The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: I Do, I Did, and It's Done

Episode Date: December 21, 2023

Mike, Billy, Tony, and Jeremy are dressed as the crew from Anchorman to pay off their Bucket of Death punishment. Then, Dan feels bad for the Orlando Magic, the University of Miami had a fun National Signing Day, and Lucy drives to Fort Lauderdale to visit a friend. Plus, Pete Carroll's jovial coaching, Lucy introduces us to the New Year's Fairy, Billy gives up on dressing well, and Guy Fieri issues a threat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. Does anyone else feel badly for the Orlando Magic just as an existing thing that gets drugged by South Florida again and again and again? You come into the league at the same time. The best and most famous thing to happen to you is shackle leaving you so he could win championships somewhere else. And last night, a Miami Heat team that isn't even healthy because they've been healthy for like seven of 27 games

goes into Orlando. And this is the best Orlando. This is the most relevant Orlando team we've seen in how long 10 years at least they're actually really good. They're one of the best defensive teams in the league and they have a bunch of young players who have been great so far this season. Young team, exciting team, but there's never been anything in this market.

South Florida that has taken defeat after defeat the way the orlando magic have correct there's nothing it's not the jets it's not like what it i can't even be considered arrival re when they came in the lead together the orlando magic was hell bent on trying to create a my a rivalry with my ammy i guess i should point out since micrion is dead panning here that uh... all of the boys here are doing anchor man today They are as I make you feel for us in costume. I can see that table moving

The four of you in costume as an ensemble makes me it moves me not below the waist But it moves me just generally because metal arcs succeeded in doing something in unison and harmony. I learned when I got in here today. I saw Master Tess Fatzian outside and he was explaining to me that he got everything right on his Cowboys preview with Tony, and I'm like, what Cowboys preview with Tony? And then it was explained to me that Tony did something with Master. Master got everything right about the cowboys but then Tony went to Greece and it never aired and so masters totally correct prediction on the cowboys and then Lewis was governing and Lewis was around Tony so Tony's like I want to Greece I don't know what happened and Lewis just said yeah my bad that went on me yeah I owe master a public apology because we did

Tony's NFL road trip before the season and we had like 15 or 20 interviews with different people across the Why is it we did Tony's NFL road trip, but you excluded America's team? No, I didn't exclude America's team. I did America. He just did it for him is what it sounds like I never saw the light of day. So he just wanted to talk to everyone. This is why I need to publicly apologize to master because I haven't seen master since that day And he's like bro what happened? I'm like to be honest Master because I haven't seen Master since that day. And he's like, bro, what happened? I'm like, to be honest, dude, I went on a 19 day vacation. I let it up to the powers that be that control the YouTube, and then it didn't get put up.

So, you know, different time zones, I'm across the world, Dan, like, you know how it is. Billy, why are you laughing? Let's release it today. I want to release it today. If it's all right, let's release it today. I don't know if it's all staying relevant. I'm already talking to Lewis, we're putting it Let's release it. I don't know if it's all staying relevant. I'm already talking to Lewis.

We're putting it up two days. I just don't understand your defensive. I want to vacation for 19 days, not my problem. Not my problem, but I gave instructions. Hey, release these first seven this day, release these first, you know, these last seven this day, and then it didn't happen. So what am I going to do?

Punch people, you know, be upset. Like, it is what it is. You're not in an instruction giving position. Okay, so what I need to talk to you, so you can tell somebody else to do it. Who, you want me to talk to Bimbo? Who do you want me to tell someone? Someone obviously it didn't work out. You want me to tell, you want me to bother Dan

in this very precious time to be like, oh Dan, can you tell somebody to do the play? But who did you, I don't understand how the hierarchy works here. But it seems like Tony thinks he's at the top of the hierarchy and he just walks around giving people orders and they're just like, it's Tony and then things just don't happen that seems to be a flawed business model I would say in terms of getting content done and made I don't know why Billy and Mike are laughing so much I feel like he's their protege as a producer always look what you mean he's not he's learning from you guys how to produce a

