The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: SHRED 'EM... HOO!

Episode Date: October 8, 2024

Today's cast: Dan, Stugotz, Greg Cote, David Samson, Chris, Jeremy, and Jessica. People inside Meadowlark Media and outside were upset by what David had to say during yesterday's show, so we've made an adjustment: he's sitting in the Shipping Container today instead of next to Dan. We begin the show by making fun of Dan's "hurricane car," and Greg Cote shares his limited fake Crazed-Jon-Gruden after we watch a new video from his TikTok. Then, David shares his reaction to the reaction from yesterday's show. Plus, Stugotz recaps his incredible weekend in Chicago with Billy and Tony. Also, on a more serious note, it's time to discuss the horrific storm headed toward our state as we have updates on Hurricane Milton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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We've called in Stu Gotz from Chicago. He's beat up from crushing Chicago and God bless football, crushing Weed Street, and we've got Greg Cody and a Greg Cody Tuesday because we're trying to throw the maximum popular things at our audience that it can only be said was really mad at David Sampson yesterday. It took one day for the audience to get really furious with the things that David Sampson was generally doing at one point during the show yesterday I looked

into the right corner of what we were doing and Jeremy and Jessica were not listening to the show doing the show participating in the show they were just talking behind their mouths about David Sampson in a way that giggle snorted and distracted me from doing the show I've got full-on anarchy going on around here. Like the way a coach will hold the play sheet over his mouth when he's talking to a player? Like Andy Reid, yes. It was Jessica though that was doing it except by doing it she revealed to me that she was saying things that I wanted to hear and thus distracted me from the doing of the show. David Sampson has now just come in from his show

that I just walked out on. Nothing personal, everyday, 8 a.m. to 8.50 on YouTube. He is back here today, but he is going to be in the Billy Tony region of the shipping container because we need to throw maximum popularity at the audience with Stu Gotts and Cody. Could this be a Zion thing where any pub is good pub and that he's got the people talking?

That's his job. I mean, to his credit, he got people upset. He made them emotional. That's the job of a talk show host. Good job, David. He is a polarizing figure and he comes in. He doesn't care. One of the things that I do admire about him,

and there are many that I do admire about him, and I do need his help with business, because I cannot be the one who is handling the money for our company without it being a real problem. So his business acumen is extraordinary, but the other thing that he does, that I wish we had more of around here, because we got a whole bunch of social media preeners, he does not care who does not like him.

Yep. Doesn't care at all. It's super unusual. There are not that many people in the media who are willing to do that. I care. Everybody does. Everybody the media is some of the most sensitive, vain people I've ever met in my life, any walk of life, any profession. David does not care who does not like him.

It's something I think our show has desperately needed for a long time. Too much of it yesterday. Way too fucking much of it. Dial it back. This is the Don LeBattor Show with the StuGuts Podcast. Today's episode is sponsored by DraftKings. Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings and all it has to offer throughout the show.

DraftKings, the crown is yours. This is a troubling time in Florida for a number of different reasons and a scary time in Florida, but before we get to what is approaching this way in Florida, which seems a bit cataclysmic, okay, when you're talking about 12 to 15 feet of storm surge, you're talking about things that's water, ocean is going to swallow land and homes in a way that I don't know that we've necessarily even seen in the modern times around here. And so I'm legitimately scared for what it is that's happening in Florida.

But as a palate cleanser, let me just go to some John Gruden video to get the mood around here a little lighter after David Sampson created some tension around here yesterday that has some people upset who work for our show, has some people upset who listen to our show, and let me preface everything I'm about to show you with John Gruden with he is guilty of some things that make it hard to generally laugh at him

unless he's making funny football videos where he's sweaty and way too passionate about football. And this is the way John Gruden's gonna try and get back in the game after being somebody who was the highest paid voice at ESPN when talking about football. We're gonna get to that in a second, but if I can, Dan, if I can start somewhere else,

because I noticed something today when I drove in. You're driving a Jeep. You don't give off Jeep. And I just think that that needs to be, the room was talking, whose Jeep is that? It's Dan's. And the room was just like, Dan, Jeep? They weren't doing that connection.

