The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Lord, Dan Was Born a Ramblin' Man

Episode Date: December 6, 2023

After Dan finishes rambling, the show has a huge announcement: All The Smoke is coming to Meadowlark Media and the Draft Kings Network! We discuss welcoming Matt Barnes, Stephen Jackson, and All The Smoke Productions to the crew. Then, it's time for everyone's favorite game...AGAINST! THE! SPREAD! Plus, did you see that Titans punter injury? And it's time for Tony's Top deadmau5, and Billy laughs at Chris Cote. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. This is the Don Levertar Show with the Stugat's Podcast. Stugat's I told you vaguely when I went to Los Angeles for a couple of weeks and through everything we're doing around here into unrest, I told you that I was following my brother, my late brother's advice, pushing me toward my discomforts. Like I just don't like business, Stugots, I really don't like business, but things have to be done in protection of this building and this business that serve everybody here, because we all own a piece of the company, and occasionally I'm going to have to leave here to go do things.

And today, I'm like super excited right now, because one of those things has arrived. And the, I want to tell the audience before I make what is a giant announcement for our show and everything we're trying to do here at Metal Arc Media and the Draft Kings Network. Before I make that announcement, I want to give the long-time listeners of the show the context they need to understand like where this journey is ending up because these listeners made us so very valuable that a lot of people want to partner with us on a lot of different things and we have the freedom to partner with them and we get to pick and choose who we want to work with and who we want to have around us. And so I had to go to Los Angeles and nothing like this has ever happened to me because Mike Ryan said he recognized it because old Hollywood producer there was meeting with a bunch of people and they were doing what was called a vibe check where they come and they meet with you and they see if they if they vibe with you. Sounds douchey. Gotta be honest. It does.

A vibe check. It over yourself. It does but wait let me tell you the story though because I didn't realize I was getting vibe checked. I didn't realize that when Matt Barnes showed up with his crew that they were meeting to see, hey, and these guys, I admire them so much because they're just a deeply authentic brand and a media time that very few brands are authentic. The idea that these guys can still have this kind of power and street credibility because everyone knows those dudes are real. For Matt Barnes to come

into like my so my brothers pushing me toward the discomforts and I'm doing shows in California I don't want to be doing it. It's deeply uncomfortable. Everything we're doing. We're doing them in Adam McKay's office. For Matt Barnes to come in with his people, for them to size me up, and for the thing that they wanted to talk about to be my father, okay, to be my father when I'm trying to live in service of my late brother, and he's pushing me toward like, you got it, like I'm telling you, I don't, over time here I will tell people all of the lengths I'm going to, to try to stay connected

to my late brother in the spiritual artistic ways that I admired about him so very much. But it's made me unstable, like wildly unstable, what has happened over the last 18 months in a way that I don't think anybody around here is familiar with. And it's to birth things like this. It's in service of announcements like this. We are adding.

It's pretty perfect that as you're being a rambling man, you look like a member of the Allman Brothers. I will stop rambling now and make the announcement. We're the guy from Ghost. We've got deadmouse here with us and he is going to accompany me because, honestly, I am thrilled, Stugots, to tell everybody that we are teaming up with. We are partnering with, we are teammates now with all the smoke, with Steven Jackson, with Matt Barnes,

I love smoke, then, with Rachel Nichols, and everything that they bring in here. And we are not about all the smoke. We, like us, our crew doesn't have what this crew has. We are smoke adjacent and uncomfortable and coughing. Yes, we are not all the smoke people. We're some of the smoke. We don't want all the smoke people we're some of the smoke we don't want all the smoke we want occasional smoke if it's easy and it doesn't actually result in uh... in a fight you know mad

barns will fight you yeah steven jackson will fight you steven jackson will get banned from the league for fighting yeah i don't know where you're talking about dan i am someone who loves all of the smoke it is not all of the smoke well no but all of the smoke. It is not all of the smoke. Well, no, but all of the smoke You know bring bring the smoke on to me, Dan It's all the smoke. I'm right at home. I mean This is very exciting Dan very very exciting. They give us credibility That we don't have to be quite frank with you. And so I'm very excited that they're my teammates.

