The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Strike That From the Record

Episode Date: December 21, 2023

Dan interrogates our video producer John Reed over the Stugotz's White Elephant Gift Scheme (and, apparently, a series of other crimes). Then, Jess and Lucy tell us about a crazy story from the day Lucy rented a dog that ended with their friend Priya leading the Woke Dog Mob. Plus, Brian Kelly's Heisman photo, Billy's TV viewing habits, and Survivor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. This is the Don Levertor Show with the Stugat Spatcast. Billy, where are you right now with where any and all of this is headed? Because now there's more to the story than even I knew. I was bringing you guys information I thought was shocking enough by itself, but now this has layers to it that I hadn't anticipated. So I'm learning along with the audience what is where this story ends. Where are you with how you feel so far about Stugat's really sniper

finding the mark, right? Because you got to do their, their 40 people. Objection. Billy, you can be as a, you can be John Reed's attorney if you want to be, but there were 30 or 30 people in the room and he knew not to ask some of them to help him here. He knew who to ask specifically to get accomplished what he wanted, which is not have to show any care whatsoever about the people in the company, the holiday party gifts, anything. He outsourced all of his holiday giving in a way that might have ensnared a colleague in a crime. Allegedly.

We're going to need full immunity to get this full story. Okay. And you keep asking for that and you don't give me what I need, which is what the group is thinking right now about what Stugots did. We don't know the full scope of what he allegedly may or may not have did and how he may or may not have been boozled. My good friend John here. I can say was certain to you, it was bad and wrong.

I've been able to piece it together, and it's not surprising. Come on, Mike. This is not surprising. Mike, you're not. You asked for guests, guesses at the start of this, and we guessed it exactly right. No, but we don't know that yet.

We don't know that yet. Everything's an allegation at this point. If everybody guessed correctly before the story was told, I think that is a very definition of not being surprised. Agreed. I did sort of lead you there by giving you the information on the holiday party. It limits the amount of crimes available. I've got to tell you, though, Billy, your outfit. Meeting the witness.

It's absolutely cheap attorney. It is a cheap attorney's outfit. You look so much like Saul when I hinted. Yeah, just base off this outfit. I think John Reed's going to jail. No. Yeah. What?

I definitely don't. John, we said do not speak on. We said don't show our community or bus. Well, the record show that the defendant thinks he's going to jail right uh... strike that from the record please uh... john i don't know how this guy how did this guy wait a minute now everyone's fighting to be your attorney i don't understand who made just a good guy who's got the cowboy had to john this is why i'd like to start because i want to get all the details on

this so we have i'm telling you uh... my grind who's taking a making front of me lately for being proud dad guy, made front of me because during this holiday party when people were exchanging gifts and laughing, and I was moved by our company actually celebrating something together and seeming to enjoy it. So Stugots did indeed ask request permission of multiple people to leave. And I told him, I'm not in charge of your schedule. I'm never in charge of your schedule. My answer has been consistent about that because I don't want him to feel like I'm his boss. You make your own decisions here, but he asked permission on things he knows are wrong. Like he knows he was the only one who wasn't at the holiday party.

We were all working very hard. I don't know though, John, when he recruited you. Like what is the context is at the day before? Does he want to put no effort into his gift? How did he find you and how did he get you to do this? This was literally like an hour before the show started, but I will say this, if I had known he wasn't gonna show up at the actual gift, giving I would have never put myself in this position.

I like that, that's great. Good, stick to that. And so he tells you how much to spend, does he give you any money, does he give you any guidelines? Where's he sending you and how? Well, he pulls out 20 bucks, but I didn't take it because I knew that I could put it on the company card. And it's, oh, hold up, hold up.

Hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up. Hold up. Oh, hold up. Sorry. Whoa, he gave you money. He tried to give me $20. Correct. Okay. But I didn't have the gift yet, so I didn't want to take his money. Well, I think that we need to start looking into what happened here and how premeditated

this was. At what time did he ask you to leave early, Dan? Oh, right before the holiday party was starting. Oh, but he said, John, allegedly on this gift finding adventure, an hour before the show started. So it seems like maybe there was never any intent for Stugas to attend this party at all. You don't say your his attorney, I thought I don't know why it is you would betray. Don't you? Stu got the money behind this scam operation. So $20, what was the gift maximum and minimum? What was the recommended amount of money for?

