The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: EEEEHHHHHHHH? (feat. Dianna Russini)

Episode Date: October 14, 2025

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This episode of the Dan Levitart show is presented by Draft Kings. Craft Kings, the crown is yours. Chris Cody, are you going to hit the Stephen A. Smith, happy birthday sound, or should I hit it? All right, happy 23rd birthday to Ameca Eggbeckbu. Emeka, eggbegboo. And happy birthday to him. I don't care. Good luck.

Emika egg begboo. My bad, I had the Ameca wrong. I got the egg begboo right. Emika, egg begboo. Okay, happy 23rd birthday for him. He has no functioning hamstrings. Baker Mayfield will win without him. Doesn't need him in any way, even though he is great.

The things happening with Baker Mayfield are a little bit puzzling to me. Yesterday on the show, I said no two people in human history would have tackled him on that third and 14 first down run because he was going to get that first down by lowering his shoulder and somehow running between two tacklers. But he thinks the best person like in history to be a football player that wasn't a football. ball player just based on stature. Tony. Okay, I'm going to have to do this to Jeremy. I'm sorry that I have

to do this. To Jeremy? We've got a major penalty on Jeremy five minutes for being Jeremy. A major! He said he was yes and. But all he gave me was Tony. Yeah, that was funny. It was?

I didn't see you doing anything with a question. Well, that's giving Billy the room to be Billy, but you know what? You're right, actually. who's this for I don't know Billy's got a major pen only five minutes for being Billy

a major you got to call it both ways can you guys put on the screen please in the corner as Diana Rusini joins us from the athletic just that Nick's game last night the the tick-tac toe that the fans were playing

just put it in the corner for entertainment purposes as Diana is on with us so that people can just enjoy that on an endless loop And also, play for Diana, please, what happened to Adam Schaefter yesterday, where Adam Schaefter goes on Pat McAfee and says this on McAfee. I don't see, it doesn't mean I'm right, but I don't see a coaching move being made anytime soon. And then less than an hour later, he tweeted out, Brian Callahan has been fired.

That is correct. Diana Rusini's worst nightmare. Worst, first. And in his defense, he's asked by. McAfee. So he's just like, I don't know is not a good answer here. So I got to give some jazz hands. He says he could be

wrong and then he was wrong less than an hour later. Diana, how surprising was this in league circles? Mike Ryan was overjoyed. He thinks that Callahan is a clown show for his beloved Cam Ward. Bad Francis. Yeah, I don't think Brian Callahan getting fired was shocking.

It was just when he was fired. There was a belief around the league that this regime right, of Mike Burgundy, the new general manager, he's leading all this, wanted to keep Callahan to just kind of get through this season. I don't think they believed in an in-season firing. So to me, this is in defense of Schefter, by the way. I think the reason why he said he didn't believe that there'd be a firing, because I think he also was aware that they did not want to do this, right? So what does that usually tell you? If the people were

running the show, we'll call it, are saying, we're not going to fire Brian Callahan, and then there's a firing that reeks of ownership. That's owner calling, yeah, I can't do this anymore. And I believe that that's kind of how that happened and why that went down. Also, Schaefter's defense, he did kind of shelf it, right? Because he's like, I could be wrong. He's smart. Like, I'm an idiot sometimes when I do this stuff. I'm like, nobody's getting fired. Not today. No way. I had to do a better job because he's been doing this so long. He knows things can change like that. And that's exactly what happened. And he had to eat it a little bit. But on to the next one. No one broke the Calhans story. The Titans did.

The Titans were the one who put that out. So we all lost. Diana, it seems to be a mess of a franchise. They've made bad move after bad move. I guess the whole chain started with getting rid of Mike Vrable, who seems to be doing really well in New England. There is a very weird ascension of Chad Brinker over there. I think he was brought in by Rand Carthon and then became ran Carthon's boss and then pushed him out. We're running out of people to point the finger at for Chad. How safe is he? I know. It's a good point, right? Because let's go back even two more regimes, right? Mike Malarkey was fired after winning a playoff game, right? So he gets fired. John Robinson's the general manager. He hires Mike Vrable. They trade A.J. Brown. They go to

Philadelphia. A.J. Brown lights them up. Philadelphia fans are screaming at at their owner. They fire John Robinson the next week. They get through a few more, they get through that season, the next season they bring on, or that season they bring on Rancarthon. Mike Vrable tells the owner, he's not ready. I like him. Let's just making him an assistant. He's just not ready to be a GM. Owner says, great, not trusting what you have to say because I want to pick who the general manager is. I don't want you having all the power. Well, she picks Rancarthon. They figure out pretty quickly, he's not the right choice either. Either way, it's Vrable that gets the boot. So then Vrable leaves, takes a year off, hangs out with the Browns for a little bit.

