The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: The Undercover Shough-hold (feat. Tyler Shough)

Episode Date: January 30, 2026

"Shough you, Dan." Zaslow defends himself against two attempts to assassinate his character, a 405-year-old does squats, and UM has a new strategy to dominate college football. Plus, the show might have a new favorite Quarterback: Tyler Shough. He's here to discuss mispronuncifications of his name, how to introduce himself on Sunday Night Football, proper QB speak, and a game of Shough Yes or Shough No. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I don't know if you guys have seen the Pizza Hut commercial with Tom Brady. Tom Brady doesn't really need to be making commercials with the amount of money that he's making. So why does he? I don't know the answer to that question, but the question that I wanted to ask you about that commercial is, do you guys think that Tom Brady eats pizza? Because I assume he doesn't.

He's anti-carbs. I assume he doesn't eat that pizza. Do you want as a spokesman someone who would famously not eat that product as your spokesman? But it doesn't mean that he doesn't order it for his kids, you know, for his family one night. Aren't they the official pizza of the NFL? I love Pizza Hut, by the way. It's a great spot. Pizza hot!

I love that. It's my favorite of the chains. He doesn't even eat tomatoes. So how would he eat pizza? He literally doesn't eat tomato. If you spend that much money... You know by that white cheese pizza? I do.

If you spend that much money to be the official pizza of the NFL, number one, you probably want me being pretty damn sure that you're the official pizza of the NFL. But number two, a good way to go about that is bring along the frozen face of Tom Brady who's so associated with that sport. Yeah, but doesn't eat cheese or dairy or carbs. Oh, come on. Well, maybe he does now. He doesn't play any more percentage of people know that.

LeBron doesn't drive a Kia. You'll pull up to the arena and... Brown's not drinking Sprite all the time? That Kia thing, but that's what a pitchman is. Okay, so you don't care, then is the answer to my question. No, is the spot good. Big name. I do remember, look, one thing that I do know is Tom Brady is doing a pizza hot spot.

And for me to actually retain who he's doing that. commercial for? That's impressive because during commercial breaks, I am in that phone. I think I saw Drew Barrymore and Orlando Bloom doing a cruise commercial. And I'm like, they don't go on MSC? They don't go on cruises. They don't go on cruises. I think so. Is that MSC? I believe it's MSC. That's a good point that you got there, Chris, with when Mike gives you the from back there, that's got to feel pretty good about you're going to your weekend. Can we get please the sound here of a people in Seattle are obviously very excited.

Seattle doesn't win stuff that often. It's not a city, even though it cares about its sports deeply, that gets to win all of that much. And so during the live broadcast of- News broadcast local in Seattle. Yeah, a news broadcast locally. You've just got basically debauchery and things that can't happen anymore on local news. It can happen anywhere else in streaming, anywhere else on the internet. This is not shocking anyway. Oh, cursing.

We just had Al Michaels on. yesterday and he's like yeah it used to be a big deal if I said shit on the air but now al michaels is just letting it fly because all of the standards here have gone to hell except on local television where you can't do this so tell me you were inside there let me the patereatea oh oh try to say that again without the f block we're about to redo this shit we're about too bad sorry could you translate for you tell me I mean what was that like it's our revenge against the Patriots we're going to take the Super Bowl this year got so boring without the curse words. Well, it got drunker. It somehow got drunker after the curse words.

Let's go. First of all, I should have told people, there's a woman on a man's shoulders here, and the interviewer first goes to the woman on the man's shoulder, and it looks like Rachel Nichols trying to interview Wenbanyama, because she is high up there and she's cursing, but then he goes to the boring guys. First, he goes to reset. He goes, hey, you cursed, do that again without cursing, and she curses more. And then she just, then he just goes straight to the drunk. So tell me you were inside there. Let me be the fucking Patriots. What we do?

Say that again without the F-Block. We're gonna redo this show. We're about to be too bad. Sorry. Can you translate for? Tell me. I mean, what was that like? It's our revenge against the Patriots.

