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What is the latest on Jordan Hudson? And

if you don't know that name, she is the young girlfriend of Bill Belichick.

There is a sports book that is taking bets on whether or not one of two things happens first. She sues Pablo Torre, who they are calling Pablo Torres.
She wins the lawsuit against Pablo Torres.

Or Danes. Or she gets pregnant.

Right now, the odds are minus 300 for that, plus 200 to be Pablo Torres. Okay, so that is the predictions market that Trump kids are dominating.

We will get to that and other things with David Sampson. We miss David Sampson around here.
Nothing personal is the name of the podcast.

If you want to see him covering terrain, as I've told you before, that not a lot of people in sports are able to cover.

But to answer your initial question about Jordan, she submitted a Freedom of Information Act request against her school's top comms officer.

I guess alluding to the fact that she may suspect he's behind the 60 Minutes leak. So you've got David Sampson smiling maniacally there.
I haven't seen David Sampson do a lot of smiling lately.

What can you tell us about, in general, what you see happening all around Jordan Hudson? I want her to sue Pablo so badly.

Not because I want you to be a part of it, because certainly Metalark would be named. You'd likely be personally named.
Amin may be named. I may be named.
I mean, Jeremy for sure should be named.

It would be so... Yes, you, Jeremy.

I don't want her to be.

I don't want her to sue us for you. For sure, Jeremy.
You want to be sued? This is inevitable.

You're rooting for her to sue us? Yes. Oh, for the love of God.
I'm not going to be deposed. Do you know about that discovery, Dan?

Dan, I promise you that if she files a lawsuit, I will make it my life's, well, my second life's work to make sure that all attorneys' fees are paid by Bill Balichek, number one.

Number two, I will make sure that she is so thoroughly embarrassed by losing every single motion, every objection, forget getting to a trial, which would be unbelievably great.

It'll never happen that way. Defamatory? That's the best she's come up with.

It's got zero chance. It'll never make it past anything.
As a matter of fact, I want to disbar the lawyer who would file a lawsuit on her behalf because it's so outrageous.

But I just want her to keep trying because it just gives Pablo more. And Dan, you should love that.
It's about Pablo and the show and his ability to find out more stuff.

Can you imagine a lawsuit where you're taking the stand?

Yeah, I don't really want to pay.

He's happy, yes, but he's not thinking about attorneys' costs. And he is saying, he is saying he'd get Belichick to pay for those costs.
But I really don't want to be sued.

I'm trying to avoid being sued. I'd like to.
Have you ever been sued? No, not yet. Ever? No.

Wow.

You haven't lived until you've been sued. I got that at minus 250 in my own prediction market.
Put it on the poll at Lebatard show. Have you lived if you haven't been sued? Yes or no?

What is your

take on everything happening around Giannis? As you are consistently pro-management, I imagine you being just generally infuriated by any player trying to leave a contract.

I resent the implication that I am always simply pro-management. I'm simply pro-fan.
I want to, as a Milwaukee Bucks fan, as a lover of the city of Milwaukee, understand

what it is more we need to do for the guy. We gave him the extension.
He's paid over $50 million a year. He keeps us hanging like some lover at a middle school prom.
Will you dance with me or not?

Every year we have to worry about this. Now the Bucks start well.
Four and one. He's silent.
Everything's good. All of a sudden, they're not winning games.
And now he wants out.

Give me a small break, which is why I stated publicly. I'm nothing personal today.
I would trade him to the Clippers. That's the only place.
Nick's heat, forget it.

I don't want to give him a chance to go to Joe's or go to Flash Dancers. No, I want him to have to live in the Intuit dome with Aspirations co-founders.
That's it. I'm furious with Giannis.

Well, wait a minute. He would make the Clippers good if he went and played for the Clippers.
You're not punishing him by sending him to Los Angeles.

What is it that have you made many trades that are simply out of pettiness? You can't, you can't do, this guy's got too much value for you to just make a trade out of pettiness.

