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Speaker 25 So there was a story that I was actually pretty fired up about yesterday.

Speaker 26 It was like the topic du jour, and we didn't actually get around to it.

Speaker 27 I was stunned.

Speaker 4 I can't believe it.

Speaker 7 It's the Dan Lepotard show with Stugats, and Dan didn't want to talk about the Jackie Robinson story.

Speaker 30 It was on a T-form.

Speaker 15 I don't, this one's easy, folks.

Speaker 2 If you asked AI...

Speaker 2 Over the last 15 years to take everything Dan has passionately spoken about on these airwaves and create a story that was born for him to speak about.

Speaker 4 Did he just not get to it or?

Speaker 2 I have no idea.

Speaker 4 It was a hallmark of a good show.

Speaker 4 Hallmark of a good show.

Speaker 26 I have good things that I needed to get to and he didn't get to

Speaker 33 a Jackie Robinson race in sports story.

Speaker 35 No, he got to get a story that, you know, well, Blaney was great.

Speaker 36 It was good.

Speaker 37 I really enjoyed that interview.

Speaker 28 While this is an easy topic for Dan in a winning, the rare winning position where the intersection of sports and politics meet,

Speaker 43 Ryan Blaney was great.

Speaker 44 He was terrific.

Speaker 45 Yeah, I don't even care about NASCAR.

Speaker 29 I thought he was interesting.

Speaker 15 He was. But, Jeremy, for the uninitiated,

Speaker 18 bring him up to speed on this Jackie Robinson story.

Speaker 28 And there are also friends of the show that got entangled in this, and I'd like to chew on that a little bit as well.

Speaker 2 There are so many moving pieces to this over the last 48 hours, but essentially there was a story on

Speaker 2 a government website

Speaker 2 where

Speaker 2 Jackie Robinson was celebrated for his military service,

Speaker 2 similar to a whole bunch of other military heroes that were celebrated here. And

Speaker 2 that story was removed from the government website.

Speaker 2 And when you went to go click on the link to get to that story celebrating Jackie Robinson, the link had been changed to include the words DEI, or rather

Speaker 2 the term DEI ahead of sports in the link. So initially there was a backslash and then sports dash, all these different things for Jackie Robinson.

Speaker 2 The link was actively changed and led you to a page not found. Jeff Passon was the one who first put this out there.

Speaker 45 He was very mad.

Speaker 2 He was rightfully furious about this.

Speaker 2 Jackie Robinson's history being removed from a government website as a result of stomping out diversity, equity, and inclusion

Speaker 2 seems like one of the worst things that we could do in the storytelling of our nation's history.

Speaker 2 And what was really wild is that the statements that

Speaker 2 Passon received, and I can pull those up in just a second, basically doubled down on what it was that had happened, not, you know, acknowledging maybe there was a mistake, maybe there was this.

Speaker 2 Several hours later, of course, the article was restored because that's what happens. These people try to do everything, and if you don't catch them, they'll just keep doing it.

Speaker 2 So it's up to journalists like Jeff Passon to catch people in the act and force their hand. And so now the article is back, but only after

Speaker 2 these statements said things like, we don't see color, essentially, when it comes to Jackie Robinson, the man who broke the color barrier.

Speaker 45 But why was it considered DEI, Jackie Robinson?

Speaker 4 Because he's black. He's black.

Speaker 7 But

Speaker 45 it's not a hire. He was drafted.

Speaker 15 Well, no.

Speaker 2 So this part is interesting too, right?

Speaker 48 Because...

Speaker 7 Because they mean black.

Speaker 31 Well, right.

Speaker 2 Because DEI hire

Speaker 2 all of a sudden has been like

Speaker 2 co-opted into being something that's negative.

Speaker 4 It was worse. The way that woke was.

Speaker 2 Yeah, the way that critical race theory was before that.

Speaker 30 Well, they kind of changed up the acronym on that now in the press release that the Department of Defense said, they said discriminatory equity ideology.

Speaker 7 Oh. It's remarkable.
That's incredible.

Speaker 2 It's remarkable because...

Speaker 45 Okay, so they're saying on it that the reason that it was there originally was because he's black. Not that he was hired.

Speaker 45 because the term that Roy is saying there that they're using, it's that's why it was on the page, right?

Speaker 35 Because this discriminated against whom?

Speaker 4 Jackie Robinson or white people?

Speaker 34 That's where it kind of fits.

Speaker 45 They're trying to say it's only included there, but we're only making note of this accomplishment because he's black.

Speaker 52 That's what they're saying. Well, I mean,

Speaker 6 Jackie Robinson, yes, right?

Speaker 37 He broke the color barrier.

Speaker 53 Yeah, that was like that's he was a great player, but also like he was the first to break the color barrier because he was a great player, but that was a big deal.

Speaker 7 Huge deal. I'm going to read

Speaker 2 the statements here for you guys, and I apologize for the fact that these are somewhat wordy and

Speaker 45 the PLG statements.

Speaker 29 Probably.

Speaker 2 So Jeff Passen reached out about the removal of the story from the Department of Defense website, and this was the statement he received back.

Speaker 2 As Secretary Hegseth has said, DEI is dead at the Defense Department. Discriminatory equity ideology is a form of awoke cultural Marxism that has no place in our military.

Speaker 2 It divides the force, erodes unit cohesion, and interferes with the service's core warfighting mission.

Speaker 2 We are pleased by the rapid compliance across the department with the directive removing DEI content from all platforms.

Speaker 2 In the rare cases that content is removed, either deliberately or by mistake, that is out of the clearly outlined scope of the directive. We instruct the components

Speaker 2 and they correct, sorry, and they correct the content accordingly. but there was a follow-up statement just a couple of hours later, because that one was obviously dumb.

Speaker 2 Everyone at the Defense Department loves Jackie Robinson,

Speaker 34 as well as the Navajo code talkers. Some of my best friends are Jackie Robinson.

Speaker 53 The Marines. I went to a Jackie Robinson wedding once.

Speaker 2 The Marines at Uojima and so many others. We salute them for their strong and, in many cases, heroic service to our country, full stop.

Speaker 2 We do not view or highlight them through the prism of immutable characteristics such as race, ethnicity, or sex.

Speaker 2 We do so only by recognizing their patriotism and dedication to the warfighting mission like every other American who has worn the uniform. DEI, discriminatory equity ideology, does the opposite.

Speaker 2 It divides the force, erodes unit cohesion, and interferes with the service's core warfighting mission. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 29 I'd be curious if there was like a Ted Williams story that remained up.

