The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Peacockin' It!

Episode Date: September 3, 2024

OUR SHOW IS COMING TO PEACOCK! Dan makes the big announcement we have been waiting all show for, that The Dan LeBatard Show With Stugotz will now be following The Dan Patrick Show every day from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Peacock. We break into Dan Patrick's show to celebrate this massive announcement on the same day we celebrate our 20th anniversary and Dan is very excited about it. DP asks us a question that would get any member of our show thrown in the penalty box, and tells us about an interesting car ride with Stugotz after Dan and Valerie's wedding. Then, Greg Cote tells us about what's on the Greg Cote Show With Greg Cote this week and we discuss FSU's embarrassing loss at home to Boston College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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New Jersey. Please drink responsibly. This is the Don Leventor Show with the Stugarts Podcast. Stupak Spudcast! On top of our 20 year anniversary, which is legitimately stupefying to me, Greg, I just can't believe that in my career through print and broadcast, that the media would shake, that newspapers would crumble, that radio would fall apart, and we would last two decades and keep growing and be able to celebrate it with the most loyal fans, if not in the history of sports media, Jim Romm-like close to whatever is the most loyal fans in the history of sports media. And I'm not only thankful for it, obviously, I try to show you that every day,

but I legitimately can't believe that coming from Miami, just writing about sports, that this would exist 20 years later to feed the people that I care about. And we've got an enormous announcement to make in a few minutes that we're going to get some help with. We'll onboard the people involved as part of celebrating our 20-year anniversary, but we're going to be doing it all year with content, an oral history, and a bunch of other things.

Everything that's happened over the last three and a half years is sort of building up to this very moment. You thought that was impressive. Our first 20 years, wait till you see the next five, when we start teaming up with people, and when I told you a long time ago. Oh, thank God, I thought you were gonna say another 20.

Woo! I was about to be like, whoa! Oh, bud, I don't got that in me. You don't. You guys don't. You guys don't have another 20 years in you. I hope I do. Speak for yourselves. Thank you, Jessica, because the last few years you know

have been hard because of a number of different reasons I won't bore you with now. However, one of the great things about what is about to happen in a few minutes here is That when we came out of ESPN three and a half years ago truly scared And when I tell you the last three and a half years have been terrifying to me because of the Responsibility of having to make sure that we do this correctly for the people we care about when we were making the decisions we didn't want to keep our loyal fans behind a paywall. And what I can't believe about what

we're about to announce is we're going to be on in all the same places that we've always been on. Sling, FreeStream, Samsung TV+, Roku, Zumo Play, DraftKings Network, Live on Macs. We're going to be in a couple of other places as well that we're about to announce that makes it so. When we came out three and a half years ago we didn't want to put our fans behind a paywall and we did not. We did it all ourselves and it's been a little bit of a mess and I've stumbled around I've had panic attacks and I've been super scared. Hardest thing I've ever done professionally. But now the streaming services come to us

and we get to do all the same things that we've been doing and now add other things that make it so not only have we left the espionage no longer on the espionage the worldwide leader in sports but we have no inhibitions about where we are on were on all over the place and i'm gonna let someone else in a few minutes make that announcement with fanfare in a way that's super exciting for us because this has been a long journey with our fans and I'm

excited about that. I'm also excited because we've got Beepo t-shirts. They're up at lebatardaf.com. That's not the big announcement, but they are there right now. If you want to lure people out of what appears to be retirement, lebatardaf.com is where you could purchase his merch right now and make people a character that might come back, maybe, according to Billy Gill. Maybe.

I don't, I control these things. Mario Crisaball controls more of it than we would like to admit. And so far so good one weekend. The University of Miami game, I do wonder, put it on the poll please, Juju, at LeBataard Show, can you win if your quarterback is named Mertz? The University of Florida threw out there,

and this is funny thing to watch this weekend, where I just hear, and that's Desmond Watson for the University of Florida threw out there, and this is funny thing to watch this weekend, where I just hear, and that's Desmond Watson for the University of Florida that they're running toward. He's 450 pounds. I'm like, what? What? Can't beat him.

Number 21? I love this guy. Yeah, Fletcher. Man. This guy, I just. Well over him. I don't know if I would have noticed him if he wasn't wearing 21 though.

There's just something about when you see that guy wearing 21, it's just like Chef's Kiss. Greg, more like Fred Mertz. Yeah, there you go, I like it. Ethel Merman, now you're talking. Not Ethel Merman, Fred Mertz is from I Love Lucy, no? Yeah, where he wore his belt like so high. Yeah, but Fred Mertz was married to Ethel Merman.

Was he? I believe so. I could be wrong. I think Greg's right. You know, I may be wrong. You're wrong. That's even old-timey for me. Billy, you're supposed to support him.

Greg's right. Thank you, Billy. I believe I am right. What kind of contribution is that, that you don't know? This is what we're going to bring to more streaming services, you burping out some factual information that's not right about Fred Mertz and who he was married to. That's how we're going to capture the young people? Yes, please, let's do it.

