The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: 2 Bad Hips?

Episode Date: March 6, 2024

Dan describes the power behind Stephen A. Smith and Shannon Sharpe building their own platforms - but which one has 2 new hips. Plus, the Celtics have an epic collapse against the Cavs, is everyone right about the Celtics' inability to close in tight games. Also, the show chooses sides between UD and Paul Pierce. The Ponder File returns with newly uploaded material and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe Kings Network. This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast. Chris Cody, get me that Yeti music again. Chris Cody, get me that Yeti music again. Do you get annoyed every time Dan Levitar pontificates about the sports media industry? Well, too bad, motherf***er. You don't see, don't give a damn about what he's gonna say. It's time for sports media talk today. Please, no more costas. Okay Yes. Thank you. Stuck out

It was two days of cost this and it's too much you brought it back I know I did bring it back because of how wildly disrespectful you are to the man I wasn't but you sat on it for six days He was like I'm gonna bring up something from yesterday. Bob said something. Is that the case? Did Bob say something? Did he add it? So many people reached out to me on his behalf because you should know better.

You should know better. Bob Costis is doing just fine. Don't worry about him. Old Bobby's fine. They did not think that you were properly respectful. I was talking about the reaction to Bob Costis on CNN. That's it. I was explaining the reaction. So that's not what we're gonna do.

We are not gonna do that. Good. We are also not going to hire Bella Chek and save him to do a show together unless we can get Snoop Dogg as well. You need Snoop Dogg. Gag. Get Snoop first.

I just want people to be able to lack, laugh at the lack of vision and what I'm about to say. Okay. Cause it's, it is laughably funny. If you think of what was our time at the last of ESPN and you say to me, Hey Dan, what will read the plan? What do you think would be the plan right now? I'm like, you know what? Get me Travis Kelsey, get me Shannon Sharp. Boom. I'll change the world. I, you were so Shannon Sharp was like, yeah, just give me a few dollars for movies. And we're like, no, thank you. And Kelsey's, uh, budding up to still gots at the golf course. And he's like, Hey, should we do a podcast together? And I still got some builds that in the empire.

It is today without saying, well, yeah yeah Jason Kelsey would also be involved with that But they figured that out about four months after talking to Stugot. I'm pretty sure that's how that happened Yeah, that was our plan with Chris Grinkowski if you need to know the truth. Yeah the grog's Now what you were gonna build the grunts are gonna be the calcy. We were close man We're I mean it seems like it always comes down to money We're close, man. We're, I mean, it seems like it always comes down to money. This is a good, That's all this stuff fall apart.

We have ideas. We start going down these paths and then we're just, you know, It's a good tactic though. Let's get Donna and maybe the rest will fall into place. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's been Stu got his plan for everything he's ever done because when we did sports, Ben Michael Marino was around for a number of episodes

because he was convinced that if he got Dan Marino's son, he could get to Dan. Well, that's how you do it. I mean, it's one of the oldest tricks in the book. Did it work? No. Okay. The oldest tricks in the book with Stugatz generally don't work. He tries them all. They are old because he had them once and they were new. Where is this book? Speaking of books, Stugatz book.com. Check it out.

Yeah. One of the things that Stugs just mumbled under his breath before we turned on the microphones was also just muttered with a little bit of acid on it. I had Roddick too. I did. And now he has his own podcast. It's called served. And he is splashing it all over Twitter today because he has risen all the way into the top 10. He is number eight right now on Spotify and Apple. I had an idea with Roddick and I had Roddick because we have Marty Fish. He's a good friend of ours. Marty Fish, if you know his story, they'd be great together. Yes. I was going to call it fishing rod. Come on. Rod wanted to be first. So that's where that felt. Damn, you're not using your third eye though. My brother has a great sense.