Speaker 45 Yeah, that's what I'm wondering. Like, I guess I understand what they're trying to say there, but

Speaker 45 I think it's interesting hearing about famous people who served in wars.

Speaker 35 It's like a huge part of their marketing campaign is we used to have to draft people.

Speaker 37 I know that there were wars going around, but historically, not easy to recruit there.

Speaker 2 Arguing that race,

Speaker 2 that Jackie Robinson's story. shouldn't be viewed through the prism of race

Speaker 2 is so insulting to not only Jackie Robinson and his memory, but all of the people who came before him and after him, not only in the military, but in baseball.

Speaker 2 Like in sports, this is truly, truly, utterly offensive.

Speaker 40 It's almost like they forget why he got court-martialed in the first place.

Speaker 55 He was on an army bus.

Speaker 37 As a commissioned officer, by the way, a second lieutenant, he was told to go to the back of the bus.

Speaker 40 And he got court-martialed for not doing that.

Speaker 28 Okay, I know Zaz says, I get what they're trying to say there. And I guess I kind of too, like the spin on it, right?

Speaker 17 But to ignore race is to ignore a pretty big connection point.

Speaker 26 Your job is to recruit, like ultimately, all these branches of the military are actively trying to recruit people to join.

Speaker 15 And race is a connection point for a lot of people.

Speaker 50 Jackie Robinson's story might resonate with people that you're actively trying to recruit.

Speaker 37 They may be black, they may be Latino, they may be white, but it is a story that resonates in part because he was the dude that broke the color barrier to ignore that fact works against your best interests if you're actively trying to recruit people you know who it doesn't resonate with robert griffin iii because he went on twitter last night what did he say he said that you need to separate politics from sports and you shouldn't talk politics on sports shows well it's what we're doing right now that's awfully confusing oh that's because you had you had people on television yesterday who who were talking about right okay yeah stephen a smith so so stephen a smith did like a six-minute thing on this on first take You can have your opinions on that, but that didn't really get aggregated all that much.

Speaker 35 But Dove Kleinman is calling for Mina Kynes to get fired because she did like the easiest take on this with her around the horn victory time, her FaceTime there.

Speaker 28 It was weird.

Speaker 53 They went at Mina, and I understand why they go at Mina.

Speaker 7 They have algorithms for this stuff.

Speaker 51 They know who does numbers, but they ignore the dude that apparently can talk about, well, not apparently, negotiated in his contract.

Speaker 48 He can talk about politics with full autonomy over this.

Speaker 45 Is it possible that's why they didn't, you know? No.

Speaker 41 no, no, it's not.

Speaker 46 Because they go at Mina because Mina does numbers. It's like if you check Breitbart, they still post about Megan Rapino occasionally because they know what gets traction over there.

Speaker 4 Mina Kimes does numbers, invoking her name, and calling this amorphous account because it's not a real person anymore, but they can't actually say it's not a real person anymore because that goes against Twitter's rules because a guy can't just sell his account.

Speaker 29 So you have this bot, essentially, that has a whole bunch of different people working on it.

Speaker 48 Aggregator, essentially.

Speaker 46 Yeah, yeah uh calling no well doing the cute calling should mina kinds be fired question mark as some people are saying this and it's overly ridiculous and it's totally unfair and i hope that people dunk on dove the way that that mina did but to the robert griffin the third point is this is a sports story

Speaker 40 Jackie Robinson's like one of the first names that comes to mind when you want to talk about sports.

Speaker 32 This is what is like Jackie Robinson did sports.

Speaker 66 He did nothing yesterday. Like, he was just, his legacy was just existing.

Speaker 45 Anything that involves Jackie Robinson is sports.

Speaker 11 It's sports.

Speaker 40 Anything. Literally the most important athlete in the history of sports.

Speaker 2 It's really amazing. And the fact that he broke the color barrier and you want to insinuate that in turn.
color has nothing to do with his story.

Speaker 2 Like, look, Jackie Robinson was one of the greatest second basemen of all time. That's not why number 42 is retired.

Speaker 2 Number 42 is retired because of what he had to go through, the racial epithets being hurled at him throughout his entire rise into being a big leaguer.

Speaker 2 And then, by the way, he is one of the greatest players of all time.

Speaker 2 So those who want to derisively call him a DEI hire, as if, by the way, that's a bad thing, and as if he was only included because he was black, you just flatly don't know ball.

Speaker 2 You people want to side with these dorks that don't know ball?

Speaker 45 These nerds that don't know ball?

Speaker 5 That don't know anything about about the history of our game, our American pastime. You want to be racist and not know ball?

Speaker 2 I just can't believe it. I really can't.
This is one of the most wild stories. And like, continuing to try to shape this narrative that DEI is a bad thing.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Speaker 47 That's not what that means anymore. They changed it.

Speaker 31 But like, we all understand, right?

Speaker 2 All of these American individualists, what this means, right? Diversity, what's the opposite of that?

Speaker 40 Wait, wait, Jeremy, I feel as passionately about this as you do, but I do want to try to keep it to sports a little bit in that sports was just doing sports.

Speaker 67 Sports was, in this instance, just minding its own business. It's just minding its own business.

Speaker 38 And sports realized, hey, there's sports that's being removed. Why is sports being removed?

Speaker 53 Politics comes over and grabs sports.

Speaker 67 And it's not the other way around. And trust me,

Speaker 56 it's hugely frustrating because the same people that tout that line, and I don't know if Robert Griffin III has expressed this before,

Speaker 26 but I'm watching the Daytona 500, and I'm seeing Donald Trump fly in and take several laps, several laps around the Daytona Motor Speedway.

Speaker 58 And I can't exactly keep politics out of sports there, can I?

Speaker 30 I mean, remember, you did call NFL players sons of bitches for kneeling.

Speaker 69 Yeah, there's a lot of times where politics gravitate to sports to lift it up.

Speaker 4 Look, Donald Trump essentially helped one of the big issues that Donald Trump campaigned on and was successful on and found general consensus even across the aisle was

Speaker 35 that that trans swimmer, that's bad.

Speaker 53 We can't have guys playing in girls' sports.

Speaker 39 Like, this is the line.

Speaker 46 And while that is crude, there is general consensus on this topic, even amongst liberals.

Speaker 13 And it is a winning position.

Speaker 39 So they come to sports all the time to grab their winning positions.

Speaker 15 All the time.

Speaker 43 Sports has actively been trying to stay out of politics.

