The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: THE U...IS...BACK!

Episode Date: September 4, 2024

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In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries That if they're just there that hasn't happened to you guys. I've done it And now here's the marching band to nowhere fat face and the habitual liar David Samson is with us now and he's the host of nothing personal He's on live on an assortment of other things that aren't related to our things at 8 a.m Live Eastern. It looks like Tony Saragusa.

I mean, goose. Cam Oliver. Oh, he's so good. Jason Jackson would like a word. Michael Buble's in this thing also. Jason Jackson would not like a word because he says too many words to fit within the confinements of a sideline reporter.

That's why they hired a hot young sideline reporter for the Miami Heat. Oh, you got a new one? You've been fired. I'll go. David, what do you make, before we get started in earnest here, of the changing sports media landscape

that has Peyton Manning wanting to make a musical with his brother because them and McAfee and Shannon Sharp they all want to use ESPN to build an empire while Tom Brady uses Fox to build his content empire. Well everyone's trying to get paid first as opposed to doing the work and then getting paid for the work. So it's like development deals in Hollywood, which used to be a big thing. They would pay people to come up with ideas

and then said, well, wait a minute, we're not getting enough good ideas. Let's get rid of some of these development deals because our stock price is so low. And let's just wait for people to develop their own stuff and then buy what we like. And what the Manning's are doing, it's actually a great plan.

It started actually with him doing commercials when he decided that he wanted to get out in front of his post-career life, whether it was for money, for fame, for ego, or for boredom. And then he's parlayed that into working very hard, like McAfee does, like we all do here at MetalArk, where he does the Manning cast. And now you realize that in order to really get paid a multiple of all of your ventures, you have to have a bunch of different ventures. So much like you're talking about being on so many different platforms and making a joke of what they are and can't remember, this is all part of building your company in order to make it more valuable and that's what the Manning's are doing. What exactly is going on with Venue Sports?

What's the snag there? Venue Sports is a, they're in trouble. Venue Sports was invented by three different companies as a sports tier and it didn't involve CBS. It involved Warner Brothers who is going to lose the NBA but they're in a lawsuit, and it involved Murdoch and Fox, and they're trying to figure out, how can we get someone to give us 45 bucks a month to get channels that you can get somewhere else

in order to make it easier to find sports? And then Edgar Bronfman, Edgar Bronfman, remember that name, who happens to be the Seagrams guy, who happens to be the one who tried to buy CBS but it didn't work and that's why Skydance has it Edgar Bronfen has the same thing called Fubo Which are we on Fubo Stu gots? Did you write that down? I have no idea. I have Fubo though. I had the the free trial I mean That's how they get mr. Free trial. I'm sure that's paying for it every month

Nobody remembers to cancel steps to God. He takes the free trials and has a spreadsheet. The most disorganized guy in the world knows exactly when to cancel. So he doesn't have to pay for anything. That is absolutely on Brandon tracks perfectly. But venue Roy is this here. And Fubo said, wait a minute, this is a violation of antitrust. This isn't fair.

You're not able to do this tier. This is getting in the way of us trying to do our own sports tiers. And a judge actually agreed. And a judge granted an injunction which meant Venuroi couldn't even start. They were going to start in August and now there's lawsuits and all sorts of things happening and we don't know where this ends except I think I do.

Venue is going to disappear. So is this a similar thing to when Disney got regional sports networks and they had to give it up because of a monopoly? That's one of the greatest things. That's not even talked about enough because those regional sports networks are all bankrupt now. And what Disney did in a fit of forced brilliance

is they were told by the Department of Justice that they had to sell out those networks and they found a buyer at a ridiculously overinflated price. And it is funny what the Department of Justice does is they try to help us, the consumer. They try to keep prices down, keep people being competitive. I'm not sure they're doing great in the airline industry,

but we can talk about that later. So they're looking at all these different deals and different ways to stop these deals from happening. And one of the things that they will look at when there is this consolidation in the streaming world where we're trying to get in all the different streamers wondering who's gonna win at the end of the day is anytime mergers happen, the DOJ looks and says,

we don't think that this is good. And that's what they said to Disney that forced them to sell those networks. David, what is the, say, financial return of a show or a comedic entity making a musical? I'm going to say close to zero. When you are asked, let me give you one quick bit of advice. If you're asked, I'm sorry, to invest in a Broadway show