This is amazing. Did I consider me a teammate or no? I think so. We will ask Matt Barnes in a little bit here, but Mike Ryan is very eagerly telling deadmouse behind us to fire off more smoke in here. It keeps on, then, oh, yeah. But it's like fog out in the field house in here.

Oh, there's smoke in there. I get it. Tony can't see what he, the signaling from Mike Ryan though because He's got a costume on it because yeah, he's got a head on and now we are going to fight We we're going to set off the smoke alarms in here because the room is Is filled with fire and Tony's not getting the cues quickly because he can't see. But in all honesty, Stugats, this is a big thing for us to be able to put on Draft King's network to be aligned with Rachel Nichols, a gangster journalist,

and with Stephen Jackson and Matt Barnes. And they're te- like the team that they have, Stugats, because it's not- These are the front-facing guys, but they have an entire team of people. So we're- We really are. It's are. I don't say this very often like and I'm and I'm giving you the context of the story. Angel Resto has now put on the screen. This is how close to all the smoke we are. This is you and me. Is that a donut in the middle of all the steam? Why would I have a donut in the sauna? I didn't cure you.

It's too much. It is too much. Tony, that's really have that grateful dead tattoo? It's too much, you know, he does not have that grateful dead. That is Photoshop to make him look better than he does as we do around here with all things. So we're very excited to be partnering up with all the smoke and have them in our family.

That's me looking better. How'd you do in the vibe test, by the way? Just that I'm curious. I mean, we're teammates now, right? So they were testing you out. Borns, they were doing the vibe test. I was doing the vibe test. Borns was doing the vibe test and they still agreed to partner with us. Well, because of my father. Oh, okay, good. I gotta admit, I'm pretty surprised by this. No awkward hugs when you guys, you know, dapped up. Well, yeah, because I'm an awkward hugger and I'm not a good dapper,

but I'm not your father who gets spun around into the chest of Ray Lewis who's wearing a mink. There's a shocking announcement that no one saw coming today. Let's move on to other subjects. Not a hotelographed. This at all. Telegraphed. This is good. Yeah.

This is big. I'm happy for us. Yes. We look like pros. How can you not be happy for us? This is the beginning. Well, look, man, when we left the SPN, and you, if you're listening here, you know why we left, how we left, there are a thousand reasons.

You know the last one, and what it was in protection and what it was in defense of. It was in defense of family and These guys and their crew feel like family to them and they're all in business together And I believe in the idea of that even though everyone warns me don't do that Don't do that do not mix business with people you care about it'll break your heart and For a couple of years it has again and again In the shadows in a way that has affected my performance and has made this show hurt because of it.

Do you think in seeing how this announcement is going, and you're regalia, do you think that there are second thoughts? From them, I don't know how they're going to experience our outfit at all. We're vastly more disorganized. Our literal outfit. The smokes made it look purple in there, and now you're kind of giving off Prince Vies. Yes, early Prince.

Oh, the hat. Early Prince. How's you when he saw Rolong? My hat did fall off again. I did want to get to that. Careful, Chris, very litigious estate. It is. I want to get to this Kevin Durant sound, and I want.

Stugats has never been more helpful than with that hat. He loves me. Stugats does love me. It's in a sense of a place right now, guys. Yes, look, I'm crying on every platform we have. I'm trying to figure out how to give the tell-all interview to Stugats on Stupatiti and what to call it. Please do, I mean.

Yeah, Stubicius sessions. I'm trying to figure out what to call Steve Todd. Bobby session. Yeah, something where I give the exclusive on what the horror of my life has been, just tears and tears, where Stu got to doing the series interview and just offering me tissues the entire time.

You'll have to tell me what questions to ask. Yeah. I'm Kevin Durant, you were saying. Yes, I was. Thank you, Mike. Just play the sound of K. Lots another big one last night. Yes K.D. is.

So you're acknowledging it's a big one. Other parts of it. We got Joker I mean. Let's listen to Kevin Durant when he is asked. I wanted to got to listen to this because I want to get your thoughts on what stands out from Kevin Durant saying who he now thinks is going to win the tournament. I'm going to go to the lake or since they beat us. saying who he now thinks is gonna win the tournament. The game's yours, your coach, don't win the tournament. I'm gonna go to the Lakers since they beat us. And they got the size to compete with anybody.