Merman's coming back, so's Fred Mertz, thanks to this reference. But the Peepo t-shirts being on sale, I can't believe you got any announcement forthcoming that would top that. I mean, because Peepo t-shirts being on sale i can't believe you got any announcement that forthcoming that would top that i mean because people t-shirts i want people back i want them back i've always thought people was that i had best went back jack that's right thank you everyone thank you people's is that is the u m is awful or great

who you saying that's right to because whatever you were saying that's right to was only said to you. Yeah, you know. So this is what we're bringing into the new age to keep it young. Where did that come from? The Ethel Merman thing. I'm gonna have to be quiet here in a second because we're being introduced by someone else. Ethel Merman? And he is about to start and he's getting in position. So you're gonna have to forgive me if I give a couple of seconds of silence for someone else to introduce us You tell me Chris. I will let you know don't you don't you want to be interrupted by someone stumbling upon a Fred Mertz conversation? I that's how that's how I want to be. You know stumbled upon. That's how you celebrate 20 years That's how I want to be stumbled upon. That's how you celebrate 20 years. That's how you do it.

Ethel Merman was born in 1908 and she has a section on her Wikipedia that's just labeled profanity. Damn right. She invented it. Well, she was not married to Fred Mertz though. Really? That was Ethel Mertz.

That's who I'm thinking of. The great Ethels of the early 20th century. Ooh, top five Ethel's You're not gonna come our name is actually Vivian Vance though You know they they actually never made Ethel's put it on the pole at LeBato show Are we still making Ethel's did we ever there and put that on did we ever did we well we did make merman We made Ethel merman, but she wasn't even an Ethel Let me know she was there was another one. That't even an Ethel. Let me. Oh, she was.

She was. There was another one that was Vivian. Hold on, hold on. Hey, Dan. Yes, sir. Yeah, it's Dan Patrick here. Sorry we interrupted you. Professional as always, Dan.

Once again, I'd let in with the tagline, I think, for your show. If you think our show is bad, wait till you get a load of Dan Levitard's show with Stu Gantz. What do you think? What kind of intro is that? You're supposed to welcome me into the family.

I did until I couldn't get your attention. I was going to say nice things. I've got a bad executive producer. Okay. Join the club. Oh. We're a match made in heaven. We've got an announcement to make. Who's making it, you or me?

Well, I just did. I just said you're gonna follow our, this is bad. Yeah, we started off bad. We actually planned, Dan, we planned this. Yeah, we don't plan ours. And it sounds this bad. Yeah, we don't plan ours.

Emails. Yeah, we don't plan ours. Okay. Yeah, Seaton, do you have a question? Well, I was wondering with this big announcement, maybe we can change the name of our show to the Dan Patrick show with Todd Fritz. Oh.

Similar to the Dan Levitard show with Stu Gatt. We have Todd Fritz. Oh. I genuinely missed the announcement. What is the announcement? Our audience, look, our executive producer was asleep at the wheel and totally missed the announcement. Can you make it again, Dan, please?

sleep at the wheel and totally missed the announcement can you make it again dan please if you think our show is bad wait till you get a load of this show the dan lebatard show with stew guns it fall follows hours on peacock yes i thought that yes i can't even understand we have a celebration We've got a parade, we have a chorus, we have a marching band, we are ready. We are ready to join Peacock with Dan Patrick.

Let's go, people, let's go. We are following Dan Patrick. Yes, yes. Okay. There. What? Is there, Dan, is there a robbery going on? That's what it looks like. Yes There's a Where are your wings peacock? There's not a oh, okay. That is yes

Can we fix the confetti cannons, please? That stuff's not working back back there don't enter your co-workers with the confetti can and thank you that please careful their liability issues there i remember my first time on the back uh... for those who haven't seen it how would you describe your show dan uh... lesser in every way to yours uh... i want to tell your audience that that Dan Patrick is a hero of mine I am really thrilled to be behind him in the lineup

I will say that Paulie is a hero of mine that was an unfair shot by Dan Patrick at Paulie I'm sorry. What was the shot he said Todd Fritz was the name that he was going to put on the show who what was the shot at Paulie? He said he had a bad executive producer as well. Paulie is the executive producer. Paulie is an exceptional. In fact, he is in my top five executive producers of all time. Wow.

Really? Congratulations, Paulie. And Fritz, he's a top five guest booker of all time. How about that? That's for sure. That's for sure. Yeah. Dan, I'm going to tell the people, I think they they know this that you've heard me say it to you before

And I've said it to your audience before You led the way with producers talking on the air and going to a confessional box to talk in breaks you pioneered leaving ESPN doing a show in your attic and showed me how hard and Doable these things are so I really am thrilled that our thing gets to exist behind yours uh... in support of yours at your back sir because of dvd we are from a thing today and then that's right that is what happened today another producer grabbed a microphone and shouldn't and you've got to you've got a lot of control over

your microphones i do not have any control over my microphones. Well, thank you. Thank you for the kind words. Once again, the Dan LeBretard show, and you can see it on Peacock, and it'll follow our show. All right, can I ask you some sports questions or do you want me to do,

I mean, my career feels like it's, you know, it's slowing down and maybe dropped a peg or two with this but. I don't believe it has. I am here to bolster you. We heard you're going to retire in four years. You made a big announcement that you were going to. It's like saying I'm going to retire in 440 years. You might speed that up.