or a movie, here's an idea, don't do it. Well, you say that as we build a content company that makes movies. I wanna make, Dan, if I'm making it, I can make the money. If you're asked to be a limited partner, sort of like being a limited partner in any business, be very careful, just be very, very careful. So I will explain to the Peacock audience here that David Sampson does a podcast every

day, nothing personal, and while it covers a lot of ground, the best ground it covers, and he does this with John Skipper and Pablo Torre as well on the sporting class as part of our Levitard and Friends network, is no one has a grasp for the complexities of what is happening in sports business right now and covers it better then this person and especially when he's with skipper and pablo because they've done the work to know and be informed on business subject matter and the reason i bring all that up is while we're in the content business

one of the things that i find hugely fascinating about pat mcafee kicking down the door on disney and iger coming out and saying and i need the mannings to i need to evolve this thing is the fact that when tom cruise and will smith i'm reading will smith's uh... autobiography right now no one understands how hard those human beings had to work and have to work to be the biggest movie star in the world no one understands how hard tom brady and paid manning lebron james had to work to be the things they

are they are insistent on being those things now with disney's money and hollywood's money cuz they're in the making things business but it's hard to make them well it's not hard to make them untold is falling apart because it's not hard to make them it's hard to make them well it's not hard to make them untold is falling apart because it's not hard to make them it's hard to make them consistently well and so when manning and brady and lebron or and mcafee and shannon sharp and all of these people are fighting with each other with disney's money

and they're trying to run off the journalists and steven a smith is saying hey wait a minute journalism still matters in mackinsey's going to ESPN and saying, no, it doesn't. Because you rent now, you don't own me, you rent. What are you interested in in there, David, when people are fighting over these giants of sport are fighting over the money that Disney has to give away to keep up?

The number one thing is that owning your own intellectual property, that is the most important thing in today's media world. Owning your feed, owning your audience, and I say that in the nicest, best possible way, and because that leads to portability and like free agency in sports, that is the way to make the most money. When you are a free agent and you own your talent and you can bring with you an existing turnkey big operation, you get paid multiples of what you're worth, then you can reinvest that money and diversify your revenue streams.

That's what all these people are doing and we're doing it too at MetalArk. Well, that's what MetalArk is. Like, I don't believe that ESPN knew the value of giving us our intellectual property. We're in this fight with these people because Disney gave us that to get out. Maybe they're just being nice.

No. No. Maybe they just wanted to get rid of us. No. No. No, they actually made a business deal, but you made a better one. Yeah.

Yeah, I paid for it. One zero. Yeah. I mean they did want to get rid of us though. Yeah Yeah, yeah, yes little dicey at the end. Yeah, a little dicey at the end Yeah, they wanted to get rid of Chris Cody. Well, they did they did get rid of it And then the joke was on us. He was an employee longer than the rest of us Chris Cody you understand I just want people to blame the kid for the divorce

okay I'm not blaming the kid the kid it might have been the final straw but this this was not a marriage that was flourishing the kid is not being blamed for the divorce the kid feel resentments from a lot of people in this room and it runs with shmilly okay the reason the resentment is because you've climbed to the executive producer chair because we've decided

we're gonna fight Tom Brady and LeBron and Peyton Manning with Chris Cody. There would be no resentment if you just gave Billy Disney vouchers, Dan. That's all it is. Just give him some Disney vouchers. Billy, all right, it's a start because I'll negotiate with your next contract board now. I'll fill it with Disney vouchers. Start. Billy, all right, it's a start, because I'll negotiate with your next contract right now.

I'll fill it with Disney vouchers. Ooh. Start negotiating with six, Billy. You know what, Billy. Well, we did get those guest passes, and there was coupons for 20% off. I got a deal for you, Billy. Ooh, I don't know.

All of your God bless football pay is in Disney passes, as many as you want for yourself. That's no passes. You didn't keep any Disney friends? I still got a few. I don't like asking people for things. I do it all the time. I hate asking people for things.

I love you, Randy. I'm glad we've got an expert in these matters. Hey David, I do want to ask you, I'm a loyal DirecTV subscriber, and lo and behold, I can't get ESPN. I canceled. Or any other Disney-owned channels. I did. You really canceled?

