The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: You're...A...Crook, Captain Hook!

Episode Date: December 6, 2023

Dan is dressed as Captain Hook but looks like at least 10 other celebrities with mustaches, and Tony is struggling with a deadmau5 head cutting off his vision. We try to discuss the Winter Meetings with David Samson, but his audio continues to act the way it has the last several weeks, and we guarantee this one is NOT a bit. Then, Dick Fitts, Tim Boyle, and Jaelen Phillips on Hard Knocks. Plus, we listen to the Useless Sound Montage and discuss business stealing the soul of good things in sports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. Man, Dan looks good. Mm-hmm. I didn't think he'd pull another one off. But that's two in a row. Fred Flintstone and now this. What does he look like? Who?

Wally fingers? You can't see in that costume. No boiling me, Bingo. Okay. All right, so. You don't have a dick? He can't see even dick is the, what he said literally translated in Spanish.

I don't know what you're supposed to be is that that famous DJ. Mike, am I? I don't know. Yeah, that's a dead is that that famous DJ? Mike, am I? I don't know. Yeah, that's a dead mouse at home. I get to control the eye color. That's cool. That's awesome.

Yeah. Do you want to see Red? Yes. Yeah. I'm familiar, yeah. And that's the punishment. Mine is Captain Hook, and I'm a bit disturbed. I got to be honest.

I'm a bit disturbed that every time I put on one of these costumes, everyone says it's a better look for me than the one I usually rock. Your look. I mean, yes, my regular look evidently, I look less handsome than this. David Samson joins us now in one of his patented, patented, loud jackets. That one's your favorite, correct? Of the loud jackets? No, this is just the one that was up for today. It seems like you're going to jacket. I'm a Dan like you wear that one more often than the other jacket. He's got one that's got like rhinestones on it or sparkles on it that looks a lot like that. Yeah, so the answer is no stew. It actually is in a particular order. So it rotates every, let's say 20 or 30 days.

So you may have seen it, but no, it's just a coincidence that this comes out on a Wednesday today. Do the jacket just go around and around in your closet? Is that how it works? I manually do it. I don't have the dry cleaner thing. I have to actually, when I take a jacket, I take it from the left and at the end of the day, put it back on the right. take a jacket, I take it from the left and at the end of the day, I put it back on the right. What would you say of all of your idiosyncratic traits is the most obsessive, compulsive anal one even by your standards, like in terms of being meticulous, preparation, even you say, this is too much, I do this too much. I think what gets in the way of my relationship is that whenever I come back from a trip, no matter what time of day or night, I have to do all

Again with the sound on this. Yeah, I don't know what's the only one. He's the only one who's got a blameless for it I don't know what to do about this anymore. The fact that his sound never works. I'm in a different I don't know what to tell you, David. I'm sorry, we're gonna have to let you go for a moment. And we're going to try to get this right. There's a lot I want to do. Do me a favor and skip it because every other show I do is fine. And I'm now in a different location than I was. This honestly would be a great fit.

It's incredible. It's just a bit of a blanche. It was. It was. It was. It was. It was. It in a different location than I was. This honestly would be a great bit. It is incredible. It's a bit on the blind.

It was. It's so good. It's Groundhog Day. Timing on the last fall. We're the only person it happens to. An easy only person it happens with. This is the only. Incredible.

He is getting stuck in a situation where he believes that our company is actively sabotaging him doesn't promote his stuff, doesn't support his stuff. Nothing personal is a... Nothing, but I just saw out of the corner of Captain Hook's eye and I got to be honest, it's hard to see because there's a lot of things in my way, this is uncomfortable, I don't smell good already because this material's not not very good material. The materials, huh? Well, I was clean. I did shower on before coming in and I'm sweating because I don't know what this cheap material is, but it's making me sweat, which is compounded by the idea

that a sound doesn't work and we're on live. And furthermore, Mike spent the first 30 seconds before we went on air just screaming at everyone in video because something went off to a good start when something went wrong. We're all good look at his eyes now. Yeah, make him ready. Yeah, I can make him flash. Look at that. Oh wow.

