The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: The Revis Islands

Episode Date: September 17, 2024

Stugotz and Pablo have completed their maps and we check in with Steve Kornhacki to see how Stugotz did. He also has an update on how our voter registration drive is going and which states are doing the best. Are we looking at a LeBatard Lean? Could we possibly swing this election? Then, Ari Berman, author of "Minority Rule" and reporter for Mother Jones magazine joins the show to discuss the flaws in the American voting system, the good news and bad news about voting and what you can do to make voting easier on yourself. Plus, today is moving very fast, did Dan actually break interesting news with Keegan Michael Key?, and should the Bengals feel good that the NFL said they should have won against the Patriots? To register to vote or check your registration status: Just text 'DAN' to 57568 or clink this link — https://headcount.org/dan — for your chance to win a sports vacation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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air, you're committed to a block of several hours trying to do Good that is a telethon if I've ever seen one I thought the telethons had to involve landlines and phone calls no I mean the texts not texts phone calls Is the tele for telephone or television? Guys who cares it's like we're doing good work here. All right, stop with the rage-filled Abraham Lincoln. It's just like, I mean, come on. You're just sucking all the air out of this. It's been a really good show.

Wait a minute, I'm not disputing that it's a good show. I'm disputing whether or not this qualifies as a telethon. It does. It hits the standard of we're trying to do good for an extended period of time, we're doing it live, there's a number to get involved for the people. What are we doing? All right, the number though is not a phone number, it's a text number.

Yeah, a text, that's a phone! 2024. It's a phone. If you do call that number to Dan's point, it's not gonna take you where you're texting. We want you to text it. I'm gonna see what happens. We're gonna call it. It's a good idea. It's five, seven, five, six, take you where you're at. We want you to text it. Yeah, call it. I'm gonna see what happens.

We're gonna call it. It's a good idea. It's five, seven, five, six, eight. Now you're confusing the people and I'm like deeply upset by that. Well, let me clarify. This is important. Okay, so it's. It doesn't go through.

Stop, do not call the number. Stop telling people to call the number. Just, guys, we have to be so very clear with what we're doing. This is not a time for bits. This is not a time for bits this is not a time for nonsense this is a time for action okay yeah I'm gonna dial one you gotta do one and then the area stop doing guys hey I'm starting to get mad all right no

there are there are rules here and you may not know it but you're you're putting us in trouble so please five seven just too many cooks. Too many cooks. Too many cooks. All right, don't need rage-filled Abraham Lincoln. I prefer sad Abraham Lincoln. What numbers did D-A-N spell out? I think you need to dial those. Billy, Billy, I loved your bit earlier.

I'm just trying to get people to register to vote here. Not right now. Not right now. You text Dan to 57568, or you visit headcount.org slash Dan, and we will get you a chance to win a sports vacation. That's a pretty good prize. It's two tickets to any game you want to see. And that's going to get expensive for us,

depending on the one that you pick, because there are plenty out there that are going to present themselves that are going to be big tickets travel and hotel 500 bucks for concessions and merch and the more people you get to do this Text the word Dan to five seven five six eight the more chances that you will have to win I wanted to ask you guys from the football weekend when you imagine the best feelings

Anyone felt playing football this weekend from the football weekend. When you imagine the best feelings anyone felt playing football this weekend. I don't know how you top Justin Jefferson and Sam Darnold going for 99 yards from the end zone, but what would you nominate if I said to you, you have to rival that play with the feeling that a human being felt doing something great at football over the course of the weekend because I have a nominee from last night.

I have a nominee that I don't believe a lot of people would choose that I believe to be as great a feeling as a football player can feel and I would put it right up there with what Justin Jefferson did. But where would you guys go with this conversation? I think when you consider the narrative, the fact that they drafted his replacement and he hadn't even been there for five minutes, Kirk Cousins had to feel really good last night.

