The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: That's Hard Time's Daddy

Episode Date: September 8, 2025

"Whose idea was it to have her walk?" The VMAs tried to get us back last night and Mike Ryan was completely reeled in but Zaslow had no idea it was on. Dan has a Top 5 list of things we won't get to from football today, we take a look at the nuttiest fans from the weekend and there was another spitting incident over the weekend. Would you buy a Dodge Cristobal? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Back to you, Dan. Yeah, thank you. I appreciate that. Zaslo, you've been wanting to talk about Howard Stern for a week. People have been wondering how it is and where it is that a radio icon has been because he gets very long vacations. He is part of a dying medium, but behind a paywall at Sirius XM,

he has kept an industry alive because of all of his power and reach. And he just signed a five-year contract extension today after doing one last bit here where Andy Cohen pretended like something had happened to Howard just because he was sick for a week and delayed his return. The people who follow Howard Stern do so with such loyalty that they keep,

in industry, something that's behind a paywall, that he doesn't feel like he can even quit because he's holding up a great deal of Sirius XM with his constituency. You've been wanting to talk about this for a week. He returns today and signs up for five more years where he'll have a huge vacation and spend a lot of time complaining about not wanting to be on the air. Well, and it's funny because he did his show today. He finally returned after they did a bit where Andy Cohen did. I think it was a pre-recorded bit as if he took over the show.

Warfree. Variety Magazine put out a story and a tweet that Howard, he's gone, Andy Cohen's now. That was very embarrassing. But also, like, how embarrassing for some of these publications over the last couple weeks who reported that he's being fired? He just seemed to five-year extension. And it was funny because on the show today he's talking about, even if I wanted to retire, I can't now. With all the reports, I have to stay. It seems to be a long-running bit where he's being forced to stay. Someone forced his hand to sign this extension. This is every five years he does this. I wish I could quit. I can't quit right. I wish I could. That's a great shout by Billy. It's the Charles Barkley thing. I mean, an out in your contract, your contract

expiring means you don't actually have to. This whole thing feels so calculated to me. Like, it's a publicity stunt, right? I mean, where's Howard? Howard was supposed to be back on today. Where is he? And still, I will not dismiss the forever reinventing of yourself. So in your 70s, you could be this kind of valuable in a artificial. fact media that you help change with some shock jock stuff that still, even though people make fun of where his politics are now and how he's gotten overrun by the young men in the Rogan sphere, still monster relevant at a place that's behind a paywall that's keeping up in the streaming game with everybody else and now is still trying to replace him with a, what

feels like a radio lineup of Stephen A. Smith and Katie Nolan. And them trying to keep up in the modern age when behind a paywall is radio is not the most modern of ways to make business. But he is an icon who's reinvented himself over four decades. That's not up for dispute by anyone. No, of course not. It was interesting, though, these last couple weeks while he was gone. And then another week where he delayed his return and just all the talk about him being irrelevant and he doesn't matter anymore. I mean, look, this is an all-time radio giant who, it feels like it's never going away.

He's in his 70s. He's like 73 years old. He's older than I am for crying out. And he has more time off than anybody because he can because he is his own industry. Like nobody has, almost no one has that power, although Conan O'Brien begins to accrue it now in the shadow umbrella of what Howard built over there when they revolutionized media. The Andy Cohen thing was a good bit. It was a good idea. Well, they fooled a lot of people. Yeah, I saw it first. I'm like, this seems like acting a little bit. Is this a work? Or is this legit? Because it did kind of lean into all the uncertainty surrounding. The biggest bit of uncertainty was probably him delaying his return a week because you assume, well, what's going on here? Are they trying to get some kind of exit in place? I thought it was a cool idea to stay relevant. People were talking about him today. Can he continue that discussion? Can he use this established narrative that he's kind of

done and look, he went woke, and now he's going broke. The five-year extension kind of thumbs its nose at that, but what kind of voice will Howard Stern have at this age of his career? You cited the Manosphere. His voice doesn't resonate with a younger audience. His audience is aging with him. How much influences that audience now have? Well, we now know, though, that the echo chambers, all of them, if you've got a giant loyal audience and contingency, and you take it with you from place to place, you have enormous value. And so his audience, though older, there's no disputing that. It's been overrun.

