The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Dan Le Batard's Worst Day

Episode Date: January 25, 2024

Amin finally watched Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1 while he was on a plane and launches a conversation about Tom Cruise movies. Stugotz thinks flying is the most dangerous of games. Dan goes to the penalty box after what he dubbed his worst day on the show. Lucy got backlash after criticizing Iowa governor Kim Reynolds and Iowa gun response, inciting a thought provoking show discussion. In an effort to lighten spirits, attention turns towards Brock Purdy and the Conference Championships this weekend and introducing Lucy's 'Iowa Correspondent' imaging. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe Kings Network. It's how we made it more wild. This is the Don Lebator Show with the Stugatz Podcast. You know, they always have the great cold open, but like this one was levels. Yeah, I think it followed for my money the best action movie of all time. And so the expectations were sky high for this film. And I told you about my movie theater experience. I went in one of those 4D movies where my seat was moving the entire time. And it took away from the experience.

It kind of became the experience. I watched it on a flight. My mind was blown because everything I'd heard was ah it's not quite as good as uh not goes fall out fall out and I'm like and and it didn't have a signature moment all these things I was hearing from everybody its signature moment was actually done already in the in the series with the trains like a signature moment is him driving a motorcycle for goddamn cliff yeah but Mike is saying that the last one was the best one and he has a hard time getting excited.

Last one's just been out of the day for an honest. I'm gonna tell you, I watched Fallout, I remember watching Fallout and I was like, this is cool. I watched this movie and I was literally like, I need to tell people. That's how moved I was by how good this was. Weakest villain too. Yeah, like he's not a strong villain.

Well, he's just a villain. Or the villain's a, he's a secondary villain because the main villain is artificial intelligence. Which is so timely. Yeah. So timely. Did you see Biden's quotes? He's like, wow, I saw that movie and we got to, we worry about this now. Yeah, man. I mean, it's actually bringing about change. Thank you, Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise saved the movie industry and then turned around and saved humanity with a movie. Did you watch the fallout on a plane too? No, because I could only watch half of Dead Reckoning so I have to watch the rest at home and it was amazing. Can you explain plane bias though? Can you explain that to me? They've done studies I think could be making this up that you

cry more on a plane or you get more emotional Really on a plane watching movies has anybody else no I've heard that yeah, and it's true like I Something to do with the the oxygen levels and pressure so I've ugly cried on planes in ways that are embarrassing at movies Typically for me. Yeah, I'd fall asleep on plays or watch movies. So the fact that this thing had me wrapped, and by the way, I had one of the lay flat seats for this flight, so it was like. Oh, look at me, Louis.

That's uncut. That's a fence thing. I had a meal, didn't you get a clue? Jeff Louvets. Jeff Louvets. The meal was forgettable, the movie was not. I was up in my seat. I never, I never reclined.

I never reclined. You were at the edge of your seat on a plane on a plane It was no he's he's magical. He's the greatest movie star of our lifetimes You know, I'm coming around. He just makes perfect movies. I remember used to say that and I'm like, all right We're getting like they're fun. We're relaxed Mike I'm like, no, this guy saves Hollywood. He delivers almost every time. He delivers every time. What do you mean almost every time? He delivers every time.

There's a couple misfires. What's the last misfire? What's the last one? That whole Scientology. Night and day was like that was great. I enjoyed that movie though. That was great. That was great.

That was great, yeah, I loved it. He just said it missed. I didn't say it was. No, I'm giving it an example. I'm giving it an example yourself. I'm giving an example Do you believe that night and day? Was I mean it was pan critically powered but I like the movie Like edge of tomorrow. No

I'm gonna go I know what it is. It's the mummy. Yeah I'm gonna go I know what it is. It's the mummy. Yeah Not as bad as the other mummy movies. I know that's sacrilege I thought I enjoyed the mummy because they just put a Tom they made the mummy a Tom Cruise movie. No I just rewatched it. It's not that terrible. That terrible We're number one. I'm also pro doing the Dr. Jackal. Mr. Hyde thing. We didn't need and they were trying to set up a whole I know reverse number one, number two, doing the Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde thing. We didn't need, they were trying to set up a whole epic universe. They were trying to do their MCU of like, of all these universal monsters.