Greg and I had a laugh. I said if I pulled up at a stoplight and I looked over and you were driving a Jeep, that I pulled up at a stoplight and I looked over and you were driving a Jeep That I would that I would laugh at you same with a flatbed truck and I would laugh at David Samson as well There is a certain kind of person who should be in a truck who should be driving a Jeep you guys are not the guys Right. No, that's for sure Dan driving a Jeep I mean, it's like picturing Dan in in the cockpit of an 18-wheeler, doing long-distance deliveries.

I just don't see it. All right, I just need to stop you for just a second. I don't know if Jessica saw this when she walked in, but Greg Cody was prancing around here as he judges me for driving in in my wife's Jeep because I'm afraid of the flooding, right? My car will get stuck in water, and so I needed to come in a car

that's not gonna get stuck in water. Greg Cody's judging me while saying to me, I'm not kidding, hey, Dan, how do these skinny jeans look? They're wildly uncomfortable. Wait, let me see. My wife got them for me a while ago, and I'm wearing them for the first time, and they are tight in the crotch area.

Lift up your shirt. and so he is... They look good Greg, they're not that skinny looking I mean they're certainly not like tight right? They feel tight that's the thing I don't really care how they look as much as I don't like the tightness on my legs plus it's just I feel like I'm you'm three generations behind the time. I feel like I'm in Liverpool in 1963. Wait, okay, now I need to see the cut. So I need to, if you could lift your leg perhaps

to my eye level, are they like a straight, okay. Straight cut? Honestly, Greg, it's a good look for you. It is slightly, like we've slightly moved past that style for men's jeans, slightly. The baggier style is now in, but I think we're gonna swing back around in 2025. So you're right on target there.

I'm glad that that Jeep belongs to your wife because I was worried for a second that you had a hurricane car that you keep just for when there's hurricanes. Like a Batmobile? Oh, it'll be a fly on the wall with Dan and Adam McKay this week, I mean.

I mean, let's be very clear. Dan has a very fancy car, and those tend to drive low to the ground. So he's borrowing a second fancy car, which is much higher. Dan, you do the Jeep wave with other Jeeps. I don't. I don't. I'm not a Jeep person.

But I also don't understand making fun of somebody for being I don't know what a Jeep person is or isn't Kim outdoorsman. Yeah good. Yeah, I'm rugged individual I nailed it. Yeah, Kimbo camper. Yeah, are you smoking a cigarette in my wife's car? Are you kidding me? Like that is not allowed no I want a person. I miss my cigars Right though Jeep people do give off cigarettes. Yep put it on the pole Please at Leviton Wranglers you know Jeep people give off cigarettes because I would I think you guys are doing more hummer than Jeep like what do you guys? Do you know I mean Grand Cherokee people don't smoke cigarettes

I don't know what you guys are doing with the Jeep like I know I'm not four-wheeling if that's what you're asking I'm not going out in the Everglades and really like kicking up mud, but I also don't know what it is that you think is weird about me driving a Jeep. I can't stand the fact that you do videos while driving the Jeep, especially your wife's car. A, it's irresponsible no matter how high it is. Are you at stoplights when you do that?

I was promoting your show. I was promoting nothing personal by breaking the law. Yeah. I don't need favors like that. What about the Greg Cody show? It's fair. It's a fair question, I mean. David Sampson and the chemistry of our show and people talking over each other,

this was something that happened yesterday. You gotta keep your eyes on the other room on when it is that people are talking there so that you're doing the show with them instead of over them. Yeah, appreciate that on-air instruction. Well, I'd appreciate you do your job slightly better so that we don't have chemistry problems like we did yesterday because the audience turned on us yesterday. Like they were really mad at everything that happened around here yesterday because David Sampson was poo-pooing everything in sports that was exciting over the weekend. Hmm.

