The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: A Very, Very, Very Good Local Hour

Episode Date: September 7, 2023

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You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. This is the Dunluba Tarshou with the StugatSpotCas. I've got a problem here today and baseball in this town and the Marlins have a problem here today in that I genuinely want to talk about this Marlins team. They've beaten the Dodgers too straight here and somehow September is here and they're playing games that matter and it's been a long time since the baseball team felt that way. However, the problem I have is that Stugots and Billy are off doing God Bless football because today is football day because it's Thursday. They've got, they've got a lot of work to do this season and Stugots is hard to wrangle and God Bless

football is going to come out here shortly to celebrate that the football season starts tonight with Kansas City and Detroit. Kansas City without Kelsey, he got injured seconds after I said at this microphone that he never gets injured. Seconds, I per extended name. And Mike Ryan, who hasn't talked into a microphone for several days after putting several hurricanes in the ring of honor on Friday after the win over Miami of Ohio. He's thundered in with his NFL hat and he is desperate to talk all football things. And you guys told me when we were in the middle of those insane panther and

heat runs, you told me that the Marlins could hide in the shadows and stay around. And then when it ended, capitalize on the momentum of people carrying deeply about sports, if they still mattered that we would pay attention. But Billy came in here yesterday as a father of two and said, he's too tired for a deep playoff run. What do I do about this baseball team? When Lucie doesn't want to talk about baseball, she wants to talk about how much she hates Kim Mulkey. I hate her so much. Jessica doesn't want to talk Marlon's baseball. I can't get her out of her phone. I've got to do something about that. I was googling Marlins. In case you ask me any

questions about my Marlins, Dan, third wild card spot. Okay. Give us all of the information. That's all I got. That's all you got. They retired. You done as Sazlem's the number something, something happened. That's today. That's today. Yeah. My Marlins. That's just pantas night last night. One game, Udonis Haslam night is tonight. They're going for seven in a row. And I've got an over-eager Jeremy Tashay, is there any other kind? I've got an over-eager Jeremy Tashay

who is at the ballpark doing reporting and he desperately wants to talk the talk Marlins. But if you wanted that, you'd be listening to Jeremy Tashay's podcast where he reports and talks to the players. It is an exciting time. I believe this team is fun to watch. They brought in those buddy cops on the corners and they're just taking giant swings and now jazz chiseled wants to hit the ball further than everyone else.

But I don't think we're going to win today, Jeremy. I think Mike Ryan is going to want to get in here and talk Miami football of both kinds. And I don't and I think now it gets swamped because he also wants to talk about blazers and heat. And he wants to rail against podcasts at ESPN who continue to bash Tyler here out. So what do I do with this? What is the audience? What do you think the local audience wants?

The sport that's going on right now is not dolphins that we don't preview games. College football is going on, but we haven't talked at all about, we've talked more about Iowa, Iowa state than we talked Miami Miami of Ohio Elastico Who's calling it El Asico and is America and is Trump still going to El Asico is he still is he's co this weekend He was not if this game was at the University of Iowa. He would have not been invited Jeremy give us a Reason for the audience and for South Florida to support

this against all odds, Marlon's team that again has won two straight against the Dodgers. And I ignore, ignore that Philadelphia is better than they are. Ignore that the Cubs and the Brewers are playing very good baseball better than they are. Just make it about somebody's going to get in here who's not very good. A four team has a possibility of getting into or you've got teams in the playoffs that can get in that aren't all that good. And the Marlins, the last time they did that, they were 30 and 31 when they played against the Cubs and the playoffs in the pandemic season. This third wildcard spot has opened up things.

To me, it was as good of an idea as any of the rule changes that baseball has had because it's made so many of these teams that otherwise might be considered mediocre, like the Marlins have been predominantly in the second half of the season, get to hang around, go through bad stretches that they had, and still be here fighting for this playoff spot. What's really fun about this team is things we're about to get really silly because now that Sandiall Contra is out, the Marlins are going to be using openers for two out of every five games that they pitch. And then you're going to have these other young starters just spackled throughout the line

up now, no Jorge Soler, they're best power hitter. So what's gonna happen? You're gonna have Belenberger trying to hit homers, Dala Cruz and Sanchez in the middle of the order, doing weird things every time they come up, and really, jazz chism junior with an opportunity to lead this team to a wild card spot in a really cool time from Arlene's baseball.

