The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History

Episode Date: January 29, 2025

Nick Wright and his punchable face are here and join us from his very sad room. Dan doesn't like what's happening to Nick across America right now, but is Nick going to do himself any favors by joining our show? Nick goes on a rant about internet trolls dominating the narrative on what he has determined to be the greatest dynasty in sports since the 90s Bulls, and Jessica's indifference leads to a new rivalry. Plus, which people in sports look most like they'd kill it at the Renaissance Fair? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Oh, excellent. That's not terrible. That's good. Good, not terrible. That is the disembodied voice of Nick Wright. I will say before he came on, I don't like what's happening, not on this show and not in America, to Nick Wright. Somebody I admire his gift, I admire his grift.

He is somebody who is really doing this job well and when he sat down you're you spit yes sad room and then said of nick right you said punchable face well he does a punch punchable face ready as one and i think this is happening now do you nick and i think you enjoy it but i think it's dangerous where you have, my producers in the other room, people who should not have opinions about these things are listening to you talk about the Chiefs and they're getting very mad at who you are.

Yeah, yeah, losers and whiners, sorry guys. I mean, and you said sad room, we're doing a renovation here, pal. I apologize. We're getting it all together. And I have to, you know, I'm trying to be ready for these media appearances, but I also, you know, work smarter, not harder. Do we want to fill up the wall when obviously in 10 days,

we're going to have more champs newspapers to hang. So let's leave the space empty. Right. And so we can prepare for that. So here's the deal. Everyone's been wrong. I've been right. And now they're whiny babies calling the manager saying,

it's unfair guys. And they should be mortified. And Dan, as someone who cares about the health of sports media, you should carry this torch with me because we are all being led down this path. Once upon a time, we were the tastemakers. We dictated the conversation. Now disembodied fake people like Dov

Kleiman and ML football dictate the conversation and lazy charlatans with seven-figure jobs are like well the Internet's talking about it, it must be the story. And so instead of recognizing we are watching the greatest run by the greatest team in the greatest league in the history of professional football. We are talking about cleat Blakeman. We are talking about, uh, about will Anderson. We knew, man, I'm old enough to remember crying about the refs after the game was loser behavior, not universally applauded

someone finally said it and here's the other thing you know brought to you by our friend to DraftKings gambling is legal now America if the games are rigged I hope you've made a fortune because all the idiots this is their Twitter timeline it's rigged for ratings all never watch again it's rigged for ratings. I'll never watch again. It's rigged for the Chiefs. Can't wait till the Eagles beat them. Those seem like contradictory thoughts to me. I love your rage.

I love your passion. I also find it really amusing that you would fight the internet on. Sports debate has gotten kind of cruel and we eviscerate people when they're the third best instead of the best and what you've got is the best and people are discrediting the best and the emotional fan in you is pissed off on behalf of,

this is the culture you created, Nick. I created. You were in the middle of it and you're responsible for elevating the flames on this entire game. Oh, okay. Nonsense. So here's nonsense. Listen, I'm not a crusher. I am an elevator. You said for years, what was the thing I was known for? I didn't say somebody sucked. I said somebody's the greatest. My hottest take ever that I was known for is this guy's awesome.

Well, if you say, well, but Stu Gotts, do you know what that is? He's not doing it well. No, but do you know what that take is, Stu Gotts? Because Stu Gotts would fall on the other side of this. And I don't want to go down a rabbit hole here, but Nick Wright thinks LeBron James is better than Michael Jordan. He's wrong. I mean, yeah. Okay. Yeah, listen. No, I get it. I understand that there is some nostalgia and some sentimentality involved in Michael Jordan and it's never going to move. I get it. I don't even actually care to have that argument because that argument has been won and the cement is dry on it and people

are going to look back and be like, I can't believe that was a debate. I don't that's not what I that's not even the point I was trying to make. What I was trying to make is this. We do I do think sports media actually Dan has gotten we have over corrected. Okay. So once upon a time back in the day before my time before talk sports and stuff, it was just columnists. Some of that stuff was outright cruel and guys were really eviscerated. They were either heroes or the worst villains. I don't need to give you a history lesson of all people.

