The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Freedom Fighter

Episode Date: October 12, 2023

Jessica and Lucy finally get together to laugh at Mike Ryan about the Hurricanes snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Billy shares his experience being a color analyst for the UTEP-FIU game. Regular season hockey for the Florida Panthers begins tonight and Roy and Mike feel disrespected that the pundits are predicting that the Ice Cats will miss the playoffs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. So much going on around here locally to talk about that we have gone four days into this, talking locally about sports and Chase Claypool hasn't come up. Like Dolphins got a receiver. Nobody thought they needed a receiver. Maybe you don't think they did get a receiver because Claypool has been so bad and such a bus. But we haven't even talked about it because

some things have flagged against the show this week. It is rare that everyone just gets to laugh at the University of Miami. You heard some 10 stays with Mike Ryan and yesterday he just took a mental health break to get away and just move on to North Carolina. But I noticed when I came in today and I thought that this had been scheduled on purpose. We allow people whatever vacation time they want. I thought Jessica, I had not considered this.

I thought that Jessica had taken three days off because of the way Notre Dame lost to Louisville that she was avoiding everything here I had forgotten that the Miami game happened after that so like a Phoenix rising from ashes your Notre Dame Suffering Jessica was about five minutes before you got to laugh at Miami correct before you knew you could come You've wanted to be in here and you're not sure that Mike didn't tinker with the schedule to not have you in here I'm positive Mike tinkered with the schedule because Dan, we get our schedule every weekend for the upcoming week. And every single Monday, I'm in the studio.

Like that is the one day that I always know that I'm gonna be here. And this Sunday, I looked at the schedule and my name was not on it on Monday. And then I looked at the schedule. Again, and my name wasn't on it until Monday. And then I looked at the schedule again, and my name wasn't on it until Thursday. And then I thought, hmm, who benefits from me not being here after a college football weekend until Thursday?

Did you tell anybody this? I told Lucy, and guess what? Lucy also wasn't on the schedule on Monday to laugh at the Miami-Dade. So you think Mike Ryan, Mike Ryan, known freedom fighter is corrupting the system. No, he wants on behalf of creativity. Don't freedom fighter. Mike Ryan Mike Ryan on behalf of is one of those things that is known about me. Yes, Dan, he's censoring us. Me specifically, because Lucie at least got to be here yesterday, but I am being censored.

I have not been on the schedule all week because of the way that Miami Hurricanes lost to Georgia Tech in embarrassing fashion Saturday night, making my depressing sad little evening and evening full of mirth and laughter. Joe, wait a minute. Okay, wait a minute. She is tapped into something here that I really had not considered. And now I've missed that she wasn't here for three days for whatever the reasons. Because I did not realize after talking all of last week, one of the best things is your friends' pain in sports.

When his or her team loses and it's funny, it is something that can buoy you and be one of the best things about sports to hate your friends team and to laugh at your friends team. I had not realized that Notre Dame Catholic at her core, that you would be broken Saturday night and then would wake up your boyfriend so excited. Wake up your boyfriend

because Miami cured everything that ailed you. It was literally the meme of like babe, wake up Mario Cristobal just handed the ball off with less than 35 seconds on the clock and fumbled and Georgia tech got the ball back and they scored a 44 yard passing touchdown and they won the game. And Lehman was like, please let me go to sleep.

Lucy, the reason I'm laughing is because Lucy's got a giant smile on her face and I totally regret. I think it's MetalArc's biggest error so far as a company that Lucy and Jessica didn't immediately livestream wherever it is that we had broadcasts to laugh at Miami. Mike wants to move on to North Carolina and Lucy hasn't even gotten,

Lucy, you haven't gotten to laugh at Miami the way you wanted to. No, Jess and I literally met up Monday and laughed about Miami together because I was like, this is not a time to be alone. This is a time to celebrate with the people you care about.

Did you guys do something for other companies? Did you broadcast? Did you do show about laughing at Miami as a guest on other shows? We went to the mall. We went to the mall and we went to lunch and we read all of Mike Ryan's tweets, out loud to each other.

I shouldn't even be revealing this. I'm afraid for my job right now. I'm afraid that I may get fired for revealing that. Lucy had nothing to do with this by the way. I will take the fall. And then Lucy came on goal and smettied and we did like a 30 minute college football segment in which we talked about Miami for like 29 of the minutes.

That's wrong. Gollick and Smettie got the good stuff because Jessica was vacationed off the schedule against her will. Against her will, she wanted to be here Monday because she knew she wasn't gonna catch much Notre Dame Shrapnel. I would be here every day, Dan.

I hate going on vacation. But I was not on the schedule because I am being censored. Lucy, you felt the same way when you guys are talking and reading Mike's text. Did you have a favorite? Oh God, that's tough. I don't subscribe to his tweet, so I couldn't see all of them. I don't know if I had a favorite. It's tough to see all of them.

You have to pay for it. And I'm not going to do that. Wow. Mike, how is that going for you? The Twitter information business today? Not today, not today. Not just the... Well, I'm an amazing start.

I'm actually, like, really afraid. I mean, if I had any influence, Billy would definitely not have been in on Monday. Why? If he could have that, I would share for you been in on Monday. Why? If he got that, he's here for you. You were actually the most supportive. You weren't graining in the back row. It took you a day. Yeah.

