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Again, with this guy, making this 5 a.m.

Pablo drop, I feel so bad for Clippers Public Relations.

Like they have to get up at two o'clock in the morning and see what he's doing and sit through an hour-long episode because he doesn't get to the point right away.

Like you have to fast-forward to 30 minutes in before you get to the actual story.

But now he's got yet more paperwork.

And I don't know how it is that Zaszlo and Billy are saying, yeah, Silver's not going to do anything.

I don't believe that there's a way, given that we have so much documentation.

Usually these investigations are private, and the leagues are doing it.

We don't find out much of anything unless Ted Wells is doing a $5 million

report.

The Clippers are in big trouble.

I would think so, but Adam Silver got up in front of people the other day and said he's never heard of aspiration.

He walked that back.

He did walk it back, and you called him full of crap yesterday, but Pablo's got more this morning.

He's slow playing this.

He's slow playing this.

He puts Chum in the water, and then people come out and talk about it who don't know what they're talking about it, and then he makes them look dumb.

So why did they...

Okay, at this point, shouldn't those people...

Shouldn't they have realized maybe I shouldn't say anything because Pablo's got more stuff that's going to come out?

Well, I think they've learned that since.

So no one's talking anymore?

Well, I think now they've learned it.

I think now everyone is being a lot more careful.

I mean, the initial statement from the Clippers was this was provably false, and

they've been backpedaling like Deion Sanders since then.

It does feel a little bit like how you describe boxing, not that I've ever watched or will ever watch, but the way you describe it is like you're luring your opponent into getting hit, so you just kind of slow play it, and that's how Pablo feels.

It's, here, I'll give you a little bit of this.

Get you to make a statement oh actually i have this get you to make another statement oh actually i have that it's insane jeremy it's called the rope of dope watch when we were kings that's when boxing was boxing i disagree i think when we were kings was certainly when boxing was boxing and when was that i don't think you have to go back to 1968 i think crawford just did that to canelo lured him in a couple times and then canelo looked when he got hit when canelo got hit after he saw his opening he looked around as if he didn't understand what had just happened to him because of how Crawford would have been.

Just to be clear, I said boxing was boxing during the thrill in Manila, and you countered with no Canelo versus Bud Crawford on Netflix.

Aaron's Crawford, you said,

isn't his nickname Bud?

You said, you said, thank you.

Wow.

Sorry.

Look at me.

Pugilist specialist.

You don't know who he is either, Dan?

You said that boxing wasn't something that had feints and Ropa dopes since the 60s.

And I was saying, no, we just saw it last week.

I said boxing was boxing during When We Were Kings, which is a great documentary, one of the greatest ever.

You should watch that, Jeremy.

Agreed, it is.

That's when boxing was boxing, not on a Netflix card that nobody I know outside of you and Juju is talking about.

Now, does he have any relation to Carl Crawford?

Boxing.

That's when baseball was baseball.

Boxing is still boxing.

I don't think you could say that's a bad thing.

Boxing is not boxing.

Did Jeremy say he's never seen boxing?

He doesn't care about the kind of

sports.

sports.

I have to walk something back as the resident pugilist specialist.

It was the rumble in the jungle, not the thrill in Manila.

Where's Billy?

My socks are wet.

Am I making you miss Billy?

Where is he?

Why is he not here?

I felt like I filled the role adequately in this segment by just bothering me.

This is the Dan Labatar Show with the Stu Gats Podcast.

We obviously have Jimmy Kimmel stuff to talk about,

and obviously

we have dolphin stuff to talk about.

But I have Billy Gill paying a punishment.

I believe it's the first time that Billy Gill is paying a punishment since he was an old-timey baseball player.

And so we go out immediately to Billy Gill.

Billy Gill live.

He looks like an idiot.

Billy, can you hear me?

What are you doing?

What is the punishment you're serving today?

Finally, we're getting a punishment served.

You named yourself commissioner.

You didn't serve any punishments the year that you were the commissioner, but you're finally paying a punishment.

What is the punishment you're paying today in the rain?

Is that your home?

This is an undisclosed location where I am planting my third tree.