He thought to include the kid himself that we are sitting in here in this establishment. So my boy was right about that. He landed one big well. You dig me? No pun intended. How did you have Roddick? The one interaction with Roddick? The Remardi. The Remardi. The one interacted with him once is how he has. Well, because the one interaction I remember with Andy Roddick was he was booked on stupodity and five minutes before. So guys said, I can't do it. So then I was interviewing Andy Roddick solo about pickleball and Subway. You're not that pleased about that. If I recall, I found out that I

was doing it two minutes before. Right. But Marty Fish is one of his best friends at Marty Fish is a good friend of mine. He's a good friend of Mike's good friend of Chris's And so I had pitched that idea to Marty Fish a while ago. I think last year at Tahoe He said we're in but as Billy said earlier all these things come down the money No, but it's not just that because I think your definition of good friend and Mike's definition of good friend and Billy's definition of good friend Is slightly different and so you thinking your friends And so you thinking you're friends with Marty Fish because they're friends with Marty Fish and that you would then close a Roddick deal

with Marty Fish because you're just you. Like that's how that went, correct? Yes, but he loved the idea. He loved the title, Fish and Rod. It'd be great, or Rod Fish, I suppose you could go that way. No, Fish and Rod, no. Fish and Rod, yeah. I know, yours is better, but they argued over who. No, fishing rod. I know yours is better,

but they argued over who gets the, Roddick it was always better than Marty Fish. Like the only reason Marty Fish wasn't the greatest American tennis players because Andy Roddick, his former roommate was in his way, and it made Marty Fish kind of nuts because it'd make anyone nuts to be one of the best in the world at a solitary sport and your roommate is slightly better than you. Don't tell all the stories, save some for fishing. Exactly. It's a good podcast. I know.

If I put those two guys together talking about the mental health of tennis, oh my God. Mental health, I mean, everything. Mesh. I mean, with Marty, I wasn't really thinking mental health. I was thinking Marty is friends with Patrick Mahomes. Exactly right. And it becomes a Marty party. So let me ask a good podcast name, the Marty party. Marty party. I mean, Marty knows a who's who of select. You can't play in that Tahoe tournament

without Marty first approving it. You can't. He's the mayor of Tahoe. Fish and run. I want to know though, from you guys, because feel like, I don't know who the audience is for argument television, okay? But I think one of the reasons our audience rejects this talk is because they don't want, if they wanted first take or its permutations, that's where they would be in the middle of the day instead of consuming what we're doing here. But I have found fascinating Stugans over the last 15 years of what Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless built, right? Because a decade is the number one show on

television that's like unheard of. What Stephen A. Smith is worth right now after after very quietly, Stugans. Say it a couple times times I'm underpaid on television. He welcomes in McAfee and all these $17 million contracts. Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, when he's the voice and face of ESPN and he's now underpaid as soon as they all arrive, he welcomes them all in and now his ratings are giant. And the greatest, I don't know if it's the greatest ego mistake I've seen in sports media, but Skip Bayless underestimating that he needed Shannon Sharp.

Yes. For that show to be successful. Collosal mistake. Well, but the numbers do God. So he, they make the same amount of money. Okay. And Skip Bayless, but, but Stephen A. Smith also has a production company as part of what he's trying to build, which is going to be giant. I am sure it's going to be powerful and impressive whether he does it with ESPN or outside of ESPN cause Stephen

A Smith wants to play with Tom Brady and, and Peyton Manning in the sphere of I'm as big a star in sports right now as there is a media star and I'm at my company and I'm underpaid and he's going to have power. He power is gonna have an ability to get power here still got because he brought in shannon sharp to he carried him over shannon sharp was done still got like it was he wasn't he wasn't going to get back in the game and now is a giant on impact and man as soon as he arrives and this this has been brutal to watch I've hated this for him the piranhas arrive and devour him and mock him and try to

eat him up and this man is so strong like his story is so strong to come from the poverty he came from a problem with a lisp to being like a hall of fame loudmouth who now you know has two artificial hips but still wants to compete with everybody and now can because he's got, he's got a giant valuable platform and he works so hard, so hard, so God's and I can't help but be impressed that at the top of our game what the people are consuming, the candy of what it is that we do, we're watching the end of Skip Bayless because his numbers, those numbers are so bad still gots. We were doing twice those numbers on ESPN news. Like he's coming to the end of his contract and Nick Wright is here to have the money

that Fox has to offer. And Colin Cowherd is going to be able to do whatever he wants with him and his company and Shannon Sharp. And they're going to compete at the top of the game, the sports media games and the athlete games at the top of the game, the sports media games, and the athlete games at the top of the business. I find that stuff fascinating. Am I the only one? You don't see the game, the game's about what he's gonna say.

It's time for sports media talk today. That's not interesting to you guys. It's very interesting. How can that not be interesting to you guys? They're uncultured. That's what they are. Uncultured. I'm with you, big brother.