Show he doesn't learn he's incapable. I rate him. Thank you, Mike. Lucy is learning something that I had underestimated here as someone who has lived in South Florida his entire life. I had never given much consideration, given that I went to the University of Miami, and that's one of the few places where I had to actively go about getting into the discomfort of trying to make friends. This is a very difficult city for Lucy, for Jessica, for anybody who doesn't live here all their lives to move to and then make friends. And Lucy's as happy as I've seen her because this week she imported friendship

from someplace else. And then she went to Fort Lauderdale to go have shared happiness with a friend. She has rented a dog and search of companionship and friendship. I appreciate Lucy that you are aggressively trying to shake it up. but Lucy, who I view as generally not necessarily jubilant, but pretty close to effervescent, is wandering around

Miami and friendship is a problem. So Jessica is her closest friend. They have, they get to spend time together, but you've imported a friend, and how did that feel this week, Lucy? Well, I was happy, and we went to Fort Lauderdale. We did like, Touristie stuff. It was worth it. I would drive to Westpaw for her. It was so, yeah.

Oh, the way, all the way, I was complimenting. That's too far. No, it's complimenting. You guys also have to remember I only have one friend here. Yeah, it's 62 miles. No, it's not. Well, you guys also have to remember, I only have one friend here. Yeah, it's 62 miles. No, it's not. Yes, it is. It's way further than that.

It's like 500 miles. Well, I would do it for Shannon. And I had so much fun, and it was so great to get to see a friend, and now she's gone. And I'm not happy anymore, and I'm sad. But that's all right, because I don't know. You've got a friendship hangover, and you sound like you're having trouble with your feelings. You sort of peed it out there with, I don't know what's happening with me.

I went from very happy to very sad and now I'm just back in Miami and not necessarily friendless because Jessica exists but having trouble with friendships. Yeah, well Shannon is a friend that I met living in LA and I actually met her on Bumble BFF, which I've talked about before. It's my friendship app, or it's like a dating app and you swipe to meet friends. I'm gonna have to get back on Bumble BFF once the New Year starts because that's my New Year's resolution.

I've gotta make friends. Well, let's talk about New Year's resolutions for a second because I had never heard and Billy was fascinated by this before the show. Lucy admitted to Billy and others that she was the only child in her neighborhood and her upbringing, whose parents had created a New Year's Eve fairy. They didn't create her, she's real. The New Year's Fairy would visit me every New Year's Eve. And I've never met anyone else who had the New Year's Fairy come to their house.

So every New Year's Eve, we would leave our shoes outside our bedroom, and the New Year's Fairy would come and fill them with candy. And then you wake up New Year's Day, and you'd have candy in your shoes, and it was awesome. So Christmas, I would ask for boots so that I could get more candy. Oh, that's smart Dan.

That is a handy play. That's clever. Sounds like three kings day down here or you leave out your shoes. Okay, well, I'm gonna go. So that's what that is. Like, so when do you guys do that? Well, so have you-

Does somebody trust, right? Yes, it's the first, uh, Well January 6 is three kings. Well, also something else. Yeah. Let me ask you a quick, we had it first. We had it first. We had it first.

Yeah, I have a question for you. Have you ever met anyone else that knows about the New Year's fairy? Never. Oh. Just us, which is sad. I thought it was a divorce kids thing? No, it's not.

We were the only family. So I would ask people about it and then no one else had the New Year's fairy. So now that I have a platform, I was like, maybe someone else out there, the New Year's fairy would come to their house too. a platform, I was like, maybe someone else out there, the New Year's Ferry would come to their house too. But it's not like something that we just reached out on. I've gone the entire life.

I've been introduced to all manner of fictitious characters. I remember... What do you mean fictitious? Well, I still feel guilt about the note that I wrote to the Easter Bunny many years ago, because I insisted on the most candy in the neighborhood, not surprising from the fat kid. I was 38 years old.

Don Lebertard, all of us who were watching college football elevated everything the weekend was because we missed football in general so very much. You didn't watch the ending of UTEP Jacksonville State. It was awesome. A dizzy bomb. Stugats. It's awesome. A dizzy boom. Stugats. It's such a lame for you.