Hmm. It is, of course, October. Yeah, that's what you mentioned again and again. But let's get to this John Gruden video here finally and let's hope nobody noticed that we were filibustering because all the video went down as we started the show. Let's check in with, with wait a minute, his hairline makes it so that he looks, he looks not like John Gruden, he looks a little bit different than John Gruden while wearing a Chuckie t-shirt. Let's look at

this for a second because he looks a bit like Freddy Krueger here. You know what I was calling plays, I just loved it when our quarterback shredded the defense. I mean just ripped them. That's what has me feeling really nicey. Like watching Jared Goff go 18 for 18. 292 yards in two touchdowns. I couldn't do that pregame warm-up. Jaden Daniels just a rookie 26 out of 30 87% 231 yards he rushes for 47 he's doing everything shred it baby. 345 yards brings the Texans back wins it at the buzzer Baker Mayfield coming off a tough loss 345 yards in the hot human Tampa Bay weather heat them up Bayfield, keep shredding them baby.

Sam Darnold, who'd have thought the Vikings would be 4-0? 275 yards, three touchdowns, go to Lambeau Field and win again baby. Keep it rolling Sam, shred them. Holy shit man, feels like he's auditioning for out kick. This is how you do football from the fringes of disgrace. I saw a bunch of people posting this video yesterday and I scrolled past it every time because I was like, surely there's nothing, there's nothing that I need to see in this. And now that I've seen it, I understand why a lot of people are sharing.

This is why the, this is how the comeback has to happen like this if this is how he's going to orchestrate his efforts to make a comeback that I don't think it's possible to make. He's unhireable now for a front office. You don't come back from that he may be auditioning for a media job as best as I could tell but there's no way that a front office, you can't have him as your head. Because of the TikTok. Yeah. He's a lunatic.

He's unemployable in general, but if you're going to try and find employment of any kind, this is a way to do it. Just be someone who can be viral in his, what is he? He's in his 70s now, or is he in his 60s? How old is he? Really? I don't know. How old is he? I'm checking it out right now. I think he's in his, what is he, he's in his 70s now, or is he in his 60s, how old is he? Really? I don't know.

I don't think he's 70. How old is he? I'm checking it out right now, I think he's in his 60s. 61. So if he's gonna get back into the game, the way that you've gotta do it is you've gotta appeal to the younger demo who doesn't care about what your scandalous past is,

as long as you're just doing stuff like that to music. I'm just imagining who's the owner that's like, I need that guy, I need that guy. That's the intensity I need. I wasn't thinking football job, or I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking a professional coaching job, which might be what he wants. I was thinking media job.

But there has to be an owner, to Chris's point, that's thinking to themselves, how can I spin this and bring Gruden back? I was being sarcastic. I feel like every owner looks at that and be like, I don't want that guy within 100 feet of my... Right. He's 100% auditioning for some sort of a low-end media job.

I don't think it'll be a huge company. Certainly won't be Metalarc or ESPN or anything like that. But I think he could eventually get back in. But watching that reminded me, I liked him more when he was canceled. And I'll be honest with you, it reminded me how little him more when he was canceled and I'll be honest with it it reminded me how little I missed John Gruden I don't feel like I I don't feel like I need that like what's he doing you know with the the Chuckie face and everything it's just right now oh god I think Billy just booked him for

God bless football he's wildly entertaining what do you mean you didn't you didn't think that that was better than what Rex Ryan is giving you on Monday mornings I don't need that. No, I don't so who's who's doing it in a way right now that you do need I don't need to be entertained in that way. Like I would rather have serious football Analysis, I don't need him reading stats of five different quarterbacks and going shred them You know, that's not bringing anything to a table. That was my favorite part it's bringing a lot. Who's doing it in a way that you need? Give me the media members just the one I would like to know Greg Cody is tuning in to get football

acumen delivered in an entertaining fashion from whom i like uh... uh... i i i like diana russini uh... i like meena combs i like people who can be amusing but mostly informative i just don't need that kind of a a cartoon presentation of a guy screaming shred them i just don't need that that's just me maybe some people love that

and and i have no animus against John Gruden if he can get back Reinvent himself and get back into the media on some level more power to him watching your panic Greg made me smile Did you look at the name on our sheet to come up with Diana? Rousini or was that in your head that was in my head it says When it says Diana Rousini right in front of you, it's a piece of paper. That's in front of you. It was there I don't know who you would have said if not you were Steve Carell's character in Anchorman you just saw a lamp and said lamp

Like you just saw her name on that sheet. You didn't have anybody you were going to okay, so Diana Rousini Who's on this show every Tuesday when I'm in talking about NFL football? You don't you think I needed a sheet of paper to remind me that Diana Rousini has good Intel and a brand new podcast Which is great. It's no Greg Cody show podcast, but it's really good scoop city It's still reading from the paper. Well, because I'd forgotten the name of the podcast, Scoop City. I'm wondering if my dad could pull off the John Grewne stuff.

