The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: The Beads of a Bachelor

Episode Date: October 9, 2025

“What’s ruined the kiss and the hug are sexual predators.” Dan admits to an HR violation and accidentally walks himself into a self-comparison to Bill Belichick, so it was that kind of hour. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the big suey, presented by Draft Kings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Lebitard 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 man to nowhere, fat face, and the habit. Pitch you a liar. This episode of the Dan Lovetar show is presented by Draft Kings. Draft Kings, the crown is yours. Can you guys get me, Nick Turturo or the Kid Mero or somebody from New York over the course of this show so that I could just make fun of the Yankees and celebrate it all day? And speaking of celebrating the failures of others, can you guys please find for me credible reporting on Bill Belichick?

Because I keep seeing that he's discussed his buyout with North Carolina. that he has signaled that he might be willing to trigger the $1 million buyout so the whole experiment won't last very long, would last the equivalent of about a month. But is that real? What's the real reporting on that that's most accurate on is Belichick trying to just get out of there? Well, let me say that Ali Conley, despite how certain North Carolina fans may feel about him, is reputable on the Bill Belichick front. his reporting on this at the time of his signing was accurate.

Ali Conley, for those that don't know, once listed the Duke as one of the greatest NFL insiders on the planet. Not once twice, as Billy corrected you on. Was it just twice? I thought it was three times, and each ranking was higher than the previous one. The Duke rose to fourth greatest international football insider. That's as high as it got. And I thought it was going to get to number one because that progress was linear. It was straight up.

It didn't bounce down. Well, what ended up happening, to my understanding, is Ali stops covering football, so the list stopped. So I think it's kind of like, you know, former Heisman winner, whatever. Like, you're always a Heisman winner. So, like, I will, because of the fact that there's been no updates to list, I will always, I think, be the fourth highest, you know, whatever, football, something that Ali did. Now, Ollie was all over this initially, the first time around. And this second time around, I have taken great joy in texting friends.

from North Carolina saying like this this Ollie he's telling us what's going on here and he's saying Bill's gone and they hate Ollie in North Carolina and they're like he's so full of shit he doesn't know what he's talking about and I was like well it's right uh right there the first time around I believe Ollie which is weird because he's you know to my understanding British and I don't know how it is that he has contacts and knows exactly what's going on and chop the hill he has tweeted and it's credible enough that it has more than 10 million views because whether you think he's a credible insider or not, he's reporting per sources that Bill Belichick has discussed buyout options

with North Carolina's hierarchy, and he has signaled the willingness to trigger his own $1 million buyout if he can find a soft landing with another team or in the media. Please put it on the poll, Juju at Lebitard show. Is Billy indeed the fourth highest, whatever football, whatever insider, whatever? I had one of my most awkward public moments with Ali Connolly at the Super Bowl, I think, like two years ago, because he came up to me. It was the last day. Last day of Super Bowl,

you're always like, you know, just trying to get to the flight, basically, pick up everything. It was like late in the day. And he kind of like appeared. He's like, hey, what's up, Billy? How's it going? I was like, oh, hey, how's it going? And I was like, half paying attention, whatever. He's like, I'm Ollie. I was like, can I give you a hug? And I gave him, like, this big hug. And I could tell he very much did not want a hug for me. He's like, oh, sure, like, I guess. Like, whatever. and I gave him a hug. I'm like, man, like, it's so great to me. I'm so excited and blah, blah, blah. He's like, okay, I got to go now. And he, like, left me because of how awkward I made things. Well, it's funny that you should mention that on a couple of fronts. One, Ollie Connolly is Mina Kimes's guest on her podcast, the Mina Kimes show featuring Lenny. And so if she respects him, you should as well. But when you bring up that story. We respect Ali Kahn. I meant the audience.