You know, the history of sports media. And then my generation, the millennials got a foothold and it was, Hey, let's add some nuance. Hey, quarterback wins. That's not really a thing. Let's be smarter. And that was all really good. And now we've gone too far.

And now Justin Herbert can throw more interceptions in a playoff game than he did all season. And before any takes have been given given it is preemptive premature defending of takes that haven't even happened whoa let's not kill Justin Herbert Lamar Jackson can win more mvps uh than if Aaron Rodgers retires everyone else active in the NFL combined and he can have two turnovers in the first half and people will be like, guys, he came really close though. He did, he came close.

Josh Allen, two years in a row, can have the ball in his hands, down three, with Mahomes on the sideline, nothing he can do. And those two years come away with zero total points. And the first take topic is, do you feel bad for him? Guys, here's the deal. Everyone's always understood it. Almost every little boy in America growing up

wanted to be a pro athlete one day. You know why? Dope job, super rich, women or people love you, fame, fortune, very few few a lot of time off one of the downsides one of the only downsides you fail on the biggest stage you're gonna get criticized a bit more than the guy who's who's you know doing your taxes or working at UPS everyone understood it now the expectation is can't we just appreciate they're all doing their best

Can't we we got we got or or or or love ski? Is so comfortable criticizing people in his current profession Sports media and would never dare criticize people in his previous profession NFL quarterbacks We've gone too far. So if I have to add some balance to the universe, so be it. That is such a great point on Orlovsky I hadn't considered. Wait, but is Nick taking credit for nuance? I mean, I just gave him credit for all hot takery. I just gave him credit for all of it.

You want to stay on the Orlovsky point? I'm okay with it. Everyone likes Dan. I'm sure he's nice, but hey, man, keep that same inner like it's so amazing. There's so much courage to criticize folks who do what he currently does. And such as said to Shannon on television, it's not my job to criticize a quarterback who is better than me, huh? Really? Well then I hope you have a lot of Will Levis topics coming because... What he's saying there I had not noticed and now that he mentions it isn't very surprising because of course the athletes would come into the media space and then all of a sudden start bullying the media. Of course, they are, of course, Orlovsky is very popular. His information is very good, but he's sharp.

And everyone that I know that I don't know him and everyone that I know that knows him adores him. He's a great dude. And the little snippets we get of his family life, he really seems like an awesome father and husband, great guy. I just, there is, there, there is to me a, if you're just going to be Mr. Positivity about everything, and I'm not saying that's Dan necessarily, so be it, but there is to me a hypocrisy of, oh, there are some sacred cows here, but I will, but not, that'll stay away from. That's all, and you know, as the kids say on Twitter,

the noticers are noticing, and maybe I'm just noticing. Well, one of the things I admire about you is I don't believe you have any sacred cows in this business. You're about telling people whatever it is that you think, and you're not too concerned with how any of that lands you right now we're enjoying the sports moment of a lifetime right uh... that you have this team being this dominant and you're insisting from coast to coast that people respected properly

while they're not while the standard birthed up we criticize everything we blame everything is very gentle to josh allen and now amer America's rooting against your team. Yeah and so the listen the thing you said on the front end it is I mean I could not be more blessed than to be a kid from Kansas City who I somebody asked me yesterday do I you know do I miss doing talk radio in Kansas City? And I said in a kind of maybe more vulnerable than I should have been, I was like, well, I maybe have never been as happy as I was when I was doing talk radio in my hometown

dozen years ago, or at this point, 15 years ago, I guess. But the blessing of what the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes have given me personally is, they have allowed essentially me to pursue my highest career ambitions while still just doing a local Kansas City talk show. Cause I don't know if you watch a lot of First Things First, but there's a lot of Chiefs talk on it

because they're the team. And so that is a huge blessing. Mike, you know, the fact that before last season I get the never a doubt tattoo and then Patrick Mahomes who almost never tweets 60 minutes after winning Super Bowl MVP sends his first tweet of the playoffs and it's three words, never a doubt with him holding the trophies. Yeah, that's one of the dopest things that could, you could happen in a sports movie, much less in real life. And so I should be happier about those things. I am frustrated because the only thing this compares to, in my opinion, as far as this level of dominance over a seven-year stretch is the Bulls in the 90s and not only were the Bulls in the 90s universally beloved

they are retroactively still a sacred beloved they are you mentioned it to Stigotson he gets even though he's a Knicks fan, his eyes well up with emotion thinking about Bob Costas and John Tesh in the good old days. Yeah. I mean, I mean too, I mean too. It was an honor to lose to that team. It was. Yeah.

