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Speaker 15 This is the Don Levatar Show with the Stu Gats Podcast.

Speaker 5 Look at this motley crew of people here. This holy trinity, Kenny Maine, Cooper Manning, and what I just learned, the nickname, the bomber.

Speaker 5 Brian Baumgartner, I don't think that, I don't know if anyone calls him the bomber.

Speaker 5 I just overheard, I was eavesdropping Cooper Manning and Kenny Main talking, and they started to call him the bomber. So, Cooper, is that real?

Speaker 5 I know you guys have a Smartlist podcast, the world's most entertaining golf podcast. Is he indeed the bomber? Does he know that he's the bomber, Cooper?

Speaker 16 You know, it's funny.

Speaker 16 We've had some celebs on so far,

Speaker 16 a lot of big shots, a lot of Hollywood A-listers, and they all call him the bomber. And he never even told us that was his Hollywood code name.

Speaker 16 So, now Kenny and I are trying to be cool, and maybe we'll get invited to a red carpet somewhere with it.

Speaker 16 Kenny, how the hell?

Speaker 5 How the hell did you three get together? I'm sorry to interrupt you, bomber. I'm sorry.

Speaker 16 No, there's no problem. It's your show, Dan, so don't worry about it.

Speaker 16 It may be because the first four letters of his name are bomb, like bomb. And then they just, it's like hockey.
You know, you'd be Lebby, Leber. You know, they just add an E-R-R and it will why.

Speaker 16 So that's, and also he hits the shit out of the ball. He, he can play golf.
Can we swear?

Speaker 16 It's tough to say. Listen, I don't know how we got together.
I'm still very confused about that myself, but

Speaker 16 I, of course, knew Kenny Main, legend, ESPN, the best ESPN guy ever.

Speaker 16 And Coop, every time I started saying like, yeah, these guys from Smartless, they want me to do this podcast with the Cooper Manning, and I would say it with a question mark at the end.

Speaker 16 Every single person universally was like, oh, he's the best Manning. There's no Manning better than Cooper Manning.

Speaker 16 And it turns out it's true. We met in Scotland.
Our love was cemented there at the old course. And we're having a great time, Dan.

Speaker 5 Kenny, who put this together? Like, how did it come together? Explain it to me.

Speaker 16 Well, way back when

Speaker 16 Smarlos guys came at me and asked, could I guest host the show that Rex Chapman was doing? We're basically making fun of the worst owners in sports, right?

Speaker 16 And I said, I'll do the Sonics one because the Starbucks guy sold our team and then screwed our city. But they wanted me to do the Knicks one.

Speaker 16 And I said, I can't because I have a deal with Caesars caesars and they have a deal like i'm staying out of that deal it's not worth it and i just you know checked in with them sometime later like hey i thought we're going to take over the world what the hell happened and they started throwing around this idea about a golf thing how the hell they talked these two guys into it is beyond me but i'm glad they did because like like brian was saying we knew each other from afar i knew cooper a little bit already and we all got on pretty quick we we met in scotland to start our relationship and shoot videos and promote it and do interviews and we've had fun ever since the mannings are funny and i see the way Cooper looks at you, Kenny.

Speaker 5 He looks at you the way that I look at you, and the way a whole lot of people who loved your Sports Center Yore look at you. He's delighted by you.

Speaker 5 I'm delighted by your backgrounds, and I feel like the bomber might have some envy about what it is that the two of you have behind you, and he's in this antiseptic studio that he looks like he's been stuffed into.

Speaker 16 Here's what I was thinking. I got on a little late.
I don't know what it looks like to the rest of you. It looks like laundry hung behind Cooper.
That's what it seems maybe it's a piece of art

Speaker 16 that's a fake background by kizzy for sure no it isn't for sure

Speaker 16 oh okay maybe it's not

Speaker 16 fine i just would rather be outside i actually work i actually work all the time for a living these guys are just sporadic only when they only when they get me to work with them do they work that's what happens it's pretty accurate

Speaker 16 dan do you want to be our fourth i mean you might do you want to be our fourth? We're looking for a fourth.

Speaker 11 I'm a terrible golfer.

Speaker 5 You guys, this is part of the theme that you guys are doing, though, right? Where you're looking for a fourth because you've got the threesome.

Speaker 16 We're on a constant.

Speaker 16 Yeah, a constant quest to find a fourth. And people, surprisingly enough, people are lined up out the door wanting to be our fourth.
But

Speaker 16 we say no a lot. And it's an elite.
select group and we we're having folks on that like to play golf, that like to talk about golf, that love golf, that hate golf, that want to have fun with it.

Speaker 16 We're not talking about grip pressure and, you know, alignment sticks. We're talking about stories, fun,

Speaker 16 dream forsomes, pet peeves, you name it. Plus, Dan, I think it's really just the Smartless guys.
They're setting us up in a succession. When they go away, they're going to not do this.

Speaker 16 They need other people to step in. They're grooming us for that.
And I'm honored by the selection. So thank you to all the Smartless guys.

Speaker 5 Cooper, the Mannings pride themselves on being funny. Which is the funniest of the Mannings? Who's the funniest of the Mannings?

Speaker 16 Well, Dan, you'd probably have to ask them. I think

Speaker 16 I like my odds in this one. I mean, I'm not,

Speaker 16 I'm not, you know, they're, you know,

Speaker 16 Peyton Eli have a great appreciation for humor. I think that's even more.
Like they're not straight funny. They love humor.
They love funny people and they love being around just funny scenarios.

Speaker 16 And so it's been fun to

Speaker 16 at times ghostwrite for them on some deals and be a part of it. And we all like to make fun of ourselves.
And I think that

Speaker 16 goes a long way in sleeping well at night.

Speaker 5 Brian, Cooper just said Cooper's the funniest, right?