$40. $40. Or just one gift. Right, kind of. May I speak with my attorneys, please? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's go ahead. I actually did volunteer to give him $20 towards the gift,

but so hold on, you volunteered to give a $20 along with his $20? Yes, because we had other co-workers that needed a gift as well. So I was just in a generous mood. So it wasn't just stew, but I don't want to name any other names. Who are they just so well?

Hold on, now this is a recochase. Yes, hold on, this is great. We can use this to leverage immunity. Yes, well here's my problem, my person up. I was already in hot water from a situation in Iowa. Don't want to work with a hill. That is across the lines. We could not worry about that.

So turn off the microphone. Sorry. Turn off the microphone. That means you're going to be counting on it on you. Dan, oh, listen, we've got names that we're willing to give you. We are dying to tell that story. I am dying. They won't let me tell that story of what happened in Iowa. I started to tell that story. I am dying. They won't let me tell that story of what happened in IY

started to tell that when we were in California and All I want that's taken from the record by the way All I will tell the audience of a girl Masking as much of this as I can for Lucy that John Reed who pre- Immunity Lucy needs. I don't know what you're talking about Lucy's not a part of it this is I can for Lucy that John Reed who pre-eat immunity Lucy needs. I don't know what you're talking about Lucy's not a part of it. A muni co-pick. You got Lucy lip syncs ships as Lucy's lawyer.

You know what tail for Jeremy. Yeah, Jeremy's got to go. Yeah, he's got to go. John Reed's hot water before the Iowa hot water was showing up at a panthers press box in full panthers regalia practicing practically dressed as Stan Lee Panther, Stan Lee C Panther. Was I into the court exhibit? It's fine. I have in my hands the actual Matthew can chuck Jersey.

By the way, Matthew, let's get it going, man. Yeah, slow start. I'd have to see John in that actual Jersey to see if that fits by the way. I don't know if that fits John. How do you know is John? I was an eyewitness. It's my Jersey. I'd have to see john in that actual jersey to see if that fits by the way i don't know if that fits john how do you know is john i i was an eyewitness it's my jersey i'd like to to john jerry doesn't fit you must equip boom john reed showed up and uh... embarrassed metal arc media by being a fan although i think i think i need to let go of my previous journalistic standards

given what jessica and lucy and mike and billiard doing to try and change the form of how news and information is given in the media space. So maybe we should have more fandom with our journalism. No one's got more than Jessica. I gave up all journalistic credibility when I came here, Dan. So three years from journalism. That is correct. And John Reed was in hot water and lucy i'm gonna try and might help me out here okay with wherever the guardrails on this because

i don't know what sensitive here i've tried to talk about it before i don't want to get anyone in actual trouble but john reed found himself in a situation in iowa where he was in trouble with legitimate authorities because of something he and lucy were to i'd you do accomplish well lucy the witness for content uh... lucy trouble with legitimate authorities because of something he and Lucy were alleged to accomplish. Well, it's called Lucy to the witness stand for content. Lucy, please, I don't want to speak for you here, but I don't know where your discomforts are either. What can be said? And I should tell the audience Lucy has fame in Iowa that predates us. Lucy is a known

person around college football. She has influence there, which was helpful allegedly. Lucy is a bit of a star around Iowa football, even though she's always laughing at Iowa football. It's one of my favorite things. But you all saw a polarizing figure because some people think you should be more respectful of the program. Yeah, let's just say the Iowa Athletics Department, I am not their favorite person. So we went into this event at Iowa allegedly, supposed to be on our best behavior,

and that did not happen. Yeah, that's all you can say, Lucy. That's all right. That's too much. Don't worry about it. We've gone far enough. What did John Reed do at this Iowa game? We will not mention that.

It was a game in the football team. It was a women's basketball game. Can I say it? Yeah, go for it. No, no, go for it. There's definitely like actual laws that were broken. Yeah. And federal agents.

