The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: The Eclipse Is Coming

Episode Date: October 1, 2025

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Champions Out of game By the seven time world's Best Leisure Airline Champions, Air Transat. Zazlo, you're going to get some of the most glorious Greg Cody that you can get today because he's late.

Yeah, where is he? And he's going to complain about traffic that everyone else also had but managed to get in here on time, even though we know the traffic is bad. Yeah, here's the thing I don't understand with him. We've been through this before, and traffic's traffic. Like, it sucks and I get it.

But why doesn't he make sure that he never runs into this issue and leave, like, 20 minutes earlier than he normally does? His son got in on time and comes also from Broward County. Well, I was late, but yes, I was able. I leave early enough that even if I hit traffic, I still get here at least a little early. Both of you are coming from Broward. Billy is coming from a zip cold called Casacarajo as well.

I don't know who's coming from further. Who's coming in further? Because at least Chris can come turnpike and can take it straight down on the turnpike. Billy, who's got the longer drive? You or Chris? Distance-wise or time-wise? Because here's a thing. On sunny days, I prefer a rainy day to a sunny day because sunny day where there's no clouds,

I'm driving straight into the sun. so I'm driving due east and the sun is right in everybody's face everybody drives slower everybody drives slower on a day that's not overcast because they're driving if you're going on 836 you think people drive slower on sunny days than on rainy days on the 836

absolutely guys you don't know I'm telling you it sounds ridiculous but on the 836 on a sunny day that's not overcast where the sun is out and the sun is just rising you're staring straight into the sun and everyone drives a lot slower than on a day that's like cloudy, not rainy, cloudy.

Rainy days is a whole other thing. It's really nice out today. Traffic's going to suck. That is absolutely the truth. You guys don't get it. That's the truth because like the path that I take the 836, it's not like northeast, southeast, there's a little curve. It's due east, straight into the way of the sun is rising.

So you're looking directly into the sun so everyone drives slow. Also the airport, I don't understand. Everyone drives slower next to the airport, I guess, to look at the planes taking off or whatever, and they keep making the walls taller and taller so people can't see the planes and slow down, but people keep slowing down next to the airport for some reason. Maybe to see if people are boating.

Don't get me to start boating in that, like, next to the airport, like the lake across the highway from the airport. By that, like, office park that they have. Yeah, people practice crew there. That's what I mean. It looks like they're doing Olympic racing. Yeah, have you seen crew, you know, crew? You're asking me if I know what crew is?

Yeah, I know what crew is. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, I know what crew is. Okay, I don't know. I think that Billy sounds like he might be saying something ridiculous, but if you know South Florida drivers, they might drive more recklessly in rain than they do in sun.

It certainly feels that way. No, they drive less recklessly in rain. When it's rainy day, it's like, wow, this is like the safest that it's ever been. Trenchled downforce. This is what he's trying to explain, which makes no sense. I'm telling you got to, look, sleep over in my house the next time that we see it's going to be a sunny day and just ride in with me so you can go straight east into the sun. I am not sleeping at your house.

Do we know where Jeremy slept last night? We know, but what's he going to tell us? Very little sleeping involved. This is the Dan Levator show with the Stugat's podcast. The daily chaos that we have around here is amusing in its sloppiness. Please put on the picture and picture, Lewis, at some point. the entrance here so we can watch a haggard crazed Greg Cody run in late and then put all his stuff together noisily when he gets here because he's again not on time while everyone else got

here on time but I just want to show you guys just before we started here Ethan ran in here with great urgency and handed me some show preparation I want to show this to you guys what the show preparation is because he came in here and he handed me this piece of paper and it's got nothing on it like it's got literally no writing on it nothing it's a blank sheet of paper a lot of room for thoughts

yeah I don't know like he came here with great urgency and handed me a piece of paper like I think this is something that happens I see something on there in production yeah I don't see it maybe a black light situation there could be something there I see nothing on this piece of paper that he handed me he came in here

with great purpose He seems to be walking back to the printer. Maybe he grabbed the wrong sheet. I don't know what he was trying to give me with urgency, but I can't tell anybody what it is. He's done the last six months. It's not the first time that has happened, and then he complains that I'm not using what he gives me,

and I'm like, I mean, I don't know what I'm supposed to do with what it is you've given me. I don't know when Greg will be here. We've got bad traffic, but Mike Ryan has given this UMFSU, game, one of the highest honors he can give. For the Notre Dame Miami game, he did a five-hour live stream as part of his new ownership situation away from here, where he is a co-owner, not a co-founder? You're not a founder because it was founded before you got there, Mike.

