The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: Boats On The Field

Episode Date: October 22, 2024

It's Vice Night at FIU and our mumbling insider Billy Gil has all the details. Then, is Cam Ward the greatest QB in the history of the University of Miami? Dan, Mike, Jess, and the rest of the crew discuss the strong likelihood that Ward leads Miami to the College Football Playoff and how their résumé stacks up against the other top tier teams. Plus, Billy dismisses Matthew McConaughey after he criticized Texas fans, and it leads Jess and Mike to an Interstellar recap FULL of spoilers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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 that if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys? I've done it. And now here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face and the habitual liar. Feds found a thousand bottles of lube at Flipper's house. He had seven weeks, six weeks to think of what it is

that he was going to say in that initial press conference. Flipper? I love it to the death of me. I love it to the death of me. His rep says he shops at Costco. Billy, how excited are you tonight about your team, FIU? Pause up. FIU is undergoing a real image change where they are trying to be cooler

than some of the things in college football. Cooler by bringing in Pitbull, cooler by changing their uniforms and making it vicey, but still lose it. That's- Whoa, whoa, hold on. The game hasn't been played yet. What are you doing?

Sorry, I'm just saying. Get out of here. They've lost a lot this season. No, no, no. Good point, Billy. Well put. You can catch Billy on the broadcast and I'm whimpering and squeaking.

Well, whoa, whoa, whoa. Guys, whoa, come on. What are we doing here? What is this underselling that's going on here? Undercutting, if you will. So, FI, you had a rough season? Yeah, maybe a little bit, but guess what? Every game starts 0-0. And tonight, Vice Night. Now, the Vice Night record right now is 0-1, because last season didn't go well when they had, you know, Lamborghinis and Bentleys on the field and you know the other team was celebrating but this year's different we turned a page said you know

what no not this year no Lamborghinis on the field no Bentleys on the field we're sticking to business boats on the field, I heard him talking about trying to get the FIU broadcast to celebrate him broadcasting from the boat, is that what you wanted to do? Well, sort of, yeah. Well, come on, Dan, cat's out of the bag now, I suppose. It was a private conversation, but there's a boat that's on the field.

So as one does when they find out boat that's on the field so as one does when they find out a boats on the field and you're broadcasting the game you say hey can we broadcast from that boat on the field because when are you gonna get a chance to broadcast from a boat on the field again I don't know well here's what FIU is doing Stu gots I don't think you've seen any of this, but FIU is really leaning into the Miami of style, optics, sunshine, FIU, on a boat, wearing their uniforms and giving off uniforms that I like, Stugatz, they look cool, they look sleek and sharp and I was surprised to see

that I can still find uniforms, new uniforms to be something that's different because all of this is giving off Miami, it's giving off Miami swag, I know I'm too old to be saying all of that but you guys agree that those are cool looking uniforms, right? Everyone here- They look cooler if they were winning, that's all I'm saying. What's your problem, Guy? I'm just saying they're two and five I mean you don't think those uniforms make the people wearing them look like automatic

winners they're small is the problem not the uniforms but the players the players look a little small no the players are huge that's why the uniforms look small by comparison not everyone can pull off the uniform, Dan. You know what I mean? Video show now, I am in the uniform. There we go. Ta-da! They're also giving away these bucket hats today, Dan.

Want a vice you bucket hat? I love the bucket hat. Billy, I'm gonna go to the gate. How much do you? I love the bucket hat. Billy, I'm going to go to the game. How much do you think tickets cost for a last minute? Maybe I just get a little bleacher seat. I found there's someone singing the national anthem today and they have a promo code for five dollar tickets. If you want to go.

Everyone should go. Yeah, we should go. Well, I'm going to be there. We should go in Miami excited for this game, Billy. I'm with you. I'm supposed to do this. I heard rumblings that there may be excited for this game Billy. I'm with you I'm supposed to do this. I heard rumblings that there may be someone at the game today Rumblings that maybe there's some rumors and so maybe making an appearance at the game today rumblings rumors unconfirmed I heard why can't you be an FIU insider you should be someone?

Maybe I don't know I'm not saying who You should be someone who breaks your rumblings. No, but you can't. Rumblings, maybe, I don't know, I'm not saying who. Dan, it's been long. I'm not gonna say who. Rumblings, maybe, someone may be there. Someone possibly, maybe, may be there. Rumblings, possibly, maybe.