Mike's the first two days of the... It was a really Don Chaney, Jr., for going to be honest. I felt so bad for him and I was trying to justify anything for that. Yeah. Spillin' connection. Yeah. You were uncomfortable on Monday and Tuesday, and you got a day of relief from it Wednesday,

and now you have moved on to North Carolina and came in here today, feeling like you might not win. Your positivity. It's a tough game. North Carolina is very good. And because of what happened last week in which they snatched DeFida, the jaws of victory, it's a huge game for how this season goes now.

It was always going to be an important one. Looking at the season, I think you can make the argument that Texas A&M in terms of vibes and culture building and mile markers along the path to getting back to where you want to was going to be the most important one. But after the unexpected disaster of last Saturday, this game, when you look at the schedule coming up with North Carolina undefeated, Clemson at home, appearing to write the ship somewhat, Florida State in early November,

you kind of need to get this one now. And that's hard. That's a really good North Carolina team. What? What? What? What? What? What? Mac Brown has done in North Carolina, feeding off some previous successes. He has brought big offense there.

Like, they are. He has and he's brought a team that has regularly beaten Miami's ass. These games have actually been pretty good outside of the time that Javante Williams and Michael Carter totally embarrassed Miami. There was a shot at the Orange Bowl on the line and Miami gave up two 200 yard rushing games to two separate running backs that are both in the program. No, it's not a line over the last decade has been a better program than Miami. Yeah, yeah, I'd say quite easily.

And this game is always one of my favorite games on the calendar because out of, look, there have been two things that have been born out of this, this move to the ACC that has not worked out for Miami. But in terms of things that have worked out, the basketball programs have really benefited from the move. And also this sneaky rivalry between Miami and North Carolina became a really good one, a passionate one.

They've given you a lot of upside down news. They have, they're in your face. They get credit, though. North Carolina invented the upside down you, and you're North Carolina, you've get mad, that makes you mad, the upside down you. I think we can credit North Carolina for inventing the upside down You that's something you credit someone for that's like crediting someone for inventing cancer

Yeah, in terms of well, that's very strong. Oh my my good grief not strong enough I'd argue but if you look at the history of the rivalry Briefed cancer Connor Barth the game winner. I'm on it late November Miami was number five in the nation. They had a shot at a national championship game, Conor Barth, eliminates them. There was a big Dallas Crawford game in which a converted safety runs all over North Carolina. North Carolina actually had an opportunity to win that game, but they decided against running out the clock. It's weird.

I never knew that that happened before Saturday. And you have even last year's game, is the only really good Tyler Van Dyke performance that went down to the wire. So I like this game. It's my first time attending it in North Carolina. I'm excited about that, but there's a lot of bad vibes and everybody that's around the program,

that's not in the program is kind of worried about how Miami will respond because this could be one of those, that Georgia Tech game could be one of those that you point to and say, well, everyone just lost faith in what they were trying to build. I'm worried, too. I'm worried that I don't know what days I'm supposed to be at work if I am continue to lose.

And by the way, we do a lot of bits on the show and a lot of the stuff that, you know, we do surprise. This is not a bit. I was being censored on Monday and so was Lucy. Well, we've got to get to the bottom of this. Well, we're gonna try to here. Mike keeps deflecting and wants to talk about this team because he cares about it.

And this week hurt, man, like, like we still haven't gone past it. The week, the week. And he put Billy on the schedule so that he could deny censoring me and Lucy by having someone who could be an ally. I am a noted you. I am. Well, Billy Mike is a noted freedom fighter.

Well, and I'm Catholic to my car. Prior to today, I had no influence over the talent schedule. Lucy, Lucy, do you have back there any of the tweets that you were reading from Mike Ryan after the University of Miami? Oh, come on, man, like get over it. For real, like, are we still doing this? It's Thursday. I thought we refreshed the palette.

We cleansed it, and now we're on to North Carolina. If you let us come in on Monday, it would have been out of our system because I agree, like this happened four days. There's so much that's happened in the sports world, in the cult football world since Monday, but you waited, you waited, you waited, and now this is the first opportunity I've had on the show

to laugh at what happened to Miami. Cool, I'm not laughing at Notre Dame or anybody else. You can, we stink, we're five and two. I don't like it. Losers, and I hate us, but nothing you can say can hurt me as much as I can hurt me. That's the difference between you and I. I live by the golden rule.

I don't like trolling other people. Let's get to the FIU video that we have. We will in a second, Lucy. Hold on, it's a kid. Lucy, wait. It's a movie. There's a lot of things to be doing. Can we get back a second?

You can just say anything on the show. Let's see what just happened there. Now Mike is delighted with himself. You can't say anything on the show. Let's see what just happened there. Now Mike is delighted with himself. You can't just do that. You can't just do that. Lucy, what are the tweets saying? What are Mike Ryan's tweets saying? And I want, please describe the scene to me Lucy.

It's actually at the mall and you guys. Which mall, which mall so we know kind of what the vibe was? And what's the name of the mall? Lincoln. Lincoln Road, okay. We were at the mall. So you're out to head up to the express. It's outdoors.

It's an outdoors. You guys are at a cafe or something and you're sitting down. So we were walking. Lee was taking care of all the shopping stuff that he needed to worry about. Jess and I were back and we were reading the tweets. It was a cloudy day, but the weather was nice.