I canceled. Yeah, I wanna watch the US Open. I wanna watch college football. I get home, DirecTV doesn't have ESPN. It's driving me crazy, I canceled. I couldn't watch the US Open either. David, is this the largest kind of conflict between a content provider and a content distributor

that you can remember? No, there was one just as big last year with Charter and it ended right as the NFL season was starting. And Stu, I wanna really dig into that. You actually called DirecTV and canceled all of DirecTV and what did you do to get ESPN? So I signed up for YouTube TV, I now have ESPN, I have it there, I had to get the NFL Sunday ticket anyway.

So I just decided to go full YouTube. And once this charter disagreement is gone, are you gonna get DirecTV back or are you now permanently done with DirecTV? I think I'm permanently done with DirecTV. As long as I can get the FBI shows on YouTube TV, I'm good. I mean. direct t.v. as long as i can get the f b i shows on youtube t.v. i'm good i mean isn't that all that's happening david throughout the like sports fans are trying to keep up with the new normal which is i'm gonna have to start canceling a bunch of stuff because i'm not gonna have a lot

i just don't understand david how all of this is so sloppy all of it that it makes it so that all of these entities have to go find their oil wells elsewhere and double dip on stuff and make the customer go and now chase it around because the money has all changed the way that we're used to doing things. Boy, Dan, you're the king of the slop though.

You know exactly when you're trying to do something different and new that it's gonna be sloppy and there's gonna be twists, turns, fits, stops, and starts that may last three and a half years. So there's a complete, what some are calling an existential crisis, including the people to be twists, turns, fits, stops, and starts that may last three and a half years. So there's a complete, what some are calling an existential crisis, including the people at DirecTV are saying that there's a misunderstanding about what is happening in the world and Disney does not want to acknowledge it.

And that is the fight. ESPN wants to get paid what they've always been paid by DirecTV. And DirecTV is saying, no, we can't pay you that amount anymore. It's a brand new world. And as a consumer, we are paying not less for cutting the cord and for getting rid of cable. Like Stu, do the math. You got rid of DirecTV, I know you do the math.

God knows if you don't do that, you're doing nothing about how much you're paying per month when you get rid of direct TV But add YouTube TV add the streamers that you need to get football And my guess is you're gonna be exactly where you were with cable or even a little higher I'm going to be I'm gonna be exact just about exactly within a few dollars Pretty much where I was with just direct TV, which is amazing. I mean, I'm thrilled about it, you know That's awesome that you're thrilled.

Most consumers were hoping to actually pay less money to get just what they want. And it turns out that all this bundling and going back to venue, it's all about bundling again. We're actually going full circle back to what really was cable. It's quite unbelievable. What's the movie you're reviewing for us this week? I just wanted to spend a minute,

and I reviewed this on Nothing Personal this morning, but I wanted to do it here as well. I wanted to talk about Pearl Jam and Pearl Jam 20. I had a chance to go to the Pearl Jam concert last night at Madison Square Garden and make it back, of course, to do the live show at eight o'clock. And there's a documentary by Cameron Crowe called Pearl Jam 20, and it was their 20th anniversary and I did not know the provenance of Pearl Jam

and how Eddie Vedder got to the band. I wasn't really aware of their backstory and what they've done and how they've done it and Cameron Crowe is one of my if not my favorite movie maker. He's done singles and Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous etc. so i would encourage you to watch pro jam twenty and if you can see any veteran in concert i would also encourage that david good seeing you thank you i will tell the new peacock audience nbc sports channel uh... that david samson's podcast which is largely uh... available everywhere you find all of your podcast but is also televised on youtube the name of it is nothing personal and the business stuff

he's doing all the stuff is good but the business stuff he's doing is better than anybody is doing it in sports media thank you david it folks it's my crime now it's football season which means i'm gonna be missing the occasional friday to be traveling to watch a football game And in all likelihood I got tickets for that football game Via the game time app and you'd be excited to know that game time has a brand new really cool feature called game time picks That makes getting tickets to see your favorite teams play live even easier game time picks filters out the fluff to show you only

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They walked out of the swamp with the most impressive win of the weekend. No. And all of Florida's recruits. You're not going to announce it. You're not going to announce it. And Dan, just like that, make no mistake about it. For a record, 37th time here on Weekend Observations, the U is back. Unbelievable. That can't be already.

You're shocked, huh? Well, you've announced it. You've made it official. I have, yeah. It's official, Jessica. It's not official that Notre Dame is back. It's official that the U is back though. Because Notre Dame is back. It's official that the U is back though. Stugat said it.

Oh. Speaking of back, for a 20th consecutive year, we are also back. Ah, how about that? That's right. Supposed to do that yesterday. Yeah, well, weekend observations are late sometimes. And on Thursday, you know what else is back Dan?