Just everything in college football is awesome. Any single thing that happens, she gets deliriously happy about. Don't you miss viewing sports through that, that prism though? Like I'm envious of Lucy. Like I wish that I could still be happy. This is the Don Lebatars Show with the Stugats!

What did you do yesterday? We don't need to relive yesterday. It went very bad. I wouldn't say very bad. It was okay. Look, man, I'm sorry that there are people in our audience who have kids and need to keep up illusions around... No, no, no, no, no. Illusions of what? Stop it.

The New Year's Fairy sounds real. Did the New Year's Fairy visit you, both your parents house? No, just my dad's house. So I don't really know what that's about, but I actively believe still do in the New Year's Fairy. And so I was hoping that someone else would have. Are you gonna see your dad on New Year's Eve?

Like, is the New Year's fairy still gonna visit? No, I'm gonna be in LA. I think the New Year's fairy just goes to advance North Carolina. I think that's what it is. Put it on the pole, Ju-ju. At Levitage Show, have you heard of anyone having a relationship with a New Year's Eve fairy?

You know who doesn't get a good rap? Lo reyamago. Why do we not know their names? They've just, just a reyamago, that's it? with a New Year's Eve fairy. You know who doesn't get a good rap? La Rea Mago. Why do we not know their names? They've just, just a Rea Mago, that's it. No, Balthasar is one of them. Okay, keep going. We got two more. Well, they brought Franken's and Mer.

I know that. Yeah, now you're doing the things that you know, but I don't know their names. They visited Baby Jesus. There's so many things that translate from that time, you know, in biblical history over to now, we know a lot of people's names except the three things. Like a land below.

No, Rafael. But I want, no. Shadrach, Meshach, and a bed and a goat. Again, see, they keep going. Yeah, Lucy, I've never heard of this, and I do like that you're associating it with divorce. I got to thinking about something here the other day. I saw that Mike Lombardi and others, this is what we do when a team wins, associating it with divorce. I got to thinking about something here the other day.

I saw that Mike Lombardi and others, this is what we do when a team wins and we don't expect it to win. We find magic in the coach producing the unexpected result. And I read an article about Pete Carroll, who I associate with positivity, but something that I don't generally associate with professional sports. They were talking about Pete Carroll that where he goes, he brings love with him.

Love. And it sounds beautiful. And I want to believe it. I believe that Pete Carroll, as a boss, seems like a loving, positive man that I would want as an ally. You don't want someone that publicly looks like a loving person, because deep down their pieces of shit, usually.

Yeah, there's skeletons in that closet. I'm telling you right now, you don't want that. Pete Carroll, I don't want to be that guy. You look terrible in a backwards hat. Put that on the right way. I did not like the hat line. It looks weird. It was odd.

Yeah, because it was also like a snapback one with a strap so the hair was coming through the fridge. It just totally disheveled. There's something going on there. He's not that happy. It's impossible. Dan, correct me if I'm wrong, but Pete Carroll had a couple of opportunities in the NFL. And despite putting up seasons that might suggest that he would be brought back, he missed

out and got fired a couple of times. Wasn't the book on him that he was too kind? That he was not tough enough? I want to answer your question, but I have been sort of taken aback by the aggressiveness of Billy saying the following, put it on the pole, Juju. Do you agree with Billy?

Because I'm going to put his name on it, do you agree with Billy? Because I'm gonna put his name on it. Do you agree with Billy that Pete Carroll seems like a not happy piece of shit? Because I don't know what it starts. Oh, are my words, let me make sure that we said it. No, no, no, don't put that on the pole. That's how you said it. What did I say?

That's how you said it. Have this be one of those that Dan just says? I didn't say him specifically. I said people that seem that happy. That was not specific to I would never not coach Carol on my coach girl you say he's not happy and I don't know how you arrive at piece of shit people who are nice or serene or balanced or have found something in life I would say that Pete Carroll seems to carry himself as a man I heard this said the other day

because he seems to carry himself with a lot of positivity and a lot of love. But I heard ACEO say the following the other day. Break down what his job was and called a third of it or more, bad news. Like what the job is of being the top guy is, I gotta go around and more than a third of the time what I'm doing is delivering shit news.