You're giving, that's right. I'm trying to rush you out the door by saying what happened to the industry? Dan, you should announce your retirement today as well. In four years? All right, you know what? I retire whenever Dan Patrick retires. We leave together. I'm announcing that as well today. Hey, everybody here, you've got the same amount of time to get out of the house that Dan's producers do. December 24, 2027. That's it. That's it. We're done. Let's do it together. I just announced that as well. Dan Patrick and I are retiring on the same day together. Happy retirement! I think DP just locked you into working on Christmas Eve. he just locked you into working on christmas eve and i think that uh...

the okay here's a question for it what would be bigger if the dolphins had a really really really successful season or the miami hurricanes if you could pick i would say that the dolphins have always been the biggest story in this town and the university of mi Miami gave us a fun run after the Dolphins did but generationally what's been handed down has been bigger for the Dolphins. The Dolphins put this city on the map sports-wise.

Don Shul has an expressway named after him. University of Miami was more interesting because they were controversial but the Dolphins were simply excellent historically and this century neither one of them has been any good, Dan. And so people in South Florida who love football and have had it handed down from their grandparents, they have not seen, this generation has not seen a Dolphin team really matter. And they got so much hope that the one of the last two years that also hasn't mattered because it hasn't won a playoff off game felt and sounded and look like it mattered simply because they got an often so people here starved for

football and that's been the franchise that always mattered the heat took this city away from them if the dolphins when they'll take it back but you have a generation that didn't experience the you winning either you have generations with both of these teams that haven't seen what the peak success story was for both of them. You're right and I would just say pro football trumps college football in just a... This isn't a college town. This was first a professional football town in sports.

You thought sports fans were mad when there was a playoff game exclusively behind Peacock. Now, imagine the Dan Labotard show with Stu Gotz not exclusively behind Peacock. Yeah. I should also announce we're gonna be on Sirius XM Channel 85 as part of this too. Wow. Yeah, it's a dual.

We're everywhere now. Back on the Yeah, it's a dual announcement. That's right, Sturgatz is back on the radio. Dan Patrick still dominates that. I will tell the audience, and forgive me Dan, if I derail sports talk, but honest to God, you showed us the way. There was a time in your career where you thought you couldn't do a radio show, and now you've got one of maybe five or ten monsters that exist in sports in the

united states well thank you but it's true right you right am i wrong you know uh... you know i had a lot of people who helped along the way uh... but it was mostly me of course but i'm just yes you know as you always take credit for all the things that you do on your show whenever I talk to you, it's like, God, did they get in the way of my greatness?

And I'm like, yeah. Yeah. I know the problem there, Dan. Finish this statement. The mission statement of the Dan Levitard show is... Wow. Okay. This one one's gonna be hard to to try and be different in a environment that ought to be fun and sometimes isn't because we spend a whole lot of time you know criticizing blaming and also we talk about Trump some. But you guys do some blaming and you have some serious topics there, don't you? Yeah, but I try not to be too terribly judgmental. Look, one of the many things I admire about you is that as shrill as all of this has gotten

in the center of it, you are a pillar of professionalism. And when you scorch someone, it matters because you're not doing it every day. You're not doing it to get aggregated when you scorch someone it means that someone distinguished is hitting someone hard and you don't spend a lot of time there either like i are show it well uh... are show often isn't cruel about human beings and we also features to got thank you dad

you're welcome just what I need another day in my life well all I know is it's one of the more interesting car rides that I've ever had in my life though with you Stu got when I left Dan's wedding and you volunteered to take me back to my hotel right how many things did he ask you for that's what you do for a friend how many how many numbers in your things did he ask you for? That's what you do for a friend. How many how many numbers in your phone? Did he ask you for how many famous people how many things did he ask you for well? Nice I don't want to okay. He asked for a job if he ever left

Good in hiring him. I did yeah, let Let it fly, Dan, it's okay. Okay. He asked me how much money he should be making. He talked about his daughters playing lacrosse. Yeah, of course. He wanted to know what I thought about his BMW. And he wanted to know if he could come in and have a drink. Not in that order.

