Hour 1: THE BUCKET RETURNS

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Speaker 6 You know what's funny about about what just happened there, Chris, as you expertly navigate some difficult waters as I try to figure out whether I want to fight with more owners?

Speaker 6 I just heard, this is what I just heard in my headset.

Speaker 24 Five in the control room.

Speaker 19 Five, four, three, oh, five.

Speaker 6 And then you're looking at me and you don't have any idea what we're doing.

Speaker 28 You're like, you point to me.

Speaker 29 You heard the same thing.

Speaker 16 I got really nervous too because they also said coming out to Zazzla. What?

Speaker 30 What are we, what?

Speaker 30 I didn't know what's happening. Did I screw up?

Speaker 6 Football is upon us and everyone around here is a little bit crazy, at least in part, because I'm getting criticized from all sides here for not talking enough football because today is football day.

Speaker 6 So Tony's got a top five list.

Speaker 33 All right.

Speaker 25 Okay.

Speaker 28 I give in.

Speaker 6 I know I'm going to lose to football. So go ahead.
Have your football fun. Tony's got a top five list.
What's the top five list? Also, we've got the helmet is back.

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Speaker 6 So we'll get to the helmet at some point here. But first, the top five list with Tony.
What's it about?

Speaker 34 Dan, this is, oh yeah.

Speaker 17 My bad. I totally forgot we had music to this.
Hey. All right, Dan.
Obviously, the Tony's top five starts after week one because we got to see the actual games to have a Tony's top five.

Speaker 17 But this is the preseason list of Tony's top five teams. I'm keeping an eye on this season.
Teams I'm going to keep an eye on. Obviously, this is not the good teams.

Speaker 17 This is not the Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles.

Speaker 6 All these great teams out there this is not that this is teams that when i'm scrolling through the red zone when i'm scrolling through sunday ticket i'm going to keep a little bit more of an eye on them because i like what they got going on so dominique says the colts are the team to watch uh well wait a minute though but billy and and and cody say it's a must-win for the dolphins in week one and dominique is saying that

Speaker 6 Everyone's saying that the Colts are one of those teams and the Dolphins aren't, correct? Like, that's what everyone is.

Speaker 6 There's no one saying that the Dolphins might be one of those teams and the Colts might not be.

Speaker 36 Greg said that.

Speaker 32 Yeah.

Speaker 17 The voice that sounded like Greg said that.

Speaker 36 Greg had him at 8-9 making the playoffs, the Dolphins.

Speaker 6 So, where are we? Who do we have to watch?

Speaker 28 You're not going to do all I'm 4.

Speaker 17 No, all I, just fives. Just fivers.

Speaker 17 And I'm going to start with number 5 here, and I put him at number 5 because I know there's fatigue.

Speaker 17 I know everybody's going to say, Tony, of course, this team, how do you always come back to this team? But I like him, and I'm going to keep an eye on him.

Speaker 17 The Jacksonville Jaguars are number five.

Speaker 15 I'm not a guy, dude.

Speaker 5 Do I get a?

Speaker 6 Very low. I don't understand understand how

Speaker 17 Dan, I'm making a play on Liam Cohen. I think Liam Cohen just revitalized Baker's career.

Speaker 6 Okay, this you need to give up. You need to surrender this New Bed Prize.

Speaker 32 This is it. Billy, Billy.

Speaker 36 I can explain it to you. No one here likes to admit they're wrong.

Speaker 6 No, that's what it is.

Speaker 6 No, but this is embarrassing what you're doing. He's taking the lane.

Speaker 6 Billy, you would agree that it is hard in the modern age to be at the trough and take a lane no one else is at.

Speaker 6 Tony, being a Jacksonville guy, is one of the biggest national support voices Jacksonville has had because no one cares about the grainy footage coming out of Jacksonville, which smells bad and is stuck in 1998 praying for Mark Brunel.

Speaker 9 You like Jacksonville?

Speaker 17 I'm going to keep an eye on him.

Speaker 36 He's just this thing. Now he changed.
I'm going to keep an eye on them. No, I never liked them.

Speaker 15 I didn't say I never liked them.

Speaker 6 Tony, you've been wrong on Jacksonville the whole time. And Mike's most...

Speaker 31 Except the time that I wasn't.

Speaker 6 No, Mike's most hurtful bet in his history is the one time you were right on Jacksonville when they beat Herbert in the playoffs.

Speaker 15 Thank you.