Like it's not the job that you think it is of I'm all powerful and therefore I get the happiness. That job is a total misery. Most of the people coaching seem like a misery wandering through the gray to work like Bella check. Pete Carroll doesn't seem like a misery. Seems like he really loves it, not just on Sundays, not just practice, seems like to you wanders around life. He's got a bit of a Henry Winkler vibe of just being happy,

being a happy person, and that being contagious. And finding a way to be uber successful in ways that coaches on the grid iron, he doesn't fit that personality type, but when you stack up his resume, being a guy that wanted in college and in the pros It's almost as good as anyone's when you look at the sport generally But can we talk about the idea of loving that workplace?

Please like let's let's explore that for a second the idea of can it be Is it possible? I know we like to associate it with coaching all the time youth coaching all the time Sometimes we do it with college and high school coaches. When that's not why the coaches are in it, they're in it to compete and they're in it to win. And sometimes it's to raise good young men, but sometimes that's just an umbrella camouflage for nah. I kind of want to make a lot of money win

and have a lot of power and be a famous person in football. Love in professional football. Possible from a coach? Yeah. I think Mike McDaniel has been a good example of someone who seemingly according to Tuha has injected a lot of love into his life and that level of confidence has helped

not only obviously schematically with what he's done in building a great offense around him, but really just sort of injecting him with that type of positivity and confidence and you hear the way through hard knocks and all these other NFL films clips the way that they speak to each other, like their friends.

That's the first example that I've seen where it's not just like Jovial Pete Carroll, it's a genuine connection between people and I love them. This is what Jay Glazer is talking about in terms of the seismic generational shift and leadership in that sport. You cannot connect with young people if you're lording over them as their boss

They have to feel like you're there to help that you're on their side that that whatever the discipline is is to make them better Not to make the coach's job easier. I think it's what's helped P Carol get to the point where he's the oldest head coach in the league because What was held against him in the 80s and 90s is now kind of in line with where coaching went just based off of what Jay Glazer said we're moving away from the Bill Belichack archetype and we're moving more towards the Dick Vermeel Pete Carroll more sensible more sensitive type of personality manager. I Like this look that you have on today as your character, you am insider who takes days off from his prestigious executive job in order

to simply follow the trades and the sheets and the information highway that brings you all of the recruiting classes that you want. I know Lucy and we're Lucy and Jessica in this portal in the signing day portal with you. I can't speak for them, but I thought it hijacked yesterday's news cycle. I love early signing day and it's horrible. I have immense respect for the people that actually cover this and make a living in it because I don't think there's a,

a more difficult assignment in all of sports, chasing around 17 and 18 year olds as they can't make up their mind for data day. Who's the best now? It used to be Tom Lemming and Joel Bucksbaum. Who's the best now in terms of information inside or chasing high schoolers around to find out who's got a top five class? And it's the usual suspects, right?

It's Alabama, it's Ohio State, and now Miami is in the top five, correct? Yeah. Miami is number three. Presently, it's the first time since 2002, 2003 that they've had consecutive top 10 recruiting classes. So that's really good. These companies like on three and two, four, seven, I think the best at it are the regional guys that are just over Gaby Uritia does a great job down here locally, but they feed to their network of 247 and that's how guys like Angeliveans get all these scoops, even though they're plugged in in their own right, but I think the best at it are the guys on a specific beat. Have you noticed that Mike has a tell when he's trying to be modest, but also say something positive about Miami?

Not that you're wrong. They did very well yesterday recruiting, but he's got a tell. He'll go like this, cover his mouth. Normally, people do that when they're lying, but Mike does it when he's trying to say something that he knows we might jump on because it was pro Miami hurricanes. He does it every time. I do change my posture He's like they had the number three class. It was so he's self-conscious about About being buried as a UM-Homer because among other things people listening to this do not want to hear about a top three

Recruiting class on a Thursday in December. I'm really happy Miami has a reason to be happy in December class on a Thursday in December. I'm really happy Miami has a reason to be happy in December. Mike, we talked about this yesterday while you were gone, so we might as well bring it to your attention. We're a little worried for you and your proximity to UM and that you may be UM's Connor Stallions. Like we feel like you might be the fall guy if something goes on. No, we all know who the fall guy is going to be.

