was running for his life. Come on, that was crazy. Agreed. What's he supposed to do?
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
I don't think that'd be a catch now. If we were to re-litigate that play, I don't think that would be... Touch the floor? Yeah, I don't think that would be viewed as a catch now.
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
Why does no one want to see this happen? No one wants to be part of history? I don't get it. They're so lovable.
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
Yeah. This is a different team. Are they villains? They wanted to be villains last year. They tried to make themselves villains. I don't view them as villains.
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
I was going to say, do we want to see people from Philadelphia happy? Get out of here.
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
I think the Patriots, like, even turned it again towards the end. Like, at the end, you're like, I kind of want to see Brady win again and see if he could do this. Like, at the end of his career, see if he could do this one last time. And then he goes and he wins one in Tampa, too. But, like, I think that the Patriots were so long that you kind of rooted for them and then you hated them.
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Local Hour: Patrick Mahomes vs Josh Allen
And then at the end, you're like... Can they keep doing this? I kind of want to see how much they can do this.
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Hour 1: Nobody Wants To Eat a Wet Banana
No one's ever responded that way to a peck of turkey.
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Hour 1: Nobody Wants To Eat a Wet Banana
Confirmed. He was yesterday. I was afraid to say it.
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Hour 1: Nobody Wants To Eat a Wet Banana
I was intimidated, yes. He said it like Count Orlon.
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Hour 1: Nobody Wants To Eat a Wet Banana
The chemistry from Jodie Foster and Al Gibson, it bubbles off the screen. James Garner is a classic.
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Hour 1: Nobody Wants To Eat a Wet Banana
Do you watch these marathons?
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Hour 1: Nobody Wants To Eat a Wet Banana
Is it bad that I'm not surprised by this news? In fact, I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often.
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Hour 1: Nobody Wants To Eat a Wet Banana
It was on a corner, yeah.
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Hour 1: Nobody Wants To Eat a Wet Banana
But you were surprised to hear that, Dan? Like two valets getting in an accident in this garage. The corners are tight. They usually honk when they're coming around the corners. And I appreciate that because they're letting me know that they're coming. But I'm not surprised by it.
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Hour 1: Nobody Wants To Eat a Wet Banana
I don't care what Philadelphia is tired of. I'm tired of their fan base. How does that sound? They wanted to fire Nick Sirianni like a month or two ago, and now they're all celebrating Nick Sirianni. He is the greatest coach in Eagles history. I said it. Better than Andy Reid. Better than Dick Vermeule. This is the fourth consecutive season he has led this team to the playoffs.
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Hour 1: Nobody Wants To Eat a Wet Banana
He's the only Eagles coach in Eagles history to do that for... First four seasons, going to the playoffs, he was a play away from beating Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes in a Super Bowl. I don't care about what Philadelphia fans think about anything. And I'm talking to you, Spike Eskin, and I'm talking to you, Angelo Cataldi. I don't care what you have to say.
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Hour 1: Nobody Wants To Eat a Wet Banana
You wanted to fire Nick Sirianni 35 days ago, and I'm not going to allow you to celebrate Nick Sirianni moving forward. How about that?
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Hour 1: Nobody Wants To Eat a Wet Banana
Spike Eskin is there. He went from WFAN. I was going to take his job as the program director, and now he's doing Afternoon Drive. How about that? Howard Eskin to Spike Eskin. No nepotism there. I mean, nothing to see. It works hard.
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Hour 1: Nobody Wants To Eat a Wet Banana
But there is something pretty ridiculous about seeing Eagle fans now celebrate Nick Sirianni when two months ago they wanted him fired. They did. They were yelling at him at home games.
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Hour 1: Nobody Wants To Eat a Wet Banana
You know what I would give for Nick Sirianni to be my coach? You know what I would give for the last four seasons of the Eagles? Anything. Anything. Like a finger.
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Hour 1: Nobody Wants To Eat a Wet Banana
When you say six good teams and we all know it, you're talking Chiefs, Ravens, Bills, Eagles, Lions, Bengals. Vikings?
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Hour 1: Nobody Wants To Eat a Wet Banana
Run games? One-score games.
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Hour 1: Nobody Wants To Eat a Wet Banana
One-run games. The record overall was 14-3, so it stands to reason.
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Hour 1: Nobody Wants To Eat a Wet Banana
Correct, or is it the Lions? The Vikings were plus 100. The Packers, just to put that into perspective, the Packers were plus 122.
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Hour 1: Nobody Wants To Eat a Wet Banana
Right. In fairness, no one headed into the season, everyone thought Lions-Packers in that division. It was not the Vikings. The Vikings were supposed to be a bad team.
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Hour 1: Nobody Wants To Eat a Wet Banana
I had the Bears making the Super Bowl. I said that in Kansas City.
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Hour 1: Nobody Wants To Eat a Wet Banana
Just to make it more fun.
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Hour 1: Nobody Wants To Eat a Wet Banana
Really? Before your pinky touches my pinky, make sure you want to do this. You're committed to it?
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Hour 1: Nobody Wants To Eat a Wet Banana
No, no, I got it. All of the math. I appreciate the detail.
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Hour 1: Nobody Wants To Eat a Wet Banana
That's crazy. That's insane. Ten for ten, huh?
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Hour 1: Nobody Wants To Eat a Wet Banana
I do. Do you want the imaging again, or do we just do it right here? No, right here is fine. Marcus Freeman has more wins against top five teams in the last 10 days than James Franklin has in 14 years.
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Hour 1: Nobody Wants To Eat a Wet Banana
I understand what you're saying.
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Hour 1: Nobody Wants To Eat a Wet Banana
You've got to get a feel for the game, the subtle little nuances that happen during the game, the momentum changes, all of that stuff. You don't get that on the Red Zone.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
It really is incredible. These things move really quickly in the Trump world. I think in a vacuum, I'm not a huge fan of tariffs either. Tariffs are a tax, and they do tend to do some economic damage. They raise prices. Donald Trump talked about that very specifically and said we could be seeing some short-term harm from this, but long-term, he thinks it's going to be worth it.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
What I think is kind of fascinating about the way everyone's reacted over this particular round of tariffs is we're all kind of acting like we weren't here for the first term. The first term, a lot of this was talked about as well. Some of it went into place. Some of it was more targeted than initially proposed.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
And some of it wound up just being what most of, I think, these threats are from Donald Trump, which are negotiating tactics. We all know how Donald Trump operates. And he puts something like this out there, a 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico. And within two days, he's already got a giant chunk of what he wanted to get done and a month delay.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
And the month delay in these tariffs indicates he wants more. He hasn't had everything that he wants yet, but he's giving them a little bit of time to come across those lines so that these things don't have to go into place. And he is just able to do this in a way. that I think is central to his overall philosophy, that we don't need to apologize for being Americans.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
We don't need to apologize for being a global superpower. You saw this with Panama, your great interview with Rick just a few minutes ago. The Panama Canal is in the hands of Panama because we all kind of felt bad. The Carter administration was like, oh, we don't want to be colonialists. You guys can have this incredibly valuable thing that we built with our blood and treasure.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
You can just have it. And Donald Trump is turning that around and saying, we don't need to apologize for being Americans. We're going to be aggressive. We're going to stand for what we actually believe in and try to turn around these agreements that we have with these other countries that are not beneficial to us. America first kind of playing out in real time.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Yeah, it is working. You know, often, you know, when I talk to my daughter about cleaning her room, I will tell her, I don't expect you to be perfect. I just want you to care. I want you to actually care. That's all I'm asking. And I feel like that's all we're asking of like a Mexico. Right.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
You don't we understand that you're not going to be able to stop every single person coming across the border. We have to have security on our side for that reason. Right. But you have to actually care. You can't be encouraging people. You can't be telling people that, you know, go to the border and please send back all the money to our country.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
You can't be letting people from your southern border traverse through your entire nation without stopping them as they go to our border. That's a basic ask. And that's why, you know, look, tariffs as an economic policy, definitely not my favorite thing. But it is, everyone knows that, right? We know that it kind of can do some damage to both sides.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
What our argument is, as the big boys on the block, is to say that, look, we know that the damage that it will do to you is a lot worse than it's going to do to us. So we will sit here and we will wait you out if we have to. We'd like to get to a place, and Trump has talked about this in the past, we'd love to get to a place where there was none of this stuff. There were no tariffs at all.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Everyone was free trading. Everyone was dealing with each other fairly. We're not there. And I think it's largely because of the stance America has had for seemingly a generation of being sorry for who we are. I listened to your interview with Marco Rubio, Megan, the other day. And at one point you said, you know, these are smaller countries.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
The argument is that we can sure we can bully around Colombia. And Marco Rubio is like, you know, I don't want to call it bullying. It wasn't it's not bullying. I mean, you don't have to call it that. But we are sort of big boying the rest of the world right now. And that's OK. Like. That's a good thing. It's a place we should get back to. We shouldn't be unfair to people.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
We shouldn't be unfair to other countries. We shouldn't just terrorize them for the sake of the pleasure.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
But what we should be able to do is stand on our values, prioritize our own citizens and the economy they have to deal with and the safety and crime situation that they have to deal with on a daily basis and say, look, we'll work with you to stop these problems, but you have to care about it a little bit. And right now it doesn't look like you do.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Yeah, no, you're not going to hear much about that. And I like Harry Enten, and generally he does some good work, actually, at CNN, as opposed to some others over there. But you look at a poll on tariffs, you're not going to get the entire picture, I don't think. I mean, again, I don't like them. I would be in that 51%, generally speaking.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Some targeted tariffs at times have been beneficial, but we do see prices go up. I mean, we raised tariffs on...
