The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: The Manager's Surprise

Episode Date: January 7, 2025

Hour 2 is essentially the Billy Gil Power Hour. Dan has 1,000,000 things to get to, but he wants to explore the inner workings of Billy Gil's mind after his trip to the zoo and experience with a rental car. Then, is Stugotz going to go to Australia without telling anyone? Plus, Against the Spread, what Dan needs Jeremy to learn, and Mike happens to know who is going No. 1 overall in the upcoming NFL Draft. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. and get up to $75 in PC optimum points. Visit superstore.ca to get started. This is the Dan Lebatard Show with the Stugatz Podcast. This episode of the Dan Lebatard Show with Stugatz is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. I want to apologize to the audience yesterday because they want their hours and they want them every day and they have made us a beast, Stugats. Like I am really proud and happy right now in a contract year that DraftKings has been

the best sponsor we've ever had. We love DraftKings, got a great relationship with them and also it's the content free agent spending spree time where everyone in streaming is trying to get into sports. It's just an aggressive business time. And so I have been wanting to feed the addiction to our audience and they continue to allow us to make a great business out of what all of this is. And yesterday they expected four hours after two weeks off after football headed into the playoffs,

and we can only give them three because the computers are melting. And it was very hot and the air conditioning wasn't working, and that's not winter problems that most media companies have, but they told me don't do it in Miami, Dan, you're an idiot. Don't ever do it in Miami, you're a fool. And so the equipment was melting yesterday,

and we didn't get the fourth hour out, but we did get you some Ron McGillcgill best of and i just wanted to apologize to the audience for that we will give you your full ration of addiction today uh... i didn't get to the golden globe yesterday were a thousand things i wanted to talk about that i never got the chance to talk about apple ninety five million dollar settlement is that we've been eavesdropping on people and it's just the most common thing we all know this now and accepted apple

pays ninety five million dollars in the lawsuit to just be like that we listen to you but we don't want to offend apple because they're good business partners gotta be careful but we offend in this age of free agency in a contract everyone's hiring the happy order merchandise don't criticize the company you order the merchandise for. They have this company starting.

Dangerous game. Also, the consequences for Apple doing things with our phone, we're just so dependent on them. Remember when they had to essentially admit, yeah, whenever there was a new update that came out, it would kind of ruin your phone because you had to buy the new iPhone? We'd kind of make that happen.

They got slapped on the wrist with a fine and we kept buying the new iPhones anyway. Too big to fail. Those chargers though, I mean. You mentioned Ron McGill. I saw Ron McGill over the break and had an uncomfortable moment. Really?

In part because of Ron McGill and it was really a bad behavior on my part that I should apologize for on my part that I should apologize for to the people that I offended but I I don't know how to or if they're even gonna remember it or experience it the same way like do you guys ever have something and you it played out differently in your head than then you think that it was for other people's like you feel guilt about something that other people like I don't really care about that at all I had that

with Ron McGill so I went to the Zoo some uh, I don't want to brag annual pass holder at the zoo. No big deal. Yeah, you're a regular Yeah, I can go whenever I damn well, please So I have one of those family passes, right? It's like $70. Honestly, I don't know why it's so cheap I know I'm saying this because now they're gonna raise the price But it's like cheaper to get the annual pass than it is to take your family for a day to the zoo. So if you have interest in going to the zoo and you have a family get the annual pass. You are a zoo supporter and it is cheap.