And the mummy that ends up spoiler alert. Tom Cruise was supposed to be the mummy. I guess the, the iron man of this monster Avengers. By the way, this, this might be my favorite thing on the Wikipedia page for Tom Cruise filmography. It says all, obviously all the movies he's made the last two are 2023 mission impossible, dead reckoning. And then 2025 untitled eighth mission impossible film. I'm pretty sure it's called dead reckoning part two.

I'm just going to throw that out there, but there are no mistakes there. They are. Okay. So I'm going backwards. So dead reckoning, right? Top gun, Maverick fallout. American made, which is an excellent movie. I love that movie. Excellent. It didn't do much in the box. No, but it was an excellent movie. Like it, Mike, I enjoyed it. Yeah. That's all that matters. Stretch his range. The mummy. That's a miss. All right. Jack Reacher never go back. I didn't see the second Jack. I saw the first one was good. Yeah. Mission impossible. Rogue nation. Also good.

Edge of tomorrow. Banger. Oblivion. That's a misfire. Big budget, but not as bad as people may not see. That's the misfire. Jack Racher, the first one. Banger. Rock of Ages. Never watched that one. He was good. The movie was crap. Ghost protocol. Banger.

Amazing. Night and day. Banger. Great. Valkyrie. There I say Oscar B. He should have he should have won an Oscar was a little weak But I did have the prop ass. Yes. He had the prop ass Valkyrie We're not weak sir. Yeah, but the movie before Valkyrie Tropic Thunder the greatest What what a cameo? I mean was that a cameo even he was a scene stealer scene stealer Lions for Lambs I've watched it. I don't remember it. Oh, am I three?

That's the one that really started the run. Oh, so the weather so I would say is collateral collateral I mean for the mission apologize Cuz two was very of its time John move if you look back two sticks out like a sore thumb Mainly because it's the only movie where Ethan Hunt is not disavowed sticks out like a sore thumb mainly because it's the only movie where Ethan Hunt is not disavowed Which was the first face changing one because it wasn't one no it was vanilla sky No, no, no the first mission impossible where they changed the rate right it was because that one really mission impossible That was a device in the first one. Yeah, it was a really TV series You know that it was it was inspired by TV series, right? You didn't know that no wasn't you didn't know that no

What what can you guys listen about planes on planes cuz I can't I don't like to you know Sometimes I look up plane crashes while I'm on a plane You're a cycle pass. I did see trailer That a plane crashes into the ocean But there is an air pocket and there are survivors on this plane It's deep at the bottom of the ocean and a shark torments them. Wait. Is this jaws the revenge? It's like no, it's like sharks on a plane But it but it's actually not as campy as you would think here's the trailer

It's like a serious look from the trailer We saw we did a whole thing this year on the submersible and underwater pressure How are we supposed to believe that? Air pocket hold on Wait a minute We're just normalizing the fact that you look up plane crashes on planes like that is the most abuse of white privilege Privilege I've ever heard in my entire life. No, yeah, I can't like anyone Anyone is looking for reasons to profile anyone,

and you're just like, let me see how far I can push this. I try not to think about them. Like, what are you doing? No, because it happened once, and I was on a plane, and I was thinking of planes, and I was like, That's crazy. All right, well, I eat snow. What?

Quite the dismount from Charlotte Wilder. Flying feels like the most dangerous of games right now. Like a crapshoot. No, what, because of that Alaska? No. They went and looked at all the manufacturers in a lot of the planes and they were like, yeah, so many of these have loose bolts.

Like a ton of them do. Loose bolts, a new segment, starting Lucy. Ooh. You go on different planes and you say, like, how are these bolts doing? After these? After those two, like, plane incidents where there was, yeah, there was the one that the door flew off or whatever, and then there was the one here where there was a cargo plane

that was just flying while it was on fire. Well, I didn't see those planes. Yeah, and people here were, like, freaking out and, you know, was like, wow, this is so dangerous. And Mike Fuent has made a rare good point where he's walking down the hall. He goes, honestly, I feel like it's safer than ever, because back in the day, if a door flew off or your plane was on fire

you would crash and die and here they're just still flying in the air, perfectly normal. Nobody got sucked out of that door. Nobody. I was staggered. But no one was sitting there. I feel like if someone was sitting there. But the seats were still there though. The seats weren't.