But you're doing a two-and-a-half-hour live stream today to preview the UMFSU game? Fall brawl, Dano. Yeah, live at 2 p.m. Eastern Time YouTube.com. official Keynes Insight, Peter Areeze, The Money and myself will be previewing the big game. Thank you for finally mentioning one of the best rivalries in college football this week. I appreciate it. Well, I do want to talk about it. And one of the things I want to talk about is that ESPN did advertising for this game and calls it a rivalry of history and hate.

And I don't think it's hate. Like, I think it's history. They've got a lot of history. but I think that Bobby Bowden lost so much and was so lovable in losing that Miami doesn't hate FSU. And I'm not sure FSU hates Miami, though they might have reasons to, but Miami's not FSU's biggest rival, is it? No, Miami's in an interesting place. I'll readily admit, Miami's biggest rivals, whether it be Florida, Florida State, Notre Dame, they all have bigger rivals. So Miami's, you know, always...

I think FSU's third on that list that you just mentioned. Always like a weird outlier as a private institution. But, no, we dislike each other, no doubt. As someone that travels to this game routinely, like FSU fans don't like Miami, Miami fans don't like FSU. But you're right, this rivalry, because of Bobby Bowden's approach really to it and how complimentary these. And because they lost all the time.

Yeah, how complimentary he has been to Miami Hurricanes teams when they would beat him, more built on mutual respect. And keep in mind, FSU didn't have to routinely play Miami, and they kept Miami on the schedule. that's part of why there's more animosity towards Florida because Florida decided they didn't want the smoke anymore. I feel like that's an indictment on Miami not being anyone's biggest rival. And I'm not even saying, like, I don't know who to blame here.

I want to blame somebody. But they got to be someone's biggest rival. Like North Carolina, oh, they have NC State? I hear you. I don't know. FAU is FIU's biggest rival, right? But FIULAB. It's a good point.

You know, if you say UF, UF's got maybe four other teams ahead of Miami, You say FSU, Florida's definitely ahead of Miami, and if you say Notre Dame. They got USC, they got Michigan. Yeah, it's kind of strange, but I mean, Miami's a strange program. Tell the people where they specifically can find you and at what time if they want maximum UMFSU coverage, because it's not just you're doing live streams gas bagging. You're grabbing a bunch of guests and you're doing an intensely focused one subject show for two and a half hours, and that's not something we really do around here.

So where, if they want that, where can they get it? Well, you can follow us on our socials at Keynes Insight. You can watch a live stream there on X, but you can also subscribe to our YouTube page. We'll be live at 2 p.m. Eastern. That is YouTube.com slash official Keynes Insight. I appreciate that, damn. I think it's false advertising to say that it's a rivalry of history and hate

because if you were going to hate FSU players, Dion Sanders would be one that you would hate. but the memory that Miami has is Cleveland Gary running over him at the goal line in the first game of the season, winning 31 to nothing. They'd have to beat you once in a while in ways that really hurt to make it something that has hate or lack class while losing, which isn't something they do either. No, no, not really. Again, you're right. It's a little bit based more on mutual respect. It's also a weird rivalry in that the better team wins it, like almost all the time. is only one time in the history of this rivalry that there was a big time upset where one

team was clearly worse than the other one, and that came in the 1970s. Very strange rivalry. You won't see results like Michigan, Ohio State happened last year. It's weird. Better team usually wins this one. When I was going to the University of Miami, Florida was their biggest rival. I don't know who Notre Dame would call their biggest rival, but for a time, it was a Miami because of the intensity of those things. And because of the way Bobby Bowden always carried himself with grace. He was on so much with us after losing that he made it impossible to hate FSU, even as Steve Spurrier was calling it in a Quater time, Free Shoes University, because they were cheating by giving their players shoes, allegedly. But that's not, that is not a program that I think of as having something that Miami has bile toward. And when I ask you, the most memorable time that FSU has beaten Miami, what does that look like? Because the season that we were talking about earlier this week, the 1984 season where the Hurricanes won their first championship, they lost the first game of that