Speaker 16 Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 16 Yeah.

Speaker 16 Oh, did you mean of us three or the Mannings?

Speaker 17 The Mannings.

Speaker 16 Oh, I'm so sorry. If you meant us three, then we can have some controversy here.
But of the Mannings, I agree,

Speaker 16 Cooper is the funniest. Yes.
But also the poorest by far.

Speaker 18 That was funny. That was funny.

Speaker 16 There's several commas that I don't include in my net worth statement that other boys might have. Yeah.
But don't, don't, don't let him, don't let him pull that.

Speaker 16 It's not as many zeros as one might think. Let me just say that.

Speaker 16 When you show up at the old course in Scotland and someone's like, oh, that hot, that's Cooper's Hotel. I'm like, what do you mean that's Cooper's Hotel? They're like, oh, no, that's Cooper's Hotel.

Speaker 16 We'll be going up there in this private patio later to watch people play on the old course.

Speaker 16 I'm like, oh, okay. Yeah, I get how it is.
That's it's yeah, it's kind of like when you see Elon's Super Bowl trophy in my den, like that's my Super Bowl trophy.

Speaker 16 You know, if you own, if you own half of a urinal in a hotel, you get to call it your hotel.

Speaker 5 Put it on the poll, Juju, at Lebatard show. If you own half a urinal in a hotel, do you own the hotel? Cooper, you look and sound like your brothers.

Speaker 5 Very often, people realize that upon seeing you or hearing you, correct?

Speaker 16 Sure. Yes.

Speaker 16 It was funny. I was in Indianapolis two days ago, and I walked over.
St. Elmo's is the great steakhouse, and they have another great spot called Harry and Izzy's.

Speaker 16 I said, I'm going to walk in here here because Peyton's, you know, a well-known figure in Indianapolis.

Speaker 16 And I walked in, sat at the bar, ate a cheeseburger, hung out at the bar, looked around, and not one single person recognized me. So,

Speaker 16 you know, you never know. You have your days of anonymity and you have your days of people just trying to figure it out.

Speaker 16 So apparently they've either forgotten about Peyton or don't care about me and Indy. I got either one of those going for me.

Speaker 5 We need a fourth is the name of the podcast. New episodes releasing every Monday on the Sirius XM app, the SiriusXM PGA tour radio channel.

Speaker 5 Brian, can you just tell me why it is that you took this on as a project, given that you're working a ton?

Speaker 5 I think the last time we had you on, you were the biggest recipient of dollars in the history of cameo the last time that we had you on. Why did you take on this project?

Speaker 16 I'll take your word for that, Dan. I listen.
I love golf.

Speaker 16 I have grown to love these two. And, you know,

Speaker 16 I've been in this podcast game for, I don't know, like six years or so and doing some documentary style interviewing stuff.

Speaker 16 And, and for me, it was really about shifting to, it is about golf, but I think it is equally comedy.

Speaker 16 And I just, I wanted to have some fun with it, with the guests that I was bringing on and not be so.

Speaker 16 not be looking for such in-depth conversation, but have a lot more fun. And these guys are great.
The smartless guys are great. And yeah, so far, far we've been having a great time with it.

Speaker 5 Kenny, I love your evolution. You're doing stand-up comedy now, right?

Speaker 16 I've done it a couple of times. If you want to get behind it and get this show off the ground, let's talk on the side.
I have your number.

Speaker 16 So I made a movie called Wiffle Ball, which you helped promote. Thank you.
And then over the holiday, the last Christmas holiday, I made up what I thought was funny, a 30-minute stand-up act.

Speaker 16 to precede the 30-minute movie and the whole thing being a show. I did it in New York and Las Vegas.
And anyone out there, anyone, we're starting at Netflix.

Speaker 16 We'll go down to Freevie if you're listening.

Speaker 16 Whoever wants us, we would like this to be a show.

Speaker 5 Connor, you are looking at Kenny Mayne.

Speaker 19 Cooper, Cooper. Excuse me.
I'm sorry, Cooper.

Speaker 16 Were you in Indianapolis not recognizing that?

Speaker 19 It sounded wrong coming out of my mouth. Connor Manning, I'm laughing.

Speaker 18 There's another one.

Speaker 16 I'm laughing. We need a fifth.
And there's Connor over there. Waiting.
Will someone let me play with him? No, sorry, Connor.

Speaker 5 I'm laughing at the way that you look at Kenny every time he starts talking. You seem to be amused before he speaks.

Speaker 16 I am. And I think that's kind of the whole reason this

Speaker 16 little feast of works.

Speaker 16 Brian and I try to keep it relatively in the fairway with little nuggets of asinine behavior, but Kenny is in the rough, in the bunker, in someone else's bunker, eating someone else's ham and cheese sandwich out of their bag and drinking their beer.

Speaker 16 And I adore every minute of it. Yes, he is a he is a delight to go to work with.

Speaker 16 And it's funny, these podcasts are great and all, but it's much more fun doing it with two guys that you really like being around. And I think that's kind of the way this whole

Speaker 16 podcast works is we're adding guests that we would want to play golf with anyway.

Speaker 16 I'm, you know, I've been around long enough to not we, you know, when you go, God, I'd love to have those four hours back. That's not fun.

Speaker 16 You know, so we're getting the right guys who appreciate the love of the game, so to speak.

Speaker 3 Cooper, how much of your regular day is consumed with anything surrounding your son from reading things or watching clips or just thinking about Texas football?

Speaker 16 I watch nothing. I read nothing, which is liberating.

Speaker 16 And I go to the games and, you know,

Speaker 16 and just be a regular dad.

Speaker 5 How does this work with Kenny and Brian in terms of watching Texas football? Do you have any sort of investment in Texas football now, Brian?