David, do me a favor since you are just sitting there and we've established now that your sound isn't going to work. I will now do our show as if you're not here, but you stay there because. I saw that. I'm glad it's for you. You saw my hat fall out. Wow, you instantly became Ron Jeremy.

The mustache is going next. The mustache. Ron Jeremy. The hat makes you a pirate. Now you're Ron Jeremy. All right, but David, just stay there. And hopefully at some point your sound is good enough. You look like you're in the Eagles without that.

Maybe I can do that. That's a punishment after this. Like Captain Hook and then I'll just remove the hook and then just be done. You're Glenn Prynow. So instead of talking about the winter meetings, which is what I wanted to talk about, because there's interesting nothing happening there And somehow the Dodgers have pissed off Otani because all Otani prefers is sort of a Privacy about everything that's happening now and Dave Roberts has filed that up for the Dodgers

Don't you hate it when something secret becomes public? We heard that. Yes, we hear. All right. So David's back. Give us your winter meeting thoughts. So for as long as we have sound from you, Dave Roberts is in trouble, but Otoni's not going to skip the Dodgers because Dave Roberts said they met with him.

The Dodgers are have a built in excuse if he goes back to the angels now. And this whole Otonony veil of secrecy where the media feels entitled to have more action at the winter meetings. On today's nothing personal, I gave the solution. So I want to know if you guys agree with my solution for how to fix the winter meetings. The deadline for signing all free agents should be the last day of the winter meetings. And if you don't sign by today, then you can't sign till spring training. How about that?

It's a great idea, but not surprisingly, you don't consider labor. That's good. It's good that you sound as down. I don't even want a hear. I don't even want it. It's good. In fact, we should use this as a device,

even when it's not working. I don't understand this one, but back down, back back in. So we'll hopefully fix that. Okay, so get out of the room and we'll welcome you aboard. In the meantime, we'll talk about other things. There are many. My guy named Dick Fitz got traded yesterday.

What? Yeah, it was a rare trade between the Yankees and Red Sox, and everyone got excited about Verdrugo. I'm asking, with a question, is there a question mark in his name? I think it's Verdrugo. Oh, whatever. But Dick Fitz got traded in that move, so. Great fit.

That is not a good name for success. I think we did that game with Will Lutz and who was the other one last week? We had somebody last week. Martin Wagon. That one was a police. Yeah, Eber Fluss. Yeah.

You cannot trust an Eber Fluss to win you a championship. Right. And the only thing that's happened at the winner meetings is this Dick Fritz move, right? Dick fits. Dick fits is on the move. That's a fun, yeah. He just said it. Yeah, it is a fun.

That is correct. So Dick fits is on the move. I hope he fits in with the Red Sox. You're a dick. Two Shay. Speaking of David Samson's back. Oh boy. Let's see if his sound works. It's a good idea, but you're not considering labor. All right. All right. We're going to let him go. The sound's always

going to be off if you ask him to consider labor. Right. His thoughts on labor. Everyone wants more live programming. It's too bad. Not sure that's a dick fit for us. Max is where you can find us live. Mike Ryan doesn't trust us live. It's why we're only doing an hour instead of a sprawling spectacle that spends its morning with you. You're finding out why on a daily basis. Yes, and he hasn't trusted us going live for a while and we force it upon him and he doesn't want to do it.

But I want to get into what it is that happened with Jalen Phillips last night. Chris Cody, it seemed like it was a dark night of the soul. I've had many of those recently and he went to social media to share his pain. We were talking a lot at the end of yesterday's show about the pain these football players must be in. And there's a lot to discuss today, Stu Gotts, because the portal's crazy, because everybody wants more money. All of the players see they have more value and in the NFL, you see the most valuable positions, Stu Gotts.

A Browning can make himself some money on a Monday night. Yes. Because all of the other quarterbacks are going to be sent to the hospital. Right. And so eventually somebody's going to have to stand up and they're already digging around in the Tim Boyle bin. So that's a sad bin to be digging around in. I got to be honest with you. For sure.

