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What a delight. Zaslow look at Amin Elhassan joining us on remote here for this hour and we are blessed to have him here because we have not yet gotten to what is obviously the biggest news of the day. We failed as a podcast in the modern age.
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We covered Greg Goede.
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We have not talked.
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We got to the Thielen trade.
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We have not talked about. Taylor and Travis are engaged. The love was real. And Amin is someone who doesn't believe in love. Amin. That's right. I don't mind saying it.
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I love love.
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That might be your worst intro ever.
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Wow.
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I mean, is someone who doesn't believe in love Tombstone.
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Maybe you're all right, pal.
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Inaccurate. I love love. That's very well documented.
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There were many people that were cynical about the love of these two people, and you were one of them. And there were a lot. There were a lot more cynics than there were people who thought these two were really in love. Have you heard Travis Kelce's father talk about how in love his young boy is? How in love, like he's. He is smitten. And there was more. You're not going to tell me that most people in America were cynical about that relationship for it to end an engagement? Love wins, and Amin, who does not love, love loses.
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I love love. And I was always, oh, see, that's Elle Duncan. Different black person. Dan. Not me.
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Dan.
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It's a lovely person, but that's not me.
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Oh, that is the mistake I made. That is the mistake. I'm. I'm sorry. I mean, I'm sorry. I thought you were out.
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I love love and I love that they love each other. And you know, me and, and the Kelce brothers go way back to before Taylor entered the picture. And so I'm just really happy and supportive for them. And I urge everyone, the public and the media to give them their privacy. Guys, let's not. Let's not kind of descend like a bunch of falcons trying to grab meat from the. From the clutches of a falconer. Right? You see this all these companies are doing.
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He's right.
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What was that? What? What was that? We are. Why the analogy?
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Yeah, let Al talk. Dan.
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Holding. Yeah. El Hassan El Duncan. No, it's like, you see all these companies doing all these. These promotions now. Oh, put Tay Tay and Travis in the promo code to get 20% off. Like, that's not nice. You can't just use them as an excuse to sell your goods.
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Can I ask you a question? I mean, because the world seemed to stop yesterday when the news came out for whatever reason. And you're right, like, everyone was taking their engagement photo and putting it up, like, with their own comment and just kind of like trying to grift off this who thing. And I was thinking similar to you like? I mean, okay, they're engaged. Like, not married yet. Let's just pump the brakes. They're just engaged. Like, I've seen engagements fall apart all the time. Not that I'm saying that would happen here, but everyone was kind of, like, poking around and all this stuff. And then old chatty Ed Kelsey is coming out, and he's spilling all the details to pretty much anyone that would ask him. And I'm kind of like, ed, what are we doing here, bud? Like, what are. What's the end game here, Ed? Like, what are we trying to get out of this? Like, we know Donna got on a reality show and everybody loves Mama Kelsey. Like, is this an envy thing with Papa Ed that now he's just out there telling anyone? Like, oh, you know. You know, it didn't just happen. I knew that. This happened two weeks ago. I know all the information. I'll tell you all of it. What's Ed's deal, Billy?
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I'll answer you like this. Imagine if Chris Cody, instead of being married to his lovely wife, was engaged to Taylor Swift. How do you think he would behave?
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I mean, does Taylor Swift know how much money you cashed in on the other day, Chris?
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That's true.
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We're not talking about that meal, the dollar. But, yeah, like, how do you think Greg would behave? That's exactly how. That's almost to a T. What Greg would do.
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What?
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Only Greg would have done it sooner.
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What's the end game here, Ed?
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I can't be the only one that wondered that you didn't think that when you see, like, oh, you know, confirm they've been engaged.
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He gave a lot of quotes saying he knew all the details. He knew where the knees were. Like, you know, where Weren't there two kneelings reported that he proposed, in a way, on one knee, romantically. Like, I don't. I'm confused by why people reacted to this the way that they did. Where it felt like it was the biggest thing that was happening anywhere, in people talking.
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Yes, Dan, it was. It was.
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Yeah.
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Was it not?
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Name something that was not.
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But why should it be? Does it not seem extraordinarily.
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Because your English teacher's marrying the gym teacher, Dan. Dynamite emoji.
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She's the biggest pop star in the world. It's news.
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People seem interested in their relationship, it would appear.
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And her art is deeply personal in that it's a biographical, autobiographical.
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Are we concerned. Are we concerned about how the music.
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Is gonna suffer because, you know, being too happy?
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No, love.
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I mean, I was Thinking. And I'd like to. And Roy teased it earlier. I have a pickle that I think that we may have found ourselves in, if you'd like to play the pickle.
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Hit it, roy.
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How much?
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299. It's a good deal.
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Hell of a deal.
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So I like you. I mean, I love love, but I'm also a practical man, and I think a lot of people started having this conversation yesterday, and it was, will there be a prenup in this marriage?
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Whoa.
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Yeah. I don't know. You guys are men's of mean. You guys have prenups? Anyone have a prenup here?
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Yep.
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No.
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I'm kidding.
