The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: The 32nd Royal Synchronicity Day (feat. Amin Elhassan)

Episode Date: October 27, 2025

"How many black people are on this panel?" Zaslow admits to loving eating off the kids' menu, Greg's pumped up for tonight's sporting equinox, Mike is ready with the gear head, Amin has his Weekend Observations, and Dan teaches us all how to do a television hit on a major network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Bell Air Direct, insurance, simplified. Conditions apply. This is the Dan Levator Show with the Stugats podcast. Have not talked yet today about a bit of heartbreaking NFL news that appeared yesterday. Rex Ryan was sobbing before the games talking on television about the death of Nick Mangold at 41 years old. It is very rare in that sport for the center to have that kind of fame to be so excellent. I know that Jason Kelsey has gotten there later in life. You know, Dwight Stevenson, Mike Webster, but there aren't many centers who were so good that people know their names.

This is one of the best jets there have ever been. And for him to die at 41 years old and not be able to find a kidney transplant makes me think that the last few years of a very young life had to be pretty terrible in terms of how he felt and how, scary it must be to live with the daily discomforts and fears of not knowing where you're going to get a kidney and then to pass away before you get the kidney. He was the rare center who got commercials, not just because he was in New York, but because he was that great. That organization has not had a lot of excellence ever in all of its time. It is a, we talked about Miles Garrett earlier, Nick Mangold wasted his career in New York, but they were better than they ever have been, except when they had Joe Namath and surprised everybody a million years ago.

When Nick Mangold was at the center of everything they were doing, they made it to deep into the playoffs, AFC championship games. They made Rex Ryan somebody. Nick Mangold is at least partly responsible for making Rex Ryan's career. Yeah, I don't know that I would say that he wasted his career with the Jets when they appeared in two AFC championship games. You know, that's... They were relevant for five years of that Rex Ryan experience. Yeah, I remember his story was when they did Hard Knocks, his story and his, you know, negotiation for a new contract was a major part of that season of Hard Knocks. He was a big part of that season.

My wife's entire family, a Jets family, to speak to his personality, my wife's favorite player during that era. was Nick Mangold, which I've never heard said about a center before. He had a ton of personality. He was fun. It just wasn't just the main of hair. Like he had commercials. They weren't regional commercials. He had national commercials. It's like a Pepsi commercial. He was among the most famous jets, and it was based on excellence. You're right to correct me there, Zaz. He didn't waste his career there because they had more success than they've had as a franchise. But it was at least in part because he was at the center of everything. And there's a South Beach session coming out. shortly in which Vince Wilfork, obviously a very tough man, Vince Wilfork, I believe, was at the

center of the butt fumble because he was throwing that person back into Mark Sanchez. There was only one human being ever that Vince Wilfork said, whoa, I'm surprised that this man can handle me one-on-one. Usually it takes two men. Listen to Vince Wilfork in an upcoming episode of South Beach sessions talking about Nick Mangold. You know, the one guy that I could say that held his own, and I love him to death, is Nick and hango. Nick was very, very good. Nick, Nick was smart. Nick was strong. He was big. He could move. Nick, out of all the centers I played against, he is probably the most complete center that I played against. And I had to play against him twice a year, you understand? He was really, really, really,

good. And we have battles. We have some battles. And he is one of those guys that if somebody need to get blocked single, he can hold his own. One of the few. Yeah, yeah. He don't need the double teams and all that. Like, he can hold his own by himself. And it might be some more out there, but for me, it was Nick. Like, he was just, he was just good. I can't tell you how rare it is for hurricanes to speak that kind of respect of anybody by name. They just don't do that. Of that ilk, that time period, guys that good with the hurricanes, you have to beat the respect out of them. And Nick, Nick Mangold was just a physical beast and a personality that somehow got to stardom at Center in New York. And I know Jason Kelsey has made it more

common recently, but Nick Mangold did it first. And I'm not sure, like even when I mentioned these other centers, Dwight Stevenson, Mike Webster, it wasn't personality-based. It was excellence-based. It wasn't the combination of excellence and charisma that would make alignment your family member's favorite players. No, I agree. He had the main of hair and the personality and the market to become a star, and he got there. And I was shocked here he died for the reason he die because sometimes we mistakenly think that if you're a celebrity, if you're wealthy, you sort of cut to the line, cutting the line on the transplant list. But it isn't always true. He had to wait his turn and the fact that he died without a transplant is really heartbreaking at

