The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Aaron Rodgers for Vice President?

Episode Date: March 13, 2024

Today's crew: Dan, Stu, Amin, Jessica, Charlotte, Billy, Roy and Chris. The show starts by discussing Aaron Rodgers being listed as one of RFK's finalists to be his running mate. The show then pivots to Nick Saban's comments in front of Congress on NIL and breaks down the amount of money he was making while coaching at Alabama. Then they relive Pablo Torre's epic orca costume and play a video of what Dan considers to be the funniest moment in show history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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For details, visit your local Ford store or Ford.ca. This is the Don Lebator Show with the Stugatz Podcast. Today's episode is sponsored by DraftKings. Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings and all it has to offer throughout the show. DraftKings, the crown is yours. Roy, you do not make the Florida Panthers underdogs against anybody. Anywhere, anybody, they go into Dallas last night. Three goals in the last period, third period, in order to come back. Ridiculous. But the oddball crew has flown in, and I'm pretty sure the reason the oddball crew flew

in is just because they know that the jet story that Stugatz had so much dream and expectation for ends with their quarterback retiring to run for a failed vice presidential bid. Whoa, it failed. With Tyron Taylor as his starting quarterback. I'm pretty sure that's why Charlotte and Amin flew in today Yeah, we just wanted to be here for moral support for stew. Thank you any time. Yep The jet should get a compensatory second round pick for this, right? I mean they should get something

They should get is it a second round pickers who Congress? The league look the actors have my second round pick the league should who, Congress? I don't know. Anybody. The league, look! The Packers have my second round pick. The league should just, because they're like, you know what, Aaron, thank you. We had all that problem with Colin Kaepernick and the flag. Now we've got an active player sort of on the other side of all of this,

possibly as a vice presidential candidate. Well, he'd be independent, so he'd be right down the middle, Dan. You don't know where Roger's politics are, I think it's fair to say. Stop talking about him. I think Aaron Rodgers, it's not so much that Aaron Rodgers believes in stuff, it's that he doesn't believe in stuff. His whole platform is like, here are the things that I don't believe in.

And RFK Jr. is like, haha, my man, welcome. Skeptical. Didn't he just do this whole thing with Jimmy Kimmel though and Jeffrey Epstein and didn't RFK say he flew on Jeffrey Epstein's point well, let's let's get that sound real quick here because I do want to think for a moment about what that Cabinet looks like because you know, you know Randall Cobb's on it. So is Bok D. Ari Yes, yes, Lizard. Lizard is on it. We might have who else what which one of the packer tight ends is Here this was this was unusual the last time I heard from Robert Kennedy I do not know what the context for this could possibly have been but they asked him evidently about

About being friends with Epstein and he's like I'll do you one better than that. I was always entertaining rapists. So, and I even run into everybody in New York. I mean, I knew Harvey Weinstein, I knew Roger Ailes, I knew O.J. Simpson came to my house, I knew Bill Cosby came to my house. An odd flex. It's funny. And not in any way.

Shout out to Andrew Schultz. That's a good get right there. RFK, wow. Is it? RFK Jr.? Isn't it? Have we had him? Well Pablo declined him.

He was off of them and declined him. Really? I don't think it's hard to get a guy running for president on your show. I feel like it's the opposite. They're trying to be everywhere. We've never had a presidential candidate on our show. We had a president, but we didn't know he was gonna be a candidate's the opposite. They're trying to be everywhere. We've never had a presidential candidate on our show. We had a president, but he wasn't,

we didn't know he was gonna be a candidate at the time. Charlotte, you're staring open mouth that I mean, do you wanna do that oddball with RFK? Is that something you wanna do? The disgraced Kennedy brother? Absolutely not. I'm just like still shocked by that clip. He's literally like, oh yeah, you wanna hear some bad guys?

I'll tell you about some bad guys. Oh, you hadn't seen that, you had not heard? That's the last time I heard from him. It was last week, it was going everywhere because it's like, it's fairly amazing judgment to go that route on that question. I don't wanna recklessly speculate here. But does that mean that-

Recklessly speculate? Yeah, exactly. It's a tough one, yeah. Does that mean that RFK Jr. is a Celtics fan, given where the Kennedys are from? Okay, well, let's not. So, we'll start an ad up now. That's neither here nor there. I mean.

