Hour 1: The Puke Cannon Guy (feat. Jessica Smetana)

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Speaker 13 This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stu Gats Podcast.

Speaker 15 I am consistently moved by how giving this audience is every single time we ask you to give on anything.

Speaker 16 And this can be a very difficult time of year for people who do not have money.

Speaker 16 And if you have some extra income where you'd just like to give kids that a lot of people don't care about a chance at Christmas with some toys, we are teaming up with branches to do an annual toy drive.

Speaker 26 that doesn't require you anymore to come to where we are and give us the gifts.

Speaker 28 We have updated this so that you could do it in the modern age.

Speaker 24 And we want you to do this with us by going to LebatardAF.com and shopping at Branches Amazon wish list before December 15th.

Speaker 22 The things they want and need.

Speaker 23 And again, you can make a child's Christmas better with dolls, with remote control cars, with Nerf toys, board games, craft kits, building toys, Legos.

Speaker 28 You could see your options at LebatardAF.com. But if you have a little bit of income that's disposable and you want to make a kid's Christmas, we're teaming up with branches in order to do this.

Speaker 28 And we're going to have an assortment of things around here over the next coming days where we'll do some things. What are you laughing about?

Speaker 35 Or there's a nice little four-star edge rusher in New Jersey that we could use down here.

Speaker 6 Keynes Connection.

Speaker 28 Okay, that's not quite the Christmas spirit.

Speaker 1 I've noticed that you say Legos.

Speaker 9 Yeah. You mispronounced it.

Speaker 1 I've noticed that.

Speaker 6 So Legos.

Speaker 30 Legos instead of Legos?

Speaker 21 Yeah, the right way.

Speaker 2 Okay. Lego my ego.

Speaker 6 That was disposed. Let's eat.

Speaker 35 What an hypocrisy.

Speaker 23 Hypocrisy.

Speaker 19 You guys want to take a guess? LebitardAF.com is where it is that you go.

Speaker 16 It's a really easy way to help us help some kids that a whole lot of folks don't care about.

Speaker 30 So thank you for doing that in advance because every time we do something like this, you do it very strongly.

Speaker 37 I want to ask you guys, I'm going to quiz the entirety of the room, and we'll stop this when you get all four of the names.

Speaker 19 See if, and you can just shout names at me and I'll see if I hear them.

Speaker 36 The top four passers, yardage in a game this season, yardage in a, in a professional football, I'm sorry, an NFL game this season.

Speaker 7 All professional.

Speaker 38 The top four

Speaker 30 yardage total.

Speaker 35 Russell Wilson had one.

Speaker 37 That's one. Yes.
Jared Goff has not won.

Speaker 2 Bryce Young.

Speaker 25 That is another one.

Speaker 32 Go ahead.

Speaker 3 You guys are not playing this game right.

Speaker 7 No, you can go ahead and play this.

Speaker 2 Patrick Mohames.

Speaker 24 That is incorrect.

Speaker 2 Zach Prescott.

Speaker 6 That is incorrect. Sam Darnold.

Speaker 2 Incorrect.

Speaker 7 Josh Allen.

Speaker 2 Incorrect. Tua.

Speaker 42 Binker Mayfield.

Speaker 17 Incorrect. Incorrect.

Speaker 1 Jacoby Brissett.

Speaker 16 That is correct. Justin Field.

Speaker 32 You're missing only the top name on the list.

Speaker 25 The one. Daniel Jones.
James Winston.

Speaker 40 I haven't heard it yet.

Speaker 36 The 470-yard passer amongst the group.

Speaker 1 Caleb Williams.

Speaker 18 That is incorrect.

Speaker 6 You don't think you'd know if he threw for 470 yards?

Speaker 42 Jordan Love.

Speaker 19 The top by yardage passer in the NFL this season in a single game, Joe Flacco.

Speaker 9 Love that guy.

Speaker 42 Oh, yeah, he had that game.

Speaker 6 You remember that game

Speaker 6 against Pittsburgh?

Speaker 9 They'll give you a game of that.

Speaker 7 That very confusing game.

Speaker 22 Let's go ahead and play for the people before we go any further.

Speaker 26 The Boost Mobile hotline that has been very inconsistent.

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Speaker 40 How do you feel about this batch?

Speaker 47 The last batch was super disappointing to me.

Speaker 36 The last batch was not good enough.

Speaker 40 I am challenging the listeners and the callers to be better.

Speaker 47 That last batch was crushed.

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Speaker 49 Hi, this is Russell from Buscots, and I just turned eight. And my bold take is that dad is a sucker.

Speaker 50 They should replace NFL Regular season overtime with a tug-of-war match.

Speaker 45 Jameis Winston is the Tom Brady of Jeff George's.

Speaker 50 Jeremy looks like he picks the safest dialogue options in video games because he doesn't want to hurt their feelings.

