The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: The Cock Of The Walk (feat. Jarrett Stickem)

Episode Date: January 22, 2026

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So Zaz is clearly struggling with the strain of his workload. I don't think strange for me, but like... Oh, boy. He's got a bit of a speech impediment. Didn't you want to know how that? What were the kids doing? And I don't know what his worst moment was just speaking. The Packers winner, the Bears lose.

But I think yesterday he had his most embarrassing moment when we welcome in a new sponsor that we're thrilled to have. Everyone around here just loves White Castle and has loved White Castle for a long time. And as part of his betting portion of the segment, he said that Mike Brown might get fired soon and take the nets over the Knicks. And then the Nets lose by the score of, I'm not making this up, 120 to 66. 120 to 66. Has a team scored fewer than 66 points this year? The heat have scored 70 and a half eight times this year. You didn't buy up the points, that's on you.

The Packers winner, the bear's, bears lose. So the nets were an 11.5 point dog, I would have had to buy 50 points. Oh, boy. 120 to 66. Please, Jeremy, tell me that there's been a game this year that has had fewer than 66 points scored by a professional team. I'll give you all of Europe and the G League as well. Like, I'll just any. I'll give you high school basketball.

66 points is crazy. I'll find all of that. Thus far in the season before yesterday, the lowest scoring game by a team was the Indiana Pacers with 78 points against the one-seed Detroit Pistons. The Pacers, of course, are one of the worst teams in basketball. The Knicks have never beaten a team by more points. Oh, boy. In their history. Can you explain yourself?

You came on, I mean, we've got this great new sponsor to say, featuring you, you're eating a delicious burger, you're rewarded with... This is a tasty burger. And you miss the point spread again was 11.5. Buy it up.

And they lost by 54 points. Oh, boy. Handled my business on a against those bird. How is that possible? Like how... On what grounds did you pick the nets? Why would you pick the nets?

It was an inspired effort by the Knicks. Oh, but you don't know how about? What do you pass? This is the Dan Levator show with the Stucats podcast. I see that the content companies in sports are struggling a little bit today on GetUp. It's Ken Harbaugh turn it around in year one because nobody really wants to talk about Jared Stidham. And there's one football game remaining. that people are interested in the outcome of, I suppose they're also interested in the outcome

of Broncos Patriots, but you can't get me to watch that game. I don't want to watch anything. You can't watch, come on, come on, Dan. You're just not going to watch it, Dan. I'm with Dan. I'm good. You're such a liar. Let me know how it ends. You're such a liar. Sunday 3 o'clock, everybody's going to be locked in Zaz. I know you're going to be locked in because you like football's ass. Yeah, come on, Championship Sunday. I don't want to watch the tattered remains of a quarterback in an injured league where the 49ers are now investigating the power plant next door because everyone's hurt that Jared Stidham's going to start his fifth game and his first game in 750-some-odd days.

You guys are watching football. I've lost my will to live. I want to talk to you about the University of Miami-Stealing Dukes players, not just their quarterback, but now they're fast, fast, tall, wide receivers. I also want to ask the audience and everyone, everyone in here, what is the best white, wide receiver in the history of professional or college football in Miami? Because I don't know that we've had a great one. You've got some Brian Hartline.

You've got Wes Welker, but he only had one touchdown here. He had all his scoring with the Patriots. What do we do with Restrepo and Berrios? They're Latin. They're the Latin category. I mean, Berrios is more white than Restrepo. We can agree. I believe we can agree on that, but they're a different category.

They go in the bunch of best Latin receivers Miami has had college or pro. They are a different category. What can you tell me about Cooper Barcade and what can you tell me about how mad Mani Diaz is about the fact that Miami likes some of his players and just takes them? Well, I mean, these players just entered the portal. Hopefully they pick Miami. I don't know what's going on there. There are people out there suggesting that Miami is the favorite.

That'd be great because Cooper Barcate is one hell of a white wide receiver. A tall, fast, smart, electric white. He's an exciting white? He's an electric white. Over a thousand-yard season. Look at his highlights. Just search him on X. The guy is awesome, and he's Darian Mensa's favorite target.