It's someone that hasn't been around the program in two years. Well, same surname. The fall guy always does it know they're going to who the full guy is going to be. It's someone that hasn't been around the program in two years. Well, same surname. The the fall guy always doesn't know they're going to be the fall guy. So we're worried that like they're bringing you in close and this is how it happens. I think this is the rare occasion where everyone knows who the full guy is going to be. They got in your text messages yet though. That's what I'm worried about. I have started I have started as a hobby repairing old vacuums.

It's a good question that Billy asked. I'm worried about. I have started as a hobby, repairing old vacuums. It's a good question that Billy asked. Put it on the pole, juju, please. Does the fall guy ever know that he's the fall guy? We know. We know with this case. That's what the fall guy would say. It is the fall guy.

Is it? The fall guy always thinks somebody else is going to be the fall guy. I'm definitely not the fall guy. But the fall guy is not. That's exactly what the fall guy is. The fall guy is not self-aware. I don't think be the fall guy. The fall guy. I'm definitely not the fall guy. But the fall guy's not. That's exactly what the fall guy is. Not self-aware. I don't think of the fall guy.

You get bamboozled, you get cornered, and then the fall guy looks up, and he's in jail, and he's like, how did that happen? The fall guy's the guy in the room that when the thorities come is like looking like, yeah, I can't, and then the hands are behind the fall guys, back and he's walked out, he's like, what, what, what, all the people are over there. Sounds like you guys had a lot's walked out and he's like, what? What?

All the people are over there. Sounds like you guys had a lot of fun yesterday. I'm sorry. I missed it. It's just worried is the thing. It's Johnny Depp and Blow sitting at the table when everyone else is in on it. And he and everyone else. And he's got the little belly too.

He was so happy just seconds before not knowing he was the phone guy. Just seconds before was as happy as he'd been he made it back in the game and uh... it'll probably be yes your correct john ruiz as quietly after uh... making a lot of noises a billionaire and then all of the headlines after that being some form of that money's not real it's not in any way real even though it was real and set up to compliance and not just with the NCAA, but also the SEC and not the conference. So like inevitably, there will be an article written in a couple of years and I'll have to remind everybody,

like I'm telling you right now, Guy hasn't really been involved in the last two years. And in the last few years, Miami has found a way to have consecutive top 10 recruiting classes. You look a little Paul McCartney-ish. I do, it's a wig. I had to steal Jeremy's wig because the Ron Berg and D'Costom did not have a wig that came with it.

And I mean, we got by with Jeremy because Brian Fantana famously has sideburns and a few main children. Yeah, I got a haircut. And if you had that wig, you'd be a little George Harrison he, I think? Yeah, you're probably haircut. And if you had that wig, you'd be a little George Harrison-y, I think. Yeah, you're probably right. We could have, there's another punishment that was supposed to be people dressing as the Beatles.

So we probably could just tweak these and make that work, you know, somewhere down the line. Down with love that so much. God, I can see the wood. One of the things. Nor region wood. That I appreciate. It's a deep cut.

One of the things that I appreciate about the costume that you're wearing, not just because I have a kink that's now out in the open about how much I enjoy the costumes, is that you're saving the company money by wearing a jacket that still has the tags on it. Yeah, it's tucked in. That was not for you. Amazon, look away. Yeah, this is not for air. Well, I know, but I do it too. Also, you can tell by my posture how deeply uncomfortable

I am with it, because I presently feel like I'm in a sausage casing. If I yawn, my whole outfit would just explode. It's too tight. Yeah, it's very tight. Are you feeling self-conscious beyond having the number three recruiting class in the country? Too great about that.

But are you feeling self-conscious? Because physically, look at Tony back there. Tony right there, that character has never looked that swammy. I mean, he looked, Tony looked salty. He looked steamy back there. Tony's had a glow up. Dan, the key is to have the hat, right? You can't wear like a square like on your head like this.

