The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Mike's Big Man Brain

Episode Date: December 1, 2023

Dan, Stugotz, and the Shipping Container look back at the video introduction of Foot Girls, Jessica and Lucy's new and triumphant success for Meadowlark Media. They also discuss how many teams in the NFL can actually win the Super Bowl this year. Then, people are ECSTATIC about our move to MAX, Elon Musk is weaponizing X, and Tim Boyle stinks. Plus, Pablo Torre, Katie Nolan, and Dan discuss Saudi Arabia through a segment of Pablo Torre Finds Out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. This is the Dunlabor tour show with the Stugat's Podcast. Stugat's we have a lot of shows around here that are getting very good, very strong, strong following. God bless football. As one of them, God bless football. His head, great guest. If you want, we don't talk to a lot of guests around here.

We leave it open for show mostly, but if you really want good football information, guests, humor, in the style of some of the stuff we do, Stugots and Billy Gill and Mikey A and about 40 members of the stuff we do, Stugots and Billy Gill and Mikey A, and about 40 members of the Grunkowski Needs heads are just one that just Gordy are making. God bless football, something that is popular. Pablo Torrey finds out is also very popular and climbing because now people are getting competitive

about we want to be better than them. The aforementioned not mentioned by name because it doesn't have a name. Foot girls, the pod on college football that Lucy and Jessica are doing, finally has some production help, but it's not the kind that either of them want. And we just played for the audience, but you have not seen this. So I want to show you, Mike Ryan, you've heard what this discussion has been through. It's been uncomfortable, frankly, because Mike Ryan is in charge, men are often in charge in sports and it can be troublesome for women to try and get a voice around the men.

That's it should be. Around the men. But finally, the production staff got together. And I have not seen how Jessica and Lucy reacted to finally getting some metal arc funding that gets them some production help. Manally, I'm very proud of our track record. In fact, on this edition of Foot Girls that many in our audience just listened to and watched.

You're calling this. You'll know what I mean for now. Yeah, we wanted to punch it up and give it some branding because we want more eyes seeing this wonderful show. There's a studio of three very talented women talking about college football. Not many people are doing that. And I'm very proud of our track record there. They're Charlotte Wilder. There's Jess. There's Lucy. This is a really big moment for us. And I just wanted to celebrate that. You say you want to punch it up.

You really want to kick it up because it's feet. Well, right? You know how it went and I think they really liked it and I'm proud of the production work that our team came back with and whether they decide to keep it as foot girls, that's up to them.

But it was nameless, right? I kept pitching a name for the show and two months went by, no name for the show. So you can lead a horse to water, but then my big man brain has to set in. So this is how it went. I know there's been a lot of debate and discourse about foot girls, but you guys know how much I value you guys as individual talents and your knowledge of college football. Second and none, I just think that we need to have some branding so we can get people to search out college, football,

girls, all that stuff, and have a huge, huge show for you guys going forward. And I'm really happy with what we came out with. 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 I like it. Go in. Oh my God. Why is there a foot on my microphone? Branding. Branding, that's your brand new foot mic.

Those, be very careful. Each one of those costs $700,000. I'm so sorry. I don't have one. If you're not watching this on YouTube, which you always should be, that was a video compilation of feet to a song that Mike recorded. Did you like the songs? I would.

I would. I would. We have a brand new fancy background for you guys. And so I'm really happy that you guys gave me the chance to punch this segment up. I'm proud of the art that we made. It's a catchy little ditty, I think. And so thank you for not just rebuffing me and telling me to go shove it and really given this an honest try.

Happy for the official launch of Foot Girls. They are mortified. They seem to it. I thought for the audio audience, only if you're not watching on or listening on YouTube, is that what you got from Lucy there Chris? They are not into it all. And it seems like Jeremy is disgusted, is disgusted with you in general. Today, Mike, for a variety and assortment of things, but this also disgusted him a bit. Yeah.

You know, I think we could be doing some different SEO maybe to help them, but, you know, look, I'm not the executive. So I'll defer to Mike on all things metal, larke media company related, just not the Miami ask yourself two questions. Did they have a name before? No. No. Is what I made a Bob.

Yes. That's fair. Putting his best foot forward. Those are the only questions, huh? That was good. I believe I don't think I'm saying anything controversial when I say this. I believe that those foot microphones,

whether you object to the idea or not, are the best thing metal-lark media has made to date. They cost a lot. The shot of Charlotte, when you saw the side version of it was great. I wanna remind the people, Stugots, because we are opening the merch store in time for the holidays.