Definitely a boat, though. That's gonna be there. Nice. Billy's gonna be there. We should all go to this game. Yeah! And there's only one great way to get tickets to this game.

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I was there yesterday walking around the field. They said, Billy, don't put out a picture of that boat yet. And I said, yes sir, I will not do so. I do not wanna get on your bad side, so I didn't do it. But I saw the boat there, boat's huge. Little broadcaster walkthrough? It's a big boat. Oh yeah, I was checking out the paint scheme.

There's some pink on that field. Tell you that right now. It's a yacht. And I already know, some of you may think, that boat's not big enough to be a yacht. Technically, if you have a bathroom inside the boat, it's a yacht. Here's my rule on if a boat's a yacht.

Can I afford it? No, it's a yacht. So every boat's a yacht. Put it on the poll, please, at Levitard Show. Is having a bathroom what makes it a yacht, yes or no, at Levitard Show? And I want to just ask you guys the question. I think in order to be named a yacht,

and I'm just making this up and don't even know why I'm doing this, I just thought that it had to be over 50 feet. I didn't think it was just a bathroom. Couldn't you have a bathroom on a 30 or a 40 foot boat and I don't think that people would consider looking at that a yacht. Well technically the ocean is your bathroom. What about the sea? Wow. Are there sharks there? That's how we know. I think a yacht is any boat that you would feel like you weren't allowed to fish from. The over 50 feet thing is what you say

when you go to the boat store. It has to be over 50 feet. The internet with their AI algo says over 40 feet is the threshold. One person whose boat I went on said it has a bathroom, therefore it's a yacht. I'm like, really? He's like, yeah, I have a yacht, bro.

What about the engines? I think that boat had four of them. Those are props. I think, I think. That's what this person says. I think the measurement is size. I don't think it's bathrooms. I don't think it's anything other than that.

I think it's the motion of the ocean. Okay, not helpful, not useful in any way. We're gonna get to Stugatz's weekend observations in just a second, but as it relates to and we always wander away from here in a frustrates me billy i insist i know you only like doing the things that you like to do and not the things i want you to do in as soon as i endorse an idea you don't want to do it all but the mumbling insider needs to be a character like that

which one it's the it you as the mumbling insider needs to be a character. Like, it's the int, you as the mumbling insider, I don't know anything but here are rumblings rumblings and you're reporting things while not reporting things. Like for example, that someone might be at FIU tonight that would get people excited. Sounds like Pippel's gonna be there guys. I don't know, is it together? No one said that, no one said that.

That sounds like, I think Pippel's gonna be there. Possibly rumblings. Okay, you've seen, we're in the information age Okay, Netflix is an information company. They're not a video and streaming company They want all of your information everybody wants all of your information The insiders on ESPN are making tons and tons of money Mike Ryan has created a character here who I believe to be an NCAA

NiL insider and a messy related news somehow insider a character here who I believe to be an NCAA NIL insider and a messy related news somehow insider. I want you to be the mumbling information insider that reports things that are shocking and not that no one understands. I'm gonna need some information for that to work out. I know, but. I know, I know. I need some info, maybe possibly or not.

If you mumble, you can always say it and you get it wrong. You can always say, I didn't say that. Information super highway. It's the way to do it. You'll always have plausible deniability because you're never actually reporting anything. Deniability. I want this character.

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Don LeBattard Smart Stugarts More sports This is the Don LeBattard show with the Stugarts Before we get to weekend observation something we didn't talk about yesterday and we were remiss in not talking about it a couple of things actually from college football rewarding fans for throwing things on the field which is just magical and cam ward is the best University of Miami quarterback there's ever been now they have the

wonderful ingredients of you don't trust their defense at all and you don't trust their coach either. But my God is that fun. The quarterback's better than everybody and I don't trust anything else about this team. But man, maybe they'll win 45-40 every time because their quarterback's great. It is fun. It's wildly entertaining. You do wonder if you're a Keynes fan. I'd be interested what Mike thinks about this. Like you keep flirting with losses every single week and eventually you're going to lose. Well going to lose because their defense isn't that

good and their offense is very good and Cam Ward will be reckless as well so they're just giant plays all over the place Louisville does that to everybody Louis Louisville's been doing that for years but everyone can put up the 50 yard play against Miami Cal hasn't done it before or since they did it a bunch of times to Miami in terms of explosive done it before or since. They did it a bunch of times to Miami. Yeah, in terms of explosive plays, 50 yards or more, their metrics, they're that of a middling FCS team. So teams are gonna keep challenging their DBs to make tackles in space.