The podcast's fear has been overrun by an assortment of young comedians who have altered everything up to and including a presidential election because some of them in the young man's fear fed bad information to young people who weren't thinking for themselves. and then Andrew Schultz recuse themselves from any of it. By backing off, Howard Stern is an artifact from a different time. There is no disputing that, but his value is not up for dispute either, because I'd love to see the numbers on what that five-year extension is. They are trying to help him keep up with Mad Dog and with Conan O'Brien,

and it's hard to keep up behind a paywall as the streaming game changes and everyone's in the podcast industry. I saw a podcast. Mike, I saw a podcast. Mike, I saw. I don't even know what this is. I saw Shaquille O'Neal talking to, I think it was Kendrick Lamar, Tom Brady, Dana White on the roof of something

because everyone's come to the podcast fear saying, I'll make daily shows. I don't know what that was. You asked, I haven't seen that. But I assume that the number's lower, possibly much lower. Otherwise, the number would have been out there. But he's not going to keep doing it into his late 70s.

It stands a reason that the number would be lower, given how often he actually shows up, which is fewer and further between the deeper he gets into this career. He's got the whole summer off. At 71, if they say, you know what, let's give you $40 million instead of $100 million. I'm like, nah, I can't live off $40 million. It was obviously a good enough deal for Howard who says he wish he could quit but can't right now. For him to still take the money, it's got to be worth his time.

He's made a ton of money. But that wasn't the only thing going for an older audience. Last night the VMAs tried to get us back. Really? Yeah. Dan, I don't know if you broke your 15-year streak of not watching award shows last night. Mike, this is the first I'm hearing that the VMAs were last night. That's impossible.

That's impossible. They were advertising it in-game on your NFL slate. I don't know. They were going to add in my bathroom for it for the past month. I didn't see it. It's impossible. You're just a liar. The VMAs were simulcast on CBS.

This is the first time in the history of the VMAs that they've done that. and it took the 60 minutes time slot. So there's two pretty big heads up that... Mike, I was watching nothing but Red Zone yesterday. Yes, but this was after that. No one believes you. The commercials were out of control on Red Zone. I didn't know.

Out of control on Red Zone. I didn't see it. No one believes you. Every CBS game had multiple. Why? What's different about our experiences that me, Roy, and Zaz are all telling you. We didn't know it was last night.

You're just calling us liars, not lying. What do I have to gain by telling you I didn't know the VMAs were last. I didn't even Greg. Greg. Greg. You two are just lying. You're just lying. Anyways, so the VMAs were there and they were very clearly trying to get

us back. Us by the MTV generation. Even Dan, they were trying to grab you back. L.L. Cool J. was kind of hosting. There was like a run where Jessica Simpson was a presenter and Buster Rhymes was performing.

And Ricky Martin performed. In a tribute to Ozzy. The tribute to Ozzie where Stephen Tyler and Joe Perry showed up. They try to recreate the Magic of Youngbloods for Ozzy tribute across the pond. He did a couple of Aussie numbers again. I wish I knew it was on. So they were, you actually knew a ton of the people who were featured in this show. They created new awards just to give more old people awards.

And in the lead-up to this, MTV was showing. Oh, the Mariah Carey thing was rough. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, but that didn't mean it wasn't so rough. Let's not walk and sing. She should be standing still when she's sitting. Whose idea is it to have her walk? It's just so awkward.

She can't be walking anymore. Whose idea was it to have her walk? She can't walk. How is she supposed to get around? She can't walk. Who can't walk? Should she crawl? She can't walk?

She can't walk without it being super awkward. Well, there are theories. But there was even one time where she was the plan was for her to walk across the sage, and she had to be, her hand had to be held. It was, you know. She's dainty. It was very, no, Ariana Grande introduced her. She's dainty.

Mariah's got something else going on. But it was actually a pretty cool show. And they played to all the nostalgia. Hold on, hold on. Go ahead. Cameras did not catch that. No, please, Greg Cody, you're doing a visual here. Greg Cody is taking from the ways that you're describing this.