They got the quickest, quickest flight out of anybody. Most fans probably, too. Most fans out of everybody. So it's set up for them to win. I can't wait to watch the intensity of these games have been incredible. Like I said, I wasn't a fan as they were forming this thing with a huge fan and a season and looking forward

to watching it. What do you think was good? What stands out from that for you? That he's always watching it. I mean, that's it. That's all you took from that? No, it doesn't. Listen, it takes a lot for Kevin to read.

Now, in my personal record book, he does not have these rings, but for a guy who has won a couple of rings with the Golden State Warriors and accomplished a lot in the NBA for him to be excited about an in-season game, a regular season game, I guess there's something to it. Like, I'll have to check it out.

I'll have to see if I get excited. But it's good to see that Kevin DeRent and LeBron James are excited about it. We have made you evolve. I'll give to check it out and I'll have to see if I get excited, but it's good to see that Kevin Durant and LeBron James are excited about it. We have made you evolve. I'll give it a fair chance. Because if there is any athlete, if there is any athlete in that sport that would take the piss of the in season tournament, it would be Kevin Durant. He would let all the air out of the excitement. He'd be a hard ass about it and he admitted at the beginning, I was a hard ass about it,

but I came around. So that's great to see. I also have to point out to the audience the difference in context between reading something and seeing it and hearing it for yourself because the thing that I took from that quote was him saying they've got the most fans but he didn't say that it was volunteered by a sports writer and then he repeated it but But if he had been volunteering, they've got the most fans and that's why I want to see them

in the tournament. He would be suggesting that the thing is rigged. Semifinals are tomorrow stew, five o'clock, nine o'clock. You could tune in and watch the semifinal games. Got Patriot Steelers, I mean. It's a big one. Oh, okay. Patriot Steelers.

Steelers in the mix, I mean. Probably the Patriots are too, I don't one. Okay. Patriot Steelers. Steelers in the mix, I mean. Probably the Patriots are too, I don't know. Thanks. I got pretty smoky in there, huh? Yeah. Sorry about that. How did it look?

How did it, how did it, how did the whole purchase, why I kept putting smoke into it all looks smokey? How did our big giant announcement look? How did Chris Cody, you've been experiencing it? You are at the center of why this business moved to the place that it did and now finds itself on the DraftKings Network with... You're welcome. All the smoke. How did you experience our giant announcement? How do we handle it as a company?

I experienced it that the video did not pick up the smoke as well as I think it was much more smokeier in there than it looked on TV. I can't see your eyes. It just looked purple. So we failed. At the smoke part, but the announcement part, excess kiss. Yeah, we revealed it at nine o'clock this morning. Don Lebertard. Enough with the DJ Khaled collaborations with people that are hot right now. We want to see DJ Khaled work with some of the great singers of yesterday

year. Can you imagine how great it would be if DJ Khaled started bringing out special guests onto the stage? And one of them was BLY in Adams! Everyone, it's Liza Manali! Still gots Bobber Strison! Yeah! Elton John, it's your song!

Andreia Vochelli! Another one, Tony Bennett! Frankie Avalon! Ha ha ha ha! Thomas Dolby is blinding you with science! This is the Dunluba Tarshot with his two cats! It's time for... Again, the Spray! It's a big one!

This is what people call the Nady Gritty. It is title-tracing time, and we all need to take advantage of the fact that Billy's out of the office this week. Yep. He's lead dog. I checked the rankings just yesterday. Mm-hmm. But because he took the worst time to take vacation, we can all move in line for top dog saddest. I'm right there. Correct.

You are right there. And remember, we're given this prize away at our Miller Light event at Dolphin Mall, Vivo Miami, the Miller Light stage, it's all presented by Miller Light and Dollar Shave Club. All ages of fair, bring your family. We're going to be watching Monday Night Football. It's a double header that night, by the way. Where's Buck and Ackman going to be? Are they going to be here? Are Miami for Titans Dolphins? Are they going to be in New York for Packers Giants? Who knows? Really not that important.

Where would you find out together? Where would you find out together? On December 11th. Where would you want to be if you were them? I'm gonna be offended if they're in New York. We'll find out together December 11th, and I don't wanna confuse all of that with, again, so yeah, do it.

