The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Back In My Day Returns

Episode Date: January 6, 2026

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This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stucats podcast. Against the spread is presented by Draft Kings. Draft Kings. The Crown is yours. Roy, what do you got? All right, we got Panthers. I'm Maple Leafs. The Panthers have failed the cover of the puck line in seven of the last eight divisional games and the home team has won 10 straight games involving the Maple Leafs.

And the Maple Leafs right now, this game is going to be at a Social Bank Arena where the winning margin is 1.7. The Panthers won't be without. Soon to be Olympians, Seth Jones, for the next couple of weeks after taking the puck up high. That's not going to help the offense

from the blue lines. So, hey, give me that spread. Go ahead with the Maple Leafs, who are dogs tonight at one and a half goals against his spread. Picking against the home team. It's a national TV game, too. Oh, you're picking for the home team?

Sorry, I wasn't paying attention. Yeah, there you go. Well, he's picking for the team that's playing in the home game, but not our home team. Why are you confused me? I heard that, right? Because it's in Toronto. It's in Toronto. I understand that.

What are we doing? But the Panthers are the home team. It made me feel like an idiot. All home team, but not the home team, but they're playing in another country. Yeah, no, that's what I meant. The Toronto Maple Leafs is. All right. I'm going to take the Colorado Avalanche against the spread because it's hard to beat them in regulation,

A lot of teams pull the goalie, so it's always a great opportunity. They're really good in the third period, and I think they'll turn this thing around. The Panthers beat them in regulation. I know. So I'm heading on that. Third time of the season. Yeah. I'm rooting for the, not the home team here.

The Panthers were at home that game. Colorado has three or four losses in regulation this entire season. Three now. It's a spread. It's crazy, right? Hey. Against the spread is presented by Traff King. Traff King is a crowns you are.

We're halfway through the season. Yes, that is nuts. They've been very good, and the Panthers don't have a better victory than that one at home in their most recent contest against Colorado. I do want to correct something, at least to be fair to Ashton Genty. He had 1,300 yards this year, Greg, and a thousand of them were... Yes? 975 of them were rushing. But a thousand of them were after contact.

Yeah. They've got to fix the line. Their offensive line is broken. But what would you have liked him to show you when the offensive line is that bad? They cannot pass the ball and they only have a side end. They traded their number one receiver. So what would you – like, how would he have put up numbers in that offense that just got Pete Carroll fired after one year? You saw him in college.

It's not like he doesn't know how to run. Right. No, no. Maybe I was harsh to say he had a bad rookie year. I would absolutely call it a disappointing rookie year based on where he was drafted and the expectations of him. 3.7 yards per carry ranked 45th in the league among qualified running. I imagine that NFL headquarters, there's a room where it's like, this is the room where we track stats, and everyone's in charge of one stat.

Like, I'm the yards after. So my job is to keep track of when someone's been touched, and I'm just at my desk, and I'm like, he's been touched! He was touched three yards before. Like that seems like a hard thing to track. It's stupid. Like the yards after contact, are we talking about just grazed? TMI.

Is this like a hit? That is one of those that I always take their word for it. Exactly. You know what I think is the hardest stat to keep track of? And I want this every time I go to a Panther game, and they show on the screen there, in real time, the ice time. Yeah. Who the hell keeps track of all that? They actually have trackers now. Is there a room in the ice high up?

Gatchavitch is on the ice! They wear those things. That's how they determine it? Yeah. And it's updated in real time. Yeah, it's a lot more seamless now. Wow. Very impressive.

Let's all go around the room. The stat you'd most like to be in charge. of. Greg, you were official scorer for minor league baseball. Well, Greg is sitting here saying too much information. He's objecting to all of it. Greg Cody is anti-information. He's anti-learning. He's anti-getting

better. He's anti-improving. He's anti- wisdom. He's anti-open mind. And because some of that's true. Because he is against those things, he sees no value in the, I believe there's nuance in saying you said Ashton Genty

was just terrible. And I'm telling you, he had thousand yards after contact. That's useful information on neutering your point, diluting it at least a little bit, that he's terrible. Because if he's doing that much after contact, it's not irrelevant. I don't think I said he was terrible. I think he said he had a really bad season. And I continue to think it was a really disappointing season based on draft and expectation. But, you know, growing up, I knew what a good baseball player was. I didn't need to know what his OPS was because OPS hadn't been invented yet. You know what I'm saying? I knew a guy who could hit home runs.