Now, the Mensa thing, you know, not great optics, admittedly. They're suing Darian Mensa. There's a temporary restraining order. Duke is suing Darien Mensa. their quarterback. Yeah, so he has a temporary restraining order from going to another school. He was officially entered into the transfer portal, Cooper Barcate. It was reported that he had re-signed with Duke in December. I don't know, something like that's going around that place. Sit down in that chair, man, and enjoy it. So the stealing of players, and if you want somebody's players, this is

chaos time in college football, the business of college football, agents running things with very few rules. It's not all puppy dogs and ice cream, though, for your Miami Hurricanes. They are dealing with the most devastating loss of our lifetime, and also Pringle entered the portal last night, and not the only running back I expect on Miami's roster to enter the portal. It's not the most devastating loss of our lifetime. I like him. He's quick. He offers them an option. They don't particularly have it running back, although Fletcher did run away from Indiana's secondary. I do need to say something. They didn't trust his past protection in the college football playoff. And Fletcher was in for pass protection and whiffed badly.

Just one, yeah. It was so out of character that you noticed, but, I mean, he was, he's one of the best pass blocking running backs I think I've ever seen at Miami. And for those of you who think we are homerific about these things, we were telling you that everyone says that Fletcher is a model character. What do you guys do with the information? Because a lot of people out there only have the video and information. There's a UM player, and he's taking a,

swipe at an Indiana player and we were explaining to you, look, that's hugely out of character. Something had to be said there that was bad. And then Mike Rumpf reveals after the game that the Indiana player said something about the death of Fletcher's father. I think everyone listening to this, if I give them that piece of context, all of them say, yeah, if you get hit there, you deserve to get hit there, if that's true. The way that he backed up suggested that he did not want that smoke and he also knew that he was in the wrong. And also there has not been a denial yet from Indiana as it pertains to that. Mark Fletcher's dad died recently. He texts him before every game. Mark Fletcher was very gracious in defeat to Fernando Mendoza just moments before. Obviously,

an emotional time. Mark Fletcher is the unquestioned team leader of Miami. And that dude definitely said something. And I did not need to know the report to know that whatever that guy said, he probably had it coming because it was Mark Fletcher. Yeah, I choose to believe Mike Rumpf in that spot, especially because everything that we've heard about the type of kid Mark Fletcher is, it'd be nice to get some kind of evidence, you know, someone else to also say the same thing as what happened, but I choose to believe Mike Rumpf in that spot. But when Mike says that the Indiana player did not want the

Rumpf smoke, I say it's because Rumpf is wearing a... I'm sorry, did not want the Fletcher smoke. It's because Fletcher was wearing a helmet and the kid in Indiana was not. That's never stopped anybody, Dan. Come on, how many people throw him punch him in the helmets on? Yeah, yeah, no. He wasn't afraid of getting headbutted from Fletcher.

He was dodging those fists. He also, the kid also from Indiana, then went on Twitter after the game and was taunting Fletcher still. Yeah, he was pointed out of his ring finger in the in that moment too and did something similar on X. There was clearly something that built up during the game. Like there's no way that just out of nowhere right after the game,

the kid decides to randomly say something about Fletcher's father. I'm sure something was going on throughout the game. He texts his father every game, I love you, be with me every game. That was a public thing that was also celebrated in this game and previous games as the story of Mark Fletcher. What's the word association with Punch? thrown after a game. Is it Trent Williams, Richard Sherman? Oh, I always think of a Garrett Blunt.

Oh, that's a good one. Yeah. You won the game. Punch thrown after a game. I got to think about that for a second. I go to Trent Williams. I love that video. Garrett Blunt one was cold. That's always the one I got it. We're a good moment for Zaz this week. Thanks. Trying to build back up. Chris Cody, can you do me the favor of finding Mad Dog? This was celebrated yesterday. Mad Dog was trying to say the name of Jared Stidham. I haven't heard this yet. I'm excited.

