The Big Suey: 49 Nuggets

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Speaker 1 i ate a few during the break no you didn't no you didn't

Speaker 6 A few were eaten during the break. Not so sure.
Not by

Speaker 1 the dog had one. Percy Addison did it.
Don't help calls calls his dog by his first and middle name.

Speaker 6 Which, by the way.

Speaker 1 Her.

Speaker 6 Sorry. The dog feeding it breaded chicken nuggets.
Ridiculous. Y'all already playing with fire.

Speaker 6 I wasn't going to bring this to air, but since the dog came up, I'm going to bring it to air now. Ethan, while walking the dog yesterday, stepped in dog shit.

Speaker 1 Are you sure it was dog?

Speaker 6 Uh-uh. It is downtown Miami.

Speaker 6 And then walked in here and tracked it everywhere.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 He did what?

Speaker 6 Then he had to scrub it in the bathroom over there. And I'm like, dude, you can't.
And then he came in wearing the same shoes today. I'm like, come on, man.
Come on, man.

Speaker 6 This is why we can't have animals in the studio.

Speaker 1 You mean Ethan? Yes.

Speaker 1 It's unbelievable.

Speaker 6 Unbelievable, man. This place is so gross, man.
Oh, it's cute. It's cute.
No, it's not, man.

Speaker 1 Nah, dude, who's not cute?

Speaker 6 Dude's never cute.

Speaker 1 Ever.

Speaker 6 Never.

Speaker 1 Unbelievable.

Speaker 6 Unremarkable shit. Speaking of dogs, Tom Brady cloned his dog.
You guys know that?

Speaker 1 Yo, you saw this story?

Speaker 6 I did.

Speaker 1 I don't I don't like this. Like this, this is some pet cemetery shit vibes to me.

Speaker 6 I don't like it. It doesn't make sense.

Speaker 1 I don't like this.

Speaker 6 Like, what about the dog would make it remember you if it's a dog?

Speaker 1 It definitely doesn't. You don't clone the brain.

Speaker 6 So you're just getting the same type of dog. You know what you could do? Just go buy the same type of dog.

Speaker 1 Cloning a dog. That's some rich people shit.

Speaker 6 But it's like, but it's the worst kind of rich people shit. Rich people shit should be things that we can't do that we wish you could do.
Like, for instance, having a robot maid or butler.

Speaker 6 That's awesome.

Speaker 1 I would have healthcare.

Speaker 6 Look at this. That's some other rich people shit.
Having health care.

Speaker 1 Look at this. Quote, I love my animals.
The dog passed away two years ago. All right.
Quote, I love my animals. And he cloned this dog just recently, okay? They mean the world to me and my family.

Speaker 1 So far, he's the same as everybody else. Okay, I continue.
A few years ago, I worked with Colossal Biosciences and leveraged their non-invasive cloning technology

Speaker 1 through a simple blood draw of our family's elderly dog before she passed. Non-invasive is the funniest word.
I told you guys, this is pet cemetery to me. I don't like it.

Speaker 1 You guys are thinking too small. This is a beta test for Tom Brady to clone himself.
Clone himself.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Oh, wait a second.

Speaker 1 What's the company that he was working with? It's Colossal, the same people that brought back the Dire Wolf that are trying to bring back the Woolly Mammoth, too. He is definitely cloning himself.

Speaker 1 He's going to end up like Jeff Goldblum in the fly.

Speaker 6 Okay, here's my question, though.

Speaker 1 Only boring in the process.

Speaker 6 If you clone yourself, again,

Speaker 6 will it also clone your brain and your memories? In the movies, yes. In real life.

Speaker 1 Can't ask the dogs. I'm imagining him just being disappointed constantly.
Like, oh, the other one used to do this, but I paid so much to have the same dog.

Speaker 1 It's like, you don't jump off the bed the same exact way. Has he? Uh, can we look at the Yelp reviews? Has he provided some feedback? Right, he might hate it.

Speaker 1 He'd be like, What a waste of money this was. It's a different dog.
Well, do they have a Yelp? Two stars. I want to know.
Like, I don't know anybody. Didn't Barbara Streisand clone her dog?

Speaker 6 Yeah, she did, I think. This is years ago, though.
But here's my question. Wait, hold on.
How many of you guys watched the rehearsal season two? Wasn't that a storyline?

Speaker 6 They cloned the, is it a dog? I thought it was a dog. I thought it was a cat.

Speaker 6 Maybe it was a cat, but the whole thing was, and then Nathan Nathan Fielder recreated this couple's like original apartment and everything trying to see that if you could teach the cloned animal through the same kind of learned experiences that the original animal had would it be the same and the answer was no

Speaker 6 you know it would not and so again even

Speaker 6 it was a dog there you go yeah babs did but like the idea that like cloning yourself to assume that that clone of yourself would be just as good at everything that you're good at.