We're gonna take this soup bowl this year. Drunker and more boring. Lance? More baked than Stevenson is what I was just about to say. Tony, why is it that Mike Ryan did all of the interviews interviews with the Big Three champions other than Reggie Evans. Yeah, I don't know. We obviously, it was very loud.

They were having a celebration out there. They were getting the rings. They were getting the trophies. So we were getting people left and right. And all of a sudden I get Reggie and we're like, all right, we're going to do a little thing with Reggie. And then I look back and then Mike's behind a sea of people on the other side by the restaurant. And I'm just like, Mike, you know this?

He's like, you got it. You got a point of me like, you got it. So I turned up the Reggie. What did you think about the NBA transition to the Big Three, huh? I like to build up my teammates. Why couldn't you get Beasley? I hogged up all the time with Jackman Clinton. I've got to get my boy some reps.

Why didn't we get bees? Good question. Okay. I'm glad we've got a good question. We did talk amongst ourselves like that would be a good get. He was the get to like he was the number one though? No, no. No, no.

No, Rio was very clearly head and shoulders the number one get. Right. That's what we got them. You may have heard earlier in the show we were lamenting the possible end to the Panthers season about a week after Zaslo admitted for the first time that he was officially worried about the Panthers. Now, the Colorado Avalanche have been good for a very long time, and they are one of the teams, I imagine, that you guys are scared of, right? You guys are scared.

They can't win the last couple weeks, but yes, they were very scary. I mean, I'm not scared of the avalanche because if the Panthers played the avalanche would be in the Stanley Cup final. And if the Panthers are in the San League of final, they're definitely winning. Need them to win last night against Montreal, and they couldn't. Yeah, respectfully. I can't even look at the Western Conference right now. I'm looking up at a bunch of teams in the Eastern Conference.

I'm sweating Buffalo. So I'd like to get to some sound here, though, of the avalanche radio announcers that I want to play for the audience here. If you have not heard this, let's play that sound. You hear that? That's a bunch of people who have chosen to leave a city on purpose for a lot of reasons. But they continue their fandom. Denver, Colorado. This isn't Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

You left for a reason. Leave your allegiance there, too. 155 to go in the third period. Want to be a Flyers fan, stay in Philadelphia. That is such loser shit. So the avalanche, the game's in Denver, and the avalanche are down seven to three at the time. So the crowd there, there's a big,

let's go Flyers chance going on. And the play-by-play guy, you just can't handle it. 10 years ago, Tom Brady called soda poison for kids. It's not wrong. I don't think he's giving his kids pizza, though. I don't think that that's what's happening. Incidentally, I should say, can you guys get for me the mystery crate video and sound? Zaslo, while he has a soda drinker's body, he has never tried soda before.

And on mystery crate, you got to tune in this week. They had him try an assortment of things. things that he has not tried before. I don't want to ruin what's going on here on mystery crate, but can you tell me what this clip is, Chris, that we're going to? Which is the soda that he's trying in this clip? Do we know? It's kind of like in this clip we're having him guess because he's never had Dr. Pepper

or Roop Beer. Like most people would know those flavors. So we put two cups in front of them and we let him figure it out. So let's play it. All right. And this is actually a big one because root beer, Dr. Pepper. People are like stunned when I tell him I've never had either one. All right, here we go.

Here we go. Down the hatch. So this is either Dr. Pepper or root beer. So what is the distinctive flavor that you hate to? He hates it. I bet I know what it is. I guarantee you. I just want to guess which one it is.

It tastes like toothpaste. Oh, I know which one it is. I mean, let's just have them guess. All right. Zero. It actually is toothpaste. It's all a gag. No.

I give that a zero. All right. I bet I know which one it is. What is that? Let's let him guess. is what if you had to guess. I don't know. I have no idea.

A distinctive flavor that you can tell out of that. Yeah, toothpaste. I know what he's thinking. That has drink crust. That had to be root beer. Had to be. Had to be root beer. Oh, it's gross.