And so, and now we are getting it in a sport where it shouldn't be able to exist. Single elimination, salary cap, all of it. And during over the course of the year, it was a denial that was frustrating to me. And then the moment it became undeniable, it was a rigged game. And there are a lot, a lot of uncomfortable equivalent or similarities to the run up to the 2020 presidential election. This guy has no chance. This guy is inept. This guy can't win. This is going to be a route. I lost it's rigged.

And that's what I heard all year with the chiefs. Fragulent team, getting lucky. Too many ones scored games. Can't score more than 30. Can't blow anyone out. Rigged. Okay, fine. You're just wrong.

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Two guts This is the down LeBattard show with a two gods Nick I want to ask you, Mahomes, even though you said people are accusing of being rigged or the rest are in the tank for him, I think the general consensus around Mahomes is excellent and damn it, I hate that he wins all the time, right? Would you agree that the opposition, they don't say he's not that good, they say. No, that, yes, about him specific, yes, him specifically, absolutely, go ahead. And so it reminds me of a lot of what people said

about Jordan and a lot of what people said about Brady, but as try as I might to remember, I don't remember anyone saying that about LeBron. So my question to you isn't whether LeBron is or isn't. That's to me that that can't be answered. But why is that? Why do you think LeBron never got that kind of fear slash respect among the masses that those three names elicit? Oh, well, I think that there was something that LeBron was working against, as far as from the masses,

that neither Brady nor Jordan had to work against, which is two diehard fan bases who were deeply invested in him not being considered as great as he was. Because you had Jordan fans and Kobe fans who was a part of their individual identity that needed LeBron to not be LeBron. I don't think there was that with, I don't think Bird and Magic fans, I think they looked at it not like different eras, but like we had the 80s, this guy's having the 90s. And it was to me so universally accepted

in the 90s. I mean, the guy, one of the reasons I hate the count the ring stuff is Jordan retired after three and they put on the statue. The greatest there ever was the greatest there ever will be. You know, but if 30 years ago, people were like, I don't care that magic has two more rings and Russell has eight more. This guy in creams got three more. This guy's better. And they were able to do that. Brady, Brady was able to be a juggernaut underdog,

which is what made him so unique. And the other thing with Brady was that people have kind of changed, like forgotten. Brady Manning was a legitimate and fair debate for 15 years. People say, oh my God, you know, Patrick's doing to Josh what Tom did to Peyton. That's not true. Tom Brady beat Peyton Manning in the playoffs twice ever and then lost

their final three matchups. Peyton Manning versus Tom Brady in the playoffs is 3-2 Peyton. So the way that story went was, man, this kid is clutch. The defense is amazing. What a winner from 0 1 to 0 4. Then a decade of not winning, of coming close, but not winning. Peyton finally got over the hump. Peyton finally got to another Super Bowl. Peyton goes to Denver, clips the Patriots in the playoffs. It's like, oh, my goodness, this is flipping again back towards Peyton.

And then there is the second Patriots run, 14, 16, 18. And then the cementing moment, Tom in 20 beating Patrick. And now he is seven. And now it's like, oh, he was always the greatest. So those were all those were very different stories than the one Patrick is having right now. I just imagine you've been talking like that for four straight days. It's like an asylum. I feel like I'm in a prison.

Jesus Christ. It's just chiefs talk, chiefs talk. He's got every chiefs opinion. He's right about everything. You're all wrong. No one asked you. You just haven't stopped talking. Buy a all, there you go. Well now it's an even more punchable face. And you know that you're leaning into all of this stuff. You're fighting America. You're enjoying the holy hell out of just the unbelievable stupidity of, they went all- Did the Notre Dame fans say she almost fell asleep? Yes.