Like this is as fun as it's been down here in, I don't know, 10 years in terms of really chasing a wildcard spot, it's exciting. What kind of weird things are we talking? Like a weird little dance at the moment? That was an unusual analysis from him as our expert. They're going to start doing weird things. If you don't want to see baseball get weird and silly, then you don't want to see baseball

right now. Like that's the best version of baseball. No, but it's the best version of baseball. Like it will be a lot of fun because this team, the word that they used a lot yesterday was getting creative because they know, like at this point, without their best power hitter who was on pace to hit, 40 plus homers and set Marlon's records.

And their ace who won the Sai Young last year who was eating up so many innings, it's basically, it's gonna be three weeks of, what do we have to do today to win this game, including yesterday throwing Edward Cabrera, who was supposed to be one of their next aces for four innings inexplicably in the middle of a game and he was the best he's been all year. Mike, before we get to the football stuff, have they lured you in because you only have so much fan with and the Marlins have been in they've managed to be

interesting all season they they've gotten third-tv status from me and then when they had the uh... the sports calendar to themselves i thought they seemingly ended their season by struggling so then i got back in a football mode and now they're playing well when i'm in football mode and I just can't right now. I'm happy for them. I'm sure people that are deeply passionate are super excited that they got a second chance at life here. We are. I had already said goodbye to the season. So I did a

week ago. Yeah, so this is kind of a point. I said Kelsey never gets this is annoying. It's a little annoying that I have to find a TV for it now to follow along. I am a big Josh Belguy. He's randomly been on my fantasy baseball team that I force myself to have so I know some of the names because all I know are 1990s names. And I was happy when they acquired him and he seems to have been an amazing acquisition. I want to talk for a second about the fantasy grip that the country is under as football begins here and you get something on your weekends that's a little bit different than fantasy in baseball and basketball

and the other sports. Matthew Barry has a newsletter. You guys know that athletes have invested in this. He left the ESPN because he's a beast. He's a fantasy beast. He is cornered sort of this area of expertise that has a giant following because of how desperate people are for good information because everyone's a general manager. And that is coming on Sunday with a whole lot of old people who are not going to know where and how to find the red zone. a whole lot of old people who are not going to know where and how to find the red zone. There are going to be problems with people going to 990 on their direct TV and not able to find that what do you mean YouTube? Calling the kids in from the other room. They already added the channels on YouTube TV. I was scrolling last night. Oh my god. The channels

down the channels are there. How different is it going to be? Is anything, how different, other than just, you've got to be very careful with old people and things that are familiar to them, customs that are familiar. You can't, when Jeremy just mentioned, do you have any idea how much resistance the wild card got once upon a time in baseball? And it's the only thing that makes this

Marlon's season interesting. Otherwise, it would not be interesting because they would have no chance to catch things like the braves and the dodgers. That was met with so much resistance as a terrible change. Bob Costas, loudest among anybody, and it's been a wonderful change. The viewing experience on Sunday is it gonna be any different at all because YouTube's in charge. I don't think so because it's still the, when Scott Hansen came along, that's planted the Sicilian version

where the majority of people were experiencing him as host and that remains to be true with this incarnation that's gonna be on YouTube. So I don't think it's going to be that much of a shock to the system. I think most people understand how to put an app on their smart TVs at this point, and YouTube's interface, it's kinda like the iPhone. It's made for people that aren't necessarily tech savvy.

So I think it'll be pretty easy to understand. Our show has missed out on whatever it is. The numbers are on fantasy football though. We don't dabble in fantasy football expertise. Well, I assume you're using the royal wee there because we do. You know, it's content. Open the hate it. It's content. I'm talking about. Yeah, well, you're the, you're the straw that stirs the drink here, pal. Like, you don't like it. I don't like fantasy talk because it's so in the woods on information about who's going to do well that week.

Yeah, you don't like information? I mean, you're always on this search for info and fantasy people sometimes can give you a great insight to single player props. I'm gambling again. It's very dry. The fantasy is dry. The fantasy.

I want so Matthew Barry talk to a puppet. I'm just right. Dry. But I'm not here to talk about football honestly. I'm into the Marlins. I'm into the Marlins. I'm into what they're doing. Jazz is finally delivering on promise.