You say value in a salary cap league. You can't just trade a guy.

You have to, there's money involved, and you have to match salaries, and there's all sorts of rules where people cannot necessarily make straight basketball trades.

And so, for example, with the Knicks, it was reported in order for a trade to happen at all, you have to trade OG, you have to trade Bridges among other people.

Bridges can't get traded till the end of January. So, Giannis would have to be injured until January 31st to then miraculously get better and then come back and play for the Knickerbockers.

I just, to me, the Clippers are not going to make the playoffs. They're a losing organization.

They've got a lot of systemic issues as manifested by what they did to Chris Paul that Giannis would not go ahead and make them a championship team. David.
I'd send him there.

David, do you ever catch a player faking an injury? So, yes. But we've been a part of faking injuries, too.
In baseball, it's called the Phantom IL.

Funny enough, the Mets GM got in trouble for it, but every team uses it.

So I don't know why they made an example of that Mets guy and they got him in serious trouble, whose name is escaping me, Jeremy, right now. But

you got this. You got this, Jeremy.
Jeremy Stearns? No, that's the current guy, the Mets GM who got suspended for the Phantom. Epler?

Billy Epler. Thank you.
It's very nice of you. Yeah, of course we use it.
But we choose injuries wisely.

You can't choose a calf strain because you can look at the calf and see whether the Achilles sort of ran up it. The best injury that you can fake is one back soreness.
No way to prove it.

Oh, maybe like sciatica? That's my favorite.

We always would have. Listen, you're not pitching well.
We're going to put you on the IL, and we're going to say you've got arm soreness.

Now, players and agents don't like when we would make up shoulder soreness because that could impact their free agency in later years, saying, oh, you had a sore shoulder, bad shoulder.

So we would say arm soreness. Sometimes we would say non-pitching arm soreness.
That's funny, right? What does that get sore from?

And you're just doing it because you don't want the player in your rotation anymore because he just stinks in your hope that sending him to Florida will somehow make him better.

But Giannis, all of a sudden, with a calf injury, right after all this goes down, give me a break. Really? You want another break?

Are you accusing him of faking that? I'm accusing Giannis of simply manipulating Milwaukeeans and our emotions to the benefit of of him when he doesn't need any more benefits.

Are you accusing him of faking it? If you're asking him to give you a break because he's left the game with a non-contact injury, are you accusing him of faking it? I didn't see a roll, Dan. Did you?

When the Achilles tears, you get a roll. For a calf strain, don't sit on the court.
Get yourself over to the bench and you're fine. Answer the question.
Yes.

It's too coincidental. There's no way that Giannis, they're going through all this.
Doc Rivers has to fly and jump through ridiculous oral hoops trying to explain what's happening.

And then all of a sudden he's not playing. What is he? Jimmy Butler? Faking an injury, by the way, Dan, means Giannis doesn't have to talk post-game, which means he doesn't get asked about the rumors.

Whoa.

Tell me the next time Giannis talks to the media.

When you're on the injured list and not playing, you are not responsible by rule to speak to the media, nor is the team responsible to give updates about that player to the media.

You can completely ignore all inquiries. Whoa.
Can you answer the question of whether or not you have ever traded someone with sheer pettiness?

So sheer pettiness, is that like 100 to zero petty?

Well, you're just you're saying with Giannis, you would send him to the worst possible place, and you're saying that's the Clippers because they don't have a future.

And I would dispute that, but I understand why you're saying that. But you're saying don't care about what is the best offer for Giannis.

Send him to a place that punishes him and do something that's not necessarily better for your franchise, just makes you feel better because you're being petty.

So how often have you done that in your career? Certainly you've never done it with someone of this value. You wouldn't do it with someone of this value.

But have you done a trade where you're just being petty, where you want to punish someone for who they are, what they've done, and so you send them to a bad place?

