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Can you guys get me Nick Toturo or the Kid Marrow or somebody from New York over the course of this show so that I could just make fun of the Yankees and celebrate it all day?

And speaking of celebrating the failures of others, can you guys please find for me credible reporting on Bill Belichick?

Because I keep seeing that he's discussed his buyout with North Carolina and that he has signaled that he might be willing to trigger the $1 million buyout so the whole experiment won't last very long, would last the equivalent of about a month.

But is that real?

What's the real reporting on that that's most accurate on is Belichick trying to just get out of there?

Well, let me say that Ollie Conley, despite how certain North Carolina fans may feel about him, is reputable on the Bill Belichick front.

His reporting on this at the time of his signing was accurate.

Ali Conley, for those that don't know, once listed the Duke as one of the greatest NFL insiders on the planet.

Not once, twice, as Billy corrected Juan.

And, well, was it just twice?

I thought it was three times, and each ranking was higher than the previous one.

The Duke rose to fourth greatest international football insider.

That's as high as it got.

And I thought it was going to get to number one because that progress was linear.

It was straight up.

It didn't bounce down.

Well, what ended up happening, to my understanding, is Ollie stops covering football, so the list stops.

So I think it's kind of like, you know, former Heisman winner, whatever.

Like, you're always a Heisman winner.

So, like, I will, because of the fact that there's been no updates to the list, I will always, I think, be the fourth highest, you know, whatever football something that Ollie did.

Now,

Ollie was all over this initially the first time around.

And this second time around, I have taken great joy in texting friends from North Carolina saying, like, this, this Ollie, he's telling us what's going on here.

And he's saying Bill's gone.

And they hate Ollie in North Carolina.

They're like, he's so full of shit.

He doesn't know what he's talking about.

And I was like, well, it was

going

right there the first time around.

I believe Ollie, which is weird because he's, you know, to my understanding, British.

And I don't know how it is that he has contacts and knows exactly what's going on in Choppy Hill.

He has tweeted, and it's credible enough that it has more than 10 million views.

Because whether you think he's a credible insider or not, he's reporting per sources that Bill Belichick has discussed buyout options with North Carolina's hierarchy, and he has signaled a willingness to trigger his own $1 million buyout if he can find a soft landing with another team or in the media.

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Is Billy indeed the fourth highest whatever football, whatever, insider, whatever?

I had one of my most awkward public moments with ollie connoy at the super bowl i think like two years ago because he came up to me it was the last day last day of super bowl you're always like you know

just trying to get to the flight basically pick up everything it was like late in the day and he kind of like appeared he's like hey what's up billy how's it going like oh hey how's it going and i was like half paying attention whatever he's like i'm ollie i was like ollie

And then I was like, can I give you a hug?

And I gave him like this big hug.

And I could tell he very much did not want a hug from me.

He's like, oh, sure, like, I guess, like, whatever.

And I gave him a hug.

I'm like, man, like, it's so great to meet you.

I'm so excited and blah, blah.

And he's like, all right,

okay, I got to go now.

And he like left me because of how awkward I made things.

Well, it's funny that you should mention that on a couple of fronts.

One,

Ollie Connolly is Mina Kimes' guest on her podcast, The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny.

And so if she respects him, you should as well.

But when you bring up that story.

We respect Ollie Connolly.

Yeah, what do you think?

I meant the audience.

Yeah, but he was incredible.

I hugged the man.

I hugged him, okay?

I don't just hug anyone.

Mike has additional reporting on this, but to that point, and perhaps you guys will be surprised at this as well.

You don't just hug anyone.

And this week, you and I hugged at my instigation, and I felt the way that you felt around and with Ollie.

I felt like you didn't want that hug from me.

I'm a good hugger.

I give a good hug.

I just don't know when it's appropriate to hug and when it's not.

I used to to be a hugger.

Like,

I do like the hello hug that, you know, Hispanic culture is very tricky with the hello kiss.

Like, we're just not going to beat around the bush on that one because you, you know, you don't know if it's presumptuous to give a hello kiss.

You know, you know, when you grow up, you're in high school, whatever, hello kiss, hello kiss.

