The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: The Rudest City in America

Episode Date: August 29, 2024

Is Miami the rudest city in America? Are we not pleasant? Are we not neighborly? Do we answer the door? F*** YOU. After a new poll, the crew is split on whether or not to defend their city from the accusations. Is New York even more rude? Is Omaha actually nice? Let's find out. Speaking of finding out, Pablo Torre is here to question the poll's methodology and discuss the Fanatics news, public transit, rich people, and an airport walk-a-lator. Plus, are we allowed to talk about Colorado Football if Dan isn't here? 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 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.

Who doesn't love canals? Speaking of canals, I saw a story that Miami is the rudest city in America. Yep. That's bullshit. I don't know. Hey, fuck you, Amin. How dare you?

The Summer of Championships continues. Yeah, this is one that we wanted. Woo hoo! I don't agree, though. I don't think Miami is overtly ruder than most other American cities. Overtly, huh? We're not overtly rude.

I think Lucy kind of experienced this in that no one's gonna go out of their way, or really, not even out of their way. No one's just going to be nice to you because. And I think Lucy kind of experienced this in that no one's gonna go out of their way, or really, not even out of their way. No one's just going to be nice to you because. And I think I've. You're not gonna get a lot of hellos and like friendly head nods. We're not a pleasant people.

And Lucy is such a pleasant person that I understand why she was like, this sounds kinda odd, because Lucy is absolutely the kind of person that would like, you open the door, hi, good morning. And that's not really the vibe that you get there. I feel like this is a very Midwestern, like, oh, no one said hello to me on my walk to the school.

Don't be condescending to the Midwest. I mean, I just said to Tony a second ago, he said New York didn't make the list. And I said, New York is probably the most neighborly place that I've ever lived. Everyone there, yes. My experience in New York City was a very pleasant one with my neighbors, with people that worked at the bodega,

with people that worked at, wherever I went, whoever I interacted with, people I feel like look out for you in a way, you don't know that they are. They're not going to do it in a way that is overt. Saccharin. Saccharin, like in the Midwest where you get the, but there's also the Midwest nice thing. Can I mow your lawn for you?

Like shut up, leave me alone. The Midwest nice thing is a little misunderstood because it's like nice but there's a little bit of a, like a shade to it. Shade, there's a little shade there. Can I mow your lawn? I've noticed that it's gotten a little long. Like shut up.

About like five years ago, Amin and I did like a whole bit on New York and why I didn't like it. And I found it like the most overrated city. But I do think in recent years that I've gone to New York, I found it a lot more pleasant. I think it came out of the pandemic nicely. They're fixing the garbage problem.

They find, I mean, they're trying to fix the garbage problem. New York is in an endless cycle of, we found out about garbage cans and then like, ah, back to garbage bags. And then we found out about garbage cans. No, it's, look man. So this is not a real thing. They're not actually gonna finally get garbage cans and then like, ah, back to garbage bags, and then we found out about garbage cans. Nah, it's just, look man. So this is not a real thing? They're not actually gonna finally get garbage cans

on the side of the road? I think it's neighborhood by neighborhood. Like certain parts of New York I think have, you know, when the rat infestation gets really bad, they address it, and then they move on. Are you talking about like the residential? And then five years later it happens again. Trash thing?

That's never gonna happen in New York. That's never gonna happen. I York, that's never gonna happen. I just wanna be able to walk the street and not have to avoid garbage bags on the street. They literally are, like right now that is one of New York, they're doing that. That's never gonna happen. I look at me right now, I don't care what they're doing, what they're planning, I'm telling you,

that's never gonna happen. But like it's happening, I'm not saying it's working, but like that is, it is currently happening. Yes, it's happening, like me working out is happening, right? Like You going today? Yeah, sure. Yeah, see that's that's how it works. Just just like that. You know, yeah, absolutely right after the show They hired a rat czar They hired a rat czar unfortunately, there was a Bolshevik revolution and the rats took over and now they're running the show dude, like it's I've gotten to the

point where when I'm walking down the street in New York, I don't even react anymore, man. I'm like, all right, man. You got it. What are you going to do? It's their city. It's their city. We've lost this battle. It's like the hackers with the social security numbers. What do you want me to do about it? You're pulling out. What do you want me to do? You're pulling out. Set up a credit-free ZonXper numbers. What do you want me to do about it? What do you want me to do? You're pulling out a credit freeze on Experian. I told you this last week.