Now he's obviously in New England having some early success, and we'll see how this thing transcends. And then they wind up firing Brian Callant, excuse me, firing Rand Carthon. And as you said, now Chad Brinker is part of all this. I think Chad Brinker has his tentacles in all of this, for sure. But I think his relationship with ownership and their belief in what he can do is really strong. If you heard their press conference last night,

and I'm not sure if you guys tuned into it because it was like, 8.30 Eastern during Monday night football, Mike Burgundy and Chad Brinker sat at the table in front of the Titans media and laid out the picture of we have nine Super Bowls between us in the front office, which is a wild thing to say, I believe, to basically say, we have the credentials to fix this, yet we all know we have not seen that. So Mike, I do think a lot of people were making this about Brian Cowan, versus Mike Vrable, and then obviously the Patriots are coming in to Nashville this weekend to play them.

And there was definitely some chatter yesterday that did the Titans fire Brian Callahan before Mike Vrable could come into town and embarrass them if they won to just avoid it, right? Like, let's just not give him the satisfaction. Let's just fire Brian now. Interesting. I don't know if that's true. That's just like fun theories that people had going on yesterday. but this was never about comparing Brian Callahan to Mike Vrabel. I think we've all, I think we all could agree that Vrable is a better coach.

I think the story of this upcoming Sunday is the dysfunction of this organization with the number one overall pick who has shown that he couldn't play. Are they going to be able to fix this and get the most out of the player? And I think the Vrable side to this is, look, I don't think he ever really wanted to leave Tennessee. I think he wanted to be there for the rest of his life. And they had some success there. But at the end, it was obvious that him and the owner did not like one another. So this is more about ownership versus Mike Vrable on Sunday.

It's not just Cam Ward at this point, though, where the number one pick has had their coach fired. It's the last four quarterbacks taken number one overall. Schaefter tweeted this out yesterday. It's Trevor Lawrence, Urban Meyer was fired in 2021. It's Bryce Young, Frank Reich was fired. It's Caleb Williams. Matt Eberflus was fired. And now Cam Ward, Brian Callahan, was fired.

all during the first season of these number one overall picks. Well, guys, it's usually because there's disorder during that time. There's very rarely a GM and a head coach together making the selection. It's all messed up, which is why we're seeing, and I believe it to be the story of the year of just the resurgence of quarterbacks that are in the right programs, whether it's Sam Darnold in Seattle, whether it's Baker Mayfield in Tampa Bay, Mack Jones in San Francisco,

Daniel Jones in Indy, right? Like, these guys most thought they stunk when they were drafted by the teams that took them. And now they all are playing some of the best at the position. And think about being those teams, right? Like, you think the New York Giants aren't watching Daniel Jones? Like, where did that come from? Well, no, they gave him money thinking that they had an idea of where that came from.

And it's not just the last four, it's six of the last eight. I want to ask you some things about the last, the couple of games that we saw last night before we get to this Tua sound. You guys do realize at this point that the four teams that the bills have defeated have a combined record of three and 21. And it's not just that because that's bad enough, right? It's also this, because we've been talking a lot about the Eagles. Over the last two weeks, the Eagles are 0 and 2.

They've scored 17 points a game. and they've allowed 5.7 yards per play. The bills also 0 and 2, also scoring 17 points, also allowing 5.7 yards per game. Which is the bigger problem there, Diana? Is it that their defense is really injured, or is it that those skill players that I thought would be better,

can't get deep downfield, that Shakir is their only wide receiver weapon, and all of a sudden you've turned Josh Allen into somebody who's not throwing the ball downfield? Yeah, I'm not going to worry about the offense as much as I'm going to worry about the defense for Buffalo, right? Because you've got one of the best players in football playing quarterback. He just looked rushed last night.

