Local Hour: Kids Are Ingrates

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Speaker 14 I believe, I think I have this right, Chris Cody.

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 Do you agree with that assessment or disagree with that assessment?

Speaker 15 I think I agree with it.

Speaker 16 Billy's a tough nut to crack.

Speaker 2 I mean, what is this supposed to mean?

Speaker 17 I'll tell you what it is.

Speaker 2 Inner circle, either people I've impregnated or the people I've impregnated have birthed. So it is difficult in that sense.

Speaker 14 But you are somebody.

Speaker 14 You, because you can be a bit of a mystery.

Speaker 14 I saw earlier in the room, Fuentes is very eager. He's a very eager person, and he is a hustler.

Speaker 2 He's a something.

Speaker 14 And he wants to be your friend. And I see it happening.
Wow. And you're playing hard to get and

Speaker 14 and so when he when he said that he got a return text from you and all of us Chris Mike me we all looked you did and 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 type yep

Speaker 14 Fuentes

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 And I was like, who cares?

Speaker 21 Why are you telling people that?

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 I got a text from Dan yesterday at 7 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.

Speaker 22 What song was playing? Yeah.

Speaker 7 I don't know. I'm building this playlist.

Speaker 23 It could be helpful.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 And one of the other doctors who's already seen them a thousand times couldn't see them.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 They tell us the head thermometers and the ear thermometers are not the ones you want.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 And meanwhile, Dan's asked me, you know, I was thinking about this meeting from seven hours ago.

Speaker 6 I'm like, not now.

Speaker 5 This is not the time. I need to track down people to unlock a thermometer for me.

Speaker 2 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?

Speaker 2 So Fundes texts me and I text him back. And it's not like these glowing responses.
I'm like, okay, cool.

Speaker 13 Things like this.

Speaker 7 I don't know what it is that he's up to.

Speaker 19 That is gold from you.

Speaker 14 Gold.

Speaker 2 Why are they locking up thermometers? You can go and you can buy dose left and right. Don't have to do nothing behind glass or locks on anything in these CVSs.
But a thermometer?

Speaker 21 What are this?

Speaker 2 Isn't codeine.

Speaker 5 What are people going to do with a thermometer? It's a good question.

Speaker 2 What is the risk of a thermometer that has to be locked up?

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Speaker 2 He's been killing it this week. I think today's the day he fails.

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Speaker 14 The Sueys have been excellent. What are the categories we have today, Chris Cody?

Speaker 14 Because it has been 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.

Speaker 16 We have what I would call the best four categories remaining today and tomorrow with two today. We will have best dismissal and best limited fake.
So the best dismissals that weren't Stugats.

Speaker 14 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 Stugatz dismissal?

Speaker 16 There will be a winner from each of those but I'm cool with pinning those two winners up against each other to get how do you stir shit against amorphous things?

Speaker 14 The Stugatz dismissal category.

Speaker 28 There's SUI categories and you're pitting them against one another.

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 One of them is Stugatz's, and there's another one won by somebody else because we had to keep everybody out of the Stugatz category. Is it segregated? I'll put race into this if you'd like me to.

Speaker 30 Just give him what he wants.

Speaker 14 I just want the best dismissal.

Speaker 18 That's all I want. All right.

Speaker 22 Well, we have a Sugats one and a normal one.

Speaker 23 And then after we get the results, we can put out a new poll and pit the next one.

Speaker 29 Thank you.

Speaker 14 Thank you. Billy, why are you laughing at Zaslow?

Speaker 21 He was just like very comically low.

Speaker 2 I was trying to figure out if his chair was.

Speaker 33 It was not on purpose, did not need to be brought up, but here we are.

Speaker 34 Yeah.

Speaker 14 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 Zaslow. He's an expert.
He's all over ESPN radio.

Speaker 14 ESPN flies him all over the world. Where'd you go last year?

Speaker 33 Oh, got that first-class seat tomorrow morning, Dan. That's right.

Speaker 3 First class.

Speaker 3 That's right.

Speaker 14 He's a rising star. I told you, look, they're flying him all.
What cities did you go to last year? Oh, amazing.

