The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Valerie's Lack Of Trust #FlyCommercial #ServeOthers

Episode Date: January 6, 2026

"Is everything taupe in the rest stop bathroom?" Dan's wife doesn't trust him to stay awake during an upcoming concert, and with good reason. Also, Zaslow betrays a friend, Trae Young tanks his value, Kevin Durant gets honest, and a story of one of the great Greg Cote press conference moments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stucats podcast. I am not of the belief the way Mike Ryan says that Lane Kiffin is capable of, regret, doesn't seem to fit with the entirety of his personality. And he has responded to someone on Twitter about the basket he stole from the local grocery store by putting up a bunch of hashtags, hashtag return basket, hashtag save environment. No bags. Hashtag set example for kids. Hashtag fly commercial. Hashtag serve others. You're right. Like full on regret of the move for Lane Kiffin. I don't think he's built that way. But there are certainly elements of this that are embarrassing to him. The optics, the legacy hit that he took in that part of the country that maybe he cares, maybe he doesn't.

Gosh, I don't think he cares. If they make it to the national title game, he can claim he built that team. but they did it in spite of him. That's a fact, because this is a whole load of adversity this team has had to overcome to get to this point. It is funny to see him say hashtag fly commercial when his contract has all sorts of private plane time in it because I don't think he's doing very much in the way of regret. Given that this has been what he does,

he has not had an exit that isn't like this anywhere. It's sort of like if he was going to learn the lessons from it, he would have learned them. It doesn't seem like he learned the lessons from all the other places where he leaves in disgrace. Yeah, moving to another SEC school is difficult. I don't know if Ole Miss would have allowed him to go to Florida. They're much less of a threat and allowed him to go to Florida and still coach. They're much less of a threat to Ole Miss right now than LSU is.

But this is a huge part of his legacy. And for a guy that had like one of the big whoopsies when it came to doing this, He somehow made it worse. This is worse than leaving Tennessee in the way that he did. I just think that it is amazing. Honestly, Zaslo, truly amazing for me to watch the last five years of everything that's happened to college football. To see it turned into this much of a business, I would have thought would have hurt the

product. And the product cannot be hurt. Like, we can talk about all this stuff as controversies. It's wrong. They can't make up the rules as they go along. our love of football is such that it does not matter what you do to it. I would have thought at some point having this much business around amateurism would contaminate it, but it's not possible for it to be contaminated.

Like when this stuff started a few years ago and you would have people or it's like, you know, what happened in my game? It's college football never going to be the same. It's not going to feel as good. And it's like, I don't know what you're talking about. I'm traveling the country every single week. And these people love it as much as they have ever loved anything. I knew it would be great, and it got great way quicker.

Just look at the final four that we have right now. It was starting to run its course. 15 years of Bama, Georgia, LSU, the occasional Clemson. Clemson qualifies as your Cinderella here. This is so much better. I mean, either Miami or Ole Miss are going to play for the national championship. And ironically, like, it feels like a sport that has added a salary cap for parity so that other teams have an opportunity by.

opening up the capitalism and letting everybody get in and just throw a bunch of money. So by there being no cap, they've had it in a salary gap. Because now instead of the eight programs that you had with crazy recruiting advantages that must be real, we're paying. Yeah, now Texas Tech. Or obviously, Oregon that has a ton of money around it. Or Indiana for getting the right quarterback for that one year. And maybe next year with Josh Hoover and capitalizing off of it.

Like, anybody can get in at any given moment. And that's pretty cool. I don't think the money is the issue. The money is great. That part's fine. The issue, I think, is very clearly the changing schools every single year. I think it's great for the game. Look at the TV ratings. Look at the TV ratings. I understand that part. And I think that'll have some sort of solution in the coming years. This is very hard to do in this landscape. The playoff teams are changing. The amount of teams that are allowed in the tournament. The rules are changing every year. Hell, we got European professional basketball players now playing in the United States. We got guys that got drafted. All of this is really hard to navigate, and it'll settle in in a little bit, but this is actually making college football even bigger.