I was supposed to plant one tree as the Kawhi punishment, which really was planting no trees because that's what Kawhi did.

But I'm now planting my third tree to satisfy you guys.

The first two trees were artificial intelligence.

We saw the images.

Falsehoods.

It's not falsehoods and fallacies, Billy.

They were very clearly.

Bring up one of the images so you can see it.

Billy, don't make the video team try to do stuff you haven't prepared while you're at an undisclosed location trying to befoul our show.

Are you going to start?

Do you have the materials you need to plant the tree from an undisclosed location?

Well, I was told those would be provided for me.

But told by whom?

It's your punishment.

You've got to serve the punishment.

What do you mean it was provided?

You don't have a tree.

Do you think Hawaii was showing up with trees to plant himself?

No, he shows up and dig a hole, plant a tree, whatever, you know?

Did you just push

in?

There we go.

Good job, Danny.

So what kind of tree do you have?

What kind of tree do you have that you're planting?

Thank you, Danny.

Thank you, Danny.

Yes.

Do you know anything about that?

It's really hard to explain why I don't have a shovel later, and he just handed it to me three seconds in, but that's okay.

Oh, God.

Now it's stuck in the tree.

It is hard to do this with a motorcycle.

What was the question?

The question was, what kind of tree is now laying flat on its side, which is not how you want a tree?

What kind of tree is that?

Do you know anything about what you're doing today?

Yeah, this is a Barbie pink guava tree that I will be planting today.

Nice, at an undisclosed location.

Okay, we will check in with you when Pablo Torrey shows up.

You will befoul his segment.

We'll check in with you when Chris Whittingham shows up.

We will befoul his segment.

Anything else that you have?

You don't think Adam Silver is going to punish anybody for what Pablo is reporting, correct?

Well, I mean, if the guy won't stop snitching, like every week he's like, oh, guess what else I know?

Guess what else I know?

And he's kind of forcing the commission's hand here.

Why is it snitching?

He's being a journalist.

He's being that's not snitching.

Please.

Not my assistant.

Please.

please

you know what would happen stitches

there's a fine line between snitch and journalist i will just say let's hear this yeah put it on the poll at lebotard show is there a fine line between snitch and journalist uh because uh billy you're you're one of the uh loudest national critics of pablo tore's reporting which has been pretty impeccable I had falsehoods on that as well.

I'm just trying to bring perspective to this distorted reality.

What is this?

I'm just trying to bring perspective to this distorted view of this story, you know?

Oh, this is the biggest story in the history of man.

This is the greatest invention ever.

Whatever.

Blah, blah, blah.

Metal arc.

We did it.

We almost had Charlie Sheen's documentary, you know?

I'm just here to say, hey, you know, most people don't care.

Football started.

Dolphins, Bills, Thursday night football, Buffalo.

Tua went dressed like he was going to a blizzard when it's supposed to be in the high 60s tonight.

We'll see what happens.

What are you wearing?

Are those overalls?

What is on your chest?

I can't see.

Like, what are you wearing?

I think those are gloves on his chest.

As you can,

for frame of reference, you can see that when I planted the last two trees, this is my planting raincoat that I wear, and it's apropos because it's raining today.

And then I have my gardener overalls on, as I do when I plant things.

And then

these are my gardening gloves, and you can see there's still dirt on them from the last time.

All right, we will check in with you later.

There's not dirt on them from the last time.

You tried to trick us with AI.

You have what's this dirt from then?

You have not planted any trees.

That is not.

I wasn't out with any waiters or waitresses.

You know what I mean?

That's an OJ reference.

We'll see you later.

Thank you.

We'll end on that note.

We'll check in with you a little bit later on.

We really didn't need an OJ reference there.

Who would have gotten that reference?

That's why he explained it.

Generally, jokes don't work when you have to explain them afterward.

The Dolphins play tonight, a game that Zaslow is saying

is something that is going to shift the franchise permanently.

I would ask the question of the group here.

This is the biggest point spread we've had this season, correct?

12 points.

There's been no bigger point spread this earlier, this early in the season.

