The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: The NBA Cup & Too Much College Football (feat. Amin Elhassan and Roy Wood Jr.)

Episode Date: December 17, 2024

Amin is pulling off the scam of a lifetime by getting to Las Vegas on the company dime even if he does truly care about the Emirates NBA Cup. Amin joins from Vegas to discuss who will win tonight's Cup Final and to play some NBA Trivia with Stugotz. Then, Roy Wood Jr. stops by to discuss needing products on TV commercials, what his kid wants for Christmas, drones, missing the good old days for conspiracy theories, and why we all need to stay out of Travis Hunter's business. Also, is the 12-team College Football Playoff too much? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. This is the Dan LeBattor Show with the StuGuts Podcast. Amin. Yes. It's Billy Gill, coworker in Miami. How's it going? You did it. You got one over on Dan. Yes. It's Billy Gill, co-worker of yours. Hello. In Miami. How's it going? You did it.

You got one over on Dan. Got to send you to Vegas for this Mickey Mouse cup that they got going on there. Good to just play around. You're in a nice, you're in a robe, sunglasses. Spa. Probably drinking on the company dime and maybe you go to a Thunder game, maybe you don't. Who knows what difference does it it make you did it congrats

Billy first of all I'm hard at work. I don't know what you're talking about Here it's just us here. You don't need to put on a friend hold up a fake. No lights around All right, so yeah, there's no wire right here, So Billy no, I've been working really hard. I hit the streets of Vegas I'm talking to NBA media people I'm getting info and Intel about all sorts of things and by the way NBA Cup not a Mickey Mouse Cup Emmerich Emirates Cup Emirates Cup thing, please get that right. They're very very like particularly about that They want you to say Emirates as much as possible whenever referring to the NBA Cup. And by the way, it's been fun. We had great games, we had great performances,

we got a great final of the night between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Bucks whose season looked like trash a few weeks ago. Now they've won 12 of their last 15. The Thunder, who looked amazing all season long, and get this, they haven't been 100% healthy this whole entire time. Everyone's excited, it's great basketball why are you mad Billy I'm not mad I'm

congratulating you on getting one over you did it you're there Vegas you got a rope ramp that take that rope home on us yeah that's your bonus I got to take care of myself Billy I don't know if you know this man I fly a lot I'm gonna be in Miami tomorrow on the show guess how I'm getting there with another red-eye flight I earn all of these trappings that I you see it before you these sunglasses this towel is terrycloth towel This is bathrobe, which isn't terrycloth. It's kind of actually a cheap material, but I digress I've earned all these things because I work very hard for this company. Are you coming just just for the party? It's tomorrow that yeah, oh is that is that right line? Yeah I've earned all these things because I work very hard for this company. Are you coming just for the party? Tomorrow.

It's tomorrow, is that? Oh, is that right? Just a line, yeah. Couldn't help but notice you were in New York last week for another company party. We have a lot of parties around here. We have a two-parter tomorrow and I was also told, and this is betraying a confidence,

so I was told the video team gave themselves a departmental company holiday party as well. I saw that. It seems like Dan just paid for a night out amongst friends because they go out with each other every day anyways. I'm learning of that right now. I had no idea what you're just reporting right now is all news to me.

You'll get the bill. Parties forever, left and right. It is, it does seem like a lot of parties. What are we celebrating? Shipping container party. We're celebrating the rest of the media collapsing. As Amin steals money in Vegas Vegas and our sugar daddy takes care of us because gambling is king. What are you doing right there though? I mean, dress the

way that you are at a cup that I do believe something interesting is happening in your sport, I mean, which is people now talking about the bad stuff and Charlotte and the Bulls played a game the other day where they missed a record 75 threes and people are complaining about all the stuff at basketball from woke to too many threes and man the Thunder are fun But Billy's gonna make fun of your tournament But man the Thunder are fun like if you want to see a team come at the Celtics quickly the Thunder are fun So then some fun facts about thunder. I'm going to stop whispering now since I'm talking to you

and I'm not talking to Billy anymore. Billy, if you want some more conversation, I will keep this voice in check for you. But talking to you, Dan, the Thunder last year were the youngest team in NBA history to be the number one seed and the youngest team in NBA history to win a playoff series.