He's playing really well. It just so happens to be at a weird time of the year But jazz I've got good news for you You are my fast switch energy drink player of the week presented by Gatorade He is he is so twitching. He is so great. So that honor is so upon here Why are you applauding? Are you applauding because he dropped in the advertising there? How are we talking? I'm being told right now it needs to be an NFL player. Oh, God.

So, Jasmine, as I apologize, Cudaria's Tony, congratulations. All right, very good. Because you are powered by fast switch energy drink this week. Very good, very good. Powered by Gatorade. Katie, get your... He's healthy, finally.

You've been talking about him for three years. I believe for three years. Hey, and a big super bowl. I mean, Andy Reed is going to reinvent him. Him and Skymore, who is also twitchy. Yeah. Don Lebertard. All these high-paid analyses. I don't want to mention names

TNT ESPM, you know, oh yeah They're dead they can look at it. They're not going to make it, you know, even if they win in If they lose it in Miami, they calm you down I mean, they lose in Miami. They don't got a chance in Boston. They're going to have their ass, you know what? In Boston, you know. Stugats.

They were wrong. They were, are they going to lose their job? No. Are they going to get a cutting plate? No. What are they going to do? Keep predicting what is the obvious. They're going to say, oh, you know,

they're going to win. Oh, Denver, the altitude. And you know what? They hit their going to win it all. This is the Don Levatar show with the Stugats. all Denver, the altitude and you know what? The hitter going to win it all! This is the Dunluba Tarsho with his two guards. We're presented by Drive King Sportsbook, one of America's top-rated sports book apps. Drive King's has all kinds of ways to get in on the action including

seeing game parlay's props, live betting and so much more. You just go down when you sign up on a drive-king supposed-book app to check it out. A happy 80th birthday to... Poppy! A happy birthday to him! I don't care! Good luck! Everybody!

Happy Bow, the big 8. I do care. That is a big one for Poppy. He celebrated last night. Tommy had too much wine, too many appetizers, watched some blue bloods. What about Colombo? Now, was that what's on the cellic?

I don't know. I don't know. Is, is, no, that's the, that's, he's still doing magnam, isn't it? No, no, no, they have magnam. What? I thought he was doing there some remake of Magnum. Yeah, but he's not in that.

I believe he's in blue bloods with a wallberg. Johnny wallberg. Okay, so my father was watching that. He said the plot confused him, and I don't know if it was the complicated writing of blue bloods or the wine. Regardless, he was very happy because he slept the entire night, and you didn't have to get up and go to the bathroom. Where do they air that? Ion? Probably means you just peed the bed.

From my experience, drinking too much, being like, oh, I don't have to wake up. There's a reason for that. Nothing personal with Poppy. It's just business. Well, you are. You are. But, Jessica, you told me before the show, I did not know this, and this is happening to me. I was searching for the name Two Chains to tell you that Two Chains is on God Bless Football with Stu Gotz and Billy, and I couldn't find the name. And, Jessica mentioned that COVID has destroyed her memory, and I think that may have happened to me. I think my deterioration on this show

and my memory for things, which has never been a problem before, is all post-COVID. I didn't know that that was a thing. I was not aware that I thought temporary memory fog was a thing. I did not think a permanent memory loss was a thing. Dan, you're just 53. I'm just kidding.

No, but you're right. You're right. I'm gonna have to get that to work. You've also dealt with a lot of stress and that also affects it. But yeah, COVID brain was a real thing. It is a real thing. It made me turn to Ginkgo, but, you know,

very marginal improvements. My long-term memory is terrible. There are things that I know that I used to know that I can't remember anymore. And I'm not even 30 yet. That should not be happening. That's why I do a macular grid. It's kind of like stretching before exercise.

I do a macular grid in the morning, so I make sure I never forget who Eric Hosmer is. Who could forget Eric Hosmer? It's a local kid, but it was one day. It was Royals. I was like, Tien, who's a guy with a beard? Local.

Put it on the pole, please, Drew Drew at Lebitard show. Who could forget Eric Hosmer? Yes or no? Mike, Jessica was making fun of you and the University of Miami yesterday because of their package ticket deal with Texas A&M where they're selling tickets and the Texas A&M game at home, the first big one of

the season should be something that it's easy to sell tickets for and now there's a package deal with the Georgia Tech game and UCF is making fun of the University of Miami. We'll play that, we'll put that graphic on the screen and it's screened a little while for you. But Jessica is right to make fun of this package ticket deal. That's a sad state of affairs. Well, just to set the record straight, I wasn't making fun, Dan.