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
you know washing machines years ago by 25 and the price for washing machines went up 25 and people had to pay more for that um sometimes that can be worth it especially if it's targeted in a way but like i don't even think that's what we're talking about here you know tariffs as a policy are one thing.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
And you can look at that and see what the negative consequences are and some of the positive consequences. Really what it is, though, is negative consequences for both sides and who can kind of withstand the heat that comes from that. But more here is what we're seeing, like the best case scenario is what's happening with Mexico right now. The tariff didn't even go into effect. He just said it.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
That was him just saying a thing. And because he said a thing, and people, thank you, Megan, people actually believed him for once. It wasn't an empty threat. People knew he wanted to do this and would do it if he had to. And because of that, we're starting to get the things that we should have already been receiving anyway.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Mexico should have been taking this situation seriously on the border before all of this. And this is a great commercial to everybody who's out there running a foreign nation.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Yeah, make free trade free, I think is a great way to go. And this is part of it. And I will say, I only once ordered from one of those companies, a workout shirt. It was like $2.99. And I did not think there was a way to make me look worse in the gym than I already do. It never works out. But that did it.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
I sure hope Tom Homan and Donald Trump hear that because that certainly sounded like a challenge to me. You know, I was playing a little game of chicken. And I after watching what this president is doing around the world right now, I don't think I'd want to challenge him to that particular game. Seems like a losing venture.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
You know, I feel like, you know, you mentioned the polls of the American people. And they see this, I think, in the same way. I know that when I drive home every day, if I roll through a freaking stop sign, there just always happens to be a police officer there to remind me that that's not actually allowed.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
If I go a few miles an hour over the speed limit, they are there to make sure that I know I'm not following that rule. And yet we're supposed to just accept that. That people cross the border, make a major life decision like that against our laws and set up life here for years and years and decades and have families and generations. They're not following the rules.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
They either have to have some sort of legal ID or fake ID or they're not paying taxes, most likely, certainly other crimes being committed. But like that is something I think the American people see is like, hey, if you're breaking the rules, there should be a consequence to that. We shouldn't be treating you unfairly, but we should be treating you like everybody else gets treated.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
That's how I feel like I'm going to get treated. I mean, unless you're Hunter Biden, it seems like when you commit a crime, you usually have some consequences to it. And so I'm not surprised the American people feel that way. It's only rational to feel that way.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
And if you're Phil Murphy, if you think that you can stand up and essentially say to the country, screw you, we don't care what you think about our laws. This is a law I don't like. And so therefore I will break it and I will be so out there. I will tell you about it on television and expect nothing to happen to me. That is not a society that has a civilized rule of law.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Well, it's hard to find the right people when you've created a totally new type of person that you have to somehow fit into your quota. It's got to be difficult. I could see the challenge there. Totally. I have two reactions to this. One is I put on my American hat and I look at this and I think this is very disconcerting and terrible because it would be great if we had –
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
An opposition that may very well get back into power someday that had some level of sanity, that maybe they saw how things went over this past election and reacted to it and said, hey, maybe we shouldn't go down these roads anymore. It would be great that if we lost an election, the other side wasn't so crazy as to throw us this far off track every time they win.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
The other part of me just really wants conservative candidates to win. And my eyes light up when I see stuff like this. They've learned absolutely nothing. They are just as ridiculous and terrible with this stuff as they were before they got slaughtered in this election. You'd think a moment like that would make you have a bit of self-reflection, Megan, but apparently not.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
It's a puzzle that they can't put together. I mean, they really don't know how even to attack it. Again, maybe if you had that real moment of self-reflection, you might be able to find a path.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
But if you think about the incentives of not only activist politics, but also the internet, it's really hard for a party that has kind of crazy views and goes to the American people and says these crazy views and locks you in with that sort of maniacal purity test that they've been putting people on over the years. How do you unwind that?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
You know, I mean, look at, you know, look at someone like John Fetterman, who, again, is a Democrat who says Democratic things in both Democratic ways 90 percent of the time, but just occasionally comes out with something that I would call rational. He's treated as a villain for that. They've excised every pro-life Democrat from the party. They're all gone at this point.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
And they have so many different problems here. It's not just DEI and it's not just all the things that we've been talking about here. I mean, you mentioned Phil Murphy. Go back to Phil Murphy's performance during COVID. I mean, he is one of the only guys that could challenge Andrew Cuomo for the level of incompetence. And what do they do with these people? They reward them.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Andrew Cuomo is probably going to be the next mayor of New York City. So they don't know.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Oh, you can keep going on that strain forever if it's up to me, Megan. It deserves to be said. He was he terrorized the entire state during this period and went on TV and acted. Yeah, he is legitimately a villain. And I will say to less attention because I think of generally Cuomo being such an arrogant jerk on top of it.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
less attention went to phil murphy but he did many of the same things during that period he got almost no heat for it but like he did get some attention from the voters of of new jersey who made his re-election a lot closer we're seeing elections in new jersey get much much closer we went through a period i mean my entire life analyzing politics and i have to do like you know i
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
You'd have to call the states and do all the political predictions over here at The Blaze. And as I go through that process, my entire life, there was always one poll in New Jersey that showed it kind of close and gave Republicans a little hope. And then when election day would come, you'd, of course, have your hopes and dreams thwarted.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
I think for the first time, New Jersey is in play. You mentioned what Scott Pressler is doing. This stuff is actually happening now. And the American people are sick of what they've been getting. And if the Democrats don't wake up, they will turn into a party that's just completely irrelevant in a lot of places in this country.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
And frankly, I think that's a good outcome for the future of the nation. But it is one they really have to face right now.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Yeah, no, it's very true. I think they are. Now, I hesitate to be too confident here, right? Things do change. I think the Democrats felt like this back probably in 2008 after Barack Obama. I remember people writing books saying Republicans would only be a regional party from here on out.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
And things change quickly. The next election was the Tea Party election. So it does change quickly. And you got to be really, really careful. But like when I look at that, you know, the New York Magazine cover you mentioned, obviously they cropped out all the black people to make it look like it was an all white audience. But when you look at that whole picture.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
That's an inspiring picture of our future. It is. I mean, you're right. It was like a bunch of good looking younger people who were like inspiring, engaged in politics, cared about, you know, relationships in a traditional sense. You know, when when when you become the uncool party, it's really hard to shake that. We saw that back in the 80s, but like the just say no thing when it came to drugs.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Look, the right message, obviously, you shouldn't do drugs. But, you know, it was just seen as uncool. And for a long time, Democrats took advantage of that, showing Republicans as the uncool party. And over time, they turned to this party that was like, you know, just say no to the guy making the funny joke.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Just say no to the guy who says follow the law or who says that you can notice things like women playing against men in their sporting events. They turn into a bunch of Karens, right? They're like constantly policing our lives. It's Margaret now. It's been changed. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. Is that another one I have to change?
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
I watched exactly 0% of the Grammys, though I did see some pictures and some revealing photos in one sense. But yes, I did check in on it a little bit.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Yeah, I mean, just absolutely embarrassing. I do have the same dress and it was my alternative choice for this interview. I'm glad I didn't wear it. But, you know, it is just like it's the devaluing of it. Right. Like it's just like if this is all you are, then what are you? Right. And and it is a sort of kind of revolting thing. sort of statement about America.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
And Kanye West has spent, I don't know, he's been all over the board, but at one point he was singing religious songs. So I don't know what's happening with that. And I was also concerned about the cushions on the chairs inside the venue, because if you're not wearing clothing, I mean, I just don't think that's sanitary. It just seems like...
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
I don't want to have cocktails next to somebody dressed like that. I feel like, you know, just spray everything down after if you're in the Grammys.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
I think maybe as a conservative and someone who can appreciate some of the things Donald Trump does as president, we saw Kanye West put on a red hat for like two weeks and we lost track of the point that he's just completely insane. He was insane when he was saying George Bush doesn't like black people. He was insane when he went to the Donald Trump side.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
He might have made a point or two that he liked, but he was insane. He was insane when he ran for president against Donald Trump. He was insane when he started hanging out with Nick Fuentes and becoming an anti-Semite. And he's insane now. That is the really simple summary, I think, of everything with Kanye West. None of this makes any sense because he... is insane. He's a crazy person.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
And like, this is not a clinical diagnosis.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
I mean, it's fascinating. She said diverse voices or different voices from different backgrounds are important. Well, sure. I mean, we don't want the same person singing all the songs. We don't want everyone. I mean, you do get a different perspective. That's got nothing to do with skin color. No one's saying that we shouldn't have different people from different backgrounds.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
It's this maniacal focus on immutable characteristics that are the problem. And especially when you're promoting people who are less qualified, who knows what went on exactly, of course, with the air crashes and stuff.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
But we do know that that stuff is a serious problem inside the FAA and an uncountable amount of government agencies that are doing important things that are supposed to help Americans. If you're focused on that, you're not focused on finding the best person. You're not focused on finding the best singer. You're not focused on finding the best lyricist.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
You're focusing on genitals or skin color or whose genitals you like the best or whatever. whatever intersectional value we're supposed to be caring about this week. When you're caring about that, you're not caring about merit. I thought that was great. You know, Pete Hegg said that in his term. I know Marco Rubio has spoken about it. All these appointees from Trump are talking about it.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Pick the best person. Don't care about those things. And that's the way to go.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
I mean, it's funny because they praise DEI so much, Megan, but if DEI hits their industry, a lot of boring white guys like me are going to be winning hip hop awards. And I don't think that's what they want. I'm concerned about the way they look at this.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Yes. Don't look at the red carpet. Take your kids away. It's funny, too, with Lady Gaga, you mentioned trans people are invisible. This terminology is so strange. Like, if anything, I feel like trans people are the most visible. Every time they walk down the street, I can tell immediately. Too visible. Way too visible. I want to know less. I want to see less. I want to know less.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Please don't wear Kanye's wife's dress anywhere. But this is – it's just like this standard stuff that I feel like – look, these are not the smartest people among us. I mean I'm not sitting here thinking that they're all necessarily going into deep thought about what they're saying. A lot of them just – They've got a vibe that DEI is good to them, so they're going to say it.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
But you'd think there'd be some thought after all of this has happened, right? You had this supposed mandate in 2020, which has gone away. The culture is moving in the opposite direction. The people who are, I think, standing out right now are the people pushing back against this old guard, which encompasses DEI and so many other things. Right.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
It's great to be fair to everybody, but like just on the merits, Beyonce should not, you know, I just, I don't think enough of her music to believe that she could possibly have more, more awards than all of those people. I think you just mentioned combined.
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Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)
Megan, you're the best. Thank you.
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The Big Suey: WOOOOP!
This episode of the Dan Lebitard Show with Stu Gatz is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours.
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The Big Suey: WOOOOP!
I can hear it, though. Where are my quarterbacks at, man? Robert and Kirk. That's good.
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The Big Suey: WOOOOP!
John Jay, Mike playing John, me playing Jay.
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The Big Suey: WOOOOP!
Robert. I'm out here playing with your quarterbacks, man.
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The Big Suey: WOOOOP!
For the audio audience, this hitter is like pumping up the crowd. He's like skipping the entire way. He just got to third.
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The Big Suey: WOOOOP!
And that is where the appropriate line stopped from his song. It got very inappropriate from there. So that is why we have not gotten to that. But it was great.
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The Big Suey: WOOOOP!
Poor number 27 on the Browns here. I mean, you work that guy. I missed the second one. Hold on.
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The Big Suey: WOOOOP!
You're quick, huh? He's been trying to tell everybody. Now you get it.
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The Big Suey: WOOOOP!
I don't think you've seen the film. Your first touchdown. First touchdown. Downhill from there, huh? Oh, man. You make a bunch of millions. When your first one is your best one, they're all downhill from there. He's not wrong. The Toradol was flowing that day.
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The Big Suey: WOOOOP!
Calling Tyler Hero hated on a national level is a bit extreme. I don't think you've been on NBA Twitter nearly enough. I think that's heat Twitter, dude. I don't think he's that. He's just a guy.
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The Big Suey: WOOOOP!
Thank you. That proves my point. Tyler Hero, nobody's thinking about Tyler Hero in the NBA.
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The Big Suey: WOOOOP!
I mean, I didn't know I needed it. But apparently this week it's been a thing with Jessie, our lovely makeup artist. She told us that, hey guys, the elbows, not great.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
as you can tell... You were doing it for him, huh?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
So it's interesting because I remember for the first time we really had to change our approach to programming, to content, to how we were going to do the show. Because even when we were on in afternoons at ESPN and ESPN Radio, they told us, Miami, focus on Miami. Do Miami. It's the biggest market you're on. Go Miami. And that was easy for us. That was an easy transition.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
This was a difficult transition because I remember you and I having discussion saying, how are we going to cater to New York and L.A.?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
But the last book before they took us off ESPN Radio in New York, Dan and I, we had cracked the top ten. Yeah. And then they yanked us off that station.