This is very, especially as a black man, you know what I mean? Going through all those things. True, true. You know those hurdles. Stephen A. Smith was fired and came back from the debate. Yeah, we've talked about it. But it's... It doesn't get talked about enough, man. But I mean, he's quite frankly, it's

impressive what he's done. Right. Of course it is. That show. How can you guys disrespect what that man has done? You disrespect what he has done to get back to the top of the game through the lab. Fine.

But what are we going to talk about his funeral? If we keep talking about it now? Exactly. He did what Shane Gillis did, times a hundred. He got them both to reinvest in him. And now he's still at the top of that. Steven A. Smith is about to change the game again, and now he rides with Shannon Sharp,

and they can build whatever the hell they want. Right. With or without ESPN. That's the interesting part. With or without ESPN. Of course. With or without ESPN. That's the interesting part. With or without Disney or sell it back to Disney. This is now not just the money game. It's the power game. It's the influence game. It's the legacy game. It's not just Stephen A's who's going to get fat on fame. He's trying to build something that is a giant platform. First take has been number one for more than 10 years. Skip Bayless created

an economy. Stephen A Smith buried it. He's super competitive. He's a conqueror and he's getting bigger than he's ever been. And he comes from McDonald's commercials. Like he will have, he will, what is about to happen is he is about to, I think, shake the industry with his next contract and should, because he's a ratings monster and I can't believe you guys don't, you guys don't find that interesting. To be clear, Stephen A. did not start his career in McDonald's commercials. Right.

No, he's just done that. He's been in McDonald's commercials. He's done commercials for movies like he was fired. Two fake hips. I didn't know that. That's crazy. I didn't know that. That's a little artificial shit. He's done commercials for movies like he was fired to fake hips That's crazy. I didn't know that Artificial did you know that one in there is a little you know, no Shannon. No, I'm just telling you it's Shannon sharp I thought she was talking about Steven a yeah, no, how many fake hips does Steven a have? Yeah, zero one that Steven a fake hips in the box and put Shannon stripes fake sips in the box minus one

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My granddaughter sees his schlong and says, What are you talking about? He says, what's that? She doesn't know. My granddaughter saw his schlong in the kitchen. She said, what is that? What is this? A game of clue? I said that's what he pees with. I'm not. She saw his...

How else am I going to explain it? Stugats! It was a little extended. I don't know why he was so excited. Alright, very good. No! Can I take this out? Anyway, he ate my couch. This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugas.

I thought for sure one of you, I was looking for one of you. I thought somebody was going to hit Stephen A. Smith with artificial hip. The other kind of artificial hip. Like I was right there. I thought, no, I thought we were just sort of, I was looking, both of you have sunglasses on, so I didn't think I was gonna, and so I'm like, I thought one of you

was gonna have the closing line on hitting, yeah. I loved at the end there, how confused you were, like who has two hips? That's the math I was doing in my head. I was like, wait a second, I didn't know Stephen A had two hips. Maybe that's why he fell, remember he falls on the quarter lot, I was like, oh has two hips? That's the math I was doing in my head. I was like, wait a second, I didn't see even eight had two hips, maybe that's why he fell. Remember he falls on the court a lot.

I was like, oh, he's got the hips. My point is, my point was that Shannon Sharp is being devoured by the internet because they think that his rise to fame has been sudden and it hasn't, it's been earned. And now he's a source of much mockery, but he welcomes it because he's not afraid of that fight and he's, and he's just eating up like, oh my God, I get to do this in my fifties.

I get to bother people. So God's this guy was a Super Bowl champion yelling into a phone on the sidelines, call the national guard because he was like the cockiest of loud mounts, conquers the sport is one of the best tight ends any of us have ever seen. And then come all the basketball players and all the Grunks and all the, all the Kelsey and he's a media monster now. And, and he's just, he's gotten right back to the top of the game and he works his ass off. But yes, he has from the game, I'm assuming has, has affected his, his, his hips because a lot of these guys in there, and he's still working like that. It hurts to walk around in your fifties

because what they were doing was savage. Right, and like you said, both of those brothers, Him and Steve and they, are building their own platforms within the ESPN, within the mother ships. With ESPN, yes. Right, so it's genius. It's what's happening with Peyton Manning

who suddenly realized that too, but let's move on to other things because I've lost the entire room We spent way too much time on the industry. I see that Chris Cody doesn't want to hear about any of this stuff It feels like don't lie. We know that unless it's Kelsey unless it's Kelsey You seem to you guys seem to all be in on the pregame shows changing or there being genuine controversy Because somebody a big name gets knocked out because Jason Kelsey's agent is gonna come into the room And it's gonna be like,

we bring the Taylor Swift crowd with us. What job can we take? Speaking of big names getting knocked out, Jason Tatum last night, brothers and sisters, let's talk about it. Thank you. Epic collapse. This is what's wrong with the Celtics.