But then you like leave your bubble and you're no longer dealing with only Hispanic people and you don't want to give hello kisses to people who don't understand that this is just part of the

COVID hurt the hello kiss.

He's so right about this, though.

I don't know who, like, what is our, like,

I try to meet a person's greeting with what they are comfortable with, and that often, I often miss the mark.

And it's not like I miss the mark where I've gone too far.

It's I miss the mark where I make things uncomfortable because it's like, oh, like, this is a hug thing.

Is this like a hello kiss thing?

Where like you make a kiss sound and you touch cheek to cheek, but you don't actually kiss the person's cheek.

Thank you, Billy.

Thank you for bringing all of this up.

We will get to Mike Ryan's new information on on Bill Belichick.

He has additional reporting on this, but I do want to tackle both of these things.

You're saying falsehoods.

You're saying you received and wanted that hug from me because I felt like while you may have one day been a hugger, you are no longer a hugger because you've been scarred by niceties in society that have knocked both the kiss and the hug out of the Latin man.

No, I mean, really, if we're going to be honest, what's ruined the kiss and the hug is sexual predators.

Like, let's be fair there.

It's not niceties.

It's not that the world's become, you know, more brood.

It's, yeah, it's like, you know, the predators out there that make people uncomfortable.

Where it's like, this is just a greeting.

There's no further requests on my end for where this shall go.

I'm just saying hello because this is how I was raised.

This is part of my culture.

The hug also, I will say, I have a sty at the moment.

So I'm trying not to get my face too close to people.

Yeah, the good thing about glasses is the glasses hide the sty a bit.

Yeah.

Anyway.

The hug I gave you, was it wanted or was it not wanted?

Yeah, Yeah, it was well received.

It was fine.

I mean, I don't walk around wanting hugs.

I accept hugs should they come my way.

Tony, do you have this problem in either feet or pies?

Do you have the problem of coming up to somebody, greeting them with a kiss the way Latin men do?

Because I've had this knocked out of me.

I've had it knocked out of me on a couple of fronts.

One, by people expecting the second kiss on the second cheek.

Yeah, where were you?

That's not.

That's your question.

No,

I'm saying that what ends up happening is once I go in for the first kiss, there are certain members of society that then expect the second kiss that I'm not coming in to give the second kiss.

The first kiss is all you're getting, Latin style, but many people don't want that either, and now I'm gun shy.

Yeah, well, again, we run in different circles, Daniel.

Yeah, the two kisses at tapavoca.

If you go and you give someone, it's like then you're being a frico and you're really trying to see how much you can get away with it.

That's exactly right.

You're trying to get an extra little kiss in there.

If you're over in Europe, two kisses, okay.

You go two kisses, right?

If you're in Miami, one kiss, right?

I don't have an issue with, you know, I'll go up.

I gave Mike a hug today for his birthday.

So I have no issues with intimate touch when it comes to greetings.

Kiss Mike.

What?

Is this a generational thing or something?

Maybe it's because you're older that this new generation is like, no, we're not accepting that anymore.

No.

No, we accept it.

We still do it.

I think in Latin culture,

the reason I was asking Tony is because I'm assuming he's almost only exclusively running in Latin society.

I don't shake hands.

Like, I only shake hands with people I don't know.

Like, hey, how you doing?

Okay, great.

I'm going to shake your hand.

But, like, if somebody that I know, if it's an extended family member, even if it's somebody that I haven't seen in a long time, like, I'll go in and get a little bit more.

No, but this is where I make the mistake, though.

I will, by way of greeting, simply because I'm

Latin and got grandfathered in, people I'm meeting for the first time, I will go in for a kiss, and I don't think that's acceptable anymore.

Not still acceptable.

I do the same thing.

I'm with Billy on this.

What's the new reporting that you have for us?

I want to add to Ollie Conley's reports because most people just read that first tweet of his, but there's a lot of detail here and it tracks with how these things go, folks.

So

there were, he goes on to add, members of Belichick's coaching staff have already spoken to other schools.

That's a pretty big one, and I'll explain why later and add that to another tweet that he has.

The rats are, quote, leaving the ship.

Some staffers believe a change will come within two weeks.