I get the spread! Of course, every week brought to you by Draft King's sports book, use code Dan when you sign up on the app for a limited time offer for new customers. Dan, you are in last place. I think mathematically eliminated. So we begin with you, you loser. Well, why would you do it with me if I'm mathematically

eliminated? That's why. Again, the spread. Just getting your pick out of the way. I don't really want to do it But I that's fine. I'll take the raptors tonight against the heat How dare you well without BAM I'm gonna take the raptors to win on the road Minus three and a half the raptors are at home. So. All right, Stugat's big week for you. It is.

It's a big week. I am right on Billy's heels. But Mike, this weekend is the biggest game. There I say the biggest game of the season. It is army. It is Navy. And as much as I love myself, and I love winning things for myself, I love the military more.

I love our country even more. I love the red, white, and blue. I am going to take both army and navy. How about that again? Again, the friends. It's unprecedented. You're putting your country before you. I am. No losers, just winners in the army Navy game

Yep Can you bet as a bonus like a tie or overtime or something? They're both winners, Dan I know you tell one of those teams their losers right there. You go ahead Keep trying to go ahead and his love for the military and you keep getting rebuffed right? I took army and Navy Wow You know what this means I mean you're gonna lose me. I, that's a Garmin and Navy. Wow, he's gonna win. You know what this means. It means you're gonna lose. It means I'm going to win out.

No, it doesn't. Bonus game. It means you're gonna go one and one. For sure. No, no, no losers, Dad, just a winner. But you're gonna go one and one against the spread. You're going, you're, but he's going to and oh in the hearts of many.

Exactly, that's pretty good. It's a win no matter what. But he's giving up the ability to win. The prize is being... We all understand the sacrifice that he's making for us. Thank you for your service to win. It's a win win, yep. Okay, I don't think you understand that,

but that's okay. We continue on again. This is the spray. I'm gonna cut right to it. There's no following that. I'm gonna take the under and Jacksonville Cleveland. looks like Joe Flacco versus CJ Bethard. I actually do think there is a quarterback on Jacksonville's roster that I hope we see because I saw I'm in plenty of CFL games that I bet on last year Nathan Rork with BC Lions

I rate him incredibly and I know what CJ Bethard is but until they figure that out for themselves I'm gonna take unders Again Until they figure that out for themselves. I'm gonna take unders again I'm going with the new Iowa I'm taking the under and the Patriots Steelers game on Thursday night under 30 Patriots will never go over again You never let me do that you made me to number full time. That's why I lost that's right. That's too straight. I told us look We're trying to win. We're not trying to play nice. We're trying to play winner Well, I don't know who the jets quarterback is it might be Zach Wilson or it might be somebody else They don't either

They're plus five and a half against the Houston Texans. So I'm taking the Houston Texans minus five and a half. A bit against the spread. Wow, I cannot wait to find out who wins this. Still got said good bet because to gots in Chris Cody, they always the entire entire life time that I've known them. Both of them are people who will bet the Texans in that situation. Whenever you sniff around, they're like, why are the Texans only, only favor by five and a half? Those two will always make the bet on the favor. I don't like this tradition. You're starting of every Sunday mockings to gots an IVA text

with the bets we're going to take. I'm not going to lie. I do take those bets a lot, but I just don't like what you're doing with the text. Don't put me in that category. You often win them. That lion's bet that you won this week. I'm against the saints. You, but you've got. I bet chargers might as five and a half. You often, you often lose them as well, because football becomes football and I lose all

the time because I bet on football to always be football. And the way that football is always football is that I get all the games wrong. Whatever I think is going to happen is not what's going to happen. It's the opposite of that. But what exactly are you claiming me and Chris loved to bet? We love to bet big favorites on the road. You would know that you would bet Jacksonville in the Bengals since in the Cincinnati Jack. I do have the Jack.