I was delivering a stat. It was part of the long version of the stat of the day presentation yesterday, which you missed, Mike. It was part of the long version of the stat of the day presentation yesterday, which you missed, Mike. It was electric. I did not provide any opinion. I was just stating a statistic, which is that they're offering bogo tickets.

If you go to Texas A&M game, because tickets are not sold out yet, you get a free $3 ticket to the Georgia Tech game. I hope she dragged them. I hope you all dragged them. It's a terrible look. Look, I mean, if the game's not well attended, or one, it's understandable.

They ended last season on a five-game losing streak, and people were calling for Mario Krissable to be the FEMA director after people evacuated that stadium after 45 to three. So I understand why this market's like, prove it. But for me, this is a self-inflicted wound. You can call it a mini plan. Oh, Florida State did one on July 4th,

where they sold three games for $17.76. Do a buy one, get one free, but have it be butthoon. But if you're gonna do a buy one, get one for a conference game, you deserve the jokes. And that comes straight from the top, from a thoroughly unimpressive athletic director. That was his idea. It's terrible, and they deserve to be made fun of for that.

And we finally have a positive feeling around the program. Finally, a good result in hand to be excited about, and now they're being made fun of again. It was a totally self-inflicted wound. I'm glad that they're getting made fun of it. It was a bad decision. This is just what happens when you're not in a real power conference, like the big 12 for the SEC.

When you're in a cash poor conference like the ACC, this is just what you have to do. Sometimes those smaller schools, those smaller programs have to do things like this to get people energized about football. I understand it. You know, you just got to get to the big boys, Mike. Mike, you were pretty loud, not about a year ago,

I think, on Reddit, coverage being a good athletic director. No, somebody you wanted. Somebody wanted. Yeah, he was someone of repute. I was excited that we got when you look at someone that was coveted, everyone that follow college football assumed, well, he was there from the beginning of Clemson's run. So surely he had something to do with it. He built a lot of facilities.

And I think that's what really is going to be Radicovich's legacy down here. He came down as a building builder and if he gets those facilities, it's a job well done, but he's screwed the pooch on NIL early on. His messaging still remains to be bad. He made a couple of interesting hires to fill out his staff, people that handle funding that come from military academies, that don't necessarily have that background. And with this idea, it just seems like someone that's not necessarily locked in to the market. And I understand that he doesn't even live down here. He commutes down here week to week. He's, this is a guy that when he was hired, everyone kind of assumed this is a a couple couple year plan

until he goes off to retirement and hopefully sets Miami up for the next phase. I'll give him that. If he builds these buildings and the facilities are good and it has Miami on level playing fields with some of the other programs that they're recruiting against fine. I mean, the proof is in the pudding. During his tenure, you've made it to a final four, you've made it to an elite eight. So it to an elite eight so radical which is probably pounding his chest saying I've done a good job but uh... you know i'm just i'm just waiting to be impressed so far i haven't been impressed it is such a bummer though because i mean i we make fun of my m a lot and they're very easy to make fun of but last year going into the taxis a name game that was at

taxis a name we had a lot of fun doing the little bit with the little gigam thing that Mike and Chris Cody were doing and it was such a hyped up game and it feels like the fact that it's not sold out that Texas A&M fans aren't even coming here to sell out the game is crazy. Like there's just no hype about this game and it's two teams last year that came in

with all of these expectations. Like Texas A&M was winning the portal, winning recruiting. Mario Cristobal was like injecting life into the Miami program both ended the season without even the opportunity to play in bull games five and seven. And now they're playing again the second leg of the home and home. And there's it's just completely flat. It's not even like one of the top eight games I'll be watching this weekend. Understandable.

I think both programs kind of have to prove it. For Texas A&M, they've had several years of recruiting classes to stack up. Patrino is allowing Jim Bo Fisher to take more of a management role and get back to recruiting and building relationships with players. That was a team that struggled with buying in and would come out flat in a lot of games and Patrino offense for whatever your thoughts about the man. I mean, the proof is in the pudding. He's an elite offensive coordinator. I think you could take their wide receiver core and you could arguably say it's the best in the nation. They have really talented players on the outside. And I think it's going to be an interesting game whoever

wins it is going to have reason to be optimistic about this season, but it's a national TV game at 3.30 and that's just program prestige that's doing that. I understand the excitement that I was surrounding it last year and it's a total 180 and it's deserved it. It really is. These programs have to prove it. A couple of things. Jimbo Fisher, it's funny that you would pay that man that much.

