Hour 1: Gotta Clean That Up

Summary

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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: Hour 1 – Gotta Clean That Up

Date: November 13, 2025

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Brief Overview

Live from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, and their crew bring their signature blend of sports commentary, pop culture musings, and irreverent banter in this "Local Hour." The episode centers on the unraveling of once-promising NBA teams (notably the Sacramento Kings), the drama and dysfunction in team cultures, the price of player delusion, and big NFL betting stakes amongst the show's shipping container. The crew also dives into memorable sports moments, issues of leadership, and classic press conference lampooning, all while retaining their self-aware, chaotic, and comedic tone.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Sacramento Kings Collapse and Doug Christie’s Leadership

[00:43–08:57]

• Sustainability of NBA Success

  • The Kings, previously heralded as the "future" of the Western Conference alongside Memphis, have "collapsed," drawing comparisons to other teams that flared out after promising years (Sacramento, Memphis, Dallas, OKC).
  • Critique of Doug Christie's Coaching:
    • Bennett argues Christie is a "former player" with deep loyalty to Sacramento but "doesn't have a unique insight to coach."
    • Discussion on whether it’s fair to judge Christie's public relationship with his wife, Jackie, as part of his legacy—she was one of the first "Basketball Wives," preceding the reality TV boom.
  • Dominic Foxworth:
    • “The only sustainable success [Sacramento’s] ever had...is Doug Christie, Chris Webber, Peja Stojakovic… those teams, right?” [02:13]
    • Doug Christie “knows how to use the jingoistic terms to get the Sacramento people very bought in…”
  • The team plays motivational soundbites from Christie after two consecutive bad losses (to the Nuggets and then Hawks), both punctuated by fiery but ineffectual speeches.
    • Christie: “We gonna be working…we gonna be growing…eventually we gonna be coming…The King show sack proud. Know that.” [03:53–04:39]

• Roster Dysfunction and Ownership Failings

  • Zaslow calls the Kings a "stupid roster" [06:58].
  • Foxworth: “Ownership is so important...You can hire qualified people. But if you don’t support them, especially in times of crisis, then it all falls apart.” [06:10]
  • Poor decision-making by new management highlighted—trading stability for chaos.
  • Foxworth: “They’re one of the teams I mentioned yesterday...monitoring the Ja Morant situation. But if you don’t provide accountability, that won’t help anyone.” [07:11]

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Sports Betting High Jinks and the “Big Game” Debate

[09:00–14:45]

• The Shipping Container’s $5,000 Bet
  • The show’s crew ("shipping container") pool $5,000 on the Chiefs -3.5 against the Broncos per a Nick Wright wager.
  • Live on-air debate about whether certain NFL matchups are truly “big games” or just “good games,” with Zaslow and Louis alternately declaring and dismissing the importance of matchups.
    • Zaslow: “I decide if it’s a big game or not.” [11:17]
    • Roy: “So they’re just all big games.” | Bennett: “No, just those four!” [12:46–12:48]
  • Segment concludes with Dentek’s fantasy football punishment “bucket” and various hosts drawing their teams while bickering over lines and the relevancy of games.

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Women’s College Basketball: Record-Shattering Performances

[22:25–24:49]

• Bennett marvels over Notre Dame’s Hannah Hidalgo’s 44 points and 16 steals:
  • “Sixteen steals…that must be very fun to play basketball that way…what would be a dream scenario…how can I be more athletic than everyone?” [23:51]
  • Roy fills in NBA records: “The NBA record for steals in a game is 11…sixteen steals…” [23:38]
  • Louis on “cookie rate”: “Is it 16 steals where I’m getting in the passing lane or is it cookies where I’m taking what you’re dribbling?” [24:20]

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Gilbert Arenas: Trolling, Guns, and Mafia Fears

[24:49–31:36]

• Retrospective on Arenas’ infamous gun-in-the-locker-room suspension, and his deliberate trolling with finger guns during pregame intros.
  • Foxworth: “He’s willing to die for the joke…because of the internet, he has become a massive star for all the reasons of rule breaking, being a troll…now here’s the deal, Dan, we got the gambling scandal.” [26:23]
• Arenas’ clarity (and real fear) only emerges when he thinks organized crime may be after him:
  • “I didn’t get in my car for about a week and a half…hell no…I do believe he was scared, though, and I don’t believe he scares easily.” [29:29, 31:05]
  • Louis: “My name’s Bennett, I ain’t in it. My name’s Paul, that’s between y’all.” [31:36]
• Theme: There IS a line for the irreverent, but you might not know you’ve crossed it until your life is in actual danger.

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Warriors Locker Room Tension and Player “Delusion”

[34:11–39:10]

• Steve Kerr’s “major changes” mean sending Kaminga to the bench after Draymond Green’s “hidden agendas” comments.
• Zaslow: “That’s pretty effing rich…Where last year [Jimmy Butler] tanked the Heat cause he wanted his money. Jonathan Kaminga has made squat…you’re upset he’s trying to go out there and get his?” [37:52]
• Discussion on how championship-veteran teams treat rising players with outsized ambitions, and the tightrope between constructive delusion and undermining team ethos.
  • Foxworth: “Championship mentality…it’s not for everybody…the attitude and the approach…” [36:57]

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NFL Diva Dilemma: A.J. Brown’s Discontent in a Winning Eagles Locker Room

[39:10–41:41]

• Dan raises the tension of balancing superstar happiness (AJ Brown) amid overwhelming team success (Eagles have won 23 of their last 25).
  • “What happens when you getting yours conflicts with the team getting its? What do you do with that?” [40:54]
• Zaslow offers a blunter approach: “Why can’t they just throw the ball to A.J. Brown? He’s really good!” [40:54]
• The tricky art of leadership and appeasing stars, even when "winning cures all."