season 28 to 3 to Florida. And Florida was absolutely a school that there was hatred. Mike's saying there's hatred between the fan bases here. He's been in the stadium. He's leaving sad, painted orange and green, and Florida State did represent it one time, eat a low point in Miami history because of how they beat Miami when it was on probation 57-0. But they also represented it. 47-0? Whatever it was. It was bad. They also represented, though, Miami's return to greatness when Ken Dorsey and Jeremy Shockey announced like a year or two after that, oh, no, they've closed that gap with

Butch Davis and FSU. That's my favorite game in the history of this rivalry. This is, I mean, I'm about to turn 40, but I think like the most painful stretch, because Miami has no doubt gotten the better of FSU in this rivalry, at least in my lifetime. Right. When is there an instance that Miami had everything on the line in FSU ruined it? Like, is there that instance? Probably the early 90s. I'll go back and check. No, but it was Miami winning those games. Strangely enough, the most painful stretch of Miami results where the most heartbreaking results happened

was kind of like when James Winston was there. Block at the Rock, right? Yeah, where Miami had inferior teams and had decent-sized leads. And FSU, James, was still on that run where they were unbeaten, right? And there was another strange one. I think it was the largest top 10 spread in the history of the sport at the time. Miami was number seven in 2013. This was a Stephen Morris-Stacey Coley team.

And they played FSU, and the spread was 21 and a half. And FSU just totally smashed Miami, 41-14. Strange rivalry. Dad, you good? Can we get you anything? I'm a little winded. So some air. Yeah, give me some air.

You know, it's crazy. I apologize being late. It's the government shutdown. I come out of my, I start driving here. A Democrat shutdown. All the highways, all the roads are closed. I jogged 30 miles to get here. You know, brothers and sisters put the strap on the tortoise shell and get in the basement.

Check the sardine supply. Because there's going to be a total eclipse. today. That was a sentence. Nothing was happening. Nothing. There was, the roads were dead. I had to run here. I don't know about there. How'd you all get here? You make no sense. It was wild. This is rambling and incoherent. Why am I in the basement? You have to. The government shut down. The roads are closed. Tell me about it. Look at the tortuice. Look at the eclipse is coming. There is crazy. Craig, gather your eyes. Please get yourself. Okay. If you're going to get here late, okay, do me the favor of making sense when you arrive. I'll tell you what. Like I said, I'm winded. But your entire right, the gators were always the big rival down here. I mean, that was the original rival. Back on track. I think FSU started, for me, in the early 90s, Bowden, all the

wide rights, there was some great, I think there was, there's a stat where FSU and Miami once had like five or six meetings in a row where both were in the top five. I mean, it was an elite rivalry. Miami had a run, but the Bobby Bowden

run of, I think, 20 straight years or something absurd, finishing in the top five. I think it was, but without winning only once, though, like it was some absurd stretch of legitimately two decades finishing a season in the top five. They've never been able to get back to that, even though James Winston I maintain is the best freshman quarterback I've ever seen in college football. The history of this rivalry is interesting, but I'm kind of pumped up about this year's incarnation of the rivalry because of that Alabama a result that makes this game really, really confusing.

Was that game more about FSU? I kind of fall on... I think it was more about Alabama. That game was more about Alabama. To the eye as it was happening, Alabama looked unprepared. And even to like the layman, that's hard to do when you're watching a game live from broadcast TV angles. This line has already done some funky stuff. It opened at four and a half, inflated all the way to six and a half, back down to four and a half.

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If I'm swallowed a hole by a shark, you're going to know it. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. A couple of things that I want to say, I do not trust the University of Miami yet on the road, even though I believe they have great physical advantages in this game. I believe they are physically just from, obviously it's an optics test. It's an eye test, but I believe that they have a good deal more size than FSU. This is, as Mike mentioned, first road game of the year for Miami. Miami's 15 and 2 at Hard Rock Stadium since the start of 2023.