No, for those people, we just release them. In terms of pettiness, the only pettiness I ever did is when I wouldn't approve any trades within the division back when I thought that mattered.

And it was such a stupid rule. It was so ridiculous that we would not even consider trades within the division because why would we help a team that we're competing with?

But at the end of the day, that's totally asinine. You should try to get back the most you can.
And it's hard enough to win a trade even when you have 29 other teams to work with.

But when you shrink the sample size of teams you're willing to deal with, it just seems foolish. But with players, when we were unhappy with the player, we would just release the player.

And if we were trading the player, it was really prospects who I never heard of. So it wouldn't be me saying, hey, I don't want this player.
I don't want him on that organization.

I would say to the baseball people, you know, if that prospect you think is going to hit, you know, we'll take that one. That seems fine by me.
Is Kyle Tucker going to get $400 million?

Whoa. Boy, would that be asinine.
I mean, just did you read where Kyle Tucker was touring the facilities in Dunedin?

That was so great. There's been a spotting of Kyle Tucker in Toronto.
Side note, the Blue Jays do have, people talk about the Dodgers and the Yankees.

Do you know the Blue Jays have the best facilities of any team in Major League Baseball, Dodgers included? From spring training to the home clubhouse to all of the extras that their players get.

It makes like Mark Cuban's Mavericks Clubhouse look like a dump at pro player.

This is the Blue Jays have great facilities, but Kyle Tucker will not sign with the Blue Jays, nor will anyone, because of Dunedin and how great it is to be at spring training for two months a year.

That's just funny.

But you don't think he's going to get $400 million?

So he is someone who helps your team but doesn't define your team.

And I would like to reserve, although baseball has gotten away from all of us, but $400 million better be someone who defines your team. And Kyle Tucker is a championship piece.

He is not a championship maker. The irony is that the Blue Jays are looking for championship pieces because of the team they've put together.

But putting $400 million to that, to me, would be excessive. I mean, again, if it's $400 million over 20 years with no deferrals, I'm good.
Jeremy's about a $25 million player for me.

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Jeremy, can you look up for me how much money Tom Brady made in his career and if Kyle Tucker is going to make more money than Tom Brady made in the entirety of his exceptionally long career?

It's a terrible thing that you're doing because you could do that in any sport and you could take a current player who's mediocre making a ton of money and they will have made more money than, you know, Don Mattingly or Andre Dawson.

But Tom Brady played recently and played for a long time and played at a time where salaries were plenty good. Not anywhere near the way they are now.

Well, no, but not anywhere near where they are now. But the point I'm making isn't about salaries or inflation.

The point I'm making is how baseball doesn't have a salary cap and therefore the owners can't control themselves and this is what ends up happening where you get the absurdity of I'm guessing Kyle Tucker has made more in his career than Tom Brady made.

Tom Brady made $332 million,

but to David's defense here, to his point, in the 20 years with the Patriots, it was $235. In three years with the Bucs, it was $97 million.

So that shows the way that salary escalated over the course of his career. He's making more money broadcasting than he did in his career.

But Kyle Tucker's about to make more than he makes broadcasting. That's correct, as well.
And it's just, it's asinine, but it's because baseball doesn't have a salary cap. That's the reason.
It's not.

It's not. Football has a salary cap.
Why don't we examine football players who are making more on an average basis than Tom Brady?

There's no one making $400 million contracts in football other than the Mahomes types. And even he doesn't have it.
Does he have a $400 million contract? It's pretty close. Over a career.

So remember, in football, it's very rare. Kyle Tucker, if he gets 400, he'll be looking at a seven to 10-year deal, let's say.
And those type of long-term deals in football are just harder to come by.

Obviously, Mahomes did, but there's not a huge number of players. In baseball, the average contract length is greater, ironically, and it's all guaranteed.
So it's totally ass-backward.

Football should have the longer deals because none of it is really guaranteed, although now they try to guarantee more at signing than they ever had.

