The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Good For You

Episode Date: March 12, 2026

"I can see where I erred." The crew relives Greg Cote's electric local sports updates from vacation, Zaslow helps ESPN figure out the most untouchable athletes, and Luka and LeBron can't play toget...her. But before all that, Tony has to make an apology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This is the Dan Levatore show with the Stucats podcast. I'm allowed to use the N-word. This is unfair what you guys are doing to me. What a weird way to start this segment? Good for you, Dan. I'm really tired of what's happening around here. Good for me, Dan. I think you forgot the voice.
Starting point is 00:00:20 You forgot the voice. Oh, no, I'm saying you get out there. You forgot the voice. You get out there and you do your thing. You got to say it as a gacky. Just say it as a gacky. In fact, I'm sorry, Tony. You're going to have to leave for not understanding that that that.
Starting point is 00:00:33 I don't understand my own character. Two minutes in the box. Peste Tremenda, Come Mierda. Character. That's crazy. Quinn Tarantino can do it. You can't do it. That's what I'm saying.
Starting point is 00:00:44 I want you to reflect. That was my father saying Peste, which is Spanish for that stinks. There's a smell in here. And Tremendo Comemirda is a tremendous eater. That is what my father just called Tony, and it wasn't strong enough. He said, I can use the N-word. And he said, good for you, Dan. He was very clearly going somewhere with it.
Starting point is 00:01:10 At least that's what we're going to tell everybody. This Sunday night, from at least 545 to 845 and maybe later Eastern, we're going live on YouTube to cover Selection Sunday and the Oscars at the same time. David Sampson's going to be down here in his tuxedo. We've got other special guests lined up, including Miami head coach Jay Lucas. Hi Lucas, as I like to call him. And we're going to have a number of things, including I'm told a character that Jeremy is breaking out as Party Supreme.
Starting point is 00:01:40 Oh, yeah. Instead of Marty Supreme, it's Party Supreme, Jeremy. You can skip ESPN, you could skip the e-red carpet. Come hang out with us instead, 545 to 845 Eastern, at least on Sunday. This is going to be an extremely distracting Sunday, because you have those two things going on simultaneously. Two major events were combining them. But you also got a lot of great sports going.
Starting point is 00:02:02 on at that same time. You have the final round of the players. The players, the best hole in golf, the island green, the players. You also have Indian Wells. You also have left turns from Las Vegas. There's a lot going on on Sunday at that time. We say Native American Wells now.
Starting point is 00:02:20 That's Party Supreme, ladies and gentlemen. Always there for you when you want to have... Is he just a party pooper? When you want to have Party Pooper Supreme. It's just a new Debbie Downer. HR. We've got to find something between the extreme. of Jeremy's Party Pooper Supreme and Tony, Dan, good for you.
Starting point is 00:02:37 You should be allowed to say whatever you want. We were just talking about that scene from modern family. I think you were just doing a recall. When they're like, we got to bring it in tight. We got to be like the family of the black tight end in the blind side. And he's corrected offensive line. He's like, I'm sorry, African American kid. That shows so good, man.
Starting point is 00:02:57 I would argue that it is the best. sitcom in the history of network television. I love the writing on that show more than I love the writing on any other sitcom that there's ever been. But I do realize I'm in the minority on that one. Put it on the poll at Lebitard show. Does Modern Family have the best writing in the history of network comedy television writing? I can see where I aired there. But I thought it was not the same thing that I was thinking. Obviously, what happened? I was thinking another thing, right? This is important. Is this your apology? I thought you got a pass to say something when, in fact, it was a different thing and, you know, I'll take that. Minor penalty, two minutes, dumpster juice takes.
Starting point is 00:03:43 Dumpster juice take out of that. Yeah. Your apology wasn't great. Reflect. Hi, Eric. You've got to go again and you've got to leave here. The Cody's, tight in there, by the way. The Cody's, I know, people are getting haircuts. It's very tight in there. The Cody family loves itself a cruise, and Greg Cody has twice joined us from his vacation because he chose to vacation as the dolphins cut to, the dolphins signed Malik Willis, and Bamadabio went for 83 points. It would have been hard for him to miss more in a couple of days locally than he missed. The band thing is just.
