The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Stugotz The Clown Prince

Episode Date: July 26, 2023

If your house got raided by the FBI - how would you react? Plus, an Awful Announcing article about our very own Stugotz makes the Shipping Container a little uneasy. Why are there so many Coach K references in The Bear? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. This is the Dunlabel Tarshou with the Stugat's Podcast! So that was a big block of serious because the guy had his house rated by the... I mean, when the federal government comes for you and you're a blogger, okay? And they have guns drawn? Unnecessary. So unnecessary. What do they think?

They're going after freaking Steve's on and writes his gemstones? I was thinking of the exact same thing. Same no two. No, man, that's like, that's what, I would have thought, yeah, they bring the guys and they've got guns or whatever, but it's just kind of, hey, we gotta warrant, like here it is, we're gonna search for. The paperwork guys.

Yeah, it's just like, okay, and so I gotta sit on the couch and watch these people riff through my things. And maybe even riff things apart, break things, sure. But the idea they're like, at six in the morning, flashlights and guns, like, oh man, we don't know what the reaction's gonna be., break things, sure. But the idea they're like, at six in the morning, flats, hats, and guns, like, oh man, we don't know what the reaction is. It's ridiculous, ridiculous.

They're always in win breakers, right? Oh, you got a little mollo. Where you wait for them. Yeah. You think those are like standard issue? Like everybody has them at their house? Absolutely. Or it's like before the raid, they're like,

all right guys, here you go. Oh, win breakers? Like at the locker. Like at the locker. Hey, yeah, your group chat is like, hey guys, we're wearing a regular day. They definitely are going to a locker and they all look like Kyle Chandler. I'm gonna have my left my one breaker today. So let me ask you guys a question because I've thought about this a lot. Have you ever thought about how you would handle a federal

rate of your home because I have. I can assure you that I have never thought about it until you leaned over to me. Mid interview and said, what would you do with the FBI rated your house? Yeah, like, cause this is something I've thought about a lot. And I've arrived on, I'm gonna be sitting on the couch and when they come in, I'm just gonna like take a deep sip and I'm gonna look at them and say, what took you so long?

That's like, no matter what, I don't even know why they're coming in here. But whatever, when they're... They're incriminating. I'm just going to say what took you so long, right? And then and and that's the other thing. Like if I get arrested, you know, some people like try to cover their face on their rest, I'm going to be bantering with the media and stuff like, what's going on? Hey, hey, looking good. Hey, what are those?

Are those 12s? Oh, like oh, yeah, they're going to be banter. It's going to be scary. It's going to love it. Oh my god. But Jerry's going to love it when they are then read after your banter from the prosecutor. Your honor, he said, what took you so long when we walked in? It's a cool thing.

It's a cool line, man. It is a pretty cool. Yeah. You're gonna be thinking how cool it was when you're behind bars. Yeah, 25 the life. You know what? I didn't do anything to deserve this. I'm gonna make so many friends though, because guys like, that's the use what took you

so long, God. Man, I love you. Hey, this. I'm gonna make so many friends though, because guys are like, that's the, you took me so long, God, man, I love you. Hey, man, I'm just a guy. I was all about you. You hosted Oddball, the show LaWile there, Jessica's prize. You prioritize content over your literal freedom. Hey, man, I'm committed to the bit. Mike, what would you do if the feds come in your house? How would you react?

I'd take a cigarette out and say anyone got a light. Oh, see, that's cool. That's a cool one and not a self-incriminating. Yeah, Jessica, you got one? I have never considered it. I actually just listened to a podcast called Scamanda about a woman named Amanda who was a scam artist. Oh my God, is this Chris Cody's podcast?