But I would be in favor of longer-term deals if none of it was guaranteed. But there are a bunch of football players who are mediocre, who are making...

plenty of money more than they ever should have, but that's just a function of how high the cap is because of how high the revenue is.

I have a couple of baseball questions.

What was that? Are you okay, Tony?

Bless you. Sorry.

I have a couple of baseball questions that you might have some expertise for us on. I saw that Anthony Rendon, most recently, when I checked, was in negotiations on a buyout with the Angels.

He signed one of those absurd contracts, seven years, $245 million.

I was surprised that it was already over and at the end of that contract. Can you take me through what the last year of a negotiation on something like that would be?

Like, how do you get to the buyout stage of a guaranteed contract where everyone's unhappy?

Well, let me just rewind a little bit. Anthony Rendon won the World Series in 2019, and he was a sought-after free agent, the best position player free agent at the time.

All 30 teams would have loved to have had Anthony Rendon, and he just ended up being a dog. He ended up not...

performing, being injured and not liking baseball, not being a good teammate, basically helping bring a franchise down where already already the slope for the Anaheim Angels of LA was headed down.

Now that he's in the last year of his deal, they talk about buyouts, but they're really lying to you. The union will not allow Anthony Rendon to take $1

in diminished guarantee. He is owed, call it $39 million this year.
Just make up a number, but I think I'm close. The union will not say, okay, Negotiate a buyout where you get $20 million.

No, that's not how it happens.

The Angels could waive him and then still pay him the money every two weeks from april to september but he wouldn't take up a roster spot and he's still getting his money or they could buy him out which is code word for what happened um

the nba player

lillard oh lillard big thing where what they do is they spread it out And so that it's a smaller hit this particular year, but he ends up getting more money over more years.

That's what you can do in a buyout.

And that helps your tax payroll is that if you renegotiate and so Rendon would get $42 million but paid out over five years, then the present value of that would be, the effect would be a smaller tax hit for a team like the Angels.

So that is a factor and that's what you're negotiating, but you're not negotiating a smaller amount of money ever. Can you give me any insight into what is happening with the Padres?

And how often have you ever seen a manager of a team that is a playoff team just quit a couple of years in when he's saying he's got to take care of just himself and wants to move on?

Didn't he take another job? Like almost immediately? Isn't he in player development now? I may be confused.

He's a coordinator of instruction for the Baltimore Orioles, but obviously that's a different type of workload than an everyday major league manager.

Yeah, I assume that he couldn't stand the sight of Preller anymore and that he had just had enough. And that's sort of a common thing in the game.

If a manager's just had it with his GM and the owner in the power struggle chooses the GM. We chose the GM almost always.

Sometimes we chose the manager when there were power struggles, but you got to choose one. It is just not good.

My first experience in baseball was with Felipe Alou and Jim Beattie, and they couldn't stand it. Ah, Felipe Alou.
They couldn't, and it was just untenable. So we just fired Felipe.

So that's what I assume happened with

Mikey and AJ. I assume the Seidler family, but the team is being sold.
It's a disaster up in San Diego.

They've lowered their payroll significantly because they were irresponsible, spending like drunken sailors, signing players, not winning, losing money hand over fists.

And finally, MLB said, that's enough. You got to lower your payroll.
And so they did. Then Peter Seidler croaks, and now they lower it even more.
And now all of a sudden they're selling the team.

Put it on the poll, please, at Lebatard Show. Did you think that drunken sailors spent too much at Lebatard show? David, what do you believe happened with Chris Paul the other night?

It's emotional. Emotional.
I know, I get choked up when I think about it. What do you believe happened with Chris Paul the other night, and what do you make of the way the Clippers handled it?

So, Dan and I, I don't know, Dan, if you listened to this morning, it's nothing personal, but you are 100% correct.