This is why we don't believe in them moving forward past what we see now. This mentality, this crumbling of them that just happens This is why we don't believe in them moving forward past what we see now. This mentality, this crumbling of them that just happens for no reason at all is why we don't trust them. That's why Jimmy Butler sees them and says, nah, I don't care what number y'all are. All right, let me talk about this for a second, Stugatz, because if you did not see, I believe the Miami Heat do not have a lineup that has played 80 minutes together this season. Like if the NBA is about storylines and how things build, like the way this season has gone right now,

where Boston is clearly better than everybody, but there are nights like last night where you're like, oh, that's the thing that's going to end them, that they've got a 22-point lead and Tatum goes one for nine in the fourth quarter. And then they're going to get a call reverse at the end of game on instant replay and they lose by a point. I don't wanna trust that team. I don't trust those guys to be tough, but they've been overwhelming. They've won all month.

They win by double digits all the time on average. And people don't trust them because they think Jimmy Butler's tougher. Like if you wanna get right down to why it is that Boston fears there It's like well when we had Marcus smart that was tough and we can match Jimmy Butler with tough But now we traded him for porzingus and now when it comes playoff times It's not gonna be about Grant Williams his Grant Williams gonna get in somebody's face. We don't have we've got no bench

We've got these guys and I'm not me and I'm not sure Al Horford is there That's all they've got on their bench. Right. This makes me think back. Like this is a consensus. Most one of the most, like everyone is saying this is the team to beat in the NBA this season. Yet we think they're mentally weak. Have we had this kind of situation since like LeBron and the big three at the beginning of that, they were consensus best team, but everyone was still questioning whether LeBron could win the big one. Aren't we overreacting to a single loss? Yeah, I know Donovan Mitchell wasn't playing.

We're looking back at the playoffs the last couple years. It's a bad loss, but it's also a look ahead spot. They play Denver next on the road. Kelsey Bobble had nine. Yeah, there's a whole thing. I'm doing what you guys want to do with your teams. Like you do with the Mets and the Jets. I see my team.

I love the Celtics. And I see them like, this is why we don't trade Marcus Mark. This is why we at least keep a puppy in Grant Williams. We need someone that can shake them I understand that but with football there are 16 game. I don't do it with a match there's 162 games football Those games are so valuable that yes game the game. I'm doing God. Okay, we don't get this is one game of 80 to God One most of their games to God. One most of their games. To God, we need a reason to care during the season. And all Juju is saying is if you have confirmation bias about this team, last night gives it

to you again. You can, you can give us all the perspective you want. Yes. They've won for a month straight. They're clearly better than everyone else in a way that Stan Van Gundy says already. I'd be shocked if they don't win the title. And what looks to me out West looks overwhelming one through eight i'm looking at it like man all those are all good teams but no boston's been better

than all of them playing everybody and swapping them this criticism and i didn't think i'd see it in the modern age i really didn't because i i objected the other day when charles barkley said of some, who did he, he said somebody was mentally weak. I think he said it was the Celtics. So now the story starts, right? Anthony Davis is weak. He doesn't play all the time. That's what we bury him in the Celtics. You guys are very comfortable saying cause you've seen him lose game sevens at home, even though Tatum was hurting the last one. He didn't even get to play in it. He's just fell on his ankle. Now you're like, no Tatum, you can't be best in the league.

I don't believe you're best in the league until you get to the top of this sport. Cause in the fourth quarter, you're not going one for nine. And I'm getting haunted by a box score that says D Wade hit me for 20 in the fourth quarter. And I'm scared of everything related to what D Wade says in a box score. Right.

Faded ways after faded ways, fallback jumpers out of bounds. Brother, you are seven, almost seven feet tall. Take it to the hold. That's the thing I want to see out of my superstar. Drive when me a shot ain't falling. Go to the paint bit, bro. They don't even follow their shots. What is happening in today's NBA?

