The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: No More D***ing Around

Episode Date: February 26, 2026

"My penis made an eagle sound." Would Team USA have declined Dan Le Batard's offer to pay for their drinks at E11even? When did Dave become a commie? Did E11even actually cash the check that Pat McAfee wrote them? When did Yankee Doodle Dandy become the Soviet National Anthem? Would Mike Ryan feel the same way about Matthew Tkachuk hanging out at Elbo Room yesterday if he were not 2x Stanley Cup Champion Matthew Tkachuk? Does everyone know The Great Pickle of 2025? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stucats podcast. All right, this is it. No more effing around. Is it? You know, my, uh, my mood for the next, I don't know, month and a half is going to be dictated on what tonight looks like. That's right. How I'm going to come into work in the morning. A major role is going to take place tonight in Sunrise, Florida.

Panthers, Maple Leafs. Uh, Dave, no more dicking around. All right, need these two points. Let's go. You really need the double down? Aren't you still basking in the glow of the U.S. of A? No. And all the rest of it.

You need more. Yeah. Well, I think we've already established that the Panthers winning, the Panthers just winning period, winning anything, is infinitely more important to me than winning the cold. Like, whatever, all right? I know you guys frown at that, but the Panther success is so much more important to me. Yes. I don't know how to cover that up. I don't know how.

It's February, Mardi Gras month. And people go down to Mardi Gras, and they obsess about getting the beads. And then they get home with all their collection of beads. And like four or eight days later, they look at it like, what the hell am I supposed to do with these beads? This is the equivalent of watching the Olympics and becoming obsessed by the need to see the gold. It's great. It's a great memory. You still would rather have the Stanley Cup.

Stop driving yourself. That's right. If you put it in front of me, if you put in front of me right now, the Team USA wins the gold medal. Or, I get that, or the Panthers definitely make the playoffs, which is a major long shot right now. The Panthers make the playoffs and Barkov returns for the playoffs. You're not giving me any other guarantees other than that.

I'd rather the Penguins just make the playoffs. Absolutely right. I want the playoffs and Barkov returns. I do. I do. I like them to make the playoffs and win a playoff round is more important to me than the U.S. of A. So you guys are two commies to hate America. Okay. What else is that? What the hell is about hating America? It's just, it's what's more important. I care. America, Jack? I care more about my club team. I do. I just do. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You're right. I don't know why anyone would say that. I'm not sorry. I'm not sorry. That's a good job by you. Okay. But we know that you're a dual citizen. I'm not sorry at all.

All. So I said. Amen. In this room, we're truth-tellers. Yeah. That's right. No jive policy on this side of the glass today. And I'm glad to see it, Zazzo.

That's right. Now, no one's calling anyone a J-T. A J-T. If you were a movie guy, you'd know the reference, but you don't know a movie guy. It's a jive turkey. Oh. For him to explain it, that means you don't get the reference. I got worried that there were semanty-semitism in the air.

You're a Jeremy Taché? What? Look at that. We have the greatest American is back today. Mike Ryan. Thank you. There he is. The Earth is 10,000 years old.

Greg Cody, he liked that when you were in Club 11 the other night. He appreciated you on the microphone given a Let's Go States. Yeah, that was a great moment. See, you can be a lib and love America too. We're taking it back, Jack. So speaking of which, all right, you were at 11. All right. We already went over that.

I know where you're going with this. Where am I going? You're putting me in a bad spot here. I don't think I am. This is not about you. Not a reason about you. But go ahead. What do you think I'm about saying?

Well, I think you're going to do a thing. Can I hear it? I don't think you're right. Are you going to talk about the Pat Mac if you think? No. But we can't if you'd like. Damn it. I really walked into that one.

I wasn't here thinking about it, but now we're here. Go on. No. Look. All right. Say it. That was great a Pat to do. What are you?

Explain it. That's not how you said earlier. Hold on you. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's set it up. So we're at 11. I'm just saying. Don't you do that to me?

I love this. I have no intention of going in this time. We're talking about someone that can be sensitive sometimes, so let's be careful. Guys, let's set it up. We're at 11, right? Everyone's there. The team's there. And then the video board, Pat McAfee shows up on the video board and the pre-taped message.