Why are you whispering as if you think that's the better way to do this? That's the worst thing about him, to Amin. We have to accuse him of this in silence. I'm whispering? He's like, this might be... It's called sotavocci. You should learn it sometimes. You gotta mix it up.

Sometimes you're loud and sometimes you're soft. And it gets the point across. Amino's worried that that was character defamation. He was gonna get sued, so we had to say it quietly. Thank you for teaching me how to do this. I mean, I appreciate it. You're welcome. The other story today that everyone is talking about.

There's another story? There is another story than the idea that we might have an active NFL player running for vice president. Why do they do this? Like someone I think asked that if he wants to go into politics, he's like, oh, you never know. And like the rock keeps falling.

Like, why do celebrities think they want to be president of the United States? It seems like such a hassle. I know, but one was. Exactly. That's why. Yeah, but like, how's that working out? Well, pretty good.

It's about to get reelected. But it goes $400 million. Not in jail. You know what I want to do if I have $500 million? Not oh, $400 million. Or just never be seen again. Or heard from it. Exactly right.

Like, do they just need, like the ego needs, they need everyone thinking about them and talking about them constantly, that they need to be in politics, why? Also, something, sorry, Dan, I know you're trying to move on from Aaron Rodgers, but I have one more thing. Say this went well for RFK and Aaron Rodgers. What if the Jets also have a deep playoff run

and the game conflicts with the inauguration, what does Rod Rogers do? Mm-hmm. What do you think he does? Luckily, they don't have to worry about that. Because they're still from your lips. A deep playoff run? Well, either, really.

I have him taking the oath right there at the 50-yard line. What's more likely, though, Jets' AFC Championship game conflict with the inauguration are RFK Junior elected. If, if sports. RFK Junior. If sports are indeed a mirror for society, I do believe that the open to the jet season would sort of mirror what that presidential campaign would do where they have the flag, they wave it at the beginning

and then four plays later, everything is just total. We wave the flag for those few moments and what we win, we're against vaccines. Everything is just total. We waved the flag for those few moments. And what we win, we're against vaccines. That's our platform. They also, if the, if this happens, they did register Kennedy Rogers.com. And if this happens, guarantee you the picture Aaron Rogers carrying the flag out onto the field is the header of the website. I mean, it's a great picture. We can't be, that is the one thing he did. That is the highlight of the website. I mean, it's a great picture. We can't be that is the one thing he did. That is the one thing we can't dispute that.

That is the highest the Jets have ever been. It was a great 15 seconds. Not since Namath, not since Joe Namath in 1969, had the Jets felt as good as they did the moment. Aaron Rodgers in a stadium filled with flashing lights brought hope expectations to the Jets felt as good as they did the moment Aaron Rodgers in a stadium filled with flashing lights brought hope expectations to the Jets for four plays. Sorry Stu. I hate them.

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As you know, as you know, Stu gots didn't talk to Aaron Rodgers. Nope. Sue gots thought country music superstar, Jake Owen, was Aaron Rodgers. They had a 20 minute conversation. Identical twins. I mean, Jesus, still gots. Listen, I will never have the relationship with Aaron Rodgers that I have with the guy that I thought was Aaron Rodgers. the relationship with Aaron Rodgers that I have with the guy that I thought was Aaron Rodgers. So the women. I mean that is the greatest conversation I've ever had with my cornerback. This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugas. Also yesterday though a lot of people I'd like to know, I'd really like to know from the group.