For sure. I was asking Mike before the show if he would want Tim Boyle to start for the University of Miami in its bull game. There's no way. No way. A professional quarterback. There's no way. No way. A professional quarterback down great. I'm not certain he's a professional quarterback. I have no proof.

Miami is on their third string quarterback. Still a downgrade. Yeah. I would I would prefer the opportunity to evaluate the third string quarterback. There was agreement throughout the room when I lob that at Mike that nobody wanted a professional quarterback who had started an NFL game to replace the disappointing Tyler Van Dyke. I'll take him as the back of it Miami. The position is opposed to the walk on that we have right now fine.

I'll concede. Tim Boyle came back up. Curry Brown. At the penetrative ball. But Mike wants to see what the walk on. Why did he beat out Jeff George's son? My larger points to God's on this sport is that obviously people are tired of me saying how much it hurts, but I also

think how much it hurts becomes not sustainable when you can't hit the quarterback in the head. You can't hit the quarterback in the knees and all of the quarterbacks are hurt, all of them. And you can't hit the quarterback in the head, you can't hit the quarterback in the knees, and all of the quarterbacks are hurt, all of them. And you can't keep them healthy at all. Well, that's why, that's what McDaniel said. McDaniel said, as far as I'm concerned, we've got the healthiest quarterback year I've ever seen.

That's the funniest thing in football, right? That all of the quarterbacks, it's Tuwa, who's the one that we're saying, like, all right. He's healthy. And Lamar Jackson, it's a weird, who's the one that we're saying like, all right. He's healthy. And Lamar Jackson. It's a weird year. Uh, it's also a work of art. Uh, one, both of them told they couldn't be quarterbacks, but all you have to do to be

a quarterback today is can you be a functioning heart like Tim Boyle? We'll get you in the game if all the other guys get hurt. And they happen to be two of the remaining healthy ones that are still standing somehow, even though we worried about their health more than any of the other quarterbacks in the league. But you're right about Browning because Joe Barrow goes down, he gets an opportunity and the backup quarterback has become so valuable because of what we're talking about.

So many starters are getting injured and so you can make yourself a ton of money if you have a couple of good games replacing the starting quarterback. Can you guys see if I'm putting my hand up? Yeah, sorry, I can see your hand Tony. Okay, just make it sure you turn your eyes a certain color when you want to talk. You can tell if your own hand is up. No, my hand is up. I don't know if Dan can see me if my hand is up.

Anyways, more importantly. We can see you. That's why Zach Wilson playing is such an important thing for him, right? Like you have a chance to be one of those guys that can just sit as a backup quarterback, make a couple million dollars a year, and not worry about it. So the report saying, hey, I don't wanna come back. That's already torching a bridge for next season, season after that being a backup.

I think we do green eyes when he's making a good point. No, I had when he's making a bad point, and another color when he wants to talk. I made it green because he was talking about the jets. Okay, but I like versus idea. Like green, go red. When you hit red, he has to talk. I made it green because he was talking about the jets. Okay, but I like versus idea. Like green, go red. When you hit red, he has to stop talking. I don't like that.

I can't see his own hands. I can't see his own hands. Oh, he can. I can see the color inside. Okay. So when you see that red light, shut the fuck up. Whoa. Don Lebertard.

All of us who were watching college football elevated everything the weekend was because we missed football in general so very much. You didn't watch the ending of UTEP Jacksonville State. It was awesome. A dizzy. Boom. Mm-hmm. Still gots. It's such a lane for you.

Just everything in college football is awesome. Any single thing that happens, she gets deliriously happy about. Don't you miss viewing sports through that, let prism though. Like, I'm envious of Lucy. Like, I wish that I could still be happy. This is the Don Lebatars show with this Tugat! Can we get the Jalen Phillips mic? Can we get that set up and is the sound gonna work on Jalen Philips? Well, there's no sound. It was an emotional post.