Speaker 6 I think that's kind of a leap.

Speaker 1 Can you claim to love animals if instead of adopting one, you just clone them?

Speaker 6 Yeah, I just Xerox them. Yeah, there's nothing I love more than sheets of paper and animals.
Just stick them in the machine,

Speaker 6 come back out.

Speaker 1 Here we go. I don't like it, man.
If I got to somebody's house, be like, yo, when you get this dog, yeah, I cloned my old one. I leave.
I go home. Having said that, if you could clone.

Speaker 6 successfully clone any athlete and they would have all their memories and their abilities and all that.

Speaker 1 Who would you clone? Well, I'd want someone for one of my favorite teams to be back on my favorite team, right? Is that what you're doing? Yeah, sure.

Speaker 1 Sure.

Speaker 1 Probably Shaq.

Speaker 6 Shaq? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Wow. Yeah.
You know how good he would be if they had Shaq or something?

Speaker 6 Prime Shaq right now. That would be so good.
Yeah. Mike, I feel like you've got a plethora of names that are all.

Speaker 1 I don't know why you do that, Zaz. That guy's an underachiever.

Speaker 1 And that's why you want him. He's so good that winning four titles was underachieving.
Thank you. Thank you for bringing up my James Pat.
How does it come out? Is he other eye cross-eyed?

Speaker 6 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 6 They mix it up. That's how you tell them apart.
Wait a second. Look at me.

Speaker 1 If you're watching the main broadcast right now, you saw Chris Cody mouth playing him like a fiddle. I'm on to some suspicious behavior over here.

Speaker 6 We have to have a,

Speaker 6 what do you call it?

Speaker 6 A monitor?

Speaker 1 I can't help it if some of these are little.

Speaker 1 He's breaking them in half. Okay.
And pulling the TV. That's ridiculous.
Well, there's also a lot here, and I want to have enough to get the money. No, no, no.
We'll order more. All right.

Speaker 1 He was caught on camera saying, I'm playing him like a fiddle.

Speaker 6 By the way, you know.

Speaker 1 He saw Batman Returns, and he's like, that's a great idea. Let me replicate that evil plan.
This means he's at 34 and a half.

Speaker 6 Also, Chris, you're on camera all the time, regardless of whether it's on the monitor or not. You know that.
We have four people in that room back there who are watching.

Speaker 1 He said, playing them like a fiddle.

Speaker 1 Okay. He wants to do a little victory lap on it.

Speaker 6 Okay.

Speaker 1 I will work in a complete fake bite at some point.

Speaker 1 Count in halves.

Speaker 1 Hey, what?

Speaker 1 There he goes. There will be one point.
There will be one point where I go in, like here and nothing goes in, and then he'll go up one. What would you like to be at by the end of Big Sue?

Speaker 1 How many have I eaten in this? 34 and a half. What was I at before? I feel like I've slowed down a lot.
What would you like to be at? I'm hoping to get to

Speaker 1 45.

Speaker 1 45. That's a good point.
You wouldn't even be halfway done. So is 47.

Speaker 1 And 48. What did we land on? We don't have an answer yet for how how many I need to do? We land on more.

Speaker 1 Definitely more. More than what you have right now.
Keep eating. Keep eating.
There you go. We didn't need that.
There we are.

Speaker 1 Roy.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Athlete you could clone. Who would you clone?

Speaker 1 In my heart, Jackie Robinson.

Speaker 6 Really? Yeah. I wouldn't want to watch Jackie Robinson get rocked by these pictures now, man.
I keep his legacy what it is.

Speaker 1 He's mean, man. I don't know, man.
If he gets on base through that again, it's going to be great. But I don't think he's going to go through the same thing he went through back then.
No,

Speaker 1 would have to be an athlete. I would I would clone Barry Sanders.

Speaker 1 Oh, Barry Sanders and Barry Sanders was so like there's there's a whole generation in this studio that has seen like YouTube highlights or something like that.

Speaker 1 I'm telling you, every time, even on losses, this guy was dazzling. He did stuff that I have never ever seen again in the backfield with his balance and

Speaker 1 his footwork. He was just amazing to watch.
So, here's the thing with the cloning, right? So, if you clone Barry Sanders,

Speaker 1 does he then quit too?

Speaker 6 I mean, it's the same memories and experiences, but here's the deal. If you put him on the Detroit Lions, this team's good.
He never had a team this good.

Speaker 1 Whoa, is he even RB1? No, he's Jameer Gibbs.

Speaker 1 He's definitely RB1. I don't know.
I feel like in a few years ago, you're like, man, I feel like a strong urge to quit. I don't know why.
He's just already programmed in him. Yeah, you're so

Speaker 1 best running back room ever.