That's not the way that I've been described. describing Mariah? Look, he is doing what I believe is the universal symbol. Everyone should see it. Guys, there's plenty reckless. We don't need to go there and fixate on it. I don't know what you're talking about. What I'm talking about is the same thing that's been talked about Mariah Carey for 25 years. Glass house over here, Throne Stone. These are not new allegations when it comes to Mariah Carey being able to just walk and, you know, act a certain way.

What? Are you guys just learning about this? Like a diva. Yeah. That's her stick. Yeah. No, that's what I'm talking about. Either way.

I didn't say a word. Why'd you make this awkward, death? I didn't say a word. You accused her of drinking. No, I didn't. No, I didn't. Drinking. What are you talking about?

You accused, that's the symbol that you, that's not a symbol. Well, was it? You were saying she was throwing them back. That's unfair. I was going like this over my shoulder and refer to somebody back there. It's just because someone can't talk the same way that they used to and can't walk without assistance. Doesn't mean that they're. Exactly.

That they've got something else. I didn't do that. Roy. We need to settle down here and have Mike stop complaining about us lying to him. Me and Zaslo and Roy. Why would I lie? That's what we don't know. Are not lying to you.

I guess we were watching. I don't, maybe I watch commercials more passively than you do, okay? Because when I'm in the Red Zone, I'm not watching commercials. Yeah, we were yesterday, a whole minute of them. I wasn't, I didn't see commercials yesterday is what I'm telling you the way that I was watching Red Zone. and I didn't see any commercials for the VMAs. Is there anything else here worth talking about instead of the reckless things we're saying about Mariah Carey? Yeah, I think it's pretty cool.

And also, have you ever seen a 60 Minutes in-game promo? Yeah. Okay, in place of the 60 Minutes in-game promos, were the VMA promos, you guys are liars. All I'm saying is they should have done a little bit of promotion for the BNA. Just incredible, sizable liars. Here's the news, though. No, they have the tick and stopwatch. That's how I noticed it's 60s.

Here's the news. Someone's award of the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, and you guys are are unaware that it's happening is insane to me. I mean, we don't believe them. Insane. Liar, Pants on Foxx. They gave Buster Rhymes a something called the Rock the Bells legend. It was just because they wanted to get old people over there to watch it.

They gave Ricky Martin the Latin American Legend Award. Who is he up against? Well, that's the thing about a legendary award. You're not up against anybody. They just bring you over here. By the way, Ricky Martin, they did a great compilation of his, he does look great. He did like six songs. People were out of their seats.

Six songs? Yeah. A medley one was that. Yeah. Busset did too. It was awesome. It was a great show. And for me, the news is, is this setting up something to come?

Is MTV finally getting away from trying to be for the kids, realizing it's never going to be that? And just trying to get the people that are now in their 40s and above to rekindle some of that magic. You know what they should do? You know what would really help? Doing a little promotion, so I knew it was on. So Power 96 did by the way Now it's just throwbacks Evie's still there

You've lived long enough in this market to see Power 96 just punt on being contemporary and just said In our glory days we had a core audience Just like Howard We're just going to cater to that core audience And I'm thinking maybe just maybe MTV has made this decision

Because it was aggressive And overt how they were trying to get people North of 40 to watch this And I don't know if that was just just because the CBS simulcast, although the CBS simulcast in itself was an admission. We're done trying to get teenagers. We're trying to get their parents. Don Lebertard.

I may take it one step further. Wait a minute. You're getting sexier by the moment. Slow down. We haven't even gotten. Stugats. Jason Sanders, you're on noted. Yeah.

Oh, wow. Oh, my God. What in spite of him. Oh. I love you, Duke. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. Roy, I've got a top five football things that I'm not even going to be able to get to because we've got too many other football things to talk about.

So number five, and I've got an OLI to this list as well, because there's just no time to talk about all of the football things from yesterday. So OLLI, Debo Samuel looks weird in Washington. Again, these are just things I'm not going to have time for. This is also O-L-I. It's weird, and I wasn't expecting it. I don't understand it. It's confusing to me.