Like, if I give you a bit of music right now, can you start just breaking down NFL quarterbacks the way he did? If I were being a cartoon, OK, if I were being a caricature, I would do exactly what he's doing, which is just simply reading stats. Baker Mayfield tearing up Tampa Bay 38 for 45

Shred him! I love it keep going The clicks you would get Kirk Cousins of Atlanta Find your camera Kirk Cousins of Atlanta 38 for 49 for 308 yards Shred him! You should get the stats right though Who cares for 49 for 308 yards shred them! You should get the stats right though.

You should get 509 yards. The face is the most important. Let's start over. Shred them. Let's see if Greg, your face is very good. Do you want to get some stats together to see if we can do this accurately? I feel like if I make up stats they're better than the real thing. He was only 200 yards short on Kirk Cousins.

They're not better than the real thing because you were 200 yards short on how Kirk Cousins shredded them. If you'd gone 700 yards, that would have been a good way to be 200 off. But making him less good than he was, less of a shredder makes it less good than it could have been. Right, that's fair. Let's watch the Gruden video one more time just to get the wheels turning for Greg Coady, okay? And Greg, please feel free in the moment

to look up some stats that you wanna use on whoever you want to be your weekly shredders. They can be anybody. They don't have to be quarterbacks. You will have all the time that Gruden is working here to come up with whatever your impersonation is as your son helps you with the music. Let's check in again.

You're with me, you guys are with me on the way that Gruden's hairline is working here makes him look not like the John Gruden you remember and also more like Freddy Krueger than John Gruden. Do I have this wrong? Because he looks like somebody I can't place. He doesn't look like John Gruden. Go ahead. You know what I was calling plays? I just loved it when our quarterback shredded the defense. I mean, just ripped them. That's what has me feeling really nicey. Like watching Jared Goff go 18 for 18.

292 yards in two touchdowns. I couldn't do that pregame warm up! Jaden Daniels just a rookie. Pre-game warm-up! Ha! Hoo! Jaden Daniels just a rookie. 26 out of 30. 87 percent. 231 yards. He rushes for 47. He's doing everything!

Shred it, baby! Ha ha ha! Hoo! CJ Stroud. 345 yards. Brings the Texansans back, wins it at the buzzer! Shred up Stroud! Baker Mayfield, coming off a tough loss, 345 yards, in the hot hot human Tampa Bay weather. Heat them up Bayfield, keep shredding them baby.

Sam Darnold, who'd have thought the Vikings would be 4-0, 275 yards, three touchdowns. Go to Lambeau Field and win again baby. Keep it rolling Sam, shred them. Greg, I want to understand if what just happened is what I think just happened, which is the shipping container rose up to try and help you here during that segment by saying, and I can hear some of what they were saying, Hey,

write some phrases down. Do you want to look up some quarterbacks? He shook everyone off like he's garrett cole like he throw it he is someone who throws a hundred miles an hour and he's got this down he's matambo he's ready to do this he doesn't need any production help he's ready to go let's go play the music greg cody does not need any production assistance production assistance. You know what gets me feeling it? Watching Josh Allen go nine for 30 for 131 yards in a huge monumental loss.

That's what gets me feeling it. Shred it! Hoo! So one, that's all you had planned. So you had one plan. That was really good. Yeah, he nailed it. That was all being haters.

