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Episode Date: November 6, 2024

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The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBattard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys? I've done it and now here's the marching band to nowhere that face and the habitual liar I can't believe it took me this long to get to it I am delayed and

I need to apologize to our local audience to people who care about Greg Cody and to America Greg Cody says and he is willing to make this a pronouncement, he is saying this flatly in the middle of a playoff season. If Messi doesn't get past Atlanta, Greg Cody has said the season is officially a disappointment. Yep. For sure. has said the season is officially a disappointment. Yeah, for sure.

Officially, he's willing to make it official. Yeah, it's big. If Messi loses to Atlanta and Inter Miami loses to Atlanta after being an overwhelming favorite and one of the best teams we've ever seen in MLS, officially Greg Cody's willing to make it a disappointment. Sure, because of that, because they won the' Shield for the best regular season record this season, best regular season record ever. So obviously, and it's messy, so naturally the betting odds favor Inter Miami to win

the MLS Cup. Because of that, because of all those things, you have to win the MLS Cup. This is why they brought him here. This is his first full season with the club, one of only two full seasons that he's gonna play with the club. You have to win the league championship. That's the starting point.

Now, I wanna make one thing clear. From a financial standpoint, he has already, his time with Inter Miami has already been a raging success. For Miami, for MLS, for soccer in America. Well, wait a minute, if it's a raging success uh... for miami for mls for soccer winner that's a raging success how can it be an official disappointment in the official that one because you won't have done what they hope but it can bring a new campaign from a business and but i think it can

be a raging success over here and i think it will disappoint again can't know it can't know yet yes again know if it's a reason not but if it's a raging success right officially be a disappointment well the season can officially be a disappointment what's happening on the field yes so you can have success off the field and not have success on the field I'm surprised Levin doesn't understand that we're talking about raging success from the business money standpoint but not the on-field product if you follow up the best regular season record in MLS history by losing to a losing record Atlanta team

in the first round, that's a failure, unequivocally. Wait a minute, so it's not an official disappointment, it's a failure, unequivocally? That's a whole nother stage. That's official disappointment was over here when we started, failure unequivocally is even stronger than that. He's got a point, Greg. He's got a point. If you're saying, no, no, disappointment, disappointment was over here when we started failure unequivocally is even stronger than that.

He's got a point, Greg. What? He's got a point. If you're saying, no, no, disappointment. I mean. I don't want to turn on you, Greg, but he's got a point in that. Disappointment's like, come on. Failure is like, I can't believe it.

Official disappointment. I mean, you just promoted the entire, from the segment started, an official disappointment, and then it became failure unequivocally. Let's agree on official failure. Is that okay? Are you good with that? No. And how do you make something official?

How do you make a disappointment official? Do you stamp it? What do you do? There's gotta be a proclamation. You should get a logo. A notary, a notary. A notary, yeah. Be maximum.

You know, I mean, that's my standpoint. That kind of thing. From my management, that kind of thing, exactly. You gotta light a candle and then seal it, and then put your stamp, not like those stamps that you get at the bank. I'm talking about the ones that Kings used to do. Yeah, with the wax.

They put your seal on it. The wax, yep. That's correct. Look, when you win the supporter's shield, you don't lose in the first round to a team that had 14 losses. You have to win the first round at least. Isn't this an obvious take from my dad?

I mean, not according to the Levitard. Like they're the best MLS team in history and they gotta get out of the first round. I think so. Has anyone ever won the shield and lost in the first round? It's MLS, I'm pretty sure. It's soccer. Columbus Crew were the reigning champions and they got upset in the in the first round

It's a bit of a screwy playoff in that it takes essentially a month to play three games Miami Greg's right on the money though, and we knew To the American sports fan we knew what he'd be judged on you could try to explain all the different cups that they have ad nauseum. They just don't get it. They get MLS playoffs champion at the end of MLS playoffs. That's all they'll understand. I could argue till I'm blue in the face that they've won two trophies in two seasons and have qualified for the FIFA club World Cup. They're going to be opening that tournament going up against the elite clubs in the world. That is a major achievement despite a very confusing,

ambiguous qualification process. They're one of those elite level clubs, but yes, he needs to win that trophy, in particular, for it to transcend to people that don't really know much about all the nuances that go into that sport. Well, but you said right on the money, and what he was right on was the money.