Speaker 15 Hell, even this show has kind of.

Speaker 40 Like, we know, we know that you don't like it.

Speaker 68 So sports is sportsing.

Speaker 4 When politics comes over and grabs sports, sports has a right to clap back, especially on something like this, which is so easy.

Speaker 45 I mean, if it was an actor or a musician, you know, black actor, black musician who they removed from those pages. Like, Mina Kynes wasn't going to be using her FaceTime on Around the Horn for it.

Speaker 45 It's because it's Jackie Robinson, and Jackie Robinson is sports. Like I said,

Speaker 45 in any place where Jackie Robinson is mentioned, that's sports.

Speaker 2 I saw someone tweet that the fact that at this present time, Mina could go on the air and basically say, like, hey, Jackie Robinson's historical significance tied to his race, and that that would make her a punching bag for the right-wing media just shows where we've gone generally in this country like it's it's pretty amazing that just saying that out loud could turn you into some sort of symbol of quote-unquote cultural woke marxism and also there are people that are still defending its removal because yeah they've just decided to commit to to the party line when the party itself has come out and said My bad, my bad, like we got that one wrong.

Speaker 7 It might have even kind of said.

Speaker 45 It's not surprising that they did that though, no?

Speaker 69 No, it's not. This is what they do, man.

Speaker 59 There have been

Speaker 44 lives.

Speaker 6 I was at a town hall last week, and there was a marine biologist for NOAA that got fired.

Speaker 46 And her supervisor didn't know about it.

Speaker 7 She got a crude letter, and it wasn't even signed.

Speaker 28 Did not know who fired her.

Speaker 18 Winter the Superior.

Speaker 48 This is a worker that had hit all her marks, even got...

Speaker 17 even attained a bonus because she was so superlative at her job.

Speaker 46 Her supervisor didn't know about this.

Speaker 18 I believe there was another scientist that worked on hurricanes that had actually gotten fired in a similar fashion, then rehired, and then a day later fired again.

Speaker 28 All of this is messy.

Speaker 40 It's like they're literally typing in, they're taking inventory of what could be lumped into DEI, and that is about as crude as it can get.

Speaker 44 Jackie Robinson, Black Eye, DEI.

Speaker 15 And they're just typing that in and eliminating things.

Speaker 44 And they're eliminating, they're doing this with people's lives and jobs.

Speaker 28 And they're just typing in these things into a big machine and just crudely cutting things out.

Speaker 51 And people like Jeff Patterson and all these other journalists need to keep catching these things, especially things like that.

Speaker 50 That was a good day for journalism yesterday. It was.

Speaker 4 It was a good day for sports.

Speaker 70 It was a good day for sports.

Speaker 28 And this was something I think everybody can kind of get behind Jackie Robinson to quote the great Jonathan Zaslow.

Speaker 4 Awesome. Awesome.

Speaker 67 This one's easy.

Speaker 69 They admitted hours later they got it wrong.

Speaker 35 Why is this a hill to die on still?

Speaker 2 Because when you're involved in

Speaker 2 something that feels cultish, there's no admitting that you're wrong, even when there's admission that you're wrong.

Speaker 2 I mean, the general defense was like, oh, well, you know, they're probably running all of this through an algorithm, and the algorithm made a mistake.

Speaker 2 Well, then what's your algorithm trying to do if it's removing Jackie Robinson from the Secretary of Defense's website, from the Department of Defense?

Speaker 2 It's just really shocking to me that people are digging in their heels on this one. And it just feels like a pretty winning position on the other side to go, hey, Jackie Robinson rocks, man.

Speaker 53 You don't have to dig your heels on this one.

Speaker 67 Everyone admits, like,

Speaker 7 this was a mistake.

Speaker 63 We can all move on.

Speaker 69 You don't need to have a think piece as to why we're right.

Speaker 38 And you certainly don't have to say sports stay in your lane here when they were.

Speaker 68 They absolutely were.

Speaker 38 And if it wasn't for sports, they would have gotten away with this heinous thing.

Speaker 14 So thank you, sports.

Speaker 2 This is the thing, right, with sports. I mean,

Speaker 2 you just brought up, you know, trans athletes, right?

Speaker 2 And this is why I thought Pablo's episode that he did on trans athletes a few months ago was one of the most important things we've done at Metal Arc Media.

Speaker 2 Because oftentimes what this administration is doing is using sports as a vehicle to point something out, right? Take it as a minor thing.

Speaker 36 Oh, we don't want...

Speaker 2 quote-unquote men playing in women's sports and you make the trans community this divisive community that you attack that you bring to everyone's mind hey there's this bad thing, and we need to stomp it out.

Speaker 2 And now you can see those same people who initially said, this is just about sports, literally calling to remove trans people from society. Period.
End of discussion. Get rid of them.

Speaker 2 If you're going to start here with this conversation on Jackie Robinson and the history of race in this country, it's the same slippery slope and they're doing it on purpose.

Speaker 28 Division is good.

Speaker 17 This is an easy place to cause division.

Speaker 18 And

Speaker 39 it's not often that

Speaker 42 that administration has an overwhelmingly popular position.

Speaker 13 And the sentiment in this country aligns itself more with that view than what is projected onto Democrats, which may not even be accurate.

Speaker 46 Like I said, within the Democratic Party, there's general consensus and an alignment there, but it's just an easy winning position.

Speaker 4 And Dems probably have to find a different talking point on it.

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Speaker 4 That's not my favorite rejoiner.

Speaker 7 Context needs to be applied.

Speaker 17 I was going for a joke.

Speaker 28 I thought the context was applied.

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Speaker 4 I was going for a thing.

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Speaker 46 I don't love Matthew Kachuck more than my daughter.

Speaker 36 Stugats. Now it's pretty damn close.

Speaker 50 This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

Speaker 18 We move on to something of, I guess, not equal importance, but pretty seismic nonetheless. John Cena's heel turn.

Speaker 62 Oh, now, John Cena, for many, many of you,

Speaker 62 you know about this.

Speaker 29 It's basically, there was everything before John Cena's heel turn and then everything that happened since.

Speaker 21 One thing that I can't wrap my brain around, Zaz, is what's in it for Travis Scott?

Speaker 45 I'm very down on this, Travis Scott. By the way, can I also tell you, not only have I been to a Travis Scott concert, but I was on the railing on the floor at a Travis Scott concert.

Speaker 56 Look at me, Louie.

Speaker 45 How is that look at me, Louie, if I say that I was at a concert? I didn't say I had lunch with him anyway.