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Yeah, but I wanted Dan to focus on what Dan wanted to focus on and not be thinking about any market in particular.
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It was such a great time for our show. It was such a big playground, a wide playground. I remember that because we're not doing afternoons now. We are in the middle of ESPN's day, both on radio and on television. We're dictating conversations that are happening on other shows that are airing after hours.
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And I was so thrilled because to be the show that is anti-establishment and be firmly entrenched deep inside the establishment... was such a cool playground for us.
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Stop it. You're going to be doing lives for him soon.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
There was some great content during the breaks. Dan would never participate. He wouldn't say a word. He would just hop and watch. But he would sit there and he would write things down. And so sometimes I was doing it so Dan could hear me so he knew to bring it on the air because he knows, for the most part, I don't really care what we talk about here on the air. We were doing a show for Dan.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
We were trying to bring our topics, you and I, Mike, to life by talking about them in a weird way during.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Just to give the audience an idea and take them really deep inside. I mean, there are times I'm certain Dan walked in there and he had a list of things that he was thinking of talking about or had a list in his head and was going to start the show a certain way. And I can't tell you the amount of times until this day, even where I will say something to Dan right before the microphones go on.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
And whatever he had planned, he changes it. And that's where he starts. He starts right there and he hopes it's going to turn out great. And most of the times it did. And sometimes it didn't.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Dan and I were still using at that time Instant Messenger on AOL. You were?
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Yes, many times.
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Donald, do me a favor. Break news right here on this show on ESPN Radio. Don't wait till June. Are you running for office? Are you running for president?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
No. Stu Gatz. He cost them the game last night. Although they won the game. But had they lost, I'm telling you, it would have been on LaMarcus Aldridge. 20 mediocre years.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
I remember how great it felt because I knew and I've always known that I'm sitting next to this pillar of journalism who's going to handle topics like this better than anyone in our industry. So my strategy and the way I prepared for that topic was probably way different than how Dan was preparing for that topic. I was confident. I knew the guy who drove the show. He's got it. He's got it.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
He's got good opinions. They're going to be great. You're not going to hear this from anyone else. My job has always been in those situations to think about how am I going to get us out of whatever it is he's going to start and make it fun and make it funny.
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I love the entire industry is sprinting away from microphones and Dan is running into the studio.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
I remember that feeling so dangerous, but I would just say, hey, I'm just following Dan's lead. I mean, he asked me a question.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Does that shopping cart make it to the Hall of Fame?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Well, he starts getting criticized a bit. Yeah, of course.
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But I think this is perfect in terms of how different me and Dan are because his approach was measured. It was from experience. It was from talking to people. I just got on the air that day because I was upset and I'm like, who cares? So Dan is measured, educated. He's given it to you, nuanced, all this stuff. He has the experience, right? He's been waiting for this show his entire life.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
And all I was doing was blasting everyone who has ever stood for a national anthem or not stood. And they've been farting, burping, putting in beds, talking to their kids, not paying attention to the actual national anthem, which you find at every stadium every Sunday in the NFL.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Yeah, but Skipper knew all that, right? You didn't feel that protection at all?
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Yeah. That's fair, but I felt it. I knew. I saw their relationship. I mean, we went up to Bristol. I could tell how much John liked it.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
I do, Donald. I do. Is Goodell a friend?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Give us the coolest person you've played golf with.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
But Mike, explain that to the audience, because we used to put the podcast out after we were done with the afternoon show. So they were getting it at 7 o'clock, 7.30, 8 o'clock at night. You're saying putting that episode out, the podcast episode at 1.30 was a big advantage for us.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
It is Wake and Take here on 790 The Tickets. I have thoughts. I have opinions. I have notes. It is your job to get them out of me. I can open up the microphone. I can share those thoughts, opinions, notes with you, but that's not how we do it here on Wake and Take. You do the work. If I did that, I'd be lazy. And by extension, I'd make you lazy because then you wouldn't have to do any work.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
So you do the work, you ask the right questions, and perhaps you will get those thoughts, those opinions, those notes out of me. But first, we interview Greg Cody. All right. I'm a bad quote, I got to tell you. You were clicks for Cody. I retweeted your column yesterday from the Herald. Thank you. You were at a dolphin training camp.
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And Mike Ryan, Roy, Guillermo, Chris, they were all out there as well. What are you seeing out there that maybe excites you, maybe gives some Dolphin fans some excitement headed into the season here?
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This is Wake and Take. I am interviewing Greg Cody.
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Oh, hell out of here. Wow. Geez. I mean, seriously. You're lucky I didn't fine you $2.
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I mean, get out of my zone, will you?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
We nullified the two-minute period. So anyway, more positive news.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
That works in Waking Take.
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Right. Now, you know, listen, we start Waking Take. I interview someone, and today it could have been you, but I decided to interview Greg Cody. So when I'm doing that, just let the man make his points. That's all we're saying. Let's go to Ken on line two. Ken, you are on Waking Take here on 790 The Ticket.
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That was a great question. Rashom. Can I do two of each? Oh, that's very, yes. You want to spread out the four inches?
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I want to be 5'11".
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You can only choose one, though. What are you doing there, Craig? I wouldn't choose either, to be honest.
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I could use four of each. So you don't need four inches of height. Correct. I mean, so, I mean. My process of elimination. Right. We know where you're putting your four inches.
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And you revealed your hand, by the way. Oh, I don't care. We reveal these sausage hands every day. I mean, everyone knows. Anyway. Do we have other callers, Mike? Oh, they don't trust me?
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I cannot believe. No, well, they don't think I'm going to take their calls because I never do. I don't trust you.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
No, he's an embarrassment, man. I'm telling you, Greg Popovich is going to get rid of that guy in the offseason. He was an embarrassment last night. He is so out of shape. There are so many times where the Rockets were playing five on four on offense because LaMarcus Aldridge was walking back on defense. He's bad. He's not a good player.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
I don't know what happened to him because when he was in Portland, he was fantastic. He is not good, Dan. He cost them the game last night. Although they won the game. But had they lost, I'm telling you, it would have been on LaMarcus Aldridge. And the only reason it's not is because they won the game. Otherwise, San Antonio would be crushing it today.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
And I'm still going to crush them even though they won. So we're in the semifinals of this tournament. And we're playing a team called Orange Crush. And listen, congratulations on the victory, but I'm telling you, we're better than you. All right? Orange Crush. So next time we play you, be prepared because we're going to beat you by 10 goals. And it's a very close game.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Back and forth, one goal differential. And the referee is just making bad call after bad call. It's a running clock, Dan. They're 22-minute halves. She had to go to her rule book while the clock was running in a one-goal game to make sure a call that she made was the correct call. And that set me off. I start getting mad at her. I start yelling at her a little bit.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
But in my defense, Dan, game was over. I accepted defeat. Hands have been shook and we are going our separate ways. And the referee, who is just tiny, and she drags me back into it. I am going to talk to my team. She's walking off to referee her next game. She calls me back over to her and she says, what's your overall problem with me? And I said, I don't have an overall problem with you.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
My overall problem is with the officiating down here in general. You are paid to know the rules and you don't know the rules. And she goes, well, what makes you think I don't know the rules? I said, you went to look at a rule book during a running clock game to see if the call you made was correct or incorrect. To me, that's not knowing the rules do a better job.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
She said, you have this problem with all the refs? I said, listen, do me a favor. I'm upset. My team just lost. Why are we still talking? Why are you talking to me? I was walking my way. You were walking your way. She said, as long as we're standing on this grass, on this field, in this park, you're in my domain. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. I said, really, I'm in your domain? It's a public park.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
I have every right to be here. I'm not in your domain. If anything, I live around here and I'm paying property taxes. You're in my domain. That's what I said to her. And then I said, that Napoleon thing you got going on is not a good look.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Yep. You're a jerk.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Yeah, that was stupid, too. You've said that a number of times. So anytime you discuss Kaepernick moving forward, you have to address that, even though that's not the thing being discussed.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Greg, to your point, I would say he did it during an even more difficult time. He was trying to get a starting job back.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
But to say it publicly would be important, I think. I think it would, but privately would be... I understand what you're saying. Say it publicly, support Colin Kaepernick. Privately, getting him a job is really what matters, right? So if he tells the owners, hey guys, what's going on here? Are you guys telling me he's not one of the 32 best quarterbacks in the world?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Does the backup role matter to you? Meaning you'll deal with it as a, you know, the guy could be a starter for you, but as a backup, maybe you just don't want to deal with the headaches that come with it.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Right. Well, then if, because you can say the same thing about the Buccaneers who signed Ryan Fitzpatrick to be their backup. It's absurd.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
how about the Cowboys because Romo's gone Prescott you have no idea how good he is and what if Prescott's not good yeah yeah why not in Texas yes in Texas yep Jerry Jones man show some guts seriously stand up and say what's going on here is not right and I have no idea if Dak Prescott's gonna be any good he was good last year I have no idea if that's gonna carry over and in the event that he gets hurt I don't have to go to Kellen Moore I can go to Colin Kaepernick how about that be a leader
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
You sound like a big sports radio fan, so I must tell you that I host one of the biggest radio shows in the country. It's on ESPN Radio. I do the show with Dan Levitard. We're on TV as well. So I have the ability to promote you guys out for free, for nothing, just for the reservation.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
But we've always followed Mike Ryan because he's younger, because he cares about us, because he knows the industry. Like, you're right. You and I just wanted to speak into a microphone and do radio. I had no idea that people wanted to listen on their own time.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
to millions of people millions while fat man fights crimes robbing fights the truth you just say stuff you let it fly that's it i don't care i'll take stuff from august of last year you did take it from august of last i'll take it from august five years ago doesn't matter i'm gonna get a rise from the audience that's really how you do it no i'm teasing
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Kyle Lowry is an old friend of the show. DeMar DeRozan, a new friend. And they join us together here.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
How much is this coconut milk? How much is it? Because I can get a machete right now online, Gerber machete for $12.88. Coconut water is not that expensive.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
But the middle class uses knives?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
I gotta tell you, I'm on the site right now. It looks fantastic. It looks fun. What site? There's a guy who's got a site down here, thenewtropic.com. I mean, he goes around and he sharpens things for you. It's amazing. Look at the truck. It's beautiful. That was ahead of his time. There is no way the person that was in my neighborhood growing up has a website.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
You're showing off. What if I told you that I could save you hours of your life that you'll never get back? That OJ Simpson was a great college athlete. That he got married young to his first wife, Marguerite. That he had an affair with a white woman named Nicole. That he divorced his wife and married said white woman. That there were lots of racial issues at the time.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
That white people embraced OJ. That OJ played some football, then retired. That Nicole filed for divorce. That OJ killed Nicole and a waiter, allegedly. Why am I saying allegedly? He absolutely killed both of them. Anyways, moving on. That he hired a bunch of fancy lawyers who used the racial issues of the time to his advantage. That Chris Darden and Marsha Clark were dopes. That OJ got off
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