Speaker 17 And another topic I want to get to who is.

Speaker 11 Your team is bullshit.

Speaker 5 Tony needs a great start more.

Speaker 17 Herbert or Mahomes. We'll get to that later.

Speaker 6 Tony, your team is bullshit.

Speaker 11 Okay, Dan, you got that bullshit team?

Speaker 32 No, I don't have that bullshit team.

Speaker 17 Liam Cohen, who just revitalized Baker's career over in Tampa. He's now the head coach over at Duvall.

Speaker 31 Where's the sound of Duval?

Speaker 32 Duvall.

Speaker 17 I think this is Trevor Lawrence's last stand right here, Dan. If he can't do it with Liam Cohen, it's over.
That's what I'm saying. This year is the year.

Speaker 17 Travis Hunter, Brian Thomas Jr., they got a good running back, Bay Shaw Tootin from Virginia Tech.

Speaker 37 Oh, that guy's like a fire hydrant.

Speaker 6 Why did you say that the way that Zaslow says Thai food?

Speaker 29 Why did you say that?

Speaker 15 That's why I gimmicked it. Bay Shaw Tootin.

Speaker 38 Thai food.

Speaker 19 Exactly right.

Speaker 36 So I was wrong when I said no one likes to admit they're wrong. I was wrong about that.
Mike likes to admit that he was wrong more than anyone.

Speaker 6 He's told us. That is not true in any way.
It is true.

Speaker 32 100%. He's not hard to believe.
Yeah.

Speaker 39 You admit that you're wrong about that, please.

Speaker 40 It shows growth. Admit it.

Speaker 32 That's why we're in this whole pickle.

Speaker 15 Duval.

Speaker 6 Again with the pickle.

Speaker 16 My movie theater is so pickle.

Speaker 41 Do we need to change the music?

Speaker 5 How much?

Speaker 16 It's $2.99. It's a good deal.

Speaker 25 Number four,

Speaker 17 the Atlanta Falcons.

Speaker 17 Keeping an eye on them, Dan. I want to see what Michael Pennix turns into.

Speaker 17 Zach Robinson, their OC, has had to shift some of the ways that they played, obviously, earlier in the season last year with Kirk Cousins. They changed things completely.

Speaker 16 They should shift from playing bad to playing good.

Speaker 35 That's hopefully.

Speaker 17 That's hopefully what they're going to do with Michael Pennix now.

Speaker 32 Drake London and them boys, Bijan Robinson. They got Arthur Smith the hell out of town.

Speaker 6 So you said all those names.

Speaker 6 What is Kyle Pitts? Because out of college, this was a person who was the best wide receiver tight end thing I saw. And if Aaron Hernandez and Grant can be that, why can't this person be that?

Speaker 6 Does anyone have any assessment on what's happened there? Because he has been a non-productive football player.

Speaker 6 And whenever you're talking about the Falcons, you needed to be speaking about him as if he's one of the stars.

Speaker 17 Yeah, 100%.

Speaker 17 I think what happened to him is is he was a rookie that caught close to, if not a thousand yards his first year, but then was saddled with a terrible offensive coordinator, Narthur Smith, a bad QB situation with Desmond Ritter and Marcus Mariota and whoever else they trotted out there.

Speaker 17 That was a corpse. Now they got the corpse of Kirk Cousins out of the way.
Michael Pennix Jr.

Speaker 27 plays golf with

Speaker 17 Kyle Pitts. Now we got the golf buddy narrative going on.
So I think this is the year. We talk about this being the year for Trevor Lawrence.
This is the year for Kyle Pitts.

Speaker 35 If it doesn't happen this year, Dan, it's over.

Speaker 17 I want to see member again.

Speaker 8 Dan, I think you stumbled on a great bit.

Speaker 44 Awful football player comparisons.

Speaker 2 Because you just compared Kyle Pitts to Aaron Hernandez, and you did it so casually.

Speaker 8 Next time you see a running back that flashes to you in college, compare them to O.J. Simpson, please.

Speaker 26 The juice.

Speaker 6 I did it to Aaron Hernandez and Gronk because the tight end numbers that they put up as a combination made Belichick look really smart.

Speaker 16 Who would we do it for wide receivers?

Speaker 32 Tyreek Hill.

Speaker 11 But who are we going to compare him to?

Speaker 32 Tyreek Hill, Ray Garuth.

Speaker 30 Number three.

Speaker 17 I think Mike's in on this, obviously.