How much money should he be making? Not as much as he said it's like that uh... but a little more than he was getting paid but it that sentiments to get you got uh... okay uh... i got a reason why regularly scheduled program here dan uh... good seeing you but i love you and i'm thrilled i really am thrilled that uh... we're teaming up for uh... the last four hundred years of your career

about a big round of applause for the day a little bit uh... we did it uh... and within our right we did something something was done in right. We did something. Something was done. Dan Levitard, Joe. With Stu Gotz. Yeah, Stu Gotz took me home from Dan. It sounds weird. He gave me a ride home from Dan's. I'm excited about this partnership, as you just heard, and I will tell the audience again,

it's not just DraftKings Network, it's not just Zuma Play, it's not Samsung TV Plus, it's not just Roku, it's not just Sling Freestream, it's not just Max, it's now also Peacock, NBC Sports Fast Channel, it is YouTube, and it is SiriusXM. We're on the cock! There's a couple of paywalls on there, and this show fought hard to stay out of the way when it came to pay walls but that's an exclusive sense these are tremendous partnerships more our show so now you have more options if you like watching the Dan Patrick show we'll be on right after them but if you're in a hurry to watch what we do

we'll still be kicking it live on YouTube and of course the podcast is always going to be there. Nothing changes for how it is you consume the show. We're just adding audience from a different place and we're teaming up with somebody who is a genuine idol of mine because. Thank you. You gave your idol a lot of leeway because if one of us asked you to start this show,

who needs a bigger season, Danger Dolphins, we would be kicked out of this room immediately. And you completely listened to that question. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was so kind of you. Terrible question. I wrote it down. I had it written down.

You should've sent him to the penalty box. You should have. He would've been so confused. I do, guilty as charged. I did roll over on my back and allow him to tickle my belly with a question that was not what I would have liked. Where'd McLovin go? I noticed Seaton move from the front row to the back row.

I don't know what that means. I feel like Fritzie is next. Who's getting that show after Dan Patrick? I don't know what it means either when you move, Rose. Can we talk about now that we're finally working with them sort of, show Olympics? It's been in the works for a long time. They think they're better than us, let's be honest.

And they're not. We have 10 times as many athletes on our show as they have on their shows. We need to kick their ass. We just have 10 times as many people that we're paying. He's got a very streamlined operation. I think he's got 11 or 12 employees. It's not a giant sprawling thing. He's very efficient with how he does it.

We are not. Okay, and your point is we're not gonna out-athlete them? Makes us generate the Olympics, okay? That was a lot of context. We didn't need it. It's all about kicking their ass and show Olympics. They don't have a golden ollie on their staff. That's right.

Neither do we. I don't think we have much more than 10 people either. We have an alternate though. No I meant I mean he's got a total of 10 people we've got only we're paying 23 people just to be at microphones I'm not even counting video his whole operation is is like 11 or 12 people. The idea was that. Well he knows how to conduct a business I do not. Well did they talk about Elpham Merman today? I don't think so. That's correct Greg Cody show only has three staff members. Mm-hmm. What I'm speaking right now Who was on this week, by the way, well, we're live from Key West. Oh wow

Better than the Jimmy Buffett second line funeral parade and celebrations. You really undersold your Mario Criss Ball interview and how funny it would be when your phone just died. I know, that was the week before. That's still there. You really undersold how funny that was for the listener. I can't believe Mario took it well.

He called me back to finish the conversation. The audience didn't hear that part, but yeah. Mario's feeling good this year. He's been very good, yeah. I'm pro Mario. I'm happy for his belated success. I'm surprised he called back because usually coaches will take, or anyone being interviewed will take that opportunity to get the hell out of there. Oh, absolutely. You're right. So what's the deal with the show Olympics? Do we find a tiebreaker or where do we stand on that? That's going to be next week.. We're gonna have to pull something out our ass. I'm not sure exactly what we're doing.

Is that one of the contests? Pulling something out of your ass? I can think of worse things to do, quite frankly. We're looking for the perfect competition if anyone has any suggestions out there. We don't know. We want it to be random, but we want it to be fair. So we're kind of up in the air.

This partnership means we can air the Olympics instead of our show, right? Yes. We have the Olympics now, we want it to be fair, so we're kind of up in the air. This partnership means we can air the Olympics instead of our show, right? We have the Olympics now, we own it? That is part of what things are. And Notre Dame. Wow, we get Notre Dame too? Wow. I'm telling you, Florida should look at that D coordinator.

Greg. Stay away from Al Goldin. A live show from Key West, you wrote a column in your underwear off of university of miami in the university of florida figuratively it was jimmy buffett's death parade it was the one year anniversary of his passing and he has such a cult following uh... stugats knows with this with dead heads

jimmy buffett has something similar with parrot heads i thought this would be like a sad ish parade of a couple hundred fans all my age, all drunk, some of them wearing parrot hats. It was thousands and thousands of people, probably 5,000 people. A second line parade, New Orleans style, is a celebration of life. And, you know, there were brass bands, beach balls flying in the air. It was really a special occasion. And my wife's always been a huge Buffett fan, and we were right in the middle of this parade, air it was really a special occasion and um...

my wife's always been a huge buffett fan and we were right in the middle of this parade so it was kind of neat and uh... and and i'm doing content you know right from the parade with all the ambient noise and everything so it's pretty cool was it good chris yeah i mean he we got a lot of up up shots at my dad's nose on zoom he's got giant nostrils yeah he does he does, the Cody men.

I have Cody nostrils. Believe your nose and ears never stop growing. Well, mine certainly haven't. Neither has Stu's. Belly button? I don't think that's right. I heard that. I've seen the belly button. Talking about my nose.