Reports of serious recruiting violations remain under investigation at UNC.

Recruiting and practice violations have already been proven by the school, according to multiple sources.

Using recruiting violations to knock down a coach's buyout has become standard practice.

Once again, totally accurate, just learning from history from Ollie.

Belichick's communication with his staff over the past two weeks has been described as weird and distant by multiple members of UNC's coaching staff.

Multiple coaches were unable to get a hold of him during UNC's bye week.

This is where I have something to add because I have spoken directly to people that were happen to know?

Yes, I happen to know that I have spoken to people that were around that program when Bill Belichick was both flirting with UNC and then assembling his staff over there.

There was a moment in time when Bill Belichick

was already on UNC with a Dallas Cowboys job went open, and Bill Belichick wanted that job.

And this echoes exactly how he treated the rest of his staff at that time.

He was weird.

He was distant because he was actively going for that job.

This has happened a couple of times where everyone knows he wants to get back to the NFL.

I hear that, and it tracks with what I heard from before.

And

the coach himself, who has been photographed in Nantucket with Jordan on a bi-week, strange time to take a vacation when you're underwater with your program.

He came out with a statement saying he was fully committed to the program.

The program backed him up there.

You see something like that, and you know.

You know, there's something to the rumors right now.

This is not going well for Bill Belichick.

And yesterday, I turned to my left and I said,

what would we handicap Bill Belichick actually returning next season to North Carolina?

This is starting to get messy, folks.

Ollie's a good reporter on this beat.

Like, if Bill Belichick does come back to North Carolina, I expect him to tread water over there for a couple of months and then deuce out.

Like, that's always kind of been the plan.

He was hoping to rebuild his coaching credibility and get back to the NFL.

Unfortunately for him, his ego, and those around him, it is not going the way he thought this would go, and it's hurting his chances.

He's probably better quitting now than further cementing his name as a failure.

Oh my god, he knows.

He happens to know.

Come everyone, come and listen.

He happens to know.

Well informed.

You said cryptically that you turned to your left and had a conversation about next year.

I would think at this point the flames have gotten high enough in terms of legacy destruction that most people listening to this do not expect him to last the year.

It's a capitulation, Dan.

Sometimes you're on a stock that's tanking and you decide, I don't want to lose it all.

I'll just save like 20% and over time that'll be fine.

And I think he's giving serious consideration to saving face and getting out while he still can, even though I think it's pretty tarnished.

I mean, does he look better by quitting in the middle of the season?

I don't know that that makes him look any better than just finishing out the year and saying, you know what, I retire.

This isn't for me or whatever.

I think adding more L's doesn't help his cause of ultimately trying to get back.

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

Stugats.

Belichick has done nothing since Brady left.

He made the playoffs once.

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

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

He's an overrated coach.

This is the Don Lebatar show with the Stugats.

I need to stop Mike, though, when he uses the language of kind of tarnished or,

I mean, you said it's not good.

It's a good deal worse than that.

I

do not have anything close to precedent on what I've witnessed happen to Bill Belichick in all of five games.

Like, we could sit here and I can do these stats as an example.

Andy Reid without Mahomes is 60 games over 500.

He's got 13.

This is without Mahomes.

This is Andy Reid without Mahomes.

Better to do it in this order than the order that Belichick did it in.

Without Mahomes, Andy Reid, 60 games over 500, 13 playoff berths, eight division titles, one Super Bowl, 11 playoff wins, eight top 10 offenses.

One Super Bowl appearance.

Yes, thank you.

Belichick without Brady, 20 games under 500, two playoff berths, zero division titles, zero Super Bowls, one playoff win, zero top 10 offenses.

So I can give you those numbers, but none of those numbers stick to Belichick.

the way these five games stick to Belichick.

You guys are doing legacy, and I don't know it hurts him that much.

I can't believe how much it hurts him because I say these five games make it hard for him to get a pro job.

that he wants, one with power, because he had interviewed twice in Atlanta and didn't get that job.

I think these five games unmask him.

Like, it's not just that you don't want Belichick.

You don't want the fool who's got the 20-year-old girlfriend wandering around your program.

You can't give this power anymore.

The only thing he gets is a media job or a coordinator job.