The numbers bear it out. More teams, more regions across the country, having an opportunity to get in the game, has grown the sport, a sport that ESPN only knew how to market this one way, SEC, SEC, and now we see, look what we've been keeping from ourselves. Well, and think about it.

Most schools have at least some wealthy fans, and now those wealthy fans can have a say. Well, and now you have coaches just begging those wealthy fans to give them money. Listen to Arizona State Coach Kenny Dillingham talking about, please someone, write me a check. We need to find one of these really rich people in this city to step up and stroke a check, and I'll do everything I can to make you the most famous person in the city, right? That's really what we need. We need one person. we live in Phoenix, Arizona.

You're telling me there's not one person who can stroke a $20 million check right now. There's somebody out here who can. There's somebody who can. There's somebody. And like other people are going to sacrifice to be here. Somebody, step up, step up, and be that dude to say, holy cow, what completely changed it?

This person. There's somebody out there that's going to listen to this that's going to get it forwarded it. If you know somebody who can do it, forward this message to somebody. Somebody can step up and completely take this place from the direction it's going to holy cow. Leadership or begging? That is crazy, though.

This is what it's come to. And there probably is a guy in Arizona like, I could do that. Or a woman. Not to Kenny. Not likely. He's pretty solely focused on it being a dude. Holy cow. As he should.

It's kind of amazing when you think about it that financially college sports are allowed to do things. that pro sports are not allowed to do. You say it's amazing. It's dumb because, as I've said for a long time, please allow all of these rich people to compete against each other for money begging for a quarterback instead of a donor, begging to pay a quarterback because of...

Imagine what Stephen Ross toward the end of his life. Stephen Ross, who was willing to trade four first-round picks for Joe Burrow, reportedly, Stephen Ross, who tried to get Tom Brady to come here and agitated Brian Flores as part of everything that was happening there. Imagine what Stephen Ross at the end of his life, Stephen Ross, career winner at everything

except the thing that he's famous for. Such a good point. How much do you imagine he would pay at the end of his life to just be able to outbid somebody for a quarterback? You don't think Stephen Ross would call up the Cincinnati Bengals and say, hey, notoriously frugal franchise. I'm going to give you $500 million right now you just give us Joe Burrow.

You would definitely do that. He can do that at Michigan and has. He has done that. He did it at Michigan, yeah. And Michigan State. Didn't Michigan State have some sort of donor? There was 400 million, 200 million of which had to go to the athletic program? Ishbia, right?

Is that who it was? I think it was Ishbia. There are a number of things that I need to get to here that I have not yet gotten to, but one of them I teased earlier after Evan Cohen's brilliant riot report. The Most Violent Boca has been in many a year. was the sideline of the Louisville Toledo game during the Boko Bowl. And I mentioned that Zazlo tried to steal that assignment from Evan Cohen without offering any particular. So can you tell people what kind of thief you were?

I went behind his back. I tried to steal a job. It was really simple. That's literally what happened. I mean, he had the job last year. On the call is, like, it's an ESPN radio, like, broadcast. The call is Chris Carlin and Freddie Coleman for the second consecutive year. And Evan Cohen last year and this year was their sideline reporter. And I decided, I want that gig. And I figured Evan wouldn't want, like, I don't know, he's going to fly down and, you know, it's not his gig. You're here. I'm here.

You're 50 miles from there. I'm here. And I was like, you know what? Let's do something fun. You know what? What if me and Amber Wilson will just do our schick? We'll do the sidelines. Together, the two of us.

We'll do something different. She and I will be the sideline reporter for the game. We're both here. We would both love to be part of a game broadcast. And I went and I asked people to you as well. I was like, hey, so, yeah, like I'd like that gig. I'd like to do that. Well, then I eventually text Evan.

I was like, hey man, are you doing the sidelines again? And he didn't necessarily appreciate the order of events there. Maybe I should have went to him first with the ass before I was. went to the other people, I decided rather than ask for a permission back for forgiveness. That's my move. And ultimately, you know, I did not get the gig and Evan, Evan had. Or the forgiveness. Yeah, I don't know about that.