Oh, just his belly button. Oh, well, yeah. But that's just me. I'm pressing it in right now. It's benign. Thank you for the mention though, Justin. Because Stugats often lies. I got it, I said it. I know it with the nose, right?

Because there's... Nokia was a character. There's going to be confetti falling from this ceiling for about two years. There's still confetti falling from the Clevelander ceiling from the number of times that we got mean on the handshake. Howdy, folks. It is Mike Ryan. And over the handshake. Howdy folks, it is Mike Ryan and over the course of our 20 years together there have been a lot of changes. A lot of changes to the show, a lot of changes to my body, a lot of changes to you and your listening habits, but one thing that

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I already called you a fool. You can't call me a fool. You're an idiot again! It's a fool on! You're an idiot twice! You're an idiot for dismissing how much I've helped you! This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugarts. I'm pretty certain that the audience is saying to itself, not unlike Greg Cody just said to himself,

what does all that mean? Why did you guys make such a big deal out of that? Like what just happened that makes any of that important? And the answer to that question is that we've arrived at being able to do all our own things with the backing of mainstream media in a way that can also exist outside of mainstream media, not beholden to mainstream media, and as the media collapses, we now begin to collect partners that are going to make us gather strength so I can feel and we can feel less weakened than we have over the last three and a half

years and it's just the start of okay now we're moving it took us three and a half years to turn this into a radio show that exists as a television show and now that television show exists behind something that has been a television show for a long time is more credible as a television show than we are and is our lead-in to the afternoon and if you don't want it there's fine. You can get it in all the other places, you got it. It's what McAfee's trying to build now with ESPN's help, and it's what Shannon Sharp is trying to build with Colin Cowherd's help,

and it's what Stephen A. Smith will soon try to build with somebody's help, where you get both the freedom of doing whatever you want, and you partner with people that are media giants in order to make you generally stronger. Can't help but feel like David Sampson is gonna get mad when you're saying that we now have a real lead-in. I want to reveal to the audience something I did not know until this weekend which is speaking of asking famous people for things, David Sampson

has asked Brad Williams to open for him. To open? David Sampson wants to do a comedy set opening for Brad Williams. Brad does theaters. No, that's not how that goes. I'm sorry, I said it wrong. I said it wrong.

David Sampson wants to open for Brad Williams. Makes more sense. Like a door? Makes more sense, right. Got nervous for a second. I'm a germaphobe for Brad Williams. Makes more sense. Like a door? Makes more sense, right? Got nervous for a second. I'm a germaphobe to do that. We're good. I mean, I'll get that.

He'll put his hand inside the shirt and then grab the door and open it. Yeah. Open his baggie of candy. Got it. Did you guys read or hear, speaking of how it is that people gather strength over time?

It's not just that the Kelsey brothers signed a hundred million dollar deal with Amazon. There aren't podcast business kind of stinks, but we're one of the few places where it doesn't stink. It stinks almost all over outside of like 10 things. The Kelsey brothers just got a deal for a hundred million dollars million and these numbers are a little bit crazy. Travis Kelsey has appeared in the past 30 days in airings of commercials 83,032 times. It is more than anyone in the world that he has spent in the last 30 days in commercial airtime selling Travis Kelce.

And he will have this season, 127 nationally aired ads on television. Just Travis? Just Travis. Wow, cause Jason's gonna have plenty on his own too. Are we ever, like, when are people gonna get tired of this? Cause inevitably they will get tired of it, will they not?

See what kind of breakup they have if they have one. That'll probably be one of the points there. But I just saw an Applebee's commercial starring Dan Campbell and Dan Campbell's gonna take all the commercials from here on out. He's a natural. He is so good. Dan's right though, people get sick of seeing something

over and over again, if they're kind of like, you know, Oh like oversaturation and it happened this weekend with Kirk Herbstreet's dog I noticed people last season when the dog started going on road trips with him. They were like, oh what a cute dog This past weekend they showed the dog in the booth and everyone was like, alright, that's enough already Too much of this golden retriever and I couldn't disagree more I think the dog is actually the best thing that that booth has going for it. It is adorable.

Hmm, yeah but sometimes you have to let a dog just be a dog. Enough with the travel and the football games and the booth and the private jets and all this. How about you just hang out with other dogs? Exactly right. You know what I'm saying? Let man be Ben.

Go to a dog park. I mean do something, have a bone. Still, that dog's flying private. It's eating caviar, drinking champagne. I mean, that dog is not wanting for anything. Dogs don't like caviar. Dogs like eating. Seriously.

You're right. You know, they eat eggs, fish eggs. Kidding me? Like the FSU guy that said he was gonna eat poop. Let Ben sniff a butt. You know what I mean? When they're sniffing around the grass, they're sniffing for poop., they're sniffing for poop.

They're not sniffing for caviar. Exactly. Exactly. By the way, that FSU fan who said on what will always be Twitter to me that he was gonna eat dog if FSU lost. Eat it. You gotta eat it now.