Speaker 51 Can I unthank Jeremy on Dan's behalf for that James Addison pick?

Speaker 6 Jeremy Pache is the Meg Griffin of the Levittard Network.

Speaker 52 Messi in MLS is like Tom Brady joining the CFL.

Speaker 6 Stop acting like it matters. It's a joke.

Speaker 45 If a slice of pizza could walk, would the head be the crust or the point?

Speaker 51 I refuse to take a poop until Dan stops calling offenses constipated.

Speaker 9 It was a good one.

Speaker 53 I genuinely disagree.

Speaker 54 If a pizza is walking, the crust is the top.

Speaker 6 Like the crust is the head.

Speaker 55 No, the point.

Speaker 54 The point is the feet.

Speaker 25 Put it on the poll at Levittard Show.

Speaker 9 I don't know how it would walk, Roy.

Speaker 22 If a piece of pizza is walking, is the crust the head or the feet?

Speaker 1 Well, if it's Sicilian.

Speaker 19 I assume that it walked on four legs.

Speaker 40 I didn't assume it had two legs and was an upright walker.

Speaker 19 I thought it just sort of slid the way that Matt Stafford slides.

Speaker 1 That's so stupid.

Speaker 55 Yeah, it's two legged.

Speaker 55 Pizzas are two legs.

Speaker 14 You're putting eyes on a pizza.

Speaker 54 You're putting it on the top, the Y near the crust.

Speaker 2 Like the eyes are not going by the pole.

Speaker 8 Talking about Pizzagate.

Speaker 37 Put it on the poll as well.

Speaker 17 What do you imagine is the worst feeling someone felt on Sunday?

Speaker 28 Was it, I'm sorry, over the course of the weekend and the NFL games. I shouldn't say just Sunday because it was the Monday night game.

Speaker 15 Is it the holder who ran, the panicked holder who ran after Young Wei Koo stubbed his toe on a field goal?

Speaker 32 Or was it Matthew Stafford hydroplaning five yards on his back from the five-yard line to the goal line at the end of a pick six that he had thrown because he was blocked?

Speaker 21 And so he had to watch that touchdown.

Speaker 20 He got up very very quickly got up very quickly because he didn't want to be seen in that condition hydroplaning five yards on his back as the guy ran into the end zone with a football he had just thrown which do you imagine was the worst feeling someone felt uh just an into i know that stafford is more accomplished than the panicked holder but as a singular feeling which one do you think is worse i mean i think it was juwan jennings because now everybody knows he's a hoe i think it was the kicker the holder the kicker thing the holder oh well it could be also young way ku it could just be young holder doesn't want to be part of the story But he's throwing the holder under the bus, though.

Speaker 55 He's not taking the responsibility for kicking the dirt. He's saying, I held up because the ball was, I saw the ball moving.

Speaker 1 Yes, so what? Kick it.

Speaker 42 Kick it. Kick it.
Right.

Speaker 7 The ball was moving. Okay, but if you don't kick it, you don't get any points.
Right. That's correct.

Speaker 47 Well, you could if the holder in that panic situation does complete a pass.

Speaker 30 Unfortunately, there were no wide receivers.

Speaker 6 There was nobody running any routes.

Speaker 39 And so he was just looping over to his right, rolling out with a run-pass option that gave him the option of neither running nor passing.

Speaker 36 Let's play the sound again.

Speaker 26 Thank you.

Speaker 29 You're ahead of me of Aaron Glenn clearing his throat in the middle of a press conference.

Speaker 3 The now is what's important for all guys to continue to understand how do you win games.

Speaker 17 That's more violent than the defense that Brian Schottenheimer was describing.

Speaker 21 That is as violent a throat clough, a throat clearing as you will hear at a press conference.

Speaker 2 Uncalled for.

Speaker 40 That's the Jets' offense, right?

Speaker 29 Constipated.

Speaker 57 It reminds me of Mike dancing yesterday.

Speaker 9 That was great.

Speaker 40 Mike was so happy when Marty Smith.

Speaker 3 There was like seven different dances all at one time.

Speaker 19 Mike was so happy that Marty Smith said that Miami was better than BYU and Utah and Oklahoma and Notre Dame.

Speaker 35 They're better than that whole lot of SEC teams. But thankfully, we're getting in the CFP.

Speaker 7 That's what they told us.

Speaker 23 What is the whole lot?

Speaker 46 Give me the entirety of the lot.

Speaker 35 Ole Miss Alabama, Oklahoma for sure. There is no more devastating result for Miami and their CFP outlook than Oklahoma winning that game in which Alabama doubled them up in total yardage.

Speaker 35 But they did what they had to do. Oklahoma seems firmly entrenched in there.
But that whole lot of SEC teams, that three, spot the ball. Let's go.

Speaker 24 How is this going to go with Jessica in about 10 minutes when she comes on and argues? Jeremiah Love is on on her podcast this week.

