The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Let's Walk Through the Settings

Episode Date: July 15, 2024

Lucy shows off her new phone-purse, Tony explains what he'll be doing on a stream this afternoon, and Glen Powell is having a moment. Then, did we just talk about tennis for the longest anyone has ever spoken about tennis on a podcast? Plus, College Football 25 talk is taking over the Shipping Container. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. This is the Don Leventor Show with the Stugats Podcast. I really am going to campaign for Lucy to go to a Columbia soccer match at some point. Just go to like the league. I think that's a great addition of off-roading. When I came in, I- Maybe she doesn't wanna go though, I mean. You guys have scared me from going. You should be scared.

Like it was, it was- It seems terrifying. And I don't do well in stressful situations. I get tummy aches when I'm anxious. So I'm not even gonna be able to do anything. More vents. Yeah, and I thought that was just like a Disney Channel thing, I never thought people actually climbed events.

I thought it was like a quicksand type of deal, where it's just something you see on Disney. You've never watched Die Hard? I've seen Die Hard, I don't like Die Hard because, What? Because I'm really queasy with blood, and the scene where he has to like walk on the glass. Barefoot.

I can't, I can't do it. I see those people climbing through a vent to get into a sporting event, and I feel sad for them. I get a life. What are you doing? I don't know how journalism works in reporting, but I have a source, a text, that somebody affiliated with that stadium,

that doesn't lead anywhere. And that inside there, they talk to an AC guy that works at the stadium, and they're like, there's probably people inside an empty, like, where those people are climbing right now leads nowhere. Yeah, so hopefully they turned around and realized Like there's, where those people are climbing right now leads nowhere. Yeah, so they, hopefully they turned around

and realized that there were a bunch of people that were, I saw a media member, a credentialed media member got tackled by police. I know people that had credentials to this event and weren't able to actually access their credentials because of everything that went down. So thankfully you weren't at this one, Lucy, but I wanted to talk to you about it with all your experience. But then I stumbled upon

your purse and I thought this was like a really cool purse for those that don't have the video accompaniment. There is a, the handle is a ruby red phone like Dorothy's shoes, but it's an old school handset for a phone. And I was like, wow, what a really cool thing that you picked up thrifting, because I know you go thrifting, but that's not an old school purse. No, it is not. So most of you know it was my birthday last week.

Happy birthday. Thank you. And I always get myself something nice for my birthday. And I saw a TikTok of this and I was so easily influenced and I needed it. It's Betsy Johnson. Betsy Johnson makes like a bunch of weird, quirky stuff. She's a very famous designer.

And so I saw this and I was like, I need this purse phone bag. And so the coolest part about this purse phone is that it works. What? So Chris Cody is going to call me and I'm gonna pick up on my purse phone. So you can direct all your calls to your purse phone? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So if you like need to call me, I'm gonna pick up on my purse phone. Give me a wuss. So you can direct all your calls to your purse phone?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So if you need to call me, I'll just pick up. Okay, so Chris is calling me. Do you guys hear the ringing? Look, you can see this ringing. I don't know if you can hear the sound, but I'm gonna pick it up. Oh, hello?

Hello? Oh, yeah. It's a purse phone. Wow. Hey, what's up, Lucy? How's it going? It's amazing. What are you doing today?

Do you realize if James Bond did this in the 1960s, we'd all? Hey, what's up, Lucy? How's it going? That's amazing. What are you doing today? Do you realize if James Bond did this in the 1960s, we'd all be like, get out of town. Get out of town. This is super cool. All right, I'll talk to you later. Okay, I'll talk to you later. Wait, I can hang up.

I can hang up, you don't hang up. All right, no, you hang up. Yeah, she's got the satisfying, can it click? Yeah. Yeah, so I have this little button here that will answer my calls and then hang up my calls and it has these little buttons here that will answer my calls and then hang up my calls, and it has these little buttons here that will adjust the volume, and I just put it,

and I click it back into my phone. But you just slam it down. No, I can't slam it down, which sucks, and I wish that the little turn buttons worked on it, but I can't direct any calls out of it. It's Bluetooth connected to my actual phone. Do you have any actual life experience with hanging up a landline?

Yeah, I'm... Like an anger? It's a great feeling. Oh dude, it's an underrated feeling. Or a payphone. Have you ever used a payphone? I've never used a payphone. Oh, either.

That's how you would get picked up from the youth fair. Yeah, what, youth fair? The Dade County Youth Fair, yeah. You would either beep your ride. Yep. Sometimes you'd beep a crush like 8008. My beep you're saying pager, right? Like a pager, right?