He's incredible. He's from the Gordon. I hug the man. I hugged him, okay? I don't just hug anyone. Mike has additional reporting on this, but to that point, and perhaps you guys will be surprised at this as well. You don't just hug anyone. And this week, you and I hugged at my instigation, and I felt the way that you felt around and with Ali,

I felt like you didn't want that hug for me. No, falsehoods. I'm a good huger. I give a good hug. I just don't know when it's appropriate to hug and when it's not. I used to be a huger. Like I do like the hello hug that, you know, Hispanic culture is very tricky with the hello kiss. Like we're just, we're not going to beat around the bush on that one because you, you know, you don't know as presumptuous to give a hello kiss. And, you know, when you grow up here in high school, whatever, hello kiss, hello kiss.

But then you like leave your bubble and you're no longer dealing with only Hispanic people and you don't want to give hello kisses to people who don't understand that this is just part of the. COVID hurt the hello kiss. he's so right about this though I don't know who like what is our I try to meet a person's greeting with what they are comfortable with and that often I often miss the mark and it's not like I miss the mark

where I've gone too far it's I miss the mark where I make things uncomfortable because it's like oh like this is a hug thing is this like a hello kiss thing where like you like make a kiss sound and you touch cheek to cheek but you don't actually kiss the person's cheek because that's like weird

thank you for bringing all of this up. We will get to Mike Ryan's new information on Bill Belichick. He has additional reporting on this, but I do want to tackle both of these things. You're saying falsehoods. You're saying you received and wanted that hug from me because I felt like while you may have one day been a hugger, you are no longer a huger because you've been scarred by by niceties in society that have knocked both the kiss and the hug out of the Latin man. No, I mean, really, if we're going to be honest what's ruined the kiss and the hug is sexual predators like let's be fair there it's not niceties it's not that the world's become you know more rude it's yeah it's like you know the predators

out there that make people uncomfortable where it's like this is just a greeting there's no no further requests on my end for where this shall go I'm just saying hello because this is how I was raised this is part of my culture the hug also I will say I have a stye at the moment so I'm trying not to get my face too close to people yeah the good thing about glasses the glasses hide the sty a bit Yeah. Anyway. The hug I gave you, was it wanted or was it not wanted? Yeah, it was well received.

It was fine. I don't walk around wanting hugs. I accept hugs should they come my way. Tony, do you have this problem in either feet or yes? Do you have the problem of coming up to somebody greeting them with a kiss the way Latin men do? Because I've had this knocked out of me. I've had it knocked out of me on a couple of fronts. One, by people expecting the second kiss on the second cheek.

That's European. Yeah, where were you? that's not. No, I'm saying that what ends up happening is once I go in for the first kiss, there are certain members of society that then expect the second kiss that I'm not coming in to give the second kiss. The first kiss is all you're getting Latin style, but many people don't want that either, and now I'm gun-shy. Yeah, well, again, we run in different circles, Dan, yeah, the two kisses at Tapavocca. If you go and you give someone, it's like, then you're being a frick when you're really trying to see how much you can get away with. Exactly right. You're

trying to get an extra little kiss in there. If you're over, in Europe, two kisses, okay. You go two kisses, right? If you're in Miami, one kiss. Right? I don't have it. I don't have an issue with, you know, I'll go up. I gave Mike a hug today for his birthday. So I have no issues with intimate touch when it comes to greetings. Kiss Mike. What? Is this a generational thing or something? Maybe it's because you're older than that this new generation is like, no, we're not accepting that anymore. No. No, we accept it. We still do it. I think in Latin culture, the reason I was asking Tony is because I'm assuming he's almost only exclusively running in Latin circles.

I don't shake hands. Like, I only shake hands with people I don't know. Like, hey, how you doing? Okay, great, I'm going to shake your hand. But, like, if somebody that I know if it's an extended family member, even if it's somebody that haven't seen it a long time, like, I'll go in.

No, but this is where I make the mistake, though. I will by way of greeting simply because I'm Latin and got grandfathered in. People I'm meeting for the first time, I will go in for a kiss, and I don't think that's acceptable anymore. That's still acceptable. I do the same thing.