ESPN Films presents a 30 for 30, the exact same OJ story, just eight hours shorter. Three, two, one. Stugatz here for the Stugatz School. That's perfect. Three, two, one. Stugatz here for the Stugatz School. Take nine. Stugatz here for the school. Take 10. Stugatz here for the Stugatz School of Broadcasting.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
There's no chance I'd be working for ESPN right now without having attended the Stugatz School of Broadcasting. And take it from me, there's no shot you could ever work for ESPN without attending the Stugatz School of Broadcasting. Two, we have daily online courses for men and women of all ages that'll teach you a hands-on approach to learning the tricks of the trade over the computer.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
For those choosing to pay via check, checks can be sent to our Panamanian headquarters and should be made out to my wife, who is the president and CEO of the school for legal reasons, which may sound strange, but don't worry about it. This is the way all the big schools do it. Select financial need-based scholarships are also available to students who recruit five additional students.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
However, those five additional students recruited must pay in full or they too will have to recruit five more students each. Upon course completion, you should receive your unaccredited degree within 8,000 business days. Trust me, buddy, we're good for it. So don't delay. Be like me and call the Stugat School of Broadcasting. The Stugat School of Broadcasting. We'll teach you everything.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
everything you ever knew.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Hey, how are you?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
I'm doing well, thanks for asking. I need to make a reservation at the Matador room. It's a very important place to my parents, to my mom and dad. My dad actually asked my mom to get married there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
So I figure with Mother's Day coming up, I'd like to try to get them, you know, table for six. I'm thinking me, my brother, his wife, my wife, my mom and dad. So six people at noon on Sunday, primetime, maybe if you could do it.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Yeah, well, no, my parents are usually sleeping by four, so that's not going to work. What do I make it for? And just, I, you know, I don't invite my brother and his wife.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Can you find a table? Can you add an additional table? I'll bring my own table. How's that?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
You sound like a big sports radio fan, so I must tell you that I host, I don't know if you know who I am. But I host one of the biggest radio shows in the country. It's on ESPN Radio. I do the show with Dan Levitard. We're on TV as well. I also host a show in New York City.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
I mean, if I were you, I'd be looking at that reservation list, and I'm thinking to myself, all right, well, who are the six people I'm kicking out to let Stugatz in, you know?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Well, is your manager there? Oh, you don't know anything about sports?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
i don't listen to i mean you sound like most of our listeners to be honest with you is your manager there or do i have to email them or how do we do this well yeah can i speak to them because i'm not good with email i'm not good with email i'm much better talking to people um yeah yeah i'm pretty sure you can convince them um let's see let's try this hold on what was your name again i'm sorry jessica
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Jessica, try this, okay? Is there anyone else there in the room right now? Anyone else? Anyone? Like, any guys? Any guys?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
There's no one else in the entire room? Because what I want you to do is just yell out the name Stugac. Just yell it out as loud as you can, and I guarantee you that someone will hear you and someone knows me.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
What's your manager's name?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
That's not going to work. Yeah, let's go on to the next one.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Well, I'm assuming Dara is, it's a she, right?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
All right, so now we're back to Dar. Let's stay with Dar for a second. Dar is a man, huh?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Yeah, I don't know how to tell you this, but that's a chick's name, man.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Oh, it's not, right? Okay, everyone makes fun of this guy. Dora.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Yeah, I probably shouldn't do that. That's good advice from you, Jessica. I probably shouldn't make fun of him, right? It's D-O-R-A-H?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
It's like my good friend Dari Nokawa.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
I have a friend named Dari Nokawa. Just the name reminded me of him.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
So is he a big sports fan? Because what we need to hone in on, Jess, you're going to help me out here, and I'm going to take very good care of you. I promise you. Are you going to be there Sunday?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
You're upstairs. Well, I will make a point when Dari calls me back with six people at noon, I will make a point to come upstairs and I'll slide you a couple of 20s, if you know what I'm saying. Maybe even a hundy.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Okay, so take down my number. It's 954. I don't want their email addresses. It's fine. They can call me, okay?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Because I've done enough work here, and I'm trying to promote them for nothing. What's your name? My name is Stu Gatz. S-T-U-G-O-T-Z.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Okay. You're an angel, I must tell you. All right.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Hey, Ryan. How you doing? I'm good.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
I'm doing well. Thanks for asking. I'd like to make a reservation with you guys.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
No, I'm actually looking. I'm flying up. Your place is very important. It's a very important and historical place in my mom's life. She was engaged there, and I'd like to take her there for Mother's Day. I'm thinking like noon, prime time, baby.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Um, so for mother and how many people, uh, it would be, uh, six people if possible.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Yeah, you know, I was hoping that perhaps we wouldn't go the waiting list route. It's really important. Again, my mom got engaged there. They eat there all the time. They love it there. My family loves it there. We've been there a million times. So I'm hoping that you can help me out. You don't have six? Is that the problem?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
I mean, there's no comfortable way for me to do this, Ryan, so I'll just do it. I'm a host at ESPN. I host a national show.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Yeah, and I also host a show in New York, ESPN Radio in New York, Saturdays with Stugatz. So if you could take care of me, I'll take care of you. And by taking care of you, I'll promote you out to, like, you know, 20 million people. I think you guys probably, you know. What is your name, sir? My name is Stu Gatz. S-T-U-G-O-T-Z.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, I do the show with Levitard, man.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
But how about taking care of Mama Gatz here? What can we do for Mama Gatz? Let's see. I'm telling you, man, I'm going to promote you guys out everywhere, okay?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
I got hundreds of thousands of people following me on Twitter. We got millions of listeners, and I'm shameless, and I have no issue, no issue promoting you guys out. In fact, if you want to give me a free meal, that'd be even better.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
You got a pen handy? Yeah. Okay. It's 1-800-GET-ME-IN-THAT-DAMN-BUILDING. You need the numbers on that?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
I just gave it to you.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
1-800-CONFIRMED is my number. Okay. All right. So six people. I might have to make it eight. I'm just telling you now. I'm not certain yet. I will let you know. But it feels like we're on to something here. It feels like, Brian, it feels like I'm going to see you at noon at the Rainbow Room this Sunday for Mother's Day. What are you doing with mom this Mother's Day?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Yeah, well, 1-800-Flowers, use the promo code DAN. Yeah. You'll get a great deal. I'll help you out, okay? I'll help you out with 1-800-Flowers. You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. Yeah, definitely. All right, so I'll see you Sunday at noon at, right?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Oh, I thought we did that. 1-800-CONFIRMED. All right, I'll give you my number. It's 954. Okay. Okay.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Do me a favor, okay? I appreciate it. Don't use that number. Don't give it to anyone, okay? I'm a big-time celebrity. I don't want your friends getting excited. Listen, man, I give that number out. I've got to trust that you're not going to give it to anyone.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
All right. So you're going to call me back?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Ryan, you were awesome, dude. I appreciate it.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Eating House? Yeah, how you doing? Hi, how are you? I'm doing well, thanks. I was hoping I could make a reservation with you guys.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
I'm looking at April 20th, a table of eight at eight o'clock. Prime time, man.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
No, no, no. I don't want to do a waiting list. I mean, listen, I don't know. Like, there's no comfortable way for me to do this, so I'll just do it. Like, you know, I don't know. Do you listen to sports radio at all?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
This is Stugatz, man. What's up, Stugatz? How are you, buddy? Good, bro. I mean, I don't know. Listen, I appreciate you listening. I'm glad you knew who I was. I don't know if you can help me out in this regard, though. I'll promote you guys all I can, but if I can get this table for eight at eight, that'd be awesome on 420.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
I mean, I just feel like, I don't know, like the people who have the reservations right now, can they promote you out to a national audience, to millions of people? Because I don't think they can. I know I can.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
That's what I want to know. Who are these people?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Waiting for a year?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
I think I'm going to need to speak to the owner, man.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Oh, you're the owner?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
What if Lepotard called? I bet you if Lepotard called, you would let Lepotard in, right? You would let Lepotard in.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
I'm guessing if Lepotard called right now.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Well, it just so happens that Mike got a reservation on 420, and I can't.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Maybe you should kick Mike out and replace him with me. How do you feel about that?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
I'll deal with Mike. Just put me down, okay? I'll deal with Mike. Now, what size party was Mike's? Mike was a two-top.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
I think that sounds great for the people that you're going to kick out of the restaurant to accommodate the eight.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
So I think you should offer that. I think you should go back in the reservations and maybe call some people and say, hey, listen, we've had you.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
No, I wouldn't even say Stugatz is wanting to come. This is how you do it, okay? I would say that, listen, man, we're overbooked. I apologize. We're overbooked. We will make it up to you. We will guarantee you next year, 420, we will guarantee you a table for whatever at 8 o'clock. This year, though, I have to put you outside, picnic, you know, the whole deal. I think that's the way you do it.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Don't tell them it's for me. Just say you're overbooked.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
All right, well, sounds good. So I'll see you at 420, 8 o'clock.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
All right, well, this is the confirmation. I'm telling you, it's 8 o'clock, 8 people, 420. Confirmed? Good. See you.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Are you saying that I'm faking it?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
And you did a great job by not showing your hand because I knew it was going on. I'm not certain Dan did, but I knew what you were dealing with. You weren't just a radio producer anymore. You were dealing with a TV staff.
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All right. So this is interesting. Of the four underdogs playing this weekend, SMU, Tennessee, Clemson, Indiana, which team do you think has the best chance of springing the upset?
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GBF- Santa Paws
So it's interesting. Do you think any of the eight teams playing this weekend can actually win the national championship? Yes. You do think so? Okay, go ahead. Who?
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GBF- Santa Paws
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But I think what college football wants to see eventually, and they think it's going to happen, I'm not so sure, they want to see one of these teams like SMU make a run and play in the national championship game, don't they? And I just can't envision a day where we're going to see that, Bear.
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GBF- Santa Paws
So if you're running one of these programs under the current construct, you're scheduling easy teams, right?
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But a bad year to schedule Florida, bad timing to play them.
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GBF- Santa Paws
Take a minute, make a plan, never drive impaired.
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GBF- Santa Paws
And let me tell you how that call is going down right now, okay? You're piping Raven Steelers throughout the house.
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GBF- Santa Paws
All right. This is very exciting because the bear, we love him. He's great. The audience loves him. And he has decided to be our Santa Paws. He is going to give you 12 beautifully wrapped gifts for the holidays. It is Bears Picks. And by the way, check out his podcast, Bear Bets, wherever you get your podcast. So how are we going to do this? Are you going to sing this?
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Do you want us to sing you in? How do you want to do it?
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No, it's not. No, it's, it will never get old. It will never get tiring. I'm wondering what we do at five, the fifth day. That's going to be tough for all.
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All right, so that's an official bet right there. That is the first bet of Christmas. That's the first day of Bearmas, yeah. First bet of Christmas, okay. So, all right, Billy, you want to sing them in with me here? On the second day of Christmas, the bear gave to me.
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okay wait is it really you can get a bet on that yeah absolutely all right on the seventh bed of christmas the bear gave to me ohio state minus seven and a half versus tennessee i love you on the eighth day of on the eighth bed of i keep saying day on the bed of christmas the bear gave to me
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On the ninth bed of Christmas, the bear gave to me. I love watching Mikey write these down. Go ahead.