I do not. Sundays. Oh, put it on the poll please at Levitard Show. Are Sundays back on Thursday? College game day, on a college campus, on American soil. Now, college football is back. You with your xenophobia on Peacock. You're not going to disrespect my Georgia Tech yellow jackets.

That counted. I said that the number one team in the country. You said that they shouldn't play the first game of the college football season in another country. They shouldn't. It's ours. Gainesville, more like Canesville.

Oh. Oh. Oh, more like Canesville. Oh! Oh, can you guys put, can you guys put in the picture in picture, please, Mario Cristobal snapping the Gator Chop over his knee. Can you guys just put that over his, over in the corner? You don't like that, Jessica? Ew, it was, did you guys think he looked cool doing that?

It's like what Chris, it's what Chris said about that song giving him goosebumps because the Panthers won. It's not because the song is good, it's because the feeling is good. I mean he's gonna be a crybaby if someone puts the you down. Yeah like, they disrespect me. It's like, okay idiot. I mean he's a bit of a caveman, like he's a football caveman. No one answered my question, it's yes or no.

Yes. That's a no. No I liked it but I'm ashamed that I liked it. He's a football caveman. No one answered my question. It's yes or no. Yes. That's a no. No, I liked it, but I'm ashamed that I liked it. Fair enough. That's what it's like to be a Notre Dame fan too. I know it's only been a week, but the early favorite

for the coveted college football executive of the year award has to be Mike Ryan. It does? Oh yeah. I mean, he got Cam Ward. He did get Cam Ward. If you're not familiar with our show, we're not making up the fact that Miami is kind of being run, the NIH initiative by our, what used to be our executive producer.

I don't totally understand, but I think we just bought our way to the top of college football. Legally. Legally. It was allowed. Which is a new thing for me. No, we're using high-ly money. top of college football. Legally. Legally. It was allowed. Which is a new thing for me. No, we're using high-ly money. Executive of the year.

I mean, am I wrong? After one week. We also spent money as a show on Tyler Van Dyke's NIL deal, and then yesterday Mike said that he wasn't good. We spent some poor money at the beginning. That's a learning curve. Well said. Baseball.

Thanks for bridging the gap. See you next year. Dan, you know what the B in baseball stands for? What do you mean? Bridge to football. Oh, come on, Stigatz. It's been great, and the last week of the season is going to be awesome. There are going to be so much stakes the last week of the season.

Baseball is amazing right now, Stu. You say so. Your boy, Francisco Lindor, 30 homers. Dan, you know what the 2Ls in Mike Norvell stand for? 2Ls. There you go. Look at you. You're a game.

That's a good joke. 20 years, but he's finally catching up, Stu Gutz. Hey, Iowa, do it with Kirk Ferentz on the sidelines. No. Ha ha ha. Francis Tiafoe, Blake Shelton, one for the ages. The US Open has been so good. So good. Wish I could tell.

Country singer? Would have been nice to be able to watch. You got Tiafoe, you got Taylor Fritz in a semi-finals. There's gonna be an American in the US Open final. It's been a while. Men's. Men's. Cocoa won it last year. Crazy. the Greg Cody Tuesdays. Number three, Ron McGill. Number two, LeBron James. And number one, Roy. My man.

Holding it all up, it doesn't work if there ain't sound. It does not work if there ain't sound. Now, he don't make a sound, but he handles all the the sound I for sure thought you're gonna go with number one the fans in an act of just blatant pandering yeah oh wow the fans are outside looking in love you fan our customers it's a tough top five. I thought it was just going to be money. If I'm being honest and usually I'm not, I have no idea if the Gators are good. Therefore, I have no idea if the Canes win was the most impressive win of the weekend.

Truth is none of us do. We don't know if Florida is good, but I do feel like everyone in the room would agree that no matter how bad Florida is, Miami's quarterback can play quarterback. I feel like that we can answer no matter who he's playing against. Against Florida. Well, okay, so just to be clear, you're not sure that Miami's quarterback, Cam Ward, can play quarterback? Correct, but I know they're back. I mean. Okay, you're not sure that Miami's quarterback, Cam Ward, can play quarterback. Correct, but I know they're back. Okay, you're not sure of that.

They don't have a ranked team on their schedule the rest of the season. They're going to the playoffs. Louisville could be pretty good this year. They're good for Mario screwing up two of them. Aren't they now? And NC State, I don't know if they play them, but they're also ranked.