I don't know. I haven't really talked. Stuff to outstroke Evco. Yeah, I don't do that. So I tried to get that gig. I tried. And it put Evan in a really weird spot too because even if he didn't want to do it again, now he had to do it again because I was coming for the gig.

What is your relationship with Evan Cohen? Very good. Well, it used to be. Well, like Mario and Ryan Day. Like, what are you supposed to say? And if you're Evan in that spot and your bosses come to you and say, hey, you want this, you want this off? I got someone who's willing to, I'm going to be like, get out of here. Well, yeah, I don't know how that conversation went, but ultimately it led to me being, you know, shoot away.

You do know how that conversation went? Hey, do you want to not get paid? Yeah, it was me being shoot away. It was you being shoot away. And him doing riot reporting that was excessive. according to everyone except Greg Cody, who criticized the number of police officers. So I tried. I tried. I tried to get in there. It backfired. I want to ask you guys a question. I left the house this morning with my wife making an

assessment of me that was both accurate and disturbing. My wife bought tickets to a classical music performance that she was going to go to with her best friend, but her best friend had to bail on it. And I said to her, I'll go with you. I'm happy to go with you. And she doesn't trust me to not fall asleep during the classical music performance. So I put it on the poll at Lebitard show. Can you be trusted to not fall asleep at the classical music performance? I just want to throw that out to the audience.

Could have been a great content opportunity of your wife catching that on video. Well, I fell asleep on Broadway when we were in New York. I did fall asleep. You fell asleep during a Broadway show? Not only did I fall asleep during a Broadway show. I fell asleep during John Stewart. I don't even remember what the name of the show was. It was the opening night of their Broadway show.

And I fell asleep in that. Was it one of those sleeps where your head is falling forward and you're catching it? Do you do the head, Bob? No, the head. No, no, so asleep, no, so asleep that the head didn't even Bob forward to wake me up. I just fell asleep with my head with my head back. This is also an important detail. Do you snore?

I do snore, but not in this instance. I do, this instance, I wasn't so asleep, but she noticed that I was asleep. And then the show was over. Like, I barely saw any of it. It's not like I was just sleeping for a little bit. There was no head bobbing. It was just falling asleep. I arrived at the Christmas break on my hands and knees.

Like, I was just simply exhausted and needed every bit of those two weeks off, no matter how much the audience didn't like that we were not on for a couple of Miami games. I agree with Mike that I enjoy the head bob. It's the best one. That state of sleep, I don't know what it is. Like five minutes on, five minutes off. Like, that's the good stuff right there. I'm a zombie for what feels like an eternity, but really it's just 17 minutes.

You're nuts. The head bob sucks. It's not a satisfying sleep. You're always most. No, but it's like the deepest. It is somehow the deepest. I am so tired that my body has tapped out. I have lost control to keep myself awake.

You see the power of the body because then it's like, no, I've sprung awake and now I caught myself. But that's good on the couch, like when you're trying to stay up and watch a game or a show or something. But if you're out at. a Broadway show, you're feeling the guilt. That's like a terrible experience. That's the deepest of sleep, though, because you're not trying to do it there. On the couch, you're just willy-nilly. Like, if I fall asleep, I fall asleep. He's

trying to stay awake there. That's the good stuff. Micronaps. The way that Dr. Strange does it. Five minutes at a time. That's when we did the long stat of the day. That's how I slept for an entire night. When I was in school, the sleep where you think you're falling off a mountain, you guys didn't sleep in school? When you were like in your desk and all of a sudden, you're like,

it's like, as if you fell from the sky. It's not a good sleep. Put it on the pole at Lebitard show, do you like the sleep where your head is nodding and then waking you off on its descent? It's kind of weird, because I hate it, but I also kind of like it. I don't know how to describe it. It's like Joe Buck. Yeah.