Fine. Well, someone who looked like John Reed was flying a drone over the open airspace over the back of the airspace over this basketball court. And the authorities got involved and said, Hey, guy or girl, you can't be flying a drone over restricted airspace. This is a problem. It was a mistake. It was an error by metal arc media.

It was an error by John Reed uncertain who the error was by was the person wearing a Matthew Kachuk jersey. Okay. Fine. Maybe it was circumstantial evidence suggests that our video person with the drone might have been involved by holding the holding the remote control perhaps it wasn't him but authorities did descend upon him the not how many of them descended upon him I do not know because I was busy working I was I had a girl at a girl at a girl so I do not

know how it happened but I did give some more of a statement to a police officer. And now comes news that Stugat found the exact person to go to, to get his gift purchased on the company card. It sounds like those Stugat has enough in the way of cash and laziness to obscure the fact that he didn't actually need John Reed to commit a crime form. John Reed chose that a crime form. John Reed chose that route all his own. That is debatable.

I don't know about that. What do you mean you don't know about that? We don't know about that. We've covered, we've covered what is fact here. This is, none of this is a bit. He's an accomplice. Our client was duped. Mm-hmm.

So that's a part to bit. The bookwigs and psychologically duped. The part that the Tony andian Billy are his attorneys, what John Reen is rushing back to the witness stand here. Hold on, we'll get your microphone. Let me say this, I'm a bit of a renegade, you know, realist here. And when we shot your music video last year,

which got I think 40,000 views or so, I put a drone up on South Beach. It was a beautiful music video. The authorities did come after and talk to me. I remember. And we got away with it. You're a good one. When I went one more, one more. When I went to Vegas with Mike Ryan and Chris Cody and Roy,

I put a drone up on the Las Vegas strip, which it's actually up on our YouTube right now. If you go look at Chris and Roy and Vegas, so you either love me or hate me. That's got it. Sometimes you got to take a little risk here. Agreed. So just to see two of the three times that you'd put a drone into the air authorities came to talk to you. Yeah. And the police help me in Vegas. There you go. Wow. So all three times in trap men. John, that's all of the witches and cream. You think around the third time It is a baseline dance

Unrelated to what we were talking about to begin with anyways and needs to be tossed Immediately when you start to do absolutely nothing to do with the holiday party and you know what? Miss trial when when John read stormed in here the thought that went through my head was he is most certainly going to further incriminate himself and he did not visit boy Let him act. Drinking from the police help Daniel He just told the judge. Do you know how many more crimes I've committed? Sorry Don Lebertard. Can't cheer that type of stuff. Tom Brady went down with a Achilles, the only time he got hurt in his entire career.

And I was fist-pumped in my living room at home because the chance finally had a chance to win a division. I mean, I'm sorry. I'm not gonna apologize for that. I'm sorry. I'm not going to apologize for that. It's one of the most amazing sentences you've ever uttered.

Still got from the maker of Trust Me. Don't trust me. I'm sorry, but I'm not going to apologize. You are amazing. You are a flower gasp into light. You happen upon G is comedy by accident. That's my gift. DCC Don't Liberty show with this two gods.

[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ I've noticed with the metal-lark executives, they're a bit camera shy, a bit light shy, sometimes when they're on air for the first time, it can be intimidating. We did this the other day to tailor in a way that was unpleasant. It can be a little intimidating if you've been following the show for a while and take seriously the nonsense we're doing around here. Getting your first mic time can be like making a speech in front of a lot of people. You know that you're being listened to by millions of downloads a week.

And so some people get scared with all the hot lights and I wanted to get John Reed just, you know, in the interest of being an employer who cares about people in their comfort, just getting him into a more comfortable intimate space that is slightly less scary where he's not surrounded by all of you and all of the intimidations that that involves.

So let's just get him to a quieter place so that I can ask him some questions about what happened with Stugots. But before I get to John Reed and details on this story that I need to hear because I really am learning this for the first time and I don't know how devious Stugots was here or how bad John Reed's just general judgment is. And he just committed a crime first of got's without intending to commit a crime first of got's. Jessica and Lucy have been dog advocates publicly privately. A mean doesn't like that willow is around willow is famous now. She is getting recognized in the streets. Lucy rented a dog for a while.