Yeah. You gotta. But if you had to do that, is there a particular breed of dog that would be more palatable than other dogs? I'd get a little dog, right? I think dog right because then you think it's a little poop. Yeah, you want just a little tiny finger-sized log You know that you can I don't want to say Bernard I'll tell you that right now right or you don't want a dog with diarrhea That's then you're eating it out of a bowl, but it might be quicker. You just kind of slurp it. Oh

Dad you said earlier you're so confident about UM this year Are you prepared to eat poop if they lose to an easy opponent If they lose a FAMU Saturday evening why I will eat live on this show Why yes, we will hold you to that I say that yeah Wow What about at USF no, I'm gonna take it one game at a time like don't take that bet do not take that bet Just take family you and call it a day. Okay. Let's move on. You want a dog that's not hairy also, right? You don't want some hair in there. Yeah, you want a nice, nice poopy. Yeah, short dog. You're right about the diarrhea though. I mean that's... But you never know.

It's a crap shoot. I mean believe me, Jumpin Charlie, he's, you know, pooping pancakes. That guy. Is he? Yeah. Why is that? I don't know, his diet hasn't changed. But he's just very inconsistent on the- Oh come on. Oh stupid. You're a ratchet. Do you give him boars head? No, we don't.

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That's our next partner. You take a number and on the number screen you get five observations. So at 321noel wrote on Twitter, Florida State loses to BC this weekend. I will eat dog out of a red solo cup with a spoon and post a video of me doing it. Book it. And not only did they lose, but they lost 28 to 13 to BC. That's the biggest win a former Belichick disciple has ever had coaching a football team, Bill O'Brien.

What? I almost reverse covered. Bill O'Brien, huh? Florida State is unfathomably bad. What is the biggest victory? Because Belichick's now going to hire all his friends and put them on television analyzing games, and none of them are any good.

It's Charlie Weiss and Matt Patrician. He's just going to create a giant economy around these stinky coaches who can't work anywhere. He'll be working in three weeks, and it will just be Romeo Cranel. That's right. He's going to get a bunch of jobs, and Steve Belichick is all of a sudden going to be hosting three shows on the NFL network. Give Bill O'Brien some credit.

I think Florida State, it's not like they gave up after the Georgia Tech game. I think they really thought they were going to just stomp Boston College and move on with their season. But now they opened the season with two ACC losses before week two has even begun. And it's like, first of all, I think it's odd that they're playing two conference teams that are really in the season.

It's weird. And it's- Bad job by the AD. It's like a, kind of like a, how do you move on from this, right? Cause their offense looked so bad, but their defense was supposed to be, I mean like, Mike, how many podcasts did you listen to this offseason that said

Florida State's D-line was the best in the country and had all these NFL prospects and no one was going to be able to run on them? Saban co-signed on that notion. And then you watch Boston College, whose their quarterback is legitimately very fun to watch. He was very fun to watch last year. His name is Cassiano's, which I think always has people like, all right, something weird is going to happen. There's a Castellanos with a deep drive. What's going on right now?

But I mean, credit to Bill O'Brien. Came into seminal territory and won the game. And first game at Boston College. It's crazy. I will say that while it didn't look like FSU quit before that game, it certainly looked like there was some quit late in that game. I would say second quarter.

Yeah, that was a really disappointing performance to quit before that game. It certainly looked like there was some quit late in that game. I would say second quarter. Yeah, that was a really disappointing performance from FSU and Mike Norvell, who was so calm on the sidelines before, wearing it. Dude is wearing it. Was wearing it after the second three and out. It's a lot of pressure, man.

You can see the pressure he is under. This is a dude that was reported said no to Alabama over the offseason. Now that house of cards may be coming crashing to the ground. It stinks, but like you can't give up. Like you still have to, it's so hard to get players to buy into a program, especially after what happened at the end of last season, missing the playoff and being a team that can go 13 and 0. I know it's different now with the 12-team playoff, but it's just such a terrible look for the entire conference that they were left out of the playoff. And so you can't just give up on the season

and not make a bowl game. Like you have to at least try to salvage what you can from it. Jessica, that's not a lack of effort. They stink, okay? Like last week, I declared their season was over last week when they when they lost to georgia tech that way their quarterback is not good enough and their season is over and and it it what we can talk about the weakness of the conference but when you're telling me that that team quit against boston college

what i remember this is how it's happened this season into games first drive of the season for FSU Stu gots on a whole lot of people declare them the best team in the country because they go down the field on Georgia Tech in Seven plays and all they've done since then is lose with a quarterback who dinks and dunks their offense isn't nearly good enough It's not and this is what happens when you're all in on the portal And I would say that there were other things going on when it was good to be FSU that were worthy of taking inventory of whether it be players publicly complaining about the money that they're getting threatening to hold out of bowl games if they don't get

their money right there there are guys that were that were pretty high price that made a big public stink about what they were getting what they weren't getting that were part of that group in that second quarter that were quitting and this is why even though it felt good to be FSU when you had Jordan Travis under center this is why you have to stack those transfer portal classes with talent underneath because you're at the mercy of what's in the portal and you're at the mercy of other programs also figuring out the portal they tried to get guys like cam ward they were unsuccessful so they