What? How is it? How does it like Joe Buck? I'll follow you, but just tell me how it is like Joe Buck. It's because I can't decide how I feel. Really? I like it. Some days I'm like, that's annoying. I like Joe Buck. For the record. I'm glad I didn't follow you down that back. Yeah. Hey, Jeremy. Happy

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Sweep steak starts 1215, 2025 at 12 a.m. Eastern, and ends 1.23, 2026 at 11.59 p.m. Eastern. See official rules at program website. Don Lebertard. Mike Ryan's in there, and he's the one with a baby. He's the one who's got to, like, worry about what the future is. And Mike Ryan bet on draft kings, because Mike Ryan,

Ryan, bet on us. This is the bet you're afraid of doubling down on, putting up a billboard in Edmonton? Stugats. I care more about Matthew Kachuk than I do my daughter. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. A couple of basketball stories that I wanted to get to. It does seem like Kevin Durant has a bit of a persecution complex because something that he said yesterday after beating the Phoenix Sun's At the buzzer, there were a couple of games yesterday that were interesting.

First of all, I have no way to explain to you and have not heard anyone who has a good explanation for why the Oklahoma City Thunder are losing by 30 at home to Charlotte. After starting the season, losing one time in 30 games, all of a sudden, they can't win 80. They can't play basketball all of a sudden, and they lose by 30 to Charlotte at home. But after the game that Houston had yesterday, and Houston's a legitimate. title contender. Houston made a good trade. Houston was very close but not good enough last year and trading for Kevin Durant who's always going to be able to make that shot at the buzzer. He's going to be able to do that at 80 years old, put it on the poll at Lebitard show. Will Kevin Durant be able to make that shot at the buzzer at 80 years old? After the game, he had all this to say and I was a bit

surprised by it because even though some of the stuff in Phoenix could have been hurtful, I didn't know that he was carrying this sort of chip on his shoulder. Does it mean any more to you to get it to hit that one against your former guy? Most definitely, you know what I'm saying? A place that I didn't want to leave my first time being to sound, I don't want to sound too dramatic, but I will, to be kicked out of a place, you know what I'm saying? And it felt like that, you know, I've been scapegoated, you know what I'm saying? for the issues we had as a team last year.

Yeah, it felt good to beat them and get a game winning shot. But that's all it is. It's not just for the moment, you know. It's something tomorrow I won't even think about, you know. So it was a fun game. Like I said, of course. Yeah, I felt you play with a little chip on your shoulder against your former team, especially when they trade you.

Kicked out and scapegoated when he was the best player on a team that underachieved. And I thought Bradley Beale was getting all the criticism for that. seemingly unaware of the conversation surrounding Bradley Beal. I was just surprised to hear him be that honest about how he felt about it because, like, obviously, there's some internal discussion there, right?

That must be that he's feeling like within the organization. It was all right, well, we got to get rid of KD. Like, it was, you have Kevin Durant, you have Devin Booker, you have Bradley Beal, there was the effort to get rid of Bradley Beal. That was the obvious one. But he probably thought, hey, me and Devin Booker, you continue to

build it around us. I was great. And for him to be shipped out of town, he must have been caught off guard by it. And I was really surprised. You don't often hear athletes admit to that. I was pretty taken aback by hearing him say it. He gets the moment of when in that game, he gets to say that there. We should also consider that Phoenix was right. Because Phoenix turned that thing around real quick by getting those guys off the roster.

Also kind of the opposite where he's saying they didn't want him anymore. Kind of the opposite of the three previous times he told his team. I don't want you anymore. But that's why he admits, like, this is the first time I was shipped out of town, and it wasn't just my decision as an NBA superstar. It's a weird feeling. Like, he's not at the end of his career by any means, but he's on the back half of his career for sure and probably the back third.

And so to be... 14th hole? Sure. Creeping up on 16. To be in that position and for the very first time in your career to have the experience of they don't want me, Kevin Durant, in his view still. the best score in basketball, still a top-tier

defender, he's surprised by it. Mike's right, though. This year's Phoenix team is a lot better than they wore with head. That's a full construction thing. It's not just Kevin DeWan. But getting rid of them helped for that construction. So their vision worked. Shut up, Matt, Ishpia again.