He says, hey, guys. He'll do a show anywhere. Congratulations for bringing the goal. He does a lot of, like, Pat McAfee things. What did AJ Hawks say? Not pictured. Not pictured in front of the wall of books with no titles. Now, did, like, the DJ stop the music and everyone quiet down?

Absolutely. This was, they ISO'd for him, and he kind of does the whole thing, and then he says, because of that, all the drinks are on me, and everybody goes crazy. That's exciting. And then he says, play the Hela Buc song, right? It was a pretty good song, I kind of liked it. Yeah, it was a cool song. But here's the thing. Like, anytime the Panthers go there.

Anytime anyone celebrates, 11 goes to the degree of paying for their tab. Because that keeps them coming back. Yes, because 11, look, Indiana celebrated their national title there. I understand business. Look, look what they could have picked anywhere in the nation. New York gets snowed out. They decide they're going to celebrate their title where the champions celebrate their titles down at 11. It's synonymous with championship celebration.

So it's a great investment for them. So they were going to pay for the tab anyways. but credit to Pat McAfee for stepping up and being like, I'll pay for their tab anyways and it doesn't have to be on 11. But I don't know if he knew that going into it. Also, the event was advertised as an open bar. It just was.

Like for the patrons as well? Yeah, it was an open bar event. I didn't pay for a single drink, and it's not because Pat McAfee paid for the drink is because that was always the intention. Mike. But it's a really smart move on his bar. He pulled the ultimate.

We've all been there. You walk into an open bar event. You've got your friends with the end. Guys, what are you getting? It's on me. Yeah. Yeah. I paid for people's drinks, too.

Okay. See how easy? Okay. Did McAfee know this, or does he say, I want to pay for their drinks? And the guy at 11 says, that's tremendous. We can do that. We'll take your $150,000. Right.

Like, do Pat, no. That's an important part. Shout out to 11 if that's the case. I know very little about it. That guy understands business, too. I don't know if 100% that message was conveyed to Pat in all fairness. It's an important detail, right? It was.

But, like, you know, like going through it, like, I feel like somewhere along the way, it's like, you know, they've comp these tabs for these guys, right? Like, you don't have to do this. But he put together an entire video message and the crowd popped. And everyone thinks that the drinks were on Pat McAfee. And that's great for the brand. They were, right? The brand is strong. They were.

They were. It was kind of like everyone there also. Like, it was a big tip. Like, yeah. Like, to be fair, the message was also kind of hard to hear inside of 112. But I kind of left with the impression that, you know, thanks to Pat McAfee, we can all have. have this rager here together and that, like, it was, it was advertised as an open bar of that. Guys, now, now I just thought about it and we're, we're dupuses.

We should have done it. We should have done that shit. We should have done that shit. Well, we could have done the next one. Mike, you could have gone on the mic. Guys, yeah, but we don't love America. Courtesy of DLS. All drinks are on us. Everyone would have been amazing. Team USA would have declined if Dan Levitard offered to buy the drinks. That's why I say DLS. A lot of people don't know what that is. No, we don't have the juice. We don't have the juice and we're not as pro-American as Pat McAfee and Pat McAfee has earned that right. No, we're more pro-America. What is the, what do you estimate that bill would have come in at?

I saw that it came in at $150,000. $150,000? For like the Magnum bottles at 11? Yeah, they drank a lot. Dave, Dave. There's a full hockey team. They had sparklers and also signs too. That costs.

What a racket. $150,000. By the way, they actually got off cheap for that kind of celebration. I would have thought it would have been more. Yeah, I would have thought it would have been way more. Especially since it's open bar for everybody, even though some people paid $800 to get in. $800. So it was free in the morning to sign up and have entry.

And then as the day went on, it went from free to a couple hundred bucks. Why? By the time that it ended. Because they know business. If you wanted to, for these nightclub things, you got to get in early. Because it went from like $0 to $800. So they just start. It's hard at zero because they want to make sure they're going to get a crowd, and then when they know they're going to get a crowd, they start charging.