Hey, what'd you do? Yeah. Not to be a bummer, but when my parents got divorced, my divorce gift was a cell phone. And so I had a cell phone at a really young age, which my first cell phone, my homemade lava lamp exploded on it. And then my second cell phone I lost in Toys R Us,

because that's how young I was. And so I've had like a bunch of cell phones and I've had like the cool like flip to hang second cell phone I lost in Toys R Us, because that's how young I was. And so I've had like a bunch of cell phones and I've had like the cool like flip to hang up cell phone, which I missed that a lot. And then I had a landline before my parents got divorced. So that's just another thing I lost. But now I have my purse phone, which I'm not gonna give my number out,

so no one call me, but my friends can call me. It needs a satisfying like feeling. Well it has a button. No, the button doesn't do it, you gotta slam a phone down. No, the button doesn't do it you gotta slam No, it's super satisfying if you watch Dante's peak Pierce Brosnan picks up a phone He's like put the town on alert and he slams it and it's like way more My purse phone if you want, but please be gentle with it. We have to put the town on alert

Oh and for the audio listeners, my bag is super cute. It has cherries on it and the phone is bedazzled Really? Now, can you see who on it, and the phone is bedazzled. Really? Yeah. Now, can you see who's calling you when the call comes in? No. That was another one of the charms of having a landline. Right, you had no idea what you were getting. I mean, it could be different. I would answer it as like a six-year-old boy,

and they would always say, hello, ma'am. I'm going to be like, what's your problem? I lived with my grandparents at the turn of the century, which seems like a really dated way to do that. But I was in high school. This is when the PS2 came out, and they actually had a rotary phone, which made calling for PS2's a mission because everything was pressed to.

For electronics, press to. I don't have a touchstone phone, so I'm literally going to, nothing's happening because I don't actually type anything out on the rotary phone. So that's how old I am. But now I'm really excited to get home and at four o'clock play a video game like you wouldn't believe.

Speaking of four o'clock, the boys, me and Taylor streaming. Wow, the second it drops? The second it drops, as you can see on screen, the boys gonna be ready, four o'clock. Biggest game on the planet. Why are you doing this? I would not want to be on the internet the first time I'm I need to be by myself That's that's experiencing this I I hear you

But we're doing this for the masses that don't maybe you're at work Maybe you don't have the early access go out and get it like we're doing it for them So everybody in the chat everybody who's listening go check us out four o'clock all the usual place What a sacrifice you're so brave have you also told your wife this day is coming and that you're worse version of yourself She knows and obviously she's pregnant and we're expecting and it's coming to the momentum is hey look This is what I'm gonna be doing. I just want you to know newborn baby Newborn baby though five for long, Tony. Newborn baby though. Five months, six months.

Low key, that's a great time to get in the gaming because your social life is ruined anyway. That's what I'm saying. So you're just kind of leaning into it by doing that. But my wife and I, we both, scheduled a lot of activities for this week. I'm going to a concert tomorrow night. Not too jacked about that now.

I'm going on a boat on the weekend, kinda already regretting that do get some rest man twisters is coming out I'm doing twisters. Okay. Are you are you are you pumped for twisters? Are you doing are you doing a running out the theater? Yeah, you want you want to come with what? Here's what I'm doing. You know my experience with the last mission impossible movie I got a 4dx seat and I didn't know what that meant and so my wife and I we order a bottle of wine. I'm trying to pour it as Ethan is is motorcycling or running and we're it's just so now the challenge is I'm gonna wear all white to twisters and drink a bottle of wine and see what the damage is at the end of it because yeah I'm doing 4DX now. Glenn Powell is a

superstar. Super. He is having a moment. That dude is such a movie star. So charismatic. Dude, anybody, like, we're gonna look back at that cast of Top Gun Maverick. Miles Teller had a huge gallery at the ACC. He did. That is going to king make so many people. Not only did Dom Cruise save cinema with Top Gun Maverick,

but he also entered in a whole new a whole new generation of Hollywood movie stars because we hadn't had those tentpole movie stars and now Glenn Glenn Powell is gonna breathe new life into the Twisters franchise I'm really excited about this early reviews are good I like Glenn Powell a lot I saw his last movie too which was like a direct-to-stream it was about the Hitman one? Yeah. I saw it.