That's a book on them. They struggle with it. Thankfully, they put up 35 plus on everybody. I do think that there was a bit of an overreaction to, we can debate like the merits of how close this game was. They covered the spread. Louisville's a program that they've had weird game flows that don't necessarily reflect this. It's a good win to win at Louisville on the road. Louisville has three losses and they're all to rank teams by one score. As somebody that's

been kind of having their heart pound out of their chest in the previous two games The game flow of this one was totally different I never for one second anything Miami was into in control of that game even That I said second half Mike Like a weird 14 point swing inside of like 60 sides, but it wasn't you can't have I understand What you're saying about leading being a touchdown up and feeling like you can score a touchdown whenever you want But you can't a touchdown whenever you want But you can't tell me I don't care how much you believe in this team that when it's 31-31

And you've got that defense in crystal ball. You're still not a little scared now You've got the benefit of and this is different than it's ever been You've got the benefit of you know Your quarterback is better than everyone else on your team because when I say he's the best University of Miami quarterback ever Stu got Ken Dorsey and Gino Toretta people who won Heisman's they won it because the other players around them were the first-rounders They had so many first-rounders Testa Verde is the only one where you were like, holy shit that guy can play no matter who's with him and he still had amazing talent with him miami

and i mean look i like their receivers for strepo is going to be one of the most popular and going to be the most decorated receiver in the university of miami's history cam ward is the best quarterback this program has ever had and i know that any test ofti was a number one overall pick what i'm saying is i have never seen a quarterback be this much better than all the other quarterbacks who are playing football he can score

against anybody now i know it wasn't that long ago that they only had ten points at cal but i'm watching that game unlike we can bring them back because look at him every time i'm watching one of unlike we can bring them back because look at him every time i'm watching one of these games it's more than three hundred yards it's for touch as it might be a couple of interceptions in a fumble but statistically per game no quarterback at the university of miami has started close to being what this is nevermind

near it no one has started like cam ward this is the most spectacular start in the history of a position that the University of Miami has had some good players at. I feel like this is a great example of how in football we always analyze all of these different positions and different parts of the game and this and that. And like you go into the deep stats on Louisville and their pass rush and their offensive line, all this stuff. At the end of the day, if you have a quarterback that is that much better than all the other players on the field, they're going to win you the game.

If it's close, they're going to win you the game. And Cam Ward has done that for Miami now several times. And you can look at Miami's schedule and say, yeah, maybe Syracuse is decent, maybe they'll keep it close, but do you, I trust Cam Ward in all of those games to be able to score 45 points or 50 points. So as much as the people that listen to the show

hate Miami and are saying this is going to come back and bite them at some point this season, I really don't think it is. I really think Miami is just going to be undefeated this year and it won't matter that they only beat Cal, Virginia Tech, and Louisville by a touchdown because the way the playoff is set up now, if they are in the ACC Championship game, and I venture to guess even if they lose the ACC Championship they'll

still get in they're going to get in the playoff because Cam Ward is that good. I think we can all agree on what it is that I'm about to say because I don't think there's any argument on this. I could make the University of Miami have two or three losses already this season if I take away a catch you made on your ass on Fort Down and I make a couple of calls go a different way and it would make Cam Ward no lesser a quarterback than what I'm presently saying. Whether they're four and three or seven and oh he's the best quarterback I've seen play this season and when I'm watching I'm like second place doesn't look obvious to me he's that he's on pace for 40 touchdowns but the seven and

oh helps I mean at four and three I'm not certain you get this by you I'm not arguing with you I'm just saying this seven and oh hell of course it helps for everyone else who does quarterback play his wins and that's it what I'm just saying this 7-0 helps. Of course it helps for everyone else who does quarterback plays wins and that's it. What I'm telling you is that what I'm watching, independent of that, independent really of whether his defense is any good or whether I actually believe in their skill guys because I don't. Like I don't think that these are special skilled people. The quarterback is making everyone look special.

