The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Hate Is a Strong Word

Episode Date: October 11, 2023

Michelle Beadle is here to discuss her new Sirius XM Show "Beadle & Decker," the MLB Postseason, Mad Dog as a boss, James Harden, and more. Then, Don Van Natta compliments Jeremy's work on Pablo Torre Finds Out, Lucy tells us who she hates, and Mark Stoops cuts through the noise on College Football recruiting. Plus, we get to this week's Useless Sound Montage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffeine's Network. This is the Don't LaboTar Show with the Stugat's Podcast. Thank you. I know. You wait till the last minute. Let the record show be finished. I've been a surprise. I've been an upset everyone didn't have my digestive track working Beetle is with us happy to have her as we always are she's doing a show with Cody Decker if you would ask me

Michelle I imagine had all the options in the world on any show she can do with anybody Cody Decker was not on my former former major leader kody decker was not on my list of bingo card michelle biedel coo you had a top five i think he wasn't on it i had a thousand on my list kody decker was not one thousand but every week day noon to three p.m. on serious mad dog sports radio channel i did not know that you were a baseball fan. For some reason, I associate you most with basketball and wrestling. How did you get into

how did you get into this endeavor? Why did you get into this endeavor? I think I missed I missed the idea of radio, which obviously you guys can attest to more than anyone. It's there's so much more freedom and time. You know. And the idea to do a show on Mad Dog where all the sports are up for grabs, that I also missed. I mean, I'd been doing NBA only for so long, which I love, but believe it or not, I consume a lot of other things. So I was just sort of like, let's talk.

And I didn't realize how quickly three hours can fly by. And Cody Decker is the energy to my dry sarcasm. So it's a good fit. How is Mad Dog as a boss? Oh my God. He's hilarious. So we've been in studio. When I'm in New York, we'll always be in studio

and then we'll be remote otherwise. And Mad Dog is just, first of all, works harder than I ever intend to work in the next 20, 25 years. And he walks in and he's just a character. And it's funny because I didn't grow up in this area, so I didn't ever truly grasp Mike and the mad dog and how big a deal that was. But he's a legend.

And when we leave the show, we'll have callers. As soon as our show ends, that call screen lights up. He hasn't even sat in the seat yet. I'm like, what are these people doing all day? It's insane, it's insane. What is the most fun you have had working because I would make the argument on behalf of what you're presently doing,

the space and the ability to have that much room to roam is the reason that I got out of all the other things and want to do this. Have you had more fun than the space that this allows you to work in sports? Yeah, it is just, I mean, three, like I said, the three hours is big. We've gotten away with some off-color jokes that probably I wouldn't have been able to do otherwise. Now look, that may have just been because no one's listening.

I don't know. But either way, I got to say it, and I'm not in trouble. Let's tell a good child. And it's, you know, I can talk about that stupid show naked attraction, and then we can go back to the baseball. We can go back to football. We can do this tonight. And so it's, yeah, I like it.

I'm definitely a little bit different of a human than they have. When I go talk to our bosses, it's funny, because I'm definitely a little bit different of a human than they when I go talk to our bosses, it's funny because I'm just not. I'm not like that. I'm first of all, I'm a woman with the exception of Linda Cohn. That's not, there hasn't been a ton of that. And I also just have a different sense of humor, I think. So it's been quite fun to kind of go in there and disrupt a little bit. What about the baseball postseason?

Have you found most interesting? They're making fun of me around here because baseball has happened to the best teams I've seen this season. All the 100 win teams are in trouble or have been beaten. We're making fun of how upset you are about the Orioles being eliminated in the three games.

No one can't get Baltimore cares this much. That's just the Orioles. Adodgers, the Braves, the Braves, the Rays getting eliminated that fast. What have you found most interesting? I find it interesting that you could almost make the argument that having rest is not a good thing. But the extra days off for the better teams

seems to not have suited them quite well. I mean, I could make the argument for myself. If I come back from a week off, it's going to take a few days. Well, they don't have a few days. Getting swept is probably wasn't on their bingo card. So it's a bummer to see Baltimore had such an interesting story all season off the field.