Speaker 28 It's a Notre Dame podcast.

Speaker 30 She is as biased as you are when it comes to one of her schools.

Speaker 35 Yeah, no, I get it.

Speaker 1 You think she's going to come off a little panicked?

Speaker 35 I think they are. They are panicked.

Speaker 35 It's very clear.

Speaker 35 There's a tone shift right now because they see what's happening. And

Speaker 35 put me on Truth Serum. It does kind of suck what's going to happen to them if and when people are going to be able to do it.

Speaker 1 The truth serum will show you you don't care.

Speaker 35 But it's sucked what's been happening to me for the last month. It's been unjust.
And on Sunday, they're going to right the wrong. The most obvious thing in the world is going to happen.

Speaker 3 You could almost make the argument that Notre Dame fans will be more.

Speaker 2 What's happening to them is actually worse.

Speaker 42 We're like, they're in it.

Speaker 53 And then at the last second, there's going to be nothing wrong.

Speaker 42 Just kidding.

Speaker 53 Where they've been setting, like, Miami's been being set up.

Speaker 2 Like, you won't be that hurt if you don't make it because you've been feeling.

Speaker 55 But you've been feeling for a month now that you're going to get screwed.

Speaker 35 I've been feeling for a month.

Speaker 25 It's legitimately made me crazy.

Speaker 7 But the idea.

Speaker 53 But the idea that at the last second, the idea that at the last second, they're going to be like, you know what?

Speaker 58 Now Miami's going to be.

Speaker 55 We're going to change our mind.

Speaker 42 It's kind of bull tough.

Speaker 35 I've been living through a bunch of bullshit over the last year.

Speaker 25 All right, put it on the poll.

Speaker 16 Is it kind of bull tough at Lebetard's show?

Speaker 1 And by the way, he did just say, I'm going to feel bad for them.

Speaker 3 At least we haven't felt the result of him feeling bad.

Speaker 26 I just need to stop everybody, though, because it's sort of...

Speaker 31 We had this conversation in some forms last year, the last few years, about Alabama, whenever it is that they're close and people just make the arguments for Alabama being in because they want to see Alabama because they're used to Alabama being in.

Speaker 19 It's bullshit right up until you consider that the entire point of doing this as a made-for-television spectacle is to get you talking about it for a month beforehand because somebody is going to think something is unjust.

Speaker 48 It's the whole thing that they're doing. It exists as content for that reason.

Speaker 36 They televise it every night.

Speaker 48 I am sure that ESPN gets better numbers whenever Reese just comes out and they contrive, let's do this made-for-television thing.

Speaker 48 And for me, it's as silly as if we were to interrupt the Country Music Christmas Awards on Monday to complain about, it's unjust that someone's not in here.

Speaker 48 It's all made-for-television entertainment spectacle. The whole point is to get you to argue about it.

Speaker 48 It's why the whole thing exists as a television special.

Speaker 1 So, if we get to Sunday and the things that need to happen happen for the Kanes to jump Notre Dame and they still don't jump Notre Dame, they'll have been giving us this storyline over the last month and we won't get the payoff.

Speaker 27 Well, the payoff is already in play.

Speaker 48 It's to get Mike yelling for a month and then replace it with Notre Dame yelling for the rest of the offseason.

Speaker 55 The payoff is the debate and it's been wildly successful.

Speaker 7 Wildly successful.

Speaker 43 That's the thing.

Speaker 47 It goes back, actually, to Chris Cody's ridiculous argument that Zion Williamson.

Speaker 57 How are they going to say do the right thing, ACC?

Speaker 40 Zion Williamson.

Speaker 29 That's a different, different ridiculous argument.

Speaker 20 Zion Williamson, who still hasn't played in a playoff game. Bust.

Speaker 33 That him and his shoe being destroyed in a college basketball game was good for Nike.

Speaker 23 Probably my best take ever.

Speaker 24 Any attention is good attention.

Speaker 21 If you guys agree with me, that the biggest sport in America right now is outrageous outrage of any kind.

Speaker 32 It's just yell about things.

Speaker 9 Sure.

Speaker 23 That the one place where the leadership has shown and proven to be good is they know how to get attention for a television special for a month without actual games being played on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, unless you got some action going on, which we all miss this time of year.

Speaker 21 It's the whole point of the contrivance is just to continue to get people to to talk about your things so that it continues to be bigger than all of the other sports.

Speaker 47 They're getting more attention

Speaker 25 not playing games than OKC is getting for having one loss and knocking off Golden State last night in an 11 p.m.

Speaker 36 game that nobody can watch on the East Coast because

Speaker 40 it's starting so late.

Speaker 24 Incidentally, if you did not see that game.

Speaker 21 OKC was up one late in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 16 Jimmy Butler left.

Speaker 21 Steph Curry is hurt.

Speaker 23 The Warriors are 11 and 11.