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Classic Self-Referential Press Conference Parody

[41:41–43:26]

• The episode winds down with a mock press conference, with Dan playing coach reviewing the show’s “performance.”
  • “False start on the first Dentek. We got to clean that up. We gotta learn to lay out…we touched all the sports…Now we’ll open it up to questions.” [41:50]
  • Bennett repeatedly interrupts: “You’re distracting Amin. Do you not notice it?” [42:46]
• Zaslow mourns, tongue-in-cheek: “I’m gonna lose a little sleep over that tonight…” [43:16]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Doug Christie’s Rousing Speech (after loss, then crushed by another):
  • “Change is hard…But buckle up for the real ones. Buckle up. For all the rest of you—haters, fakers—all you guys, you keep that energy…eventually we gonna be coming. The King show sack proud. Know that.” [03:36–04:39]
• On Gilbert Arenas:
  • Foxworth: “He’s willing to die for the joke.” [26:23]
  • Arenas: “I didn’t get in my car for about a week and a half.” [29:29]
• On the Kings’ Dysfunction:
  • Zaslow: “It’s a stupid roster. You look at it—it’s a stupid roster.” [06:58]
• On Athlete Delusion:
  • Foxworth: “It’s a sport that demands delusion, but also, like, realistic delusion.” [35:34]
• Betting Stakes Banter:
  • Zaslow: “I decide if it’s a big game or not.” [11:17]
• On A.J. Brown's Grievances:
  • Dan: “What do you do with A.J. Brown if you're the Eagles and you’ve won 23 of 25? What do you do with that?” [40:54]
  • Zaslow: “Why can’t they just throw the ball to him?” [40:54]
• Press Conference Lampoon:
  • Dan (as coach): “False start on the first dentech. We got to clean that up…Now we’ll open it up to questions.” [41:50]
  • Zaslow: “I’m gonna lose a little sleep over that tonight.” [43:16]

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Timestamps for Major Segments

| Segment | Timestamp | |---------------------------------------------|-------------| | Sacramento Kings & Doug Christie | 00:43–08:57 | | NFL “Big Game” & $5K Bet | 09:00–14:45 | | Hidalgo 16-Steal Game / NBA Steals | 22:25–24:49 | | Gilbert Arenas: Troll, Guns, Mafia | 24:49–31:36 | | Warriors Culture & Player Delusion | 34:11–39:10 | | A.J. Brown vs. Eagles Success | 39:10–41:41 | | Mock Press Conference & Show Review | 41:41–43:26 |

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Episode Tone

Irreverent, rapid-fire, and highly self-aware, the crew toggles between in-depth sports analysis, ribbing each other perpetually, and satirizing the very seriousness of the sports world itself.

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For listeners or readers who missed it, this episode is an entertaining rollercoaster of schadenfreude (at Sacramento’s expense), examinations of what makes (and breaks) team culture, and the comedic value of the show’s own dysfunction, topped off with high-stakes betting drama and endless meta-commentary.

Transcript

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Bennett]

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[Kirby D. Frog]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Bennett]

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[Kirby D. Frog]

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[Bennett]

One of the things that I always find interesting in basketball is how sustainable are you? The Pacers are 1 in 10. The Mavericks were in the finals a couple of years ago. The whole thing has fallen apart. You remember that really fun year Sacramento had where it's like, are they on the rise now? Their coach is Doug Christie, who I don't believe is necessarily qualified for that job. He's another one of these former players who doesn't have a unique necessarily insight to how to coach. He's just a former player who has some allegiances to Sacramento that people remember. And so the Sacramento thing has collapsed. And the press conference we played of Doug Christie yesterday, yesterday was weird. But before I replay it and then tell you what happens to update this story, I mean, what's fair and unfair to say about Doug Christie's both relationship with Sacramento and his relationship with his wife? That was a subject of much topic around Doug Christie. That makes a whole lot of people in our audience of a certain age remember that Doug Christie was wildly and hugely supportive of his wife in a way that made it known to all in a way that was super public that his wife was in charge of their relationship and that she was the one and his love was something that buoyed her. They were very public about their relationship before that was a popular thing. And it's almost one of the first things I think of when I think of Doug Christie. What's fair to examine there?

[Dominic Foxworth]

Well, I mean, I would just to the second question, just say that, like, if you think about the show Basketball Wives, which opened up this whole world of the wives and girlfriends, the wags as they call them over across the pond, being celebrities of their own, right? And Jackie Christie was really like the first one to be of that mold even before the show went on in terms of being known for being Doug Christie's wife. And which is funny, because Doug Christie wasn't that famous a player when he played. But to the first question, what he means to the city of Sacramento, you got to think about the only sustainable success they've ever had in that city, over 40 years of having NBA basketball, is Doug Christie. Chris Weber, Pejor Stiakovic, Tita Turkoglu, Rick Adelman, those bloody divots. Those teams, right?

[Bennett]

And so could have and should have beaten Shaq's Lakers.

[Dominic Foxworth]

They came closer than anybody else, I guess, other than the Pistons, who actually did it. Right? So the idea here is that. And as a guy who never left, right, stayed with the organization, first as a broadcaster and then as an assistant coach and now as a head coach, right? So when he speaks, he knows how to use the jingoistic terms to get the Sacramento people very bought into him as a person and as a leader. So yesterday we played this sound, which is him after they lost pretty handily.