Yeah, because it's a Monday night. You don't know what the kind of, how much would the U.S. Olympic men's hockey team draw on a Monday night? It's cold also, a cold Monday night. I've learned this over my lifetime. The weather impacts attendance greatly. People don't want to go outside when the weather is bad. So you got to, if it's not a good weather night, you're like, man, let's drop it down to zero. I don't know if anyone's going to show up. But then when you see how many people are lining up outside, you're like, jack it up. This Pat McAfee conversation begs the question. Begs it. When you donate to a charity, do you do it anonymously? Or do you put your name?

Yeah, right. Better put my name in bold and bright lights. Anonymously we're talking about. Let's say my name twice. I put my name every single time. It's not why I do it. I do it for the charity. But I want you to know I did it.

I think there's an interesting, before we move on to that, though. I'm curious, does the 11 ownership then have the uncomfortable conversation. They've already declared everything is on the house, right? And then Pat McAfee says, no, no, I want to pay for it. So do they say, I know we already said it's on us, but if you want to write a check, Pat, has 11 cashed a check at this point from Pat McAfee? I don't know how it went about, but I think the intention was, hey, Team USA,

you're not going to spend a single dollar because you're our boys. But what ended up happening was, hey, 11, you're not going to spend a single dollar on Team USA. Don't worry, I got it. That's how it actually played out, but Pat McAfee is like a master of branding. And yes, like seriously, it's a very smart move. It helps his brand even further. Pat, let me beat you to the punch right now.

Yes, we're jealous that we didn't think of it first. A hundred percent. We should have thought of it first. We're dumb asses. Yeah, well, like it was kind of born out of like, hey, Mike, why are you taking the mic? Why are you making this about yourself? Just buy drinks like Pat McAfee. I'm like, wait a second.

Well, how did that happen? DJ Genesis You know him as a huge panther guy He doesn't know he's a fraud He doesn't know movies I know he was shouting out of all of us He's like hey Mike come in the booth Speak some Spanish

And I was like all right I got one thing that'll kill I do wonder when McAfee's on the phone And he says I want to pay for it And they you know however the transaction goes down When they tell him yes you could pay for it Do you think it's like All right I'm ready for your credit card number

Is he like reading all the digits on the boat? It's not a card. You get a cashier's check. Expiration date? What's a CVV code? And just Mac if you're reading the numbers. I heard it like percolating during the day. I did not speak to anybody close to Pat, but I know that it was percolating.

I'm like, hey, does Pat know that this is covered? I did like try to try to make sure that Pat didn't have to spend money that he didn't actually have to. Okay, now let's get to the juicy. It is a Larry David episode, though, right? like does 11 actually cash the check after they've already made the offer to do it themselves? Now let's get to the juicy part of the conversation. Mike Ryan, do you believe that Pat McAfee knew in advance the tab was already covered? He's not stupid.

He's been to 11. He knows about Club 11. I don't know. I don't know. I honestly don't know. But like if the intention were to make sure that Team USA wasn't going to pay for their drinks, I think that part was already covered. but it was really smart of Pat McAfee to do.

All respect to Pat, I do not want the smoke. I'm just providing clarity because someone attacked me for making this about myself. I want the smoke. I want the smoke. Where's my camera? Pat, I know you knew, but guess what? I'm not even mad at you.

I'm mad at myself because I should have thought of that or one of us should have thought about it. So, again, you are a smart, smart man. Would you have been prepared to actually pay the $150,000? Absolutely not. Or I would have just gone, Dan. I would have, Dan, we need 150,000. That would be it.

You should clap it up for Pat one time. I do know, for the record, that Pat McAfee, he does these things that are publicly large, but I do know that he also, on the down low, that does some really nice things for people that get no attention. Is it on a down? I don't feel like it. No, he does. No, I do know it. And I know for fact that because it wasn't made public on that show, that it, you know,

It was just pure, you know, a graceful deed that he did for a fellow Pittsburgh. Clap it up, right. One more time. I don't want to say anything more about that. And I also know, like, all that money that he spends on college game day is legit his. Everyone assumes that it's like coming from a production budget, but he does pay that. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. March is one of those months where we talk about celebrating women.

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Stugats. You think you're big time? But you're going to die. Big time. It is on my infamous scale of one to ten. That's a 7.6. Solid. Good job.