Speaker 14 Not having any of the clothes to go to any of those cities.

Speaker 18 Yeah, right.

Speaker 33 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.

Speaker 33 But we went to some really great places last year. Yeah.

Speaker 36 So South Bend?

Speaker 14 You are excited about what this year? Because you're about to get on a flight and head into a soaring weekend.

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 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 homerification on behalf of boosting for his team and raising money.

Speaker 14 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?

Speaker 30 Are you guys?

Speaker 28 Yeah, he's been on our show.

Speaker 7 Well,

Speaker 29 I guess.

Speaker 37 Okay. Anna Lefu.

Speaker 29 Okay. He's Tommy.

Speaker 14 Thank you, Zaz.

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 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...

Speaker 33 Oh, you mean it's second by leaps and bounds behind number one, not ahead of number three?

Speaker 38 I don't know.

Speaker 22 We didn't get the Fowler Herbie assignment.

Speaker 28 And LSU Clemson did.

Speaker 7 Yeah. Down.

Speaker 14 LSU Clemson is pretty good too, right? Because LSU Clemson, here's.

Speaker 2 Four versus nine. There's three top 10 matchups this weekend.

Speaker 14 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

Speaker 14 I'm genuinely enthused to see where all of this ends up. And

Speaker 14 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,

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 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,

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 What was supposed to be a three or four year rebuilding project, we are now on the hot seat portion of it.

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 30 If I may, not enough credit for turning a fifth-round draft pick at best to the number one overall draft pick.

Speaker 30 He looked like that because of the trenches that Mario Cristobal and Alex Mirabal developed over the course of three years.

Speaker 20 He wasn't going to be the number one draft pick until he came to Miami. Yeah, you say Miami's Bacon.

Speaker 30 Yes, he was Miami's best player, arguably, since Sean Taylor, but it was a mutually beneficial relationship.

Speaker 33 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.

Speaker 33 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?

Speaker 33 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.

Speaker 33 So it's super high profile, but man, like Notre Dame national championship runner-up last year, you know?

Speaker 31 I love this debate.

Speaker 34 It's a sportsy one.

Speaker 28 I would actually say Clemson LSU is probably the second biggest game of the weekend.

Speaker 13 I don't agree.

Speaker 30 Well, those are two teams that have won national championships inside of the last 10 years.

Speaker 20 When you lump those four teams together, Miami is certainly on the outside.

Speaker 33 But there's, if the casual, if the average college football fan looks at Clemson LSU,

Speaker 33 are they gathering the same kind of emotions as you got Notre Dame and Miami?

Speaker 3 Like Notre Dame and Miami.

Speaker 14 Yeah, but you're talking about two different age groups, though. You're talking about

Speaker 14 Clemson LSU is now, is now, Clemson was a joke, man. There's a generation that doesn't know that Clemson was a joke.
Right.

Speaker 11 You never win the big game. Clemson.

Speaker 42 Clemsoning was a thing.

Speaker 14 Like, there's a generation of fans today.

Speaker 14 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?

Speaker 43 It's a funny one. Oh, football.

Speaker 14 Miami, Notre Dame, or Clemson LSU.

Speaker 11 Miami, Notre Dame also got their own day.

Speaker 2 Like, where everyone else is playing Saturday. There's only two games on Sunday just building up to Miami-Notre Dame.

Speaker 2 So, like, I wouldn't take it as some sort of slight because they're not the Saturday night game.

Speaker 6 Yeah, you have the extra juice of a rivalry to try to make up that gulf between Clemson and LSU.

Speaker 28 Both have won a national title fairly recently.

Speaker 40 Both have quarterbacks that are presumed to be first-round draft picks.

Speaker 6 So, you think that the rivalry and the lore of Miami-Notre Dame can be enough?

Speaker 28 And also, I think most people think that that's going to be the better game in terms of tightly contested.

Speaker 33 And that crowd, you know about that crowd on Sunday night?

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 33 You're waiting too long.

Speaker 21 TCU.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 33 Well, how many times did Keynes FSU play on that Monday night, Labor Day game?