And I think I can say this: if the Dolphins were to win tonight, it would be the biggest surprise we've had this season as well, correct?

No one's expecting the Dolphins to do anything because if you haven't seen what it is that the Bills have done, the Bills, they haven't had an offensive

turnover.

They're scoring on 64% of their drives.

They're averaging 502 yards per game.

That's the highest in the NFL.

And this is the biggest spread that the Bills and Dolphins have had since 2023.

Zasla, why do you believe that this is a game, a season-changing, franchise-changing Thursday night?

Yeah,

I think it's going to be a seminal moment in

Dolphins franchise history.

Now, when I say that, I don't think it's hyperbolic because what I mean by that is I think tonight is going to be so ugly that it is going to force major changes on the franchise.

It doesn't mean that those major changes are going to wind up being good things.

We've had major changes in the franchise before and look at you now, like we're still where we are.

So

I don't believe it's going to necessarily result in anything good, but I think we're going to be able to look back and wow remember that Thursday night game against Buffalo?

That's when this guy got fired and this guy got traded and this guy got benched and this happened.

I think what goes down tonight, we are going to remember this.

Is that your Pacino again?

Look at you now.

Not as good as your other one.

Big time.

You know when he says that?

Look at you now?

That's when the hitman in Scarface, when the hitman wants to kill,

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I'm glad that you're doing impersonations because I've told the people listening to this that Zaz is making a giant impact at ESPN.

Everyone's noticing now he's getting the flattery that people get when you mimic them, when you impersonate them.

Evan Cohen, part of the unsportsmanlike crew on morning radio on ESPN.

Evan Cohen, who came up through South Florida, clearly jealous of Zaszlo, clearly infuriated that Zaszlo is getting sweets on the road and flying.

first class.

Obvious jealousy.

And not getting up at four o'clock in the morning to prepare a show because he's, you know.

That's insanity.

Because he's got the star power that comes with being a rising personality at ESPN.

Now, Evan Cohen on their very popular morning show is impersonating Zazzlow.

Can we play that sound, please?

I know Zaz is listening, so let me know.

I'm supposed to talk to Zaz later on today.

Oh.

Going on his podcast.

That's not going to go well for him.

I'll tell you that.

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Jonathan Zazlo.

You're a big guy.

I'm a small guy.

I'm Jonathan Zazzlow on ESPN Radio.

Let me tell you something.

That is a truly horrific impression.

I'm a small guy.

I mean, Evan, you need to work on that.

I'm Jonathan Zezzzo.

I don't know who that person is that he thinks that he's impersonating.

I never heard that person.

I'm Jonathan Zezzo.

That's a made-up person.

On ESPN Radio.

What a...

What a stinky impression that is.

You're a big guy.

That is a bad impression.

Who are you doing?

I'm a small guy.

Not awesome.

That is not an awesome impression.

I'm Jonathan Zazzo.

Good impression or bad impression?

That's bad impression.

Bad impression.

I'm Jonathan Zazzo.

On ESPN Radio.

Who does a good Zazzlow impersonation?

Mike Ryan.

Jonathan Zazzo.

I haven't heard a good Zazzlo impersonation.

I'll be honest.

Anyone that I've heard try and give a Zazzlo impersonation, you're not the real thing.

On ESPN Radio.

I second that.

I know, right?

Yeah.

Whoa, who's talking?

I third that.

Is it me or me?

I'm a small guy.

It's me.

It's me.

And me.

And me.

I'm Jonathan Zazzo.

ESPN Radio.

On ESPN Radio.

I'm yet to hear their impression.

On ESPN Radio.

You're a big guy.

Yeah, a big guy.

I'm a small guy.

A little too big, Chris Canti, I'll be honest.

I'm Jonathan Zazzo.

So.

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You were that kind of sad this morning, taking the barrage of anger from Stugatz because you hadn't booked him enough interviews.

The only reason I keep bringing this up is because you are throwing a big party on Thursday.

You're doing it, and I want people to support what you're doing because Stugatz has not made this easy.

Stugats.

Well, you know, I, well, yeah, you know.