It was a tough negotiation, Stugots, 1, 80, 20, his way. Lebitardaf.com is where you go, It was a tough negotiations to get one 80, 20 his way. I get. Lebitard AF dot com is where you go. Lebitard AF dot com and some of the discounts that are in play. 10% if you just sign up 15% off for anyone with the code new sui and lebitard 15, the number 15 gets you 15% off if you're one of our tens of thousands of subspec subscribers. I wanted to talk about a couple of different things. Again, levitardaf.com, I'm always moved to gots when somebody in public is wearing their

allegiance to us and then the story behind when they run into other people who are wearing that stuff at sporting events that they have just an immediate connection point. And I'm wildly flattered and grateful for a variety of things that our audience does, but that is a cool moving connection place for people who might not connect otherwise. So I'm glad that this store is up. David Samson, by the way, I got to say thank you to him

because he has been working tirelessly behind the scenes to try and get that thing up. And hopefully it's a lot better than whatever it is we were doing before because we don't know what we're doing when it comes to some business stuff because we're not business people around here and we're just trying to figure it out. Greg Cody is trying to remind people that his store is also open. He keeps tweeting it out. Yes, that's totally unsurprising. He likes to draft off of the wake.

Shopped out the Greg Cody show. And so if you want to do that, you can do it. Levitard AF dot com is where you go. But I wanted to get to Stugat the way that the Thursday night game next week on Amazon is being advertised because we finally got a good football game yesterday. I was surprised to see a good football game on Thursday night. I feel like it's all Carolina and Titans and just crud. The teams last night had a full week off though. Big difference. They played on Thanksgiving.

So they had a full week to prepare. Uh, that helps. The health of the bodies help, but also just seeing that amount of offense and the precision of the offenses. Like you can have your quibbles with whatever defense is, but scoring an offense is down throughout the league. And that's the kind of game I want to watch more often, a game with stakes.

I want Dallas has been crushing everybody at home. They're behind and they're able to rally so that they get off of them. You know, the thing that happens every time the Cowboys lose, which is we start questioning all the things about the Cowboys. Man, you've, we're going on about two or three generations. It's three decades since the Cowboys, what, since you trusted that the Cowboys, man, you've, it we're going on about two or three generations or three

decades since the Cowboys, what, since you trusted that the Cowboys would win meaningful football game. Yeah. Before Tony Romo, I think that's a long as time though for it, for a team. Hell, it was against Seattle's to got said all of this started because Romo as the holder dropped to a extra point type of hold and they lost the playoff game to Seattle. And it's where the mistrust of Ramos started and Ramos is the best of what they've had there. I know, but then here's the problem for the Cowboys. Their wins on this recent streak.

It's been against the giant. It's been against Carolina, the commander Seattle last night. Yeah, they ran. They lose to San Francisco. They lose the Philadelphia to Philadelphia. And in the case of San Francisco, not even close. This is a frustrating thing to me to hold against a team, the thing that the Lions weren't able to do the last time they played. They just lost to a bad team at home. And there are a lot of bad teams in the league. If you beat them all, you will have a good record. And you will also have a legion of people questioning you, be to good team, but the schedule doesn't have a lot of good teams left.

Still got the browns are one of them. They're on their fourth quarterback. Right. But it's Tony pointed out they have the Eagles next week, then Buffalo, then the dolphins done a lie. And so we'll see. Good God. He what's what?

I saw them get dragged by San Francisco and I'm like, same old cowboys. Like they went to San Francisco and didn't have a chance. It wasn't close. I understand why people question them. You could use the last 30 years or you could use the schedule. I'm just telling you, when you keep beating the bad teams and people say,

well, you're not beating good teams, you're complaining about the schedule. You're not actually doing an assessment of the team. You're doing an assessment of the schedule. Because how many times do you have to see the lions lose to a team like the Packers, where you're like, how'd that happen? When I know the lions are good.