It's a, if someone sends you this text, you're like too long, didn't read. So you can tell by the length of it and the time that it was posted where he admits it's 3.30 a.m. that he was actually going through it. It kind of career crossroads, kind of stuff. You have to keep in mind, Jalen Phillips was a guy that medically retired during his time at UCLA. Then the story is, he goes to university Miami, builds his body and his career back up,

ends up being a first round draft pick and a real good player for the Miami hurricanes and dolphins. And this is just yet another injury setback. And you can see the frustration. He's like, I've done everything that I possibly could with my body. And all I'm doing is exploding out of the ground. It's a routine thing. He's like, I've done everything that I possibly could with my body and all I'm doing is exploding

out of the ground. It's a routine thing. It's like opening a car door and now he's expected to deal with this injury yet another crippling injury. One that's historically up until very recently been hard to come back from. The Achilles injury, especially when you're leaning on explosion, is a very difficult injury to

rebound from. And this is, I mean, the guy posted like six paragraphs. I'm not going to bore you with it, but those watching on YouTube or on DraftKings Network on Max can see this guy was going through a lot last night. Yeah, he had some dark moments last night, but I know Billy talked about this last week on with hard knocks because I finally watched it. And I watched the jail and Phillips episode headed into the jet game. Dan, it was so heartbreaking because he has worked so hard.

He's a freak athlete and he's having a really good year his best year and his relationship with Bradley Chobb and Mike McDaniel and the entire defense and just how great of a season he has or he's been having and how excited he is to be on this team having the kind of season that he's having and then it all goes away and apply but you see him right before he tears the Achilles he grabs his knee like he knows something's wrong. He's not certain what it is and on the very next snap it tears and you see him crying

and it's just it's heartbreaking to watch it really is the hard knocks version of that was almost too much I know we want to access because they knew it was coming so they were highlighting him leading up to it They showed every conversation he had before the game and everyone knew what was coming. I thought it was I thought it was almost happy he was I thought it was almost heavy-handed from hard knocks because we all knew that was the episode Where we were gonna see that and they were showing him just so much before that I just felt like it was a little gross honestly. I skipped that part. Like, I didn't watch this hard knocks

because I knew Jalen Phillips is injured. He was gonna be on it. I'm like, I'll see you guys next week. I'm not here for that. They show before where Mike McDaniel goes up to him and it's just like, oh, this is where you're gonna become my household name. And it's just like Friday against the Jets,

nationally, tell of us. You're gonna become a household name and he was having a great game. In hindsight, you could look at that as like a jinx that he put on him and it's just so unfair and it was just all icky. But we were talking about the way yesterday that we need to be able to be bringing Gen Z

into watching sports, like the narratives of things like that are the way to do it. Like if they're not gonna watch it in real time, if you're able to set up this full narrative that makes your heart break for this player and then you want to go follow him on social media and see the posts like this and then watch his whole journey back, that's kind of how you do it. No, but what Chris is saying, I understand what you're saying, but I tend to agree with Chris. They tend to agree. I agree. They knew they had the injury in their back pocket they made an entire episode about a guy whose career might be in jeopardy

no it's heartbreaking i mean watching it i i wouldn't want to watch it either but i'm someone who actually watches sports consistently and so i knew that it happened i found the information and that was it but if you're trying to bring people in like probably putting that two minutes on tiktok or youtube or whatever is going to get people to pay attention to, you know, what's going on in sports. Except for the discomfort around Tony, understandably, it's like, nope, don't want to see it, would prefer to just enjoy my Sundays and not actually think about, we don't have to be with these guys at 3.30 in the morning when Jason Taylor is trying to sleep standing up on a staircase

because somebody leg whipped him and he's got compartment syndrome and they're gonna have to cut off his leg in 12 hours if he doesn't immediately get to the hospital but he pops more painkillers. We're not with them when they're having the dark nights of the soul on what this stuff actually results in but when you get underneath the helmet and you see the humanity in it, who among us couldn't understand working that hard to get to the top of that sports to got where the success is, can you get to the quarterback seven times a season in two seconds? Success is, can, did you get there 11 times?

That's what success, that's what success is publicly. The way that he had to work to make himself that good, and he knows more than anybody now, Stugat, not just that this is a hard injury to come back from, but this is one of the hardest injuries to rehab in order to come back from. Like the rehab process here. It was your Aaron Rodgers.