Speaker 44 That is surprising.

Speaker 47 You were there with your son?

Speaker 45 I was there with my son. Well, he.

Speaker 53 You should have said, no, I was there by myself.

Speaker 60 I love Travis Scott.

Speaker 45 I don't know anything about it.

Speaker 4 I ride the railing at Travis Scott.

Speaker 45 I don't know anything about Travis Scott. My son was there with a few of his friends.
I was hanging underneath in the doers lounge, and I thought the show was almost over.

Speaker 45 So I went out so I can kind of meet up with my son, and I have the all-access pass, and I'm just kind of waiting on the rail, which, by the way, no one else is on the floor I'm like the only one on the floor so everyone saw me I'm on the rail at the Travis Scott show did you have a good time and I was there I was I was on the rail for like 30 minutes the show just wouldn't end uh it was it was really strange no I didn't have a good time it was weird man I don't get it he's got a great energy he's a good live performer he's got an oh my god I've never seen a crowd like

Speaker 34 the one at that show it's like the new rock show it's it's like the new Maj PID all the way up top in the rafters jumping up losing their minds yeah pretty crazy.

Speaker 30 In terms of like being able to control an audience and command an audience, for better or worse, given Travis Scott's history, sometimes it gets away from him.

Speaker 4 But being able to put fans in a total uproar and get them to lose their minds, Travis Gottfried

Speaker 29 an audience.

Speaker 46 And I know that it's loaded given his history, but I don't know why he would punch Cody Rhodes in the fire.

Speaker 45 Yeah, that's why I'm down on him. He punched him right in the side of the hound like that.

Speaker 68 He couldn't even block it.

Speaker 41 He couldn't defend himself. Cheap shot that seemed to do some real damage.

Speaker 45 Yeah, he had a busted eardrum, apparently, and he showed up to work two days later, Cody, and he had a busted up eye. I'm very down on Travis.

Speaker 1 Poor Cody.

Speaker 18 But then John Cena disappears for a couple of weeks, and we don't have any answers for his actions.

Speaker 6 All we have are questions.

Speaker 18 So John Cena finally appears.

Speaker 28 And by the way, I love, great idea to have this buildup for WrestleMania really kick off in earnest in Europe.

Speaker 42 European crowds are the absolute best.

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Speaker 45 I don't want our big sporting events events overseas. I don't like that.
I want all big WW shows overseas. If I can't be at the show, I want it to be overseas.

Speaker 6 Well,

Speaker 65 they're just so used to song because of soccer.

Speaker 50 But it's very soccer.

Speaker 65 Yes, because their sporting culture is so great. Where here it's just like, let's go see.

Speaker 61 Defense.

Speaker 61 Defense.

Speaker 59 Maybe the occasional, everybody clap your hands.

Speaker 24 You're saying bangers right now. What's wrong with what you're saying?

Speaker 28 And look, I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel here, but I do like what Europe does with it, where they sing like popular songs and they

Speaker 21 make soccer chants into wrestling chants.

Speaker 28 Like it's a great thing.

Speaker 6 We should encourage that here in the States.

Speaker 46 But it's really good for WWE too, because it helps establish clear narratives.

Speaker 28 And the fans watching at home are going to take their note from the fans over there in the audience.

Speaker 15 Like, oh, Cody Rhodes is actually still over as a babyface, this rare whitebread babyface.

Speaker 31 Perfect crowd, man. It was great.

Speaker 28 So John Cena comes out, and I didn't like certain aspects of this, but it caught me so off guard, Zaz, because I didn't expect this to be the direction.

Speaker 15 I didn't expect him to come out in the same like Fruity Pebbles t-shirt.

Speaker 45 Right, me neither.

Speaker 21 I thought he was going to do something to his look.

Speaker 58 I thought he was going to, I mean, his face changed when he got the signal from the rock.

Speaker 45 But the explanation worked, though, as to why he's keeping the same look, the same colors, the same music.

Speaker 18 I think it's because they printed a lot of t-shirts, and they probably decided on this heel turn a little late in the game, but whatever, like, that's fine.

Speaker 37 But there's logic here.

Speaker 36 They can reverse anything.

Speaker 65 It was just totally expected that, like, okay, we're going to go, we're going to make John Cena the chicken shit heel.

Speaker 35 Okay, that's not exactly, but it makes sense with a long-term storytelling because John Cena hasn't been able to win a match on his own, head-to-head.

Speaker 41 So he resorts to some of the evil.

Speaker 27 But I didn't like that he didn't mention The Rock.

Speaker 4 I didn't like that he didn't.

Speaker 45 He was going to be on TV again this Monday and the Monday after that. I mean,

Speaker 45 let it play itself out over a few weeks.

Speaker 49 I'm willing to go with this. I think that

Speaker 41 I was really surprised.

Speaker 45 This past week was about, I got a problem with the fans. Yeah.

Speaker 4 And maybe next week. Cody Alpha to him.
Yeah.

Speaker 45 And so maybe next week will be, all right, this is why I now love The Rock.

Speaker 28 This was refreshing in that Cody has kind of been built up by all of his, you know, going up against The Rock, going up against Roman Reigns.

Speaker 46 He's always been, every raw leading up to WrestleMania was Cody Rhodes getting his ass kicked.

Speaker 17 There wasn't time for Cody Rhodes really in any of these programs.

Speaker 28 Like, he's worked some good matches, good programs with Kevin Owens and AJ Styles, where he's gotten to be a tough guy.

Speaker 49 But I really like the dynamic, which is like, Cody Rhodes, I've headlined WrestleMania, like you lose all the time.

Speaker 55 If this is the guy that I'm facing, I'm going to kill you.

Speaker 45 And then he called him a whiny bitch, which everybody's going to think is cool.

Speaker 45 If you call someone a whiny bitch in wrestling, you're the much cooler guy.

Speaker 28 They go to that well occasionally with Cody Rhodes when they really want to hammer home a point.

Speaker 62 I'm not the biggest fan of it, but I want the storytelling to evolve.

Speaker 45 But I was so caught off guard by him coming out with his traditional look and by the logic to his turn and and not invoking the rock that I was like okay I'm kind of in on this because I'm surprised by it and it's not often that wrestling surprises people and it's done so with this the part that's also interesting to me is and you know there's a meme out there now with the kid who he was that a plant No way was that a plant he had the sticker still on the shirt no way it looked like a what's the matter with you and you got the kid who was shook they had the camera locked in when he goes like and this kid like they talked about that one well they may have told him hey there's a kid sitting right over here He's wearing your gear.