He was speeding up too much. And all, like the first part of the season, I feel like the part of his game that was so strong was that he slowed down. I was talking to some defensive coordinators before their games when they would face the bills. And that was something that they noticed that he is sitting there way more comfortable in the pocket rather than running and doing all those jobs. down, things that are sometimes magnificent.

And then I do think we saw last night when he's feeling that pressure, he's kind of going back to some of those old habits. Yet he always finds ways to sort this out. So less worried about these bills skill players, although fans will tell you, let's go get AJ Brown, trade deadlines coming up, let's make a move. We'll see if they're going to do that. I don't get the sense right now. The bills are going to make some big splash before this trade deadline.

As for defense. like, yeah, this is, you have a defensive-minded head coach. This is where they need to hold it down. And it definitely obviously affects the way this offense plays. And we're seeing some holes now. And this is going to be something to haunt them if they don't fix it. I thought he was hurt last night. I thought he got hurt.

And then all of a sudden his passes were low and very inaccurate. More inaccurate than I've seen him in a minute. You thought that was pressure, not injury. No, that's pressure. Jeff Holbrook has done a phenomenal, John. When do we ever talk about an Atlanta Falcons? cash rush, that's good. These guys are tough, and they were just smothering Josh, and I think that's where

the problems were coming from. I don't think, and I'd like to look this up, maybe when you guys can, I'd be curious if this was the most pressure we've seen on Josh Allen in a game this season. I bet you it's up there. I like that, D.C. It's got a weird Liver King vibe over there. His son made Crank Call Shador. I don't know.

He's crazy. I dig him. I know. It's not funny. That's how we're to recall him as. Like, the guys doing a great job. with his falcons defense. We're like, well, his son called Chador.

What a weird story that was. Speaking of weird results, Atlanta losing 30 to nothing to Carolina confused man. Carolina's confusing, dude. I can't, okay. You know, sometimes like we do this and we're so in it. And it, I don't know, sometimes I have to, like, step out in order to understand

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People think it's so weird you're a writer now. All those years on TV? All those years. And now you're right? Who reads that? Stugats. Why did you take a job at the Atlantic? Mom, I work at the athletic.

What? You're on YouTube? This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. To Diana's point, incidentally, Josh Allen was pressured 56% of the dropbacks last night. So that's the most since 2021. And they were getting pressure just, it wasn't, it wasn't with blitzes. Like they were getting pressure with their front four.

Correct. Yeah. Yeah, you can see it too. All right. Yeah. So that worked out statistically. Sometimes it doesn't, but that makes a lot of sense. But right now, look, there's so much parody in football.

And it, like, even right now I'm thinking about, like, who are the best teams? You know, like we did this last time. We were together, guys. and we were talking about the Colts and we were talking about the box and the two five and one teams left, right? But who's the third then? Is it Detroit?

Like who's the third best team in football at this point? Is this good or bad that we don't know who's good and who's bad? Because everybody always says like, parody's so great, it's like, eh, I like really good teams. I guess it just depends on what you want to see. As a reporter, I love it because it keeps this interesting. The fact that, like, I care about the Panthers now

is fun. We know the Colts are good. We know Denver's good, right? No. Yeah. No, Billy, I'm with you. It's like, eh, eh, like Boonex kind of stunk against the Jets. And look, a lot of the Denver mistakes were self-inflicted. And you look at what this Jets team was doing. And it's like, how did they not just blow them out? But you're right. Like, the only team that I was making that noise about a month ago that I no longer making it, it's the Chiefs. They found themselves, and they're just about to take off in my opinion. What's this noise? What's this noise that you're making? Everybody knows the noise.

It's like, it's like, so your analysis of every, so when I ask you, every team in the league, are they good? Everyone but the Chiefs is going to get that sound? Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, like, if you like to do it, we can, we'll go through it. Oh, sure. Let's, let's go ahead and do it. The Steelers. Schedule's tough. Yeah. The bills?

Defense not great. Patriots? Not there yet. Chargers? I don't trust them. These are different noises. These are all different. It's a scale, Dan.

You don't get it. It's a scale. Yeah, they're all, it's a range of it. Because even the Colts, like, yeah, the Colts are good. They're the best team in the ESC, but. Seattle? I don't see them in the Super Bowl. All right, let's do this.

Who gives you, Billy, who gives us the strongest like? I mean, I don't know. because even the bucks the bucks seem good but they're injured and Baker's always capable of doing something dumb at the Rams, the Rams? The Rams? You guys are going to do this with everybody?