I watched Michael Porter join your shoot 10 threes last night and not follow one shot. Come on guys No killer instinct on that team no killer. I hate that as an Alice. I know but it's true Dan So I'm headed into last night the cell this was 364 and oh when leading by 20 points in the fourth course They were do they are great that team is great and Everyone's still waiting around for yeah, they'll shit the bed They'll fold up and I'm like I can't believe that this is what the analysis is.

Do you know how hard it is to be what Jason Tatum is? Like Jay, look, that team is so much better. Drew Holiday is just doing, Drew Holiday, who a meme called a corpse, by the way. Right. Talk about it. No, I mean, this is amazing. Drew Holiday has been an unselfish. We forget, Yanis didn't who anything until true holiday got there now he goes to this team and you're telling me they're not tough enough don't tell me that guy's not tough don't tell me drew holiday can't be the tough that marcus mark was and a better

player because you had marcus mart around it everyone said this to us to god marcus mart is what leads that team it hurts his hair is green he's the soul of the team But he was just there to lead and then they trade him so that hey Tatum Jaylin you want to lead were you at all wondering how Billy just pulled that right out of his room? I will 364 to Fourth-quarter lead since 97 98. I believe it was on the television screen on get up That's true

I mean was I amazed that a fact came from that room that was helpful that you guys are all amazed by a producer producer So Billy at the top of the game wondering how Billy knew no Hooper's no I was surprised that Billy was an interested in any way, but that he was helpful was the surprising part. Crazy collapse. The Celtics just need to do something cool and tough one time because the dunk contest didn't help my boy Jaylen Brown at all. And Jason Taylor came out and threw the ball. They just need an image makeover and I'm patiently waiting on it.

Isn't Zerrick White their kind of gritty tough guy? Isn't he the guy? He's been great for them. He's been averaging more block than Yanis. And he's Zerik White. But he's not an enforcer. We need a Draymond Green. We need someone who says no, not tonight.

Can I ask you guys a question, speaking of enforcers in the Celtics? Are you done as Hasim and Paul Pierce is gonna be fighting forever? Like what is going on there? I think so. Why are they still fighting with each other? Do you want him to stop?

Box for charity. When I posted the video of what Paul said about UD, UD comment is that y'all might want to stay out of this one, be a bra. This is real. All right, so now we've got a problem on our hands, okay? Because thank you, Billy, for adding that particular chaos to the mix. Because yes, we now have a problem because our show is at the middle of Paul Pearson, Udonis's beef.

We are? Whose side are you on? Yeah, whose side are you on, Dan? Okay, thank you guys for all the help there. I got UD. I will get to our side in a second. I will pick a side in a second. It's gonna be a tough spot for me.

It's gonna be a tough spot for me. I pick UD. The home choose a side, big bro. You got to. I care about you. I pick UD. Don't choose a side, big bro. You got to. I care about you. I pick UD also. Why don't you want me to choose a side, Tuju? It's not necessary.

It's a lot of violence going on in the streets. UD warned us. He says, stay out of this. I'm out of this. First, my cap. I take his advice. I'm out of this, but if I'm in it, I'm on UD's side. But I'm out of it for the record.

I'm out it, but I'm in UD's side. Even though Paul Pierce is a coworker, I think, but I'm out of it. And I love the Celtics. And he was great on Stars on Mars, but I'm out of it. But if I had to pick a side. He didn't poop his pants, but I'm on UD's side. But I'm out of it.

But he said he did that one time. Yeah, he really did that to himself. Tomato, tomato, but UD's my guy. I'm out of it. Dan, what side are you on? You did you officially decide? We'll get back to that in a second. Maybe but you tease my guy. I'm not Dan Dan. What's how do you? Yeah, you did you officially? We'll get back to that in a second. I will tease it throughout the show here Wow, I do have to choose sides do I not so God's You have to pick a side. Yeah, it's sports radio. You desets. They out of it was a spoiler alert. It's awful

I Okay, so you guys are not helping me here. You have to pick a side Yes, and I will but I will not be bullied into doing it before the end of this segment because you guys think you're funny And and juju is right with no, I know you don't I'm not gonna say the wrong thing here Like what's what's matter with you stop playing like you guys like stop playing for a second for a second You going Pierce would be an upset But he's a co-worker speaking of bullies. I got bully ball. Oh