Young Wai Koo, I'm not used to him missing those. Don't have time for anything involved with that Saints game. Wasn't a bad game. It's competitive. Don't have time for anything in that Jags-Panthers game. All-stall. Still OLA. These are all OLA. A lot of OLA. Trevor Lawrence. Also, OLLI. The 49ers are going to really miss George Kittal, but they've got the easiest schedule in the league. Don't have time for any of that. Seattle should have won that game. Don't have time for that either. Don't have time for Raiders Patriots. None of it, even though Gino Smith probably we should talk about that. I think they're going to be pretty good at offense.

But we don't have time. Don't have time to talk about any of that. No, he's not hurt for long. Number five thing I don't have time to talk about. Penix's first down run at the goal line. That's number five. Number four, Penick's insane physicality of stretching out like that on fourth down to actually get to the goal line. The broadcasters were stunned with the right point. I don't know.

Defied physics. People forget three yards is nine feet. Yeah. You can't just lay down on one. three yard line and get to the goal line. Like it's nine feet. That's like dunking a basketball standing up plus minus a foot.

Number three thing I cannot get to. There is no time is Jake Landman just having what has to be the greatest feeling a defender can have. There's a running back in the open field. I'm not going to try and tackle him. I'm simply going to perfectly punch the football.

I'm not playing football. I'm simply punching someone who's coming out after me. And I'm Winning the game in my first game is a big acquisition for a team that still has a quarterback that's rammed tough. Great series. I think his name's Nate, but we got it. It's Landman. Landman.

Landman. Just, no time for it, though. We don't have time for that. Billy bump Thornton. Also, don't. Landman. Yeah. It's a pop culture reference.

It's great. It was on the VMAs last night. You missed it, Dan. Yeah. We all were there. Number two, I don't have time to talk about why is, Pooka Nakua bleeding from the eye. Is it the eye? Is it above the eye? Why is there blood all over his face? And number one thing I do not have time to talk about is, if it had been in the Super Bowl to end a game or just in a game that people were watching and not at the end of a loss where the lions were embarrassed against the Packers, would we be arguing that,

La A, uh, made the greatest catch any of us had ever seen in a professional football game. I don't know how to pronounce that person's name. He's got two A's at the end of it. I thought that the catch that he made in that game seemed as impossible to me as the one that O'Dell Beckham made a bunch of, you know, years ago, a one-handed catch of straight absurdity. I don't know how he got inbound. And then the D'Andre Hopkins one blew it out of the water. Right. And the Keynes kid in the opener. CJ Dan.

Yeah, even better, yeah. No time to talk about any of those things. Because I want to talk about four-time MVP Aaron Rogers going into New York and how good that had to feel. It had to feel every bit as good as Garrett Wilson felt bad at the end of the game. Who felt best yesterday? Is it Josh Allen at the end of that game? Knowing that his team, yeah, he pulled it out, but we're all washing that and saying, oh, Baltimore is better than them.

Baltimore just ran up and down the field, and if Baltimore didn't have one of the weirdest Achilles' heels you've ever seen, which is that a good defense somehow at the end of the game, somehow gets trampled again and again, to introduce us to Tua, you know, so many fourth quarters ago when he did it to Baltimore and to do it to Baltimore more than any team in the league. Aaron Rogers, number one, feels the best about what took place yesterday. And maybe a close second, I think is Daniel Jones.

Daniel Jones is, you know, however many years in New York, everyone's telling him he sucks. And the first time he went to a different team, now look, it was the Dolphins, it was against. But the very first time that he's played on a different team, he had the best game of his career. So I think Aaron Rogers is one, but I think Daniel Jones close number two. It's got to be Josh Allen. That was an impossible comeback. And I know that this is a thing with the Ravens. It's been a thing for several years since 2021.

they have lost eight games having a 90% and overwin probability. This is a thing. And they're kind of built to salt a game away. They have the greatest running threat ever at the position that touches the ball every time. He was averaging 10 yards of carry last night. I'm not sure how this even happens. And you have to look at the other side of the field and understand, yeah, they did things to blow that game. Josh Allen stole one.