Starting point is 00:04:22 Can you guys get me, please, the video of Cody joining us from his cruise vacation. Either one of them is fine. I'd like to play both of them. They've been real crowd pleasers. Greg Cody joining us from vacation. We've missed him this week. We always love having him around. He makes everything a little bit better.
Starting point is 00:04:41 So if you guys could get for me both of those videos of Cody joining us as a disheveled mess from vacation, taking no interest in taking care of his hair, I would appreciate you guys doing that. Please play for me the first of those two videos that we got. Okay, so I'm on vacation in the Caribbean and all kind of stuff keeps happening in South Florida Sports. Stop it. I'm on a beach in Tortola, British Virgin Islands, and I find out that the canned tuna and sign Malik Willis, the dolphins have. And now we're docking in Barbados, from capital. We'll be doing some wrong later today.
Starting point is 00:05:28 on a beautiful room tour. There's a rival cruise ship in the background. Anyway, now we're pulling into Barbados, and all anybody's talking about is Bam out of Pio scored 83 points. Somebody told me Bam scored 83. I'm like, in a week, in three or four games, that's pretty good.
Starting point is 00:05:48 83 points in one game. Hey. Morning. You probably want to see the past. Okay. You probably want to see. Oh, okay. So I, no, no, that's okay.
Starting point is 00:06:02 Those are our friends from the sweet next door. What do they say? Oh, yeah. For three, four games. South Florida sports, quit doing things that are newsworthy while I'm on vacation. Have a little respect. Bam, out of bio, of all people scored 83 points. More than Michael Jordan ever did.
Starting point is 00:06:22 More than LeBron James. It's just insane. Anyway, I'll be drinking some rum today. well, things keep happening in South Florida sports. He gave us three anyways in there, and I was expecting an MVP fan after all of them. I can't believe how much John Schneider both looks like Stugats and how much his left hand looked like Stugats' left hand.
Starting point is 00:06:44 Let's play the other video of Greg Cody, joining us from Sandy Beach is not the cruise ship itself. Okay, so as I'm recording this on a beach in Tortola, The Dolphins have cut to a Tungapaloa as expected and signed Malik Willis, which I predicted they would and advocated that they do. And so congratulations Dolphins for following my advice. But here I am, not doing my job. Basically just drinking a rum drink on a beach in Tortola, which, by the way, Tortola to me, always sounded like a pasta, a type of pasta or the actor. you know, the famous American actor, John Tortola.
Starting point is 00:07:28 But instead, it turns out as the biggest island in the British Virgin Islands. And we're here on the first stop of our crew. Had a great time so far. A lot of drinking, a lot of partying. Won some money in the casino, which is always a bonus. Did well in the slots. Did well at roulette. Love the big wheel, the big clicking wheel.
Starting point is 00:07:53 And took a master. class and how to make a tenderloin. Had a bourbon tasting. It's been fantastic. And we'll come to you again soon. See you later. The sea, right in my background. See you later.
Starting point is 00:08:08 How do you feel about his Tua analysis there and his Malik Willis analysis as he just took you on a tour of things I've done? Basically a celebration of Greg Cody's narcissism. Zaz spent the entire time shaking his head at Cody. He kind of disgusts you and you can't help yourself from liking him. I mean, I, okay, so it's an interesting experience that I've had with Greg Coney for sure. The first part of it is, it's not exactly an obscure prediction he make that I think the dolphins are going to sign Malik Willis. Well, no, he advocated for them doing it.
Starting point is 00:08:40 It wasn't just, I think they will, they should. I mean, great job. Like, Bullseye, Greg, you nailed that one. But yes, while I lack respect on his sports opinions and sports columns, I have gotten quite soft, all right, how I actually feel about him. I'm a little bit soft now these days. Hunter S. Thompson looks like shit. Mike, you know I have one rule to live by, right?
Starting point is 00:09:05 Don't place parlayes on multiple long shots. Don't say a game is one when it hasn't hit triple zero. Always drink your Yeagermeister ice cold. That's the rule. Everything else is merely a suggestion. Everything else? Everything else. Wearing clean underwear every day.
Starting point is 00:09:21 Well, that's just a personal decision. Brushing your teeth. Obviously smart, but, Not a rule. Never pee-pee on an electric fence. Okay, maybe there are two rules. But the one that is 100% that I insist on completely, Yeagermeister must be drank ice cold.