Do you taste any licorice? No, it tastes like toothpaste. It's horrible. It's quite the ensemble you got there. You look like you're in like a 1990s hot dog commercial that can't afford licensing. I would, I would, don't ever put. here in front of me ever again. That guy?

Undercover cop. That guy's trying to like sell you tickets outside of a sporting event. Why is everything I wear undercover cop? Why is that the go-to? I'm selling two. I'm not an undercover cop. Stop saying that. That's what a cop would say.

Two things about me, everybody knows. I'm not an undercover cop and I'll never be a cuckold. You know if you're a cop, you have to tell me. It's entrapment. I'm not a cop. You're not a cuck? That too. You're not an undercover cop and you're not an undercover cuck.

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Oh, my God. And he looked like one about it. I'm very excited for tomorrow. Tomorrow's great. Tomorrow's great. I got to tell you, a solid argument for judging a book by the cover. You look like a wrestling fan.

Okay, I'm proud of that. I don't care. I used to hide it as a kid. I don't hide it anymore. I'm very comfortable myself. Yeah, it was very embarrassed as a kid. It was like a shame, you know? I'm also one of those self-hating wrestling fans

because they mostly look like Zaz, and I try to think that I'm better than them. When I'm a bigger nerd. You're not any better than me. I'm not any better. It's Royal Rumble. Matter of fact, you're worse than me. Yeah.

Wow. Solid argument. I'll wear it. The second best pay-per-view in all of pro wrestling is the Royal Rumble. As you know, Dan, as the lure goes, the winner of the Royal Rumble, both men's and now women's, because we're allies, they go on the main event, WrestleMania. You guys are moving too quickly away from the genuine horror that was on Zaz's face and on his breath when he had this particular root beer.

That is genuine and he's horrified. and I didn't think that anybody would ever have that reaction to drinking soda of any kind. Like soda, whether you like soda or not, very few people, I think, are just totally disgusted by soda. Dan, this was not performative whatsoever. I'm never performative, okay? It's the real thing right here. I'm never performing. That's the worst thing I've ever dreamed.

This is my real voice, not a performative voice. I want to show you guys a little bit of video. here. I don't know how surprised you were or weren't about Chris Fowler. Good job getting that wrestling shit out of here. I thought Mike was setting it up well, but we showed him whose boss just

trampled his ass. Chris Fowler is in the wait room. One of my favorite Instagram followers. It's so hard for me not to answer that voice. Like, I can't tell you how much difficulty I'm having not arguing. Yeah, there was a little wool in the action, and Mike just slid in to make sure there was no

awkward silence, and he did the rest of it. thing, but I decided, fuck you. This inner monologue is unbelievably accurate. Like, I don't know what to do with the fact that the monologue is what's actually happening in my head, and I want to sort of have chemistry with my inner monologue, but you keep instructing me not to talk to my inner monologue. We should go back to the wrestling talk. Go to hell.

Oh, now you're trying to be Phil Henry? It's Henry. No one's going to notice. I said Hendry. You said Henry. Play it back. Someone clip it. Chris Fowler is in the gym. And for those of you who do not know, Chris Fowler is jacked and works out very hard.

He is somebody. Look at this. I was not expecting Chris Fowler to break out the guns and break out. He's going to be doing squats here, I would imagine. His mouth is open. He is working very hard in the weight room. How old is Chris Fowler? He's about my age, is he not?

I think he's 60. So he's working out hard here, and I want to put up as well, John Harbaugh. How much did John Harbaugh end up squatting the other day in a way that impressed you guys in the gym? Because John Harbaugh is also roughly about my age. So, Dan, in the first one, we saw Chris Fowler doing more of a deadlift, right, with a trap bar, than it was a squat. So we're going to see John Harbaugh, who did 405. on the squat rack with a little bit more of a helpful squat bar. And you guys were all impressed by this, right?