They're six and seven away from home, although I believe this is the best and the most balanced of the teams that they've had during that stretch. Six and seven away from home is hard, and you just saw what happened to FSU when it went to Virginia because road games are very difficult. These are still kids. They're kids learning how to play football, and road games are hard. I think Miami's going to have a problem with Robinson, FSU's 6-6 receiver, who did in the last game something I've never seen in football before. And the way that he lost the game is they were going to tie it after Virginia went up eight with the two-point conversion. Robinson gets a perfectly thrown pass to him at the goal line, perfectly thrown right in his hands. Bobbles it for a full 10 yards.

Looks like a catch. Rule the catch on the field. They go to replay. Not a catch. He bobbled it for 10 yards. And if he had been 6'3 instead of 6'6, that would have been the ability to tie that game. Because he's 6-6, he bobbled it for a full 10 yards, and his strides are longer than most. He's a very good receiver.

Yeah, I think Deuce Robinson and Daryl Jackson, who was with Miami before, probably two of the players that you look at that FSU roster and say, maybe you're a little bit too. These are guys that can play for Miami right now. Miami has a little bit more talent. That was a hell of a throw by Casiano's. Costellanos. He doesn't do the yacht. Is that Cassiano? No, he goes Costalanos, even though he's Cuban.

I don't think he gets to do that. I don't think he gets to do that. Really? No, it's Castiano. He goes Castellanos. He goes Castellanos. But he's been more consistent throwing the football. I am curious to see, Gus Mal's on and FSU like to run outside. And they've done so very effectively. They're one of the best rushing teams in the nation. When Florida climbed back into that game in that third quarter against Miami, they found success running to the outside. When Alabama played Florida State, they had a nose tackle trying to set the edge. That's not the way you'd go about this. Miami is fast. Miami has the stuff that travels.

Defense and a running game. This is going to be Miami's toughest. test in terms of an offense that they're going up against. I'm really curious to see it. You mentioned Deuce Robinson, though. I'd counter that with saying most people don't know Xavier Lucas plays on this team right now because the broadcast never features him because he erases the side of the field that he is defending the opposing wide receiver on. Notre Dame's got good wide receivers. You wouldn't know it from watching that game because Xavier Lucas, the transfer from Wisconsin that Wisconsin suing Miami over has been dynamite. I think Carson Beck still does have some things to prove, okay? The Gator defense is exceptional, but he went 0 for 7 with an

interception on passes longer than 10 yards against him, okay? Nine of his 17 passes were behind the line of scrimmage. So he has something to prove. But Miami, even though FSU lost to Virginia, Miami will show me something defensively if what I've seen so far bears out and is true. If on the road they can shut down Robinson and have the speed side to side that made those championship Miami teams where you can't get to the outside on them because their defensive linemen are too fast, specifically Ruben Bain, who I believe is a top five pick.

If he is healthy, I believe that Ruben Bain is an unblockable menace, that his size, his stature, and his low to the ground make it so that is absolutely a pro prospect. The best one I have seen on the defensive edge from them since Callais Campbell, where you see it right away on the field. I've seen it up the middle from them for a ton, right? Russell Maryland, Warren Sapp. You had Jimmy Jones.

You had a bunch of guys who Cortez Kennedy up the middle. But on the edges, Miami hasn't had a lot of those. Like they've had like a Rusty Maderas who doesn't translate to the pros. A Bill Hawkins who gets first round but doesn't translate to the pros. Ruben Bain translates to the pros. If that guy, if that guy stays healthy, that guy will be doing that for 10 years on every level you see him on. He's not a blockable person. He's weird.

He's like Aaron Donald in that people are impressed by. his body even though he's very undersized for the position in terms of prototypes guys on the edge that get drafted high he's only like really six two um but his body sticks out still because he is so stout his arms are like thighs he's got such power and speed a little bit of a bummer that game day's not that like they made a U-turn and they're not doing like the canes two games in a row they would have had game day on site two two games in three weeks the fsu uh conspiracy theory is that Kirk Herbstreet's afraid to go to Tallahassee, even though he's on the call.

What did he say about them two years ago? He kept the belief among FSU fans is that Kirk Herbstre was really the chief propagandist working for ESPN. Of them missing the playoff? To keep them out of the CFP. Again, he's on the game broadcast. College game day,

100% can confirm happen to know. They were 100% going to Tallahassee. I happen to know that too. Happened to know. Wait a minute. Happened to know. There's a happen to know situation. But two of us. Oh, my God, he knows. He happens to know.