No, I know. But like, OK, what do I do with the rats? No, they're just there. We're just pulling out of Afghanistan at this point. Like, OK, we tried. Yeah, I gave it the old college try. Like, there are so many issues here. It's just so hard to govern.

You know what? We're out. Miami's ahead of Boston, too. Come on, what are we doing? Miami's a rude town. Look, so Boston? Boston's a rude ass town. What are we doing? These are things like when I-

That's a form of rudeness, Roy. I kind of feel- Point scale. And I've been called out on, like, people have had mixed experiences with me, depending on what mood I'm in and who Miami's lost to. But I do kind of, when I go out, experiences with me, depending on what mood I'm in and who Miami's lost to. But I do kind of, when I go elsewhere and people are nice,

I'm like, what's this person's angle? Which is why we have to be ready down here, which is the whole point. I just stay ready so I never have to get ready. You guys don't get it. If someone's nice to you, that means there's some sort of scam happening. That's the way I hear it.

Because in Miami, there is a scam happening. That's the way I hear. There is a scam happening. But that's why we are built and built in this fire. This is why we're here. No, we're not rude. We just know what's going on. Yeah, it's like you got an angle. Yeah!

Let it out! You're saying hello to me because you want to install solar panels on my roof. I know this. I know this right now. You're only saying hello to me because you want to install solar. Or patch my tire. Dude, don't worry about it. My wife got caught yesterday. She's the door. Someone knocked the door. I'm like, I know this right now. Like you're only saying hello to me because you wanna install solar. Or patch my tire. Dude, good.

My wife got caught yesterday. She's the door, someone knocked the door. I'm like, don't answer it. Don't answer it. She's just like, what? And she like answers it. She was there for seven minutes. Solar panel guy?

Just being like, not today. I'll take your car. She tried all the moves. No. Of like, give me. I'll tell you what the move is right here. You open it up, hey, you gotta slap that door shut. Because like this happened to me on my way yesterday.

I did radio, and after I was on radio, I was like, I'm hungry, I'm gonna walk to Whole Foods. This is new me, healthy me, whatever. I'm gonna walk to Whole Foods, we'll go to the hot bar there. On the way. Get some french fries. As I'm walking, exactly.

As I'm walking, and I'm kinda just looking around, I like looking down the street to see what's happening. Some guys are like, hey bro, excuse me, and I'm like, nope, keep walking. Because I know there is no reason to speak to anybody. Not in this sound. Not in this sound because they are trying to scam you. Chris, the idea that someone knocked on the door,

rang the doorbell, were we expecting someone? No. You look on the ring camera, is it a delivery? No, because they would just drop it and move. It's someone waiting to speak, like I don't have people who come up to my house. Like, I mean, there are people who come up to my house, but I've instructed everyone who lives in my house, like you don't open this door,

because there's no reason to. I've already taught my daughter, the old turn down the TV a little bit, we're being quiet right now. Oh, I don't, I don't. We're not answering this door. We're being quiet right now Because I don't even have to pretend like I'm not home you can sad sit out there Knock on the door ring that Bell not answering I'm not I'm not coming to the door, bro

You want you want to leave me your card because you want to cut the trees or do whatever the hell That's fine. You want to pool cleaning whatever it is. You can leave your car and maybe one day I might need that shit number.'m like, you know what? This guy left his car. But I'm not gonna have a conversation with you. I don't wanna talk to you. I don't wanna talk to people, I'm home. I do that shit for a living every day.

I gotta come here and figure out shit to talk about and wonder where the hell Poblatori is. You should move here because you'd fit right in. I do think that from what I can tell, everyone here agrees. There is a baseline level of rudeness in Miami, except Tony for some reason. Tony is the only one who's like, no, that's not true.

Stand up for my people. We're not rude. We just know what's going on. He's the most Miami guy I would concede in this cast right now. He's the most Miami guy. And we're second? Where most people get prickly.

A mean second, actually. Yeah, a mean, but like just give away. Here's Mike Fuentes, get him in here. I kinda, I saw that report and I kinda, a little part of me was like, yeah, damn right, we're number one. So the other cities that are in Miami's class as far as rudest, Philadelphia and Tampa.