A big thing. Yeah, just whenever when a team bitch. Yeah, I feel like a big bitch. Yeah, I feel like a big bitch. Yeah, I feel like a big bitch. When a team is falling apart like the Jets, you're gonna take the Texans and say, football's not gonna be football. Because I understand how this happens, like the emotion of betting, if you're not doing it clinically,

I understand how it happens. You're basically betting whatever it is that you're betting because you don't want to lose money and be the idiot who said the jets were going to be football that day. Pretty much. Like that's what you're doing. You're betting against the idea of I don't want to watch the jets do football things and

then lose by three and I'm on that side watching that game all game and you fear being down 21 nothing in the first quarter. I will tell you that if I applied it to every bed, I would have taken Oregon over Washington. I did not. I took Washington to win the game outright. How about that? I don't know why any, that spread continues to confound me.

I still don't understand why Washington was a 10 point underdog against the team they'd already beaten. And typically what Washington did in that spot is unprecedented. We've never seen a team win straight up when the lower ranked team is favored by that much. The favorite gets always the dub. The underdog always gets pounded. Well, Washington did was bucket trend as they've done all season long.

It's why I think Penox should probably be second place to Jordan Trafford. The Washington coach loved when he saw that spread because when you're undefeated early beat Oregon, you need a chip on your shoulder. And he was saying, Hey, even though you're undefeated, even though you already beat Oregon, no one believes in you. Not Vegas, not any fans. No one believes in you. You know who believes in you? Me. That's what a good coach says. Washington has guts. They've been bucking trends all season long.

You know who else believed in you, Stugots? Didn't watch a Washington game all season. That's not fair. I watched the first organ game. I have some other things from football I wanted to ask you, Stugots. Did you see or did you feel bad for Ryan Stonehouse and what happened to the Titans punter? What happens? The Titans punter had, they lost the game for a number of different reasons, but mostly what happened, Jeremy?

I just saw the video of what happened to Ryan. Okay, well that was the second punt he got blocked. So here's what happened to the punter of the titans and he lost the game was lost whoo oh you guys didn't see this i'm saying i'm seeing the still image of it like i did see that he had a bad injury i don't usually seek those out but i just googled his name and you see a still image of his leg like in looking like a big don't see that happen to a punner very often so i saw the jordan travis injury live uh... abc didn't mean to show it.

They showed it anyways and I regretted seeing it and I told my family, don't go see it. Should I watch this one? Is it that kind of? I think you can get it. Not you can see it. Okay. It's just fun. I'm not even bringing this before you on a Wednesday, three days after it has happened

because it was gruesome. I'm bringing it before you because the Titans lost to the Colts in overtime. The reason they lost is because they're punter who was also their holder had to be replaced for one play by Ryan Tanahill, who held, and then they missed the extra point. They spent the end of that game with Nick Folk punting,

punting pretty well, because the Punter not once, but twice got hit that way, Jeremy. The second time it broke his leg in half, but it was twice that he was, and I don't know what happened to the special teams. It was a special team's atrocity. What happened to Mike Raeble as his season falls apart. But the punt blocker was getting to Stonehouse

so fast on both of them still gots that before he could even get the ball off, he was getting destroyed. Like just because they footballed him. Remember how Sean Taylor did that to a punter in a pro ball? Like the punter isn't usually involved in the football. He uses his foot on the ball, but he gets out of the way after that.

He runs. They blocked the ball as he was throwing it up to punted. So it wasn't even a blocked punt. It was in the process that they were able to hit the ball before hitting him. And now I just saw the second one. He got flipped upside down on the first one, and then they broke his leg on the second.

This poor guy. Football's so weird that I came in to God bless football on Monday morning after that Titans game, and I felt bad for Ryan Tenahill for having to hold kicks. That's what made me sad from all that. Wrong Ryan. Not the punter, possibly losing his leg.

I was like, oh, did you see Tenahill had to hold? That was sad. I'm legitimately stunned that on our show, you guys pay attention to sports, that this fits this neatly into the context of what I'm talking about where we Get used to the carnage so much that you guys weren't even aware that this had happened that it's like bad injury Don't need to see it. I got it. I got the gist. Yeah, the punters out bad injury got it He couldn't get to the tent like they had to carry him. His leg was not working in any way. We need to make this blue tent mobile.

The tent comes out onto the field, covers the situation. Bring the tent to them. Also, you see like four guys at the corner of the tent running out onto the field, putting it on time and just like, I'm agreeing with you. At Levitar Show, Juju, do we have to stop with the blue tent being hidden? Let's roll it out there.