They had stupid things like suspending a kid for reading a graphic that 19 other people had to look at. So it's just one of those stories where you're like, well, the dodgers for me will be fascinating to see what happens with that. I'm glad the Braves won one. I don't like sweeps. It doesn't matter if I have a horse in the race or not,

I want to be entertained in a sweep, or even like an 11-1 score, that's not entertaining. Nobody likes that. Do you have a rooting interest, a storyline, above all others that you care about more? No, not really. I mean, I, you know, I've, I've supported the Dodgers and I've supported the Astros at certain points in my life, but I, I don't, I just want good entertainment. That's really honestly all I care about. It's kind of nice to not have a team because you can just sort of sit back and watch the games and hope, hope to be smiling at the end of it.

Like the end of that Braves game the other night, that was why we love sports. Like I didn't care who won, I just wanted something great to happen and it's exactly what we got. I heard some sound that I don't think we can play because in-game sound is stuff that can only be played if you have the rights. that can only be played if you have the rights. But just the sound of the crowd in Atlanta, following the last play where you hear the fear, and then you hear the enthusiasm escalate, and all your hearing is crowd noise, and it's to save their season, right?

It's to save their great season. Just hearing the ambient sound of Atlanta was the coolest thing I've seen so far in the post season. I agree because that crowd, obviously, that's a killer crowd and Braves fans are legit and they knew. I mean, you go down two games and go back to Philly, which is like an earthquake level sound vortex.

Good luck with that. And so I think they knew you got to grab this one and grabbing it in such dramatic fashion. It coming down to the final seconds like it did. I say seconds like it's a basketball game, whatever you know what I mean. It was great to hear. It was the exact opposite of what you saw in Los Angeles because Los Angeles crowd, they were there in attendance, but you know, you get down three nothing right off the bat. They're dead in the water before they can even try to cheer the team back on. So yeah, that was a hell of a comeback.

Philly is going to be ridiculously loud. I don't even know that you could pay me to go to the game. I think it's just going to be so chaotic and loud, no interest. I'm too old. Too old at this point. And nasty. Don't you think Bryce Harper needs to get over himself just a little bit? Well, the head, I don't get this. It's like a head wound. Yes. Like, what is that? Is he a war veteran?

Yeah. World War Two. I don't get it. Just rounding second, taking off the helmet. So you can see his flowing hair. You can see the band down. He's a J.J. Watt of Major League baseball. Oh, God, I missed you, Stu Goss. The J.J. Watt's lander is my favorite. Well, thank you. used to you got the JJ Wattslanders my favorite. Well, thank you. You are a famous spurs fan. You have not had a lot to celebrate recently, but you know, now, yes, you have a player now that obviously seems like a total game changer.

How much time do you worry the way that you used to worry any time, Michelle? You would see a player of these dimensions or comparable, not these dimensions that have never been here, but where you would worry about fear that his body is going to break down, that it's not at no point have I ever seen a player who looks like this, have this kind of hope and expectation that he won't get hurt, because the expectation my lifetime has always been that a player that is shaped like this is going to get physically hurt. Cannot, cannot live up to the potential of this.

No, I think it's, you just hope for, I mean, everyone gets hurt. His dimensions, as you say, they are not conducive to long stretches without any injury. I'm hoping for, you know, he's the unicorn. I'm hoping for, we have some unicorn luck on that one, but they say he's put on 20 pounds. When I put on 20 pounds, I'm gonna hear about it on Twitter. I don't see the 20 pounds on him, but that's because he's dealing with nine feet of flesh

and we're hoping that it works. He looked strong the other night. There were some moves that were so graceful that you forget he's 27 feet tall. To see Kinshet, Holomegren go up against each other. It was almost sort of a surreal visual. And then to see him head butt, Chet, and him go, the whole thing was just like, I don't know if this is the future