He can't develop a quarterback. James Winston's the only one he's ever developed. James Winston carried him to those riches. And that he has to now bring in Patrino to get offense, given the amount of money that they're paying him as a savior. But the other thing that I wanted to say about Radikovic, because this part is funny to me. Across my career in sports, I have met two classes of people outside of agents to job classifications that get a lot of respect that I don't believe deserve it, a wildly unimpressive group of people. The first is television executives. The second is athletic directors. One of the least impressive

television executives I've ever met went and became an athletic director. That's Syracuse. I didn't say that. But I just want you to understand what these jobs are for these career bureaucrats and fundraisers. Like, you don't really dream of being an athletic director unless you failed at all of the other things in sports.

Well, there are some people. There are go getters like anything, Dan, and I don't mean to impede your point, although I might. You have. I was in the middle of it. Yeah. But I'm coming around to that. I didn't know this about athletic directors and the more involved that I get. You have. I was in the middle of it. Yeah. But I'm coming around to that. I didn't know this about athletic directors and the more involved that I get with the

program. I understand how bureaucratic it is. And I find a lot of frustration in dealing with these bureaucrats. It's a sales job. It's a glorified sales job. They go around and ask for money. And they run these corrupt systems. And the only group that's

least executive is the guys wearing those bold jackets those hideous loud bold jacket dream job let me drink out of a snifter and eat wings and represent gallery furniture calm please god let this happen for me it's all I want in life I want to give a firm handshake and be treated to a spread, charcootery. Ah, it just, yeah. Let me awkwardly present a trophy to the MVP of the gallery furniture.com bowl classic.

I want, in Orlando, please. I want a lapel pin that is unavoidable. I want a lapel pin that is catching your eye the second you see it. They walk through a press box. I need you to ask I want a lapel pen that is catching your eye the second you see it. They walk through a press box. I need you to ask me about my lapel pen. He's bold executives shaking hands. Like, you know, it's a guy who...

No, your boys are good. You boys look good. It's a guy who will see. No, it also looks good. Maybe. Maybe it looks good. We're going down there. We had a good time down there.

Guy goes into his closet, pulls out a hideous orange jacket, practices his firm handshake, and walks through the press box like he matters. And they do. They still matter. It's a dream job. How can they still matter? I am, that's, that's my endgame here, Spence. I am leveraging all my boozing to just be given a ceremonial title with the Orange Bull Committee so I can wear an orange blazer and eat sword bay for the rest of my days. Your mouth to God's ear, bring me with you. I will be your assistant. I

don't care as long as I get a blazer. Make it a midriff though. Also Jeremy Hardrock stadiums twice the capacity is the bounce house in Orlando. So I did not have the glory of being a bowl executive. I could have gone caviar, champagne, strange choice by you. Sorbet, self serve brother, Don Lebertard. Common thread was Stu gotch, chumming it up with Aaron Rogers.

Yep. So I met my quarterback Yeah, as you know as you know Sioux gots didn't talk to Aaron Rogers. No Sioux gots thought country music superstar Jake Owen Was Aaron Rogers they had a 20 minute conversation identical twins. I mean Jesus still gots Listen, I will never have the relationship with Aaron Rogers That I have with the guy that I thought was I mean that is the greatest conversation I've ever had with my quarterback

VCC down le but our show with this to got Presented by Draft King Sportsbook, one of America's top rated sportsbook apps. Draft King's has all kinds of ways to get in on the action, including same game parles, props, live betting, and so much more. Use code Dan when you sign up on the Draft King Sportsbook app to check it out. A mean will be here shortly. There have been tensions around ameen recently. He was yelling at me yesterday. I was yelling at him. He had an argument on air with Izzy Gutierrez. I believe that Ameen is the Stephen A Smith of Metal Arc Media wandering from show to show

on every show, doing many shows, talking in many places. And I believe we had the equivalent yesterday of the athlete's spat on the sideline. I threw down a pen. Valerie says I shouldn't be at work. Valerie says that my grief and my emotions are gonna leak out in all sorts of ways that I'm not familiar with.