Speaker 6 Dude,

Speaker 6 I remember watching one of those NFL films things, and it was like a team that was getting ready to play Barry Sanders.

Speaker 6 And what they had their scout team do was against the defense, they'd have two guys with two footballs running and the defense had to stop both.

Speaker 6 That was the best simulation of trying to stop Barry Sanders.

Speaker 1 Look,

Speaker 1 they knew they were playing Detroit. There was one thing to stop.
They had Scott Mitchell at quarterback, you know?

Speaker 1 And it didn't matter. There's a show on Netflix called Living With Yourself.
starring Paul Rudd, another top five Jewish actor who millennial shiks have

Speaker 1 seen in developed crushes on Jewish guys. But what's really interesting in this, Tom Brady is in this show.

Speaker 1 He has a cameo.

Speaker 1 And the cameo

Speaker 1 revolves around a joke where both people are going to a spa, and at that spa, you clone yourself. And Tom Brady said

Speaker 1 that he has cloned himself six times in the show.

Speaker 1 Wait a second. He's just soft launching the idea that there have been Tom Brady clones.
Now in real life, he's actually cloning a dog. This man is on a mission.
Wait a second.

Speaker 1 To normalize being cloned.

Speaker 6 Wait a second. Wait a gosh darn second.
Okay. Maybe it's not him soft launching.
He's going to clone himself. Maybe the truth is right in front of our very eyes.

Speaker 6 Maybe Tom Brady already cloned himself.

Speaker 1 That's how he went on to them Super Bowls. We're like, how does he not age? Because he just kept Xeroxing himself over and over again.

Speaker 1 After the ACL, he just took that time off to clone himself, himself, come back even stronger. The prestige.

Speaker 1 What a movie.

Speaker 6 Oh, my gosh. File.

Speaker 1 What a movie. So basically, he's Michael Keaton in multiplicity.
Should touch my pappy, Steve.

Speaker 6 Chris, where we're at.

Speaker 1 I usually get an eight count. We're 39.

Speaker 6 39?

Speaker 6 There's no way he had five in the.

Speaker 1 No, I was just cooking, dude, the whole time. And I was showing, I was dropping him in.

Speaker 6 Like a pelican?

Speaker 1 Like a pelican. Give me six more.

Speaker 6 You know what? I want to talk about this. I do want to talk about this, right? Yesterday, New York City,

Speaker 6 they elected Zoram Amdani, which

Speaker 6 to many, many, many, many people in this country is the most terrifying thing ever, ever. He's of Indian descent, born in Uganda, and he's Muslim, and he's a socialist, and he's 34 years old

Speaker 6 now.

Speaker 6 He's the mayor of New York City. And

Speaker 6 I gotta say, I'm shocked, but I'm not shocked by the number of people that I follow or people that I know who are like,

Speaker 6 clutching their pearls over this guy getting elected. By the way, people have no connection to the city of New York.
Never lived there, not from there. I'm from New York City.

Speaker 6 And in American politics, right, doesn't matter what you are, whether you're a Republican, a Democrat, whatever. But there seems to be a permanent fur about

Speaker 6 if this person isn't the thing that we've seen all along. So the idea of this guy being the mayor of New York staggering people

Speaker 6 for what reason other than he's just different, right? It's fascinating to me. The things that are said like, there's going to be Sharia law.
I'm like, do you really?

Speaker 6 They said that about Barack Obama too, by the way. He's going to bring on Sharia law.
Do you really believe that? Do you really believe?

Speaker 1 Because he's like in the DJ booth at a gay boy.

Speaker 6 Right. I'm just like, do you really believe? Let's just assume that's his evil master plan.
All the levels of American government, all the people working.

Speaker 6 Do you think everyone's like, well, he's the mayor?

Speaker 6 Ipso facto. And now New York's got it.
The rest of the, it's not COVID where it just spreads, right?

Speaker 6 But the other part of this that is not lost upon me in terms of how ironic it is, is like, oh, you're worried he's going to put Sharia law in because he's a Muslim. So you're worried he's going to use

Speaker 6 his religion to inform policy.

Speaker 6 You're worried that he can't separate church and state, which is one of the bedrock foundations of this country.

Speaker 1 I'm not sure where you're going.

Speaker 6 It's like, it's amazing to me.

Speaker 6 It's the very definition of pot and kettle. Oh, you're going to get, oh, it's going to be everywhere.
I'm like, what are you talking about? What are you talking about?

Speaker 6 And this hypocrisy and this fear-mongering, right? Because he is not Josh Johnson or whatever

Speaker 6 very safe name with a safe background. His socialist ideas seem to be the least of their fears.
That's the funny part. That's the funny thing.
That's the least of their fears.