And it ain't a loogie. Something must have happened because to announce, have this happen in the middle of the night is so irresponsible.
And you said a crime. I thought about that.

You know, if a player gets arrested, we're going to deal with that. And we probably wouldn't do the release until the next day.

There's no reason to do the release in the middle of the night unless somebody's life is in danger. And even then, you'd call the police, you'd call your resident security agents.

You wouldn't have to waive a player.

And funny enough, The middle of the night, those hours, your roster, the way it works in sports is there's your roster's on a computer, on a league-wide computer, and you remove a player from your roster, which enables you to add a player to your roster.

That's not happening at 3 a.m.

So there's hours for roster movement. That ain't it.

So I have no idea why the Clippers would have done it unless something were so acute, like he tried to grab the controls of the plane and bring it down.

I can't even imagine what it could have been for them to have done it that way. You say he deserved better.
I say it doesn't even matter what type of player it is.

I wouldn't even do it to one of our scrubs who I hated out of spite because it causes me to have to talk more to the media, which I don't want to do.

So that is why what the Clippers did is inexplicable to me. Can we get a ruling here on what Jonathan Zaslow was saying here from an impartial source? Tell me what you hear here.

Jimmy Butler and the Heat took the buckshole.

What is that?

What is the hole of the Bucks? What does that mean?

I don't get that. He took the the butthole.
Took the bucks.

Oh, he liked their ass? That's funny. No, it's

not. Come on.
Let's listen again. Let him listen again.
Let's listen again. He took the butthole.

He took the butt. Wait.
Oh, sorry. You said butthole?

I got it wrong. I'm not going to do it.
No, you're nailing it. No,

you're getting everything right.

But Jonathan Zaslow claims that he said very clearly and claims that the sound here vindicates him that he said Bucks Soul. Jimmy Butler in the heat took the buckshole.

Well, you skipped an S, Zaz. No, no.

I think every time that it's played, I'm vindicated further. No.
He took the buttle. Well, now you're just being bitty, but that's funny.

That's good for what you're doing in the show. So proud of you each day showing up and saying that, but it just makes you sound stupid.
Heat took the buttle. Yeah.
But maybe that's that's good.

Keep going. Little pregnant pause.
Heat took the buttle. You need two S's, buddy.
Bucks soul. Heat took the buttle.
You love the movies, and we're going to review some movie with you here.

But before we do that, I saw that November's box office at the movies was a complete disaster. All 14 of the movies were box office flops.
Sidney Sweeney has now had four straight flops.

Nicholas Cage is in a movie where he plays Jesus' dad. It cost $10 million to make.
It brought in $143,000.

Stop. Stop.
I thought Jesus' dad was God. Do I have that wrong? That's Nicholas Cage.
That was Joseph.

It's Nicholas Cage. Nicholas Cage.
I know you're an Old Testament guy.

That was with you, David.

But

he took a movie part. Nicholas Cage will do just about anything.
He's kind of like Kevin Hart that way. And Nicholas Cage had a $10 million movie where he's playing Jesus' dad, and it made $143,000

at the box office.

and you think what of what is happening with the movie theaters because uh november was an all-time bad month for the movie

jesus did he wear like long gray hair yeah yes what does it mean what's the plot of the movie it was a teenage jesus it was not baby billy

it was not it was not baby billy from righteous gemstones but it it was he's the father of jesus we can leave it at that it did not do well but it was a historically bad month for movies while you say that though, I think Zootopia was like a top four opening weekend of all time.

I dragged my daughter to see that. I was going to do the same this weekend.
Uh, is that is it worth seeing, Zootopia? Do you have to have seen the first one to see the one? I love the first one.

I would watch the first one, it's good. The first one's good.
I'm gonna see the second one. I'm feeling great.
Did Dan, I don't go to, I went to a theater to see

one battle after another, and I sat in a recliner for two hours and 40 minutes, and I wore sleeves in such a way where nothing ever touched anything.