of the NBA, if this is just a temporary mo, it's kind of fun to watch though, I'm excited about it. And from all accounts, I know we're expecting a big load management coming from the spurs and all that. But from everything I've heard and everyone I've talked to and I've listened to They're the plan is for him to play as much as possible. I mean he's 19 He wants to play now. We know that that doesn't always matter when it comes to players and their teams and whatever the strategy is But I hope that that's the case. You know now that I'm not in San Antonio as much as I was for me to get to watch the games, I've become like a super fan. I hope he never

sits on the bench. I want to see him play every game, but it's fun to see the excitement. All of that being said, this isn't going to be like, oh, this first go to the finals. It's just going to be a few more wins than last year, but it's definitely the beginning of something. Michelle, I don't want to put you in a difficult spot here with this question. But when pop comes out and he acts like he failed professionally because his dream was to be a D3 coach. He's full of right. He's always full of, but in the best possible way. Put it on the pole, Judeo. Is pop of it foolish in the best possible way? Yes or no?

James Harden, what do you imagine is going to end up happening there? You know, I've heard while I thought nothing, I've gotten used to the tantrums, I think, they pay off eventually. It seems like that might happen. If he's playing nice, the players have nothing but positive things to say.

He's not disrupting in the sense that we probably thought would be a distraction. But I guess I think he might go to the clippers at some point. It's crazy. The compartmentalization that has to go on in locker rooms in sports, it'd be hard. I mean, it'd be hard to have a colleague, a teammate, do all of this, and then just come back in and we have to act like everything's cool.

I it's one of the parts of sports that fascinates me the most because my brain doesn't operate that way if it's awkward It's awkward and I don't know how you can pass that but He's got to do something. I mean the the market's not what he thought it was gonna be We've seen this a few times now these guys they were once great and they still are pretty damn good, but People aren't clamoring like you probably thought they would be so you find yourself in a bit of a predicament without leverage, which is a bit humbling. Udoka saying Van Vleet is a better fit. I mean, in Houston where he was the MVP, like that one, if that one doesn't tell you where

your market value is, I don't know what's going to tell you more overtly than that. No, you kind of needed to bake some cookies, come in, make nice, and you know, I mean, I don't, there's no repairing the Gerald's that you walked around the globe calling me a liar I don't I don't know what happens there, but unfortunately for Mori He's more replaceable than Harden is so we've seen that too speaking of awkward We only have 45 seconds left, but Dremon green winning in every way Getting that team from Jordan pool and sending him away and getting his money, how is all of that not going to be awkward?

He's got now a couple of guys in his locker room that he has history with, and he's been emboldened, you're the guy who matters here, we just paid you in a way that suggests it's okay to punch your other guy in the face, we're going to send him away and keep you. Yeah, it's, if there wasn't a Steph Curry in the room, I think it would be more chaotic. I think having Steph, if you lose Steph, which I don't even really,

they seem everything seems great, right? But it has to be tiresome. I think the Dremon Act has to get tiresome after a while, but with Steph Curry there, you've got an anchor, you've got someone that can kind of calm everything down. But if there's no stuff, this whole thing, then there's just like any other team with a bunch of drama and nothing to show for it. Every weekdays, two gods, noon to three p.m. Sirius XM's Mad Dog sports radio channel, I believe Mad Dog is already beating everyone to the rush. He's mad about the Christmas day

games now. Already? Yes. I've heard he's already. Rock goes Patriots. Yes. So he's going to go to church. He's already mad about it. We'll see if we can find that sound. Michelle, good seeing you. Good seeing you again. You two guys, I appreciate it. At public mobile, we do things differently. From our subscription phone plans to throwing a big sale right now when no one else is. Well, maybe they are, but who cares, our sale is better.

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The thing that he just did recently, Jeremy Tesché, was one of the people involved. I've often wondered about, but never enough to ask the questions or do the reporting to get to the bottom of. Pablo Torrey finds out, explores recently, why it is that when an athlete is pounding on his or her chest at a moment of drama and is mic'd up, all of them shout the same thing,

let's go. They all shout, whether it's Tom. Tom, whether it's Tom Brady, anyone else, they all go find the same words. I don't know if they do this in other languages. We do it after good segments. In English, we do it in English, Billy sometimes does it in Spanish. Depending on the day in the station. The liqueur tonight on FIU. And you're gonna be on the show. Yes, let's go. He shouted again and again from the visceral place where athletes go and get their joy.