I don't know how much Sabin coverage you guys consumed yesterday, but if anyone ended up on the other side of this, because I believe Nick Sabin making as much money as he did in that sport and then coming out against the idea of the sport can't be about money the moment I lose control of the money and everyone can get the money. But when Nick Saban says what I'm about to play here, I want to ask you guys, if you heard anyone supporting Nick Saban, any media members, when I think about the Disconnect about what college fans might want in terms of freedom in this realm, whether they'd want Nick Saban in charge, and if the media just goes the other way, which I'm gonna go as well, where I just point out the hypocrisy again and again of how

much money this man made off of the backs of these kids. All the things that I believed in for all these years, 50 years of coaching, no longer exist in college athletics. So it's always about developing players, it was always about helping people move more successful in life. My wife even said to me, we'd have all the recruits over on Sunday with their parents for breakfast. And she would always meet with the mothers

and talk about how she was going to help and impact their sons and how they would be well taken care of. And she came to me, you know, like right before I retired and said, why are we doing this? And I said, what do you mean? She said, all they care about is how much you're going to pay them. They don't care about how you're going to develop them, which is all what we've always done. So why are we doing this?

So, you know, to me, that was sort of a red alert that we really are creating a circumstance here that is not beneficial to the development of young people, which is why I always did what I did. My dad did it, I did it. So and that's the reason that I always like college athletics more than the NFL is because you had the opportunity to develop young people. So and I want the quality of life to be good. I think, as I said before, name, image, and likeness is a great opportunity for them to

create a brand for themselves. I'm not against that at all. But to come up with some kind of a system that still can help the development of young people, I think, is paramount to the future of college athletics. Way to throw Miss Terry under the bus there. Great tan, though. Well, he's probably been playing golf every day for the last two months.

I mean, you were howling with laughter. I'm assuming that's what the media's response is. I don't think, I've been talking for a while about the idea of just greed resplendent unwavering greed not just in sports, but everywhere Everywhere on the globe has been a rotting contaminant But when it gets to the kids is when it's a problem when it gets to college kids want to be paid for it Then all of a sudden Nick Saban is next to Ted Cruz is

to be paid for it, then all of a sudden, Nick Saban is next to Ted Cruz, and he's comfortable going sort of the Tuberville route of what can I do in my region of the country to get the people who I'm surrounded by who believe the college kids should be kept down because it gets in the way of the greater good of Alabama being the best. But he's not against NAL.

Well, this isn't the first time that he's said this. Remember when him and Jimbo Fisher got into it two summers ago and he was like, Texas A&M is buying all their players and Jimbo Fisher got really upset and bristled at that? Like this has been, I think, his viewpoint for a while. And I would say probably a lot of people, I can't speak for the media reaction as a whole,

but I think a lot of people do think that there needs to be some regulation and restriction to NIL. The problem has always been how do you do that and how do you put a cap on athlete compensation for their name, image, and likeness, and who regulates that and what is that when the coaches have unfettered access to wealth and riches for coaching in the sport.

That's always been the issue. What were you laughing at, Amin? Oh, so many things. First of all, he was acting his ass off with his voice breaking there, like, oh, the kids and oh, so that made me laugh. But then I looked at Ted Cruz, staring, gazing at him lovingly, and I just thought, how big is Ted Cruz's boner right now? Like, let's not play these black kids.

Let's keep them broke for life or whatever. And then the final, the Coup de Garde, I was like, that's why I like college football more than NFL. Because I couldn't tell them the naysayers what to do. They were getting paid. These ones over here, I could tell them everything. I was like, come on, man. That whole thing was just hilarity.

It was, I, midway through it, I tried to imagine if this were like 1866, and this is like a former plantation owner. Like the bimbo- We should have put him in a powdered wig. No, Nick Saban should have been wearing a powdered wig. The Colonel Sanders suit, he should have been dressed like Don Johnson in Django

talking about like, I just can't tell them what to do now. All they care about is getting paid. No, Sherlock, you got paid for 50 years. And you've been paying them for 10 years. Players went to Alabama so they could get paid in the NFL. So it's not like they didn't care about money beforehand. Plus, obviously, players were getting paid in an even less regulated way.

And he also went on to talk about parody, and this will make the rich richer and the poor poorer. I don't even know how to begin to unpack that. When you've been the head coach at Alabama for like 20 years. Well, I'm about to- You are the rich. No, I'm gonna do this for you right now.