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No prenups.
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I do not. No, I'm.
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I'm. I'm a mean. Okay, well, not a man of mean.
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I don't know how. I don't know how prenups work, but they seem to me to be awkward. To bring up the situation of, hey, I love you. I want to make this forever, but maybe it won't be. And in the case that it isn't, I want you to have nothing and suffer. So, like, that's what a prenup seems like it is.
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That was a quick conversation with me and my wife. It was super quick because I assumed we were getting a prenup. So I'm like, yeah, I'm just gonna get a prenup, right? And she's like, yeah, I'll get a lawyer, too. And I'm like, okay, I really don't want to do it that way.
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Well, that would have been fun. Why didn't you do that?
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Oh, I mean, come on. Like, what are we doing? What are we doing? I'm gonna get married at 50 years old, and I'm gonna say by way of romance, let's gather up our lawyers quick.
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Have you not been told what wives love?
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You know who loves it more? Jazz. Who? Ex wives.
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Because they were once a wife.
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It doesn't go away, and now the love is gone for you.
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It grows.
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Yeah. Well, anywho, friends. So the prenup might be coming, and the prenup obviously will be more so to protect Taylor than Travis, because Taylor has. I don't know if you guys have heard this. A lot of money.
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Is she worth over a billion dollars?
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I think so.
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Has an. Think about this. Has an athlete ever married a woman worth a billion dollars?
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Tom Brady.
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Tom Brady.
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Giselle. Bunch of. You think it was worth a billion dollars?
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I don't think Giselle's worth a billion dollars.
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No way.
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No. Yes.
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She Was no way.
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Better pump your brakes. A billion dollars ill of Giselle.
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No, we're not speaking. Saying someone's not a billionaire is not speaking ill of them. Hey, I mean, you're not a billionaire.
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The Internet says she's worth 400 million.
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So maybe we were so not even close.
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Okay, but she. She was. Okay, but Giselle Bundchen made more money in her career than Tom Brady.
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Yeah, when you started saying that. And then Brady made more money, but.
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Also not a billion dollars. Also, it's funny to say you're worth $400 million. You're not even close to a billion. But she's not, which is true. She's further away from a billion than she is.
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Closer to having no money than a billion.
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Billion dollars seems to be a lot of money.
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It sounds like Gisele Bundchen might be broke.
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Closer being broke than a billionaire, for sure. But she did get divorced from Tom.
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Put it on the poll at Lebatard show. That's a good point, Billy. And we don't know what. No one knows their prenups.
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There might have been a prenup. It could have been a situation where Tom said prenup, and Gisele said, I've got my lawyers and that.
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So what's the pickle here?
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All right, so here's the pickle.
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Just so you know, we cited the Internet Times of India says Gisele's now worth more than times, but also citing the divorce as to why.
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Yikes. All right, so here's the pickle. We would assume that the prenup would protect Taylor from losing, you know, half of her stuff or whatever it is, should this marriage that hasn't happened yet, should it not work out. Now, if you're Travis, I think you have some leverage here. Right? You say, you know what, babe? Or whatever he calls Taylor. You know what, babe? I would love to sign that prenup. But included in that prenup, I would like a stipulation. I will not get half of your stuff. However, should this not work out, there will be no love songs written about our relationship. And now Taylor needs to decide. I can make. I don't know if you know this. She's made a lot of money off of heartbreak. So if this marriage does not work out, she could make a ton of money off of this failed relationship. And she could potentially make more than half of the money she presently has at time of marriage.
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Can you imagine the Travis albums?
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Calvin Harris did not like breaking up with her because he became art.
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So if you're Taylor, you're in a pickle. Do I give up half of my stuff on the front end knowing I can make up more on the back end because of the heartbreak? Or do I protect my assets now that, my friends, is a pickle?
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Follow me if you will, Billy. What if Travis, rather than negotiate for no Love Songs about me, negotiates a percentage of all proceeds off of Love Songs About Me? So you can do it. But in the words of Eazy, E. Dre Day only made easy payday. Right? Right. I'm just gonna get richer as you make songs about me.
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Wasn't. Wasn't Ed also saying that Taylor Swift was getting a little antsy?
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Who was quoted as saying, that's chatty Ed. Guy won't shut up.
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That's so. Wait a minute. How are we feeling about that? How we feeling about Chatty Ed?
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Not great. That's what I told you, Ed. Shut up.
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Chatty. I love how I said. I love how I said follow me if you will, and then nobody followed me. No, that's. That's a bad idea.
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I mean, no.
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Why would he want to cut of that money?
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No, I said if you will.
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We won't.
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I know that's. That's what I said.
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Finally, abstaining from food for 16 to 18 hours a day could be key to treating a variety of health conditions like stabilizing blood sugar levels and increasing resistance to stress stugats. Mike, are you doing something like this right now?
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I lost a lot of weight doing intermittent fasting and low carb, so now I'm getting back to it.
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But how much in that six to.
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Eight hour window, how much can you eat unlimited?
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If I could just eat unlimited, I'd do that.