Let's listen to an investigation that resulted in Pulitzer Prize winner Don Van Nade celebrating the Yammering Jeremy Tacheh because he was efficient enough to enunciate his joy in two syllables, rare for him. the Yammering Jeremy Tashay because he was efficient enough to enunciate his joy in two syllables rare for him. He comes from the witty school of Yammering. D.V.N. Let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's He has a down-to-n-art form. Literally, if you look at the video, he's someone who he stands away from his players.

He says he always looks toward the wall as to not scream in anybody's face. He doesn't want to blow out their ear drums. Sometimes it has to be, let's go. And then something doesn't go right. Right? And then you have to kind of regroup. Let's go. You know, and then so now you got a different ending. The breath is huge. Whether or not you have a vitamin C drop in your mouth is critical. The way in which you take that breath before the depth of the let's Go and their in your body movement because you don't want to die for him too compacted because you wanted to be able to breathe back out. This man is a teacher. That is North Florida coach Matthew Dresco and it sounds like his voice has been shot from a lifetime of shouting Let's Go. We're not even in the college basketball season yet.

How does he already sound like that? Jeremy, what happened with Don Van Nade? Is this the highest praise of your career that the Pulitzer Prize winner would celebrate your pathetic, let's go to celebrate the heat playoff run? Wow, thanks Dan. The major undercutting there

of one of the most important compliments of my entire life. But thank you. It didn't seem like you had a lot of confidence in that, like, I did go when it was not compelling. It didn't have any support behind it. It's a big day in one's career when Don Van Nade tweets at you. I mean, I'm serious. He complimented his journalism.

It wasn't just like funny tweet. He said, your journalism was valuable to me. He said, it was extremely important journalism. It felt sarcastic It felt sarcastic From Mount journalism Standing up there on Mount journalism good journalism kid with your let's go I have a question I was informed and I don't know this is dangerous to ask just like this

I was told that you interview the guy for two and a half hours. No, it wasn't the raw no I was told that the raw file was two and a half hours long. I Spoke to Matthew Driscoll for well over an hour That's for two and a half is what I'm told was the length of it by the Producing the head to cut it up. It went by so fast because that man is so full of energy. I heard Yammer is the way it was the Scots tree. Not me. Never me.

I'm not. You seem stunned by everything here. Why is your mouth hanging open? That's a really long time to talk about anything. To anyone. They're figuring stuff out. I mean, just about what's going on with two words? All those words over two words.

I'm gonna try and figure something out here, Sturgats. Is there any particular reason that when we mentioned Don Van Nade, because I'd be curious where it is your historical knowledge on this stuff land? Why did you shout the rooster? Do you have any idea why you yourself with your own mouth shouted the rooster? I didn't do it, Billy did.

That's a fun. Yeah, I did it. Why did you shout the rooster? Don Van Nade is shouted the rooster. I didn't do it, Billy did. That's a fun. Yeah, I did it. Why did you shout the rooster? Don Van Nade is not the rooster. Don Van Nade is friend who plays dominoes with us is the rooster. Why are you shouting the rooster? Well, it's just a call back to a friend Don Van Nade

and the rooster who participated in many of the domino tournaments with us. When you have a chance to shout out the rooster, you gotta take it, you know? That's word association for Billy. Don Van Nade equals rooster. Put it on the pole, please juju at Levitard show. When you have a chance to shout out the rooster, do you have to do it? Because I feel like you didn't have to do it and I'm playing defense against. We could see the rooster here. I'm not off the chance. Billy saw a little crack and he went for it. I mean, that's it.