He had no business winning that. And yeah, the Ravens are more talented than Buffalo. but they were more talented than Buffalo last year. I think lost in the Lamar Jackson discussion because he's so impressive, he's so great running, he does so many amazing things. But that is as loaded as there is an offense in the league. They have really helped this guy out. There is no excuse for Lamar to not get this done.

There is no excuse for Lamar to blow games like that. The other guy is finding ways to win it. Lamar is seemingly finding ways to blow it. The thing that I would push back about Josh Allen feeling the best yesterday was what we saw from Josh Allen there yesterday it was just being Josh Allen like Aaron Rogers was able to say

see my demise you spoke a little bit too early I'm still really good Daniel Jones like you think I suck no now I'm on a competent team like Josh Allen was being Josh Allen yesterday Aaron Rogers I could argue wasn't even the happiest guy in his roster

Jalen Ramsey that had to feel pretty good for him yesterday put it on the poll at Levitard show who felt better at the end of yesterday's game Aaron Rogers or Jalen Ramsey. It's a great question, Chris, because excellent, sure, four-time MVP, but in that sport,

when you've gone from one team to another with the dolphins, you as a dolphin, Jalen Ramsey, you all your life have known how to win. You're really excellent at what you do indisputably. You came and offered Miami your services and had problems with just about everyone in the locker. room because you know how to win and not a whole lot of people around you in that locker room outside of Tyreek Hill also no.

Jonu Smith and him yesterday in Pittsburgh winning that way and Jaylon Ramsey getting the moment late in his career that is, I'm still more physical too and I just robbed Garrett Wilson's soul in his own stadium to win this game and announced to all of Pittsburgh. A winner came to town. You guys win, I win, our MVP quarterback wins. How about we tell a different story than the one Tomlin's been telling on defense, 10 wins a season, but can't do anything in the playoffs because at the end, he's getting the most he can out of his team, but he doesn't have historic winners on his team.

They haven't had one of those since Roplasberger. And so Jalen Ramsey comes to town, and that's how he introduces himself. It's all the baggage with the dolphins and in that game. game, him and Garrett Wilson almost had gotten to a fight. So like that was just, what a feeling. I know we're in love with the multiple time MVP and the narrative and want to give all the credit to Aaron Rogers too. But this is the first time in Aaron Rogers' recent career where he's coming into a set program. We'll tell you who the offensive coordinator is. You're not going to handpick some guy that you're going to keep relevant, all right? Who's going to tell us, hey, let's just

keep Tim Boyle around. You're not going to be raising up the Joe Philbin's of the world. You're going to conform to our way of doing things. This is the way it goes, and I actually do think Aaron Rogers is being aided there. He is being boosted by the set culture of Pittsburgh, because if he has a say in who that offensive coordinator is, he has proven time and time again, it'll be some mid-dude. Now, I know people have their opinions about Arthur Smith, but Arthur Smith's a lot better than the Joe Schmo's that he's been putting at OC before. It has been something to watch what happened.

in one game, I think all of us, in all the overanalysis around football and where it is the coach is responsible for someone's success and where it is the quarterback is responsible for a coach's success. We've seen what happened with Brady and Belichick, and Belichick is now winning his first game and saying more than he ever said as Patriots coach when he's saying, yeah, the reason that the Patriots aren't invited on our campus is because I'm not invited at their facility. Most revealing quote this man has ever had publicly. because he's hurt at the end of his career, because it's got a sting to have your quarterback get all of the credit

for the success that you contributed to. For Aaron Rogers to eat the humbling of your ego is great four-time MVP, and I know you think you can improve a historically dysfunctional organization where the young kids are running things with Woody Johnson. And for it to swallow you, you needed Aaron Rogers to suffer. that humbling in order for him to be receptive to all of the things where Pittsburgh can help him as much as he helps Pittsburgh to get a new ending to the rest of his career because he's on a prove it deal. And what you just saw is offense, Pittsburgh hasn't had

in a decade. And they've had skilled guys who can run up and down the field, but down the field is not something I have seen from Pittsburgh in 10 years. And it's because they haven't had this quarterback since Roplasburg. And we think the Jets are a good defense. I think everyone knows the Jets are a good defense. And for all of this, that's why my vote goes to Aaron Rogers as well for best feeling of the weekend. 41 years old, everybody's writing him off. In one game, he goes from not just being, you know, a big name stopgap quarterback for a year. He goes for being a guy that Steelers fans right now think they can win with this guy.