The fact that it's a raging success. And you're flexing your pen today in incredible ways. You are such a writer. Did you workshop this? Like, you're feeling it. From official disappointment to failure on a quibble, I will not regard the ability to make soccer work in Miami because you got the world's best player.

Well, once we get it in Miami, it's closer to Mocha. Agreed, but the fact that they've got a stadium and they've got a multi-billion dollar franchise and they've made MLS a talking point and they've made a business partnership in the sports media age with a streaming giant, I will not view this as only the on-field success when this was first and foremost a business.

It was a business partnership that Messi made with this league and with the city. Yeah, but part of the business is winning. When you get the world's greatest soccer player, you're supposed to win in that league. Look, of course, Stugats, yes. Win the championship every team, yes win the championship over you have failed, yes but there are other ways we can measure

business success and making soccer work in Miami is one of them. And there are other championships, he won the championship he won this season is the championship that pretty universally across the footballing world is how you determine who wins your league. He won that, but it's also a, and this is 100% accurate, a retrofitted Captain America shield that was once held for ransom overseas. Dan, you've argued about countless NFL teams

about if you're not in the hunt to win the Super Bowl, what do you wanna be this fifth seed for? Like this is kinda like now you're arguing the opposite of that, that there can't be moral victories. They lose this and they're the Dallas Cowboys. I mean. Of course, the most basic thing I could possibly say here is a team has to win the championship or it has failed.

Yes, we can make an eternity out of that as a sports conversation. I have, yeah. It's just confusing because they have one, two championships. Well, this is the thing, though. But one of them used to be a toy, and one of them was the first year of a tournament made by Apple.

The Leagues Cup. The thing that I am objecting to largely, beyond just the absolute nature of this is a failure or this is a success and there are no degrees between the two, is that our measurement systems are often faulty when we're picking the best one game samples, especially in things like football and soccer and hockey and baseball.

They seem super random. They don't often or always reward the actual best team. But this is a three game sample. This is a three game sample. Game three Saturday night. But what I'm saying to you because of what Mike is saying, how these things are measured even in currency translations overseas is it's like us right now deciding that in American football the

winner of the playoffs isn't the Super Bowl champion. The team that went 15-2 during the regular season is the Super Bowl champion and we just changed the way we do all of that. And you can't imagine it because that's how we've done the measurements for all time and so that's the way we do them. What Mike is saying is they've already won something that is substantive that based on American standards you guys are going to poo poo and I'm not going to say that's a failure when he came over here and he made everything work and yes he should also win the championship. I would like that but I'm not going to say that goes from. And yes, he should also win the championship. I would like that, but I'm not going to say that goes from success to failure if they don't win the championship.

What I was actually thinking is would I be okay if they took that Super Bowl away from Trent Dilfer and gave it to the best team in the regular season that year? That's what I was thinking. It's not a terrible idea. I mean, I'll think about it for a couple of days. The measurement systems across sports are flawed. Right, but it's cute that you guys think they're going to lose this game. I mean, I'll think about it for a couple of days. The measurement systems across sports are flawed. Right, but it's cute that you guys think

they're going to lose this game. I mean, they're not. MLS wants them to advance. I mean, if the referee has to score a goal, he'll do it. I mean. Not wrong. MLS definitely wants them to win Saturday. I appreciate the discourse and the fact

that you're actually giving credence to the fact that the way that we do it here in the United States with that sport in particular is a little screwy, but that's how we do it here. And if that's going to be the accepted measurement, not just by people that follow MLS, but by casual sports fans, he needs to win that one. Everyone's going to agree with you guys. I don't even, I don't even actually disagree with you, whether it's official or unfettered failure or disappointment. Of course, once you put the expectations up there,

everybody wants winning. But I will also say, do you know how hard it is to make big business work in Miami? Because I'm still waiting for the Marlins to figure out how to do it. And this team became a billion dollar entity out of the box. And if you want to make the only measurement championship or disappointment okay but i'm saying there

is a macro here that makes for survival of major league things in our city that makes me not be quite that reductive messy is like no other athlete on the face of the earth when the inter miami signed messy instantly mls was going to reap the benefits instantly MLS was going to reap the benefits. Instantly, Apple TV was going to reap the benefits. So was inter-Miami. In Atlanta, they drew almost 70,000 fans to a football stadium because of one man. Okay? Well, I mean, truth be told,