Philadelphia. Tampa. Tampa catching his ground. I can't speak for Tampa. Tom Brady's legacy. Tampa's nicer than Miami in terms of like politeness, but Tampa is kind of mean. I'd be curious to know like if we've gotten progressively more rude since the pandemic, since all these people came to our town and moved here,

maybe New York, how about this? New York is getting more and more polite and we're getting more and more rude. What's happening there? They don't send their best. What's happening there? They don't send their best They're draining their prisons Here they're sending them here and the what?

Oddly coincidental right every time I go to This is this is the other part of this that's funny, right? So the least rude cities, Omaha, Nebraska, to which I would say not really a city. No one actually even did data there. They're like, what place sounds nice? Hey, Omaha, do you wanna go there? Absolutely not. I know people from Omaha, they're very nice.

Minneapolis. Kevin Clark. Not true. Not true, Minneapolis, I went there during the playoffs. I was not blown away by how nice everyone was. It was quite the opposite. I was like, what are we doing here? There's a lot of what are we doing here as a city.

And then San Diego, California, that I do accept. It is a very nice town. Because it's hard to be angry when the weather's that beautiful. Yeah, they have no reason to be rude in San Diego. They are living the life. San Diego used to be my favorite city in the US. It was around the turn of the century. I used to go there as a teenager.

I loved it. Till Tahoe? Tahoe is great too. Tahoe is wonderful. But the last time I went to San Diego was just a couple of years ago. I'm like, damn, this place didn't change at all. Once the T-Rex came through here in Jurassic Park

to the lost world, they just decided, we're not gonna build anything back up. It's just gonna stay the exact same way it was in 1999. We added Petco, we'll give you that. Petco's beautiful, but that's pretty much about it. Mike, you know something funny on that note of cities that have changed and haven't changed? I was talking about this with Mike Fuentes because we did this movie called The Pest on Cinephobe.

I tried out for The Pest, did you know that? Did you? I auditioned for The Pest. One of the kids that was playing basketball or what were you gonna be? I'm not familiar with that. It's funny that you mentioned that because I think I auditioned for a scene

that ended up getting cut out of the movie anyways. Where he goes to like a carnival. Okay. But yeah, I auditioned for that movie. The movie is set and shot in Miami. And so I'm watching this movie. Did you like the movie? You got to check out Cinephobe to figure out whether I phobed it or filed it.

But. Tease. Exactly, I'm a pro. So I'm watching this movie, and the movie was shot in like, 96, 95, somewhere on that line, right? Because it came out in 97. And a lot of it is downtown Miami, like right around here where the Elser is.

And I'm looking at it and I'm like, holy shit, you mean downtown Miami was clean and nice in the 90s? I thought like maybe in the 50s. It was nice. No, they cleaned it up for the production. I don't know about that. It was clean and nice for that movie.

Downtown Miami. downtown city in the 50s? Downtown Miami in the 90s. Seedy. Dude, downtown Miami, before like basically the Elser came up, it was sketch. I'd never had my car broken into more than this one square mile of land

walking across the street to the game. My car would always get broken into, and now it's gotten a lot cleaner, a lot safer because of all the active construction. People just generally that committed these crimes went away from the active bulldozers. Pro gentrification Michael right here. No, but there is, look, there's actually,

I do have some issues, quite a few, with what's going on in downtown Miami and people getting priced out. But there's a corridor over that way in downtown Miami that is kind of unchanged in this weird purgatory. These buildings are too old, too dangerous to actually inhabit. They're eyesores.

You do kind of have to do something about them, but the things that you have to do something about are unseemly. So we're kind of stuck here and have been for quite some time. Well, I mean, some of the buildings that are old are like these nice, like I said, the old architecture and I could see where you want to keep it.

And some of them are like that building is one big Art Basel installation. Like it's from the 70s. Just drop it already. Bring it down. Hey, guess who we're going to talk to next? Someone who finds things out. Is he actually next? Well, I don't know. We'll find out.

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Pablo leads all of podcasting in reading while smiling. If you listen to ESPN Daily, he sounds like he's having the time of his life. Stugats. Coming up next, I'm gonna tell you how the Savannah Bananas are changing things. How do you know I'm smiling? That's the Savannah Bananas are changing things. Savannah Bananas! How do you know I'm smiling?