Starting point is 00:09:35 Or don't drink it at all. Damn, that's cold. Exactly. You're finally starting to get it. Drink responsibly. Yeagermeister liqueur 35% alcohol by volume imported by mass Yeagermeister U.S. White Plains, New York. Hey, Roy, buddy.
Starting point is 00:09:50 You know that energy shift when the game gets good? And everybody, all together. in unison knows to stand up on their feet. Oh, absolutely, Mike. Yeah, you've been at many big time sporting events. You know that moment quite well. That's what it's like when you take your first sip of Cuervo. Oh, delicious.
Starting point is 00:10:07 It's the signal that says, we're not checking the time anymore, pal. It's when small talk turns into stories. Quervo, man, it's at high five a random stranger effect. That's right. The game is popping. You're hugging people you never met before. That's the kind of energy that Cuervo brings. It's so smooth.
Starting point is 00:10:24 so delicious. That's the Cuervo effect. Keep it, Quervo. When West Jet first took flight in 1996, the vibes were a bit different. People thought denim on denim was peak fashion, inline skates were everywhere, and two out of three women rocked, the Rachel. While those things stayed in the 90s, one thing that hasn't is that fuzzy feeling you get when WestJet welcomes you on board. Here's to WestJetting since 96. Travel back in time with us and actually travel with us at westjet.com slash 30 years. Don Lebatard. To us, residents.
Starting point is 00:11:00 Oh, wow. It's pretty good. I think I haven't been practicing? Stugats. Oh, oh. I didn't realize we had a substitute complicated legacy. Brought to by headquarters Toyota. 441, Powerline Road.
Starting point is 00:11:14 Second down to nine. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. I want to just replay that entire video so that you guys could sort of experience what it's like to be a Cody family member and loved one. This is Erlene, his wife, who has to stop and video him. No, no, I want the second one. I want the second one. Yeah, no, but I want the second one just because what I want to analyze here is the
Starting point is 00:11:47 backstory that isn't told here. I don't want the one with him with the cruise ship in the background. I want the other one because I want you to see, come here, hon, hon. I want to do a video because Tua has been let go and they've signed Malik Willis. is a big story. Let's count how much time he spends talking about the big story and how much time he just spends telling you about what he's been doing. Okay, so as I'm recording this on a beach in Tortola, the dolphins have cut to a tongue of all as expected and signed Malik Willis, which I predicted they would and advocated that they do.
Starting point is 00:12:29 And so congratulations, dolphins, for following my advice. But here I am not doing my job. Basically just drinking a rum drink on a beach in Tortola. By the way, Tortola to me always sounded like a pasta. A type of pasta or the actor, you know, the famous American actor, John Tortola. But instead, it turns out it's the biggest island in the British Virgin Islands. And we're here on the first stop of our crew. Had a great time so far.
Starting point is 00:13:00 A lot of drinking, a lot of partying. I won some money in the casino, which is always a bonus. Did well in the slots. Did well at roulette. Love the big wheel. The big clicking wheel. And took a master class in how to make a tenderloin. Had a bourbon tasting.
Starting point is 00:13:22 It's been fantastic. And we'll come to you again soon. See you later. The sea, right in my background. See you later. For those of you scoring at home, the first 15, seconds where I was right. The last minute was nothing
Starting point is 00:13:36 about the big breaking news that he had to get his wife to immediately do a video about. He's also such a fraud. I'm telling you, he does these type of content videos a lot on travels. Every single time, he's having a great time. He never says we're having an okay time. We haven't
Starting point is 00:13:52 gotten to the good part. It's just, it's just like this generic. We're having a great time out here. So his wife is actually sitting on that bench with him holding the phone? Yes. Oh yeah. She hates him. Chris, have you been jealous that he's on a cruise and you're not on a cruise?
Starting point is 00:14:09 The funny thing is, is just by happenstance, he's on a cruise the same week. I was at an all-inclusive earlier this week. And I think I might be, because you know, the Cote's big cruisers. I might be an all-inclusive guy now. I don't need the rocking. I don't need the rocking. And I realize that these all-inclusives, it's the same thing as the drink package. Like there's no, I thought for some reason that these all-inclusives, they try to limit you.