Atlanta United, if you look at attendance, I know this was recent, maybe it's changed since COVID, but top 10 in attendance in all of soccer across the planet, club attendance. So let's just say 35,000 would have been there regardless of that. Yes, he's a giant draw. Yes, he's a giant draw. My point is his impact financially on the business side was a given. That was an absolute 100% given. His impact on the football side was not. I'm not sure, Greg, I am not totally sure that it was a given that this would be the

unqualified success that you're dismissing as a failure if I don't think it was as known. Miami has never, you've covered, how many years have you covered soccer failing in this market? How many years? You've never had Lionel Messi. He makes all the difference. Greg, the reason why he came here is because he wants to go to Publix with his family and not get stopped. How many years? They've never had Lionel Messi. He makes all the difference. Greg, the reason why he came here

is because he wants to go to Publix with his family and not get stopped. That's exactly right. But that tells you right there that part of that luxury for him is the risk of, oh yeah, he's not going to stop at Publix because nobody gives up. He wanted his own burger. He's like, where can I do this?

OK, this is a career vacation for him. I get that. No, no. You're missing my point. My point is his ability to walk the streets and not get stopped is an indication that this place is so soccer ignorant that the most famous athlete on the planet can go to Publix and one person might notice. And that's the risk in the business.

What if we're so ignorant we brought the most famous dude and it still doesn't kick kick off the sport okay that's that's a good anecdote the public's thing i have covered inter miami games and when i am leaving the stadium after writing my column and our and our and a half after the game walking through five thousand fans while waiting to get a glimpse of leonel messy leaving that state greg you just described basically going to mecca and say look how many muslims there are

of course i'm not talking about at the game it's like saying all this outfit is is famous wise in all these commercials but he's wearing his uniform in a helmet and a football. They went to the game to see him. Exactly. I'm not, go to Dave and Buster's. Go to the airport, go to places where people aren't expecting him.

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In what day? Wait a minute. You guys, guys. It's a Tuesday. Stugats. Here's your guy, Greg Cody, with Back in My Day. Okay, here it is. Sorry. Adultery. We are back. We're waiting for this one.

This is the Don LeVatarar Show with the Stugats. Diana Rusini with us now. We've got a lot of football to talk about. Her podcast is called Scoop City. We've got to get to some of this football nonsense with her, right? Nonsense. How did you feel? What what do you say? Mike Ryan just learned that Marshawn Lattimore was traded to the commanders It's a big move. He did know that I'm gonna ask Diana. Thank you for joining us Diana. What was the biggest move yesterday? The Marshawn Lattimore so Mike way to be on top of the stories yesterday

The Marshall and Latimore. So Mike, way to be on top of the stories yesterday. A lot of things going on. Busy day. Yeah. Busy day. It was. It was. You know, it's funny though, that's a good observation to make and something for me to keep in mind as I'm doing this stuff, because as you guys know, because I talk about it so much on the show, the pressures and the urgency that comes with breaking news, especially on a trade deadline show or trade deadline day where you're competing against everyone and everyone's trying to get all the nuggets and scoop as fast as they can.

But the way Twitter is set up now, it's so difficult to figure out who's doing what and getting what when, and it's become such a messy space that it's not as clean and clear as I felt like it was four or five years ago where where it was very obvious, you know, what the big story was. So, Mike, while I would love to take an opportunity here

to make fun of you for it, I kind of get it, especially on election day. But without a doubt, Dan, the Marshawn Latimore move to me was the biggest name. I think the Zedarius Smith was the best move, but we kind of we all knew that was coming. That had been rumored since he was since Aiden Hutchinson was injured in the Dallas Cowboys game. So it just it all made sense, but I was waiting all day and I tried to find out like who is the there's

gotta be a big name because I always feel like these are the kind of days where where we do get stunned. And when you take a look back at all the different trade deadlines, there actually aren't a lot of names, right? I mean, Jalen Ramsey is probably the biggest name. Maybe Amore Cooper a few years ago. You don't really get a lot of big names.

This isn't the NBA, you know? Such a big movie. He's exactly what they need. Yeah. I really like them. That's a good team, Diana. I like that they're going for it too. Dan Quinn, not getting enough credit. I mean, he made it to a Super Bowl

and he lost in embarrassing fashion, but this guy has a track record, it's proven, and look what he's done with this team. Coach of the year in your mind? Oh, come on. Dallas coulda had him, I mean, he was there. Dallas had him right there, he was right there! Come on, this is Quinn's doing.