Wait, oh, I get it. Yeah, okay, yeah. I was like, oh, did you listen to, no, okay. She defrauded a bunch of people out of money by pretending she had cancer and now is in jail and they rated her house and they got her the same way they got Capone, the IRS. They're like, hmm, she's not reporting any of this

as income, let's look into it. Stiffleless. That's what mine is. Also got Al Capone. And they rated her house at the break of dawn. And apparently she was cool as a cucumber. And no matter what you do when your house gets rated or when you're on trial or when you're accused of a crime, someone will look at it and be like, that's suspicious. You could act cool. You could be freaking out. No matter

what you do, it all seems incriminating if people suspect you have doing a crime. Dude, I'm offering the agency near a glass of water. You want me to make some coffee? I'm doing all that like. He's so chill. He thinks he's smart enough to get away with it. Or he's freaking out because he knows he's screwed finally. I would like to change my answer.

Go ahead, ask me again. Mike, what would you do if the federal government raided your home? Do you have an astro athletic? Mike fires a charter packer post 1999. rated your home. Do you have an astro athletic? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Mike fires or a charter packer post nineteen ninety nine. Kyle Chandler's like, oh, wait, hold on one second. I think it's not.

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What took you so long as badass, man? Like I'm disappointed in them at that point. Pablo, you got one? Oh, I think I would just start speaking not English. Ah! Ah, the Sammy Sosa defense. Yeah. I was gonna pull Sammy Sosa. Were you doing baseball?

Was it very, very good to me? Were you doing the late night watch? That's what I would tell the sir. Yeah, before or years later, you forget how to speak the language. I'd be like Greg Cody. Ah, fuck me. Yeah. Ha, ha, ha, ha.

What? Or is it just coughing? Ha, ha, ha, ha. Yeah, I'd be like a Brian Cranston on Brinket Band. Like, you got me. Oh, that's like, it's not the most pollinating thing. It pollines me. Why? And you know it.

Roy, you're making your mama joke to the FBI. Oh, I didn't, I would die. I did that. What a way to go. It is a bit of a different experience for Roy. I think history would tell us. I don't like the idea of someone trying to do a D's nuts joke on the FBI. Are you a fan of Imagine Dragons? I don't know. I have my answer. Do you? Don't forget to look over it up for these. Do you guys have bofa? No, come too close. I have like my... Don Lebatard. Earlier in the show, the question was asked,

what would you do got to do with one invisible disc? Two guts. One day where he could be invisible, we decided that during banking hours, he would choose a week day, he would rob all the banks in the universe from eight to five. And then at night, he would alter sporting event results by being an invisible man in games he had been on.

This is the Don Lebatar show with his two gods. So among the headlines that are crossing sports media today, quote, he always wins. Poland exploring the lasting relevance of sports media's clown prince, PAMA. John Stugatz's weiner. This awful announcing thing, of course, is something that I wanted your guys' thoughts on, because I don't know if the piece could have sounded like something that Stugat's had dreamed up, more if he had actually dreamt it up. It was one of the most accurate pieces of reporting I've ever read to an extent. Once the shipping container and specifically Billy Gill was invoked, the writer lost

me. The writer personally insulted me. Well, we'll get to it. But this was a tribute. It was generally a tribute, Jess, to Stugat by someone who clearly listens to a lot of the show, likes the show a lot. A tribute to someone, yes, by writing, quote, conniving, defiantly uninformed, and most of all lazy,

weiner embodies all of sports media's worst traits. Yet, rudderless sitcoms, sitcoms, dads, Homer Simpson and Peter Griffin, his shameless incompetence is more charming than infuriating, endearing himself to a podcast audience that rebels in his buffoonery, smitten by an oafish, every man, desecrating his profession with startling efficiency. I mean, checks out so far.