Speaker 16 That is such an interesting question because we started this. We were, you know, spoiler.
I don't know if you know how the business works, Dan, but, you know, we pre-taped a lot of these. All right.

Speaker 16 We've been working on it for a few months.

Speaker 16 And I'm a big University of georgia fan and i started like because we have this relationship where we all rib each other and i was ribbing him about texas and oh you know we're gonna kick your ass this year and i can't wait to be at the game in athens and november 16th and now i've gotten to know him and i've gotten to

Speaker 16 to really like him and now i'm like god this is his son what am i doing this is weird like this is his this is now my friend's son who's playing his balls off and playing for his life.

Speaker 16 And now, what am I doing?

Speaker 16 And let me be clear. I'm still going to root for the University of Georgia, but I now like

Speaker 16 I'm also rooting for them a little bit. It's funny, Dan, as you get older and you start to know people, you really,

Speaker 16 it's challenging to be loyal to a certain team. You meet guys and you pull for them, whether it's basketball or any sport.

Speaker 16 I grew up a Saints fan, but then you meet a good guy and he's all of a sudden,

Speaker 16 like Daniel Jones is a great kid. He had a tough time in Giants.
I'm rooting the heck out of him in Indy.

Speaker 16 And it's just, you follow good coaches, you follow good people. And

Speaker 16 I admire the folks who are just hardcore. They love their team.
I don't care if Saddam Hussein is calling plays. I'm pulling for him with all I got.

Speaker 16 That's not the way I'm lined up. I'm pulling for good dudes.

Speaker 10 Cooper, last year you made headlines, intentionally or unintentionally, when Texas was taking on Oklahoma.

Speaker 22 And the headlines were really your hat, which some describe as a bit much or ridiculous.

Speaker 17 Where did you buy this hat? How did you travel with this hat?

Speaker 18 It seems like you can't even see around the front of it.

Speaker 16 Yes.

Speaker 16 If you've never been, the Texas OU Red River Rivalry is... an amazing event.

Speaker 16 I've only been to two of them now, and it's essentially a state fair, a huge state fair. And there just happens to be a football game going on in the middle of it.

Speaker 16 I think some people are there eating cotton candy and riding rides and not realizing there's 100,000 people cheering in a stadium. But

Speaker 16 I was a little nervous, as always. I'd had two Bloody Marys, and I walked into the state fair and just wearing a normal baseball cap, and I saw the most obnoxious cowboy hat I'd ever seen.

Speaker 16 It looked like it should be serving guacamole in the middle of it. And I said, I'm wearing that today.
And it was $23.

Speaker 16 and uh it was sunny it was hot and

Speaker 16 i was just looking

Speaker 16 at jackass where is but see here's the here's the great thing about kitty or about cooper is that

Speaker 16 he would wear that he would wear that and not and he yeah there were no comments about it he's just sitting there wearing it we show up all right he you know he's like a big austin guy now i think i can say you're spending a little time in austin now because of your son and we show up to do a recording.

Speaker 16 He's wearing a full-on, like snappy, bangly shirt with a, with a respectable guest with no comment, no like

Speaker 16 an apology.

Speaker 16 It looked like his mom dressed him up. The Cub Scouts were having Western pioneer days or something.
And little Coop. Do you have the shirt to show us, Coop? Can you pull it out? Because it was

Speaker 16 in someone's laundry room. I mean,

Speaker 16 I had a little internet panic this morning. It was out.
So I had to get in a car and I broke into a friend's house. That's where I'm in.
I'm literally,

Speaker 16 if I'm arrested in mid-show and because I've broken in the alarm, I don't know how to fix it.

Speaker 16 Dan, can I just say the whole relationship, and we really do get along well, but I'd met Cooper a few times and worked with him, Brian, just from the TV.

Speaker 16 And just immediately, you know, we just start joking around. They like to give me shit.
I'm the old guy. I have an unconventional game.
I'm the Jameis Winston of golf, if you will.

Speaker 16 But our whole relationship almost spoiled because Brian is an addictive gambler and has to bet on the game. And so he sets up this game.
I'm like a 20. I don't even have a real handicap.

Speaker 16 I took down Austin Reeves, that poor bastard, the lake. He's a great player and I made him lose because of my inefficiency.
I accept the blame.

Speaker 16 They took money off me day one and day two in our first meeting. We need a four.
I'm going to be posting.

Speaker 16 I'm going to be posting this video.

Speaker 16 I don't care if anyone looks at my Instagram or not, but you're going to want to see it today. I've got this video.
I'm posting it today of Kenny Main

Speaker 16 putting.

Speaker 16 And then, Dan, you're going to understand exactly why

Speaker 16 Cooper looks at Kenny the way that he does. No, no, no.

Speaker 16 Some people think it's cheating. I am trying.
I'm a vessel of the history of golf, and I'm paying respect to the great, late Sam Sneed. I emulated his putting style as a youth.

Speaker 16 And here I am today, still doing it. Kenny, you are a rudderless vessel

Speaker 16 combing waters that have never been swum in before.

Speaker 16 Hey, Dan, can I take the bills on the Eliminator? Because I'm doing my forum right now. We've got a tournament on Wednesdays.
You guys are dead down there, right?

Speaker 5 We need a fourth is the name of the podcast. New episodes releasing every Monday on the Sirius XM app.
Full episodes on the Smartless Media channel on YouTube.

Speaker 5 We've got a game we're going to play for you, real or fake podcast.

Speaker 5 I would have guessed this was a fake one, Kenny Mayne, Brian Baumgartner, and Cooper Manning, because why would those three people get get together?

Speaker 5 But before we do that, Cooper, can you give me, in the Manning household, the greatest fight between the three brothers that is still talked about to this day in childhood or anywhere in life is what?