That's the league. The Lion This is our point though. Like this isn't fun. You guys don't know that the Lions are good? You guys don't feel like Green Bay is good? I can go on the other side of it. Let's do the other side. Like we could do Browns like dolphins Titans

Jets. Jets. You know? You're playing the game wrong. I just keep thinking, like, I'm the senior NFL insider at the athletic owned by the New York Times, and I'm going. Yeah. And the Zoom's not picking it up, unfortunately, because the Raspberry is always a good sound. Diana, we're in a really interesting time for quarterback play in the league.

It used to be a guy like Gino Smith, a guy who bounced around and reshaped himself into a starter in the NFL was an outlier. And now you have stories like Baker Mayfield, Daniel Jones. Sam Darnold, guys that it took a little time, and now they're playing at elite levels. How does the league take this recent sample and apply it to guys like Spencer Rattler, Trevor Lawrence, even Anthony Richardson? Because we're seeing this recent trend in the league now where guys are bouncing around, they're getting with the right quarterback coach, and they're meeting their ceilings. Yeah, it's find the right programs led by the right people, right?

I think Kevin O'Connell has done a great job with any quarterback that stepped in Minnesota. Kyle Shanahan does it every single season. It's why he's so well regarded. It's this McVeigh tree, the Shanahan tree of coaches that are the ones that are seen to be unlocking a lot of the quarterback play. So I think the story or at least a lesson from this is you really can't give up on a lot of these guys that have the mental toughness, right? Like I was talking to somebody in Indy recently about Daniel Jones.

And also I was talking to someone in Minnesota about Daniel as well. And they just kept pointing to his toughness from his time in New York, dealing with a lot of those challenges, but also just the fact that he's so coachable. And those are things, I think, that are just really important, even at the level of the NFL. I think those characteristics exist. Sam Darnold was probably one of the best examples

of when you talk to coaches around the league, they used to always say, he can play. I'm telling you. And it would get so frustrating because you wouldn't see it. Sequin Barclay said the same thing to me about Daniel Jones when he went to Philly. I remember the first thing I said to him was, you know, man, you got to be pumped about playing with Dailan Hertz now, right? You know, Daniel Jones.

He's like, no, Daniel is really good. You guys don't get it. Like, you give him an O-line. You give him a run game with someone like me, which we're seeing with Jonathan Taylor and we're seeing with a great O'Lon in indie. Walla, it's there. It's less and more pretty good. By the way, off of last night's game, I misspoke.

It wasn't pressure with four. Atlanta was bringing five on five. But it wasn't. No, I said pressure with four because it was a pressure rate that was five guys beating five other guys. It wasn't six or seven guys, but five guys does qualify as a blitz. They weren't doing it with four. They were doing it mostly with five. Yeah, they were very effectively sending their corners, too, surprising Josh Allen's forcing him to his weaker side.

The other game last night, what did you make of Chicago and Washington? And does our NFL insider know when and how they are, we suddenly got two games on Monday night? Did they tell you? Was there an announcement? How that happened? I used to remember like Monday night only had two football games. If one of the games on Sunday had been postponed for some sort of strange reason, a hurricane was coming or something. I know.

They double up. Do you like it, though? I do. But it just used to be that Monday night football was a singular game with singular announcers. There's not a diluted two games, and I'm watching them at once, and I've got to watch Washington and Chicago while I'm more interested in the other game. Yeah, I personally don't love it. I'm liking the Sunday morning international games.

I do like, I mean, it's a long day for all of us, but I like waking up. And I watch the game so differently in the morning. Like I'm way more reserved. I'm calmer. It's just like a warm up to what the rest of the day is going to be. In our house, I'm used to actually having soccer on. so it's nice to just start the day with the football game. I don't like the doubling up at night because I just think it's just too hard for my little

brain to watch both games and then I'm up late, all of it, all those stupid problems that come with it. The wildest part to me, guys, and you guys are on the same time as me, it's just my friends on the West Coast. Like, I don't think we, I think we underestimate how awesome that is for them. Like, they're done watching their football and they have a whole night ahead of them. We're all like under our covers, like looking at Twitter, you know, after these games. They're living a life.