It was indeed Ishbia who gave the $400 million to Michigan. I assume he's a Sparty guy and he's, you know, got a lot of money. Okay, but I thought you were looking that out. I recall that. I didn't think it was Ishbia, but regardless, Kevin Durant, I think this goes back away, right? Because Kevin Durant was surprised

and this is where the insult is. Kevin Durant was surprised to hear that his name was in trade talks without anyone telling Kevin Durant that his name was in trade talks. I saw some video with Udonis Haslam

the other day where he was playing a game with Taylor Rooks and they were talking about something he would want to ask somebody that he would want to know and get facts on. And he said, the thing that I'd like to know is whether or not anyone approached Dwayne Wade in the Heat organization about trading me for Alan Iverson. And so they put him and Wade on camera together and then asked Wade, and Wade said, yeah, they did approach me about trading for Alan Iverson.

I wanted to trade for Alice Iverson. And then they told me Eudonis was involved. And I didn't want to trade for Alan Iverson. And there's just simply no way that Eudonis asked that question without already knowing. the answer to it and then them televising it. Like, that wasn't something that Eudanis then learned on television while waiting for Dwayne Wade to answer that question. You generally go to a superstar like that, like Kevin Durant, and you check with him on things. And that's where that relationship started to deteriorate that and the losing. The other thing, though, from yesterday that I wanted to

ask you guys and talk about is, it's rare for me to see that a four-time all-star in basketball is a at something close to his prime, and I don't think he has any value. Trey Young in Atlanta is now working on a trade in Atlanta. He's the worst defender in the league, and while he's serviceable at what you need in the modern age of the NBA, which is somebody who spreads the floor, he's not someone I would want on my team. He's not someone I would trade for. He's not someone I think of as having value, especially not as a number one, but also if

you're asking him to go and play a role that's not as a number one, that's just spot-up shooter now. So what is the value of Trey Young? And as I talk to you now in the audience, whoever your team is, do you want him? Do you want a four-time All-Star in his prime? Because I wouldn't. I would not want him on my

basketball team. I don't want him defending. I don't want him hogging the ball rate. I don't want him taking 40-footers. Not a player that I want on my basketball team. What's the value of Trey Young four-time All-Star? It's so confusing to me. Because if you would have just told me, hey, you want Trey Young?

Man, that sounds exciting. But at the same time, I don't know that he has any value, certainly any value to a team that's in a position for winning. Like, what's going to wind up happening is Atlanta's going to call Charlotte and they're going to call Washington and they're going to call Sacramento. And he's going to wind up playing for one of those three teams. And consider this, Trey Young for his career is 25 and 10. That's a star. That's a star player. And I don't know if he has any value.

There have been reports previously that like teammates don't enjoy playing with Trey Young. Tennisist though. What's not to enjoy? It's like tennisists by default, right? So it's like an example of that might be that the way the heat ran offense previously, Bamadabio's assists numbers were higher because of dribble handoffs where he's getting two or three extra assists per game. simply because the ball is in your hands. For Trey Young, the ball is always in his hands.

He's making every single decision. And sometimes that's shooting a three from the logo four seconds into the shot clock when other guys are already going. At the same time, like, this is a talented player who's at 25 and 10. And Bobby Marks just put out an article about an hour ago where he was sort of hypothesizing where he could go and what those moves could look like. And there's The Wizards, which has been reported by Mark Stein. That's a place where he could go.

But another spot that he mentioned, though, like if you're looking to just shake things up, Milwaukee, where they could just send contracts and maybe a desperate team. But I don't think that you're going to see, more likely than not, Trey Young traded to a place where it's like, all right, cool, this puts us over the top to be a championship contender or that it's a team that decides to truly build around him. Washington may be looking at this in the way that teams like Oklahoma City did previously. hey, attach something to Tray Young. Give us a pick or two to give us an asset with him, with his contract for next year, so we could see, hey, is he worth keeping around? Can he turn it around with us? Or do you then just let him expire or trade him as an expiring contract next year?