Had a hard time saying the name of Jared Stidham. I am in no position to mock people for their name saying. I'm getting a lot of names wrong. I was talking to Kornheiser yesterday. He's like, I'm getting so many names wrong, but not as many as Wilbon. Wilbon's getting more names wrong than I am. Bo Nex, in the history of football, 27,000 players. The shortest name in the history of football is Bo Nix, five letters.

a totally irrelevant fact for you that I'm guessing that you guys did not know. But in this game, the Broncos are a five and a half point underdog. And since 1970, since you're the AFC-NFC format, 112 conference championship games, the home team has never been this big of a dog in the home game. Never. Really? Five and a half point dog is the biggest point spread that a home team has ever had because nobody knows what to do with the analysis of the Patriots.

his defense is good. Look at how they made C.J. Stroud look. What's going to happen with a quarterback who's played four games? I know Diana and others are telling us, well, Stidham knows the offense, and Sean Payton's going to have his guys ready. And I actually expected to be close just because football and home team, but I don't know how you analyze the point spread on this game. And I also don't trust Zaz with it, given his most recent work with point spreads on behalf

of White Castle where he told you to take the nets last night as an 11.5 point dog at the Knicks and they lost by 56. I bet boy. I bet my castle. Buy up the points. That's not on me. You told me to bet the castle. I've got a quibble here to take up with Chris Cody.

I heard him muttering yesterday during lunch. He's like death taxes and Mediterranean food. He was complaining. It happened again? Dog, that's my favorite dish here. It's just a lot. I love Mediterranean too. Love Taziki sauce.

You know about that. Gyro? Come on. I was planning on never eating again. I was planning on never eating again. And then I saw that Mediterranean. I'm like, okay, this will be the last time. We have different styles, though.

There's some that come with a Big Bonn. They have a bunch of different meats. There's one that has a brisket that's fire. So I'm back on Mediterranean. I just don't understand why Chris doesn't bring his own lunch if he's worried that the free Mediterranean food. He's seen the sad lunches Jeremy brings? I'm not doing that. Don't talk to me about sad turkey sandwiches.

Come on. They are extremely sad. Wheat bread, dude. You put any nail on it? It's not wheat bread. It's not, it's multi-grainer. The visual of just whatever that bread is. Yeah.

I don't care what's underneath there. I look sad, okay? I look great. It's so sad. I don't care about my sad sandwich. Mike is looking at you. Mike is looking at you that way because of how hard it was for you to get broadcasted words out of your mouth from under that beard.

He is Will Ferrell from the Cowbell Skit on Saturday Night Live. And what the hell is Tony doing? He just looks cool. Oh, tuck in the walk, baby. That's Bruce Dickinson. Bruce Dickinson. He's got a fever. It's a great costume.

Thank you, buddy. Are you Christopher Walken? Say it, baby. Hispanic walking? I don't know that I was ever more surprised in a music video than seeing Christopher Walken dance so well, classically trained dancer. It's a fat boy slim video. Yes, weapon of choice.

And him dancing was just a wonderful reveal that I did not know that he had in his arsenal. where the whole video is Christopher Walken dancing coming down an escalator. I don't know if I've ever been as surprised by a cameo performance. That's the whole video, right? Him dancing. It's just him dancing. Put it on the Polat Lebitard show. I mean, Paul Simon did this with Chevy Chase, like using celebrities for cameos, but I just have never seen something in a video that surprised me more than seeing Christopher Walken dance.

Well, put it on the Polat Lebitard show. would you have had any idea that Christopher Walken danced well before seeing him dance in that fat boy Slim video? Danced in King of New York. That's a good movie. Excellent movie. I want to ask you about what's going on with Janus. Let's play the sound here. They lose last night to a banged up Thunder team at home.

Janus walks past Doc Rivers ignoring him. I am going to have some trouble with Doc Rivers' legacy as a coach, as a guy who always loses Game 7s. What's the trouble? And, well, I just, what do you say? say about him. He's not a good coach. I mean, he's gotten an awful lot of chances with an awful lot of good teams, and he's a champion, and you're just saying he's not a good coach, and he's a champion.