I'm with Billy on this. What's the new reporting that you have for us, So I want to add to Ali Conley's reports because most people just read that first tweet of his, but there's a lot of detail here, and it tracks with how these things go, folks. So he goes on to add, members of Belichick's coaching staff have already spoken to other schools. That's a pretty big one, and I'll explain why later and add that to another tweet that he has. The rats are, quote, leaving the ship. Some staffers believe a change will come within two weeks.

Reports of serious recruiting violations remain under investigation. at UNC recruiting and practice violations have already been proven by the school, according to multiple sources. Using recruiting violations to knock down a coach's buyout has become standard practice. Once again, totally accurate, just learning from history from Ali. Belichick's communication with his staff over the past two weeks has been described as weird and distant by multiple members of UNC's coaching staff. Multiple coaches were unable to get a hold of them during UNC's by week.

This is where I have something to add because I have spoken directly to people that were Happened to know? Yes, I happen to know that I've spoken to people that were around that program when Bill Belichick was both flirting with UNC and then assembling his staff over there. There was a moment in time when Bill Belichick was already on UNC with a Dallas Cowboys job went open. And Bill Belichick wanted that job. And this echoes exactly how he treated the rest of his staff at that time. He was weird. He was distant because he was actively going for that job.

This has happened a couple of times where everyone knows he wants to get back to the NFL. I hear that and it tracks with what I heard from before. And the coach himself who has been photographed in Nantucket with Jordan on a biweek, strange time to take vacation when you're underwater with your program. He came out with a statement saying he was fully committed to the program and the program backed him up there. You see something like that and you know, you know there's something to the rumors right now. this is not going well for Bill Belichick. And yesterday, I turned to my left and I said, what would we handicap Bill Belichick actually returning next season to North Carolina?

This is starting to get messy, folks. Ali's a good reporter on this beat. Like, if Bill Belichick does come back to North Carolina, I expect him to treadwater over there for a couple of months and then deuce out. Like, that's always kind of been the plan. He was hoping to rebuild his coaching credibility and get back to the NFL. Unfortunately for him, his ego, and those are him it is not going the way he thought this would go and it's hurting his chances he's probably better quitting now than further cementing his name as a failure oh my god he knows

he happens to know come everyone come and listen he happens to know he happens to know well informed you said cryptically that you turned to your left and had a conversation about next year I would think at this point the flames have gotten high enough in terms of legacy destruction that most people listening to this do not expect him to last the year. It's a capitulation, Dan. Sometimes they're on the stock that's tanking and you decide, I don't want to lose at all. I'll just save like 20%. And over time, that'll be fine. And I think he's giving serious consideration to saving face and getting out while he still can, even though I think it's pretty tarnished.

I mean, does he look better by quitting in the middle of the season? I don't know that that makes him look any better than just finishing out the year and saying, you know what, I retire, this isn't for me or whatever. I think adding more L's doesn't help his cause of ultimately trying to get back. Looking for a bourbon that's rewritten the entire playbook, going against the grain is Larsonie's whole game. Larsonie bourbon uses weed instead of rye in their mash pill for a smoother sit. Using 25% more wheat than the leading competitor brings unrivaled flavor that will have you

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Stugats. Belichick has done nothing since Brady left. He made the playoffs once. I think at the very least he should not be a first ballot Hall of Famer. They should make a wait like 10 years to get it. He's an overrated coach. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats.

I need to stop, Mike, though, when he uses the language of kind of tarnished or, I mean, you said it's not good. It's a good deal worse than that. I do not have anything close to precedent on one. what I've witnessed happened to Bill Belichick in all of five games. Like, we could sit here and I can do these stats as an example. Andy Reid, without Mahomes, is 60 games over 500. He's got 13, this is without Mahomes. This is Andy Reid without Mahomes.