And so I didn't touch any part of the theater. I didn't leave my seat.
I didn't eat any of the movie candy. I brought in my own candy.
I brought in my own water. Wow.

And I arranged the theater and the seat in that I didn't see anybody on my horizon.

So I wasn't doing what I normally do with my short body where I can't see and I have to look in between people's shoulders.

And I didn't love the experience. And I know Tom Cruise Cruise is sad about that because he wants, and Martin Scorsese, et cetera.
But no, theaters,

I would go full GameStop, Mikey, on theater stock. I'm just not in.
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Don Lebatard. Tetas.
Stugats. Tetas.
This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

I'm out on the reclining movie seat. Yeah.
Like, just give me the old school seat. Give me the old school seat.
Why would you be out on the reclining movie seat? Because I fall asleep.

But you have the option of either one.

But I don't want the option because I'm going to take it. I don't go full because I know I'm out.
So what I try to do is like the halfway where the feet are up a little, but you're not really.

No, you need to be a little bit uncomfortable so you don't fall asleep. Not for me.
Give me the old school seat.

I think it's totally fine if you fall asleep during a movie, and that's why it's better to watch them at home.

Because if you fall asleep, I don't know if you, this is happening to me more than it ever has, where I find myself that I have to rewind and watch parts of a movie over again.

And that is never, that is brand new to me, Dan. And so now I really can't go to a theater because I'd have to stand up.

I had something happen to me this week where I made an issue in public that I probably shouldn't have done. I don't know if we have time to talk about it.

I'm trying to change myself and become more tolerant, but I checked my daughter out of the emergency room without being discharged. I just walked out.
I literally just walked out and I made a scene.

And I'm thinking I shouldn't have done that. And that ties into what it is that we're talking about, how Beyond your remorse.

With a theater, that if I miss something in a theater, I want to stand up and tell a projector person, hey, play that again. Well, then I missed that part.

I was watching Wicked, and I wanted captions. You're watching Wicked.
They should have, like, the 230 showing will have captions.

Well, let's let's examine this for a second because he just brought up up something that I had not considered, which is as the movie theater dies and as many people are saying, no, I prefer the convenience of just being able to watch something at home whenever it is that I want, I hadn't considered the fact that you can just fall asleep in a way you can't at a movie theater because you could just rewind it and start over.

And the convenience of that, I was just thinking it's people who don't want to go out. out.
You don't want to drag yourself to the theater.

But I wonder how high on the list I would put for people people in terms of what their comfort is on changed viewing habits, the fact that if they fall asleep during a movie, they could just go back and watch more of it because they're in the comfort of their home.

It's a top five.

The ability to fall asleep, the ability to take a call, the ability to stretch, the ability to eat your own food in whatever order and frequency you want.

And then the fifth and most important is the ability to tell people to shut the hell up without worrying about being shifted. That's the word.
What's the word with the thing? Shivved. Shivved.

The ability to tell someone to shut up without being shivved. That's the top five reasons why you avoid a movie theater.
That's the number one for me. His ass.

Why are we laughing at him seeing wicked? What's that? That's funny.

Why? So wicked.

How do you think shivd is spelled if you thought it was shifted? You would do very poorly in prison.

Not because of that.

It has nothing to do with not knowing the word shiv, I'm afraid. I would assume it's the Hebrew

S-H-I-V.

E-D. Apostrophe D, shiv.
Yeah, that could be shived.

I think it's two Vs. Is it two Vs or one V? Is Shivved one V or? Take their word for it.
Put it on the poll at Lebatard Show. It's Shivved 1V or

it's two Vs, just like Buck's Soul is two S's. Might be our worst poll of all time.

Thank you, Chris. I appreciate that.
Go back to editing things with your mouth open. What is the movie you're reviewing?

Put it on the poll at Levantard Show. Do you respect someone less

when they think they have to have their mouth more open? Real supportive group we got here.