Worker way like stop stu-kantz you laugh, but no, I don't want to pick this fight Okay, you on behalf of me and you don't is no thank you because you haven't heard the most recent sound We asked Paul Pierce look this is escalated Because it started with you. Don is saying I would fight them on site in a grocery store. I've told Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett this. And then Paul Pierce came back and said, he's never said that to me. I'll do it in a phone booth. And now this gets back to you, Don is, and you don't, is who's doing his own podcast with Mike Miller. The OG's podcast has been excellent. It's been

fun to watch them grow in the space. You don'tdonna says he is not fooling around. And when this, when you do, I don't have this wrong when this particular, I knew you can make fun of him because you think he's over 40 and he hasn't played in many years. But when this Miami tells you he's going to hurt you, you don't want that to escalate. You want to leave that right there. Paul Pierce doesn't want to do that. Nobody wants to do that. We don't want anyone to get hurt. You want to leave that right there. Paul Pierce doesn't want to do that. Nobody wants to do that. We don't want anyone to get hurt here. Right. He got a hundred people right now

that can't wait to impress him and do some dirty stuff for you, D. Salute to Bidbro. Fighting in a phone booth seems like it would be difficult. It is. Put it on the poll, please, Juj. You're at LeBatard Show. Does it seem like it would be hard to find a phone booth? I don't think Paul Pierce would fare well in that fight.

I don't want to see that fight. Nobody wants to see that fight. But here's, uh, you don't, as Haslam saying on the OG's podcast, what he had to say. Yeah, he had nothing to do with the individual person. They just had to do it. It's Celtics and everybody know how I feel about the Celtics. Everybody know how I feel about.

Buddy now. Redacted. Yeah, everybody know how I feel about buddy now. Buddy now. I ain't gonna say buddy man Cuz somebody gonna get hurt cuz I don't keep I'm gonna stop playing him Get hurt oh Paul fish I'm gonna tell you right now

I don't be with all of Twitter fingers and all them games playing like I'm a leader Oh for somebody get hurt a go a lot of it listen. I'm always say funny. I don't think funny. I play too much That was funny though. Which one? Well he said that like, no, he still, no, you still was giving it up. Like, we all know you earned your retirement. Like everybody know that.

The pettiness was so good. But the pettiness that he said that was like, nah, it was good. Y'all got real smoke. Yeah, and then did you guys, did you see my response? We did. We did. I meant that from the bottom of my heart.

I meant that from the bottom of my heart. I meant that in the bottom of my heart. I'm gonna spell you. Cause I know you ain't like that. I'm gonna spell you. If you look at me, my mother's eyes, if I sit in the toilet, I'm with it. It's my fucking thing. When you get money, you gotta separate from service.

I'm still my daddy's child. Oh yeah, I love that. My daddy's child. My daddy ain't raised no punk and I don't play no games. Yeah, that's a fact. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm with all that. I love it.

What I'm going to do is I'm going to disconnect from that situation because I don't play like that. You know what I'm saying? Because one thing, what I said, I spoke on them as Celtics players. I never spoke on their accolades. I never spoke on what they accomplished. Always give them credit for that. Now you're on some other...

I ain't playing that game. I ain't basketball. I'm gonna leave that alone before I hurt you. I don't want to do this anymore. I'm on UD side. Is Paul Pierce coming to the holiday party? Is that what I heard there? Secret Santa, Oscars party.

Is he coming to Davis-Samson, the Ad N' Ambers West party? Oh no! We should combine all the smoke with that. Let's figure out how to do that. Let's, on Sunday, an Oscar party with Adnan, David Sands, and all the smoke. Ha ha ha ha. Eating better is easy with factors delicious,

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Such a lane for you. Just everything in college football is awesome any single thing that happens She gets deliriously happy about don't you miss viewing sports through that let prism though like I'm envious of Lucy Like I wish that I could still be happy. This is the done. Let's watch our show with us to God There are two things I've been next to my partner of two decades here for a very long time There are two things happening right now that are making me uncomfortable in our long-time marriage and partnership. One of them is that he is visibly and physically uncomfortable

because he feels athletes invading his business space. And so he's like, get out of here, get out of the way. I'm really more concerned for the kids, for the shipping container, because you and I, we've already done it, man. We, you know, 20 years, it's been a great run. We put together a great show. We've got a lot of great moments.