Speaker 16 Well,

Speaker 16 we lived in the garden district in New Orleans, and it's kind of these old historic homes, you know, everything's old in New Orleans.

Speaker 16 But they would have these little old ladies that would tour the garden district and they would walk by. And so we'd be out there throwing football.

Speaker 16 And every now and then, when when a big tour group would come by, we would stage a big fight and just start arguing and then F-bombs. And then all of a sudden, it's just hammering.

Speaker 16 These little old ladies instead of taking pictures of beautiful houses, they're just taking pictures of three jackasses rolling around in the front yard, beating the hell out of each other.

Speaker 16 So it made for, I thought it, I thought it elevated the trip. You know, these people from Europe, so I thought at least they get a little taste of something in New Orleans they might not forget.

Speaker 5 Chris Cody, let's hit the imaging and let's play our new game with Cooper, Kenny Main, and the bomber.

Speaker 24 Listen up, time to think fast.

Speaker 15 Is this a real or fake podcast?

Speaker 24 We'll give you five podcasts. You guys can collectively decide if that podcast is a real podcast or a fake podcast.
First one up: Seahawks Stories with Jim Zorn.

Speaker 16 Kenny, this

Speaker 16 we don't have an episode where we don't, where he doesn't talk about Seattle. I'm saying fake, but you have to know.
This one's on you, Kenny. I just saw Jim Zorn a month ago.
I'm going to say yes.

Speaker 26 I think he was next episode

Speaker 9 looking for something to do. Yes, it's a thing.
Yes.

Speaker 24 Jim Zorn does indeed co-host a podcast called

Speaker 18 Seahawks Stories.

Speaker 16 There you go. He's doing a great job.

Speaker 16 We could very well call Kenny's part of We Need Afford Seattle Stories, and we wouldn't miss a beat.

Speaker 16 Yeah.

Speaker 25 Next one.

Speaker 24 pool with David, Derek, and Darren Carr.

Speaker 16 Yeah, I believe that one.

Speaker 16 You think it's a yes?

Speaker 18 That's a no.

Speaker 16 That's a good title.

Speaker 16 I want to get behind that. If it's not real, let's make it real.

Speaker 16 That's pool, not an option.

Speaker 27 It is a fake population.

Speaker 20 But there is a Darren Carr, so they can conceivably make this one.

Speaker 20 Next one.

Speaker 22 Tom Brokal, now hear this.

Speaker 16 No, no, he's fly fishing. He's done.
He's not doing that.

Speaker 20 He may be done, but this is an active podcast that you can still listen to.

Speaker 24 The RSS feed is still alive. Wow.

Speaker 27 He hasn't posted a new episode in several years, but it's real.

Speaker 16 Oh, that's. Come on.

Speaker 16 It existed.

Speaker 16 That's the better in the bomber.

Speaker 16 No, I would not pay that bet. That's dead.
Welcher.

Speaker 22 Next one up.

Speaker 24 Dirt basketball with Detlive Shrimp.

Speaker 16 He's just golfing. He's another Seattle reference.
Thanks.

Speaker 16 No, I don't think it's real. I think he would have told me.

Speaker 20 It is fake.

Speaker 18 Although

Speaker 18 he needs to get on Durta Basketball.

Speaker 25 Yes.

Speaker 27 And last one is

Speaker 16 Kidding can snip out a fake or a real anything involving the state of Washington. We didn't check it out.

Speaker 16 Last one.

Speaker 24 Hate to say it with Josh Dumel.

Speaker 16 That's Brian's area.

Speaker 16 Hollywood, what do you got?

Speaker 16 It sounds so not real at all, but I'm going for the fake out. I'm going to say it's real.

Speaker 18 It is fake.

Speaker 5 Gentlemen, it was a pleasure. Look at Baumgartner throwing F-bombs.
He's furious in that aniseptic coffee

Speaker 5 broadcast from.

Speaker 16 Hey, Dan, we will change your game. It's like the Hank Haney one-slice fix video.
Come on our show. We'll get you out there.
You'll be having a good time.

Speaker 5 These three guys are funny. And Cooper, I almost called him Connor again, is the funniest of the Mannings.
We need a fourth.

Speaker 5 New episodes every Monday, SiriusXM app, and full episodes on the Smartless Media channel on YouTube. A pleasure, gentlemen.
Thank you for making the time.

Speaker 16 We're trying to get it.

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Speaker 28 Mr. Shirt, if I may say for a second, Miami, they were circulating the snap count the entire game and they were clapping at the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 2 Stugats.

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Speaker 4 Got the water, 16 ounces, poured it inside of the bottle.

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Speaker 2 I am ready to

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Speaker 2 It's not a campus tour.

Speaker 3 I don't know if you understand, but the stadium is not on campus.

Speaker 22 You ever been to University of Miami?

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Oh, yeah, because it's a campus tour.

Speaker 19 But it sounds like you haven't been there.

Speaker 22 I don't know if you understand the implication of a campus.

Speaker 7 For someone who lives in Miami, it sounds like you don't have a clue.

Speaker 11 Campus.

Speaker 5 Have you ever watched a football game?

Speaker 18 Campus.

Speaker 2 Okay, very good.

Speaker 5 Tony, before we get to Jessica, I've been hearing that a parlay came to you on the way to work.

Speaker 19 Dan.

Speaker 4 Some things you think about, right? We're building up parlays. You're like, oh yeah, Mike Evans, over 50 and a half.
You do all these different things.

Speaker 4 And then sometimes things just get dropped into your lap. This was an incredible story of things dropping into my lap divinely, may I add.
Okay. So I'm heading over to the Metro rail.

Speaker 4 Metro is already rolling in. I have to run up the stairs, which is obviously embarrassing, running after the stairs.

Speaker 26 Like we talked about yesterday.