41. And he probably would have had a really great media career, but he's been battling this for some time. Really intelligent guy centers. Sneaky have to be like the smartest people on the field to identify everything there is on the field and help the quarter. backs out there. It's a real damn shame. It transcends the position, really, to have someone like that. And you feel it. You feel it. And it was kind of heartbreaking to hear Vince. I know he was talking about Nick Simon's player, but this was known in NFL circles. And to hear Vince just in that clip talk about Nick as someone that was here was sad. Greg, the other thing, too, I don't think it's about the cut in the line or celebrities and people with access to money and stuff

get to the front of the line. He had multiple kidneys that just didn't match with his body. Oh, that's what I was wondering. Like, there was no one he knows that attempted to give him. And he would reach out on social media. On social media is especially painful to see because he's just like trying to beg. Imagine there's no match whatsoever. And it's like you could be at the top of the list forever. But if there's no match that actually matches with your body, then you can't do it. My father-in-law actually had a double lung transplant two years ago. So me and my family are very familiar with this process and thank God he was able to find lungs that matched. That's why it's so important to be an organ donor because you never know who's going to need something down the

line, especially if you're healthy. So it's crazy to see something like that as a kidney where kind of anybody can give a kidney. We can kind of function with one. But when you don't have a match like that, it's just really sad to see. Rex Ryan couldn't get through the first words of when Mike Greenberg announced the news and announced it, you know, was sad to announce the news. Through it to Rex Ryan, Rex Ryan could not get through the first sentence without breaking down because he knows how responsible Nick Mangold was for the excellence that came Rex Ryan's way. And also, and he told the story of Nick Mangold while being injured, it's part of where he broke down, while being injured, wanting to play and demanding to play on Rex Ryan's

last game when they knew that he was going out because he wanted to be out there for him. So forgive me for not having the proper transition to pull out of this story. But this started the NFL Sunday and it was. It was moving to see Rex Ryan that kind of wounded on television in a way that was connected, really human between coach and player and all of us, I guess, sort of can feel the mortality of someone losing their life. that young at 41 years old. Oh, the football season. Cruel beast.

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So I will transition awkwardly into some of the other stuff that Greg Cody wants to talk about because Greg Cody is primed and ready here. You've recovered from your olive experience. You're getting over it. You're filled with sodium. More like brined and ready. And coffee. Don't forget the coffee, Dan.

Yeah. How's it sitting with you? You've been farting? Extra caffeine. No, it's good. Okay. No, no sorts. But you were wrong.

You were wrong about the nine olives fitting. I was totally wrong. Because, again, in my defense, I'm used to olives that are that big. I'm not used to olives that are that big. I'm not throwing anybody under the bus. You're making it sound like they were the size of eggs, Greg. They were the size of olives. I'm just saying that whoever chose those olives to give me was trying to sabotage me.

It was a little bit going on in the background. It's a nice hotel here, right? They just have those olives. We did not go out and get extra. Did you picture us looking at like a little? bunch of olives and we're like, we'll take, no, we went upstairs, we said, hey, can we get some olives? And that's what they handed us. We went to the whole food to olive bar and said, give us your jumbos. Give us your biggest olives. That's exactly right.

In Greg's defense, he probably was thinking about black olives, which are obviously smaller than the green olives that are a little bit bigger, unless he obviously was not based off the way he just looked at me. No, but here's the thing. I don't, I don't eat black olives. Black olives to me have no flavor. When you want a salty olive and I eat them for the salt, You want a green olive. I've never had an olive in my life. Really? Yeah.

You were missing something. No, I'm not missing anything. Stay away from the Kalamata. You got to go to the salty green olive. You don't like a Greek salad? You don't like it? No, not really, no. I'm with my dad on this one.