Yeah, the seats were still there. Nothing got sucked out. None of the shirt. The shirt and a phone and the phone was fine All right, the phone was fine. Yes, we're still working. They found it. Yes. How do you so it's backyard? Yeah? Yeah, whoever you know what? The manufacturer of the phone case needs to track like that was us Otter box

Yeah, Otter box. It's it look it's the size of a Buick But your phone will survive a plane crash. Do you learn anything in these videos that you watch on the planes of planes crashing? Oh, it's not videos, it's Wikipedia pages. Oh, it's just reading up on them. Like you're doing research. Yes.

You're reading up. I'll be on a plane, be like, what happened to the Malaysia Airlines plane? In a weird way? But in my defense, in my defense, as I was doing this happen one time, as I was doing this, I was like, this is an insane thing to do right and I stopped doing it But I did it for long enough to be like I'm a psychopath

Were you flying with anyone you knew or like so strangers were next to you just and just like peek over and see What was there for being nosy way, but in a weird way? Well, you say to yourself there's no way this plane is going to crash while I'm looking up other crash footage Yeah, well it wasn't footage, again, Wikipedia. Also, I used to get very nervous about turbulence. So then I watched a bunch of videos of pilots talking about how I shouldn't be scared of turbulence. And now, so the more I know, the safer I've been.

Do you want to know the number one trick to know that everything's gonna be fine other than amino acids on the flight, because I'm not gonna die in a playground? The number one trick is if the flight attendants are cool that means it's normal if they're freaking out that's your cue to freak out yeah yeah yeah cuz they will freak out it happens we're just stating is a fact that you're not gonna die in a plane crash yeah well he's that car yeah this is cannon okay the least sorry sign in a car so if I mean all has since on a plane you

know you're fine this is not how it's going fine We're good. I've been in the car with them in those Terrifying yeah, well, I mean like on a plane like sometimes get some bad turbulence and the person next to me like oh, and I'm like don't worry We're gonna be fine trust me on this one and and and I find it makes them relax. They're like, oh, yeah They don't know that the reasoning behind we're gonna be fine. They just know that my con voice suits them. Sometimes you just wanna be told we're gonna be fine. It'll be okay. But I say it with the knowledge

that we're really gonna be okay. Do you guys survey like the entire flight to see who's on the flight? Like I feel good if they celebrities on the flight. Also if there's a lot of babies. No, quite the opposite. God wouldn't do that. First of all, God.

Oh, wow. To celebrities or babies? The babies. Look. Ha ha ha. Or me. I don't know if I want to walk down this path. No, don't do it, man.

But for celebrities, I fear that. I used to fear that before I knew I was gonna die, because there was one time I was on a plane, and it was like with me, and it was Michelle Beedle and Grant Hill, and it was like with me and it was Michelle Beatle and Grant Hill where it was like we're all on the same flight and Beatle leans over, Beatle doesn't like to fly. She's like, she will medicate and knock out

but before she knocks out, she leans over and says, just know that if it goes down, no one's gonna remember you were on this flight. Good old Michelle Beatle. Always there. That's a friend. That's a way in perspective. That went down though.

It'd be like known as the day basketball analysis died. Yeah. I mean, it was the day basketball studio shows died. Yeah. It would have been it would have been a huge shake to the industry. They lost the be know hasn't who promised us he would never die like this.

Don Libertard. He's like, I mean us he would never die like this. Don Libertard! He's like, he needs a wheelbarrow like Mike McDaniel this dog. Got a pair? Man, does he get a pair? My granddaughter sees his schlong. What? It says talk about it. It says what's that?