Oh, it's great. Yeah, it was really good. I love that movie. Yeah, I'm a big Glenn Powell guy. Danny Ramirez is also in Top Gun Maverick. He's a local guy. I think he went to Coral Park. Big Canes fan. Friend of mine. His career is blowing the F up. He's in the trailer for the new Captain America movie. He's doing a movie with Joaquin Phoenix. I'm telling you. So Tom Cruise is making careers. Tom Cruise saves cinema. He

should be thanked. I agree with you. I know he's weird and it comes with a lot of baggage and stuff but that dude is undeniably a movie star and he saved cinema and he should get a special Oscar for doing so. I really like Glenn Powell and I like that he keeps bringing his dog everywhere with him. Very cute little dog. But my thing with Glenn Powell is I'm getting a little nervous that we might be overdoing it because it feels like he's in every movie lately and I like him. I think he's really good and charismatic and fun, but I feel like he has two more big movies in the upcoming

future to turn into Chris Pratt where we're like, hey we just have a little too much of you in one short period of time. So I think Glenn Powell should just chill out for a little bit. I heard he's moving back to Texas. I know he's a big college football fan, so he's probably playing the game.

So just, Glenn, take a little break, keep posting the dog content, and then come back so that we don't get too sick of you. So lighten up on the Powell is what you're saying. Yeah. Do a hit on college game day. I don't know, but some actors, that doesn't, we had a lot of Tom Cruise early on,

and that didn't seem to impact his career. He was fine. He came out totally normal by it. Hollywood didn't make Tom Cruise weird at all. I'm just saying, we didn't get tired of Tom Cruise. But you didn't have social media doing what is happening right now with Glenn Powell. If you go on TikTok or you go on Twitter right now,

he is everywhere doing everything, doing TikTok dances, doing press tours where they're linking him to every single actress that he's in a movie with and doing the relationship baiting. But he's just the most charismatic person that exists right now. And you don't wanna, you wanna like enjoy that charisma

as opposed to overdoing it. I get what Lucy's saying. I think I can make a solid argument that Top Gun Maverick is one of the most important movies ever. Agreed. Not just because it was awesome, it was a great movie.

It was the middle of the pandemic, it was the first time I went out to do anything during the pandemic. We needed that to work so bad. I don't think you have things like Barbenheimer that happen afterwards. I went to the movies for Tenet and it was not an event.

We needed something to bring us back, but also we're talking about Tom Cruise as if like we've never gotten sick of him. Tom Cruise needed Top Gun Maverick too. He really stuck his neck out for that. He needed that bad. Remember the going clear thing kind of ruined Tom Cruise. It certainly canceled in terms of,

a lot of people left the Church of Scientology, a lot of people distanced themselves from it. Tom Cruise needed that. He needed the movie, the role. And also, we got Sars. We ushered in a whole new generation of movie stars. That is one of low-key, like, the most important movies ever made.

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But I'm on bass. When it comes to sex, I'm Scott Hattaberg. Other dudes, they can be Giambi. You know your role, you play well. I know my role. This is the Dan Lebatard Show with the Stugarts. ["The Stugarts Theme Song"] Speaking of creepy crews, did you see them at Wimbledon yesterday?

No, I- Center court right behind Kate Middleton. It was fantastic. So my flight got delayed leaving. Tahoe is so beautiful, and I feel like they go out of their way to make it really impossible to get there. Oh, it's hard. It's really difficult.

My wife and I, we had made a commitment to start our dynasty at the University in Nevada, hashtag Battle Born. And then our flight got canceled at the airport and we ceased being able to see ourselves there. You can negative recruit this place. It's not easy to get to. My flight got canceled and it forced me to miss the Wimbledon men's final, which seemed like a dream matchup. Did the match deliver at all?

It's something that I wanted to dedicate all the time in the world for it and I couldn't, I was on a plane. It did not deliver. Alcares is so good and I'm not certain, I don't know how many people, especially within our crew, love tennis. I know you and I love tennis.

We talk about tennis all the time. And Alcaraz, what he is doing is historical. He is 21 years old. He just won the French. He won on the grass courts of Wimbledon. Four or five guys in the history of tennis have won those two tournaments in the same year. He's got the US Open coming up. He's likely going to win that.