That's how I find my vocal range. Sometimes I just say, Savannah Bananas! Savannah Bananas! This is the Don LeVatar Show with the Stugats! This interview with Pablo Torre is presented by LinkedIn jobs. Pablo Torre finds out is the name of the show. Host is Pablo Torre. He joins us now. And Pablo, before we get into more serious matters, Miami was ranked the rudest city in America. Now you as a native New Yorker who has frequented Miami

quite a bit, how do you process that information? The rudest. Do they have a methodology for this? Was there a poll? Oh God, man, just answer the question. It's just a podcast topic, Pablo. We just don't. Just don't even answer it, bro.

Just get out of here. The data behind it is basically big game boomer like he's doing exactly I just wasn't sure if you guys were getting butt-crack sports again. No sorry for trying to help I'm reading I'm reading from the actual source right big game boomer It's from prepley I never I never considered Miami rude there you go I mean, I'm not a driver in Miami. I'm an Uber passenger. We didn't even discuss that part.

No, now it makes sense. Okay, but we are pretty rude. Come on, give us that Pablo. I'm now upset like this guy doesn't think we're that rude. Well, your rudeness in response to my allegation that you're not rude does prove the point, I suppose, of this poll. Pablo, I've got the methodology here.

Said we surveyed Americans across the country once again to determine if rudeness levels have changed since 2022 when our study was first published. A lot of New Yorkers that came down to Miami. So typically- Here we go, here we go. We asked a variety of questions regarding the rude behaviors

of Americans witnessing their city. We included everything from residents' politeness towards strangers and servers to inconsiderate usage of phones in public areas and more. We then applied scores to responses that indicated a higher frequency of rudeness and calculated the average score for each city. We then adjusted those scores on a scale of 0 to 10 with 10 representing the rudest. Typically when you're doing a survey in any major American city or at least a survey representative of America

itself, I mean I don't know Mike and Amin, I presume you know the answer to when you're doing a survey in any major American city, or at least a survey representative of America itself. I mean, I don't know, Mike and Amin, I presume you know the answer to this because you're of my generation, but you go to a certain mall, the Mall of America, in which you are gonna survey 100 people to represent the sample of Americans. In Miami, where would you go to take a representative sample

of Miami rudeness? I'm actually trying to wrap my mind. I was like, good luck. Dolphin Mall? Like to sample Americans in Miami, good luck. It's possible they just came here. Yeah, the airport. The Elfler.

The airport in Miami, I don't know. They heard Dan interview Christian Polanco. Maybe one person in Doral, one spot in Doral. I don't know, it's tough. Where's the watering hole where everyone gathers? Right. Flanagan's in Westchester. There you go.

Other one in Pinecrust. Pablo, I have the categories here, the behavior. We've got lack of self-awareness. Okay, that makes sense, this track so far with Miami. I kind of feel like we're pretty self-aware. Thank you. In that we're pretty self-aware. Thank you. In that we're assholes and we know it.

Talking on speakerphone in a shared space. Oh my god. We're really bad at that. We're really bad at that. But again, they surveyed these offices. Being loud in shared spaces. They surveyed these offices. Watching videos or listening to music out loud

in a shared space. I'm the chief offender of listening to music. They rode the Metro mover one time. Lack of care for others. I care about other people. Not acknowledging strangers. I don't like to acknowledge strangers. Being absorbed by phones and not acknowledging others.

I also don't like being approached by friends, so. Strangers, that one's easy. Closed off body language. Yeah, you see right now. Iosed all body language. Yeah, I'm using it right now. I was gonna say, for those not watching the DraftKings Network, Mike's, yeah, he's crossing every limb available to him. Not respecting personal hygiene, space.

I smell very nice right now. Lot of cologne. A lot of cologne. Lot of cologne. Greg showers in his pool. Too much cologne? Not you, Miami. Yeah, not you individually. Well, let me know, keep me honest, sir. Yeah, we will. But also, do it Not you, Miami. Yeah, not you individually. Well, let me know.