The hat has to be on a bit of a tilt. So when somebody looks your way, like just look at me right now. You know what I am? You got to hit one of those? You got only one eye showing so they can see, but it's all about the tilt of the hat. No, this reminds me of when we were in Austin

for South by Southwest and Tony, just walked around for three days and just went sheriff to anyone who would look at him. Just having one in Texas. Tipping his cap. Billy, your relationship with Tony is a complicated one. You usually lord over him, you've been here longer, you feel generally stronger than him,

but when it comes to pulling off swav and style, I feel like you look at Tony with something that resembles disgust, because I feel like he pulls it off, but I don't feel like you think he's pulling it off. No, I complimented him on the offer. Today I said it was a good look and I told him that he looks like a Mexican pop star that could win a Premier League restaurant. Yeah, I could see him on the Pietta America, like singing his latest hit and he just does like a thing. You know what I mean? I kind of do like a, yeah.

Change a word, or you like a fly? Yeah, I like a fly. Yeah, I'm a Billy. Billy, you don't carry yourself with that kind of confident grace about your style, about your style. Yeah, I don't care what people think about the way that I look at dress. It's fine. I'm married.

I give up. I'm married too. You'll get there. I won't. How long does it take? I do. That's it. It's done.

I did. As soon as I do, I did and it's done. Oh, you do the classes first and then you got to do the wedding. It takes a little bit of time. Put it on the pole please, Juju. Did you give up so thoroughly that your marital vows should have been I did Don Lebertard I'm reasonable now. Yes, it is. I'm so fat! Hold on, I'm so fat!

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First thing I wanted to put in front of you guys though is what Guy Fieri is saying about his inheritance, his money, and his kids. And he quotes Shaquille O'Neil. Shaquille O'Neil has said to his kids, you're not rich. I'm rich. And Guy Fieri is of a similar mindset where he says, quoting Shaq, if you want this cheese, you got to get two degrees and in two degrees, he means postgraduate. He says, quote, I've told them the same thing my dad told me. My dad says, when I die, you can expect that I'm going to die broke and you're going to be paying for the funeral.

I told my boys, none of this, that we've been, that I've been building, are you going to get unless you come and take it from me? Legend, sounds like great Cody. What is that? That's good parenting. I like that. It's issuing a challenge to your children. What is that? That's good parenting. I like that.

It's issuing a challenge to your children. I like that. I don't mind it. I'm sure they'll end up getting their nut. What? Hell yeah. Just challenge them a little bit. And so that's a good job.

I mean, they're in this bubble, right? They've lived a life of privilege and you might as well, you know, try to institute some kind of blue color work ethic there, I like that. Isn't this akin to something that, I don't know if your guy's parents ever said this to you, but mine used to say this to me like, this isn't your house, this is my house.

Yeah, never. You don't own anything in this house, I do. And I'd be like, okay, just wanted to go out and see a movie with my friends. Yeah, coming from exiles, the visuals I have that I most remember of my childhood or my father standing over the checkbook as my mom filled anything out and reminding us at every turn, who do you think is paying for all of this? But I do have a lot of friends who have money or have had success and they do worry that they make their children soft.

Like they don't know where the line is. I think there's a line between, I'm going to give my children too much and you're going to pay for my funeral. I'm Guy Fieri. I'm going broke, taking care of me. You don't have anything. There's probably a line somewhere between those two things. How about just parent your kid?

How about just teach the morals and values while still having money? Make them so that they're never wanting, but that they're also, you know, never needing. You could be in a place where you parent your child to be able to have, you know, respect for money, even if they have a lot of it. I don't understand.

Instead of threatening your kid. Jeremy, but you also didn't grow up with 175 million dollar access to a family. So it's very easy to say that from your perspective, like yeah, just pairing your kids. But when you're the person with $175 million, kind of like, okay, I'll have somebody else raise a kid. Well, I guess that's the part, right?