This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

A few years ago, to get serious here for a moment,

you're going to do the Brian Gumble.

Take off your glasses.

We turn our attention to the fall of America.

A few years ago, Jon Stewart said comedy doesn't change the world, but it's a bellwether.

When a society feels under threat, comedians are who get sent away first.

And we are watching with the weaponizing of the FCC and the government.

We're watching something that feels like it doesn't have a whole lot of precedent because what Jimmy Kimmel said to get suspended indefinitely and the people reporting around this don't know if he'll come back, aren't sure he'll come back.

And what you're seeing is a reaction to something

that is not in the top 100 of things Jimmy Kimmel has said on his program to antagonize Trump and the government.

But hours after the head of the FCC said we can do this the easy way or the hard way, you saw something

that stunned me.

Even as I see that we live in complicated, turbulent times, even as I get scared and sad because people are being assassinated for their opinions and the people who were loudest complaining about cancel culture that created the movement that we have today that results in something that feels like cancel culture.

I'm watching something that for me doesn't have precedent.

I know Lenny Bruce was arrested once upon a time for making jokes, but seeing Jimmy Kimmel not have the protection of something as powerful as Disney because corporate interests and media are filled with such cowardice that you have a situation where not even Bob Iger has the money or the power to stand up to the threat that is presently upon the shores of everyone in media because of how compromised they are by a series of mergers and money interests.

And to see

Bob Iger show this kind of cowardice and bend a knee again, again with Trump.

Not the first time, because what happens here is once you're a coward who's extorted the bully's gonna keep extorting the coward and when they gave Trump 16 million dollars on something that Stephanopoulos said they opened the doors now to all of media feeling like it needs to capitulate to a threat and now you get dangerously close to state-run media and I will tell you as someone who descends grandparents and parents from a childhood filled with you can't trust the media, it's all all propaganda.

I've never seen in my lifetime America in the position it's presently in where the media is running this kind of scared from power as if we're not a place that one of the chief principles is free speech.

And I understand that private businesses don't have to adhere to free speech stuff, but there's no one who can look at what's happening here.

You can't look at what's happening here and not say that this this is a kind of threat that you have not seen before in the United States, where a comedian gets gone from a late-night television show for commentary that, I'm telling you, doesn't pass for the top 100 of the things that he has said on his broadcast that would be offensive to a different political affiliation.

And it cashes in on a threat that was made by the president several months ago after Colbert, it was announced that Colbert would be leaving.

By the way, Colbert still has the platform.

They made the decision on the show.

And some people online are saying he should have Jimmy Kimmel on as a guest because that would be a wonderful way as a lame duck host to use the platform.

But after the Colbert thing happened, the president went to his social media platform and said Jimmy is next.

And now he's...

kind of reveling in what happened, says Seth and the other Jimmy

are next.

This cashes in on what was on Project 25, something that during the campaign the president distanced himself from.

And now, very clearly, the FCC is leveraging all these mergers because the FCC only really controls the networks, but media, the state of media, is such that these big networks are either merging with other companies that own these cable conglomerates.

So you're not just leveraging the network television, the channels that you can get with your antenna, but also cable.

cable news.

If you see what's happening with CNN and whose potential interests are at play there when it comes to mergers and acquisitions,

it's very clear what is happening here.

And

I think I'm going to like Karen for the first time in my life because

they seem to be really responding to feedback from people that are offended.

And I'll put in a call, see if it helps, because this is absolutely wrong.

This goes against our First Amendment rights.

Even conservative talk show hosts such as Tucker Carlson are ringing the alarm bells right now.

Oh, but you can't have, you simply can't have, if you're putting things next to each other, someone on Fox last week saying that you should just kill the homeless, which is disproportionately filled with combat veterans.

By the way, there was a shooting at a homeless encampment shortly after those comments, something that the media has not really covered all that much.

But that didn't have a penalty that was substantive.

Not network TV, but owned by Rupert Murdoch, which owns a network channel in Fox.

No, there was an apology there, and then that cable news channel in particular is part of the cable news outlets that seem to not really run with the story of what happened in Minnesota either.