Let's put sponsors on it. Let's put sponsors on it. Let's put advertising on this player was hurt. It's brought to you by Penn's oil. I've got it where eventually with the technology of these fields where the field just opens up a hole and the player sinks away and they replace it with other grass. Like a stage like a really good concert.

On point all these football fields will be like, get this injury out of here. Just sinks down gone new grass i have a put it on the pole judo as well should footballs just start sponsoring the injuries just a beam of light stemming down from the u.f.o don't don't don't do a television timeout and pretend like you care about the play real medical center it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it for the Raven. Yeah, um, double up to touch that.

Stulgats. I think double up is a score like if the Colta have 10 and you double them up, you scored 20. I don't think double up. That's how you do it. I do it differently. Okay, but I don't think that double them up like you explain it to me as if I was opposed to my way. I understand, but that's not technically doubling up. Like I think you use the phrase wrong or something happy. Double up plus four. Yes, exactly. Okay, that's what he meant. Of course. He touched out. You never cease to amaze me.

He's amazing. He really is. He's just, he's, he's breathtaking in his stupidity. This is the Dalébatá show with the Stugats. We're going to check in here with Tony in just a second. His top five Stugats, we've've started you can get out of your phone. We got a we got Tony's top five coming and we got to be texting Tony. We got to be ready for it.

I doubt very much that you were texting Tony to be helpful on what his top five is. But since we just started we just had a segment where we talked about the Titans punter that you guys didn't know was hurt that way. I lied. I was locking in the Raptors, Dan. I'm sorry. Dan's against the spread advice, huh? Yeah. It was a good pick. I guess it was.

Unfortunately, I won't count for the championship. Mathematically eliminated. You lied because you were speaking. Those things are, it's tell. It's a tell. You're lips for new fans. Yes, that is correct. Thank you. You look like a negro Montoya. Do we have a winner yet on what I look like? A fool. It's tell, it's a tell, you're lips for new things. Yes, that is correct. Thank you.

You look like a Nigo Montoya. Do we have a winner yet on what I look like? A fool. That should be one of the, that should be one of the thoughts. Can I father the choices? Like you're trying. You look like you're trying. Another thing that I think people might not have been.

See, I'm playing. Have noticed on Sunday is that at the end of the first half, this happened at least in part. You missed the Titans thing because I don't think that many people cared about Titans' colds. Like, it's one of those games in the middle and you're like, ah, I don't care about either of those teams. I know what they are, and either of them are good enough

to get out of here. I don't care about punts. And another game that was like that, though, was Caroline and Tampa, where you just, oh, I don't care. But in that game something happened that I thought was interesting that I also thought was weird and I don't have an answer to the question I'm about to ask you. At the end of the first half, Bryce Young had the ball at his own 47-yard line, okay? It is fourth down and two at their own 47. What are we doing there?

What are we doing? Carolina has the ball. It is, it's the 47-yard line. There are two seconds left on the clock and the half. Two seconds left, fourth and two. What are we doing there as a team with Carolina and Bryce Young? I would say either the Hail Mary or just run around and kill the clock.

That's it, good-a-half, you know? Okay, but why wouldn say either the Hail Mary or just run around and kill the clock. That's it, good a half, you know? Okay, but why wouldn't you choose Hail Mary there? I mean, I would, I said Hail Mary first. But, okay. I could not trust the kid and have the, the recency bias of a Black Friday game happening. This is probably gonna be a disaster. Let's just go into the half.

So to my way of thinking, any functional NFL team is absolutely going hail Mary there. Period, hard. I'm getting the ball first. Just start the second half. I'm not if you get the ball the second half to just like, you know what? Let's just get the ball and we're alive in this game. Caroline has a lot of trouble scoring. There are 47 is scoring position for that. Yeah.

