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I believe, I think I have this right, Chris Cody.

Do you think I have it right when I say in our group of people, the group of people who have worked here the longest, the hardest inner circle to get into is Billy Gill's inner circle.

Do you agree with that assessment or disagree with that assessment?

I think I agree with it.

Billy's a tough nut to crack.

I mean, what is this supposed to mean?

I'll tell you what it is.

My inner circle, either people I've impregnated or the people I've impregnated have birthed.

So it is difficult in that sense.

But you are somebody.

You, because you can be a bit of a mystery.

I saw earlier in the room, Fuentes is very eager.

He's a very eager person, and he is a hustler.

He's a something.

And he wants to be your friend.

And I see it happening.

Why?

And you're playing hard to get.

And so when he said that he got a return text from you and all of us, Chris, Mike, me, we all looked, you did, we all looked, we're like, you got a blessed return text from Billy?

You're in the inner circle, Fuentes.

I think he got me confused with somebody else, Billy and I?

Super tight.

Yep.

Fuentes

was telling people that he got a return text from you and then you told him, well, that's the end of that.

Well, no, that's not what he said.

He came out and he decided to, for whatever reason, make a proclamation to the office and said, me and Billy exchanged 11 total texts last month.

And I was like, who cares?

Why are you telling people that?

And Dan's like, oh, and he's like, super excited.

And I was like, I know what this is about.

And I'll tell you what this is about.

I got a text from Dan yesterday at seven o'clock at night while I was at a CVS trying to track down an employee to unlock thermometers to sell me a thermometer that's locked up for some reason.

What song was playing?

Yeah.

I don't know.

I'm building this playlist.

It could be helpful.

Yeah, I'll go back to check out that CVS, but I had to go ask someone to unlock a thermometer because, listen, we don't need to make this political and get into insurance and all of that.

But we had a whole situation.

My kids have been sick.

Their primary physician left the practice that they were at.

So they went in, and one of the other doctors who's already seen them a thousand times couldn't see them.

We have to go to urgent care to do this thing at night because no one would see them, blah, blah, blah, all this stuff.

They tell us the head thermometers and the ear thermometers are not the ones you want.

You want the arm thermometer because kids hold their heat in their head and they would say, look, you know, their temperature is actually 98.

And my wife would then do it right in front of them in their ear.

And she's like, no, it says it's 101.7.

Like, no, you're wrong.

No, you're wrong.

It's a whole thing.

We're arguing with people who went to medical school and we did not go to medical school.

So of course, I then have to go and buy a new thermometer.

And I think it's a very simple task.

Just go to a pharmacy, buy a thermometer.

And then, no, there's a lock on the thermometer.

They have to go and they have to unlock the thermometer.

And meanwhile, Dan's texts me, you know, I was thinking about this meeting from seven hours ago.

I'm like, not now.

This is not the time.

I need to track down people to unlock a thermometer for me.

Powerball's at $850 million.

I may not have to deal with any of this shit tomorrow.

But I didn't win.

No one won $950 million on Saturday.

What are we talking about?

So Fuentes texts me and I text him back.

And it's not like these glowing responses.

I'm like, okay.

Cool.

Things like this.

I don't know what it is that he's up to.

That is gold from you.

Gold.

Why are they locking up thermometers?

You can go and you can buy Does left and right.

Don't have to do nothing behind glass or locks on anything in these CVSs.

But a thermometer?

What are...

This isn't codeine.

What are people going to do with a thermometer?

It's a good question.

What is the risk of a thermometer that has to be locked up?

What is your confidence level in Greg Cody being able to execute this?

He's been killing it this week.

I think today is the day he fails.

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What are the categories we have today, Chris Cody?

Because it has been very popular and people love voting on this.

And it's a nice recap for the year before we get into the full flight of crazy football.

We have what I would call the best four categories remaining today and tomorrow.

Two today.

We will have best dismissal and best limited fake.

So the best dismissals that weren't Stugats.

So are we going to have a best dismissal that is Stugatz versus the best dismissal that's not Stugats?

Or does Stugatz claim the dismissal category forevermore and there are no better dismissals than Stugat's dismissal.

There will be a winner from each of those, but I'm cool with pinning those two winners up against each other.

How do you stir shit against amorphous things?

The Stugatz dismissal category.

There's SUI categories and you're pinning them against one another.

What are you laughing about?

The dismissal, we need a best dismissal.

It can't be there's a best dismissal.

Like, this is the sake of accuracy.

I'm doing this to respect the process.

You do this so unscientifically.

I want to know what was the best dismissal from the last year.

You can't tell me whether there are two.

One of them is Stugatz's and there's another one won by somebody else because we had to keep everybody out of the Stugats category.

Is it segregated?