The most impressive thing about Alcaraz yesterday, Mike, was that he took care of Djokovic and he did so in three sets. And the third set, the joker, he was pushing him. He was pushing him. He was pushing him. In fact, he had three match points. Alcaraz did. He lost that game. Then it went to a tiebreaker and Alcaraz somehow got past that mentally and was able to finish it off. But to see that guy beat the joker in three consecutive sets on his court, that is his court, it's the surface he likes the most. And to have a guy now who has four majors at the age of 21, he's on path to be the greatest tennis player we've ever seen. Spain had a day yesterday. Yeah, Spain had a day, no doubt, and they're also just going to boss tennis now. It seems like that's their thing. So it's really unfortunate that Djokovic is dealing with these injuries

now because he was still, prior to this recent injury stretch stretch he was still as good as he ever was correct and so you could have that measuring stick for for Akras but he's probably gonna go on a bit of a Federer like run in that remember at the very beginning of Federer's run Nadal wasn't on board yet Murray was still finding his footing like the the top guy and Djokovic wasn't on board yet. Murray was still finding his footing. Like the top guy, one of the- And Djokovic wasn't there yet. Djokovic wasn't really, like he was really young. Like he was going up against the likes of Andy Roddick and there was a huge gulf between Fed and the rest of the field. I don't

think it's quite that because guys like Medvedev and Sinner are going to push him, but he's pretty clearly better than them. And we'll see what that means for tennis, because I think there's a really special time that we're coming out of in men's tennis, where I'll lump Murray in there too, because when Murray was healthy and he won one of them. Murray was great, yes. His run was a little bit shorter,

and his run actually just officially came to an end. But you had Bovrinka, like you had a bunch of guys operating in that generation. Stan, Andy, Nadal, Federer, Djokovic, five guys that if they were born just in a different time would probably be considered the greatest men's tennis player ever because they just would have dominated the field. They would have padded their sad so much.

Now it's just Alcara, like he has no one pushing him. It feels like the only guy pushing him is Djokovic, he's getting older, he's coming off the injury. Sinner's there and there's a lot of, look, American tennis is really good. Like we got a couple of guys that can possibly push them and you know, you've seen the Marty Fish documentary on Netflix. Like these tennis pros, they become consumed with taking down the top guy. I don't think one guy's gonna run it, but I do think Carlos is gonna have the run of it for like a few majors.

Tennis is funny in that you always think, okay, the superstars are done, there's no one around the corner. But there's always someone around the corner. Yeah. Like I didn't know Alcaraz was gonna be this. I didn't know he existed three years ago. And there's a couple of guys that can maybe rebound, like Vovko was a guy that oh he can actually be a lead. I didn't

really see that. Djokovic also started his career like okay is this guy going to be a you know a bump in the road for these guys or is he actually going to have a say? And you had those questions about him. I think I have questions about the the surrounding field around Atkaras right now. Like I could see them getting there. Like Tsitsipas, is he a guy that can turn it around because he has all the tools? Can he actually find that promise? I don't know. Jeremy, did you find like the Roger Federer run

before like those guys got online? It's a crazy run. He won his first Wimbledon in 2003 and then he won three grand slams in 2004, two grand slams in 2005, three grand slams in 2006, and two grand slams in 2007. I think like that's crazy. Like the mid-2000s, I think he lost to Del Potro, who was another guy that might have been like all-time great if he didn't get super hurt.

But it wasn't- It's like what Jordan played. There were just a lot of guys who weren't. It's like what Jordan played. There were just a lot of guys who weren't getting with titles because Jordan was there. We've all kind of convinced ourselves that that was what that generation was. It was just those three guys just ripping each other's heads off trying to get there. And no, like Federer had a pretty sustained run and it took like several years of those guys running into that wall before they could finally topple them.

But this was interesting yesterday and you'll appreciate this because you know this happened with federal towards the end he was working so hard and he was getting older getting older getting older at still putting in the same amount of work if not more because he had to compensate for the fact that he was getting older then he realized what am i doing all this for i get to the finals i can't beat the joker i can't

beat the doll in france and i can't be the joker anywhere else't beat Nadal in France and I can't beat the Joker anywhere else. I'm out of here. I'm done. And I seem to sense that with Djokovic yesterday. It doesn't matter what I do, how hard I train, I'm going to get to the finals and play this guy and I'm not going to beat him. He's a younger version of me. Yeah, so when Nadal burst on the scene, I know Nadal was always good on clay and he was giving Federer like fits on clay at the French, right, at Roland Garros? Yeah, it was 2005, six, seven, and eight, it was Nadal in the French,

and then 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and then 17, 18, 19, 20, and 22. Like the moment everything changed though. That's crazy, you're laughing at it. It's ridiculous. The moment everything changed though was when Nadal beat Federer at Wimbledon, because now he you're laughing at it. The moment everything changed though, was when Nadal beat Federer at Wimbledon.

Because now we could do it at another. That was 2008, he also beat him in 2010. For my money, the greatest men's tennis match of all time. The 2008 final between Federer and Nadal. That was unbelievable. I could re-watch that match. You're including the Isner match, your Wimbledon first round, it took three days.