We can go director's commentary on this. Please. So, the Sugat's character, while very close to, very clearly, very close to the person that he actually is, on air, there were some embellishments and amplifications of how uninformed he might be, how ophish he might be. Lately, he's become the character, and he is quite honestly worse than ever at the profession, and for there to be a puff piece celebrating that at this point in time, when we're trying to get more out of him, when I'm trying to rein him in and say, you have these verbal ticks, you laugh a little

bit too much. We have to get better. You can't not know who Francisco lean Doris, if you claim to be a mess. That one, that one is real. The error, Roger thing is unforgivable in my mind to the point that there was like great concern for his health. Quote speaking almost exclusively in cliches to God's hasn't watched sports with any regularity since at least the pandemic, where his blind spots like a badge of honor.

Weeners in aptitude goes well beyond the realm of gleeful ignorance, recently mistaking country singer Jake Owen for Jets newcomer Aaron Rogers. A recurring guest, he's interviewed countless times on the Levitard show. A purported met's fan, the native long islander couldn't even identify all star shortstop Francisco Lindor failing to pick him out of a lineup earlier this year. This is where Dan would certainly do the thing where he complains about how Stugots is everything that Dan cannot be. And Stugots gets credit for doing less and less because it is in fact going to result in puff pieces like this one.

Stugots who famously went on 14 betting college bowl games in 19 2019 has never been on the show less spending the spring shuttling between Miami and Chicago to watch Northwestern's national championship team. That trend has continued throughout the summer, frying his brain with psychedelics while traveling for dead and company for a well tour. Thanks to zoom working and following the dead doesn't have to be mutually exclusive, though it is for Stugots who wasn't tech savvy enough to contribute remotely requiring significant audio and engineering assistance.

Part of that too is it's hard to produce two guts remotely i.e. right for him if we're doing the director's commentary i.e. continue to prop the man up so he can just get these glowing puff pieces written about him while Well, the author probably seems a little familiar with our show should be fairly familiar with this construct. Are we sure Stugats just didn't write this? There's one sentence. Yes, because it's actually in English and there are no type of most of the a list athletes that appear on the show gravitate to Stugats, preferring his, preferring his innocuous watercolor talk, water cooler talk, the Levitards more invasive inner interview tactics. I mean, water colors actually see it does.

It does. Well, we know none of us wrote this because then there's this lovely paragraph. Unlike producers who try to make stew gots color between the lines, Gill, the brains behind God bless football knows what an unstoppable force he's dealing with, content to let the show devolve into whatever anarchy the two can summon from the depths of their neurotic minds. While other members of the shipping container crave airtime eager to fire off punchlines and takes in a desperate race to the microphone, Gill would rather play point guard dishing off to stew for easy layups.

How does that feel guys? How does that one feel? That's someone that is often dishing off to Sue God's for easy layups. Even LeBron James Dwayne Wade, Ask Allie, oops. A fair criticism. I didn't like the term dust Brit. Dust Brit was extra. Yeah, you didn't have to go for that. Yeah, I'm seeing it.

To the mic. Mm, that name. I'm going first. I wouldn't say that. What? Sprit. I love that we're beginning to explain to people who, I wouldn't say that. What? Sprint. I love that we're beginning to explain to people who I should say before I say that we

should explain to people how Stugots actually is propped up. I want to ask do we actually want to reveal Mike the depth to which you are throwing allie up to him because there are a couple moments this week. There are my some of my favorite all times Stugots moments. No, I don't want to reveal like the actual lines that he's fed because that's part of the show's majesty. And look, that's positive attention. Right now all I can get written about us is Steven A. Smith

versus Dan Lubbittard. So if two gods can be an attraction great, but I would hope that it would be something that'd be beneficial to the character. This just, he reads this, if he can read, he looks at this and he says, oh, I must be doing something right. Everything that Mike told me in Tao was wrong. And I should just keep doubling down on this person I've become.

If I may compliment Mike Ryan for a moment, Mike Ryan did a TikTok live pink pink baby pink doll. We're not doing that stream through a microphone while Stugatts was facing the TikTok. No, we're not we're not doing that. No, I am, but a lowly producer desperate for air time. I'd like to weigh in as you guys are all variously in your feelings about the shots that you caught. Not desperate. I'd like to follow up with a quote, a quote tweet from Stugat himself. We said, quote, one correction.