Restrepo has looked good with a variety of different quarterbacks, so I'll give him that, and the receivers are better than they were last year. But that's not elite talent that they have at receiver. It's elite talent they have at quarterback. Yeah, Louis Riddick did say that. He thinks Arroyo's probably a first round pick, and the backfield does have some talent and some depth. I think Zay Horton's come along, and Restrepo statistically is going to obliterate the record book and as you mentioned he's good with everybody else. I've actually been pleasantly surprised by the wide receivers because it's been a concern. I don't mean it as

a knock Mike, I really don't. I'm just coming from an age when the receivers were Brian Blades, Michael Irvin and Brett Pearman, all first and second round picks and what I'm looking at at receiver to me doesn't look like a ton of professional talent. I generally agree. Sam Brown, it was good to see that. He had finally erupted for a big game, but he was reputed as a guy that could be drafted

in the upper rounds and he kind of struggled to get on board. But for me, like the main takeaway is everyone, the takes have been flying. I actually had a very polite discourse with an AP voter who put Miami, who put Miami, because they make all this public. No damn, man. I don't, wait a minute.

That's not a polite discourse. An AP voter, I mean, an AP. No, no, no, so like an AP voter that had Miami at number 11. He ranked Miami at number 11. Did they go down? Yeah. He put him in his own top 25 at number 11.

Now this has happened before where there was someone who very clearly, who was golfing all day Number 11, yeah. Did they go down? He put him in his own top 25 at number 11. Now this has happened before where there was someone who very clearly who was golfing all day according to their social media put Miami at number 16 after they beat Cal. And his. Stalking this person? No, no, no, because they put the graph.

They put the graphic up there. But leave the guy alone. The person's gone, or woman. Trying to get somewhere with this. So they put a graphic of who's voting where on the AP. So I'm curious, why are you putting Miami 16 and the guy's excuse was the thing didn't save. So that was two weeks ago.

And this week, the person he defended, and it's a common knock against Miami, he held against them that they'd been in close games for the last three weeks. And then in the same top 25, he put Tennessee at like number six. And I'm like, well, how are they allowed to have three close games?

In fact, lose one of them, go to overtime against a team that Miami thoroughly dismantled on the road, and then beat an Alabama team that's probably the weakest Alabama team in 16 years. He's like, great points, probably different next week. Thank you. I think also they're like, this is the whole thing about the SEC hashtag, it just means more

that frustrates people that aren't SEC fans, because you look at Tennessee beating Alabama, and you're like, well, on the one hand, it's a top 10 win, on the other hand, Alabama, are they even a top 10 team this year? I don't think so. They're really, really struggling right now. But you just get bonus points because you're playing against this SEC schedule that everyone thinks is better. And some metrics back that up. And it's a tough conference. I'm not doubting that.

But then you look at Miami's schedule, and I can't say for sure who Miami's best win is, but it's probably Florida, right? Probably Florida now, especially considering how Florida played against Kentucky. And then if you're comparing Miami's undefeated, but their best win is an unranked Florida team to Tennessee, who has one loss and their best win. Oklahoma, you can throw out the window because they are bad.

Their offense is terrible. And that win is not going to count for them or for Texas anymore. Their best wins, Alabama. You still as a voter, rank Alabama higher than Florida, so you give Tennessee the benefit of the doubt, even though they have the loss. Miami kinda needs Duke to be a good team when they play next week, just in the eyes of folks.

What a sentence. Yeah, kinda needs that, because there really isn't a ranked win. We talked about this briefly, and briefly in that, it's weird. You hold against them the fact that they almost win because it makes the teams that they're beating look worse. Cal is an infuriating team that honestly should be undefeated.

If you want to hold against Miami that they played in a one score game against Cal, that's the most valid out of all of them. All they've done is play one score games this year. Mike is mad, Mike is mad, and I gotta be honest, I've seen this too and gotten like a stir of some old embers of mad. I'm like, God damn it, Cal. What are you doing?

Like you're making the win that Miami had against you worse every week because you keep losing by a score to everybody. They're trying, Dan. No, they keep trying to set up field goals and they can't kick field goals. It's infuriating. They lost to FSU. There's no way you can convince anyone that Cal is decent.