That John Harbo, how old is John Harbaugh here? Because this is 405 pounds. And yes, thank you for that correction. That shows you some of my gym ignorance. If the inner monologue was working correctly still, it would say, fuck, he doesn't know the difference between a deadlift and a squat. What a fucking idiot. He allowed everybody in the entire audience to make fun of the fact that he never goes to the gym.

I thought you didn't want a winy voice. John Harbaugh at 405. How impressed were... He's not 405 years old. 405 pounds. How impressed were you by him? Maybe I should have done the wrestling thing. John Harbaugh is 63 years old. Wow.

So is Chris Fowler. Wow. Sinergy. He's so slightly younger than 405. That would be really impressive. At 405, he was. What? All right. All right.

Love a good spotter. Put this on the pole. Okay? More impressive. Squatting 405 pounds at 65 or squatting 65 pounds at 405 years of age. Good point. Because I really did have John Harbaugh being a lot older than he was when I made him 405 years old. I have one more feat of strength for you. It's Dion Sanders.

58 years old, banging out 245, 8 reps on the bench press. told one of the kids, hey, get out of the way. Watch how daddy does it. That's a lot for Dion Sanders. I do not think of upper body strength. When I think of Dion, I don't, I think of him as being upper body sort of small and weak. What's most impressive here? That's down to the chest, baby.

That's old man's strength. Tony, what are you most impressed with? 245 pounds free bar is heavy as hell. And if you're 58 years old, it's really tough, especially when you don't really have a lot of great balance. I'm going Harbaugh. That was my most impressive of those three. Let me see that again, though, because even though I am clearly showing off some of my Jim ignorance in making a deadlift a squat, oh yeah. Wait, so, okay, so I thought he just had, I thought that was just $2.25, but he's got more than two 45 pounds.

He's got two caddies on each side plus a 25. Do you guys know why the 45 pound is called the Cadillac? I do not know that, the answer to that. It's the biggest and best, baby. Is that why? It's a good reason. I have here in front of me. Darian Mentsa has done an interview with On3.com, and he says the reason for going to Miami, leaving Duke from Miami is, quote, I want to make the NFL, I want to be a first-round draft pick and all signs point towards Miami.

He says, Miami's going to take me to the place I want to go, which is ultimately the NFL. They've got NFL coaches. Coach Shannon Dawson, what he does with quarterbacks, his track records is pretty amazing, and it's something I wanted to be a part of. And Barry Jackson writes, UM has found the formula. Keep signing a very good quarterback in the portal every year. Keep showing them what this coaching staff and O.L.

And weapons can do for them to help their development for the NFL, how they can play for an elite team and showcase their skills. Success begets success and will fuel this formula. Forget grooming quarterbacks in recruiting. This is the formula to remain championship contender every year. There is some risk you'll miss out on a, quarterback one year, but this is the formula. It would make sense, right, to go, when you go, Cam Ward, Carson, Beck, Darien Mensa, it seems pretty easy, right, that if college football

is going to become professional football, professional football would love to just be able to go and grab quarterbacks that are already developed instead of having to develop them. But in the pros, you have salary caps and the greatest advantage you can have is a quarterback at value. You don't have to worry about that in college. Just go get the most expensive quarterback and make sure you've got a quarterback. It is a very high stakes game. And I don't know how sustainable it is. Tim's right to outline, you run the risk of in an all-in move not cashing in.

And all three quarterback pursuits, Cam Ward, Carson Beck, and Darien Mensa. If they didn't land on those quarterbacks, they would have had to go with Emery Williams, someone that was on the roster. And as it's played out, Cam Ward going number one overall, Carson Beck going. to a national championship. Like those bets cashed, but it was risky, and I don't understand why Miami keeps signing up for this specific process. With Amex Platinum, $400 in annual credits for travel and dining means you not only satisfy your travel bug, but your taste buds too.