Do you think that all of that felt as good to him in the moment, right? Not going home at night, but in the moment, as CJ Gardner Johnson felt on fourth and short, catching Bijon Robinson in the hole and stopping him cold in a way I never see running backs stopped by a smaller safety. Like the physicality of that he certainly enjoyed it because it looked like as good a feeling as you can have in football to hit a man bigger than you

so cleanly in the hole when he only needs to fall forward and the running backs in that league all break that tackle. But that running back, I expected to fall forward for a yard and in a clean hole, he got stopped cold, plugged up by a safety who was smaller than him. Yeah, I understand. That's got to feel great. But I must have missed the days of shows on first take where they said, hey, Garner Johnson can't tackle the big one when the the Friday night lights are out there, when it's prime time, when the bright lights are on, can this guy make a tackle in the hole

against a running back? It's not, I mean, he can live pretty anonymously. When he checks Twitter, he's not gonna receive that one criticism. Kirk Cousins, when it's a prime time game, is the butt of all the jokes. It's a narrative that is actually when you look at it in his most recent results, is kind of unfair to him because he's actually kind of turned that around from a win loss perspective. But he and Drake London and his offense was a reason why they pulled that game out and left that Eagles crowd totally shell shocked.

It was like, when you consider what the narrative is about these athletes, it was like the most unlikely guy to do that, Kirk Cousins. And he did it, and I'm sure that flight back felt great. If we're saying who feels the best leaving the stadium after this week's games, I'm going Aiden Hutchinson, four and a half sacks. He lost though.

Not only did he lose, after the first quarter, he only got a sack and a half. Like he had three sacks in the first 11 minutes on the game. He was on pace to break Strahan's record in the game. I'd venture to say Baker left that game feeling better about himself and his performance. The fact that he navigated that from Aiden Hutchinson. I don't know if the rest of you watched the way that the Jacksonville game

and the Detroit games played out, but those were disasters for the losing team when you see. In the case, the Bucks are going to get a lot of credit for beating the Lions, but one and seven in the red zone when the Lions had 400 plus yards and 450 plus yards and only ended up with 16 points. I know the Bucs are going to get credit for winning that game but one for seven in the red zone. I mean come on that's dreadful and it's not what the Lions are expected to do this season and Jacksonville had a ton of short circuiting and was playing against a Cleveland team that did plenty wrong, that deserved to lose that

football game. Has Trevor Lawrence won a game since like Thanksgiving? He's won in seven in his last eight, I think. And I'm not even sure if he played in that one. I think they're one in seven in their last eight and I'm not sure if he played in the one that they won. All right. It looks like our state maps are being close to fully baked. Let's go to Steve Kornhacki for a play by play on Stu Gotz's map. Thanks, Mike. Things are going really well out here as Stu Gotz is honestly nailing this

map. Some of my favorite spots on this map. We have some Carolinas right over here, some Carolinas, obviously Sirianni fired where Pennsylvania should be. But if you look at sort of the middle of the United States, we have Big Ten country right up here. The Heartland, a beautifully drawn heart by Stu Gotts. Big 12 country just sort of leaking down into the Lone Star State. Canton right here in the middle. And of course, we have several different islands here in the United States. Several different islands. Of course, the Revis Islands, a collection of islands over here next to Gilligan and

Rhode Island. And of course, down here in the bottom left, Long Island. Stu got his long celebrated Long Island and that's where he believes it is on the United States map but all that said Dan we do have some voter info coming in people who have taken action through our website headcount dot org slash Dan as of 10 a.m. over a 1000 people had taken action on our site 21% of those coming from our home state here in Florida. And how about this, of our registers that were 4% or more of a share of the people who have

taken action, five of our top seven states are swing states, Dan. You had Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Michigan with at least 4%. Florida can be a swing state if you lean into the Lebatard lean, Dan. That's what folks in the polls are not taking into account, the Lebatard lean. It's an opportunity if people continue to take action today, continue to take action. We look at this board, we continue to take action. You may just see the Levitard lean affect the 2024 election. So everybody be sure to go to five, text five seven five six eight, text Dan to five seven five six eight. Dan back to you.