Oh, she doesn't know. There it is. Your granddaughters. My granddaughter saw his song in the kitchen. She said, what is that? What is this? A game of clue? I said, that's what he pees with. 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 baby. No! What I take this out? It is a baby. Anyway he ate my couch. This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugas. I think this is my worst day ever. My worst day ever on air, I think. Don't be hard on yourself. You've been way worse this year. You can do worse, Stan. You can do worse.

There's your problem. There are many times that I've been embarrassed, but I'm having a rough go of it. Lucy, can you please explain to me, I saw, and I've been wanting to talk to you about this for weeks, I think you are a sweet and decent person who is just trying to get along with everybody, and you, except for Emily, and you have your occasional, occasional snark, but when I saw you, an emotional person who weeps at college football games, when i saw you react on social media to death in iowa horror in iowa and then a whole lot of people came at you

who for being too woke about guns i was a bit heartbroken because i didn't feel like you had taken any sort of controversial stance other than all my god that we need to not have a bunch of dead people in a high war and yet people came after you as if it were a political position yeah i mean i'm not surprise that happens over those of you don't know i believe is the first week of january there was a school shooting in iowa three people passed away including the gunman and i was governor kim reynolds she's my least favorite camp and you guys know

how i feel about him okay yeah that's how much i hate kim reynolds she came out was like thoughts and prayers, and I was like, hey girlfriend, your thoughts and prayers are worthless because she has enacted so many policies during her time as governor at Iowa, cutting funding to public schools, loosening gun laws,

closing mental health facilities. Like I was like, you, your policies did this, and Iowa fans, Iowans lost their frickin' mind, and they were so angry with me, and they were like, Lucy, we're not gonna follow you anymore. We don't, you know, we don't respect you anymore. And I was like, good, I don't want you to. And that's pretty much how that went down.

Well, but no, let me go back for a second because I really didn't understand what I was witnessing. I was confused by it because you are among the most likable people we've ever had around here. And you're not trying, you're not trying to stir controversy. All you're doing is reacting to the horror of school children being dead. That's all you're doing, which we should all react to sort of the same way no matter what our politics are.

And you got turned into a political symbol on it in a way on social media that is now going further and further far right on social media, run by people who are encouraging that, and it felt like, oh, this is how everyone loses. Lucy is just showing compassion because they're dead children, and she's the one getting attacked for taking a political viewpoint that is what? Anti-dead children?

Yeah, I mean, I don't think any of this stuff is political obviously like school shootings are terrible We shouldn't want school shootings to happen But when I was governor Kim Reynolds puts these policies in place that enable this stuff to happen It becomes political and you know I'm lucky to have like a following in Iowa and a platform there so it felt like that's what I had to do I was never just gonna sit silently as kids are getting murdered in the state that's so important to me. And I hope that, you know, if one person saw that tweet

and was like, you know what, maybe Kim Reynolds policies aren't what I'm here for, then that's great to me. But yeah, I don't, it didn't feel like that big of a deal to me, cause I feel like that's kind of what I should have done in that situation. And if people are mad at me for that, okay, whatever. Have I aged out by being confused by that? Or am I naive about the places that the world

and the country is when, okay, so it's just naive a take. You're naive, you are an incredible, and it's one of your more endearing qualities. Sometimes you are surprised by the cruelty of the world. Like what, they do that? Yeah. But I thought we were all in unison. I thought this was the easiest one.

Yeah, dead children in a school like that one. See that one's super easy to agree on. We did none of us want that. So I learned this fact the other day, right? Wyoming has an incredibly high suicide rate, like ridiculous per capita suicide rate. And most of it is by gun. Like people shoot themselves on purpose,

right? They're committing suicide on, but not, not accidents, right? And the people in legislator in Wyoming tried to get like gun control. We look, this is crazy. We're losing people at an alarming rate. And the gun lobby is so strong there that they literally have to change the messaging to mental health. They literally just gave up on trying to make this a gun control conversation and just say, well, can we get these people

some mental health help? Yeah, that was like one of the most popular responses I got to my tweet about Kim Reynolds. It was like, this is a mental health crisis. Well, guess what? She's closed half the facilities in the state. So it was one of these things where you're like, you don't even know what you're arguing here

because even the thing you think is the problem, she won't address. We talk about you being naive. It's a bit of a weakness where you try to find the best in people. When clearly there are evil people out there, just clearly. And that's a bit of a problem that you have.