The champion. They were like the worst team in the league in 2007, and then because Kevin McHale and Danny Ager buddies, they acquire Kevin Garnett, and all of a sudden, Doc Rivers is a champion. Give me a break. Not a good coach. I'll get to that in a second, but you just mentioned 2007, and it just reminded me of that gator team that won the chance. championship right after 2007 and 2008.

You guys want to guess how many players on that roster were arrested. Urban Myers Champion Gators of 2008. Do you guys want to take a guess at the number of players on that roster who were arrested? I think it's in the 40s? It's 41. It's a third. Roy's guess was 8. That's how you played a game.

A third of the roster. Yeah, Zaz really did undo my ability to do anything. with it. We've got to teach him how to do this. Are these individual arrests or 40 different people got arrested? That's a good question. And it is 41 players. It's a third of the roster was arrested. How wild is it, though? All of those players who were arrested and Urban Meyer still allowed to be on the team. But Irmaier told Cam Newton, listen, you got to get out of here. It's too much way you're doing. Stole a laptop? You got to go. You can't be here anymore.

I mean, 41 is a statutes. A staggering number. None of it covered in the Netflix documentary that was about that championship team. Just ignore. There was a murderer in the huddle. 41 arrest. Let's just celebrate. Tebow put a halo over the huddle and that's all that matters. To be fair, he wasn't a murderer yet that we know of. That we know of. Thank you, Roy. That's an important factor, though. A good bit of, which one that we know of or that he hadn't been arrested yet? Guys, let me tell you something. One of the greatest joys of my life was when they finally opened the White Cattle. in my neighborhood in Phoenix, Arizona, I lost my mind because I'm so used to eating White Castle at home when I was in New York.

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But you have confidence in Peyton getting the most out of the, uh, out of the quarterback in this ballgame here, stick them in this game on Sunday afternoon against the Patriot. You can tell there's like a five-second buffer there where he's looking for the name. He's trying to find it, yeah. I love him. But you have confidence in Peyton getting the most out of the, out of the quarterback in this ballgame here.

Stick him in this game on Sunday afternoon against the Patriot. Stick him for me is Word Association, Lester Hayes. I always do Lester Hayes used to cheat by just having glue on his hands as a defensive back. Miami could have used that incidentally against Mississippi. Could have used it actually against Indiana. In the national championship game when they had that pick six. Against Indiana as well. But here, let me play the sound here after the game.

The bucks lose. Janice's bucks are now 18 and 25. The idea that Janus is going to be on a team that doesn't make the playoffs is assinine. Okay. And in the Eastern Conference, it's asinine that Janus would be on a team that's 18 and 25. And here he is after the game losing by 20 to a short-handed Thundered team. Here's what he has to say. You're not playing hard.

Not playing hard. We're not doing the right thing. I'm not played to win. Not play together. Our chemistry is not there. Guys are being selfish. Guys that try to look for their own shots instead of looking for the right shot. for the team.

So the last six games, five of them feature the fewest shots that Janus has taken in a game this season. Can you guys just freeze for me real quick the size of his hands when people, if anyone's wondering how and why it is that he

is so good at basketball? I know that we're used to these guys being sort of freakish creatures, but do any of you have a hand that's larger than the entirety of your head. Like he could palm the entirety of his face and be holding the top of his head because of the size of those hands. You trying to get me? You can tell who got bullied in high school. You push the hand into the face. Yeah, you push the hand into the face once they do that

classic move. I was cool. Zaz, what do you think of the fact that Janus is drowning in Milwaukee? Ask for the trade. Just do it. Like, just ask for the trade. But why not do it without a asking like he's doing. Because it doesn't work. Because it doesn't work, but also, I don't think that anyone is going to be upset with him when he asks for the trade, especially because it's a big deal that they did win there. It's not like with Damien Lillo, it's like, man, but what happened? We didn't even win.

Like, Janus won, okay? This has been a mutually beneficial relationship. I do think the place where people are going to get angry with Janus is if this stuff keeps going on. It's the talking about the other guys are selfish. It's the, I would never ask for a trade. You know, the team, it's up to them to do whatever they want to do. Whatever kind of stuff that keeps coming out. That's when the tide is really going to turn on, Janus. Just ask for the trade. Just do it. Just ask for the trade. The passive aggressive nature in which he does these things is not indicative of the star that he is. Right. Like, there's been lesser stars.

him, man. There's been lesser stars have been like, get me out. What do you mean? This is a, he's doing the right thing here. He's not being the jerk that's like, get me out of here. He actually, to who? You think they're going to trade him if he doesn't say I want to be traded? I just can't believe we're crushing him for being the good soldier. He's clearly unhappy.