We buried her unfairly. She did a lovely thing for a dog and helped raise awareness that dogs can use a little bit of love and you can rent them for 12 hours at a time. You did a wonderful nice thing for charity. We buried you for it. How has Jessica been involved with any of your dog experiences? I saw the other day at a Laker game, somebody brought a dog court side. I did not know that that was allowed. That seems like a danger. If an NBA player gets bitten by a dog that is, you know, spooked by noise. What if they need him to come in off the bench?

The dog situation. The dog. No one says the dog can't play basketball. No one does say that. I saw a dog famous line from air bud jumping. That's not a real dog. Roman that is someone in a dog suit. That doesn't look like a real dog.

You were fooled again. The guy next to him hates that is a person in a dog. That's not a real dog. That dog has legs. It's human legs. No, it's out of its hind legs. It's a real dog. Why was it there? Was it a comfort dog of some sort? It's apparently it's a famous TikTok dog that is also a service animal and it was allowed to be a court site.

And I haven't heard of it. Can you tell me what you guys have been doing recently that is dog-related sharing? So when I took Miss Dolly out of the shelter, which by the way, this is a thing you can do it a lot of shelters. We found you can do it in my hometown. So look into it if you guys are looking to take a dog out for the day. But so when I took Miss Dolly out, we went to lunch and we're just chilling and Jess and Priya came to meet us there because they wanted to meet Dolly. Obviously, she loved up to all the expectations and more. And we're sitting there and we're enjoying our time with Dolly. And this guy walks by with one of the cutest little husky puppies we've ever seen. So Jess and I are like, wow, what a cute dog.

And he's like, thanks. Do you want to buy it? And we're like, I'm sorry, excuse me. He's like, yeah, I'm selling this dog. I found it in my neighborhood and I'm selling it. And we're like, hey, you cannot sell a dog that you just found. Priya was just the hero of our story.

It was like, you are a bad person for selling a dog that you have found. Priya basically immediately instilled shame into this man. So then he sat down next to us and was like, well, why shouldn't I be able to sell this dog? And she's like, this is terrible karma. You should not make money off of a living thing.

This could be someone's pet. And then Lucy was like, I can, you know, we can take it to the vet. We can see if it has a microchip. Where did you find it? But we started asking him a million questions. I was like, how much are you selling it for? He was like $400 and I was like, that's,

I don't have that on me. But like maybe we should just buy it and then figure out what to do. And then these other people came out of the restaurant and they were like, what's going on? And then we told them the whole saga. So then they got involved. And then all six of us were just bullying this guy

into giving over the puppy because this puppy, it was so sad, it was tiny, it was so scared. It had burst, sticking out of its fur. It was limping, it was just like the most afraid, little puppy I've ever seen in my life. And we were like, we need to do something about this. And he made it seem like he had found a stray dog. So we were asking about where he found it.

He would not tell us exactly where he found it. He said my neighborhood. And we were like, where is that? He's like 25 to 30 blocks away. I'm like, do you not know where you found the dog or where you live? And he was like, I found the dog with a collar. And we're like, hey, if that dog has a collar,

that's probably someone's dog. And he's like, no it's not. It's not's probably someone's dog. It's not pure bread hust. Yeah, it was a pure bread puppy, and we were just like fighting with this guy back and forth because he was like, no, I'm going to sell this dog that I found. Why can I not profit from helping this dog? I'm gonna give it a good home.

And you're like, if you're just giving the dog to someone on the street, you don't know if it's going to a good home, and he kept saying, why are you trying to make me feel so bad? All of you shame this man and this is a distinctly Miami grift or someone thinks that taking someone else's pet and selling it wouldn't be something

that would hurt the pet owner. He was so afraid of Priya. So she put the fear of God in it. Well, it seems like she led the angry mob of it wasn't just you two that rose up to indignants, you then got random restaurant goers to get in on your angry mob to shame this person who was a nefarious captain.

Trying to make a book. So it then progressed to where Priya was like, you know what, fine, I'll give you $100 if you give me the dog. And she had cash on her. She had cash. She had cash. They gave him $100 and then he went to the other people

who we were with and he was like, I heard you had, you said you had $50. So he got $150 and was like, fine, we'll just go. And so the other group were like, they had, someone had had a husky before so she was like these dogs run away a lot. So they took the puppy, took it to a vet to see if it had a chip in it. It did not.