But I'm just talking about, we've introduced Lucy to the audience. The audience seems to love Lucy. Lucy's not courting conflict. Like she's willing to fight for things, but all she's doing is being horrified on behalf of her region. How can any of us be good with dead school children? And to me, it's the most obvious of takes. Like, I don't think anyone listening to this right now, or anyone outside of this echo chamber would argue with,

we shouldn't be the only country in the world that consistently can't protect its most vulnerable and slaughtered children in schools. Like, I think all of us would agree on whatever your politics are, that can't be, and so why shouldn't I be confused by that? Well, you're confused because it's what Lucy is eloquently saying is the reason we're having these things is because of XYZ policies that the governor has enacted.

And that's where the divergence happens, because people will say, yes, that's cool children are bad. That's why they all say thoughts and prayers. Cause that's the thing that we can agree on is to say, oh, it's so terrible that this happened. But I thought the thing we could agree on is kids shouldn't be slaughtered in school. I thought that was easier to agree on than thoughts and prayers. They do agree on that.

But when you say the reason why they're being slaughtered in schools is because the easily accessibility of firearms and because of lack of support for mental health for people, two things that the governor is very responsible for and when you start to go against their team, right, that's my governor you're talking about, then it doesn't matter, right? But how can you care more about, how can you, just how can you care more about guns and how can you care more about policies and politics than slaughtered children? They've convinced themselves that this isn't the reason why the children are getting slaughtered.

That's what it comes down to. They've convinced themselves that this thing that is clearly, like you said, the data and the evidence is so blatant. But you care more about winning the argument about mental illness or guns than you do about slaughtered children. I think most people would not say it in that way, but yes, that's what they think. I think that in 2012 when Newtown shooting happened

and elementary school and children were dead and people were like, well, surely this will be the thing that will snap the politicians who take so much money from the gun lobbies out of their delusion or this evil bubble that they've got themselves caught in. And then it wasn't. And it's 2024 and nothing has changed significantly with those gun laws. There's, it became politicized in a way that it was like, it's not about guns

or the fact that guns kill people. It was that like the liberals wanna take our guns away. They wanna take our freedom. They wanna take what is ours instead of thinking through like, wait, why do I need these? It got co-opted by people in bad faith in such a, to such a degree that people see that

as a trigger issue. They're like, oh, guns? Well, no, we need to keep ours. And it's what Amin was saying about their team versus the other team. And it's very organized, right? It comes from the reason why is because the gun lobbies, the NRA, the firearm manufacturer,

like, hey, we don't want anything that's gonna be bad for business, right? So now we have to concoct the party line, the speaking points that is going to be disseminated to our base. Hey, when they say, look, these guns killed a bunch of kids in school, this is what you come back with. You come back with these points, and then that's all they're regurgitating over and over again without having any lies behind it. This is when I knew we were screwed. It wasn't when Newtown happened and nothing really changed.

It's when people were like, maybe it was a hoax and it didn't actually happen. When they would rather deny it, deny it even happening and come up with like, oh, this person hasn't been into school in 20 or whatever, rather than just accept, oh man, this thing that I've been rooting for maybe not the best thing in the world. So Amin and Roy look at me and correctly identify me as naive on this, but I think I'd prefer almost to stay naive than to never be confused by,

Lucy's saying, don't slaughter slaughter children everyone's now attacking Lucy like I don't want that normalized I don't too late. I want to know but I know but I don't want school shootings You know I then but now okay, but if you take this argument to its logical conclusion Then my viewpoint of wishing for something a little bit purer than that, like all of this and all of us are doomed. You're telling me we're already doomed if slaughtered children doesn't make you want to do anything

other than win an argument by being mean to Lucy. Then I have a seventh grader and I have a fifth grader, right? They have active shooter drills. Like, remember how we had fire drills in school? Like, okay, it's a fire lineup, everyone. They have active shooter drills. And the craziest thing is, they don't seem to think anything weird about that.