You were born to play this role as Steve Kornhacki. Pablo does not have a Kornhacki to guide and hold his hand here. Pablo, it looks to me like you're losing. It looks to me like Stu Gatz's map is exceptional so far. How are you doing up there in New York? I feel pretty good. Whatever this is here, I don't know if that's a me problem or a them problem. I don't really know what's in between. The middle of the country. This is perfect. A Harvard guy not caring about middle America. I drew arrows, Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Minnesota,

Wisconsin. I got them. Identified Vancouver, British Columbia as a bonus. Are there bonus points here? Alberta, Canada. Identified that, the province of Alberta. The San Juan Islands was not on the map, but they should be. They're a bird of just like small group of land masses

where I went're watching for my bachelor party and you know orca okay i was watching state necessary right there necessary overcompensating yeah i i i i was is that i was is map looking though how do you because are still got says the heartland i don't know where she got support

roed Island but he made it an actual island and is it near Revis Island which I think those are the Bahamas that he was... No, it's Hawaii. The Caribbean. The Bahamas? The Caribbean. Well, I mean, it's confusing, but it's Hawaii. Also, we don't have great lakes on this map and that was just our own incompetence. That was Cuba, I think, that he made Rhode Island or did he make Revis Island is what

he made Cuba. OK. It's also still Hawaii. It's still Hawaii. It's just in a different place. You're going to have to get past this one. When you're hiring for your small business, you want to find quality professionals that

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You need an Ian in your life. You have actively played defense against me today in a way that has rarely been this undercutting. Stugats! Defense wins championships, baby, at show business. This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats. Again, I will remind you to text the word Dan to the number 57568, 57568, or visit headcount.org slash Dan to register to vote or check your registration status and for a chance to win a sports vacation. We will get back to our regularly scheduled sports programming in a moment. Steve Kerr is going to join us in about a half hour. But I wanted to talk to Ari Berman here of Mother Jones magazine because he's a national voting

rights correspondent and he's the award-winning author of Minority Rule. It's a book about voter suppression, anti-democratic methods that are in our midst and I want to thank Ari for being on with us here because it seems like a dangerous time with a lot of garbage in it that uh... that feels wildly unethical illegal and i'm gonna say unamerican even though maybe it's terribly american i'm not even totally sure about the history of this i don't know that i could call it anti american if i'm just uh... hanging on to an ideal instead of facts but

republicans in georgia seem to be laying the groundwork to not certify the election if uh... kamala harris win so are a thank you about for being on with us and uh... just how dangerous do you think these times are for some of this stuff that is happening and it is an american distinctly american or is it unamerican to to sort of gerrymander and tamper with voting the way that we are? Hey, Dan, well, thanks so much for having me on. And honestly, it's both.

It's both very American and very un-American at the same time, because this country has a history of doing a lot of really fucked up things when it comes to voting, preventing a lot of really fucked up things when it comes to voting, preventing a lot of people from voting for a long time, but at the same time, expanding voting access. So there's been this push and pull throughout our history between democratic and anti-democratic forces and we're once again at that kind of tipping point today.

I will remind any of the 63 million unregistered Americans who happen to be listening or watching today to text Dan, the word Dan, to 57568 or visit headcount.org slash Dan if you want to get involved with this process. Ari, I am told because we are top five list obsessed that you have a top five list of the ways that the American voting system is screwed up. Does that top five list, is it just five or do you have some outside looking in? I have some outside looking in

and yeah, I brought a few top five lists because I wanted to make a good impression on my first time on the show. So the first OLI is that this is one of my favorite. Can I help you real quick just so that you know, because you haven't done this before and you want to make a good impression whenever it is that you give us that fact, you have to lay out. So our erstwhile executive producer can hit a sound of fanfare to celebrate

what it is. So, OK, all right. So let's help celebrate the first one. Okay. So the first one is in Texas, you can vote with a gun permit, but not a student. Okay. He already screwed it up. That's his fault. That's a producer. He killed the punchline right there. All right. Let's try it again. It's a bit wordy though. I'm going to say it again. He's down the middle, Chris, and he's scared of all of these topics. Tighten it up. No, this is not his fault. Get it right. Get it tight, man. It's Chris the middle, Chris, and he's scared of all of these topics. Tighten it up. No, this is not his fault. Get it right.