I mean, yeah. I mean, you have to give him credit. He runs a good program. Irrefutably. Diana. You want to give credit to Jaden Daniels. I mean, he's pretty good. I don't know.

Don't discount whatever influence you have there. So Dan Quinn has an ability to just make magical 80% quarterbacks as rookies, OK? Dan Quinn is a good coach, a good defensive coach, who now has a quarterback. That's all. Hail Mary, all Dan Quinn. Yeah, that's how they beat Chicago

and ruined Chicago's entire season. Because Dan Quinn was staring at the ball as it flew through the air. Yeah, but let's go back to when Dan Quinn was hired. Do you remember how unsexy that was? Do you remember, because they were going after Ben Johnson, the Detroit offensive coordinator, everything appeared to be pointed

in the direction of that happening. And then he didn't want to coach there and that fell through. So then Washington was left scrambling and they spoke to a bunch of coaches and Dan Quinn was probably out of that group, the biggest name, but it still wasn't having people in Washington go, oh man, this is it, this is the answer.

So I kind of liked the fact that he came in here with not a lot of expectations, just hoped that he could build some sort of culture and he certainly come through. And to Dan's point, having a quarterback. I mean, isn't that the answer to everything? You have a quarterback, you're good. If you found the guy,

he's gonna make everybody look like a star and that's what Cliff Kingsbury looks like right now. It's what Dan Quinn. Just don't mess it up. Was there a team that you thought was going to do something to improve their roster that didn't and that surprised you? Yeah, the Bengals. Really? Cuz they were trying. The Bengals were trying hard. They were calling around. They're trying to improve their defense. They have belief that they can offensively

make a run here specifically, but they know their defense is older. This isn't the same Bangos defense we saw in the Super Bowl a few years ago. Same coordinator, but different players, same players, but they're just older. So they were looking at corner, they were looking at tackle,

they were trying, but they couldn't find a trade partner. I mean, I was talking to people up until like a minute before four o'clock and they were still in conversation and they couldn't get it done, which would have been, I think a really big story, just knowing the history in Cincinnati. They've only acquired two players in 53 years by the trade deadline in season. So they did get a running back yesterday, but I thought on the defensive

side of the ball, they would do it. I did poke around though on Raiders and the Browns. Did you see, come on, how many calls to get on Miles How many calls do you get on Max Crosby? And I didn't get an answer from Vegas, but I heard from people in Cleveland that no one called. They just knew Miles was not open for business. They were not doing that. No matter what, that door was shut. I've got a lot of questions, but before I keep going with Diana,

can you tell me about the state of corn hacky? Because we thought we were coming in today to do no election decided, that it was still gonna be open-ended, and we were gonna go to live reports on our Korn Hackie as a thread throughout the tapestry of the show, but he looks despondent. He's been pouting and muttering and staring at the floor

since I got here. What's the state of Korn Hackie? Since I started talking to him this morning, just despondent, doesn't wanna talk to anybody. He seems to have some beverage in his hand. It's just, he needs help. All right, be a professional Korn Hackie. We need you to do your job.

You gotta come in here and do your job. No, you gotta do your job. What do you mean no thank you? That's not the way this works. No, what do you want? What do you want from me? No lip? I don't want lip from Korn Hackie. I want Korn Hackie from corn hacky. I want to be empty since 3 a.m. Dan. I want corn hacky to do his job

I want corn corn. You can't be drinking on the job I am actively drinking biased and and you got an aspired objectivity. You got a broadcast professional objectivity The democracy ended Dan. Well, this is is over what do you want for me what are we doing this there's no there's no jokes why are we all right hard to argue democracy dying when the people smoke in a loud and clear voice turn turn down your microphone we'll come out and do your job in a second here but explain to to me, Diana, what I'm not understanding with the easy internet criticism of Mike Williams goes for a fifth, DeAndre Hopkins goes for a fifth,

Jerry Jones gives up a fourth for Jonathan Mingo. Everyone's looking at that and saying, well, I've heard of the other guys. What's happening here with Mingo? Yeah, well, Jerry and the front office there had liked Mingo coming out of the draft I'm not gonna defend his decision because I was a little stunned He was not on my bingo board. We'll call it for Dallas making a move in fact. I

Didn't really expect Dallas to make a move That that kind of came about over the last few days where he changed his mind and and just going with Mingo to me just doesn't make a lot of sense knowing what he's done in Carolina, which isn't really much. But I think this is where Jerry's had a really hard season. Cause look, you have to give them credit. They've been awesome at drafting.