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 So 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 gonna do this

Speaker 14 look for themselves 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 gonna feel like two years

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 And now you're spanning across all the generations and a Manning who's giving.

Speaker 14 It's official now. I've never seen this.

Speaker 14 I've never seen someone come into college football with this kind of anticipation and give me anything that looks like the quote, the target's not on my back or our back.

Speaker 14 We got a red dot on everyone else. Deion did some of that, but now a Manning is doing whatever the Deion thing is

Speaker 14 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 Deion did?

Speaker 2 Yeah, then he scores 50 points against TCU. You think this Belichick thing is going to be like, their schedule's pretty easy.

Speaker 33 Their schedule is very easy.

Speaker 8 But they have like a whole brand new team.

Speaker 33 Like their whole team is out of the transfer portal. You really don't know how bad they could.

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Speaker 35 Don Lebatard.

Speaker 33 John, can you rate my Al Pacino from that billiard scene in Carlito's Way if I do it for you?

Speaker 23 I think it's pretty good.

Speaker 37 Yeah.

Speaker 35 Okay. Stugats.

Speaker 5 You think you're big time?

Speaker 5 Or you're going to die.

Speaker 15 Big time.

Speaker 45 That is

Speaker 45 on my infamous scale of one to ten. That's a that's a 7.6

Speaker 15 solid top device.

Speaker 3 That's a SUI nominee right there.

Speaker 37 Good.

Speaker 35 This is the Don Lebatar show with the Stugats.

Speaker 14 Bit of a fart belly. Belichick, a bit of a fart game.

Speaker 43 I mean, is it not? Who's excited about? Are you guys excited about this? I can tell you. Or curious.
I can tell you. I'm hate watching.
You know who agreed with me?

Speaker 2 The voters, because there's no little number next to either of those teams. So I'm not in the minority.

Speaker 34 The curiosity factor is going to be.

Speaker 5 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 Like, you'll watch it, but you'll watch and be like, oh, yeah, this is not Philadelphia. Oh, it was Tom Brady.
Yeah.

Speaker 42 I'm happy that we have the Sunday Night Games.

Speaker 16 Are we going to have like a Taylor Swift thing with Jordan? Jordan? I don't know why.

Speaker 46 Jordan, where will she be watching? It's Jordan.

Speaker 14 It's not Jordan. It's Jordan.

Speaker 34 Seriously, I always thought it was actually Jordan.

Speaker 11 It would be Jordan.

Speaker 28 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.

Speaker 11 I'm not making fun of her name all this time.

Speaker 2 It's Jordan. Yeah, maybe Pablo can find out.
Did you see that they trademarked Gold Digger yesterday? Or they filed a trademark for the term gold digger?

Speaker 16 Jeremy, get on that.

Speaker 33 Why would they do that?

Speaker 2 I don't know.

Speaker 31 Jordan.

Speaker 2 Because it's love.

Speaker 14 If you had to bet and be right,

Speaker 14 Belichick's team's name will have a number next to it after this weekend. Yes or no? No.

Speaker 14 So

Speaker 14 you just have them losing to TCU. You have Belichick doing nothing.
You have this first game being

Speaker 14 what Billy just said. The first game is going to be, oh, yeah, Brady was responsible for all that with Belichick.

Speaker 28 Yes, it depends on how they look, Dan, but I don't think beating TCU in week one merits a top 25 ranking.

Speaker 14 No, but that's what Deion, that's how Deion got into the top 25.

Speaker 30 But it was a couple months after TCU played for a national title.

Speaker 11 This is a different TCU.

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 28 I mean, if you're giving me that hypothetical in which they wipe the floor with TCU in a standalone TV window,

Speaker 13 not wipe the floor.

Speaker 14 Win a 60 to 55 game. Not wipe the floor.

Speaker 23 Bill Belichick will quit the college game if he gives up 50 points to TCU.

Speaker 27 I mean, 60 to 55 is such a stupid game.

Speaker 39 There is no way he will score 60.

Speaker 7 He won't allow it.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 14 And the hypothetical I'm asking you, and what you're saying is a bit of a fart of a game, is if Belichick wins the first game with a noise, you do not believe they will put him at 25.

