The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Too Many Candles For Joe Biden

Episode Date: November 21, 2023

Le Batard, Stugotz and the crew discuss Joe Biden's birthday cake, Angel Reese disappearing from the LSU women's basketball team, and Brian Stelter joins the show. Also, we go to the Bucket of Death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Joe Biden turned 81 and had 81 candles on the cake. Did I get fooled by the internet? I was looking in the break to see if that was real also. Because it looked like a forest fire is about to start. You just have to get the eight and the one. That's what you have to do. Thank you I want to know is it real or is it real? Don't put 81 candles on fire in front of Joe white

We need to get to know remember his lungs can't handle the blood That's correct. It seems like a risk that we should not be taking you it did that I get all sacked by the white house Or is it real tell me please that there was a kink with the 81 candles on it Please please tell me that that is a real thing because that is too many candles What is the cutoff on candles? Honestly, it's like what you're in double digit you're in a dangerous area Are you not anything in double digits? You got to just start buying the candle. Well, that's a number That's correct. What are we doing here? That's what I said. That is, that is what's two gods just said. It said it a little bit differently, but not

much differently. What is the cutoff? Because if you're 12, you still like birthdays, you still want a cake, you still want your 12 candles. I feel like 12 is probably the cutoff. Billy, what did your investigation reveal? Stugats has now said he's got further reporting on the Chris Cody report from before he's talked to Joe Thomas. It is not a time share. It's an Airbnb in Mexico. Get your facts state, facts right. Sure.

Yes. Thank you. Billy, what's this investigation revealing? I'm seeing the same picture that you saw. I'm just kind of seeing what the source of the picture is. It's crazy I hope it's real. I need it to be real. I want it to be real In front of get away from that get him get him out of the You would think they'd go bigger cake for all those candles. Okay, so this is what I can tell you. Joe Biden's official Instagram has that photo on it.

So it seems real. You just joined Threads yesterday, I saw that. That is 81 candles. So I'll try to make that happen. That can't be real. This is a security risk. An eight point. But it's also like, he has to blow out 81 candles

and hopefully the person who thought this was a good idea didn't think like Let's get him with the trick candles also because like it doesn't die does not have the one capacity for that Get that cake away from that and eight is coming in with a fire extinguisher at the end of that You can't blow that out there's a inferno on his last body man Are we back to being able to blow on cakes because Cuz it's a new thing now. What do you mean? It's like with everything's coming We're like the weird thing. Oh, yeah, yeah, it's like Don't take away my Blowing of cakes

It's just ridiculous. Someone's sitting there for like 10 minutes trying to like get a thing out It's like you will not cancel that Milky said I'm fine not cancel that. Mulkey said I'm fine. Can we get that video, please? That seems like, thank you. Excellent transition. What like her?

Maybe the greatest in show history. Yes, well done. Let's get that video now, please. Patriotalking. This is a good story because, well, it's an interesting story. No, good. Angel Reese, that might have been good. Outside of the women's basketball. The Angel Reese story is interesting. No, good. Angel Reese, that might have been good. No, outside of the women's basketball.

The Angel Reese story is interesting. She's disappeared. I think the room. She's disappeared? Huh. Very quietly, a champion player for a champion team is not playing. And look into this. Just, is she just missing?

She's missing? Yeah. No, this is a good story. We'll inform you right now. Missing from play. Huge NIL athlete, probably up there with Caitlin Clark, it's funny how in the United States, the collegiate basketball is the main stage.

It's bigger than pro basketball. And Angel Reese is one of, certainly on the Mount Rushmore right now of known women's basketball players in this country. And she has not been appearing for LSU basketball and people have been wondering. Yeah, so she's been out for two and a half games now and she sat out against Kent State and then didn't play again yesterday and they are starting to be these rumors that Angel Reese didn't have like the great eligibility to play. So Kim Malky came out coughed all over everybody and said that it's none of their business. Hold on, let's play. So Kim Moky came out coughed all over everybody and said that it's none of their

business. Hold on, let's blow it out. Yes, look at this. She will have, yes, blow out cake. See that? She's not inviting this party. Let's listen to this because she's just hacking on everybody and making jokes. I and a CC, I don't have allergies. I've got some kind of cold, it might be cold, but ain't testing. No, it's sinus. I don't know what you call an allergies flu. I don't know. So if y'all get the flu blame me to it, but thanks, give it right. Yeah.