Unfortunately, I still write my weekend observations. What does he does? I fix the bad grammar, but he largely, that's what he wants. Like his flowers were taking 20 minutes out of his weekend. The quote we all delivered on. Go ahead. It continues because it was claimed that he did not write those weekend observations in the piece. Quote, other than that, pretty spot on and thank you. Hey, Levitt's art show, we did it. Yeah, I would, I would say it was far more active in

writing. That benchmark on my first run of executive producer And now I just kind of let it be I should have looked through this most recent one I apologize when there was a reference to cardiac arrest those right yeah that didn't yeah That was just ill-timed so you got to did power through it though So he's taking credit for weekend observations after making a faux pas during this accidental brony James reference. Yes. Well, he's an accidental cardiac arrest reference. And he wrote those before the brony James thing happened, but he knew as he was about to read it,

that he was about to be in trouble, but he kept pushing through the line. How are you? He could have said stun. He could have said shock. You could, but he went with cardiac arrest. Literally anything else. Yeah.

One of the things that I think about all the time when I host this show, because I get texts from people asking me, like, is this really a bit? I just love how it's actually hard to tell. The line between character and person for all of us, despite our levels of denied desperation, it's hard to tell. It really is.

And so in that way, it's both the magic of the show and also the thing that is eating itself as you do the show. So I compare all performative on air personalities to wrestlers, especially in our industry because C.B.A. is just an amplification of his true personality that makes for the best wrestling character. There was a point in time. Neo K. Faye, by believe it's the term. Yeah. Well, cut on you. There was a time where Richard Flair just started living the gimmick and he is now forever the nature boy, Rick Flair. When he's on camera, when he's off camera,

he is just nature all the time. That happened with Stu Gotts around the pandemic, where the lines were blurred and he just became the on air version of Stu Gotts. I look, we did a lot with it. But the Jacob and Aaron Rodgers thing is, is unforgivable. It's unforgivable. I saw it. It's scary. It's not scary. Where is he? How's he appropriate concern right now? It was also very concerned. I saw it. It's scary. It's a scary. Where is it? It's a inappropriate concern right now. It was also very concerned. I also saw last week that Jake Owen got involved in the Jason Aldine country music thing.

And at that point, I did recognize a little bit of a resemblance. Just maybe in what it put a politics between the two. But it was so Jason Aldine wrote that song. I'm afraid of big cities, right? And he is, you know, like, propped up by certain parts of the country music. Yeah, I mean, like, is afraid of the subway and stuff. Yeah, yeah. And by CMT wanting to play it less, it then got bigger.

And now you see IG stories that are not only posting Jim Kavizel's movie poster, but also Jason Aldin's song, followed by an Andrew Tate interview with Tucker Carlson. That makes no sense. It's paradox. I watch some of that, I'm not proud of it. I'm not proud of it. I don't get the investigative journalism for you, Pablo. I'm trying.

I'm trying to actually understand like, truly, to what extent are any of these people you've just named playing characters and to what extent are they real? And as far as I can tell, the only real thing around me is Chris Cody being confused as to whether the Mountain New Hot Dogs are real. I'm a little worried about Chris too, because Chris is also blurring the line. Whoa, what is that, man?

Chris is also blurring the line. That was not a bit. You can't put that too close to the other conversation, by the way. What did I do wrong? I saw something on the internet. I mean, it looked like a real hot dog. You were desperate to get on the mic with something. As we all are, apparently.