Better to do it in this order than the order that Belichick did it in. Without Mahomes, Andy Reid, 60 games over 500, 13 playoff births, eight division titles, one Super Bowl, 11 playoff wins. eight top 10 offenses. One Super Bowl appearance. Yes. Thank you. Belichick, without Brady, 20 games under 500,

two playoff berths, zero division titles, zero Super Bowls, one playoff win, zero top ten offenses. So I can give you those numbers, but none of those numbers stick to Belichick the way these five games stick to Belichick. You guys are doing legacy, and I don't know it hurts him that much. I can't believe. how much it hurts him, because I say these five games make it hard for him to get a pro job

that he wants, one with power, because he had to interview twice in Atlanta and didn't get that job. I think these five games unmask him. Like, it's not just that you don't want Belichick, you don't want the fool who's got the 20-year-old girlfriend wandering around your program. You can't give this power anymore. The only thing he gets is a media job or a coordinator job. I don't believe he's allowed to run a program anymore. But in the grand scheme of things, he's still one of the greatest coaches of all time. Like, this is just kind of kind of be a footnote. Like, we never talk about how much of a failure Nick Saban was in Miami between stops at college.

Like, he's still going to be remembered as one of the greatest coaches ever. But that's because he had massive success at Alabama after failing. Like, there's no success for Bill Belichick after this. Here's where it's – here's why I do think Bill Belichick should get out now because Bill Belichick, outside of the success, is also known for a certain mentality. The Patriot Way and zero distractions. This has been a total circus. This right now just adds to the circus.

We wonder, how could it feel more like a circus at North Carolina? In the middle of the week, you have reputable reporters saying you're trying to find your way out and you're going on vacation with your girlfriend and your school has to put out, a statement saying the dreaded vote of confidence. This is bad. Get out while you still can. I'm not actually doing what Billy's doing. I think Billy is correct when he says,

once we step back from the flavor or the scandal of the moment, the way history will remember Bill Belichick is as one of the greatest coaches ever. It's like Pete Carroll, too. I'm not disagreeing with that part. It's also the part that I find less interesting because we can argue all we want about people's legacies and Conan O'Brien will stand over the grave of Calvin Coolidge and be like, when's the last time anyone talked about Calvin Coolidge?

Yeah, Belichick will be one. one of the greatest coaches ever. I'm talking about the right now for Belichick and how it must be for one of the people who truly believes himself to be one of the great coaches of all time to embarrass himself so much that even before this, Atlanta was saying, now we'll go, Rahim Morris.

You'll need to interview two times. I have to stop you there because I also happen to know what happened with Atlanta a little bit. You're putting it too much on Atlanta. While they may have deduced that after the whole pursuit, a lot of what happened with Atlanta was Bill Belichick not wanting to follow through with it thinking you could get a better situation

because he didn't want to have to do the things necessary to become the Atlanta Falcons head coach. Mike, my larger point is one of the greatest football coaches ever is not welcome back in this world because he's made a fool of himself on and off the field for five games. It took five games. Whatever the details around Belichick in Atlanta, Belichick couldn't get any job that he wanted this offseason. he settled for one in the minor leagues and five games later he's in a worse position than he was five

games ago because now who wants to bring any of that in? You tell me, Jerry Jones is willing to be so small and petty that he's actually appealing that $250,000 fine. If Jerry Jones wanted Bill Belichick five games ago, you think he still wants him?

Stephen Ross. I'd take him honestly. There's so many, there's so many dolphin fans. Camer Rex Riot. There's so many. It's one who dies at Belichie. You can't get much worse. I mean, Tua is out here saying I don't care if I throw touchdowns or interceptions because I just have a happy family. Buddy, care, lie serum.

I keep telling you guys, injects Tua with Lyserum because he keeps saying all of the wrong things. I'm so happy that he has found happiness and he's centered and he has a stable life. Don't tell me about it, okay? Don't tell me about how happy you are because I'm not happy. I mean, I am happy. My family's great and all that stuff. But I'm not happy with his Dolphins team. Do we have the sound of Tua having life perspective on he?

He's on IR with a hip injury and something on his throwing hand. There's something wrong with his throwing hand. I don't know what the injury is. There are so many people, though, as we put a ribbon around this, that are around college football, that are college football lifers, because you have to be built a certain way right now to be about this college football life. I'd handicap it at like 80% of the coaches and the people around college football desperately want to get to the pros because this shit is crazy.