decided we're gonna get all these guys that aren't getting playing time at these big programs because if they're playing at big programs, that'll get our fan base excited. Well, you were at the mercy of the portal. Portal wasn't good enough and now you got nothing behind these guys. You're asking for backups that you don't have. Yeah, I'm curious. There was a point in the game in which it was like, you have to pull DJ. There were a lot of drop balls. He didn't have a lot of time it was a like bad protection all around but you have to wonder like how like unconfident they are in the backup quarterback situation to not make any sort of change in that game because like the crowd is chanting we want Brock the backup quarterback

in what second quarter third quarter like yeah that just stinks. And to take your fan base from being on top of the world last year, going undefeated and winning the conference championship to this, that coaching staff just needs to do better. And Dan, you can put the town on alert. I don't think they beat Memphis. Wow. Really?

The whole town? The town on alert. I think Memphis makes a college football playoff. Wow. Here's what's interesting to me about this college football season. You have teams getting quarterbacks they wouldn't normally get because of the transfer portal. So Michigan was stacked

at quarterback. Cade McNamara left. He's now at Iowa. Iowa puts up 40 points. Iowa might be good if they could score 25 points a game. They might be a team that could sneak into the playoff. Same thing happening at Syracuse with Kyle McCord. That guy was a quarterback at Ohio State. Syracuse never gets that quarterback. He threw four touchdowns this weekend. McCord actually impressed me a little bit with his toughness. He was dealing with injuries, especially in that Michigan game that people didn't really realize. But that was a very disrespectful line for Iowa. Come on, some of these people are gone.

A 20-point favorite over a 6-1 Illinois State team, come on. Put it on the poll, please, Juju. Is unconfident a word at LeBotard Show? And also also can you tell the difference between a team that is quitting and a team that's not very good because I can't. I don't have that ability. Maybe teams quit but I haven't seen anything from FSU except in the first drive this season that suggests to me anything other than that team's not very good. Got about 16 recent years of experience being able to spot it happening right in front of me.

And so yeah, there's bad body language, bad posture when you get to the line, everyone looking for leadership there, a lackadaisical approach. And also look at the red flags that pop up over the course of what people are talking about before this season has had a recipe for a disastrous season for FS units playing out worse than maybe even the people that were most sour on their chances had it. Your team requested a ride, but this time, not from you. It's through their Uber Teen account. It's an Uber account that allows your team to request a ride under your supervision with live trip tracking and highly rated drivers. Add your team to your Uber account today. Don Lebatard.

You are a fool. You're nobody. You are an infant. You have no thick skin. I literally put together a freaking stage for your toenail. I am your career right now, pal. Look at me. I literally put together Mike Ryan stage for your toenail. No Your career right now pal. Look at me. No, I am your career No, Stu gots you have mess with me David and now you're messing with me And I'm more dangerous pal. This is the done libertar show with a Stu gots

We've done a LeBatard show with the Stugats. Greg, can you tell that you've been covering sports for 50 years? I just heard Stugats just excited because Stugats likes to take things from people, ask things of people, have people do work for him. And he's like, Dan, he was sort of not quite yelling at me, but he saw that I wanted your list of the top 32 NFL teams ranked in order, and he said, I want that for God Bless Football. I do. Please, you can't have it, Dan. I need Greg Cody's ranking of, can you tell the difference?

He outbid you. Can you tell the difference between a team quitting and a team not being very good? One of my least favorite things to do that I very rarely do in print or in a microphone is accuse an athlete of not trying hard enough or not working hard enough. I think it's generally a talent issue. I think if you're losing two games that you shouldn't lose, you're just not good enough. I don't think it's that you're quitting. I don't think it's that necessarily the coach is making a bad

decision on who starts at a specific position. But I just noticed today, FSU's championship odds in two games have gone from 66 to 1 to 500 to 1. And what that tells me is nobody expects a turnaround. Nobody thinks this is an anomaly. FSU is just bad. Let me explain something as Jessica says that Bill O'Brien deserves some credit for this. Still can't believe that. Bill O'Brien and Boston College going into Tallahassee

and winning 28-13, the home team's not any good. Like, it's not any good. Like, it's not, Boston College may indeed surprise you, may be better than you thought they were. FSU scoring 13 points at home, and Boston College's defense also for the last couple of years is a defense that every once in a while will surprise you, and slowed FSU last year when they were a lot better than this.

But losing at home and scoring only 13 points at home? It's a damning indictment. I know like talent composite isn't everything, but FSUs is top 15 in the country this season on 247, so I don't think you can say that they're not talented. I really think that when it comes down to things like this, it's the coaching staff not putting players in a position to be successful. And so I try to not to like blame individuals for a performance or put it all on the players,

even though individuals can have bad performances. That's very common in sports, especially in college football. But when you have a team that going into the season is extremely talented by most metrics and has a number of players that are either projected to play in the NFL or top of their class in college football and then they lose their first two games

of the season to teams that they're favored against. I think that's 100% on the coaching staff. Here's what took me the most by surprise last night because I thought Boston College could win that game. It was how poorly Boston College played in blowing FSU out because they were disastrous on special teams. Casillanos was missing open receivers that were shrieking wide open.