Come, everyone. Come and listen. Happens to know. He happens to know. Well informed. 100% they were going to go to Tallahassee. He had FSU taking care of business against a spooky Virginia team.

Instead, they're going to go to Tuscaloosa, which kind of deserves it because College Game Day tries to tell the best story. Keep in mind, Vanderbilt, upset Alabama. Diego Pavia's got a Heisman campaign right now. And last year, the Vanderbvre game came immediately following the Alabama win over Georgia, and it's the same, you know, order of events this year. It's a good story. It's a good call by Game Day. It's a best story

to tell, and the main broadcast team is going to be in Tallahassee anyways. But Pavia, I mean, Vanderbilt is smoking teams. It's a 10 and a half point spread, vengeance on their mind. They try to tell the best stories. You know about that, Diego, Pavia? I do. He is Jessica's September Heisman frontrunner. I mean, what is the conspiracy? They blew the game. Like, they had it in control. Lee Corso is going to be honored at the game.

We're going to have a possible Lee Corso, college game day reunion, like five minutes after we just saw him, like the guy that graduates high school and then is back a year later. Wow, so you're anti-Lecorso, huh? I'm not anti-Leodcorso. I'm just saying FSU ruined this moment. Sounds like it's me. They blew it.

It was right there for them. It was there for the taking. They were going to have college game day come. Lee Corso is going to be there, and they blew it. Be Virginia. They did blow it, but you don't pivot away. from Miami FSU just because they lost a tough game at Virginia. You do.

Such a homer. Yeah, why? They did. They just had Miami two weeks ago. They literally pivoted. The play, but you don't. You shouldn't. But they did.

Okay. I know, but you shouldn't. It was a bad mistake by ESA. First you said you don't. Yeah. At Tallahassee is the perfect way to honor Lee Corso. Okay. He's associated with FSU.

They've kind of honored him a lot. He was born in Miami. It kind of nailed it. You say the association. I saw, this bothered me. I saw at the Notre Dame Arkansas game that Lou Holtz was wearing Arkansas gear and it looked weird to me.

He was an honorary captain. He flipped the coin out there. He did coach there for a while before he went to Notre Dame, but it looked wrong to me to have him in Arkansas gear. It's a race thing. I have a lot of love. I'd like to interview you about your politics,

Lou. You surprised me. Walking around the RNC with the Crown Royal. I mean, that's somebody else's bit now. Does he have, like, an impediment that we're making fun of? It's a LISP. Oh, you know what? He's fair game.

I'm asking. I'm curious, actually. We voted for this to be fair game. I had a bad reaction. I was ashamed of myself the other day. I'm going to debut a segment here at some point today. Shameful admission I'm going to make from yesterday's baseball games. But I have another shameful admission that's just I didn't know it was in me and I was

surprised to learn that was in me. I'm sitting in an airplane and the pilot starts talking. What class were you sitting in? You're in an airplane yesterday? No. It's a quick flight somewhere and back? Not yesterday. I was just in an airplane. Private jet was in the shop. Pilot and the G6 just turned to you instead of going over a PA. Tadne's bored. He's like, I just want to fly. They take a mom and his PJ, fly him around a little bit, back to Tamiami Airport. This is not a story from yesterday, but I did learn something while in flight about my myself and I didn't like what I saw in the mirror, which the pilot started speaking and he had a lisp and I felt less safe. I trusted him less and it seemed like that was the wrong,

like that doesn't seem fair in any way. Put it on the poll at Levitart show. Do you feel less safe on a flight if the pilot is speaking with a lisp? Yes or no? No, Dessie Rhodes found a way to be intimidating with the Lisp. I wouldn't want him flying my plane, though. You wouldn't? The son of a plumber? I would not trust Dusty Rhodes, the American Dream, in flight, if he started talking in the air about the Omni in Atlanta. What other uncontrollable traits would a pilot have that you would discriminate against immediately?