Speaker 6 Their biggest fears is, he's a Muslim from Uganda, but he doesn't look like people from Uganda, except if you knew about Uganda and its history, you would understand, yeah, of course.

Speaker 1 The fear over all of those things over socialism is a fascinating one, right?

Speaker 1 Because that's been the thing that was like the key word that this republican administration chris just said wow i didn't eat it it's still in my hand he just put it next to his chest i'm playing them like a fiddle stop talking this is unbelievable first of all the self-narration is probably not a good idea if he doesn't want to be caught good deflection chris keep it going speaking of pot and kettle how we doing chris so the the the premise here is that they've been using socialists as this like dog whistle for all of these people the entire time and yet somehow that's not the fear.

Speaker 1 When Momdani himself has done a really good job of just sticking to the messaging of what he actually wants to accomplish, right? Hey, transportation, housing, all these things that are going to help

Speaker 1 New Yorkers. Like, that's his goal is to locally help New Yorkers.
It's why he stayed out of other conversations

Speaker 1 of which he has opinions on. He stayed out of those conversations.
Because he's like, that has nothing to do with New York.

Speaker 6 I'm the mayor of New York. I'm not the president of the country.

Speaker 1 That's right. You guys think Iowa jumps into the teens if they beat Oregon.

Speaker 6 I'm really happy for all of my friends and family who live in New York because it feels like the tide is turning.

Speaker 1 Because they're moving.

Speaker 1 They're coming down here. I'm just excited because I'm going to be able to sell my house at a higher price with all the people fleeing.

Speaker 6 No one's fleeing New York.

Speaker 1 I know, of course no one's fleeing New York. It's all fearmonger.
This is actually huge news for the Democratic Party if they can effectively place a candidate that removes New Yorkers from your city.

Speaker 1 Ooh, that'd be good news for you. That is a platform, pal.

Speaker 6 That's the other funny thing, and that's why I started with it's not politics. It's not, excuse me, it's not party-driven.
Because Zoron wasn't even operating with the support of his own party.

Speaker 1 That's right.

Speaker 6 They were out here like, oh, I don't know about this. Yeah, Hakeem Jeffries talking about, I don't know.
They're all trying to distance themselves. I like that guy.

Speaker 6 Because they all subscribe to the same sort of weird dogma.

Speaker 1 I'm not playing anymore. What? What's up? All right, it's up to 44.
All right, they're back. They were messing with me.
It was going down. You were messing with them.
I was.

Speaker 1 I'm a showman.

Speaker 1 You pushed the button. Have right.

Speaker 6 Braun Showman. Anyways, that's my soapbox.

Speaker 6 That was my Dan Lebatar minute of the day.

Speaker 1 I mean, just the overall result for Democrats yesterday is just.

Speaker 1 Overall, tremendous.

Speaker 6 But I think Zoron is a little different from all the other races. It's true.
Because they didn't want him.

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Speaker 6 I don't have to find shit.

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Speaker 1 Don Lebatard. In terms of heat fans, you're the most irrational of us right now.
What's the pivot? Oh, irrational. Stugats.

Speaker 1 Hear your voice.

Speaker 6 If I were making a cartoon thing that was meant to symbolize irrational, that's the voice I would give.

Speaker 1 This is the Don Lebatar Show with these two guys.

Speaker 6 You know what? To hell with that. To hell with sports.
I'm going to go straight to this Disney YouTube stuff. I know we talked about it.

Speaker 1 Everyone's pissed about this. We didn't spend enough time.

Speaker 6 Mike. Mike,

Speaker 6 I was with Fuentes yesterday and I told him, you know whose fault this is? Whose fault all of this is? The mayor of New York? Nope, nope. We've moved on.
All the nerds.

Speaker 1 who are like, why do I have to pay for sports? I just want the channels that I watch.

Speaker 6 Once upon a time, I want to watch TV. Hey, I'm your cable company.
How about all these channels for this price? Sounds good. And that's it.
I was like, are there channels I don't watch there?

Speaker 1 Sure.

Speaker 6 I don't watch TLC.

Speaker 1 C-SPAN.

Speaker 6 I don't watch C-SPAN, but I understand collectively, we all

Speaker 6 benefit from having these channels for a set price.

Speaker 1 I've been living like a,

Speaker 1 I've been ashamed of my behavior over the last football season.

Speaker 1 You know, that final scene in Cable Guy where the cable goes out and the dude just looks over at a book and starts reading and enjoying it

Speaker 1 when my youtube tv and disney dispute started affecting my life i just turned on my cable box and i was like i get all the channels

Speaker 6 what am i doing insane we had it we had the the strategy we had the product that made everybody happy and then some people say i don't know why i'm paying for this i just wanted to pick the channels that i want and then like Disney Plus and that was going, we got to just give you these movie channels and these channels right here like, that's better.