I don't believe he's allowed to run a program anymore.

Yeah, but in the grand scheme of things, he's still one of the greatest coaches of all time.

Like, this is just going to kind of be a footnote.

Like, we never talk about how much of a failure Nick Sabin was in Miami between stops at college.

Like, he's still going to be remembered as one of the greatest coaches ever.

But that's because he had massive success at Alabama after failing.

That's like there's no success for Bill Belichick after this.

Here's where it's here's why I do think Bill Belichick should get out now because

Bill Belichick, outside of the success, is also known for a certain mentality and the patriot way and zero distractions.

This has been a total circus.

This right now just adds to the circus.

We wonder, how could it feel more like a circus at North Carolina?

In the middle of the week, you have reputable reporters saying you're trying to find your way out and you're going on vacation with your girlfriend and your school has to put out a statement saying the dreaded vote of confidence.

Like, this is

Get out while you still can.

I'm not actually doing what Billy's doing.

I think Billy is correct when he says, once we step back from the flavor or the scandal of the moment, the way history will remember Bill Belichick is as one of the greatest coaches ever.

It's like Pete Carroll, too.

I'm not disagreeing with that part.

It's also the part that I find less interesting because we can argue all we want about people's legacies and Conan O'Brien will stand over the grave of Calvin Coolidge and be like, when's the last time time anyone talked about Calvin Coolidge?

Yeah, Belichick will be one of the greatest coaches ever.

I'm talking about the right now for Belichick and how it must be for one of the people who truly believes himself to be one of the great coaches of all time to embarrass himself so much that even before this, Atlanta was saying, now we'll go, Raheem Morris.

You'll need to interview two times.

I have to stop you there because I also happen to know what happened with Atlanta a little bit.

You're putting it too much on Atlanta.

While they may have deduced that after the whole pursuit, a lot of what happened with Atlanta was Bill Belichick not wanting to follow through with it, thinking he could get a better situation because he didn't want to have to do the things necessary to become the Atlanta Falcons head coach.

Mike, my larger point is

one of the greatest football coaches ever

is not welcome back in this world because he's made a fool of himself on and off the field for five games.

It took five games.

Whatever the details around Belichick in Atlanta, Belichick couldn't get any job job that he wanted this offseason, so he settled for one in the minor leagues.

And five games later, he's in a worse position than he was five games ago, because now who wants to bring any of that in?

You tell me, Jerry Jones is willing to be so small and petty that he's actually appealing that $250,000 fine.

If Jerry Jones wanted Bill Belichick five games ago, you think he still wants him?

Stephen Ross.

I'd take him, honestly.

There's so many...

There's so many Dolphin fans.

Camera Rex Ryan.

I mean, there's so many diesel checks.

It can't get much worse.

I mean, Tua's out here saying I don't care if I throw touchdowns or interceptions because I just have a happy family.

Buddy,

care.

Lie serum.

I keep telling you guys.

Injects Tua with lie serum because he keeps saying all of the wrong things.

I'm so happy that he has found happiness and he's centered and he has a stable life.

Don't tell me about it, okay?

Don't tell me about how happy you are because I'm not happy.

I mean, I am happy.

My family's great and all that stuff, but I'm not happy with this Dolphins team.

Do we have the sound of uh to a having life perspective on he's he's on IR with a hip injury and something on his throwing hand uh there's something wrong with his throwing hand I don't know what the injury is there are so many people though as we put a ribbon around this that are around college football that are college football lifers because you have to be built a certain way right now to be about this college football life I'd handicap it at like 80% of the coaches and the people around college football desperately want to get to the pros because this shit is crazy, right?

So Bill Belichick and his buddy Mike Lombardi think that they could, it is so hilarious.

People are loving this.

They thought that they could just stroll into the wild world of college football and dominate and people kept receipts.

That's right, Mike Lombardi.

We all remember when you tweeted, not sure how Mario Crisobal faces his team today.

There is coaching malpractice and then there is coaching malpractice squared.

This one will go down as an all-timer.

You cannot cure this.

I feel pretty cured down here in Coral Gables.

Mike, where's your cure?

cure?

Okay, two things.