Hold on a second here. Why? That was compelling. So compelling. You are the reason that people are saying the chief's dynasty is more annoying than the Patriots dynasty. Cause they've just been listening to you do that rambling bit all season long and rambling of it. They're sick of it. Also,

no one's making you guys talk about what the internet trolls are talking. You can ignore the internet trolls that are setting the quote unquote internet discourse about all this cheating. I can. Can I ignore Adam Schefter's, Adam Schefter and everyone else in the mainstream media? I can't do that. Just talk about this. Just talk about this for your whole show. You're probably doing it anyways. Okay. All right, Jessica. I've always liked you from afar,

but our relationship's now on the rocks. I always thought you were a really excellent addition to this team. I don't know why you're coming after me. I picked your stupid team with an actual championship, lost 2600 bucks. Those frauds. How do you don't have a 17 play? They were like eight and a half point underdogs.

Why would you do that? Yeah, I know. Listen, big risk, big reward. He take that from, say it, I'm not in these small gains. If I want small gains, I buy Nvidia. I guess that's probably a bad one this week, but in general, I'm a gambler. If you were like, oh, cash out, hedge your bets. I'm a god dog gambler, man.

Jessica, you speak for the audience you speak for America America Nick I'm your biggest fan you do not have a bigger fan of like doing everything right now in sports media exactly the right way and I get genuine joy from getting to watch you live what we live 2010 through 2014 which is are you kidding me the local team is gonna be the best thing everyone in the country is gonna want to fight with it and I get to do a local sports radio show you're probably doing your TV show leaving and you've got a thousand other things that you wanted to say yeah oh. Oh yeah. Absolutely. That's a 90 minute podcast yesterday and I didn't get to the Eagles game. Oh boy. I mean yeah. So you're getting the light size version. We all believe you by the way. Are you okay? I mean yeah I'm okay. Gosh darn it man. I'll be honest. Yeah. I was ready for a lot of, I know the room. I know this crew, obviously.

I've always felt deep down, a mean probably doesn't like me. That was a nice softball LeBron question he threw at me. I don't blame him for that. It's fine. You know, I've had, you know, Cody knows that he's my second favorite member of the Cody family and I kind of made fun of him to start. So this, and Mike Ryan's not there to defend me,

but Jessica off the top rope for no reason while I'm out here dropping knowledge seems unnecessary. Where's, and I, where's Juju? Where, where, where, where's my guy? Like I don't- I will say that Jessica spoke for Billy. Billy didn't speak up. Billy, Billy didn't speak up. Billy didn't speak up. Billy? Billy didn't speak up.

Billy did you agree with what Jessica said though? Can I be honest with you, Nick? I like you. I like you. You're very nice. I met him when we did the live show in New York. He said, hi Billy, shook my hand. I was like, how the hell does this guy know who I was?

It was a very pleasant exchange. I don't know what the hell you were talking about. What's going on for a while. Why does this? You lost me and then I was like, I really gotta get a fucking connection. Why does this show hate fact-laden, entertaining content?

That's a great question, Dan. See, that's a great question. Why does this show hate that? Bad allies, Nick. You know what, you're right, you're so right. All of you are so right. At least Nick gets into the battle. So Nick, we've got the punchable face.

You also, by the way, you're competing against Paul Rudd and the guy from Modern Family, Stone Street. Yeah, for being the Chiefs fan. You know you're already coming at us with a different disadvantage. Stone Street, my friend, is that what you just did? He did. Yeah, of course, what do you mean?

Nick, we're all just jealous. We're all fans of other AFC teams that just keep losing to the Chiefs every year. Who's your AFC team, Jessica? I'm a Steelers fan and we are so far. We are so far. Oh, and that's another one. Steelers legacy.

Hey, at least they have the greatest six year stretch in football for another 10 days. He's still talking. About to clip that one too. We're coming for everyone's records. He's still talking. About to clip that one too. We're coming for everyone's records. You brought up Jordan. This is really gonna stick to Stugance. Michael Jordan has been able to own.

When you say three Pete, you think of Jordan. Right. That's got 10 more days buddy. That's not gonna be his anymore. Right. They're coming for everyone's records, everyone's hallowed ground. And you know what? I'm going to go even older school. Where's Greg Cody when you need him. Throw out the curse of the Bambino and the Babe Ruth trade. Nobody cares about this but me. Everyone's like, oh, poor Buffalo. Here's

a pro tip sports fans. Don't trade someone the greatest player ever. the Bills traded the Chiefs Mahomes and now Mahomes kills them every year and everyone cries for him no one cried for the Red Sox in the 20s ah Babe Ruth always beats us you shouldn't have sold him so you could put on a play that that's that happened in football the Bills had Tyrod Taylor and Nate Feiderman and they're like let's run it back more year, and they traded the Chiefs Patrick Mahomes, and now Mahomes sends him home every year.