Not being a little. But he's not saying the public, like, he's doing what we would want our athlete to do. But he's saving face for who. That's my question. He's not being a good soldier, though. He's not. I just think if we're, he can't win here. If he's like ripping his, I mean, he is ripping his teammates. He's ripping him.

If he's requesting the trade, we're going to rip him for that too. No, I don't think so. I don't think so. I think we're talking out of both sides of our mouths here. I think at this point, Chris is actually the example of why Janus is doing this. He's game after game after game. They've lost four out of five. Each time, it's a different thing.

Now it's, hey, my teammates are being selfish. They don't know how to win. Maybe it's because we're young. And what's he talking about where I'm not beat? Maybe I need an ass to shoot more? Like, really? Well, he's saying I've never had to be the guy who commands the ball. my teammates have been smart enough to know how to get me the ball in the right position.

That's, he specifically references playing with Chris Middleton and playing with Brooke Lopez and all of these different guys who knew what his gravity could do. And when he's just banging along, that's when they're winning championships. Give it to him, baby. So his teammates are no longer champions Drew Holliday and Chris Middleton. Now it's Kyle Kuzman, Miles Turner. Might be the worst walk in history. Give it to me, babe.

He said that the teammates are trying to put the game on their backs. Hey, they're trying to go win it one at a time. It's surprising to see him talk this way, but I think the reason I said Chris is the example is right now he's saying like, oh, we'll kill him if he eventually is requesting a trade right now. Well, the more you hear him explaining why he should be requesting a trade and the closer we get to the deadline, then maybe with a week or two to go, he finally puts that in. And people like Chris who have been following the saga go, all right man well he tried he tried to call out the teammates he tried to be the good soldier but i guess

at this point he has to do it if he had just requested the trade before things started to fall off the tracks maybe people wouldn't react as well and he cares about saving face with that city the same way that damia lillard did he cares a lot about Milwaukee oh the cock of the walk baby listen here's the thing Milwaukee is doing this weird thing where they're like no we want to actually be buyers at the deadline it's like no your team sucks what you need to do is get rid of yonis and then reload Thank you. Give it to him, baby. You are a Hispanic. Christopher were walking.

Christopher coming on. I like how bad it is. It's so terrible. He's just talking. He's just so male. I'm the cock of the walk, baby is all he's got to the impersonation. He throws a baby on the end of things. That's not making.

How it usually talk anyway. But Christopher Walken is, according to people who do impressions, one of the easiest impressions to do. Even Stu God's stuff. I got a fever, Dan. And yours is truly terrible. Like yours could not be worse. Please stay in character, a method actor throughout the entirety of the show.

Say it again, baby. Are you guys, you guys are with Zaz that Doc Rivers is just a bad coach? I mean, he's just, he's got a lot of game seven losses. He's got a lot of historic bad on the end of seasons. Are you asking if Doc Rivers is a bad coach? He's a champion. Who cares? So is Frank Vogel.

Okay. So who's the worst coach? ever to win a championship or who's a coach that wins a championship that just has a terrible reputation. Les Miles. Or Switzerland? Les Miles is pretty good. Les Miles

was eating grass on the sidelines. That guy is dumb. And Google him. More than just dumb. Bad guy. I don't like calling people dumb. I'm good calling Les Miles dumb. But I thought it was sufficient to say he was eating grass on the sidelines. I think

that he would pick up grass and I think that's sufficient. Do you have the oil spill sound from Les Miles? All right. You don't want to call them dumb. That's all right. We'll just let the sound speak for itself. I don't like calling anybody dumb.