It's so surprising the rapid deterioration of that value. Exciting, exciting player who has been money in the playoffs. Like a guy who could win you playoff games in the prime of his career. and I don't think any good teams That lack of defense is a huge He is different He is the worst defender in the entire league and what Zaslo said that is so true

Put it on the poll please, Juju at Levitard Show are Charlotte, Sacramento, and Washington rest stop bathrooms The rest stop bathroom makes you sad, right? Have you any of you ever been in a highway rest stop bathroom that is not profoundly

sad. This is the place where Jordan Poole and Trey Young go to waste their careers, the rest of it. Washington, Sacramento, Charlotte. Are you doing truck stop? For Pierce, my prefer. Are you doing truck stop or like modern rest area with like the food court? Yeah, like 95 or the turnpike? The truck stops are nice. They're these big brands.

They're built for people to come in and shower. Turnbikes getting better. I'm doing the bathroom area. Specifically. No matter what. Of rest stops on the turnpike. Oh, see, it's not so bad. I disagree with you.

Alligator Alley. Have you done that drive for a long? It's all these prefab construction. It's like the lightful. Fort Drum, Dan. Have you been to Fort Drum? Everything is tope. Put it on the poll at Levitard show.

Is everything tope in the rest stop bathroom? Hands free. Zaslow, how do you feel? I believe Elle Duncan not only has done her final sports center. It was very emotional, but El Duncan is getting her life back with a netflop. job that allows her to not work the way that people make you work in Bristol, Connecticut, where you have to work 700 of the 365 days there are in a year. And she is hosting one of these gimmick shows as Netflix makes its way into, I guess, I don't even

know what's... Live sports. I don't, yeah, but this is climbing a skyscraper? Is that live sports? Is that, that's what we're saying is live sports? It's a live event host. It's a live event host, but what she's brought. broadcasting, the details are

somebody is climbing a skyscraper live on television. It's not somebody. It's that dude from that documentary that you love. Free Solo? Yes, that guy. His name is escaping me at the moment. But that documentary was exceptional. It was exceptional for a number of different reasons.

You think he's climbing a mountain and the mountain is relationships because this is an unusual human being who risks his life in the obsessive pursuit of I can climb anything anywhere and it's obviously someone who's very difficult to be in a relationship with

because you don't want the person that you're in a relationship with to be testing death every day. It's Alex Honold. H-O-N-N-O-L-D. Don Lebertard. In terms of heat fans, you're the most irrational of us right now.

What's the pivot? Oh, irrational. Stugats. Do you not hear your voice there? My boy, dude. If I were making a cartoon thing that was meant to symbolize irrational. That's the voice I would give.

This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. So I'm watching my stories last night, all right? And they do a, they show El Duncan. She's in the crowd. You're talking about Instagram? No, I'm watching Monday, Raw. And I'm watching my stories. And El Duncan is in the crowd.

And then they put up a. a preview. They put up like a trailer for this. It's called Skyscraper. Not to be confused one of the all-time great action movies with the Rock. It is not one of the old-time movie. I mean, remember he jumps from a scaffolding. From one to another. He's got a peg-leg

and he jumps from a scaffold onto the other building. It's a classic movie. Are we doing peg-leg still? Put it on the pole. I don't think you can say peg-leg anymore. Put it on the poll at LeBatar show. Is skyscraper one of the great all-time classic action movies? Thank you for sticking up for me.

So I'm an ally Shiver me Yes, yes he are So roomed So they show a preview For this, this, this It's a live

You know, broadcast Homeboy is going to climb A Be a prosthetic A building In Tai, in Taipei, Taiwan All right It's like a hundred one floors No harness, no bungee

No like you know, netting, and he's going to they're going to do it live. And I'm telling you, I will watch this on one condition, all right? I want to watch it, but I will watch some one condition. You have to promise me if he slips and falls,

that camera stays on him. Oh, no. Like no cutaway. There's no such thing as televising that kind of death live on television. And I know ye be noticing that I've been orbly altered, but do not call it an eyepatch. If they promise,

promise to keep the camera on him, I will watch. So it's called peg leg only because it rhymes, right? I don't even know what a peg. Easy. We gave you the past once. I don't even know what the peg is in peg leg. It'd be a stick. It's just because it rhymes with leg that it's called peg leg, right? No, it'd be a peg.