They have since been taking care of it. We trust them. But it was a really eventful lunch. And the whole time, Dolly is just sitting there like a little angel, not causing any problems. And I was like, you know, with the group there when we causing any problems. And I was like, as you know, with the group there, when we were in between arguing, I was like, hey, do you guys want to meet Dolly? She isn't available for adoption if you're interested

in dogs, she's a great girl. Look, let's be very, very clear. I'm not for stealing of animals. What's the paradox? Those you can take, those are that's not stealing, you can just take those. Those are free. Those are free.

Again, not the point. The point is, if you steal a dog and then resell it, not good. If you find a dog that perhaps maybe belongs to somebody, perhaps may not, may have fallen off the turn of truck. You don't know. I should not be using somebody should. How old are you turn of truck? What?

I was trying to relate to Dan, sorry. Wow, you're trying to speak my language. Wow. That was a little, Jessica goes to Dan, sorry. Wow, you're trying to speak mine language. Whoa! That was a little, Jessica, go sit in the penalty box. No, she can't. She'll, half her body will be gone. Well, let's try it. Look at these pants.

Priya and Dolly, lead the woke mob is an interesting. It did sound like a real life Twitter argument playing out. What if, with all sorts of virtue signaling and some sincere people, other people like, yeah, I guess I'll join the phrase, shame on you. It's like, you got a hundred bucks or not. What if this other couple was in on it with the guy? Like, this was their dog, and then the guy's there,

and he tries to do this shakedown, and these are now allies of yours. You get the hundred dollars from you guys, and then they're like, well, we have 50, and then they know they're gonna get it back right away. And this is like a traveling, con artist, family, circus type thing. Suckers are born every minute, Dano.

Uh, yeah. I just want to go back for a second. So you believe I come from a time where an America was replete with turn up trucks. Well, you know, the phrase turn up truck to connect with you to be clear. Uh, thank you for speaking my language. I thought I was going to raise you up you up a bit of a story but you know alright so uh... let's go to john reed here and uh... jessica your legitimate journalist can you get to the bottom of this story can you do some work while

you're in the penalty box here and just get to the bottom of what is the truth of this story and how much crimes to god's was trying to commit and how much was spent on the gifts how much was charged to the company what were the gifts i'd like some more details please don't say anything shone i'm a little afraid for for john generally because as he was being interrogated about what seemed like a potentially like gray area ethical issue he admitted to actual crimes

no did not so i'm going to to step out and let him handle this because he's the only one who really knows the truth. Okay, feel more comfortable with you. All right, Jessica, no, Jessica's leaving this to me. I'm going to do this alone here with John Reed. John, you can't have an attorney present, by the way. This is all very uncomfortable. All right, John Reed, how much?

Yes. How much did you spend on the gifts? Oh, it's $68 How much did you spend on the gifts? 68 dollars. What did you buy? I bought a throwback Tony Kucoat bulls jersey, which was very popular in the white gifts exchange from what I asked. Yes, it was stolen. Yes, not a crime, if you guys remember that. All of a sudden, we were looking for a way not a crime. Oh, sorry. I didn't mean white gift to me.

Sorry, don't worry John, we're here. We're here. We're here. We're here. Jeff, pick it first and then someone stole it from Jeff. You know what? I would like to consult with my attorneys. Thank you for your fine, don't worry.

I didn't take it because I already have one actually though. This was indeed a white gift in exchange when the Tony Cook Coach Jersey was wildly popular. It was taken initially by Jeff. Did you buy anything else or was that the only gift? Was that $68 or there was a second thing? Well, it was two things. It was a hoodie and also a bull's jersey, but I took back the hoodie because I didn't want to get caught. No, no, not. Not. No, no, no, wrong word.

I think what we should be celebrating here is John sounds like he bought multiple presents for this exchange all for under $68. Well, I must say this. I was doing my job as the producer. This is my job to make things happen. This is my job to make sure that the talent is happy. And Stu got seemed unhappy that he didn't have time to go out and purchase a gift. So I stepped in as a producer and made it happen.