Oh yeah, I love the animals. I love the animals. It's like the drink package on a cruise. It is. Yeah, yeah, but that one seems more like a challenge. You get the drink package on a cruise, you're like, I'm gonna make money here. Because like what you do is you start counting the drinks, you start adding it up, and then you convince yourself that you actually made money by drinking more. Billy, you're a man of the people, and I believe that your aggressive support of the zoo

is something that is fun for the whole family. You are a McGill supporter, but what happened with you and him? You know what I saw before we get to that at the zoo? I saw they installed cameras where I believe the chimpanzees are and I wanted to ask him about it whenever he comes back on because before I wasn't there and I went to the zoo previously and one of the chimpanzees asked a man to throw him ice cream

so the man obliged and threw him ice cream and then the chimpanzee ate said ice cream after after waving the man and saying throw me the ice cream he threw him the ice cream and now there's cameras set up everywhere and there's a recording in English and Spanish of Ron McGill telling people if they throw the chimpanzees anything, they will be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

But it's on an endless loop. And I wonder what's worse for the health of these chimpanzees, eating the occasional ice cream or having Ron McGill talk to them 24 hours a day, driving them crazy? We need to ask Ron McGill this. You don't understand, okay? I don't know what's coming the next four years.

None of us know what's coming the next four years, but I assure you, it's not people who will be interested in protecting the zoo and Ron McGill. I'm just doing my part. And so he, Ron McGill is gonna need our protection, because I don't know how many of you remember the scene from a million years ago of Indiana Jones waving a torch at a bunch of snakes.

But whatever is coming for government funding is gonna make it hard for you to afford things like that precious, precious zoo that he cares about more than anybody because he cares about the animals more than anybody. But what was the awkward moment you had with our hero, Ron McGill? Well, so yeah, so as I mentioned,

I have the annual pass so I can support Ron's vacations. And what happened was Ron was on a vacation to the Galapagos, which I think zoo people, I'm not exactly sure. So I go to the zoo, and when you, people here who have kids know sometimes you will see your kid's classmates out in the wild. And the kids are very excited when they see each other

out in the wild. Totally awkward for the parents. Okay, so. Oh no. So. Here we go. It's fun for the kids to see each other out in the wild. But you know, the kids, you know,

mine eldest is three, these are three year olds, they see each other, they're screaming each other's names, they go, they're excited, they run up to each other. So then you go and you say hi to the parents. Hey, how's it going? How's the break? School's gonna start again next week. You start the small talk and then one of the parents says,

hey look, it's Ron McGill. And I was excited because you don't always see Ron McGill. Every time you go to the zoo, you know, I'm gonna see a giraffe, I'm gonna see a zebra, I'll see a rhino, but you don't know if you're gonna see Ron McGill. Every time you go to the zoo, you know, I'm gonna see a giraffe, I'm gonna see a zebra, I'll see a rhino. But you don't know if you're gonna see Ron McGill. Billy, I don't, you know this, you know this. Ron McGill's a giant star.

Salvador Higante is a show. Internationally, Ron McGill represents the fascination of how exotic Miami is to the world. He's a big star, and when people see him at the zoo, he's the biggest attraction. He is, it's exciting to see him, because you never know when you're gonna see him, star, and when people see him at the zoo, he's the biggest attraction. He is, it's exciting to see him, because you never know when you're gonna see him, or if you're gonna see him,

because sometimes we see him, he's in his office, and you'll see pictures of him everywhere, you'll hear his voice telling people, don't throw things at the chimpanzees. But this person says, oh look, it's Ron McGill, and we're like, I just, I got excited, so I was like, I gotta go say hi to Ron McGill, so I kinda just take off in the middle of this conversation to go say hi to Ron McGill, so I kinda just take off in the middle of this conversation

to go say hi to Ron McGill, like I jog over, cause he was on a golf cart, so I had to almost like jog over to the golf course and I tap on him, and he's like, hey, Ron, he's like, oh, hey, Billy, how's it going? You know how he talks. So he gets out of the thing, and I'm like, how was the Galapagos?

Oh, it was amazing, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, does all that, you know, Ron McGill stuff. Signed me about the Galapagos, he gets out of the golf cart, we're talking about it, so great to see you, oh, I'm so sorry, there's so much construction going on right now at the zoo, uh. Mickey Mouse? I'm like, it's fine, Ron, don't worry about it,

we're here, we support you, we're here all the time, anyway, it's not a big deal, right? So he gets out, I'm talking to him, he's talking to me, we're talking about the Galapagos, all that stuff, right? Time to look cool. Yeah, yeah, and the parents are there, and then I introduce them, like, oh, here's my wife, and you know, my daughters,

I don't know if you met my daughters, I don't know. And then I noticed that, like, at some point, the friends and the parents of the friends have, like, left. And I was like, oh, should I have introduced them to Ron McGill, and should I have bailed in the middle of a conversation with them to say hi to Ron McGill? You big time them.