Is Tua on IR?

Yeah, did you just break news that Tua is I on IR?

I'm sorry, I meant on the injured list.

Not the official

on the injury list.

Probably.

My fault.

If I said injured reserved, I did not mean to say injured reserved.

Now, if that comes out in a couple of days, we know Dan was in the know and he wasn't supposed to say something.

I just happened to know Lord's time zone.

Also, Bill Belichick is embarrassing him.

Like, he's not going to get a chance because of what's happening on the field, not off-the-field, if we're going to be honest.

Like, Bobby Petrino still still got another chance after horrible off-the-field.

But they'll abide by embarrassing off-the-field behavior if you keep winning.

If you get destroyed on the field, they're like, you know what?

It's definitely

too far.

It's still going on, though.

It's still, that's a difference.

Bobby Petrino had to get some separation from that and had to clean up his image somewhat and had to have success.

But this stuff is still, like, he's in Nantucket right now.

If we're being honest.

With Jordan.

Okay, but if we're being honest, his

embarrassing off-the-field behavior is just he's dating someone substantially younger than him, but it's not like he's not committing crimes, it's not like adultery, it's just like

people are uncomfortable with the age difference.

It's not that, it's not that, it's that she is totally taking over like the public relations, she is fully embedded within that program, she's on the field.

There were 50,

you think Jerry Jones is gonna be like, yeah, come on over, like let's hang out with you.

There were 52 Getty images from that game, 27 of them were all of Jordan.

Like, that says more about the photographers than it it does about her.

No, it says how, like, he could date who he wants to date and have them in the background.

He's dated plenty in his life.

We haven't really known about it outside of a weird costume that gets aggregated occasionally.

This is different.

It's strange.

Things go through Bill Belichick's girlfriend.

It's weird.

Maybe she knows ball.

I mean, who are we to say that a woman can't know football?

Honestly, like, this is us showing our asses, I think.

All right, stop with the asses and the ball.

Let's just identify identify one thing that you're saying here and attack that.

You mentioned Bobby Petrino.

You're right that Bobby Petrino has been allowed to return to Arkansas as a coordinator, but he has not been allowed to do that while in a neck brace on a motorcycle with his affair on the back of the motorcycle while he's patrolling the sidelines or the skybox.

Like, it does matter that this whole thing now follows Belichick in a way that makes it awfully noisy around Belichick, what you're inviting beyond the football.

Like you have to be willing in order to make a choice like Bill Belichick to be so desperate that you think Bill Belichick can actually fix you in a couple of days or weeks.

And maybe that's a desperation that's possible.

Joe Flacco is starting for the Bengals this weekend.

So that kind of desperation can exist.

But when you refer to these two people, Belichick and Lombardi in their 70s, trying to be ahead of everyone else.

I heard Katie Nolan yesterday on her serious radio show screaming.

She was screaming at Mike Lombardi, who apparently, according to Katie Nolan, still uses a typewriter and is proud of still using a typewriter.

Katie Nolan was screaming the phrase, bring it into the modern age.

I've never heard Katie Nolan this angry.

At Mike Lombardi for embarrassing what Belichick used to be.

Do you guys realize that in the history of sports royalty, you will have a hard time finding for me anyone who's been unmasked like this, this quickly?

You're not going to find anyone who's been unmasked like this,

but this quickly, that precipitous fall.

Okay, there are more details on the Falcons job.

I mean, he's coaching at LSU, though.

He's still active now.

Right, College.

The Bill Belichick situation, all the cronies around him are perceived as jokes right now.

But the pro game is different.

That's why I think he should get out right now and just say, look, I found out that college football is just not for me.

My skill set works for the pro game.

And he works over the next few months when the hiring cycle begins to try to clean up

the perception around his relationship, understanding that Jordan's not going to be handling public relations when we get to the NFL.

He can work on that.

He needs to get out now because only more stories are going to come out.

It's only going to seem more like a circus.

And it's not like he's going to add success to his name.

It's not not like he's going to show proof of concept.

The numbers that we're looking at so far, you realize that part of the problem here is being embedded in that program in the huddle.

There's no way that he is blind to, we've lost by a combined score of 120 to 33.