Speaker 15 Jimmy Butler looks a bit disinterested and left last night, injured.

Speaker 22 And OKC does what it does to everybody.

Speaker 32 They needed to use Shea Gilgis Alexander in the fourth quarter this time, but that game was close late.

Speaker 33 And then OKC is doing what champions do.

Speaker 19 Like this, this has been, I've told you guys before that two of the greatest things I've ever seen in basketball are the 72 win Bulls and the 73 wins Warriors being down late.

Speaker 58 Being down late in games was the best thing I've seen in the last 15 years in the sport.

Speaker 32 Well, I'm going back to Jordan now.

Speaker 12 When those teams got down late, they do what OKC did to Golden State last night, which is just choke them out the last five minutes.

Speaker 58 Because the thing that's not being talked about

Speaker 32 OKC-wise is their defense is better than everyone else's by a great deal.

Speaker 1 So they're 21-1, Oklahoma City. And like you said,

Speaker 1 they have so much room for error every single game. They can play poor and still win by double figures.
They're 21 and 1.

Speaker 1 At what point does their record, like, how many more do they have to win before they lose their second game for us to talk about are they going to win 80?

Speaker 16 That has to get to halfway through the season.

Speaker 9 Like 40 and 1.

Speaker 7 40 and 1?

Speaker 55 It's so bad for basketball. 80.

Speaker 44 Well, I think you're being ridiculous.

Speaker 43 I don't think they're going to win 80.

Speaker 2 They never lose.

Speaker 6 Why is that bad for basketball?

Speaker 55 It's bad for basketball when you have that kind of disparity. When you have a 20 and one team and then you have a 2-17 team.

Speaker 55 You look at the bottom five of the NBA and they're already tanking. Like the season just started, and you have teams that have zero chance.
And you have OKC,

Speaker 55 a dynasty in the making.

Speaker 2 Every sport.

Speaker 54 Every sport has a best team in five at the bottom.

Speaker 27 Every team has a best.

Speaker 55 Not to the NBA's degree.

Speaker 3 I guess we've argued the NFL doesn't. I don't know.

Speaker 3 The NFL seems to have have every year three or four teams that pretend like they're trying at the beginning of the year, but you know with who their quarterback is or who they've signed in the offseason that they're not trying.

Speaker 2 We'll get back to this story.

Speaker 55 Who's the OKC in the NFL this year?

Speaker 24 No, there is not one in the NFL this year, and the Dodgers are that in baseball.

Speaker 20 But we'll get back to basketball because there's plenty to talk about in basketball in the next hour.

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Speaker 13 Don Lebatard.

Speaker 6 Mr.

Speaker 49 Mr. Shirt, if I may say for a second, Miami, they were simulating the snap count the entire game and they were clapping at the line of of scrimmage.

Speaker 49 And the only thing I want to see clapping are them cheeks on Mrs. Mett in my face, my shirt.
All right, so that's one thing.

Speaker 2 Stugats.

Speaker 49 They're a bunch of cheaters, Dan. And you know who should be cheating? Mrs.
Mett on Mr. Mett.
And he can watch if he wants.

Speaker 13 This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

Speaker 30 But I wanted to bring Jessica in.

Speaker 60 As I told you, Jeremiah Love is on, I might have called him Jeremy, Jeremiah Love is on her podcast.

Speaker 3 No, you would never associate the word Jeremy and Love together.

Speaker 22 Echoes is the name of the podcast that Jessica does.

Speaker 19 And how do you feel?

Speaker 36 Thank you, Jessica, for being on with us.

Speaker 37 How do you feel in general about what happened last night?

Speaker 39 Are you worried that they're going to pull the rug out from under you?

Speaker 36 They're already setting it up so that you know that in a couple of weeks, Notre Dame's all of a sudden going to be out.

Speaker 49 Yeah, we'll see. I really don't know what will happen on Sunday, Dan.
But like I've said all season, Notre Dame really didn't have

Speaker 49 anything to be upset about other than themselves for losing to Texas AM in week three.

Speaker 49 The margin for error is very slim when you only win 10 games, as Vanderbilt or Miami or Utah or any of these other teams would tell you.

Speaker 49 I think that they're one of the best teams in the country. I think that the stats would support that.
I think they could make a legitimate title run, but that's what happens when you lose two games.

Speaker 49 You kind of are up to a little bit of luck. It would have been helpful for a bunch of teams if LSU could have pulled up the upset last weekend, or Auburn,

Speaker 49 or even UCF, Jeremy, way to go. But that didn't happen.
So now you have to just kind of wait and see what the committee decides.

Speaker 49 And as we've seen, I think in years past, they tend to get it right at the end of the day, but the way that they talk about getting there leaves leaves you with very little confidence in the process.

Speaker 49 So while they may end up getting it right, whatever your definition of right is, it doesn't help when they talk about how their

Speaker 49 methodology is working.