I felt, no, I felt very rude after the fact, and then they were gone, and we didn't see them the rest of the day, and the whole day I was full of regret of leaving in the middle of this conversation, and then not introducing them to Ron McGill, and then just going on to talking to regret? Yeah, just feeling.

The only way I know how. Overthinking. Just feeling it all day. Feeling regret all day. I was feeding the giraffes, and I couldn't shake the feeling. Send your apology. I thought about changing my daughter's schools, honestly.

I can't face these gloves again. Just tell your three-year-old the apology and she'll relay the message. No, and then the whole day she's like, oh, where, where, I'm just asking where her friend is. And I'm like, I don't know, but also, like, I kind of, they probably hate me now because I left very rudely. A calamitous zoo visit that should have been wonderful.

It was a lovely day, aside from that. Let me ask you guys another question. Awkwardness aside, and how you would deal with that situation. So the zoo has a split. We ended up going not in the same loop as them, I'm assuming, because we didn't see them. But you then have to have a, you figure it out, right? Because if you go the same loop as your kid's friends,

then you're in it all day with your kid's friends and their family, whatever, and it's not, you have to decide, do I want to ruin another family's day by including me in it, you know what I mean? That's how you look at it. No, like it's- It's a great way of putting it. But it is the thing, right? It's like so my own your day.

No, it's their day. Like they didn't come to the zoo wanting to spend the day with my child and me. Right. But I know how kids work. So do you go the way of the friend of the school or do you go the opposite way? We didn't have that situation. We ended up just going the opposite way. But it's something that goes through my take a bathroom break really early on so that that way you know you're not doing the same thing. No, we're gonna stop for food. You guys go on a hit.

Look Billy I'm promising you here I want to go wherever it is that the end of this takes us and I also want to make a stop at whatever it is that happened to you at the rental car center this morning. Never go for the uh... but but but i just want to always go for the matter is that hold on hold up please everyone settle down on a judge's got just for a second rental car i will follow billy wherever he wishes to go here which is rare for me okay mike ryan's going crazy he is because for ten minutes

he's had giant nfl news he just took a call shot dot mike ryan for ten minutes has had giant nfl news to that i don't know no no no no no no no no break the news if not also is going to break it is using it now i want to hear the rest of what you have to say here. Please take us on this joyride. No, that was it.

We were just talking about the zoo. That's it. And then we were just having one of life's conundrums. If you run into one of your kids' friends in the wild, do you follow them or do you go the opposite path, the road less traveled? A literal fork in the road, if you will. I always go the opposite way.

Same. But why? Because I don't like people. Right. Yep, same here. What did you choose? Well, I didn't get to that choice because they left. You never got to the fork in you choose? Well, I didn't get to that choice because they left. You never got to the fork in the road?

No, I didn't get to the fork in the road, but they had left while I had rudely started talking to Ron McGill, so I didn't have the decision to make. But I was thinking, had I reached this decision, would we have made an opposite decision and then they'd be mad at me anyway, you know? It's just one of those things. You'll get it, Dan.

I almost don't wanna have a positive interaction with a student's parents. They're so young though. Right, but your kid wants to hang out with the other kids. That's the conundrum. I understand, but I just hope this isn't a positive experience for us, because this can't be a thing. Well, here's the thing, Stugats.

You've been through it. Your daughters are in college. One of his daughters, I don't know if you guys heard on God bless football yesterday, studying abroad in Australia. Yeah. That's incredible. Down under.