Speaker 32 Tennessee Titans.

Speaker 5 Oh, Cam Ward, number one pick.

Speaker 17 We want to see what he's got going on. Okay, Calvin Ridley, he's had an up-and-down career.
Now he's number one. Bill Callahan's got that offensive line, playing a lot better.

Speaker 17 Okay, hopefully this year they got additions to that offensive line. Cam Ward, is this the year that we see a number one pick be great?

Speaker 6 Okay, no one's saying that, correct? No one, no one.

Speaker 32 He's not saying it either. He's keeping an eye on that.
He's keeping an eye on the Tennessee Titans. Just an eye.

Speaker 6 The Titans don't have any primetime games, correct? They don't have any games. No one is going to see the Titans have the stage to themselves.

Speaker 6 As I say this, is there anyone outside of Tennessee that expects anything from the Tennessee Titans this year? I think your list is the only one that's going to include that team.

Speaker 6 No one is saying that.

Speaker 35 That's why I'm keeping an eye on him.

Speaker 17 Me and Mike, both keeping an eye on Cam Warren the Tennessee.

Speaker 27 Do I have it wrong?

Speaker 46 Is there some...

Speaker 17 I think the Tennessee Titans get some.

Speaker 15 But you don't get the list.

Speaker 41 The list is just people he's keeping an eye on. He's not saying they're going to for sure be good or they're going to be bad.

Speaker 32 He's keeping an eye on them.

Speaker 6 The thing that I'm asking you, okay, and I'd ask it of Mina and Dominique and all of these people who analyze football well.

Speaker 6 In the history of me covering this sport,

Speaker 6 I have very few times been subject to this guy starting his first game in the pros for a bad team, and I'm going to expect something because now the learning curve is such that you go straight from college to play your first game and we expect 10 wins out of you because you're on a rookie deal and hurry up about it.

Speaker 6 No one knows what to expect from Cam Ward, but I'm telling you that all of history suggests that he can't be Jaden Daniels.

Speaker 6 It can't keep happening like that where someone comes into the league and is immediately that, can it?

Speaker 17 I mean, Jaden Daniels proved it last year, right? Like, that's the thing where you look at...

Speaker 6 That's going to be the norm.

Speaker 17 Not the norm, but there's precedent now for it. Washington was a terrible team the year before.
They had bad coaching. They had bad skill players.
Jaden Daniels comes in.

Speaker 17 Terry McLaurin, who's nice, but they had Deami Brown running around.

Speaker 6 But Jaden Daniels was averaging 10 yards a game per carry, 10 yards a carry, rather, per game.

Speaker 6 And he could run the ball as well. You guys are telling me that you expect the Tennessee Titans to have a season that's a winning season?

Speaker 4 I think they're going to be playing meaningful football games late into the season. Yeah, I do.
And you mentioned Jaden Daniels. Bo Nicks also came into the league and made an impact.

Speaker 8 Connective tissue. So

Speaker 46 that's the new normal now?

Speaker 14 I think you need to take a look at the guys that had that extra year of college because of the COVID year. They played a lot of football.

Speaker 32 And Cam Ward has shown you every year he gets better and sneaky weapons outside.

Speaker 6 But can't Tyler Hucknick isn't going to replace your running back because he also provides that as one of the options.

Speaker 32 No, no, that's not his game.

Speaker 17 But Tony Pollard is a great back. He's been proven outside of Dallas that he's been very effective.

Speaker 6 But guys, it's a different...

Speaker 6 Okay, wherever it is that Shador Sanders suffers from doing loop-de-loops because the game is easy for him, Cam Ward's not going to be able to run run away from those defensive ends in his first season trying to read defense.

Speaker 44 Did you

Speaker 44 watch him at Washington State?

Speaker 1 He has plenty of experience performing at a high clip with a bad offensive.

Speaker 6 Okay, but Washington State, not the pros, and not with a bad team that's worse than the other pros.

Speaker 28 Okay, down to the battery.

Speaker 32 Touche peril.

Speaker 35 Touche. That's why I'm keeping an eye.
I'm keeping an eye.

Speaker 32 Exactly right. I mean,

Speaker 44 this guy said that that was the best player he's ever seen at the University of Miami.

Speaker 27 He said it's the best quarterback he's ever.

Speaker 32 He's a hater. No.
You're a hater.

Speaker 36 A Xavier Ostrepo.