I can tell. I can look at a food and know if I'm going to like it or not, and I know I don't like olives. You don't like ribs. You don't like wings. What are you talking about? Well, I don't eat the ribs because it makes me messy and I don't think it's worth the trouble. It is not about liking it or not. He does like ribs and rice.

wings he just doesn't like eating with his hands. It's not worth the trouble to me. I'll have something else. If they put olives out there on that table, I'd bet you'd eat it. No, I could tell that I don't like that food right there. I can tell. I don't even need to try it. That's like a child. When a child says you, I don't like broccoli, you say, have you ever had broccoli? Right. And they go, no. Right. But I know the foods that I like. Oh, but also, but also Zaslo, I would say that Zaslow is the, to me, the most adult toddler I've ever met in my life except for Greg Cody. You are more of a toddler than Zaz, even though you're both allegedly adult and some of his eating habits. Like, my guess in general is you're just not a big vegetable guy.

I mean, it depends what kind of vegetable. Like, I like broccoli. Such a good shot. I like, I like, put a soda drinker's body. Such a good shout by Dan. You hate, you hate, you hate vegetables. vegetables. What makes you say that? I think that you think that chicken fingers and chicken nuggets are the way to go. I got shamed for the lunch I had on the road this weekend in Baton Rouge. I ordered, you know, everyone else got wings, but I don't do the wings. So I got boneless wings. Oh, so chicken nuggets. I got boneless wings. No, quit calling them wings. And so then I was told that I ordered chicken tenders like a baby. I said, no, I ordered boneless wings. Blast for me.

I think he only, you only eat corn. That's the vibe you know. No, I can't eat corn. It hurts my stomach. Wow. It hurts my stomach. Harts your stomach? Yeah, I love corn, but it comes out the way it went in. Yeah, corn is for everybody. Okay, but it also hurts my stomach. I'm not trying to have diarrhea.

I like the idea when he was a kid, he's like, whoa, I don't digest that. I'm not eating it. I think that Zazlo can crush your children's menu. That chicken fingers and French fries. Chicken fingers, fries, pizza, macaroni, and cheese. Kids menu's amazing you were talking about. So good. And they don't even include, they know not to include the vegetables.

So whatever, it's perfect. Health food. Let's cleanse the palate slightly more by having... Fruitball, what are you talking about? A song about Terry Rozier, please. All right, some breaking news is catching everybody by surprise. The FBI arresting NBA player Terry Rozier. The Miami hit card was arrested early this morning

and charged in a federal sports betting and money laundering case. Hey, teams win and loose together, but sometimes being a ball is not a sport. fun as being a better The younger's gonna hit tonight so stick around He's gonna fake An injury to keep those

minutes down The league did their own investigation What they whips somehow Titty Terry and his bets Oh it's all weird and terrible

Scary Terry's out there throwing games. Oh, what's he gonna do? He's hella screwed, because now we've got that by the FBI. Oh, to Terry and his best. Terry, Terry's best. I saw Mike back there fishing around for the gear head. He's got a compatible human being here. Greg Cody's got a lot of NASCAR opinions.

Championship four, baby. Including that it should only be four people racing at any time. I love that take. That's a great idea. That's not what it is? The best idea that's never been adopted. The best idea I've ever had that's never been adopted yet. If you had your way, the four racers and only the four racers allowed to race at Phoenix for Championship weekend, which is

coming up this weekend would be Chase Briscoe, Denny Hamlin, who is presently suing NASCAR as a team owner for 23. I feel like that's his last name. His first name, according to you, is Denny Hamlin. His last name who is presently suing NASCAR. You love saying that. It's wild. You have a great situation here where the Frans family would potentially have to hand

Denny Hamlin his first ever Cup Series championship. And William Byron has made it by winning a race, a brilliant race at Martinsville. He was the pole sitter, wire to wire, basically. dominated that race. And his teammate, Kyle Larson, who miss out on the championship four, closes out the championship four, which is a really interesting dynamic because you have two Joe Gibbs racing guys in Chase Briscoe and Denny Hamlin, going against two Hendrick Motorsports guys. Seemingly, the entire race, they'll be helping each other out during the race until they all decide at a certain point in stage three, let's go for this thing. Four incredible

racers, probably the best championship four you could ask for. And most importantly, Joey Legano? Shut out. The defending champion, Joey Legano. I'm not a huge NASCAR fan. I'm a casual NASCAR fan who ramps up when the playoffs are underway, so I'm going to have to say what you'd expect, which is that Denny Hamlin winning and being handed the trophy by a France is what America should want. That's the outcome. It'd be so great. Yes. It would be. It would be like who's the most, who's the biggest villain in the NFL right now? It would be like Roger Goodell handing that trophy to his biggest. He's not favored, is he?