We were all so psyched when Zaj choked on the air. He got emotional.

Yes, that's embarrassing. Isn't it great? What is the movie you're reviewing for us this week, David?

I feel badly because we're in a great space and we're having fun, but I watched the new documentary on Apple, and it's called Come See Me in the Good Light.

And it's about two people, two women who are married to each other, and they are poets, and they do the spoken word. And one of them got incurable cancer.

And it was their journey and how they manifested their new journey through the spoken word and through poetry. Incredibly powerful.

To me, it is a candidate to be nominated for an Academy Award, though it made the shortlist. I don't know it'll make the final top five for an actual nomination, which happens next month.

But I maybe just where my head is, it hit me the right way, or maybe I was happy to cry about someone else instead of my situation.

So all of those things could have been a factor, but it really is a good movie in that you have an opportunity to hear someone manifest their their lack of power, their lack of control, their mortality, and they do it in a really articulate way in front of huge amounts of people because there's a whole group and I never knew this existed.

There's a whole group of people who go and listen to the spoken word in this way from people like this. And I just never knew that.

And so it's called come see me in the light or come see me in the good light. And it's really worth your time.

So as you watch something like this, you had gone through a period where you were not watching movies. How long did that period last? What was the streak that was broken?

Because you were watching movies every day. And when and how did you go about resuming your somewhat more regular routine? So quickly, I used to watch a movie every day for decades.

And then as of September 12th, my daughter got sick. I stopped able to watch movies.
I tried to come back with a comedy. and see if that would work.
It did not.

I've watched one of the first movies I watched back was The Doctor with William Hurt, which is a movie that most of you have never heard of with Elizabeth Perkins.

And then I, now I can't make it through a movie anymore. I get too distracted, which is why I can't go to a theater.

I made it through one battle after another by some miracle, but I didn't enjoy the experience. So what I'm doing is watching a lot of movies

in parts. So like 20 minutes at a time, which isn't great at all, but it's the best I can do with my phone doing what it's doing or appointments that I have to go and deal with.

So the streak is dead. And it's not like the type where you start a brand new streak because I haven't started one yet.
So I don't know that I ever will again. But I still.

So I never get to say that I watch a movie every day. I used to say that every day on my show, Dan.

How long was that streak? How long was it? I started in college when I didn't drink in college. All I did was other stuff.
And I would watch a movie every day because I didn't like going to classes.

And I had that streak going all the way from 1980. I was in Wisconsin.
so 1987 until 2025.

And it was straight of 38 years where I was able to watch a movie every day. And now it's, yeah, that's a long streak.

Can you tell me how much respect you lose for Chris Cody when I tell you that he thought the Yankee Clipper was a Fort Lauderdale hotel and not Joe DiMaggio?

Well, I assume that's your show and why I love your show and why it's so successful. There's no way Chris Cody didn't know that Joe DiMaggio's nickname was the Yankee Clipper.

Oh, no, he did not assume this guy gets it. No, I just assume that he wants to play that role and he's good at it and I love him.
Of course.

Now, I stayed in the Yankee Clipper when I came to Port Lauderdale for spring break in college and it was a

absolute zoo. Just a zoo.
And, but of course, Cody knew who the Yankee Clipper was. Great fourth floor.
He did not. Good seeing you, David.
Always nice seeing you.

Nothing personal is the name of his podcast. It is excellent.
I recommend it to anybody who's listening here.

If you want to know more about sports business, if you want to know more about a lot of things that most sports media members cannot tackle the way that he tackles them. Thank you, David.

I appreciate it. Thank you, guys.
Great to see you. Chris Cody.
That's that idiot that brought up Zootopia. Chris Cody.
It should be called Tutopia, too.

We'll get to that later. Mention, thank you.
I appreciate you letting me talk. So Chris Cody

said

earlier, and he brought it up, and I thought it did think it was funny that

he's wondering whether the college football committee does indeed get together, and every week they just don't know what to do.