And so everything they're doing is on accelerated time, right, because they've come up so quickly and it's not just Che Guevara and Alexander who's been phenomenal, it's a bunch of guys across the board. Now the crazy thing about the Thunder this year, Dan, 20 and five, number one in the West, number two in overall, the best defense in the NBA,

one of the best net ratings. Like I said earlier, they're not even healthy. Chet Holmgren has been out. Jalen Williams, the other Jalen Williams, who was a big part of their front court rotation, he's been out all year as well. So you've got a thing where it's like, oh, we're not even seeing the fully operational Death Star.

This is just the thing that's still under construction. When they get fully healthy, that's gonna be huge because you're talking about a team that's missing two of their three top bigs and they are, I want to say second to last in defensive rebounding in the NBA. That's their one weakness. Their one flaw is protecting the defensive glass because they don't have a lot of size. That size is coming and when it does, I don't know what answer the rest of the league is

going to have. Attaboy. That's how you justify this. There are some random stats no one's gonna look into Shane Gilchrist Alexander stats what can I do? I don't know either of the Jalen Williams Have called him Shane Gillis Alexander, yeah, he's very talented Tires coming out. Oh is there? I love that show. So Jalen Williams, there's one Jalen Williams, the one that's playing right now, the one

everyone believes is gonna be an all-star. He's kind of like a combo guard, right? The other Jalen Williams is kind of lighter skinned, he's got dreads and he's a big and the one who's playing right now is the better Jalen Williams. Everyone understands that. But the one who's out, he's a big. And like I said, they don't have a lot of bigs. They've got Harnstein, they've got Chet Holmgren,

and they've got Jalen Williams. And Harnstein is the only one who's playing out of those three. So that's why it's like, it's a big deal that he hasn't played yet. What's going on with Milwaukee? Because they've kind of turned things around here. I know health might be a part of it, but is it also Doc Rivers has been around this team

a little bit longer. Is he figuring out how to put some of these players in better positions? Look, Mike, Mike, I'm telling you, I had to talk to my throat guy the other day because I have my voice. They said, I'm killing my voice, but you're still, we're trying to drop the gun and put us in the ground but we needed we needed some time now have we beaten some garbage themes in this stretch where we're 12 and 3 over our last 15 sure but everybody's good records are built on the corpses of garbage themes everybody does it I don't know why it's a problem with I mean it's

not it's not it's not Yannick's fault. It's not Yannick's fault. I don't know why you guys keep doing this So what's happened is we built some momentum playing garbage teams and now we're trying to be good teams And this is kind of closer to what we thought we would be now Are we one of the best teams in the East? I wouldn't say that but you didn't hear that from me Amazing honesty. I really just an amazing I can't believe what honesty we just got from that Doc Rivers I'm I'm I'm I am dizzy with the most honest interview. I've ever heard a coach give The the Bucks have been a mess But I'm told that the way that you're expensing this is because you have a quiz you've prepared for Stu

God's or for me or for who it's first two guys. I'm not Is you prepared for Stu Gotts or for me or for who? It's for Stu Gotts. I'm not taking the quiz. Well, I mean, it's Stu Gotts. Here's the thing. Like all great quizzes, it's multiple choice. So the answer is there. All you got to do is pick it.

And it's kind of designed to help you along with some things that have happened in the NBA since the start of the season. I know you've been really focused on football. God bless football. When the big juggernauts of our company. Go listen, subscribe, rate, review, all that stuff. Award winning.

And you can vote again. Yes, sportspodcastgroup.com. Thank you. Please vote, yes. There you go. But Stu gots, I've got these, it's five questions. They're all multiple choice, so. Right. Pretty softball stuff, all right?

We'll start with something easy. Chris, do we have some music? Can I get a bed going, please? Something pensive, please. Dark and ominous tones. Since you have music behind you, I want you to sing your questions. Can you do that?

I can't because I can't hear the music because original sound for musicians is off. But that doesn't matter. All that matters is that you and the listeners can hear it. Right, question number one, Sugat. Yes. Who is the Knicks leading scorer this season? Is it A. Jalen Brunson?

B. Carl Anthony Towns? C. OG Ananobe? Or D. Precious Achua? I'm gonna say A. Jalen Brunson. You are correct. He is averaging.2 points more than Carl Anthony Towns. So it is close, but it is still Jalen Brunson. Okay.