Everything felt really good about the moment. So more please, please, like, if you're, is it, give me, give me what's happening around it? Have you been to this strip of land? I have not. And so it was my first time. She's showing you some of Miami. But I didn't care about that. I wasn't there to see Miami. I was there to talk about Miami. This is way more than a pound of flesh. Yeah. We also went to Sunset Harbor. We got a nice little chicken. So you guys are having a lovely, this is a lovely, this is a lovely bonding college for a whole day where you guys are getting together over Mike's misery

and you're reading his tweets to each other. Yes. And the best part about Lucy and I's friendship is like we're on the same page with a lot of things. So I invited her to come over and like hang out after and she's like, I'm gonna go take a nap and I was like awesome, because then I went and took a nap.

So we both just had a nice little lunch and then we took a nap. How cute is that? That is really cute. What the best. Did we just become best friends? This is a torturous experience for me. Like can we get, you're bringing them together, Mike.

Good. Yeah, laughing at you, you're nice. You're my amy and make friends, I've made a friend. I have puttrops tonight, puttrops. We'll get to that. And Roy's over there. No, look, disrespecting Panthers is over in the corner. He's ch tonight. Puttrops. We'll get to that. We'll get to that. We'll get to that.

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Okay, so that's your starting point. Oh, I'm not gonna bore you with like the 15 calls that decided that game. No, I can level with Mike on the fact that ACC officiating is horrendous. And across the board, like College Football officiating is generally pretty bad. Like there's memes about the Pac-12 reps,

but the ACC reps sometimes they fly under the radar making some pretty bad calls. Yeah, they've made my week a personal hell. If they get the call right, I don't really experience this week. Do you guys think I have this part of it wrong once you get to the big business of professional football that this is? Don't your referees have to be best of the best

because of the amount of money that are involved. And the game is getting harder to officiate and if they're not good at it and it's a plague, it's like, oh, maybe the officials aren't good enough because those need to be good paying jobs with strong unions that because they're not good at it and it's a plague, it's like, oh, maybe the officials aren't good enough because those need to be good paying jobs with strong unions that because they're now governing a multi-billion dollar industry. I will say they did do the right thing

in not calling the Georgia Tech receiver down, letter of the law, can he pick it rule? They did do the right thing. That would have been a bullshit way to survive that game if the receiver was actually ruled down properly that he slid at the one because he did. But this whole thing is horse shit. The Al Riveron's quote saying,

well, there wasn't evidence to overturn the call in the field, the call in the field was horse shit. We all saw the replay. In my very fancy luxurious golden canes box, I have monitors. I saw the replay that they saw. It was clear as f***ing day that he didn't fumble. Well, this is why your wrath is a problem around here

and the scheduling mania that you bump these people off the schedule with, they've got a legitimate plan. I don't plan anybody off the schedule but I'm going to begin doing some more tweets please. More tweets. But what are we learning here? We learning that it's better to sense them

because it seems like this is worse for you. If you just have them there on Monday, it's ripping off the bandage right away. Okay. We're doing this thing on the local hour, we're not taking breaks and you're affecting my mental. I'm gonna get up and get water. You guys have your money. Oh, come on.

That's fine. It's been 25 to second minutes of brow beating. And I've done a lot. I've given you more than a pound of flesh and I'm just gonna get a water, walk it off, and hopefully by then we've changed topics, like wild panthers. Okay, we will see, because Roy is ready. Roy is...

Wild panthers. Roy wants to talk. Oh, that's true. The panthers have been disrespected, but I think your punishment can't be self-inflicted. I think you need to go out because your mental health about the University of Miami affects our fun.

He's gone, Dan. Yeah. Okay, I'll talk as if he's not here. I'll talk as if he's not. I'll talk as if he's not here. Tony's here if you want him to come in. The fact that Tony can sit in that seat. Sure. Thank you, Billy. We'll see what the show becomes with you undermining him. I'll show in that seat. I'm sure that will go well. We'll get to Billy's FIU broadcasting. Not debut. But now he's a star. He's now a star. He was a star last night wandering the old prowling the old grounds. We'll get to that in a second But Jessica the fact that Mike Ryan's allegiance to the University of Miami while no no bull

Legitimately, he loves that school But it's infected this program with his boosterism so much that you don't feel comfortable enough to be free Even though he's a known freedom fighter Free enough to read his tweets because you guys having lunch laughing at his tweets is hysterical But there's not the safety around here to do it without a fearing pissing him off and the emotional parts of him the UM fan that are the worst parts of the UM fan base. No, I think I think the tweets I think we took it too far Lucy. I think that a I fear for my job now be I fear for Lucy's job and see I'm never going to be in on a Monday ever again.

Well, I fear for all of us because Mike in a lot of ways Mike has already checked out around here. He's gone Hollywood like he's he's he's having so many meetings with McCay and Sher about doing big Hollywood moves and stuff that he is like he's fed up with how small this little job has become that burdens him when he comes in on Monday and Tuesday and we make fun of his team and it hurts and he doesn't think it's good content. You know what? I think Mike's right. Oh boy.

I think there's something to Mike that we don't see. There's more that meets the eye than Mike. You know, like we need to see deeper into the person whom Mike is. What are you doing? What do you mean? That means. I don't know what you're doing.

What do you mean? All right, go sit in the penalty box. That job is hard to do. I need it done better than that. If you're gonna sit in that seat, you got it. You mean like with a scope, like put a microphone or like a camera, like in this stuff. See who Mike is really as a person.

We're just two surface level on Mike. We gotta go deeper. What is he talking about? Go sit in the penalty box for two minutes. I don't know what you did in that seat. You immediately get in the seat and you show how valuable he is by just shitting yourself. See, good team A billy, huh?