Speaker 2 I mean,

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 28 I like the, what's the bigger game debate rather than will North Carolina be ranked?

Speaker 8 We're so back.

Speaker 2 Duke has more votes than North Carolina.

Speaker 36 Hey, Duke should have been ranked at the end of the year.

Speaker 39 There hasn't been a team in like 15 years that has been as good as Duke was to close the season that went on rank.

Speaker 7 I'll chase Madison.

Speaker 14 I've got a number of things in this local hour that I wanted to talk to you guys about. Sorry for getting distracted by football.

Speaker 14 I imagine it's going to happen a lot over the course of the next few months. You guys,

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 Like the two of you have had nightmare situations with sick kids, and I was alarmed.

Speaker 14 Mike's child is lovely. He was scared of her.
He was scared of her love.

Speaker 33 She needs that exorcism?

Speaker 39 Well, I can tell how in the old days people thought you needed an exorcist for the scarlet fever.

Speaker 28 I found out recently the scarlet fever is still around. My daughter got the scarlet fever, which is a strain of strep throat.

Speaker 33 Yeah, what does that even mean?

Speaker 39 Scarlet fever is awful.

Speaker 42 We've been dealing with it for two weeks.

Speaker 39 It started two weeks ago.

Speaker 28 She started vomiting.

Speaker 28 We didn't really recognize what was happening. Then a couple of days later, a rash developed on her face and then cut to, We took her to a pediatrician that said she's post-viral.

Speaker 18 And then we were like, okay, I guess we're clear.

Speaker 34 And then her face started falling off.

Speaker 24 Oh, no.

Speaker 50 And I'm telling you, there was a moment Saturday night where I'm looking at my sweet baby girl.

Speaker 40 Her face is irritated.

Speaker 28 Skin is peeling off around her mouth. She's got bumps behind her ears.
She's itchy.

Speaker 33 I have an important question. At any point during this, did she spider walk down the stairs?

Speaker 18 Dog, it got close.

Speaker 39 So I'm looking at her Saturday in the tub, and she's just like basically staring through the wall.

Speaker 28 And my daughter's got so much light to her.

Speaker 50 And I look at her, I'm like, baby, and she turns her head to the around

Speaker 11 like almost all the way around.

Speaker 2 Is it contagious just out of curiosity?

Speaker 17 Shrepp is

Speaker 48 she's been on antibiotics for a long time. You're good.

Speaker 14 But scarlet fever, is scarlet fever contagious?

Speaker 14 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 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 at the farm everything hold on yeah let's

Speaker 23 the part where I thought my daughter needed an exorcist so she turns her head all the way around her body uh to 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 Blair.

Speaker 43 Her face is bad.

Speaker 11 But every time I ask her, are you okay?

Speaker 40 She says, yeah.

Speaker 49 And I'm like,

Speaker 6 baby, I don't like how you're looking.

Speaker 47 You usually act happier.

Speaker 33 You actually say to your five-year-old, I don't like how you look.

Speaker 50 Yeah, you don't look so great, which she didn't.

Speaker 3 She looked awful.

Speaker 30 And I'm like, can daddy take you to the doctor again?

Speaker 28 And she looks at me.

Speaker 48 in her voice because of what's going on in her throat zone is different.

Speaker 10 She goes, no more doctors.

Speaker 10 No more.

Speaker 20 And I was like, I could honestly see how people without the internet, without WebMD in the 1800s said, this isn't scarlet fever.

Speaker 34 This girl's possessed because it altered her behavior.

Speaker 39 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.

Speaker 22 And it's, it's an awful thing. Don't get scarlet fever, folks.

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 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 70s movie. It's an insane thing to say.

Speaker 14 But we walked in today on television and the devil was on ESPN. You all saw it, and nobody was reporting on it.

Speaker 14 Look at this photograph of Mel Kuiper Jr. Mel Kuiper 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.

Speaker 14 What happened to Mel? He got zagaki. Like, he got, is that, that's, he, that, he was burnt by the sun, but wasn't wearing sunglasses.

Speaker 28 This is the most insane I've ever seen someone look on television.