That is the one thing I do wish that we could change is just have the games on earlier. But in terms of what I saw, I mean, the Bears came out looking prepared. They obviously used that by week to get ready for this. You know, and the run game that I saw on both sides of the ball, being able to stop the run and slow the commanders down, something that they've done so well, I think. I think was really impressive. And just to be able to go back to Washington after the way we saw Chicago lose last year on that Hail Mary and essentially ended that year for them, right?

Like, that was an exorcism. One of our Bears writers was talking about that last night. Like, that game against the commanders last year for the Bears is where it all fell apart. Matt Iberfluse went in that. The whole thing was just a disaster. So for the Bears to be able to turn it around. this fast. Like, I think we all knew Ben Johnson was going to be a good head coach. And he was obviously sought after. And he didn't make the decision to become a head coach until he felt ready.

But I am surprised how quick he turned, he turned this around. And you're willing to say that it is turned around. That's Chicago. Is Chicago good? It's, Chicago's good. What? They've got the right, Chicago's the one that's good. Could be. No, no. They've got the building box of a team. that are going in the right direction. Like, that's what I, that's, is Chicago good. You don't get the sound. My bar for them is very low, right? So there's also that you have to factor in.

Like, they get a big picture, but for Chicago and what those expectations are from a first year head coach and seeing how Caleb needed a lot of coaching. Like, this is good. Bears fans should be waking up today, like just enthusiastic that this is headed in the right direction. Let's play the Tua sound for her here and get. her reaction. There is only one team in the league where the coach has to come out the next day and say my quarterback said the wrong thing. I think it starts with the leadership in helping

articulate that for the guys and then what we're expecting out of the guys, right? We're expecting this. Are we getting that? Are we not getting that? We have guys showing up to player only meetings late. Guys not showing up to player only meeting. Like there's a lot that goes into that. Do we have to make this mandatory? Do we not have to make this mandatory? It's a lot of things of that nature. To be clear, you're saying some players were late or missed? Late. Yeah.

Yeah, thank you. Mike McDaniel said afterward, that's the wrong way to handle that. That has to be in-house. Your thoughts? It's a mess. We talk about cultural issues inside locker rooms and problems that these teams have, and it's hard to point to what those are. They just put it out on Front Street.

Like, they just told you the state of the Miami Dolphins. you have your franchise quarterback, the captain of their team, admitting that people are late, admitting that people aren't doing the things that they need to be doing, you know, to be a successful team. And I know their head coach came out and protected him a bit, I think, despite the fact that his quarterback is taking shots at him. Look, the most common question I get around football right now

is when is this going to be over, right? Right. I think everyone's just watching the Dolphins and waiting to see when Stephen Ross goes, okay, enough. Enough. This is never going to turn around, which is unfortunate because I do think at times they had potential. But this has now become what it looks like from the outside, the quarterback going up against the head coach. And that's not going to work. Hit pause on whatever you're listening to and hit play on your next adventure. This fall get double points on every qualified stay. Life's the trip. Make the most of it at Best Western. Visit bestwestern.com for complete terms and conditions. Don Lebatard. Daddy says you're doing a live show on the draft. Is it Channel 7?

Stugats. Those girls on eyewitness news? They look good. They're mothers. They look good, though. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. They also seem to be getting stuck in a game of semantics for when Mike McDaniel came out to, like, say, Tua shouldn't be saying that Tua said there's player skipping player only meetings. And Mike McDaniels like, well, they're not exactly player only meetings.

They're player called film study sessions that they're not attending. So it's not that big a deal. Why is this so weird? Can we just get rid of player only meetings? They don't work, right? And even just the definition of meeting we saw with Philadelphia, right? It's like, you know, they're like, oh, yeah, yeah, we met. we met and AJ Brown's like, no, we didn't.

Like, we were walking to our cars and you were like, yo, catch the ball or wherever the heck their conversation was, you know? Like, that was not a meeting. And I think it's because Philly has tried so hard internally to fix it and it's not working. Like, it's almost like relationships, right? Like, you know, when things aren't good and you, in, you know, your significant other or your partner just wants to keep talking about it and you're like, enough with the talking

about it. It's, this is not going to fix anything. And the dolphins are in the same bucket. like there's nothing they can talk about anymore they are what they are which is not a very good team run by bad leaders right now and it's not going to get turned around and i i just think that they want to stop the bleeding because they don't want to be embarrassed at this point because this the wheels the wheels are off in miami i feel like each team should only be allowed one players only meeting a year like that's all you get and you get to choose when it is that you have

the players only meeting because if you're having it every week it's completely well but I told you guys this offseason, I saw something I've never seen before. Never in my history covering sports. A football team got together on an off day without the coaches and had a practice that was players only. No coaches. They had training camp and then on a day off they got together. That team, to Diana's point of how useful these things are, the New York Jets. The New York Jets had a players-only practice.