Speaker 1 No more sports for me.

Speaker 6 But what's happening is that everyone realized, oh, I can charge all these people for the two or three channels that they may watch, thus fracturing this whole thing.

Speaker 1 And so now you're like, oh my God, in order to watch everything I used to watch, I've got to pay so much more money.

Speaker 6 Yeah, because you didn't want the buffet. You said, I want a la carte.
Well, guess what? The a la carte is in front of the horse now.

Speaker 1 Who's the impression you're doing? I'm a nerd. He said he was a nerd.
I'm a nerd. Why is this?

Speaker 6 Why am I paying for these sports channels okay all right just checking the channel i found out that people gotta order an app and play a subscription just to watch the local sports teams because they're not like how is that possible i'm doing great i'll tell you how it's possible because you guys listen to all of these nerds tell you to cut your cord and how they sound they sound like this roy roy i'm gonna cut my cord i don't need any of these channels and cut your cord i'm gonna cut my cord

Speaker 1 you know about cutting that cord

Speaker 6 buddy my cord's never been cut never been cut never been cut i'm still corded up right now wow holla at me nba tv 216 espn 206 espn i know that too 209 direct tv i know exactly where my channel's at

Speaker 6 every time oh two games on flashback flashback flashback oh picture in picture got that too on my dtv that is the worst part of the apps is not having the flashback button oh wait hold on let me log out of this app and log into the other app oh oh it's a oh nerds, nerds, you had paradise and you said not good enough, and now you want to cry.

Speaker 1 As a consumer base, we could just say F both of you when it comes to this Cool Disney thing. But I am kind of siding with

Speaker 1 Google on this one a little bit. It's very clear what Disney is doing as they've invested so much money.
They've increased the price point.

Speaker 1 They've made acquisitions like WWE that aren't exactly helping matters.

Speaker 1 They're leveraging their sports partnerships by having head coaches embarrass themselves, look into cameras and say YouTube TV is wrong, the big corporate overlord, Google is bad, side with us over here at Disney.

Speaker 1 This is all ugly, stupid. We're all paying the price.
As the economy gets worse, everything gets more expensive. They're not helping things.
F both of y'all. Can I add a correction real quick?

Speaker 1 Overall points still, you know. counts, but yesterday you and I had a conversation about WWE's attendance being down on Monday night and Monday night raw.
That building was small.

Speaker 1 That building only held 6,000 people. Yeah, but they're booking smaller buildings.
Oh,

Speaker 1 that's not what WWE does. Well, they're in Boston on Monday.
When the start of the TKO era, well, it's Boston and Sean Cena returning to his home. Okay.
Where were they?

Speaker 1 I was misinformed because I thought the upper deck was talking about. There was no upper deck.
They were in like Rio Rancho, New Mexico. Which is like rare for them to be playing smaller markets.

Speaker 1 That's the tell. When they were humming, they were playing arenas all the time and they were not doing the small venue.
Yeah, I had a listener who pointed out yesterday. I didn't even know that.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, but that was my bust. Yeah, but they're called you a sucker too.
Yo, I already told you about that, all right?

Speaker 6 But you said you were a sucker, you had a very bad couple of days, I must admit. What else? Well, first of all, you embarrassed yourself with Braun Strowman.
No, I did not.

Speaker 1 And you know what? I resent you making me look stupid in front of a WWE wrestler.

Speaker 6 I love WWE. You did that on your own.

Speaker 1 Bronze. I like when you're famous and people come up to you.

Speaker 1 That's your impression of me.

Speaker 1 I would work on that.

Speaker 1 Sack.

Speaker 1 That's how I feel right now.

Speaker 6 You see me paused here at 46?

Speaker 1 Taking a little break, a little recess. 46 is 36.
46 is a really good spot. Tony, I'm telling you, every grill gun I've gone to

Speaker 1 is just, it's. Grill's not the way.
It's not the

Speaker 1 answer.

Speaker 1 I don't know why you guys chose grilled. Just put it all.
How about you just put a bunch in your mouth? It's a palate cleanser.

Speaker 6 Well, honestly, what would happen?

Speaker 1 Like, okay, so you're at 46 right now. What if you just threw four in your mouth right now? Put four in your mouth and

Speaker 1 the horses do their thing. Don't get an even pitch.

Speaker 6 Don't do four. Don't do four.
Because then you're going to be chewing for 30 minutes.

Speaker 1 Do two.

Speaker 6 Do two and then take a swig of water and two more. Well, two.