Speaker 32 You're a hater, Rod. X.

Speaker 27 What number are we on? Number two.

Speaker 35 Who knows?

Speaker 17 And this one might be a little spicy.

Speaker 35 The New York Giants.

Speaker 17 New York Giants, Dan, have probably the best defensive front in football.

Speaker 6 And a great wide receiver.

Speaker 17 And a great wide receiver. And let me tell you what.
Jackson Dart, he's probably not going to play till maybe midway through the season. I think the Giants had the nine,

Speaker 17 the bye week around like week nine or something.

Speaker 6 They're saying things no one else is saying.

Speaker 32 Dan, that's what I'm trying to say.

Speaker 6 No one thinks the Giants are going to be any good.

Speaker 17 I didn't say they were going to be any good. I said that they have have the pieces to be interesting, which is why I'm keeping an eye on it.
Defensive front. What do you want to do?

Speaker 15 You want to judge the passage?

Speaker 6 I'm just rummaging around the bottom of the league.

Speaker 41 But he's saying things no one's saying the same way Adam McKay says things no one's saying.

Speaker 36 You're kind of like, well, is everything all right there?

Speaker 32 Hmm.

Speaker 17 I don't know if that's a compliment or not.

Speaker 38 It's not. Defense.
Oh, okay.

Speaker 15 Thank you, Zach.

Speaker 17 Judges decree on that with prejudice?

Speaker 38 I wouldn't even bother bringing it into the courtroom.

Speaker 15 Wow, okay.

Speaker 23 Wow.

Speaker 17 I don't know if that's worse on me or Adam McKay.

Speaker 35 All right.

Speaker 17 You've got a defensive front that is best in football. You've got Malik neighbors.
You've got a couple of quarterbacks that I think are going to be pretty good.

Speaker 17 I think Russ is going to be better than people think. So I'm keeping an eye on the Giants.
I think they're going to be a fun team.

Speaker 35 They're not going to be a ton of winning football, but they're going to be fun.

Speaker 6 Don't do that. All right.
So what is number one?

Speaker 32 Number one.

Speaker 6 By putting the Giants in here, you've bored me.

Speaker 31 Just the very

Speaker 31 first time.

Speaker 6 The very existence of the Giants. Is anyone expecting anything from the Giants this year?

Speaker 17 I'm expecting them to get the hell after the quarterback.

Speaker 32 Abdul Carter.

Speaker 17 Play fun football. That's what I'm expecting from them.
Number one, the New England Patriots.

Speaker 17 Mike Brabel and them boys. I think we've got like a Josh Allen Light in Drake May.
I think he's going to run the football.

Speaker 15 I think he's going to throw pretty well.

Speaker 17 Trayvion Henderson might be rookie of the year. We don't know yet.

Speaker 17 He's run out of a cannon every time he touches the ball. Dan, did you see him return that kick for his first touch? Did you see it, Dan, in the preseason?

Speaker 6 The thing about this segment that bothered me, and I'm sorry to see you.

Speaker 15 I don't think you saw it.

Speaker 6 The thing about this segment that bothered me,

Speaker 6 you tried to make creative, and thank you for trying, the very bottom of the league. I'd like to talk about the top of the league because you're talking about the very worst.

Speaker 15 He didn't even want to talk about Philly Lexington.

Speaker 36 Keeping an eye on them. Exactly right.

Speaker 23 He wanted to talk about Aaron Hernandez.

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Speaker 21 Don Lebatard.

Speaker 1 We got a Freenie Hardaway.

Speaker 51 So Freedy?

Speaker 17 I was trying to read fast.

Speaker 41 You D was on the team.

Speaker 51 Luke Jackson. Bobby Jones.

Speaker 12 The Matrix. Sean Marion.

Speaker 21 Stugats.

Speaker 51 Zoe, Shax, Mush Parker, Chris Quinn,

Speaker 51 D-Wade,

Speaker 51 Jason Williams, Darrell, right?

Speaker 34 I mean, stacked roster.

Speaker 21 This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

Speaker 6 I have some regrets, okay? And

Speaker 17 we all do. You want to apologize for the list?

Speaker 6 Well, I want to apologize for the list, and I want to apologize.

Speaker 47 To me, for you saying things about my list.

Speaker 36 Yeah, that seemed like you're apologizing for the existence of the list.

Speaker 32 That is what I'm doing.

Speaker 32 I'm apologizing.