Down under, yeah. So I already, I'm just. Somehow closer than our home would have been down here. For the record, for the record, because he just casually dropped this in. Stugats is planning a trip to Australia at some point where he'll just disappear and he'll tell us, I told you I was going to Australia.

So I think he said it was for the open, but I'm not 100% sure. So mark that on your calendars now. He opens in like two weeks. Mark that on your calendars now. What happened? He already dropped in, I'm going to the open in Australia. Australian open, yeah.

Yeah, so. When in Rome, let me know. Keep an eye on that one. They're playing the warm up tourneys. During the playoffs of the NFL. Shout out to Riley Opelka, friend of the show, he's back. I had the same exact thing happen running into one of my daughter's friends

at the mall over the holidays, but I did not go in for the shake hands and introduce. I kinda like kept the distance, I let the kids talk, and I just like, I acknowledged the parents, but it was just kind of like a hello from a distance. I didn't wanna do the thing of like, let's get into 10 minutes of small talk. No, we did that.

But I've been getting pep talk, and so you guys, this is where you come in, because you've been through this. My dad's been giving me pep talks about this, and he's like, you need to make friends with these people. You're gonna be going to school with them the entirety of their time in school unless one of you leaves.

He's like, and he keeps saying this, these are the families you're gonna go to Disney World with. You need to start making these relationships now, and it's a lot of pressure. Right, I can tell you I never went to Disney World with a single family, like none of them. None of my kids friends, we never went together. I coached their lacrosse team.

That's how I got out of everything, and that's how I brought them all together, and that's how I spent time with the families, by not spending time with the family. Because I was on the sideline coaching the team, they were watching the games. The Australian Open is in five days. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

You wanna go? So are the NFL playoffs. It's gonna be. All right, we'll find out together. We'll find out contract year, it's an amazing time to be a company in the contract year. I didn't schedule this. I don't schedule the Australian Open. I don't schedule, you know, studying abroad. I'm glad Emma's doing it. It's a big opportunity for her. She's having

a blast. I want to go visit her. I mean, I'm not going to go. Dan, I'm going post-March. I'm not going anytime soon. I mean, the Australian Open, it was a joke. Post-March, though, but then it's their winner and that's no fun. You want to go when it's your winner and it's their summer. I'm not doing winter. I might not see Emma. We'll see. A number of things that I need to get to. You guys can't let me get out of here without saying more on that Fox Sports lawsuit.

You guys know that that is the click-chum. Everyone loves, everyone loves the garbage. Five days, huh? Watch me. I want to get to a witty call and I want to get to Dylan Gabriel possibly being stoned, OK? Hm. Hm. Ha, ha, ha.

If you want to talk rental cars, I'm still here. Well, then, no, I do. And I want to get to Mike has breaking news, OK? And against the spread. Mike's got an I happen to know. And you should promote the day and interviews Dan thing You should label it Dan versus Dan because people like fights. Yeah Dan interviews Dan is like, you know what?

Dan no, we can't change it. Oh, sorry. I've been printed. Let's change stop coming up with good ideas after the fact We'll include him on the front end coming up with good ideas after the fact. Should have brought you in on that. We'll include him on the front end. Duke it out. Dan liked Dan interviews, Dan. Dan versus, well, it was two Dan's walk into a bar. Two Dan's cutting it up, but we went Dan interviews Dan.

So many good ideas. The arrows go both ways. Right. They're both named Dan. Dan versus Dan is better. Has caused all sorts of issues. Dan versus Dan is better. Has anyone checked in with Dan?

Which Dan? How would you take out Dan Patrick in a fight? Ticketweb.com for Dan versus Dan. Search Levitard. One more time, ticketweb.com, just search Dan Levitard. It's the first thing that comes up. We have a QR code right here on the screen right now. If you're watching us on Peacock or YouTube,

that QR code, you hold your iPhone up to it. I'm just explaining this to Sue Gotts and Greg Cody. You open, and Dan, Patrick and LeBattard, you open up your camera, you wait till the link populates at the bottom and it'll take you straight to there. But if you don't wanna do that, if you're just listening to us on our podcast,

monitor our socials because the link's out there too, or just go to ticketweb.com and search Dan LeBattard and I promise you, it's quick and easy. So you're doing this Super Bowl week, you're doing it one night in New Orleans? While you're in Australia, yes. Hmm, wow. Hopefully in American tennis.