Don't give up yet, Stu-Gots. I'm not giving up. You're shaky. You're shaky. You got no confidence. No, I have plenty of confidence. We're still relevant. We'll be relevant for as long as we do this. You have to welcome the athletes

storming the gates, Stu-Gots. You have to welcome the fight storming the gates to God. You have to welcome the fight. Do not put down your sword, Stugatz and say, I've been there. I've done it. No, I'm not doing that. I'm just saying we've established ourselves. This show is a juggernaut. It will be for as long as you and I do it.

I'm worried about the next generation because the athletes are coming for everything. They are. I mean, I'm worried about everyone. I'm worried about the kids then. I'm not. I am. I am. The other thing that's happening here. This is the atoni. So this is the other part of what I'm worried about. What's do got is there are these two things happening at once. Do gots is wildly uncomfortable and insecure now because the Kelsey's asked

for business help. And now they're taking all the good jobs and Stugatz like, wait a minute, you had to climb on my neck to get there. But the other thing that Stugatz is doing that's making me uncomfortable is he thinks the way into the game in his fifties to like fight with these guys is to leer at Tony. Is to like, I'm just gonna go straight for, I'm looking at Tony's nipples all show and I'm salivating because Tony is dressed like Neo. Yes, can you guys tell me what's happening here because he's been looking at you during breaks

because he wants what's in that file. Well, we just uploaded new files to the Ponder file, Dan. And obviously I wasn't here yesterday and you got uploaded. Yeah, it's just a regular folder. No, we upload stuff to the file. We upload them to the file. Yeah.

Our team that does the ponder file, we have a lot, a big team here that helps with this. So I wasn't here yesterday. And I know you guys did a lot of NFL talk. Obviously NFL's back in the news. We got people getting tagged. We got people getting cut. A lot of things happening.

So I had a couple of new storylines uploaded into the ponder file. Breaking down on pieces of paper. Correct. It was an upload time. It takes a little bit longer. It's more of an analog situation. But Tony, this is your lane, right? They make fun of you. They undercut you at every turn, but you're our football guy. Sure. But you're not getting a lot of support. You and Juju do the football show

and it comes with very little support because they're, and you care about what happened yesterday and our show did not. That's fine, Dan, but you know what? We push through and we make things happen. We get it out the mud as usual. Not even, we're not gonna get the support that other people have, but you know what?

We're gonna kick ass and we're gonna do shit every single day and do things great. So first question. I will say Billy seems offended by Dan calling you the football guy. I mean he does I thought he was the UFC guy basketball guy swimming guy. Just no not swimming Yeah, I said you're the football show so we're we're son and live so we're all encompassing more to come on that news by the way About foot girls You can have that You guys should take if she's gonna give up the intellectual property of foot foot never had it to begin with

Someone accosted Lucy and I in coconut grove this weekend. We were crossing the street with Willow Oh, that was a buddy of mine. Sorry And Lucy and I both nearly fell over. That was a buddy of mine. He told me he did that. I'm sorry Yeah, his name is Sean. Sorry about that. All right first question First question can Mike Tomlin win a Super Bowl with with Russell Wilson First question, can Mike Tomlin win a Super Bowl with Russell Wilson? Oh, wow. Is everything else the same, Tony? Same team as 2023, hypothetically.

Obviously, adding in health, making sure everybody's healthy. I know there's a lot of injuries. Deontay Johnson was hurt for like nine weeks out of the season. If you bring Russell Wilson. The same O-line as 2023. Maybe get a little bit better. Well, the great thing about bringing Russ in is it's going to cost you roughly two2 million,

right? Like somewhere in that neighborhood. So yes, everyone stays. They said they've wanted to build around Kenny Pickett, but we've kind of seen what Kenny Pickett is. And I feel like we're all right. Can Russell Wilson be the missing piece for Mike Tomlin? Top division.

It wasn't one of you talking earlier today about top five coaches that are just hanging on by a thread or something? No, top five coaches who do just enough to keep their jobs. Different segment though, we have that one later on. Isn't it a different segment though? You're claiming that my timeline is on that list? I'm claiming that Billy, our other football show

that gets offended when I say that Tony has a football show. One of the other football shows. Foot. Foot. Not that. That's Juju's show. That's your show now. One of the other football shows. Foot. Foot. Foot. Not that. That's Juju's show. That's your show now. Foot.