The hoodie, where was the hoodie? Did it get part of the exchange or the hoodie you just took the hoodie and went home with it? I decided to return the hoodie and get the candles. Yes, good. The candle, I realized that we do have a lot of ladies that work with us, that everyone likes candles. No one wants a lot of ladies that work with us that everyone likes candles. I love candles.

I love candles. I want a lot of sneakers and jerseys. And so I decided to buy candles for the lady, a diversity of gifts. Yes. The candles were very popular. Greg Cody ended up with a candle at the end at did great did Stugots. Thank you for doing any of this. He didn't tell you clearly that he wasn't coming.

How was it framed at the party that these were the gifts that Stugat's bought through you? Well, he definitely didn't thank me. I haven't seen him since he had me to go out and get the gifts on the lamb. How does the group feel? All right. Are there any other questions and how does the group feel? It's still unclear what the actual crime was here.

And if you're going to give your immunity on it. It sounds like if anything, he just did a friend of favor. And then I must say this, you know, the New Year's coming. I don't think you should harbor all these ill-will-fillys towards me. I'm a very responsible father of three. And you know, I made a mistake with a drone in Iowa. On a fetus. And here's to my defense in Iowa.

There's nothing else to do in Iowa but fly a drone. All right, we can't do it. thought I was John get out of there. To stand to your making it worse. We do not have any problem with Iowa. Iowa was kind enough to allow us all the access that we wanted. Lucy and John made great content and we are grateful that the Iowa authorities and Kirk Farrant and nobody arrested John Reed for violating airspace in a way that seems dangerous in 2023. 2023 is not very media responsible. We are grateful to the good people of Iowa for being kind and generous to metal-lark media

when metal-lark media committed airspace violence. And I did send an apology letter to the entire athletic staff department. So handwritten to. Yes. Alright. Tell me. And it's the end of the year. Should all the Quaintons be forgot? You know what I mean? I never brought to mind. Powerful.

All the Quaintons be forgot and the days of all Langzai. I never knew that those were the lyrics. I understand like four of those words too. I thought it was a Quaintance. I'm like, yeah, I forget a lot of acquaintances. I'm bad with names. I thought it was a acquaintance. It is a acquaintance, what did I say? You said acquaintance or something. Well, I'm not the one on trial here.

John did it. Don Lebertard. If I'm at the house with them and they're all rooting, I could just be like, yeah, rah, rah, rah. Go Yankees. Stugots. You know how unsettling it would be if I attended a live sporting event and someone behind me was just going, rah rah!

Rah Browns! Rah! He's, rah rah rah! VCC Dan Lebertar Show with his Stugats. Direct me if I'm wrong on this, because Jessica is such a giant Notre Dame fan. I feel like all of us sort of remember where we were or how the sport was shifting somehow when Brian Kelly decided to leave the prestigious institution of Notre Dame. Before money changed everything, to join the SEC and make big-time football, even bigger-time football, the coach at Notre Dame, that's supposed to mean something, and you go from there to LSU,

it felt to me like we were all like, oh, that's interesting that they would compete that way again, Sabin, they're going to get the popular CEO from Notre Dame. And it seems like since then, because so much about the sport has changed, that feels more and more like we all overreacted to a higher just because it was the first one that sort of shook the economy of this sport. And we all now realize, well, there are probably 10 Brian Kelles you can get as long as you make sure that one of them that you have is someone who can run the business of the sport or figure out how to live in a changing sport. But it seems like every bit of Brian Kelly news or optic since then has been something to shame him as some sort of clown.