That's how sports are supposed to go. Fatal mistakes should be fatal. The right team is winning. And sorry, Bills fans, good people in Western New York, I get it, but you did this to yourselves. I think of Riley when I think of three Pete, and by the way, Jordan did it not once, but twice. I mean, punk. Yeah, believe it or not, Stu Gantz,

that was a fact that I had. I did know he did it twice. Quit in the middle and is it really a three Pete if you get clipped in the middle by the magic? But that season doesn't count, but we don't wanna talk about that. No, no, no, no, no. Why did you give like a shout out

to the people of Western New York? Oh yeah. They're great fans. The great people. No, he said the great people. Why did you give like a shout out to the people of Western New York? Well, yeah. They're great fans. The great people. No, he said the great people. You have to do that. Great people of Western New York. If Greg Cody were here,

he would tell you you still don't have a perfect season though. Punct. Oh, great. No, he's right. We don't have a perfect season. Yet, yet. Yeah, I mean that's.

He got your ass. We're going in order. We're speed running everything. And you know, we mean that's, we're going in order. We're speed running everything. And you know, we're on a, we've been on some side quests and we'll get the perfect season at some point this year. They could have done it. And they said, you know what, if we beat Buffalo in the regular season, probably a little harder to beat them in the playoffs.

So they sacrifice what would have obviously been a perfect regular season to have a better chance at the three Pete. But in a a future year when they're not going for a historic championship, they'll go for the perfect season. But that'll come. You know that'll come. So yeah, I'm not worried about that. I don't know if you have more questions. And I do. I wanted to know if there were any other sacred cows that you wished to go after here before you get out of here and I wanted to Through Stu gots. I don't know if Stu gots knows this Nick right because he's enjoying so much being public enemy number one as a chiefs fan making arguments on behalf of chiefs fans

He has number three behind Paul read and Eric's don't you see number three if wrinkles in there? For what number are you? What number are you? Hold on. Hold on. Can I make this something very, very clear? The Montana Swift. That's number one. That's... Yeah. No. So listen, Riggle and Rudd and Stone Street, who I adore, again, good friends, good Kansas Cityians. They're from the Kansas side. That's a...

Um, good Kansas city. And they're from the Kansas side. They are the number one chiefs. If you say chiefs fan family feud style, and people are like, who gets the votes? Taylor's Taylor went number two is me. Jason Sudeikis. Oh, no, no. Those guys are more famous than me, but they are not more associated with the chiefs than me. Jason Sudeikis. Sudeikis. Oh. No. Yeah. No. Those guys are more famous than me, but they are not more associated with the Chiefs than me. These are, Brad Pitt's a Chiefs fan.

He's more famous than all of them. But the, yeah. So like, and again, some of those family feud answers would be, I don't know the guy's name. He's got a big nose and a punchable face. The Fonz. But that's me they're talking about. Like, so that's not deniable. I'd go a step further though. I'd put you number one on voice for the team. Rashid Wallace. Just being able to get like the feeling of regional pride that comes from being a fan on behalf of the team

who will then make arguments on behalf of the team. Are you saying this because we couldn't get the other ones on the show? I'm promising you that those people don't get to support their team from the same place that Nick Wright gets to support this one. No, if you're saying that I'm the Baghdad Bob

of the Kansas City Chiefs, that's correct, except I'm on the right side of the war. Yeah, I mean, that's definitely true. Doesn't everyone think they're on the right side of the war, though? Like, it's hard to put your life on the line if you don't think. Why would you lie to the wrong side? Yeah, exactly right that's that's definitely doesn't everyone think they're on the right side of the war though It's hard to put your life on the line. Why would you find in the wrong? Yeah, exactly right knowingly but but luckily in sports Billy There's an official scorecard and the the people on the right side get the hoisted trophy at the end of it

Sometimes you realize things weren't as right as we thought they were Billy I listen to your, listen Billy, I, you guys, here's the thing. I listened six years ago when you gave a very off the cuff, eloquent Cuban history dissertation on sports radio. I know how erudite and learned you are, but don't come at me about being on the wrong side of this war, cause I'm not, I'm not.