That's correct. Unless your Aaron Rodgers Rogers who's not gonna freeze. He's not gonna play this year. It's not looking that way. I'm better not. And he's rehabbing. He approached rehab like it's his job. Aaron Rogers has given voice a handful of times

on Pat McAfee about how consumed he is with a rehab process. It is a very difficult injury to bounce back from. But he was playing catch. I thought he was fine. The dark parts of this are things that nobody really wants to talk about, ain't right? Like we don't.

It was like crazy to watch, like McDaniel be over him and just be like, you're gonna be okay. And it's like, you don't even know he's gonna be okay. They have no idea what to say to him in that instance. It's like, you think that these injuries happen so much that there would be a protocol, and it's just they turn into humans

that are just like padding them on the back. Like, hey, it's all gonna be all right, man. And it was just like, whoa, this is real. Dan, I think for me, like when I tell you, I don't wanna watch the injury, like I understand that there's such a dichotomy between what we see on TV and what we see during the games, and what we see, that what we don't see,

like, 330 in the morning, you know, posting all this stuff. But for me, it takes me to a place where like, I've been getting injured for free for a long time because I don't get paid to get injured when I play sports. So I've had multiple surgeries, I've had multiple things that have happened to me. So I know what that feels like. Where you're sitting there,

your ankle swollen like a watermelon, you're like, damn, this sucks. So like me to watch that again, almost brings me back to a place where I got screwed in playing sports. Mike Ryan, were you trying to turn him off on successfully? He said that he could see the lights before but now I'm doubting it. Um, but you were trying to turn him off because he was making it about himself.

Well, it just got off to a sputtering start. I mean, Tony knows what it's like. Pick up game. I, I, I will say that if Tony thinks he knows what it's like, and if Tony is actually... Tony is staring at Stugat's right now. He is? He is, he is, he is.

It's a death stare. Even I can see that on there. A death now stare. A death now stare. Tony knows in the way that we talk about this Stugat's that we can get numb to it, and they're not allowed to. They have to get addicted to painkillers that we can get numb to it and they're not allowed to. They have to get addicted to painkillers in order to get numb to it. Like they see it all, they live in that carnage. Like all of their friends and teammates are walking around pretending

that they hurt less than they do because everybody's got to be a little bit tougher in that world than any of the human beings you know. It's the part of the game. I really don't want to be privy to it. We are becoming more and more privy to the information. I don't. I just want to see them play on Sundays. But like Dan, every, like you mentioned Jason Taylor, we asked him in that same interview,

would you do it all over again? And Jason Taylor quickly said yes. Yeah, but still got that's you rationalizing. I'm okay to feel this way about it. They're okay with that. Exactly what I'm trying to do. Yes. And they're and they're do and I the argument that I keep making that I don't, you know, I'm okay to feel this way about it. That's exactly what I'm trying to do. Yes.

And there and there and do and the argument that I keep making that I don't, you know, whatever, no, people don't want to hear this again and again and again. When people tell me they know what they're choosing, my response is no they don't. Jalen Phillips didn't know that he was choosing this night. He didn't know it. He didn't know that when he chose football that this is it like All right, what do you want me to do for switch it to a channel that can get me to talk about something else? What would you like as we always do with David Samson?

We get his review host of nothing personal David. What are you reviewing this week? Bye-bye Barry Barry for now by Barry. Oh, Barry for now. By by Barry's documentary on Amazon about the career of Barry Sanders, which sadly, there are people who are younger than I who don't realize that he may be the greatest quarterback of all time, the greatest running back of all time. Excuse me. And the toughest part of the documentary is the relationship that Barry had with his father. And at Barry's Hall of Fame induction, his father, who introduced him, said, congratulations to the third best running back of all time. Who are the first two? Jim Brown, he said, and then himself. Except he never played football other than in high school, but that's the type of hard

driving sort of ego guy his father was and all Barry wanted to do is please his father and then Barry left the game at the height of his career at 31 years old in a very famously doing that. It's an interesting documentary. For those of you who've never heard of him, you should watch it. If you did watch and play, watch it. So you reminded how great he was. Damn. Damn what he made it all the way through without a sound cutting out. What was good about it, David, because I, I found Barry Sanders outside of his play to be largely uninteresting.