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Rip them up, throw them in the garbage. This was delightful. I like this.
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I'm upset with myself that I didn't think of it sooner. I'm sorry.
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You also need to go do your own podcast. Yeah, I know. That's coming up. We're getting there. Bear beds. Check it out wherever you get your podcast. Thank you for those 12 beautiful gifts, buddy.
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I want to tell you a story. I'm serious here. My wife and my two daughters, they begged me to buy a Peloton. So I bought a Peloton. And then I watched that Peloton sit in my office and stare at me. So you know what I did one day? I looked at it. And so I decided to get off my ass and I jumped on the Peloton because no one else was using it and I paid for it. I mean, so why not?
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Then I realized eventually that they bought it for me. And I got to tell you, way more challenging than I could have ever imagined. Peloton coaches are walking the walk. I love the coaches. I do the Grateful Dead one. It's fantastic. They have a sub three hour marathon runner, military trained athlete, a former college basketball player and so many other well-rounded coaches on their team.
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All this experience really shows in their classes. which are never short of challenging, especially for me. So I jumped on it that first time. It was challenging, more challenging than I thought. Then I wanted to beat the bike, and so I kept jumping on it, and I absolutely love it. I mean, I'm the only one who uses it, but again, they got it for me. I mean, I had no idea.
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That's a little passive-aggressive, don't you think? Find your push, find your power with Peloton at OnePeloton.com. I love that you're donning the Carolina sweatshirt already.
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God bless football, Billy Gill. God bless football, Mikey A., God bless football, Stugatz. Thank you, Mikey. Happy holidays to everyone in the audience. We have an exciting show coming up. We have an exciting weekend coming up. We have the college football playoff first round coming up. We have the NFL as well. Chris Felica, the bear, going to join us.
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Mike, can you put us on the phone when Bill Belichick calls you and he starts discussing? How did that process work where Belichick's calling you and saying, Mike, I'm taking the Carolina job. Do you want to come and be my general manager?
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It's interesting. So I'm guessing, Mike, knowing you the way I do, you don't take this job unless you know Bill Belichick's going to be there for a while, right?
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Where'd you leave off on the third book? Like, what are you doing there, Mike?
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Do you think, Mike, at all that Bill, does he still have a desire to coach in the NFL at some point?
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Mike Lombardi, the new GM at North Carolina, is going to join us. And Chris Sims is going to join us as well. How about Lombardi, GM, North Carolina? I'm expecting a different Mike Lombardi today, Billy. Are you? I am, yes.
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So it's interesting. So you and Bill have had conversations. Why did you view Carolina as a destination, as a sleeping giant?
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Yeah, lacrosse is one of them. How big of an influence was that for Bill? Just the fact that they have that lacrosse program. Petramal is a good friend of his. How big of a factor was that for him?
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Mike, it seems, correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like the two of you are kind of laying down the foundation, the blueprint of what college programs are going to look like moving forward.
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Most people who go halfway up Everest are dead. Yeah, right. You're right. They're frozen.
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Billy, but this is Lombardi and Belichick. They think they're holding up the national championship trophy next year.
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Mike, I'll tell you this, because Belichick gave a pregame speech to my daughter's lacrosse team at Northwestern. He's very close with the head coach there, Kelly Hiller, and gave a pregame speech. If people are wondering if Belichick can relate to 20, 21, 22, 17, 18-year-olds, that team walked out of that locker room saying that was the coolest 15 minutes they've ever experienced.
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Del Boca Vista. Del Boca Vista. You're really excited for this. I'm excited for you, man. This is what you've wanted to do for a long time. If you were going to pry yourself away, if you're going to be pried away for the media, it was only to go do something like this with Bill, I think, right?
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Yeah, no, it is. It is. Are you surprised the NFL? It seems like the NFL two years in a row has kind of and I'm shocked by this because I think he's the greatest coach who has ever lived. But it seems like the NFL has kind of said, hey, Bill, we're done with you.
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So, Mike, just as a friend, I want to give you some advice. Like, I don't want you, like, don't kill the basketball program and walk in there and say, oh, we're going to turn it into a football school. Like Michael Jordan. Don't piss him off is what I'm trying to tell you, okay?
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I love the idea of Jordan helping on a recruiting trip. What do you think?
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Billy, imagine that, like, you hear what's happening here, okay? You're going to have Belichick, you're going to have Jordan, you're going to have Lawrence Taylor, and you're going to have Mike Lombardi walk into a kid's home. Like, that deal's getting done. I'll take you to Carolina to win the next five national championships. Wow. Next five.
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But, Mike, listen, you're a media savvy guy. You're a media veteran. You know what's going to happen if you lose that first game. I'm going to crush you, okay? Okay, good.
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I'll crush you with a smile, though, okay? There you go. Good.
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We had a holiday party last night, Mike. We had our holiday. He said, listen, he will take a job that just has benefits and no pay. If he could just stand next to you or Belichick, he doesn't maybe like a researcher, break down some tape, something like that. Walk on onto the Carolina football team.
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I'm joking. Mike, I am so happy. I can see how happy you are. You're glowing, man. You're the GM of the North Carolina football program, and Bill Belichick is its head coach. I am so happy for you, man. Congratulations.
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It is time for this week's edition of Studio Gouts presented by DraftKings Sportsbook. Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings and all it has to offer throughout the show. DraftKings, the crown is yours. College football, it's playoff time, 76-66-2 on the regular season. We're only picking playoff games this year. I'm not doing ancillary bowl games. I'm not doing it.
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It's gotten me in trouble in years past. I'm not going to do it. Let's get to the playoff games. Notre Dame, minus 7.5. They're at home. They're taking on Indiana. Wow. What a great game. Is it? I have no idea if either of these teams can win a national championship, but I do think Notre Dame is going to win and cover the spread. Buy it down to seven points. Notre Dame wins.
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They cover Notre Dame by 14 points over Indiana. SMU plus eight and a half at Penn State. Weather could be a factor here. Oh, I don't know what that means, but I do like SMU here. Penn State going to win the game. SMU going to cover. Penn State wins by three points and advances in the playoffs. Texas, minus 12, take it on Clemson. Texas wins. They cover Texas by 18 points at home.
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Tennessee, plus 7.5 at Ohio State. Ohio State wins. I don't know what to do with that. Buy it up to eight points. Take Tennessee. Ohio State wins. They win by four. Tennessee gets the cover. So Tennessee, Texas, SMU, and Notre Dame. NFL, week 16, five and three a week ago. I am on fire. I'm having a season for the ages. Seriously. I would put my record up against anybody's record in the country.
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How about that? 66-40-2. Let me say that again. 66-40-2. Let's get to the picks. We have the Ravens. Minus 6.5 to take it on the Steelers. The Ravens have to win this game, right? Lamar has to beat the Steelers occasionally, right? Well, it's six and a half. We're going to buy it down to six. We're going to take the Ravens. The Ravens win. They cover Baltimore by 13 points over Pittsburgh.
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The Lions on the road. Bounce back week. Dan Campbell hit a reset button. They're at Chicago. Take it on the Bears who are lousy. They've given up on the entire season. The Lions win. They cover Detroit by 14 points on the road. Falcons minus eight and a half. Michael Penningston. They're taking on the Giants. The Giants are awful.
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The Falcons still have a shot at winning that division and making the playoffs. I'm taking the Falcons here. It's more pick against the Giants than it is for Atlanta. I'm taking the Falcons here by 14 points. They cover over the Giants. The Rams at the Jets. Rams minus three. Buy it down to two and a half. Rams win and they cover. The Rams by 10 points on the road. Vikings minus three at Seattle.
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Buy it down to two and a half. Vikings, again, we're not going to give them any credit until they're hoisting, until they're hoisting the Super Bowl trophy. And even after that, we still might not give them credit. Sam Darnold, please. Vikings win and cover. The Vikings by seven points on the road in Seattle. The Bills. It's Josh Allen's time. Yes, it is. They're going to win the Super Bowl.
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You heard it here first. I'm certain other people have said that, but you heard it here first. Bills minus 14. They're taking on the Patriots by down to 13 and a half. The Bills win and they cover by 21 points at home. Dolphins don't think they're playing for something. The Niners, they're not. Dolphins minus one over the 49ers. Sunday afternoon, Dolphins at 425. The Dolphins are great.
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Sunday afternoons at 425, they made that up. The Dolphins win and they cover. The Dolphins by 10 points on the road. When you're 66-42, you can make it up. The Bucs minus four at Dallas. Buy it down to three and a half. Take Tampa. The Bucs win and they cover Tampa by 10 points on the road. Those are the picks, everyone. Merry Christmas. Good luck.
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There are two jerseys hanging in Billy's office. What is Tua and what is yours, Chris Sims? I know.
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I do love Sims not liking that he's not in the main frame.
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I want to be clear on the accusation you're making. I'm making no accusation. Are the Kelseys being put first because they want the Kelseys to win that award? Is that what they're doing?
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No, but sometimes those guys know players are going to get cut, and we dismiss it, and then they get cut. I mean, it happens. Happened to me and Dan one time. A caller called in. He was a bouncer. He said Shaquille O'Neal's getting traded from the Heat to the Phoenix Suns. We dismissed him. Five minutes later, Shaquille O'Neal traded to the Phoenix Suns.
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I am not certain where he was a bouncer, but, you know, the streets talk, Chris. You know that, you know, they do.
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Yeah. Wait a second. Wait, everyone slowed down. Hold on. I was talking about Busch Gardens. Time out. You told your wife you were going to the strip club.
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Do the Kelseys, do they even talk football? I mean, honestly. I don't know. I've never listened to the podcast. I only listen to God Bless Football. That's all you listen to. That's all you need to listen to. Did you say stick it to management that doesn't believe in us?
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How does Chris Sims feel about company holiday parties?
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So you're judging the state of the company by the party.
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And you hate the small talk. There's no way a Sims like small talk.
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It's different than a standard card picture of the family.
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Create your narratives. Let's try it this way, okay? Management does not believe in me, in Billy, in Mikey A. They don't support it, okay? They don't want us to win awards, okay? They don't want us really. They don't. I'm being honest. They don't. And I'm telling you right now. I got this message. I don't think Billy got it, but I got it. If we don't win this award, they might cancel the show.
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PFT with Mike Florio, the Unbuttoned Podcast, Football Night in America, Sunday Night Football. Chris Sims is with us here on God Bless Football. We have something else we want to discuss with you besides football, outside of football. We'll get to that in a second. I am wondering here, Aaron Rodgers has looked really, really good the last two or three weeks.
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But, Chris, here's the problem. And I've said this before. You can't run a team like that. The Jets fans care more about the organization than the owner does. They take it more seriously than the owner does. And that's frustrating as a fan, man.
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So this holiday season, when you are enjoying the game and your cocktails, please make sure to drink responsibly. Take a minute, make a plan, never drive impaired.
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I was trying to do what you were saying. Oh, sorry.
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Are you surprised Belichick took that Carolina job?
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Chris, I will tell you this. Now, whether you believe it or not, that's obviously up to you. But Mike Lombardi, who he hired to be the general manager of North Carolina football, which I think is the blueprint moving forward, I think they're laying down the foundation of how college programs are going to look.