I'll put race into this if you'd like me to.

Just give him what he wants.

I just want the best dismissal.

That's all I want.

All right.

Well, we have a Stugatz one and a normal one.

And then after we get the results, we can put out a new poll and pit the next one.

Thank you.

Billy, why are you laughing at Zaszlo?

He was just like very comically low.

I was trying to figure out if his chair was not on purpose, did not need to be brought up, but here we are.

Yeah.

Zaszlo is getting, he's getting very popular.

I've told you for a while now, rising star in this business.

College football is very good to Zaszlo.

He's an expert.

He's all over ESPN radio.

ESPN flies him all over the world.

Where'd you go last year?

Got that first-class seat tomorrow morning, Dan.

That's right.

First class.

That's right.

Look at that.

He's a rising star.

I told you, look, they're flying him out.

What cities did you go to last year?

Oh, amazing.

Not having any of the clothes to go to any of those cities.

Yeah, right.

We went to Madison.

We went to Ann Arbor.

We went to Tuscaloosa.

We went to, you know, Landover, Maryland for Army, Navy.

I'll tell you, that stadium's a real dump.

But we went to some really great places last year, yeah.

So South Bend.

You are excited about what this year?

Because you're about to get on a flight and head into a soaring weekend.

For those of you who did not listen to Mike Ryan, Mike Ryan has developed a business venture over at UM.

You know he's an insider if you've been listening around here.

You know he's caught in the business of UM football and also managing the space between being an information guy and being somebody who's not a journalist, who is wildly homerific on behalf of boosting for his team and raising money.

He's trying to make the University of Miami football team better and has from the inside of it.

So, the venture you did, Mike, yesterday.

This is, do you guys know Hassan Piker?

Are you guys?

Yeah, he's been on our show.

Well,

I guess, okay.

Honor Lefel.

Okay, he's telling me thank you, Zaz.

Hassan Piker, there are a lot of people in the industry of content right now doing it very well because they can sit in front of a microphone for eight hours and entertain you because people want their content that much.

And the content makers are addicted to making it, and the people watching it are addicted to watching it, and everyone's making a lot of money off of that.

So if you wanted five hours of Hurricane Talk yesterday, if you wanted five hours that we're not doing on this show of UM Notre Dame, the second biggest game this weekend.

And I'm going to say, second biggest by leaps and bounds?

Like, just because of what you're talking about in that other game, you've got the defending champion against Arch Manning.

You've got.

Oh, you mean it's second by leaps and bounds behind number one, not ahead of number three?

I don't know.

We didn't get the Fowler Herbie assignment.

And LSU Clemson dead.

Yeah.

Down.

LSU Clemson is pretty good too, right?

Because LSU Clemson, here's

four versus nine.

There's three top top ten matchups this weekend.

Correct.

More than there have ever been.

And this is why Zaz is going to skyrocket even more into stardom and more first class over the course of whatever this college football season becomes, because I'm genuinely enthused to see where all of this ends up.

And

what you're being met with the first week is I think Miami and Notre Dame is the third place game.

this week, just because in terms of what we're talking about,

when you talk Clemson, they are what Georgia and Alabama as a brand, they are over the last 10 years, what that brand is.

And you're talking about today's brands with LSU and Clemson.

Miami and Notre Dame, you're mostly talking about yesterday's brands, and they play on the fringes of this.

But Miami and Notre Dame have not been like SEC.

Oh, Alabama, Georgia, who's going to play up there?

Well, Clemson's going to play up there, and Ohio State is going to play up there.

Miami's been trying to get into that class for a while.

They were there for a minute with Mark Rick.

We all knew that wasn't real.

But if Cristobal can somehow build on, it wasn't just a quarterback last year, Cristobal,

because I felt like everything that happened last year is they had the number one pick in the draft.

That's what covered everything else.

What was supposed to be a three or four year rebuilding project, we are now on the hot seat portion of it.

And the transition that you need to happen here is from last year the quarterback carried you, and now you can get all the quarterbacks because you're a place that can make it good for quarterbacks because you're getting all of the athletes around the quarterback.

If I may, not enough credit for turning a fifth-round draft pick at best to the number one overall draft pick.

He looked like that because of the trenches that Mario Crisobal and Alex Mirabal developed over the course of three years.

He wasn't going to be the number one draft pick until he came to Miami.

Yeah, you say Miami's bacon.

Yes, he was Miami's best player arguably since Sean Taylor, but it was a mutually beneficial relationship.

I think it's also important not to forget, you know, if you're talking about LSU and Clemson being the second best game, and that's fine.

I don't agree, but that's fine if someone does, because look, for all the talk of Arch Manning, and he's the odds on Heisman favor right now, Garrett Nussmeyer is number two, all right?