Good job. That's a sui nominee right there. This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugat. One more time for Pat McAvey. You know what? So with what Dave just said about that, that Pat McAvey, he knows he does stuff, you know, on the down low. And even Chris bringing up when you donate, you know, charity or, you know,

go fund me accounts or whatever, do you do anonymous or you put your name? For me, I obviously put my name, big bold letters. I want everybody to know. The Jewish tradition. is that you don't do that. Yeah, sometimes you've got to break out tradition. Yeah, Jewish tradition is not to eat ham sandwiches either. Right.

And then I learned that. It loves ham. Ham tastes good. So, ribs. The point, Tony embarrassed himself. Wait,

what are we talking about? Well, you said beef ribs are better than, than... Have you ever had the monster beef ribs? I mean, I, I've had beef ribs in my lifetime. So what are you talking about? I like them.

They're very good. They're not as good as baby bag ribs. Come on. Please, continue. So, I'm sorry for that. on ugly interrupt. The point being, I'll never understand the whole, you know, did he do charity? Did he do the good deed on the down low? Or did people know about it? Like, who gives

a shit? You still did the good thing, right? Hold on. You could tell everybody you did the good thing or you cannot tell everybody. You still did the really good thing. Hold on. I'll tell you what's wrong with that in general, not towards Pat McAfee. Again, give it a one more time. Yeah, I'm saying in general. But the problem in general is you get these people like these Instagram accounts, these Instagram influencers, where it's like, hey, man, you look down on your luck, can I borrow a dollar? And they're like, well, this is my last dollar.

But it's like, hey, because you gave me that dollar, here's $10,000 and then to start crying. Those videos are awesome. I hate those videos. It's exploitation to the, like, at worst. I'm with a mean on this one. At best, it's super exploitation. And I don't like it, man.

It's this thing of like, yo, I will help you out, but you got to help me out, in essence, by being this down-on-your-luck person that I come rescue like some white night. It's terrible. No, I think we know that that you're talking about right there. We know that that's not cool, okay? That's not even necessarily what I'm talking about. But I am talking about what Dave is saying, where, you know, if you do the charity,

but, you know, you tipped off the camera so they can catch you in the show. Like, all right, but like you still did the really good charity. I agree with that. And you can also rationalize it further by saying you're modeling behavior if you're a public figure. You're showing people that this is a better way, a better society if everybody helps each other out a little bit. And for a lot

of these people, it brings more attention and more money donations to their private foundations. Because a lot of these guys have foundations. They're not doing it all out of pocket. The exception, I think, is Shaq. Because I know Shaq a lot of stuff out of pocket, like crazy stuff. He's just in line at like Best Buy. Mother needs

to put the computer on layaway. He's like, Walgreens. I've seen a lot of your computer. Walgreens. I've seen them be at like Walgreens and in line for the pharmacy, don't ask me why Shaq is going to a pharmacy and standing in line, he's done this. And it's like, I've got everyone's medication paid for. Everyone

in line. I love that so much not only because Shat, there's never going to be another guy like him, he is just the greatest. But I kind of feel like, and we'll never know this because I'm never going to have money like that. But I kind of feel like Don't get yourself out. Thanks, man. I'm trying. I'm doing a lot of stuff right now. It's a rising star in media. I'm trying. I'm

grinding, you know. But I like to believe if I had that kind of money that I would do stuff like that, you know? Like, don't most people feel that way? Like, Brewster's millions. Is that how you would live, in other words? Like, I feel like if it didn't affect me, I do know about Bruce's million. You know what that lost over. Yes, because you know he's got to spend 30 million, right? I know. He can't have anything. I understand. And it was really hard because you didn't have enough time. It was a lot of money. The point being, I feel like if you had that kind of money like Shaq and it doesn't affect you when you buy the souped up van for the family with eight kids because you're doing a good deed and it doesn't affect your pocket.

I feel like we would all do stuff like that. It's weird. In fact, I don't want to get up on my pious, Zaz, because it's easy to do it in the hypothetical but I'm 100% with you. Everybody thinks like if I were a celebrity like Bill Murray, I would do what he does, go up and tap people on the shoulder. That's more vain. This is actually doing something for other people.