When you know the lions are good. The lions have beaten some good teams, I think. I mean, in the case of Dallas, they just have it this year. I'm not saying they're not going to, but this year, they just have it. There just I'm not saying they're not going to, but this year, they just haven't. There just aren't as many good teams as you think they are. I think you're right. I think one of the things that's rare about here is that whatever it is that Jason Kelsey

is saying, when he says, I'm surprised we're the only one lost team because what I see at the top of our sport is a whole lot of evenly matched teams that can lose or win on any Sunday. I think we're all in agreement on who the six, five, six teams are. There are about nine teams that you would be willing to say are a super bowl contender. And that's two thirds of the league that's not any good. Yeah, but not to nuke your argument. That's six is higher than it's been in previous years. It's a good six. It is a good six

I think this is this is good parody. I think I believe we know I think it's rare that we know this clearly who the good teams are Right, I think everyone listening to this would say Baltimore and Philadelphia and dolphins and and all we're talking about There is a first here and a second tier like that's that's we're doing. And there's only one team right now on the first tier. It's Philadelphia because of their record. And a lot of us believe San Francisco should be up there too, because we see how they manhandle people, but still guys Baltimore should be there too. And because you haven't seen Lamar Jackson do it in the playoffs, you do to him. What you do to go off and party and everyone else who hasn't done it. Someone who might do it in the playoffs this year.

I am very excited about that. Don Lebertard. I feel like we need to normalize saying the scientific terms for organs on the air. Like someone, yes. You know what? If someone takes a foul ball to the penis, we should just say he took a foul ball to the air. Like someone, yes. You know what, if someone takes a foul ball to the penis, we should just say he took a foul ball to the penis. Say it.

Stugats. That free kick hit him right in the cock, a doodle-do. This is the Don Lebatar show with this Tugats. We got just a scurry to the internet to look up the lion schedule saw that the lions beat the chiefs in week one and yes, I sigh of relief because there's nothing else good on that schedule and when he looks at what happened when they went to Baltimore, he gets scared. You say things when you do this, right? You do it for 20 years and you say the lions have beaten some good teams and but you're

not certain. I wasn't certain what I said it. And I spent the break praying that I would find one good team, the Lions have beaten on their schedule. And all takes to the cheese. I got it. They beat my homes. Well, you say that you do that. I would say that most people talking in live broadcast forums,

don't wing it quite that way where they're just making it up and then waiting for other people to look it up And when they're wrong, they're already driving home not caring at all about it. You left out the praying I would say that there's not a lot of people doing the job generally that way. Oh, thank you I've got to get to a couple of things. I've been promising. We went off of max before I got the punchline off On max about what happened in the commentary about us joining Max. So I will simply read this to you. What I saw in the comments after the announcement and exciting announcement for our show that a version of the Dan Levitage show with Stu Gotts and this is just starting this relationship is on max. I've got a gift of a golden girl saying this is boring. I've got you can keep it. We do not want it. I've got La Booth Jones saying we

will not be watching. Why are you doing this to us? I don't know a single person who listens to these guys. Thanks for the warning, not necessary. He is so over. Nobody asked for this. With Bomanie Jones, I'm sure. How much is woke racebading lib tart paying you to promote this? No one cares. Too bad for HBO that he won't be bringing an audience with him. And Lebitard is a pure piece of shit. I've gotten a lot of that this week. Was there any good stuff? No, not a single one. Yeah, I was just, you're familiar with the Matt IEB, like Twitter papers.

It's very clearly like going in the opposite direction of whatever they accused. If you searched like Gavin Newsom last night, you wouldn't get a single pro Gavin Newsom tweet. In your search, it's just all negative commentary. Elon Musk is very clearly trying to weaponize X as a weapon for the right. So anytime you get those criticism, I see whether or not they follow me and I deduce more than often, they're not a real person. And if they, they are a real person, they don't actually follow the show.

It's just criticism because they are feeding what this conservative monster has become. Weaponize X sounds like an incredible movie. Well, it sounds like it's playing safety for the Eagles. That is a good name for a movie. Put it on the poll. Well, it comes from the comic books. Put it on the poll. Weapon it comes from the comic books. Put it on the pole. Weaponize X does it sound like a donut?

It just makes some sound old. You just grab it. You got the OPS, huh? Yes, I got a lot of it. I got a lot of truly a piece of shit, a pure piece of shit. I spent a lot of, yes, a lot of this week being called different kinds of X-Fermen exactly the same way. It really was just a matter.

It really was whether it was the pure stuff, whether I'm 100% undiluted piece of shit, or whether I was just a piece of shit. But it was really a matter of degrees on how much of a piece of shit I was. You just mentioned putting something on the pool and we're over here at the end of our week. And let's do a poll recap, Chris Cody. I always love when you read on the air. It's brought to you by Dollar Shave Club.