But they lost because they missed a field goal. They missed field goals. It's a little infuriating. For me, look, we can parse these things all day. I think treetop view is Miami is exactly where they hoped they would be year three into Mario Crisaball's tenure here. You saw last year they had a lot of one-score losses this year. They have a lot of one-score wins. One-score loss is generally a good year-to-year indicator of how your season and luck is going to turn around. I think that this is all about building a foundation and Miami in my wildest dreams, if you would have told me, I'd be traveling and I'd see like three road wins already, which is already a 300%

increase over all the wins that I saw on the road since 2017. I'm very happy. I think winning is hard, and I like that they're winning games, and they currently have an 86% chance to make the playoffs according to ESPN's FBI. So I would give them A's across the board as to how this year has gone.

By your math, Cal is going to compete for a national championship next year. I'd say, yeah. Good indicator. Yeah, it's a good indicator. Yeah. A good indicator that they're gonna win those next year. I gotta fire this bum coach.

I need people to, I really do need them to understand a couple of things about this that are just magical, okay? Magical. One is the ingredients, the Molotov cocktail of ingredients that are the best quarterback, but he's reckless. The defense allows a lot of 50 yard plays and Cristobal's gonna find a way to lose one of these. Like everyone believes that that is so,

that if indeed Mario Cristobal is on the right track in year three, it'll be 10 and two with two losses that are his fault He's not gonna escape that although from a game management standpoint. That's another a across the board He's nailed him even the ones that you're wondering like why are you not calling a timeout there? Statistically the best why are you going for two there? He's actually pushing the right buttons there, but I'm with you his reputation proceeds I'm like did I miss? Miss see something at the end of the game did Kamward fumble the snap at the end of the game? That's why we don't

kneel around these parts. Yeah he almost botched that. I saw it and I was like oh no! So there's that over there. You have this cocktail of oh wow Miami's interesting they're wildly interesting offensively they've got got the best quarterback, but he's reckless. And they're undefeated. Hey, everyone. It's Mike Ryan. We here at the Dan Leventard Show with Stu Gatz are excited to partner with Miller Life

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wasn't that good. But this is what the SEC... They'll all be in the playoff. Yes, correct. That's right. But what happens in the SEC, and this part's funny, and it's just because an entire generation has been battered by what Saban is and to watch Georgia knock off what Saban was all of us are like all of us know this well George is good so Alabama's gonna

be good because anybody who beats Georgia we're gonna say is good Alabama could lose to Vanderbilt, can lose to Tennessee, can lose to everybody in the SEC, and we're still going to say, well, I know that if I line up their athletes against Ohio State's athletes, I'm going to always believe in Alabama's athletes because I've watched them do it for 17 years. Now Georgia is that, and I don't think any of us believe, Miami is the top of that conference because if you think these 50 yard plays against Cal are big deal do it against LSU, play LSU and see how quickly their receivers embarrass your secondary.

I would say that is the concern because the schedule has not been too difficult but they're still undefeated so you give them credit once they get to the playoff and start playing some of those teams will the Canes be able to get past those teams? My favorite scenario out of all of these in the playoffs and matchups is there is an ACC tiebreaker that would see an undefeated Miami not qualify for the ACC Championship game.

Oh boy. Which you should- Part of me is rooting for that. Yeah, you should want that. I mean, I want the bye, but- You're undefeated. I want the bye, but I kind of just want to see the chaos that potentially has four ACC teams in the college football playoff.

Dan, you brought up the Georgia-Texas game. Did you see that Matthew McConaughey put out a statement yesterday about the Texas fans throwing bottles on the field? I can't believe that we didn't get to that yesterday. This was just getting rewarded, Texas fans, for throwing shit on the field. He called it a bogey move

Can I hear from Kirby smart on this because Kirby smart? Stugac you were bashing him a little bit yesterday because I don't think Kirby smart was wrong in saying everybody was picking Texas You got a whole lot of people were willing to give the SEC over to Texas just because they beat Alabama last year I understand but no one has forgotten about Georgia. No one's disrespecting Georgia. Sturgots, you picked Texas by double digits. I did, yeah. That's disrespecting Georgia. It is, but Kirby Smart doesn't care what I have to say.

No one's respecting Texas. I mean, come on, Dan. No, but to respect Texas, Jess, to respect Texas is to disrespect Georgia. Well, what if you respect both? I said on Gen CFB, Georgia wins by two points, Texas wins by ten. Now, I was wrong, but I did respect them enough to say that I could see them winning by two. So, Kirby Smart, not talking about me. I just have rules to this stuff, as you know. You cannot win two national championships in three seasons and come out after a victory and said no one believes in us. Everyone forgot about us. No one forgot about Georgia. Jessica Scott. He was talking to you Jessica. You thinking. I respect

it just means more Dan. It just means more. more. Jess? You disrespect Kirby Smart by saying, well I can see Texas winning big, but I can't see Georgia winning big. I disrespected Kirby Smart by saying he got away with assault the weekend before because he pushed the Mississippi State quarterback and it was a bad look. We didn't even talk about that.