But they're gonna play this weekend against Tennessee, so they may drop. Dan, you know what the H in Travis Hunter stands for? Heisman. It stands for holy shit. Guy is good, man. Yes, he is. Football on TruTV, I'm in.

Are we on TruTV? No. Soon, give us time. But we're on Max, which also is tied to TruTV. I'm in. Are we on TruTV? No. Soon, give us time. But we're on Max, which also is tied to TruTV. And CharHud. And CharHud. Somehow, Pat McAfee, on game day, made Johnny Manziel look sane. Things you think about on your couch, on a gummy, after a day of football.

I can't imagine Scott Van Pelt ever having hair. I got him with the long locks looking like Fabio. Really? Yeah, golden locks on Scott Van Pelt. I can't see it. Top knot. Wouldn't work. Like on a stallion, like riding a white horse? Yes, and a shirt open. White unbuttoned shirt. I don't think any of us are doing what you're doing right now. No, he's definitely doing that, man. Back when he was on Golf Network.

If he had hair. He had hair? Yeah. Oh. Mike Elko. Looks like he can cook a mean set of ribs. My set of ribs? Does he not? You called him ugly. I did not call him ugly. To his face.

I said in comparison to Marcus Freeman, he is ugly because in comparison to Marcus Freeman, everyone is ugly. You gotta pick and choose who you do that game with though. You actually asked him if he knew he was ugly is what you actually asked him. He's a friend of mine, we were just chumming it up. You were asking him, like, I'm not breaking this news to you, right, Elko? I said you might win the game, you're not gonna win, best looking coach on the sideline. I mean, not in that game, I mean, maybe another game.

It was also like question three, like there was no rapport built at that point. Yeah, went right in. Still. Stop the music, please, and I want to examine this for just a second, and you guys tell me, because this was wildly uncomfortable,

and I'm telling you that the funniest part of it is the camera panning to Elko and how he actually looks. Like, if any of you are being introduced to how Mike Elko looks. This is so wildly inappropriate and it's also exactly why you should listen to God Bless Football. You know, you might win the game, but you're not gonna win best looking coach, okay?

Like you know that, right? What? What are you talking about? What is that question? The guy across the side's right from you. The guy across the side of Mike. I thought that competition was still wide open. What a cut by Danny Benitez there. Great job by him.

Danny B. Yeah. My gal code two years older than I am. He's, he looks like he's like my dad. It's impossible to think that that human being is under 50 years old. I'd be shocked if that's what your dad looks like. You know, you know, Ed Orgerron used to be a coach, right? Active, active.

I think Mike was tailgating with him this week. Mike's running college football. Like Mike is running all of college football. And he's gonna be in a Mission Impossible. Is he? Documentary. Dan Patrick and Dan Lebatard. A couple of Dan's on the cock. Come on! What happened there? We're gonna get dropped before the week is out.

We are. They're not gonna let us keep doing that. Wasn't even the line. You changed it. You know what they say. If you have two Dan's, you don't have one. No, you have two Dan's you don't have one No, yep, you have to I found out Bill O'Brien was the head coach of Boston College when I turned the game on Last night that was two nights ago. I was supposed to do these yesterday. I did it but last night two nights ago Congratulations to Bill. You got the job put it on put it on the pole juju at LeBattard show Did you find out Bill O'Brien was BC's coach on Monday night? Congratulations to Bill, you got the job. Put it on the poll, Juju, at LeBretard Show. Did you find out Bill O'Brien was BC's coach

on Monday night? Watching Notre Dame and Texas A&M, and Dan, Abby did the thing. Fifth time she's ever done it. Camera, scrolled over to Marcus Freeman, she looked at me with a sudden interest in the game, and said, who's that? Five times your wife has had that feeling.

Yes. What are the other times? Salah was the last time. Yeah. Robert Salah. Good looking guy. Was it Jonathan Coachman as well? Coach and Max Bredos, yeah.