Speaker 1 Two holes. Like a big thing of trouble.
Trying to make these things work, guys. Perhaps the point.
You keep ripping it off. Don't rip them off.
That's not going to be off. These are not going to be.

Speaker 1 Got a point there. I mean, when one becomes two.
Let's go to point. All right.
It's kicking in, huh? It's raging right now.

Speaker 1 We'll do two. We're at like 15 minutes.

Speaker 1 in half. That's one.
That's one thousand.

Speaker 1 47. Dude.
That's 47. 48 in.
You guys are doing this game with me right now. You guys are playing this game with me.

Speaker 1 None of you would be at half of what I'm at, except for maybe Tony.

Speaker 6 Chris, it's not competition.

Speaker 6 Chris, I'm going to tell you right now.

Speaker 1 I'm doing what you guys are doing.

Speaker 6 This is the conversation I had, Chris, during the break. The conversation was, Chris isn't going to hit 99, so what's the punishment for not landing the punishment?

Speaker 1 And no, Jeremy, who runs this ship now, when it comes to these buttons that run shit, it's Eudonis Haslam that runs it. Jeremy

Speaker 1 custodian. UD answers to Jeremy.
That's right. Visualize that.

Speaker 1 Chris.

Speaker 6 The punishment for not completing this punishment is that this room gets to choose

Speaker 6 another punishment for you. I promise you, you don't want to go down that path.

Speaker 1 I do have good news for you, though, Chris.

Speaker 1 You eat two more?

Speaker 1 Halfway there.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 6 he's halfway. I ate there.

Speaker 1 You just ate two. Put another one up there.
You ate half. I'm at 48.
You ate a whole of it. Those were two gigantic ones.
I'm not saying I haven't eaten a half at some point.

Speaker 1 Those two. Thank you.
All right. Thank you.
Thank you for respecting me. Thank you for respecting me, video team.

Speaker 1 Bread.

Speaker 6 How's your dad doing?

Speaker 1 I checked in with him. Do you have updates? Yeah, I had a brief text exchange with him.

Speaker 6 Did he talk about French toast?

Speaker 1 I said, good luck, don't die. And he said, we'll give it my best.

Speaker 6 So he's still under now.

Speaker 1 We're all rooting for you to not die.

Speaker 1 How long is the procedure, chris i was told it was from around nine to noon like he should be texting me before no no no no no no like like he the little like waking up

Speaker 1 like he should be texting me and leaving there around noon got you he's coming too but uh if you want to see my text exchange this morning with my dad i love you dad text me after will do if it comes up on the show say that people can wish me well by listening to my podcast like i want that Famous last words.

Speaker 1 You know, God forbid that that's my last exchange with my dad. What's the photo of him that you have? Where's the love you two the photo of him is him in my car passed out

Speaker 1 that's the bush night that's the night he fell in the bush dark hair on him yeah man a lot more pepper than salt right there just out that's awful man that's why he fell in the bush because he was asleep but also before also hilarious right if that were his last words was that when the you was back actually that was night that was the martyr that was the marty smith night yeah we went to the grove oh is that where it happened he was back back briefly.

Speaker 1 A brief moment. You were there that night.
We haven't been irrelevant for two decades. It was a little outlier.
Every eight years or so?

Speaker 1 Shut up.

Speaker 1 He's holding you a catalog. All right, another one down the hatch here.

Speaker 6 Where are we at? 48? No, wait, hold on. Tony's

Speaker 1 shut his mouth. Dude, look at these.
I can't make them bigger. They are what they are.
No, you can make them smaller, though.

Speaker 6 That's the idea.

Speaker 1 You can't physically make them bigger.

Speaker 1 You know what I can do? 49. Respect me.
That one was 49.

Speaker 1 Respect me. I can take the grill ones, put them in the air fryer a little bit.
Yeah, they're nice and hot. I think we're back up.
We can put them in the air fryer.

Speaker 1 You have to do the soggy thing.

Speaker 1 Just take no excuses and get these excuse me. No excuses.
Let's get done. Eat these.
I'm going to take these. No, throw them all in the air fryer.
No. Oh, wow.

Speaker 1 This is smart. This is smart.
This is smart. This is a good move.
Separate them. This is a growing.

Speaker 1 It's okay. 20.
Shake them all. Separate them.
20. Oh, man.
20.

Speaker 1 You're pretty high, huh? He's

Speaker 1 pretty high. Yeah, he is.

Speaker 1 this is irresponsible really but i don't know

Speaker 1 if to work high the growls are good i don't know what he's talking about i don't know i can't he didn't show up to work high he got high at work it's a dip oh yeah it is five occupations to get high

Speaker 1 yeah yeah

Speaker 1 podcasters up there still slide guitar

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Speaker 1 I think I would have been on his side. I would have went to you, like, what did you say?