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That'd be fun.
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For six to eight hours? You can't eat unlimited.
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Try me.
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No, no.
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I mean, this is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats.
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You guys don't think it speaks as a symbol to our numbing love of nonsense that everyone would stop to talk about their love after a whole lot of people questioned that their love was real and now still question if their love is real, Right? You're telling me.
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Sounds like Dan, you're the one Questioning whether love is real.
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We think it's a love story.
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I love love. I've always thought it's a love story. I know. I know Travis's way before for Taylor, and I saw the look in his eyes. Some changes, haircut. That's not. That's not fake love. That's real. Based off.
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Based off the flowers. She had to know is coming, right? Like, this had to be. I'm not saying that the. I believe the love is real, but she knew she was getting proposed to.
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Protect the professional photographer also is probably.
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A hint, but it's just like she walks into this thing. Like, I just imagine her like, oh, I'm not getting proposed to here. This is just the most beautiful setting I've ever been in.
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Yeah. It doesn't seem like child. Doesn't seem like that's normally his yard. To Chris's point is his yard probably doesn't have those floral arches around and all of those, you know, arrangements there.
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You guys are so ignorant. You think that there's not a professional photographer around Taylor Swift at all times. You think when she walks into any yard, they haven't already staged it? Everything she does is a production. Why would it just be a regular yard all of a sudden? If anything, if he had done it in a regular looking yard, that would have thrown up.
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Like, imagine if he just did it at, like, Chili's. Yeah, that would have smacked.
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That would have been awesome.
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I would have been like, now that is Chili's.
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That is Chili's, babe. Two for 25. What do we think? Right?
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Like, ride the Dante.
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Be humble with it.
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The baby back ribs are coming right around that corner. That is Tilly's.
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Put it on the poll, please. Juju at lebitage. Show bigger star Freddie Fitz or Jonathan Zaslow. Because I feel like we now have beef at ESPN Radio where Zaslow saying he's a bigger star than Freddie Fitz. Isn't that what's being claimed?
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Well, it's not a person.
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Not a real person is the problem. But yeah, well, hard to create with.
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No, no. But it's not a real person. But it is a real person. That's the thing. That's the thing. It is a real person. But now we've put Zaslo in a bad spot, so I should probably back away from the poll.
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Do you guys think. Because I think this is a thing. Zaz, you might follow me on this. I mean, you might follow me on this.
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I mean, follow us.
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Do you guys think, like, I know there's always like, like, Talk about the ring afterwards amongst, you know, the friends. I was expecting more look at the ring. What do you think? And I'm sure. I'm sure that oftentimes. I shouldn't say oftentimes, but I'm sure sometimes the person who was proposed to, the friends are like, ooh, like, that's. Yeah, that's nice. But they're like, don't mean it. And then like, the person who has the ring on is like, yeah, it's the best that he could do, you know, like, he tried. Whatever you think that's a situation with, with Taylor, it's like, yeah, this is like a seven carat diamond. It's like, yeah, but, you know, he's just a tight end. It's all he could really do for I. You know, he loves me, though. I'll accept this ring.
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I was underwhelmed by it. I'm being honest.
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It's so big.
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I know the Rock's big, but I just. I like a little. I like a little glitz.
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Yeah, but look, Ronaldo changed the game in terms of rings. Like he proposed with a Super bowl ring not too long ago.
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Yeah. To me, the Ronaldo one, much better.
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Are these. Are these the same hands?
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No, no, they're different rings.
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On the left is Taylor Swift. On the right is Ronaldo's.
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I understand why you look, why you asked that, though. They look identical.
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One is yours, one is L. Okay, all right.
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No, I like this. This is classy. That's what it is, classy. That's why they did it at Achilles, as opposed to the Taj Mahal.
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Okay, so you guys are unimpressed, but you don't know anything about. I don't either, by the way. I don't know anything about diamonds. The one Ronaldo got is giant. But that seems like. I understand that the worth of it is something. Something that people would want, but it looks ridiculous. It looks like one of those championship rings that David Sampson wears that is bigger than three fourths of his finger.
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I gotta tell you what's the old adage. It needs to be two months worth of salary.
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What?
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The engagement ring.
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So expensive.
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I think that Travis went on the cheap here.
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That's what I'm saying. And then people are questioning her, you know, whoever's in her life, her circle, Selena Gomez, whatever. And she's. And Selena is also engaged, I believe. So now they're comparing rings and you're not going to be done up by Benny Blanco. Dan, come on.
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He's on his bachelor trip. I've Heard he went to Vegas.
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Yeah, that's. And notice we didn't see photos from that, but we saw plenty photos of Selena on her bachelorette trip. Dan, your thoughts?
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You guys are so Miami. Always going for the gaudy, over the top. Make it bigger, make more diamonds. This is class. This is sophistication. This is a subtle nod to, oh, this is a value. But we're not going over the top. If you know, you know. And that's how Travis has always been, because I've known him for a long time, since way before Taylor Swift.
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There's nothing subtle about either of those rings.