Look it, he's got the face down. So you had one plan. That was really good. Yeah, he nailed it. You guys are being haters. Look it, he's got the face down. He looks exactly like him. But you didn't need any production. They are, and it was funny too because he gave a bad stat line. He gave a bad stat line, exactly. I mean that's the beauty of Zygack. You guys don't recognize and appreciate

a true artiste in his prime. It's a good bit, maybe have a couple of them to go to. Five would have worked. A couple bad quarterbacks. Yes, if you have one good one, five would be better. One works. One works. Restraint and moderation are always,

those are key principles that Greg Cody has always lived by. Yes, they are. You have to leave people wanting more, not saying that was dragged out way too long. Jess gets me, you know? I need one example. I'm the anti-Grooden. He going all he's doing the predictable stuff lauding the the quarterbacks who had good game I'm lauding the so-called best quarterback in the league or second best who had an epic bad game in in the era of

Short passes and guys in the NFL are actually going 38 for 46 and stuff like that The best quarterback in the league is nine for 30. That's almost unheard of. Check that out. Hoo! Oh, wow. Greg, do you know where your camera is? No.

No. Can we teach him or not? He's looking all over the place. He doesn't know what camera to look at. He doesn't need to know that. The Gruden face though, slaps. I'm with you. He does the Gruden face better than Gruden.

But you can't go Josh Allen and then say shred it because you didn't shred anything. You have to come up with a different closeout line. Well the game is shredding Josh Allen. That was the joke that he was doing. I would have liked, hey did you see that Andy Dalton was seven for eight for 15 yards at the two minute warning yesterday? Shred him. Like I would have liked five or six of those stats and jokes, but Greg waved us off four seconds

into what was a 50 second bit, cause he had his joke and he didn't need any more jokes. He had the one. Yes, thank you. He's also improvising here, Dan. I mean i i really i'd i commend greg

ten out of ten for ever ten out of ten percent since ten out of ten for being you greg i tell you just gets me i wish more people on the show did uh... billy seat is empty somebody's got to do it today it's kind of the formula for everything that we do around here formulaic i think it was genuine was what are you talking about Dan? I thought for sure when Dan asked you,

who do you want your football knowledge from, you would say Billy Gill, since he always supports you. Yeah, and if it hadn't written down, I would have probably said, I fed him that line too, he ignored that one as well. Well you're feeding me too many lines, I'm getting indigestion from all your feeding me. You're full? I'll get you a Tums. I mean, yakity yak from all your feeding me. You're full?

I get you at times. I mean, yakety yak yak in my ear here. Trying to concentrate and do a job. You know? It's ridiculous. Stu Gautier, the most important things in my life are my wife, my children, and of course, their safety. That's why I've had Simply Safe Home Security in my house for seven years now. I want you to have the same peace of mind that I and so many listeners experience every day. Which is why I partnered with SimpliSafe to offer listeners 50% off a system.

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And not that you need to, you know more about hockey than I do. And this is coming from a guy that's watched Connor play six times. Right. If that. Um. DCCCD. DCCCD. DCCCD. DCCCD. DCCCD. DCCCD. DCCCD. Roy, let me explain it to you. You know more about hockey than I do. And this is coming from a guy that's watched Connor play six times.

Right. If that. Um... This is the Don LeBathard Show with the Stugats. So yesterday on the show, David Sampson got a poor reaction. And David, how did you react to that reaction? You don't tend to care very much when people are agitated by you. It's a great strength of yours. I was working on today's show.

The show goes on. I don't react. You are the king of the Twitter reaction. When someone tweets something good or someone tweets something bad, you assume that that is how everyone is viewing it in that prism. I don't get caught like that,

only because it's been so many years of both negative and some positive press. I just don't pay attention to anything. I understand, except it was happening inside of our building and in the shipping container. It was not Twitter I was reacting to. It was our employees talking behind hidden hands about you while I was doing the show

in a way that distracted me. That was unacceptable and it was disappointing because we're supposed to be on a team and I've never felt less a part of a team than I did yesterday. Wow, how about that? Wait, what are we talking about? Yesterday. Lewis? We're talking about, well, that was another room. That wasn't even this room. That was the other room that was objecting in general to what it is that David Sampson was doing around here.