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Lombardi said he would not have signed the contract if he felt like Belichick was going to leave after a year or two.
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All right. Well, I mean, you don't miss your word, Sims. I love you. Chris, the Lions, are they too banged up, especially on the defensive side? Are they too banged up to win the Super Bowl?
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Which dog would you get rid of, though, by the way? I don't have a choice. I don't get to choose. But what if you did have a choice? What if you did? What if you did? What if you did? Come on, Billy. What are your dogs' names?
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Yep. What do you do? We'll get to the Eagles here in a minute. What do you do, though, if you're the Chiefs with Patrick Mahomes? Do you arrest him? Do you play him? What do you do there?
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Billy, I heard when Sims was talking about his friendship with Mahomes there, the times that they have hung out, spent some time together. I heard that. Best friends. I heard a sound come out of your mouth. What was that?
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But if they beat the Niners, they have a 12% chance.
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Chris, just quickly here, I want to give you three things that the media is saying and fans are saying down here in South Florida and see if you agree. The first one is Mike McDaniel should be fired. Like, why? What? Three and 12 against teams with winning records, two playoff appearances.
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Not at all. All right. The second one, which is, it's a lot louder. There are a lot more people saying this. Chris Greer, the GM, he has to go.
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All right, third thing being said is Tariq Hale should be traded.
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Before we get to drones, Chris, help me out with this, because the NFC is wide open, okay? This is as wide open as a conference has been in quite some time. So tell me right now, if I tell you one of these teams makes it out of the NFC to the Super Bowl, if you'll be surprised by any of them. Lions, Eagles, Vikings, Packers, Bucks, Rams. Ooh.
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We're going to doubt them all the way until they hoist the trophy.
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It's amazing. The aliens have arrived, and no one wants to talk about it. No one's concerned. You're right. I'm with you on that.
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It feels, Billy, I don't know. Are you getting the vibe that Sims feels like the drones? There's something going on here, right? Like, that's the vibe I get from Sims. He knows something.
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Figure it out. Billy, you weren't listening. The aliens are here. No, I heard.
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Jeez. I asked you so many Packer questions this week because I think the Packers are winning the Super Bowl. That's why.
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I was doing a thing, Chris. I was with the Gullicks. You're always doing a thing. I kick up in Kansas City. That was his prediction. It's all I do is things. Well said, Mikey. BFD with Mike Florio on Button Podcast, Football Night in America. A Merry Christmas to the Sims family, to Big F***er, to your wife, Danielle, to all the kids. Merry Christmas to you, Chris Sims. We love you. We do.
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Chris, you got to work Saturday. You can't watch Texas Clemson.
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What do you want? That's not nice. We're going to bring a gift. You need anything?
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Got to work. Yeah. What are you expecting to be under your tree on Christmas Eve? I can tell you what I would give him.
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I did fill out the roster right before we came on air here. I have Kyla Murray as my quarterback. What's the rest of your roster? Let me check it out. I wanted to ask you guys a question before we get to the bear here, Chris Felica, who's going to give us 12 picks for Christmas, okay? Santa Claus. Santa Claus is going to give us 12 picks for Christmas. Why not? The bear. It's so ridiculous.
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Hold on. I'm trying to pull up the line up here. Hold on a second, Billy. I have Kyler Murray. I took Shakir, the Bills receiver. I was trying to trick you. Don't tell people your roster because they'll pick the exact same roster as you. Why would you ever pick my roster?
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Wait, was that Mikey A's third thing? Congratulations, Carl Douglas. Was that Mikey A's third thing? My third thing? No, I thought that was all fair.
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I wanted to ask you guys a question. College football playoff is this weekend. NFL is this weekend. Both NFL games are good. The college football playoffs are win or go home. I'm confused by the college football zealots who are upset that they have to compete against the NFL. Who doesn't want more football? I don't understand. You guys don't have a preference, do you?
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What I was saying is Browns at Bengals. Bengals minus seven and a half, okay? Bengals are minus seven and a half. They're taking on the Browns. Gabe Buck is so upset right now. Mojo has no idea what's going on. Carl needs to get to work.
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Let's minus seven and a half. Carl Douglas, wear that Rams hat. They're hot. No one wants to see them in the playoffs, Carl Douglas. Joe Burrell's hot right now. All right, so you're taking the Bengals minus 7.5 at home against the Cleveland Browns. Joe Burrow is hot. You're right. Any other year on any other team, he'd probably be the MVP. Let's go to Mike Rawless. Rawless, Bengals, minus 7.5.
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They're at home. They're taking on the Browns. Who do you got coming off a 5-0?
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Right. Share Bear, are you ordering lunch? What's going on there? Always, always. Who are you taking here?
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Big Money, baby. I like it. Good boy. Okay, Funko, you take it off. You're two and three here. Bengals, they're hosting the Browns.
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You were two and three. I'm just standing in the back.
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Mojo, who are you taking here? Bengals at Browns. Bengals, seven and a half point favorite.
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It's the only angle Mojo thinks of. Am I still winning this season? You are. Just keep doing it the way you're doing it, Mojo.
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You're fine with all this being mashed together, right, Billy?
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All right, on to the next game, Titans at Colts. Colts are three-and-a-half-point favorites over the Titans. Colts actually need to win this game, I guess, to still have a shot at making the playoffs. We'll go to Mike Rollins off of 5-0. We'll go to him first. Mike, will you take it?
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All right, Cole Douglas, who are you taking here? We have the Colts, three-and-a-half-point favorites at home. Take it on the Titans.
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All right. Carl Douglas taking the Colts. ShareBear, who are you taking here?
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uh share bear aren't you in a tournament right now yeah i'm here at daytona hurry up k-funk speedway daytona speedway make your pad man all right uh yeah i'm gonna go with uh mason rudolph here give me the titans thanks really taking the titans huh go ahead mojo have at it because because he believes in mason rudolph it's so weird they're trying to lose go ahead mojo
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Stugatz here. I want to thank the folks over at Smirnoff for being a loyal sponsor to both God Bless Football and the Dan Levitard Show with Stugatz. Smirnoff knows there is no I in football. Football is a we thing, an experience that is best enjoyed together. With good drinks and good folks, Smirnoff is the world's number one vodka and is an official vodka partner of the NFL.
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Well, this is a good game. I mean, we got America's team here. I mean, it doesn't get bigger than this, okay? You have the Bucs and the Cowboys. Bucs need this game. They have to win it. They're taking on America's team in Dallas. The Cowboys are plus four at home. Mike Rollins, who do you take it here?
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Okay. Okay. I love that you're staying in character. You don't have to. I'll give you a pass for a week if you want, if you want to do it next week because you're hot right now. You're 5-0.
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Let's go to ShareBear. ShareBear, who are you taking here? Ooh. I don't know.
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Selfishly. Got it. Carl Douglas, who are you taking here? Bucs and Cowboys. Cowboys plus four at home.
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The Bear, Chris Felica, is joining us. Billy, a very exciting time. Mikey, a very exciting time. We have college football playoffs coming up. What a Saturday. Two NFL games, three college playoff games. The Bear is going to join us. He is going to sing us 12 picks at the end of this segment for the holidays. We're going to call it Santa Paws. Is that good with you?
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I hate the Cowboys. Kay Funk, who are you taking here?
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All right, you're taking the Bucs. Mojo, go ahead. The floor is yours.
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We know. Saints at Packers. Saints at Packers. These aren't bad games, but, you know, whatever.
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I mean, K-Funk has every right to be upset about the choice of these games.
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Saints and Packers. Let's go to the guy who's smiling first. Carl Douglas, who are you taking here? Saints and Packers. What's the Saints record? Yeah, 14 and a half.
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All right, taking the Saints. Let's go to Mike Rawls in a Southern accent. Go ahead, Mike.
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All right. Cher Bear, who do you like here? Packers, 14.5-point favorites at home against the Saints.
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All right, final game here. Carl needs to leave. 49ers, they're taking on the Dolphins. Dolphins are one-point favorites. Let's go to Cher Bear first. Cher Bear, go ahead.
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Bear, we'll get to college football in a second and we'll get to the games. But for those of you who don't know, Felica is a big Jets fan. OK, he is part of our tortured fan base. And so I am wondering here, Mikey, I will have a breaking story for you that just drives me crazy. But I am wondering how you feel about whether or not Aaron Rodgers should come back.
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They're fans of party. Let's go to Mike Rollo, Southern Accent. Go ahead, Mike.
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All right, taking the 49ers there. Well done. Let's go to Carl Douglas. Niners at Dolphins. Carl, who are you taking? Dolphins a one-point favorite at home. Still have a 12% chance of making the playoffs if they win this game.
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I like it, Carl. Let's go to Kay Funk. Kay Funk, can you take it here?
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Let's see what happens. Mojo, the floor is yours, sir. Go ahead.
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And if he does come back, do you want him back as the Jets quarterback?
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All right. We broke news to Rollins earlier that SMU made the playoffs. Go ahead.
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You know what comes next, Mojo. Get him on the show. I mean, let's go.
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Right. Mikey, I think for the first time I saw you nodding. Do you want Aaron Rodgers back, Mikey A.? No, I'm just not sure what the alternative is. Bear, let me just say this, okay? I would rather Aaron Rodgers be bad for the Jets than be great somewhere else. So therefore, I want him back. I can't stomach seeing him be great somewhere else. He's not going to be great. He might. He might.
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He is coming off a two and three. All right, boys. Get out of here. Merry Christmas. Happy holidays to all of you. I wish Gordy was here. Carl was here. And Jim here as well. So we can wish them a happy holidays. But we love you guys. We appreciate it. Audience, listen to Mojo.
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Because if you don't vote as number one, you will never see Mojo and Kay Funk in the same Zoom again on the same show again. So start voting right now. Gentlemen, Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. Happy New Year. Happy and healthy. We will speak to you next week. Happy holidays.
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God bless football. God bless football. And this year, there are more opportunities to watch football and make delicious Smirnoff cocktails than ever before over the holiday season. From Thanksgiving to Black Friday and Christmas, Smirnoff and the NFL are with you every step of the way.
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So this holiday season, when you are enjoying the game and your cocktails, please make sure to drink responsibly. Take a minute, make a plan, never drive impaired.
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We're two years away from Zach Wilson winning the MVP.
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There is a there's a great report by Diana Rossini from The Athletic, because I have maintained for many, many years that we as Jet fans care more about the team than the fans do. Mikey, please share this report with the bear and let's get his let's get his response to it.
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And this year, there are more opportunities to watch football and make delicious Smirnoff cocktails than ever before over the holiday season. From Thanksgiving to Black Friday and Christmas, Smirnoff and the NFL are with you every step of the way. So this holiday season, when you are enjoying the game and your cocktails, please make sure to drink responsibly.
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Were you okay with Belichick reaching out to the Jets and the Jets saying, get the f*** out of here?
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Yes. What did you think of Belichick going to Carolina? Did that surprise you?
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You made news on this show recently saying Don Shula was a cheater. Are you alleging that Bill Belichick is also a cheater?
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You're right. Yes, well said by you. Bear, before the season started, and we'll get to your picks at the end here, before the college football season started, you and I voiced concern. We shared similar concerns about what it would do, the new playoff format would do, to the regular season. So now that we've had a full regular season to kind of digest this new era, what do you think?