Like, oh yeah, we had active shooter drill today. I'm like, what? That blew my mind. Not that they were doing it, that my kids felt that it was so matter of fact. It's too late to be quote, unquote, I don't wanna get desensitized, it's too late for all that.

My freshman year at college, there was the threat of a shooter at the dining hall we were eating at. There ended up not being a shooter, thank God. But me and my friends were just eating dinner in the dining hall. We see all this swat coming and they start banging on the glass

with machine guns saying, get out of here, there's a shooter. We had to sprint. We had to run for our lives. And the next day, we went to class and there was nothing from that. It was like the most alarmingly normal thing in the whole world.

Like, I'm pretty sure like people who we were eating dinner with went out to the bars that night. It was just unbelievably insane. My family members that don't live here, like they call me and they're concerned. Like, are you okay? Are you safe? Cause they think like this is a wild less. I would, I would ask Roy and Billy and Mike as new parents,

if they ever thought they'd see this day where children coming home from school is something that you have more fear about than you have ever had. Well, the first message of, we've completed a gun training drill at my daughter's school was, I mean, just, it really hit home for me. Absolutely hit home for me in like,

oh, God, she's gonna have to get used to this now. Mike, Billy, you're- I'm not surprised by it because the last 15 years has shown me this is the reality. So you knew when you were bringing a child into the world that there would be these classes there for you? Yeah, post Newtown and nothing getting corrected. Post Vegas mass shooting, nothing getting corrected.

Columbine really? Yeah, these, well, I mean, you would think when it happened, oh, that might be a bit of an outlier and you've had several dozens since, so no, I sadly resigned myself to that fact. Go out and vote in November. Let's make it a little lighter next segment. Don Lebatard! All of us who were watching college football elevated everything the weekend was because

we missed football in general so very much. You didn't watch the ending of U-Tep Jacksonville State. It was awesome. A doozy. Boom. Stugatz. 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 prismism though like I'm envious of Lucy like I wish that I could still be happy this is the done levitar show with this two guys I like Brock Hardy I know the online discourse around him is not everybody's favorite and the last time I attempted to do this segment, like two weeks later, he had one of the worst Monday night performances of all time.

After you said he's a legitimate MVP, he's good. We all need to address the fact that Brock Purdy is good, great, hard stop. Right. He went from an overwhelming, in the weeks that followed, he went, he became the overwhelming favorite to win MVP, to losing it with one abysmal Monday night performance. But I want to talk about Brock Purdy in that the San Francisco 49ers are once again in the NFC championship game, different quarterback leading the way. Brock Purdy came in as a replacement last year and got hurt during the NFC championship game. Lions at Niners. Lyons. America's on their side. Grady underdog. And I find it

funny. I find it really funny that the team with a quarterback picked number one overall. He is universally acknowledged as the underdog here against the team with a six foot one quarterback that was picked last in the NFL draft. I know Brock. Pretty is held to an insane standard because of how loaded that team is around him, and he may even be a byproduct of how loaded that team is around him. Brock. Party played at Iowa State for what felt like 20 years. He is six foot one listed. You watch him. He doesn't look that way. He was the last pick in the NFL draft. Let us not normalize this weird narrative around this game where he is the favorite

and Jared Goff, who's been to a Super Bowl with another team and was a number one overall pick, is the scrappy underdog. Are you trying to jinx Brock? Do you have money on the Lions? I root for Kyle Shanahan. I root for Brock Purdy. I think it's an unbelievable story. I think we have all skewed the way that we view quarterbacks

because of how great's like Brady played the position because of how Aaron Rodgers played the position because how Patrick Mahomes stepped into the league and lit it ablaze because of what Lamar Jackson is doing right now. If you look back at the trajectories of Hall of Fame careers, Brock Purdy's start, especially when you apply the context of being a seventh round pick is

a perfectly fine start. It's a, it's a, it's a really good something to build on. He had a disastrous Monday night perform. It's a great start, not perfectly fine. Brock Purdy start has been great. He'll have to play better this week than he did last week. If they want to beat the lions, but really what we're doing with the lions is the organization is the underdog. It's not so much Jared golf, Brock party, that organization is the lovable. I understand if you look at all pros, Niners have a few more all pros, first and second teamers that then Detroit, but Detroit's a damn good team led by a quarterback

that despite naysayers out there has proven he can get to that game before. No, Brock Purdy, I watched a ton of him in college. He was not like this at Iowa State. It was kind of like that Ravens game where you were like, brother, the turnovers that man had was absolutely insane. I think that's kind of where people come in with like the sort of like anyone could sort of fit in the Brock Purdy's role at the 49ers just because it's such a good system. But genuinely what Brock Purdy's done has been incredibly impressive.