That's another thing that none of it matters. Okay, I guess I'll go down this path, but you mentioned Tucker Carlson, which it's readily available. You can search the internet for his honest opinions on the stick that he was doing on the air. And it was a stick. The manipulation he took active part in

to personal benefit and success. And in fact, the things that have exposed some of those, you know, admitances were just involved in the prosecution and the investigation of Tim Burke, we just interviewed. But it straight up doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. He'll still be made a martyr out of meanwhile, he's quite literally laughing at the people dumb enough to fall for it because you know, and this doesn't, this is not the unique domain

of Tucker Carlson. This is now part of the shameless right. Just that, oh, it doesn't matter. Shame does matter that they'll love me for it. They'll make a martyr. They'll build up a defense for a crime that hasn't actually been committed. Right. Just that. Oh, it doesn't matter. Shame does matter that they'll love me for it. They'll make a murder. They'll build up a defense for a crime that hasn't actually been committed. If anybody's copable, it's me, but I'm the hero. Actually, they might listen to sukkads.

Him. It's like the end of the sand video. Don Lebertard. Let's go to 80. It's was bow. Wow. I think Billing Time to an 8 instead of a 8. It's a clear thing. Wow. You know, it's two guts.

Number 8. He got it. It's Chris Corner on the line. C-C. V-C-C. Don Lebatard show with a Stougat! As we were talking about the characters we're all playing now, online and real life, as performers, we're all performers now on the internet, there's this quote that Richard Johnson provides on Twitter,

excellent call of football writer, and it's a quote from Duke quarterback Riley Leonard. Richard Johnson? Oh no, did I just use wait? Oh, he's real. He was he was the jacks tail with me. Love rich. Yeah, I'm friends with her Johnson. You thinking that's like a joke name that I accidentally said. I just yeah, his name's Dick deck. He's made the joke before he owns the joke. So you can't like you can make the joke about him, but he owns the joke. I I think I express the right amount of concern, proceed. I'm sorry.

If they were dancing it, it's fun. That will be scary. I did feel Dan's tear kind of steep into my cognitive processing, but to Mike's point, what Dick did quoted was do quarterback Riley Leonard, who said something that you never hear across sports or really across anywhere at this point, because Riley Leonard do quarterback said that he has not felt doubted much during his career. And so he asked his mom to give him some adversity. And she said, don't suck at the interviews today.

The mom part in Deering great, but the actual turn of truth here is that you just never hear this anymore. I've been thinking about this ever since Victor Wimbongam came onto the scene. And the question I had was, this guy who's been proclaimed the greatest prospect in NBA history, this side of LeBron James, when do we turn him into an underdog? When does the guy with that much hype also get to claim? That's the guy that gets to do it in the playoffs, right?

Right, but that's the thing about how we process information. Even the greatest, most hyped prospects of all time, the alpha males allegedly, the people at top of the food chain historically, LeBron James included, a guy who calls himself the king also gets to feel like he's an underdog, that he shouldn't be here. And beyond the demographic explanation for LeBron,

it's this idea of when your brain is listening to all of these voices we are never designed to hear, you too, the lieth, can feel like David. And so thank you for Riley Leonard kind of coming out and saying, you know what? On balance? People like me. Haven't really been doubted and stunned. I just want more of that because we're otherwise always performing the role of it's better to be overcoming something. It's quite the bubble they have over Durham, where the quarterback of the football team feels like he can't be doubted. Really? Your take, your take is that Riley Leonard should never feel this way. You should never feel this way. If you play football

for Duke, you should never feel this way. I would say in reason that even Daniel Jones, who was a first round draft pick, didn't feel this way. How cocksure must you be? They won nine games last year. He's really good, by the way. And I understand like his own personal confidence, but Duke is Duke. They want to be people. They're having a moment. They're having a moment. They're on TV more than leave it to be the reruns, but not their football team. I have them changing the subject slightly on the topic of Duke though. The bear season two. A lot of Coach K. Duke propaganda. I've been waiting to talk about this for someone.

Why? I haven't gotten to that part. I'm like two episodes in. I'm like the whole season. It's a recurring theme. Really? It's not a spoiler, so don't get mad about the spoiler. Can I be honest, I'm going to be completely honest with my opinion on the bearer.