And he's taken on a really good Clemson team that not came out of nowhere last year, but no one had them winning the ACC, especially after they got slammed by Georgia week one last year.

So it's super high profile, but man, like Notre Dame national championship runner-up last year, you you know I love I love this debate It's it's a sportsy one.

I would actually say Clemson LSU is probably the second biggest game of the weekend

Well, those are two teams that have won national championships inside of the last 10 years when you lump those four teams together Miami is certainly on the outside but there's if the casual if the average college football fan looks at Clemson LSU are are they gathering the same kind of emotions as you got Notre Dame and Miami like Notre Dame and Miami

Yeah, but you're talking about two different age groups, though.

You're talking about

Clemson LSU is now, is now, Clemson was a joke, man.

There's a generation that doesn't know that Clemson was a joke.

He would never win the big game.

Clemsoning was a thing.

Like, there's a generation of fans today.

What I think is happening this weekend is we can have this discussion.

It's an interesting one.

Hey, which do you think is the bigger game?

It's a funny one.

Oh, football.

Miami, Notre Dame, or Clemson LSU.

Miami-Notre Dame also got their own day, like, where everyone else is playing Saturday.

There's only two games on Sunday just building up to Miami-Notre Dame.

So, like, I wouldn't take it as some sort of slight because they're not the Saturday night game.

Yeah, you have the extra juice of a rivalry to try to make up that gulf between, you know, Clemson and LSU.

Both have won a national title fairly recently.

Both have quarterbacks that are presumed to be first-round draft picks.

So you think that rivalry and the lore of Miami-Notre Dame can be enough.

And also, I think most people think that that's going to be the better game in terms of tightly contested.

And that crowd, you know about that crowd on Sunday night?

Would you have preferred the Monday game to the Sunday game if you're UM?

The Monday game feels like it's going to be a bit of a fart.

You're waiting too long.

TCU.

Yeah, but Labor Day games used to be like, wow, Labor Day game, this is like a big deal.

But TCU North Carolina, it just seems like...

Well, how many times did Keynes FSU play on that Monday night Labor Day game?

Belichick is a bit of a fart this weekend.

Belichick is a bit of a fart, is how you just describe it.

Belichick's first.

So TCU, Deion Sanders got into the conversation on TCU.

Yes, remember when TCU played for a national title?

Like three years ago?

If Belichick.

Yeah, but that was three years ago.

Now they're TCU, and you're like, oh, what is TCU going to do?

If, if, you, look, I can't believe I'm saying this, okay?

Everything I'm saying about this is the warm-up for when football really gets here in two years or in two weeks.

It's going to feel like two years.

You have Clemson LSU.

I don't know which one's bigger.

Notre Dame, Miami.

We can argue today's fans, yesterday's fans, whatever.

I'm still telling you, the number one game is a lot bigger than both of those because it's got a Manning in the middle of it.

And now you're spanning across all the generations and a Manning who's giving.

It's official now.

I've never seen this.

I've never seen someone come into college football with this kind of anticipation and give me anything that looks like the quote, the targets not on my back or our back.

We got a red dot on everyone else.

Deion did some of that, but now a Manning is doing doing whatever the Dion thing is

to try and like

build up the program and the stardom.

So you've got those three things and it's Belichick's a bit of a fart.

What if he scores 50 points against TCU the way Dion did?

Then he scores 50 points against TCU.

I think this Belichick thing is going to be like, their schedule is pretty easy.

Their schedule is very easy.

But they have like a whole brand new team.

Like their whole team is out of the transfer portal.

You really don't know how bad they could.

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Don Lebatard.

John, can you rate my Al Pacino from that billiard scene in Carlito's Way if I do it for you?

I think it's pretty good.

Yeah, okay.

Stugats.

You think you're big time?

When you're gonna die,

big time.

That is on my infamous scale of one to ten.

That's a that's a seven point six

solid top down.

Good

This is the Don Lebatar show with his two guys

Bit of a fart Billy Belichick a bit of a fart game.

I mean is it not who's excited about are you guys excited about this?

I can tell you more curious.

I can tell you I'm a hate watch.

You know who agreed with me the voters because there's no little number next to either of those teams So I'm not in the minority.

The curiosity factor is going to oh, yeah, like you'll watch it, but you'll watch and be like, oh yeah, this is not Philip.

Oh, it was Tom Brady.

Yeah.

I'm happy that we have the Sunday Night Games.

Are we going to have like a Taylor Swift thing with Jordan?

Jordan?

I don't know why.

Julia, where will she be watching?

It's Jordan.

It's not Jordan.

It's Jordan.

Seriously, I always thought it was actually Jordan.

It would be Jordan.