Blindness would be one for me. Yeah, eyesight. It's up there. Would you rather have a blind pilot or a deaf pilot? Deaf. Deaf. How? You can't talk.

to the air traffic control. But someone could next to you and sign to you what to do. Well, I mean, you can also have, you know, a co-pilot that could see. I'd rather be able to control like being communication with the tower. So you'd rather have him be blind and have the person next to him being like, all right, a little lower.

I know it's a Wednesday, but this one seems pretty cut. Are you a serious person today? I think that the planes do a lot of the work, if we're going to be honest. I don't think I said... Not a cruise ship. First and foremost thing that you need to fly a plane. I would think communicating is a lot more difficult.

You're making the case that there's something other than sight that is most important for a pilot. If I had to choose one of the, look, this is in a world where having a LISP disqualifies you for being a pilot. I'm just going to start with that. I didn't disqualify the pilot. I said I was ashamed of my lack of trust in the pilot. I thought it was unfair of me. I'm making a shameful admission. And I'm saying that I would implicitly trust a blind pilot and somehow I'm the bad guy here.

The one that's not discriminating based on, you know, things that people have. So if we're keeping score at home, you're okay with the blind pilot flying a plane and a lot easier driving in the rain here in South Florida. No, you're misrepresenting that. I told you at a certain time, driving due east into the sunrise to driving is a lot worse than if you drive in rain. Thank you, Greg. And we didn't even get to the government shutdown thing because I didn't want to bring politics into it, but Greg opened the door, so. Howdy folks, it's Mike Ryan. I want to talk to you about Game Time, the official ticketing partner of the Dan Lebitard show. They've been on with us for quite a while, and I practice what I preach here, people. It is my go-to when I'm trying to get in-demand tickets. Why? It's got so many incredible features. It was ahead of the game. What you see is what you pay. All in pricing, zone deals, panoramic seat views. And when I became an NFL free agent, I just wanted to see the best games in the best places. And Game Time had me so. covered. They take the guesswork out of buying NFL tickets. It's incredibly easy to use. And the

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Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Dan Lebatard. My wife says this is a sexy voice. It really is. Yeah. I'm hard. Thank you. Wow.

Stugats. So am I, actually. I don't know why. This is the Dan Lebatar show. with the Stoogads. Thank you for not bringing politics into it. I saw a really wonderful movie last night that gets a low rating.

No, not on the plane. I was not flying yesterday. It was a really good artful movie. And it surprised me a number of different. ways. Ari Aster is a great director and he makes horror and doesn't want to totally be making horror, but he makes dark comedy horror. And Eddington is the name of the movie. And it got a low rating, I think, only because politics will end up being something that knocks 30 points off of any movie's ratings immediately, no matter what the politics of the movie are. So it's a

name for a movie. It's Joaquin Phoenix. It's Pedro Pascal and it's Emma Stone in it and I will say that I movie in a while Pedro Pescal Ozzie Ozzer makes movies Ariazer not that the NBC guy he's good I've seen him act he loves great he's good yeah he's really good area outser yeah he does commercials for like geriatrics that's the guy keeping my dad in the local news scene even though he younger than me Eric are they like is that a destination like when you're like a local person like let me get to the geriatric commercials I think so or are like you sad when you guys

get to, like, oh, like Lori Jennings? It's easy money. It's easy money. Nobody talks to me about it, but I'd do it in a heartbeat. What did Lori Jennings do? Leone Medical Centers? Did she?

Yep. Billboards and everything. The movie Eddington is a slow burn. I don't know why. I have no problem whatsoever burning through eight episodes of Black Rabbit, which cost me eight hours. But if you tell me, sit in front of a television for a two-and-a-half-hour movie, I'm like, don't know if you.

if I want to do that. It's two and a half hours. And the first two hours are a slow burn, but it escalates. The last half hour is totally crazy. It's just, it's an insane half hour at the end of that movie that I would recommend to anyone listening to this. It's becoming Ariassar's signature. Tell us more about your friendship with what Chris Cody says is the media member keeping you alive. Ron McGill does this very well. Places a few media of friendships to keep his career alive at the end. And Greg Cody speaks well of Ariazer. If Ariadzer needs a sports story covered, Greg Cody's his man.

Ariazer's great. He's a legend in this market. Nobody does it like him. He's the best. I saw that Channel 7 is still running out DiPasquale and Drew Rosenhaus. Yep. And who else? There's somebody else on that.