I didn't know that the velocity of his ball leaving the park was such and such. It didn't matter then and it doesn't matter now. You think OPS, which is an excellent individual measurement of what an individual is in the batters box, independent of his teammates, is the same as exit velocity on a home run? They're both examples of too much information. The first one is absolutely not. The first one, you can object to the second one if you want, but the first one's... I do want.

The first one... No, Greg. first one's an accurate. The first one is an accurate measurement of what a baseball player is as a hitter. It's the most accurate measurement that you can get that separates him from RBI and all the things that are dependent on teammates. When we break down Ashton Genti, what we're doing there is we're not able to separate him from his teammates. His offensive line was terrible. Gino Smith, come on, guys, you saw what Gino Smith was in Seattle. Look at what he was this year. Look at what Kenny Pickett was when he got out there. Did you guys? see what the Packers did this week? And it was like 50 yards of offense they had by the fourth quarter. That's what the Raiders were when Kenny Pickett replaced Gino Smith. They were terrible at offense. It's not Gentie's fault. So how do you rebuild that? Do you just load up the offensive line for a future quarterback? Or do you get the quarterback knowing that you need the offensive line, but this quarterback has really good numbers against pressure? Bijon Robinson in his

rookie season had 976 yards on the ground. Much after contact. Ashton Jenty had 975. Okay, I got to backtrack. How does the technology on the skater know when they're on the ice so that the clock starts running again? They all have Eagle Eye, dude. Who has Eagle Eye? They all have that technology. Have you ever not?

Who's they? Have you ever watched like these like fan watch parties at like the Tampa Bay Lightning when they're on the road and people are watching just like these little circles on the ice move and pass the puck? Everything's tracked. I watched the finals game by who? They're tracked by the cameras. So the cameras See a player get on the ice

And a camera's hard to lock the motion The perimeter of the ice has like a thing on And then when their sensor goes past it it triggers Okay, this person is moved You know that for sure? I'm just assuming why you poking holes in this I can say fairy dust it friggin' works I'm trying to understand is all

Well you don't think it checks out But you think Seth Jones may be on the ice For 13 minutes and not 12 37 I'm just trying to understand And Chris's theory that there's a sensor Around the edge of the rink I'm sorry I'm not buying that I just think there's a sensor on them

Like the tracking thing that we're talking about it's probably tracked based off movement so when they get up off the bench how do you know that time out and they're not just getting on the ice how do they know don't look at me like that this is a legitimate question you think someone getting off the bench and going to the bathroom is the same as the heart rate of

playing an NHL game we just saw a pretty convincing video we just saw a pretty convincing video of Mario chrysabal punching Ryan Day in the face and you don't think they can figure out when you're on the ice trying to know who they is is yards after contact like any touch

or needs to be at some level of, like, hit? Like, what if I'm reaching to tackle you and just my hand just raises your thigh? Craig McElroy on always college football? He's like, Ole Miss, they initiate contact on a rushing attempt, one and a half yards after the line of scrimmage. And Miami, they're running for five and a half yards after contact. You know what that means? Seven yards, Carrie.

Yes, that's what I've been saying. Mass kicks ass. It's a bad defense, Ole Miss has. That's why I refer to them as Ole Miss tackles. They missed 15 tackles in the last game and won anyway. You mentioned tackles, Greg? I think tackling is going to be a big deal. This game is being played in Glendale, and that turf is a disaster.