And we just made it Jordan because there was an O there and it's kind of ridiculous to see an O there.

And I think Dan doesn't understand that we were doing a bit and he just thinks it's Jordan.

It's not fun to her name all this time.

It's Jordan.

Maybe Pablo can find out.

Did you see that they trademarked Gold Digger yesterday?

Or they filed a trademark for the term gold digger?

Jeremy, get on that.

Why would they do that?

I don't know.

Jordan.

Because it's love.

If you had to bet and be right, Belichick's team's name will have a number next to it after this weekend.

Yes or no?

No.

So you just have them you just have them losing to TCU you have Belichick doing nothing you have this first game being what Bray what Billy just said the first game is gonna be oh yeah Brady was responsible for all that with Belichick.

I guess it depends on how they look, Dan, but I don't think beating TCU in week one merits a top 25 ranking.

No, but

that's how Deion got into the top 25.

But it was a couple months after TCU played for a national title.

This is a different TCU.

Yeah, but put 50 on TCU and be coached by Belichick and see if people don't just put you up in the rankings because it's interesting.

I mean, if you're giving me that hypothetical in which they wipe the floor with TCU in a standalone TV window,

not wipe the floor.

Win a 60 to 55 game.

Not wipe the floor.

Bill Belichick will quit the college game if he gives up 50 points at TCU.

I mean, 60 to 55 is such a stupid game.

There is no way he will score 60.

He won't allow it.

Right now, North Carolina is not even in others receiving votes.

So they'd have to jump a bunch of teams to get to 25.

And the hypothetical I'm asking you, and what you're saying is a bit of a fart of the game, is if Belichick wins the first game with a noise, you do not believe they will put him at 25.

I mean,

BYU is there.

Utah, Baylor, Louisville, USC, Georgia Tech.

There's so many teams that receive so many more votes.

TCU only received four votes.

I'd like the which, what's the bigger game debate rather than will North Carolina be ranked?

We are so back.

Duke has more votes than North Carolina.

Hey, Duke should have been ranked at the end of the year.

There hasn't been a team in like 15 years that has been as good as Duke was to close the season that went unranked.

Talk to you.

That's Madison.

I've got a number of things in this local hour that I wanted to talk to you guys about.

Sorry Sorry for getting distracted by football.

I imagine it's going to happen a lot over the course of the next few months.

You guys, you talked in the shadow show about sick kids, and Mike Ryan was calling around for an exorcist for his daughter because now we're in the sick kids period of things.

Like the two of you have had nightmare situations with sick kids, and I was alarmed.

Mike's child is lovely.

He was scared of her.

He was scared of her though.

She needs that exorcism?

Well, I can tell how in the old days people thought you needed an exorcist for the scarlet fever i found out recently the scarlet fever is still around my daughter got the scarlet fever which is a strain of strep thorough yeah what does that even mean scarlet fever is awful we've been dealing with it for two weeks it started two weeks ago she started vomiting um we didn't really recognize what was happening then a couple days later a rash developed on her face and then cut two we took her to a pediatrician that and that said she's post-viral and then we were like okay i guess we're we're clear.

And then her face started falling off.

Oh, no.

And I'm telling you, there was a moment Saturday night where I'm looking at my sweet baby girl.

Her face is irritated.

Skin is peeling off around her mouth.

She's got bumps behind her ears.

She's itchy.

I have an important question.

At any point during this, did she spider walk down the stairs?

Dog, it got close.

So I'm looking at her Saturday in the tub, and she's just like basically staring through the wall.

And my daughter's got so much light to her.

And I look at her, I'm like, baby.

And she turns her head to the around?

Yes.

Like almost all the way around.

Is it contagious just out of curiosity?

Shrepp is running around.

She's been on antibiotics for a long time.

You're good.

But scarlet fever.

Is scarlet fever contagious?

Scarlet fever is a strain of strep, but again, she got infected two weeks ago and has been on antibiotics for a while.

Billy's very far away away from you right now.

I'm worried about Billy's kids, honestly.

He's got the head thermometer thing.

He's got his own shit.

So, Billy, explain to me what it is that's locked up at the farmhouse.

Oh, everything.

Hold on.

Yeah, let's just get to that.

I'm getting to the part where I thought my daughter needed an exorcist.

So she turns her head all the way around her body

to circle back 360 degrees.

That's a sign, Dan.

Yeah, and her face is falling off.

She genuinely, in this moment, looks like Linda Blair.

Her face is bad.

But every time I ask her, are you okay?

She says, yeah.

And I'm like,

baby, I don't like how you're looking.

You usually act happier.

You actually say to your five-year-old, I don't like how you look.

Yeah, you don't look so great, which she didn't.

She looked awful.