[Dan Le Batard]

Roll the audio.

[Doug Christie]

Good evening. Good evening, some of you guys. I think everybody in here knows me. If you don't. My name is Douglas Dale Christie. I'm head coach of the Sacramento Kings, okay? Change is hard, y'.

[Bennett]

All.

[Doug Christie]

We about to work at it like crazy. We totally get that. And it'll be bumpy. It will. Cause change is like that. But buckle up for the real ones. Buckle up. And for all the rest of you, you know who you are, you know how I feel about that when I see the hate, the haters, the fakers, all you guys, you keep that energy. That's good. You keep that. And you know who you are. Because while you doing that, we gonna be working. And while you doing that, we're gonna be growing. And while you do that, eventually we gonna be coming.

[Dan Le Batard]

Ten seconds here.

[Doug Christie]

The King show sack proud. Know that.

[Dan Le Batard]

Three, two.

[Louis]

All right.

[Dan Le Batard]

I mean, go ahead. Second set up a second.

[Dominic Foxworth]

So this is. That was after they lost to the Nuggets, 122 to 108. So last night they play against the Hawks worst team, Right? Also a home game. Surely better results. Rollox sound.

[Doug Christie]

Shameful. Compete level. That's it.

[Dominic Foxworth]

133 to 108. They lost to the Hawks. He had that big ass speech.

[Zaslow]

I didn't expect that.

[Dominic Foxworth]

They lost to the Hawks worse than they lost to the Nuggets. That was his sound.

[Bennett]

But he tried to motivate. Look, he threatened the haters. You heard it. He went in. But he doesn't.

[Kirby D. Frog]

And the Fakers don't forget about.

[Roy]

Keep that energy.

[Bennett]

He doesn't have the soldiers behind him. He's got what's left of Russell Westbrook trying to get a triple double.

[Zaslow]

Like you want to talk about, like the Clippers and they're just getting a bunch of names. That's literally what the Kings we like.

[Bennett]

Russ DeRozan and Russell Westbrook isn't going to fix it at the end. Schroeder, like what is all of that? What are they doing in Sacramento? That was, that was toward. That was the most promising team in the Western Conference a couple of years lighting that beam.

[Louis]

Them in Memphis were like, wow, this is the future.

[Zaslow]

And it's like, you know by that beam what happened.

[Bennett]

What Doug Christie is now in charge of something he will not be able to pull out of. There will be no pulling out of that. He will drown under what is happening in Sacramento and they will go back to being what they've always been. If not for Rick Adelman.

[Dominic Foxworth]

This is why we always say that ownership is so important in sports is because you can hire qualified people. But if you don't support them, especially in times of crisis, then it all falls apart. They had, as you said, the beginnings of something that looked like it was starting to work with Monty McNair as the GM and Wes Wilcox in that front office and Mike Brown and as the head coach and as Mike Brown is telling everybody, hey, this isn't working cuz guys aren't listening. Guys are not executing. Their answer was it's Mike Brown's fault. They get rid of Mike Brown and then obviously they get rid of their front office. And so this cycle begins anew and the new front office comes in with Scott Perry and they made some decisions that quite frankly feel very head scratching. It feels like this does not move.

[Zaslow]

It's such a stupid roster. You look at it, it's a stupid roster.

[Dominic Foxworth]

It is a stupid roster. You know what's crazy? Zaz is like they're one of the teams I mentioned yesterday. I happen to know that are monitoring the John ran situation.

[Bennett]

He happens to know. Great Scott. He happens to know.

[Dan Le Batard]

He happens to know Gather everyone.

[Bennett]

Get the children.

[Zaslow]

He happens to know so wise.

[Bennett]

You can't do that a second day after he's already done. The happen to know the happen to know has to be a surprise. Respect the happen to know Respect the happen to know it can't be him repeating and recycling yesterday's happen to know.

[Dan Le Batard]

If the play works.

[Dominic Foxworth]

But the point is it's like you send them John Morant. And yes, they'll be better because John Morant's good, but it feels like it's just gonna be more of the same because they're not gonna provide the structure and the, like, accountability that I think Ja Morant really needs.

[Zaslow]

It feels like sending Ja Morant to a bad situation is probably not the spot for him.

[Bennett]

The idea that you guys are talking two years after Sacramento and Memphis were playing for the top of this conference, they were telling us they were. Well, look, look, you can make them three and four and five seeds, but I was told that was OKC before I was told OKC was going to be okc. Okay. I was told that that was going to be the future Sacramento and Memphis, and they're young players and they're playing a different kind of basketball. To look up and see Memphis getting every game, whether Job plays or not, losing by 35 points every single night. Every single night where they've given up on the entirety of whatever it is that that was supposed to be.

[Dan Le Batard]

Dentex ready.

[Bennett]

I don't want to do football yet. I'm not happy with your governance of today's game. You've been actively distracting a meme. I've.

[Dominic Foxworth]

I've heard.

[Bennett]

I've heard.

[Dan Le Batard]

I go, gotta go, gotta go, gotta go.

[Bennett]

I don't want to do the Dentek bucket yet.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, no, let's keep talking Sacramento Kings. I was working.

[Bennett]

Get the. Get the reaper out of here. I'll do football for you. Reaper out. I don't want to. I'm not ready to do this yet.

[Dan Le Batard]

We give them that. We give them that control over the offense.

[Bennett]

We'll do the Dentek bucket in sec.

[Dan Le Batard]

Check with me.