He's not favored to win. At Phoenix, I've got to actually check out the lines on Traff King's Sportsbook, which reminds me, Gearhead is presented by NASCAR for all the latest insights and storylines and to find out when and where to watch, visit nascar.com. Phoenix, thankfully, is in one of these super random tracks. That's why it's usually reserved for the final. You get something true to form here. and I'm hopeful for an exciting race.

It was a really exciting race to end the Cup series last year. I can't believe the season's winding down here. Amin Al-Hasson is with us now. We've got his weekend observations to get to. He will also be here if you want to party with us on Thursday. We're having a block party, and Amin is flying in in order to have some time with our fans. We haven't done something like this in a while,

and so we're going to go out in mass. Have you decided, Greg, whether you will be there or not we've invited you now a couple of different times juju's flying in we got a few different people flying in to make sure to be with our fans yes i am very optimistic that i'll be there as well what does that mean i'm still crossing t's and dot and eyes but we're working on it what's a hold up uh Miami harold business well there is a game that night usually usually he writes off of those games the negotiation is that i would write a quick column off the game that I would post online by Friday morning.

And do you tell them why you're like, I'm going to a Halloween party? He's been milking the knee thing. Well, my knee thing is not milking. It hurts. I'm about to have surgery. But I'm also not going to this thing to go ballroom dancing. I'm going to this thing to sit down in the corner. You've never been to Flanning.

It's on Kendall. I can tell. There's going to be so much ballroom dancing there? Oh, my God. It's going to break out all over the block party. Wow, ballroom dancing. All right. I'm there.

Don Libetard. Is there back in my day? There is. actually are you not going to tell anyone wait a minute you guys guys it's a tuesday stugats here's your guy great cody with bag in my day shut my help my head okay here it is adultery oh oh wait a minute we are back for this one this is the Don Lebatar show with a There's two gods.

Amin is here. Let's do his weekend observations. He's glowing right now. The best Georgia Tech team of his lifetime is 8-0. Haynes King, I'm sure, is going to make an appearance at some point in these weekend observations. Let's get started with Amin. It is time for him to share his game notes. No one in the media will tell you what happened better than my.

I mean, Weekend Observations is presented by Miller Light. Greg, I told you to say strong. I told you to remain diamond-handed, and we finally hit the turning point. Because with four touchdown passes, zero INTs, and only one order of catalytic converters with cheese, Tua is back. The Finns. Thank you. The Finns have a three-game homestand up next.

Starting with perhaps a return of Lamar Jackson, then followed by Josh Allen and Jaden Daniels. You guys smell that? Uh-oh. Momentum into the buy week. I don't think those are quarterback. I don't think you know the way momentum works. Momentum. Momentum works in all types of directions.

Better grow that mow. Better grow it. Let's see. Why is everyone making a big deal about Vanderbilt? They can't stop talking about Vanderbilt. Oh my God, oh my God, oh, my God. When just like an hour south of that is something truly magical happening. Jalen Brown, giving us to Carlos Boozer treatment.

See that then? How much fun is everyone who loves Jalen Brown making of him because he got his, he stained his hair on Annobe's jersey? I mean, like I feel like we've reached a point in time and technology and things available to us. You don't have to resort to the head paint anymore. You can go to Turkey. They've got all types of like waterproof ones that don't smudge and you don't leave anything on the pillowcase. I don't know why he's going to.

like the 1999 Beijing model. C.J. Stroud is back. Aaron Rogers is washed. Jordan Love is the truth. Drake May. It's truthier. What happens when you do the truth and you get a little bit more truth?

Uh-huh. Truth become truthier. Ridiculum. Cam Scataboo. Mangled. his ankle. Players turned away in horror. But he just pumped them up and waved up to the crowd. What a guy. You see that? Everyone's crying and stuff and he's like, come on guys. Get your heads in the game. I love that guy. Jackson Dart. Sacked five times.

Hey, Giants. Protect the merchandise. By the way, Dan, I just discovered Jackson Dart has a brother. Do you know what his brother's name is? I do not. I swear to God, I'm not making this up. Diesel. No, you're making that up. Does he play football? That's a better quarterback name than check.

Tony, his name is Diesel Dart. What do you think he does? Play Highline? That gets you five stars on rivals right off the bat. Three star recruit, that's crazy. Three stars. He must stink. He must be terrible.