Speaker 45 Maybe that's the kid you point out.

Speaker 6 We'll be ready for him.

Speaker 52 He's got great seats.

Speaker 45 Yeah, you know? Plant.

Speaker 45 So you got this meme now, this kid who is shook.

Speaker 45 And I'm just thinking, man, because wrestling wasn't like that when I was a kid, where I'm a huge Hulk Hogan fan growing up, the age that that kid was in the crowd.

Speaker 45 And if my hero is now telling me as a kid to go F myself, I like that's wild to me that kids are probably so sad at what's going on there on my television that I'm super entertained by it.

Speaker 28 The logic behind a dude that has just been beaten down by social media and fans, like I can't do right.

Speaker 18 And after 20 years, like it's finally gotten to me.

Speaker 41 It actually tracks.

Speaker 39 And a lot of it's actually happening in pop culture, too. We're seeing like Drake Fatigue, and he's kind of had a bit of a heel turn.

Speaker 36 Certainly happening in hip-hop a lot with some of the other names that we've referenced there for way different reasons, but it does kind of tap into what's going on with pop culture.

Speaker 44 The guys that were celebrated are now vilified through a lot of their own, in some cases, heinous actions.

Speaker 57 But it's cool to see art kind of imitate life a little bit here.

Speaker 35 And I'm very curious to see where this one goes.

Speaker 41 I'm excited. This is fresh.

Speaker 28 And it's not often that WWE feels fresh.

Speaker 32 Look, there's a good guy, there's a bad guy, someone gets low blowed.

Speaker 40 There's only so many things that you can do in the world of wrestling.

Speaker 36 Turning John Cena heel, we've never, well, we have seen it before in

Speaker 18 his earlier days, but not as one of, like as a mega star, as the face of a generation of wrestling.

Speaker 28 So I'm really curious to see where this one goes, and I'm super hyped for WrestleMania season.

Speaker 47 Are you going out there?

Speaker 45 I'm not going out there. It's a shame.

Speaker 7 This one's in Vegas.

Speaker 45 I know. I'm not going out there.

Speaker 34 Hang out with all the wrestling fans. It's a little bit more.

Speaker 45 I mean, it's a very long flight. You know, it's two nights.
That's it.

Speaker 45 I mean, these ticket prices, it's a super cool thing.

Speaker 64 West Coast WrestleManias, by the way, are the best.

Speaker 7 They start early in the day. Yeah, they start.

Speaker 60 Yeah. So you're done.

Speaker 7 The worst part about leaving.

Speaker 4 The show ends like 8:30.

Speaker 41 It takes you an hour to leave the stadium.

Speaker 36 We're like, all right, all right, boys, what are we going to be doing now?

Speaker 28 It's 1 a.m.

Speaker 39 It's hard to catch a vibe there. West Coast, WrestleMania.

Speaker 45 Hey, let's go to dinner.

Speaker 4 Awesome. Yeah.

Speaker 1 No, I'm not going. I'm not going this year.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 Tony, you're looking a little rough around the edges lately.

Speaker 49 Is this a new look?

Speaker 27 Are you pivoting?

Speaker 3 No, I'm like, I've got a bit of an issue, Mike, and I think I need the boys to help me out.

Speaker 17 Is this your Justin Timberlake Man in the Woods era?

Speaker 53 It's called

Speaker 24 having a newborn.

Speaker 7 That's what it is.

Speaker 3 Well, no, that, that, but I'm very usual, I'm very regular with my haircut, right? Like every week, week and a half, I get my fade with a two-up top and

Speaker 4 cruise, right?

Speaker 3 My issue is that my barber's out of commission for the next couple

Speaker 3 weeks until essentially another like 13 days.

Speaker 35 You got to cheat on your barber.

Speaker 3 So I got to cheat on my barber, but I don't want to. Zaz, I know, obviously it's been a while since you've cheated on a barber, but

Speaker 3 more importantly, what do you think about cheating on a barber where I've been going to this guy for 13 years now?

Speaker 4 How often do you go?

Speaker 52 Every 10 days?

Speaker 49 I go every 10 days as well.

Speaker 29 Every 10 days. That's like the rule.

Speaker 4 Every 10 days. Jeremy, how often have you?

Speaker 60 You're like a two-weeks guy.

Speaker 2 two-weeks guy. You nailed it.
Two weeks, three weeks if I'm really pushing it because I know I have a TV appearance coming up and I want to get it a little closer to that.

Speaker 53 Chris, I think you're like a three-weeks guy.

Speaker 24 Oh, I'm more than that. Like, I'd say a month.
Yeah,

Speaker 45 when I had the good hair, I would wait.

Speaker 45 I'm at least a month, you know, every 10 days.

Speaker 24 That's sometimes I'll even push it like to a month and a half and I'll have my wife clean up my neck.

Speaker 7 The back's smart.

Speaker 4 I can't do that.

Speaker 26 Petty play, but you got to go every day.

Speaker 4 I do it all myself.

Speaker 67 You don't say. Yeah.

Speaker 7 I would have never been able to tell that.

Speaker 8 Yep, big boy.

Speaker 49 Roy also does that.

Speaker 4 That's right.

Speaker 4 Yeah, Roy cuts his own hair.

Speaker 46 Yeah, haircuts apparently are $50 now.

Speaker 4 Dude, they're expensive.

Speaker 24 I just switched Barbers some closer to my house, and you can't find one nowadays. Do you get the shave?

Speaker 7 Yeah, yeah, the full kitten caboodle.

Speaker 43 Yeah. With like the big blade?

Speaker 31 Yeah. Are you ever worried?

Speaker 23 You know, like, you know, right, I guess if I just got a haircut, it made me over here, dog.

Speaker 24 Oh, no. I mean, right now I haven't.
It's not clean at the moment. I didn't go yesterday.
But yes, when I do get a haircut, I get the but you don't get nervous?

Speaker 4 Nah, I trust them.

Speaker 49 they're professionals huh yeah all right i like that part i gotta tell you i i read about sharks attacking people all the time one thing i haven't read about in a very long time is oops barber accidentally kills somebody sweetie todd like that was the last guy right the deep brian adams was in the name the team barber of fleet street was the last person that and he was intentionally doing it right the accidental throat slash never heard the accidental shave that's something that not a matter of and i'd be on that algo but by your math we're kind of due no

Speaker 72 that's that's a good point we're probably doing a place that we wouldn't hear about it maybe somewhere across the world it's happening but yeah we're back in wherever world big place

Speaker 53 a lot of bad barbers out there could be

Speaker 3 who knows but the issue is i'm already grandfathered in with with a price from 15 years ago no no we've done this on mystery crazy so how much

Speaker 24 we've shamed tony

Speaker 24 you shamed me for for being loyal to a guy for 15 years it's like one of his like it's a good buddy of his and he's still giving him like 15 that's not true this guy's like losing money I don't understand.