I'm going to unpack it for you with the details that you might want on this. That's very nice of you. I have them all in front of me here because, well, I shouldn't say all. I hate unpacking. I shouldn't say all. I like packing. I don't have them I shouldn't say all. I like packing.

I don't have them all in front of me. You like packing? I like packing. It's like, it's like anticipation. Like here we go, we're going on a trip. When you're packing, you're going somewhere, presumably fun. Yes.

You know, maybe on vacation. But when you're unpacking, it's a hassle because you just want to get to the fun, right? But when you are leaving, do you like packing again? No, right? No. It's easier, do you like packing again? No, right? No. It's easier than packing the first time though. Really?

What? Just put all the stuff that you brought in your hotel room back. Do you separate your dirty clothes and your clean clothes? Of course. Yes, always. With a laundry bag.

Okay, no, that's what I was asking. Oh, no, I put a D-Markage. I put a T-shirt across the line. I'm like, this is a pocket for me. If it works out, I do one half of the suitcase dirty, and then the stuff I do in there. Yeah, that's a good move.

Hey, what were those statement facts? We're getting to them. We'll get the dirty stuff with the shoes. Two minutes, get out of here. Don't show people that. Don't show people that. Don't get out. He's huffing and puffing over here.

Two minutes. They're talking about laundry again. Get out. Huffing and puffing. You were huffing and puffing. I was hoping you'd do the next nine minutes, and I could leave, because you understood what we were doing here. They're talking about laundry get out. I'm huffing and puffing I was hoping you'd do the next nine minutes and I could leave because you understood what we were doing here I wanted nine minutes unpacking. I Wanted nine straight minutes unpacking instead. I've got you showing everybody what the joke is Well, you know the good thing about unpacking though

What is that you can you don't actually have to do it well. Like I'm in a hotel right now to be here with you lovely folks. Thank you for that. Yeah, my absolute pleasure. And all my stuff is not unpacked, it's just sort of like messier in my suitcase. What's the number of days that you go on a trip

that you need to unpack? More than three. I can push it. I'm with Chris. Three days or less. You're saying unpack and put everything away where it should be. Like you're in your room.

Well, we went to Super Bowl, I unpacked. I unpacked. Oh yeah, you have to. But like on a weekend trip, I won't. How many days before the trip do you start packing? I pack an hour and a half before I leave. Wow. Day of, day of, day of. My wife starts like four days before we leave.

I like the idea of it. Mentally I start doing that, but it's always a game time decision and then you're like trying to cram everything, you're sitting on it, then you do like the extender thing on the bag and then you have to push it down and close the extender thing.

My dog is afraid of suitcases, so I wait to put it in the suitcase until minutes before we leave, but I will start folding and organizing days before. I would argue I'm the best bag closer here. I would go toe to toe with you, Chris. I believe that you believe that. When I get my knee on that thing, I'm closing this bag.

Oh, it's game over. Oh, wait, hold on, this is a different game, though. Talking about a full suitcase that needs to be shut. Hard case or soft. You would be my go-to guy on the show. But you're not the most organized packer, that's what you're saying. You're the one that can get the bag closed the best.

I don't use packing cubes. No, me neither. Is anyone, is there, we need cube people here? No. I've dabbled with cubes, but I'm not sure about them yet. Lucy's a big cube gal. Yeah. Cubes, you know, packing is sort of like writing an article.

Yeah. Because you get an outline in your head, you think about it for a while, you agonize, you put it off, you don't do it, then you start doing it, then you get distracted, then you realize you're about to miss your deadline or your flight, and then packing cubes are the outline of suitcases. Do I have this wrong around you, Charlotte? Because I don't know you like this, but I would assume that you give off a little bit like your entire life is I've got to pack 90 minutes before I'm going to wherever my next

90 minutes are going. You're always chasing sort of the bags in your life. He says you seem scattered. 100,000%. I don't know if I've ever been more accurately pegged then you're always chasing the bags in your life 90 minutes Okay, but I will say I'm pretty good at hitting a deadline. I Want to ask a number of different questions of the audience here Is your dog afraid of your bag? Because I don't think willow is afraid of your bag I think willow doesn't like it when you leave and your bag represents that every time correct. Oh, yeah