Look at him, man. Yeah. Winning and we appreciate you being around here today before you get out of here, though, for the day because you have many important Apple things to be doing at the height of broadcasting. How have you gambling adventures gone since you left here? And you left here, as I recall, lamenting in general what gambling has done to your life.

That you now are putting money on results and it has made things a little bit worse for you in terms of enjoying the sports and entertainment experience. What are your gambling observations that you have experienced in the last many months where you've been partaking, but not partaking publicly in a way that allows us to dissect your hurt?

We've subtly referred to a thing that Chris Cody and Stu and myself are in, where we have to pick NFL games every weekend, and it turns me into a person that I don't like. I don't like the person I become. When I watch the Pittsburgh Steelers in week one, unable to do anything against the 49ers, which now in retrospect was probably fair enough

the 49ers are incredible. But I was mother-epping Kenny Pickett for four straight hours. I hate Kenny Pickett intensely. I deeply dislike that person. And I don't like that I do. And then you have these teams where you're trying to figure them out week to week.

And you can't. No, you can't. You cannot. The Tennessee Titans, good luck. Good luck having any kind of rhyme or reason to their results. The Los Angeles Chargers, forget about it. Let's all say so and we hate.

I hate Brandon Staley. Yeah. Lucy? I don't hate anybody. Let me think about it. Let me think about it. She's a reasonable human being who doesn't turn human beings, other human beings into something that everyone hates

somebody, doesn't it? Because they cost you money. Monday night, I don't like what I said about Jordan Love, but I said it. I said, I don't like what I said about Jordan love, but I said it. Yeah. I said, I truly file things in my television, aimed at Jordan love. Can you feel like how many times are the packers

gonna throw deep and it never works? Whitty, Danzo is talking shit about how I gamble. Tell him, oh Chris Cody, tell him. Some fire. I'm crushing it, he really is. On, on the top, look at the fire. It's a long season though. No, but you know what, though Chris, I fire. I'm crushing it, he really is. On, on the top, look at the air. It's a long season though. No, but you know what, though Chris,

I was, I was, I was, I was gutted for you on Monday night because that was a, that was a big swing. Horsh it. You had, you had the Packers and that Jordan loved. They tried to give the game. Couldn't pack. They'd complete a solitary, deep pass. The only pass you can throw is a four yard out to a tight end.

And it looks amazing. Like the perfect flow on the ball, clearly the stolen Aaron Rodgers technique. He throws exactly like Aaron Rodgers. And it looks great when it's four yards. And then he tries to throw deep ones. And it never works. Now me and Mike were the first guys in this league. And we brought you guys in. And the first rule in this league and we brought you guys in and the

first rule of this league is not to talk about the league because the commissioner of said league he's always listening. And so now he's going to have us pick the Titans every single week. I mean, I'm telling you guys, you have to be careful of what you say. Titans charges guaranteed on this week's slate. Guaranteed. I want to segue when Stugat's says someone you have to be

does she she you found a person that you hate my college roommate Emily I hate her she is the worst what happened she is not a nice girl I don't know what her problem is I even told my therapist about her and she's like I don't know what her problem is. I even told my therapist about her, and she was like, I don't know what her problem is. Emily, I know you're not listening because you blocked me on everything, but you are not nice. Yes.

How long did you live with Emily? That's a long, long, Dan. She started hating me out of nowhere, and we had already signed a lease for the next year, two years with Emily. How'd that feel? It felt good. It felt good to get it out though, right?

I feel alive. Dan, who do you hate? It felt good. It felt good to get it out though, right? I feel alive. Dan, who do you hate? Dan's next. I don't do hate. You can hate Emily too. There's enough to go around. You hate me, Dan. It's okay.

You get to say it. I don't hate you. I, man, hate to show on. I find Jeremy will go. Hates a strong one. I hate Emily. I don't yell. Emily sucks.