Jason Amor. He's also very recalcitrant, Nick. Tech nine. about being on the wrong side of this war. Cause I'm not, I'm not. He's also very recalcitrant Nick. We can use big words here too. I know what that means. Oh, cause I said, erudite. I was trying to compliment Billy Gill. Jessica, we got, you know what? Dan knows this.

I have a media rivals list. You're on it now. Samantha White. Oh no. Oh wow. Oh no. I want the entire list. Oh, no. Oh, wow. I want the entire list. No, Jessica. She had never been eligible because she's so much younger than me, but I'm now elevating her

because it's this is an outbreak. That's a compliment. It sure is. Mina's on it. Media rival. It is, but wait a minute. You just promoted her. A huge promotion. It's a promotion for Jessica. You just rewarded her. Right. Clay Thompson. A huge promotion. That's a promotion for Jessica. You just rewarded her by making her your rival. You're the one with the punchable face. That's true, but it'll just make her all the more fun to vanquish.

There you die. Am I on it now? I mean. No, no, listen, Stu, guys, you are, you are living, like sometimes people live lives and you're like, man, that path could have been mine. And every time I watch you, I'm like, man, if I just grew up in a different part of the

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Excludes TurboTax live. Must start and file an app by February 18th. Don Lebatard. Go pee pee. Stugats. Go pee pee. This is the Don Lebatard Show with the Stugats. Very happy for you, legitimately. But the question that I was asking you on the way out,

because I don't know how Stugats feels about this, because he likes and respects our show, do you get hurt at all that he appears to give his chief's takes to Dan Patrick first and to Colin Cowherd first, and that we are the bronze medalist on his world tour of Listen to Me Yammer? Yes, of course I'm upset by it, Nick.

Remember the people who got you to where it is that you're at right now. Now you probably think you got there by yourself, but no, this show helped you, okay? This show helped you, we promoted it. I don't think that, but no, this show helped you. Okay. This show helped you. We promoted it. I don't think that's true at all. We love you.

And you got to stay loyal to the show. You got to stay loyal to this show. This show first. Stu Gotz, here's the thing. First of all, I, no one really, and Dan won't accept it, has any idea how much this show helped me because I've told this story and I will tell it again when I was auditioning for FS one eight years ago my first time on the air, I made a cam Newton point

oddly about the officials that Dan then referenced and played when you guys were at the ESPN. It was remarkable and I really think that helped me. So no, no, no, This show has helped me immensely. However, what Stu gots does not know because Stu gots, I assume was in a somewhat drunken stupor. I did do this show first. I did it during the game. During the game game I came on this show I broke all of my rules of no tweeting no media for us chiefs games and I gotta tell you yeah when 90 minutes after doing the show the bills led for the first time all game had that feel I

was furious and I was on tilt and I was blaming you guys. Yes. So I did your show. Yeah, you know what? I apologize, I just wasn't here. That's fine, fair point. And when you say a blame though, then should we get credit?

Because we're now taking credit for your things. So if you're- Yeah, you guys, yeah, of course. Michael Gugliel. Yeah, here's a cool idea. Someone in that room, instead of rooting for a losing football teams, root for the team that wins every Super Bowl. No one's going to be like, oh, you were a diehard Dolphins fan. That doesn't exist. No one will blame

you. So yeah, feel free to jump on. Right now is the time because right now they're so hated. Right now it's a cool pivot to be like, you know what? I like the chiefs. I think you got, I think everyone else is a bunch of whiny babies. We invite you, but that invitation expires 6 PM a week from Sunday. Post three P bandwagon clothes. Okay. How do we let you know?

Do we send you a text? Like, what do we do here? He's put some stakes on these picks. We got to make some picks now. Stugats has picked against Kansas City the last couple of years. We don't allow him. We've forbidden him from talking about this team around here.