It'll be me and Billy on God Bless Football. You're expensing this trip or? We will get you as a correspondent from the Australian Open. What percentage do you give an American winning that? It's been a while. It has. American men's tennis is as good a position

as it's been in a while. Fritzy. What is, Dax are you? Tracking all our cars on Carvana value tracker on all our devices? Yes, Kristin, yes I am. Well, I've been looking for my phone for- In Dax's domain, we see all.

So we always know what our cars are worth. All of them? All of them. Value surge trucks up 3.9 percent. That's a great offer. I know. Sell? Sell. Track your car's value with Carvana Value Tracker today. Yeah sure thing. Hey you sold that car yet? Yeah sold it to Carvana., I thought you were selling to that guy. The guy who wanted to pay me in foreign currency, no interest, over 36 months?

Yeah, no. Carvana gave me an offer in minutes, picked it up and paid me on the spot. It was so convenient. Just like that? Yeah. No hassle. None.

That is super convenient. Sell your car to Carvana and swap hassle for convenience pick up these may apply D'onlevo card, it's not my favorite region Context needs to be applied over joke and what the context was applied. We uh, we'd like to rip that out of context I was going for a thing and You're gonna you're gonna family you're gonna pretend here that you don't love Matthew Kachak more than you love I don't you've ever loved I I don't love Matthew Kachak more than my daughter still gots now It's pretty damn close. This is the done libertar show with a stooge

You guys know that the hockey canceled their all-star game is just having four countries fight each other. Yeah, that's awesome Chris Chris and I are going more on that. Really? Yeah Wow guys Oh Roy's gonna be mad when it comes to oh my god, he had green text when it comes to more on that in a second I've got a lot that I have to get to okay And I don't think there's gonna be time in the last 15 minutes, because Mike has what we believe to be giant news. I can tell you right now, wholeheartedly, who the number one pick of the NFL Draft is going to be.

Whoa! Wow! Wow. But, that's the cars. Wow is a curious word to choose. Hmm. But, I can't get to it right now, or against the spread, because I have to know why it is that Billy tried to get a rental car today, chose the manager's surprise.

Stu Gotts is sitting here saying you have to choose the manager's surprise and I am led to believe that you regret, just from the look on your face and how you came in here today, that you regret choosing the manager surprise Well, I got in a car accident. I'm fine. Thank you for asking and anyway, so I rented a car for a couple of days and And I did the manager surprise because it was it was the cheapest thing available It was like well, it's only cost, you know, $29 a day or whatever you do the manager surprise I'm like, I don't care what car you get. I'm just trying to get to work and

When I got the manager surprise boy, boy, was I surprised. It's an electric car, which is fine. I don't have a problem with an electric car. But the way that you have to return the car with the same amount of gas, I need to return it with the same amount of kilowatts or whatever. So now I need to find a place to charge it.

A charging station. And I need to figure out how many kilowatts an hour this thing needs to get in there before it is that I take it back to Hertz. It's just, it's more work now. I would have rather just taken the car for $3 more that I could put gas, because I can control that. Again, not against the electric vehicle,

it's kind of cool, but this is now a job. I need to figure out how to fill this thing up and then it'll sit at a bench somewhere while it charges itself up, and then I need to play the game where I guess how long a Kilowatt an hour goes and what is a kilowatt an hour versus a minute an hour and it's one of these things is is it Metric, I don't know. I don't know how these things work. I need to figure this out. Where's there a charging station?

How much does it cost? How do I find one? What if I plug it in wrong? What if I get left out of the cheapest you went the cheap horse? And the cheapest resulted in an electric car and you've never used one before and it ended up being a disaster. It is a disaster. Well no, it's not a disaster. How confusing is that brake?