Willow does not like when you leave the house and that's the she's got no fear of bags If she's allowed to be around the bags and go with the bags, but she doesn't know where those bags go She knows mommy takes him with her and then willows alone She fears that more than anything Those bags can out leaving without me some really good doggie psychology. Okay. Yes. I thank you I'm an expert in this realm one of the few I also want to ask the question though Do you like packing yes or no? And I also want to ask the question

When do you like packing more to go for the trip or to get back home because there seems to be some disagreement here? I'm happy that I mean is back. I do want to ask you guys a question. I mean, yes, because I do want him to be here this hour and help the show with not whispering and not revealing all of the innards of the show to everybody. Right. He gets it. But if you can put on, if you can,

can someone look this up for me? Because you mentioned Don Johnson and Django, and I really do think like his last nine roles are just racist. Like he's being stifled. I think he's done like the last. I think he was a, he was a, he was a Klansman in one of Tarantino's other movies when they couldn't see anything because the pillowcases didn't work right. But I'm pretty sure Don Johnson's like the last five

or six roles are, wasn't he, what was that HBO, the one season or two season, the Watchers? The Watchmen, it was Watchmen, right? Yes, the Watchmen, wasn't he also a racist in the Watchmen? Yes, I believe so. He's just going around like. I think there's a lot of roles for you in Hollywood if that's what your type cast is.

Oh yeah, very easy role to fill. It's a safe play, I guess. Do you know he was a powerboat racer? What? Whoa! My name is Marina. Well, I don't know, just compared to, according to, that's how words work, his Wikipedia, in 1986, Johnson received his first motorsport victory.

He won a 1,100, oh not Miami, mile powerboat race at the Mississippi Freeburger. It was a Mississippi close so so not donating to the Keynes NIL fund Hmm, and that's how we bring it back to college football down High heat and I missed it. I just saw that Great put on the pole, please Juju. Can you believe that Stu gots missed the movie hi heat? So here are some facts for you on Nick Saban, okay, and look this Please, Juju, can you believe that Stugots missed the movie High Heat? So here are some facts for you on Nick Saban, okay? And look this.

High Heat synopsis. Ray and Anna, husband and wife, own and operate a restaurant together on their opening night. Both of them are keeping secrets, however. Ray is in debt to the mafia, and Anna is an ex-KGB agent. Both secrets are revealed

when the mafia sends people to kill Ray, but Anna fights them off. Ray and Anna is an ex-KGB agent. Both secrets are revealed when the mafia sends people to kill Rey, but Anna fights them off. Rey and Anna must work together to save their restaurant and their lives. How'd I miss it? I mean seriously. Sounds like Frozen 3. What year was this?

2022. 2022, oh my God watch this. I thought you were gonna say 1987. And Liam Neeson's not in this? No. There's been a big movement in Hollywood lately to have like the woman lead role be like secret agent or former secret agent that then goes in and saves the world.

It's called inclusiveness, I think. I don't think it's that. Is it? Well said. Is it? What happened? To say that confidently, that poorly, is the amine experience first hour when he's just off the flight and he's tired.

This happens every time he lands. He thinks he's just gonna get on the treadmill in 100 miles an hour and he's just a little slow and whispering and then he gets mad at me for pointing it out. These numbers, those two guys, on Nick Saban, because maybe none of these are surprising to you, this is just what's known

I would like for you guys to look up for me What the second highest paid employee state employee in Alabama has been over the last 20 years because he made 124 million dollars in contracts at just Alabama and Stugatz was probably underpaid. Yep He had a country club membership paid for by the university, so that's taxpayers. He's got two full-sized cars for business and personal use and no one knows whether those were part of the Ferrari collection.

He would show to recruits, but he would show a Ferrari collection to recruits. I don't, I don't imagine Nick Saban with Ferraris, but maybe that, maybe you did. He has 24 hours a year on non-commercial airlines. So anytime he wants a private plane, basically he can do it. His salary the last season was 11.4 million. And I'm guessing there's no college coach who made more in endorsements.