Speaker 45 You're asking if you should go and cheat on your barber. Does your barber think that when he goes on vacation, like, you're just not allowed to get a haircut?

Speaker 3 That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 10 But he's on vacation.

Speaker 3 I know. We talked about it, too.
He's like, hey, in March, I'm going to be out. I'm doing this and that.

Speaker 7 And I was like, okay, cool.

Speaker 4 All right. I'll worry about it in March.

Speaker 3 But now it's March, and now I'm worried about it.

Speaker 4 Yeah, yeah, go see somebody else, man.

Speaker 7 So Mike Fuentez.

Speaker 52 What are you paying?

Speaker 52 Don't worry about me. I'm curious.
I'm not going to take a quiz.

Speaker 18 Says, how much do you think is too much for a haircut?

Speaker 4 Definitely 50. I'm going to.

Speaker 45 Well, I know what haircuts cost to take my kids. I mean,

Speaker 1 if you're a male and you're paying 30 bucks, hang on.

Speaker 15 I wrote down the number that I pay every 10 days.

Speaker 29 Yeah.

Speaker 35 I wrote it down here.

Speaker 28 I'm just going to slide it over to you on the table.

Speaker 18 You tell me if that's too much.

Speaker 24 This is including tip.

Speaker 51 This is including tip.

Speaker 34 This is my all.

Speaker 45 And is this a shave also?

Speaker 1 Yes. Okay.

Speaker 49 I bet it starts with a six.

Speaker 29 Is that too much?

Speaker 24 It's more than that.

Speaker 45 That number is offensive.

Speaker 24 What's the first number?

Speaker 45 That number is shocking.

Speaker 7 All right, let's work backwards. What's the last number? Zero?

Speaker 4 Zero? All right, good. All right.

Speaker 2 60, 70, 80.

Speaker 24 Did I know it was one of those three?

Speaker 4 It was.

Speaker 24 It can't be 80.

Speaker 6 It was 70. Okay.

Speaker 45 I just told you over 30. Now, granted, I didn't say the beard, you know, but if you're paying over 30, you're male.
I think that's a lot.

Speaker 24 Mine was 45 before tip. What do you tip there?

Speaker 4 5 or 50? Yeah, what do you tip?

Speaker 18 I recently picked it up from 15 to 20.

Speaker 56 Whoa. Yeah, I go 15.

Speaker 45 You're giving a 40% tip then.

Speaker 24 I tipped 15 bucks on a $45 haircut, so I paid $6.

Speaker 35 Look, Rosie's good.

Speaker 28 You know who goes to Rosie?

Speaker 57 Ubaldo Jimenez.

Speaker 28 You think I'm not going to trust Ubaldo Jimenez's barber?

Speaker 45 $70 every two weeks, you said?

Speaker 29 Every 10 days.

Speaker 2 You won't go Ubaldo.

Speaker 45 What is not an acceptable tip for the barber?

Speaker 24 I think they're fine with $5.

Speaker 45 I get $5 when I take my son.

Speaker 28 I recently, like, so it took me forever to go from $10 to $15 because it was just like what I was doing. And then I was like, man, that's, that's pretty bad.

Speaker 35 Let me get it at $15. And then

Speaker 55 breaking that routine got me to go from 15 to 20, like, real quick.

Speaker 3 But see, here's the thing, guys.

Speaker 7 I'm in a relationship with my barber.

Speaker 3 I'm almost like an affiliate marketer for my barber.

Speaker 7 It's different with me.

Speaker 70 I have a different setup, right?

Speaker 3 I have so many people that I've recommended to go to him.

Speaker 45 Oh, but Tony. And they pay a different colour.

Speaker 6 So you're like you Baldo.

Speaker 24 But he has a month. I assume he rents a chair chair at a place.

Speaker 3 He owns the barbershop, five-star cuts down in the cross cast.

Speaker 45 Yeah, why doesn't he recommend a guy? Like when a doctor leaves town, a doctor says, okay, God forbid something happens, you're going to pick up my patients.

Speaker 24 There's just no way when you text him that you're coming in, he sinks a little bit.

Speaker 3 I don't text him.

Speaker 24 I set up like, I'm going to make a little less money than I'm going to be able to do that.

Speaker 34 I'm a Primo's guy.

Speaker 47 I'm a Primo's guy.

Speaker 56 I'm a five-star guy.

Speaker 48 That's all right. You can be a five-star guy.
Tell me your price.

Speaker 3 Tell me your price.

Speaker 3 But what I'm going to tell you.

Speaker 68 If I drop your name, if I say, hey, Tony Colatti, you tend to.

Speaker 24 He's not saying it because Tony's Tony's price is nobody else's price if Tony doesn't want to say it because then everyone's gonna because everyone's like I want the Tony price that's the thing but you can't always get the Tony price you got to be there for 15 years you got to recommend a certain amount of people you pay you pay half of what I but his rent has gone up I just don't understand

Speaker 36 that is so messed up and he's your boy that's my again Chris you're you're you're not understanding the part that me and him have a long-standing but his rent has still gone up over the years there's no way he's paying less than he was 10 years ago

Speaker 49 everybody's like this guy's such a great billboard for my business this guy goes out like, hey, your hair looks incredible.

Speaker 65 Where do you get your hair cut?

Speaker 69 How many times has been

Speaker 3 on the show?

Speaker 4 Once. No.

Speaker 24 He cut my dad's hair.

Speaker 17 He cut Mike Ryan's hair.

Speaker 4 Okay, so that's twice.

Speaker 17 Oh, this was a dude that shaved my head? Yes. Twice in 20 years.

Speaker 7 Terrible job.

Speaker 24 And you've mentioned it like five times.

Speaker 68 No, he nailed it.

Speaker 61 I was definitely bald.

Speaker 49 Just wasn't happy with the results.

Speaker 3 Well, that's more of an issue with the fungal.

Speaker 6 Your voice came back, though. Yeah, of course.

Speaker 48 It allowed me to get some topical treatments on there really attached to the bottom at its root.

Speaker 43 No, no doubt.

