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Okay, that's not quite the Christmas spirit. I've noticed that you say Legos.
Yeah.

Mispronounced it. I've noticed that.
So Legos. Legos instead of Legos? Yeah, the right way.
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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. See if, and you can just shout names at me and I'll see if I hear them.

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. All professional.
The top four

yardage total. Russell Wilson had one.
That's one. Yes.
Jared Goff has not won. Bryce Young.
That is another one. Go ahead.
You guys are not playing this game right. No, you can go ahead and play.

Patrick Mohames.

That is incorrect. Zach Prescott.
That is incorrect. Sam Darnold.
Incorrect. Josh Allen.
Incorrect. Tua.
Binker Mayfield. Incorrect.
Incorrect. Jacoby Brissett.
That is correct. Justin Field.

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

Daniel Jones. James Winston.

I haven't heard it yet. The 470-yard passer among the group.

Caleb Williams. That is incorrect.
You don't think you'd know if he threw for 470 yards.

Join and love.

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

Love that guy. Oh, yeah, he had that game.
You remember that game

against Pittsburgh? They'll give you a game of that. That very confusing game.

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

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The last batch was not good enough. I am challenging the listeners and the callers to be better.
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They should replace NFL regular season overtime with a tug-of-war match.

Jameis Winston is the Tom Brady of Jeff George's. Jeremy looks like he picks the safest dialogue options in video games because he doesn't want to hurt their feelings.

Can I unthank Jeremy on Dan's behalf for that James Addison peak? Jeremy Pache is the Meg Griffin of the Levittard network. Messi in MLS is like Tom Brady joining the CFL.
Stop acting like it matters.

It's a joke. If a slice of pizza could walk, would the head be the crust or the point? I refuse to take a poop until Dan stops calling offenses constipated.

It was a good one. I genuinely disagree.
If a pizza is walking, the crust is the top. Like the crust is the head.
No, the point. The point is the feet.
Put it on the poll at Lebittard Show.

I don't know how it would walk, Roy. If a piece of pizza is walking, is the crust the head or the feet? Well, if it's Sicilian.
I assume that it walked on four legs.

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

I thought it just sort of slid the way that Matt Stafford slides. That's so stupid.
Yeah, it's two legs.

Pizzas are two legs. You're putting eyes on a pizza.
You're putting it on the top, the Y near the crust. Like the eyes are not going by the pole.

Talking about Pizzagate.

Put it on the poll as well. What do you imagine is the worst feeling someone felt on Sunday? 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. Is it the holder who ran, the panicked holder who ran after Young Wei Koo stubbed his toe on a field goal?

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

And so he had to watch that touchdown. He got up very quickly, got up very quickly because he didn't want to be seen in that condition.

Hydro planing 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? 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 Juan 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 Wei Ku.

It could just be Young Wei Ku Ku Ku Ku Ku. The holder doesn't want to be part of the story.
But he's throwing the holder under the bus, though. 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. Yeah, so what? Kick it.
Kick it. Kick it.
Right. The ball was moving.
Okay, but if you don't kick it, you don't get any points.

Right. That's correct.
Well, you could if the holder in that panic situation does complete a pass. Unfortunately, there were no wide receivers.

There was nobody running any routes. 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.

Let's play the sound again. Thank you.
You're ahead of me of Aaron Glenn clearing his throat in the middle of a press conference.

The now is what's important for all guys to continue to understand how do you win games. That's more violent than the defense that Brian Schottenheimer was describing.

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

Uncalled for. That's the Jets offense, right?

Constipated.

It reminds me of Mike dancing yesterday. That was great.

Mike was so happy when Marty Smith. It was like seven different dances all at one time.

Mike was so happy that Marty Smith said that Miami was better than BYU and Utah and Oklahoma and Notre Dame. They're better than that whole lot of SEC teams.
But thankfully, we're getting in the CFP.

That's what they told us.

What is the whole lot? What give me the entirety of the lot? 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. 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. How is this going to go with Jessica in about 10 minutes when she comes on and argues?

Jeremiah Love is on her podcast this week. It's a Notre Dame podcast.
She is as biased as you are when it comes to one of her schools. Yeah, no, I get it.

You think she's going to come off a little panicked? I think they are. They are panicked.

It's very clear.

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

put me on Truth Serum. It does kind of suck what's going to happen to them if and when be like.
The truth serum will show you you don't care.

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.

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

What's happening to them is actually worse. We're like, they're in it.
And then at the last second, there's going to be nothing wrong. Just kidding.

Where they've been setting, like, Miami's been being set up. Like, you won't be that hurt if you don't make it because you've been feeling.

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

It's legitimately made me crazy. But the idea,

but the idea that at the last second, the idea that at the last second, they're gonna be like, you know what?

Now Miami's gonna be. We're gonna change our mind.
It's kind of bull tough. I've been living through a bunch of bullshit over the last year.
All right, put it on the poll.

Is it kind of bull tough at Lebatard's show? And by the way, he did just say, I'm gonna feel bad for them. At least we haven't felt the result of him feeling bad.