It's estimated at $5 million. He'd get 75 grand for appearing in the SEC Championship Game, 125 grand if he wanted. He'd get 65 grand for appearing in any bowl game, any bowl game at all. He bought a mansion recently on Juniper Island for $17.5 million. The $5 million in endorsements is a guess,

but it's got to be more than any other college coach of any kind. And in 2013, 10 years ago, we don't know how many more of these arrangements there are, right? Because guys like this get paid $200,000 for showing up and making a corporate speech, just talking to shaking hands with your CEO for 30 minutes, he gets a quarter million dollars at least the crimson tide foundation was started a private foundation set up to help fund athletics at Alabama they spent three point one million dollars to just buy Saban's four bedroom four and a half bathroom home and he continued to live

in it so they just bought his house as well. And nobody had this deal. And then there's this one. This one's good too. And by the way, deserved, earned for the CEO of this business. His contract called for him at the University of Alabama to meet each February to calculate the average salaries of both the three highest paid ed coaches in the SEC and the five highest paid coaches nationally.

If Sabin's total salary was lower than either of those two averages, his pay would rise to match the higher ones. So inflation was not going to cause Nick Saban to ever be like Jared Goff was, where he was the highest paid. No, Nick Saban's always the highest paid according to whatever you're paying people at that rate. Like, what's the other argument on the other side of this? And that's why I like College More than NFL. Mahomes should take notes from that.

Instead of cutting salary. I'm just saying like he should be doing that for all the quarterbacks in the league with the Chiefs. But this, and then he leaves and Steve Sarkese and gets the same sort of deal at Texas. He had leverage, I mean. Don Lebatard. Uh, Chris Cody does an impression, just be careful.

Dangerous game. This is a dangerous game. I don't want to play this game. No, he was saying, man, I could do such a great kind of... Oh, I don't want to play this game. He's like, man, I can talk to you also like a... This is who we're gonna trust with this. I mean, you do it. Let's let Amin do it, I think.

Still gots. I think you could do it, Chris, because you did a great Charles Barkley you're one for one there Did no one just hear the segment we just did with a mean we cannot be taking judgment is not the best So from the local drunk on whether or not you should do the impersonation of a black man stumbling over his words Like you don't see the bad There was moza moody moody moose That it sounds worse

Be careful man. We got it like we cannot do this. It's too close to the line This is where the line is something legitimately funny can't be funny because we're scared our ginger's gonna do something racist by accident carry the hell on Dan Dan the line is where we feel alive, though. This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugats. [?]. I need for you, Chris Cody, please, before the end of the show, to just find for me

the way that I stumbled through the names of Sarkeesian and Tuberville because, still gots, as soon as the microphones went off, says to me howling, that's why I call him Sark Dan. It's easier, man. And then, never has he looked so wise to me. I'm drowning in my vulnerabilities. And he's like, yes, he's got the obvious second guess as we go right off the air. Amin also, he had the closing line for the last segment

because he does not wanna leave this Aaron Rodgers topic alone. He's got his cabinet filled out already. Nice. And I do want to talk about this a little more because if we're gonna go full-blown crazy as a country, let's go ahead and do it. Let's have it like saturate sports as well. Remember when we said politics are not gonna infiltrate sports, we're gonna stick to sports, we're gonna keep them separate and apart, and we're gonna do this by ending racism in the end zone

and moving on with our lives. And then the walls cave in, and now the Jets quarterback is being mentioned with Jesse Ventura, with Jesse Ventura. But why my team? Why the Jets? Like infiltrate somewhere else, not the Jets. Because the strain, the viral strain of crazy that is all over America will infect at least one of the teams

and it just happened to be the most cursed of them. I'll tell you this, if he runs on a platform with RFK that he will make the Jets better, he'll make the Jets good again, I will vote for Aaron Rodgers. How about that? You know what's crazy? That's how desperate I am.

40 years! We keep talking about politics entering sports. Nobody had on their bingo card sports entering politics. That's right. The best defense is a counterattack, ladies and gentlemen. We're going to infiltrate Washington, D.C. We're going to put Patrick Ewing in the White House. We're going to put... that didn't work at Georgetown.