Speaker 4 I think it was number two. It was number two.
Running up the stairs. Hold on.
The door's closing. I'm running in embarrassingly.
Put my arm in. I'm able to open the doors.

Speaker 2 I get in, right? But the problem is that cart packed.

Speaker 4 It's like a thousand people in that cart. So I'm standing.
So I look over to the cart next to me. That one's got an empty seat.

Speaker 4 So I get out of that cart at the next stop and I roll over to the next one, find my seat, sit down kind of midway. I'm on my phone checking, you know, scores, checking news, checking Twitter.

Speaker 4 And then I just feel this phone be kind of like put to my face. So I have my headphones on.
I'm not paying attention.

Speaker 4 I kind of look over and then it's this lady who she's like, hey, can you check this for me? And I'm like, check this for you. So I kind of like zoom in on what she's, what she's asking me to check on.

Speaker 4 Let's put it up on the screen. it was a parlay that she built she's like this is my first bet ever can you check it out for me

Speaker 4 and i'm like you just give off parlay and i'm like yeah yeah i'll check it out for you and i look at him like bill's money on okay i think the 20 and a half is probably 30 and a half she probably missed someone making their first bet ever he's putting together a five-leg parlay so the story is made up

Speaker 4 okay roy is like writing down these bets right now dude it's a good parlay dan all of a sudden i look i'm like josh all over one and a half i'm like okay james cook over 45 and 48 and a half rushings i'm I'm like, okay.

Speaker 4 Dalton Kincaid over 20 and a half for senior years. I'm like, damn, this is actually pretty good.
I'm like, yeah, this looks good.

Speaker 4 She's like, should I singles bet it or should I all parlay it together? And I was like, this is your first bet? She's like, yeah. And I'm like, all right, parliament.

Speaker 7 This is the generator you're talking to. Yeah, this is.

Speaker 4 I want that to go on the screen again. Put it back on the screen.

Speaker 19 Billy, I want you to zoom out.

Speaker 11 Billy is a bad person.

Speaker 5 He doesn't believe this story.

Speaker 11 He doesn't believe any of it.

Speaker 4 Zoom out on this picture, please. Zoom out on this picture.
Keep going.

Speaker 19 Keep going. It seems like it's real.
Keep going. I need more.
I don't think that's. Oh, that's all you got.
That's all they got.

Speaker 22 Yeah, so you took a picture of your phone.

Speaker 26 Is that my hand?

Speaker 27 No. I don't know.
It's hard to tell. Tough to tell.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 19 Tough to tell. It's not his hand.
That's not his hand.

Speaker 26 Let me see your hands.

Speaker 2 Turn it around. It's tough to tell.

Speaker 11 Put a phone in it.

Speaker 4 Also, not my phone. That looks like it can be.

Speaker 19 Let me see the crevice between the phone.

Speaker 5 Does this story come complete with an ending?

Speaker 4 The ending is: I put the bed in myself because I was like, this is no way that I'm not being given this parlay, looking at it for a first time, and it's like, yeah, this is actually pretty good.

Speaker 4 Boom, I'm locking it in.

Speaker 5 Jessica, how do you feel and welcome? How do you feel about game game day being in Miami, Zaszlo, being in the fan zone that's not a campus?

Speaker 28 Well, let me ask you guys this first. Do you guys think Florida is a good football team?

Speaker 5 Not really.

Speaker 28 Then there's your answer, Dan.

Speaker 28 It's a game against a good, it's a good football team versus a not good football team when there's a lot of games that are probably going to be a couple good football teams. Indiana, Illinois, hello.

Speaker 5 Oh, but you can't send game day to Indiana, Illinois when you've got Miami in the top five.

Speaker 29 It's a fair criticism, and a lot of people are heated about this.

Speaker 25 And I think Jess is speaking to something.

Speaker 22 I don't think Florida is as bad as other people say.

Speaker 29 They have two losses.

Speaker 25 They lost at what became a ranked team. I know USF is now others receiving votes.

Speaker 7 What would the other option have been? Norman.

Speaker 27 So

Speaker 28 Utah, Texas Tech.

Speaker 25 Utah, Texas Tech, Big Noon is at. They've already done the double up on Big Noon.
So I think the argument against it should probably be Illinois, Indiana, but they've already done that.

Speaker 25 And if they want to go back-to-back years with Kirk Signetti not being pressed on his non-conference schedule, Tulane lane old miss.

Speaker 28 Tulane will miss anyone. Get out of there.

Speaker 27 I mean, there's a lot.

Speaker 19 There's a lot of good games.

Speaker 28 Get out of here. And that one's on ESPN, too.
I don't know if you're going to be able to.

Speaker 10 There's an FSU Miami in a couple weeks that you could have done if you wanted Miami.

Speaker 25 Well, if you wanted Miami, your only opportunity to come to Miami is this one, probably.

Speaker 22 Like, you can go to Tallahassee, which, as we know, is the absolute worst.

Speaker 29 We'll see if they're actually there in a couple of weeks.

Speaker 25 But they wanted some novelty.

Speaker 20 They wanted a different look. This is as I've done my own reporting on this because it doesn't really make sense.

Speaker 25 There are ranked versus ranked matchups out there.

Speaker 3 Miami, I can tell you Miami was always at the top of their list.

Speaker 25 Yes, and if there's a team to blame for this, it's probably South Carolina getting smashed at home by Diego Pavia that kind of took Mizzou, South Carolina off the table.

Speaker 5 Jess, how do you feel about Diego Pavia?

Speaker 28 I think he's the frontrunner for the September Heisman this year, Dan. There's a lot of SEC quarterbacks so far this season that have disappointed us.

Speaker 28 Garrett Nussmeyer, Lenora Sellers, obviously he's dealing with injury too. DJ Lagway, Arch, of course, who was actually the frontrunner for the real Heisman.
And that probably is no longer the case.