Well, not bringing in an incompetent to make my blood better. All right, fine, Billy. Fine, we'll get to your thing. At public mobile, we do things differently. From our subscription phone plans to throwing a big sale right now when no one else is. Well, maybe they are, but who cares?

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of money, bet large sum of money on the joy of the experience of I'm doing FIU with Billy. Surely, they'll win. It'll be a home game and I'll make lots of money. And then you're down to UTEP's fourth string quarterback in the first quarter, 21 nothing. Yeah, so we found out about Taylor's bet early yesterday morning. He came in and he told us exactly what he put down on the game.

Dump person. Everyone reacted the exact same way. The behavior of a dumb person. Everyone just audibly groaned when they heard what he had on the gamer like Taylor. That's not that bad. I don't even know I don't even know what that it is. I don't want to know what it is

I know the Taylor is hustling trying to make his way in the company He was with you last night chasing you around getting video. He's working very hard supporting your shit Well shit and he goes down there and he is immediately down how much money did that cost him? I don't want to know the number of the well how do I answer how much you can? I don't, if you don't wanna know the number. What I'm saying is he was at work yesterday and working for you cost him money. Well, working for the company, I would also say Taylor is a very hard worker

and he did a great job because he was also kind of, I think more egging me on than anything which is kind of what I need in those situations is I need to be prodded to go up and do things. Yeah, because like, if it was up to me, I'd just kind of be standing there watching what's going on, but he's the one that's telling go up and start talking to players, going to do this. Personality.

Don't slink into a corner and it's exactly right. Well, because here's the thing is that I've been scheduled for a return appearance, so I didn't want to blow it on my first shot. So I saw opportunities to maybe just walk around and kind of do whatever I wanted, and I was like, but I don't want to get kicked out before the game even starts. So let me be on my pseudo best behavior. Can I say honestly, this is going to embarrass both me and you that seeing the video of you walking around on that field, like broadcasting giant, Billy Gill,

fouling his sideline, pause up, covering his team like a big shot, your players are so small or at least the ones I was gonna say some people thought I was Literal giant because the people I chose to go I could not believe this happened when I saw the video that we're about to play my Main take away is how much bigger really is you notice the people I had the curse to go up to the least menacing Why especially it was a special team? I really don't think people understand what I'm about to say, which is like at the top levels of college football, like how close those human beings are to being almost profisically professional football players. When you go watch FAU, for example, even the Lane Kiffin team that was winning 10 games, you feel like you're watching Pee-Wee football.

Like Pee-We because it's not, it's not, it doesn't, or like grandiose high school football because everyone out there is so small. Crystal Ball helps build FIU into whatever it is. It was a 10 win team at one point. Yeah, yeah, I did. Think first ever conference champion trip, right? First ever four star recruit.

Yeah. So Billy, I was proud seeing you walk, like you, you were big man on campus and it's your campus and it was nice to see. Thank you I appreciate that. Well here's some video from yesterday. Hey it's Billy we're here at the cage for FIU Vice Night setting the scene right now see these are the Vice uniforms right here. You can see this right up there. Good year blip made it out. If you turn around here right behind you.

There's a Lamborghini on the fields which I'm told is not standard at most college football games but it's the first college football game that I'm calling. If you follow me down the field over here we're also going to run into a Rolls Royce that's on the fields. A pink Rolls Royce. They're the vice uniforms. Let's see if I can tap up any of the players. They don't know me but see if I can tap up any of the players. They don't know me, but see if I can get any love here. There we go. Back up quarterback. Just businesses usually want a college football game. Rolls Royce on the field, Lamborghini on the field, blimmed some minors. The team, not like, you know, maybe. Taylor, how does this compare to a UNC games?

The crowd, what's early still? It was rainy too. I was a little worried about the weather. I'm going to be honest. Can you get a random round of ground? Yeah, well, you know, there's things to do here. Twice night. How are we feeling that boy? I'm gonna be honest. Are you gonna run around? Yeah, well, you know, there's things to do here. It's by tonight.

How are we feeling that boy? So small. I got this one. Yeah. You're gonna take up the dub? Yeah. Alright, it's what I like to hear. I'm not sold.

Not sold. You think I should just blow off Pauling the game and patrol the sidelines during the game? Now that I was asked to do, but I feel like maybe I'm building morale here on this sideline, which is really what I'm looking to do. Billy, you just did sideline reporting better than it has ever been done. I would like to note that that was about 20 minutes before the game. So that's why it was empty. Billy, I would so like you to become the sideline reporter who's mumbling under his breath after talking to to players that don't convince you that they're actually going to win.

I just call it as I see it, unfortunately. I would have liked to be right. They were down 21, nothing in the first quarter. You didn't have any reason to have any confidence. Do we have broadcast audio from the night? Yeah, speaking of calling, just call it as I see it unfortunately. I would have liked to be. Exactly right. They were down 21-nothing in the first quarter. You didn't have any reason to have any confidence. Do we have broadcast audio from the night? Yeah, speaking of calling it.

The left side of the line there, I used to get pushed around a little bit up front right down. I have a new key to the game. I do like it. What do you got? I would plug the holes. I would plug the holes.

So we got nose to the grindstone. I would plug the holes. Keep the blinders on, too. Blinders on. Blinders? Put to the gas. Keep it on the gas. This is the holes. Keep the blinders on, two. Blinders on. Quick to the gas. Keep it on the gas. That's for later, best.

That's for later, yeah. Hankins. I'm going forward and got through. Manual made contact at the one. Hankins able to fall forward. Start here, defensively for the Panthers. Hankins is just tough to take down. I mean, he's a grinder.