Drop wheel route in the first quarter. Drop wheel route was often taking the closest wide open option, just completely foregoing touchdown passes deeper down the field. They didn't even have to play well. Lou Riddick pointed out, there's no deep safety right now.

They do not respect this. And it's the same exact thing that we saw last week. Georgia Tech grew into that game. I don't expect Boston College's defense was the only good unit for Boston College really yesterday, the only really impressive unit. Georgia Tech doesn't have this incredible defense either. Throughout the game, those opposing defenses grow into it and get more aggressive because they realize Uyengal All only has no interest in throwing the ball downfield and if he does it's a

keep another defense on this and it's going to be inaccurate florida tried some of that against miami were all mertz was doing is trying to throw it deep and there was nothing there and uh... the rest of the game ended up being constipated for florida uh... i want to show you something from this weekend, the entertainment around the entertainment, because College Game Day, an institution, as we celebrate 20 years, and I can tell you firsthand

how much it hurts to try to keep evolving something as you age, the way that show has treated Lee Corso is something that is worthy of emulation by every corporation in the history of corporate greed that they continue to find ways for an 89 year old Lee Corso to not age out of a show that they're trying to get younger while he's still there so over the weekend you've got Shane Gillis with Mcee mcafee shirtless sometimes there have been means about mcafee sitting next to saban that are funny in commercial breaks were mcafee is dancing and saban is stiff in a suit

just looking straight ahead in the middle of this show that is trying to reinvent itself reinvent itself you've got the wonderful visual of here's Johnny Manziel next to McAfee who is shirtless and hugging Nick Saban. There is Lee Corso dressed as a leprechaun dancing and saying I have to pee. And in all of that, there's Saban looking around sitting in the middle of it and saying to you out loud in a way that caught me off guard, I've never been in anything like this because I'm always

the one causing this celebration to focus to actually enjoy it. This is so much fun and off to the side McAfee is playing with Shane Gillis as Trump and they've got someone winning $50,000 on the air kicking a 30-yard field goal as they call him a loser. What did you guys do with this weekend of college game day trying to reinvent itself in a way that I find not just a lot of fun, because Fox is getting stronger there with Urban Meyer and all of its garbage.

And this is trying to keep the pace on what has been The best show of its kind for a long time and it's damn near impossible to keep these things together for 20 years I'm actually happy that there is another option and I think you dismiss it with Urban Meyer But I think Big Noon does really good things I think I gravitate depending on the game like I will this week for Texas Michigan They have it right there to their particular insight, I think Game Day leans into some of the strengths that they have with the present cast. I think one of the things that received universal praise was a profile on Kim McCormick and that was

happening not often enough on Game Day last year. You have Pat McAfee who's electric and very charismatic, but every week is it going to be shirts off and dancing leprechauns? That's cool, but I need the Kamekormix too. I need Nick Saban in his perspective. So it's all about the balance that they can strike, which is a good thing because I do think Big Noon was effectively cutting into their lead as the ratings and critics kind of pointed out. I watched the first hour and I was into Sabin and I thought Herbie did a great job of just picking his brain in almost every segment,

just being like, all right, Nick, this is your time. Like, tell us. So I was a big fan of it. And I think that I don't really see them as reinventing it. It's very similar that it always has been. I mean, they are trying to, the McAfee effect, I guess, is different. But to me, it's just, it's the, like,

I put that on every Saturday morning as opposed to the Fox show. By the way, Pat McAfee has also changed more and conformed more to college game day's way of doing things than they have to his, I would say. Well he was drunk on the air a week ago. Well, you know, that's.

That was on his show. What are you gonna do? Yeah, but he came in hungover. He's in Dublin. Allegations. What are you gonna do? When in Rome. I mean like last year, whatever it was, a lot of times he was in his tank top. Now he's there, he's in a suit, He's in Dublin. What are you gonna do? When in Rome. I mean like last year whatever it was,

a lot of times he was in his tank top. Now he's there, he's in a suit, he's like dressing the party. He's more college game day than he is Pat McAfee on that show. I love what they've done with Lee Corso. How they've kept him involved without having him front and center like that.

You know at that age, he is literally and figuratively and almost literally the mascot of that show now you see him for a minute he's dressed up he looks funny does a little dance and then leaves i think that's perfect for a guy that age i think one of the things that really the glue to that show it's much like the tnt pregame show with the nba having early sitting in the middle of all that chaos is rese davis is so damn good at his job.

It's amazing to have all that swirling around, the crowd, Nick Saban, McAfee doing what he's doing, and to have Reese Davis, a pillar of professionalism, sitting there and just taking you and guiding you through what is a chaotic show. It's amazing to watch. Mike, is it wrong that Fox is making inroads and college football in general is growing,

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