Oh yeah, Salah to Max. I miss him. Me too. We're still on Max. Yeah. Hey. And the cock. Couple of days. They're gonna make us stop doing that. I'm gonna get a call from corporate. A stently worded email. I mean for sure. Stop calling us cock. Two days in you can't keep saying we're on the cock. Like there's just no way I'm not gonna get a call on that. Mr. Lebatard, we received an email

and you need to tell your crew to stop making that joke. Fake skipper's funny. Stash this away in the Something the Ponder file. Does Marcus Freeman wear those shirts to show off his body or would any shirt show off his body? He actually said in his Monday press conference he called an audible on that outfit right before the game He changed his mind what he was gonna wear

There's also this thing going on where Marcus Freeman has a bunch of clothes that are not available to the public like they create his own Custom apparel for the sideline. How do you feel about the blatant and unusual? Objectification of Notre Dame's coach. It's one of the strangest things I've ever seen. At no point in my lifetime did I think anyone would be objectifying Lou Holtz. Well, Dan, I think to answer your question, Notre Dame fans are so desperate for people to be like, hey, Notre Dame football, kind of cool.

Very likable head coach, especially after the Brian Kelly era, that everyone has kind of, they're okay with it. If you're talking about Notre Dame football and saying something good, even if it is objectifying the head coach, it's like, all right, well, this is better than what happened from 2010 to 2021. Ty Willingham crawled so that Freeman could walk.

Yeah. I got chills watching Nick Saban break down film. Hey Lucy, I get it. If I was an Iowa fan, I'd go to any other game as well. The only defense that could stop Cade McNamara is Kirk Ferentz. It's criminal how easy Scottie Scheffler is making golf look. Too soon? golf look. Too soon? For context, Scotty Scheffler's caddy would be 20th on the PGA Tours money list. Think about that! His caddy! He's made over five million

dollars. And tips? The average tour players made 1.8 million dollars at this point of the year. He's made over five! Stugatz was very frustrated yesterday and I hope we can get to it at some point during the show. He says he's got a full segment on Scheffler. Like that he can talk non-stop for 12 minutes, he said. Dan, I've always said, nobody just strolls into Vanderbilt Stadium that's still under construction and walks out alive. That is so Vanderbilt to have a stadium that's not complete yet.

It's not Vanderbilt. That was actually finally a good one. Finally a good one. Finally a good one. Not good enough for not. Oh, your judgment's off. Oh, imagine a Duke football fan watching Texas A&M and Notre Dame play with their former coach and their former quarterback. I should have stopped that. Imagine a Duke football fan. Good one, Taylor. He hates Duke. I'm a little bit of a dick. Dan Mississippi, Florida State. Oh my God.

That seems like a long season. Are they good? They'd have to be to win any of those games except the Florida State one. What streaming services 0111 Florida State and 0111 Florida are going to be on? We should get it. We should put in a bid. Put Witty on the call Billy on color I'll do sideline. It'd be great

What about me? You're on sideline, huh? I'll leave again Carolina's kicker Noah Burnett doesn't have blood in his veins only ice Taylor Why are we doing ice in the veins? For Carolina Kicker, Taylor. Can you edit these some? Yes. You never feel more alive than when the chain gang comes out for a fourth down measurement.

Good shout. Thank you. That was a terrible call by the way. He had the first down. Do you guys do what I do where you try to predict? I can tell when they're running out. I'm the first one to be like, no, not enough, couple inches short.

My favorite is when we don't need the chains, but they still bring them out. We know it's a first down, come on. Waste of time. Yeah, but I do feel alive when they come out. The chain gang barely survived. They weren't gonna do it again this season. They had the technology, but they are gonna do it again.

The NFL is still gonna have a chain gang to do measurements Angel Reese set the new WNBA rebound record 95% of those rebounds were off of her own misses jokes from Twitter last weekend she really built that record brick by by brick. Not true. Here come the Mets. Oh no. No. No. The Metropolitan's. There's a long snapper Dan on Michigan State with the last name Carson Wentz. That's it. Kirk Herbstreet's dog is the sister gene of dogs. We get it. Oh no. He's a cute dog.

Enough. Well no, but Herbstreet's getting real flack now on his dog. He thought it was cute once upon a time, but now the internet has turned on him. Good. Miller Moss might be the real deal. You know what the M in Miller Moss might be the real deal. You know what the M in Miller Moss stands for? Might be. How'd you not get

that one? I'm sorry. We ran out of music and now it's going too long and we don't have any music anymore. Georgia Tech. Yes. The rare 2-0 team after week one. Here's some math, Dan. Two wins plus zero losses equals number one team in the country.

Damn right. Leading the league. Florida State, the rare O and two team after week one. I mean, when's the last time you felt this good about your Georgia Tech football team? Last year, it would be Miami. Hey, Dabo, might want to consider the transfer portal. Look what Georgia did to Clemson.