And I'm like, can daddy take you to the doctor again?

And she looks at me in her voice because of what's going on in her throat sounds different.

She goes, No more doctors.

No.

And I was like, I could honestly see how people without the internet, without WebMD in the 1800s said, this isn't scarlet fever.

This girl's possessed because it altered her behavior.

She would randomly have fits because her body's so itchy where she would just like, her body would contort and tense up and she would lose her mind.

And

it's an awful thing.

Don't get scarlet fever, folks.

Put it on the poll, please, at Lebatard Show.

Did you know that scarlet fever was still a thing?

And since you mentioned Linda Blair, a fairly startling thing that that name still resonates.

A movie really has to be a horror for,

and this still stands up.

Like if you watch Exorcist Today, it's still well done.

And it was in a 70s movie.

It's an insane thing to say.

But we walked in today on television and the devil was on ESPN.

You all saw it and nobody was reporting on it.

Look at this photograph of Mel Kuiper Jr.

Mel Kuyper Jr., you tell me that that does not look like the devil.

And this was before he got rabid.

Like there are better pictures of this.

what happened to mel he got sagaki like he got is that that's he that he was burnt by the sun but wasn't wearing sunglasses this is the most insane i've ever seen someone look on television it's not a sick day

it's crazy i'm concerned yeah is this a rib did they did they is he paying off a grid of death punishment does he warn the producers before he connects in the morning.

We did not alter this photo.

Is our TV broken?

He is this red.

This is not enhanced in any way.

I walked past the television and I'm telling you, this was before he got heated about whatever it is he was talking about because he was spitting and yelling and stuff and he looked like the devil.

Not as much as Gavin Newsom looks like the devil, but if you painted Gavin Newsome this kind of red, he'd look like the devil the same way

that.

Nah, he does look like the devil.

He looks like like,

no matter what side of the aisle you're on, he does look like the devil.

I got a four-day seminar from Peter Thiel on the Antichrist coming up.

You give me the people anywhere in entertainment that look like whatever you imagine to be the human incarnation of the devil if he was trying to trick others into believing he's not the devil.

The four-day seminar from Peter Thiel on the Antichrist is indeed a real thing.

Looked it up.

He's got to be tall as well.

You need the incarnation of the devil in human form.

Why am I doing that, though?

Because when Pacino did this in that movie where he was playing Satan, Pacino's tiny.

He's the devil's advocate.

Yeah, tiny.

He's tiny, but Gavin Newsom's height helps him here.

You got to be 6'3 or something in order to be plausibly the devil, no?

Everybody's running a con.

Can I get political for a second?

Here's the deal with Gavin Newsom.

Don't preach at me saying, hey, these guys aren't messing around.

This is the time for action when three months ago you were having Steve Bannon on your podcast trying to normalize him.

You're running a grift here, pal, too.

Good Twitter presence, though.

Loving that podcast.

Oh, yeah.

Making people real mad.

Yeah, no, he landed on the right side of it, but there were a bunch of people saying, what the hell are you doing?

Putting Charlie Kirk on your pod?

You were trying to go the Bill Maher route, and then you realized that wasn't the play, and you fooled everybody, including me.

I love the Twitter thing, I love a politician running a grift.

That's crazy.

Come on, I uh

want so badly to uh like that Bill Maher podcast because it could be so good, but he won't stop talking.

That guy stinks, he doesn't want it, could be so good, he just doesn't want the other thoughts on it.

It can't be good, he stinks.

I love Dan listening to a podcast.

Man, this guy won't stop talking.

No, Bill Maher is doing an interview show.

Bill Maher is doing an interview podcast, and he can get anyone he wants, and he won't stop talking because he doesn't think anyone's there for the guest.

He thinks they're all there for him, and I just, I would like him to

get more out of the guests and fall a little less in love with his own voice.

That's what I was doing.

I don't know what that's like.

You did five straight hours, not unlike Hassan Piker on University of Miami football.

How did it go?

And Billy, you've got

before the fart of a game that Belichick said.

Yeah, we got a real big one.

We got an FIU football game that Billy is covering on Friday.

Buzz up.

And Billy, where can we find you when we're looking for that broadcast?

At what time can we find you?

Where is this broadcast?

7 o'clock kickoff for FIU Bethune, Pitbull Stadium.

Tickets available if you want to go and check out Pitbull Stadium.

And then you can, you know, if you want to listen to my call, you can go on the website on your phone.

You can listen to the game while you're watching it live from Pit Bull Stadium.

South Dade Kia Field at Pit Bull Stadium, I believe.

I haven't gotten updated notes on that situation yet.

But I know last year, South Dade Kia was not in love with the fact that it's Pit Bull Stadium was getting all the love because it's South Dade Kia Field at Pit Bull Stadium.