And if I use going gonna have to keep their nose to the grindstone to be able to tackle him, you know. They did not have their blinders on there. No, didn't blow the hole. Couldn't block the hole. Gotta be better. We'll be better. It's early still guys.

Very early. I'm loose weight here. B-A-T from Buzz Flabiano. It is through the uprights.ides. Both their hands off. Yeah, that means the field goal. Buzz is probably not the given name, correct? That's what they put on the roster. There's a lane for you here, Bill.

No one is taking the muttering lacking self-confidence broadcaster in my team. I will say this. Lucy makes it look a lot easier than it is on the videos that she does every weekend. It's not easy, particularly when there's no one around, but it's not easy to do it. Well, she's an instant joy creating machine. I'm not that.

No! That's the best issue. That's better than Freedom Fighter. Instant joy making machine. She lands on a camera. I can't hear a bio. Man, Lucy lands on a canvas. Everybody wants to be a rounder.

That's the way it feels. That is so nice. Thank you. That's a joy making machines. She lands on a camera bio. Man Lucy lands on a campus everybody wants to be a rounder. That's the way it feels. That is so nice. Thank you. That's a joy making machines. Everyone's dancing, eating fried food. Billy gets there and he is confidence leaks on the players and they're like, who is this guy? Oh, you

think it was my fault? Might have been. Well, staff time here in South Florida. You have a good time? I've had better. What are your impressions of your performance here in South Florida. You have a good time? Nice game. I've had better. What are your impressions of your performance here? From... How are you feeling? I would say a flow state right now.

Like a C at best, I would say. I haven't brought my A game. I'm not going to say that this is all because of my performance, but I haven't been bringing it. I'm sorry, I apologize. It's a little... I think I think I thought you could help the cause Well, I'm not a hey, we is greater than me. Right? He's greater than me

Billy a lane for you is just honest broadcaster Just guy who talks freely. I think we're very good. I don't think we have the clip 1.8 a.j. was making a comparison of himself to Joe Buck and I was like you know Joe Buck oh my no right next to him Did he call Joe Buck and alcoholic Not exactly he was a joke. We was really funny. I listened he did a great job Well because they were saying he said this you know Joe Buck from time to time has it has a beer before the game And then we just kind of moved on and like'm like, are we calling Joe Bucking alcoholic?

What's going on here, AJ? Oh, Lucy. So this was a cool way. Were you the only one here who heard it live on Spanish radio? Because you would get the unique experience of getting the inside joke of, oh, look, Billy's not going to actually respect the constructs of how they do a football game.

He's going to be billion in the middle of well that's why listen and it was a great broadcast i thought billy did a wonderful job he was so funny and when the game was like twenty one nothing i was like god they really need some humor right now so great job billy i'm so proud of you oj Simpson was at the game that's random his son was playing a game that's okay there's context that's what we're looking for uh second and two did you talk to OJ? We took a picture with him. Second and two, hand off. Hank, it's again. Why not, right?

Where's that picture? It was back before digital photography, so there's like there was a print, you know, now that I think about it, I think that my aunt had the picture on her fridge for a little bit, which is weird, but we went, it was my seventh grade, or eighth grade football team, and we were playing OJ Simpson's son, and OJ was at the game and everybody was afraid of-

Can we get it? Can we get that photograph? I don't know, I can look into it. I don't, there must be a copy somewhere, but everyone was afraid of OJ because of the speculation. And then we said, well, let's, you know what we asked. I don't know how you, I don't know how you view that video,

because it's been how many years since you were on that campus, like, too, as a student. But what I see is sort of the overgrown kid on adult now walking onto that field and being able to enjoy, like, that's the part of it that was cool to me to watch, is that you're going back to your school and they're making your star of the broadcast, and you're doing it differently. Like, you're not actually respecting how a broadcast needs to be done. Right, respectful, I thought. At what point they welcomed me home on the screen,

which I thought was really cool and I waived, and then I turned and I was like, I finally knew that I'd come to have these games and just sit by myself, because I don't have any friends. Oh. But that's supporting the program. I also had Alka Selsa from my back pocket, because my tummy was rumbling.

Oh. Were you nervous? Oh, yeah. I was had Alka sells for my back pocket because my tummy was rumbly. Oh Were you nervous? Oh, yeah, I was in over my head and I knew it Oh, yeah, and I was trying to do prep beforehand but my daughter's six years of fever so every time I'd go and I'd be looking up You know I got this football and you got I and you got 15 hours. Yeah, I got a step out at some point today just that way I just for a little bit, But that you so you enjoyed it though We we make fun of everything around here But it ended up once you were done with because I thought it was very cool as a sports experience for you to like Yeah, you got a night to yourself and you were down 21 nothing in the first quarter

And of course you noticed that because you're like of course. This is what would happen to me I wouldn't yeah, but I felt worse for Taylor if I'm going to be honest with you. And if you were listening to the game, you had to be very confused because we glued in the broadcast team as to what was going on with Taylor. So every time that a score something would happen, I'm like, oh, poor Taylor. With no reference to why we're feeling bad for someone named Taylor. That's good. Draft Kings got content.