Like, that's not going to get fixed in the next, that's not going to get fixed in the next couple of months.

There's no amount of scheming that he can do when he gets into the tough part of his schedule that's going to undo with these players the fact that he's going to get his ass kicked that way the rest of the season.

And given what he comes from,

given the amount of success he's had over the 20 years, it's going to be really great to see one of the great people in sports who demanded accountability of others quit because he has to.

Like just be like, and it's not even his physical body.

He demanded that out of the vrabels of the world.

Their physical bodies give it over to what it is that we're doing.

Five games and he's already looking for an exit ramp is the most human thing in the world, but it's not the most football coach warrior thing in the world.

He was looking for an exit ramp before there was a game played.

In July.

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I promise you this, I happen to know.

Yeah, but the media game that he was playing five games ago is he would have gotten a very good job as soon as Jerry Jones got tired of Schottenheimer if he just spent the entire time.

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Oh, wait, it's not that you've got some sort of advantage over these people.

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Name a funnier person for this to happen to.

For an off-field circus to derail a Sterling career.

He seems happy to me.

I got to be honest with you.

It seems like the happiest he's been in a long time.

He looked like a grump when he was there in New England.

And now here, the pictures we see of him, it's like these are massive distractions, but he seems like a happy guy.

He just doesn't care about coaching at North Carolina.

That's why.

He's been honoring his father, by the way.

Do you guys remember that?

I was like, I'm coming here because my dad needs to coach here.

I'm wearing my dad's sweater, and it was like a whole thing.

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Bill Belichick, I think, likes costumes as much as you, Dan.

Like, we would hear about how much he loved the Halloween parties, and Randy Moss would tell us, and that he'd show up dressed like a full pirate.

Now we see him, like, Gorman the fisherman or whatever, like on the side, catching his mermaid girlfriend.

Like, this guy likes the party.

I, again,

do not like costumes.

Come on.

My wife likes, my young bride likes costumes.

It's the same situation over in Belichick's house.

Dan, great job distancing yourself from what's going on with Belichick.

So let me see if I can find this here.

I haven't played it in a while.

Let's see here.

I'm going to look for it.

My eyesight is bad because the old dog is getting old.

Did you guys remove my...

Oh, here it is.

You don't get the show.

You have glasses, you know.

Yeah, but they're over here.

Oh, okay.

They're over there.

Thank you, Rob.

Did you call your glasses cheaters yet?

I don't know.

That's starting to happen to me, by the way.

I looked at the phone a little bit too much.

What's the score of that baseball game?

And also, my back started hurting for zero reasons.

You're 40.

It's not zero reason.

It's because happy birthday to you.

These are the kinds of things that happen once you start entering this particular decade.

It happened to me, man.

It's bad.

Katie Nolan screaming on the radio, because she was screaming, get into the modern age.

Can you please explain to me why Mike Lombardi is still using a typewriter, the benefits of that?

Why is he pridefully telling people that he's still still using a typewriter?

What, I, could any of you put this on the poll as well, Juju, at Lebatard show.

Right now, if I gave you two hours, could you go get a typewriter?

Yes or no?

Could you go physically get a typewriter and find one in the next two hours?

I believe his explanation was, and I'll look it up just to confirm, was something along the lines of if he uses a computer, he can very easily just erase and start over and make, and he can make mistakes and it doesn't make a difference because it can autocorrect.

Where a typewriter, he has to be more honed in to what he's doing so he makes fewer mistakes.

It's a dork is what it is, Dan.

Yeah.

Okay, you guys go with dork.

I'm just really looking.

The same guy that's like, oh, I like records because they sound better.

And it's like, okay, buddy, I've got 9,000 songs.

All right, you're picking a bad fight here.

You're going to lose this.

I have got records.

Yeah, I know.

They sound great on my thing from 1967.

Okay, it doesn't sound better.

The vinyl doesn't sound better.

It doesn't.

It sounds scratchy.

That's the whole point.

It sounds scratchy.

It's a needle hitting a cylinder.

It's the experience.

It's the connection.

As we get more and more digital, you have something physical.

You have something tangible.

It smells a certain way.

That's what people like about vinyl.