A very polarizing figure. Well, can I ask for a quick primer on what it is that he said that so controversial because i'll be honest with it super busy yesterday didn't get a chance to listen to the show i apologize and maybe other listeners aren't quite sure what the controversy was surrounding uh... samson over there so can you can you brief me we were talking about the university of miami comeback for uh... along time in

the local our and he objected to us talking about it that long and said it's just a game in october it's not a championship game and uh... he did that a few different times when we were talking about alabama vanderbilt and some of the things that happened over the course of the weekend that if you're a sports fan are things one would get exciting uh... would get excited about and so people objected to his objections i would say now in house i don't know i believe that what was relayed to me i don't know how accurate this was but

when jeremy and jessica were in a corner covering their mouths talking to each other uh... and i asked them what do you guys talking about they said that louis in the video room said of samson this guy bleeping socks i'd believe i'm quoting that correct yes sponge bob reference but yes that's accurate the cover-up is always worse than the crime because louis was so quick to tell me and and so were you guys, that it was SpongeBob, that seems not worthy of covering your mouth over. Oh brother, this guy stinks!

That's the reference. Okay, I side with Sampson. I disagree with him, I disagree with him. I think some of these results we saw, whether it's UM coming from 25 down to win at Cal or Alabama losing, I think it was a fantastic weekend for sports. But if somebody wants to have an alternate opinion and note that it's early in the season and Alabama is still going to be in the playoffs and still has a chance to win the championship,

there's a point to be made there too. I think David was okay with the topics. I think he was saying they were going on too long. Is that accurate? It seemed insufferable to me to go 53 minutes on a topic, and I'm just sensitive to it when it comes to Nothing Personal, where you're going, you have to get to other topics.

There's so much to get to. We have 53 pages of notes we get each day, and we stayed on one thing for so long that it made me insane. But no one knows the audience better than Dan, and if he thinks we should stay with something for 53 minutes, I give him the benefit of the doubt. Right, it's his show.

It is his show, Stu. Yeah. And that doesn't stop you from behaving the way you behave. Well, I have to do that, I mean. Okay. But when I do it, it's fun and funny. I mean, you know, no one's sitting there going,

hey, you know, talking with things over their mouth so you can't hear them, no one's criticizing me. They love me. I mean, that's the way it is. It is true. They do love Stugatz, as was proven yet again in Chicago. God bless football, ransack Chicago. What stories do you come back with, as you, Billy and Tony?

Everyone, the sponsor, Draft King, the bar, everyone was thrilled that you got your hands on people. I was told that this set a record in the podcast sphere for fans giving you actual weed. Oh yeah, Weed Street, when in Rome, Dan. It was a great time in Chicago, Joe's on weed, Smyrnaut, thank you to them for sponsoring the entire event. I have seen recently, when we do these events, a Billy Gill I have never seen.

That was the highlight for me. Tony was great. He was confident. He's always great. He's always confident. But Billy Gill has grew up with this show. And to see Billy just, you know, parading around the stage and entertaining a thousand people in Chicago was a delight for me to see. And thank you to all the people who came out. Dan, I am telling you, you need to come to one of these because people line up and they're handing me letters thanking us for getting them through some of the most difficult times in their lives.

And it was really flattering. We had a blast. It was great to see Billy in that element. I do come to those. We do mass events. I want you to come to one that's outside of South Florida, travel this great country of ours, okay? And let's go talk to some of the fans

who appreciate what you have done for them for 20 years. You guys, and I do value our fans, but the last time we did that in Vegas, I spent six hours after our show shaking the hands of those people because they're our customers and because I appreciate how, I can't tell you, David and I were just talking about this on nothing personal because I find hugely interesting what the political candidates are doing

and the spots that they are choosing to do their interviews on All the Smoke, on Call Her Daddy, they're going to places you wouldn't normally associate with political candidates because they're trying to get at new media and new audiences and new demographics and our audience as shown by smirnoff and DraftKings is a hugely valuable audience to people. And so I do value what it is that you are doing when you mingle with thousands of people who are in Chicago, not to see football,

but to see God bless football. Because what happened, Jeremy, you're counting the number of people and it doesn't, it doesn't look like thousands of people. Well, no, it couldn't be thousands because we only had, we sold a thousand tickets. And so. So exactly a thousand.