Right? So Bill Belichick and his buddy Mike Lombardi think that they could, it is so hilarious. People are loving this. They thought that they could just stroll into the wild world of college football and dominate. And people kept receipts. That's right, Mike Lombardi. We all remember when you tweeted, not sure how Mario Chrysabal faces his team today. There is coaching malpractice and then there is coaching malpractice squared.

This one will go down as an all-timer. You cannot cure this. I feel pretty cured down here in Coral Gables. Mike, where's your cure? Okay, two things. It's two on IRR? Yeah, did you just break news at Tuaziah? I'm sorry, I meant on the injured list.

Not the official on the injury list. My fault. If I said injured reserved, I did not mean to say injured reserved. Now, if that comes out in a couple days, we know Dan was in the know, and he wasn't supposed to say something. He happened to know. Lord's time zone. Also, Bill Belichick is embarrassing him.

He's not going to get a chance because of what's happening on the field, not off the field, if we're going to be honest. Like Bobby Petrino still got another chance after horrible off the field. They'll abide by embarrassing off the field behavior if you keep winning. It's when you get destroyed on the field. They're like, you know what? Maybe too far. It's still going on though.

That's a difference. Bobby Petrino had to like get some separation from that and had to like clean up his image somewhat and had to have success. Like this stuff is still like he's in Nantucket right now with Jordan. Okay, but if we're being honest, he's embarrassing off the field's behavior. is just he's dating someone substantially younger than him, but it's not like, he's not committing crimes. It's not like adultery.

It's just like people are uncomfortable with the age difference. It's not that. It's that she is totally taking over, like the public relation. She is fully embedded within that program. She's on the field. There were 52. You think Jerry Jones is going to be like, yeah, come on over. Like, let's hang out.

There were 52 Getty images from that game. 27 of them were all of Jordan. That says more about the photographers than it does about her. No, it says how, like, he could date who he wants to date and have them in the background. He's dated plenty in his life. We haven't really known about it outside of a weird costume that gets aggregated occasionally. This is different. It's strange.

Things go through Bill Belichick's girlfriend. It's weird. Maybe she knows ball. I mean, who are we to say that a woman can't know football? Honestly, like this is us showing our asses, I think. All right. stop with the asses and the ball. Let's just identify one thing that you're saying here and attack that.

You mentioned Bobby Petrino. You're right that Bobby Petrino has been allowed to return to Arkansas as a coordinator, but he has not been allowed to do that while in a neck brace on a motorcycle with his affair on the back of the motorcycle while he's patrolling the sidelines or the skybox. It does matter that this whole thing now follows Belichick in a way that. makes it awfully noisy around Belichick, what you're inviting beyond the football. Like, you have to be willing in order to make a choice like Bill Belichick to be so desperate that you think Bill Belichick can actually fix you in a couple of days or weeks.

And maybe that's a desperation that's possible. Joe Flacco is starting for the Bengals this weekend. So that kind of desperation can exist. But when you refer to these two people, Belichick and Lombardi in their 70s, trying to be ahead of everyone else. I heard Katie Nolan yesterday on her serious radio show screaming. She was screaming at Mike Lombardi, who apparently, according to Katie Nolan,

still uses a typewriter and is proud of still using a typewriter. Katie Nolan was screaming the phrase, bring it into the modern age. I've never heard Katie Nolan this angry. At Mike Lombardi for embarrassing what Belichick used to be. Do you guys realize that in the history of sports royalty, you will have a hard time finding for me anyone who's been unmasked like this, this quickly? You're not going to find anyone who's been unmasked like this.

But this quickly, that precipitous fall, okay, there are more details on the Falcons job. Brian Kelly has been pretty bad. And he's coaching at LSU, though. He's still acting like this guy's. Brian Kelly. The Bill Belichick situation, all the cronies around him. are perceived as jokes right now. But the pro game is different.

That's why I think he should get out right now and just say, look, I found out that college football is just not for me. My skill set works for the pro game. And he works over the next few months when the hiring cycle begins to try to clean up the perception around his relationship, understanding that Jordan's not going to be handling public relations when we get to the NFL. He can work on that.