Josh Moser. He's the other guy. No, the black guy. Whoa. I'm sorry. Donovan Campbell? Thank you. I had to help you.

He could fly a plane, Dan. I couldn't place his name. Does he have a list of black guy? Come in Ellen. I couldn't place his name. That was the problem that I had. And when I gave you the black guy, you gave me his name. As opposed to who didn't give me the right guy.

He gave me the guy who was distinctly not black. So when I gave me. the descriptive engine if you helped me find the name that I was looking for local news local sports news I was surprised to see Drew Rosenhaus saying that I wonder if this Sunday he'll be saying that Tyreek Hill is totally fine he said the surgery was fine yesterday I don't understand the contract Greg he is it's a muddled contract with Tyree Kill and he's not guaranteed the 36 million dollars and that is why I would tell you those football contracts are super bogus and if you've read about Tyree Kill's life off the field. You know that he has a great many payments to a great

many women that he has to make because of how irresponsible he is off of the field. And him not being able to get that $36 million, that is a truly catastrophic injury when you don't guarantee that money. Have you read anything about the contract details? Because it's a weird, confusing, muddied contract for Tyree Kill to extend with Miami. to be at the height of his value, to find real superstardom in Miami and leaving Kansas City and have none of that money guaranteed next year. So when that happens to him, it's not merely a catastrophic injury for him. It's not merely a catastrophic injury for the dolphins and all their architecture.

It's a catastrophic financial injury because there is no way that Tyreek Hill coming off his leg looking that way is going to get good money after that. No, I mean, contracts are reworked all the time, and I think this one will be. I think they want to keep him. It was encouraging that Drew Rosenhaus said flatly that he will play in 2026. That doesn't mean anything. It doesn't mean anything. He's toast.

I think he might play by the end of this season after hearing Drew talk, to be honest with you. I think it does mean something. I don't think you put that kind of pressure on your athlete unless you know that the surgery went well, that there was only one surgery needed, there's no nerve damage. There were encouraging signs. But Tyree Kill has to read the market right now. He's going to be 32 next year coming off this injury. He's going to lose a step.

I don't think there's a trade. Why would you believe the agent on this? Why would you believe that agent on this? What else is he going to say? He's going to vague it up. He's going to say the surgery went successful. The plan is that we're going to play next season. We don't know if he'll be ready for training camp.

Craig, you saw his leg. You saw his leg. How can you make any sort of assessment? about where he'll be in six months or a year when his leg, it doesn't look like a human leg. Okay, I can't, and neither can you. No, but I can doubt it. You can't tell me that you're going to take Drew Rosenhaus's word for it. Okay, I can doubt it too.

That's why yesterday I said that I thought there was a chance his career might be over, and I still think there's a chance of that. And I don't trust an agent. I don't trust an agent. I know Drew a little bit, but I don't trust him, because I don't trust agents, but you can vague it up as well, and he was pretty clear about that. The words don't mean anything. Today, nobody's going to remember. Like, that's what he's got to do and say for his client, and that's all he's doing it for.

Okay, Drew Rosenhouse has done something that you and I haven't. He has actually spoken to the doctors. He has gotten firsthand information on what the medical prognosis is, and he's relaying that. Now, you can choose to not believe that. It's not a credible source. It's just not a credible source. No, the agent's not. He's biased. I don't even trust the words to get from the doctor to the agent and be the same. The agent is totally biased. He's not credible. Did the doctor have a lisp? That's a great question. What are the contract details that are muddied here that make this? So his contract's kind of weird. First of all, he's owed $36 million next year. None of it is

guaranteed. Doesn't even matter injury-wise. So I'm not so sure, especially coming all of the events of Tyree Hill at the end of last year, and this year what is clearly not going to be a good season, even if Tyree Hill didn't get hurt. I don't know that the Dolphins were keeping him next year anyway, all right? But the $36 million is fully non-guaranteed, doesn't even matter about injury. So it would assume that they are going to cut him. But here's where it gets kind of weird. He's owed throughout this year $1.8 million in per game roster bonuses. So if the Dolphins, and he's got, you know, what are we talking, 13 more of those payments coming his way, if he were active, all right? If the Dolphins cut him at the end of the season, he doesn't get any of that money because, hey, you weren't active.