[Bennett]

The thing that I did want to get to, though, because I'm hearing Louis during the breaks as I go out into a kitchen area where I thought the pastelitos. I thought we scrimped a little bit in the eating area on the pastel kitchen today.

[Louis]

Look, they were excellent. We love our Pastorito. Poppy, there's a. You know, there could be more.

[Bennett]

I could hear Lewis still grumbling. I really need that money Sunday. And so I'm watching on the television, and it says, chiefs must win game against the Broncos. And I want people to understand what the bet was that Nick Wright made the other day. Because it's not me against him. It is the shipping container has five grand riding on the Chiefs minus three and a half at Denver.

[Dominic Foxworth]

Correct.

[Bennett]

So this is a game for the top of the division. And I don't think it's a Must win game for the Chiefs. But you guys don't seem to be objecting to the idea of it as a must win game for the Chiefs.

[Louis]

It's an absolutely. A must win game in more ways than one.

[Zaslow]

Yo, how locked in are you that I am, buddy?

[Louis]

I might be calling plays. Might have to send it over to Andy Reid.

[Bennett]

So Nick Wright and I are making a $5,000 bet on behalf of both Knicks, Chiefs and the shipping container. The shipping container minus Mike, minus Amin. This is ton. According to Nick Wright. This is five grand for Tony, Chris, Roy, Louis, and who's the fifth? Jeremy. You sure he wanted Jeremy?

[Roy]

He's not here to defend five grand split amongst us.

[Bennett]

Are you guys going as part of. We can do each of you as part. As part of the consortium that. That Nick is in where he bets big money on big things. He's willing to spill $5,000 on behalf of the shipping container. Will you guys be watching that game with the audience on Sunday? The must win game for the Chiefs with you Gu. The chief side. Five grand on the result. You guys will be watching that and doing something with it.

[Louis]

Dan, will we be doing something? You will be able to watch a sweat every single second of Kansas City versus Denver. A massive game in the AFC west, not only for these two teams, but for the boys in the shipping container and Lewis in the back. I will be spearheading it. Okay. You know I'm Mr. Live305. We will be spearheading a live watch party watching Chiefs, Broncos425.

[Dan Le Batard]

Big game.

[Bennett]

Big game.

[Zaslow]

That says I decide if it's big game or not.

[Louis]

I'll tell you it's a big game right now.

[Bennett]

I'm telling you that you don't get decide that.

[Zaslow]

I decide to decide.

[Bennett]

What is it Zaz decides that you don't?

[Louis]

I'm telling it's a big game.

[Zaslow]

Chiefs, Broncos, three and a half points, $5,000. That's a big game.

[Bennett]

Let's go. Wow. All right, let's go. How many other big games are on the schedule? Let's do the Dentech bucket. Go get the shame reaper and allow him into the room.

[Louis]

There's actually one other big game, by the way. Seahawks versus Rams.

[Bennett]

Massive game. Is that a big game too? Hold on a second.

[Zaslow]

The Raiders, Seahawks, Rams, NFC West. That's a big game.

[Louis]

We got another big game.

[Bennett]

Wait. Three big games.

[Dan Le Batard]

Bucks, Bills.

[Zaslow]

Wait, Coach, what do you think about Bucs?

[Dan Le Batard]

Bills, Coach, I'm focused on Dallas Monday night.

[Bennett]

Dallas doesn't decide. Big games are not big games.

[Dan Le Batard]

Quarterback change.

[Bennett]

Zaz decides that Bucs, Bills.

[Zaslow]

Bills coming off of a bad loss to a stinky team. Bucks coming off of a loss to a good team.

[Kirby D. Frog]

Oh, okay.

[Louis]

I think we got four big games.

[Zaslow]

No, Detroit and Philly.

[Louis]

Big game on Sunday night.

[Bennett]

Wait a minute. Is that a fourth big game? That is a fourth.

[Zaslow]

Sunday night football. Lions.

[Bennett]

Oh, that is a big one.

[Zaslow]

Eagle.

[Dominic Foxworth]

I decide.

[Zaslow]

Lions. Eagles. That's a big game.

[Kirby D. Frog]

All right.

[Roy]

So they're just all big games.

[Bennett]

No, that's it. Just those four. That's it. Not all of them. Most of them are not.

[Roy]

First game ever in Spain.

[Bennett]

Most of that.

[Doug Christie]

Okay.

[Zaslow]

Washington. Oh, Miami. Both teams are 3 and 7.

[Bennett]

Terrible record.

[Zaslow]

Not a big game.

[Bennett]

Not a big game. They're not all big games.

[Dan Le Batard]

We got Chargers, Jags.

[Louis]

Oh, that's a good game.

[Bennett]

Yeah.

[Louis]

Is that a good game or a big game?

[Zaslow]

You don't know the difference.

[Dan Le Batard]

Impactful. Two playoff teams as of right now.

[Zaslow]

Chargers, Jaguars. Trevor Lawrence sucks. Not a big game.

[Bennett]

Not a big game.

[Zaslow]

Trevor Lawrence isn't playing big games.

[Bennett]

There are only four big games. I mean, go ahead and reach into the bucket. Go ahead and try to get the back guard. I love to rummage.

[Dominic Foxworth]

I got the Broncos.

[Bennett]

So you are a four and a half now. The line has gone up to four and a half.

[Zaslow]

You should keep it.

[Dominic Foxworth]

I'm putting back.

[Bennett]

Ooh, wow.

[Louis]

She's an ally.

[Roy]

Gotta fade the shipping container.