The inside joke throughout the broadcast of poor Taylor. He just lost a giant bet because he's the idiot who comes in here and makes a giant bet on FI. The vibes were immaculate when we got there, Dan. The good year blimp was there and people were confused by that because it's been a while because the good, since the good year blimp has been in that area because normally, you know, it's not on ESPN2, it's like on ESPN Plus,

or CBS Sports or whatever. So the good year blimp made an appearance and it led to some confusion at night once you couldn't see the blimp And all you could see was like the blinking red lights in the sky that the blimp has on it so much so that only in date had to kind of Make a post explaining to people this is not a UFO. This is what we call a blimp This goes to large for the events It's Westchester. I mean the good year blimp has no business being over westchester on a wednesday night

but we have one day football now it's the big business of college football it existed fiu to the program that mario christok christmall help bill the only and eight post said i don't know if this is true but it said that like hundreds of people sent videos of the blimp to them asking what was floating over the

sky there was a big foot yesterday that was going viral, right? Somebody just scampering next to a train that people were saying that now that's gonna be the next step of the apocalypse. Blimp's and bigfoot are aliens. You think people called 911 last night because there was a blimp?

The people just literally walking along the sideline talking to the FIU players. There has to be a 911 call somewhere there was a blimp. There was a blimp. There was a blimp. There was a blimp. There was a blimp. There was a blimp. There was a blimp. There was a blimp. There was a blimp. There was a blimp. There was a blimp.

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Mining you have a good win over the team that I like. Appreciate it, puck drops tonight. Also, last thing about the blimp, the like age demographic of that area is probably like 80s. So, you know, you could have people that are also that. No, that's why I'm asking for the 911. Maybe they'll be a little confused. No, people that have actually traveled on blimps

when it was a motor transportation. Billy, I am certain I don't know, I want to take it. It's on the Hindenburg. I am certain that there's anything there's anyone to tell the tale. Well, they missed it. Luckily, yeah. All right.

I bet you that we're speaking in English. Freedom of Information Act, that we can absolutely get 9-1-1 calls that were made last night by Spanish- speaking elderly people. We'll put Taylor on it. Surprised by the surprise by the blimp. Taylor, go find the 80 year old Cuban woman. Confused at the good year blimp on 911 call.

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not being able to play until December, so they lost out on a couple of the Finstment there, but I mean, come on. I mean, they lost some pieces. Yes, they lost Raccoogudas. Okay, fine, but they replaced them. You know, I'm really excited to watch a Mackie, Smaskovich, I guess it's a couple minutes.

You could have just gone Mackie. A lot of people are super excited about Mackie being added to this team. And I haven't seen much of the preseason hockey. I do find it funny that the injuries that Roy highlighted were injuries that players sustained throughout the playoff run and played through. Yeah, like they were such, and I don't know if you saw any of the offseason photos.

I might find that there were a couple of weddings of panthers and former panthers that happened over the offseason. And it was laugh out loud, funny to see panthers in attendance in their tuxes with their necks and braces and in crutches and in walking boots. Deep postseason runs really beat teams up. And that's what's happening right now to the Florida Panthers. They're best two defensemen in terms of reputation on terms of like man-marking, four slings of really good defensemen,

but they're out for an extended period of time. And spit and chicklets, did their episode, nobody had the Panthers making the playoffs? I mean, Paul Bisonett should, you know, know better than that, at the moment I was with Boston. Bucci is the only person that seems to have learned. Yes. Bucci, after getting it wrong, left and right,

has learned, but I think this team has proven last year that they can navigate a slow start because they took a long time to get use of the new style of Paul Maurice. You would imagine that there would be less hiccups there, but it all comes down as it always will with this team the goal-tending. Is Bob going to be closer to what he was in that playoff run, or is he going to be the person that makes you want to tear your hair out? Also, Spencer Knight's going to start the season in the AHL as he was on player assistance for his OCD last season.

He's going to get some season down in the minor, so so we got to Anthony Stleras as the backup. Roy I want to not skip past something that happened to you there was a moment of vulnerability and I recognize it because it happened to me Trying to say auntie to Kumpos name at the beginning and tongue of I low as name at the beginning I got a little scared of it and I would get close to it and I and the speed bump would scare me I saw there you normally very confident talking about the Panthers, this is your wheelhouse, but that name tripped you up, it scared you. I recognized that fear.

It's a miscaped. I know, but you got scared of it. And Mike is saying you can cheat. You can just... Just call him Mackie. Dan's not gonna call you out on it. I'm saying you're okay there. You're safe and free to just call him Mackie

because you want to be respectful. You want to be respectful, but the name it the name is tough. Yes, it is But I really do want to be a professional about this, but he will force you to he will either force you to pronounce his name correctly Or he will not by however good he is or isn't correct That's that's because that's what we'll just call them Bob Yes, that's right. That's right. Which is always something that hockey affords us to just shorten the name and add a Y. All right, but help. Aboi, Bum-Ai.

Or an ER. Help me with some of this though, because your team did go to the, you ran into a Vegas team that was playing overwhelmingly well, but over three series of hockey, it can be made the argument, and the Panthers made another final run 25 years ago, but going through Lindros Lemieux is, and what they did back then, this was the best playoff run a team has ever had in South Florida, hockey that you're coming off of and then you run

into Vegas, which was just a little bit hotter and their goal tender is better. Better. I mean, the salary cap numbers, I was just a little bit hotter and their gold tender is better. It's better. I mean, the salary cap numbers, I went well over the salary cap and the depth did Florida in, but I think we can all agree that the greatest achievement, the Eastern Conference Champions achieved last year, was finally giving Dan something else to talk about other than 1996. By one game. Woo!