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gotten very big very fast is gotten not that fast but now valuable as well she's a face and voice and the player empowerment in her sport she's got a star yes she's got a star who's made a deal with Shaq. Shaqil Anil is now the president of a sneaker company. And I don't know whether she's going to class or not going to class, but we're at an age where if these people don't want to be going to class, students don't want to be going to class. They're making some, you're going to see some of these people and I'm scared of Joseph Gaffer there.

So this started back before the school year even started because Angel said that she was too famous that she couldn't go to class because it was a distraction, people would recognize her. So she was like, I'm only taking online classes. Then recently this week, her mom posted something on her Instagram story about Flagez mom, who's another player on the LSU basketball team

who's also very talented also worth a lot of money about her grammar so flage a's mom responded and said like how can you talk about grammar when your daughter has under a two point o g p a. And so that's where the rumors of the g p a started. Kim moky didn't address whether that was the issue set. No, but she said the issues obvious. Mokie has said that the reason that her star player isn't around, that the reason is obvious, but she's not telling us what the reason is while coughing and laughing about COVID, she's not, we don't know the reason. No, we don't know the reason.

And Angel Reese has not been silent through this. She did tweet, please don't believe everything you read. And that's all we've heard from Angel Reese. She's still been like posting on social media. She did tweet. Please don't believe everything you read. And that's all we've heard from Angelry. She's still been like posting on social media. She hasn't actually disappeared. She just hasn't been playing for LSU and she hasn't been at the games either. Nice steak night at the sizzler. What does the rest of that night look like? Uh, sizzler, sizzler salad bar salad bar, big potato. Did you hear Dolorita's are back? Trump's campy. Oh, this is campy. I feel remorse and shame in what it is

I'm presently telling you, but every time I see a Sizzler, I am made deeply happy. What? Because that was wealth and riches in my childhood that salad bar that salad bar was an opulent buffet You went there for the salad from heaven so much blue cheese Maybe take her to the mutting pot Oh fun do We fond did that Sizzler and not my beach on 160 there right next to the crispy cream. Oh, yeah How many Sizzlers are there how many there can't be that one in Salt Lake City?

I did it just one. I went that's one of the information you guys are giving is close to accurate. I went to a sizzler with Chujugati in Utah. That's a great sentence. There's salad bar head chicken wings. That's what I'm telling you. That's why you like your salad bar.

Taco station. What you're so made nachos at their salad bar. Yes, what the my my mother proclaimed the sizzler salad bar. The greatest meal that anyone on earth could have. There's 10 in Puerto Rico. Well, America. And try to lie to themselves. What did ain't Florida has one remaining in Kiss Me.

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epic saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the battle for American democracy thank you Brian for joining us I should tell the audience he is also a former media correspondent at the New York Times and CNN and a special correspondent for Vanity Fair. Let's begin with the idea of Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk merging and Tucker Carlson possibly being a running mate for Donald Trump. Can you give me an idea of how real any of that is?

I do not think Tucker will be the VP, but I think he wants to be thought about that way. He wants to be viewed as a political kingmaker, a political star. And that's why he's out there hanging out with Donald Trump. Remember, I heard Carlson called Trump a demonic force, a destroyer, but now they have this bromance going on because they need each other. They need each other's fans and audiences. Is that what is also happening with Tucker and Musk? I think so.