And she says, I shouldn't be around people. I'm hiding from most people. Other than you guys, I am hiding from most people. I am not going through all of the cards and texts that I've received, but the outpouring has disappeared, and now what's left is just the pain. I get up in the morning and I just feel sick every day. Could you get back to my dad?

He's bothering me non-stop about it. I did think it was awkward, Dan, that you didn't respond to my condolence text, and then the next text I sent was a selfie with Dan Patrick. I just had to let that one rip. Telling like nothing happened. I should get back to a lot of people, but- It's too late for that one, I don't have to.

Thank you, thank you. And now I've been calling that. My dad used to like you. I have not gotten back to anybody. of people. It's too late for that one. Thank you. Thank you. And now I've been called out. My dad used to like you. I have not gotten back to anybody. I've been hiding. I've been, I have just not been in any way right. And yesterday I got frustrated and threw down a pen and it skidded across the table in a mean got manned.

And it just, it made me think of how different the athletic worlds are and the media worlds are. I've told you before right seeing Marcelo Swiley and Jalen Rose in a cafeteria at ESPN and both of them just odd at how insecure the media environment is because it's not the way a locker room is. People fight and feelings get hurt and you just can't be in your feelings when everyone's emotional and stuff and hold on to that in that ecosystem. But in ours, the vanity business, somebody gets their feelings hurt and Billy Gill doesn't talk to me for six months. And it just, that's where different kind of

business. Are you in the middle of that silk? Because I can't tell. It's hard to tell sometimes with him when I ask him questions on air. That's why we talk so much, Marlins. It's just you offering a gambit to Billy talk to me. I would say that's why you and I talk too much when people drift off into their feelings. This shouldn't be just Billy Gill. It happens to all of us. It happened to me yesterday. But I believe that now a mean is talking too much in too many places and he resents the

company. He's somebody who's working too hard as he does oddball right now. He's doing it at this minute and he will be here shortly, perhaps to entertain some of Mike Ryan's thoughts on how ESPN's podcasts are all slandering Tyler Hero again. Well, I caught this on the internet. They've aggregated Portland Trailblazer podcast.

And they've taken the message from on high, the Tyler Hero bad, heat off her bad. In fact, roster that made it to the NBA finals, all bad. Nothing good. But not just that, right? Everyone's sleeping on Jovich, right? Like that the heat believed that that can be Denilo Galanari in two or three years. I years mean you don't sound silly with the is most

recent performances up there he looks like an incredible asset but bear he's so young he like this he still hasn't even grown into his body looks like a great score but uh... the miniheds offer an assets are what they are because there are no other trade offers out there. And it's cyclical. If there's a better offer out there, Miami's offer will get better, but there's a lot of misplaced anger at the whole Damien Lillard situation. And rather than blame Lillard for this, they'll take their cue from ESPN and the Blazers

for an office and just get angry at Miami for only offering Tyler Hero. And thus, they'll get mad at Tyler Hero to the point that they've convinced themselves that Tyler Hero isn't even a good player. And it's just curious how much influence an entity like ESPN has over all of this. It's, to me, it's been a really ugly scenario that's played out in front of our eyes over here

between the Portland Trailblazers and Miami Heat with leveraging the media. And I think it will be an interesting case study if you ever decide to get altitude on it and look back wherever he may go. I think this has been kind of an abuse of the journalistic enterprise that is ESPN. I mean, realistically, Tyler Hero is a very, very good player. And so I'm I'm hopeful that ultimately ESP we didn't need all three very's I don't understand why why do you have to be extra on the Homer Stuff I have to be extra on everything on the theater just was gonna explain it. I got in ahead of her We didn't we didn't need three varies on time put it on the pole. All right, here's the truth. Lewis was in my head saying something about me saying, I

need you to carry this. We're dealing with stuff behind the scenes. He's in my ear. We're talking. There's a break. Lewis, Lewis, Lewis, like, please stop being in people said. Stop talking to us. Okay. Do me the favor of getting video functioning today so that I could throw it to a UCF video and stop talking to us. I can't believe you just threw him under the bus like that. I did. I even went and apologized in his ear while you were doing that.

I went in comms and was like, Hey, Lewis, I'm so sorry for doing your business. That is so wrong. What you just did is no accountability and we were just talking. Lewis actually has fairly thick skin under the circumstances. We did not need three varies from you.