Speaker 6 I want to issue a public apology to the audience for a list that when it is you took the show from me to talk football, did so with the very bottom of the league to analyze the teams that have the very least expectations.

Speaker 6 I don't think that that's what we should be talking about today if we're celebrating football.

Speaker 16 You're only as good as your weakest link, Dan.

Speaker 25 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 37 You want to rethink this whole Football Friday plan of yours?

Speaker 19 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 23 Why?

Speaker 6 Well, I will tell you part of why it is it's wet blanket Thursday around here, okay? Because

Speaker 6 you guys for years now have disrespected this bucket, not as much as I did earlier when I was calling it this helmet. This segment is a bucket segment that is now sponsored by Dentech.

Speaker 6 And what it usually results in is us having to wear costumes occasionally, some of us, and then eventually none of us. And Chris Whittingham still hasn't paid any of this.

Speaker 6 And there are outstanding fines all over the place. We haven't been able to get it under control and John Ameach he wrote it into the most recent contracts.

Speaker 6 Like there's it is now punitive and I can't believe it got to this point.

Speaker 6 But we're doing the bucket again and so I am going to give you guys what you want about football, football, all-the-time football. We're going to do the games right here.

Speaker 6 It's the most predicted, it's the most entertaining and creative thing that's ever done.

Speaker 24 Predictions.

Speaker 6 Predictions on games. No one's doing that.
We're the only ones in the podcast space doing that.

Speaker 38 We are so back, Dan. The bucket is presented by Dentech's Ultimate Fantasy Football Punishment.
Learn more and sign your league up at dentech.com. I'm very excited.
I'm going first. Get over here.

Speaker 39 Why is John Damici writing contracts for us? Well, hey,

Speaker 32 all right.

Speaker 38 If you don't know, if you're new around here, we rummage. You get two picks in the bucket.
If you don't like the first one, you can put it back. We've simplified it, Dan.

Speaker 38 Not as many wacky helmets this year.

Speaker 6 Well, it's just us two doing it.

Speaker 32 So we're going to be serving all this punishment.

Speaker 38 I got the Cowboys. That's going back.

Speaker 15 Oh, you know what?

Speaker 32 Hold on, you only to get the points on that?

Speaker 31 Plus eight and a half.

Speaker 32 Get a lot of points on that.

Speaker 27 We don't do points.

Speaker 15 Yeah, we just have to pick a winner.

Speaker 8 We were setting the table, guys.

Speaker 4 We do this whole thing. Like when we...

Speaker 32 I mean, you're going quick. All right.

Speaker 38 I'm just making sure he thought that, like. No, I know.

Speaker 1 We go straight up winners.

Speaker 36 Yeah, Tony's supposed to start.

Speaker 24 What's happening right now?

Speaker 6 Just Rusty, and you're in charge.

Speaker 38 The Jags. That's who I have.

Speaker 15 That's very exciting. So Jaguars

Speaker 38 are at home against the Panthers. Three and a half point favorite.

Speaker 32 I improved. Now, little douglas.

Speaker 45 Remember one of my favorite predictive analysis stats.

Speaker 44 Every time the Carolina Panthers have started the season week one against the Jacksonville Jaguars, they make the Super Bowl.

Speaker 17 All right, here, first pick. I've got the Cincinnati Bengals, and they're playing the Browns.
Five and a half-point favorites. I'm taking that.

Speaker 32 All right. You got to keep that.
I'm going to go ahead and go now.

Speaker 39 All right, let's do this.

Speaker 42 Happy to be doing this in bucket.

Speaker 16 Dentech mouth guard.

Speaker 35 Oh, I got Arizona.

Speaker 4 I'm keeping that.

Speaker 32 They're at the Saints. I like Arizona this year.
I think they're making a play.

Speaker 6 Let me say something here. Let's put these mouth guards in and give the rest of these picks the first picks of the season.
Let's give Dentech the proper sponsors.

Speaker 15 Let's do this.

Speaker 42 I do mind like Matthew Kachuk because he's super cool.

Speaker 44 Very comfortable.

Speaker 40 Another team I like is what Billy just picked was the Bears.

Speaker 36 Yeah, I'm putting them back.

Speaker 43 They didn't make my list, though.

Speaker 36 They're hosting the Vikings.

Speaker 31 But you're Baredown Billy.

Speaker 36 I am Baredown Billy, but I don't like the last game of the week, you know.

Speaker 31 The Bears are plus one and a half.