Speaker 36 Well, what do you think is going to happen and how scared are you of the nightmare scenario for you?

Speaker 2 Assuming BYU loses.

Speaker 49 Yeah, I think it depends. I mean, if BYU loses to Texas Tech, right now they're a double-digit underdog.

Speaker 49 I think that it's possible Miami could jump ahead of Notre Dame. I'm not exactly sure why the committee would wait until the end of the season to do that when they could have done that last night.

Speaker 49 But I also think if you have a scenario where Alabama loses to Georgia, they could fall behind Notre Dame again.

Speaker 49 It sounded like it was a really close call between Notre Dame and Alabama at the 9 and 10 spots last night.

Speaker 49 And although we've seen in the past they don't kick teams out of the playoff for losing their conference championship games, they have dropped spots for losing conference championship games.

Speaker 49 So I don't think that there's stasis among the teams playing in the conference championship games. It will depend.
If, let's say, Indiana gets blown out by Ohio State or vice versa,

Speaker 49 I don't think that those are going to be one-two next week. And I could be wrong, but I think that there's obviously a lot of scenarios at play.

Speaker 46 Can you update us any on any information you've seen around the Penn State thing that we have been talking about here before you came on with us?

Speaker 17 Because I'm having trouble sort of getting around the new rules that make James Franklin more important than the program brand that is Penn State when it comes to recruiting.

Speaker 49 I would say it's one thing for a bunch of the

Speaker 49 heavy hitter candidates like your Lincoln Riley's or Marcus Freeman's or Mike Elko's to not be interested in the job because that all makes sense.

Speaker 49 Like Lincoln Riley's got the number one recruiting class coming next year. Marcus Freeman's got the number one or number three recruiting class signing today.

Speaker 49 Mike Elko obviously pretty happy where he's at at Texas A ⁇ M.

Speaker 49 But then once you see like James Madison's coach or even like Brian Hartline looking elsewhere, especially Bob Chesney, because he's a Pennsylvania guy and has DMV ties, that would be really helpful in recruiting at Penn State.

Speaker 49 That's where I'm like.

Speaker 49 It doesn't really seem like they had a plan other than they thought they could convince another like big-time powerful name to come to Penn State.

Speaker 49 And it just seems like with the way that a lot of um i mean whether it's the 12 team playoff or nil or sort of like the spreading out of talent and um just more attractive jobs than ever for certain people it just doesn't seem like you would want to give that up for the opportunity to maybe be like the second or third best team in the in the big 10 at penn state i i actually happen to note

Speaker 6 oh my god he knows he happens to know

Speaker 1 come everyone come and listen happens to know

Speaker 4 he happens to know.

Speaker 45 Well-informed.

Speaker 35 Chesney did finish second in the race to be Penn State's head coach. He finished behind Satake.
Satake was done, delivered. They had their guy.
And then the CEO of Crumble came along and stole.

Speaker 49 Well, that's a huge, I mean, that's a huge miscalculation. And also, I think Satake fits the profile, like I said, of like coaches where it would take a lot, clearly, to drag him away from BYU.

Speaker 49 I mean, that's obviously a school that means a lot to him. He's been very successful there.

Speaker 49 There's a lot of money there that they can tap into, and they appealed to all of his sensibilities and convincing him to stay. Mike, I think that that's a huge miscalculation on Penn State's part.

Speaker 49 And then, of course, you end up pissing off your number two candidate because you, you know.

Speaker 49 Now it's too late.

Speaker 49 He's moved on. I think UCLA is also a fine place to end up in the power four.
I think he's going to have a lot of work to do.

Speaker 49 But now if you look at recruiting rankings for Penn State right now, as it stands it doesn't look that's not going to get anyone to come to your school either like you gotta i mean and now it's like at the point where you know obviously there's certain coaches where you could hire them and okay they're gonna bring a bunch of transfers with them from from schools and those are gonna be great players and now it seems like a lot of those candidates are are kind of locked in next year at where they want to be so um it's just becoming a worse situation i think by the day.

Speaker 49 And also, I think Penn State's been like, and Mike,

Speaker 49 you could probably attest to this too. They're like, we're going to run a quiet, very smooth, no one's going to know what we're up to.
We're going to keep this under wraps.

Speaker 49 And it's like, well, what did that get you?

Speaker 9 Because

Speaker 49 now it's like, we

Speaker 49 still don't have a coach. Like LSU, say what you will about their governor embarrassing them and like publicly lusting after Lane Kiffen.
They got the coach they wanted.

Speaker 6 Yeah, it doesn't matter. Yeah, they got their guy.

Speaker 49 Ton of money. He's going to sign a huge recruiting class.
They're probably going to be preseason top 10.