So again, what was interesting to me as you would think is the father's son, dynamic and what drives greatness. And he's not the biggest guy. He was very compact. And I had just forgotten what his talent was like on the field. And I didn't realize what was going on off the field. And he was not allowed to or supposed to go

to Oklahoma State University. His father wanted him to go elsewhere. He went against his father as some sort of way to show that I'm the man now very complicated sad relationship actually. And now he's the father of four kids himself. And it's worth watching. It's not a long documentary, only 90 minutes on Amazon. And so do it.

Sad relationship. If I were talking to both of them them what his father say that he loved Barry and would Barry say he loved his father. Of course because they all you always say that. That's not the question. The better question is if you said to Barry, did you succeed because of your father or in spite of your father? I believe if he were honest, he would say he did it to spite his father

Not to please his father and his father thinks he did it because of his father of course he does That's that's how fathers go second best running back after not not always that's not not not My dad doesn't think that I'm successful because of him not real and genuine love That's not how it always goes. Yeah, dad loves me successful because of him. Not real and genuine love. That's not how it always goes. You know, that loves me. That's why I ask you, does he actually love him?

And you're like, no, the better question was, was it spite or was it earned credit? And I asked him, is it love? And that's how Dave does the bottom line man. Samson sucks 20, the promo code at lebotardaf.com. 20% off. Don Lebotard. We got a freini hard away I was trying to read fast you dee was on the team

Luke Jackson Bobby Jones the Matrix Sean Marion stu-gats So shacks much Parker Chris Quinn So, Shaq, Moush Parker, Chris Quinn, D-Way, Jason Williams, they're all right. I mean, stacked roster. This is the Dan Lebatar Show with his two gods. The hat fell off just as we were starting here and came off, so I am now serving my Eagles punishment. You look like Carlos Santana. Oh, that. Well, how can I look like?

How can I look like Glenn Fry and the Eagles and Carlos Santana? It's a mustache, it's of a time. You know that Carlos Santana, in his very memorable Woodstock performance, the drugs he was on at the time, made him think that his guitar was a snake. Thank you, Stugats.

I appreciate you lovingly placing my hat back on. Those are good drugs. Stugat's could probably speak to some of that kind of stuff. I want to get to the useless sound in a second. Tony, it's hot, right? You just took off your jacket or water-ling day. Boiling day. Me too.

I have noticed this. I just noticed it. I'm just generally having a stamina problem. The thing that happens to Cody at the end of shows has begun happening to me, but it happens more quickly when I'm wearing these costumes. The doing of the show, while wearing the costumes is an energy expenditure.

I think that you're gonna find that even a young buck like you who could have been a professional athlete if he hadn't had to always endure the high ankle sprain that makes him not be jalen phillips that you too will will feel it today. Dan you look a little like cheat. Put it on the pole go ahead and put your nominees up there who does Dan look most like cheat Carlos Santana. A member of the Eagles Ron.

Thank you. Stan Van Gundy if I'm Ron Jeremy then I'm also Stan Van Gundy. Of I'm Ron Jeremy, then I'm also Stan Van Gundy. I'm doing twins, yeah. So I'm both of these. I want to get to the useless sound montage though. You look like the bad guy from Ghost, the first bad guy. Oh yeah, the guy in the train? No, the first bad guy.

Yeah, yeah, the train guy. Yeah. But when that ends up spoiler alert, killing Patrick Swayze. Thank God, yes. Yeah. I mean, he wasn't the guy behind it. It was a whole deal.

Stubatsu is the only one laughing. I see everyone else, Mike, because they don't have any idea what the movie is. Chris and Jeremy and Tony. Willie Lopez. Oh, God, what a character. I don't know how you can make me both Carlos Santana and a member of the Eagles, though.

There are ethnicity issues with what you're doing. Well, no, it's just different hair color. It's like, if I had this remote, that changes the color eyes. If I change the cue doing. Well, no, it's just different hair color. It's like if I had this remote that changes the color eyes, if I change the hue of your hair, boom, Glen Fry. Blur opinion guy. Young Sam Elliott maybe? That's just people with a mustache. Yeah, but it's a very, that's right.