I think that's what puts the network in network of lies. It's bigger than just Fox. It's also about the missing disinformation that Musk and his friends share on that platform. And that's where Tucker is now. He's hanging out making videos for X. He's not nearly as popular as he was on Fox, but honestly, that's because the Fox audience, 65, 75, 85 years old. They're not really hanging out on Twitter or X. You know what I mean? What in your book is new or learned about Tucker's exited Fox?

I say in the book that it wasn't just one thing, they didn't get rid of him for just one reason, it was everything, it was every reason. It was like any bad breakup. You know, when one person finally decides to dump the other person, it's been building for years and there's dozens of reasons why it happens, even though sometimes there's like a last affair

or betrayal that actually calls it, that's what happened. He was intolerable for lots of reasons. He was rude behind the scenes. He was airing conspiracy theories and lies on the air. Eloclund Murdoch just decided he'd had enough. In our sphere, we have learned as a company that leaving ESPN gave us more value than we had at ESPN. Tucker Carlson's value is where outside of Fox. He's different because he's in limbo. He's had this complicated contractual situation with Fox. Fox has sent him some threatening legal letters. So he's not able, right now he's not fully doing whatever his new new new thing is, but he is lining up investor money and advertisers or deals and I would not count him out. I think he's going to be able to build something pretty real and significant maybe next year

in time of the 2024 election, but right now I think he's stuck in that in between. You were reporting this book while covering the defamation suit by Dominion voting systems. while covering the defamation suit by dominion voting systems, the end result of that. I know that we wanted to see the real stuff. How disappointing was it that for the ending of your book that that lawsuit was settled at the last minute? I was actually thrilled because instead of having a six-week trial where people were going to hear about this all spring long, I got to save a lot of the good stuff for the book. Look, you're right that there were some exhibits,

some documents that were redacted, that will now be redacted forever. That's one of the reasons why Fox paid almost $800 million. They had some predominantly secrets that they wanted to keep buried. But here's the truth. 600, 700 pages of this material was published in plain view. It was hard to find it unless you have a login for a woman to deliver her database. You can't really go and read it. But that's why I did it. I was able to go and read all these emails and what you realize is these people are just all too human. You know, they're greedy, they're selfish, all they care about are their ratings or their or their their love lives. You know, I mean,, they're selfish, all they care about are their ratings, or their love lives, you know, I mean, I guess that's everybody, right?

Just some degree, but that's what was so weird about reconstructing this, this scene, this period for the book is that all these people, you know, they all just want whatever's best for them, I guess. When you were sifting through the stuff and mining, what do you regard as the most interesting things you discovered? You know, there were really, really, really emails about these Fox stars saying what, what

seems to be the truth about Donald Trump, but that they never say on the air, you know, Laura Ingram, the 10 PM host, now 7 PM host, saying, Trump's always on a grievance loop running in his head, uh, Tucker Carlson saying, you know, he could have won the election. He would have won the election in 2020. If he had focused on law and order and overreopening the schools, like sometimes I feel like these Fox stars are better politicians than the actual politicians because they're on every day trying to win viewers and voters every single day. On the other hand, of course, that causes them to go into the really extreme and radical territory and push really wild conspiracy theories that actually hurt the Republican party.

That's the other big takeaway in the book here is, you know, Republicans keep losing. It's partly because of Fox. Remember the red wave in 2022 that never actually came? I actually put a lot of the blame for that on Fox for misleading the audience. What can you tell me about these people as calculated actors, professional actors? Calculated actors, you mean are they really, do they really mean what they say? I'm saying this in two ways.

I'm saying calculated actors in trying to instigate for the sense of provocation and calculated actors like professional Thespians. Okay. Yes. Well, look, there is obviously a performative aspect to television and some of these hosts on right wing TV are better at it than others, you know, I once went out to lunch with one of these, one of these guys and I realized that he really does treat it like he's an actor.