I also shout out, though, a guy like Charlie Batch, the longtime backup quarterback of the Steelers and with the lines and all of that. Two days in a row, you mentioned him. That guy does not, he actually pushes away the cameras. People try to follow him around while he goes around and gives kids athletic equipment and everything else. Is that a thing in Pittsburgh where it's like, holy shit, that's Charlie Batch? How many cameras are Charlie Batch pushing away? I mean, when you're doing that around town and people want to show the good deeds and he's, He says, no, I don't want you to cover this because that's not what this is about.

That is on a different level. But then, like we talked about yesterday, too, the most courageous thing you can do is go into children's hospitals and look those kids in the eyes and make them laugh. Do you think the cameras ever come around on Charlie Batch and are like, Heinz Ward, Heinz Ward? He's like, I'm not Heinz Ward. I'm just asking. What are you doing? That's offensive, I mean. I'm offended.

You're offended. Not by your t-shirt, though, friend. Stay on target. Stay on target. There you go. He gets it. What's wrong? He doesn't get it because he's not a movie guy. I can't see your shirt, man. You don't know what that is.

Why are you accusing me of not knowing anything about movies? You're not a movie guy. I'm just saying. I'm a great movie guy. I just can't see your shirt. Movie show on Fridays Football America. I'm looking forward to that. I'm looking forward to that. I'm looking forward to that. I like how we're promoting it even though it hasn't been taped yet. Yeah.

Cool. We know it's going to be good. I could bail out last minute. Yeah, that's a gamble. Yeah, that's a gamble. there, Dave. That's a gamble. You can't give away who the guests are until you got the guests on the book. Before all the waving of the flag moves on for another three years and 11 months, or I guess we have the summer games upcoming in a couple of years.

Either way, where does the American flag rank for you among all flags? Number one. Number one. What is that? What is that supposed to be? SARS. Bars. Commy tag, why I didn't even give an opinion?

I ask you where it's covered. Comey take. You're going to tell me like some other places better. Pittsburgh flag. I rank it. I rank it 18th. No, he's right about this because you would probably openly admit that the national anthem as a song, as a tune, is not as good as the Canadian anthem. Oh, Canada and France is better too.

But the U.S. flag, great flag. Right at the top. Is it your best? I think so. Yeah. Yeah. Very good flag. You think so?

Yeah. Well, I can't think of every country flag in my head right now. You don't need to. You just need to know ours and say number one. I think it's the best. Okay. I can name any flag. What does that mean? Put a flag up.

I know exactly what flag it is. Do it. Oh, we may have to do this. That's a good test. Yeah, we may have to do that. You can't just do it on. You're going to get got by the British Empire. That's the ones.

The New Zealand, Australia. They're very confused. Oh, that's the one that gets me every single time. You just said you knew all of them. I know all of them except for those ones. All right, we may have to do this. Now, before Mike Ryan thought that I was going in a direction that I was, that I wasn't going in, I was going to ask you, are we going to be upset if Matthew Kachuk

doesn't play tonight? That's the direction I was going in. No. I mean, he was at the elbow room yesterday. Let him celebrate a little bit. Let him rest of his legs. Give him a night off. What the hell? What the hell, man? Give him a night off. Reinhard and Marchand, those are the questions. Well, he's had the last few nights off. He did not have the last few nights off. He went to the State of the Union and yesterday he was at Elbow Room. Give him a clean day off. you're cool with him because he's hungover is that it's okay with you in other words too hung over to play you deserve it wow thank you for what you did you deserve the day off can't question your commitment to the u.s of a ever again

no one should damn right would you feel the same way if it wasn't two times stanley cup champion matthew kachuk were talking about fascinating question I think he's earned a lot here. I think he's earned a lot. Well, that answers my question. Over the last three years, this guy's given everything to this franchise. He brought the franchise their only Stanley Cup final victory with a broken sternum after returning courageously against the Vegas Golden Knights. He was a single most impactful acquisition in the history of South Florida sports, a market that actually acquired LeBron James.

Right? He turned the franchise around completely. It was the single biggest acquisition in South Florida sports history and great American. Look how long we've been trying to win that. He's a part of a golden American generation and he is, for better or worse, the face of U.S. men's hockey. Obviously, I know the answer to this, but really look at the man in the mirror and answer them honestly, Mike Ryan. Matthew Kachuk is Canadian. That's the only thing we're changing.