Think about what they would do to Boise State. 12-team playoff, please. All a 12-team playoff does is prolong the career of James Franklin. He's got a blizzard on offense That state Georgia I Don't know what happened here

Taylor wrote it wrong. Do your notes? They're not my notes I said Taylor the notes as a typo when he wrote this one wrong Georgia would beat the hell out of Penn State speaking of hell or Pryles Dan those are the weekend observations Taylor Yeah, you getting just a lashing out there just blaming someone else because you're right Blake Shelton I mean, please Penn State Georgia 20 years Look if this is not that your thank you I mean because I had to cross out like 10 of his. Let me explain to you what Stu Gotz has given us here at the end of 20 years.

Let me explain to you. Those were good observations, Dan. They were because... The U is back. Because Taylor wrote them. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no his credit on the one that he wrote that I went with, the kicker. I will tell you that the joke that you had on Norvell that was good, that while you made it, I heard from the video room, that's not how it was written. He originally did not write it that way, it was written better for him.

That's what I got in my ear. Taylor wrote it the wrong way, I made the edits. That's how, listen, I'm trying to teach Taylor, okay? He's a young kid trying to come up in this industry and that's what I'm all about, helping the young kids, I made the edits. That's how, listen, I'm trying to teach Taylor, okay? He's a young kid trying to come up in this industry and that's what I'm all about, helping the young kids, Dan. And I am trying to help this guy out. He writes them, he gives me a base to work with,

and then I make them funny. The one that you're talking about, Dan, he wrote, couple of Dan's peacocking it up and Stu Gott's changed it to a more vulgar version of that. Thank you. Billy, what was the face that you were just making? Well, it's just so rude to Taylor. Taylor has his own problems.

He doesn't need you adding onto them. He has his own deficiencies here. But here's the other thing that I wanna ask you. What do you mean? I'm helping him. He gave this to you hours ago. You could have read it before you were reading it on air and caught this.

You know what I did? That's why I made some edits. I didn't get to the last one. I mean, I trust him on hell or prio an easy joke look I will just tell the audience look It's a goddamn miracle. We got to 20 years All right a miracle and what we're getting at the end of those 20 years from Stu gots is about the punctuation You heard on that segment Which is someone else writing it for him him flubbing the line and then blaming the other and telling us he's teaching it

like that is you blazing blaming a producer for you not doing your job well that's what just happened there then you reading that and telling us that taylor's writing it for you when you are the one that that is responsible for the observations is an amazing way to start at Peacock with our new partners. I am paying this kid good money to not make mistakes. I mean, that's what I'm doing.

And I'm trying to help him out. I mean, a little extra coin in his pocket and I'm teaching him the ropes. I mean, I am showing Taylor how to get it done in this industry. I mean, what else do you want from me, man? T player. Got a couple of months to go.

Creating jobs for young up and coming talentcoming talent your job, but jobs none That's what I try to do. Yeah. Yeah since when is good money zero dollars zero dollars, please I wish Your paying Taylor. Yeah, that's what he just said. Yeah, that's what he's alleged. Excuse me. Well, this is gonna do my job You're actually paying Taylor You're telling him you're gonna pay him and then doing what you did to Billy with sports bang and not paying your You're actually paying Taylor. I pay Taylor You know once in a while have to remind me but for the most part he has gotten these payments on time I ain't proud of that Taylor's very persistent. Yeah, he's no Billy Gill in that sense

He will hound Stu gots until he gets his I mean the second I drive out of here on a Monday I mean, but why are you paying Taylor instead of us paying Taylor? No, we should not pay. Taylor gets paid to do his job. Sugatza's giving him extra work that is not his job. That's why Sugatza's paid. Are you offering to pay Taylor? Oh my god.

We're not going to give him that. To do my job? Feel free. I mean, what? I just realized this is what Sugatza's been doing for 20 years. Yeah, it's a pyramid scheme. The whole company's a pyramid. I just realized this is what Stu gots has been doing for 20 years Yeah, it's a pyramid scheme The whole company's a pyramid

Well don't say that there's investors It is called MLM I mean Taylor Offord if I'm being honest And I can't, they've been doing that for 20 years Telling people to pay them something off on the side and then not paying them Hey folks it's Mike Ryan. Now it's football season, which means I'm going to be missing the occasional Friday to be traveling to watch a football game.

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