[Bennett]

This is a big game. For the record, by the way, the game on Sunday, according to our lines, it's three and a half. Because the line here is four and a half, it's gone up a point in favor of the Chiefs. So Nick got that line at three and a half earlier in the week. Just. I don't want any confusion. If there's a four point controversy, I'm rummaging. Just put back a four and a half point favorite at home. That's first place in the division.

[Dominic Foxworth]

Steelers.

[Bennett]

The Steelers are a five and a half point favorite at home against Cincinnati Flacco.

[Roy]

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[Dominic Foxworth]

Tomlin is afraid of Flaco.

[Bennett]

I'm worried he is afraid of Flacco. That's true. It's the only guy who makes him blink. Mike, I don't need the soundtrack of you chewing.

[Louis]

Can coach pick the Raiders? Is that a controversy?

[Bennett]

Don't let him look in the bucket. I see him chewing.

[Roy]

He should just get the Raiders.

[Bennett]

We're gonna go give him the Raiders.

[Dan Le Batard]

We're gonna defer.

[Bennett]

What do you mean you're gonna defer?

[Louis]

Second half, Dan.

[Bennett]

The Raiders are at home against the Cowboys. You get the Raiders. The Raiders, we defer. The Raiders, we defer.

[Dan Le Batard]

Come back after half a use.

[Louis]

I got the Giants. I'm gonna throw that back expeditiously.

[Bennett]

The Jameis Winchin. Ooh, the Jameis. He's seven and a half point underdog at home against the Packers.

[Louis]

I know how that one's gonna go.

[Dan Le Batard]

Weird team.

[Louis]

Packers, packers kind of weird.

[Dominic Foxworth]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

Unserious.

[Bennett]

That's what Dominic Foxworth says.

[Louis]

Wow. I got a big game.

[Zaslow]

Bucks.

[Dan Le Batard]

Wow.

[Bennett]

You've got Tampa Bay. So Tampa Bay is gonna end up being. I'm getting points, Dan.

[Louis]

I'm getting five and a half.

[Bennett]

Well, no, you're giving. Yeah, you're getting five and a half points. No, you're not getting anything. You're a five and a half point dog. I'm getting a loss.

[Louis]

Getting five and a half.

[Roy]

Dano, remember when we used to wear gloves for this segment?

[Bennett]

This is annoying. It's annoying to speak this way and I imagine it's annoying for the audience at this point as well. But Dentek is not annoying. It'll get rid of your head if you're a grinder.

[Dan Le Batard]

Roy, clean that up.

[Bennett]

What do you have on your helmet, Roy? Is that the Seahawks?

[Kirby D. Frog]

Yes, sir, the Seattle Seahawks.

[Bennett]

So Seattle, that's in one of the big games at the Rams. They're at the Rams. They're a three and a half point dog at the Rams.

[Kirby D. Frog]

I'm putting that back.

[Bennett]

Whoa, you guys are putting good teams.

[Zaslow]

Best teams in the league.

[Bennett]

Roy, are you watching football?

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm watching hockey.

[Louis]

I can tell.

[Dan Le Batard]

Clearly.

[Bennett]

It's got the Chargers.

[Kirby D. Frog]

I got the Giants.

[Bennett]

Oh, the Giants. I'm sorry. So you're a seven and a half point.

[Louis]

Don't start watching football, buddy.

[Kirby D. Frog]

I'll watch it on Sunday.

[Roy]

All right, here we go.

[Dominic Foxworth]

I'm going now.

[Roy]

Let me go to the bottom.

[Dominic Foxworth]

I like to go to the bottom.

[Bennett]

Get one out the bottom.

[Louis]

Hey, why aren't you wearing your dentek mouthpiece?

[Roy]

I am not wearing that at the moment. I have the Falcons.

[Bennett]

The Falcons are at home, three and a half point favorite over Carolina. Not bad.

[Dan Le Batard]

Favored over a team they lost by 32.

[Bennett]

I'll keep it. They're at home. Wow. So, all right, I deferred.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm going to go ahead and break now.

[Louis]

Second half just kicked off.

[Bennett]

Dan, he's super annoying today, man. Like he's most annoying. Most.

[Dan Le Batard]

But Davis Mills at Tennessee we're going to keep that.

[Bennett]

You're going to keep that. As a six and a half point favorite at Tennessee despite your beloved Cam Ward. The reaper is coming in here now to. To allow. Zaslow. Zaslow, you haven't done punishments. One of them was you stayed in a bed. How many times have you lost this season?

[Zaslow]

Yeah, and I also did. I dressed up as a NASCAR driver, and I have a punishment coming up next week. My deal is in the mail, so.

[Bennett]

Don'T you worry about that. I think you're dressing up as the Pope.

[Zaslow]

Yeah, it's appropriate. San Francisco Popriot.

[Bennett]

The 49ers are on the road at Arizona. They're a 3.5 point favorite.

[Zaslow]

I'm gonna keep that.

[Bennett]

All right, you're gonna keep that. That was funny. As soon as the Cardinals say, hey, no more Kyler Murray, we're gonna go with Jacoby Brissette. Jacoby Brissette gives you that game. I've got the Dentech golden helmet of life, I'm assuming, right? Like this is. Yes. Look at this. This is the most precious thing in here. No one's happy for me. Of course, I require the celebratory music. Thank you. Dentech. Dentech. I'm very pleased. No one' obviously they want to see me in these costumes.

[Dan Le Batard]

Stop talking.

[Bennett]

I don't like these costumes.

[Dan Le Batard]

Back to you talking over the imager.