Keep me honest there. Yeah, we will. But also do it without talking to me. Yep, you got it. Impoliteness with service staff members. That happens here and I feel bad about that. I'm very kind to service people. This one is, they definitely got this

from the Libertard Show. Allowing a phone to continue ringing in a shared space instead of muting. That was Greg Cody on Tuesday. It just kept digging and I kept counting them and we wouldn't turn at all. Count the dings. There you go.

Not letting others merge in front of them while driving. Nah, but screw you. No, you can't merge in this. Cause I know what you're doing. You went all the way through the emergency lane and they cut me off? No way, dude. And the nerve of you to put on your blinkers.

How dare you? You're gonna try to tell me you're gonna get in my lane? Next guy. You're pretending that that's the situation? That is, no, tell me. From the makers of not letting others merge, how about driving to the end of a closed lane to merge closer to the car?

I can do that. You can't do that to me. That happened to me this morning. That happened to me this morning, and I said, Lehman, don't let him in. Don't let him in. It's every other car. Really?

The monster who doesn't want to go every other car, those are the people I want. I want to get out of my car and run up there and be like, you know it's every other car, right? It sounds like you're complaining about the next category, ignoring basic rules of the road. If I live right by MDC, you know that extension that I'm talking about?

Treacherous extension. If you actually wait in that line, you're a sucker. You're not from Miami at all. You're not from our area. Everybody from Miami is actually skipping you and going to the front and the reason why there is a traffic jam. And finally, not slowing down or being cautious

around pedestrians. Now I get to see what. I've almost got hit by several cars just in the last months. Someone hit my dog a few weeks ago. Yeah, someone hit my dog. Wait, what did you do? What did you do? And how I know they changed after them like through an intersection and they just kept going and then the person said I went to I went to high school with my consent

Speaking of all this Tony Why don't you tell this audience about the time that someone tripped and fell near you on your way to the train? On the metro rail you had to catch it it so he didn't stop and help. Dude, I've seen some people biff it on the Metro rail. Mike, we go to the same station and you know there's the stairs that have like six different levels and then there's the escalator behind the stairs, right?

The escalator's ever working, yeah. Correct, well you have two stairs, one escalator, one stair. But there was one time where the train is, you get out of the elevator and the train is like bearing down. So you got to haul ass, make sure you're going up those steps, high knees all the way up there to make sure you catch the last part of the

train to get in. Right. So I see that I beep in another lady beeps in with me. Right. So we're kind of like moving the trains passing us. I'm like, all right, I've got about 30 seconds to get up these stairs and get like 25 yards into that train. So we're about halfway up the stairs. I see her go down. I look back and I'm like, Oh my God, that train. She ate it. So we're about halfway up the stairs. I see her go down. I look back and I'm like, oh my God, that sucks. Yeah. I'm high knees. I get into the, I get into the train.

I get into the train. I see her. The door is closed and I'm like, oh. And that's why Miami is rude. They probably, they probably surveyed her. First off, this is why I ask my questions about methodology. Good conversation on a podcast, guys. Sporked by my inquiry. Second of all, if the primary criteria for rudeness is ignoring human suffering, as embodied

by Tony's just anecdote, New York is the worldwide leader in rudeness. The number of things, I mean, you remember this. I am so numb to actual human suffering in New York because that's, because I'm walking here. You know? I got places to be. We presume that that person who is clearly, clearly suffering is just like that.

And you know. Well, because you don't wanna get into something more. If it was just helping someone up, I think people would do it. But the problem is- Yeah, I would've missed the train though. It opens the door. And missing the train is the least of your concerns because then you help her up and it turns out like

she's into something else and you're like, oh my God, if I just mind my business. This is just gonna mean more problems for me if I'm actually nice here. Pop, I do wanna ask you, we were talking about this earlier, Marvin Harrison Jr., you can't buy his jersey because he's embroiled in a lawsuit with Fanatics. Fanatics is claiming breach of contract.

Can you find out about them? Marvin Harrison Jr. say I never saw him. Can I cut this conversation short before you get to the senior part of this? They're too powerful. No one actually wants to acknowledge that, hey, consumers here are kind of holding the bag as this entire industry moves toward cheaper quality

and more frustration. The convenience is great, I'll give them that, but they are so powerful that I risk a lot by even acknowledging the fact that yeah, sports merchandise, it's kinda, from a quality standpoint, dipped. Wait, so how much, let me ask, I mean this, how much of the fear, Mike, that you are detecting,

because my fear was more in the direction of the Harrison family. Oh, well, I have that, but my whole thing is, if you have problems with fanatics, they might be solved now because of this lawsuit. Well, okay, so how much though of the fear or the implication of their power and their network is because of the white party?