He, he practices his lines ahead of time in the mirror and I got to be honest, you know, I was at CNN nine years, I never sat in the mirror and practiced my script like I wanted to, you know, perform it on stage. Like I was just trying to report the news, but, but you're right, some of these, some of these, you know, folks in the network of lies, they really do think of themselves as actors and, uh, and I, they also, you know, they're not always buying what they're selling. They're not always high on their own supply. I think the scariest people are the ones that are, the people that actually believe what they're saying. When Marie Bartoroma is on the air and she actually believes Trump is the winner of the election. To me that that shows a lack of common sense and critical thinking skills.

What are the things about your book that people are talking to you the most about what are they finding illuminating what is the reporting producing for you that they have further questions on because it stimulates their curiosities. I think the big question I keep cutting and asked is is Rupert Murdoch, is he dumb or is he just playing dumb? And I'm sorry, Rupert, if you're listening, you know, night to your ears, always have nothing better to do than, then listen to us. He's on his yacht somewhere, right? But he seems to play dumb in a lot of these messages. You know, he was deposed by Dominion's lawyers for seven hours.

It's still my time he's ever been interviewed in like a decade. And he sounded like he didn't know what happened on his own network. He sounded like he didn't know who the key players were. It sounded like he barely understands how foxing his works. So is that really the truth under oath or was he just playing dumb?

Like in other words, is he, is he really not in charge? Is he really just sitting back and joy in his, his mansions and look, maybe he is. Is it possible? Like which way would you guess on that one? I think he has allowed the leadership team of Fox to have too much leeway. Like he's given them too much rope, you know, he likes to, to be distant. Remember in succession, Lucas Madison says he's hiring a pain sponge. This is the billionaire character. He doesn't want to deal with all the dirty stuff. So he hired as a pain sponge. That's what Rupert Murdoch does. He has a lot of pain sponges. How much of the Murdoch's really likes succession?

You know, succession is crazy. Of course, drama's always all are. You know, I'm a producer on the morning show on Apple TV plus. And thankfully today showing the morning America, not as nuts as the morning show on Apple. But I think what is true about succession is that when Rupert Murdoch dies, before adult children are going to fight over the companies, and we don't know how that's going to play out. No one knows how it's going to play out. Uh, Rupert's retired, semi retired. Yeah. Semi retired. It's it's taking effect this week, actually. Uh, Rupert's retired, semi retired. Uh, yeah, semi retired. It's, it's taking effect this week, actually.

Uh, Rupert says he's still going to be actively involved. But what he's doing is he's stepping aside from the boards of his companies because he wants to show the world that he really believes in his son, Lockland, that he really wants Lockland to be the face of the companies. But for as long as Rupert is on this earth, he is going to be involved. How much are these other networks that are going off into the further fringes of the companies. But for as long as Rupert is on this earth, he is going to be involved. How much are these other networks that are going off into the further fringes of the extreme impacting Fox? Well, I think they're all nipping at Fox's heels. They're all biting around the edges. And

none of those bites are fatal, but they're all kind of painful. They all hurt a little bit. You know, newsmax and see banning and daily wire. You know, that's the network part of this story. And it's an echo chamber, right? If they all say the same thing, if all a dozen different places, all tell you this guy is falling, then you're going to start to look up and wonder. And that's ultimately why I think this contributes to a real coarsening of the discourse and makes it harder for us to all go, have things giving next week and actually agree on anything. What do you view as the smartest things Fox has done and the most evil of the things Fox?

Oh, I can't say evil. What's the smartest thing they've done? Look, they put it on a great TV show. It just as a viewer, they light up the screen. It's the same way you guys do. The visuals, the colors, the effects, the production values, Fox is very good at putting on a good show and you know credit to them for that what's the worst part i think the worst part is

when Donald trump lost an election he said he he pretended to win it and fox fell along with it and went along with the lie and promoted the lie and they promoted it for months to the point where some people bought plain tickets flew across the country to Washington DC and stormed our capital. I think that's pretty pretty bad. In retrospect, when you went through everything that you went through and learned what you did about that part of the election and being complicit on helping something that felt like it was threatening democracy What were the parts that made you feel a gas just as an American citizen never mind as a journalist It here's what really drove me crazy when I was reconstructing this Sean Hannity knew what was gonna happen, you know need to know let me let me refrails

I want to be polite to Sean Sean Hannity was worried about what might happen on January 6. He was so worried that on New Year's Eve and again on January 5, he's texting Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, warning that Trump is getting bad advice. He's getting bad information. Don't you know, you've got Sean Hannity, who is the closest of all of Trump's friends of Fox saying, I'm really worried about the next 48 hours.