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

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.

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.

It's the whole thing that they're doing. It exists as content for that reason.
They televise it every night.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Well, the payoff is already in play. It's to get Mike yelling for a month and then replace it with Notre Dame yelling for the rest of the offseason.

The payoff is the debate, and it's been wildly successful. Wildly successful.
That's the thing.

It goes back, actually, to Chris Cody's ridiculous argument that Zion Williamson. How are they going to say do the right thing, ACC? Zion Williamson, that's a different, different ridiculous argument.

Zion Williamson, who still hasn't played in a playoff game,

that him and his shoe being destroyed in a college basketball game was good for Nike. Probably my best take ever.
Any attention is good attention.

If you guys agree with me that the biggest sport in America right now is outrageous outrage of any kind. It's just yell about things.
Sure.

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.

It's the whole point of the contrivance is just to continue to get people to talk about your thing so that it continues to be bigger than all of the other sports. They're getting more attention

not playing games than OKC is getting for having one loss and knocking off Golden State last night in an 11 p.m. game that nobody can watch on the East Coast because

it's starting so late. Incidentally, if you did not see that game, OKC was up one late in the fourth quarter.
Jimmy Butler left. Steph Curry is hurt.
The Warriors are 11 and 11.

Jimmy Butler looks a bit disinterested and left last night, injured, and OKC does what it does to everybody.

They needed to use Shea Gilgis Alexander in the fourth quarter this time, but that game was close late. And then OKC is doing what champions do.

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.

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

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

Because the thing that's not being talked about

OKC-wise is their defense is better than everyone else's by a great deal. So they're 21 and 1, Oklahoma City.
And like you said,

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

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?

That has to get to halfway through the season. Like 40 and 1.
40 and 1? It's so bad for basketball. 80? Well, I think you're being ridiculous.
I don't think they're going to win 80. They never lose.

Why is that bad for basketball? It's bad for basketball when you have that kind of disparity, when you have a 20-1 team and then you have a 2-17 team.

And it's

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,

a dynasty in the making.

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

Not to the NBA's degree.

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

The NFL seems to 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.

We'll get back to this story. Who's the OKC in the NFL this year? No, there is not one in the NFL this year.
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Don Lebatard. Mr.
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 scrimmage.

And the only thing I want to see clapping are them cheeks on Mrs. Met in my face, Mike Shirt.
All right, so that's one thing. Stugats.
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.
This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

But I wanted to bring Jessica in. As I told you, Jeremiah Love is on, I might have called him Jeremy.
Jeremiah Love is on her podcast. No, you would never associate the word Jeremy and Love together.

Echoes is the name of the podcast that Jessica does. And how do you feel? Thank you, Jessica, for being on with us.

How do you feel in general about what happened last night? Are you worried that they're going to pull the rug out from under you?

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. 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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 you with very little confidence in the process.

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 methodology is working.

What do you think is going to happen and how scared are you of the nightmare scenario for you? Assuming BYU loses.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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, I don't think that those are going to be 1-2 next week.

And I could be wrong, but I think that there's obviously a lot of scenarios at play.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

Mike Elko, obviously, pretty happy where he's at at Texas AM.

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.

That's where I'm like, 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.

And it just seems like with the way that a lot of

whether it's the 12-team playoff or NIL or sort of like the spreading out of talent and 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 Big Ten at Penn State.

I actually happen to note.

Oh my God, he knows. He happens to know.

Come, everyone. Come and listen.

He happens to know.

Well informed. 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. Well, that's a 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. I mean, that's obviously a school that means a lot to him.

He's been very successful there. 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. And then, of course, you end up pissing off your number two candidate because you, you know,

now it's too late. He's, 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.

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 got to, 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 going to bring a bunch of transfers with them from schools, and those are going to be great players.

And now it seems like a lot of those candidates are kind of locked in next year at where they want to be. So it's just becoming a worse situation, I think, by the day.

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

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.

And it's like, well, what did that get you? Because now it's like, we...

You still don't have a coach.

Like, LSU, say what you will about their governor embarrassing them and like publicly lusting after lane kippen they got the coach they wanted they got yeah it doesn't matter yeah they got their governor's ton of money yeah he's gonna sign a huge recruiting class they're probably gonna be preseason top 10 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

yeah i mean

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

I don't know.

I want to play for you some Schefter sound on Kevin Clark's podcast. You've probably heard this.
What are your thoughts on this sound from Adam Schefter?

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

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.

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.
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 Bears strategy last year. One in two candidates.
Look good with your shirt off.

Does Ben Johnson look good with his shirt off?

Sneaky decent. Good, better, best.
The Mississippi State of shirts off. Well, I would be fine with playing that video for Jessica and

having her decide. But what did you think of the sound?

I agree.

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.

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

he's a great head coach. Let's play this video then for Jessica and see if she is as impressed by Ben Johnson shirtless as we were.

Sneaky decent.

Stealing my lines. So that's why Greg was doing.
Okay, now it's all coming together.