You blamed Lewis because you gave us three varies. And I'm very, very, very sorry. I want you, you. How's it learned from you, Dan? Well, yeah. Well, Lewis is in my head constantly, but I know how to deal with it. And I'm hashtag built different. You can't do that to everybody. Put it on the pole is Mike Ryan hashtag built different yes or no. And put also on the pole

is Tyler hero a does Tyler hero deserve three varies in being a very very very very good basketball player is Mike trying to insinuate he's more capable of doing professional television with someone in their ear than I am? Oh, I'm not insinuating it. I'm saying it directly. He said hashtag built different. That is that is what he said. And I've seen it real. There's some good stuff, kid But you got a ways to go. Well, if this segment is in any indication, I Don't believe Mike Ryan has ever blamed Lewis for something Mike Ryan said Hmm, he's bling Lewis for a lot. Behind the scenes, I'm a pro kid.

You see, this is what I mean. Bailey's just putting anybody up there. Whoa. Lewis just got in my ear and said he blames me for everything. Lewis, stop talking. Lewis, go sit in the penalty box. What? Go sit in the penalty box.

We can't go to video and show you in the penalty box because video doesn't work today. Flint is, go sit with him. Hey, there's a mean. Something has bothered me here recently that I want to get in front of the Miami audience as someone who loves pets. pets and What is happening around Miami throughout Miami where some services are breaking and there aren't checks and balances on newspapers being able to call out corruption and Scandal is just replete everywhere you have a lot of things like Miami-Dade animal services falling apart and They're they're going to be some protests this weekend and that

have already been some protests because there are 124 dogs in Medley under some pretty appalling conditions. And we're going to help them with some things that they need there, even though I am reticent to give any services and Miami any money to do anything because I'm not sure it'll go to the right places. But we are telling the audience right now that they're going to waive their adoption fees if you use the code phrase, lebitarge show. And we're going to give you some information here on if you want to adopt some dogs, you can see what they look like at 24PetConnect.com slash M-I-A-D. And we'll put that up there just so that people have it on the screen if video works.

24PetConnect.com slash M-I-A-D. You just got to be 18 years old, you have an ID, you got a proof of current address, and if you got a collar and a leash, they will waive all of the adoption fees if you want to help these dogs. But there are protests going on because, like I said, there are a lot of things happening all over our city where corruption is replete and services that you want from your community that you have come to expect are not there because a whole lot of people are grabbing it money and power and there's not a whole lot of people to protect things like the animals. And so if you want to help with this, Lucy, you seem to be made sad by what it is that

you've looked up there. These are some real good boys and girls. Real good. Yeah. That's a... Okay, so you can adopt. It's 124 dogs that are under some bad conditions and we're trying to improve those conditions. Jessica, I saw that Willow was here yesterday and I again see that there's some general discomfort

from a mean. Is there any discomfort from others? I mean, I mean, it just doesn't like dogs. He doesn't trust dogs. I didn't sense any of that. I've the only person that I sensed discomfort from was David Samson, who tried to run away from Willow. She thought he was playing a game,

so she chased him, didn't make the situation better. I will probably not be bringing her in again while he's here. However, as I brought in Willow yesterday, and the first person to make a comment with some new guy who's helping us with the lights and he said every office should have a dog in it. And that made me very happy because she's a very good girl. And I think we need a little therapy animal around here because everyone's in a very sad intense mood, Dan. And scratching a little puppy under the chin makes everyone feel better. Shout out to the new guy helping with the lights. Put it on the pole, please.

At Levitard show, does every office need a dog? I have noticed talking about people being up in their feelings all the time, that every time there is a new guy or a new person around here whose name that we do not know, I see what happens in Stugots' eyes and all he sees is that's money he's not getting. Yes, Stugots is a rare breed that gets mad at other people for him not knowing their names. Stugots, I'm not kidding you. This happened on Tuesday. First day after Labor Day, we're an hour and a half into the show. Stugots comes to me and

as if he's doing it for me, says to me, have you noticed no heater breaks today? He'd quit for two hours and he wanted me to notice and wanted me to feel like he was doing it for me. And it dawned on him as he was saying it. He said, why am I doing that? Why am I making it seem like the most self-destructive thing I have to the one tool that keeps my career alive, protecting it for two hours by not smoking cigarettes? Why does it seem that I'm doing Dan a favor? by not smoking cigarettes.

Why does it seem that I'm doing dana favor?