Speaker 53 There was that old that, what what I kept telling myself is there are some people that when they shave it, it does come back stronger.

Speaker 2 That's why sometimes you shave babies' heads all of a sudden.

Speaker 7 Boom, they flow with hair.

Speaker 4 It's a very Latin thing.

Speaker 51 It is.

Speaker 3 Affiliate marketers ask, okay, I take care of my people. They take care of me.

Speaker 59 And that's how we do it.

Speaker 45 I just don't understand. Like, he goes on vacation.
He thinks you're supposed to look sloppy until he gets back.

Speaker 3 That I haven't really cued.

Speaker 52 He's putting you in a bad position here.

Speaker 3 The issue is, so Mike Fuentes goes to the same barbershop I go to. He goes to the guy across from my guy, Luke, JJ.
Now, me and JJ are friendly, but I've never cut my hair with JJ.

Speaker 3 So, and I got to text Luke, and he's in a different place, so maybe the time zones are off. So, I got to text him, hey, can I go to JJ? Like, am I good?

Speaker 27 Yeah, you want to vet him through your guy.

Speaker 36 Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 70 And be like, oh, no, maybe, maybe use this guy or that guy or whatever.

Speaker 52 Or, yeah, go to JJ.

Speaker 2 Right.

Speaker 3 Or go to JJ, right? So, I want to get my guys, like, my doctor is going to give me the opinion and then tell me, hey, go to this specialist. I like this guy a lot.
He knows what he's doing.

Speaker 28 How much do you pay for yours?

Speaker 50 I do it myself.

Speaker 4 All the time? Or all the time?

Speaker 39 You don't have like a black tie event where you're like, I should probably shoot.

Speaker 45 No, because I shave my head with, you know, with the electric razor, like straight up. Okay.
You know, the closest.

Speaker 27 How about on the beard?

Speaker 7 It's go all over the place.

Speaker 35 So you let the beard grow for a couple of days and then you just shoot it.

Speaker 28 No, I do it all.

Speaker 45 I do it all. I don't use shaving cream and a regular razor anymore.
I haven't done that in years.

Speaker 4 Really? Yeah. You just raw dog.
It's a little bit in the past. Well, no, I'm using an electric razor.

Speaker 45 No, I know.

Speaker 59 You raw dog the electrical razor.

Speaker 31 That's not raw dog.

Speaker 4 That's raw dog. That is raw dog.

Speaker 45 No, I use the electrical razor all over, beard and head.

Speaker 4 That implies

Speaker 2 that some people use shaving cream for an electrical.

Speaker 7 No, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 39 No, but any topical treatments after the fact?

Speaker 6 No, I don't need it.

Speaker 8 You got to kind of do that. You get ingrown hairs and whatnot.

Speaker 4 Do I have any? Yeah. Actually, I watch some graphics.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 28 Like all across your neck, unless it's rosacea, which it might be the case.

Speaker 8 Maybe.

Speaker 44 But it's along the neckline. Do I have a bad skin day?

Speaker 59 Like, like there, like on the, yeah, you got some, you got some shaving bumps there, Pat.

Speaker 24 We don't have to zoom in there. Let's not do that.

Speaker 4 Well, he's, he, he was,

Speaker 67 he was lying.

Speaker 45 maybe i'm mistaken you can't call me a liar right here you're saying that he didn't get ingrown hairs or shaving bumps and like no i do it i do it all myself all he says why don't you go full beard he has over a dozen uh you know why i don't go full beard i used to but my my beard comes in like all white now and i look too old there's stuff for that so you can no i see i can't do that because then everybody's like oh wow you're coloring your your beard like i've waited too long to do that i should have done that when it started to gray fat joe has an incredible product he's on the cover yeah He's on the cover of it.

Speaker 42 All right.

Speaker 17 So we'll get away from your hair and back to look.

Speaker 28 Sports Equinox is happening. Niche Sport Equinox is happening, especially down here locally.

Speaker 32 We have ATP, we've got WTA, we've got Homestead Motor Speedway, but everyone's going to be pretty locked in on March Madness, even though the ratings down here are pretty bad historically.

Speaker 29 Always.

Speaker 28 We don't have a team, we don't have a horse in the race this year, but give me a March Madness set of the day to get me excited for what's on tap.

Speaker 9 Start of the day, start of the day, it is start of the day.

Speaker 9 Start of the day, start of the day, it is yes, start of the day.

Speaker 9 Start of the day, start of the day, it is yes, start of the day.

Speaker 9 Start of the day, start of the day, it is the start of the day.

Speaker 24 This is very exciting. And I know you were thinking, like, oh, the tournament.
I don't know if I'm into the tournament. So I got something if you're looking to watch a little.

Speaker 24 If you're looking to watch a little less, yesterday you could have. Because yesterday, every single team that was winning at halftime went on to win the game.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 24 So you could have just watched the first half yesterday and been like, all right, I know this game's going to end.

Speaker 28 Yeah, you actually didn't really have to watch any of it.

Speaker 16 And you didn't, like, I know I didn't miss much.

Speaker 17 But

Speaker 28 I will be watching Omir.

Speaker 45 that's that's my that's my guy it was not a good tournament day yesterday it was not good but you're saying the balance of things it'll work out it always balances itself out always

Speaker 45 and it's the fact that we had no madness yesterday you'll see you're gonna have like four or five games today where you're gonna have the madness it always balances out well the the the baylor game they're a one and a half point dog so it's an eight nine live doggy yeah you got to think that that game will be close but no the eight nine yesterday was some blowouts you know it wasn't that uh that was louisville and Creighton, right?

Speaker 29 Another tournament that, you know, is kind of hit or miss so far is the March Sadness tournament, Chris.

Speaker 24 Let me remind the people, though, that that's that of the day brought to you by Evan Williams Bourbon. Game day's number one poor.

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Speaker 54 Go get yourself a taste. Oh, so good.

Speaker 53 So March Sadness polarizing again this year.

Speaker 28 I think most, a lot of the feedback that I'm getting that's on the negative negative side is from exclusive podcast listeners, and I kind of get that because these are fan-submitted videos and they're largely visual.

Speaker 18 You have the fan pointing to stuff, so we'll do a better job of trying to just describe what's going on by not stepping on some folks.

Speaker 64 But do we have any submissions today, Chris Cody?

Speaker 24 Yes, we have a bunch. Go to our social media, you can vote on all these, watch all of our submissions.

Speaker 24 We had matchups yesterday, that voting is done, and today we will release the rest of our first-round matchups. What we will preview right here: a one-seed.