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Has your opinion changed? Did it ruin the regular season? Did it enhance it? What are your thoughts here?
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I'm glad you brought that up because life balance is very critical. It's very important. Dan didn't have to care about it the way you and I had to care about it because we were married, we had kids, and I remember... We were commuting. And we were commuting. When you do the type of show that we do, I remember having this discussion with Dan early on when we started.
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If we just throw ourselves into it, completely into it, our entire lives, just throw it into it, we'll have a good show. Because so few shows do that. But when you do do it that way, it comes at the sacrifice of some of the people that you love. And in my case, it was my wife and my kids. Like, I just missed a lot of stuff because we were doing the show later into the afternoon.
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And then sometimes it would carry into the evening because we had events afterwards. And so I remember thinking to myself, this is a great change because I'll be able to see my kids more and I'll be able to see my wife more.
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I honestly, until after the segment ended and we went to commercial break, had no idea that Jonathan Coachman was black. 20 mediocre years.
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He didn't drop a name. He dropped a location. I know, but it's like.
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Yeah, because I wanted it for vastly different reasons. I wanted that time, too, and I wanted it for you, but I also wanted all the stuff that came with being in that time slot on ESPN Radio and being on TV on ESPN. People need to understand that Dan had what he wanted when he was doing the local show at 790 The Ticket. He didn't want to go to ESPN. He didn't want to do a national show.
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He was happy just doing 3-6 or 3-7 on 790 The Ticket as people were headed to a heat game. So to get him to go to ESPN was tough in the first place. Getting him to change time slots was very, very tricky because he doesn't like change and it's not something he wants.
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How did you change your approach to content when we move from afternoons to 10 to 1? Because you mentioned it earlier where you're more reacting to games, but you're also, you have the ability, and you were great at this, to kind of create talking points for the rest of the day on ESPN, which I loved.
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I remember within our first few weeks there, I said something insane on the radio, and everyone was talking about it later on SportsCenter, and I felt great. And so, I mean, how did you approach that? Because I remember talking to you about it, saying we had to change our game just a little bit.
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Wait, you're blaming that show for the entire month?
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I never get used to 3.38.
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The intimacy of the show was stripped away.
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He always was protective of us selling out, or at least people viewing it as we were selling out. And I would tell Dan that I think, like, we're Miami's show. A lot of these people, they've grown up with us. They're going to be proud of us. We're landing in the most coveted piece of real estate in sports radio, period. End of discussion.
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Often. Often. Yes, yes. But it came with the territory. We were asking you to do something that you really didn't want to do. Me and Mike desperately wanted to do it. We were asking you to do something on our behalves, really. You said the decision came down to Mike being able to spend time with his daughter. We were almost forcing you to do something against your will.
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And yes, we felt it every single time.
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Yeah. People need to understand that Dan did this show for a long, long time before we went to 10 to 1 at ESPN with really no one but the audience paying attention. I was his boss at 790 The Ticket when we first started. When we went to afternoons, what did they tell us? Just do the show. Cater to Miami. Don't change a thing. And we had two big stories at the beginning.
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Richie Incognito and LeBron coming down to the heat. But Dan, Mike and I had many, many, many conversations late into the evening when we moved to 10 to 1 because we were worried about you. We had conviction in our decision. We knew it was right for your career. We knew it was right for the career of this radio show that good things would happen if we moved to 10 to 1.
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But we also knew you were unhappy. And because you were unhappy, Mike and I spent countless hours trying to figure out how do we make Dan happy.
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Mike, were you worried, because I was, because we had built my character and people had become familiar with me and with the shipping container, that I wasn't going to be able to be the person that we created once we got to 10 to 1 because I was worried about it? I remember being scared to say some stuff.
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And just so the audience knows, the change in times was big for us because when you're doing a national show, being on in the middays, being on from 10 to 1, that's the spot where you're going to get the best chance to be cleared in major markets because major market stations care the least about the middays. And they care very much about afternoon drive and morning drive.
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You remember that great piece of art he had on the wall?
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And so for us going from 3 to 7, 4 to 7, and then 10 to 1, that was a big, big move and a big, big reason as to why our show got so big, because we were on in so many markets.
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It's the day I knew just how big Levitard was. Not physically, just in general. Because we're like waiting for Skipper and Skipper peeks his head out and Levitard's like, hey! And they embrace and a big hug and I'm like, this guy doesn't treat anyone like that.
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And then we get into his office and we sit down with him and to your earlier question, Mike, Skipper flat out told me and Dan to my face that he would prefer Bomani Jones doing the radio show with Dan. And Dan said no. He said no.
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I knew well before that that that's what Dan would do. Mike, we know. We've been around him long enough at this point. Dan's loyal. You took great solace every single day in knowing just how loyal Dan was, that he wasn't going to do anything that would harm you, harm your career, harm your family. He was going to stand by you.
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was and it forced us to be more disconnected than dan wanted to be which was super interesting because connection for dan is like the most important thing it was also the topics mike dan has never woken up one day in his life and said hey i want to talk to the people in kenosha he wants to talk to the people down here so what we were discussing during the local hour he was just more comfortable with because it's something that we had been doing for a while
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And I'm like, why can't Dan be comfortable out here? But he couldn't be. And if Dan's not right, the show's not right.
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It's like a first down.
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We just couldn't get Dan comfortable out there. That's it.
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I wanted a coliseum, I mean.
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Mike, we were a show that did not belong at ESPN.
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Good use of brass taxes. Dan, do you feel the same way?
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I think he put the S on it. No, I said brass tacks.
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But Mike felt it, so I mean, that's the important part. You give off a lot of stuff that you don't know you're giving off.
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It was important to me as well. You guys having a good relationship because when Hawk was there, you had a great relationship with Hawk and that made my job easier. My job, this was the most difficult stage for me because I'm worried about whether the two of you are going to get along and whether or not you will trust Mike the way you trusted Hawk.
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Because when you trust your executive producer, it makes all of our jobs easier. But because I was so worried about so many things, your relationship, what was going on outside of the studio, worried about my own life. We're worried about the executives at ESPN. It made it a very tricky time for us to do the show.
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And so I was thrilled once I realized that you two had landed in a spot where Dan clearly trusted and respected you. And you clearly took that and took it to the next level because you needed that from Dan.
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But I think at this stage, you and I had a different relationship than the one that you had with Mike. And so I felt pretty comfortable with job security. And listen, you had sat in front of Skipper and said no to Bomani Jones.
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I felt pretty good about it. I needed you and Mike needed it. I needed you to get into a good place with Mike. That's all I need. So Mike was more worried about that stuff than I was at that point.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 7
You're the one feeling it the most, though. Whatever's coming off of Dan, just so the audience understands this, Dan is not giving it to Roy or Billy or Chris or even Allison. You're getting all of it.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 7
Plus you couldn't walk through a fucking airport in America and not see my face. Oh, what a time it was.
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fix this but Dan I will tell you what Mike is explaining right now and what he was going through at that time it was real like those conversations me and Mike were talking about this is gonna sound funny was me talking Mike off the ledge until like 11 o'clock at night he was terrified a lot of stress
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He just didn't want to screw up the show because your reactions to some on-air screw-ups aren't always the best, and that's fine. We understand it. You're a perfectionist. It's what makes the show the show. Mike was legitimately terrified to the point where he's leaning on me.
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Right. I think you embraced it. Not the yelling. Just embrace someone's willingness to tell you what he has to tell you.
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Oh, no, it was terror.
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At that stage, what helped you get through it? The years we're talking about right now. Was it the show becoming more comfortable and growing?
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Mike, let me try this again because in an odd way, I viewed all this as a positive because so many radio shows don't have relationships. They come in, they do the show, they leave, they don't care about each other, they don't talk to each other, they come back the next day, they do it all over again.
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And so this conflict to me represented these are people who really care about each other and really care about the product and care about the job that we're doing, which I am telling people right now is very uncommon in our
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industry what i'm wondering is you went through this phase where you were super angry but i also remember shortly thereafter you becoming happier and happier and i'm wondering how you got to that spot was it because he was happy because he was happy that's it he because he was happier but then something happens around like 2018 where i'm confronted by all the mistakes of this era 2015 2016
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But it made you better. I feel like it made you better.
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And I was so happy-go-lucky and I just wanted to be at ESPN and stay at ESPN that I was just praying every night
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That time was the closest time for me and Mike, no question, because we felt like we were doing that. We were protecting you and we felt like we were producing you. But I still like every single night I would go home or day afternoon wondering if you're happy because we are talking about nonsense that you don't want to talk about. I'm ranking quarterbacks.
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Max Bredos, best-looking guy at ESPN. Oh. Camp Chancellor. I'll let Dan handle that one.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 7
My observation. I saw him on SportsCenter. He had a black checkered shirt. He had a black tie on. He had the suit rocking. He was sitting next to Jonathan Coachman, which helps. And Max Bredos is the best-looking guy. I'm just saying, Coach is a good-looking guy.
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Listen. This is what my wife... I'm telling you right now. This is what my wife said, okay? That guy, Max Bredos, is hot. That's what she said to me. Then she asked me if Jonathan Coachman... She said this. Not a bad-looking dude, Jonathan Coachman. That's what she said. Does he spend all his time outside of the time that he's doing SportsCenter at a tanning salon? That's what my wife said.
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I'm just telling you. You're a good-looking dude, though. Are Bredos or Coachman? Bredos is an extremely good-looking dude.
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I'm just telling you what my wife said.
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I will apologize. You don't need to apologize for anything. I need to apologize. They are my weekend observations. I said what I said. I had no idea. And I apologize to Jonathan Coachman, who is 26. tweeted at us, and he's upset and has every right to be upset.
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I honestly, and anyone who knows me will understand this and believe this, I honestly, until after the segment ended and we went to commercial break, had no idea that Jonathan Coachman was black.
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Dave, don't mess around. Dave, are you Bob, I should call you? Are you still mad at me?
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What if I told you that the pursuit of perfection isn't always a good thing? That 0 for 14 on your gambling picks isn't just possible, but will likely have real life consequences. That my picks are for entertainment purposes only. That I gave you a sly wink and air quotes when I said that thing about my picks being for entertainment purposes only.
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That I've run into some pretty rough people you don't want to owe money to. That I've just taken out a third mortgage. That my daughters are going to have to make new friends in public school. That I know way too much about the University of Hawaii's football team because I'm always up late chasing. That my wife is probably leaving me and taking the kids.
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That if someone you never met before starts asking you questions about where I've been, tell them you haven't seen me in a while and immediately text me so I can get on the next flight to El Salvador. That I know it's been a rough couple of weeks, but I've got a great feeling about the Titans plus six and a half on Sunday.
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ESPN Films presents a 30 for 30 about one man's fight to keep both his kneecaps.
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Those are the things you say to someone you care about. That was you. You were caring for Chris Cody. You did not want to lead Chris Cody down a bad path.
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Bud, after you have dinner tonight and you celebrate the garage sale, when you go to the bathroom afterwards, not one, but two, Bud, will you sit or stand when you wipe?