Say it, Dan. Say it. Say it. Say it. I don't know Emily. I am. Emily sucks. You don't want to know Emily. Yeah, the Rangers. I mean, I don't hate the Rangers. I might come close to hating the Orioles today. You love the Orioles. I love the relationship. Once I look at, I the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the to live with. We had already signed the lease and she didn't hate me when we signed the lease. We got along and she literally said one day she just started being so mean to me and I was like, hey Emily, have I done anything wrong? She said, Lucy, one day I woke up and I hated the sight of you and made me want to throw up. She said, it's a mean girl. She said it to your face. She said it right to my face. She looked me in the eyes and said that. She is not nice and I had to live with her and it sucked

More like M. Meenley Chris yeah, just go He let himself out Ravens tit Titans this week. Oh my god. Oh, by the way, Stugots, where is that game being played? England. It's a London game.

It's a London. Raven's Titans in London. How the hell is anyone supposed to figure out who's covering the spread in that God for Sakin' Game? How? I'm gonna flip a coin. Two straight weeks and about seven straight years, I again last week forgot about the 930 start to my football Sunday. Nothing, but it's a great surprise though. You turn on CBS Sunday morning. Jane Polly takes you through the morning.

What's going on in the world? And then you get like an alert. Oh, the the the jacks are up three nothing on the bills. Oh, great. Let me flip on NFM network and it's a delightful surprise. And then I immediately get mad though. And I immediately get mad because it's another one of those fart games that they play over there in London. Jack's bills is quality. Electric, Dan. I mean, okay. The jacks being okay now is a boon for London football. Let that be your closing words. Don Lebatard.

Give me a favor, Chris. Look up Gerald McCoy's IMDB. And let's see how many stats do God's gets right about what Gerald McCoy is. IMDB, look at movies. I'm gonna check it out. Check out Gerald McCoy's IMDBb. Yeah. Look at movies. Look at him. I'm gonna check it out. Check out Gerald McCoy's IMDb.

His profile focus, great. Stugats. Okay, so I'm on Gerald McCoy's IMDb. There was an acting credit in which he played Gerald McCoy in the league, which was a popular show on FX. Then he played himself on the Dan Patrick show in episode 12.4, 2018, and also something called the Game Day Commute. He played himself on the Dan Patrick show in episode 12.4 2018 and also something called the Game Day Commute, he played himself.

Archive footage he was featured once on Roman's Burning. I mean, look at that. This is the Dan Lebatars show with his two cats. I was talking to a friend of mine this morning's to God's side before here on South Beach Sessions and elsewhere that it has been something of a soothing to hide in work and try to for moments at a time avoid a grief and a pain that I have not known before that is affecting my focus, my performance, and any criticism you want to file at me and the show would be earned because I'm trying to move through something that has been very difficult. And while talking to my friend this morning, he was consoling me

was consoling me with the idea of how unique a person my brother was. It's not just losing somebody who was a little brother or family member. Somebody you have a unique bond to, but also there was no one like him anywhere. I thought about it this morning when I heard the news that Barry Melrose was retiring from ESPN because he's been diagnosed with Parkinson's and just the amount of universal love that heads the way of Barry Melrose because he was a personality unlike anyone else in hockey who was at a microphone and hockey's had a ton of personalities where he just made you like the energy that was around him. And as I've watched Mark Rick on the ACC network with this particular affliction that is a unique kind of prison Parkinson's disease where I don't know if you have seen on Apple. Apple has done a very good documentary with Michael J. Fox where they take you inside of the experience of what it is to have Parkinson's and how your life just slowly shrinks in front of people

for an energy and a spirit like Barry Melrose to have to stop working around the thing that he loves because this is too much of a health concern. It broke my heart for him and the people who care about him and the people who care about hockey in a really unique way. The same way, it hurts me to watch Mark Rick try to struggle his way through a broadcast because of what? A corrosion this particular illness is that Extinguishes very slowly a spirit that is unlike many that you encounter anywhere in sports where there are already Plenty of people with charisma and energy, but you will find very few people who have anything bad to say about Barry Melrose who's been on television for an awful long time for people not to have bad things to say about it. My grandfather passed away from Parkinson's.