They changed the rules because of that match. Because're including the Isner match at Wimbledon first round. It took three days. They changed the rules because of that match. Uh because of Isner. No, there's a lot of great like there's a lot of scrappy. There's a lot of degen favorites like is there's a long time degen favorite. Gail Monfise is another guy that you'd go to war with. Is this the longest any sports show in the history of sports radio or podcasting is talk tennis? I think Roddick has a podcast called Served Up. I'm not even certain he talks tennis.

I don't know. I'm just asking. I'm enjoying the conversation. Dave comes back tomorrow. It should be noted. Are you really sure? We had two months of Sugata's tennis takes and we had to get out there. I mean Alcaraz, man.

He's pacing to be the greatest player of all time. I love tennis. I never thought I would see someone better than Federer, I mean Alcares, man. He's pacing to be the greatest player of all time. I love tennis. I never thought I would see someone better than Federer Nadal Djokovic. This guy's better. He's better. I'm not there yet.

He's really great. Now he made the people, they had the champions dinner last night and he made these people, all the people attending, wait around until 10 p.m. to eat dinner on a Sunday night. That is rude. They do their dinner on the back end of the tournament. It was last night.

I know the Masters do theirs like the front end before the tournament starts, the previous day. I like that. They have a dance, it's like a ball, and you have dinner, but he was watching England and Spain, so he made everyone wait around until 10. They're rude. I mean, by the way, I'm not going, if that's the deal.

I'll eat at seven and you show up and I'm out there, too bad. Stu, you gotta start putting pressure on Alcaraz immediately though. Because you look at this run for Federer, you look at the run Nadal had at the French Open, and you need to see, all right, how many Grand Slams can you win early

before that next challenge shows up for you? He hasn't won in Australia yet, do it down under. You gotta figure it out. Start issuing challenges. Are you gonna challenge Marty Fisher to do it against Steph Curry? I mean listen Marty, the reason this meant so much to Marty is the year he won it there were no fans there and I've been giving him a hard time saying do it in front of the fans. Is that his only second win? That's only his second win yeah. So last year he had the incident where he was leading on 18. Poor shit.

Someone. Yeah. So do it in front of the fans and then the fans went out of their way to actively sabotage his championship last year. Correct. And they did. They cost him a championship. Steph Curry won it, did not come back.

He won it to his credit. He won it with an eagle on 18. And a hole in one earlier in the round. Tim Brown had a hole in one yesterday. Yeah, he got a boat. But he lives in Dallas. He's got the check, right? They're like, you can take the boat or we'll just get to...

I guess there's a lake somewhere in suburban Fort Worth. So Marty's upset because last year it was in front of the fans and he should have won, but some guy yelled whatever he yelled during his backswing. Yesterday he did win in front of the fans, but he won without Steph Curry being there. So do it when Steph is there. I think people that don't watch this tournament are just thinking, oh, a bunch of celebrities playing golf, who cares?

Marty's Saturday golf. It's unbelievable. His putting. He's amazing. On Saturday is an all time golfing achievement. Agreed. I don't know the exact numbers, but it felt like over six putts of over 25 feet.

It was like, it was right up there, I'm telling you, with Nicholas back nine Augusta 1986, the putting. Did you see when the fan chirped him? So a fan like, Marty goes up to the green to putt for birdie and the fan goes, hey Marty, hope you three putt. Which is like, number one, who the F has a problem with Marty Fish and cares that much about like to say that oddly specific chirp yes someone who has money on someone other than Marty well that's what happened dude that's what happened the year before the dude that that heckled Marty

on the backswing he was caught and he said I'm sorry I thought we were having fun out here I have a bet on Steph Curry. So there is elements that you can gamble on this thing. So the dude starts talking shit to Marty, starts chirping him, and Marty is like, what is this guy's deal? We're all here trying to have fun. Marty buries a 42-foot putt and goes right at the guy. Talk your stuff now and whatnot. fan got escorted by the way It's a pretty boss. Hell out of here dude to nail a 42 foot bird

So at the players meeting they went out of their way to say if fans are talking While you're playing while you're swinging point them out and we'll take them out so you weren't at the players meeting I snuck my way in and I knew that rule going in. Was Jerry Rice at the players meeting because something went a little viral with Jerry I don't know what's going on. What is happening with Jerry Rice? We'll escort them out, not take them out Jerry got in a... Dude, Jerry... It was an ugly video that got posted I don't know if TMZ Sports had it