Speaker 33 It's not a sick day.

Speaker 29 It's crazy.

Speaker 7 I'm concerned.

Speaker 24 Yeah.

Speaker 8 Is this a rib?

Speaker 42 Did they, did they, is he paying off a grid of death punishment?

Speaker 33 Does he warn the producers before he connects in the morning?

Speaker 7 We did not alter this photo.

Speaker 1 Is our TV broken?

Speaker 5 He is this red.

Speaker 14 This is not enhanced in any way.

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 Not as much as Gavin Newsom looks like the devil, but if you painted Gavin Newsom this kind of red, he'd look like the devil the same way. Preach.

Speaker 1 Nah, he does look like the devil.

Speaker 14 He looks like like.

Speaker 1 No matter what side of the aisle you're on, he does look like the devil.

Speaker 28 I got a four-day seminar from Peter Thiel on on the Antichrist coming up.

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 42 The four-day seminar from Peter Thiel on the Antichrist is indeed a real thing.

Speaker 17 Looked it up.

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 He's the devil's advocate. Yeah, tiny.
He's tiny, but Gavin Newsom's height helps him here.

Speaker 14 You got to be 6'3 or something in order to be plausibly the devil, no?

Speaker 48 Everybody's running a con. Can I get political for a second?

Speaker 50 Here's the deal with Gavin Newsom. Don't preach at me saying, hey, these guys aren't messing around.

Speaker 20 This is the time for action when three months ago you were having Steve Bannon on your podcast trying to normalize them.

Speaker 7 You're running a grift here, pal, too.

Speaker 23 Good Twitter presence, though. Loving that picture.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 13 He's making people real mad.

Speaker 33 Yeah, no, he landed on the right side of it, but there were a bunch of people saying, what the hell are you doing?

Speaker 38 Putting Charlie Kirk on your pod.

Speaker 22 You were trying to go the Bill Maher route, and then you realized that wasn't the play, and you fooled everybody, including me.

Speaker 8 I love the Twitter thing. I love Bill Maa.

Speaker 32 I'm a politician running a grift?

Speaker 15 That's crazy.

Speaker 17 Come on.

Speaker 14 I

Speaker 14 want so badly to 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.

Speaker 14 He just doesn't want the other thoughts of others.

Speaker 17 It can't be good.

Speaker 23 He stinks. I love Dan listening to a podcast.

Speaker 11 Man, this guy won't stop talking.

Speaker 14 No, Bill Maher is doing an interview.

Speaker 33 Solo podcast.

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 He thinks they're all there for him. And I just, I would like him to

Speaker 14 get more out of the guests and fall a little less in love with his own voice. That's what I I was doing.

Speaker 30 I don't know what that's like.

Speaker 14 You did five straight hours, not unlike Hassan Piker on University of Miami football. How did it go?

Speaker 14 And Billy, you've got

Speaker 14 before the fart of a game that Belichick's.

Speaker 2 Yeah, we got a real big one.

Speaker 14 We got an FIU football game that Billy is covering on Friday.

Speaker 7 Buzz up.

Speaker 14 And Billy, where can we find you when we're looking for that broadcast?

Speaker 14 At what time can we find you? Where is this broadcast?

Speaker 2 7 o'clock kickoff for FIU Bethune, Pit Bull Stadium. Tickets available if you want to go and check out Pit Bull Stadium.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 South Day Kia Field at Pit Bull Stadium. I believe.
I haven't got an updated notes on that situation yet.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 7 Maybe.

Speaker 6 We had to say, maybe, maybe.

Speaker 2 I think so.

Speaker 21 I think it's South Dave Key. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 Not Kia. The Willie Simmons era gets underway.

Speaker 18 Bit of a maybe revenge game.

Speaker 2 He was at Bethune for a while.

Speaker 34 I like that coach that you have.

Speaker 11 Yeah, Willie Simmons.

Speaker 6 And I think that A.J.

Speaker 28 Allen's going to be the best running back in program history. Wow.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 From Twin Peaks and Dural, if you want to go and check that out in person.

Speaker 24 I'm in.