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Just to be clear, is two months indeed the rule? I did not know that as a rule. I was not familiar.
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Sounds right.
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What? It sounds right? So you guys just are saying it sounds right? Two months of salary on a ring?
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It's a marketing. It was a marketing ploy by the De Beers company that owns 90% of the world's diamond supply. So they're just like two months of salary just so they could artificially inflate prices?
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Feels like a lot. Two months.
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I mean, is it pre tax or post tax two months also?
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Yeah, we talk gross or net?
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Yeah, good questions.
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As put it on the poll at Levittard show. Is it gross or net?
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Are you thinking back to what yours cost, Dan? Like, did I overpay? Did I underpay?
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Well, I'm actually trying to think back to what rule I was trying to figure out because I didn't know how to do it. So I just, like, I had to ask around to get expertise from people because I didn't have any idea what I was doing. You guys did Mike, Mike. Get me a ring for my wife. You got. Okay, so you guys knew how to do all of that? You guys. Okay, show me Experts in Romance.
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It's usually a conversation you have at some point.
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Yeah.
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About, like, what would you be into? What would it kind of look like?
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And you get ideas.
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Can't just leave it up to Travis Kelce to figure out what Taylor Swift is going to like in her ring.
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She for sure picked that.
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She definitely told him exactly what she wants.
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Two months salary of Travis Kelsey is $2.8 million.
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I'm seeing the national average is between 50 $506,000 on an engagement ring.
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Hold on, though, Mike, you're not including the podcast. Like, you're just. You're not including endorsements. You're not including Happy Gilmore. You're not including Travis Kelsey's salary of two months is much his football salary. It Might be small compared to the endorsement.
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I think by percentage of income, Travis Kelsey went on the cheap year with this ring.
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That's what I'm kind of thinking may have happened here.
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I think all of our significant others have, by percentage, more impressive rings.
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Congratulations.
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Put it on the poll, please. Juju at Lebitard show. I can't believe we're saying this. Did Travis Kelsey go cheap on the ring? It's unbelievable that you guys are doing this.
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I've also heard that, like, super rich, like, rings, like those two rings probably. Right. I think they then make, like, replicas of them. And like, that ring is probably hardly ever going to be worn. That's going to be, like, in a vault somewhere.
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What's the point?
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And then you wear one with a fake diamond that's identical in size. And that way if you get mugged or whatever, you lose it while you're scuba diving or. Whatever happened to Kim Kardashian's earring? She's like, in the Maldives and it falls off. She jumps off of the thing. Like, then you just lose a fake one that's also equally expensive. Well, not equally. But also expensive. But not as expensive.
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She definitely has insurance.
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Yeah, that's why you get insurance.
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And designers probably foaming at the mouth to be put on that paw. So they probably got a deal on that ring. Man, this is crazy.
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Yeah.
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I bet you he spent, like, maybe seven grand maybe.
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I bet you he got paid to do it.
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I'll do an Instagram post for you.
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How nervous do you think friends are? Like, if you're a friend with Travis Kelce, but you're not like, the close. You're not a best friend, but you're close enough to wonder, are you going to make the cut for the wedding because you want to be at that wedding. That's a fun wedding.
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That's. That's the position I'm in right now. I'm trying to figure out whether I'm going to make the cut or not.
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You will.
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Not someone who's. Well, I mean, I've been there. I've been loyal. I've been there since before everything, so.
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Well, call them right now. Let's congratulate them since you're so close.
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I can't because I use my phone as my camera.
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What would you get them as a gift? That's a tough wedding gift to get.
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Oh, no, the registry. I just go off the registry, man. Don't try to be funny.
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Probably like a yacht on their registry.
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Wait, you guys think that that's what? They would go with these two people would just go registering.
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Yeah, like Crate and Barrel, Target, Macy's.
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I just picturing them walking around. Target.
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Yeah, I could see her walking around lighting things.
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Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. You think Rashi Rice is going to go to the wedding? Zaz.
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Whoa.
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Well, are you asking me if he's gonna go or be invited?
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Invited.
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I'm going.
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No, really.
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He might be suspended for it.
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Xavier worthy.
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No.
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So wait, you guys are saying that he can't invite all his chief's teammates? He has to have the awkwardness of. Okay, six of you can come.
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Yeah, no, that's probably like a dozen or so spags.
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Really? You guys. You guys.
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His coordinator.
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That's what I'm saying.
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Then if it comes down to Isaiah Pacheco or me, I mean, there's hard decisions.
C
Wait, but so you. You guys explain to me the awkwardness in the locker room when Travis Kelce stops at nine.
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Yeah, like, that's a good one. Guys. There are guys in that locker room. Like, man, I hope I get to go. That's going to be a fun wedding. But nope, you didn't make the cut. That's going to happen.
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You think, though?
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You think Bunker makes it?
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I think they're friends. I think.
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I think a Raza is not going to be at that wedding.
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Taylor Swift probably doesn't like him so much. I don't know.
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Harrison's probably an interesting conversation between them two.