They're good at finding players. I don't know what this moves about though. They're good at finding players. I don't know what this moves about though. This doesn't make sense for a team that now has a quarterback that is potentially going to be put on IR as Jerry revealed yesterday. And they have a lot more problems than just at receiver. And I don't necessarily believe Mingo is going to be that answer,

but he obviously felt confident that this was going to be good. And for Carolina, I mean mean they're winners in this, being able to get what they got in return, you know we knew Mingo was on the trade block, we knew that they were open to it but I know that Carolina did not think that that was going to be Dallas. Diana, the obvious biggest question in football, if Inter Miami does not win the MLS Cup will Lionel Messi's season be an official disappointment? Absolutely, absolutely. What was the point of bringing him here? Why? Thank you. It's a waste. I'm trying to think of what the

comp in football would be at this point. What would you say was the biggest? I guess it's like Kirk Cousins, right? They spent all this money to bring him to Atlanta. They gotta win the, no, it's the Jets. It's Aaron Rodgers. It's Aaron Rodgers in New York. That's what it is. Perfect. So yeah, so I would say the same thing

in Miami as I would in New York. Thank God we changed it. You're comparing Messi to Kirk Cousins. My foot just started moving under the table in ways I couldn't control. Because I wasn't looking at the superstar quality, I was thinking money. I was thinking about how much they paid him.

Thank you for correcting me. Can we play that sound, please, of what I was describing as a nun at a Vatican area church trying to talk football in her second language of English while discussing that play at the end of the Bears Commanders game. The Ha-mal-er-y?

That is Diana Rusini trying to say How? Hail Mary. The Ha-mal-er-y? I'm like. Say that for me. I speak in tongue. In English, that is an English phrase.

The Ha-mal-er-y? Hail Mary. Is that? I don't know. I don't know. Like Memphis. I don't know why you said it that way. It doesn't make any sense to me.

The Himalayan. What the Steelers did, Diana, the Steelers get Preston Smith and Mike Williams. It is funny to see the Steelers as one of the two lost teams when none of us regard them as one of the two loss teams, even understanding Mike Tomlin's gonna sprinkle some fairy dust on things and have two losses

in the middle of the season. I got Mike Tomlin for coach of the year right now, in my mind. Wow. For what they're doing. Yeah, the expectations really low. What were they gonna do at the quarterback position? They sort of figured it out. You bring in Mike Williams in hopes that, you know, Russ chucks up some moonballs

and he can contest for those. And look, Mike's coming off injury. It wasn't working in New York. Everyone there was happy he's gone. He's happy he's gone. It was a nice breakup. We saw Aaron Rodgers reaction to Mike Williams. It wasn't working. So the fact that Pittsburgh's able to get a receiver something that they've been in the market for for nine months, eight months, every single receiver that's been available, Pittsburgh has called for it feels like.

So they land here and look, George Pickens obviously has been their go-to guy. And so now that the fact that they've got two options and look, if the the run game is so good right now in Pittsburgh that even if Williams isn't elite or the Mike Williams that we saw once before when he was with the Chargers, I still think it gives the Steelers are really good option. And then getting Preston Smith.

You know, I reported over the weekend that the Packers were shopping him. And I couldn't believe the Green Bay Packer fan base was going crazy of like, we're trying to make a run of the Super Bowl. Why are we getting rid of one of our pass rushers? But if you saw in the game, they're not using him as much. And also contractually wouldn't make sense for Green Bay to keep them. So I thought from the Packers standpoint, that was a really good move for them of thinking future, but also for Pittsburgh, just to add to a defense

that really carries this team. So yeah, a team that we didn't talk too much about this off season in terms of them being potentially good. I don't think any of us had them. I think it's been pretty impressive. And the fact that they were this aggressive at the trade deadline just goes to show you what they believe in. So Tomlin over Dan Quinn.