Well, okay. There are several things in that intro that I somewhat object to. I think the reason that he was hired at LSU was a reaction to a lot of the big contracts that other head coaches were getting around the same time and years previous. And he left because they were offering him like $90 million guarantee dollars for 10 years or something like that to coach. I can't remember the exact terms, but now that he's at LSU and I don't know why this didn't happen as much when he was at Notre Dame because he was still doing kind of the same corny

things. Like there were several Brian Kelly memes that maybe I was the only one paying attention to because I was in like Notre Dame land of him like doing the peace sign while he was kneeling down or doing like, you know, dances and stuff like that in signing day videos. And now he's doing that at LSU and it feels like everything's

getting amplified like 20 or 30 times more than it did there. But he's been the same guy the whole time. Like he's the same coach that made a very poorly delivered joke about wanting to execute his players after the Florida state Notre Dame game in 2021. We'd love to hear it. Perfectly executed joke on John McKay. Did it perfectly in the 70s? That same joke and somehow Brian Kelly not only butchered it, but was copycatting it as

well. Yeah, part of it is like it kind of his act kind of flew in Indiana where it's just everything about Brian Kelly in the bayou seems like an odd fit. And he confirmed all of that when he put on an accent in his first introduction to LSU nation when he said his family. Maybe that's it. I think maybe that was such a viral moment that now every subsequent thing has become like part of his ongoing weirdness there. But yeah, like you're on to something because Brian Kelly was he's from Massachusetts. he's Irish. He was a coach at a bunch of schools in the Midwest before he went to Notre Dame.

And even though he was a very polarizing figure at Notre Dame, he won a lot of games and fans kind of put up with him being a weirdo sometimes and thinking he was really funny at times during interviews, but not really being that funny. And the fact that it's such a weird fit seemingly at LSU and he put on a Southern accent briefly for some reason, I think has amplified that to a group of people that maybe weren't following him before. I know it's been really weird about this year with Brian Kelly. And despite having several losses, all the people voting on ranking still rate them highly is he's taking the

J. Daniels high's been trophy win as a pretty big Brian Kelly accomplishment to kind of satiate anybody that might have an issue with their, I think sub part performance since he arrived. You have to give him some credit for transition, I guess, but that's not really what the sports about individual accomplishments. And it seemed at a certain point in the season, he knew that that's what the aim was and that's what the goal was. And he's conflated that with overall success.

And he seems to be relishing in it. Well, you have to recruit, however you recruit. And I've got a quarterback who averages the first down every time that he touches the football is the best thing that he's got to sell. I'm more interested when Jessica, you're objecting to whatever it is that I'm saying there. I just view that spot going from Notre Dame to LSU got everyone's attention and it seems like we've got nothing but corny from him since, including this now that you have, and we have the still images up of Brian Kelly apparently doesn't know how to do the, the

Heisman pose, but I was of the feeling when Brian Kelly switched schools, it was the SEC's saying some form of that we don't even have to be Alabama or Georgia to steal Notre Dame's genius resident leader guy who's going to be better at leadership than others and what he's done publicly since then shows corny judgment, correct? Well, I think it was, I think it was Ellis use athletic director saying like, I'm going to make a splashy higher here because that's what I do. I'm the guy that makes me splashy. Splashy hires splash athletic departments like he hired Kim Mulkey the year before and gave her the highest salary of any women's basketball. And then he hired Brian Kelly.

So I think I think there is something I'm done. I can't I can't do this next to problematic Joe Zagaki having the hots for Kim Mulkey. I'm sorry. This is where I draw the line. Something about her. Two of them. I draw the line. You're surrounded by a genocide. You're surrounded by a sequence.

Sequence really gets me. I'm sorry about that. I'm not practical to use for those. Billy, you are looking forward to this break more than most I would assume given the fact that you get a reprieve from the insanity that is 15 hours of chasing stu-gots around every day. Hopefully. But you have fallen how far behind on all of your viewing given that God bless football and to children are chewing up your life.

What are you watching these days on television? Are you still with the reality shows? Well, I have games four and five of the world series still that I'm gonna get to now this coming week, and I'm pretty excited because I was tipped off and I know what's gonna happen, but I can probably skip those. I have the world series. I also have, I don't know how you guys deal with like

cues on different streaming platforms or whatever, but like, I'll see a movie or whatever and then I'll put it in my queue. And I've realized over the past, I don't know, however long it's been, I don't actually ever go back and watch any of that stuff ever. My queue is full of things that I tell myself that I'm going to watch, that I'm not going to watch, but recently I've been seeing things like a movie or two on like each thing, but I don't want to put in my queue because I know that that's like a death sentence for this thing. So I'm going to make a handmade list and I have like six or seven movies that I want