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I think that you could hide him in the invites, right? Like, I don't think Taylor's going to notice if Harrison is there. Maybe when he, you know, says, all the women get off the dance floor, it's time for the men to dance.
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But Taylor's gotta have some right leaning family members.
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Is that what you have happening?
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I don't have happening.
C
So wait a minute. Wait a minute.
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Now this is gonna be a thing. Just as a joke. Now this is gonna be a thing. Consequences.
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I wanna be clean. I wanna be.
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He doesn't like being married to his takes.
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I wanna be.
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I just like to Josh around, you know, all of a sudden.
C
No, I. But.
E
Okay, so Noah Gray, you think he'll be there? Same position that.
D
Yeah, position room. I think all the tight ends go.
A
Everybody in that room.
E
We have moved on.
A
Creed Humphrey, Every single person in that room.
D
Starting lineman, I think can go.
E
Well, Creed Humphrey's a center.
A
How about former teammates?
E
That's a great question.
D
Going back to the other stuff.
A
Tony Gonzalez, Tyreek. No, I'm not getting that.
B
No.
C
Tyreek.
E
No. Probably not Tyreek.
A
I think Nick Wright tries to see where he fits in. Wow.
B
He's my plus one.
A
Yeah.
E
Nick might go. He might invite it. Or not. He'll be there.
A
Do you think this is going to be the biggest wedding of our lifetimes?
E
It's our royal wedding, obviously. What was our previous royal wedding?
D
What is second place on celebrity?
E
Was it him and Chris Humphries?
C
I'm still.
E
We don't need to go back to anything that's happened in the past. We're moving along.
A
You know which one I'm excited for if it happens? Adele and Rich Paul.
E
Huh.
B
That already happened.
A
Did it?
B
They're married.
E
Oh. Huh.
D
You mean you get invited?
E
So you weren't that interested.
B
Come on, man. Where you at?
C
Wow.
A
When did that happen?
C
Clearly not that interesting. Clearly. And obviously you can't wait for that to happen. But you did wait. You didn't even notice.
E
You don't care.
A
Kudos to them. They kept that one pretty secret.
C
Not really.
F
So I gotta hear that they're just engaged.
D
Did LeBron give a speech?
E
She was engaged in a concert, August 2024.
F
They're not married.
E
Amin. Yeah. I don't see it.
A
Unless Amin secretly married and just blew up the spot.
C
Oh, like Greg Cody because he's in league circles. So. Billy, just to be clear, I don't.
E
Know what we need to be clear about. We're talking about Adele and Rich Paul right now. Keep up, Dan. Let's move fast.
C
You've got Travis Kelce going into the locker room, and everyone wants to go. And he has to say in private, in front of everybody. Only eight of you are gonna be invited.
D
Usually when you give these kind of speeches, it's that guy's budget. We just don't have room. Like, what's he gonna say?
A
But he's gonna be able to say, like, I saved a bunch of money on that ring. I mean, the Internet is saying they're not married. So either you screwed up or you were wrong. You need to clarify.
F
Those are the same thing.
A
No.
B
If I won't.
A
He might have screwed up and revealed something that is known inside NBA league circles that the rest of the people don't. Because any. Any Internet would not corroborate.
C
He's. He's not a journalist, though. I mean, doesn't. Right. Amin does not. Saslow is the only journalist we have around here.
A
Right?
E
I mean, broke a giant, like, FBI story, like, a couple weeks. I think he might have been gone when he did that. He broke that story about the heat heist. Across the street.
B
Yeah, I did do that.
C
He's also been on Pablo Torre finds out. And the Malik Beasley story has had some developments that I was wanting your expertise on. But if we could just go back to the wedding for a second. Yeah.
A
Are Adele and Rich Paul married, or did you just get that wrong?
B
So this is what I have Travis Kelce doing is standing up in front of the middle locker room and saying to everybody, look, only eight guys can go. And I know what you're thinking, oh, did I make that? I meant not make it, but this is a football team. We're a meritocracy. So what we're going to do is have a competition for it, and then the cameras come out and it's on an Amazon prime show and who gets to be in Travis Kelsey's wedding. And then we have, like, week by week and people vote until we have a final ceremony. And he's handing out. What are those things called? What they button onto the thing that the groomsmen wear. One of those things. And if you get one of those, you get to go to the wedding.
F
How mad is clutch sports going to be when they find out you revealed that Rich Paul's married?
B
I don't know what you guys are talking about.
A
LeBron did post mysterious photos from what appeared to be a wedding with Kevin Love. And he was there with Kevin Love, and they were golfing, but he never said whose wedding it was. I'm like, wow. Did they. Did Rich Paul and Adele secretly get married and I never got. I just kept on living my life, and now it seems as though a me and found out.
E
Yeah.
B
Did not. That's the. That's Pablo show. He finds out. By the way, I recorded an episode of Pablo. Tory finds out. That comes out, I believe, in about a week and a half.
E
Spoil it.
D
What'd you say?
C
It's a beast.
A
It's about Adele being married to Rich Paul.