He was not like this at Iowa State. He never beat Iowa. Not one time. Lucy, thank you man. Lucy, thank you man. What? What? And yes.

And the Lions drafted all Iowa guys this year so I don't know what that means Iowa guys this year, so I don't know what that means. Lucy, thank you. I don't know what that means, Dan. Lucy, this is what it means. What it means is I want you to be the nation's preeminent Iowa correspondent. I want Mike to immediately produce for me imaging that allows us to celebrate Lucy's story of the day from Iowa or Iowa Sports because this is an underserved market in sports. Iowa Sports Expertise might give me some imaging.

MUSIC Lucy Rodine, Iowa correspondent. I see you worked very hard on that. Thank you. That was great. Chris Cody was working from home. That was awesome. You didn't give him much time. He said he wanted immediately. I could have been better than that. I like it. He gave you the That was great. Chris Cody was work from home. That was awesome. You didn't give him much time.

He said he wanted immediately. I could have been better than that. He gave you the basics though. I love it. Yeah, so give me an Iowa story. Could you tell that that was Chris Cody? I could not. Was it Chris Cody in his broad?

Let me hear that again. Broadcaster boys. Lucy Rodine. Iowa correspondent. He's on D. I think it's so nice. You know what? Sounded like his fake Joe Tess.

Is that it? I think it's so right! You know what? It sounded like his fake Jotess. Is it sounding? Lucy Rodine. Iowa Correspondent. That's his Jotess, it's all right. It sounds like he did it over Skype. He pitched his voice down, right? Or is that just... Yeah, make her me feel. Billy, did you know that was Chris Cody?

Is that well produced? Do you like his broadcaster voice? I think it works. One more time. Lucy Rodine, Iowa Correspondent. It is pretty good. It's, he's got like a movie trailer voice that I did not know that he had.

No. Lucy, give me an Iowa story of some of your choosing Well, normally I'd talk about Kaylin Clark because I always want to talk about Kaylin Clark But this is actually kind of important for the overall sort of state of college football So over the summer I went Iowa State got hit hard with penalties for their student athletes gambling It's since come out in this investigation that that information was obtained illegally. None of it was with a warrant. So basically like an Iowa state agent went rogue, started tracking these dorms like without permission and then use that information to catch these athletes in the act. So I don't know what

that means for the players who were suspended for there's a lot of players who still you know Aren't going to play for another year or so things are getting weird things are getting weird with the Iowa gambling situation I feel like that was pretty good update. That was pretty good Thank you, and my main takeaway is that that's a shame that this this evidence was found through illegal means But also is that the only way to find this because that was pretty overt like they were on apps we're not gonna find out if teams are betting if players are betting on games unless we do illegal searches because I think the original story around this reaction is how dumb can you be there's one rule follow it a lot of the players were doing it under their parents name or

their girlfriends name so they felt like they could get away with it But the way this information was found is this state agent without a warrant put like like tracks like do a betting activity in Certain University of Iowa dorms use that information to get permission to like tap into like if people were betting in the athletic facilities And that's how they found it out and that is illegal so my question is, do you have to like put the information you obtained illegally like back in the box and be like just kidding.

And then everyone's like, okay, well, enjoy football. Well, that's not how it happened. It wasn't put in the box back illegally. It was just sort of, we crushed all the gamblers for their immoralities when the way they were caught was immoral and illegal right but that's what I mean like does the charges go away yeah who are the poisonous tree was law and order yeah yeah all things acquired through illegal means are not admissible but how do you get them? I mean, legally. Legally. Legally. What do you mean?