Remember the Super Bowl that was there? People were slipping and sliding everywhere. I'm worried about this turf, especially with a quarterback like Chambliss who can run around and squirt out of these situations. I think we're going to see a lot of miss tackles. Put it on the Pollette Lebitard show. Are you worried about this turf? Chris Cody, I just want to see if I have this right. You're of the belief that it is possible that Ashton Genty has more than a thousand yards after contact

because everyone grazed his shirt with a finger. I'm asking the difference. Does any contact mean? But I just want to be clear. You think the majority- I prefer it to be tough contact. Yeah, but you're thinking that perhaps this status flawed because there was just somebody who sort of grazed.

He was grazed. And all of a sudden he's getting yak, and it's like, is this really yak? The sleeve of his jersey. I just want to know who's determining when a yak has begun. Does him give him a stiff arm count? If there's a scrum and a player skates fast to the scrum to defend his teammate, you're telling me the clock on his ice time stops? He's still skating.

Roy, what do you mean does a stiff arm count? Of course it counts. There's contact. Like, what do you mean? But he generated the contact. No, I'm with Roy on this. No, but I'm with Roy on this. No, he can go create contact?

What if I just won a bunch of yak? I'm just going to go out like, oh, hit me. Yeah, he'll touch me. Touch me. The running back gets credit for yards after contact fraudulently when it's a blatant mistackle. He didn't do anything. Right. It's the defender's fault.

And yet the yak man gets credit for 38 yards after a mistackle. All right, kicking things off with Smearnoff, the official vodka sponsor of the NFL and the number of vodka in the world. Chris Cody, you're here. Smearned off. Wow, you're on the money with Smeared off. Smeared off. Chris, you know what goes great with Smyronoff? Yes, but I'm really talking about the game day fit.

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No, we cannot say that, but we both enjoy an ice cold Miller light. That's true. Especially around the holidays. You know, it's a 50th anniversary of Miller Light. It's really amazing. Every time we say that, I can't believe it. Well, it's crazy because, like, They've basically been partners with the Dan Lebitard show for half of their existence. When I put it to you that way, we got an old-ass show. Yeah, we do. That's crazy. Hey, let's look around at our friends, not each other, and our family, even though they're not here.

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This is the quickest it goes. Hey, this is the quickest it goes. Stugats. Everybody, this is the quickest it goes. Yeah. This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats. By the way, to answer Zaslow's question, the game clock would stop. So time on the ice would stop.

lot of questions about this ice time. You do. So do we, but I have to move on to other subjects like Snoop Dog calling a game. I have said before that I believe that Snoop Dog in my lifetime is the most amazing spokesperson history that I have seen somebody going from murder trial and an assortment of things that over the first 30 years of his life might not have turned into media spokesman and sponsorship opportunities. Here's Snoop Dogg. doing the color commentary on a game involving Steve Kerr and Steve Kerr yelling at the referees during Clippers and Warriors last night. The Clippers end up beating the Warriors by one last night.

Oh, oh, Steve, don't get thrown out. Get him out of there. Get him out of there. Back him up, GP. Back him up, Steve ready to fire on him. He's already gone. Steve begging Englewood right now. Engelwood.

Get him, Steve. You in Englewood, Steve. The Arizona Wildcatting came out and look at it. Just missing Lamar Thomas shouting, We Ready. That is a classic callback right there. For those of you who do not know, see if you can find the We Ready sound. This was an amazing thing to listen to a broadcast. See if you can find all of it, Chris.

It might not be easy. It was an FIU Miami Brawl, and in the broadcast booth, Lamar Thomas, former Hurricane, started inciting more and more brawl and then never got another broadcasting job after this. Now the Metro Dave police trying to restore order. And that's what I'm talking about. You come into our house, you should get your behind kick. You don't come in the old OB playing that stuff.

You're across the ocean over there. You're across the city. You can't come over to our place talking noise like that. You get your butt deep. I was about to go down the elevator and get in that thing. You know, I say why they just meet outside in the tunnel after the ball game. and get it on some more. You don't come into the OB, baby.

We've had a down a couple of years, but you don't come in here talking smack. Not in your house. You know what we'd be saying right now? We read it. We read it. Did Lamar Thomas ever get a broadcasting job after being fired right after that?