It was sold out. Yeah, that room was sold out. The restaurant was happy. Smirnoff was happy. DraftKings was happy. And me, Billy and Tony were happy. Tony did a tremendous job. He really did.

There were times where, you know, I kind of phased out because I'm watching the games and I have a big bet and I, you know, wasn't paying attention because that's what I tend to do. And Tony held it down for me because every time a ball was snapped, I would win or lose money. Who announced your attendance?

Sampson? Yes. Very nice. So how many? Only five paid. How many do you guys have there? What do you guys have? What do you guys have as a number

as you question the audience at God Bless Football in Chicago? It looks to me like a large restaurant area, completely full. Like, you know, you said you started with thousands and it went to a thousand and we're making our way down. I'm the one who brought it down, by the way.

It looked completely full, the place, I will say that. Two and a Q. I think we can all agree on thousand people. Lewis, I just texted you a photo of Tony that proves what Stu Gatz is saying, that in general, Tony is always confident, probably unreasonably confident, because I wanna put that photo up

that I just sent you, Lewis,is in a second so that you guys can tell me what you think of this is a look for tony because what he did i thought uh... was aggressively tony but uh... greg before we do that i want to play for you some sound of uh... proof that we believe that we have of the you discovering that diana russini was on the show today when you were looking for all the people in media whose work that you enjoy okay when you look down at a sheet of paper that had the name Diana Rusini in front of you I like I

like Diana Rusini that is investigative here you look look look just again in case you want some more proof that you didn't actually Have a name at the tip of your tongue. I like I like Diana Rusini Okay, I'm gonna confess something and whether you here we go whether you believe me or not I don't give a shit, okay, I get sometimes I Think is it Diane or is it? Sometimes I think, is it Diane or is it Diana? No, no, that's the God's truth.

Okay, I don't want to disrespect anyone by misstating their first name. And it is Diana, but occasionally I think Diane first. So yes, I check the sheet. I'm sorry, what a felony I committed. Oh my God. What if the sheet wasn't there, though? I like I Like Diana Rusini if the she wasn't there, I'd have probably said I like Rusini and kind Diane is in 40 font in front of you Greg. It's 40 font. Is it exactly 40? It's big I can see it from over here and I'm not wearing my glasses more like 24 fonts. It's pretty big

I can't read any of the other words on that sheet of paper other than Diana Rusini. They're the only words I can see from over here. Yeah, plus it's underlined. It should be italicized. I think that would really make it jump. Yeah. So anyway, she's great.

So the one person in media whose work you admire is not a name that you actually know off the top of your head. You have to check a piece of paper to make sure you have the name right. Well, I mentioned Mina the times as well right because they're in sharp contrast to uh... the the the ghosts of

john gruden trying to resurrect himself you know they give serious information but they do it in an entertaining way they're not cloning uh... you know they're they're not just making up stuff and you know making faces and everything so i want to get them to uh... to uh... want to get to Greg Cody as the longtime columnist for the Miami Herald I want to get to his thoughts on the dolphin victory this weekend but before I do that because

we're gonna probably have skeletal cruise the last the next couple of days and because genuine horror is coming to Florida in in the shape of this hurricane that again I will tell you that 12 to 15 foot storm surge is just not something I have seen in modern times and John Morales the longtime meteorologist because he knows what it is that we've done to the earth because he knows how compromised we are by the corruption of the oil companies uh... john morales is gonna be on with us later but he just broke down while he is watching uh...

watching what is moving toward tampa and is going to cause billions of dollars in damage and everyone better get out of there because anyone who everyone better get out of there because anyone who doesn't get out of there is simply going to die because uh... the evacuation of this area is uh... something that people must adhere to so anyone listening to me who might not know how serious something is that's coming to tampa bay you must know

that this is the worst kind of life threatening that a natural disaster can be. And here's John Morales, long time meteorologist, looking at what's in front of him and not able to keep the emotion out of, oh my God, what is coming to the Tampa Bay area. It's just an incredible, incredible, incredible hurricane. It has dropped 50 millibars in 10 hours. I apologize. This is just horrific. The seas are just so incredibly, incredibly hot, record hot, as you might imagine. You know what's driving that. I don't need to tell you. Global warming, climate change, leading to this and becoming an increasing threat.