Well, two things we're changing. He also scores the game-winning goal for Canada. Is it a good question? A few days ago. are you now also cool with him taking a couple days off? Shame on you. What do you mean for trying to trap? Another commie take from Dave.

Why is that a commie take? Is that a commie? Guys, I completely understand if Reinhardt doesn't play today, Brad Marchand doesn't play today, I mean, Sam Bennett, he can take the day off too. I know it's the maple leaves. I get it. They're probably not going to give you their best effort anyways.

The wildest would have been, I mean, to, you know, obviously I root for a different team. I root for a team that wears black and gold. And had Sidney Crosby played in that gold medal game, win or lose, and then it's announced, yeah, he's out for the next four weeks. I mean, you know, I'm not going to get on 87 for the same reasons times 10 versus your Matthew Kachuk in his two years in Florida. Three.

Whatever the hell. I mean, it's not comparable to what Sidney Cuffington. Not comparable. The guy's been playing the last game. of the season for three consecutive years put some respect on it. Listen, I, did Sidney Crosby play the last game of the season for three consecutive years? I'm not, I'm not looking to get bogged down with you.

Did Sidney Crosby? Play the last side by side of Matthew Cachukh. Well, you were trying to poo the last three seasons of Matthew Cachuk. I'm not poo-pooing any of it. I said it's not comparable to one of the three best human beings to ever play the sport. Settle down with, with Matthew Cichuck. But you make the point. See, the grace that you show.

him is owed to the fact that he delivered for your favorite sports town. That makes it a little more tolerable, right? Don Lebertard. To us, residents. Oh, wow. That's pretty good. It's in there. I think I haven't been practicing? Stugats. I didn't realize we had a substitute complicated legacy. Brought to buy a headquarters of Toyota, huh? 441 and Powerline Road. Second down to nine. This is the Dan Leibatar show with the Stugats. Amin, we're going to give this a try. What country's flag are we showing on the video screen right now? Brunei.

Get the hell out of here. Is that right? It is right. Get the hell out of here. Where do you want him to go? Stay on target. We will. Give me more.

Okay, I want to give you another one right now. What is this flag represent? Which country? Amin claims that he will get all the flag. Wait a second. Wait a second. Wait a second. What is he scrolling on his computer for? I'm not scrolling on my computer. Well, even if he does scroll like...

Yes, he is. Look at the smile. It tells the tale. I'm not typing anything. I'm not typing anything. You're scrolling. I'm not just... I mean... Just look at the screen and say what it is. Do you want me to be a teammate or do you want me to say what's on the screen? Is that Djibouti? Yes, but now I'm suspicious. Oh, now you're suspicious?

Okay. What else we got? All right. Here's another one. Just stare at the screen. Stop looking at your phone. or your computer. My phone's right here. My phone's right here. stare at the screen. You don't know this one?

Costa Rica. There you go. All right. It's three for three. Do you know the state flags, the U.S. state flags as well? No. Man, there's some good ones. State flags are harder.

Arizona's got a great flag. Arizona's is very good. The controversial one that I like a lot is Maryland. Maryland? Maryland's a good one. It's got the checkers on it, right? It's on everything. Everything they do out of Maryland has the check the flag.

You under Armors got a million check of flags. You would embrace it too. It's a great flag. I liked a lot of people disliked my fellow drip drill, pal, Mike Ryan, how say you on the Maryland helmets that were half black and gold on the one side and the other half were red and white. I love the swing. I loved them too, friend.

Take the heck. I'm good with it. You got a great state flag or Chicago, it's often confused for the Illinois state flag. Chicago's got its own flag. And that's a banger. Chicago's like, yo, Chicago's flag. That's, pretty great. Chicago flag is dope.

White, red, powder, blue. I look, I think Chicago people think way too much of their city. I don't like Chicago as a city. I don't have fun there, whatever, but that flag, that flag is tough. It's an amazing flag. You don't love Chicago socially? I don't like Chicago socially. Summertime shy?

Been there. There's no such thing. Yeah, what do you mean? There's no such thing. Been there. Famously. I went there 12th. straight years.