Speaker 35 LSU was a circus and Penn State was the model and yet lsu gets their guy and penn state gets left at the all altar and now they're looking at manny diaz

Speaker 42 yeah i mean

Speaker 49 potential acc champion manny diaz and and it seems like penn state fans like manny diaz i don't know if he has the upside of some of the other coaches that they were looking for but he obviously is like was a popular person at penn state from what i can tell

Speaker 24 i don't know i want to play at the worst i want to play for you some shefter sound on Kevin Clark's podcast.

Speaker 16 You've probably heard this.

Speaker 29 What are your thoughts on this sound from Adam Schefter?

Speaker 61 I don't think that there is a Ben Johnson this year at the NFL level.

Speaker 61 The only guy I could think of that would be in this category, and I don't know that he would be interested, would be Marcus Freeman at Notre Dame.

Speaker 61 That's a guy that to me, if I owned an NFL team, I'd want him on the phone right now. That's a guy that I would want to be hiring right now.

Speaker 23 That's a guy that I would be investing in right now that happened fast for marcus freeman man he would look good if you ripped his shirt off that was like the whole bear strategy last year one and two candidates look good with your shirt off

Speaker 49 does ben johnson look good with his shirt off

Speaker 49 sneaky decent good better best the mississippi state of shirts off well i i would be fine with playing that video for jessica and having her having her decide uh but what did you think of the sound uh i agree i think you know i think marcus freeman's a great coach I think you would be stupid not to kick the tires on trying to hire him if you're an NFL team.

Speaker 49 I don't know his personal interest level, but if he's interested in it, then yeah,

Speaker 49 he's a great head coach.

Speaker 24 Let's play this video then for Jessica and see if she is as impressed by Ben Johnson shirtless as we were.

Speaker 6 Sneaky decent.

Speaker 55 Wow, stealing my lines.

Speaker 49 So that's why Greg was doing. Okay, now it's all coming together.

Speaker 49 A lot of things are making sense to me right now.

Speaker 49 Dan, I would also add, I believe Marcus Freeman is on the Today Show Today and was asked if he was going to stay at Notre Dame and he said yes.

Speaker 6 He looked a little broken.

Speaker 49 Why?

Speaker 35 Because he knows what's happening on Sunday.

Speaker 49 Okay, I think he just looks fine, honestly.

Speaker 49 But sure, Mike, I think that the college football playoff discourse is like gotten to a kind of a toxic point when your podcast is tweeting that Jim Phillips should resign as the ACC commissioner because he's a Chicago Catholic.

Speaker 49 So yeah, just that's not the only reason.

Speaker 2 Who's behind that account?

Speaker 6 There's several.

Speaker 6 How much time do you have?

Speaker 35 I can relay a bunch.

Speaker 19 What are you excited about this conference championship weekend coming up?

Speaker 49 Man, all of it.

Speaker 49 Honestly, starting with Friday night with Mountain West, Boise State UNLV rematch, Saturday, obviously the Big 12 championship, I think, is the one that the most people will have their eyes on because it has the most

Speaker 49 clear-cut stakes attached to it. Whereas I think the Big Ten championship is

Speaker 49 two really, really good teams playing against each other that we all know we're going to see play again in the postseason.

Speaker 49 And the SEC championship, I also, I'm curious, I'm curious if Georgia can pull it off.

Speaker 49 If Kalen DeBoer has been really good against Kirby Smart in his short time at Alabama, but Alabama, I think, probably feels safe in the playoff, but would really like the security of an SEC championship.

Speaker 49 And then there's also the question of like, would they move up into a buy position if they beat Georgia? So

Speaker 49 yeah, I've just, there's going to be a lot of great games this weekend. Even like Dan Maxion, Maxion is going to be great.

Speaker 49 It's not going to get the eyeballs, but man, I will be rooting for Miami of Ohio all morning on Saturday.

Speaker 4 Let's go ahead and examine what Jessica was confused about. I'm not sure.

Speaker 19 Did we start doing this daily after shows after Jessica left?

Speaker 25 Because I felt like she was involved in all of these when we would do it after shows daily.

Speaker 19 I want you guys to notice here how excited Mike Ryan isn't and how much Mike Ryan isn't participating, as has been the case since we started this daily tradition months ago.

Speaker 3 I was legitimately worried for my dad during this profound indifference from Mike Bryan.

Speaker 2 Midway

Speaker 43 look at a lingering Roy, like the

Speaker 25 smell left in a bathroom after someone's left it.

Speaker 7 After Andy Reid has left it.

Speaker 35 It was made very clear that Greg wasn't taking his shirt off. So I was like, if he's going to half-ass it.

Speaker 41 Although he yelled so hard, you can see me in there midway through.

Speaker 3 Give him like a, hey, don't kill yourself doing this.

Speaker 1 You are choking me, Dan.

Speaker 40 You look very excited.

Speaker 21 Look at Roy in the background there, just profoundly indifferent.

Speaker 6 Surrounded by joy.

Speaker 25 Roy had done tesh all day, so he was broken.