Speaker 24 It's a small addition.

Speaker 27 Yeah, Vikings.

Speaker 36 I got the Jets, so big improvement for me.

Speaker 40 Okay, Zaslo is about to go.

Speaker 29 Chris Cody's about to go as well.

Speaker 32 What hungry does is the Jets.

Speaker 27 Huh? I'm hungry.

Speaker 46 Okay. Jaslo feels too.

Speaker 24 Again with the plane sticks.

Speaker 53 Oh, okay, so good.

Speaker 29 Chris Cody.

Speaker 27 I already went, Darren.

Speaker 28 I know, but

Speaker 40 Jaslo, don't choke.

Speaker 36 Good day for Dentec. I already have two mouthpiece segments.
This one and the one with Mickey.

Speaker 35 I need a mouth guard for one of them.

Speaker 23 I got Splark.

Speaker 54 Oh, he's got the Smock helmet.

Speaker 46 Everybody wants the Smock helmet.

Speaker 26 You want the Jets?

Speaker 38 So now what you do is, if you're keeping that, you pick another team, and then you can switch that team that you pick next with anyone you choose if you choose you can keep that helmet so pick a team.

Speaker 38 You got to pick another team if you're keeping the swap.

Speaker 6 It's a good helmet to have then you can take

Speaker 32 another helmet.

Speaker 38 And now you have the option. Oh my god.
Oh, I thought it was the Saints.

Speaker 27 Army, Navy, Air Force.

Speaker 38 Army, Navy, Air Force.

Speaker 27 So now thank you for your service.

Speaker 38 You can pick

Speaker 38 to swap with somebody if you or you can pick Army, Navy, or Air Force.

Speaker 28 You don't have to swap now.

Speaker 24 You get to pick up the Air Force.

Speaker 32 and so what are the army army navy and coast guard games check it out it just says army navy on that side so i got the bills i got the bills

Speaker 40 the bills they're a good team yeah

Speaker 24 ravens yeah tough to answer very boring on hard knocks but a good team i'll take the bills i'll take them against the ravens at home you want me to talk about the boring bills

Speaker 36 i don't want to talk about the boring bills but i do want to think that they're good again this year and they're going to win the division sure but that's not fun zaz you don't need to worry about who you're picking in the thank you for your service, Hammond, because you're probably going to swap with someone.

Speaker 36 So they're going to then have to think about it. Maybe I won't.

Speaker 19 Let me see who Army Navy is.

Speaker 15 Army's playing K-State.

Speaker 38 That's not good. Navy's playing at home against UAB.

Speaker 11 Isn't K-State over there?

Speaker 53 UAB, that's St. Delbert team.
He sucks. Okay.

Speaker 38 So maybe Navy at home against them. I guess.

Speaker 29 Army just lost to Tartleton State.

Speaker 53 All right. Well, like I said, that might not be a good team to pick.

Speaker 19 Who's Air Force flying?

Speaker 32 Utah State.

Speaker 17 Tough to have.

Speaker 24 You break it down, college football expert. Utah.

Speaker 54 I always like to bet on Utah and Utah State.

Speaker 46 I always like for them to be a little bit better than people think they are.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I gotta go with Swap.

Speaker 19 I'm not gonna swap.

Speaker 46 So who do you want to swap with?

Speaker 19 Which is the one who I got?

Speaker 36 Who you got the Jets, I think you said.

Speaker 38 I think Tony has the biggest favorite, five and a half-point favorite, Bangalore.

Speaker 15 I don't know about that.

Speaker 6 Mike, what do you got?

Speaker 27 I got nothing you gotta worry about.

Speaker 32 What do you got? Nothing.

Speaker 19 That's on you for not remembering. Yeah, he's right.
That's not the way to play, Div.

Speaker 6 That's not the way. I gave analysis first.

Speaker 35 I said I liked them making the play.

Speaker 46 But now you're testing his memory, and no one explained to him that this was a game of wits.

Speaker 19 Well,

Speaker 32 you got it.

Speaker 23 Man,

Speaker 54 he's playing it for the first time.

Speaker 31 We stole it from him and Joy Taylor.

Speaker 6 It was a totally stompiness.

Speaker 19 I'm glad you're finally a man. He's still mad about it.
He's done got shit from me. Yeah, yeah, you and Joy Taylor complaining.

Speaker 25 You stole our bit. You took it national.

Speaker 19 And all I did was hate it. I hate this bit.