He did apologize. You know what though? So I respect the apology. I gotta be honest with you guys. Bad look as a criticism isn't taking me anywhere in 2024. It is correct to point out a number of bad looks all over the place, but there's never a consequence to a bad look other than someone saying it's a bad look.

There's not enough, by degrees. That's enough. I don't feel like it is enough though. People, I, as a criticism. I'm not gonna disrespect him, Dan. You already did, Jess. I didn't feel like it is enough though for the people I has a good not gonna disrespect him Dan You already did Jess. I do just by saying he would only win by two But she said he could win I mean no, but only by two she couldn't imagine People said they couldn't win at all right. I said they could that's disrespect

But I did respect them enough to say it could be a close game or I thought it'd be a Texas blowout. Turns out, neither. But I did respect them enough to say it could be a close game. You did not, no. The nation did not properly respect Kirby Smart this weekend by thinking that Texas had overtaken what has been his conference, which he stole from Save It. And he's like, you don't get to do that in a season and a half.

You don't get to do that in four games. And you sure as shit don't get to do that in a season and a half. You don't get to do that in four games. And you sure as shit don't get to do it because you beat Alabama last year by two touchdowns and nobody was used to seeing Alabama lose by two touchdowns. That's because he never beats them. Why is Matthew McConaughey the fun police now all of a sudden? He's the commissioner on how fans should behave

and he puts out letters lecturing students on what they should be doing. He's the minister of, he's like the Ryan Cortez of Texas. should behave and he puts out letters lecturing students on what they should be doing. Shut up! He's the minister of, he's like the Ryan Cortez of Texas, he's the minister of Texas propaganda and he put out a little statement saying that, hey, not cool, that was BS, don't do that and you know what, in this case, he's right and I respect Matthew McConaughey for calling out the students for doing that because don't throw stuff on the field, you could hurt someone. Bogey. Billy. But it did end up working,

so they're probably gonna do it again. Which is worse, someone getting hit by a plastic bottle or someone getting hit in the head with someone's helmet? A pick six getting called back is worse. I think that what we're not talking about here is the fact that the eye in the sky once again just picks and chooses when it wants to come in and change a call.

So if you don't know this, Georgia was on offense, Georgia throws an interception, and then they call pass interference on the defense. It's a questionable call, I didn't think it was like- It was a terrible call. There was contact, I mean whatever, all right, it was a terrible call. I'll give you that it was a terrible call.

Contact created by the wide receiver. So now Texas fans start throwing stuff in the end zone. The end zone's filled with water bottles. So there's like a six minute delay. And during this six minutes, the eye in the sky just decides, hey, this was a bad call. So the ref goes up to all the coaches, like, hey, we're gonna take away that call.

During the five minutes, because the fans threw shit, we just decided it was a bad call. There was no challenge. It's just, they just decided, of all the calls made through the game, this one is gonna just change, even though I call. There was no challenge. It's just, they just decided, of all the calls made through the game, this one is gonna just change, even though I'm sure there was holding calls. I'm sure there was other past interference calls

that could have been changed. But they just decided, it's just, it's a slippery slope of, oh, there's a little time here. Hey, did we get that wrong? Oh, it's just, it's a slippery slope. And I said it last week. That is a slippery slope. I said it before.

You're right, you're using it correctly. I said it last week, and everyone was like, what I said it before. You're right, you're using it correctly. I said it last week and everyone was like, what are you talking about? Let's just get the call right. You can't just pick and choose when this eye in the sky gets the change thing. Don't let your skis get out in front of you. Exactly.

The slippery slope is letting the fans delay the game so long that the refs are able to confer and then change their mind. Because if you're gonna throw stuff on the field, what's next? Someone's gonna decide, I'm gonna go streak now because that's gonna take a really long time. are able to confer and then change their mind. Because if you're gonna throw stuff on the field, what's next? Someone's gonna decide, I'm gonna go streak now, because that's gonna take a really long time.