Speaker 19 Sitting on the fringes of our fun.

Speaker 19 Jessica is always, she's got good taste when it comes to televised and movie entertainment.

Speaker 46 So

Speaker 58 what are you watching or what are you recommending these days for our listeners?

Speaker 49 Dan, what do you know about the new Knives Out movie?

Speaker 6 Wait, is there a third one?

Speaker 15 There's now a third one?

Speaker 6 Or is it the second?

Speaker 58 Okay, so you guys were recommending the second one, and I haven't gotten to that.

Speaker 6 I like the first one.

Speaker 49 Don't even bother with the second one. We're well past.
There's too many COVID references. It's not going to age well.
I haven't re-watched it since it came out, but just don't worry about it.

Speaker 58 So there's a third one now, and you're recommending it.

Speaker 49 The third one is currently in theaters. They're doing a limited theatrical release and then it'll be on Netflix next week.
And I went to the theater and saw it yesterday. And it was so, so good.

Speaker 49 It is probably my favorite of the three. If you like Whodunits, Dano, I don't know.
This one might be one of the better Whodunits I've seen it on.

Speaker 1 Can I ask you seriously?

Speaker 49 Like, I like going to the movie theater also but why would you go to the movies when it's coming out your home next week because it just looks so much better on a movie screen and also i just had two and a half hours to kill so why not

Speaker 9 i like going to the movies

Speaker 1 but i but my preference is always watching my couch

Speaker 49 well you've killed you've helped sound like the movie theater sounds like you don't like movies then i just yeah it sounds like you don't i think i think zaz it it totally depends if it's a movie that i'm not that you know excited to see don't care that much about like yeah i'll just watch it at at home i'll wait for it to come out on demand but if it's a movie that i think i'm really gonna like it's so much better to watch it at the theater than watching it on my tv in my little you know small apartment it's your favorite of the three right that first knives that was very good i would say it's it's not as funny as the first one there's not as many laughs but it's uh overall like the writing is better it has like more um

Speaker 49 deeper themes to it it's not just like a quirky funny you know who done it it's like oh there's actually some some depth to this, which I thought was nice. Have you guys seen Poker Face on Peacock?

Speaker 49 I think it recently got canceled. Yeah, so Ryan Johnson is the mastermind behind that, which is that show is kind of like a modern spin on like a Colombo type show, Dan,

Speaker 49 where you know who did the crime before the detective shows up. And the detective in that show is Natasha Leone.
This is obviously not like that.

Speaker 49 I was trying to figure out what was going on the whole time and I couldn't figure it out. It was a very good mystery, but just the general genre is one that I love.

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Speaker 13 Don Lebatard.

Speaker 7 I don't like smarty either.

Speaker 2 Stugats.

Speaker 49 Women stay home in the kitchen where they belong.

Speaker 13 This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

Speaker 30 Thank you for including me with that Colombo reference.

Speaker 60 One of the most adorable thing my parents do is they continue on Saturday nights to text me, are you watching Colombo?

Speaker 24 Because they're just watching a telephone.

Speaker 6 It's Colombo season. It's Saturday night.

Speaker 49 Anytime it gets cold out.

Speaker 17 They watch like three straight hours or four straight hours of Colombo, and they're confused by streaming, so they still think that it's on Saturday nights and it's just a marathon of 1970s detective television.

Speaker 35 I've never shared this story, but the lead in poker face is Natasha Leone, and there was rumors that they may recast this. Like,

Speaker 35 when I was producing for the show in like the waxy days, Dan, like we used to have, like, let's track this person down.

Speaker 35 So, there was an FBI agent that called me like 15 years ago who was a fan of our show and asked me to help track down Natasha Leone.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 35 Because like any information that I might have, because he was looking to speak with.

Speaker 6 Revelation.

Speaker 35 Yeah, that was something that happened. That was very strange.
I feel like the FBI should have better resources than I had at Waxi.

Speaker 17 Today's FBI does not.

Speaker 30 I can assure you of that.

Speaker 36 So HBO Max has a ton of good stuff.

Speaker 24 I remain stunned, and I don't know how he did it, how Adam McKay got the chair company to exist on HBO. It's one of the stranger things you will ever watch.

Speaker 18 Is there anything HBO Max related that you're either recommending or you think that is worth talking about?

Speaker 49 By the way, another semi-whodunit. I mean, it's a mystery thriller, the chair company.
So right up my alley. Dan, I don't know if you've seen the controversy about the Mad Men remastering in 4K.

Speaker 49 That's been up on HBO the last few days, but apparently Mad Men, one of the greatest television shows of all time, highly recommend. If you've never watched it now, they're all on HBO.

Speaker 49 But in remastering the Mad Men

Speaker 49 original film, I guess,

Speaker 49 whatever, film copy of it, they somehow took out some of the visual effects. And so there are scenes where you can see extras in the background.