And I know Roy had a T-shirt and I know everyone here likes a bearer. We spoke to someone from the cast. We love it. We love it. That's all right. It's my experience with season one was, it was, all right.

It's all right. I like the pacing. I burned through it, but it wasn't that great. It's a good show. I'm waiting for season two to come up. It's not like a transcendent show, but it's a very good show. I think season two has transcendent episodes that make it overall an amazing show.

My mom said there's one episode in season two that's like the best 30 minutes of television she's ever watched. Oh, the second and last episode of season two. Well, there are a couple of candidates for this title, which is why to me it's an amazing show. Some family episode has to do with family life. That's, he's talking about this. That's a super sized episode, and it is unbelievably dramatic.

In a way that is, yeah, that felt real at the same time and sincere about family dynamics. But enough coach K, because you're telling me that Sydney who grew up in Chicago doesn't have, there's like no other sporting analogy you can make for her like she's like oh, I've never heard of Coach K But I was like learning about his whole thing and she's reading his book throughout the season and I'm like This is a woman who is living in Chicago was probably born in the late 90s during the bulls

Transcendent NBA title run in a city that is obsessed with Michael Jordan and has every major sports team to MLB teams. Like I just don't understand how she's getting this coach, like the coach K thing. I don't get how it fits in. I don't get how she's like, oh, I don't know about coach K. Like that's like the whole introduction to it. It made me annoyed. It felt like a thing.

This is the one thing that I would that I would peg on the writers in terms of my criticisms above anything else. It felt like the writers really wanted to make Coach K this inspirational figure that they actually believe in Coach K, because when I first saw it, I thought it was going to be a punchline. There was irony in this. It was earnest. It was fully on ironic. On ironic depiction of Coach K as the Paragon of leadership that informed even this African American family in Chicago passed down from generation generation the wisdoms of Coach K.

I didn't get it. You got to go with the winner within there. Just saying if there's one coach leadership book and it's No, but I have it on a mantle because I like what it represents and what people think of me. I just feel like there's better sports stars in Chicago that would have made more sense. That aren't canceled. Because if you look at the recent success, it's either the 85 bears and the most recent black hawks and maybe they just looked at their voting record. 16 Chicago Cubs. I mean, there's other storylines. The Chicago sky won the WMA championship two years ago.

He and his parker. I don't know. There's other things. What's the bull? Are we picking Coach K? Coach K out of the bear. I think the Duke Blue Devils will win a games this season. In football.

In football. Okay. So you told me, so this Riley Leonard character is somebody that I should actually know about. He's good. He's one of those quarterbacks that also play basketball. Not unlike Drake May. He's like Drake May Light. the man, dude, his dude crayons are going to be really pissed off by that. But so, but Drake May is going to be a top five

pick. But so unifying these conversations. Not that. That's right. So, Jess is being frustrated as I'm I about the unironic praise of coach K. Mike is complaining about how a duke player cannot possibly feel like he is not criticized because he's just not that good. It's like there's no adversity for Duke is a little weird, but to add another thread, it's the idea that there is this Duke basketball player whose name escapes me now, but is like the next Christian Latener in that tradition, right? Who's that white guy on Duke right now?

Who has been out and about as the guy that everybody hates the Grayson Allen air, the Christian Latener. I'm going for a second. I don't think Duke football has hated the way Duke basketball is, so you can't quite. Like Daniel Jones was, I mean, they beat Notre Dame in 2016. He was an amazing Duke quarterback and no one was like, I hate that guy. But I think what I want from sports is not merely people who are going to admit. You know what, I'm not an underdog. Like, if I were to tell you that story, I'd be lying to myself and others.

I also want someone at Duke that's going to be unlikable and live up to... Pileflipowski. The Kileflipowski tradition. And then you sound hateable. As I'm saying, you kind of want that guy at Duke, don't you? It's kind of the perfect character at Duke is to be the guy who will save the honest thing and also for that reason be unlikable because the honesty of, I'm not an underdog, is actually the reality of what it's like to attend Duke University.