The scratchiness of the vinyl, that's part of the sonic experience there, but it doesn't sound better.

Anybody who says that is full of shit.

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

Does the record player make the music sound better?

You're going to lose on public opinion.

You guys may actually be right factually.

I have records.

I've got YouTube records.

You may be right factually, but you don't think that poll poll is going to come back agreeing with you and Mike, do you?

That poll for sure is going to come back with everyone saying that music does indeed sound better on a record.

It's impossible.

I'm the biggest Jack White fan there is.

He is largely responsible for the resurgence in vinyl, and Taylor Swift is too.

But he's so full of shit when it comes to that stuff.

He also tried to lie and tell us that he didn't have a cell phone until last year.

Like, come on.

Yeah, it's not.

It is a weird thing where, like, people try to say, it sounds crisper on vinyl than it is.

No, it's just like it might be the only technology in the history of mankind that peaked, you know, 50 years ago, and we've gone downhill with more technology somehow.

Have you ever listened to a song that you loved on headphones and you're like, wow, I didn't catch that part.

Radiohead, what a wonder.

Put it on the poll, please, at Lebatard Show as well,

because I've got a handful of questions here.

Getty took 57 photos of the Clemson UNC game, and 23 of them were of Jordan Hudson.

How many of them were Steve Martin?

You gave those numbers?

I did.

I guess the remaining couple of Steve Martin pictures.

He didn't have his cheaters on.

All right, hold on a second.

Let me do this here.

Let me see.

This is all.

Got the glasses on.

Minor penalty, two minutes for a shit contribution.

I mean, he's right.

It was a shit.

Well, this will allow us to talk about that one of the Super Bowl.

Final.

So this is not going to be waiting for two weeks, Mike.

So, like, there was a take that was talked about about back here in the back row when it came to the Super Bowl that I think is not yet,

it hasn't yet been explored by the mainstream media as it's become a culture war, unfairly so.

And Bad Bunny in his SNL monologue said you've got four months to learn Spanish.

And Billy mentioned something to me off air that I don't think people are really considering about this.

I saw a tweet that was

very one-sided, and you could guess which side of the aisle it was on, where it was saying, you know, I speak Spanish.

I still don't know what the hell Bad Bunny's saying.

I don't know what he's saying at all.

And look, they also said Bad Bunny's music is bad, which I don't agree with that.

Categorical.

I like Bad Bunny's music.

However,

a little bit of a mumbler, if we're going to be honest, sometimes.

Which is like, that's a style that's fine.

It's still good music, but there are some times it's a little confusing as to what.

I've seen people on TikTok who are like, I'm Puerto Rican and I don't know what he's saying.

Yeah.

And it's like, oh, okay, that makes sense.

It's like Bjork.

It's like cigaro.

It knows an invented language.

It's completely right.

It's a vibe.

I don't know what you're saying.

It's a vibes.

You don't have to worry about what he's saying.

Just pick up the vibes.

It's a beachy vibe.

It's this vibe.

It's that vibe.

Let's hang out.

Let's listen to Bad Bunny.

He's just a good beat.

We'll shake our hips.

We're vibing.

You don't remember?

Gangam style.

I didn't know what the hell Sai was saying.

No one did.

Yeah.

People were singing it.

What does Gangam style even mean?

I don't know.

People liked it.

It was fun.

The style of Gangam.

Have you seen him get shot out of that like tube thing?

Yeah, that's crazy.

I love that video.

What if he moves slightly to one side and he like hits his shoulder on the bottom of the stage?

Yeah, that'd be pretty.

He gets shot up like 20 feet in the air.

He flew.

Yeah.

Just look at the recent people that have performed at halftime.

I don't know what Rihanna's saying either.

I don't, like, the large complaint from the last halftime show was, I don't know what he's saying.

I can't understand.

That's every Super Bowl halftime.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like, I was singing the wrong lyrics to Phil Collins songs for 40 friggin years.

Because it's part of our relationship with music.

If they would have brought Metallica or some other band that other people like, I don't know what the hell they're saying anyway.

You think you can understand half of what James Hetfield is saying?

You need to understand what the lyrics are?

Most of the songs are about shaking ass.