Speaker 1 I'm telling you, me and my friend, the rest of the way home, all we kept saying was, I ain't cheating. Stugats.
It's like, why did you get your ass?

Speaker 6 I think he got your ass.

Speaker 1 I got his ass. Hey, Chris won this one for sure.
Not pathetic.

Speaker 1 It was great. This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

Speaker 6 nfl trades that like

Speaker 1 oh that fireworks

Speaker 1 we got some fireworks i don't know if quentin uh williams gets tariffed because he has to move to texas now as a new yorker but sauce gardner that that was pretty shocking like and look Diana Morosini said, I don't expect Jerry Jones to do anything.

Speaker 1 I'm like, Diana, they just lost some money at football. He He can't help himself.
He's got to do something. And he did do something.
I thought these were impactful moves. And

Speaker 1 quite seriously, I love what Indianapolis did. Even though Sauce Gardner really has a first.

Speaker 1 I didn't like that part, but he can help them. No doubt.
They're not going to be top picks. I mean, you can pass all over them.
And I know that they've been

Speaker 1 dominant in these games, and they've been playing a lot of offenses that have been having to chase the games, but their pass coverage numbers are not good.

Speaker 1 Even in an isolated beginning-of-the-game scenario, you can throw all over this team. So they address a big need on the defensive end of the ball.
I thought Indianapolis got a lot better.

Speaker 1 It's like they're going for it, obviously, because they have the team that looks to be one of the best teams in the NFL. But like, Sauce Gardner hasn't been that good, right?

Speaker 1 Like, we remember his rookie year where he was great, and then it's kind of been on a slow decline ever since. But he's likely a massive upgrade on what they have right now.
For sure, for sure.

Speaker 1 That's all that matters. But you don't think there was a better corner that you could have gone out and gotten for two first rounds.
But wouldn't you assume that they tried that? Sure.

Speaker 6 Can we go

Speaker 6 Is it safe to say that the Jets were a big winner? Because they got a lot.

Speaker 1 They will mess up these picks.

Speaker 6 They'll mess it up.

Speaker 1 Yeah, well, I saw some big Jets fans trying to take a victory lap. It's like, you guys have done this before.
You screw up the picks.

Speaker 1 I'll tell you, though, I thought the Dolphins were a huge loser yesterday. And not just because there seemed to be...
It seemed to me that they had guys, Bradley Chubb, Minka Fitzpatrick.

Speaker 1 It seemed that they had guys who

Speaker 1 may have some,

Speaker 1 maybe a market out there and that they didn't move. But overall, we're back in this same spot, man.

Speaker 1 It's not just the Dolphins rebuilding, but you look at the division where Bills are awesome, not going anywhere. Patriots are clearly on the rise.

Speaker 1 And now the Jets, yeah, the Jets are terrible, but they have five first-round picks in the next two years. And look at you.
You know, you're stuck holding your, you know, what. Like,

Speaker 1 they're so in the gut of the Dolphins.

Speaker 6 What are they holding?

Speaker 1 You know what they're holding, man. Cards? Google that shit.
Okay. We have big breaking news.
Do we? Yeah, and it affects everybody. It's a global game, folks.
FIFA has made an announcement. Okay.

Speaker 1 FIFA will present its inaugural FIFA Peace Prize, Football Unites, the World Award, during the World Cup final draw on December 5th in Washington, D.C. Not Trump.
Not Trump.

Speaker 1 Not Trump. No, no.

Speaker 1 I wonder who. I wonder who's going to win it.
So that's actually... That's...
I applaud that. He couldn't win the Nobel Peace Prize, so he just had Infantino make one.
That's incredible.

Speaker 6 That is really Johnny. You know what?

Speaker 1 You got me. Johnny Soccer.

Speaker 6 Johnny the Infant.

Speaker 1 Johnny Soccer.

Speaker 6 Johnny Infantino.

Speaker 1 Really quick to get back to the original football that we were talking about, Zaz.

Speaker 1 Original football we were talking about. Trade dead.
Stay on message. Thank you.

Speaker 1 Revising the Micah Parsons trade. When you look at what they got.
Not bad.

Speaker 1 I'm very intrigued. So Packers got Micah Parsons.
Cowboys got a first-round pick, Kenny Clark, and Quinnen Williams.

Speaker 1 That's a decent haul for also the linebacker from Cincinnati. Right, Wilson.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Cincinnati, you need better defensive players, and you're trading away your better defensive players to a team that has...

Speaker 1 Micah, you would have argued was like top three in the league in terms of value. So that is a great package, but there's not a lot of guys who would get in the entire league.

Speaker 1 Like in terms of value, age, and how good they are. No, no, 100%.

Speaker 1 But I get what you're saying.