[Bennett]

I was going to lay out as soon as the stugata Buh. Came in here, but once again, you're being too handsy with the show and you're getting in my way.

[Kirby D. Frog]

I mean, people are talking.

[Dan Le Batard]

Do not know what laying out means.

[Dominic Foxworth]

At the end of the sound, you were going to lay out at the bar.

[Bennett]

Lay out after the. Right before the bar. Got run out of bounds. Right before the bar.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, let's just go ahead and.

[Bennett]

I was going to. I was going to stop right before the bar and forth. Comedic.

[Dan Le Batard]

We'll talk about it after the game.

[Bennett]

Allow it.

[Dan Le Batard]

We'll talk about it after the game.

[Bennett]

Allow it. To buttress me. Kneel down.

[Kirby D. Frog]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Roy]

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[Bennett]

Don LeBatard, Kirby D. Frog here live.

[Kirby D. Frog]

From Meadowlock Media Studios here in Miami.

[Bennett]

Stugartz.

[Dan Le Batard]

The Germans are advancing on France and World War II.

[Bennett]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the ST. I'm reading headlines this morning and I did not see this game, okay? So you will forgive me for not knowing that Hannah Hidalgo is a great player for Notre Dame in women's college basketball. She scored 44 points last night. But when I saw 16 steals, when I saw 16 steals, I'm like, does Akron have a point guard problem? Because 16 steals, I don't understand under what circumstance I could be watching any game that someone is so athletic that they've got 16 steals in a game. What would you guys think is the record in an NBA game for steals in a game? Because when I saw 16 steals, I'm like, that can't just be about Hannah Hidalgo is great. She'll score against everyone. She'll score 44 against a lot of people. But if I ask for the steals record, when I see 16 steals, I assume the steals record is like half that. That's that something closer to eight than to 16.

[Roy]

The NBA record for steals in a game is 11. It's two guys, Larry Keenan and Kendall Gill. Keenan did his in 76, Gill in 99.

[Dominic Foxworth]

Shout out to Kendall Gill, the boxer.

[Roy]

Seven players have done 10 steals.

[Bennett]

Sixteen steals, though, that is. That must be very fun to play basketball that way. To be a player who can steal the ball 16 times feels to me like what would be dream Scenario for how can I be more athletic than everyone it is that I'm playing against. So athletic that I can dominate the game by. By doubling up. What would be a normal steal total.

[Dominic Foxworth]

For an amazing game or just playing against some sloppy. Sloppy passes, bad turnovers, bad ball handling.

[Louis]

Also, I mean, what's the cookie rate that, those 16 steals? Because that's an important thing to note, right? Is it 16 steals where I'm getting in the passing that I'm getting one? Or is it cookies where I'm taking what you're dribbling? And those are mine. Thank you. Excuse me.

[Dominic Foxworth]

The cookie percentage is an important.

[Louis]

We need to check that out.

[Dominic Foxworth]

Yeah, we need that before we can confirm anything. By the way, you talk about Hannah Hidalgo, what you know about that? Audi crooks, man.

[Zaslow]

Oh, yeah, she dominated last night.

[Dominic Foxworth]

You know about that?

[Louis]

You saw that?

[Zaslow]

Yeah, I saw what Audi crooks did. She had like 40 something points last night.

[Dominic Foxworth]

43 points in 20 minutes.

[Zaslow]

Yeah.

[Bennett]

Crook would be a better name for somebody who's doing the steals, I would imagine, right. Than the. Than the point totals. Can you guys, can you guys tell me whether or not you've been following at all the journey of Gilbert Arenas? Because it's been really interesting to watch all the things that Arenas is doing. Pouring a great deal of money into the making of content. He's gotten into the content business in a way that is expensive and has been successful. There are not a lot of athletes who have had the success in this space that Gilbert Arenas has. Gilbert Arenas during his playing days and afterward is an uncommon personality anywhere in athletics where he's actively willing to be troll. This goes back to his playing days. He got suspended, one of the longest suspensions ever. That I thought before watching the Netflix documentary. I really did think that Gilbert Arenas didn't get into historic suspension trouble for bringing a gun into a locker room and having a showdown with Javeris Krittenan. I thought that the suspension initially would be over that. And then I thought, no. The reason that he got that long a suspension is because while he was still playing, while they were trying to figure out what to do with that, he came out and did a gun celebration with finger guns and then he got yanked off the court. But it turns out after watching the Netflix documentary that the reason he got suspended for that, he says, is because he was just on NBA planes going back and forth all over the place with a bunch of guns.

[Dominic Foxworth]

Then a couple of things. Gilbert Arenas, like Shaquille o', Neal, sometimes embellish his stories, right? But it is true. His initial suspension for having the guns in the locker room and all that was like two games, three games or something like that. He gets reactivated that first game back when he's reactivated, he comes out with the finger gun suit and David Stern blew a gasket and that's when he threw the book at him, which is what I actually ask Adam Silver to do all the time, throw the book at him.

[Bennett]

He's being introduced before a game in the middle of this controversy, and as he does so, he does finger guns as if he thinks all of this is funny, that he's getting suspended for a couple of games.