Government entities are being weaponized to put pressure in places that threaten principles that I care about deeply, and I was pretty sure that most Americans cared about deeply.

I believe that when we talk about the freedom to speak freely to power, that is a core principle in America.

And this one seems to have reached people in a way that I'm finding interesting because now

it's not cancel culture you're messing with, it's pop culture you're messing with, right?

A lot of people are looking at this and being like, wait a minute,

where in that joke that

the head of the FCC is describing as one of the sickest things possible?

And admitting that it's an unprecedented step in doing so.

We're watching stuff that we have not seen before, but the reaction has been very strong.

I've been encouraged by a reaction where no matter what your political affiliations,

most Americans are looking at stuff, and even if they're gleeful, even if they're gleeful about this, most Americans are looking at this and being like, yeah,

this is not the country that

the flag that waves in this country is supposed to represent something different than this.

Most, I don't know what's real.

I have election results that

would probably thumb their nose at that.

But I want to also be very clear, like, this is not a hypocrisy of mine.

I've always maintained, yeah, the First Amendment rights

protect you from prosecution and jailing.

But if you work for the private sector and you say something offensive, your employer has the right to do what it wishes.

Now, this certainly seems subjective.

This seems relatively benign.

I'm applying my own feelings to this.

But this comes as a part of an agenda and as a part of a threat from the president himself.

And they're following through.

And there's even the promise of more hosts being taken off of network television that have historically had a go at this administration.

And it's a scary time, especially when it appears to be something so benign.

Did the other late night hosts do or say anything last night after this news came?

I didn't see late night television last night, which is part of the issue here, right?

Some of these people have really been weakened.

Maybe another time Disney could have been stronger under these circumstances, but I understand how you arrive at the common sense logic of you have all the money in the world and all you're doing with that money is making more money and protecting more money.

So these mergers are important and Iger and Disney have a huge issue in the modern age.

Beyond the merger, they're just not what they were because everything is so fractured, so they're not as strong as they were.

But if people like Iger and Bezos and Zuckerberg can't stand up to this, what's the point of having money and power if all you're going to do with it is make more money and bow to power?

Like, what is the point?

Making more money is important to them.

Well, it's the most important thing, obviously.

And you're also saying that these are private companies, but they're also, in many instances, publicly traded companies that have so much writing on these mergers.

I I think that's what happened with Paramount.

If we see it.

No, it's what's happening everywhere.

He's got everyone leveraged on this one because that is exactly what happens.

This isn't about free speech.

It's just about accruing more power.

That's all it is.

And how do you accrue more power?

The powerful bow before you.

Nobody in power wants to fight because there's so much corporate cowardice here on fractured media and media that is now consolidating and needs to consolidate in reaction to got left behind by modern times, got left behind by all sorts of people going independent and as having trouble keeping up because they're run by a bunch of old people who do not know how to attract young people the way Mr.

Beast does.

I do hope that this is an opportunity to unite a lot of people that over the last decade took offense to air quotes cancel culture

and

what what I would say consequences for things that certain people say, this affects them too.

Because if you want this to establish a template, historically in this country, especially in my lifetime, the power is like on a pendulum and it shifts from side to side.

And you don't want these rules applied to you.

And I find it very curious to use the martyrdom of a free speech advocate to be doing these things.

This is extortion, and

I don't know very much about extortion, but I do know that once you've allowed yourself to be extorted, you're going to keep being extorted.

Like once you've shown that you're not going to fight this stuff, that you're just going to give millions and dollars, millions of dollars away in order to protect your future investment, then you're just going to be someone who keeps doing that.

This has consumed a lot of people last night.

We're covering this because I do believe this one has reached a lot of people.

I also see the self-interest in media types talking about this because we're scared.

There's just simply fear because of what it is that you see happening.

And as I see it happening, I am very grateful that we remain independent.

We remain, but does it still makes me scared, by the way, to see everything that I see happening, but I'm wildly grateful that we can remain independent because this is a time where this country feels less free than it used to.

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We didn't get to your guys' against the spread.

You're right, you're right, you're right.