Maybe.

We had to say, maybe.

Maybe.

I think so.

I think it's South Dade Kia.

Yeah, yeah.

Not Kia.

The Willie Simmons era gets underway.

Bit of a maybe revenge game.

He was at Bethune for a while.

I like that coach that you have.

Yeah, Willie Simmons.

And I think that A.J.

Allen's going to be the best running back in program history.

Wow.

Willie Simmons has got a presence about him.

I'll tell you what.

The Willie Simmons show kicked off this week.

You can see that on ESPN Plus if you want every week.

From Twin Peaks and Dural, if you want to go and check that out in person.

I'm in.

Yesterday was Coaches Meeting.

We're talking to Willie Simmons.

We're talking defensive coach.

Oh, I'm in.

And by the way, because,

and this wasn't told to me, but I kind of can read between between the lines here.

Because I'm doing a team broadcast, and this isn't like, you know, when I was doing the baseball games on ESPN Plus, I don't think I need to even aspire to objectivity this season.

So

I'll talk to you know my bosses over there and see what they say.

But like, I think objectivity might be out the window on these calls.

In terms of what it is that I was hoping at one point the local hour would blossom into, it has been a really wonderful thing to watch you, the watch, you and Mike Ryan on the campuses that you love having an impact.

I'm curious on this genuinely, though, Billy, because I know Jeremy's got fame at Marlins Park, and so do you.

Where do you get more interaction from people at Marlins Park or when you're big man on campus?

At Hitbole Stadium?

At FIU.

Oh, no one at FIU knows who I am, which is fun.

It's kids.

It's college.

These are, you know, 18-year-olds walking around.

They don't know who the hell I am.

They get curious.

Like, what's that creepy old guy doing?

Super senior?

Did he come back to finish school?

What's he doing on campus?

That's what they say when they look at me.

What's Fatso over there doing?

They're very rude.

I'm going to be honest with you.

They're not saying it, but I could see it in their eyes.

I know what they're thinking about me.

So I guess they're not rude.

It's me thinking that they're rude in their heads, but you never know.

So you're not big man on campus?

Oh, no, no, no.

Not amongst the student body.

They don't know who I am.

They could care less about me.

Why would they know who I am?

Because you're broadcasting the games and because we do have young people locally in Miami who find our show very popular.

Kids are ingrates.

I don't know if you know this.

You don't know this as someone without children.

Kids are generally ingrates.

Zaz can tell you he's nodding a lot, and we've never been on the same page more.

I don't know if you're aware.

My older son, total ingrate.

Put on the poll at Lebatard's show.

Are kids ingrates?

All of them.

All of them.

Don Lebatard.

Bob Kraft.

The only reason your organization is good is because of Bill Belichick.

Stugats.

Belichick has done nothing since Brady left.

He made the playoffs once.

I think, at the very least, he should not be a first ballot Hall of Famer.

They should make him wait like 10 years to get it.

He's an overrated coach.

This is the Don Lebatar show with the Stugats.

Guys, I'm 74.

Whatever Mel Puyper had is spreading.

Whoa!

Because check out Dan Orlofsky on

What is happening at ESPN?

Are the people now legitimate

catching fire?

They're just catching fire on

it that can't be real.

Did Kuiper and Orlovsky go to the same yacht party?

Like, Mel Kuyper's the same color the whole way.

Like, Orlovsky turns into like an orange at the eyes.

It's weird.

That's the visor.

That's what that is.

He wasn't wearing sunglasses.

He had a deck, a shade that it was over his head when he was golfing.

That's what happened there, right?

Or was he wearing a helmet?

People are getting ready for football season.

R-E-D ready.

Well done, Dan.

Give yourself the headkeep.

Mel Kuyper.

Give it to him.

Mel Kuiper Jr.

Mel Kuyper Jr.

looks like the devil.

If I can find...

You know what?

Hold on a second.

No, it's not unless you're not.

That was unnecessary.

Your arrogance is out of control.

I was talking to Chris.

It's just unnecessary.

Hold on a second.

Let me find you.

Chris found it.

Hold on.

Just, I need something.

I got to find something.

As you're defending yourself.

Shut up.

Minor penalty.

Two minutes.

Murdering the show with their bare hands and a dismemberment kit in cold blood.

It didn't go over my head.

It's your general arrogance that's bothering me.

And I couldn't find general arrogance on this on the screen.

So I went.

I listened to Chris.

Because he's been a bumbling nitty- trying to find that Hakeem Nick slash.

It's all right.

I'll go.

I don't believe that that was directed at Chris.

Do I have it wrong?

If I got it wrong, I felt like it was directed.

No, you do.

You do have it wrong, but it's okay.