Speaker 25 And now you're supposed to remember, Jims?

Speaker 4 Yeah, you invented making predictions.

Speaker 53 No, I invented, I had a wheel of ass.

Speaker 53 That's right, he had a wheel.

Speaker 25 He had a wheel in the air.

Speaker 19 It was a wheel of humiliation.

Speaker 4 Either way, you don't know my team, and it seems to be like you're in a pickle.

Speaker 19 The wheel of humiliation.

Speaker 53 My movie did yourself pickle.

Speaker 19 I don't care what I'm doing. The wheel of humiliation was better than

Speaker 3 the bucket of

Speaker 19 yo, Mike. Who you got?

Speaker 19 Don't make me come over there.

Speaker 19 I'll come over there.

Speaker 25 Bullshit.

Speaker 19 Billy, who you got?

Speaker 22 You just, you say, I'm swapping with Billy, or are you going to say the team?

Speaker 19 You want to squat with me? No, I want to know what team you have. You just, okay.

Speaker 27 You want to squap with me?

Speaker 19 No, I want to know what chief you have.

Speaker 19 What if I had the Eagles?

Speaker 27 You want to swap and get the Eagles?

Speaker 23 No, I don't want the Eagles.

Speaker 19 What if I had the Broncos?

Speaker 19 You want to squat for the Broncos? If you had the Broncos, I would swap for you.

Speaker 27 So, take a gambling man?

Speaker 32 I am a gambling man.

Speaker 22 So, if I had the Broncos, you could have the Broncos, but if I have another team, you got that team.

Speaker 19 That's not how this works.

Speaker 55 Pick your poison, buddy.

Speaker 23 I want to know who you got, man.

Speaker 55 No, you got to pick who you're squabbling.

Speaker 19 Slapping with a sword should be a good thing.

Speaker 27 You swabble with a person.

Speaker 19 Not the team.

Speaker 55 You swabble with a person.

Speaker 19 You swabble with me? That's fuck.

Speaker 19 You want to do business with me? You want to swab with me?

Speaker 27 Maybe I have the Broncos.

Speaker 25 You want to swap?

Speaker 19 No, I want to swap with the team.

Speaker 29 I don't want to swap with you.

Speaker 27 Who you got?

Speaker 40 It's not how I do business.

Speaker 19 Well, you don't make the rules.

Speaker 27 Maybe I got the commanders.

Speaker 15 You want the commanders?

Speaker 54 You guys got to stop doing this to me.

Speaker 25 Your microphone's off.

Speaker 19 Yes, if you have the commanders, then I want to swap.

Speaker 55 Say you want to do business with me.

Speaker 19 If you have the commanders.

Speaker 34 Say I want to swap with Billy.

Speaker 19 I want to swap with Billy if we have the commanders.

Speaker 22 No, no contingencies.

Speaker 55 Take a person to swap with.

Speaker 22 This is what you get for not keeping up.

Speaker 53 Yo, Chris, who you got?

Speaker 38 I have the Jags. Mike has the Cardinals.

Speaker 27 They're the biggest favorite.

Speaker 32 You son of a...

Speaker 23 But maybe I had a...

Speaker 19 And I don't like to use that word, but you made me.

Speaker 27 I might have the commanders.

Speaker 40 Mike's is in his hand right here.

Speaker 19 You have the commander? Maybe.

Speaker 34 It's right here. Take a look.

Speaker 40 It's in this hand.

Speaker 53 Let me see your hand.

Speaker 34 You seeing it.

Speaker 19 You blind?

Speaker 19 You are the commanders?

Speaker 27 I got my team in this hand right here.

Speaker 23 You want them?

Speaker 53 If that team is the commanders, I'll want them.

Speaker 29 I think Chris Cody gave you a clue.

Speaker 22 Want this team or not?

Speaker 25 I don't want that team.

Speaker 19 I'm declining.

Speaker 27 I don't want that team. Wow.

Speaker 22 Your funeral.

Speaker 19 We need a swamp.

Speaker 25 I want Mike's team.

Speaker 19 Give me your team, Mike.

Speaker 19 All right, you can't.

Speaker 27 Don't make me come over there.

Speaker 19 That's a cardinal.

Speaker 6 All right, so Mike now has, what are you taking?

Speaker 28 Air Force, Navy, Army, who are you taking?

Speaker 27 He'll announce it.

Speaker 37 Yeah, they're all not great.

Speaker 27 Thank you, Dentech.