Sure shot. What happened? He just threw it out of bounds because he doesn't have time or arm strength i don't know what the answer is like he just uh... uh... we did you see just how that's the answer i think the wrong guy but they took the wrong answer but he already looks like a high school quarterback and if it's he can't reach like added to the list of problems like because I can't believe that

that's a thought I had I don't think it's so my guess is he can get it there my guess is they don't trust the offensive line to not get him killed fumbled something that they don't trust that he can get it from the 47-yard line to the end zone without a disaster happening but I'm like you can't play football that way like of course you're gonna win one game all season if that's the faith you have in everything you're doing offensively. Well, they haven't been playing football much of this season. And Karen, just once.

Is Tony ready? Is Tony in position? Tony cannot see. Where is Tony joining us from? I really enjoyed it when he can interact with others. He has now gone to the balcony here and that Ferris wheel. That is outside our studios. We are at the beautiful Elser Hotel every day. It is in the middle of a wonderful, wonderful scenic view and Tony now joins us from out there. Is there anyone around you? Is there any chance that you get interrupted? How are you gonna be able to see the phone? Can you see well enough through that head that dead mouse head in order to see the to see what you're reading? Well, good question Dan. There's a lot of people that have asked me

if I'm Deadmouse 5 and I've answered, yes, I am Deadmouse 5. It's gonna be tough for me to look, so I'm gonna have to have not only the phone close to my teeth, but also the microphone close to my teeth. So I can make sure and see everything at the same time. I'm very excited because, go ahead. No, I was just gonna say,

go ahead, why are you very excited? I was just gonna say go ahead. Why are you very excited? I was just gonna say it would be time now for your dead mile five top 10 dead mile five But I couldn't get the joke out because we can't don't have timing because I can't see your face Well the other thing too is I'm performing right over there at the amphitheater here in Bayfront Park dead mile five live Today at about 4 p.m. Is that true? No. No. Really? Number five. It's sorry, oh my god.

There's a gust of wind that the ears get taken by the gust of wind. We'll be careful. Hold on, hold on a second. Get away from that shirt off. Get a little closer, Tony. Yeah, take your shirt off Tony Tony get real close to the camera. It's okay Tony. Look this is a liability issue Just get real close to the camera and give us your top five as close as you can yeah, there you go

Yes, we don't want you blowing away Okay, number five Trevor Lawrence showed incredible leadership limping a mile to the locker room and not using the cart Walking off Kade way to go All right, no back up because I can't tell that he's dressed up like dead mouse Did you see what happened was Lawrence got into the tunnel? He needed nine people to help him get to the locker room stupid But he walked off into the back door. Yeah, leadership. Okay But he walked off in his lap. Yeah, leadership.

OK. I saw Baker Mayfield. I saw him spiked into the turf again and again playing injured being a man on behalf of his team. And what happened? They sent him away. Number four. Joe Cool came in and did exactly what Joe Cool does.

23 for 44, 254, two toddies, a a pick and a 17 point loss to a sub 500 team. Isn't Joe burrow Joe cool? Can you have two Joe calls? The original Joe cool. Come on, Dano. Joe Flaco. Well, that's Joe cool. Can Tony like every quarterback?

All right. Who? Yeah, I think Joe Montana. I think Joe Montana is the original. The final score was not indicative of how close that came It was that one bad pick bad pick Number three Tony what just happened there Jake Browning, huh? Tony what you know because I thought Michael's gonna

I thought Michael's gonna do the Elijah more bit where it was Elijah Moore's fault not Joe Joe cool's fault so I was wait I was kind of lit laying up for Mike there. Yeah, I'm a civil mouse. Chris, Chris Cody, you guys enjoyed too much when Tony failed. No, it's not failing. I just love a little hiccup. I think it's going to be a fun hiccup. I love a hiccup. I love a hiccup. Faster. Number three, jig browning, huh? It's almost like if you squinted

It is harder to do this stuff in costume all of it is harder to do number two Number two chiefs have gotten cute this year. Yeah, and it's gonna cost them The head looking left at the phone and then getting closer to it's a great visual I I heard for him right now because I can't see it. I know it's hard. I know. And I am very sorry for you right now. We've put you in an impossible position.

And also we can't see from your face that your confidence is leaking, but we can hear it in your voice. His head almost just flew off. Yeah, my head almost flew off again. He's going to want to hear it. You always know what way the wind is blowing because your head gets tilted a certain way. That one was a north western wind. Do you believe that?