Jerry was making the walk from 17, which is a party hole, to 18 Such a harmless chirp that he got He... The opposite of... The Marty thing was at least like very specific this is just like hey the Chiefs have good receivers no it wasn't a chirp it was a credentialed media guide now granted but it was kind of content it was like well you could see I could see where he would be bothered by the question because Jerry Rice Niners legend but also if you were in the players meeting like I was the night before you would have learned no questions while the guys are walking

down a fairway. Well he wasn't walking down the fairway. No questions while they're playing golf. It looked like that little middle area between like 17 that's where if you want a selfie if you want an autograph that's where you post up. Now there's not typically media there credential media they're asking you questions as you make that walk but that is the fun walk of Edgewood. Like, that's where you have your fun. And a dude with a credential went up to Jerry Rice as he's making the walk. And this isn't even like a tournament day. This is Thursday. This is the loose day. And he says, Hey Jerry, what do you think? How do you think the Niners

receiver stack up against Kansas City? Now, that could be loaded. Even if the world, even with the Super Bowl, it's just a harmless question. It's a harmless question, and it's coming from a credentialed media member. Jerry snaps, and he's like, I will F you up right now. The temperature of the room changed immediately. He acted like he got disrespected,

but he's like, that was disrespectful. He misunderstood the question. No, he says, I will F you up, meet me. You say when, like the guy got hauled away. He was a credential meeting member. Like he went back the next day. It was just an ugly scene. But Jerry, and then I see him, he's all happy on Sunday.

He's playing in the tournament. But there was another story there where I heard a guy, I overheard this conversation, telling security that Jerry Rice was rude to him that he asked him to sign an autograph And Jerry Rice snapped back. Hey, you're a memorabilia guy. You're gonna sell this thing for a lot more money I get that I get I get back part of the jury Recognizes like you're a memorabilia dealer and you're just trying to get one over you're not actually a fan I couldn't get that one. Yeah, but the guy wasn't it it was for his kid, like you're there, signing this stuff.

Oh, what, he was lying about it? Yeah. Well then I can't get behind that. Yeah. All right, everybody, it's finally here, best ball week at DraftKings, my favorite time of the year, and DraftKings Best Ball Millionaire Contest is the biggest fantasy contest ever at DraftKings. A $15 million guaranteed prize pool

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I got a schedule full of Zooms. It's just like, it's at the final turn, I'm down the stretch. It's a bad day for you. And it's just like, I got so much stuff to do. I wasn't expecting to sit in this chair today. They're just trying to make this final day as long as possible, but I have the early access. So at four o'clock I will not be watching you and Taylor. I will be building a dynasty for the ages on my own time at home. But you on our YouTube page are gonna be kind of unboxing this game and experiencing it all in real time with Taylor. Absolutely. What we're going to do is we're obviously going to play the game, but we're going to take you through all of the different settings.

We're going to go through all the world of glories and dynasty modes and all the stuff that you can see in the game. We're going to go through the settings. The sliders are big. What time's that at? This guy doesn't get it. Chris, you've been kind of, this guy's got a PS one being like, oh yeah, I don't play those games. I did just ask Taylor out there, I was like, what are you guys on the PS3? What are you guys cooking with? Apparently they're on the five.

Yeah, it's hard to guess. I think I have the four actually. Wow. I'm not sure, I have a PS. Do you think? I got a PS, I'm not sure which one. You've kind of not been on board with the talks about college football,

so you're just not a gamer at all? I like college football, I like the the the old No, you don't cuz if you liked it you would be it's life on fire right now. You're not you guys say talk this shit I bet you I beat y'all Don't y'all. Okay, cool. Is that a threat good tough talk? How do you do it? I would beat you by four Tony. Okay. Yeah. Well, do you say more than a field? Well spread would be plus three and a half thank you are you are you in with us for for Tony tonight yeah I'll be there Tony

show part two yeah well yet cuz Tony tonight is kind of like confusing it is there's we got a couple things in the oven Tony tonight different story that's where I go all right so what all right so tell me what else we have Tony show part two the return we have the Tony show that happened a couple of months ago It's like the Truman show it's like the Truman show But this one is different this one is back to the future because we're doing a couple things different And it's Tony and it's way of course But as you can see Wednesday July 17 starting at 7 o'clock

PM the Tony show to with a bunch of your favorite guests around here. Maybe Chris Wow, right sure made the title like Lewis's name of us yeah he's Doc Brown in the in the photo clearly standing on a box really good graphic though I wanted to tell angel to leave the box that he was standing on but it didn't it I didn't really the message as quickly as I should have but yeah Tony show part two Wednesday seven o'clock we're gonna have a lot of fun we're gonna be playing ps2 games which is why we're going back go Chris you're gonna be going through all two games, which is why we're going back to Chris. You're going to be going through all the settings again. You don't get it. Do I get to play Chris in this?