Speaker 28 Dago Pavia, as expected, just having a tremendous season. And now he is petitioning once again for another season of eligibility.
That's not exactly what's happening.

Speaker 28 What's happening is that he went to Juco, and so they had an injunction. that allowed him to play this season.
But apparently his attorney was also arguing that the four-year eligibility rule is

Speaker 28 anti-competitive.

Speaker 28 So anyways, that's a whole side tangent about Dago Pavia, but he's playing really well, threw two games this season, was I think the best quarterback via passer rating in college football.

Speaker 28 And then of course, they beat South Carolina this past weekend by a lot of points.

Speaker 28 South Carolina had to play without Lenore Sellers in the second half, but he's not only a great passer, Dan, not only an exciting quarterback, but you'll see him lay someone out with a block here and there.

Speaker 28 And it's probably not good for long-term health and security, but it is awesome to watch your quarterback just go out there and bam, first down.

Speaker 4 Jess, why are you broadcasting live from like the haunted mansion? It seems like is there a dungeon behind that door?

Speaker 19 That's what's that door.

Speaker 28 That's what we'd like to know. This actually is the door.
This is the transfer portal. This is the portal that players go in and out of when they transfer.

Speaker 5 Reporting live from the transfer portal. There is something about that door.

Speaker 11 What is that door?

Speaker 5 That looks like something you'd find in a castle.

Speaker 25 Can you open that door and look for Jeremiah Smith?

Speaker 28 I will do that. It's actually leather, Dan.
The door is leather.

Speaker 28 Lehman found this door at a salvage yard in somewhere in Upper Manhattan, and it was allegedly from a church, but it does have a peephole, which does beg the question, was it really from a church, or was it from a house of ill repute?

Speaker 28 I'm not sure if we'll ever know.

Speaker 5 It's a good door, though. It's a fine

Speaker 5 door. It could be.
You were making some faces while Mike was talking, and I don't know which was the thing that you were objecting to.

Speaker 20 She tends to do that with me.

Speaker 28 I do, Mike. And I also am very expressive in general.
So it's not just you. I make faces at everyone, but I received a text message while you were talking.

Speaker 28 I won't say who it's from, but it said death taxes, and Mike Ryan trying to make the argument that the team UM is playing against is better than they actually are when they stink.

Speaker 28 So that was the, I received that text message. I reacted to that text message while you were talking because you said Florida is really not that bad.
I happen to agree.

Speaker 11 Give Ethan or Taylor my best.

Speaker 28 It was neither. It was neither.

Speaker 27 Give him my best.

Speaker 18 Look, you're a hate NAS hater.

Speaker 19 I have my best.

Speaker 27 The whole thing is a hate NAS hater vibe.

Speaker 28 I happen to agree with you. Florida's not that bad.

Speaker 28 I mean, it took LSU, the whole Florida LSU debacle, and I missed most most of it because I was at the Northern Texas A ⁇ M game, but Florida threw five picks and LSU still almost didn't pull that one off.

Speaker 28 I think that goes to show Florida's defense is fairly legit.

Speaker 28 DJ Lagwaite just can't throw five interceptions in a football game, and it's unclear if that's something he will get better at not doing at this point in the season. But yes, Mike,

Speaker 28 I wasn't making a face at you. I was making a face at the text message.
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Speaker 5 Let's see what her reaction is to a couple of press conference sounds we've played the last couple of days. Let's begin with Brian Kelly.
He has since apologized for this.

Speaker 5 Let's get Jess's take on this sound.

Speaker 30 What are you seeing with your offense?

Speaker 22 Stop.

Speaker 31 Really? Is that the first question? We won the game 20 to 10. Try another question.

Speaker 31 What do you want me to tell you? I just laid it out for you. We played the game to win the game.
We played the game to win the game.

Speaker 30 All right. How about third down then? What is going on with third down?

Speaker 31 It's one game.

Speaker 31 Last game, we were great on third down. You're micro, you're looking at this from the wrong perspective.
LSU won the football game. Won the game.
I don't know what you want from me.

Speaker 31 What do you want? You want us to win 70 to nothing against Florida to keep you happy?

Speaker 30 No, I think people want to know why you can't run the ball quite often.

Speaker 11 We can run the ball.

Speaker 31 Did you see the last play of the game?

Speaker 32 That's all you need.

Speaker 1 You just need one.

Speaker 31 There's ridiculous questions.

Speaker 12 And I'm getting tired of it.

Speaker 31 That football team just worked their tail off to get an SEC win, and you want to know what's wrong.

Speaker 5 You know what?

Speaker 31 You're spoiled. You're spoiled.
This team is 17 and one at night. 17 and one.
Give them some respect.

Speaker 15 How about that?

Speaker 31 Give them some respect instead of micro analyzing every little thing. This is ridiculous.

Speaker 2 For a group of

Speaker 31 seasoned reporters, that kind of question is so out of line.

Speaker 28 I do want to state LSU's EPA per rush against Florida, according to gameonpaper.com, minus 0.49.

Speaker 28 that is in the one percentile for that statistic this is ridiculous I think generally I get what he's saying and he's right when you play good football teams and Florida like we're debating currently maybe is not that good of a football team but when you play potentially good football teams you really do only need a couple of plays you don't need to run the ball well the whole game so I think he's trying to defend his team there and say like they you know they did enough to win and that's what should matter the other point of that is that reporters are not coming into the press room to congratulate you and tell you what a good job you did the whole time so it's just bad messenger once again brian kelly just if he had said that in a chill way and it sounded like he was really trying to like defend his team for putting up a gutty performance and still winning despite struggling then he doesn't have to apologize the next day but instead he flies off the handle and my take on all of this is that he needs to go back to yoga because this was what he was like a lot of the time in the early years at notre dame and then after 2016 he started doing yoga apparently and he was a little bit chill after that but I think like he's starting to regress back into you know we saw him slam his fist on the table he's going back into like purple face brian kelly vibes and it's not a good place for him to be i don't know what you want from me brian kelly doing yoga is a funny visual put it on the poll please uh does purple faced brian kelly need to go back to yoga also find for me please why or how people fly off the handle.