Starting point is 00:14:30 But no, it's whatever food you want. cafes, restaurants, any alcohol. Like, it's not like, it's my first all inclusive. Oh, jeez. I thought it was like, I thought maybe it'd be like a wedding where it's like, we have this whiskey for you. You can get the good whiskey for a price, but we got this included. And so I was just, and it's not that.
Starting point is 00:14:47 It's maybe I went to a good one, but I think I might be an all-inclusive guy now because I love the pool is way better at an all-inclusive than on a cruise. Pools on the cruises are a little sad and very overcrowded. Just, I don't know. I mean, I have found, and my brother traveled the entire world on cruises. because of what it is that he was doing, but I've found them to be petri dishes for disease, all of it in the whirlpool.
Starting point is 00:15:09 You go into the pool on the cruise? Oh, yeah, I mean, I don't spend a ton of time there, but yeah, I mean... No, no, no, no. They got swimboard. Put it on the poll at Lebitard show. Will you go in the world pool at the cruise? Yes or no.
Starting point is 00:15:22 Upon further reflection, um, yeah, it wasn't a great look. My bad. A better apology. But to be fair. We got one. No, no, no. We got one to do it. I don't work at everything.
Starting point is 00:15:35 We got one to do it. We don't need to be fair. You got the apology right. Just don't say anything else. We're fine with where it is that things have ended up there. I don't do public pools. I don't do pools with other people. I don't like it. You're a private pool guy.
Starting point is 00:15:52 I get that. I don't want to be in a pool. I don't want to be like in a close vicinity with people that I don't know who don't have their shirt on and the legs are out. and I don't dig it. Arpits. Yeah. I get where you're coming from with that. You're not worried about the peak?
Starting point is 00:16:09 Which I say, dog. Zaslow's judgment is sometimes a little strange. The most recent evidence that I have of this is that Zazlo, who everyone now knows is a rising star at ESPN radio, or it's been happening enough, I guess, that we can say he's already risen as a star because they're using him all over the place. And Freddie and Harry, the show that he did afternoon. Drive on ESPN Radio, asked the question, who are the most untouchable athletes in sports? And they asked an assortment of people this and see if you can find Zazlo's nomination on this list.
Starting point is 00:16:46 It's, of course, Victor Wenban Yama, Patrick Mahomes, Shohay Otane, Josh Allen, Connor McDavid, and Roman Raines. What does that mean? Roman Raines is an untouchable athlete in sports. They would never get rid of him. All right. The question was, untouchable athletes, meaning like the team would never trade him, would never cut him. They would never entertain offers of not having him on their team anymore.
Starting point is 00:17:16 Roman Raines, untouchable. You could say it that way and think it is impactful, but it's ridiculous what it is that you're saying. He does not belong in the class as those other people. It's only two teams. He's Wemby and there's Roman Rains. Well, there's Otani. Was third somehow on this list. I put him second.
Starting point is 00:17:36 I would trade Mahomes before Otani. None of those guys have scored 83 points in a game. 14 months ago, I would have said Luca. You know, to consider, when I started working at ESPN radio, my biggest concern was that they're going to allow me to do my... And you did the bull's... Lakers fans are turning on Luca. Have you guys seen this?
Starting point is 00:17:55 That is interesting to watch happen when they... They have the oldest player in the league on their team, and numerically, the Lakers appear to be a good deal better when it's just Luca and Austin Reeves and LeBron getting out of the way. But he's not going to get out of the way. They're not going to be good enough defensively. You can't have those three players running around and expect to win playoff games with your defense. They just have a flaw that can't be overcome. What do you do? Like, honestly, I haven't considered what I'm about to say since the New York Yankees,
Starting point is 00:18:32 took Alex Rodriguez, who was a better defensive shortstop than Derek Jeter, and made their team worse by putting Alex at third base and leaving the captain at shortstop. I have not considered since then what I'm about to say, which is the Lakers have a problem in that LeBron mathematically makes their team worse if you play him too many minutes. Oh, we had a good run with that. that A-Rod topic. The three good years. Because I had so rarely seen Zazlo, a team, do what team architects never do, and they chose
Starting point is 00:19:09 emotion and sentimentality over what makes our team better. Like, mathematically, empirically, A-Rod had more range as a shortstop and was a better defensive shortstop than Jeter, but they couldn't do that to Jeter and move him to third base. But at least there's an end date here, right, with the Lakers. I mean, we all kind of know this is very likely LeBron's last year there. And here's where the criticism of the Lakers is a little bit unfair. And I'm plenty of critical of the Lakers and certainly of LeBron James. But here's where the criticism is a little bit unfair because when the move for Luka was made last year, we all knew it was made for the future.