Get it tight, man. It's Chris's fault, not Ari's fault. OK, I'm going to say it again. In Texas, you can vote with a gun permit, but not a student ID. Got it. That really says it all. OK, that's worth a bleep.

The second one that didn't quite make the cut. Because of a past felony conviction, That's worth a bleep. The second one that didn't quite make the cut. Because of a past felony conviction, four million Americans can't vote. So these are people that have already served their time, paid their debt to society, yet they still can't cast a ballot. And the craziest part of that stat is that includes one in five black men in Tennessee who can't vote because of a past felony conviction. Okay, the third thing that didn't quite make the cut.

Since the 2020 election, 28 states, so more than half the country, have passed new laws making it harder to vote. So Trump tries to overturn the election, he fails. What do states like Florida and Georgia turn around and do? The first thing they do is change their voting laws to make it harder to vote just like the former president wants them to do. How common is that throughout American history? That just the, what you're talking about, the corruption and the overtness of what you just said? Unfortunately, it's very common because if you look at most states at the

founding of the country, only white men with property could vote, meaning that black men couldn't vote in most states, women couldn't vote in any state except for New Jersey briefly, many poor white people who didn't own property couldn't vote, Native Americans weren't even considered US citizens. So for a lot of our country's history, a lot of people couldn't vote. And that's a sad reality. Now we've done a lot to improve that, but we still have these legacies of voter suppression,

of racism and voting that are still with us today. Number five. Okay, I'm getting to the list. Despite the fact that you're more likely to be struck by lightning than to commit voter fraud, 35 election officials in eight states have refused to certify election returns since 2020. You guys really have to be turning me down now. So basically, they're already laying the groundwork for what Trump wants in 2024.

We've already seen it in other elections since 2020, that even though there's no evidence of fraud in the system, you're seeing local and state officials not certify election returns. And that's what makes me really nervous about what might happen in 2024 in places like Georgia. Number four. Okay. The United States is the only major democracy in the world

where you can lose the popular vote and still win the electoral college. This is a crazy thing that I think a lot of sports fans would have a big problem with. Second, that's not all. Five of six conservative justices on the Supreme Court were appointed by Republican presidents who lost the popular vote and then were confirmed by senators who were elected by a minority of Americans. All right, Ari, you really screwed that one up, Ari. You really screwed up the timing of that.

We don't know if that was number four and number three or if it was a double-pronged number four. Okay, that was a long number. That was a long number four. Yeah. It was a long number four. Okay, I have a short number three, though. Number three, out of 172 countries

that are recognized as democracies, the United States ranks 139th in voter turnout. So we like to think of ourselves as the Yankees when it comes to democracy, but right now we're more like the White Sox. Oh, they've won three in a row though The White Sox have won three in a row. So there's still hope for American democracy. Getting hot at the right time.

Don't look now. Number two. Number two. 80 million Americans who are eligible to vote in 2020 did not vote. So we had the highest turnout in 120 years in 2020 since 1900. And even still 80 million Americans didn't participate. We're kind of a disaster. Are

I mean, it could be a lot better. Yeah, you'd like to think that if you had the highest turnout in 120 years, you still wouldn't have 80 million people decide not to vote. Okay. Number one, it's National Voter Registration Day, so this is the most important one. 231 million Americans are eligible to vote, but 63 million Americans, a full 27 percent of us, still aren't registered to vote. Look at sad Abraham Lincoln back there. Just, he's just so down on America and people and life in general right now.

You would think that the worst moment of his life was the last one of his life when he was assassinated in a theater, but nope, it's looking that it is right now. Right now. It was when I came on, when I came on the show. That was the R.E. Berman segment. I will tell you again, the name of the book is Minority Rule, the Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People

and the Fight to Resist It. Let's get to your other top five. What's the other top five about? Okay, so after I just depressed the hell out of everyone, I do have some good news. I do have some good news, all right? The top five ways to make it easy to vote even when it seems really hard.