Speaker 2 Yesterday was Coaches Meeting. We're talking to Willie Simmons.
We're talking to defensive coach. Oh, I'm

Speaker 2 And by the way, because,

Speaker 2 and this wasn't told to me, but I kind of can read between the lines here.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 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

Speaker 14 more interaction from people at Marlins Park or when you're big man on campus? At Pitbull Stadium?

Speaker 2 At At FIU. Oh, no one at FIU knows who I am, which is fine.
It's kids. It's college.
These are, you know, 18-year-olds walking around. They don't know who the hell I am.

Speaker 24 They get careful.

Speaker 21 Like, what's that creepy old guy doing?

Speaker 21 Super senior?

Speaker 2 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?

Speaker 7 They're very rude.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 It's me thinking that they're rude in their heads, but you never know.

Speaker 14 So you're not big man on campus?

Speaker 3 Oh, no, no, no.

Speaker 2 Not amongst the student body. They don't know who I am.

Speaker 2 They they could care less about me why would they 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 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 it on the poll at Lebatard's show.

Speaker 14 Are kids ingrates? All of them.

Speaker 7 All of them.

Speaker 33 Folks, the leaves are turning.

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Speaker 35 Don Lebatard.

Speaker 19 Bob Kraft, the only reason your organization is good is because of Bill Belichick.

Speaker 35 Stugats.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 33 He's an overrated coach.

Speaker 35 This is the Dan Lebatar show with these two guys.

Speaker 35 Guys, I'm 74.

Speaker 41 Whatever Mel Kuiper had is spreading.

Speaker 34 Because check out Dan Orlovsky on

Speaker 14 what is happening at ESPN. Are the people now legitimate

Speaker 14 catching fire? They're just catching fire at all.

Speaker 43 It can't be be real

Speaker 16 that can't be it can't that can't be real did did kuiper and orlofsky go to the same yacht party at least like mel kuiper's the same color the whole way like orlofsky like turns into like an orange at the eyes it's weird that's the visor

Speaker 14 that's what that is he wasn't wearing sunglasses he had a uh 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?

Speaker 39 People are getting ready for football season.

Speaker 14 R-E-D ready.

Speaker 18 Well done, Dan.

Speaker 11 Give yourself the hood, Keith.

Speaker 11 Mel Kuyper.

Speaker 46 Give it to him. Mel Kuyper Jr.

Speaker 14 Mel Kuyper Jr. looks like the devil.
If I can find, you know what?

Speaker 7 Hold on a second. No, it's not.

Speaker 14 That was unnecessary. Your arrogance is out of control.
I was talking to Chris. It's just unnecessary.
Hold on a second. Let me see.

Speaker 3 Chris found it.

Speaker 7 Hold on.

Speaker 14 Just, I need something. I got to find something.

Speaker 37 As you're defending yourself.

Speaker 37 Shut up.

Speaker 7 Minor penalty. Two minutes.

Speaker 25 Murdering the show with their bare hands and a dismemberment kit in cold blood.

Speaker 27 It didn't go over my head.

Speaker 14 It's your general arrogance that's bothering me, and I couldn't find general arrogance on the screen, so I went.

Speaker 38 Because he's been a bumbling idiot trying to find that Hakeem Nick's laugh.

Speaker 17 It's all right. I'll go.

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 40 No, you do.

Speaker 15 You do have it wrong, but it's okay.

Speaker 14 No, you know what?

Speaker 21 No. Is the group...

Speaker 7 Hold on. We got a judge.

Speaker 14 No, we got a judge here.

Speaker 14 It doesn't have to be a democracy. We can just let Zaslow determine

Speaker 14 what the penalty is here.

Speaker 14 Let's just let Zaslow decide.

Speaker 1 The Honorable Jonathan Zaszlo, now presiding with prejudice.

Speaker 14 Because we've never taken a penalty back before, I don't think.

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 3 I'm the law.

Speaker 37 What's the case in front of you?

Speaker 14 I just got here.

Speaker 28 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 on the speed sarcasm.

Speaker 14 Okay, I'm gonna judge. I'm gonna give you some context so that you can apply some judgment, even though it makes me defensive as I guess the defendant.