Starting point is 00:19:47 It was not supposed to be a move that helped them right now because they don't have any size. They traded away. they also traded away their best defensive player. Like they're not going to be good on that end of the floor now, trading away a great defensive player and getting a really poor defensive player. But everyone was cool with it because, all right, in the short term, we're not going to be great. But in the long term, now we have our foundational piece. But the way that we treat this team, it's like as if we haven't had that conversation.
Starting point is 00:20:15 But there was also the weird situation with the Mark Williams trade. They got rescinded to, speaking of rescinded trade. Terrible job by the Lakers. That was supposed to be the piece, the rim runner. Rum runner, I'm thinking of Greg Cody. The rim runner, the guy who's protecting down low, like that was supposed to be the piece. Then they're like, yeah, no, his physical is a terrible.
Starting point is 00:20:31 We're not going to do that. So it's like now you're looking at what you had in Dallas at a worse way because you have the Kyrie in Austin Reeves. You got an old guy somewhere walking around like LeBron who's not going to play defense. But it's like, all right, it's just more Dallas. But you could really, like, we really should be judging the Lakers and Luca starting next year.
Starting point is 00:20:49 That was always what the conversation was when the trade was made. This is a trade for the future. Maybe, maybe we could have some fun while LeBron is still here, but this is about the rest of Luca's career. It would be frustrating to waste a great Luca year as he is what he is, but he's only ascending toward his prime in terms of age. And when you can build a team around him,
Starting point is 00:21:12 the irony is with all this conversation, you know, they're nine and two and it's just him in Austin Reeves. They're so much better. They are still tied for third at the moment in the conference. Now, everybody's separated by about two games. but they have an opportunity for home court in the first round and may play well enough to do it. The problem is when they're at full strength,
Starting point is 00:21:32 they're actually worse than they are when they're not. What do you do with what it is I'm presenting you guys, though? I'm presenting you with empirical data that says they're worse when Luca has to play with LeBron. What do you do? You say at least there's an ending. Yeah, that ending is in the first round of the playoffs when they get knocked out as the higher seed
Starting point is 00:21:52 because they don't play-off defense. That team is more ripe for an upset in the first round than any team in the sport because they do not play what playoff basketball requires. They can't do it. It's not they're doing it one way in the regular season and then they'll turn on something else. If Austin Reeves, Luca, and LeBron are getting minutes,
Starting point is 00:22:15 you're not going to guard anybody. And you can't play winning playoff basketball that way. You can't even dispute what I'm saying, is they are more susceptible to an upset than any team in basketball if they do indeed play with home court advantage as the higher seed in the first round. You can just wait three months and LeBron won't be on the team and that's it. But you're going to give away this season? You're going to give away.
Starting point is 00:22:36 You're going to fight as much as you can, but you know you have limitations on the team. But what I'm asking you guys is, and the reason I'm pairing it against the Jeter thing, if it were anybody but LeBron, we'd be saying you can't be playing him. You've got to give the team over to Luke. and you've got to see if you can be the Mavericks by surrounding Luca with the players who are going to play good defense. You can't ask the oldest player in the league to be a key defensive cog for you. So what do you do? You just acknowledge you're going to be worse and then lose when no team does that.
Starting point is 00:23:10 The entire thing about labor and load management is we're going to be right and at our best when the playoffs start. You're going to not be able to reduce LeBron's minutes. correct? I don't think they're going to want to reduce LeBron's minutes because once you get to the postseason, there are no back-to-backs. I mean, heck, sometimes the game's on Monday, the next games on Friday, you know, in the first round. They're going to maximize LeBron if anything come playoffs. As is right now, they're going to be in the four or five seed against the Denver Nuggets. How many games do they win against the Denver Nuggets? I just think they're going to lose in the first round. And I think you know that already, so you're going to just choose.