I don't have an against the spread

because I wasn't prepared for this segment.

You need any in in your life.

You have actively played defense against me today in a way that has rarely been this undercutting.

Stugats.

Defense wins championships, baby.

That's show business.

This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

Chris Cody, get me some sound here, if you would, of both Josh Allen and Tua as we talk about this game and segue into.

I usually don't like to preview games.

You know, I like to review games more than preview them.

But I do believe that I'm having trouble finding a time where this dolphin franchise felt like this, and we all lived lived through that 1 in 15 season.

Like, do you not agree with me thinking that this is a huge moment for this franchise tonight?

I thought Sunday was a huge moment for the franchise, and I think you can maybe thank the short week for the lack of change, and now this has to be Waterloo, right?

This has to be.

Yeah, I mean, I think the coverage all day tomorrow is going to be about...

What do the Dolphins do now?

I think that's the major NFL story all day tomorrow.

I was asking before about about point spreads.

What was the spread in that Browns-Ravens game?

Same spread that it is presently, according to DraftKings, 12.5.

So this ties the largest spread.

And I'm with Zaz.

We all expect the Miami Dolphins to lose tonight against a really good Bills team.

A team that has owned them for about the past nine years.

That means the entire sports media will

descend upon last night's result and only amplify what's going on here.

It's unfortunate because they'll essentially have the sports news cycle to the next one.

Yes, like this would be different.

If this game was being played Sunday afternoon, not the same.

But the fact that it's a standalone game tonight and we're going to have all day tomorrow to react to it, I think it's a major moment for the franchise this evening.

tonight and then all day tomorrow is going to be very embarrassing.

We got to figure out what we can make happen in sports tonight that can steal some of the headlines tomorrow.

Because you want to protect the franchise?

I just, I just, I don't want you, you don't want the change?

It's what you said.

Like the Friday after the game, it's just the whole space is here.

We're going to overanalyze.

It's just, I don't need

to overanalyze.

I don't need every national show doing the fire McDaniel tomorrow.

We got that covered.

All right.

Just give me something else in sports tonight so that other shows can lead with something else.

You don't want every sports show saying how bad you are?

We got that.

If you're an agent of change, you probably do.

It's like dates back to when USF beat Randy Shannon's Miami Hurricanes.

And by the fourth quarter, I'm kind of rooting for USF because I want to see change.

I'm going to keep making the argument for if they're going to be this bad, why not just keep them through the year?

Let's be bad.

Let's be a two-win team.

Like, I don't want to bring in a coach that's going to fire the boys up, and now we're going to be 8-9 again.

The classic Dolphins, middle of the draft.

I'm sure there's no chance there's some kind of camera-catching Tyreek Hill blowing up on the bench tonight, right?

That's not going to happen.

Well, you guys say be bad.

The thing that I'm concerned about.

And this doesn't happen that often in that league, right?

The games are very often close.

The thing that I'm concerned about is that they played the Patriots and Colts, and those aren't reputed, not preseason, reputed to be great offenses.

Now, maybe Daniel Jones ends up surprising us all season, but

the Dolphins are dead last in the NFL in EPA allowed per drive by a wide margin, and they've only played the Colts and Patriots.

This is an offense that's coming in that averages 500 yards a game.

So we run the risk.

You remember when Dominique Foxworth was out here saying it was unethical for Brian Flores to have to coach that team?

That was funny.

That's what happens when you have the news cycle all over.

That's going to be tomorrow.

This is not safe with the Dolphins anyway.

I'm worried that what's going to happen, because for two games now, what's happened is the worst case scenario, worst fear of Dolphin fans, which is not just that they're going to be bad.

No, they're going to be coast to coast, sea to shining sea, embarrassing like a laughingstock because they can't play football at all.

They've caused two punts this year.

Buffalo doesn't punt.

Buffalo has no interest in punting.

Like, I'm hoping that the NFL is just NFLing tonight.

But if you had to bet on it, I'm guessing the money's going on the bills tonight.

Bills are my survivor pick for the week.

Over under half a punt tonight for the bills.

I'll take the over.