That that's the settings or the game. So we're, we're playing a bunch of retro games and we actually get to, to clap back at Chris. Like he's going to be playing games with us. He's going to be there playing. Whoever wants the noise. We've got everything from Madinot 7 and CWA football 2006 which I think is what we're gonna start on right there. We've got MVP baseball We've got NBA live 2003 got MVP baseball MVP John Dowd get out of here all the retro games We have in our arsenal for the Tony show plus we're gonna be doing a best ball draft for the NFL season coming up with draft

Kings, we're just gonna be very exciting I'm excited about a best ball draft for the NFL season coming up with DraftKings, which is going to be very exciting. I'm excited about the best ball draft, but we're going to have the video game results kind of dictate where we're drafting. I think so. It's only right. Now in the settings, are we going to have it where the clock goes really fast in between plays? It's an odd thing to go over.

This is a feeble. That's not how it works. You know what he's doing? He's not one of the cool kids, and he's trying to make us feel bad about it by seizing on the settings. You're not experiencing today the way that Tony and I are experiencing today. He doesn't understand like the road to glory and what that means and how we can look through it. Let's all go around and say our favorite setting. Mike, you first. But the road to glory has nothing to do with the settings is what Chris is saying. No, but Taylor and Tony, they're going to

walk us through. We're going to walk through the settings. There's a lot of different things that you can disguise coverages now in NCAA football 2005, 2025, excuse me, where you couldn't back in the day, where you could show a cover too, but actually be in a cover one man. Wow. There's a lot of different things that we can go through.

Ooh, a deak play. I know how to show you my deak plays. You think I'm showing you the real play? No. It's a deak play. Personnel subs. I love the personnel groupings. Heisman, to answer your question.

Sliders on. If we're looking at depth charts, now I'm in. Cause I love good depth charts. That's part of the setting. That's part of the whole tour. I don't care how low his rating is. My fastest receiver is gonna be in the slot. Shouldn't have said that.

Just gave away some of the goods. I like to put a corner at outside linebacker. Oh, dude. You could do that? That was my move. In the matting with Vic on the cover, he was unstoppable. So what I would do is if you sorted your team by speed, you'd have a lot of dime corners and a lot of fifth and sixth

guys in your secondary. They're speed demons, but they're not seeing the field. So replace your outside linebacker and have them essentially spy on Mike Vick, and that was the way to do it. If you ever really wanted to get crazy and dependent on the guy that you were playing, if he was a one trick pony

and he was running with Vic the entire time, put Champ Bailey, an outside linebacker, and I would spy on Mike Vick, and that was the only way you wouldn't get one all over what's this corner back you have a 99 speed but a 32 return rating well you're still a returner yeah oh always speed would dictate everything I can make up the other 80% I can't teach 99 overall speed see I know the game it's the issue that we're gonna have coming up for the Tony

show part 2 is the guys I want to Play as Michael Vick or Vince Young in the NCAA football game where all they gonna do is run band that guy sucks We got a band Vic. I think it's Mike Mallee by the way Mike Mallee is that guy cuz he played me again with Texas The other day metal or eating them So you're unboxing how long is tonight's brought that you just said that you're gonna go through a lot of things today's show Who knows how long it's gonna be you're just in the you're just in the menus. We're just in the menus We're just looking around all the new settings. Thank you, Chris. We're gonna be playing games We're gonna be just I'm just looking at uniform a combination. I'm telling you We're gonna do I want music. I want to hear the music. It might be three hours long

We don't know should we turn home field advantage on or off. It's always on baby hours long we don't know should we turn home field advantage on or off it's always on baby which is why we're talking about it but why would you turn it off neutral fields no we can't do neutral fields you gotta go home field advantage right plus you hit the bumpers and then the crowd gets pumped up and then we can go through the toughest places to play one through 25 that's always exciting is it gonna be jersey numbers or Lucy Lucy how did you feel about the the rankings list for the toughest places to play?

It wasn't accurate, because Texas A&M was number one, and they lose at home all the time. Like, all the time. You lose at home to App State, that's no shade to App State. They're a great team, you should stop scheduling them. But once you do that, you are no longer the toughest place to play. There's this dude that works for ESPN stats, or used to.