So I want to know, what was in Sean's head? What did he hear from Donald Trump? What did he think Trump was planning? How much did Hannity know about the coup attempt? Hannity's never talked about this publicly. He's never revealed what he knows about Trump's state of mind. But thanks to these investigations, we've been able to read his text messages.

So we know he was worried about January 6th That's the kind of stuff that grinds my gears because I you know, you have a responsibility if you're a broadcaster Not just a journalist. He's not a journalist, but you know, he's a broadcaster He's he's out there winning the trust of his viewers. He had a responsibility I think to speak up and he didn't does he though? I think he does I think he does because you does because we should all look out for each other. This is about more than politics. It's about more than red versus blue.

It's about having a shared reality. It's about having common ground, rather than watching us tear each other apart and ended up with someone smear and feces in the capital. The reason I ask does he have a responsibility is because where are you drawing the line on that, recusing yourself at that stage? Like where is it? Once you've gone down this path, you've, I mean, you've shed a lot of the responsibility on everything you're doing.

You're 100% right, and then that's Hannity's brand. He is a Republican cheerleader. He exists in order to defeat Democrats and electric Republicans. That's true. But I wish that there were still aspects in our country and our society that were about more than just elections, more than just about winning a policy argument. And I think when it comes down to this sense of a prospect of violence, right? A violence might break out. That, to me, is an area where we should put down our political weapons and try to calm nerves calm things down the name of the book network of lies The epic saga of Fox News Donald Trump in the battle for American democracy. It is getting rave reviews as I said You have a top five for us before you get out of here a top five. I do have a top five for you. Can you handle it?

Are you ready? Well, what's it about? Five ways Fox engineers a radicalized audience. How's the audience get so radicalized? I've got the ways. All right. Number five. Number five is shouting the lie and whispering the truth. They're really loud about the lie and they only whisper the truth. Number four. That actually worked.

Avoiding inconvenient truths, you know, for example, with the pro-life. Hold on a second. Hold on a second. Avoiding inconvenient truths. That's right. Okay, I'm getting the hang of it. Here's what they do.

When they're talking about pro-lifers, when they're talking about people who want to expand abortion rights, they say, oh, they just must be brainwashed. They don't want to accept the inconvenient truth that actually a majority of Americans want that kind of freedom. Number three. Number three, clip, clip, clip. There it is. What they do is they clip these, you know, tiny out of context clips. Let's say, you know, a fist fight in a, in a CBS or, you CBS or some argument on the street in San Francisco. They portray cities in liberal areas as these hellscapes, as these armageddon, these apocalyptic

places just based on out of context clips. Number two. Number two, using the memory hole. Go on. They just bury stories down the memory hole. The stories that hurt too much. Stories like Trump losing the election. They just pretend things they don't want to hear about. They pretend they never happen. Number one. Number one. Respecting the audience. This is the most or well-earned phrase in my my book the executives of Fox talk about we need to respect the audience

We need to respect the audience by not by not insulting them with the news of Biden's victory by not telling them how much Trump lost and of course You get that by respecting the audience. They're actually disrespecting the audience. They're actually radicalizing the audience by trying to keep the truth from them Brian, thank you for joining us and congratulations on the book, sir. Thank you. Great talking with you. Likewise. Don Lebertard, Ravens, good double up the colds and they are good against every team to accept the Steelers. I mean, so that's a 14 point win there for the Ravens. Yeah, double up to touch that. Spulgats. I think double up is a score like if the Colt have 10 and you double them up You scored 20. I don't think double up. You do it. I do it differently. Okay, but I don't think that double them up like you explain it to me