Well, I think he might have gotten some broadcasting job. Play-by-play guy there? Do you remember? I do not. Jason Slokkin. Thank you. That was a real flex by you. A weird flex by you.

I want to get to something here because Zaslo, Zaslo, not a lot of people know this, and I'm going to betray him some here. He can be a bit of a thief when it comes to trying to steal, like, for example, the spotlight from an Evan Cohen, for example, because I will get to this with Zaslo in a second, but Evan Cohen was doing one of these bowl games. I'm going to say...

Bockeball. Bush's Bockeye. Okay, the Bokable. It was Louisville against... Toledo? Nailed it. All right. So there was a brawl in the game on the sidelines, and I believe Evan Cohen, a rising star in this business, I believe that Evan Cohen did what passes for the closest thing

that sports will ever have to war correspondent reporting because Evan Cohen was in the middle of true chaos. There was a fight on the sidelines, and Evan Cohen over 10 minutes, I was listening to this broadcast. He did not have a hiccup as I thought he was being pepper sprayed, and I thought the police were hitting him with batons, but he was totally relaxed in the middle of what appeared to be a giant brawl in Boka. Evan is right in the middle of that scrump.

Evan, what do you got? Carlin, this is ugly. It looked from my vantage point, almost like a Louisville player was stomping on a Toledo player because one of the Toledo players was punching another Louisville player to a point that multiple police officers literally had to get in the middle of this. I'm counting on the field. Let's see, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. different police officers, 10 different police officers on the field. Guys, this was an absolute

melee. I am stunned that there were no objections. Evan, let's talk a little more about this. How does that happen? Chris and Freddie, there's just no way the refs saw it because of where they were on the field. I'm literally looking at the bench and the Louisville mascot right now has the guy's crutches on the sidelines. There's just no way the refs saw everything that we saw. Down to Evan Cohen with more. Guys, I count in front of me. I am standing. standing at the 15 yard line or so on the Louisville sideline, 14 police officers, rough count. I talked to one of them.

I said, how was there only two penalties? Did you see more? Could the reps have seen it? He said, there were definitely some things probably should have been more. So things is what the police officer said. Not an official statement. I'm just saying my conversation with the officer on the sideline. I want you to imagine my confusion, okay?

Just listening on the radio, hearing this report, okay, There are police officers all over the field. Refes didn't see anything. The mascot has one of the guys' crutches. And this is a Tuesday at 1145. He asked the cop why there were only two people. And then quoted the cop as saying the refs definitely missed it. What could the things have been?

The cop said there were some things. The mascot took crutches? What a. Something else. What a Bush's baked bean boca bowl. You can't use the number 14 and then use the phrase rough count. If you're going to say rough count, you got to say rough count, you got. to make it 15.

10 or 15, right. Round number. Well, he's just allowing for the idea that he might have missed a cop or two. No, but it's like saying, you know, there's five billion grains of sand on the beach rough count. You know, you just can't say that. You've got to be specific. I think it's important that from that reporting you find the way to criticize because you would have done it so much better. You know, I would have said 15 is a rough count.

What if there were only 14? Well, then you say exactly 14. The main question we had back here is, why were you listening to that? Oh, I love listening to the... You do. I love listening. You had the six and a half. It's your strangest quirk.

I love listening to college football on the radio, at least in part. Now, this wasn't... In the house? This was an ESPN, no, driving around. This was an ESPN broadcast. But the reason... It was a Wednesday afternoon. The reason I loved...

listening to college football in the car is because invariably somebody is selling furniture, the local furniture store is sponsoring the 20-yard line. And I just, I want to be amused by the number of sponsorships that they try to keep radio alive with by selling the holy hell out of the Toledo Louisville game. And also, yeah, I had Louisville in that one and they didn't cover. It's an amazing endorsement. Dan, why do you listen to college football? I love the endorsement. The local. All our salespeople just perked up. What?

Hold up. It's like, you love them over there. We found the lane. Get me, Mike Ryan's call of the final play of the Duke Miami game that had 75 laterals in it because I thought the funniest thing that was in that entire broadcast was Mike Ryan making fun of what Joe Zagaki has to do with the last 40 yards of a touchdown. Paying homage, Dan. Right. That's what I meant. When I'm making fun of the legendary Josigaki.