Philipowski, don't yell at me. And if I got that one wrong, I'm sorry. But I still have trouble wrapping my head around. How adduke football player thinks that there's no adversity like this is not the Alabama Crimson tied. I believe they have a track around their football field like the money. But you can't do it. Mike, but you want where do you want your villains coming from?

Just going to make a lot of Duke fans posting that a turnover game in your mentions today. No, I don't hate. No, they're all right. Really. Football fans. not me. Respect to, I mean, we're right there with you in the coastal. I'd kill that quarter back. No more coastal this year. I know it's a bummer. It's the end of an era. We only won it once, well, twice, but we had to give one back. So Mike, using the Royal Wii here does link into something that I've

really loved all week, which is just walking by Mike and hearing him operating on behalf of the University of Miami. So where are we, Mike? What are we? It's July 26th, and you're seemingly frantically operating. What's up? What's up with the Golden Canes? What took you so long?

I will not be revealing anything like this. Those were privileged conversations. So I would like to take the, I'm going to take the year's searing wheel. And put it in the direction of college football daytime programming. Oh, yeah. College came day finalized their, their talent roster for the upcoming season. I believe Pete Dammel is going to be taking resident serious profiles. They've changed out quite a bit, which house key, uh, Ronaldo, the no longer there. David Pollock is gone. I missed time, Ronaldo.

So he's on Fox now. He's on Fox. He did like the opening. So his package for the women's world cup, the bear, which is another lovable part of college game day that we've grown to, to like his segments and the segments and the bear sound, that's moved over to the other there. Yeah, Fox is more important bear. They've moved over to big noon Saturday, which if you pay attention ratings, they have incrementally eaten into college game days lead.

For several reasons, it's not just the Fox broadcast package getting better and getting better rights. The show is found it's footing and also the way that people watch television is changing. But we invoke college game day where I gave the best argument, a dilution by degrees with some of the talent decisions that they've made. I think anyone that has grown to love college game day

over the years can see the clear difference even though there's plenty of familiar names and holdovers still there, can see the difference and have their concerns that it's going to be a lesser product while the competition has gotten stronger. Another reason why the competition is getting stronger is because the TV rights continue to expand because Fox is getting better and better games because NBC now has entered the fray and they're going to be getting better and better games, which are somehow once again

soundtrack by Fallout boy, who seems only be writing songs to get picked up by college football broadcast and previews. And imagine dragons. It's the band's not the joke. Imagine dragons, these nuts, but the big noon Saturday thing I think has a real track. So they've done it. They've made a Pepsi that is actually to be reckoned with.

You're more likely to watch someone on site of the big game of that week because you want to feel that excitement. It's a great driver for a ratings bananza and the more rights that they get in big media markets, the more people they're going to get that are more inclined to watch people broadcasting from the site of their team's game. And when you include media, media markets like Los Angeles, that will inevitably lead to a ratings win here and there for big news Saturday. But college game day choosing to go to North Carolina versus South Carolina, I thought was

a pretty stunning first lead off hit in how your football Saturdays are gonna change because they're deciding to go somewhere that they have the rights to and you realize there's a lot of good games that week and they're going to, by comparison, a crappy one. Why is Chris Cody refusing to make eye contact with me all segment? With you?

Yeah. I was listening to Mike. I was just thinking the whole time. I don't care what he says about the Big 10. I mean, about the Big noon Saturday show until they're playing, coming to your city. I'm not watching. I'm with Chris Cody.

It's all I need. It's a tradition. I gotta play the air guitar in my living room at 9 a.m. Eastern. I gotta dance around a little bit. I gotta put a little yin and my yin yang. If you know what I mean. I don't.

And that's how my college football Saturday starts. And I don't really, like, I don't watch the shows like I used to but when there's a game in my yin yang it's time what about zingan your zang