Question number two. Yep. The Cavs have the best home record in the NBA at 14 and one. Who has the second best home record? Is it A, Miami, B, Oklahoma City, C, Houston, or D, Orlando? Hmm. I'm gonna say Oklahoma City. Oh, I'm sorry, Stu Gutz. It's actually Orlando, believe it or not, despite missing Palo Boncaro for long stretches and now Franz Wagner's out with the same weird injury,

by the way, a torn oblique. How many times have you heard that? Now how many times have you heard that in the same season? Now how many times have you heard it the same season on the same team? And somehow he still survived. Jeremy is wandering around saying that Orlando's a bigger threat to Boston than Cleveland is.

Jeremy's out of his mind. Question 30. All right. The Phoenix Suns are 14 and 11 on the season. Right. What is their record when Kevin Durant plays? Is it A, 13 and two, B, six and five,

C, 14 and 11, or D, it doesn't matter, he has no rings in Stu Gatz's personal record book, which you can now buy at StuGatzBook.com. D. Honestly, that is the correct answer. We're gonna accept it. The judges say, you know, you can't argue.

He really did, he checkmated you there. You wanted him to select another one, but you weren't prepared for Stu Gatz doing that to you, were you? The judges say it's an accurate answer. The real answer obviously is A, 13 and two. The Suns are one of the best teams in the NBA, if not the best team in any Winter Ant plays.

It's that simple. You should be in the MVP conversation bar with everybody else. All right, question four. Let's ratchet it up a notch. After a December 3rd loss to the Dallas Mavericks in NBA Cup play, John Morant told the media, quote, I'm not trying to dunk at all.

Y'all think I'm lying. I'm dead serious. Since saying that, John Morant has dunked how many times? Is it A, once, B, twice, C, 10 times, or D, zero? A, once, B, twice, C, ten times, or D, zero, Jaws, a man of his word, and I have no reason to doubt him. This feels like a C. C, ten times. That's your final answer?

That is. Unfortunately incorrect. The answer is B. He's dunked twice. Wow. Including one the other night, we were like, I thought you said you weren't dunking anymore, that was impressive. Those were good options, you set it at 10,

you had a zero in there, I thought for sure it was one of those too, I mean, that's how you do multiple choice, you know? Billy, what are you laughing about back there in the shadows? Nothing, I'm just here, man. Billy. What?

Emirates Cup, I'm getting ready. You and Jessica were laughing back there, I got you. Bucks. I wanna know what you were talking about. Want some of that show over here. Well, Dan, since Billy mentioned the Bucks and the Thunder and the NBA Cup,

the Emirates NBA Cup final. So lay up, Dan. Basketball. This last question. Oddball. Well done. I think Billy might be saying we're wasting money in Vegas with a quiz.

I think that might be why he's laughing. No, I didn't say that. I think Billy might be saying we're wasting money you guess with a quiz I think that might be why he's laughing that Would never well, I mean the quizzes of why I went to Vegas keep looking at cow and me and it's nice There's nice. Thanks Billy, but I'm not milking the cow I'm milking it to make cheese and milk and yogurt and and and then I'm killing the cow I'm making rib eye steak, and I'm serving it to the whole company. That's what I'm doing here alright final question We can't get any more milk well We got a lot of this is a thief By steak and I'm serving it to the whole company. That's what I'm doing here. All right final question Well, we got a lot of Billy I agree

Billy agreed I agree Billy's a thief a thief of joy. Why do you hate joy Billy? What? So got your last question, okay? On November 10th Damien Lillard sustained a concussion that led him to miss the next three games, including his first NBA Cup game with the Bucs. What caused the concussion? Was it A, he hit his head on the floor? B, he ran into an exceptionally hard pick set by an exceptionally large human being? C, he was elbowed in the head

by a freakishly large referee. Or D, Doc Rivers' voice does things to a man. G. Two gods. Well, I appreciate your respect for the power of my voice. I'm sorry. The answer is C. He got elbowed in the head by a ref.

I mean, come on. What are we supposed to do? We're already trying to fight the Celtics. You got us playing the referees as well. You gotta be kidding me. Got to turn the tables here to close this game out. Who wins the Emirates NBA Cup tonight? Wow.