As if I was my way I understand, but that's not technically doubling up like I think you use the phrase wrong or something Happened double up plus four. Yes, exactly. Okay. That's what he meant. Of course Who touched that you never cease to amaze me. He's amazing. He really is he's what he meant of course. You touched out. You never cease to amaze me. He's amazing. He really is. He's just he's he's breathtaking in his stupidity. This is the Dalé Batars show with this two cats. All comedy needs a little bit of tension in it. You gotta have a little bit of tension. We have escalated to a place where Billy Gill and his iron fist are being tested by Stugots and potential shirtlessness.

We have until Thanksgiving to get the payoff of one hour of televised gut guts. Bring your own guts. I know this is all part of the one big set up to get Stugots to take a shirt off, but Billy just took away our golden helmet of life. He did, dude. You just said that's no longer a thing.

You guys haven't been following the rules. You guys have been willing to do it. We haven't done it. You and Tony and the cheating. You and Tony are the biggest cheater. No. There hasn't been a black helmet of death in there. I looked, you took it out.

You and Tony are the biggest cheaters of this game. No, this game of investigation. You should not be punishing us because you're a cheat. What is your investigation show you? Last week, you and Tony are the biggest cheaters in this game. No, this game. You should not be punished to me, I mean, it's because you're a cheat. What is your investigation show you? Last week, you and Tony's hands were in the bucket at the same time that it's. Tony's emerged with the yellow.

Wait, Mike, you want helmet by helmet? No, I want helmet by helmet. Really? Excuse me. It has not been pulled in two years. Wait, wait, wait, it started getting suspicious. It's been longer than that because if I'm gonna be honest with you, I believe that helmet still lives in Alice and Turner's purse

and has been there since like 28th. Oh my God. Yeah, like that was taken out by her when things are getting out of control with punishments and people were hot and alive and she's like, okay, this is gonna be removed so that there's no more, you know, ill will towards this segment and, you know, things are done on the up and up. That was like a very parental moment, I'd say, by her, where she's like, this can't exist anymore where people are just getting double death

because we may actually arrive on that store. So that lived in her purse for some time. What a breaking bit of news there. Thank you, Billy, for your disclosure, for your honesty, because we all just assumed that you were up to illegal cheating tactics and that you were abusing your power as commissioner. I wasn't even commissioner at the time that this was removed, but management stepped into like guys.

Manage. So getting a little cray. Who's management? Who was management? I can't say. What? Is it Mike? It certainly wasn't me more hospital Like clad football deaths more on that Liam Chapman might put a grenade in there one time I did the baby said it it was strong We had a liability issue We had a liability issue. I did not know about come on once Billy was a

Easily little hospitalization for eating it. It's just a good scare Come on for him back in there either way the golden helmet of life is a good thing you can't take that away You guys have been abusing the golden helmet. It's been you guys at a ridiculous It's you and Tony no false hood All right, and the Reaper is over here just shaking it. No, well the Reaper last week confirmed for us The Reaper doesn't speak we asked him yesterday no questions We asked were there nefarious high jinks involving Billy and Tony and the and the Reaper last week confirmed for us the Reaper doesn't speak we asked him yes or no questions We asked were there nefarious hijinks involving Billy and Tony and the and the Reaper gave it up the Reese the Reaper also The Reaper's a snitch Reaper can't see what's going on and just kind of going along with all right

I don't want to discuss it anymore I've got a see the Reaper at this point is overworked like the rest of us So he's like I got to do something else here So look at this I have video evidence right now and you don't want to get the reaper's thought. Video evidence of you. Look you were handed a helmet. It's in here now.

Oh, we were handed a helmet. By the reaper. That was not a live. That was not live. That was not live. We were in Los Angeles. You took advantage of us being in LA. Not even slick, it's just like clear.