He can change this team. He can be around for a couple of years. He can be Brady 2.0. That's what that opener meant. I don't think, it's not just that, though, Greg. I don't think people understand what just happened in Pittsburgh because it's not just that. They're tired of Mike Tomlin because they think where their standard is

that 10 and 7 is mediocre because it can't win a playoff game. What they just injected into that city, a football city, is inordinate hope because can the offense be that on the road? They still needed a 60-yard field goal in that game. could have easily lost that game. That's why I wanted to jump in here because who knows what these two teams are going to be at the end of the season. And you say their offense hasn't looked like that in 10 years.

Well, their defense hasn't looked like that in 10 years. No one was expecting Justin Fields and the New York Jets to move the ball like that on Pittsburgh. So I'm not, you're saying with certainty, we think the Jets defense will be. I'm not quite sure anymore. That was a weird ass game. And the defense is going to have to be a hell of a lot better. for Pittsburgh for this actually be a real conversation because I'm not sure they fixed all that much.

Don Lebertard. Greg, how's your birthday going so far? I invented it. It's going fantastic. My wife and I are staying home tonight. We're watching the debate on TV. We're going to do something special for dinner. It's a nice day for me so far.

Stugats. That sounds like a not a super nice night. The debate. Old people love that shit. Yeah. That's exactly right. Yeah. That's exactly.

right. Old people do love that shit. And I'm old now, I can't deny it anymore. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. It also seems impossible for Aaron Rogers to keep up that pace and do that every week. So like this is a good story

for Aaron Rogers, but I don't think he's going to be able to do that every week. Can I suggest can I make a nomination for a person who I think felt the best yesterday? DeAndre Hopkins. One-handed touchdown catch. There's one of two catches, but I don't think he cares that they lost. He had that one-handed catch. Everyone wrote him off last year. They said, oh, wow, he's going to come to

Kansas City. He's going to win a Super Bowl with the Chiefs. He was kind of non-factor with the Chiefs. And he has that one-handed catch for touchdown yesterday. Oh, I think he had the best day out of everyone yesterday. He didn't care that he lost. If you think DeAndre Hopkins cares whether he won or lost, He doesn't care the outcome of that game. Yeah, he had two catches, but you see the one-handed touchdown catch?

I think yesterday, D'Andre Hopkins considers a win for himself. I would think he went to Baltimore only to win. Billy, you're not wrong when you simply say of Aaron Rogers, because it's the proper analysis. It's one game. I'm merely saying that that's the best way for a one game to go for him to create the max amount of hope about the things that I'm talking about, that Pittsburgh can feel like we're going to be able to win shootouts and not have T.J. Watt need to take the ball from the other quarterback in order to win a game. It couldn't have gone more hopefully than it did.

Easy schedule for them to start, too. They have Seattle and New England the next couple of weeks. You're probably three and O if you're Pittsburgh. And that game was all Aaron Rogers. He had no ground support. I think they ran 25 times for 60 yards or something like that. He'd He doesn't have a Derek Henry on that team. That's all him. Gets a little dicey, though, after the pages here. Yeah, let's take a look at this thing. Hosting the Vikings.

And then you host the Browns, which two home games, and then you travel to Cincinnati, which that one's anyone's guess. 17 and 0. I'm listening. Then you host the Packers. And, in season, 2.0. They looked good yesterday. Ooh. Well, then juggernauts coming to town, the Colts.

Five and four. You don't know what that one's going to play out. travel across the country to the Chargers. Now they're a game under. Now Bengals again. At Chicago, we haven't seen Chicago yet. Then the bills. Then the Ravens.

I'm sorry. All right, point taken. Point taken. I'm talking football too seriously. You're doing scheduled talks. Ooh, is it snack time? It is. I'm going to interrupt what he's saying.