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He went five and four as a starting quarterback. It is good to see his face here. It's been hidden behind a helmet. So, Tyler, forgive my ignorance here. You went to, you were in college about six or seven years, correct? That's correct, yeah. not by choice, but through COVID and the medical, I was able to outlast it. And yeah, how to blast learn a bunch was at Oregon, Texas Tech, and finished up at Louisville.

And so when you went through that process and you imagined whatever it is that your life would look like in the pros, how close did it come to resembling what actually ended up happening? Far from it. Yeah, I mean, there was a lot of times where you, you know, the reality kind of sets in when you're, you know, you're in a cab. You're in a sling where I don't know if I'm going to be able to get my opportunity to go to the NFL and just everybody around me just kind of having that mentality to keep going and got that opportunity. I wanted to make sure I took advantage of it. And it's kind of a whirlwind right now, you know, looking back. But I know there's so much more to go. Given how difficult the position is, given how fast everything moves, can you now be honest about whatever was happening in your first game if you had a piss your pants moment where you're like,

this is all too much. All of this is too much. No, I mean, I remember the first time I came in was against the Bucks defense and Todd Bowles. And my first start was against the Rams who were obviously deep in the playoffs. So it was definitely a, you know, it's not a warm-up game. You're not playing against a FCS team in college. And that was, I loved it. You know, you got Vita Bea coming after. You got, I think the biggest one was Byron Young, came free on the edge, and he hit me right in the jaw and I had to get some needles in it. So it was, it hurt pretty good, but, you know, I got acclimated pretty quick. I don't believe you when you say it's a lot of fun Vita Veya coming

through the middle there untouched. I just, I think you're lying to me. Spider flight. I believe that you're lying to us when you say it's a lot of fun to see him coming through the middle unblock. Nobody wants to see that coming up the middle. No, you just run. You just run for your life. Okay, Tyler, I've been thinking about this recently and you bringing it up is is a great case. you said you went to school, you went to Oregon, you went to Texas Tech, you went to Louisville. If your team, if the Saints are good enough to play on Sunday night football and they do the player intros and the player comes up on the screen with the graphic, Tyler Shock, and then you got to say, what school you went to? Which school do you say? You've been to so many schools.

Yeah, I think you just got to go the Terrell Suggs ball so hard university. I don't know. I think I got to really think about it. I'll probably go Louisville because that's obviously the most recent and they help me get to kit to this point but I have ties I have connections and in a lot of love for all three but I don't think you're saying that right they correct me around here all the time you don't you say it wrong you say it wrong no no how does how do you say Louisville Louisville there you go so simple then shit you got you got peanut butter on the roof of your mouth man you can't it's not Louisville it's a Louisville it's a Louisville Louisville. What bothers you more when people mispronounce that or your last name?

Because I'm sure you ran into plenty of coaches in your day that have butchered that last name. What's the worst pronunciation of Shuck you've heard? Show, Shug, Shoe, Shuff, Shoe. I mean, it should be all those things, but Shuck. It kind of fits in New Orleans because there's so many weird words here that you just have to, you have to memorize it and it fits. And you're kind of shuck in oysters. you got the F word that correlates with it.

So it works out. Are you allowed as a starting quarterback in the NFL to just simply answer this question? And you can tell me whether you're allowed without answering it. You don't have to just, are you allowed to answer? Who's better? Sam Darnold or Drake Meng? I don't know if I'm allowed to answer it,

but I think both those guys are playing really well. I'm obviously a huge fan. I grew up watching, you know, Sam Donald when I was in college wanted to be, wanted to be like him. And obviously, Drake, getting to know him. We have similar quarterback trainers, the same guys. And I'm watching their film. It's hard not to be a fan.

Let me do this another way with you because you're already expert, even though you're a rookie at not answering questions as a quarterback. Yeah, it's a real brain buster. Rank the quarterbacks as a starting quarterback. I'm sure. Who's better? I'm sure he had to be quick on his feet there. Who's better?