Mustache. That's all you guys are doing. So then I look like, do I look like Dave Wands' step? No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, now you've got two for. I wanna get to the useless sound montage. So I look like Dave Wonstett? No. No, no, no, no, no, no, Yeah, but their love lived beyond for eternity. That was the story that was the point of the story Mike didn't also kind of looks if you look closely you got a squint, okay?

Like the crazy guy and goes to top Patrick's ways. He had to move a coin. No No, no, not at all. That's very insulting. That guy looks like a mutated Jeff and Gundy. I learned of the movie Ghost through the Vin Diesel Classic, The Pacifier, the children's movie he made, which is also the only Vin Diesel movie I've ever seen. Ghost is incredible. It's got the scene where they're making jars of clay and all that good stuff.

Whoopie Goldberg, didn't she win an Academy Award for that performance? Just an amazing romantic movie. It's great. I actually saw it on the West End in London as a musical. Incredible. So now video is found. The guy and Stugats was just faking it.

Stugats has only envisioned this guy from the start of this story. No, I know Willie Lowe. No, you do. No, my Stugats, I caught you in an unraveled fraud. This is the guy you were imagining throughout. It's why you bring him up again. This is the man. The reason you laughed, don't lie to me.

I know you. The reason you laughed the way you did the first time is because this is the guy you thought Mike was calling me. Not Willie Lopez, this guy. And of course, that's funnier because look at this guy. Yeah, it looks like a true. Everything you just said. It's like, Jim and Gunnies, a first-stage

of Pokemon Evolution, that guy that teaches Sam how to push the coin is second. Let's play the useless sound montage, please. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think we did what we had to do today. I asked the guys to fight at the beginning of the week and it's exactly what they did. It was unfortunate that they just made one more play than we did. It's a one game at a time in tality and our guys came ready to play and we found a way to win. They didn't have to be pretty. A lot of things are correct but we found a way to win. When the pressure goes up, who comes down and is level and is calm and you know what our guys are.

Anytime you're playing in the quarterback position, the team's putting a lot of trust in you, you know, to kind of lead the way and you know what, today we had an opportunity to go win a game for our team and just couldn't be more happy and more proud of our group. You know I wish we would have finished the game a lot better. Yeah. Just trying for the best team we can out there every week. It's the NFL. It's a battle, especially these division games, and we knew it was going to be a street fight

a week. I was proud of how we fought, and at the end of the day they got the best of us, and the stocks, but we're going to keep pushing. He made plays today. He put some balls where not many people can put him. He did a great job. And we need to expect more from ourselves to win more in those positions to go score. When you spot 21 points to a very good football team,

you're not going to struggle to win a game. And you can't do the things that we did and expect to win. We win the turnover battle and we won the game. And that was the difference. I think the biggest thing is, we just got to say the course. It's already gone. That's a tough part. The reality is we got to be better. I got to start with me being better, and you know, I'm looking forward to getting back to work. I thought our guys really answered the bell.

I'm so proud of those guys. It shows up the way they work, the way they go about their business every single day. In this league, there's too much parity and you come on their well coach, they're good players, you come out and self-destruct like that is certain areas and then you have a problem. Farways win, that's always the mentality, that's always the approach. You know, and I think this is a moment where you go back and you reflect on it, you learn from it like every win

and you treat them all the same. You know, when you win or when you lose, it's about what can I learn from this. I think any offense is fun when you're scoring a lot of points. I'm a man and I'm not gonna let somebody just come push me, especially in my house. Like, you're not gonna just touch me after the whistle. You clearly hear it. And I'm not mad at that dude. Like, he played playing hard. He maybe tried to slow me, didn't.

But I ain't like it. And I got to control my composure at the same time with a man. And like, juicy sand, I'm standing on business. So. Yeah same time as a man, and like, juicy Sam's stand on business. So, yeah, it was a couple of many football that was finest. Man, it was a chess game going on, you know? Look, the eggs, these are good defensive coach now, and those guys played hard, it's a prideful team. So, you know, it wasn't ideal. You don't always want it to be that way, but my guy,

man, to be able to hang in there, and you know, they're able to come back, and then we can, we just answer back, and then we're able to close it out. I mean, that's a hell of a win now. I'm not gonna take that away from us. On a day like today, you need that leadership, you need that togetherness. We make two main mistakes.