Full disclosure, my wife has a hybrid, so I'm somewhat familiar with the electric, but this is all electric and again, it's cool, but I don't, the hours, kilowatt hours, this, where do I charge it? It's like, it's a whole thing. You don't know how to charge your car like a phone. He doesn't know where to go to charge your car.

I don't know where to go to charge, exactly. I could find a gas station on any corner. Now I need to download apps. I need to look at maps. I need to figure out where to go. I need to know is this a good price for kilowatts? I don't know, but I don't want to be overcharged for a kilowatt.

Then they ask me, well, if you just pay a fee and then you'll be covered. I'm like, no, not a chance. You're going to charge me $50 a kilowatt or something. And I'm not going to pay, I know a kilowatt. I no, not a chance. You're gonna charge me $50 a kilowatt or something and I'm not gonna pay, I know a kilowatt. I don't know what it costs, but it's not $50 a kilowatt, so I'm not gonna pay that. There are charging stations, I think,

at most gas stations, aren't there? No, not at most gas stations. I don't know, I don't know, but I need to figure it out. I need to figure out how to charge it. And like you were saying, electric cars are not cheap, but I'm assuming that no one is choosing to rent them, and that's why they're the manager's surprise. I've been surprised twice out of the last three times

that I rented a car. One time was with a Chevy Bolt EV, which is this one, a little tiny car that you plug in. The other time was a 15 passenger van in Kansas City, which was another, that one was a pleasant surprise, but I knew where to fill that thing up if I had to it's just always a surprise and I'm starting to learn you don't like the surprise every time that van was a beauty man sounds like great fun to me just go I'll go with the manager surprise

put it on the pole at Leviton shows will you choose the manager surprise every time are you expecting the manager surprise at the rental car place to be the cheapest thing because i'm with sir god's delight me surprise me with my purchase but it sounds like a disaster right listen to me if we don't get to mike's news we have a problem here because everybody needs the nfl news down for sure we were a contract here we've got a sponsored segment here sold to bring maximum

attention to that we'll tell people that we're doing against the spread here. But Mike's news is big. He's got an I happen to know that's bigger than most I happen to know. So give me our sponsored segment first, please. ["Against the Spread"]

That's right, it's time for Against the Spray! And it's presented by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. Jeremy, what do you got? Guys, I've never been allowed to give this advice until the Florida Panthers were no longer a part of my regional sports network. So now I can tell you to bet on the Panthers tomorrow night, stay up for a West Coast, East Coast 10 o'clock start, West Coast game.

That was really confusing. It was terrible. I'm normally good at broadcasting, but I got confused because they're not on our regional sports network anymore. Share Emmy. Thank you. I have two now.

Major Panthers, five minutes for stumbling. I have two Emmys you have two minutes personal honor an ensemble does my name Get out of here someone else will make the bed. What was his pick? I don't even know Panthers minus one Use four words one time Mike, what do you got? I'm gonna take Texas Well, I would like to give some insight could be any time just really like well I have to give some gambling insight look at Ohio State's feeling themselves right now, but they should do this They have all the talent in the world. They're the best team. I still don't think we've seen the best of Texas

I think Texas can hang inside that number Particularly because I really like that defensive line for Texas and that's why I'm taking them again. So the spread Thank you. I don't mind a lot of words if they're gonna be informational but him coming here Our time zone was important. It just but I think it's also a nine o'clock. It might just be Jeremy Listen listen. Listen, I'm gonna start doing employee reviews around here. He's a trigger. And when I sit, when I sit, yes, he's a good kid. And an Emmy winner.