Drake Mayor, Sam Darnold. My guess is if someone asks him that privately, he's allowed to answer that question. He's just not allowed to answer it publicly. There's a couple guys no one's watching. So can you tell me, Tyler, like, what are your go-to cliches in front of your locker when the reporter asks the question you don't want to answer? Because you've got a game plan here. You've got a playbook for how not to answer questions. So just take me through that.

Well, there's two trains of thought. You can go to the Seahawks, Marshawn Lynch. you know, I'm just here so I don't get fined, which is, you know, ill-advised for my position. So I usually just, you kind of resort to the miscommunication. I mean, it was just a miscommunication. It was a, you know, we're going to have to go back to the drawing board. Oh, drawing board's a good one. Love a drawing board.

We'll refocus. I don't know, you know. You got to go in there and you got to play it cool. So help me, though, what kinds of questions do you have in the data bank for miscommunication? Like take me through the playbook of how to answer questions correctly in front of your locker that you don't actually want to answer. What are the kinds of questions that are going to result in you going straight to the cliche playbook? I mean, anytime a reporter is trying to pass blame or, you know, really kind of make somebody else feel like it was their fault or they're going to talk crap on somebody else when that's not the case. Or even if it was my fault, say I threw a really bad interception, you got to take the blame.

So I think that's the biggest thing was a reporter trying to get maybe a dicey answer. Maybe when they asked you to rank two quarterbacks. Yeah, I don't know. You've got to be smart there. You're kind of trying to get a headline. We're all Team Tyler there. Your head coach, somebody I have a ton of respect for, Jeff Brom, had one of the iconic XFL quotes of all time.

I'm sure that was circulated in group chats there. When anybody was heard in that Louisville locker room, were people asking, do I or do I not have a pulse? That was probably the sole reason I committed to Louisville out of the portal. I saw that video and I was like, let's go. Like this guy gets after it. But that's not fake either. Like that's how he is on the headset, you know,

like him cussing you out, you know, over the headset whenever you got to play or him just having that attitude, it's real. But yeah, no, it's a whole thing there and I love it. Put us next to you in front of the television when Louisville is playing Miami last year. Louisville. Louisville. Louisville. I was fired up. I was fired up just because, you know, we couldn't get it done against them last year.

It was a really, really fun game against Cam Moore and their team. But I think the way they kind of battled in Miami, and obviously they went to the national championship. It was pretty cool. Let's put a picture up here for Tyler Shuck and have him tell us what's happening in this photo. Can you explain to me everything that's happening here where you are apparently dressed as team owner Gail Benson? and my God, what a package. Yeah, no, thank you. I really appreciate that.

That is the rookie Halloween contest where you have to obviously dress up and do a whole thing for it. And I got the blessing from the staff and Ms. Benson. Obviously really, really close to them. And it was a hit for sure. I lost to major pain. Our running back, Devin Neal, did major pain. And he had the gold tooth in. He killed it.

But, man, it was fun. I think it just you got to not take yourself. too seriously. What's happening over there on the right, though, of that photograph? Just not with you, but over there on the right. That's vector. Yeah, but lower. What's happening on the right?

Lower. I don't know, man. I think he's got a hotel pillow stuff in his pants to try and do the, he's got like a gut, you know, the, oh yeah, the vector. And then you got, we got like a dictator in the right hands. We had a great group, man. Great rookie class. And I think that was the best part of it.

The whole team loved it. You had to be nervous to ask the owner for that, though. Yeah, I was crapping my pants. But I think that was the best part was it was bold, and everybody kind of loved it. And like you said, you can't take yourself too seriously. You've got to have some fun with it. Most of the people talking about and critiquing whatever is your performance don't understand the difficulty of all the information that you have to process in 25 seconds. So if you were trying to explain to somebody listening to this, all right, let me.

explain to you this play call, how long it is, what it sounds like, what's just come to me through the helmet very quickly. What is the most complicated thing that you could say right now as just a play call and explain what that play call is? The most complicated sounding play call you guys have that has to get in there in 25 seconds? Oh, yeah, I mean, you can go any way with that, but I can give you a different version of our offense. I don't want to give our plays out too much, but it'd be motive. Give us one of your plays. Motive flop left stack, you know, F buzz,

pop raptors, toss, double post, wheel, can, to two duo spot. And then you got multiple reads within that. You got a pass run option. You got your one high, too high, and you can let it ride. Then you got a protection element. Say you get a pulling guard on that one.