B
It is. It would. It's gonna be a massive, Massive. It's. It's one of those things where, you know, everyone was like, oh, my God, Pablo did it again. When the NFL thing and the Beasley thing.
C
No, this is the biggest one. This is the.
B
This is the biggest one. This is the biggest one by far. This is way bigger than Bill Belichick, everything.
E
Is this the. The September 4th one? He keeps teasing.
C
Yeah, he's got a giant one in the holster. He just went on vacation. Pablo's doing this so casually that he's going to drop a Pablo at the top of September. That's going to be bigger than all the other Pablos by a good. By a good amount drop.
A
A Pablo is an interesting way to phrase it.
E
We're also raising the bar on expectations here because, like, I mean, is it a butt out there? Is that a me? Is that Pablo is revealing the Epstein? That's what people think is gonna happen. And I don't think, I mean, unless Amin has a reason to be on that episode, I don't think that's what's gonna happen. On Amin's episode, Pablo might have friends.
A
On the list who knows a lot of innocent people.
E
It's also a bad place where, like, that's the bar for Pablo. Now it's like, oh, you don't have the Epstein list. Loser. This episode is brought to you by State Farm. Checking off the boxes on your to do list is a great feeling.
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A
They would try to bring in some minority characters and you could. Yeah, they tried.
C
Louis Aguirre was one of them. They tried to dabble in Latin flavor and they went.
A
Maurice Chestnut was one, I think. Morris. Morris Chestnut. I'm sorry. God, what a beefcake in that show. Miranda, why didn't you stay with them? I mean, we're gonna go with Steve on this one. Seriously.
C
Stugats.
A
Oh, no. Clear out. I have to issue her an apology.
B
Oh. Oh, no. Oh, no.
C
Is it a Sex in the City apology?
A
I would like to formally apologize to Blair Underwood for calling him Morris Chestnut.
E
Oh, no.
C
Wow.
A
Look, Louisiana law, man.
B
Come on.
E
Yo, this is the Dan Levatar show with the Stucats.
A
What are you here for?
C
Weekend Observations, which we're going to begin right now. But I did want something Malik Beasley related from him before we did that. But we got to get to Weekend Observations, so no time for to share his game notes.
E
No one in the media will tell you what happened. Better than my voice, I mean.
B
Weekend Observations is presented by Miller Light Dan. It started with a concert, followed by a podcast mention, followed by a two year courtship, culminating with the news of the summer. And just like that, make no mistake, Travis Kelce is off the market. Congrats, Travis. At Tay Tay. I hope as you make your wedding invitation list, you remember the people in your life from before. The celebrity, those who were there for you before you were in People magazine. I'm talking, of course, of myself. I went to that New Heights super bowl party before. It was cool. Everybody else flocked after Taylor into the picture. I was there before. Never forget Arch Manning. Dang. The target's not on our back. We have a red dot on everyone else's winner, Deion Sanders. Desi's praying for Shiloh to get another shot after getting waved. What he should be praying for is Georgia Tech forfeiting this weekend. I'll be there.
C
Really, Brian?
B
Yeah, I'll be there. Leaving on Thursday. Brian Windhurst. Writing a piece about LeBron and KD's unprecedented 20 year rivalry only made me think, who's gonna hate this being called a rivalry more, LeBron or KD? My money's on KD. He hates everything. Kaden Salter will start a QB for Colorado. Can't believe he's black. Haynes King will start a QB for Georgia Tech. Still can't believe he's not black.
C
That is an upset. That is an upset.
B
If you put their picture side by side and ask you which one was which, you'd call the white guy Kaden and you call the black guy Haynes.
C
Yeah, it's. You are correct.
B
Danny Parkins of FS1 interviewing Jeff Van Gundy for his book, then wrapping the interview by asking him to write the forward. Danny, the Stugats is very strong in you. Him and his co author, Ben Kaplan are on Basketball Illuminati this week. Wherever you get podcasts, they wrote this book, Pipeline to the Pros. It's really good. Spencer Rattler starting at QB Week 1 for the Saints over Tyler Schuck.
C
Man. Man, oh, my God, who cares? Say that again to people like that. How? How? I am so sorry, New Orleans Saints fans. Like, I just. You're in salary cap hell and Spencer Rattler just won your quarterback competition. Good God.
B
Also, Tyler Shuck. Spell your name right or pronounce it right. One of the two.
C
How does he spell?
B
I shouldn't have to go. He spells it S H O U G H. But I have to google how you say it. You say it shuck. I was like, is it shuff or show? And they're like, shuck. And I'm like, no, no. Georgia Tech safety La Miles Brooks Powell Lee. What do you say saying about Colorado quote. I know they bring out celebrities. They do all this crazy stuff, but we're playing football winner.
C
Really?
B
But also Georgia Tech is bringing out some celebrities of their own, man. Me.
C
Oh, come on.
B
Celebrities?
C
Are you the biggest celebrity? Are you the biggest celebrity fan that Georgia Tech football has?