Is it going to be A, the Milwaukee Bucks, or B, the Oklahoma City Thunder? What about C? And we don't have an all of the above, do we? Milwaukee Bucks or beat the Oklahoma City Thunder. What about C? C. And we don't have an all of the above, do we? Well, the viewers at home. We have none of the above. This should be a good game.

Yes, it's gonna be a great game. Draft Kings right now has it at minus five Thunder, which I think is about accurate. I think the Thunder are gonna win. I think they are just too good. Milwaukee depends on so many different things. They need guys to hit threes. They need Giannis to get out and transition. And they need Damian Lillard to be active and engaged

in a way that sometimes hasn't happened in a Bucks uniform. Oklahoma City is running on all cylinders. Shea Gilderis Alexander has been fantastic. Jalen Williams, I know you've never heard of him, Mike. He's freaking good. Go ahead and check him out. I think the Thunder are a great team. Which one? The great team.

Where do you, where do you stand on the big debate? I mean, it's going on now. People say that something as prestigious as the Emirates NBA Cup shouldn't be a one game sample. It should be a best of seven. Absolutely not. The whole point of this is it's something different. It's something different that doesn't necessarily test who's

the best team overall, but it just gives us like a flavor of like, okay, who can get on a hot streak? That's what makes it fun is having that team. We're like what you made it here for the Houston Rockets and Atlanta Hawks. There was there's a little bit of fun in that. But of course we always need our stalwarts. So that's why it's nice to have names like Giannis

and Damian Lillard and Shea Gilder's Alexander in the finals so that people know what they're tuning into. All right, big guy stepped out. You can admit this was all just to get a bit of a- He's gone, he's gone. Don't worry. I mean, come on, seriously.

Guys, let me say this quietly in case he's listening in the other room. I care about this NBA stuff so much, man. You guys don't understand. You know, I make my jokes and all that stuff, but man, I'm here and I feel the energy. I feel alive when I'm around my NBA people, when I'm, when I'm schmoozing. Okay. All right. But if it was an OKC, would you be there? Right. Yeah, we got that. Probably not. Yeah, probably not. I know. Hey DraftKings fans, are you ready to elevate your game day snacking experience? This college Yeah, we got that. Probably not. Yeah. Probably not. I know. Hey DraftKings fans, are you ready to elevate your game day snacking experience?

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Dan LeBretard! You were that kind of sad this morning taking the barrage of anger from Stugatz because you hadn't booked him enough interviews. The only reason I keep bringing this up is because you not are throwing a big party on Thursday. You're doing it and I want people to support what you're doing because Stu Gatz has not made this easy. Stu Gatz. Um, well, you know, I, I, well, yeah, you know. This is the Dan LeBattard Show with the Stu Gatz.

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slightly better than the one we just did with the main it's saturdays at nine p.m. on cn and it is uh... sunday's on max and uh... roywood junior is doing hard work during the holidays while bill maher and john oliver get lazy during an important time and take all this time off and uh... roy i appreciate the good work you're still out here doing on behalf of uh... conscious and the american people as these bombs john oliver and mar take a bunch of time off during an important time in the schedule your fan of the holidays

i'm a fan of money that i loveventhal. That's why we're going to knock out one more episode real quick, and I might even go kick a New Year's Eve with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen. You never know. If the check is right, I'm going to be there. Oh, please tell me that's a thing that can be so. What do I need to do to get America to advocate for that to be a thing? Listen to me, America, we need Roy Wood right now. We need to drink on CNN.

We need CNN to lighten up. We need CNN to Roy Wood right now. We need to drink on CNN. We need CNN to lighten up. We need CNN to be strong right now. CNN needs to get stronger than it presently is. And on New Year's Eve, you need to be allowed to unleash with Anderson Cooper. Dan, I don't know if you know what happened to the last black man that got drunk on CNN on New Year's Eve, but it kind of ran him out the door

there, Dan Leviton. I'm trying to keep you. A job? Oh, you're gonna limit it. Try to don't limit my ass. Not a fan of the holidays, Dan Levitard. I don't mind them, but I don't love it. I don't look forward to it.