Half?

Just a half?

I'll go over.

I'll crush that over.

Punt.

One punt.

Can I play a sound of Josh Allen that just shows how not worried he is about the Dolphins?

If you use the phrase that you're about to hear from Josh Allen, you never use this if you're worried about somebody.

It's just when you're like, couldn't care less.

Their front over there is filled with a lot of guys that can get after the quarterback, so we got to be on our P's and Q's.

See, he doesn't give a shit.

We don't say P's.

Like, exactly.

It's just like, he is so not worried.

He's just like, yeah, they got good guys.

We got to be on our P's and Q's.

Cross our T's, dot our I's.

Yeah, there's two of those cliches.

I gotta.

Why are we, what are we?

We don't know what P's and Q's are.

I've always, I've said, what are P's and Qs?

Hold on.

Put it on.

Put it on the Poll At Levatar Show.

Do you know what P's and Q's are?

I know what it means to dot an I and cross a T.

That's very thorough.

I know that, too.

I don't know what it means to be on a P and on a Q.

Anyone?

Does anyone here know what it is to be on a P and on a Q?

Because yes, dotting an I and crossing a T is making sure to handle all the details.

You don't want to leave any T's uncrossed because then it's just an L.

But you're indifferent about it, though.

Wait Wait a second.

You're not that worried about it, though.

You're like, yeah, we got to be on our P's and Q's.

I don't think the Dolphins are going to cross their T tonight.

If you don't cross your T's and dot your I's, you just have two L's, which it's going to feel like the Dolphins have two of those tonight if they get beat by 30 points.

Man, that would hit so hard if I were on a gummy.

Has a team ever just dotted the I's, but they forgot to cross the T's?

And so they were screwed, like they lost because we only dotted the I's.

I'd still be shell-shocked.

Jeremy, you got P's and Q's?

So there's no technical origin, but when they've tried to figure it out, they think it is short for pleases and thank yous.

P's and Q's.

He doesn't respect us.

Thank you.

Josh Allen does not respect us.

Thank you.

You do say Q when you're saying thank you.

Q.

Wow, that would slap if I were on film.

It really would.

Their front over there is filled with a lot of guys that can get after the quarterback, so we got to be on our P's and Qs.

I don't even bother learning their names.

He could not be less worried about us.

He watched the Netflix movie last night.

He wasn't watching film.

He's just enjoying his evening.

Josh Allen wakes up this morning.

He's like, man, tonight's going to be fun, right?

It's just, this is a fun outing that they're having tonight.

Bro, should I say Q instead of thanks?

This is crazy.

What is more important to dot the I's?

I feel like it's more important to dot the I's than it is to cross the T's.

Yeah.

Definitely not.

Definitely not.

If you do a little I, you can infer that that dot.

But if you do a T where that's coming up, you're going to think it's an L.

Bro.

Without the cross.

Bro, you got gotta put that little line after the, like, in the Q.

Otherwise, it's an O.

Yeah.

Whoa.

I don't know what to do with any of this.

I can't believe that nobody knows what P's and Q's are.

Holy shit.

Same with the P.

Did you realize W is just two U's stacked together?

Wow.

Q, man.

So wait a minute.

You're saying the W

is just a double U?

You're saying it's two U's?

That's

a double V.

Man, I got to get out of here.

This is crazy.

So double.

So wait a minute.

The W,

the word W

is just

not one U, but two U's.

It's a double U.

God, it can't possibly.

That letter can't possibly be a word.

A is a word and I is a word, but W is not a word.

Roy, I just blew your mind.

I blew my own mind with that.

I'd never thought of the W as two U's.

I can't take it.

There's so much going on.

It is.

Let's go back out to Billy and Danny trying to plant a tree so that we can find out what we need to find out about the conversation that we're having and the progress that Billy is making.

He really did do,

I believe now that that was an AI earlier this week.

I believe, given how Billy is presently dressed, wearing the same outfit that was in that, what we thought was an artificial intelligence.

And his gloves had dirt on them.

Yes, and Billy is now, you're wet too, Billy.

Has it stopped raining yet?