They're gonna be able to watch the replay on the Jumbotron and everyone's gonna be booing, and then the refs are gonna be like, oh. But no, Chris, you're right. The SEC, they screwed this one up. They screwed it up big time. Because I threw something on the field when the review said that Don Cheney

fumbled against Georgia Tech. We threw plenty. We threw plenty of stuff on that field and they didn't change that call. Billy, there were a couple of things that just happened that I found a little bit alarming that we just skipped right past. You told, well that's one of them. You telling Matthew McConaughey to shut up.

Did I? Yes. You did. I blacked out a second. I just don't like these. Just, you Yes. You did. I blacked out a second. I just don't like these, just, you're. Don't tell me how to be a fan. You're a naked bongo guy, right? You're not even a great actor,

if we're gonna be perfectly honest. Like all of a sudden now you're gonna tell me how to behave as a fan, like, shush it up. That's where you meet. Shush it up. Have you seen Interstellar? You're in Sing. Have you seen Dallas Buyers Club?

You're in Sing 2. And by the way, I thought Michael Jackson was canceled, but all of a sudden there's a Sing colon thriller? Okay. Whoa, you don't think McConaughey's a good actor? No, I don't. And I love Fool's Gold, I'll tell you that right now. Love Fool's Gold, I'll watch it anytime it's on.

Is that Terry Branch on SASS? No, no, that's a... Failure to launch. Yeah, something about that. There is a Sing Threat. Sing colon third on Netflix. Word Association. Yeah.

Flippers in that. Really? Of course he is. It comes full circle. No one gets canceled anymore. Have you guys noticed this? Yes, no, it's just saying- It's like streaming services.

It's impossible to cancel. Al Franken. You try, but it just doesn't go- The FTC is changing now. The who? Al Franken's like the only one. Yeah. Not even Flitter.

He's self-cancelled. Yeah, well that's how. Yeah, that's how that happened, yes. You guys, you hit someone with a bad look, and then no one gets canceled, and then the comedians eat up the podcast space by being too dangerous, too hot for the mainstream. That's What's been happening in the cancellation culture that never was is that by degrees?

We say bad luck and there are no consequences, but Billy you just blasphemed against McConaughey because I think I'm fine Well, but I'm good with my choices. Okay. He's done more bad movies than good I'm fine. I'm good with my choices, I don't care. He's done more bad movies than good at Billy's Depress. True detective. That's fair enough. He had to rebuild his career if you listen to his amazing audio book, which is,

you have to listen to this one. Do not read it. It is a work of pure fiction. But he covers that, how he had to rebuild his career. He's insane, correct? Everyone understands that McConaughey is a bit insane, yes? Crazy like a fox.

I'm not gonna disrespect Matthew McConaughey. Me neither. Or Kirby Smart. I will disrespect Sark. You did tell him to just shut up though. Is that disrespectful? A little bit. Why? He has an Academy Award.

Oh, please. What is that? You don't respect the actors? The actors. It's their Oscars. Best actor, best movie. It's their Sui Awards. Billy, have you seen Interstellar?

Have you seen Interstellar, Billy? I can tell you what Interstellar is about during the break. I did it a couple weeks ago for the video team. It's so good, Billy. What's it about? Okay, so there's this future world and climate change is happening and there's a drone flying around

and there's corn stalks everywhere. And they basically have to find a new planet, and they have to find a new planet to move all of the human beings to, because the old planet is dying. And Matthew McConaughey has two kids, one of them is Timothy Chalamet. Yeah, well, who turns into Casey Affleck,

speaking of people that aren't actually canceled. Turns into two people? Yes, he ends up not like, that's a good point. Is Chalamet the one that's dating a Jenner? Yeah. Yeah, they're still together. Yeah, I think they're still together. It's actually good casting, and there you could see like, oh, this guy does look like he grows up

to be somebody that should be canceled but isn't. So he goes into space with Anne Hathaway, and they have this like little robot thing called Tars. I think it's called Tars. Tars actually might've been the star of the show. Sold movie. But it's a Christopher Nolan movie. That's enough, McConaughey with Nolan's enough

to sell the movie. Yeah, but don't wait to scratch on the surface here. So they're on this planet for two minutes, but it's seven years on Earth, and his kids are getting older, and they're having families, and then his daughter turns into Jessica Chastain. Yeah, you know how it is, like, when you take a,

you think you're following the GPS, but you're like, oh, I'm walking in the wrong direction? If that happens on the planet that they're on, that's 14 years. Wow. I don't, should I say the spoiler? There's a big spoiler. Yeah, say it.