I wanna, there's a Pablo Torre finds out about this white party. I have a whole lot, I've only like shown a card. I got a whole bunch of fanatics cards here, but I've legitimately harmed my career career and by being on this show I don't it's kind of cyclical in that I don't have any other options anymore I've burned all those bridges and I've just burned another one right now But it's there's a lot going on there and I have some issues and by by bringing forth this lawsuit and invoking the father you

Messed up and not great not great. Can I go back to the New York thing for a second here though? And by bringing forth this lawsuit and invoking the father, you messed up. Not great, not great. Can I go back to the New York thing for a second here though? We can get back to the sports business side of this. By the way, the sporting class came out today on Publatory Finds Out Feed. Rich Guys Only fans, John Skipper, David Sampson, they will answer questions that you are curious about

relating to how rich guys do rich things. I have- Did you cover private equity in this episode? Yes, today was why private equity has come to the NFL, why the NFL has given in to an industry that, as any journalist, grocery store customer, music fan, anything abhors and has great concern about, rightfully,

why is the NFL, which has all the money already, why are they inviting them in? John and David, explain. Sure, Mary. Which is really, really interesting. Okay, so the New York thing, I mean, is about whether you're a walking city or not, because it is about how many people you might encounter

that could plausibly be suffering that you could actually come face to face with or within feet of. And so the driving thing, which was very triggering to you guys, as you guys all collectively revealed by just simultaneously shouting your complaints about what it's like to be a driver in Miami,

I think proves the point. In New York, where I got my driver's license at age like 26, I think, I'm walking around all of the time, which means my rate of encountering people who could plausibly need a New Yorker's help, but only receive from those New Yorkers total, just blinkered, horse running,

the Kentucky Derby sort of focus, it just happens too much. And I think that's a key part of it. I have a revelation in that I am actually taking an active role in making Miami less rude. I have made political donations with the caveat that they can address one thing about Miami's rudeness

that really bothers me. Most developed countries have a sign around their public transit terminals that say, if you're on this escalator and you're not in a hurry, stand to the right. And if you're in a hurry, to allow the people that are in a hurry to run past you on the left. We don't do that here.

It's a disgusting thing that we do where people think it's totally fine. Oh, that guy one step ahead of me standing to the left. Let me take this step right below and stand to the right and essentially blockade Mike who's in a hurry, who misses his train seven times out of 10 because people do this. I have made political donations, begging.

If I give you this money, put a sign up. The airport walk-a-later party. Oh. Dude. We have to stand side by side because we're together. I'm like, no. The airport, it's fine you have luggage, but like this is public transit.

I'm about to stiff arm a child. People are in our home. If you're standing on the left lane on a walk-a-later in an airport. Dude, it's the worst. Thank you, Pablo. Thank you, guys. Dude, it's the worst! Thank you Pablo. Thank you guys. Oh, we had the appetizer last week, but now it's time to feast.

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Stugats! All I have put in my body today is three cups of coffee and an entire cup of honey. Don't let him fool you. He said in the break that he's jittery. This is the Don LeVatar Show with the Stugats. Big Thursday, a lot of football, lots of talk about it. What do you want to talk about? We should not be talking about Colorado at all whatsoever.

Yeah, I think we're all Colorado'd out, right? Want to talk about Colorado. I really want to. I thought we could do some US Open talk right here. We could absolutely do that and we should do that. Definitely not Colorado, but we should definitely talk about Colorado. I want to talk about Colorado. A little bit. Do you want definitely talk about Colorado. I wanna talk about Colorado a little bit.

You wanna talk about Colorado, Mike? Me? That's your idea. If you wanna talk about Colorado, you're inclined to do so. I'm just along for the ride. Guys, we can't do this while Dan's gone. That's not nice.

Well, you know what? And then he comes back and no one wants to talk about it. Then we're all Colorado'd out, right? Yeah, I get so like, turn on the TV's, all they're doing is talking about Colorado. It's like, I know what you're trying to do. I'm wise's, all they're doing is talking about Colorado. It's like, I know what you're trying to do.