No, you know what?

No.

Is the group...

Hold on.

We got a judge.

No, we got a judge here.

It doesn't have to be a democracy.

We can just let Zaslow determine

what the penalty is here.

Let's just let Zaszlo decide.

Because we've never taken a penalty back before, I don't think.

So if I got this wrong, Zaszlo will tell me and I will abide by his rules because he's obviously a rising power broker in the industry right now.

I'm the law.

What's the case in front of you?

I just got you.

What's mad with you?

My sarcastic, if you can find it, was it directed at Chris or Dan?

Dan seems to think, incorrectly, I might add in my defense that it was directed at him.

Okay,

Judge, I'm going to give you some context so that you can apply some judgment even though it makes me defensive as I guess the defendant.

This would be a historic case here where we are overturning a penalty and I am agreeing that it was not Mike that was being arrogant here.

It was me that was being arrogant.

Both of us can be accused of these things in equal measure.

However, the last couple of days of I made a musical guy or whatever his general arrogance is has seeped into what it is that happened.

So of course I thought he was condescending me because he's been doing that lately.

But the charge is not arrogance.

All right.

Because I'm in trouble with that.

The charge is, did you...

Hold on.

Here's the charge.

Minor penalty, two minutes, murdering the show with their bare hands and a dismemberment kit in cold blood.

But, Judge, the real comedy in it is he was accusing me of not being able to find the buttons, but he wasn't accusing me of it.

He was accusing Chris of it, and then I couldn't find the right button to penalize him with.

I have my ruling.

Okay.

The accused.

Who's the accused?

Is that that?

This is the ruling.

Okay.

The accused

is Chris Cody.

That's who is being accused of not being able to find the proper button.

All right, well then I got to leave for a couple of minutes.

I murdered the show then.

Sweet.

Panthers talk coming your way.

Forgiveable.

Unforgiven.

By the way, if you want some free clear stadium bags, first thousand students at the FIU Bethune game get those hold on say that one more time because these things that's currency a lot of people were giving them away this time here I saw T-Mobile was giving some away but yeah if you want to go to the FIU game gets Bethune Friday 7 1,000 students get some free stadium bags 1,000 students

yeah but I mean you know just you know slips somewhere just go waiting that money here yeah someone that's like on a student you know job thing you're like hey here's five dollars is the band coming for Bethune because they didn't come to Miami the last time out and that was that really pissed me off I'm not certain let me look into this.

Because you got to pay extra for the band.

I mean, but the product on the field is going to be incredible, regardless.

Willie Simmons-era.

Keon Jenkins in the voice.

Oh, yeah, he's back.

Enter the portal.

He's good.

He's back.

Yeah.

Now that Dan's gone, can we talk about the Panthers' front office?

Yeah.

I mean, were we not allowed to talk about it when Dan was here?

So the thing that stood out to me.

So the Panthers CEO, Matthew Caldwell, who's been with the team for almost a decade, he's leaving the team.

He's signing a 10-year deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves.

I'll be perfectly honest with you.

Obviously, Matthew Caldwell has done a really good job.

I mean, that goes without saying.

And, like,

by all accounts, you know, seemed like a major influence on what was going on with, or what has gone on with the Panthers on the business side.

But I don't know why this is a big thing.

It's a big thing because there was a lot of continuity in that front office, especially the business options.

They turn that business around.

And many people would point to...

I mean, part of it, though,

you know, we wouldn't have been saying four years ago that the business was turned around.

Um, I mean, as someone that was there with previous ownership groups and previous people running the business ops, I know it had a toxic culture, and it took them about a decade to dig themselves out of what Michael Yormark did there.

This was a huge project by Vinny Viola, and he put the right people in place.

Matthew Caldwell for my money, he deserves that 10-year deal for the Minnesota Timberwolves because he turned the business fortunes around he and his team.

But there have been a lot of departures, a lot of guys either getting poached.

I don't know what's going on.

It's a little concerning because there was such a family feel to that front office.

They were here through the lean years, but Sean Thornton's gone.

Bryce Holwig's gone.

Now Matthew Caldwell getting a 10-year deal.

I don't know if Alex Rodriguez being local, recognizing what they did over there, decides to poach Matthew Caldwell, but it's a bummer because these are guys whose names are literally on the Stanley Cup, by the way.

That's how high-ranking they are.

This is just something that happens when you win back-to-back, right?

That's all I'm seeing in this is

we were a good team last two years, so people are poaching our guys.

Yes, it's the sign.

It's a great sign for the Panther fan because it's the sign that this is a great franchise.

It's a really well-run franchise, but this doesn't seem to me as something that's anything to worry about if you're a Panther fan.

I mean, he left for a different sport for a 10-year deal.