Now that's what everything is couched, at least with Mike Ryan around by whether or not it's patriotic and his pal Tony too, there's nothing more All-American than spending a June Saturday at, you know, one o'clock with your pals sitting in the bleachers or otherwise in Wrigley Field. Tommy's right about that one. That's where it's at. You can't. That is one of those players. You ever made a beer snake in the bleachers? I went there for the 4th of July for the NASCAR Street race.

Nothing more American. You ever done that? My penis made an eagle sound. I'll tell you, I'll do you one better. I was once at Wrigley Field on July 4th, and you can still find video evidence of this being true. Dante Bichette was the right fielder for the Colorado Rockies that day. And my pals and I had had many, and we had some of them plastic shades with us. And one of us, my friend Vandy, he threw the purple ones that he had down on the field to Dante Bichette.

Here's some shades for you, Dante. and in the middle of the game, Dante Bichette picks up the glasses and he replaces his flip-down ones for an outfielder with the purple ones. And he starts walking around the outfield like he's drunk or blind. And we're going to cry. We're like, you're getting paid millions of dollars, man. Come turn around. Pay attention. You're going to get in trouble.

But now all bets are off because now it's okay for Matthew Kachuk to miss games entirely because he's hung over from three days ago. That's a great story by the. When did you become a commie? He burned a flag right after that story. Oh, and then, yeah, we were on Sports Center singing Yankee Doodle Dandy to Dante Bichette. You're a Yankee doodle dandy. Oh, it was one of countless memories. I didn't know.

That was a Soviet national anthem. So the combine's going on right now in Indianapolis. Combine. Did you see this yesterday? Ruben Bain, he spoke with the media. Ruben Bain got a lot of attention yesterday, not. just because he's awesome, but Ruben Bain got attention because

people noticed, wow, your hair is looking a little bit unkempt. Like, you didn't do up your hair for all the media, the TV, all of that, and I got to tell you something, if I'm an NFL team, I am drafting Ruben Bain number

one overall. Because this dude is talking about how he doesn't care about any of that stuff because all he cares about is football. You don't get done up for your big media front and center appearance because all you care about is football. I'm drafting him number one. I will say that this is a great move.

And I talked with one Mike McDonald before the Super Bowl about this very thing. What did I say? Mike, yeah, yeah. Different one, the one with the Seahawks. He just declared them. One of the great teams of all time, which they are not. But okay. I asked him because I think this is a great,

consideration for the quarterbacks and the head coaches and otherwise, like, do you, what message do you want to send to the world on Super Sunday, the biggest day of your professional life? Do you go clean-shaven? Like, I want to look my best, my Sunday best. Or do you want to send the message, I got better shit to worry about it than my appearance? I am all bald today. Yeah. Right? That's what I feel like Ruben Bain did yesterday. I think for the combine, though, because it is a job interview. It depends. For Ruben Bain, absolutely. That's the kind of guy they're looking for. Remember they say dress the part that you want to have, right? But if

you're a quarterback, you got to go in their clean cut. That's it. That's a good point. Yeah, you got because you got to present like, I'm going to be the leader. But Rueh and Bay need to present that he he's just an animal. I'm an animal. And all I want is to eat, sleep, and shit football. That's what that

looks like right there. Yep. I loved it. Last part, it's painful, but he doesn't care. I will take this guy number one. I'm so sorry that they came up just short against the Indiana Hoosiers. No reason to hang your head, though. You guys had a great season at the U. Are you rooting for Carson Beck?

What is his – do you have any sort of rooting interest at this point or is he served his purpose in your life? And how about Ruben Bain and how about anybody else associated with the U this year? So I'm actually rooting for Ruben to land with the Titans because that would be awesome. And I'm just like full-bore Titans guy. What picks they have? They're top five, I think. You've made an intellectual decision.

here. There's some overlap between emotion, root-o-de-ruding interest, and an intellectual choice. You're trying to convince the rest of yourself to believe. Times are number four overall. Everyone can remember the Great Pickle of 2025 where the Browns were potentially in position draft

Cam Ward. Would you have been back on board? I said yes. I would have been. I would have been. But that didn't happen. You know Mike Ryan is a life long. He's a great pickle of 2020. He's a regular on Football America, friend. All right.