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 So, of course, I thought he was condescending me because he's been doing that lately.

Speaker 11 But the charge is not arrogance, all right?

Speaker 30 Because I'm in trouble with that.

Speaker 14 The charge is: did you hold on? Here's the charge:

Speaker 25 minor penalty, two minutes, murdering the show with your bare hands and a dismemberment dismemberment kit in cold blood.

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 He was accusing Chris of it, and then I couldn't find the right button to penalize him.

Speaker 21 I have my ruling.

Speaker 37 Okay.

Speaker 33 The accused.

Speaker 14 Who's the accused?

Speaker 33 This is the ruling.

Speaker 13 Okay.

Speaker 33 The accused

Speaker 33 is Chris Cody.

Speaker 33 That's who was being accused of not being able to find the proper button.

Speaker 7 All right, well then I got to leave for a couple of minutes.

Speaker 14 I murdered the show then.

Speaker 28 Sweet. Panthers talk coming your way.

Speaker 10 Forgiveable.

Speaker 10 Unforgiven.

Speaker 2 By the way, if you want some free clear stadium bags, 1,000 students at the FIU Bethune game, get those.

Speaker 22 Hold on, say that one more time because these things, that's currency.

Speaker 2 A lot of people are giving them away this time here.

Speaker 2 I saw T-Mobile was giving some away, but yeah, if you want to go to the FIU game against Bethune, Friday, 7th, 1st, Student, get some free stadium bags. $1,000 students.

Speaker 11 Yeah, but I mean, you know, just, you know, slips somewhere.

Speaker 2 Just go waiting on the air. Yeah, someone that's like on a student, you know, job thing.
You're just like, hey, here's $5.

Speaker 38 Is the band coming for Bethune?

Speaker 30 Because they didn't come to Miami the last time out. And that really pissed me off.

Speaker 18 I'm not certain.

Speaker 2 Let me look into this.

Speaker 7 Because you've got to pay extra for the band.

Speaker 2 I mean, but the product on the field is going to be incredible regardless.

Speaker 12 Willie Simmons era.

Speaker 1 Keon Jenkins and the voice.

Speaker 17 Oh, yeah, yeah, he's back.

Speaker 2 Enter the portal. He's good.

Speaker 17 He's back. Yeah.

Speaker 48 Now that Dan's gone, can we talk about the Panthers' front office?

Speaker 30 Yeah.

Speaker 33 I mean, were we not allowed to talk about it when Dan was here?

Speaker 33 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.

Speaker 33 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,

Speaker 33 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.

Speaker 33 It's a big thing because

Speaker 30 there was a lot of continuity in that front office, especially the business ops.

Speaker 7 They turned that business around.

Speaker 6 And many people would point to...

Speaker 33 I mean, part of it, though,

Speaker 33 you know, we wouldn't have been saying four years ago that the business was turned around.

Speaker 28 I mean, as someone that was there with previous ownership groups and previous people running the business SOPs, I know it had a toxic culture, and it took them about a decade to dig themselves out of what Michael Yormark did there.

Speaker 6 This was a huge project by Vinny Viola, and he put the right people in place.

Speaker 42 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.

Speaker 47 But there have been a lot of departures.

Speaker 28 A lot of guys either getting poached. I don't know what's going on.

Speaker 22 It's a little concerning because there was such a family feel to that front office.

Speaker 28 They were here through the lean years, but Sean Thornton's gone.

Speaker 42 Bryce Holwig's gone. Now Matthew Caldwell getting a 10-year deal.

Speaker 22 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.

Speaker 42 That's how high-ranking they are.

Speaker 16 This is just something that happens when you win back-to-back, right? That's all I'm seeing in this.

Speaker 16 We're a good team last two years, so people are poaching our guys.

Speaker 33 Yes, it's the sign.

Speaker 33 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 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 you're you it's almost like you're making it sound okay that they've done well because tremendous business operations.

Speaker 33 No, the business operations did well because of a tremendous product on the ice.

Speaker 27 I would disagree.

Speaker 28 I think they turned around the business before the product on the ice really turned around.