I'm with you. They probably started with leg and worked backwards. Put it on the poll. Are you still allowed to say peg leg at Lebitard show? And is it called? And take a selfie if you were offended by the term peg leg. Please take a selfie. I would love to see you. Full body. And your merry men.

And also put on the poll at Lebitard show. Did we call it peg leg only because the peg rhymes with leg at Lebitart show? Incredible. He went from the, get that off the screen. From the scaffold. I think he even jumped up and landed on a floor above where he jumped. it's not a great movie it's not a great action movie it's not any of those things but skyscraper i can't i can't

believe how bad your judgment is about this it's not any good it's not you cannot say the skyscraper was a good movie maybe you're not thinking of the same movie i am all right i have heard from sources close to evan cohen and sources close to evan cohen are saying that over the holiday break zaslow pissed off Evan because he hosted the morning show and then proclaimed the New York studios now his and that Evan had to rent them

out from him going forward he had done only one shows Aslo had in those New York studios and I am told that Evan Cohen is not as down with you as you think he is I was very honest about this we went up there me and Amber we did the show from

the New York studios we filled in for Evan one day and I'm very upfront about this If you invite me to your home and you have a nice home, I might take your home. And I said that. So I don't know what the issue is here. I think you've got a problem with somebody who you have come up the same sort of, you know, work chain as him. And you're competing for some of the same things as rising stars at ESPN, ESPN radio. He doesn't have sweets on the road.

He doesn't fly first class. And you guys are competing. There's a friendly competition between friends. Mike, why are you looking? at him. He's doing all right. If you look under the hood. He's doing fine, but he's also got someone in

a friend in Zaslo who continues to work behind the scenes to take his thing. Friends challenge each other, though. Friends can compete. You can have someone to compete with and both of you try and get to the top. I mean, who's to say that's not what's going on here? You don't think

that that can break apart a friendship or a relationship? You don't think that there are certain dangers and temptations there that are problematic? We'll see. I mean, do I have to... Dan, do I have to remind you, but, you know, I got a wife, all right? What do they like? Yeah, what are they like? They love

something, you know? You've got to get it when you can. Money I'm talking about. Yeah, Dan. Oh, okay. Money. Greg Cody had to leave. I should have probably said this earlier, and we never got to remind me tomorrow to get to whatever his feud is with Richie Rosenblatt, because I need, can we...

Write that down. Can we provide that down? Can we probably... We'll do that before his feascible thoughts, I guess. Yeah, well, I really don't want his Fiesta Bull Cogs. He gave us the only one that he had, which is Ole Miss Tackles. That's all he had. He doesn't have anything else. He hasn't watched any Mississippi football this year.

It's been two weeks of a great Miami Hurricanes playoff run. I didn't get to hear the writer from the region that actually reps the team because you've been doing a two-decade-long bit. You did hear from him. Which I'm sure you regret because Mario doesn't like you. He called it Ole Miss Tackles. We tried to get Mario this week. I was like, I'll handle this one. That's going to be a no.

I mean, what do you want me to say about that? I'm too flippant for the serious coach. It's not that. It's not that. Look, you're late to the party. It's been 20 years. And you're still doing this thing where you're speaking for an audience that's annoyed by homerism. Mike, okay, all right, I get it.

It's not Jaron Williams at quarterback anymore. They're here. You're one of the famous alumni, right? You should be happy. You should be pounding the table, too. You should be Miami guy. Instead, you left me in the foxhole alone to fight for this team in the CFP. And you were talking about they.

You were repping them. Now's the time. Get over here. Who's asking for this bit from you, Dan Lebitard? Who is asking you to be rational guy that speaks for the other people that are in Miami Hurricanes when you, more than anybody, should be standing on the table losing your freaking mind for what you're seeing? There is no bit here. Interrational.