If you get pressure, you're going to kill the protection to get you into six-man pro to still run the pass. But if you get kind of a shell look, you're going to go to run. You have to play clock clicking down, and you got to snap the ball. I think he likes us. He's not just on with us for that reason, maybe working a promo.

All right, we'll do Shuck Yes or Shuck No with him about Super Bowl parties. Are you ready to play the game, Shuck Yes or Shuck No with us, as I offer you an assortment of Super Bowl options for a Super Bowl party? Shuck yes. Okay. Pizza. This guy gets a job. Pizza, shuck yes or shuck no?

Shuck yes. Super Bowl commercials. Shuck yes or shuck no? Shuck yes. You just got to make sure they're not, you know, at 100 volume. Watching the game with no sound. Shuck yes or shuck no? Shuck no.

Hot dogs. Shuck yes or shuck yes? Chicken wings. Shuck yes or shuck no? Chuck yes. Cupcakes and cookies shaped like footballs. Shuck yes or shuck yes? No. Shuck no.

Half-time show. Shuck yes or Shuck no? Shuck yes. Super Bowl squares. Buying squares. Shuck yes or shuck no? Shuck N.A. I don't know if I can even answer that, but if I was not going... This guy is good. Just go Shuck-no, I think. Shuck, Shuck N-A. Pointed out the mic there, Dan. Better quarterback.

Good, Dan. Come on. Have some better questions. Better quarterback, Sam Darnold or Drake May. Shuck yes or shuck no? Shuck you, Dan. Yeah, now let him promote his stuff. Promote it. Let's go. What are you going to be doing this Super Bowl Sunday?

Man, there's a couple options. I might be in the hospital when my wife's giving birth to our first son or I might be watching the game or probably both maybe. But unfortunately, we'll be down in San Francisco. We'll be here in New Orleans. Congratulations, sir. It was fun watching you, and it was fun talking to. Appreciate the time and appreciate your interview style.

Thank you, guys. I like that, young man. I'm a Saints team. I'm a Saints team. I tried to tell you. I like that Saints team. I tried to tell you guys. I love this guy.

Look at us. That's how you kick off Super Bowl Week. Right there. Shuck you, Dan. That was great. That was incredible. Impressive young man. Put it on the poll is the best way to kick off Super Bowl.

week by saying, shuck you, Dan, because I think I agree with that. Are you guys excited for what's coming next week? Because, you know, I kind of dread all things Radio Row, and it's storming toward us. But we will have a whole lot of guests. And you know that Dominic Foxwood said last week with us, it's like, I don't listen to you guys' show for the guests. I don't want guests. I want you guys doing show. Fred Warner, Tuesday.

Hell yeah. That's a big guy, Dan. Shuck and Fred Warner. I think we should play Shuck yeah or Shuck No with all of the guests. Do you know the Coworking for the Saints? Just see how many questions it takes before they say, Shuck you, Dan. Yeah, that's great.

I'm more excited for the Royal Rumble. Yes, Dan, I thought that's the direction you were going. I think the biggest story in sports is Denny Hamlin. Yeah. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I was just endorsing you. Oh, no.

We're in this together, buddy. No, no, wait a minute. You were at the wrong microphone there. The Cathedral of Sport. Storytelling. You were in the wrong. You were at the wrong microphone. That was not intermine monologue. That was intermicelogue. His dad died. In a fire. Come on. This is the dirty demon at debate. This is not the inner monologue anymore. Shit. Seemed to have worked myself into a predicament.