Starting point is 00:23:52 it? You're going to do nothing in the way of trying to be slightly better when the entire job of management is to make you slightly better. Where are my gloves? Come on, heat.
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Starting point is 00:24:40 with the Stugats. It's tough for LeBron because the way that he was aging, the way that he was always going to continue to be an efficient player as he aged, was really to just be a point guard who runs the offense.
Starting point is 00:25:07 and then occasionally goes off for whatever amount of points. But Luca is best when he has the ball in his hands. He's not an off ball player, and it puts LeBron in a very strange position on the floor. But that's why he's moved and pivoted offensively to be the screen man and to play that dirty work. The problem is not on the offensive side of the floor. The problem is on the defensive side of the floor
Starting point is 00:25:27 where we talked about Jordan Miller being able to cover 1 through 4 and 1⁄2, LeBron can cover like the 4. Right? Like he's not moving out in the wing like he used to, and of course he's 41 years old. Is this where having the head coach be your former podcast partner ends up hurting them? I just don't know what you can do. I don't know what choice you have.
Starting point is 00:25:46 Well, can't you do? Like you saw Eric Spolster now, when Norman Powell before Norman Powell got hurt recently, Tyler Hito was coming off the bench because you can't have those guys in the lineup together. They've not been good, Miami. And similarly here with the Lakers, I don't think J.J. Reddick can pull that move with LeBron. I want to ask the audience just as a thought experiment, though, If I tell you playing Vanderbilt more, I don't even know what you'd physically do if you're the Lakers to try and get more defense. But is there a scenario that I can put in front of you that you guys would be willing to try because I'm telling you on the front end?
Starting point is 00:26:22 The Lakers know they can't win this way. Rich Paul already said it. Rich Paul said it on that podcast he is doing with Max Kellerman. Set it and is going to say fewer things because he said it. He's not able to say everything that he wants to say no matter. how powerful Rich Paul thinks he is. But I really do ask the all of you, what do you do? And do you guys think that there's been any coach in history that has the Cajonis to say,
Starting point is 00:26:51 LeBron, you're going to play less. It doesn't make us better to have you out there. We have to do it this way. I don't know that there's a coach that exists that can do that. And I find that part interesting when you put it against the coach's job is to give everybody the best chance to win. And here, emotionally, they cannot do it. It has to be a coach that has
Starting point is 00:27:12 so much power in his organization, and kind of do whatever he wants. Like, think about Spowe. Like, would Spow send LeBron to the bench and be like, hey, you're coming off, you're playing 26 minutes a game? Even then, like, we remember the end of Dwayne Wade when he was no longer the same player. In 2018, they're like, hey, man, end of the game, it's you.
Starting point is 00:27:29 39 minutes a game. He would be still giving it to LeBron, no matter who their star was. Someone like Popovich probably would have done it, considering him, he sat Tim Duncan, the final. possession against Miami in game six. Like that's Tim Duncan, but Popovich felt that that was what was best for the team. So, yeah, like maybe Popovich would have done it. Speaking of the Lakers, by the way, Dwight Howard was there looking completely unbothered
Starting point is 00:27:50 at a Laker game as he files for divorce when his wife is putting on the internet a massive bag of cocaine that she says belongs to Dwight Howard. Yeah, you know, that kind of thing. Okay, let's see here. I thought Tony was going to defend that too. Minor penalty, two minutes for adding nothing. Adding nothing? I have a couple more things to say.
Starting point is 00:28:18 It's a legend. We did not talk about the college football roundtable. We did not talk at all or mention at all Donald Trump getting involved with college football and trying to rescue college football because he doesn't have anything better to do. he's handling everything else so competently. Why are you still here, Tony? I helped you. It is true.
Starting point is 00:28:42 In Tony's defense, I mean, you lobbed a grenade and we were all going to let you sit in silence. And Tony at least tried to give you a- better. He didn't give me anything. Yeah, you know. I said that kind of thing. He actually gave you something where nobody else gave you anything, but we didn't like it. But it was a bad thing.
Starting point is 00:28:57 I can't kick you all out. Otherwise, I'd just be sitting here talking to myself. At the start of the segment, I messed up. Okay. Hand on the arrows out on me, coach. I'll take the penalty. Okay, thank you, Tony. I appreciate you being so gracious.