Oh, no, this guy's dumb. But yes, Les Miles at one point was indeed asked to comment, and you shouldn't ask coaches about everything. They very often don't know a lot about things outside of football, but some of them try to fake it when they are asked about things outside of football. Since you got to Louisiana, first you had Katrina to deal. with now you got the oil spilled and working its way to you. I'm just wondering how that's going about, what that's impacting y'all

and what kind of situation you all are facing. Well, the impact is more of anything along the shore and those issues. They're very serious issues in there. The impact is on the natural resource of our country. but I don't know that it's I don't know exactly to what extent you know it's it's being handled well and managed and or mismanaged I have no no idea the only thing I know it's very sincere and it's it's it affects more than Louisiana it affects us the ocean and say it baby very sincere Mark Stein says quote word is that Miami believes it will be

firmly in the mix as a legit trade destination for yon Anta Tocompo if he actually becomes available and he also says that the heat will not make smaller moves like John Morant if it in any way impacts the ability to get Janice. I talked about this, I think it was before the season started, right? That in the offseason, there had been communication between Janus's camp and the heat. And it was conveyed that if we get to a place that this is not working, Janus is interested in Miami. me. That was conveyed to Miami from Janus's people. I said that before the season started.

You did. You also said there's an opportunity maybe that the John Moran, Yonest think could be a combo package. But word around the league is nobody wants Jha. There's nobody willing to make a substantial offer to Memphis for John Moran. And it's like, all right, now you're saving all your assets for the one big fish when he decides to make the trade request known. Yeah, I think things have changed in the NBA when it comes to these big trades. I think it's quite possible that, you're, you know, you're going to see you only have the huge packages for guys like Janus. When you have guys like John Rand to, listen, by all accounts, a really good player. But I think teams, I think there's going to be a change in the league

where you're not going to have these massive blockbuster trades. And I think we're seeing it with John Moran. It's hard for me to believe that nobody wants job. But I was also stunned the other day when Mike Dunleavy, the general manager of the Warriors, said this about Kaminga. Yeah, I mean, I think as far as the demand, I'm aware of that. I think when you, you know, in terms of demands, when you make a demand, there needs to be demand on the market. So we'll see where that unfolds.

When you make a trade demand, there needs to be a demand in the market. You're going to keep doing that, aren't you? All right. What it calls for, baby. All right, yes, good. I'm glad that you're... Did Les Miles say something? You want him to say it, right?

I told him, say it, babe. Don Lebertard. No one else here is willing to do it. Trump or a Biden. That's not true, Dan. Okay, Tony, you can catch up. A thousand imprisonations. That's not bad, man.

Finally. Not terrible. Pretty good. Stugats. Yours is terrible. You just got to get a little redder, a little pinker. You're right there, man. Yours is not.

You're Biden. What do you mean? Oh, this is good, Dan. That's actually not bad. This is good. That's not terrible. That's not terrible. We gotta come together.

A little southern twang there. A little George Bush in that one. This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats. Roy, how do you feel about the fact that Jonathan Zaslow, who once ended a vacation early to support the Panthers because his team needed him? And he flew to the, flew back into town. Drove. Drove. Excuse me.

Well, you flew down the highway to get back to the Panthers. Get in the car. We're going home. He is officially. It was unofficial before, if you sensed it. He's officially worried about the Florida Panthers. Yeah. Yeah, I don't blame him.

I mean, the Seth Jones injury is worse than we thought. He's missing the Olympics now. And even the Kachuk return, that bump exactly do well for the Panthers as they lost to the sharks. So, yeah, I understand why you're worried. And it's going to be a, they're going to have to work hard to get back. But wait. Are you worried? No.

Okay, I knew it. I mean, Roy also wasn't worried when we got to. game seven, you know? Does he worry about anything? You know? I am worried though, Dan. I am officially worried. We are well past the halfway point of the season. It's 34 games remaining.

The Panthers are five points back of the wild card. All right. Forget getting top three in the division. That ship has sailed. They are five points back of the wild card. And it's just, it feels like we're getting to the point where this is going to

be just a lost season. where they have not been able to recover from all of the injuries. Like Roy mentioned, Seth Jones now, who has not played in several weeks since the Winter Classic, he is now going to miss at least through the Olympics because they just replaced him on Team USA. I am at the play. And look, Kachuk is back, which is great. You have training camp, all right? This is going to take a little bit of time for him to.