Is if you're just gonna have someone else raise the kid then don't threaten the kid that they're not gonna get your money because you've been spending it on not parenting your kid. What if I make it a YouTube ad while she's on the tablet? No, the way to do it if you're super rich is like what they do in Down Nabbie. You have someone else raise the kids

and then they come out for like breakfast and play time and then they go back and you never see them. Those kids all turned out fine. It seems extreme to threaten your kids with I'm dying broke your paying for the funeral. Like that. It's not a threat. It's more of a warning. Start saving your allowance now because you're paying for this.

Oh, a hug. I think what is it closer to a warning or a threat because it seems aggressive. It seems aggressive when you're a multi-millionaire making whatever it is I mean he's what's he worth 70 I'm a hundred and seventy now then he's worth a hundred just signed a big hundred million dollar deal for three years What's the salary for mayor flavor town? I thought it's a public service Yeah, you do that job for free to serve the people. So you make the money from lobbyists and construction companies. I feel like it's more than a warning. I feel like it's closer to a threat to tell your kids, I'm going to be broke and you're paying

for the funeral. You're basically threatening them with dad's going to be reckless with his money for the rest of his life and you're never getting any of it. Would say that Guy Fieri does just off appearance alone fit that profile. Yeah. You think he's reckless with his money? I mean, he sure has flames on him. Yeah, but he's like one of them. He's got a beautiful house in Northern California.

Also, his son Hunter's been on a lot of his shows. During the pandemic, Hunter became kind of a mainstay on Triple D's when they were doing the pandemic episodes via Zoom with all these restaurant owners. And Hunter has now come up through the Food Network, I guess, talent sphere and has made a name for himself. I'm not sure. Doing it on his own via Nepotism.

That's great. Put it on the pole, please, Jude. Does Guy Fieri look like he is reckless with his money? Lucy, can you give me some context for how you feel about the Ryan Day press conference sound that we're about to play? No I cannot, I was busy hanging out with my friend, I haven't seen it yet. Jessica, can you give me some context here because Lucy was too busy not working, not

preparing, trying to make friends? What do you mean? What are you getting mad? Yes, you are with your friend, but this is your wheelhouse. You and Jessica have a hit new podcast that know it has a segment. There's no foot. No foot. No foot. No foot. What? Surely Jessica. What he did with Jim Harbott does on national signing day, which is do other stuff. But interview for NFL jobs. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I feel like a national signing day means nothing anymore.

Because like these aren't actual commitments and then there's another signing day in the spring and half these people end up leaving anyway. No, these are actual commitments in that early signing day you have to send a letter of intent, which is binding. But now there are ways as we saw with Janie Rashada last year. You can get out of it. And not binding. Depending on whether or not you were lured J. and Rashada last year, you can get out of it and not binding. Depending on whether or not you were lured to that school under false pretenses, you can go through a process,

but it's not guaranteed. You can't just say, I'm undoing my letter of intent. So there is a process to it. But you can also transfer now after your freshman season with no rape or cussions and potentially transfer more than once. So it is definitely changed in that it's not your recruiting class isn't the end or be all of the amount of talent you'll have on your roster in a given season. That's the biggest change is that you can have a worse recruiting class, but you can bring in talent and plug holes

and still have a successful team. The part that I would like some help with here because we've been doing this in September, it'll be 20 years that we have been doing this. And I can't recall a time ever in this show's history where we have spent any time, never mind multiple segments. I'm talking about any time on the microscope

is on the high school kids. We have always skipped past this day as something someone else cares about. And it seems to me, both an unusual evolution, but an interesting one, if college football is going to be King Sport number two, and people are going to want information on how the business is changing, because we've really made it something like this part is both crass and wonderful commercially for me as capitalism. It's like, yeah, who wants to buy their way into this game?

Here we go. If we're starting right now, you're gonna get to enjoy where the quarterback salary goes from one million to two million to five million and who wants to play? The Texas A&M oil money is Lincoln Riley. Gonna be exposed as an offensive coordinator because you gotta figure out the business parts of this.

You can't just run around with your quarterback, the business parts of this matter. And I just run around with your quarterback. The business parts of this matter, and I'm looking at who might get ahead more quickly, just simply because they're spending dollars. It doesn't always equal success. I mean, a couple of years ago, Texas A&M had the greatest recruiting class of all time, and now Jimbo Fisher is out of a job.