Number one, do you believe that mascots have it tougher than we think they do because they're all sorts of perils involved that you are presently experiencing because the wind up there is stiff and you're getting your head blown around. Yeah, obviously you know my disdain for mascots, but you know what, this makes me put because the wind up there is stiff and you're getting your head blown around. Yeah, obviously you know my disdain for mascots, but you know what, this makes me put on a pair of big old Ronald McDonald shoes for a mascot and let me see what it's like to walk a day in their shoes. So maybe a little bit more leniency for the mascots, Dan. That's, I feel like that's growth for me. Number one. Number one. You know what San Francisco was doing when they went across

the country to the link and kicked their ass up and down the field, Dano? Making a statement. Mm-hmm. They were standing on business, baby. That's what they were doing. Standing on business. Okay. Why are you guys looking at me like I like making a statement better? Well, this is how it evolves with the young people. It is making a statement in disguise. It's the same thing Really? Yes, it's well he said it better anything on business. This is why we are not all of the smoke That's what he just did. He's a young person and and so that you almost lost his head again He almost lost his head again I've to like hold it down for my chin right here

All right, Tony get back down here. We're understaffed today and we need your help down here I'm gonna try and do my own top five list to see if... Who competing top five? We've never done that before. Not now, I need to get ready for it because this has to be done well to see how hard it is to do in a mascot costume. Because I don't... I've got plenty to talk about. I don't want to talk about football. I'm gonna try and do my own top five list to see if... Who competing top five? We've never done that before.

Not now, I need to get ready for it because this has to be done well to see how hard it is to do in a mascot costume because I don't I've got plenty to talk about. I don't want to talk about football anymore but we know all the numbers show if you talk about football, you got to talk about it, you don't have to talk about anything else, it's all of the consultants say just like that, real jowly. So what do we have to do to the better with focus groups? Yeah, it's talking about football, damn football, if they do to the batter with focus groups? You know what, well, yeah, talk about football. I thought I'd talk about the Hunter and football. Talk about the Titan Tonner's tone head and did you see the Cardinals, they had a catch that wasn't a catch.

It was looked like a catch, but McBride caught the ball and it looked like a catch. And the announcer said it was a catch, but it wasn't a catch. Yes, and I can just go to drive kings and say give us another 50 million dollars and they say yes that's how that happens. Just talk football. Get people who talk football and there's so much action during football. God bless football. That's right. God bless football. That's exactly right. What is happening? Check it out on prime. I was thinking about Coach Prime. I was, I'm sorry, it's not a prime.

It's not a Mac. I deserve your own deal with prime. Go ahead. Well, I mean, no one got a little Mac. I mean, go sit in the panel. I deserve it five minutes. I'll see you guys. You're on draft Kings Network.

You need me to pay how you do. You have a lower third graphic. They rate you so highly. That's very nice of them. I love draft Kings. Go get out of here. Please go sit in the penalty box. Sorry.

Chris Cody, what is the experience been like with God bless football this week in wrangling trying to wrangle stugots? I think Billy sprung us sprung a surprise on us. Stugots close the door, please. He wants so desperately to be able to to say something to what you're about to say. I've gotten multiple texts from Stugots this week planning out 72 different interviews. None of them have actually happened yet. Mikey A is the one to go to on that. I've learned very quickly what Stugots says means nothing. If Mikey A confirms it, then we're actually doing it.

Okay, but how do you feel about it all? Because I believe that Billy this week, taking vacation, is taking a mental health break from Stugots. I've not been told anything, but I just think all of that seems really hard for a producer. He has texted me multiple times this week, just LOL, with no other context. So the mental health break might just be a happy byproduct of vacation, don't.

He's laughing at me. He knows that I'm dealing with it this week, and yeah, I think he's enjoying his break, if I had to guess. And well, how bad is it though? I mean, like I said, I'm taking it with a grain of salt. I kind of know the Stugots monster at this point. I know when he says buddy, we're gonna do this interview at three, this interview at four, this interview at five,

I know that probably those aren't gonna happen. He wants more of everything. He's a monster. The content's good though. It was fun doing it on Monday. All right, God bless football. On DraftKings Network, exclusively. The content's good though. It was fun doing it on Monday.

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