this off season, and that's the worst team in the sport, which is hard to do when Brian Callahan's team exists. I mean, but that works when it's Tom Brady during COVID and you're breaking protocol, right? When it's like Justin Fields is calling you to like a park, it's like, did you reserve this field? Like there's kids, they have a game today. Get off the field.

Diana, is it grass? Before we let you go here, can you tell me any coffee shop updates that you have, you, you're having to do a lot of work at the coffee shop. I don't know if you're treating the coffee shop the way. that Billy treats the bathroom as a good place to read to get away from his family. Yes, Billy, I'm in the same camp as you. I write on deadline on Fridays. So I always just go to this one great coffee shop. Like it's cozy. They keep the heat on. It's warm. And I'd say like week

water too. They realized that I was a writer because I was sitting there on the computer. And I mentioned I'm a sports writer. And they just keep sending out fresh cups of coffee. They used to give me plastic cups, then they started to give me a mug. One time I took a call, I came back, there was a pastry next to my computer. They never charged me. So this is like my, this is my spot. It's like my own little home on Fridays. And so this past Friday, I think it was the owner. They're Turkish. And he said, you know, I want to reach you. He said, where can I read you? And I said, oh, the athletic. And so he pulls out the app and he's going to the soccer page. And I said, no, no, no, no, no. Football. American football. And he just goes, oh,

shuts the app. No more free coffee. Oh, no more goods. No. No more muffins. No more warmed up banana bread. Um, I realized that I should have just stuck with it. I should have just been like, yeah, I do a little soccer. I dabble there. So, uh, I got to find a new coffee shop. So no longer, no longer welcome. So sorry. That's terrible. What a terrible ending to the segment. They brought you a free pastry and now it's gone because you were doing the wrong football. She's the senior NFL insider for the wrong football on the athletic and the host of the Scoop City podcast that talks about the wrong football. Thank you, Diana. Good seeing you. Always nice seeing you. We will talk to you next week. Bye, guys. See you next week. I am told we have an update from

Nick Wright. Nick Wright's poker game. Roy, you missed out on all of this. You were not going to be part of the $5,000 that Nick Wright will or won't give the shipping container. God damn it. We're going to find out together whether or not you guys, what's your level of enthusiasm? Billy, what do you think's going to happen here? He had a giant poker game with high stakes people. He didn't even want to tell his wife about it because it's their billionaires involved. It's a game above his head, and this is a man who puts $5,000 aside as one of his bets during the week because he's a big time gambler.

What do you think is going to happen here? I don't know. I mean, he seems to have a lot of disposable income, though, yes. he told us. And if you didn't hear yesterday, what he told us yesterday was in this poker game, if he won big, the $5,000 that Dan owes him, he would give to the shipping container. And if he lost, he was going to need that money from Dan, and the shipping container would get nothing. It was specifically going to be split, by the way, just so we can clarify this, not Tony.

Juju, Greg, I think we were sort of including. Yeah, he was maybe. The four of us back here, Chris Wendon, Mike, and me. Possibly Lewis, because he mentioned him. I did reach out to Nick after the show, trying to actively cut Tony. me out from the pot, Nick allowed him to be in the top. So who, tell me what the cuts are going to be and what are you expecting here. Does anyone know what the result is because he has sent a video?

Do you guys know what the result is? And how many ways is $5,000 going to be split if he won last? I think we should hear from Nick first and see if we're getting money. Well, but I, no, I expect a lot of talk and no action from Nick, right. Okay. So, but just to be clear, Mike, since you texted him after the show, it would be split how many ways because I didn't get that far. Yeah.

Everything was dependent on him winning a big time. And then Juju came in in the post game and we said Juju's in two. So it's very confusing. I don't know. I don't know why you're including my dad. I think it's six of us. I think it's the four of us excluding Roy. Sorry, you weren't here.

He said shipping container though. And then Juju was part of it. I'm good letting Roy have a part of my cut. Okay. So Roy's in now too. That does make sense. Hold on. This is like the classic.