And an Emmy winner. Two times. Okay, yes. Part of the cast. Yes, agreed. His name's on the trophy though. Agreed. He's a broadcasting prodigy, but here,

let me play for you some witty sound because the standard. Prodigy. Wait a minute. This dude was prodigious. He good he's got to block listen to me stugat Jeremy Tashay has some of the best jobs locally in sports broadcasting and he's a child okay other times that I look at him I'm like what do you subject yourself to this yeah he's got a what you do yes yes yes yes but he likes to do a little tap dance before getting in and giving the information in that shmarmie Broadcasting way that is the antithesis of everything we want to do

I don't have an Emmy the website for his event says he does What you're not the Emmy winner? Maybe that's the other Dan because it's Dan interviews Dan versus Dan well if the competition is winning Emmy it ain't lebatard that is correct I've never won any of the broadcasting awards. That's why you're so upset with Jimmy. No. You won a New Times. New Times best show.

Best AM afternoon show. Your perennial winner for best mistake. Except Olive Green. Listen to me. When it comes to prodigious talent birthed by our show chris wittingham came onto the scene here when he was about fifteen or sixteen years old and so mike i'm asking you genuinely how you feel about this call because we

is living his dreams as a young broadcaster he's no no what eagle know that in terms of what we've had in South Florida there's never been a broadcasting sports prodigy like Chris Whittingham so let me play for the people this call which is Whittingham arriving at his dreams and getting to voice them hero From two down a famous victory

That's showing His first trophy at the club after just two games. That's bullshit accent by winning him. He's so good though. Just isolating it. He did great the entire match. That's the Italian Super Cup and it's Inter Milan versus AC Milan, arguably the biggest rivalry in Italy. And the game was amazing.

There were great chances end to end. Pulisic, you knew he would show up for January 6th. He absolutely killed it. And it was an amazing game. And for him to have that crescendo, like an at the death winner, and lay out for that moment after a huge monumental, two-zero most dangerous lead in sports, monumental comeback and a huge moment for that club. He is so great at what he does.

He's now the lead voice over at Paramount for Syria A. And playing that back literally warmed my heart. That was incredible by him. He's so good lead voiceover at Paramount for Syria A and playing that back literally warmed my heart. That was incredible by him. He's so good, so good. He's no Noah Eagle, but he'll keep trying and Jeremy will keep trying. And hopefully Jeremy will be playing a xylophone while calling heat games in three years.

He hoisted babies if you remember. Ah man, that was a good one. But he wants to be a, he wants to be a theater kid. You very much don't like him. It's obvious. It's okay. Just say it, Dan.

It's okay. You'll feel better, he'll feel better. What do you mean? Everyone feels better. Wait a minute. It'll be less tense. The audience agrees. Just say what you wanna say.

With Dan. The audience knows. Prodigy. Just just say what you want to say the audience knows Prodigy what I would like for Jeremy make it up for some stuff there. I mean come on is For Jeremy to realize in some instances that he doesn't know everything. Oh Well, I do That's right, I've just learned from you guys. What you need to know, that's right. Because I do.

That's correct. And because Dan does. Jeremy, that's what we're saying. I'm learning in real time. Jeremy, what we're saying is, you don't get to be the guy who knows everything, cause I am. Even if I know.

Yes, correct. Doesn't matter. You don't know. Okay, got it. I think you know, but you have no idea. So even if I know. What don't you understand? I get it. No, I know, now I know Doesn't matter okay, guys. You know, but you have no so even if I know what don't you understand? I know I know now I know you understand strong. Yeah, get it the gig is You can't know everything if I do So if I know I just got to give it to you so that you can know precisely I mean I wasn't hired as any specific role.

I don't even think I've ever signed a piece of paper that says I work here, but I'll be a producer, sure. I don't think we need to. Make him look like the guy who knows, not yourself. Did the air just cut off? I don't know what happened. I think I know what's going on here. I'm sweating.

The whole prodigy thing. Dan's trying to talk him up so someone comes in and scoops him away so Dan doesn't have to deal with him. To get him out of here. He's doing the opposite of Riley. He's trying to build up my trade values. You're the free agent here. Look at Riddie. He keeps referring to him. Look where we developed. The next one of here. He's doing the opposite of Riley. He's trying to build up my trade values. You're the free agency. Look at Ritty.