Speaker 19 I had to judge.

Speaker 19 Good, I'm glad I didn't take that.

Speaker 27 Bad business.

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Speaker 50 Hey, Billy Gill.

Speaker 44 Hey, hey, Billy, as a proud member of your inner circle, remember when we were hanging out last weekend?

Speaker 36 Oh yeah, fishtail palms.

Speaker 50 The fishtail palms, the great memories we made, kids playing in the pool and in our hands, a nice ice-cold pan of Miller Light.

Speaker 30 It was so hot out.

Speaker 43 I know, but it was so cold in my hand.

Speaker 37 We took that first sip. It was crisp.
It was refreshing.

Speaker 50 Oh, man, there is nothing like cracking open a Miller Light with your crew and your inner circle bones.

Speaker 43 Hell yeah.

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We actually really did.

Speaker 33 Whether it's that touchdown.

Speaker 41 It didn't make a sound, but it just started

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Speaker 21 Don Lebatard.

Speaker 6 Billy, somebody has written in here,

Speaker 34 I need way more.

Speaker 33 I'm sorry.

Speaker 38 I just said in his headset, haven't you been to all of them too? It sounded like you were speaking aloud. My bad.

Speaker 36 Totally on me.

Speaker 38 That's 100% on me.

Speaker 26 All right.

Speaker 21 Stugats.

Speaker 38 But that goes without saying.

Speaker 51 Right. That it couldn't happen.

Speaker 34 Well, no, he said.

Speaker 23 He didn't say anything.

Speaker 27 He said it could be a lot of fun.

Speaker 34 Craig. My apologizing.

Speaker 37 Greg. Yeah.

Speaker 34 Greg.

Speaker 38 He apologized.

Speaker 15 Craig. Sincerely.

Speaker 21 This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

Speaker 6 Thank you to Dentech. The bucket is back.
The punishments will be paid this year.

Speaker 6 You say we haven't established John Amici is writing the characters, but then you tell me that that black guy that hit Jeremy with a bottle two and a half hours ago, that that's a character we've established.

Speaker 6 Just to be sure, I've got all of that right.

Speaker 6 Hit Jeremy in the head with a bottle. I haven't heard from Jeremy since.
Have you? Have you seen Jeremy since?

Speaker 37 No, but if you're asking me if that's accurate, yes, it is.

Speaker 17 I've got good news. Jeremy's going to be the one handling all the costumes for the Dentech.

Speaker 6 He's in charge?

Speaker 15 He's in charge.

Speaker 32 Oh, okay.

Speaker 6 But wait a minute.

Speaker 28 That's not going to work.

Speaker 23 You guys.

Speaker 5 We're not going to listen to him. We're going to hit him with a bummer.

Speaker 6 It's in your contracts. It's in your contracts.
The punishments have to be paid.

Speaker 6 That part, nobody's fooling around on anymore.

Speaker 6 I wanted to ask you guys something. Have any of you seen the trailer for the Sheen documentary?

Speaker 23 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 32 I think this one's going to be good.

Speaker 6 So you guys were making fun of me because you were saying, oh, Metal Arc finished in second place for that one.

Speaker 41 I thought you meant Sheen, the place where you order really cheap stuff.

Speaker 36 Because I think Hulu did a thing on that. I'm like, why does Danny even know what Sheen is?

Speaker 6 The Charlie Sheen documentary was offered to us for a price. We would have...
Second place again. No, this is what you guys did last time, and that's not what.

Speaker 32 Always the bridesmaid.

Speaker 23 Yeah.

Speaker 36 Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Speaker 27 So I want to ask.

Speaker 6 It's your money, seriously, because the company's ours. It's your money that this bet would have or would not have been made with.

Speaker 6 And so I ask you this question when I tell you that the Sheen movie could have been ours if we had paid a price, would have closed the bidding and would have been ours. It's not second place.

Speaker 6 It was, no, that seems a little steep. What I ask you is too steep.
I'm asking you guys to guess.

Speaker 6 I'm asking you guys to tell me on behalf of the company, what do you think would be too much money to pay Charlie Sheen that would have closed the category that this would have been not just a giant week for Metal Arc, but it would have been everything with Pablo Torre, and we would have been debuting the Sheen movie.

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Speaker 16 I mean, is there a baseline as to how much this kind of thing usually costs?

Speaker 6 I'm just asking you, yeah, well, I will tell you, hold on a sec.

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