Thank God. Okay. And yes, but those are the two runs, this franchise is had. Yeah, and I'm super hopeful that what 1996 did for me did to a whole slew and a new generation. I know fans were made because there's nothing like it. I know Jess is a huge Chicago Black Hawks fan. There is nothing like depot season hockey runs.

It's just got something special to it. My point is the reason that you're feeling disrespected, the two of you is because the season opened last night. You guys are all fired up because you had one of the best teams last year. And I'm guessing you correct me if I have my information wrong. That Tampa, Florida is such a weird fit for hockey. It's just strange all around, but Tampa created a giant hockey market. And the first time they got there wasn't the suspicion.

Well, they'll not keep doing that. They're not, this is really hard. You can't just keep getting back every year, every year. And the Panthers throughout that time weren't getting any fan base because they couldn't get any traction on any playoff hockey. So you're just coming off a playoff season in the most exciting sport. and Tony's walking over to his television. He's like, what's that? What? Let me, let me watch. Oh, that's pretty cool. It's violent. And look how much the players care. They're going to weddings after the season. And they're all physically broken. People don't believe the Panthers are getting back

there this year. They believe in 8 seed was a fluke. I do have a bone to pick with the schedulers here. This is back to back years where it was starting three games on the road here. We're talking about a team that won the president's trophy and it won the conference title. Why are we starting on the road? Get with those a bone here. Let's get to a home game.

We start the season. It's gonna be a tough start to the season. I think you got to manage expectations and just navigate the injuries because it's at least going to be better than last year was, which was they didn't really start finding form until after the All Star Break. But I think the most encouraging thing is not only do you have recent success to build on, recent corners that were turned, but you have this guy that wants to be a superstar, wants all the interviews,

is charismatic, plays a style of hockey that annoys other fan bases, but is someone that you can rally around, that gave you moment after moment. You have a superstar that you can market. Even in 1996, they had beezer, maybe, but they weren't a marketable bunch. They were just this rag tag journeyman expansion franchise. They have an absolute superstar in Matthew Kachuk,

which that'll draw people. That'll move units as they say. Made a superstar by this run, right? Like he was, he was, but this market and to have some, what Tyree Kill now has in this market where you're getting some legitimate name, Kachuk is traded here a bit unpopularly after they blew up the best offensive team anyone's ever seen. Not just Panthers. Traded the best player arguably in franchise history to get him and what he did in one year was it worked out. Yeah, I mean, if there was ever a statue outside of that sinking arena and hopefully they're not there

by the time Matthew Kachuck's career ends. But if it is, there better be a strategy of Matthew Kuchuk sliding across the ice after the game winner that sweeps the Carolina Hurricanes. I think a lot of the doubt that is also projected on to the Florida Panthers this season, Dan, is the Eastern Conference is really good. The Atlantic is really good. It's tough.

It was really tough for the Panthers to make it that far. And you saw that if you get, it's not like previous years now, especially with the way that they're doing the playoff formatting, we saw with Florida getting an upset over a historic Boston Bruins team. If you make the playoffs, there isn't a bad team that makes the playoffs anymore. I mean, it's a rock fight.

If you look at that division, you look at the Atlantic, auto was better, Buffalo was better. So now you got two added teams to go along with Boston, Toronto and Tampa, the fight with and it could be that one of the Florida teams might not make the playoffs this season. Yeah, Tampa probably might be at the end of their run finally because Carolina has to do it. Carolina's finally done the things that their fan base is asked for improve this nucleus because they were so close Brendan Moore's pissed off. He is talking talking that polo into his shorts extra tight.

Do I have this wrong, though, when I remember the history of this? Tampa became a giant hockey market off of the success that people didn't think was going to be able to be duplicated, at least in part, because everyone thinks when Vegas or Tampa get there, they're not going to stay there. It's hard to get that deep into the season. They don't get to just stay there. Aren't the Panthers in the same position from that regard. They just showed you over the last two seasons. Vividly, look at what playoff hockey looks like. When you have the best offensive team and you're not built right, you lose immediately

with expectations and you stop playing offensive hockey. They flip the team over. No, it's going to be tougher and Kachuck is gonna do a thousand tough things. This is where you build a fan base right here with winning again as people think you're not going to, but do I have it wrong on the history? That they're going to be doubted because why would a Florida hockey team be any good

for a sustainability theory? Right, why would this ASEED actually be the real deal? And I think what they're doing honestly is looking at the rest of the landscape inside the division. But this is a franchise that we're doing this off the top of our head, Roy. But I don't think they've ever made the playoffs the reconsecative seasons.

You're talking about Tampa that had sustained success. That generationally handed down. There were people that saw Martin St. Louis lift the cup and they had their kids become fans. Florida's never had the opportunity to have that because when they've had these isolated little runs, but then they go back into the barren wasteland of... Tampa.

Tampa is, it's an amazing market as a test case just for professional sports. They've been great at baseball, smarter than anybody, and they can't make baseball work there. And they have built a huge and legitimate hockey town in that part of Florida. A hockey town that could recognize Gustaf Forstling at Mons Venus.

Like that's a type of hockey town. If you ever go to Tampa, and this is a city that recently won a Super Bowl, every home in that cool little city, with all these old homes with big front porches they have a Tampa Bay Lightning banner. They are crazy. It's like north of the border over there.