So Stugatz, I know that you and others around here make fun of me and Adam McKay. Adam McKay seems like he's gone off the deep end to people. He used his art to say, hey, don't look up. Money has compromised everything. The world is ending. That's the movie he tried to make. And since then, he's just kind of left the disintegrating Hollywood because Hollywood no longer even exists.

It's like three companies that are gonna gobble up all of Hollywood with their hedge funds. And he's working on just screaming at people, hey, if we don't reverse this now, this is already the new normal, and when this comes to a city that is near you, you're going to lose a lot of things that you love. So here is the mayor of Tampa warning everybody

about what's coming this way, because it's a new normal, and the forecasters, when he cries to God's on the air there, it's because he knows that the way that the pressure dropping on that is happening is worse than anything forecasters have ever imagined or seen and they don't know what to do with what's coming because the airplanes that are flying into this are coming back with information that is more horrifying than anything that climate scientists have ever seen one message to to tamper residents tonight

uh... the number one message as it has been for several days now is that you need to prepare uh... do whatever you need to do and then get out of the evacuations zones which now are uh... evacuations zone a and B. And as we all have heard so many times now, you hide from the wind and run from the water. And we are talking about right now the possibility of a direct hit with 10 to 12 foot tidal surge. What would you say to people tonight who are saying, you know what, I'm going to ride this

out, I've written others out. What would you say to people tonight who are saying, you know what, I'm going to ride this out. I've written others out. What would you say to people who aren't hitting those evacuation orders? Well, I can tell you right now that they may have done that in others. There's never been one like this. And this, Helene, Helene was a wake up call. This is literally catastrophic. And I can say without any dramatization whatsoever, if you choose to stay in one of those evacuation areas, you're going to die.

Wow. I mean, that is an incredibly blunt message. That's how she has to say it, because they're asking people to evacuate. And I know people know what 12 to 15 feet is, but it's the ocean, two shacks of ocean, two Shaquille O'Neal's of ocean, just coming and grabbing up the first floor of wherever it is that you live. If you live on the second floor, you may be okay, but it's going to grab everything that's on the first floor. Morales gets emotional because he knows what's gonna happen to that area.

The mayor has to be that blunt to your point, you're right, you have to be that blunt because in Florida, it's hard to get consensus when everyone believes what the weather people are telling them because we've been through so many storms. The mayor was uncommonly blunt there because people need to leave. You need to leave.

This storm, you need to get out of town. Go find somewhere with your family, be safe, have air conditioning, have electricity, see what happens. But to her point, if you stay, she's telling you you're going to die. And she has to say that, otherwise people will stay. And category five is the worst that a hurricane gets. You can envision a day And category five is the worst that a hurricane gets. You can envision a day when they're gonna need another number, a category six, because the worst of the hurricanes is only gonna get worse over time,

the way this climate thing goes. The way this has jumped over the last five days, because I've been watching it, it was at 90 at 90 at 90, and then it's 175. What I'm telling you is that even the experts don't understand how fast these things are happening When I say something like this yesterday, you want to know what what bothers me? I say the same thing you have to get out and I get criticized by Izzy on one side by

Jessica by you all by everybody saying that I am an unfeeling prick and I just don't follow it exactly because we just heard the mayor say it. So what exactly are we saying that no, no, you can't evacuate, we're trying to protect our home that is our home, or are we saying you have to evacuate or else you're gonna die? Which one is it? Who?

No one called you that, but you did say you don't feel bad for people that die because they don't evacuate. That's a- And called him stupid. You're sort of changing what happened a little bit. You said it's not, you don't have, you don't excuse anyone who dies because they did not evacuate.

I don't excuse people who die hang gliding. Okay. I mean, he's consistent. Okay. All right. Congratulations on being an unfeeling prick consistently. Stu Gatz here. The most important things in my life are my wife, my children, and of course, their safety.

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