He needs to get out now because only more stories are going to come out. It's only going to seem more like a circus, and it's not like he's going to add success to his name. It's not like he's going to show proof of concept. The numbers that we're looking at so far, you realize that part of the problem here is being embedded in that program in the huddle. There's no way that he is blind to. We've lost by a combined score of 120 to 33. Like, that's not going to get fixed in the next year. That's not going to get fixed in the next couple of months, there's no amount of scheming that he can do when he gets

into the tough part of his schedule that's going to undo with these players the fact that he's going to get his ass kicked that way the rest of the season. And given what he comes from, given the amount of success he's had over the 20 years, it's going to be really

great to see one of the great people in sports who demanded accountability of others quit because he has to. Just be like, and it's not even his physical body. He demanded that out of the variables of the world. Their physical bodies give it over to what it is that we're doing.

Five games and he's already looking for an exit ramp is the most human thing in the world, but it's not the most football coach warrior thing in the world. And he was looking for an exit ramp before there was a game played. He was looking for ways out after he signed. I promise you this. I happen

to know. Yeah, but the media game that he was playing five games ago is he would have gotten a very good job as soon. as Jerry Jones got tired of Schottenheimer if he just spent the entire time talking about the sport instead of letting us watch oh wait it's not that you've got some sort of advantage over these people you've been left behind name a funnier person for this to happen to for an off-field circus to derail a sterling career he seems happy to me i gotta be

honest with you like it seems like the happiest he's been in a long time he looked like a grump when he was there in New England and now here the pictures we see of him it's like these are massive distractions but he seems like a happy guy. He doesn't care about coaching in North Carolina that's why. What happened to honoring his father by the way? Do you guys remember that? It was like I'm coming here because my dad used to coach here. I'm wearing my dad's sweater and it was like a whole

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Bill Belichick, I think likes costumes as much as you, Dan. Like, we would hear about how much he loved, like, the Halloween parties and Randy Moss would tell us, and that he'd show up dressed like a full pirate. And now we see him, like, Gorman, the fisherman or whatever, like on the sidecatch. his mermaid girlfriend like this guy likes the party i again do not like costumes come on my wife likes my young bride likes costumes way to say same situation over in belichick's house damn great job distancing yourself from what's going on with belichick so let me see if i can find this here i haven't played it in a while let's see here i'm going to look for it my eyesight is bad because

the old dog is getting old did you guys remove my oh here is you don't get the show you have glasses you know yeah but they're over here oh okay you're over there thank you call your glasses cheaters yet that's certain to happen to me by the way looked at the phone a little bit too much what's the score of that baseball game and also my back started hurting for zero reason you're 40 it's not zero reason it's because happy birthday to you these are the kinds of things that happen once you start entering this particular uh decade it happened to me man it's bad katie nolan screaming on the radio, because she was screaming, get into the modern age. Can you please explain to me why

Mike Lombardi is still using a typewriter, the benefits of that? Why is he pridefully telling people that he's still using a typewriter? What I, could any of you put this on the poll as well, Juju, at Lebitard show? Right now, if I gave you two hours, could you go get a typewriter? Yes or no? Could you go physically get a typewriter and find one in the next two hours? I believe his explanation was, and I'll look it up just to confirm, with some. Something along the lines of if he uses a computer, he can very easily just erase and start over and make, and he can make mistakes and it doesn't make a difference because it can auto-correct. We're a typewriter. He has to be more honed in to what he's doing so he makes fewer mistakes.

It's a dork is what it is, Dan. Okay, you guys go with dork. I'm just really looking. It's the same guy that's like, oh, I like records because they sound better. And it's like, okay, buddy, I've got 9,000 songs. All right, you're picking a bad fight here. You're going to lose this. I've got records.