And you just, and I'm also at that age now where people are just gonna get me gifts I don't need. I appreciate, but I don't need. I'm at that age now where I look at television commercials and I'm like, I kinda need that because I finally realized there's like three stages of television commercials. There's you're in shape

and then there's here's a pill that can fix it and then it's here's a chair to take your lazy ass up the stairs And I'm between two and three I saw a commercial for a bathtub with a front door and I was like I might Saw the same one. I was intrigued. Yes. Yes. I don't even take baths. But if I had like, if you could put like a, you have like a trip lock on your vantage. That's faller, bro. This ain't even got nothing to do with orthopedics.

You're between stage two and three. And that's a bit depressing, correct? Once you get to the tree. Yeah. Yeah, scary. Yeah, because that's what I want. But people go, what do you want for Christmas? You think I'm going to tell you? You think I'm going to gonna say out loud. I really I've been thinking about that bathtub with the front door

Well, you can just walk into your tub. That just sounds Terrible, so I will go home for the holidays like I always do and listen to family members Confess terrible secrets under their breath between bites of food and act like they didn't look. You know you got three brothers in Dallas, you never met, and it passed the cornbread. It's like you can't do that to people. That's what the holidays are for. Are you a good gift buyer?

Who do you have to buy for? Do you buy for your son? Yeah, the boy, we always, you know, I'm in a copanting situation and it's good. It's a very healthy winning, you know, we're gonna like get him good gifts or whatever, but it's gotta be learning. He wants a drone, he's eight.

And so he wants a drone for Christmas. So to kind of audition him a little bit, I put him in the VR headset drone. Let's see if you can drive the fake drone. And he would have essentially gutted himself in the stomach a couple of times with the open blade drone, because it kept coming right back at him because he doesn't know what he's doing. So I don't think he's ready for that. And I don't have the healthcare set up to be taking care of a child who's sliced his leg open. Plus, it's a bad time for drones.

You know, Roy, it's a bad time for drones. Oh, yeah, Jackson. Perfect, Tom. Go ahead and send that up in there and get everybody scared, son. That'll be nice and smart. How stupid are people? It's the aliens. It's the aliens.

First off, it's too many people saying that there's aliens for there to be aliens. There used to be one designated person per year who got vacuumed up into the sky. And now everybody see the alien? Come on, dog. It was Randy Quaid from Independence Day telling you time and time again, the whole movie.

I'm telling you, they vacuumed me up there and they did it with me. And now everybody in Jersey, come on. You think aliens go into Jersey, they got guns in Jersey. Aliens ain't stupid. Stupid people over there. Why would you come to a populated area like that?

So yeah, we'll take my son to a museum, that's my point, Dan Leventhal. We'll take him to a museum of natural history and why I have to stand there and pretend to be impressed by fossil. Can we can we stop acting like dinosaurs were so great? They die. They lost.

You dig up their bones and you exalt them. And it's not like dinosaurs got ran off by pollution or mankind intervention. You just lost to Mother Nature. You're weak. And these museums, you hang up all of these trophies of losers who just didn't evolve, didn't figure it out. You die. An asteroid hit and you couldn't figure it out.

And now I'm supposed to be impressed by your bones. It's... But you can't say that, because he's a child and you want him to be impressed by the world. I think the dinosaurs weren't real rumor, was started by parents who were tired of going to these museums. Well, but okay, so you have seen us

in a unique space in America where people are believing on the internet all manner of conspiracy theory and there are movements behind this. We are not talking about this alien thing enough. This alien thing is not something that this program or any news program is covering enough that people really believe that those drones are something from another world. The problem with conspiracy theories now is that they're too easily spread. It's too easy to just say something stupid. Taylor Swift, the lizard lady who supported Joe Biden.

And people just go, okay, if you believed in something wild back in the day, you had to print it on a flyer, you had to stand on a corner, and you had to pass flyers out and tell people what the hell was going on. You had to form a cult. Remember, why you think these documentaries about cults is all from like 70s and 80s where people would read, there's no new cults because you're

too lazy. Like if you believe something back in the day, you had to get out, you have to take people in the forest, build a commune, have a couple kids and then the feds would raid you and shut you down. That's how our conspiracy used to start. Now you just say something stupid and people run with it. It's too easy, he's right, it's too easy. Yeah, he's so right. You should be able to earn your cult. You gotta earn it.