Quick, go to Zaz on his Royal Rumble topline. Talk about Denny Hamlin. No, I want to talk. No, I'm dying to talk about Denny Hamlin. Let's talk about Denny Hamlin. Let's talk about Denny Hamlin. If you're familiar with his story, heartbreaking loss. He's basically the Buffalo Bills. He's never won. Where's the gearhead? Really? I'm going to touch on serious subject matter. Let's make sure that we have the video of him. Juggle more things. Bob Pockrass. Denny Hamlin had a heartbreaking championship loss. Devastating. They were in the pits. Kyle Larson takes a gamble on the tires.

Denny Hamlin loses a race that he was completely controlling. And the championship, the cup championship, alludes him once again. When all the stars appeared to be a lining for him, he wanted to win that title. He wanted his terminally ill father to watch him win that title. And months after that devastating defeat, Denny Hamlin's terminally ill father passed away in a tragic house fire that also injured his mother. I can't even imagine the devastation. Denny Hamlin, NASCAR season is starting this Sunday with the clash at Bowman Gray and then Daytona

on the horizon. He sat down with NASCAR's preeminent journalist. And these are the first words that I've seen Denny Hamlin speak. And visibly, if you know what he looks like, he looks like a man that has gone through hell. He is absolutely wearing this tragedy, and he gives voice to it. Your heart breaks for Denny Hamlin here. How are you doing? Okay, as to be expected.

Should it look like your mom is doing okay? Yeah, she has good days, bad days, but getting better. Did you consider not racing after everything that happened? I mean, I've considered all options. I made a promise to Joe, to his family. Do you think it's going to be difficult to race? I don't think so. I think that, you know, once I get in the swing of it, it'll actually be good, you know, to get back to it. I just haven't locked in for the season necessarily quite yet.

And just is there anything you want to say to so many people have reached out and said things on social media? I'm curious if there is. Yeah. You want to tell people. Well, you know, I try to answer back some. It's impossible to answer back all. But yeah, it just certainly, you know, the NASCAR family has always been a very tight group and I appreciate the, you know, the condolences and the well wishes and everything from everyone. It certainly does me a lot.

Have you had much time to kind of work with the team at all, or have they pretty much given you kind of time to be? Yeah, I mean, today would be my first day back at the shop since November, probably. I mean, I think it'd be an old hat. I mean, it'll be pretty much. Like, you're going to be ready for it. I think so. I mean, you know, those guys have been working and preparing and whatnot. I'll be, obviously, a little bit behind, but I feel like I can catch up pretty quickly. Obviously, pretty heavy stuff there.

And if you were watching us on the video supplement there, you can see a dude that looks broken. But I know NASCAR is not everybody's cup of tea. Dan, I know you're a big sports guy. You like what happens between the lines. but you also love the story behind sport. And I'm telling you, if Denny Hamlin finds a way to even win Daytona, that's incredible, he's done it before. But if he wins this cup, it is one of the greatest comeback stories in the history of sport.

And everybody should be rooting for Denny Hamlin, who oftentimes embraces the villain role. He has really been buoyed by the NASCAR community here. It's a face turn. Like, he is what everybody's rooting for. I'm a Kyle Larson guy. And Kyle Larson won that cup championship. And I was bummed for Danny Hamlin. and I am so rooting hard for the 11 car this year.

Well, sports are cool in a lot of different ways, and we were joking when we started today about Jeremy correctly saying, come on, you guys, you can't tell me that Denny Hamlin and Djokovic are a bigger story than onto Tacompo, but if those stories were in the sports you cared about, you'd think they were. If we were taking these athletes and moving them into the things that you actually care about, you would have been moved by what happened with Djokovic this point. morning and the Denny Hamlin story has been fascinating for the last, I mean, for at least the last year. Yeah, transparently, I had no idea what was going on with Denny Hamlin when I said that. I'm just more of a Pella Larson guy. I understand that, but this is why we share these stories

because Brett Far of a Monday night football, Jordan embracing the trophy. Those are storylines that people can connect to, and Denny's got a story that I think everybody can identify with.