Epic razors at the CleoFortable find them in stores or online. All right. Let me just type my password into my. He was absolutely on his phone. Just actually about something else. I was handling some metal arc business. Yeah. That's fine. Good. I'm ready now. Feel free to do that on I'm actually about something else. I was handling some metal arc business. That's fine. Good question.

I'm ready now. Feel free to do that on hours when we're not in front of microphones. I feel like that was seamless. Do you want your ex talking to the Hollywood reporter? 91% say no. What, the nice ex? Are old men hopping into the DMs

of the Golden Bachelor cast members? 84% say yes. This is wild, this one. Can you tell two women that they are the only one? 50, 50, split never happened before. Is Zoolander a top five Ben Stiller movie? 68% say yes. Does Lucy Rodin sneeze like a cat?

96% say yes. Who owes his big? Who's side are you on? Elon or Iger? Does Lucy Rodin sneeze like a cat? 96% say yes. Who, oh this is big. Who's side are you on? Elon or Iger? 64%? What do you think, Steve? What do you think they went? Iger.

Yep. 64% Iger. I'm surprised by that. Would you eat fried dinosaur? 71% say yes. That's weird. Do I have other options? I mean, it would taste like chicken.

It's the fried part, man. People love fried food. This is here we go. Would you eat in iguana? 65% say no. Rib me nut bud. Oh, this is a split one here. Chicken of the trees.

Is or else still a legitimate threat in 2023? 51% say yes, it is barely. Is Julius Randle one of the greatest New York nicks to ever play the game? Yeah. It's not a celebration of a friend. 73% say no. I don't care. They're wrong.

Can you trust the norm? 90% say no. You can't trust the neighbor flu. So you just can't. Does Greg popovich think that his hugs are more valuable than your hugs? 95% say yes. Thank you. Should SI change their name to AI? 93% say yes. We're going to be talking about that and other subjects here, momentarily with Katie Nolan and Pablo Torrey as part of Pablo Torrey finds out he's doing a nice job with that he really is.

It's groundbreaking. He's very curious. I mean, he's up for, in the voting for the big lead, he's up for the best, but not newcomer podcast, just the best podcast in sports because because what he is doing there is excellent, and more of the point, it's super different, like super different. There are a lot of people in this space. What do you mount things to God?

So you're shaking your head. Jeremy was asking me if God bless football is on there, and I said, I have no idea, that's all. We were having an all-fair conversation for some reason while you're speaking. I wonder, I just wonder, I'm glad that Chris is on his phone while I'm speaking and that Jeremy and we got to having conversation.

Hold on a second. That wasn't a conversation. I was trying to feed him a line asking the question. It was supposed to be funny. It wasn't a conversation. Come on. Sit in the penalty box. I should join him.

Don't throw me under the box. See you. Just get out of here, Jeremy. Say what I'm right about, haven't I? Made it worse. You made it worse, Jeremy. You mean, just stay in the character. Don't say you were feeding him a line.

You made it worse. I forgot one poll that relates to me. Do you know your eyes are open in a dark room? 85% say yes. Glad you got it in. It's the gods. I've been trying to get to this all show Thursday night. We have the Steelers and the Patriots and another

truly terrible Thursday night game that is so hard to promote. You used to be a classic. That would have been such a great game 15 years ago. I mean, I'm Brady. Now it's asked five years ago. It is asked that game a hash. This is basically one of maybe three years this century, where this is not a great game. That is correct. And I want to show you how they advertise the game on prime last night, because I have not seen this before. It's Bill Bellachick and the two and seven Patriots against nine, don't know what nine, excuse me, the two and nine Patriots against the seven and four Steelers of TJ watt. Somehow the best watt at second quarterbacks in the watt family.

I've never seen a team not have a player that could go up there. So they have to put the coach up there in the graphic opposite TJ watt. That's the first time I've ever seen that. A production sought to embarrass the New England Patriots. They're putting them there. There's a way around this. Yeah, Devonte Parker. No, I mean, there is there's legitimately no player that you could put up. Mike Gaseki.

For the, uh, Stevenson, is he? If you look at, you know, PFF rankings, they got a good rookie in the secondary. His name escapes me right now. Christian Gonzalez. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry. Oh, uh, that wouldn, PFF rankings. They got a good rookie in the secondary. His name escapes me right now. Christian Gonzalez. Yeah, you're wild now. Oh, can that one be the one? I don't know why it escaped them crazy. How can that one go?