Someone shows up, spoiler alert to all the fans. They go with the planet. Matt Damon is on the planet and he's frozen! And he's a terrible person! And he wakes up and he's an asshole! Asshole! Just an absolute asshole! Huge asshole! He he's a terrible person! And he wakes up and he's an asshole! Asshole! Just an absolute asshole. Huge asshole!

Tries to, he cost him years. Years! Just the worst. Like with a Z! He's trying to doom humanity. Pathetic! And Matthew McConaughey's like, no. He's just looking out for number one.

And then Matthew McConaughey's like, you know what? Throwing bottles on the planet and shit, probably. My kids are getting older, they're mad at me cause I never came back and trying to find this new planet. I'm gonna go into a black hole. I'm gonna suck myself into a black hole. Goes into a black hole. And then he goes back to his daughter's bedroom when she's a kid, and he does this weird thing

with the sand and the dust. But they lay the foundation, because when you go in the room the first time, a book falls off the shelf, and you're like, huh, that was curious. And it was him from the future in the black hole. It was Matthew McConaughey inside the black hole pushing the books.

And then he's able to help Jessica Chastain, his daughter, create the formula to fix whatever's going on with the planet, I can't explain that part. That part gets into some physics. And I'm pretty sure Casey Affleck named his son Cooper Cooper. Wow. Wow.

We named him Cooper. We named him Cooper. Is there any reason, Jessica, that you went so bravely into the scientific description of something you clearly weren't gonna be able to explain? No, there's a science of inception. You need to kind of- You don't want me to get started on it.

You don't want me to get started on it. You need to see the science of Interstellar because it ties everything together. So to save the planet, we don't actually move to another planet, we just go to the other planet and then send the information back to this planet to change what happened so that we save the planet.

Yeah, more or less. Yeah, but we do leave the planet too. Yeah, right. At the end? Yeah, they go to the Cooper Station, he's like, thank you for naming it after me. And they're Yeah, more or less. Yeah, but we do leave the planet, too. Yeah, right. At the end? Yeah, they go to the Cooper station, he's like, thank you for naming it after me. And they're like, we didn't, we named it after your daughter.

Also, you have a grandson that's probably named Cooper Cooper. Wow. I never realized that. Speaking of new planets, Elon Musk has said that he is going to build a city on Mars and he's gonna do it by 2054, where one million people can live there by 2054.

You know what that means, Dan? That means we're never going to Mars. I mean, if Elon Musk is telling you, 2054, million people living on Mars, and I'd love to know how he's gonna select those million people, that means it's never happening. We will never live on Mars ever if Elon Musk has anything to say about it.

I was thinking about his rocket ship, and I'm not a rocket scientist as we all know. I was thinking about his rocket ship that flies up and then it gets caught by the claw machine game, right? And that seems cool, right? But you have to have one of those on Mars. How's that gonna get there if you need one of those to land?

It's never going to happen. We can't find 32 people to play quarterback. We're not going to figure out. Interstellar travel. You can't get a Tesla to my driveway. I mean, how are you going to live on Mars before you have flying cars on this planet? Back, Jessica Chastain's she's like 85. Yeah, he goes to essentially his daughter's deathbed.

It's crazy. But he's still a young man. And she's like, go find Anne Hathaway. Elon's gonna be 83 in 2054. I kinda wanna see what 83 year old Elon is saying. Do you think there'll be sports radio on Mars? Oh. You know I own an acre. That's what it would sound like.

I own an acre on Mars. You do? Someone gave it to me as a gift. Wow, congratulations. Yeah, an acre of land on Mars. Billy, the to me as a gift. Wow, congratulations. An acre of land on Mars. Billy, the other thing that I wanted to get to with McConaughey and the shut up is that you really condescended Chris Cody from the back

by not allowing him to go slippery slope there in a way that was confident. He was talking slippery slope and Billy was pointing at you as if. It was a callback. No, we were pointing at me and Jess, we made eye contact, we pointed as a callback to last time we talked about slippery slopes.

Eye in the sky, slippery slope. It doesn't sound right though when Chris Cody is taking the moral stand. You specifically, I feel like, should be banned from using the phrase, this is a moral slippery slope, even though you're just talking about Texas fans throwing something on the field.

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