Mike, call that guy. Nah, man, Diesel Dart's the truth. He's going to Ole Miss, I think, next year. Halloween is around the corner and Cash Patel wants to play Mark Ruffalo in TASC. You guys see this? He wore the jacket. Yeah, yeah. Pablo Tori.

Tweeting more and more details about rigged poker games. Naming more and more names. Pablo, you're making the spot awfully hot, man. I mean, I wouldn't mind as much if it was just you, but I'm in this with you. See, this and the clipper stuff, I got more thinly veiled threats than a bipolar belly dancer with maviotized. Hot, Dan. A lot of threats.

That does seem like a lot, right? Cash Patel really likes saying La Casa Nostra. You guys notice that? La Casa Nottra. La Casa Nostra. There you go. He got up in the morning and practiced saying that in the mirror. I just know it.

Can I ask you guys real quick because La Cosa Nostra, that is Italian, but in Spanish, it is also in Spanish our thing. And so it's not La Caza Nostra. That's our house. That's a totally different thing. That was a joke, Dan. But I know, but I'm saying that that La Casa Nostra, that's Italian, correct? La Cosa Nostra. La Cosa Nostra, yes, this thing of ours.

But it's exactly how you would say it in Spanish. Anyway. There you go. It turns out the Romance languages, Dan, they have stuff in common. Yeah. Bonjourno and bonjour. Wow, those are really close together. Yeah.

Tucker Kraft. 143 yards receiving on seven receptions and two touchdowns. Haven't seen a craps rack up numbers like that since Jupiter. On tight end day, no less. Tight end day. The broadcast still shows Robert Salah every time. time the opponent's score. I started forgetting who the head coach of the Niners was.

To be fair, Shanahan does a good job of hiding his face with the play call sheet. He does this a lot. So then like, oh, we can't show him. Who are we going to show? I guess show the other guy. The 49ers had the ball for five minutes in the first half yesterday. I was so confused in the Red Zone. I'm like, why don't we show the 49ers?

I need George Kittle for a touchdown. Five minutes, they had the ball in the first half. You guys know why? MacCorpi. Because Macorkel Jones. Yep. McCorkel Jones turned back into a pumpkin. You know what season it is, Dano?

Pumpkin spice season. It's pumpkin season, that's right. Well done. Cinephope last week, we did Tokyo drift. True story. They couldn't get permits to shoot in Tokyo, so the crew just went ahead and shot the scenes anyway. Then the studio hired a fall guy.

So that whenever the police would come to make an arrest for the illegal shooting, the fall guy would claim to be the director to spend the night in jail. Also, Lucas Black is supposed to be in high school in that movie, but he looks older than me. That feels like a cinephobe promo. What? What's a synephobe, Dan? I'm not sure. Can you tell us? Yes, it's the podcast that Zach Harper and I do, where we review movies that are poorly rated on Rotten Tomatoes.

Try to ascertain what they're accurately rated. Maybe they didn't get a fair shake. It's produced by Anthony Mays and it's wherever you get podcasts. As I said, last week was Tokyo Drift. This week Rambo First Blood 2. I've never seen a Rambo movie.

Oh, you're missing out. You're missing out. I saw something fun the other day where Stallone was talking about Rambo and said the original incarnation of the movie was terrible and he insisted that they just take out all his long speaking lines and then it became good.

Dan, okay, I'm so glad you mentioned this. The first Rambo, First Blood, is about a guy who comes back from Vietnam and he's got PTSD and trying to deal with that. It's actually a very emotional, heartfelt movie. It's very well made. The second one was written by James Cameron, before James Cameron was James Cameron. And it kind of continued to explore those themes.

And Stallone was like, get the hell out of here. I just want to murder a bunch of people Southeast Asia. I mean, why was it called First Blood Park? Part 2, when the second blood is right there for them. Wait, the second one is called First Blood? Yeah, the second one is First Blood, Part 2. The first one is Rambo First Blood, Part 2. The second one is Rambo First Blood Part 2.

I can't watch that. Put it on the poll at Levitard show. Can it be first blood? Can it indeed be first blood if it's part 2? Well, the reason why it's first blood is because they drew first blood. But then they did it again, hence part 2. I'm not. Second Blood.