[Dominic Foxworth]

So this is the backdrop. This is the kind of guy he is. I mean, even we talk about the. The. The showdown, if you will. Critten in walks in the locker room and Gilbert has three guns on the chair and says, pick one. And Critten says, I don't have to do that. I got my own cocks. It starts singing, oh, let's do it. And it said, everybody ran out of locker room except for Gilbert Arenas. And I heard this from not Gilbert Arenas. He sat back and he laughed. So this is the level of troll, ladies and gentlemen. He's willing to die for the joke, right? Or at least he was when he was a player. When Gilbert retired, I knew I said this guy would be great on tv. The problem is he's Gilbert Arenas. He plays by nobody's rules. We had him on the jump one time. Our producer sat with him for 40 minutes in pre show meeting. All they were doing was going over words you can't say. What about, can I say this word? No, you can't say that on tv. They finally landed on douchebag. Can I say douchebag? Fine, Gilbert, you can say douchebag. And then he proceeded on the jump to work the word douchebag into every single answer of every question thrown at him. This is a Gilbert Arenas, who in another time could never exist on tv. But because of the great equalizer of the Internet, he has become a massive star for all the reasons of rule breaking, of being a troll of all these things have allowed him to be a massive start. Now here's the deal, Dan. We got the gambling scandal. And this is him talking about the day he learned, maybe I should stop trolling.

[Bennett]

Me, trolling my own case, saying I'm.

[Dominic Foxworth]

Ready to snitch, right?

[Bennett]

And then I'm looking at the case.

[Dominic Foxworth]

Like, all right, Chauncey Rozier, the this guy doing me.

[Bennett]

What happened is we're getting ready to.

[Dominic Foxworth]

Go on the show. So I'm like, I'm not gonna mess this moment up.

[Bennett]

Not gonna mess this moment up. Right.

[Dominic Foxworth]

So what did the lunch bag say again?

[Bennett]

Informing lunch. I didn't know because.

[Dominic Foxworth]

Because, you know, I'm reading on real time.

[Bennett]

And then, you know, going on a.

[Dominic Foxworth]

Show, I didn't know how serious that was. And then once I realized how serious.

[Bennett]

It was, it kind of scared me. But then, right, it started seeing, like, the crime families.

[Dominic Foxworth]

Like, I've heard these names before, right?

[Bennett]

You know, like, I'm. You know, I'm watching you. I. Because I watch Datelines, and I watch, you know, all this mob shit.

[Dominic Foxworth]

So I be watching, like, you know, okay, got.

[Bennett]

Got an argument at a restaurant. Next day, restaurant blew up. Oh, okay. Car blew up. Whoa.

[Dominic Foxworth]

Like, okay. So they serious about their business on just arguments.

[Bennett]

This is real.

[Dominic Foxworth]

This is four families, and my name.

[Bennett]

Is in it for no damn reason. Do they think this is real? Do they think I'm a part of it?

[Dominic Foxworth]

Listen, I didn't get in my car.

[Bennett]

For about a week and a half.

[Zaslow]

Really?

[Bennett]

Hell no. I mean, let's. Let's talk about what's real and what. No, no, no. I believe. I don't. This one's interesting, right? I did not believe that there was a trolling line that Gilbert Arenas would not cross because I, too, marveled at. In a locker room where Gilbert knew what his power was as the star and the star moneymaker, he pushed a teammate to the brink on the game of chicken of. You're not gonna shoot me in here. Here are the guns. Teammates are running out. But he's that committed to the joke layout now. He does not fear the FBI. He does not fear basketball investigations. He does fear the Mafia, obviously.

[Dominic Foxworth]

That's exactly it, dad. The idea is that because he had his own FBI thing earlier in the summer, people were saying maybe Gilbert was on the toll. So as soon as he saw the story, he comes in with the bag with the informant lunch on it. But even as he's telling the story, I'm like, I don't believe you, Gilbert. I think he's still gonna troll. He's still gonna do these jokes, and he's still gonna have fun with it. In the rest of the clip, he says he had to make calls to the underworld to make sure. Am I kosher? Am I good, or am I in danger here? And they let him know he's good, and now he can start his car.

[Zaslow]

I just don't. Yeah, I just don't believe the part where he didn't, he didn't go in.

[Dominic Foxworth]

His car for a couple, a week and a half.

[Zaslow]

He said no way. There's no way he didn't go in his car for a couple of weeks.

[Louis]

You know what those car boys.

[Zaslow]

Well, yeah, I do.

[Louis]

Okay, so.

[Zaslow]

So there's no way he didn't go in his car. Well, I stutter just trying to tell you.

[Bennett]

I do believe he was scared, though, and I don't believe he scares easily.

[Dominic Foxworth]

There's a moment, right, There's a brief moment where you like, oh, shit. Like I'm making a joke and I'm thinking, I'm making the joke at the expense of Terry Rozier, at the expense of Chauncey Billups, the expense of Adam Silver. And you realize, guys, when you look at the names on that list, you're like, oh, there's some people who don't. Maybe they don't make jokes. They don't make jokes. Yeah. Like I need to clarify real quick. My name's Bennett. I ain't in it. My name's Paul. It's between y'.

[Louis]

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[Roy]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Bennett]

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[Roy]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Bennett]

Don LeBatard.

[Dan Le Batard]

For weeks, months even during the regular season, I wondered aloud what Kevin Stendland did. And then about three weeks ago, it hit me.

[Bennett]

Stugats.

[Dan Le Batard]

He gives him one of these and he gives them one of those.

[Zaslow]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats.

[Bennett]

What were your thoughts amin on the move that Steve Kerr made where he's saying he's ready to make major changes and the major change is right after Draymond says hidden agendas. It's Kaminga. You're going to the bench. We are in. We're aware, right, that Draymond still leads that team. Right, like that.

[Louis]

The.