What do you mean? You get all evidence legally. What do you mean? What are you talking about? Sometimes, Dan, listen, the law is a tricky game. And sometimes you have to be willing to stoop to the levels of the criminals to bust the criminal. I'm telling you.

That doesn't work. That's a very Jack McCoy approach, buddy. Like, look. Scugats is, put it on the pole. who got this put it on the bar put it on the pole Are you surprised at all that's you got this pro illegal searches? Look, I know that they obtained this evidence illegally But just taking that out of the picture you should never be punished for betting the eye wonder whether you're a fan Whether you're on the team you should be allowed to do it. This is America, and that's how we make money. It should be a political platform.

I'm going to reverse the national debt by betting Iowa under. I'm with you, Lucy. You are pro-freedom. We should all be allowed to make money through capitalism, however it is that we arrive at the Iowa under. How is Vegas still getting this wrong? Shouldn't the Iowa over under be like one at this point? It's gotten very low.

It's the lowest it's ever been. It's been, they have 28 points, 29 points. Unders we've never, totals we've never seen before. But it's been really close to hitting Iowa. Their bowl game, the over under was 35 and a half. They lost 35 to zero. So it's still technically hit. Nebraska North or Nebraska Iowa, I think was one of the lowest

over-unders ever, and at halftime, it was 10 to 7, and we were like, ah, man, the over's gonna hit. I think that was the final score. Why is there a motorcycle? Is there? Oh, it's coming. Where's the motorcycle? You'll hear it rabbit soon.

Where? We will listen to this for ten minutes before you hear what? That cash machine what was that? It's having a cash counter. I think it's cash because they already had like change Wheel no, no, that's a cash counter like in like in scarface right in the beginning of the push it to the limit Montage you see the money counting to the I don't hear I don't hear nothing that sounds remotely like a motorcycle at the end I think at the end of the end of a looping bed all right much more time all right we'll just sit here waiting for it let's three and a

half more minutes let's see if we hear the motorcycle that's still got tears because his brain is drug-addled what you're not gonna hear it. There is no. Give it time. I like that little keyboard. That's my favorite part. A little coin on the table. What is that? What was that? Wait a minute! There was one! That was a card. Wait, he was totally right! Wait a minute! Stugatros ride? Holy... Stugatros ride! I did not hear that the first time. And it must have looped at least four times. Let me hear it again. I don't think that's...

It's there! There it is! It's peeling off. How is he the only one? It's there! There it is! Peeling off. How is he the only one? The kumite cat. How is he the only one who heard that? The drugs. You mock what you've done under there.

That's why you love the dead so much. You hear things others have not heard. And it's the drugs. Yup. So I take them dead up. Mike. So are we rooting for the former number one overall draft pick California guy that's already been in the Superbowl or the scrappy undersized, mister irrelevant. I'm rooting for Jared Gough. I don't know what your obsession is with Kyle Shanahan. I kind of think he's a bit overrated. Like you just said, like you, you have Chris Sims on your podcast every

week. And I has to tattoo it on his leg. I know. And I tell Sims like, Hey, how about Shanahan do some winning? You know, like he needs to, I know he does. Yeah. You're right. You're right there. So I like the idea of the genius being beaten by Dan Jamal. Yeah. But still that's what he's saying is, uh, how about Shanahan, you stop being overrated and show me something beat the number one overall pick with a guy who was drafted last. Won't show me anything unless you do. Like the standards, ridiculous. It's fascinating.

And then when you do that, do it again in a Super Bowl. Do it again against Lamar Jackson. And when Lamar Jackson loses, I'm gonna crush Lamar Jackson's losing. Did Dan Levitard just predict that the Ravens are going to the Super Bowl? God, I hope so. Oh, you hope so.

Yeah, man. In this game. If you thought the Super Bowl was a spectacle before, let this Taylor Swift thing hit it. I mean, the last thing you want to see is Patrick Mahal strolling into your stadium. I want to see football upended and kelsey's and taylor swift not getting there because limaura jackson got there and everyone being crushed by it