Speaker 38 And I think the byproduct of the front office culture trickled down with the hiring.

Speaker 22 Keep in mind, that front office hires Bill Zito.

Speaker 28 So I think that it's a hand in glove situation.

Speaker 33 But how do you make that case? Like Matthew Caldwell's been there since 2016.

Speaker 22 And that's when things started to turn around for this franchise, little by little.

Speaker 30 It took a lot to turn this ship around.

Speaker 28 So my concern in seeing these guys leave, and it's not just because I like them all personally.

Speaker 34 I think they're all great guys and I think they're exceptional at their job.

Speaker 39 It's throughout the history of- Me too, by the way.

Speaker 33 Like, I'm not trying to say they're not. It's just that as a Panther fan, I don't know how this affects me.

Speaker 6 My concern is they're the only guys that I've ever seen do well in those jobs.

Speaker 6 So with them leaving and deserving these promotions and going elsewhere, these guys deservedly are getting poached, it would seem.

Speaker 33 Well, isn't the most, the most important thing is the ownership is still intact.

Speaker 22 Well, the ownership put those guys in place.

Speaker 5 And there was a lot of army ties there.

Speaker 42 It was very regimented.

Speaker 18 They had a first-class operation over there.

Speaker 30 You got to trust the owner to make the same kind of hire.

Speaker 33 And now you're going to hire someone who is not walking into a disaster, like which was the case 10 plus years ago.

Speaker 33 You're hiring someone who presumably is going to be qualified, and you're hiring someone who's walking into a well-walled machine.

Speaker 42 I just can't believe the Panthers are now perceived around sports because two of those guys have left for NBA jobs.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 33 And one of them was a hockey player. Yeah, Sean Thornton.

Speaker 7 Sean Thornton's brilliant.

Speaker 39 He's a really bright guy and he's been doing the business ops for a long time.

Speaker 22 But it's wild to me that and franchises that like the Hawks and Timberwolves, they've had their challenges too.

Speaker 18 They look to the Florida Panthers as a model organization.

Speaker 33 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.

Speaker 14 When people talk

Speaker 14 about

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 And really the only way to do it is to win giant.

Speaker 14 And so to see the Panthers, having,

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 Like not just Pavel Burre, but just nothing good in it for 30 years because they were just so poorly run.

Speaker 14 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 than seeing them win the championships, to see them be the organization that is the model franchise for everyone else.

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 How did you guys figure out all the things so that we're sending our best player into a series?

Speaker 14 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 like on some things you can do.

Speaker 14 If someone else has the best player, he should make it easy for you to build around him.

Speaker 14 Like, 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.

Speaker 14 They never have the best player.

Speaker 33 They rarely have the best player on the ice.

Speaker 5 Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 42 I would have poo-pooed things like culture and business ops.

Speaker 6 I would have been all about, it's all about the players, my guy.

Speaker 15 That's where I'm coming from.

Speaker 31 But having lived it with Michael Yormark, I know what a bad culture looks like.

Speaker 27 Oh my God, he knows.

Speaker 10 He happens to know.

Speaker 22 And I know how destructive that could be and how little it actually allows for you to be successful on the ice.

Speaker 33 So let me ask you something then.

Speaker 33 Because maybe a similar comp.

Speaker 14 I'm going to run out of time here.

Speaker 33 It's a poor job by me.

Speaker 33 Folks, the leaves are turning.

Speaker 22 The weather's getting a little chillier.

Speaker 27 That means the football games are more important.

Speaker 4 That means football time should be Miller time.

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

Speaker 27 From jaw-dropping touchdowns to fantasy heartbreaks, my fantasy season's over already, but you know what makes that better? Miller time!

Speaker 27 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.

Speaker 28 And here's the kicker.

Speaker 27 It's just 96 calories, 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces. The original light beer since 1975 and still hitting different five decades later.

Speaker 27 So, whatever your game day looks like, remember Miller time is always a good time. Miller Light Grape Taste, 96 calories.
Go to millerlight.com/slash stan to find delivery options near you.

Speaker 27 Or you can pick up Miller Light pretty much anywhere they sell beer. It's Miller time.
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