You didn't play in those final 13 games. If the Dolphins actually cut him right now, he will get that money, one and a half million dollars that's left of it. They will save a little bit of money the Dolphins, obviously a dirty move if you cut him right now, but they won't have to owe him. you know, they, they would then be paying him the rest of the season. It'll be like doing him a solid, essentially, if they cut him now. So it's a little bit weird his contract. But I would go back to what Greg just said, where, you know, Drew Rosenhouse can say that he's going to be ready now for next season because he doesn't need the additional surgery.

If he needed the additional surgeries, Drew can't come out and say we expect him to be ready for next season. But because he doesn't, yeah, Drew says. that because when the dolphins cut him, it's out there so that another team isn't like, oh, but Drew said that he's going to be okay, he's going to be ready. So yeah, Drew's likely, like he doesn't

know, I'm not going to see he's full of shit because maybe he will be ready and maybe he won't be ready, but because he doesn't need the extra surgery, Drew can come out and portray it as if his client is going to be ready. He's biased, he's compromised, and he's incentivized for his own business. It's not even his client.

He's incentivized to say he's going to be fine to the league. playing for the Dolphins, forget playing for other NFL teams. Is he going to make it to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by the end of March for Tom Brady's Fanatics Flag Football Competition? How much is he making for that? They have not announced what they're making, but all the announced players that were as a part of this press release did receive front-end permission from their NFL teams. Now, that can change, especially if the Dolphins intend to keep Tyree kill. They can say there's no way that you're going to do this. I guess medically, there might be no way

he can make a March flag football tournament anyways. But it's a big payday. I'm going to report exclusively. I feel like he's going to be there. Can you guys find out for me if Tom Brady is indeed getting the number that people are saying, which is $75 million to participate in that? I don't know what the reporting is on that. I've just heard people say that number again and again.

And I find it really hard to believe even with the way the Saudis are spilling blood money in order to launder that money through sports. I know Dave Portnoy went out and said that that's how much he was making and Brady retweeted it saying that that was not true. I know this is going to sound stupid when I say it. I don't understand how the Saudis have all this money. It's just oil. Oil.

But it's they have like an endless amount of it. Because they've got so much oil. Right. How does Jerry Jones have all that money? No, no, but Jerry Jones, like there is a limit. Like Jerry Jones, there is a limit, all right? The Saudis, they're seeing, you know, it's the golf and it's the flag football and it's the WWE and it's, they just, they just have money for everything. We all need oil.

We don't have elected. The reason that Elon Musk is so rich is because he's providing an alternative possibly in the future to us not needing that amount of oil. What are you laughing at there, chuckles? You don't understand how the Saudis have that much money? It's just, it's an endless amount of money. I don't understand. Literally endless. They export the most oil.

The oil keeps coming. In this country, we've signed executive orders to kind of limit ulterior forms of electricity, such as wind, solar, the EV credits are gone. We declared a national oil emergency in this country. So they get to just do and have whatever they want. That's correct. You just learn about money? There's no limits.

Not whatever they want. They offered an amount to Tiger Woods to join LiveGolf that dwarfs what they offered Tom Brady. and Tiger Woods said no. So they don't always get what they want, but they usually do. Everyone but Tiger. No, Shane Gillis too. Shane Gillis refused their money.

He was one of the comedians. What do you think about that one, Dan? You're in a real classic pickle here. A patented pickle here. My movie-in-yourself pickles, dog? Yeah, how much? 299. That's a good deal.

It's a lot of money for a pickle. So truth teller and beacon of whatever philosopher, modern-day guy that Dan loves, Bill Burr, took the money. And Shane Gillis, who you've described as of Joe Rogan's cronies said, no, not for me, dog. Well, you guys said earlier this week that we were a little hard on Phil Mickelson, and I don't think we were a little hard on Phil Mickelson.

I think he opened the door for everyone else to be greedy and cowardly about this as well. And some people will stand up for the principles, and most people will just grab it the money. Plus, Shane Gillis has got a little progressive in him. I mean, they bone-sought a journalist, okay? And I understand that there are all sorts of human rights violations that America is also responsible for. But I'm, yeah, that's not money. That's blood money. So the Saudis never check their bank account.

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