Well, okay, if we're gonna come clean about everything, we could clean about that as well, if you'd like to. And by the way, that punishment is no longer valid anyways, because that's been like three months. So the, the, the, yo, what is it? Don't you cheat, you cheated. But you cheated. Well, no, okay, I don't know.

You cheated the game, you cheated yourself. You and Dan weren't here, so you don't know what happened. So when I'm looking at what happened. I'm telling you what happened So I was in I was in there and this back room here a bunch of wise guys Concocted this scheme in which Tony had a golden helmet in his sleeve So Tony puts his hand in the bucket with the golden helmet in his hand in the sleeve that no one caught somehow and then I'm sitting there with stugots and as everyone picks this group of jackals over here said you know what? The Billy the Reaper is gonna hand you the Swap helmet take it and I'm like I'm trying to co-host

Which I was not told I was doing as I'm just there trying to do that and they no You guys were a hundred percent were all in on this thing and told me in my head said as he was walking in and the Reaper can confirm that this is like we're all going down if I'm going down Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna sing like a carry you're surprised by this You got put me in this unenviable spot where I have to then go and try to slickly get it out of his head Which I got away with it. I had to get the swap out of his hand now that did happen I will admit that that happened. And you know what? I'm gonna be a big man.

And I will say, last week was 100% on the up and up. And I know that it doesn't look good because of things like that that happened and Tony cheating in the past. So this is what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna draw this week. Even though I am safe for three weeks, I'm going to say that that counted as that.

Just look at how I'm doing. I'm gonna do it. No one else. Just stop cheating. It's not me. I'm gonna take this sheet. I'm telling them. That that counted as that just look at the helmet back. No, no, no, no, no, no, no It's not me. I'm gonna take it for this week. I'm telling my So we're gonna go hold on hold on guilty by association I don't even want to be associated with you could play the music and Chris County will go to the bucket in a second. How many people are going to the bucket?

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just now, I don't even know what these guys are doing. All right, I have the Seahawks The Seahawks are On Thursday against the Niners Put that one back. What about there? You are six and a half point dog at you know No, if you know Zelbo is okay. You know Brock Purtie just had a perfect pass or rating under dog helmet Yeah, I'll get back to you Cardinals are about the mystery of Tim Boyle

Let's see if I can run plus onele. The Bengals are plus one at home. The Falcons are plus one at home. Falcons are playing the Saints. Cardinals are playing the Rams. I like the Jags, guys. Yeah, I was going to say. Yeah, Texans are at home. No, no, no.

I'm about Texans at home. Texans, what I'm going to say. That game I like. I'm going to go Texans plus one and a half. Yes. Over the Jags. Yeah. Billy, go ahead and select.

Now, to remind everyone, I am kind of giving up my two weeks of safety to participate in the name of the integrity of the jazz. Yeah. Yeah. Bill and go ahead and select. Now to remind everyone I am kind of giving up my two weeks of safety to participate in the name of the integrity of the bucket. Chris Cody does he presently have a- I have the Brock. That was Client. That was Client. All the Brockos are hot. All right. I'm putting it at home against the brand.

They're two and a half point favorite at home. Oh, it's back in. Wow. That's the brand. I like a second draw. I don't care what it is. They're fearless. Look at you. I got the giant, so it's moving much faster.

You're getting a half point. Oh, Patriots, though. They're playing the Patriots at home. Winnable game. Three and a half point dog at home. Tommy DeVito's been looking good. They got the one week he looked good. Two weeks. Is it two weeks that he's looked good? Or is it one week that he's looked good? My quarterback is Zach Wilson.

Any other quarterback looks good. Tim Boyle. I have. Tim Boyle now, sir. Indianapolis Coats, the plane, the time to be bucking years at home. The R-A-20 favorite. Give it. You seem thrilled about it.

Really? I think I like that over. Boy. Nobody asked you for your total Roy. What are you going to do? I'm not going to put it back. A two and a half point favorite. There aren't very many big favorites this week.