You go to a restaurant situation and you start splitting checks. You said Roy can have a part of your cut. Yeah, I'll pick Roy. But then it has to be, because, like, this is what happens. You go to a restaurant. What'd you order, Roy? And then couples throw in one card and then the single people throw in one card. And then you realize, oh, the couple, each person is actually paying half as much as the single person who's putting in a card.

So we need to set this down and get everything. Well, first, let's see if we want anything. I had none of the appetizer. So, Juju, as I recall, had nothing to do with this bet. You guys are now divvying money up that isn't yours yet and was never yours too. divvy up. I asked Nick Wright to send a video of how he did and who he's giving the money to. You guys don't get to decide who gets the money. I was just curious how it is you'd already divvied it up. So I wanted to see who would get mad at whom. Nick definitely said in the

yesterday, you guys divvy it up how you see. Yeah, that's true. That was definitely saying. Well, but I asked him to send a video to tell us an update. And I see that this is about what it would look like if he were leaving a billionaire's party walking down the street, Nick Wright. So at two o'clock in the morning after complaining that I text him at two o'clock in the morning, he sent this. What up, Levitart crew. I promise you guys an update. This is what I call a good news, bad news, bad news situation.

Good news. I've definitely got to. seat in that game whenever I want it runs about once a month as I said going into it huge favorite moving forward that is bad news I lost how much did I lose you know no way to tell except I mean there's a way to tell but enough that my chest is a little tight right now not from the cigarette double bad news for the shipping container i really wanted you guys to have that five grand but i'm gonna i'm gonna need it it actually would probably be helpful for me if i can just have dan send it directly to assume creditor but that's that's between

Dan and I. You can use this however you see fit. Sorry, I let you down, guys. Talk to you guys soon. You didn't let us down because I love the visuals of walking through New York City and seeing somebody who I could identify as either a vampire or a werewolf. Like that person... Yeah, that would be terrifying.

There's a vampire smoking a cigarette. Which does he look like... He's a liking, no doubt. Well, if he turned into a werewolf, right? there when saying his chest tightened at the idea of me trying to figure out how to venmo him a white corvette uh when if he turned into a van what what would be more likely put that picture up on twitter at lebitard show and uh and just ask the question what is this walking through the streets of new york city at 2 a m is it a vampire or is it eyeballs or is it a werewolf what what what is it

black like a doll's eyes he was also doing circles if you notice the same buildings kept going from side to side. That's New York. He does not have any white in his eyes. There is a lack of soul there that comes from losing to billionaires in a game where you're over your head, but you're playing the long game. He thinks he's got a table full of suckers, but they're billionaires, and he's not. They leave with his money, but he's got the edge. And also his blood. I saw actually the other day, I don't know if you guys could find this for me, but I saw, saw just a, on YouTube, I saw a picture or a video of Phil Helmuth, and it said, Helmuth, I think flips quads. And right next to him is a defeated Nick Wright. Like just

playing in games he shouldn't be in, playing in games over his head, but he is a good gambler. except he wasn't when it came time to not let you guys down and then walk through the streets totally broken with no white in his eyes because those eyes were black and moments after he turned off his camera his hands turned to pause like that it seems obvious to me from that angle but i'm afraid of him because dominic foxworth has proclaimed that the chiefs are indeed back He definitely ran through Central Park like James Spader and Wolf. Did you pay him? I did, yes.

Okay, and the car thing is that still up in the air? We kind of closed that loop. I'd like to still find the car, and I'd like to still figure out what to do with the car, but he needs the money, so I paid him. Quick question about James Spader and Wolf. Why was Jack Nicholson all feral, but James Spader could talk intellectually? He was like the smart gremlin when it came to werewolves. I don't know if you guys saw weapons or not, but the movie weapons, when Nick Wright lost here with his cigarette, put out his cigarette, he then absolutely ran through the park with his arms spread wide and then turned into some sort of creature.

Is there a third creature? Should I put on the pole, werewolf, vampire, loser? Like, what does he most look like walking through the streets at 2 a.m.? I would not get near that. I'd walk to the other side of the street if that were walking toward me with black eyes. Yeah, real resputin vibe. Do we have any other characters that we can go to that would be better? Because I think werewolf is better than vampire. As I approach, like this dude's

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