Go and say it. But what you do here to not embarrass patriots is you just throw up Tomlin and you're good. I guess it's two of the best coaches of this century. Tomlin, that would check. Yes, but no, nobody would know. Tomlin, Bella check. Yes. But nobody would have noticed if that had happened. I wanted to ask you guys when you guys leave games to go to the restroom or concessions at what time, what is the, in a football game? Yeah, what's sports important here?

And football, well, the reason I'm bringing you up is I'm asking you this question because I believe that the giant play on prime made by Javan Holland that turned a Hail Mary into a 99 yard return for a touchdown. I'm of the belief that there were a ton of people in the bathroom and it concessions because jets got the ball. There are two seconds left in the half. I want to get to no lines. I want to get I do you think I have this right or wrong because I assume that's when that people right before the half even though you don't want to miss anything. You don't want to stand in a line either. And if you

go two minutes early, everyone else who wants to watch the game isn't, you know, in the way of your hot dogs. So I think if you go anywhere near half time, like two minute warning on in two half time, you're going to be stuck in lines. I do. That's why I always go if I go to a game and I haven't been to one in a while, I try to sneak it in first quarter. No one's there. Nobody is there. I am with Stu Gotts in general.

I like a good mid quarter P, but I do agree with Dan. I think a lot of people do leave, especially with two seconds. If it's a minute left, you still have time for a drive. Seconds left and only a kickoff with how many, how often kickoff's are just touchbacks. I think a lot of people probably like that. And it's Tim Boyle. So I'm like, you know what, I'll take my chances. He was going to throw a helmet. It's going to go and complete. Let's keep him moving. Are you guys not amazed by that Tim Boyle stat that for three years in college football for three years, the part that I'm asking you,

yes, Tony, I know he's terrible, but my point is, how is that person in the pros starting a football game this year, Rodgers? Apparently he had a great, I heard them talk about this on the broadcast. He was bad in college and he just had a great pro day and he got invited. So does that. Well, was that Wilson put a lot of good tape out there? Did he put a lot of good tape out there? Did he throw one throw during a pro dinner?

He's like, that's our guy. Kid was pretty electric. I be way. I mean mean, the boyal was a backup to our Rogers and Green Bay. And now he's a backup to Aaron with the jets. Aaron wanted him to play a game. That's the point. It takes one offensive coordinator to like you and obviously hack it. Like some hack. Understood. The stat I gave though is over a three year period, there were 251 quarterbacks who threw 200 passes, and he was the worst of them. And there are a lot of guys between him

and whoever those other 250 people are, there's at the top of the 250, five pros, five people who are in the NFL, the 10 max. But sometimes the guys that put up the best numbers in college stink. But this is the worst. But it's just showing us that we don't know anything. But look, this is what I-

We should have known with him. This is what I thought I knew before Tim Boyle. Before Tim Boyle existed, if you told me, take any three year period, the worst quarterback, will he make it to the bros- No! No is the answer. Pablo Torre finds out about all sorts of interesting stuff with me and

Katie Nolan next. Don Lebertard Greg Cody of the Miami Harold is writing an article and I'm reading in it. Moss Miami sold out Miami artist Miami culture. And I'm reading Moss Miami's sold out. And I'm reading about digital podcast network. And I'm reading about us. And I'm like, this is our dreams coming true. Still got a thousand people come out and we see the shipping container on their on stage and they're like rock stars. You and me both had tears in our eyes. We're like mom and dad of sentiment and it's hard to get you to sentiment man.

That was a very emotional moment for us to see those guys. I'm telling you guys, you were on stage. Dan and I were both crying are you guys aware of this crying yeah like crocodile tears we believe that crocodile tears are fake uh I thought they meant big VCC down lebertar show with this two guards I was watching a football game as I am want to do on Sunday. I believe, I don't know because it gets dark so early now, that it was like dark when the literally heard. So I thought that it was in the primetime game, but my fiancee swears that it happened

in the game, the game that was before the Eagles game. There was this commercial that was dystopian looking. It was like out of a movie, some big tall towers in a desert and like a car all by itself, driving on a lone road with the road lighting up as it drives by it in this vast desert. And then I'm like watching it, like what is this? It's so strange. And then at the end it says like vast desert. And then I'm like watching it. Like, what is this?