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Yeah, go to me and the dumb stuff. That is that is very smart. What I was saying, what Mike and Mike Ryan and I were discussing is I think one of the problems with baseball, Dan, and no one's really talking about it is everyone sitting here trying to fix something that I think is probably probably unfixable. But everyone's trying to fix it.
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The real problem with baseball is when you go to a basketball game, you go to a Cavs game. You're going to see LeBron James for 90% of the game, and he's going to give you 27, 8, and 8, and you're probably going to see a dunk or a pass that you've never seen before, and you're going to leave happy.
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When you go to a baseball game, an Anaheim Angel game, you're going to see Mike Trout every third inning. He has a better chance of going 0 for 4 than he does going 4 for 4 with a home run and four RBIs. And you're going to see Howie Kendrick just as much as you're going to see Mike Trout. I go to a Cavs game, I'm not going to see John Lucas III. I'm only going to see LeBron James.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 7
John Lucas III is a backup guard. I know you're having Mike check it right now on the Cleveland Cavaliers. I'm not going to see him. I'm going to see LeBron. So what I'm trying to figure out, Mike and I are trying to figure out, is I want to go in an Angel game, and I want to see Mike Trout every inning if possible.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 7
Like, each manager has, like, four or five magic at-bats in his back pocket. All right? So let's say it's, like, second. Mike Trout gets out in the first inning. But in the second inning, it's second and third, and there's one out. He has the option in that spot of putting Mike Trout back in the game. You see Mike Trout two innings in a row?
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time for a magic at bat oh mike socia is on the field mike socia has thrown the smoke bomb time for a magic at bat it's a lot cooler aesthetically than like a red challenge flag and they're trying to appeal to a younger audience imagine how much a younger audience would love the smoke bomb and then there's mike trout coming out emerging from the smoke commissioner if i may if i may let me present you with a radical oh no if i'm okay all right oh for the
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I like to call it, Commissioner, I like to call it the magic at bat, okay? Now just hear me out for a second, okay? Each manager at any time during the game can go with, because, Commissioner, I'm not going to see a pitcher hit. I'm not going to see a shortstop hit. I'm going to see Stanton hit. So four to five magic at bats for each manager where he can put Stanton in whenever he wants.
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Speed it up! And there's smoke, and the kids love magic, Commissioner.
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So that's a maybe. No.
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But Commissioner, did you hear about the smoke?
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Well, Bob, I want to know before we get to the picks here. I called you a while back and I asked for your help in booking Jerry Seinfeld on the show. And Jerry hasn't been on the show yet. So what's going on?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 7
Now, you said you were going to call. I'll be right back. You said you were going to call. You're lying to me, though. You were lying to me, weren't you?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 7
Oh, man. I'm going to go with a rock.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 7
You got to go for the win. He's going delightful hazel. He's going D. Can I hear A, B, and C quickly, please?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 7
Okay. You have any idea what you need to do to get back?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 7
That's problematic, that old being stuck in purgatory.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 7
And people found that funny. Steve Martin. Awesome.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 7
Oh, he said that. The origins of this term come from the military den. The literal sense of the term, that is a day spent in field maneuvers, is now little used. The first reference we have for that meaning is from 1747. In scheme, a quick men of war. These periodical interviews.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 7
That had nothing to do with Vin Scully. Nothing.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 7
The person didn't give their name. They just said, pick up the phone already. Very cranky, they were mad.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 7
Mike, I'm interested because you have a very good pulse of the back room and what that room needs. Did you feel like you needed someone like Chris Cody at that time for the show? Chris was a good vibes guy, too.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 7
Man, everyone's so depressed out here.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 7
It was funny. Kanye's kind of annoying by now. The Grammys are kind of annoying by now. It's like in reruns. Same thing. I mean, I got to tune in and Taylor Swift is front row dancing like crazy. Kanye West with his antics. He had Jay-Z and Beyonce presiding over the whole proceedings. They're the president and the first lady of America. It's enough.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 7
And you got Pharrell who comes in, he sings one song, he just changes it up every time he sings it. Tired of the Grammys. Stale. Taylor Swift, enough. See her dance, front row, please. Take the camera off of her. Anyway.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 7
It's one song.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 7
If he's got more songs, then sing them already, because I keep hearing the same one.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 7
I mean, listen, I usually fall more on the side of, hey, best team always wins. But after years of doing the show, even I could see it's fairly obvious. Like the Marlins weren't better than the Yankees the year that the Marlins won the World Series. The best team rarely wins. Except for the NBA, the best team rarely wins. You shut your mouth. They weren't better. Tell that to Josh Beckett!
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 7
He cares about baseball. Wait a minute, who said? You shut up! Who said?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 7
Is he ready to talk to us, though?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 7
and i was talking to colin cowherd during all of this and i was advising him strongly to not leave esp well that's interesting because colin one time when i was up in bristol he cornered me he was eating a bowl of soup while walking down the hallway not a bowl a cup right it wouldn't he wouldn't have been walking around the hallways with a bowl i feel like it was a french onion bowl like between a cup and a big bowl of soup it was somewhere in between that it felt like
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 7
As if I have any information about the UM football program that Colin would want.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 7
Oh, and he told me. And he told me he was thinking about heading to Fox. And I said to him, that'd be a good career move for you. Now, I said it to him because I wanted to take over his slot. Because I wanted all the listeners, I wanted all the money, and I wanted everything that ESPN had to offer. So I said, Colin, good idea. Fox, go there. Go now.
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#BecauseMiami: The Power of the Cuban Sandwich
I want to tell you a story. I'm serious here. My wife and my two daughters, they begged me to buy a Peloton. So I bought a Peloton. And then I watched that Peloton sit in my office and stare at me. So you know what I did one day? I looked at it. And so I decided to get off my ass and I jumped on the Peloton because no one else was using it and I paid for it. I mean, so why not?
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Then I realized eventually that they bought it for me. And I got to tell you, way more challenging than I could have ever imagined. Peloton coaches are walking the walk. I love the coaches. I do the Grateful Dead one. It's fantastic. They have a sub three-hour marathon runner, military-trained athlete, a former college basketball player, and so many other well-rounded coaches on their team.
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All this experience really shows in their classes, which are never short of challenging, especially for me. So I jumped on it that first time. It was challenging, more challenging than I thought. Then I wanted to beat the bike, and so I kept jumping on it, and I absolutely love it. I mean, I'm the only one who uses it, but again... They got it for me. I mean, I had no idea.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
You're going to let him come in your house and tell you your beat that you made in six minutes isn't good enough? We can't stand for it. Stand up for yourself, Jeremy. We're losing recipes. We're losing recipes.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
The special teams coordinator got them to jump off sides.
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The Big Suey: Archie Manning Vs. Lavar Ball
My team is so great.
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Hour 1: We Are Made It!!!!!!
A brave opinion, really. Take it back. Take it back, Jack. It's the coughing now. Take it back, Jack. All right.
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Hour 1: We Are Made It!!!!!!
So what are we supposed to do? Just give him the Stanley Cup because he had a good, you know, half a playoff run and not celebrate the Panthers? I don't understand. He's so great. So let's just give him the Stanley Cup. Why play the games? He's one of the best all time.
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Hour 1: We Are Made It!!!!!!
Well, then how do we know when it goes up?
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Hour 1: We Are Made It!!!!!!
We are made it. How did we feel about the cheering in the press box last night? I love it. It was funny. What do you mean? Very professional.
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He let out a squeal when the Panthers won that I've never heard before. Because he's like super serious professional hockey broad, hockey news. That's David Dwork.
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Hour 1: We Are Made It!!!!!!
All right. This doesn't seem safe. The Stanley Cup is in the ocean. All right. So go in the ocean. Get us a shot, Roy.
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Hour 1: We Are Made It!!!!!!
Get in there, Roy. What? What? Chips ahoy is right. What? Championships. Chips ahoy.
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Hour 1: We Are Made It!!!!!!
That's what you say. Chips ahoy. Chips ahoy. Yep. And it's a boat thing, too, with the ocean. Chips Ahoy is perfect. Check out this hockey town, huh?
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The San Jose Sharks, they bit a hockey stick and went right through that.
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Hour 1: We Are Made It!!!!!!
Terrible is a stretch. NHL is trying to make him a thing.
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They made that decision after Game 5 because he did nothing Game 6 and 7.
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They should listen to you. They should. In Greg's defense, Charles Barkley agreed with him last night on the broadcast. A lot of people did. Thank you.
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Hour 1: We Are Made It!!!!!!
He said, if Conor wins it, I won't be that upset, but it should be someone from a winning team.
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Game winner. If you're the greatest of all time, the Panthers can't shut you down. That's Greg's point. And they did, so he's not the greatest of all time.
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Hour 1: We Are Made It!!!!!!
Dad knows. Mr. McDavid knows. That's why it hurts, Dan. You only get offended by things if they have a slight tinge of truth to them. And when he hears it, he's like, ooh, you know what? What you do is you go up to Mr. McDavid and say, you raised a good boy. Not good enough.
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Local Hour: THE FLORIDA PANTHERS ARE STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS!
This guy comes in as the next Wayne Gretzky. His nicknames include the Chosen One and McJesus, okay? He's a great player. He scores a lot of goals. He scores a ton of assists, but it hasn't translated to making Edmonton a powerhouse in the league. They're in the final.
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Local Hour: THE FLORIDA PANTHERS ARE STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS!
Yeah, I was glad to hear Randy say that McDavid probably ought not have won the conspire. You've got to give it to Bob, I think, for the reasons Randy said. But, you know, the best news is McDavid didn't get the trophy he wanted. The Panthers stole that one from him. They didn't steal it. They earned it from him. And so it's a happy day down here. Happier day down here in Edmonton.
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Local Hour: THE FLORIDA PANTHERS ARE STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS!
You know, McDavid continues to pile up fantastic numbers with nothing to show at the end of it. And so this postseason of his was really a metaphor for his career. And that is what makes him overrated. Oh, no.
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Local Hour: THE FLORIDA PANTHERS ARE STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS!
You know what? We'll take them any way we can get them. All right, here comes a big fan right now.
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Local Hour: THE FLORIDA PANTHERS ARE STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS!
They're a little sadder than three people waving.
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Local Hour: THE FLORIDA PANTHERS ARE STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS!
My thoughts from last night, it was a well-earned. victory. The two goal scorers were guys who needed to step up, and they did. Barbarofsky played a fantastic game.
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Local Hour: THE FLORIDA PANTHERS ARE STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS!
The last three minutes of that game, I thought they pulled, I thought Edmonton pulled their goalie at least a minute too late, but the last three or four minutes of that game were about as exciting a three or four minutes as I've ever seen covering sports down here for 50 years. It was electric. It was just nerve-wracking down to the bone. What a finish to the season. What a wonderful Game 7.
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Local Hour: THE FLORIDA PANTHERS ARE STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS!
All kidding aside, I think it's a great day for the Florida Panthers, for Panthers fans, for South Florida sports in general. What a wonderful time.
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Hey, you too.
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Local Hour: THE FLORIDA PANTHERS ARE STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS!
Thank you. Another fan over there. Thank you.
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Local Hour: THE FLORIDA PANTHERS ARE STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS!
He doesn't care. Must be a coincidence.