Well, these are the only guys that have ever done well with this franchise.

But again,

it's almost like you're making it sound, okay, they've done well because tremendous business operations.

No, the business operations did well because of a tremendous product on the ice.

I would disagree.

I think they turned around the business before the product on the ice really turned around.

And I think the byproduct of the front office culture trickled down with the hiring.

Keep in mind, that front office hires Bill Zito.

So I think that it's a hand-in-glove situation but how do you make that case at mat like matthew caldwell has been there since 2016

and that's when things started to turn around for this franchise little by little it was it took a lot to turn this ship around so my concern in seeing these guys leave and it's not just because i like them all personally i think they're all great guys and i think they're exceptional at their job it's throughout the history

by the way like i'm not trying to say they're not it's just that as as as a panther fan i i i don't know how this affects me my concern is they're the only guys that i've ever seen seen do well in those jobs.

So with them leaving and deserving these promotions and going elsewhere, these guys deservedly are getting poached, it would seem.

Well, isn't the most, the most important thing is the ownership is still intact.

Well, the ownership put those guys in place.

And there was a lot of army ties there.

It was very regimented.

They had a first-class operation over there.

You got to trust the owner to make the same kind of hire.

And now you're going to hire someone who is not walking into into a disaster, like which was the case 10 plus years ago.

You're hiring someone who presumably is going to be qualified, and you're hiring someone who's walking into a well-walled machine.

I just can't believe the Panthers are now perceived around sports because two of those guys have left for NBA jobs.

And one of them was a hockey player.

Yeah, Sean Thornton.

Sean Thornton's brilliant.

He's a really bright guy, and he's been doing the business ops for a long time.

But it's wild to me that...

And franchises that, like the Hawks and Timberwolves, they've had their challenges too.

They look to the Florida Panthers as a model organization.

Well, the Wolves' fortunes also started to change when they hired Connolly from Denver.

Like, they're hiring good people, this Alex Rodriguez ownership group.

When people talk

about

the value of franchises and how it is that you develop the macro of the biggest things that businesses need to succeed in markets as difficult as South Florida, because this is a brutal market, and really the only way to do it is to win giant.

And so to see the Panthers, having it, it is fairly startling looking back recently at sort of the amount of time I've spent doing this in this market, to see 36 years, to see all of Panthers' history and have nothing good in it.

Like not just Pavel Burre, but just nothing good in it for 30 years because they were just so poorly run.

To see them take over the sport in a way that makes the sport do to them what people were doing to Belichick's assistants because they thought that's the reason that the Patriots were winning.

It is more stunning than seeing them win the championships, to see them be the organization that is the model franchise for everyone else.

Hey, what are you guys doing over there that allowed you to be better than Tampa?

Because we were trying to do what Tampa was doing.

How did you guys figure out all the things so that we're sending our best player into a series?

And by the end of it, he's overwhelmed by the amount of depth you have because your advantages are so large in a sport where you're capped on some things you can do.

If someone else has the best player, he should make it easy for you to build around him.

The Panthers have done this without the best player.

They've had good players.

They've got tons and tons of good players.

They've got Hall of Famers, but they don't have the best player.

They never have the best player.

They rarely have the best player on the ice.

Yeah, that's true.

I would have poo-pooed things like culture and business ops.

I would have been all about, it's all about the players, my guy.

That's where I'm coming from.

But having lived it with Michael Yormark,

I know what a bad culture looks like.

Oh my God, he knows.

He happens to know.

And I know how destructive that could be and how little it actually allows for you to be successful on the ice.

So let me ask you something then.

Because maybe a similar comp.

I'm going to run out of time here.

It's a poor job job by me.

Hey, Tony.

Hey, Mike.

Hey, man.

The summer's almost ending, man.

I can't get that.

There's no way.

There's no way.

I am excited about cooler temperatures, but down here in South Florida, that just means slightly less boiling.

Hot.

It's been a pretty incredible summer.

We've had a parade down here.

We've grown our family down here at Metal Arc Media.

A lot of exciting things, a lot of memorable benchmarks.

And along the way, at almost every step, I've been tailed by that beautiful white can of Miller Light.

Oh, that beautiful white can.

Or the brown bottle.

You can do it on draft.

Draft is crisp.

There has been so many great special times, and each time, I've decided to make those special times a Miller time.

Whether it's a long weekend like one we got coming up or a full-on vacation, it is a perfect time to get the crew back together.

This here marks 50 years of Miller time.

50 years of great taste, great friends, and unforgettable memories.

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Go to millerlight.com slash Dan to find delivery options near you, or you can pick up some Miller Light pretty much anywhere they sell beer.

Cheers to 50 years of Miller time.

Celebrate responsibly.

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