Do you know for sure that Joe Zagaki? He has heard this? Has he heard this? I think he's heard this. I don't know for sure, though. I think so. Come on, it's a legendary clip. I don't know if Greg Cody has heard this.

Have you heard Mike Ryan's call of the end? It was a very controversial end. There were a lot of penalties that were not called. Speaking of referees not seeing things. There were 14 police officers on the field during all of these laterals, and nothing was seen from all the Miami cheating. Miami ends up winning against Duke. Here is the call.

2724 squip kick just fall down on it or whatever no they're going to try the lateral pass it to the other side of the field this never works caught by cornelder pitches it back to juquan johnson at the miami 30 delaying the inevitable looking for a block pitches it backwards as many laterals now as bs pass interference penalties on that last ride walton now pitches it back to johnson guess we're going to keep going with this toss it back here comes another pitch cornelder has it throws it back to the plumbers not one goal line. Dallas Crawford looking for a block, gets one, definitely not a block in the back. He throws it across to the 30 to Cornelder. Big legal block. He's got it to the 40. Cornelder crossing El Palacio Delos Hookos midfield. Cornelder, speeding now to the 40. Speeding ticket? Fick Howard.com. Heldor now dashing down the Dandy bear sideline. So what your kid has ringworm? Dandy bear. Elder, inside the Gus Machado Red Zone. Cornelder, he's at the 10. He's at the Lindy, Eric, Scotty, Mike, Miami, Secretarium, Touchdown! There are presently no flags on the field, and certainly no one will have a problem with how this game ended.

Oh, wait, we don't speak English, though everyone hates us. Mike Greenberg the next day called for the ACC to reverse a decision. I made Jamel Hill apologize on our show. She demanded that we forfeit. Mike, I imagine you listening to that is what it felt like for the Beatles when they finished Abbey Road and they were listening back in the studio and they were like, yeah, we did it. Yeah. Only that was live.

It's a masterpiece. So it's more impressive. That and Melchiper Jr. breaking down divas live, that was also very difficult. So more impressive than Abby Road just so we can get that. Yes, because it was live. Got it. They definitely rehearsed Abby Road before they put it out. Don Libetard.

Is there back in my day? There is actually Are you not going to tell anyone Wait a minute You guys It's a Tuesday It's a Tuesday Stugats

Here's your guy Greg Cody With bag in my day I hope my head Okay here it is Adultery We are back We are waiting for this one

This is the Don Lebatore show with the Stugats. Speaking of Masterpieces, the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody. With it, yep, thanks. Has an excellent conceit in the most recent episode, which is the top 50 catchphrases ranked of all time that Greg Cody has. And I did not realize there were 50. I was told that they've winnowed it down from more than 100. And I simply cannot believe that there would be this many. I could come up with a top 10 list of the catchphrases I have heard him say since we

dined in the Harold eating area about 40 years ago. But I cannot come up with 50. Absolutely not. Can you give us some hints as to what example, like number 50 is? We're doing two at time. So this week, we started the list. We unveiled number 50 and 49 of the top 50 Greg Cody catchphrases of all time. What is the occasion to do this? There's really not an occasion. Narcissism has, it sells for us.

Whenever we do shit like this. It's just him being able to celebrate him. Well, people over the years have told me I have a lot of catchphrases. Many have been popularized on this show, some on my own podcast, some in just everyday life. For example, 50 and 49 are totally different. One is something I've said my entire life, which I'll tell you what it is. It's Fuller than Vern Fuller. Wow.

Giving away the goods. Yeah, but I won't say what number 49 is, but number 49 was something Yet he had never even heard of, but was very special to... That's number 50. Fuller than Vern Fuller, my entire life, anytime he's full. Why? Just two, two per episode? Yeah, two per episode. 25 weeks?