He had it. It's hard to watch. I thought of his family and thought about how difficult that's going to be to see that happen right in front of their eyes. So it's really tricky. It's really difficult, but you're right Dan, in an industry where it's nearly impossible to stand out, Barry Melrose did that.

He was exceptional at his job. He made me, is exceptional at his job, excuse me, but he made me want to tune into the hockey highlights. I don't watch hockey as much as I used to, but him and Steve Levy, the Levy lounge, the way Barry, lounge. Yeah, conducted himself. It was just he's fantastic. He really is. He's a pioneer. Seg weighing awkwardly from the sad stuff into other stuff. I did want to play some audio here of a stoop stew. God's mark stoop. So there are many stoop, Stooghots, Mark Stoops. There are many stoops running around all of college football, the way the badans used to once upon a time.

Stoopsy. Old Stoopsy. There are many old stoopsy's running around college football. This one coaches Kentucky and a lot of people. A lot of people became instant experts on what's wrong with Georgia. They're only winning by a touchdown every week i don't think there's good as they used to be because i see them struggling guilty i mean everybody's guilty of it

everybody saw that can't talk you fourteen and a half spread and said uh... maybe this is the week to doubt georgia and then they slaughtered can't talk he and all stupsey who coaches can't talk he was given uh Kentucky was given a call somebody saying how could you lose to Georgia and Mark stupes really kind of cut through the bullshit. You know the other side if you want to do that it's plain complain deny or make excuses and we're not going to do that you know it is what it is. And you know, fans have that right. I give it to them. It, you know, I just encourage them to donate more because that's what those teams are doing. And

then in Akikampromish and Georgia, they bought some pretty good players. You're allowed to these days. And we could use some help. That's what they look like. You know what what I mean when you have 85 of them so so uh... encourage uh... anybody that's disgruntled to pony up some more davis uh... college sports it is posture totally relies on sitting like that with the with the belly that you would put a remote control on if you were a fat person watching games on Saturdays like looking around for some to agree with them. He's like, huh? Yes, man. All right.

Well, he has the guy right next to him just shaking his head in agreements. So I believe that during college football sports radio shows, when a team loses, they should just pass around a collection plate. Just let's make it that overt. You want me to be better? You're calling to criticize my coaching, give more money. Throw some money in here. Be better at giving me money so I can buy better players.

He has a point. He literally has a point. He does. Not enough of them to be Georgia. The part that's amazing about it is one, him leaning back clearly not knowing that that's being recorded for video. I mean, or not knowing and not caring,

or knowing and not caring. Stugots asked if he was wearing a blanket, but it was just the bottom of the shirt. Everybody got a little nice cozy blanket at the table. But it's also the fact that that really is the only way to win, like all these coaches, there's probably not that much that separates any of them. We've talked about UM being the program

that they're gonna be simply because they're gonna recruit better than everybody else, but there are probably 10 coaches that consider themselves head and shoulders above everybody else, and then there's everybody else and the difference is, give me more money, please. All 10 of those coaches have the last name, Stoops. All Stoopsie.

None of them will coach a tire. I mean, none of them will do it. He makes 8.6 a year, okay? Maybe you can pay a little for these players, huh? No, no. I actually, I actually, I do have a two-way. I saw it. When does that happen though?

When do coaches start donating part of their salary back into the NIL fund? Honestly, I mean, he's getting paid as much as he ever will. So maybe this is, he should just ride the salary. But I'm just saying, I will, we'll take you. Somebody making seven million year at a crappy job, take a mill, invest it into your players.

All of a sudden you get a better job you're making more money here. It's simple math folks. Seven million. You're proud of that one. I don't know why I should. I don't think a mill's enough to be honest. Why did you just point to your head with two fingers

as if you'd made the great point? I mean, it's just obvious. It's just so good. You think that there are a lot of things that I have to bet you on. Why did you just point to your head with two fingers as if you'd made the great point? I mean, I'm like, just obvious. You think that there are a lot of things I've been holding up at $7 million a year. Coaches make up, dude. Mark Stoops is making 8.6. It doesn't hit you with the dude. You did just hit me with the dude. I fired up about this.