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

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

He looked a little broken. Why? Because he knows what's happening on Sunday.
Okay. I think he just looks fine, honestly.

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.

So yeah, I just

behind that that account.

There's several. How much time do you have?

I can relay a bunch. What are you excited about this conference championship weekend coming up?

Man, all of it. 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

clear-cut stakes attached to it. Whereas I think the Big Ten championship is two really, really good teams playing against each other that we all know we're going to see play again in the postseason.

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

If Kaylin 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.

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

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.

It's not going to get the eyeballs, but man, I will be rooting for Miami of Ohio all morning on Saturday. Let's go ahead and examine what Jessica was confused about.
I'm not sure.

Did we start doing this daily after shows after Jessica left? Because I felt like she was involved in all of these when we would do it after shows daily.

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.

And you better get sped.

I was legitimately worried for my dad during this. Profound indifference from Mike Ryan.
Midway. Yeah, Mike Ryan.
Look at a lingering Roy, like the

smell left in a bathroom after someone's left it. After Andy Reid has left it.
It was made very clear that Greg wasn't taking his shirt off. So it was like, if he's going to half-ass it.

Although he yelled so hard, you can see me in there midway through to give him like a, hey, don't kill yourself doing this. You were choking me, Dan.

You look very excited. Look, you look at Roy in the background there, just profoundly indifferent.

Surrounded by joy. Roy had done tesh all day, so he was broken.
Sitting on the fringes of our fun.

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

what are you watching or what are you recommending these days for our listeners? Dan, what do you know about the new Knives Out movie? Wait, is there a third one? There's now a third one?

Is it the second?

Okay, so you guys were recommending the second one and I haven't gotten to that. I like the first one.
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.
So there's a third one now and you're recommending it. 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. 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 Who Not It's like Santa No.

Can I ask you seriously? Like, I like going to the movie theater also, but why would you go to the movies when it's coming out at 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? Yeah.
I like going to the movies. I do too.

But my preference is always watching my couch.

Well,

you've helped me. Sounds like a movie theater.
Sounds like you don't like movies then. I didn't know that.
Yeah, it sounds like you don't.

I think, Zaz, it totally depends. If it's a movie that I'm not that

excited to see, don't care that much about, like, yeah, I'll just watch it at home. I'll wait for it to come out on demand.

But if it's a movie that I think I'm really going to 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 knife. Zaw was very good.
I would say 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

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 depth to this, which I thought was nice. Have you guys seen Poker Face on Peacock?

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,

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.

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.

And I think that this really knocks it out of the park.

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Thank you for including me with that Colombo reference. One of the most adorable thing my parents do is they continue on Saturday nights to text me, Are you watching Colombo right now?

Because they're just watching a telephone. It's Colombo season.
It's Saturday season.

Every time it gets cold out, they watch like three straight hours or four straight hours of Colombo, and they think they're confused by streaming, so they still think that it's on Saturday night and it's just a marathon of 1970s detective television.

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

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. 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.

Yeah.

Because, like any information that I might have, because he was looking to speak with Revelation. Yeah, that was something that happened.
That was very strange.

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So HBO Max has a ton of good stuff. 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 things you will ever watch.

Is there anything HBO Max related that you're either recommending or you think that is worth talking about? By the way, another semi who done it. 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 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, but in remastering the uh Mad Men

original film, I guess, 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, and in particular, there's one scene where Roger Sterling is growing up, and you can see that guy in the back on the right is holding like the puke cannon that's going up along John Slattery's Slattery's back and making it look like he's

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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 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 it's just a reminder of how many important people there are on the on the set of an important show puke cannon guy's having his moment right now I hope someone reaches out to him and gets his comment on this but just as important to the shot as Don Draper and Pete Campbell watching Slattery puke up martinis and oysters.

That is pretty terrible, though. It's not as terrible as a Starbucks cup appearing in the eighth year of Game of Yeah, right.

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.

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

like

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.

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Yeah, glasses. Thank you, Jessica.
I appreciate your time.

Appreciate it. Thank you.

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

Remember when I owned Nick Wright earlier today? That

kept him out of Sunday's game? But the quote from LeBron is, it's called old. You just wake up with that you didn't have the night before.
End quote. Great quote.
It's also true. Most relatable thing.

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My right elbow this morning.

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

The quote is, it's called old. So likable.
You just wake up that you didn't have the night before.

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. Still on to that story.

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

Last night, though, the late game. How do we feel about the both a game starting at 11 p.m., the defending champions against Golden State? That's a game people want to watch.
You put it at 11 p.m.

Eastern. It's

not a lot of people are going to see it.

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.

Like, that's not one of the great rivalries. I don't, it's just not.

Baseball, it is. But it's not, that's not what they were televising last night.

It's not basketball. Yeah, but it's Costas.
This is what MLS is missing. But Boston-New York is not a great rivalry in basketball.
Yeah, but in Costas's mind, he's thinking about baseball.

He's always thinking about baseball, Dan, as he should. Those broadcasts, though, on Peacock, they're really good.
Like,

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