B
I'm the biggest non athlete celebrity fan of Georgia Tech has. They have obviously. Obviously guys like Megatron and stuff like that, they don't count. I'm the real celebrity. I have to make myself. I didn't do it by just playing a sport. Get out of here.
E
Jeff Foxworthy.
B
He didn't go to Tech, man. I don't believe it.
C
What do you mean? You can't just. What?
B
I don't believe it. Show me your transcripts. What do you do when you.
C
Why are you doing that to Jeff Foxworthy? Like what?
B
I don't.
C
Show me your transcripts. Jeff Fox Foxworthy.
B
It's a hard school, man. You a get. Get through it with. You might be a redneck. That's not getting the job done.
C
All right, put it on the poll is you might be a redneck getting the job done at Georgia Tech.
B
No, child. If he did, he went to like the school of management or something like that.
D
Graduated 1979.
B
That wasn't even. It was. It wasn't even an institute back then. It was called like something Cumberland College or some like that. I don't know.
F
I didn't realize we were gatekeeping at Georgia Tech.
B
We are always at the do. If he didn't have to do CS 1501, he didn't go to Tech. How about that?
D
Oh, wait, he never graduated. I see that here. He left before graduating in 1979.
B
There you go.
C
Well, wait a minute. That changes the discussion entirely then. Does a mean go right back to being the most famous graduate non athlete division at Georgia Tech.
E
Jimmy Carter.
B
Jimmy Carter didn't go. He got like a graduate degree that doesn't count. Peanut farmer. Again, if you didn't take CS 1501, don't talk to me about going to tech. 1972. 1980. 52. CS 1501. The Widowmaker is what they call that.
C
These. These fools think it's easy as an engineering school to get an Engine Institute. 1970. When did. When did Georgia Tech become an institute that was famous for. We bring some of the best engineers through here through the Widowmaker. Tell me more about this class.
B
Okay, so, Dan, so at regular engineering schools in the country, they're like, okay, you need to learn how to program. You need to code. So what do we do? C, Java, whatever the language was at the time, right? Python now or whatever. At Georgia Tech, they were like, that's too easy. We're gonna invent our own coding language so that way people can't cheat. But then you say, well, what if they cheat off of one another? Well, they had this thing way before they were AI Checkers and shit like that. They had a program that ran your code against everyone else's code, not only in your section, not only in your class, but everyone who's taken the class in the prior three years. And if it hit a similarity score of above a certain percentage, you automatically got an F. Now, here's the part that is really cruel. They wouldn't tell you. They would let you go the entire semester like a dumbass, thinking, oh, I'm getting good grades and stuff. And at the end of it, you get your semester end grade. And it would be an after. Like, what happened? Like, oh, yeah, you failed the cheat finder. That's the Georgia Tech I went to. Not peanut farming. And you might be a redneck.
A
Highly educated, but still not smart enough to not blow up Adele's spot.
F
Good trouble dog.
D
Jimmy Carter spent one year at Georgia Tech before transferring to the Naval Academy.
B
Exactly.
E
He was like Navy Reserves at Georgia. A coward.
A
I went to mdc.
E
I enjoyed the Navy.
B
You know what? It's easier than Georgia Tech.
C
Oh, boy. Put it on the poll at Levittart show. Is the Navy easier than Georgia Tech?
E
Amin, you went to school with Harrison Butger.
B
Did he go to Georgia Tech?
E
That's what the Internet says. But they've been wrong about everyone else so far.
B
He didn't. He didn't take CS 1501.
A
I mean, the Internet told us earlier that Rich Paul and Adele weren't married.
B
But to be fair, there are also not a whole lot of women at Georgia Tech. So maybe Harrison Bucker did go there.
F
I Mean, are you trying to tell me you're more famous than Roman Reigns?
B
Roman Reigns is an athlete. He's an athlete. He played on the football team. He doesn't count. Keep up, Zaslow.
C
Man, Amin's kicking ass. Bigger star. Freddie Fitz or Jonathan Zaslow at Lebatard Show.
B
What do you do when you think someone has blocked you but you never had a negative interaction with them? I'd love to test text them to ask, but I'm blocked. The Holy Grail. MJ Kobe card sold for $12.9 million. No word yet as to whether it also came out of a storage closet at Kaseya Center. I broke that story. Where you gone, Dan?
C
Really?
B
Yeah. Guy stole a whole bunch of memorabilia, sold it for a shit ton of money. Speaking of a shit ton of money, Chris Cody won a shit ton of money playing poker.
D
Debatable wrists.
B
I was unfamiliar with your game also, Chris. Let me hold a dollar.
A
Let's see, 12 grand, he goes.
D
Oh, let's see here.
C
12 grand. Let me see.
B
It closed on me.
C
Yeah. 12 grand.
B
Tyler Phillips of the Marlins slapping himself as he runs out of the bullpen. Electric Mike Ryan and Jessica Smatana telling me Avery Johnson was white, when in fact, he is not. I'm sending you both to the Jonathan Coachman hall of Shame. Anthony Johnson, brother of Avery Johnson, losing a fistfight to Mark Johnson, father of Avery Johnson, by Zazzle Mansion rules. Gotta wait another six months.