You gotta work for it. You have to look another person in the face and go, hey man. Cause usually for all the weird stuff that you hear about the drone and the UFO, you haven't heard it from another person. If you were standing in line at Starbucks and someone in front of you in line just turn and just look at you, hey man, you know those drones that's flying over that jersey, the

UFO man, the government don't want it, they all want it, I know the truth. And then you decide, well, then I have to go in the woods with that man. You recruit one by one, brick by brick, and now it's too easy to just say something stupid and our minds are already jello from all of the nonsense we watch on television that it's easier to believe than force someone to prove their and show their work. At least back in the day, at least I grew up with Rotten.com where you can show me a picture of two pops autopsy and then I can decide whether or not to pocket is alive a purer time I long for those romantic days when Roy would could just go to the internet and be discerning about whether to pocket

But he's so right about this you used to have to sell someone on your idea on your cults It's too easy to fool the dumb people now. That's what he's saying. It's just too easy. There's aliens behind the comet, come to my house and drink the poison. You wouldn't have done that off of a Reddit post. Marshall Applewhite had to go face to face.

You should respect me more by having the more convincing cult. You have to work more. He's so right about all of this. Let's go into sports with a couple of things here. The internet is talking about Travis Hunter, Travis Hunter's fiance. She's defending herself over a viral video.

Where are you on all this stuff? I think it's unfortunate that two young people have to live out their relationship in the eyes of people whose business it is not. You know, they're together and my uncle used to say, you see two people being happy, let them be happy. For a young woman to have to go on the internet and explain every single thing

where people are attacking her, it's sad, man. You know, like, it's not about business, their relationship, but she walked us, it's sad, man. It's none of our business, their relationship, but she walked us, she's like, the girl made an eight minute video, man. Walking folks through, this incident was this, it was not what you thought, this incident was this,

it was not what you thought, this incident was this. So just let them be in love, and even if they aren't in love, and even if Travis Hunter is headed into a bad relationship, let them, you gotta learn. That's what your 20s is for. The 20s is for picking the wrong person and hoping you have enough money or therapy to survive it.

It's fine. He's right, dude. I didn't realize that. Hallmark card. I didn't realize that is unbelievably succinct as a Hallmark card. It's none of our business. Let them live, let the boy catch the ball to make the money

to support his family. I'm just happy that this narrative, if there's one upside to following Travis Hunter and his fiance, is that the media hasn't lived inside of the narrative of Travis Hunter's father being in prison. Because normally, if you have a jail story to tell about a black athlete, that's all they talk about is your daddy.

Yeah, there's a 15-yard completion to Travis Hunter. He's a stinging, as you recall, his daddy. He grew up in jail for drug trafficking. And Travis had two brothers, both of whom died in a tragic catfish accident, and Travis lost his arm, and his daddy went to prison selling kilos of cocaine to get him another arm, and that's why he's a top-tier receiver, second in 10 now for the Buffaloes.

Like, that... I would rather be arguing about whether or not he's in a happy relationship than seeing people continue to live in that narrative, which is, I guess, in a way a win, but I just see two young people in love who unfortunately get to have their relationship play out in social media, which is sad.

We all deserve the right to argue and, you think I want people to know about that argument? I got in at a Sbarro's Pizza at Century Plaza Mall in 1997. That's not cool. Can we move on on the football season? Are you done with college football or are you still here? Because Jessica's headed to Notre Dame, Lucy's still excited about football.

We want to send her to the Pop Tart Bowl. Are you done or are you still with it? Do you think this is too much football? College football? 12 teams, it's like we wanted, like the 12 team playoff is like McDonald's breakfast. We all thought we wanted it and now we got it and now I'm not sure if I wanted it.

I don't know. Cause here's what we, this is what we forgot Dan. That, those middle weeks of December were for us to miss college football. And then they give you a couple of random bowl games on the 27th and the 28th, the Pullin Weed Eater Bowl, the Turbo Tax Bowl or whatever the hell. And then you get the Bit Dogs New Years all the way through the championship. And I just, I don't know, man, I think it's, I think it's too much football. I think it's, this was where we were supposed to have some NBA time to catch up on the

NBA regular season. If you hadn't checked in till college football ends, the NFL was supposed to have a say. Everybody's infringing on the NFL's December now. It's not fair. No, no, no. The NFL is infringing on the college football playoff. They are putting two games on Saturday, the first ever Saturday with college football playoff games. We have Chiefs Texans and Steelers Ravens. It's ridiculous. I don't want to watch the NFL. I want to watch the college football games.