We're trying to build this thing out, Roy. Oh, Jesus. I mean, you know, it's... T.S.L. It's only like a couple of minutes per episode. It's not like we're doing an entire podcast on announcing two. You'll have to forgive my ignorance. Who is Vern Fuller?

Vern Fuller was a Cleveland Indians utility infielder from the 19th. He can say that? with a career batting average of about 230. Well, is OPS? I have a bad guy. Did he just nail his batting average? 232 career batting average. That's amazing.

Describe the logo he wore. Here's the problem with OPS. There we go. We're back on this. Oh, for the love of God. Somebody who's on base a lot but isn't a slugger has a low OPS. Somebody who's a slugger but his on base percentage isn't good, he has a low OPS. So let's not act like OPS's.

is everything. But Vern Fuller was the only baseball player at the time with the last name Fuller. And so I'm Fuller than Vern Fuller was a natural, and it just happens to be something that I've said my entire life. A natural? Yeah. Thank you.

What was number 49 since you already revealed it on your podcast, the Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody? It's not a reveal. You can embargo the other 48 if you are. Should I do it, Christopher? It's already out. Yeah, but Dan, we want people from this audience that haven't listened. But isn't there a whole rest of the show?

24 episodes are going to be four. Yeah. In fact, I address my team after the championship blows. We also have that. And announce the firing of... See, we're giving away all the good series. Honestly, I'm listening to it now. Right now.

I'm leaving. What is number 49? All right, just give it to that. Number 49 is, where's my click, click? Loaded. And... That's when I was a child, when he's in the car, someone and he wants them to buckle up it's where's my click click and then once the person

buckles up he goes there's my click click click like the suntan commercial the what yeah like she has short shorts yeah oh okay I guess it is uh in that realm but click click click uh I've been saying since Christopher and Michael were and he even started saying it to my daughter my daughter knows where's my click click yeah Greg you're having an all-timer all I need is a back in my day and we're hanging the dude yeah I won't Don't get crazy. You have one? Is it Tuesday?

Yes. Yeah? Of course I do. Of course I do. What? Yes. You have one? It's Tuesday.

You have one. This is gasoline. Is it ready? Yeah. All right. What? You have one? Yes.

Oh, God. Got to find the imaging. Yeah, why wouldn't I? Just that off. Get the cobwebs off of it. See whatever. Wait, is this a joke? No, I have one.

Oh, he's got a piece of paper. He's messing with us. He's messing with us, guys. This has to be a bit. This is your first one in a year. Myriad pieces of paper here. Holy shit. But I do have to leave right after this back in my day.

It's definitely more than a year. I could tell you I've never been in studio with him doing it back of my day. Neither have I. How about that? Where's my click-click? It's something that is only uttered in his car. Where's my click-click-click? How does it get to be a catchphrase?

He reminds me to buckle up. Oh, I got to buckle up. That's right. Where's my imaging? And now, it is time to take a trip down memory lane. Here's your guide, Greg Cody, with Back in My Day. Cliff's Notes! Things were so innocent when I was in school growing up

that Cliff's Notes felt like cheating. We didn't know our benefactor or would have personally thanked founder Clifton Hilligas, who took out a $4,000 loan in a Lincoln, Nebraska basement in 1958. invented and produced Cliff's Notes. The brand launched with 16 summaries of Shakespearean plays. Perfect. No high school teen on earth wanted to slog through the turgid prose of Romeo and Juliet, but we all had to feign interest for the grade.

Kids, a generation earlier, had to actually read Shakespeare or hit the set of encyclopedias to find old bill right there between Shakers, the religion, and Shale, the Rock. Us, we bought Cliffs Notes, Breezed through the Sun. summary, and from that vomited a quick report. Boom, B-plus. Cliff's Notes was the academic equivalent of Rosie Ruiz running a marathon. Only these shortcuts and cut corners were perfectly legal, accepted even. The iconic yellow and black guidebooks became such a part of society that they inspired Wiz Khalifa to write his song, Black and Yellow. Okay, totally made that up.