Okay, number five, drop off your ballot in any of the 30 states that are listed on screen. I'm totally going to be grounded for this. Perfect. So, request a mail ballot, drop it off. That's an easy way to do it. Number four, vote by mail in one of the 28 states with so-called no excuse absentee voting. That means places like Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida. This is really important because a lot of polling places have been closed in recent years. There's

long lines in voting. So voting by mail is really simple. Everyone's trying to make it a Democratic conspiracy. Dan, you know in Florida, this started out as a Republican idea. It was the Republicans who were pushing by vote by mail because their voters were more rural, they were older, vote by mail was more convenient for them. So there's nothing inherently Republican or Democrat about voting by mail. Number three. Number three. Vote early in every state but Alabama, New Hampshire, and Mississippi. So in 47 states you can vote early.

This is really important because we vote on a Tuesday in November because that's when farmers used to bring their crops to market in the 1800s. It's a very antiquated system, so voting early gives people a lot more time to do it. They can do it on weekends, other times when they're not working, especially because election day is not a national holiday. Number two, register to vote online in 42 states or become automatically registered to vote in 24 of those states. So the first step towards voting is getting registered and you can do it pretty easily in most states in the country. And then the last thing is register and vote on Election Day

itself. This is kind of like the one stop shopping for voting. States that have Election Day registration have the highest turnout in the country because you can register and then vote at the same time. That makes the process work really easy. It's worked for a lot of years very well in places like Minnesota, where Tim Walsh is from, and hopefully that's something that every state could eventually adopt.

Excellent information. I will tell you that you can find more of his reporting at motherjones.com and the book is minority rule You need you need to get better though at it's not the last thing. It's number one Are you go five four three two one? It's hot five and the last thing like I'm petering out like I mean come on like get it right If you want to be invited back in order to do this again, I need you to know how the top five stuff works, okay? Got it, got it, got it.

I got some homework for next time. Thank you. We appreciate the help and the work, the reporting and the writing. Thank you, sir. Thanks so much, guys. Appreciate it. A reminder to everyone listening, again, including the 63 million unregistered Americans, as he said, 63 million unregistered to vote,

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Steve Kerr will be here in a little bit. We're going to be live the rest of the way as part of National Voter Registration Day. I wanted to get to a couple of things though with you, Stugatz, because today is moving very fast. I think Keegan-Michael Key, I think that's going to be newsworthy what he said earlier in the show about the idea that he and Jordan Peel are open to the idea of a reunion And have talked about it. However, lightly I think people are gonna get very excited about that. It's gonna come off very cynical But don't you think that's the first question everybody asked him? I don't think there's like a week that goes by and that gentleman's life where he's not asked

Hey, when are you guys getting back together? I imagine he's addressing on the record plenty. I'm sick of your attitude today, Lincoln. Like, I'm really bothered. Should I say, hey, guys, I think I made news asking the most obvious fucking question ever. I didn't say I made news. He's just telling you it's old news, that's all. I said he made news, not me, so.

Yeah, you should send him. Minor penalty, two minutes, asshole. Wow. Old, honest asshole Abe. Yeah, you should send them minor penalty two minutes asshole Old honest asshole Abe Can't help but be honest at all circumstances at all times can't help it As Kerr what it was like to win a gold medal Shot for your life with Kerr, huh? I can't wait. Yes, Kerr is going to be here. That's exciting.

I know what Shot for your life was with Lincoln. Too soon, Dan. I mean, God. That's too soon, Anaconda. Yes. Um, Stugats, I have what has been around here, my favorite Donald Sterling sound that we have had, but I have in front of me something that I think might rival

in terms of funniest things to have happened around Donald Sterling. I'm gonna leave it up to you whether it could possibly even come close to this bit of sound, which was Donald Sterling in public relations crisis mode going to Anderson Cooper ostensibly to fix the calamity that is at his doorstep, which is an owner's about to have his team taken away

because he's a horrible racist, and he goes into PR spin mode with Anderson Cooper, and this is what happens during the interview. What has he done? Can you tell me? Big Magic Johnson, what has he done? Well, he's a business person He he's got AIDS did he do any business? I'd like did he help anybody in South LA?