Yeah, I know. They sound great. on my thing from 1967. It doesn't sound better. The vinyl doesn't sound better. It doesn't. It doesn't sound better. It doesn't. It doesn't sound better. It's a needle hitting a cylinder. It's the experience. It's the connection. As we get more and more digital, you have something physical, you have something tangible. It smells a certain way. That's what people like about vinyl. The scratchiness of the vinyl. That's part of the

sonic experience there. But it doesn't sound better. Anybody who says that is full of shit. Put it on the poll, please. At Levitard Show. Does the record play? make the music sound better. You're going to lose on public opinion. You guys may actually be right factually. I have records, Dan. I have records. I got a bunch of records. You may be right factually, but you don't think that poll's going to come back agreeing with you and Mike.

Do you? That poll for sure is going to come back with everyone saying that music does indeed sound better on a record player. It's impossible. I'm the biggest Jack White fan there is. He is largely responsible for the resurgence in vinyl, and Taylor Swift is too. But he's so full of shit when it comes to that stuff. He also tried to lie and tell us that he didn't have a cell phone until last year. Like, come on.

It is a weird thing where, like, people try to tell you, like, it sounds crisper on vinyl. No, it doesn't. It might be the only technology in the history of mankind that peaked, you know, 50 years ago. And we've gone downhill with more technology somehow. You ever listen to a song that you loved on headphones? And you're like, wow, I didn't catch that part. Radiohead. What a wonder.

Put it on the poll, please, that Levitard show as well. because I've got a handful of questions here. Gettie took 57 photos of the Clemson Unc game and 23 of them were of Jordan Hudson. How many of were Steve Martin? You gave those numbers? Yes. You gave the actual number?

I was listening, Dan, I wasn't listening. I guess a remaining. A couple of Steve Martin pictures. All right. Hold on a second. Let me do this here. Let me see. This is all... Got the glasses on. Minor penalty, two minutes for a shit contribution. I mean, he's right.

Well, this will allow us to talk about Bad Bunny in the Super Bowl. I know. So this is not going to go the way that... Wait for two weeks, Mike. So, like, there was a take that was talked about back here in the back row when it came to the Super Bowl that I think is not yet... It hasn't yet been explored by the mainstream media as it's become a culture war, unfairly so. And Bad Bunny and his S&L monologue said, you've got four months to learn Spanish. and Billy mentioned something to me off air

that I don't think people are really considering about this. I saw a tweet that was very one-sided and you could guess which side of the aisle it was on where it was saying, you know, I speak Spanish. I still don't know what the hell Bad Bunny's saying. I don't know what he's saying at all. And look, they also said Bad Bunny's music is bad, which I don't agree with that.

Categorical calls. I like Bad Bunny's music. However, a little bit of a mumbler, if we're going to be honest sometimes, which is like that's a style that's fine. It's still good music. But there are sometimes it's a little confusing as to what I've seen people on TikTok who are like, I'm Puerto Rican and I don't know what he's saying. And it's like, oh, okay, that makes sense.

It's like, it's like, Cigaro. Like, it's just an invented language. Exactly right. Yeah, I don't know what you're saying. It's the vibes. You don't have to worry about what he's saying. Just pick up the vibes. It's a beachy vibe.

It's this vibe. It's that vibe. Let's just a good bead. We'll shake our hips. We're vibing. You don't know what the hell, Gengam style. I don't know what the hell Si was saying. No one did.

Yeah, and people were singing it. What does Gengham style even mean? I don't know. People liked it. It was fun. The style of Gengel. Have you seen him get shot out of that like tube thing? Yeah, that's crazy.

I love that video. What if he moves slightly to one side and he like hits his shoulder like on the bottom of the stage? Yeah, that'd be bad. He got shot up like 20 feet in the end. Like he flew. Yeah. Just look at the recent people that have performed at half time. I don't know what Rihanna's saying either.

I don't like the large complaint from the last halftime show was, I don't know. Oh, what are you saying? I can't understand. That's every Super Bowl halftime. Yeah. Like, I was singing the wrong lyrics to Phil Collins' songs for 40 frigging years. It's part of our relationship with music.