Thank you.

God bless.

In international language, really.

Now you said it.

You're not going to tell me that I'm wrong when I say the music that doesn't have that particular problem, country music.

You don't have any confusion about the lyrics and country music?

I don't have any connection points to red clay.

I really don't.

You don't have any songs about red clay.

You don't have any confusion about the lyrics in country music.

There's no mumble rap, although now, now, those hippity hoppers are trying to get into country music.

They are.

They are.

You've seen it.

Should be USA music.

Country music.

Successful.

Huh.

We have a Mike Lombardi video if you want to know why he uses a type of

straight for the horses, man.

I do very

resume, pal.

Let's see it.

Typewriter, because it forces me to slow down.

I have to think about what I want to write about.

And the typewriter gives you that rhythm that you need to be able to slow your mind down and think.

You're going to make mistakes, right?

And on a computer, you can delete the mistake.

But sometimes the mistakes that you deleted have really powerful messages in them.

And so when I first started to write my first book, I studied a lot of writers.

And a lot of them were using typewriters.

And I worked for a guy named Ernie Accorsi in Cleveland, who was a former newspaper man, and he had a typewriter in his office.

So I kind of got used to using it, and it helps me slow down and think, which ultimately is what this job is all about, thinking.

There's a lot in this video I'd like to dissect.

I have only one observation because

when you guys told me you had the video of him at the typewriter, I did not have him typing just with two fingers.

I didn't.

Now you see.

You got to be precise, Dan.

You can't be typing all over.

That's one of the observations.

Video team, the second observation that I have from this, look at those beads on that wrist, Mike Lombardi.

You're in it deep, pal.

That midlife crisis is a crisis.

Wow.

At 70?

How old is he?

66.

Ooh, well, I mean,

grading on the curve of understanding what's happening at North Carolina, that's good enough to get someone in their mid-20s.

That letterhead that he's using, the North Carolina letterhead, this is to type tiny notes because that's.

That's like a receipt.

That say, keep swimming it on his on it it's a big dory fan good yeah keep swimming pal because you and bill are a drowning and also final observation he named his own book gridiron genius

yeah what a dork i think that the uh the wristband says keep swinging not swimming i think it's i like the better my way okay keep swinging i think well yeah yeah

that is that is the wrist gear of somebody who swings takes big swings yeah that is also the wrist gear of my dad, who is a career bachelor.

Your dad is also 70, right?

Yeah, and he's taken plenty of hacks over his life.

Your dad's uh, your dad's a Lothario, I would say.

Your dad is somebody who walks into a room and knows that ladies of all ages are interested in his hair and his scent, his cologne.

He's a side kisser, too.

Yeah, I got a beautiful face time for my dad today.

I'm like, dad, your face is so smooth.

What's going on there?

And I'm like, well, you're going to have to start lying about my age now.

The typewriter, man.

The bragging about a typewriter is an interesting choice.

The amount of arrogance,

this is what we enjoy more than just about anything in public shaming, right?

Oh, I love this guy in particular being humbled because I have heard stories about this guy.

And it's not like his public front-facing persona is all that great either.

This guy thinks he's smarter than everybody when, just like everyone else, including the head coach whose record is worse in the pros without Tom Brady

than Dave Wondstadt's, and it's a hell of a lot worse in college.

Everyone thinks they're so smart when they got the goat under center.

It's not just that, though, because when Mike Lombardi says what he says, the number of flatulent, arrogant football people that I have heard summon the name of Ernie Accorsi as if it means something.

Like

the number of, and it does, it does mean something, but using it as a patron saint for, let me sell you my book here, let me hand you my book with these beads on my wrist, gridiron grates that I wrote on a typewriter because, because I heard wise words from Ernie Accorsi 40 years ago.

Beads on a man's wrist at a certain age are like rings around a tree stump.

Like that's how, but instead of years, it's how deep you are into your midlife crisis.

The thing that people enjoy in sports more than anything, though, it's one thing to be able to laugh at the arrogance of Bill Belichick because at the very least, you know, it's earned arrogance.

It's when it's the unearned arrogance of Mike Lombardi and his typewriter.

That's the thing we enjoy the most.

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