I'm the foot girls. You guys can have foot. It's all yours. You should do imaging. I mean, you don't want it. David, did you hear that? I mean, David, if you are listening, we have merch for with Foot Girls shirts on Juju's jewels on lebatardaf.com.

No GenC of B merch though. Like the company owner just gave that away gave we gave Roy for his hockey show huck boys Yeah, he didn't like he didn't want it. He didn't want there's another puck We guys should take that too. Jay. They said they're just gonna leave money on the ground The hustlers should get where the money is like you guys and puck boys you guys are they're gonna just give it I went with the hockey show. Yeah. Yeah.

Classic Roy. It's unbelievable. It really is. So Russell Wilson, Mike Tomlin. Toughest division in football. I mean, I don't know. Lamar Jackson's in that division. Joe Burroughs back in that division.

You have the Cleveland Browns who are really good. I would say no. I would say that Tomlin, they'll be better, but they'll not win a super bowl of Russell. I think they'll be better just if you have hypothetically, this is not possible because they've already started making moves, but 2023's team, but you, you plop Russell Wilson in there. Cause I feel like their issues run far deeper than just their quarterback is out. Is it 2023 schedule? Good question, Billy. Thank you. If it was that that landed them right in the playoff game with the Buffalo Bills second half

They were in that game. Yeah, two two wins away. Who is the quarterback there? Exactly. Come on, Russell Wilson need a lot more respect on his name Where were you yesterday, thank you? I think Russell Wilson need a lot more respect on his name. Dangerous. Thank you. Where were you yesterday? Thank you. Let's steal. Yes, that was the-

I saw that as the title of one of the episodes. Let's steal. Chris Cody's trying to figure out what he's going to say when he gets to the steal. Let's steal. Let's steal. Let's steal a nation. Why would you be working with the room and make a joke for the room? It's called being supported no one in the room would get because you're jealous that he's also got they've got a football

I'm sure I'm supporting Chris who wanted to make that the slogan. Yes. This is how things take off I was just bit ball one day to the next don't follow up on it people forget about it That's why we said let's steal is gonna be the thing yesterday So let's steal we're talking about the steel. Let's steal hashtag. Let's steal to ease stealing it What if Dax on the Steelers what is here we steal? That's a different ponder question. That's a different question I want to go do one though. I want to go deeper into the ponder file Oh, wow in a second I have a question about Dax by the way. I saw a picture that said

look at Dax's new look and unless I'm mistaken he looked the same to me. I don't think he did anything drastically different did he? Did he grow a goatee? Did he have a goatee? Yeah he's a goatee brother. I think he had a beard before did he? Yeah he had a beard yeah. Now he has a goatee. Hashtag let's steal Omar Ebb's. Didn't Dan used to have a goatee? He did Great decision on a beer, bro. Thank you. Why is that you are always actually supportive? As opposed to Billy who is like what he's doing? segment has been

Let me explain to you. Let's do. Watching Billy manipulate a gullible room, spin it on his finger. Also it's gullible. Yeah, what does that mean? You moved the conversation. I saw your outrage that I made Tony's show, the football show. Then I made it Tony and Juju's show and I forgot Jessica's show.

You made them the football expert. That's correct. I didn't make them the football experts. Have you been watching? Have you been right? No, wait a minute. I made them the wait a minute. I made them the football expert. You didn't watch a single thing they did every weekend for us. It was late on a Sunday night. But they were great.

Sunday nights, my night. They saw Lane and they created something that Adam McKay wants to executive produce. We still have that. Yeah. We still have that. Yeah. Yeah. For real. Sure to get off the pot. What a producer. But is it? I mean, the Kelsey's teach you nothing. You got to strike while the air and Todd Adam. Hey, don't look. Someone's going to come on. Right ahead. There you go. Exactly. Straight ahead. Let's steal. There's everything. What's he got going on?

He doesn't want your business to get off the ground. He does not want the Tony and Jusri train. Look, if he's got to do the slave ship of working with Stugans, as the anchor on his football show, he doesn't want you guys to sail into the sky. That's what it is. We have fun, fun and sometimes Billy doesn't have all I don't Exactly, that's why he's he envies our show. Um, let's say in the Russell Wilson category for a second Russell Wilson at 2 million Or two at 55 million

What I didn't know he got a Christian Potter. It's the most sensual thing for Scott. Christian Potter. Come on.