He could be 100%, but it's going to take some time for him to get back to being Matthew Kachuk. Marshan is still out. should be back soon. No Kulikov, no Nosek, no Gajov. No, Barcov. No, Barcov. No, but we knew that, you know. And Bobrovsky, by the way, who I love is actually having a career war season. All right. So it gets to a place where I think this is a problem. Five points out of the final playoff spot. I'm alive again. This is, this, we are back. They spent three decades there. This is us. How about a league rule if you win back-to-back championships, you get to go in the playoffs next season.

Just, I don't hate that. Last playoff spot, you get it. I don't hate that. Like Champions League? All right, they won previous season. Put them in. But by the way, it's not just five points back of that final playoff spot.

Oh, they also have to jump five teams to get there. Put it on the poll at Lebitard show. If you've won back-to-back championship, should you get an automatic berth in the next playoffs? Because Chris Cody, just like wandering over and just changing the rules to everything. could use a break. I'm tired, man.

From caring? You need a break from caring, from caring and hurting? These playoff runs are exhausting. Well, he's probably tired because he carried the program on his back. He's the reason they got there. Oh, you mean a break just from them? I thought he meant a break like just let us in. No, you were just like, no, I need a break.

I'm caring, from paying attention to games. He just needs a respite from pouring his heart into things. Why is Jeremy such a little asshole? Jack's shit over there. He's such a little asshole. More cowbo, baby. No one likes you. It's a good costume.

That's heavy-handed. You know what? That's not. You're going to have to get out of here on that. I'm sorry. No, I'm going to get, no, why would I get Jeremy out of here? He didn't do any. We'd actually need more cowbow, baby.

Minor penalty, two minutes. Personal foul. Personal and foul. It's too bad, too, because I was about to celebrate you as GM of the year for your work with the cyclones in Highlie. Jeremy, I wasn't kicking you out. I was kicking Mike out. I'm not kicking. Oh, come on.

No, I'm kicking Mike out. Jeremy didn't deserve that. He didn't do anything to deserve that. I'm not falling to that shit. Just get out of here, Mike. Can I do a top five when I come back? Sure, but you're going to have to leave here for two minutes. What is your top five going to be so that you can tease people so that people,

time spent listening increases because people can't get enough of Mike Ryan in their lives? Top five, badass plays from the Kane's season. If you cannot, if you want more Mike Ryan, Kane's Insight is a place that he has helped found, that is growing and has a lot of portal information. And if you want to follow the momentum of this University of Miami season with fresh information, Kane's Insight is where you go. You guys saw on ESPN.com this LeBron, I'm going to call it the LeBron story, but it's about the Lakers infighting. for those of you who don't know, this has been a problem since Jerry Buss died, the kids fight over the ownership of the franchise. And the reported details in this story, unsurprisingly, are that the Lakers were fed up with the amount of power that Clutch had, were fed up with LeBron's ego, were trying to think about how to trade him and begrudgingly extended him just because they didn't want the optics of not extending him. What did you think was the most interesting thing in that story on ESPN.com?

The LeBron and Clutch stuff was the only thing I cared about. Because if I'm being perfectly honest with you, this story to me was so annoying. I hated this story. I got to a, I couldn't keep track of all the siblings. It's six siblings and all of their names start with Jay. It was Jesse and Johnny and Jimmy and Jeannie and Janie and Joe. How do we? How do we feel about that move?

So you did see track of all the names. And no, I kept having to scroll up. Oh, that's this sibling. I couldn't keep track of it, Dan. And eventually I said, F it, I'm not reading this anymore. I couldn't get through it. But does it matter that you have a reading comprehension problem?