I'm out. No. Still first blood. For that reason, they drew it. I'm out. Cleveland Browns. Everything's going according to plan. I called it August 25th.

I'm just waiting for it to all come together with Shreda Sanders out there. Georgia Tech dropped in the polls. Syracuse bias. Yeah, it's AP. AP bowl is not the coach's poll. It's the other poll, right? It's the media.

And the media is all Syracuse alums. Costas and Lefco and Iron Eagle Serena Morales and all these people They're just mad Their coach said we're going to find out who's a coach Yeah, we found out all right Frankie Misconnection

You were the cute burnet In the mall prockering lot Talking on the phone I was a pedestrian you ran over Colorado Down 430 at halftime to Utah Lost 53 to 7 We didn't even mention that.

Is Dion still coaching? Sort of. Remember when he said he's bringing his own luggage and it's Louie? Now all he has is garbage bags and Lewis. Why, Lewis? Can you win comeback player of the year twice? If so, Flacco is a lock. I know they lost, but damn, man.

Got came back again. Kirk Cousins Should win Go Away Player of the Year The opposite of comeback How the hell do you lose to the Dolphins? Speaking of hell, Art Bryles Those are the very sloppy weekend observations.

Put it on the poll, please, at Levitard show. Should Kirk Cousins win Go Away Player of the Year? Greg Cody is talking about a sports equinox. Hell yeah. A sports equinox that he's very excited about. And we've got there. Can you explain to us why it is you're so excited about the sports equinox? Because these are rare occurrences.

I refer to it not as the sport equinox, but as Royal Synchronicity Day. This is the day on the calendar. It doesn't happen every year. And when it does, it's normally only once a year. For example, the very first one was in 1971. This is the 32nd one. today, October 27th, when MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL, all playing, and Highlie, are all playing. And MLS on the same day.

And MLS. But we're only talking about the traditional, original Big Four sports here. That's where the record keeping is done. First time, you know, in a while. I mean, it's happened every year since 2015, granted, but usually. Well, you know in a while. It doesn't know what's happened. Well, you know in a while.

It's happened every year for the last 10 years, but it doesn't happen. It doesn't happen every year. It's happened 32 times since 1971. You do the math. More common than leap year. But it's happened every year since 2015. As happenstance would have it, yes. It's pretty rare.

Yeah, pretty rare. So it's like a birthday. A bit of an outlier on a long enough timeline, though. Thank you. Damn right. I mean, did you? Did you consume much coverage that was interesting to you that advances the NBA gambling story as Congress makes a show of summoning Adam Silver here? Surely you have some thoughts here that are more interesting than most people on this subject.

Yeah, Dan, I know not only consumed, I contributed. I did a CNN hit after we got done with DLS on Friday. Pablo not available? That's what I thought. That's exactly what I thought. They just went down the list. He was on MSNBC. He was too busy.

They brought out Pablo for nighttime NBC, MSNBC. They summoned him. He brought out one of his snazziest sports coats. Did you guys see Matt out reading the donor list? That was great. She was crying. It was funny, though, because I gave, like, I couldn't, there was no return. So I was just talking to my camera.

And so I gave some, I thought, pretty banal answers And they ended the interview pretty quick And afterward, a buddy of mine who works in politics said, you should have talked about Cash Patel They would have had you on for 15 minutes. I was, wait, I didn't want, I wanted him to lead me a little bit Like, hey, open the door a little bit So I could rip the FBI director, but, you know,

I gave too many kind of milk toast answers, I guess, Dan, about like gambling and how this affects the game and all that. That's not you either. You're not a milk toast kind of guy. you know what Tony the lights man no a little too bright you choked a little too bright

no I didn't choke I just didn't play you know how like Anthony Edwards in the playoffs there was that game where everyone was like why is he just passing the ball like yeah at some point you just got to take over and see the hell with the game plan I'm getting these shots up that was Anthony Edwards man I didn't have

I needed someone to coach me in my corner to go shoot take this go one on four and I could have done it I had that Mark Ruffalo joke all weekend long, but like I didn't, I should unleash it on CNN. Got to be great. Were you, uh, were you thrown off by just being in a closet somewhere and not actually being able to interact with the people you were talking to?