Like, they're really, they're really wrestling with how it is to make some of these decisions.

Because I believe all of these old white men get together, and I believe they're getting together and saying, What do we need to do to make this the best television for next week?

I believe that's part of the conversation. I don't think it's the entirety of the conversation, but I think it's absolutely part of the conversation.

How do we create arguments that will sustain us for the next six weeks? What says college football more than the faces on these people? Is that Ivan Meisel? It is Ivan Meisel. Is he a writer?

Yeah, he just wrote a a book on Notre Dame, too. We got to get Ivan Meisel on the show and grill him because I want to find out what's actually going on in these meetings.

Ivan Meisel has covered college football for a long time. What's going on over here? And I think he's disgusted by Mike Riley.
I think he's disgusted by Jeff Long.

I think he's tired of Chris Alt and Troy Dannon. I think that all of these

are bothering him at this point because Chris Alt's good.

He cares about college football, and I think he finds what is happening offensive. But do you think they get together and they're just genuinely like they're

talking about this?

Like do you think that they have the next week if this happens this happens or do you think it is still a heated debate and they just can't decide and that I because I feel like that they have it all planned out and I'm annoyed at that.

I don't like because I feel like they are going to do the thing.

I mean Hunter Yurich did come out and say,

you know, for several weeks, he always mentions a scenario that they didn't even bring up. They didn't even mention, they didn't even talk about that.
Seems kind of wild.

We're not even going to touch the

right there. He's lying.
That's all it is.

It can't be what Dan is saying, where how do we make this the best television project? I think it's part of it. That's what I'm saying.
I think it's part of it.

I don't think it's irrelevant. I think that's said out loud, though.
You think that's said out loud? Yes, I do. Of like, how do we make people angry?

How do we create the most conversation? Yes, I don't believe it's something that's ignored.

I don't believe they're going there in the spirit of purity and saying, let's not make a made-for-television. I have them as an actual jury that as soon as they agree, all all right, that's it.

Like, I don't know.

Mike thinks Notre Dame is proper bleeped already. Yes, they're screwed.
They're absolutely screwed. BYU is not going to play a football game and not move in either direction.
They could win.

That screws Notre Dame. They could lose.
Then it puts Notre Dame and Miami right next to one another.

And then we've gone from, we don't know about tiers to the notion of pods to they're not in the same tier to they are in the same tier. No more buffer teams.

You go toe-to-toe like they went on the field.

i mean forget miami yes to make the playoffs that's a different discussion the bet to make here is notre dame to miss the playoffs i don't know man you're way more confident than i am you're counting on like if you're notre dame right now you have a game between texas tech and byu it's going to affect the ranking what about the boise game by you by you is not going to stay still your one team buffer is not going to be there they lose no no that's why i ask what about the boise game boise is playing a mountain west championship and what a boise will be we'll see.

It doesn't matter. I don't think it matters.
What you're hoping doesn't matter. The only reason that matters is if James Madison loses.

Like, Boise is irrelevant unless James Madison loses and maybe Duke wins. It could have flowed.
It helps Notre Dame strength of schedule.

It could, but like, these teams are so close in strength of schedule. Like, to cite any metric, I couldn't.

Oh, of course, they're so close in everything, yet Notre Dame is still two spots ahead of Miami. So that's what I'm saying.
They're one spot ahead of Miami right now.

If you're in Notre Dame, here's what you're rooting for.

You're rooting for BYU to stay idle somehow so you can keep having that, which is not going to happen. It's never happened in the history of the CFP.
Much like teams

that have the same exact record,

two things have never happened.

A team staying completely still after a conference championship game, winner-loss, and two teams that have the same exact record and the team that lost the game being ahead of the team that won the game.

That's never happened either. So you're hoping that Alabama gets its doors blown off by a head coach that's one and eight all time against Alabama.
I'm sorry, folks. Notre Dame is screwed.