It is not. The Florida South Florida especially is never going to be that, but they also have never had the opportunity to be that. They barely get out of the first round. This is the first time that they've done that consecutively in two seasons. So I really hope for the sake of the sport down here, which they had promising season tickets,

or season tickets for that. Yeah, lower bowl. Yeah. Lower bowl is sold out for season tickets. So I think the ratings for Florida Panthers games were encouraging. There are a lot of, they're, they're given a lot more marquee games this upcoming season. So hopefully there's sustained success there. Now, can we talk a little bit about not kneeling, not not kneeling and previewing the biggest college football game of the season for the Miami Hurricanes against North Carolina. Well, why would we not preview all of college football with Lucy and Jessica because they have a hot new unnamed podcast. It's still unnamed. No one's giving you. I thought we decided on foot girls. No, we did not we did not decide on that

Okay, I thought it was foot girls. I well can we come up with a name? I think metal arc should have a name. I doesn't have to be right now I'm not putting that pressure on you now you have five minutes, but it's just an Unnay it's well they've had many weeks not five minutes They've and I've just been under the impression it's been foot girls this whole time We did get a great suggestion that I think we should make into a digital video series that was from someone on Twitter, sorry I don't know your name, and it was Heisman House a state sale.

And that's something that I think Lucy and I should do in the off season. Go to a state sales and find college football memorabilia. That's fine. You can parlay it in just very specific. Very. It's also wordy and doesn't really get it. Rolls-right out. I like it. On algorithms. What is the name of the what we still don't know what the name is? It's better than foot girls, Mike. Yeah. Well not on the algorithm. Not in terms of growth on

YouTube. Yeah. Well, but I mean she's right. Foot girls is cheap. I mean in the Heisman house. Make a girls fee. Whatever you want. Don't do that. In the Heisman house a state sale, are you buying, you're going to a state sale looking for college memorabilia, or you're going to a state sale of former Heisman winners who are down on their look? We're gonna rob the Nissan Heisman house.

That's what we're gonna do. They're not dead yet. You cannot be in front of people on television manipulating the schedule on who gets to talk to you what day and television manipulating the schedule on who gets to talk to you what day and then manipulating the algorithm into foot girls in that same hour without a commercial full-sacutations i have nothing to do with a talent schedule how do you attack a free fighter did i don't believe you i have nothing to do with i don't believe you i have nothing to do with it

say it again so mike's not a freedom fighter did Did you see him go after Aaron Rogers? Did you if Mike's not a freedom fighter now? He's not he's not fighting for our freedom. He's actively censoring people. I would say he's probably not. No, not here. He's not. I'm not censoring anybody. You silence. I didn't. I didn't silence. What do you want to tell us about North Carolina? I'm scared of them. I'm scared of their offense. I think they're just as big as Miami and physically strong as Miami. The book on North Carolina, anytime that they've won these games, is Miami's only been staying in these games

because they're soft, but we had Marty Smith on. And he said that this is a really physical team. I've listened to a lot of Tori Hill's podcasts. I've talked to Taylor, and while they've made strides there, this will be an interesting matchup. Now, as much praise as we've heaped on Miami's defensive line, they're not actually getting sacks. They're dominating the line of

scrimmage. They're good against the rock, but they're not getting long. He praised you are saying that all of these guys at some scouts, you'd heard some scouts say this is the best D line in the country. You've been saying that a couple of times over the last year. Yeah. Leonard Taylor is going to be a first round draft pick. Ruben Bain, the true freshman is showing you why I think he's got a one day be honored in the ring of honor. But Mesador has been out for a couple of weeks and their sack production has been missing him. We don't know his injury time table.

They haven't gotten home. They haven't caused big turnover plays by getting to the quarterback. So they're going to have to sack what it for my money is the second best quarterback in the nation in Drake May. If you haven't watched him shame on you because he's a brilliant super athletic prototype body and he's got his best receiver back now in test Walker. This is going to be a really difficult game and the conditions for for Saturdays say it's going to be slippery. That might play into Miami's hands, but we saw what they did with a slippery football at the end of the game against Georgia Tech. So who knows? for Saturdays say it's going to be slippery. That might play into Miami's hands, but we saw what they did with a slippery football

at the end of the game against Georgia Tech. So who knows? How does the rain affect whether you take a knee? It shouldn't. It should affect actually, hey, we probably shouldn't run here. Slippery pill. Lucy, you are nodding vigorously about all of this. And I don't know if you had the same idea that I had,

but I thought another podcast that should be sprung from this well of Mike Ryan cares too deeply about this team is a podcast named, I've been listening to a lot of Tar Heel podcasts and to Taylor. That's a little long for a name. Well, I think it should be the name though, because he threw in Taylor and said,

well, I talk to Taylor. So clearly I know what's going on with the North Carolina program. Taylor is actually been one of the nicer people to me this week, but he just did it you down as he walked past. Wait a minute, but he doesn't think, but he doesn't think that I'm not privy

to the conversations that he's having as I turn corners because I hear him with Jeremy. You gotta get this one, you gotta get this one this week, and they think they're being coy about it. I hear every single one of these conversations and I know that he does that stuff out of the corner of my, but to my face he's been nice. We're both gonna be in chapel.

Taylor, come over here for a second and just get it Billy's microphone real quick and I want you to tell me honestly, you're honest. Very quickly, I will censor your time. Your honest reaction to seeing the University of Miami lose that way and what you immediately thought you the nice guy here what you thought what you felt about Specifically just Mike Ryan. Yeah, we have a college football group chat me Jess and Lucy and It was blown up and everybody was so excited you guys have censored me from the group chat

I'm not talent me from the group chat. I'm not talent-stabelled on the group chat. And Toles.