That was a bad idea. Yeah, Patrick Ewing to DC. Why did you just do that? I don't know. You just let an insurrection and we fell down at the gates, like what? I can't be a leader, Dan. What just happened?

You were trying to get a mom going. I was waiting for someone to be like, yeah, but Patrick Ewing failed miserably as the coach of Georgetown. I should have started with Aaron Rodgers, I don't know why to be like, yeah. But Patrick Ewing failed miserably as the coach of Georgetown. I should have started with Aaron Rodgers. I don't know why I went away from it. It's called inclusiveness. Yeah, it is.

That's right, that's what it is. Jamel Hill's gonna join us here in a second, but the naivete because we have clips to undermine our particular echo chamber okay because paul tory started his podcast which now has a pretty giant following because he caught on to something and people right uh... really like the weirdness of what he's doing uh... paul tory uh... can go all woke and liberal on you but never forget that

he was wearing a whale costume the first time Jesse Ventura appeared on us on ESPN and we just entertained conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory smiling and again with Pablo Torrey dressed as an orca. You know I got no sort of trouble when I question 9-11. Well, I just indicated because in the chapter, the new chapter in the book, the 9-11 report has 28 redacted pages that we're not allowed to see that George Bush redacted them. Well, Congressman Cook and Senator Graham are on the intelligence. I'm not lobbing it out there. It's what's in the 9-11 report that they won't let us see.

There's 28 redacted pages the grid They've both told me all it deals with is higher both kind of just shocked and mortified Pablo's dressed like an orca Jesse Ventura with us That is great That's cinema that was his profile picture for the longest time. Yes. Him as an orca with his fins on his face in shock. Forgive me again. Forgive me audio audience.

I promise you this is this particular thing is better enjoyed visually. I wish to play again please. The sheer horror Pablo beginning his career at ESPN I believe is looking into the cameras scared dressed as an orca because of the words being said just freely years ago. We were ahead of the curve. We were talking politics before anybody at ESPN.

You know, I got no sort of trouble when I questioned 9-11. Well, I've been vindicated because in the chapter, the new chapter in the book, the 9-11 report has 28 redacted pages that we're not allowed to see that George Bush redacted them. Well, Congressman Cook and Senator Graham were on the intelligence. I'm not lobbing it out there. It's what's in the 9-11 report that they won't let us see.

There's 28 redacted pages. The grid, they've both told me All it deals with is higher both kind of just shocked and and mortified Pablo's dressed like an orca The best part is that initial you know how you're in an interview and the interview subjects is talking about whatever Yeah, half listening you're trying to think of what your next question is maybe you're looking up You know your fantasy team, whatever. And then you hear something that just snaps you out of that funglet.

Wait, what did he say? And the way he looks up and then looks back at Mike and then looks back at the camera. You know, it's weird though, is that that was my on-boarding for Metal Arc. They made me listen to that clip wearing an orca costume. How'd you do? Phenomenal.

Billy, the only other time I remember seeing a face quite that horrified on our air was the day that I was getting suspended that the director just cut to you in the penalty box as our executive producer for the day. And I couldn't hear anything. Yeah, and you couldn't find it. Who knew? Who knew? The day before I left for my bachelor trip, fun time. Video, can you find that please? I believe it's the single greatest video

produced in the history of our broadcasts. I believe, I will remind people, I don't know if they're gonna be able to find it before the end of the segment, Stu Gatz, but you have to find a specific clip that begins with Billy staring all over the place confused because a director had purposely taken the camera off of me

because I was talking about Trump and they said, if we just put it on this producer in a colorful penalty box, surely no news outlet will run it this way. Even though the audio was still running. Yeah, correct. That's also how it played out. But not unlike Jesse Ventura talking about 9-11,

I don't know what the audio will be specifically, but comedically, I think it'll work perfectly with the video of a scared Billy looking around in charge and unable to hear what is happening as the director is saying, take the camera off of him. Just trying to get to my wedding day a week away. Scared Billy. All right, we'll get that.