I think he has HIV doesn't actually full-blown AIDS But what kind of a guy goes to every city has sex with every girl then he catches HIV and is that someone we want to? respect and Tell our kids about? I think he should be ashamed of himself. Again, that was him in PR spin crisis mode. Yeah, so you're saying you have something better than that. I think to rival it.

I don't think it's possible to have something better than that, but I think I have something that might rival it. Unfortunately, I don't have the audio or the video. There is audio and video of what I'm about to read, but we don't have it right now. It's a deposition from a lawsuit against his former mistress, okay? And so this is the quote from Donald Sterling.

Well, I fool around sometimes, I do, when a girl seduces me and tells me all of these hot stories and dirty things and tells me how much She wants to suck on me and takes my shoes off and licks my feet and touches me when I'm in a limousine She takes all of her clothes off the limo driver said what is going on and she started sucking me on the way To mr. Kuhn's house and I thank her and I thank her for making me feel good And then the attorney says,

sir, the question was, is this your handwriting? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha say it. I know. I don't know. We don't right now. It's just right now. It's just your words. I know but right now the the first sound that he played with Anderson Cooper still stands until I hear Sterling say it. I agree. Let's see if we can find that deposition sound. I'm never hearing any of that again. Come on Billy. That was that the attorney saying the question was is this your handwriting? That sounds like something that's made up. That sounds that sounds like something a comedy writer would write.

That's an NBA, a former NBA owner. He's got AIDS. Stugat, speaking of funny, I want you to analyze the following. Okay. We've talked a lot about the Bengals. The Bengals have started slow in recent seasons. I don't think it's just a magical ability

a football team has to not try hard to win the first two games of the season and then figure out how to win after that. They've done it the last three seasons. Correct. 0-2 is what they've done. That just doesn't mean that they'll always be able to do it. I don't think.

But as Mike mentioned the other day, they play Washington next, so perhaps they'll be able to fix it, I don't think. But as Mike mentioned the other day, they play Washington next, so perhaps they'll be able to fix it right away. But the thing that I find funny about that is I don't think anyone noticed or cared outside of Cincinnati. But the NFL said the other day that in the Patriots game that the Bengals lost at home,

hey, that whole thing on the touchdown from Gosecki that was overturned we got that wrong that should have been a touchdown and instead of losing sixteen to ten you should have one seventeen sixteen never mind about that owing to uh... that's kind of amazing i mean we analyze this for a lot for that to happen quietly and for only one fan base to care at all about it

doesn't seem terribly fair that the that the league is saying yeah We got the all the technology in the world got that one wrong It doesn't help anyone to admit after the fact that you got that one wrong You don't think it helps the guys in the Bengals locker room to know the NFL thinks they won the game. I mean I Do think it actually helps a little bit and that the fluky aspect of the season is how we've lost these games both on bad calls. We should be 2-0. So turning this around is a matter of just playing our game.

Two moral victories. I mean, essentially. I don't believe the Bengals have two moral victories. I don't think you can have moral victories if you're fresh off a, relatively fresh off a Super Bowl. But I do think it feels good after losing a game to have somebody, anybody, especially a league official tell you, hey, you should have won. It would help me.

It would, I'd feel better about it. I think it ends up feeling almost worse that a league official is confirming you should have won, but you're not allowed to win, and forevermore, history will record that you were a loser that day. And it won't record that it's because we got it wrong. It will always look like you got it wrong. If an NFL official says to you after the game, you should have won the game, you should win the game. How's that sound?

Like, if they have the audacity... Now I'm coming back to your side of things here, Dan. If you have the audacity... listen, losing is tough enough. What you don't need to hear after you lose is, hey, you should have won. Well what happened? You just had the opposite. You made a good point. I mean, yeah, that was then, this is now.