Get off my Saturday NFL. This is the 12 team playoff is us rooting for a bunch of sevens that we think are tens and they're competitive teams and they deserve to be there. But you know Notre Dame, you know SMU's gonna do it. So it's fine to watch, but it's, I don't know, I enjoy that little break of missing college football. It's fine to watch, but it's, I don't know.

I enjoy that little break of missing college football. And then it comes back after Christmas and I can renew the relationship with it. Boo. Boo. I don't know. At least I'm not arguing for Alabama over SMU. I will accept that as a southerner, but I don't know. I'm not a fan of it.

It's too much football, man. Scrooge. And people say we're an echo chamber. Look at this controversial opinion this man comes with. No, but Roy is right. Time apart makes the relationship stronger. He is right about that. Exactly.

There was one week where there was just Army Navy. Right. That's the saddest week of the football year. I know, but we used to have a full month. I didn't think about college football, see college football, deal with college football for a month. And then, you know, its absence made my heart grow fonder. It'll be 16 teams before you know it.

I like it when our armed forces are good at football, because it makes me feel like we're approaching more peacetime, because they're not studying war. They can actually have time to look in their playbook. Because if our army was like three and 10, we'd go into war, but the rocket's about to fly. They're doing extra drills. That's why they miss practice.

I like it when the armed forces are good. Good seeing you again, Roy. Thank you. Have I Got News for you. It's the news quiz show. It's Saturday, 9 p.m. on CNN. It's Sundays on Max. It's really good.

It's smart. It's fun. It's light. It's got a lot of range. Thank you, sir. Appreciate the time. Absolutely. Love y'all.

Happy holidays. Thank you, Roy. Let's get to Against the Spread here, Chris, Cody. Let's conclude here with a little bit of Against the Spread. ["Against the Spread"] It's time for... Against the Spread! Great point about Army, Navy, though. And it's brought to you by DraftKings.

Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings and all it has to offer throughout the show. DraftKings, the crown is yours. Jessica, kick us off. I was gonna pick for the Idaho Potato Bowl, but I decided instead I'm gonna go NFL. The Ravens are favored by six points to beat the Steelers this weekend.

That's too many points. I'm gonna take the Steelers to cover that game. Wow. That's a Saturday game. It's a Saturday game and it's the first of a rough Steelers triple header. Roy pissed off. Against the Spurs.

Jessica and Sydney. Against the Spurs. Roporn Smith called that a checker manhood game. There's never been a full month off in the month of December. I don't know what he was talking about. Normally the first bowl game's like December 17th and like conference championship weekend's like December 2nd. But why can't you have them both talking about. Normally the first bowl game's like December 17th and like conference championship weekend's like December 2nd.

That's two weeks. But why can't you have them both? Like Saturday is the greatest Saturday in football history because of the college football playoff. This is traditionally the weekend you always get Saturday NFL games. Now you get three college football playoff games. What a day!

Yeah, it's spread. It's spread. Lucy, what do you got? Sorry. It's sticking with college football because that day belongs to us. The NFL has enough. They've taken it all.

They took from the NBA. They're not taking from us. But I'm taking Tennessee plus seven and a half against Ohio State. Ohio State's got some offensive line issues. We saw that against Michigan and Tennessee's defense is phenomenal. Also, fun fact, Tennessee fans have started planning

where they would take the goalpost and dump it in the river if they beat Ohio State at Ohio State. That's pretty cool. Don't plant a flag. Whatever you do. Billy, bring us home. I'm going to go with Lions minus six and a half over the Bears. We told you last week this is a game the Lions have to lose. That's why we took the Bills over the Lions plus two and a half at the time. Sure enough, the Bills won. Lions lost the game they needed to lose. We took the bills over the Lions plus two and a half at the time sure enough the bills won Lions lost the game. They needed to lose Dan Campbell said as much today

He said you know what we needed that one and we're gonna get back on track There's no team to get back on track with better than the Bears Bears are horrible terrible terrible team The Lions are going to maul the Bears. I guess it's right. Hmm, bounce back. Roekwon Smith said last week's Steelers game is a check your manhood game. Yeah, I'm coming on, yeah. Yeah. Wait, let me check.

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