Last game is the Ravens. All right, I heard you, okay, but I'm sorry I have to do this to you. Who's that for? Final penalty, two minutes for verbal diarrhea. Chris? Get out of here, Chris. Hit the road, Jack. That's for you, Billy Gill. Two minutes. Yeah, I'm sorry to do that to you.

I'm having the dill peanuts. I really like these peanuts. They've been around the offices here for a couple of days. The flavored ones. I like the hot ones, but look, my mouth's watering. These are good peanuts. The Hampton Farms peanuts are the best. We are going to have our weekly.

Let's see who the nutiest fan is in college football. It's brought to you by Hampton Farms, the official nut of the tailgate. Vote for your favorite nutty fan at Lebitard show on Instagram. Keep an eye out for Lucy at West Virginia this week. If you think you are your team's nuttiest fan. All right, Dan, here's what we got this week. We had a fan with a lemur at the UM game.

There was a fan. I don't know if they snuck this in. I don't know if you're allowed to bring this in. We had a U.M. You can't be allowed to bring that in. What are you talking about? No, that can't be the emotional support. I bet it's not on the band list.

You think it says lemur? So we have a UM fan with a lemur and going against an Alabama fan. Now, this was before their last game against U.L. Monroe. And, you know, an Alabama fan asked what she will do if she wins the lottery. I tell you exactly what I'd do with the first 70 million. I'd pay off Kalin de Boar and get him the heck out of the University of Alabama. And then I'd take whatever else it took to get rid of the AD. Wow.

Well, that's not what I would do. Like, I'm out on the dolphins right now. If I win the lottery, I'm not putting any of it towards getting rid of Mike McDaniel. She has different likes than you. That's true. So we have these two fans. What do you think is nuttier, Dan? Bringing a lemur into a stadium or spending your lottery winnings, getting a coach out of town?

I think that feels like animal cruelty. I'm sorry because I was chewing into the microphone. I don't think people like that. I think that's an unpleasant thing that we do. SMR. A SMR. Whatever. And I heard that crunch, by the way.

SMR. I tried not to eat into the microphone because it's pretty disgusting. to eat into the microphone, but these are delicious. Oh, delightful Hampton Farms Peanuts. And they also trigger for me a childhood thing because this was, the peanut was the greatest of the delicacies in my childhood. It's sporting events fun. It's baseball games with my father.

It's being able to throw things on the floor and not have to pick them up. That's the best part. I used to love going to Roadhouse grill. Wait, I get to have the peanuts and just throw it on the floor. But you can't bring a lemur into your stadium. That seems bad for the lemur. I don't care what we're doing with... The lemur seemed to be enjoying itself.

No. You think an animal in a bag is going to be happy to be with 80,000 roaring people? Did you see that pass that Carson Beck had to C.J. Daniels? The lemur seems intrigued. It wasn't 80,000, was it, Mike? You're very happy with Carson Beck's accuracy. You should be. That lemur doesn't seem freaked out at all.

Leamer sounds like a car. I drive a 1978 Ford Leamer. You do this all the time. I am very excited. excited about Carson back in the Miami Hurricanes. It looked good. Hey, did you see that Oregon score? How hell's happening with Oklahoma State? I told you this last year. They're the

worst team I saw anywhere in power football last year. There were really strong indications. You got to fire Mike Gundy. There were really strong indications that he was going to be gone. In fact, there were people that I trust saying, like, he's pretty gone, and then he had a Hail Mary to save his job at the last second.

Do you ever hear anything about football and you're like, I don't trust you? Because you said people you trust. Yeah. Like everyone, you get some, like, a good nugget, and you're like, damn it, I don't trust this person. Yeah, no, you can be skeptical. Who's your worst source? Yeah.

I've never thought of it that way. I didn't want to talk very much college football, but I did, I'm telling you that I was watching last year, Oklahoma State, and I'm like, oh, my God, they've left Mike Gundy behind. They were supposed to be good last year, too. His whole team is in tatters, and then you see that against Oregon where they're a 30-point dog, and they're out of the game in the first half. got nothing. That's as bad as you'll see like a P-14

look on the road. And going into the game, Mike Gundy's complaining about, oh, Oregon, there's so much NIL money. Did you, uh, loser talk? Did you see what happened with Duke over the weekend? They lost at home to Illinois by 30 points. Illinois's good, right? Yeah. A quote from Annie Diaz.