He came out, and he was like, when I was at ESPN, I was trying to actually quantify home field advantage in college football. Is one singular structure more difficult to play in if you're an opposing football team? And what he basically came back with is, if you got a good football team, it's hard to play at that good football team. there's venues that are probably bad right now because their football

teams are down bad that once their team gets good can be electric and impossible look Miami Hurricanes fans get a ton of shit they had the nation's longest windstreak at the Orange Bowl it was one of these places like you could never go in and play like it's but that works both ways because I'm guessing when Alabama was bad Bryan Denny Stadium was not one of the most feared places to play in the country. Nick Saban's Alabama. Now it is. Nick Saban's Alabama lost at home to UL Monroe. Yeah. That was year one of the Nick Saban experience. Then if you ask UL Monroe how it went for them afterwards visiting, they'd probably say pretty tough place to play.

So it's all BS. Good football teams have good barns, essentially. What's the kicking meter gonna be? The kicking meter I've seen is very tough, by the way, because it's one of the ones that are like swishing this way, not the ones that you would go up that way. You disagree, Lucy, with that? Yeah, a little, and I'm gonna use Iowa as an example,

where every year Iowa is the most just like eight and four team out there and they always beat some team that is infinitely better than them at home when they're playing at night. It's like a weird thing that's happened when Iowa is a terrible team and they will beat Ohio State by, Iowa beat Ohio State by 30 points. Yeah, Purdue is the same way.

We're like, yeah. If you're number two in the country and you're night game at Purdue, you're losing. I do think there are certain venues that have, like in the certain circumstances where I'm like, I know that that team is going to win. So I do think there is something with that. Like I would say overall, like there are places

that are tougher to play. And I think there's a lot of like validity too, if you're a good team, you know, you're gonna have a good crowd. But I really do think there's something magical about certain venues and times of day and I don't know. No, I get what you're saying, but I also think it's just- Provo on a Saturday night, Mike.

But it's a- Death Valley at night with a tiger going down the sidelines. First order of business is not scheduling that for my program. I am not going to Provo. I get you, but it's also like revisionist. There are times where I'm like, wow, there is no team that can come into this stadium

and match this energy. We're gonna fricking dominate these guys. And then I'm headed to my car because it's 45-3 Florida State. Like, and that place gets evacuated. If Mario Crisabal and his coaching staff for that game were in charge of the stadium operations yesterday, we would have had no issue. I've never seen so people like on message ready to go and

file out in an organized manner than I did for that FSU game. But then there are also like crazy energies where you're nervous. No one thinks that Notre Dame, headed into the turnover chain Notre Dame game, the one game that every, there's a one game that Miami Hurricanes fans have over the last decade, which is like, oh, can you imagine the electricity in that place? No one thought we were gonna win that game.

No one thought we were gonna win that game. And then afterwards you leave, no one was beating us, it was incredible. No, I think there's something to it though in like the specific like architecture of the stadium, where like Penn State is such a tough place to play, even though it has less capacity than Michigan, because you're so close to the field

and it's so tall and it traps the sound. Same thing with Washington, where you have the overhang and it traps the sound. I genuinely think there are places that are tougher to play, not only because of the crowd, but legitimately because of the architecture of The stadium like Oklahoma State I was shocked. It's not a very large stadium But it's really loud because it's built with brick and so it traps the sound really nicely

So I definitely think that there are places that are just tougher to play Even if the team may not be as great why I'm hopeful that if Miami ever has a good team It could rekindle what was happening in 2017 where people from College Game Day said, that's the second loudest place I've ever been to behind Death Valley at LSU. Yeah, I mean, our stadium constantly feels like and looks like it's going to break,

and that's why it's called the Bounce House, because literally it is shaking as people are jumping up and down, which is why we feel like there's a big field advantage. It's legit. It's crazy. I went there to hand UCF its national championship trophy that we made. I was there.

College game day was there too. I was really impressed with that game day atmosphere. It was crazy. I was really scared because I walked through the concourse as the guys were bouncing, and that place was insane. When you're walking underneath and you're looking up and seeing the way that the structure is bouncing, they've told us that it's secure.

They keep saying that it's fine, but I'm constantly worried that one day it's just all going to fall apart. They lost to West Virginia at home by 14 last year. You see it? West Virginia's back. Didn't they? They weren't good last year.

Tony, what are we thinking? They're winning the big 12 this year. What are we thinking for weather? The stadium's only as good as your team. Weather's always random. Random? Yeah, but I don't like when snow is happening in like a warm weather city

That's the worst. Yeah, you know So we really random we agree Tony show part two Wednesday