Especially with the portal nowadays, there has been a dilution to early signing day, but it does give you a certain amount of lottery tickets. And all you're trying to do is sack as much talent as humanly possible, and hope that it gets in an expanded college football playoff. I love college football so much, but honestly, your early signing day,

this whole recruitment process, they kind of lose me on it, just because like, I don't ever find myself that intense with like, here's what all these 17 and eight year old, 18 year old are deciding to do. Like, my favorite team is a school that doesn't recruit particularly well.

They're like a developmental type of program. So this has never been a day that I've really put that much stock into. And now with the transfer portal, I don't even think about it. I find it fascinating because NIL has indeed leveled the playing field and that a lot of talent is going to a lot of places.

Lane Kiffin has spent three years trying to engage his NIL collective and they finally made inroads, especially in the portal. You have a school like Mizu, which is becoming an NIL powerhouse. You have Nebraska back in the game and you have a lot of these top players, not just going to one or two schools right now,

so I do find that fascinating. Is Mizu ahead of the game now? It's Mizu has Mizu just made itself a power. This isn't one trip to the top 10 that is Mizu, a SEC afterthought now in the game for good because they're ahead of the game and the business of the game. Mizzou

isn't a really interesting standpoint or because the state law and Missouri is that if you go and play in state for your sport, you can earn an IL money in high school. So they have found like the perfect just like legal work

around to keep all of their top talent in state. Yeah, the program itself might not be ahead of the game, but the state is and other states are enviated. Arkansas, basketball also has a similar situation, which Muslim just did crazy damage in the transfer portal and basically got everybody, like several things in this country, depends

on what state that you're operating in and that kind of determines your advantages. So school like Muzou, I do think is is gonna be hanging around. And it is sustainable. They got the number two recruit in the country, and they're linked with damn near everyone in the portal. So, that's a legitimate power. That's gonna be second round, I think. Let's get to this Ryan Day sound, please. And I will ask indulgence of the audience here,

because I understand if many of you are objecting to how much college football we are talking. It was a really signing day. I am, I am more interested here than I have been in a long time, but go ahead and play this Ryan. Well, let me, let me provide some context what this is right here. Jeremiah Smith, the nation's number one recruit, a player whose player comp by 247 was

Julio Jones. He is as camp miss as a South Florida wide receiver prospect as there has ever been. And it was not without drama last night because what we're going to play here is Ryan Day finding out around 12 30 in the afternoon that Jeremiah Smith has indeed committed to Ohio State. Now he was committed to Ohio State throughout this entire process, but they had to Ohio State throughout this entire process, but they had to fend off Miami. NFSU to a degree, but NFSU didn't make the table

in terms of hats. And Ryan Day, you could see on his face exactly how afraid he was. Now, a fun part of this story is Jeremiah Smith didn't actually sign his letter of intent for another 11 hours, but here's Ryan Day finding out that the hat that he put on his head was an Ohio State hat. Yeah, well, I don't know if everything's in yet, Jerry got to check to make sure it's in.

Yeah, before I do something to get myself in trouble. All right. His knees gave and he looked like he was hyperventilating and all of that creeped me out a little bit. Yeah. It feels wrong. Yeah. Well, the part that felt wrong was he got a little bit of reaction after the first knee

buckle and then Ryan Day, the performer, revealed himself. Oh, you like this, huh? Here's a little second knee buckle. Oh, what Jerry found out. I'm sure gave him nightmares for several weeks afterwards because it got really interesting after that Ryan Day moment. And Miami got really close. Miami got really close to having one of the greatest

highway robberies in the history of the sport. But it's gross. It's gross for an adult to be that happy about his career chasing a 17-year-old around trying to convince him that this amount of money is better here than that amount of money. Doesn't make you feel less gross that Ryan Day isn't actually doing that much work. This is all Ryan Hartlein. It's other adults doing his work on behalf of seducing kids. It's all a little bit...

Whoa! Just for money though.