I'm wise to the game. The game is on your network. You're trying to get me to watch Colorado thinking that that would work. And it absolutely has. I cannot wait for this game. I'm so locked in. I'm so locked into this game.

But we shouldn't talk about it. No. We should be talking about a different school with the colors black and gold and the big 12 of them, all right? Ah, shut up, Jeremy. Now I will definitely talk about Colorado over that team. Let's talk about Colorado, please, because look, they're 0-and-0 right now.

Usually vibes are supposed to be good, especially around a Deion Sanders program right now, but vibes are not good. Why not? Well, some people are pointing the finger at the head coach because of how he's treating the media and an offseason of, I don't think, I'd term loyal is too strong of a word, an offseason of, hey, what's going on over there is how I would put it. Hey, what's going on over there? And certainly questions that are being asked of that program that wouldn't be asked if they were a better program.

Their byproduct, what's going on with Colorado, is they're a byproduct, there's already Colorado fatigue, the season hasn't even started yet. They're a byproduct of what they brought in. They wanted all this media attention, they got a lightning rod for a head coach, one that is media friendly to certain media outlets that gravitate over to him because he does move the needle. His Colorado games rate, because of Deion Sanders.

They're looking for people who prop up the cult of personality. That's who he's... Propping them up to eventually tear him down. And a lot of people are calling this a setup from the onset, from the outset. And I'm on that level. Like I kind of see what's happening here, but I'm also a contributing factor to the other side. I'm fascinated by what's happening because we've never had a player ascend the ladder. Like, yeah, I'll come to college football, I better be a head coach,

and I'm not gonna wait around forever for my next opportunity. So fast-tracked, as a black man, it's very difficult to get these positions of how he does it a totally different way than everybody else. And people are rooting for him, people are also rooting against him. I have my thoughts on his general approach. I think most people would agree, although it's very vogue right now to, yeah, F the media. I'm with you. He's definitely tapping into a vibe that already exists.

He's not created this. No. He's just pandering to that segment of the population. I saw the David Samson segment that you guys had yesterday. He saw this coming from a mile away and he put it in his contract. If I don't want to talk to a certain media company, I don't have to, which, a bit of a red flag, but okay,

if you're already preparing for that. I wonder how much he had to give up to get that, or if he had to give up anything at all. Was it just an ask and they were like, sure, go ahead. It's kind of, that's kind of how Colorado's athletic department was rolling at the time. I've spoken to people that have spoken to people. They're kind of along for the ride here,

and they understand that they don't really have any moves here, but also he's pumped in a ton of revenue into that program that was dying for revenue. University, not just a program, man. Like they've made a... Oh, a bunch of people are applying to Colorado because it presented well on TV. When game day went out there, man, this seems fun.

If I'm in that part of the country, I wanna be there. If I'm a prospective football player, I want to be around that energy. I want my coach to have my back in those profound ways. It's a different way than other coaches do, but you could see, while some people may see his treatment of his sons and Travis Hunter as, hey, that's a little problematic.

You're very clearly putting these guys on a pedestal and treating them differently than everybody else, that might really appeal to certain recruits. Like yeah, I am a different talent. Yeah, the blue chips want to know that hey man, we're not, it's the old animal farm things. Like all animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others, right?

I don't necessarily, I'm just curious. I wanna take this as data and see how it actually works out. Going in, if I had to make a prediction, is this going to be a smashing success or an utter disaster? And I had to make a pick, I'd say I kind of think that this is going to be disaster because there's a lot of, this is a very unconventional approach to a sport that is very conventional. Yeah. I'm curious also, last year obviously there was a lot of hoopla and hype to be seen at a Colorado game at the beginning of the year particularly. That was a thing, celebrities were flying out and stuff. Do you think that same energy carries over this season where people still want to be

there even after the tough ending last year? If they win, yes. It's an infectious energy and I think the machine, which is now kind of working against Colorado and Colorado fans have always been sensitive, like they've never been in the era of social media, Colorado is- Have you ever been? I've never been to Boulder.

I've actually never been to the state of Colorado. Really? Yeah, it was a bummer. Nice place, dude. It seems, Sunshine State. Sunshine State. No, like I said, it presents well. It's not the Sunshine State.

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