What bit do you have me executing here? You speak for the audience. You know what you'd do. I mean, you gave Jeremy an audience to Cape for BYU. You know what you do. I gave Jeremy an audience to be annoying. You gave the audience Jeremy, which is even worse.

By that math, he gave the audience you as well. What is the feud with Richie Rosenblatt and Greg Cote? Because this is what I heard part of the feud was. And for those of you who do not know any of the history and why would you? Evidently, when Zaslow talks about his friendship with Evan Cohen, And this is how competitive friends and rivals can be. Greg Cody, many, many years ago in Buffalo, they went to Buffalo, tried to win with Burnip Harmony. And Greg Cody was outside of the locker room and pens were freezing up because it was zero degrees.

And Richie Rosenblatt's pen wasn't working as he was trying to take notes. And Greg Cody had an assortment of pens that were working and Greg Cody would not share. any of the pens with Richie Rosenblatt and just left him there to struggle with his note-taking because they were competing. What are you looking at? You just did, you, I would assume, would endorse this behavior, someone who has tried to steal the money of Evan Cohen's significant other. But that would be like if I'm sitting next to Evan Cohen and his microphone stops working and I have multiple microphones and I just say tough shit? That's right. You don't say, you don't even say tough shit. You give like that grin. Yeah.

And you keep writing your notes. I don't know. That's crazy behavior. Paper wars. Greg Cody is crazy. I mean, Greg Cody just made 49th on his list of catch phrases. What is the click-click song? Where's my click-click?

A phrase that you've only heard if you've been in his car. In his car. That's correct. There's my click-click-click. I can't imagine how bad this list is. He doesn't have. How bad? How bad?

48 more. Gates on fire. Fuller than Vern Fuller. I mean, that could have been higher. I'm sealing where is my click-click. Can you imagine that being the soundtrack to your childhood when you hopped in a car? I want you to record it on your phone. You say that with your wife and your daughter in the car just for the reaction.

I want to hear again, as we continue to build up to the biggest game the University of Miami has had in more than 20 years. I just want to hear the assortment of sounds that you're going to put into a fake. pregame show that continues to build out our Tuesday, our Wednesday, and our Thursday as we head toward the University of Miami is playing Mississippi as a favorite to get to the championship games. Zad said earlier in the show, he's like, I can't believe it. Miami and Mississippi are in a game and one of them is going to be in the championship. I'm sitting here saying, Indiana is going to be in the championship. Indiana is going to have a team that is worthy of being undefeated and playing for the national championship and winning

it old school style because Indiana any time of that college football has been played, Indiana has the resume that would win the championship. Miami presently has the only resume that ever gets to play for the championship, which is two losses

and the last few years of playoff football. The hundred years before that Miami would not be allowed to play for the championship with two losses. Indiana if they get past a semifinal and they win a championship, can lay claim to greatest team of all time because no team has ever gone 16 and 0.

Biggest gave me 20 years. Last kicks ass. No, I want just the Greg Cody in the back of the car, drunken sounds. Fake big camshow. And also the way that he pronounces Malachi Tony. Malachi. That's whose coverage you're missing.

Malachi. You did right. You wanted him to give you more analysis. And you're just pulling up gold. You're the one replaying it on this show. It seems like he's doing a pretty good job. Fake big game show. Ole Miss Tackles is all he had on them.

He doesn't have. He just gave me 20 years. All I've got around here surrounding me is Greg Cody, not knowing anybody who plays for Old Miss and Zaslow before even the Trinidad Chambliss hype has started saying he's sick of it already. And Michael Irvin. We're here.

They've met the moment. Dan Levitart hasn't. Michael Irvin, Greg Cody, certainly has. I want a fake pregame show intro tomorrow that has all of this garbage in it. Yes. Yes. What's so hard about that? For four days straight.

Yes. Biggest game in 20 years. Make me a fake pregame show intro that I have tomorrow during the local hour that has all of Michael Irvin sounds. It's not too big of her quest.