Speaker 49 And in particular, there's one scene where Roger Sterling is growing up.

Speaker 49 And you can see that guy in the back on the right is holding like the puke cannon that's going up along Jon Slattery's back and making it look like he's palm walking.

Speaker 49 And then there's a guy behind him with his hand like on his back, making sure he stays steady. So this is a pretty embarrassing mistake.

Speaker 49 I'm sure they're going to clean it up and fix it and figure out how all of that actually happened. But it's just a reminder of how many important people there are on the set of an important show.

Speaker 49 Pew Cannon guy's having his moment right now. I hope someone reaches out to him and gets his comment on this.

Speaker 49 But just as important to the shot as Don Draper and Pete Campbell watching Slattery puke up martinis and and oysters.

Speaker 24 That is pretty terrible, though.

Speaker 18 It's not as terrible as a Starbucks Cup appearing in the eighth year of Game of

Speaker 9 Space in the middle of the day.

Speaker 49 Right, well, this is, yeah, this did not, to be clear, this was not in like the original airing of Mad Men. They took the people out.

Speaker 49 This is in the digital remastery where they have made a few, there's a few

Speaker 49 television accounts that are posting like some of the differences and some of the things that they accidentally took out or didn't leave in from the original. So yeah, this was not AMC's fault.

Speaker 57 Put it on the poll, please, Juju.

Speaker 21 Have you failed at life if you're being referred to as Puke Cannon Guy?

Speaker 39 Jessica, thank you for being on with us.

Speaker 24 Her and Mike Golick Jr.

Speaker 34 have Jeremiah Love, Heisman candidate, on their weekly Notre Dame podcast, the Epic.

Speaker 49 Breaking news. I heard Puke Cannon Guy is now the leading candidate for the Penn State job.

Speaker 49 How about that?

Speaker 16 Let me see here. I got

Speaker 6 that new.

Speaker 35 I love the

Speaker 35 evolution of our show, in which giving Dan a button bar is just him saying, let's see here.

Speaker 7 And then a delayed sound.

Speaker 6 Yeah, glasses.

Speaker 19 Thank you, Jessica. I appreciate your time.

Speaker 19 Appreciate it. Thank you.

Speaker 4 I wanted to get to some of the basketball stuff from last night.

Speaker 28 I don't know if you are seeing the quotes from LeBron James when he's being asked about how to manage his left foot injury.

Speaker 32 Remember when I owned Nick Wright earlier today?

Speaker 1 That

Speaker 24 kept him out of Sunday's game?

Speaker 15 But the quote from LeBron is, it's called old.

Speaker 21 You just wake up with that you didn't have the night before.

Speaker 23 End quote.

Speaker 47 Great quote. It's also true.

Speaker 2 Most relatable thing.

Speaker 48 It's the most human thing he's ever said.

Speaker 43 The guy's an immortal.

Speaker 48 He's a superhuman.

Speaker 7 But it's...

Speaker 25 My right elbow this morning.

Speaker 6 It's hilarious.

Speaker 35 It's like, well, I slept wrong, so I guess I'm a bad shoulder guy now for the rest of my life.

Speaker 7 The quote is: it's called old.

Speaker 13 So likable.

Speaker 40 You just wake up that you didn't have the night before.

Speaker 26 I believe in the history of our show, there has not been a funnier injury than Howard Bryant waking up one morning and tearing both his hamstrings, getting out of bed.

Speaker 2 Still on to that story.

Speaker 8 How can you get tennis elbow if you don't play tennis?

Speaker 18 Last night, though, the late game, how do we feel about

Speaker 19 both a game starting at 11 p.m., the defending champions against Golden State? That's a game people want to watch.

Speaker 26 You put it at 11 p.m.

Speaker 28 Eastern. It's

Speaker 19 not a lot of people are going to see it.

Speaker 33 But also, getting back to the point I was making earlier in the show, Peacock having Vince Carter, Tracy McGrady, and Carmelo Anthony doing the pregame while Bob Costas reads an essay that calls New York-Boston one of the great rivalries when it's not.

Speaker 23 Like, that's not one of the great rivalries.

Speaker 2 It's just not.

Speaker 6 Baseball it is.

Speaker 43 But it's not, that's not what they were televising last night.

Speaker 36 What they, what they were, it's not basketball.

Speaker 54 Yeah, but it's Costas.

Speaker 35 This is what MLS is missing.

Speaker 48 But Boston, New York is not a great rivalry in basketball.

Speaker 3 Yep, in Costas's mind, he's thinking about baseball. He's always thinking about baseball, Dan, as he should.

Speaker 32 Those broadcasts, though, on Peacock, they're really good.

Speaker 7 Like

Speaker 16 the idea that I'm watching just excellent regular season telecasts where there's a lot of money.

Speaker 40 It really is a golden age in sports.

Speaker 43 A weird time to have Inner Miami behind a paywall.

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