The six kids have a problem. It doesn't matter who's being quoted. You don't know any of them anyway other than Jeannie. So it's just the six siblings are fighting succession style. I didn't like this story. Okay. That's your commentary on it. You just didn't like.

the story. I found it fascinating. Like the sibling dynamics, it was like reading through a script of succession. Like it really genuinely felt like I was seeing how this type of thing with these wealthy people who are gifted this opportunity to have wealth, by the way. Like, they work hard. It's their father who bought this franchise and built it into what it was. And now he was literally with them trying to put the succession plan in place before he died. All for the point that there wouldn't be this level of backstabbing. And then in the time since, they've all seemingly backstabbed each other. The two younger siblings who are Jerry Bus's kids but have a different mother have had

this exclusion. Jeannie Bus told one of them that he should never have been born. That was within this story. And you don't find that interesting? Like, I found the entire saga to be fascinating. From our perspective, I can understand where the most interesting thing that stands out is how she felt about clutch, how she felt about LeBron reacting to the Russell Westbrook trade, and then trying to wipe his hands of it because she clearly made the trade just to try to appease him.

But the saga of the bus family was fascinating to read. The reporting was amazing. I would have been able to find it interesting if I could have followed along with the story. So blame Jerry for naming his kids all with Jay. Yes, I couldn't keep track. My brother's name is Jason. Jeremy Jason. There's two of you.

That's six of you. It's also pretty difficult. my parents get it wrong all the time. You keep track. Can you do me the favor, please, and find out for me how many of George Foreman's kids were named George. I think he named his daughter Georgette as well. I don't know if it was seven.

Like, that's aggressive. I understand giving all the kids names that start with the same letter, but naming all of the kids George in a household where mom has to call out for somebody and everyone turns around when she says, George. That's a real insanity and an enormous ego that wants the legacy of telling everybody there will always be George Foreman's. All right. So there are 12 children. All five of his sons are named George. One of his daughters is named Georgetta. I think Dion did something similar. Does Dion have boys named Dion? Because he does have a girl named DeAndra as well, although my favorite name game. when it comes to any of this stuff

is that Dennis Rodman was one of 19 children and his father was named Philander. Like you can't do better than that. That is the best that you can do. There were nicknames to keep the George's all separated. So you're George Jr., but then George III, nicknamed Monk, then Big Wheel, Red, and Little Joey.

Time now for Mike Ryan's top five most badass plays from this University of Miami season. Any OILIs? Yeah, OILIs. Visual accompaniment for the top five, but OILIs, you've got to crack the top five to get visual accompaniment. We begin with Malachi Toni mossing that PIP player on that fourth down for crucial style points. And we got... No, no, no, no. That's OLAI. That's OLAI.

We got Mark Fletcher, also OLLI, College Station, duo to the outside, beast mode run, huge to put Miami in position for a go-ahead score. Also, OLA, Marty Brown running into the pile, pulling it outside and going to the house, all to be incorrectly taken off the board against Florida. And the final OLLI, Akeem Mezzador, week one against Notre Dame, sacking the quarterback and then doing the lepracon pose. I can't believe Mendoza didn't fumble on that strip sack that Messador had in that game. I don't know how that ball didn't come out of Mendoza's hands. Number five.

the hell did Ruben Bain end up with the ball, the interception, big time pick against Notre Dame, one of the season's best games and most pivotal in retrospect. Ball bounces off of Keonté Scott's foot. Ruben Bain gathers it badass. I'm sorry of the trailer play, baby. Number four, the 14-yard pile push in Glendale. Number three, Motoree dying for our sins in college station. That poor guy, man, was he unconscious at the goal line there at the end? One of the enduring images of this season was Bryce Fitzgerald intercepting that ball the very next play

and Motore being held up by a trainer having to be stopped from going on the field to celebrate. Mote Gray Kane for that play. And number two, Keante Scott, the pick six. That's number two? Talking that trash in the Ohio State. That's not number one. On the way there, and then the Jim Thorpe Award pose in the end zone. That's when you knew Miami was going to win that ball game.

That's when you knew Miami would be the runner-up this season. Yeah, and number one, one of my favorite calls of all time, Mark Jones on the call, one of Miami's best performances of the regular season. The game people were nervous about against CJ Bailey and NC State. Jacoby Thomas interception running it back to the house, pointing at the quarterback that threw it. And Mark Jones says, Jacobi Thomas looked at his wrist and said, I got time today!

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