Everyone knows a great pickle of 2025. But, you know, it came and went. I don't have to be a Browns fan. My movie theater shows pickles. I kind of enjoy. How much they charge? That I don't have to. It's $2.99, dog.

But it's also a good deal. Bill. It's a little phony that you're trying to embrace a Tennessee-based pro football team. Me? It's all about, yeah. Shut up. You're all about that. You're embracing Canada!

You call him because he's in place of Tennessee? That, you know what? Mike Ryan? That's right. Bitten by my own snake. I rooted for Canada because of Sidney Crosby. You're rooting for Tennessee because Cam Ward went to the youth. Much like Matthew Kachuk.

Cam Ward turned this program around. Dave, it's very much a Miami Hurricane fan thing where they will root for the team in the NFL that the player that they love is on. Honestly, I'm like not as jessex. jazzed up for the NFL as I used to be. I think that's because the canes are a little bit better. But now we're starting to see these guys get drafted high in the first round. I'm like, wow, this takes me back to the turn of the century where everybody making an impactful play on the game of the week was a Miami hurricane. So we're getting back to it. But Carson Beck

does not have the same juice. Now, I think that Carson Beck will actually land with the Cleveland Browns because Todd Monk and their head coach was actually hugely impactful in getting Carson Beck to Miami and getting Miami staff to buy in on the idea of having Carson Beck as their quarterback. I think Carson Beck actually ends up in Cleveland. As what? The emergency? I mean, as the as the as the taxi? Well, I mean, they have, they obviously have a pro bowl quarterback already as QB1 and Shador Sanders. So, but to keep them honest, to improve that room, to have a guy that is knowledgeable of Todd Monkin's offense, I think would be beneficial. But no, I wouldn't become a Cleveland Browns fan if merely Carson Beck went

to the Cleveland Browns. I'd be rooting for Carson Beck. Now, if they got Carson Beck and Ruben Bain, that's a horse of a different color. And we may be talking about the great people 2026. Your allegiance to the Browns is owed to Bernie Kosar? No, my grandma, my ablo dollar store. Yeah, dollar store and highly a bunch of random stuff went over there. And every time she would make me a Bissan Panisado, all the paper plates were Cleveland Brown stuff. And one day They were playing the dolphins, and I believe Damarino's knee got bent back 90 degrees the other way during that game. But I was still like, oh, man, orange helmet. That's how it goes.

Guys, what do we talk about here? Carson Beck is going to be doing ESPN college football analysis in like two years. Right? The Brock Osweiler role. Come on, man. I mean, he's, I think he's going to have a long career in the NFL, maybe not as a starter. But he is a really smart quarterback. And I think people just hate his face and don't want to give him that.

I think Miami actually turned the corner when he decided, hey, let me make the audibles on the field. Let me get the ball out of my hands. Let me give it to Fletch. People don't understand how smart of a quarterback Carson Beck is because of the interceptions too. I'm kind of the opposite there though with Ward and Beck. Obviously, Cam Ward is a much better quarterback than Carson Beck. But I think I'm going to, my memories are going to be so much more fond of Carson Beck because of the moments that we had leading up to the national. had some incredible moments though. Yeah, I mean, look, maybe we'd have a conversation if Carson Beck's last act wasn't an interception to Indiana, thank you very much, Roy Bell and me. If Carson Beck actually wins that, then you look back on his run in the playoffs.

Not only do you have Carson Beck with his legs, but you have like a drive for your life with Carson Beck at the center of it. The reason you can announce right now that I'm more a Cam Ward guy than I am a Carson Beck guy is that you have two eyes and you know that Cam Ward's full. future is brighter than Carson's back. It's not anything they did at the U. Carson, well, your front running in advance of either one of them taking a leave.

King was unbelievable. I was at the Berkeley game. Like, Cam Ward is just like a ridiculous player. He's a great player to have as Miami Hurricanes. Amin, how about this flag? Got one more for you. You believe you can get all the flags right. What is that one? Which country does that represent? Look at the screen. Do not look at your phone. Okay, I'm looking at the screen.

I'm looking at the screen. That is Sheldon from Big Bang Theory. It is the country that he made up. That's why I didn't know it.