If they would have brought Metallica or some other band that other people like, I don't know what the hell they're saying anyway. You think you can understand half of what James Hetfield is saying? You need to understand what the lyrics are. I need a close captioning to see what he's saying. Most of the songs are about shaking ass. Thank you. God bless.

An international language, really. now you said it you're not going to tell me that I'm wrong when I say the music that doesn't have that particular problem country music you don't have any confusion about the lyrics in country music I don't have any connection points to red clay yeah I really don't you don't have any confusion about the lyrics in country music there's no mumble rap although now now those hippity hoppers are trying to get into country music they are they are you've seen it Should be USA music. Country music. Successfully. We have the Mike Lumparty video if you want to know why he uses a typewriter. Straight from the horse's mouth. I do very...

You can use this for a new resume, pal. Let's see it. ...writer because it forces me to slow down. I have to think about what I want to write about. And the typewriter gives you that rhythm that you need to be able to slow your mind down and think. You're going to make mistakes, right? and on a computer, you can delete the mistake. But sometimes the mistakes that you deleted

have really powerful messages in them. And so when I first started to write my first book, I studied a lot of writers, and a lot of them were using typewriters. And I worked for a guy named Ernie O'Courcy in Cleveland, who was a former newspaper man, and he had a typewriter in his office. So I kind of got used to using it,

and it helps me slow down and think, which ultimately is what this job is all about, thinking. There's a lot in this video. I'd like to dissect. I have only one observation because when you guys told me you had the video of him at the typewriter, I did not have him typing just with two fingers. I didn't. Oh, now you see.

Peter Jennings over here. You've got to be precise, Dan. You can't be typing all over the place. That's one of the observations. Video team. The second observation that I have from this, look at those beads on that wrist. Mike Lombardi, you're in it deep, pal. That midlife crisis is a crisis in.

Wow. At 70? How old is he? Oh, well, I mean, Graden on the curve of understanding what's happening at North Carolina, that's good enough to get you someone in their mid-20s. That letterhead that he's using, the North Carolina letterhead, this is to type tiny notes because that is...

Looks like a receipt. That'd say, keep swimming on his... He's a big Dory fan. Good, keep swimming, pal, because you and Bill are a drowning. And also, final observation, he named his own book, Gridiron Genius. Yeah. What a dork. I think that the wrist band says keep swinging, not swimming.

I like it better my way. Okay. Oh, keep swinging. I think, well, yeah. Yeah. That is the wrist gear of somebody who swings. Takes big swings. That is also the risk gear of my dad, who is a career bachelor.

Your dad is also 70, right? He's taking plenty of hacks over his life. Your dad's a letharia. I would say. Your dad is somebody who walks into a room and knows that ladies of all ages are interested in his hair and his scent, his cologne. He's a side kiss or two. Yeah, I got a beautiful face time from my dad today. I'm like, Dad, your face is so smooth. What's going on there? And I'm like, well, you're going to have to start lying about my age now. The typewriter, man. The bragging The bragging about a typewriter is an interesting choice.

The amount of arrogance, this is what we enjoy more than just about anything in public shaming, right? Oh, I love this guy in particular being humbled, because I have heard stories about this guy, and it's not like his public front-facing persona is all that great either. This guy thinks he's smarter than everybody, when just like everyone else, including the head coach, whose record is worse in the pros without Tom Brady than Dave Wanstats. and it's a hell of a lot worse in college. Everyone thinks they're so smart when they got the goat under center. It's not just that, though,

because when Mike Lombardi says what he says, the number of flatulent, arrogant football people that I have heard summon the name of Ernie O'Corsi, as if it means something. Like, the number of, and it does, it does mean something. But using it as a patron saint for, let me sell you my book here. Let me hand you my book with these beads on my wrist,

a gridiron grates that I wrote on a typewriter because I heard wise words from Ernie O'Courcy 40 years ago. Beads on a man's wrist at a certain age or like rings around a tree stump. But instead of years, it's how deep you are into your midlife crisis. The thing that people enjoy in sports more than anything, though, it's one thing to be able to laugh at the arrogance of Bill Belichick

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