Speaker 5 I don't know. I know what that expression means.
I don't know what the starting point on it is.

Speaker 5 I do want to analyze just the beginning of that I understand that the back and forth became contentious I don't think it's an unfair question to say what are you seeing with your offense like it's not even he's not it's not even a negative question he just it's such super broad the tone though is kind of like I know you think this is gonna be happy but what are you seeing like it the tone was like what are you seeing with your offense is pretty open and it was also like the three follow-ups that is like, I want you to say something bad here.

Speaker 4 The idiom of flying off the handle originates from the literal danger of an axe head flying off its wooden handle when swung vigorously. A sudden and uncontrolled event that could cause severe injury.

Speaker 5 Doing it off the top of your head. Nice, Tony.
You're good that way. Let's play the Dabo sound.
Yes, Jessica.

Speaker 28 What were you going to say? I was just going to think of another person we could blame for this.

Speaker 28 Like, I don't know which reporter this was, but maybe the SID for LSU needs to pick someone that they know is going to ask a cupcake to start out next time so that they can start out with like, oh, what a good job you did.

Speaker 28 You won yay. And then get to, so by the way, you guys stink that third down, right? And maybe he would have been buttered up by then.

Speaker 28 But anyways, you know, if we're going to blame anyone, it's Brian Kelly, of course.

Speaker 5 Let's get the Dabo sound and play that for Jessica, please.

Speaker 32 If they want me gone, if they tired of winning, they can send me on the way because that's all we've done is win. So if they tired of winning, we've won this league eight out of the last 10 years.

Speaker 32 Is that not good? I'm just asking, is that good? I don't know if that's good or not.

Speaker 32 To win your league eight out of 10 years, to go to the playoffs seven out of 10 years, to be in four national championships, win it twice.

Speaker 32 Yeah, we're little down right now take your shots but i got a long memory in case y'all don't know we'll be all right we'll bounce back this is a program built to last always has been always will be and i would just say if if if you give up on us after if you don't believe on us because we've lost two games down to the last trade and we're one you didn't believe in us anyway so it don't matter you wasn't all in anyway If y'all in, you burn the ships, man.

Speaker 32 There ain't no exit strategy. Like, you're freaking all in.

Speaker 32 And hey, listen, I mean, if Clemson's tired of winning they send me on my way but I'm gonna go somewhere else and coach I ain't going to the beach hell I'm 55 I got a long way to go y'all gonna have to deal with me for a while I got a long way to go I'm just getting going I'm just now good enough to be a head coach

Speaker 28 This is only like a few minutes of what was just like a long, long rant of him saying basically like what the hell guys did haven't I done enough for you and it's another situation where it's like I get what he's saying.

Speaker 28 He's got a point. Chess, everything all right?

Speaker 18 Coming to get you? Ambulances. I live in New York now, guys.

Speaker 28 And people are getting frustrated with him because now it's been several years of the same story. It's like, all right, we're struggling.
We're going to make a change here.

Speaker 28 We're going to do this here. We're going to do that there.
And I think Clemson fans felt like this year was finally coming together, right? Like they have the defensive core.

Speaker 28 They made the big defensive coordinator higher. It's the second year with their new offensive coordinator and Kate Klubnik.

Speaker 28 It was better last year and maybe he'll get even better now, but that just hasn't been the case so far.

Speaker 28 And it's kind of one of those things where it's like, Dabo's got a point, but I don't think he's the right messenger for this.

Speaker 32 Won this league eight out of the last 10 years. Is that not good? I'm just asking.
Is that good?

Speaker 1 Do you think he knows or is he like just saying that?

Speaker 5 I think he knows. Well, but how about this though? Hasn't had an AP top 10 finish in the past four seasons and has lost three games each of the past four seasons.

Speaker 5 We've talked about the resume from 2015 to 2020, played in four national title games and won two of them. But the last, like, that's not disputable.

Speaker 25 But in that last, like, the last season, they lost three games and they won an ACC and they made it to the college football playoff. They, they looked all right in losing to Texas.
He, he has a point.

Speaker 20 This guy was an interim head coach when he took over a program that was Clemsoning all the time and disappointing.

Speaker 29 He's bought the right for people to, you know, believe him.

Speaker 20 They were saying this shit last year about Clemson and he made it to the CFP.

Speaker 32 Is that good?

Speaker 28 Can I give you guys like a little team A versus team B comparison I saw on social media from Connor O'Guerra?

Speaker 18 Yeah, that's

Speaker 18 it.

Speaker 28 That's an apostrophe, oh,

Speaker 28 Chris.

Speaker 18 Not like a, not like Frank O'Hara.

Speaker 19 Oh, no, no, fool.

Speaker 28 So team A, 10 and 6 overall, 7-5 versus power conference teams, 3-0 versus the ACC, 4-5 versus the SEC, 2 wins versus AP top 25. Would you say, or top 15, sorry? Would you say that's a good team?

Speaker 28 Like 10-6 overall, 2 wins versus AP top 15. Yeah.

Speaker 18 Yeah. Yeah.
That's a solid team.

Speaker 27 That's a solid team. That's a tough schedule.

Speaker 28 Team B, 11-6 overall, 8-6 versus power conference teams, 8-2 versus the ACC, 0-4 versus the SEC, 1 win versus AP Top 15. What would you say about that, Mike?

Speaker 4 Disappointing team.

Speaker 28 Team A is Vanderbilt, and Team B is Clemson.