I hate that you guys are doing this midway through the season. You want Dan Quinn for Coach of the Year? I mean yeah. There's seven and two. Let's go out to Korn Hackie here. Korn Hackie has something for us on the Steelers at the board. Stunning that something unpredictable would come out of Pennsylvania. Go ahead,

Korn Hackie, what do you have for us? Alright, Dan, yeah, I guess we'll do football today. Super cool. They got Russell Wilson some help in the form of Mike Williams. They got him some help, and the thing that Russell Wilson knows is, Dan, it's not all about me anymore. Help me. I need you to be more professional than this. Me. Okay, this is not professional behavior for you.

That's the big thing in Pennsylvania, Dan. Okay, not professional. We need to help me. Turn his microphone off. He's not doing his job correctly. I need him to do better than that. Yeah, he's drunk. He's been drinking whiskey by the look of the glass.

Gladiante is more like of a celebratory drink. Glad he switched to the brown stuff. Super brown aggressive for this hour of the morning. What were the trades that you were hearing about, Diana, that you were chasing that didn't come to be? The huge, interesting gossip that didn't happen but that you were chasing at various points? Great question, Dan.

Well, I had firm beliefs that the Carolina Panthers were not going to trade Bryce Young, I always left that door open. I was checking in all the way up to the final minute there, just knowing that it hasn't been a great ride there, knowing that it doesn't appear to be working with Bryce Young and the Carolina Panthers, and knowing that there were teams around the league calling,

thinking that their program could be the one to sort of resurrect his career and find the talent that we all saw at Alabama, and the talent that a lot of people around the league still think he has. So that was probably the outside the box name. I was just keeping an eye on making sure I didn't get an egg in the face just because, you know, it's such a weird time of year when you're doing this stuff too because you have to once again figure out who's lying,

who's being open with you about what's actually truly happening. The Kansas City Chiefs were working phones, which is wild considering how good this roster is, how good the defense is, but they were in on Marshawn Latimer. They were trying to get that done, but obviously the Saints were asking for too much for what the Kansas City Chiefs could give up. So that didn't work out. And the New England Patriots,

I expected them to be sellers. I thought they were gonna get rid of more guys and they didn't. Also in New York, Aziz Odhrylary was probably one of the bigger names. He's a young defender who's had a really good season this year, he'll be a free agent in the off season. And I had many different teams asking me about him

over the last week. And Joe Shane in New York, he had a big price for him. He was not moving off him unless he was really blown away. And I guess I just, I'm trying to understand what the mindset is there in New York, because if they think they're safe because their owner told them they're safe, why are you not playing this,

what's smart for the Future, right, because he's gonna be a free agent. So you're just keeping him for what? I know part of the reasons, because they're banged up, they've got some injuries, but I thought that he would be a player that would get moved. So, you know, going back to what I mentioned before, though, there was no big super stud name that was gonna get moved. and we kind of all knew that who were some of the teams that were calling

about bright yo you know what this whole thing is an official disappointment again I want to know who was calling about bright young I do we're making up we're making shit up like Marsha and Lattimore what do you mean this is just nonsense we're talking about she said teams called the Carolina Panthers about price. How do you say that? I was thinking about that today. It's nothing. This is not newsworthy. We're not doing it. We're making things up. It's garbage. It's garbage. Who calls? I'm with you. No, look, the Marshall and Latimore move is 100% to play the Eagles, right? That's what that is.

Cornhacky, what do you have on Michigan? This is shit. This trade deadline stuff. This is just garbage. We're wasting Diana's precious time asking her, what about this guy over here? Fourth round pick over there. Who was calling about Bryce Young? Oh, nothing happened on Bryce Young? Fascinating.

I'm on a low call. You know what else is shit, Dan? You know what else is shit, Dan? The state of our democracy. Yeah, you mentioned that. Breaking character for a second, as Jeremy, this is stupid, we shouldn't be doing bits. It's a bad day.

But going back into character, hey, Detroit really needed some sacks. So they went out and got a player for a fifth and a sixth round pick. They knew they were fine on offense, Dan. They knew they were fine on the offensive side, so they got Smith. We call that an S-O-S around Michigan, Dan.