He's always scared. I'm not allowed to say it. No, but this, Billy, you don't think this video is funny? Because I think it's the funniest video we've ever made. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Okay, I'm overselling then. If we do find it, we'll put it in front of the group and we'll have you guys vote.

Roy, do you have a thought on this matter? It was the funniest thing that I've ever seen. Ever? Yeah, one of. I mean, it's very high on the list. A confused Billy wandering around, not able to hear, looking like he's very scared of what I'm saying. I couldn't hear, but I had a feeling what was coming.

I knew. Ish. Oh boy, there's my face. Chris found it on YouTube. Okay. Oh my. Oh my. Oh my.

Yeah. It is the funniest thing, right? Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It is the funniest thing. Yeah. That shirt really tells the story. Okay, this is Billy in charge.

He's supposed to have an IFB in, but I've sent him into the penalty box. And you know, I am now getting suspended for talking about Trump saying you can't be in front of a chanting crowd saying send her back and And as you said Billy can't hear your audio, but you can he knows what's happening like he knows that I knew What was coming after I knew trouble was headed our way, and I knew I just needed to get on a plane the next day I've aged Talk to you younger self, Billy. Billy, I want to tell you it's going to be alright, but I'm still not sure. Yeah, he doesn't think so. Someone needs to do something. He's printed. Alright, get the audio accompaniment and see if it's even funnier than that. Stugans,

I don't know how you feel exactly. I don't know how Jessica feels about the intoxicant of football flooding back into your life yesterday with the transaction, but it really is amazing that it really is, that football would be such an addiction at this point that their basic admin day, like where they're just like shuffling paperwork

all around the league, is like a day of national celebration for us because we're like, yes, everybody's moving teams. And look, they're all one year contracts now. I know we've kind of done this before, but imagine like if we didn't announce all these things and like just week one, you just see Kirk Cousins emerging from the Atlanta locker room.

That was my idea last week, yes. That's what I'm saying, it's just, it, I know it's so much fun this time, but imagine the excitement of week one if we didn't know all these moves. Like if the Ravens, they have no idea who their new running back is and it's Revealed opening day, it's Derek Henry.

Oh my God, that'd be great. Chris, that's a central argument that I have against like the importance of newsbreakers and do they actually break news or do they just tell us things that we're gonna find out anyway? Like one way or another, we're gonna find out Derek Henry's a Baltimore Raven.

I didn't need Adam Shepter to tell me that. But a team press release is, I'd rather just have it from Adam. If it's gonna be the run out of the tunnel week one, then I'm fine not knowing it, but if it's just gonna be a team release, I'm cool knowing it with the reporters. You'll figure it out.

Counterpoint, I think that normal companies, instead of the NFL doing things where normal companies do, which is just not announce everything all the time, because nobody cares, normal companies should start having press conferences and TV shows to be like, our new chief technology officer coming out of the tunnel is Jeff. When I say yesterday was, I mean, the last two days really.

Okay, all right, just whatever. Let's make it three days, three. Wish it was longer. Three glorious administrative days. Three work from home days for the NFL. Would you agree with me on we should just start making these three days what the draft is, where just agents are coming out and confetti cannons all over the place just all day farting football content into the sky, like just here's your football, we're gonna steal these three days too

at the beginning of March. Yes. Charlotte's idea is, it sounds good in theory, but it becomes sad and people are going to get upset when it's this new head of customer service, a three year deal for 150k. 100k. No, I'm just saying. It's like three years and then it's it's actually heavier on the back end, but

then they cut them before. Team option, non guaranteed deal. Is there a vacation getting paid out? Absolutely not. His agent, the agent has to comeed deal. Is their vacation getting paid out? Is that in the press release? Absolutely not. His agent has to come out and say, by the way, he got like four months of PTO over the lifetime of the deal. Just keep giving contracts, stats, little stats.

Thinking of the news my football team got over the last three days. Everyone else is celebrating. My quarterback wants to be the vice president. Yeah, I'd rather have Russell Wilson. Adrian would work himself into a frenzy.