Now back to the truth. Cliff's Notes was the start of us having it easy. Too easy. Time was you want a direction somewhere, you had to consult an Atlas, ask someone who'd been there, or get a triptych from AAA. You needed a paper on World War II, you hit the encyclopedia or ask grandpappy. No Alexa or Siri or whatever she's called, now no Google to ask, and certainly no artificial intelligence to do everything for you, but wipe your ass. Cliff's Notes was a delightful shortcut, something different. Now everything's a shortcut. The very need for formal education is getting closer and closer to becoming extinct. There is no real need to know that pi equals 3.14

or that Australia is wider than the moon. But if there were, your laptop can tell you faster than your teacher. Now, so can Cliff's notes, which sadly has adapted to the times and become more of an online entity that wants to do even more of your work for you. Ban everything that gives you free information fast. Make learning laborious again. Bring back dictionaries, Atlas's roadmap, sets of

encyclopedias, and a reliance on the fading memories of elders. I'm Greg Cody, and that's how it was. I'm my day. Welcome back. I'll take it. Welcome back. Welcome back. Welcome back. Let's go. See you, Jeremy.

My, Cliffs, Cliffs. That's like listening to Abby Rhodes. It is, my, Cliffs, Cliffs. Worth the weight. Wow. Thank you. Put it on the poll. Now do it again. At Lebitard show. Next week. Did you know that Australia was

wider than the moon? This was something that I was thinking about. I've heard over the years, many people make the argument on behalf of you shouldn't go to college. All of that information is available to you. You don't have to pay to go to college and have it taught to you. Now, I would make the argument. There are all sorts of social reasons to go to college as well. But what I had not accounted for recently that's happened with AI is that it is a plague in our college system that college students aren't actually doing the work. They're just farming it out. So you're paying for college, but you're

farming out all the work to computers and you're rendering college kind of useless if you can trick your professors because you're having the computers do everything for you. It's just not something that I had accounted for. Have you guys given any consideration to the idea that college would be less worth the cost now than it ever has been because so many students can just, cheat their way through without having to do the work, especially if professors aren't paying close attention. Yeah, of course. But still, it's about getting that college degree so that your potential employer. Like, you can't convince your employer. I didn't need to go to college. I learned all the stuff that I need for this gig. I did it on my own at home. Like, you still have

to show the employer that you went to school. The modern employer? The new age modern employer that understands that the entire world has changed and that there are other ways to learn than the traditional ways of learning, especially since you can now cheat your way through the traditional ways of learning. Like, it's worth less than it used to be, I would think, if you could cheat your way through it. I think jobs that require a college degree are far and fewer between than they used to be. I just don't get the sense that that's a requirement of as many jobs as it once was. You got companies hiring people. I mean, come on. They're done doing that, pal.

care. You need to have that college degree to even qualify to get the job. That's what I'm saying. And that's all that the value really has been forever. Like what you were talking about, oh, it's awful. Like it's terrible. And that's why like when I was in college, I would tell everyone like, no, everything that I learned of value came from internships because it's practically applying everything. And that's why there are so many jobs where going to a trade school would be better than going to college and earning a degree. But a lot of the time, that's your only choice. If you want to set yourself up for success is I need to physically have a degree whether you cheated your way through it or not. There are many things that I think people listening to this would be surprised

that even some of the most successful people in sports haven't actually learned because I believe that Lane Kiffin does not know how to grocery shop. I don't know whether this is his family playing a trick on him, but I do believe that some of these coaches are so lopsided and have to be so lopsided, being good at the particular thing that they're good at, that they have a team of people handling a bunch of stuff for them that they don't know how to handle. So let's look at Lane Kiffin here. He is a very popular, successful, well-paid LSU coach who has really shaken the entirety of the system because the team he built in Mississippi with the quarterback he built it with

is two games from a championship and it's the best Mississippi team we've ever seen. And if he wants his assistance back, they might not have the proper coaching for the biggest game in program history, which is being played in two days. But is it surprising to learn and do you believe that this video and audio from Lane Kiffin's home is true that Lane Kiffin does not know how to grocery shop? Oh, you kid. Oh, why didn't you get that? Why did you bring that back? How did you just to carry it? You have to pay for bags.

they said you have to pay for a bag and a self-checkout so then I just standing in his living room with a shopping basket that he took from the grocery store stole it he stole he stole is it stealing of course it's not your property is it stealing

put it on the poll at Lebitard show is it stealing to well I don't want to call it the cart because it's the basket is it stealing to take home the basket from the grocery store the way Lane Kiff did. I feel like if it's my Publix, I'll be back. This thing will be back.