Speaker 24 We have Matt, who's doing a a great limited fake versus 16 seed Steven.

Speaker 31 Limited fake Dan.

Speaker 4 No one

Speaker 4 understands how strong Trent Williams is.

Speaker 56 Dan,

Speaker 74 64 fans competing for a chance to do something everyone knows that you don't want to do.

Speaker 28 You know what we call that?

Speaker 74 It's called something's gotta give.

Speaker 74 Bracket busters, buzzer buzzer beaters cinderellas upsets blue bloods you know what the b in blue blood stands for it stands for beep count

Speaker 74 you know what the other be in blue blood stands for it stands for best fan of the show

Speaker 74 this is a hell of a video speaking of hell art brials dan this has been my march sadness submission So was that the 16?

Speaker 67 That's a 16.

Speaker 2 Use the 16.

Speaker 24 Billy in the committee did the rankings, but yeah, that's a strong 16.

Speaker 24 That's

Speaker 2 high production quality there for a 16.

Speaker 53 That's not the way that a 1 versus 16 should be.

Speaker 34 That's a tough break.

Speaker 41 When it's a 1 versus 16, I should never ask who's the one seed.

Speaker 4 That's one.

Speaker 24 I mean, it was a good limited fake.

Speaker 24 Trent Williams.

Speaker 53 What he did with his face was definitely on brand for Dan.

Speaker 24 And that's 16 seeds beep count. So he's the guy that tracks all the beep count.
It's an A1 listener for us.

Speaker 36 But we have.

Speaker 43 But we don't do.

Speaker 2 We're not going to rank you higher just because we know you to be a good listener.

Speaker 4 But we're alive.

Speaker 1 But it was a good video.

Speaker 4 It doesn't have to be a 16 seed.

Speaker 53 we have alignment though that you should never ask who is the one seed from one versus 16.

Speaker 45 we played a couple like five seeds yesterday that were not that great so i don't know i don't know what's really happening here yeah in retrospect very confused as to why dan didn't talk about the jackie robinson story i i came in yesterday and i was not worried but man this is a day for me to come in you know dan's good we're gonna do two hours on jackie robinson here you know and light reps for you host has got this one well no but that but that's not the way i want to look at it because i i have to contribute.

Speaker 45 I'm not here for nothing.

Speaker 1 And it's like, all right, we're going to do Jackie Robinson, I guess.

Speaker 2 If you said, Jeremy, are we going to talk about Jackie Robinson or foreplay? I definitely would have told you Jackie Robinson.

Speaker 63 Jeremy, not only do you tickle the keys,

Speaker 4 good for you.

Speaker 29 You tickle other things.

Speaker 46 I learned yesterday.

Speaker 57 But part of

Speaker 64 your duties here, your ambiguous amorphous duties here, is occasionally you invoke your musical talent, and you had a song ready for Dan.

Speaker 49 Like, we all knew that Dan was gonna go to Jackie Robinson, and then he didn't, and then he didn't, so we never got to play

Speaker 29 this song.

Speaker 19 You're diggy eye, and what that means to those

Speaker 19 who

Speaker 19 just needs black, Jackie Robinson.

Speaker 19 Diggy eye is any word for woe.

Speaker 6 I mean, that's an earworm.

Speaker 36 Nah, come on. Great lyrics.

Speaker 52 It just means black.

Speaker 56 I'm really proud of you right there.

Speaker 51 Again, we got March Madness today.

Speaker 15 Hopefully, we turn things around.

Speaker 28 It was a tough day for those that were following the ACC and listen to our agenda here on the.

Speaker 64 It was a bad day for the ACC. Hand up.

Speaker 2 You, Mizzou.

Speaker 31 Where did he come from?

Speaker 7 Mizzou.

Speaker 70 I mean, dude, Mizzou is the easiest call to fade. You said from two weeks ago, this team stinks.

Speaker 1 This team sucks.

Speaker 70 And then you sing the praises of Bennett Sturtz.

Speaker 72 You tell me how great Bennett Sturtz is, how he's the next coming of, I don't know who, Jimmer Ferdett, Jack Golke, whoever you want to mention.

Speaker 7 Okay, the secret sauce, by the way.

Speaker 3 And then all of a sudden, you go, no, I'm going to go Mizzou. And I'm like, dork, Louisville.

Speaker 4 You don't know ball, buddy.

Speaker 73 Louisville let me down.

Speaker 73 Will Wade, I thought he had one foot out the door already to NC State.

Speaker 36 One foot up Clemson's ass is what he had, buddy. Again, you missed that one, too.

Speaker 73 But, you know, with the ACC, it's North Carolina. It's Duke.
We got those two teams today. We're going to carry the conference on our back and we're going to bounce back.

Speaker 4 Get out of here. Go heels.

Speaker 14 Folks, the leaves are turning.

Speaker 46 The weather's getting a little chillier.

Speaker 58 That means the football games are more important.

Speaker 36 That means football time should be Miller time.

Speaker 7 Game day hits different with a Miller light in your hand.

Speaker 21 From jaw-dropping touchdowns to fantasy heartbreaks, my fantasy season's over already, but you know what makes that better? Miller time!

Speaker 21 It's the beer that's been there for every moment. 50 years of great taste, simple ingredients, and that iconic golden color you can spot from across the room.
And here's the kicker.

Speaker 13 It's just 96 calories, 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.

Speaker 21 The original light beer since 1975 and still hitting different five decades later. So whatever your game day looks like, remember Miller Time is always a good time.

Speaker 21 Miller Light, great taste, 96 calories. Go to millerlight.com/slash stand to find delivery options near you.
Or you can pick up Miller Light pretty much anywhere they sell beer. It's Miller time.

Speaker 21 Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.

Speaker 10 Now is a good time to remember where Tequila's story truly began. In 1795, Cuervo invented tequila.
Cuervo.

Speaker 8 What are you doing here? Cuervo.

Speaker 11 Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up.

Speaker 12 Well, I do know that to be true, but even during ad reads, like, Cuervo, I think you could lay out, especially for one of our great partners.

Speaker 11 Sweet, delicious Cuervo.

Speaker 14 Since then, Cuervo has stayed true to its roots.

Speaker 15 The same family, the same land, the same passion.

Speaker 16 Cuervo.

Speaker 17 So, enjoy the tequila that started it all.

Speaker 10 Cuervo. Cuervo.
The tequila that invented tequila.

Speaker 4 Broximo, Cuervo.com. Please drink responsibly.
Cuervo.