Illinois does this to everyone. Let's say, I mean, we can, we can slow down a little bit. Hey, Duke, Duke spent four million dollars on their quarterback to establish a crazy quarterback market this offseason. All for that quarterback. Take the peanuts away from him. Yeah, I mean, like, what do we like, you know? All for that quarterback to now be an underdog

at his former school against Tulane. Tulane is favored against the quarterback that left there and established a crazy market at $4 million. You guys didn't see that Orioles game. Jackson Holiday. Nobody. Nobody cares. Nobody cares about baseball. Last place. Matt Holliday's kid,

right? I mean, the Dodgers are the pounders are game back. The Hunters don't look like... You see that Clemson game? That was a little scary for Clemson, huh? Troy, I... It's just a guy named Troy. 30-point dog...

Guy named Troy was up 16-0 at Clemson. A Ford Troy. That's a car, too. I mean... Does sound like a car. The Ford Leamer. What sounds more like a car? The Ford... Was it the Ford Leamer?

The Ford Leamer and the Chevrolete Tagliaboo. Yeah. Tagliabu's number one. I want to, all right, this is what I want to do. I want to have a contest here for Greg Cody in which we pair off what he believes to be the best car names that he could produce based on what it is that he believes sounds like a car name. So was it the Ford Leamer? Yeah, Ford Leamer. The Chevrolet Tagliaboo.

Actually, I think that's a Ford, too. Let's make it a Ford Leamer versus a Ford Tagliaboo. That's good. And what was the third one? There was a third one here. You're not going to remember because you're too busy. Troy. Troy.

The Ford Troy? No, that's not a Ford Leigh. Ford. What is it? What is it, Troy? Chevrolet Troy, maybe. Maybe a Plymouth. I think it sounds like a Dodge.

A Plymouth Troy. Yeah, probably a Dodge Troy. No, I think it's a Plymouth Troy, no? No. Do they make Plymouths anymore? No. I can see a Plymouth Sarkesian. Oh, I like that.

What about a Dodge Cristobal? I would drive that. Would you? A Dodge Cristoball. Sounds like a pickup. Like an F-150 type thing. You know? Dodge and Cristobol.

I like that. James C. One more college football thing before I move to other things. I believe, Mike never said this publicly, but I believe that last week he was going to put the town on alert, University of South Florida over Florida. Billy Napier is in big trouble there,

losing that game, losing it that way, and losing it again with another spitting incident, another spitting incident. Like, what the hell? The last 10 days, Miami and finally there's been some sort of a punitive measure from spit that dried up

10 days ago. You can't play in the League's Cup anymore, Louisville. Yeah, big deal. Wow. Big deal. Now they do this across the world where you're randomly like suspended for competitions that are exclusive to that competition. He's got a Champions League band but he can just show up with his regular

day job on the weekend. But those are competitions that are taken seriously whereas this is a league's cup and it's very strange. Did they just lose the leagues cup? Yes, but now they're suspended next year. Going forward, Luis Juarez, the next six leagues cups games, out. They won't even be in this country next year.

Wait a minute. Hold on a second. I don't know what that meant. Hold on a second. Wait a minute. So he could be suspended for like four years worth of tournament games. That's right. That's insane.

But be readily available for the next time they take the field. This is definitely a real league. I was talking about the spitting incident in the Florida. the game. I need some water. My mouth dry. Not because of the nuts. The nuts, water your mouth. Good news. Marked improvement for Florida, though. They only surrendered

seven tackles for loss. That is a huge upgrade over the 11 they surrendered to Long Island last week. Dan, you see these next three weeks for the Gators? At LSU. Okay, that's a win. At Miami. That's a loss. Hosting Texas. That's a loss.

I don't got them beating L.S. I was like, wow. It's a win for LSU. That's a one three. That's hard times. Daddy. Gambling problem, call 1-800 gambler. In New York, called 8778 Hope and Y or text Hope and Y. 18 or older, 19 or older in Nebraska, 21 or older in Arizona.

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