Starting point is 00:29:12 Team player. You offered nothing. The college football roundtable, the fixing of things. I can't think of anyone I'd want around college football less than Donald Trump. I mean, he's been trying to get involved, and this seems to be a really tough nut to crack for all legislators and the NCAA. Oddly, the NCAA is a bipartisan issue. Everybody hates them. You get like the most conservative Supreme Court justices, they rule against them,
Starting point is 00:29:43 and then they opine and give college sports takes while they do it. It's crazy. This is a really difficult thing to govern, and Donald Trump once again tried to do something, and I was really happy with a reaction to this, which is everybody. Pretty consensus. This is a gigantic waste of time. This is a circus. And if you recall, the initial guest list to this thing made zero sense.
Starting point is 00:30:09 You had Bryson DeShambo, Tiger Woods, Tim Tebow, a lot of guys ended up passing. Yeah, why would any of those people agree to go? Look, this is a time where standing next to Tim Tebow and Tiger Woods, that'd be good for Donald Trump, as he is historically unpopular. Right? But the whole thing was just a disaster. There's a million people in this room with, I think the head of the NHL Hall of Fame was in there. It was just like a random grab bag of names. I think I saw a metric that half the people that were there actually got a word in.
Starting point is 00:30:46 And at the end of it, he just asked, like, what would you like to see happen? I'd like to send it back to, you know, the way that it was before. There is zero representation for labor, zero active students, one woman, one woman, and all of this. One too many. It was just a huge waste of time. It was just for Donald Trump to be around some college sports buddies and get a photo op. Nothing came of it.
Starting point is 00:31:10 Nothing. Yeah. What are you smiling about? Because he's so proud of himself. It was a good line from Party Supreme. It was a good line, him saying as Zagaki, you broke out your Zagaki for the first time. One too many was good line in a good window. And he was efficient.
Starting point is 00:31:28 You should reward him for that. He should be proud of himself. I think this is one of those instances where I'm glad Donald Trump is so blunt because he cut right to it. He is surrounded by people in his ear that are telling him, hey, let's go back to the way that it was where the labor doesn't get paid and we don't have to take any pay cuts and we all just revel in all the money as the money keeps going up. Make college football great again. That's what he wants. That's what he wants. He also added like something like, oh, maybe they can get a little something.
Starting point is 00:31:56 but they are all upset that labor has any power whatsoever. The power dynamic is crazy in that sport. There was a funny interaction with Tommy Tuberville, who was a former successful coach at Auburn, and he went to Texas Tech famously and Cincinnati as well. And he was asked, what would you like to see happen with the transfer rules right now? Because right now you can go anywhere.
Starting point is 00:32:21 And he's like, you get one transfer, penalty-free. But after that, you're not. allowed to. And then a simple follow-up. Well, what about the coaches? You would think Tommy Tuberville would be prepared for this question. Takes a beat. You got me there. Sounds like me earlier. You didn't want to over-commit. Are you guys going to watch, I don't know the date of the fight, Gina Carrano against Ronda Rousey. What is the date of that? May 16th, down. When's the last time? I'm absolutely tired. When is the last time either of those people fought and are both of them in their 40s now?
Starting point is 00:32:58 Both of them are in their 40s? They're both. I think Rousey's nine years, Carrano's 10. I mean, Rhonda said a lot of stuff that raised some eyebrows. Spectacular stuff. Mike, she's tough to take. I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:33:12 She is tough to take Rhonda Rousey. Yeah, I understand. Just a, like she hates everything. She's angry at everything. A lot of people have problems with her that have interacted with her. I can't speak to it, but she's not popular in locker rooms. Nothing is ever her fault. This is such a bummer.
Starting point is 00:33:26 because she was so refreshing when it all started. I remember talking to her and highly questionable multiple times and just being wildly charmed by her and seeing how it is that she became Dana White's. Dana White went from saying this will never be a thing, women fighting to making her a headliner and being stunned when she lost to Holly home. You saw who the co-main event is on that fight, Dano?
Starting point is 00:33:50 Francis Sangano. Felipe Lins. Don't like that spot for him. That's all you got to. He does. He tossed his ass out for that. He gave me that kind of thing. I'm allowed to use the...
Starting point is 00:34:03 No!

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