A tough team. The dude love a tarred show with Stugats. Can you guys please find for me finally it keeps getting here later and later Billy's useless sound montage. Later and later on Wednesday I'm told hey Dan remember that you have the useless sound montage just every single week it's getting a little bit later and I do believe at some point I'm going to get it the following week that you're waiting for me to forget. Is that option?

No it is not an option but neither is getting it here as late as it's been getting here and it's still getting here that late. Let me hear the useless sound montage. It's never going to be perfect. This game is an imperfect game so it's never going to be perfect. He game is an imperfect game, so it's never going to be perfect. He was really good. Everybody was pretty good. I think there was a lot of good things today and some not so good. Could have showed a wood as not as good enough. The good thing about it though and the perspective of it all is that as we continue to go throughout

the season, it's a journey. There of still a lot of good things ahead. When you come out and you see all that red, I mean, that's impressive. Especially when you have the purple, I mean, it's purple here. It's a lot of purple. And so, but to put the red in there, I mean, that was a great thing. I do feel like this team is, you know, able to compete and we're going to do that every single week. I love that he competed. There is no flinch in him. Play calls are great guys. Made plays all around me. Defensive great so it wasn't just me. As an offense the goal was to play better and put up points. We take pride in taking care of the football. Yeah I've got to be better. I've got to take care of the ball.

We've done a good job of taking care of the ball and we've done a good job of getting the ball. It's football, you know, you're going to make mistakes. You just got to, it's really how you come back and how you continue to play. You have to stay together in football. It's the ultimate team game. You know, that's football. We knew it was going to be a dog fight.

It was going to be a four quarter game. Wasn't going to be easy. And we tried to find a way to win. I thought it's about. Listen, these games are emotional, man. They're hard fought. Both teams are, you know, straining. The players are straining.

Guys are putting their bodies on the line and coaches, you know, and the whole thing and obviously we're not out there playing, but we're part of it. There's a lot of young guys out there. We're going to keep everybody moving and going in the right direction. And I think about the end of the year, we're going to be dangerous.

You're not going to know who's going to give those opportunities throughout the game. You got to start the game faster. I just look at players and that looking as I, sometimes the messy games are my favorite. You know, it is what it is. You gotta just go back to the drawing board and keep working. We take it one week at a time.

Nobody really cares about how you do it. You know, you just wanna see if you win or you lose or if it works or if it doesn't. And so, you know, however we find a way to do that, however we find a way to do that, there it is, you know, the winning is the main thing. My job is to go attack this thing from this very moment forward.

There's nothing better than when, you tell your team just concerns and you talk about it and your team tells you, Coach, just freaking relax, all right, we got it. Ha ha ha. Dan Campbell does often talk in victory as if he's got a bit of indigestion and is holding a burp, like trying to hold a burp down from all that caffeine that he has in the morning. His voice is distinctive.

It comes from the bowels, the plumbing of masculinity. Come from the motor city, Dan. Thank you, Billing. That is true. I can't wait to hear that kind of analysis in Spanish tonight on the like who we are Can't wait It's gonna crush it. I can't wait. I cannot wait So much caffeine and coffee to get through this game. I was thinking about this. It's a 730 kickoff. Yesterday I went to bed at 9 p.pm. That's not even half time.

Well, how many hours a week does a single episode of God Bless Football take you? Ah, wow. That is a question. I would say... 20 plus? Between recording and editing, like 20 plus? It takes me about two. Yeah, well.

No, it takes you about two with Chris Simms alone Wait, did you do you tap the last time it is yeah, I noticed that earlier That's gonna be my second go around with you This is a 2019 so COVID-19 you've heard about right your senior maybe they've been crushed by the transfer portal have that yeah One of the guys more dressed up than the other. I was actually thinking about that too. That's AJ Rickens, who's the one that asked me to do this to him.

Should I go in a suit? I don't think I'm going to today, but I was wondering, do I do a suit? You should today. You should today. You should today.