F
Everyone knows the rules.
B
Yep. Cal Raleigh, first player to hit 20 home runs from each side of the plate. Historic. Cal Raleigh, first primary catcher to hit 50 home runs in a season. Iconic Cal rally on pace to break Aaron Judge's single season AL home run record. Legendary Cal Raleigh still could book you out of a lineup. Oh, even if you're wearing a sticker that said, hi, my name is Cal.
C
Not even by body type.
B
The big dumper Medvedev crashing out at us open. Down two sets to love versus Benjamin Bonzi, then inciting the crowd, then tying the matchup. Eddie, play Benvedove. Losing the match to Benjamin Bonzi in five sets. What a waste of everyone's time. Just tap out, man. What do we do all that for? Top five bonzies.
C
Really? You're gonna have five of these. Five bonzies.
B
I got a couple olis, too.
C
Really?
B
Oli. Benjamin Bonzi. Oli Bonzi Wells. Oli Buckaroo Banzi number five. Bonzi beach, number four. Bonanzi number three. Slanging muni bansi in Boca.
C
Bonzies is a degree of difficulty. I did not think you had in you.
B
Number two, Bonzi, James Bond and number one, Cinnabonzi. Who could say no? You smell it in the mall and what do you do, Dan? You go over like, I gotta get just one. Jador Sanders Name QB3 to start the season. Let me lay out how this will play out. The Browns will suck. Flacco will get hurt early. Dylan Gabriel will get his shot too soon, Duck as a result. Trudeau will take over. He'll play well enough to give the city of Cleveland hope, but not well enough to stop the Browns from sucking. Y' all deserve this hell. Speaking of hell, Art Briles those are the weekend observations.
C
Good seeing you, buddy. Excellent work. We'll talk to you next week.
B
The Shadow on Cinepub this week.
A
Hey, Tony. Hey, Mike. Hey, man. Summer's almost ending, man. I don't like that. There's no way. There's no way I am excited about cooler temperatures. But down here in South Florida, that just means slightly less boiling hot. It's been a pretty incredible summer. We've had a parade down here. We've grown our family down here at Meadowlark Media. A lot of exciting things, a lot of memorable benchmarks. And along the way, at almost every step, I've been tailed by that beautiful white can of Miller Light. Oh, that beautiful white or the brown bottle? You can do it on draft.
D
Draft is crisp.
A
There's been so many great special times. And each time I've decided to make those special times a Miller time. Whether it's a long weekend like one we got coming up, or a full on vacation, it is a perfect time to get the crew back together. This year marks 50 years of Miller time. 50 years of great taste, great friends and unforgettable memories. Miller Lite great taste. 96 calories. Go to millerlight.com dan to find delivery options near you. Or you can pick up some Miller Lite pretty much anywhere they sell beer. Cheers to 50 years of Miller time. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Co. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.
Date: August 27, 2025
Featured Guests: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, Amin Elhassan, Billy, Jonathan Zaslow, and the regular Meadowlark crew
Recording Location: Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami
The crew gathers for a classic blend of sports chatter, pop-culture banter, and playful arguments. This episode is dominated by the media frenzy around Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift’s engagement, with fresh takes on celebrity relationships, prenups, wedding politics, and the ridiculous spectacle of modern fame. Amin Elhassan is a key voice, mixing it up from remote while the rest of the team riffs on everything from engagement rings to Georgia Tech name-dropping and the mechanics of wedding invite politics.
Dan: "Amin is someone who doesn't believe in love."
Amin: "Inaccurate. I love love. That's very well documented." (03:02)
Amin: "You can't just use them as an excuse to sell your goods." (04:40)
Billy: "I'd like a stipulation: there will be no love songs written about our relationship." (11:03)
Amin: "Rather than negotiate for no love songs, Travis negotiates a percentage of all proceeds off of love songs about me—Dre Day only made Eazy payday." (12:02)
Amin: "That's the position I'm in right now. I'm trying to figure out whether I'm going to make the cut or not." (24:18)
Amin: "I think all of our significant others have, by percentage, more impressive rings." (22:54)
“Did Rich Paul and Adele secretly get married and I never got… I just kept on living my life, and now it seems as though Amin found out.” (30:16)
Amin: "That's the Georgia Tech I went to. Not peanut farming. And you might be a redneck." (41:21)
On the Taylor & Travis engagement:
On wedding etiquette and gifts:
On engagement ring economics:
On Georgia Tech:
This episode delivers exactly what longtime fans expect—zany, smart, irreverent discussion of major headlines (and the absurdity around them), intermixed with friendly ribbing, over-the-top hypotheticals, and a strong undercurrent of “Miami energy.” It's both a lampoon of media culture and a reminder that, at the end of the day, sports, pop, and love news aren’t all that different in the modern age.
If you missed the episode, know that:
The show keeps it breezy, skeptical, and funny—with enough cultural insight and banter to deliver both laughs and social commentary.