He keeps referring to that. The next one's here. Just take them from us. Oh, OK. Now I understand. I'm passive aggressive that way. Been in all my relationships my entire life. You and boss and Connor.

I'm sure me and Barstool will get along great. Mike, what's the news? What's the news? Because you're locking this down. You're saying this is so because people are gonna eat this up. They're gonna eat this up. This is his biggest report in his early reporting career. No, no, no.

I wish I lived in a DraftKings safe because I lock in Shadruss owners. You're number one. No, this one, no. Messy is the biggest story he's ever broken. But this one, in America, this one will create more stir. So we know the breaking news from today. The Titans have parted ways with Rand Karthon.

Rand Karthon I happen to know, like Cam Ward, the head of scouting was a former Miami Hurricane, AJ Highsmith, related to Alonzo Highsmith. And Cam Ward as of right now even is still the favorite to go number one. However, the news of this broke and Dion Sanders took to Twitter and responded, quote, tweet, wow.

Now, if you also go back into Dion Sanders' Twitter, do you have it open? I know you were looking at it before. Who has Dion Sanders been publicly supporting to get a job for general manager this entire off season to the point that it's been a little odd. It's been Lou Riddick. Very flattering tweets about him.

So now there's this job opening. Early consensus is Lou Riddick is in the mix for this job. We know that Deon Sanders loves Lou Riddick, has been publicly endorsing him, has not been endorsing other GM candidates, because why? Because he knows. If Lou Riddick gets that job

that is now open in Tennessee, his son Shador Sanders goes number one to Lou Riddick's team. That is what I would be banking on because I happen to know. Now, what does this mean for the number two spot? That falls now to the Cleveland Browns and if we go down this path where Lou Riddick goes to the Titans and we expect Shador Sanders to go to Tennessee as well, Cleveland is on the clock,

Kim Ward is there. Wow. I might be coming home. Mike's coming home. Coming home. Dion Sanders is saying. Wow. That's so good.

Wow. Great. All knowledge and class is what he's saying of Lewis Riddick. So what you're basically saying on top of who is gonna be number one and number two, if Lewis Riddick gets that job, Deion Sanders is going to feel like he's everyone's boss in both sports?

Well, they also have a head coach opening. Well, not yet, but what if the GM doesn't like the head coach? Like it could mean for Deion Sanders too. I'm not fantasy booking that, but we know that there is a GM candidate that Deion Sanders has publicly endorsed in strange ways. He's not doing this for other people. So scratch my back, scratch yours. Tennessee, all of a sudden, I have faith in this place

as a location for my son. And also, we know that the previous regime probably had Kam Ward, I happen to know, probably had Kam Ward rated ahead of Shador Sanders. But I can't say that for Lou Riddick, who'd bring in entirely different staff, a staff possibly devoid of Miami Hurricanes alumni. That one's super interesting.

It's a juicy man. Well, but I think the juiciest part of that, I don't one super interesting to see if you're saying for a while but that i i i think the the juiciest part of that i don't know you tell me if you think there's something juicier than this part of it if dianne sanders is wanting to run this sport the way that he ran that sport lewis reddick doesn't have any kind of pedigree that wouldn't make it so that dianne sanders is now in business with lewis reddick on protecting the career of his son because dion sanders is going to run this thing with louis rittick

and can coach colorado is doing it or not because nevermind the coaching parts of it is just getting into business with louis rittick at the top of pro football after you know doing everything he had to do to get there that was pretty demand out what's better than that one? He's becoming partners with Lewis Riddick to ensure what he thinks will give his son the best chance of success in the NFL, which is, which is a very cool thing. I do wonder if Dion wants to coach in the NFL.

The mind certainly wanders over there, but let's keep our eye on the ball here, which is certainly came word to the Browns at number two. Mike's coming home. Look at him. Look at him. What a year 2024 was. Happy New Year's, everybody. New Year is this week. And some of you are going to be counting down to the New Year with a lot of friends and a lot of family around.

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