I mean, they play the good game, play the good game, back to the end of the day, you make two main mistakes, and that gets a good football team, you lose. They're coming together. They're working. They're getting better. They're playing faster, playing more confident.

Yeah, we were all waiting to see, is it a call? I mean, that's what we were waiting for. See, did the official make a call here? Oh, he didn't call it. Oh, he did call it. I put a lot into this game. I prepared my ass off. Oh, it was obviously a lot of fun

to be out there in play football again, especially with those group of guys. You can tell just being here in a short time that it took great locker room. So there's definitely a lot of fun to be out there. You know, that was a horrible day at the office. We didn't do much right in that game to be quite honest with you. So we got to own that obviously starting first and foremost

with me. This JV football in a lot of ways. David Crosby. David Crosby. That's better. Yes. Frumpy, a little frumpy. That's real good. That's good.

That is who I look like more than anyone. Pirate David Crosby. That is absolutely accurate. I think you finally found it after rummaging around inside your head. It's the chin, it's not even the mustache. Yeah, I got it. Frumpy was enough. I thought frumpy was where I should put the line.

I didn't need it. Sire the Child of Melissa Etheridge. You can look that up instead of, wait, hold on a second, let me find it here. Time to throw away all your realistic credibility and get reckless! Here is something we like to call a reckless speculation! You're good! I think I'm like a dog with a bone on this one. Yep, you're dead. There you go.

So it's no longer speculation. It's actually the truth. I want to ask you something about what Inner Miami is doing because I will try, I will fail here, but I will try to continue to conceal and hide how unhappy I am with the business elements of what happens in business. It's something that has made me, my brother just died, but second to that is how much I've had to deal with business bullshit over the last couple of years.

Gene Charlotte. Oh, that's even better. That's tremendous. That's even better. Yeah, that is even better. Gene Charlotte. You got to put Gene Charlotte up there for the audience that doesn't know the old movie critic, because that one's perfect.

You're not going to do better than that. I defy you to do better than that mhm but the business ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha younger gene shallot so that we can more truly represent Mike's artistic vision here. The very first picture on Google do it. Yes, the young gene shallot will be better. So I don't, I just, I hate business because business steals the soul from things. Let's just leave it at that. I won't bore you with the details. But inner Miami is just doing good business when they get out there that they are sold out,

they're sold out, they say, but they haven't put that many tickets on sale, but they've put those tickets on sale at double the price. So by saying they're sold out, all they're doing is increasing their demand. It's a lie, it's just business. I'd like to enjoy all of the messy things without being gouged the way I am during hurricane time around here

where people charge $7 for a gallon of water. Are they sold out, but perhaps it's season tickets that are sold out? The club announced that they were sold out of season tickets, which is a huge accomplishment, especially considering that in many cases, they more than doubled certain prices. They were smart in that the supporter section, which threatened to walk out after negotiating with the club, was the section that had the smallest rate hike. So the most vocal had the least things to complain about. But I think what's happened, and this is purely speculative, and with a, well, it's informed

speculation. I don't think the demand was there. I'm to throw away all your realistic credibility and get reckless. Here is something we like to call Rugless Speculation. You're good, Mike. I don't doubt that they found some whales to get some of the price-year tickets out there. But here's what I think happened with the season ticket announcement. I think that they saw how the market was going.

And they probably just internally decided, okay, instead of a certain number of season tickets that are available, let's move that number so we can have this big announcement because we are killing it in the business game. I think generally, and the Guardian wrote an article about this, legacy fans like myself are really frustrated. I did not renew my season tickets over this mainly on principle, but also budgetary, it's really freaking expensive and i don't like being the one to have to pay for this stadium and uh... line on messy

put it on the poll please leg calling yourself a legacy fan do sure no do you shouldn't the teams existed for a couple of years