Is there any danger?

Is there any danger in you getting electrocuted with a microphone while while it rains?

Business has picked up on the rain front.

Is there a danger of lightning hitting me?

Yes.

But

is the earth endangered of not having enough trees and oxygen for us to live on forever?

Also, yes.

So I will plant my third tree today, and I will risk my own safety for future generations to come.

Thank you, Billy.

We appreciate that live report.

Also, Zaszlo's right.

W's two V's, not two U's.

I don't know what the hell you guys are talking about, and W is a letter, not a word.

Love the sound of rain.

It is spelt.

Thank you, Danny.

The word W.

Be careful, it's monsooning over here.

Say that again, Jeremy, please.

It is spelt double, the word double, hyphen U.

When you were trying to spell out W,

that's how you would do it.

Isn't that it's spelled?

Whoever spelt it dealt it.

Uh, put it on the poll, please, at Lebatard Show.

Do you know how to spell the letter W?

Because I've never seen it, I've never seen it spelt.

This is crazy.

Spelling a letter letter is wild.

Right now, we are in unchartered territory

doing some serious alphabet learning together as a show.

Do not say that we do not provide a double service.

I have a question.

Double service.

Yes, Billy.

So if you were to spell the word W with letters, do you then have to spell all of those letters that are used to spell the word and it would just be an endless loops of letters spelling other letters i can't take this this is like inception it's really hard to follow

because like w would start with the letter d but how do you spell the letter d

you'd spell it d e right but then that d e e

you would spell d e for that d and then For E, you would have to spell out those E's and there's two of those and then you'd have to spell those letters as well, correct?

Man, this is not even like Inception.

It's like tenant, which I I flatly didn't get.

That movie sucks.

It was terrible.

Don't tell me that you like that movie.

No, no one likes that movie.

Anyone who likes that movie, you're just lying in my face.

A great take.

No one understands what you think.

It's about you're not smarter than everybody because, ooh, I like Tenet.

No one believes that you understood it.

It doesn't make you smarter.

It makes you a dope.

Put it on the poll at Lebittard Show.

Did anyone like the movie Tenant?

That was Christopher Nolan, wasn't it?

That was a bit of a surprise.

I think he still hasn't apologized for it.

That was a bit of a surprise.

Christopher Nolan doesn't make a whole lot of bad movies.

And then the universal consensus on that was, yeah, didn't understand it, don't get it.

And then other people didn't watch it because none of their friends understood it.

There's no way Christopher Nolan understands what that movie is about.

No way.

No way.

No way.

And also, stop trying to make John David Washington happen.

He works hard.

Put it on the poll at Lebetard show.

Does Christopher Nolan know what Tenet was about?

Billy, you don't seem to be doing very much planting.

You seem to be standing in the rain just looking around, trying to figure out how it is to spell W using letters.

And I think D is spelled D-E-E.

I think it's a Scrabble word.

I think a lot of words, a lot of letters,

the only place that you would watch them, see them spelled would be in Scrabble.

So D-E-E.

I think you would lose Scrabble if you were spelling letters.

D-E-E, O-W-E,

Y-O-U, B-E-E, E-L, E-E-E, hyphen, Y-O-U.

I stopped listening.

W.

I can't follow.

I straight up can't.

That was a stray.

Are you saying that E is spelled E-E-E?

Are you saying E?

How else would you spell E?

E.

I'd spell E-E-E.

Ooh, or you could spell it Y.

You're saying E-E.

There's a silent H and E.

With Billy.

H, silent H-E-E.

E.

I need some air.

Jeremy Show title, spelling letters.

That's already on it.

Put it on the poll at Lebatard Show.

Do you know how to spell the letter E?

And also put on the poll, would you have imagined that the letter E is spelled E E E?

Because I don't believe that.

That

simply cannot be true.

I don't believe that the language is so inefficient that

the way that you spell E is just hitting someone in the head with three E's.

Why not four E's?

Why not two E's?

The internet says E E.

It's not true.

Why not three E's?

Why not four E's?

Why not five E's?

That's not what P's and Q's are.

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