It's so strange. And then at the end, it says like Epicon. And then it like shows this logo that says Neom. And it said Neom.com. And I said, what the f? And since that, I have not stopped learning things about Neom. We haven't added, it's not the one that ran

during an American sporting event. And what we can play the ad that has more talking in it for that'll be helpful for the listeners, I think we have it. What is Neom? This is Neom or here to be more precise in the Northwest of Saudi Arabia. But Neom is more than a place. It's a home for people who dream big. Bigger than that. That's more like it.

It'll be a hub for innovation, an entirely new model for sustainable living. Division for a new future. In fact, that's how it got its name. But what will be there? There's Oxtagon, a thriving city at the crossroads of the world. Where advanced manufacturing will enable industries of the future.

Trojana, a year-round mountain destination. I just remember to pack your skis when you visit. Or a skiing is not your thing. There's always in dollar. One of Neom's many beautiful islands. Perfect for Samar and Ar. And a line, a 500 meter high, 200 meter wide, 170 kilometer long city of the shape of, well, a line,

no roads, cars or additions. And everything its nine million residents could ever need within a five minute walk. The best of all, the entire region will offer a panparallel access to nature and will be powered by clean energy. Old within easy reach of the rest of the world. I don't trust this.

I don't trust it. I feel like it's a lot. I know it's a lot. I feel like it's a promo for a futuristic hostel, like the movie Hostel. As soon as I get there, I'm going to be enslaved building stadiums and kept in a prison near a prison toilet. I don't trust any of that. 2030. This is supposed to be finished by I just want to stress for everybody who did not see that of the Draftings Network or on YouTube. There were high production.

You got to look at us. You have to look it up. We laughed at the AI being terrible at sports illustrated dot com. This was like big movie, at the AI being terrible at sports illustrated.com. This was like big movie, but the good stuff, the good stuff. They have a media studio on, I already in the home. I've heard it in the home and neon. So I'll just say which everyone comes out of my mouth and it'll probably be two different ones throughout this entire. You're saying oil money. Just say it. So it's funded by what's a pet project, obviously, of MBS. Mohammed bin Salman, who is the prince. Crown Prince.

Yeah, Crown Prince. Thank you. Funded by the public investment fund, which is a sovereign wealth fund of the Saudi government. You may remember them for movies, such as The Live Tour. Yeah, exactly. It's money that we've seen recently, quite a bit in our sports world. It's unbelievable.

Like, so the budget at one point was 500 billion. It's now last I saw at one trillion. Look, there are people who have known about this. It's better. It was announced in 2021, I believe. So if you like know a ton about this, you should probably just turn off the podcast. Yeah, if you're a line head, we're about to learn about it all kind of for the first time.

And I did just like one page of notes. So Katie has a that that fluttering sound was a notebook piece of paper. A lot going on here. Okay, but how Katie, you're fascinating. You've done, you have become obsessed. You saw this commercial and you're like, how are people not talking about this? It feels to me like you saw this commercial the same way that I saw the first crypto ad before I'd even heard of crypto and there was a celebrity and I'm like, what is this, why is this

here? You saw something, why aren't more people talking about this incredible amount of money, clearly being poured in to building a fake utopia? No, less that, it was less altruistic and more like what the fuck is this? It is a crazy looking idea. The big debate is whether it's just like a vanity project that will like many in the past that have come before it, never get completed, be all vision, all sizzle, no stake, it won't ever turn into anything and it'll just like go to ruin. Or is this

like a real actual first step towards the the world that we see in movies when we think about the future that now resembles in no way anything that we have like we have been building cities the same way since we figured out on a build cities for the most part. So this is now I want to be I want to the guy, I want to be the realtor selling neon properties. Great. And Dan, I'll do this, I'll do this to you, to you, right? So the premise of this, the sales pitch, you'll notice is that, whoa, this is sustainable.

Like we are going to use nature. Zero, so it's, well, let's just take, let me do a quick distinction. The line is the main thing everybody's talking about. It is one part of this, the section of Saudi Arabia that it's in is about the size of Belgium would be Neom, which I learned is a lot closer to the size of Massachusetts than I would have guessed. I think it's like the size of Maryland, which is crazy. It's like Massachusetts, but with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salah.

Sure, yeah, there's a lot of other things that make it nothing like Massachusetts. But so the line is the main one that's kind of getting everybody to be like, what in the world is this? Because the concept is that it's these two buildings that are a little bit taller than the Empire State Building that run about 100 miles. So I guess the distance of, if you were at the beginning of Long Island, like where it is at Manhattan, to the end of Long Island? It's basically that. Just two straight lines that house 9 million people. It would be in these modules, 140 modules in this entire thing.