And you're going to bring it back? Jack. You're the reason that I can never take the cart past a certain point without being electrocuted at my whole foods. They can't be electrocuted.

The cart just stops. The cart stops. I also have my doubts. I am electrocuted. Every time I try to take the cart a little bit outside of wherever it is, they've got their electrical fencing. They have shock collars on their car.

I get electrocuted by the bars of my grocery cart and the wheels, the wheels freeze up and you're the reason because you think that's not stealing, because you think you can take the basket in the cart. It matters if it's his public store. Everyone has their grocery store. And I feel like you have more liberties at your grocery store. If the managers know you, like, if he's there all the time, I'm not calling the cops on that. Did it look like he's there all the time?

I mean, I'm surprised he does his own shopping. I was very impressed by all that. Good for Lane. Well, he doesn't do his own shopping. Clearly. I mean, he does. Oh, because you're saying he probably did for the first time. That's the first time he has probably in, what, 25 years?

Maybe ever. He grew up with, like, head coach money in his family, right? Like, that's a rich man. He's been rich for a long time. Trying to avoid paying what, how much do they charge for bags? Yeah, he was upset. They charged, like, 60 cents for a bag. You don't think Monty used to send him to the grocery store, pick up a mill?

Charging for bags, though? I'm out on that. He can't. He handheld the, the, the, bottle of bleach, which I thought was a pro move? A big move. You don't want to mix the bleach with the food. He handheld it. That's a veteran shopper.

Good for Lane. You can make the argument or a decent argument that Lane Kiffin is sort of the advent way ahead of his time on the NFL team going and getting the really young head coach, the first 30 plus just a young person who looks like a boy

because he knows better than everyone else. He wasn't ready for the job that since, by the way, This Raiders organization you speak of hasn't been any good sense. Like the Raiders, you guys think that's a good job. And that organization for 20 years has been an abject failure. Like everything that's happening there has been wrong. We've been asking, are they for real for 20 years?

And the answers always no. In fact, I put them right next to the dolphins in terms of like, man, you haven't been, you haven't done it. You're a regional team and you haven't done shit for two decades, no matter who it is that's in charge there. But to watch him presently do what's happening in college football as a. symbol for sort of the excess and the stupidity and the way that the rules have gone all awry. To me, it won't dilute Miami winning a championship, but having this kind of business around college football where 30% of the players are in the portal and a coach can do this to the biggest game in program history where it's like, you don't know if these kids are going to have

their coaches available in a way that's attentive because Lane Kiffin had to, job jump. I find it fairly amazing that we live in a time where we're watching this shit happen where a salary for a quarterback can be $3 million, 30% of the players are in the portal, and the coach at the front of it, the hood ornament on it, is a total mercenary. This is one of the biggest college football stories of our time. Heather Dinnich, by the way, reported that Charlie Weiss Jr. and Kevin Smith will be a part of the Ole Miss staff. I can't imagine how difficult this is to balance for those coaches that are still

there, for the coaches that are traveling back and forth, and to the players who this is totally unfair for. This is crazy, and I wonder if Lane Kiffin regrets it, because what would the national conversation be around this Ole Miss team? Regrets which part? If Ole Miss still had Lane Kiffin? Because he left for a job that he felt like he would have a better opportunity to win a title at. They're two games from a national title. And the way that that company Northeast in Bristol operates, all the credit would be going to Lane Kiff. All the credit would be going to Lane Kiffin. Now, he's so part of the story in his own Lane Kiffin type of way, but he is not the story. In fact, he is the adversity facing these kids and Pete Golding, and I think he regrets it.