to watch. I have shows I want to catch up on, I have to catch up on hard knocks. There's lots of things, Dan. Reality shows yesterday, a survivor end to D from Miami one survivor spoiler alert in like an incredible badass move at the end when you do the things with the jury where you're talking. She was leading on this poor little boy Austin and they fell in love and it was such a adorable story and she lied to him. And he confided in her that one of her allies, this is all spoiler alerts for anyone that

still watches Survivor that's under the age of whatever. It's just David Samson. Well, so anyways. Do any of you watch Survivor? No, no, no, I've never seen a single episode. It was a great season. I saw the David Samson. Well, so anyways, do any of you watch Survivor? No, no, no, I've never seen a single episode of it. It was a great season. I saw the David Samson episode. Well, anyway, so he, he, he, he told her like they were going to eliminate her friend and then she went and she told her friend and her friend using immunity. I don't saved herself and then eliminated someone. And then she eliminated his best friend and didn't tell him so that

he couldn't save his friend and she lied to him and she said, I didn't tell her and it was a whole thing. We don't need to, this and it was a whole thing. This isn't about survivor though. This isn't about survive. She made it look like such a dummy though in the finale because in the finale, he was there. The jury was like, you know, she didn't do this. And he's just defending her. He was like, no, she didn't ruin that plan.

She didn't tell Julie that she was going to do that. And then she turns, she goes, let me stop. I did tell Julie and I lied to you about that. And boom, that's how she won the million buckaroos. Anyways, what were we talking about? I was asking you what you were going to be watching over the next 10 days because it seems like your whole plan for the new year, your resolution

is to simply get caught up on everything. I did wanna ask the group, do you guys get to anything in your two because if I put it in the two, it's because I didn't wanna watch it then, but I was thinking maybe I wanna watch it later, but then I never go back there. Okay, that's the thing, and I was talking to Master before we were out here, and we were kind of like aligned on this. I will put something in my queue, and I'll be like, I'm not going to watch this right now, but I'm going to get to it,

and then spend 40 minutes looking for other things to watch, and then deciding, oh, there's just nothing on here, and then I leave. And that's why things stay in my queue, because decided I'm gonna see this at some point in time, but absolutely never go back and watch it, ever. And even if you do watch it, here's a follow up question for the class. If anyone cares for participating in this conversation. Here's a follow up question. If you do go into the queue and watch things,

do you remove it from your queue? I think don't they self-remove if you watch them? I've never watched anything in my queue, I don't know how it works. I've been watching the crown for like 20 years, it feels like. I don't have the new season. I don't have a queue.

Everyone has a queue. I don't have one. I don't have a queue. I don't have a queue. I go in to Ken Burns' documentary on the Rose of Elts knowing that it will take me a year and a half to finish. And I'm proud to report. I am on track.

Do you want a queue? No, I don't have time. I'm just just always cocoa melon. And like that's the thing is you ask me what I'm going to watch. And it's like, probably, probably the Grinch 600 times. I'm probably sing to another 50 times. I've seen it so many times. Sounds like you have a problem with your cue, Billy.

Maybe you should join cue and on. Get out. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. That's in my cue. It's really good.

It is good. Yeah. That's it. Yeah. Yeah. You went on special. Yeah. There's like a new two and on bubbling. It's on MD party. Like the Brock party fans out there are deeply passionate about it. And if you trifle and you you don't put respect on Brock party's name, they will come after you. Party is the new two., two, uh, yes. Party is new, the new two and not. Yeah. In terms of social media engagement,

Brock, party gets it done. You should probably talk more about envy, party. Let me clarify something. I was saying that get out is in my queue, not the Q and on thing. The Q and on thing is really good. Those are really good. Let's clarify the Q and on documentary, not Q and on itself. Yeah, you get it.

It's really, well, not QAnon itself. Yeah, you get it. I thought it was important considering where our, you know, conversations went yesterday on Aaron Rodgers, that loser. I, uh, please stop calling him a loser. I want more Zagaki, uh, pining for Kim Malkin, Haba Haba. Dish. Hot plate. Hot plate.