Speaker 1 Better than, hey, I got three

Speaker 1 first-round picks, but I I don't know if those guys are going to materialize into good players. Like, I got a stud in Quentin Williams.

Speaker 1 I got a really good defensive tackle in Kenny Clark, and I still have a first-round pick.

Speaker 1 So it's like I'm getting established players rather than the hope and dream of a first-round pick that can end up being something, or he can fall flat in his face.

Speaker 6 Well, quick update: we sent Fuentes to go air fry the nuggets, he's eating them.

Speaker 1 What is the rat?

Speaker 1 What is going on here?

Speaker 1 Oh, it does. I'm at 50.
You know what? Brings some down. Two forms of idea.
Ridiculous. Fuentes.

Speaker 1 Why is this entire office riddled with fraud?

Speaker 1 It's just the Fuentex brothers.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 6 No, it's Chris. It's everybody.

Speaker 1 I've eaten 50 nuggets in two hours. 429.

Speaker 1 Get the number right now. How am I being judged right now? I'm nailing this.
Yeah, he is. You got to give Chris credit where it's due.
And speaking of where it's due, 51, I'm too away from doing that.

Speaker 1 Sauce Gardner has not allowed more than two receptions to a single receiver in a game this season.

Speaker 1 He's forced a tight window on 52% of his targets as the highest rate of any player targeted at least 20 times in coverage. So he's still 18.
He's been better this year. Down corner.

Speaker 1 He's been better this year, but if you look at the numbers from the past couple weeks, he's a young guy. He's very average.

Speaker 1 A young guy who's coming back to the form that you saw him as a rookie, right?

Speaker 1 I mean, he was an impact player from the moment he entered the league, and now he seems to be playing the way that you would desperately, desperately need if you're that Colts defense.

Speaker 1 And I look, giving up two first-round picks in the NFL is a lot. Like, it can change a lot of things about your franchise.

Speaker 1 But if you feel that confident about your team, that confident about your offense. That's an all-in move.

Speaker 1 Well, for that matter, it's the type of move that maybe the Dolphins should have made that first year with Tua, where they were lighting the world on fire with Mike McDaniel, where, hey, the offense isn't going to be stopped this year.

Speaker 1 We don't know if schematically people are going to catch up next year. But this year, we know we have an elite offense.
Let's try to just cash in and see if we can make a run at it.

Speaker 1 I kind of admire what they did. They did do that, the Dolphins.
But

Speaker 1 the following offense. Yeah, they traded for Bradley Chubb.
They traded for Bradley Chubb. And that's the type of thing that you do, right? And then the next year they traded for Jalen Ramsey.
Right.

Speaker 1 And that's my point is going all in around something that you think is going to work is a good idea. Yeah, Colt Fanshaw.
And look, it didn't work out for the Dolphins, obviously.

Speaker 1 But when you have that type of offense, going all in and making that choice is a good thing. Yeah.
F them picks at the end of the day.

Speaker 1 If you have a really good team and you figured out, you think that Daniel Jones is going to be the quarterback of the future for this team, right?

Speaker 1 Like they were always a piece away, and now they've got that piece. They're playing well, obviously, not this past game notwithstanding.

Speaker 1 But it's like you try to put the players in position to win a championship. And it looks like what the Eagles do every single season is like, who's somebody that we can just pick up for nothing?

Speaker 1 Oh, Jaire Lexander's out there? Perfect. Let's get him.
Jalen Phillips is out there. He kind of sucked in Miami, but he's going to be really good here.
Okay, let's get him.

Speaker 1 And hand up in a moment of honesty. I did forget that they traded for Bradley Trubb at that deadline.
I thought it was all in the offseason. Bradley Trubby.
Yeah, Bradley Trubb.

Speaker 1 That's where you're going to be able to do it.

Speaker 1 Similar to are what revising that trade as opposed to revisiting or despite dispute.

Speaker 6 The window is the window.

Speaker 6 And you can't sit around thinking, oh, the window's going to be open forever. Oh, can't trade these picks.
The window's open for the Colts. They didn't know it at the beginning of the year.

Speaker 6 They know it now. They have a chance to win the Super Bowl now.
You can't sit around and worry about a 2027 first-rounder when you have opportunity right now. Yeah, who cares?

Speaker 1 Who cares?

Speaker 1 Like, if they wind up winning, even if they don't win the Super Bowl, the Colts get to the ASC championship game in two years from now when they don't have that late first-round pick, you think anybody's gonna be saying, wow, wish they really had that pick.

Speaker 1 No, like go out there and win games right now. You had to give up for a couple first-round picks.
Who cares?

Speaker 1 I got a little break here. I'm feeling a nice second run for the second half here.
Yeah, there he is. He's back.
The kid is back. Yeah.

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