You couldn't see them either when you're saying there was no return? Yeah, I couldn't see who I was talking to. Sensory advantage. And, you know, it's just, it's just, you know, also it's like, I don't know the producers. It's not like the producers chatted me on the side or anything coaching me up. It's just like, all right, we'll get to you after this break. And I was like, oh, okay. So I, like, I don't want to blame.

them. They do a marvelous job over there at CNN. I'd love to come back, but I know I was about this. No, you won't be invited back. I got a, I got when Hannity and Combs in its previous incarnation before Hannity was on TV was TV, Dan, you distancing yourself. It's much better now. I, uh, I didn't have return, and I just purposely made a mess of the whole thing, and I'm pretty sure that I got the producer fired for, uh, for having me on because there were an assortment of people on the panel that I could hear, but I couldn't see any of them. And I was legitimately asking the question of our, there was somebody on the panel who was holding,

Neil Borts was holding a white dog. And so I was just asking, is anyone here, is anyone here talking about Michael Vic Black? What does one's race have to do with this issue? Because they don't like the reaction. They don't like a system that has betrayed them over time. They carry that baggage to this discussion.

If you read the article that I wrote, I did, and I think you're totally wrong. You didn't read it then. You read it selected. Well, I read only if I think, oh, you're right then I, then I will have read it. Jim Miller, let me bring it. No, you came into the discussion with your own baggage, and you don't want to listen to Black Viewpoint. I have baggage because I think race has nothing to do with this.

Jim Miller, I don't see what Race has to do with this, and it seems like Dan wants to make this. Let me get the other guests then. How many Black people are on this panel? That's how you got to do it. Just make a mess. I remember that. A couple of things. Dan, you're right.

I should have done that. Just barged in the way you did. and you're right there were no black people on the panel that's kind of ridiculous but he kind of got your ass and he said I did read it and I think you're wrong

I was Combs Selective reading when you lose Colmes The video is so good because if you were watching it it doesn't make sense why the person on my television doesn't see that all the people

are white like it's not explains that you obviously You don't see them Yeah look at your TV Like I'm looking Why are you screaming Where are the black people?

Is this guy blind? They're all right there. Even the dog. It is the quarterback, the former Bears quarterback, Jim Miller. And again, even the dog was white. There was somebody holding a puppy. Neil Borts was holding a puppy. But what advances the story?

What advances were there in the story this weekend? I mean, you found interesting. So I talked to a legal expert actually yesterday on Sirius XM radio. And so I asked, one of the things, was in the indictments, which, by the way, the FBI and the Department of Justice did a great job of mashing it all together and make it seem like a huge match-fixing thing, when in reality there's a poker game element, and then there's an allegation that Terry Rozier fixed the match, and then there's a third allegation that Damon Jones and some other people provided insider

information, basically insider trading. But they brought it all together and they put Chauncey Billups name on it to make it seem like Chauncey Blilips is out here manipulating games. So the first thing I would urge everyone is to understand these are three, although related, separate cases. Number two, and I know you guys must have talked about this, co-conspirator number

eight in the insider information trading case. Chauncey? Is Chauncey, right? The description played from 97 to 2014. It's a current NBA coach and like gave information. about the blazers it's like it's not hard to figure out who they're talking about so i asked the legal expert i said is there a reason why they would name chauncey billips in this allegation in this uh indictment but not in this one even though he's quote-to-quote co-conspirator and it said it's

one of two things either he's cooperating which probably is in the case because again they indicted him in another one or they just don't have enough strong hard evidence to stick him on it which goes back a lot of these things. And again, it's just an indictment. We don't know all the things that the federal government has in their control. But a lot of it seems very circumstantial. And I'd be surprised if we get like maximum sentencing for any of the NBA guys in terms of Chanty Bill or Terry Rozier. We've got fewer than 30 seconds left. But when they say that Damon Jones was an unpaid, unofficial member of the Lakers staff, what the hell does that mean? And how common is that. Like what unpaid

unofficial member of the Lakers of Darvindham's staff? Put bluntly, he's LeBron's guy. So he works with him on a shooting. He travels, but he's not a Laker employee technically. Right? And so they don't pay him. They don't pay him. I'm assuming LeBron compensates

him. And so Damon Jones being around and that intimately in the environment would, hypothetically speaking, give him access to information that a regular person would not. So he's like Jeremy. Is it crazy if I ask, what can Damon Jones teach LeBron James?

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