No, that's not big enough. Oh, no. Keep put back a big favorite. He did. The big apple, New York Giants, New York Jets, any New York team. I'm going with a New York Rangers. Damn, thank you very much. All right, I'll find out who the new York Rangers is.

You don't even need any information? Yeah, no, the New York teams right now. Go ahead, Lucy. I hate this bucket. With the lights and the wig, I was just going to call you Jessica. That's a fine. That's a big fine. We are.

Who's a blonde girl? Texans? Yeah. They're at home against the Jags, one and a half point underdog actually. I'll keep this. Good job, Smeti. Fine. The New York Rangers are playing the Pittsburgh penguins on the road

Oh something fell out Sorry, I'm not looking can you put that back in? Sorry, sorry about that Roy did that blindly why just he believes in the Rangers We're definitely more than the Allen. Wizard of Oz, helmet, I will take the Lions. Okay. Yeah, that was very quick.

The Lions are seven and a half point favorite home on Thanksgiving against the Packers, an aggressive pick by Mike Ryan. Mike Ryan is deep in the gambling weed, Stugans. He knows every game being played everywhere, every hour, every underdog hour every underdog every value every inefficiency. He's gambling again. Uh, Stu gots is going into the bucket right now to rummage. By the way, while you're rummaging take your time. You're in it now with Swifties and Kelsey people

because your take from earlier people are putting it in your mouth. That's fine. I'm just trying to help out a friend. He was just warning him about the thing. I know I'm not going to do it. I'm just saying, it's taking out Kelsey because Kelsey is distracted. I didn't take out Kelsey. It is exploded. It is now, it is, it is, it is,

Talk about how she just keeps releasing the same outfit. A lip fuse through the internet. She got this hot take going after one of these famous and very handsome and popular Kelsey's. The Browns. Oh, the what the browns are good back underdog that's a good pick throwing it back two and a half point underdog what's the name of the kid throwing for them these days what is the name of their for them these days. What is the name of their point? The constant D D RT D T R D T R.

D T R. That kid show flack. Do not resist the process of day DNR. The kid. That's right. The kid is a kid. Kids scored 13 points last week. I didn't say mobile. You said that mobile athletic. The guy he should have said it. She says true athlete. Stu got Steelers. Steelers are Tony though. On the road. No Mac Canada anymore. Nougant, Steelers. Steelers are on the road. There's no Mac Canada anymore. No, no, Joe Burrow.

I know, that was for Tony though. One point, David. Are you picking for Jazz, sir? I got the cowboy. Oh, Jazz, congratulations. I'm picking for myself. You're keeping that one. Good job, man.

So, so you got to pick for everybody else. Go for it. All right, here we go. You're picking for Tony. I danced a man. So, so you got to pick for everybody else. Go for it. All right, here we go. You're picking for Tony. I danced a lot, so I'll pick for Dan first. Dan's got the cowboys. It's Jessica Tony. This is Tony.

Cardinals. One point for 100 dollars at home against the Rams. It seems like a good one. I'll keep it. This is how it worked when you guys were in LA. Yeah, no kidding. This is with Billy Cheetah. Yeah.

This is for Smettie. I was forced cheating on me by this ring. The Broncos for Smeti. Oh, now half point favorite. I'm not planning to play with the Broncos. That's a keeper. Two and a half point favorite. Yeah, but then they had a kid at quarterback.

Yeah. Dorian, something. She had the Cowboys before though. I'll keep it. You tried to do that very dramatically. It was not very dramatic. Dan has the cowboys. Dan has the Broncos.

Dan has the cowboys. Stop doing this. Okay. Shirtless tomorrow. Is it going to be the local hour? Spicy slaw. I have the worst angles. Anyone in there, you do have a bad angle.

We've got our true. Brother, I'm not sure there are any good ones left. I got it, I got it. I've got to be real with you. I'm the one's the hot one. You're in there, man. You're systematically taking away the angles. I want to hide, though.

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