One thing it just further confirmed for me with that performance at Arrowhead is that Bengals for whatever reason, they just bug Kansas City. And that's why, I think if anyone challenges them in that conference, it's gotta be Cincinnati because there's something about them. Personnel has changed, but Burrow just finds a way to keep his team in that. Not just that, it's doing it without Chase

getting meaningful numbers and it's throwing a bunch of times to Gasecki. No T. Higgins. No T. Higgins, yeah. Do you have music for me that will allow me to go out to Steve Kornhacki again? Huge updates coming in here at the 11 o'clock hour, Dan. As actions continue to take place on our efforts for National Voter Registration Day, over 2,000, headed toward 3,000 folks,

have taken action by texting 57568 with the word Dan or going to headcount.org slash Dan. And as we take a look at the numbers, interesting as the percentages lean different ways, Florida accounted for 21% of the actions taken. That's down now to 17.4%. Florida is gonna be the runaway victor in this competition when we're talking about pure number of actions taken

as we're here in Florida. But if you're looking for the next three on our list, it's Texas, New York, and Ohio. And they're all hovering right around the same place. Ohio has actually taken a move up. Those three states separated by just 16 total actions thus far. So if we're competing for second place

and you're in one of those three states, you're gonna wanna text that number. But as always, Dan, we know out on the West Coast, they're waking up a little bit later. You see the time difference. You see the effect. Our quickest riser from the 10 o'clock to 11 o'clock hour is the state of California as Stu got his marked Big 10 country. They now have over 5% of our actions taken. They were down at just 45 people registered, now 131. And of course, Dan, we got to look at the people

who have not taken action thus far, who have not participated with these actions. Of texting, five, seven, five, six, eight, with the word Dan, those with under five individuals having participated thus far, West Virginia, Rhode Island, Idaho, Wyoming, New Hampshire, North Dakota, and Hawaii. So folks in those states, get the ball rolling.

You do not wanna finish last, and let's remember to register to vote or check your voter registration using everything on our screen right now. You can check out that information or our social media page at LevitardShow. Dan, let's send it back to you. We'll have an update in just about an hour.

Just 63 million more people to go, Dan. All right, you didn't bother with any of the math there that would have made that joke good. Putting a dent. 62 million and 900, 998,000 more to go. Making a dent we are. It's still too, Steve Martin was prop-tomic.

It's still early in Hawaii. It's still early in California. Wait till they wake up. We'll get that extra 62 million and we will round it out. From the Revis Islands. Yes. How's it early in Hawaii if it's right under Florida?

It's a good question. I don't know how it got under Florida. I thought that was Cuba there. I can't believe that Stugatz's map is better than Pablo's map. The Heartland is there. Big 10 country. What were you proudest of on your shitty map there?

Just noticing the very top above the United States, it just says hockey. It just right over the border above the United States. I'm pretty sure that's just Woodlands. And Calgary. I'm pretty sure that is all just forest fire, but it says hockey there. Yeah, that's what it says.

Not Lord Stanley, because no one in Canada has won the cup in years. I mean, how about they win a cup? I mean, they invented the game. Anyway, back to you, Dana. Thank you. I can see that Steve Kerr is getting ready to join us here. So Billy, you're smiling maniacally.

Is it because of? Because we're registering so many people to vote. Is it because Fangio is flailing and failing in Philadelphia? You've had a hatred for that old man for a while. That's not fair. I have not hated him for a long time. I'm not rooting for his downfall, but man, he's not good. I love Belichick just roaming around stadiums.

This is fantastic. I am telling you, man, he's gonna get that job. Philadelphia. Is he doing that? He's just walking around the stadiums cuz like I saw him on the manning Probably like earpieces in so I wasn't sure where he was. He's just in Philadelphia Yes, yeah also on the on the Monday night to countdown show. They simply couldn't stop saying tits Hey y'all, it's Mike and as you know it is football season, the all consuming football season. You live it, you breathe it, and you want to watch it as much as possible, both on your

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