That's why I wasn't there for the game, Nick. Nick, good seeing you and congratulations. Thank you for the help. We'll talk to you soon. Of course, talk to you later. Love you guys, bye. Willie Kullystein. And if you do want to go to this Super Bowl game,

and man, it's gonna be a doozy, download the Game Time app, create an account, use code Dan for $20 off your first purchase, terms apply, what time is it? I'll answer it myself, it's game time. Have you guys been thinking about people in sports who look like they would crush it at a Renaissance fair? Have you guys, I don't know if you guys have seen,

is it Ren fair on Macs? That it's a confusing show in that at the start I couldn't tell whether they were actors or whether it was just unusual people, as you might find, that were addicted to the Renaissance fair. But we've got a look in mind here. I don't suspect we will have a lot of ethnicities at the Renaissance Fair, right?

This will be a pink Chris Cody type of experience. They will all look like the new coach of the Jags, Liam Cohen. Ain't no brothers at the Renaissance Fair, is that what you're saying? I think so. I think visually it's all the same game, right? It's all some form of,

are you playing the game in the other room? I think I just won the game. Oh. I did. And I don't even have to say it to anyone back here. I said it to myself. I looked at a picture of him. It's him.

Creed Humphrey. The center for the Chiefs. I mean, you're not gonna beat it. Don't even try. It's pretty good. I'm a damn good nomination, but not as good as Creed Humphrey. Are we going across all sports or just football?

All sports. We're doing all sports, and I do believe that the type though, there's a thickness involved with the type. Right, some long hair helps, right? An unkempt beard. Like Clay Matthews.

Clay Matthews is a little aggressive, although he might be jousting over there behind the tomato throws. Right. They have to look disheveled. Does it have to be sports? Why, what would you like to do? Why would you like I'm giving you all the role of sports out as the playground But you want to go off the board. I was gonna say jewel hmm

Who will save your soul? How about Mike Glennon? How about old long-necked Mike Glennon? How about Enya? Jules great the band or just just her I could see you I couldn't believe before the show and this has happened the last couple of days where for some reason I'm I'm leaving Stu gots and Stu gots is saying That's a good idea And and so whenever Stu gots is saying that I like to trail where it is that that's coming from I usually catch the back end and then I hear Billy talking about never stood on to saying that i'd like to trail where it is that that's coming from are usually catch the back and

and then i hear uh... billy talking about uh... the idea of not divorces trial divorces uh... uh... like that obviously their separations but more formalized that there should be a stop between marriage and separation and trial separation and divorce that there's a stage here. Trevor Lawrence. I kind of feel like separations already are a lot more formal than they need to be. Yeah.

Because like on forms, when you fill out forms, it says are you married, single, divorced, or separated? I'm like, you're asking me if I'm having marital problems? Is that what this question is? It was just so weird, why does the doctor care? Like it doesn't matter, right? That's why you're losing your hair That's what a hypothetical doctor would say

About to get started on something that was gonna be legitimately good, and you guys just undercut him by going at his hair loss. Yes, anding, no, I was playing the game of what the doctor, why the doctor would play that. Roll blind, I mean, it's all. Did you not see what happened? Amin was about to get rolling. Slinked away. Amin was about to take flight, like he was so excited.

Upset stomach, sore ankle, there's so many, headaches, migraines. Are you separated stomach, sore ankle, there's so many headaches, migraines. Are you separated? Mm-hmm, check. Yep, sleep apnea. He went straight for the hair. I have never seen that happen in the history of our show,

except when Amin did Ninja Warrior, and started running and was about to take flight. Which time? That's a good point. He was about to take flight. He had, That's a good point. He was about to take flight. He had, I know, I know my friend here. He was about to unspool a tapestry of complaints about why does this doctor need to know that I'm separated?

This is none of his business. Like this is, he doesn't need to invade my marriage. You don't have to take that information too. And he was about to take flight. And then Chris Cody's just staring at his airline airline and I saw all of the means and securities leak out in front of me I was honestly looking at myself in the mirror there, dude. I was like man. I've had a stressful year There's no mirror between me and you Two of you listen to me the two of you staring forehead to forehead

with surface area for miles. All right, relax. Both of you capable of being in a barbershop quartet only because of the shape of your face combined with your hairline. That was a mirror you were looking into. You're always wearing a hat. Zagacky, that's what I mean.

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