All right, you know what? Did you guys see my tweet the other day? Greg Cody, what happened? Five minutes, me maximum. Yes, get out of here. You don't tell people getting in and out of characters if you're so deep like Daniel Day-Lewis that we can't tell, and you have to explain it to us

because you're such a great thespian. You don't tell people that. Where did Jeremy come from? Where, I can't believe it. What, he's not drinking brown liquor in the morning at work? It's Jeremy? You're kidding. What was your tweet?

Yeah. Hold the phone up again. What was it, my tweet? A lot of emojis. Okay. The best part is people think that that was me. Like, it's obvious someone had my phone. Yes, one of the children, what age was the child

that was hitting all of the emojis and just putting it on? Here's the best part about it. It was Michael, he's three. I thought you were saying your husband. He would have just been like, fly, he goes flying. You make him a real ape, you know that? You make your husband a real idiot. Like, he's just a total caveman

the way that you present him. He is. In regards to the Philadelphia Eagles, he's an idiot. And in the most loving way. He just, he, guys, what you see when you're watching people at the link, that's him, without the face paint though, because you know, they're good for that's him, without the face paint though, cause you know,

they're good for that, but it's the same stuff. So yeah, the best part about the tweet was, it's just like a bunch of like letters and emojis, he doesn't know, he can't even spell his name. But the last four letters is, hmm, hey. So people thought that there was an actual human, like a person I could read and write tweeting that. So I get all these texts, I'm like,

hey, is everything all right? What's going on? Like you had the Twitter equivalent of a seizure of some sort, like that you, is there SOS signal like blinking in Morse code, like help me guys, emoji emoji emoji. It's that time of year where people have insiders on, they have their alerts on, right?

So that's why I'm like, oh my god, what does that mean? What does that mean? So you're saying because it's the lying season and the hot stove and everything else, you're saying that people were reading and interpreting your emojis as Diana's trying to tell us some secret information. In code, yeah.

With hearts and a duck and a butterfly and a couple of googly eyes and some tears. Yeah, okay. What else did the kids do? Did you get any good stories from the last couple of times? We haven't had any good kids stories. How was Halloween? Setting fire to the house or anything.

No, no, we're good. We're getting safer. We're potty training, so that's an experience. Halloween was good, thanks for asking. I had kind of an awesome experience. Halloween was good, thanks for asking. I had kind of an awesome experience. We're like an hour into trick-or-treating and they don't really understand it. You know, they just walk up, they barely say trick-or-treat, they just say hello.

Joey says happy birthday to every single person. He doesn't comprehend that this is not his, you know, this is just a thing in our house until we can figure out to teach him that it's not everyone's birthday. But it was like an hour in and my son, my three year old goes, mommy, I'm tired, I'm gonna go home. I'm like, this is the best thing you could have said to me. So it was an early Halloween for us.

The kid was spent. What was he dressed as? He was a dinosaur, he had a full mask on. So was the other one. We put him in like a stroller and we put the fence around it and said, caution, like Jurassic Park. And he just stood behind there

and just cried the whole time. It was a good experience, it was fun. Was your husband dressed up like Dick Vermeel? No, he was dressed up as AJ Brown running around. Really? Harold Conner? No, no's dressed up as AJ Brown running around. Really? Harold Conner? No, no, no. Wilbert Montgomery. No, he wasn't doing any of that. He was asking me million questions about what Philly was doing yesterday. He had some important meetings at work and I'm thinking he doesn't answer any of my questions about

life. Like, things like, hey, you know, is the leaf blower coming this week? What's going on? No answers. But anything from Howie, anything from Sirianni, anything from this one that, you know, whoever he'll just name people that I don't even talk to, by the way. Do you ever mess with them and just tell them something's happening that isn't? You should. All the time. It's my favorite hobby. They're trading from my homes. Fine.

The Eagles got my homes. So whenever he doesn't respond, I just try to think of anything Philly sports related and it works every single time. By the way, every, the Phillies traded Bryce Harper, I can't believe it, I just spoke to him. Phone rings, hey. I'm like, the text before was that my mom is sick

and that we probably have to go over there tonight to help them, and you didn't respond. But the Bryce Harper getting traded thing got you to call me. It's a good tool, I use it. See you later, Diana, good talking to you. Again, I will tell people that the name of the podcast is Scoop City. You should get it because she has become very popular with her podcast, All Things Football.

Thank you, Diana. Good talking to you. Hello, Mary. Hello, Mary. Howdy, folks. It's Mike. It's football season. It's November.

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