Each one is 200 meters wide by 800 meters long by 500 meters high, 80K people per module that live in this renewable energy, sustainable environment where everything you need is within a five minute walk of where you live. Right, no cars, no carben emissions. If you need to get by, there's some not invented yet type of transportation underground that can take you from one end of, again, the beginning of Long Island to the end of Long Island in 20 minutes, which to me doesn't make any sense because it's like, aren't there stops? The outside would be covered in mirrors, which also seems like a huge difficulty given

that it's going to be in the hot, hot desert, and the sun will shine on it and reflect off of it. It just doesn't feel to me like that's going to be good for the flora and or fauna. But it does feel like the branding of this has has been along the line, pun intended. Oh, hey, you there, Dan Levitard, your friends with that guy, Adam McKay, who's a climate change profit, doomsday profit. If you guys are worried about that, we got you. We were building a thing that is prepared

to not just minimize the effect we'll have on our planet, but we'll be prepared for the apocalypse. Just come into our very long bunker. Not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not,, seven. Yeah. But there are 24, seven months in there. You saw the video. There are lots of plants. Fana and Flora. We will ignore that Dave Grohl had a performance in Abu Dhabi this week where he had to remind himself on stage with a piece of paper, no cursing because he would end up in

prison for a year if he cursed on a public stage. We will not talk about some of the other elements here that might cause people fear. Let's just talk specifically about the idea that because I was listening to this and all I was hearing was that phrase again and again, relatively close to the rest of the world as if it's a hiding place safe from when the zombie start fighting over food, water, guns, and money like that. Here's this city where you can live in a capsule somewhere.

If you're a rich person away from all the peril of the rest of the world fighting for survival. It does feel like the snowpiercer train, but a building. It also just feels completely impractical. It's built along a coast in a straight line, completely sequestered from the coast. We're going to have tech trillionaires ever got in something like that wrong. You're the line that was given to you, the coast of it. Don't force a line across. It doesn't make, what about an animal who needs to get to the other side of the line, it has

to walk down a hundred miles to get around it. There's migration patterns that say you have to take into consideration when they build them. You guys are hearing it the same way I am though, right? That basically what is being built out there is something with oil money to protect you in an environment. Keep in mind, I've read some stuff about how difficult it is to get natural water in some of those places and how much the environment takes a beating by how they get natural water

to those places. This is going to be a city that is funded by wealth to protect itself relatively near the rest of the world from the rest of the world. What it does speak to is this lard, and I think this is a real concern that certainly rich people have. I suspect that at a certain point, if you have enough money, you are on like some sort of email list where you get sold in Apocalypse Bunker. This feels like a high grade Apocalypse Bunker of a civilization. Are there nine million people who would want an apocalypse bunker?

I'm totally calling and seeing how much their piniacal otters are. And if that resort community is someplace I can retire. As soon as we're done here, I'm going to do my own research and have a team of researchers find out how I can go live. And one of these capsules somewhere in the sky and sand that protect me from, you know, other people who are less luxurious than I am. Not the line, but in what's it called? What's the name of this place? Neon.

I always want to say like Nome. It's just too short. Neon. It means a new future. Guys, it's an epic con. It's a treasure of tomorrow. Epicon is the hotel. Oh.

Sindala is a resort. Trojena, Trojena is a mountain ski resort with a man-made lake. So it gives you the best of all the climates. I will tell you this, I don't know how. Yes. I have no idea how, but the Asian winter games of 2029 have been given to Trojena. That is where those will be happening. Spoiled money.

Yes. Can't wait. Already just giving an nonexistent city the future sporting event. That's perfect. That's on the up and up. I'm glad this is fine. This is squarely a sports story. I'm glad that the IOC or whatever organizing committee in this case was like, you know what?

This really does seem like, quote, a perfect union of majestic nature, extraordinary experiences and architectural ingenuity. It does really feel like Ebbacon will be the starting point of great adventures. I bet. I bet. There is a lot of that, by the way. If you try to find out information on this, there's a lot of videos of people acting like they're like, what's up with this new neom? And then you're like, oh, this person is clearly being given money by the, oh, look, the

crown prince has decided to participate in the interview. Interesting. I'm sure it's going to be very critical of the ideas and technology behind this. Pay no attention to the Bolly Sop. Pay no attention to the Bolly Sop.