Speaker 5 That's some good shit she just did right there. That's some good maneuvering, some good chess piece maneuvering she did there.

Speaker 20 Like, that was like a deposition.

Speaker 25 I think one team under their head coach is

Speaker 25 7-1 against ranked teams, and their only loss was like six overtimes to Georgia. And that is, of course, Georgia Tech.

Speaker 25 Last year, SMU and Indiana showed us you can exist in these big mega conferences and avoid playing a super hard schedule.

Speaker 20 And it seems as though Georgia Tech has its toughest conference game behind them.

Speaker 22 Cal, it opens up really nicely for them.

Speaker 25 They have a very easy conference schedule. And I know you like Cal from

Speaker 18 their Twitter presence.

Speaker 28 Let me talk about Cal for a second, Mike. This is like very navel-gazing, but I have been interviewed by several California-based media outlets about the Calgarhythm over the past four months.

Speaker 28 They're not letting this thing go, and I love that for them. And they have a great quarterback and they are 3-0 right now.

Speaker 28 But as all of the Cal fans on my Calgarhythm have pointed out, this Cal team will disappoint you in new and surprising ways all the time.

Speaker 28 So while it looks like maybe it's all right in front of them, let's hold our horses for a little bit. Dan, do you want to know the origin of that? Tony, look it up.
I do want to also mention

Speaker 28 Buzz Buzz. Haynes King is unbelievable.

Speaker 28 And if that is something that they can sustain over the course of the season, because he missed a couple games last year because of health reasons, I do really like Georgia Tech.

Speaker 28 And that's a well-coached team and a team that is very exciting to watch.

Speaker 5 Give us some fresh outrage. Anything on the AP poll? Anything that you've got for us that is just freshly baked Jessica outrage?

Speaker 28 I will give you something, Dan. This has been a trend that I've seen pick up steam this season.
I know there's a very popular college football podcast that sort of does this on their show.

Speaker 28 And I think um

Speaker 28 well we'll get into it so i have noticed more and more that i have seen people on social media especially go after individual ap poll voters and not just be like wow your ballot sucks did you forget that this game happened but like literally go on witch hunts and like attack these people and and it's gotten very personal and i think that that probably should stop like i think it's one thing to be like this ballot sucks do better and i think it's another thing to just go way over the top and like go on these witch hunting campaigns against AP poll voters.

Speaker 28 Because guys, guess what? The AP poll doesn't choose the national champion anymore. It matters.
It doesn't choose who's in the playoffs. It matters less and less.
It's an interesting thing.

Speaker 28 It's a data point, but we don't have to like kill people over the AP poll if they have a bad ballot. Some people just, you know, they are on a beat.

Speaker 28 Like I, if you've ever been someone whose job is to go to a college football game for a living and be a media member, like on a specific beat, it is very hard to watch the other 75 games happening that day.

Speaker 28 And then they have to turn in their ballots like right away, right at the end of all of the action. I think it's like due early Sunday morning and then it comes out.

Speaker 28 So I empathize because some people do miss things and they screw it up. And I've seen voters like double down when they've been called out and it has made me a little cringe.
cringe a little bit.

Speaker 28 But I just think like as a fan, I don't, I'm not going to go after someone because they had Notre Dame ranked 10th after this week because they might have just made a mistake.

Speaker 28 And if not, it doesn't really matter because there's a shit ton of other voters that had Notre Dame way lower. So it's going to be okay.

Speaker 25 To your point, they're going at these AP voters for very clearly not watching the games. I mean, there were some ballots that had Florida ranked 10th and USF unranked after USF

Speaker 27 beat Florida.

Speaker 20 But the coaches don't watch the games either.

Speaker 25 Like, if your main central point of attack is you're not watching the games, like, there's no way the coaches watch the games.

Speaker 28 I'm just saying, like, I think it's fine to be like, hey, your ballot stinks. Like, what's up with your ballot?

Speaker 28 But it's another thing to be like, you're a effing loser and you should lose your job and you should be ashamed of your. Like, I'm seeing, I'm seeing crazy.
It's social media.

Speaker 28 So, obviously, there's extremes of people going after A-P-pole voters, but like, it's such a crazy thing to waste your time freaking out about, in my opinion.

Speaker 28 And I've seen all of the reaction about Notre Dame being ranked after losing the first two games of the season.

Speaker 28 And the crazy thing is, Dan, do you remember who was ranked 24th last year after week three?

Speaker 5 No, obviously.

Speaker 28 Of course, you don't, because it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter, guys.
It really doesn't matter right now.

Speaker 5 I do think the media needs to cover a little more, though, if we're killing AP voters and doing literal witch hunts. It's not something I've seen reported at all.

Speaker 23 Just for the record, the counterbalance, it seemed to have mattered when it came to where game day selected.

Speaker 28 Well, I'm not talking about rankings. I'm talking about my own eyes.
I've watched Florida play three games now, and they're just...

Speaker 23 haven't been very good. It was Illinois.

Speaker 20 What was Illinois? It should have been the choice.

Speaker 2 They ranked 24th last year after week three.

Speaker 18 Oh, really? Oh, okay. Interesting.

Speaker 28 Thanks, Billy. That's interesting.
Well, let's talk about Illinois and Indiana.

Speaker 28 That's the first.

Speaker 19 Sorry, I was trying to hit the Wild Billy Wednesday sound and I hit the wrong sound.

Speaker 5 We're out of time, Jessica.

Speaker 19 Thank you for being on.

Speaker 17 We're talking about this.

Speaker 28 Let me give you my stat.

Speaker 23 All right.

Speaker 18 Finish a swap.

Speaker 28 First ranked matchup between Indiana and Illinois since 1950, I believe. I mean, come on, that's electric.
Go Midwest.

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