[Bennett]

The furnace that Draymond is with the connection specifically that he has to Steph. Right. Like this is an unusual bond that they have in the fire. Ones who survived, it was them. Durant got blown out. Get out of here, Clay. Where the furnace. It's going to be. Draymond does all the little things. Steph does all the big things. Good cop, bad cop in the locker room, I would imagine, I imagine that everybody loves Steph and Draymond's the one policing it. They go out and they beat Wemby last night after Jimmy Butler's there with Draymond saying not coming is the problem. The problem here is Kaminga. And now Kaminga goes to the bench.

[Dominic Foxworth]

Well, Anthony Slater also posited yesterday Brandon Pajemski. Brandon Pajemski, the third year guard, had made comments in the summer that they deemed to be a little disrespectful.

[Zaslow]

Stupid. I saw those comments. So Brandon Pajimski, like, was asked, like, how good do you want to be? You know, how are you going to take the mantle or something? He's like, I want to be better than Curry. And apparently the veterans got mad.

[Dominic Foxworth]

Why?

[Zaslow]

That's stupid cares.

[Dominic Foxworth]

I mean, it's, it's.

[Zaslow]

He's saying he wants to be one of the greatest players. That's not a good thing to say.

[Dominic Foxworth]

A level of kind of. It's weird It's a sport that demands delusion, but also, like, realistic delusion. Like, I've told the story before about Aaron Aflalo, where he told us in our pre draft interview that we said, who's a guy in the league who. Whose career you think you can mimic? And he said, kobe Bryant. And he said, well, no. Like, yes, obviously, the. The best players. We want to emulate them, whatever. But, like, realistically, you look around the league, who's like, someone like, I can have his career. And he was like, kobe Bryant. And we were like, yeah, dude, you're not gonna be Kobe Bryant. So then we explained to him, like, we think you can be like, a bigger, more athletic Roger Bell can do a little bit more off the dribble, can defend a little bit more versatility. Cause you are tall or whatever. And it was like, we told him, hey, can you clean our toilets barehanded, please? It was so far beneath him to say, hey, you can be Roger Bell. Which Roger Bell, all defensive team, played on some teams that went to the finals, some deep runs.

[Bennett]

But when you talk about these delusions, though, do you guys. Not in the warriors locker room how Jimmy Butler, Draymond Green, and Steph Curry would look at anyone else in the locker room and be like, you have no idea how hard what we just did was for the last 10 years. You have no concept.

[Dan Le Batard]

Go to a mean Diddy.

[Dominic Foxworth]

Well, don't do that one.

[Zaslow]

Like, do you think Jimmy's a part of any of those conversations with Jimmy.

[Bennett]

Feels he belongs in that conversation.

[Dominic Foxworth]

First of all, Draymond and Jimmy Lockstep, right? It's the. The two who like to hold people accountable in the most asshole way possible. Which, again, in Draymond's. I think for both of them. They're vets. They've been in the league long enough. And I think the things that they demand are good basketball. They're not demanding, you know, hey, just keep passing me the ball and get out of the way. They want you to play better. For Draymond, in particular, like I said yesterday, when we talk about him and Stan, Steph and Clay when he was there, and Andre Guadala when he was there, like, they're really understanding about what makes this thing go. Not just like, hey, give the ball to Steph or whatever, but, like, literally the attitude and the approach of the championship mentality, it's not for everybody, right? The way they do things there. And so when you see someone who kind of breaks away from that, they're like, no, no, no, no, no, no, man, we got. Put four, four banners up there doing it this way. Way to hell with your way.

[Zaslow]

Okay, but here's where the warriors are stupid. What did they expect with Jonathan Kaminga this year? They went the whole summer, we don't want you, you don't want us. And then eventually he signs the tender. And yeah, he still needs to go out now this year and get his because he wants to sign a long term deal. And you know what? Coming from Jimmy Butler, that's pretty effing rich. Where last year he tanked the Heat because, you know, he wanted his money. Even though Jimmy's probably made $200 million in his career. Jonathan Kaminga has made squat. And like, you're upset that Jonathan Kaminga's trying to go out there and get his. Like it's, it's kind of, it's kind of stupid that the wars didn't acknowledge.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's a good point. Kind of trailed off.

[Dominic Foxworth]

I think the context, the context is important, right? In the sense that Jimmy Butler last year, I mean, we all knew it. You looked at this Miami Heat team. This is not a championship team. Meanwhile, in Golden State, they feel like they are a championship team. And so when that agenda supersedes the ultimate team success, it becomes threatening. When it's like we're not doing anything anyway, then it's a little bit more acceptable.

[Zaslow]

What the warriors expect, what they expect out of this.

[Bennett]

Okay, but let's.

[Dominic Foxworth]

And also, like, the players aren't the ones. They have nothing to do with that. Like, this is a player driven conversation.

[Bennett]

Can we examine though, when ZSAS sort of says, what did they expect? Respect. Let's make it AJ Brown now in the Eagles. Okay? Let's make it the big controversy in football where you've got a 7:2 team and someone who we know to be great is saying, I want to be great from within the greatness. I'm always great. A.J. brown is the number one receiver. We all know it. The only thing that's ever stopped A.J. brown since we've learned his name is the Eagles offense. Like, we know that that's a human being that can't be covered by just about anybody. And so A.J. brown is in the middle of this saying, saying, I know how to be great. I know how to be great. Within this greatness, we have won. Look, this string of winning Philadelphia's done. Doesn't happen very often in football where you win 23 of 25. Like these things break apart. AJ Brown is in the middle. We're sitting here talking about how Does Russell Westbrook end up. How does LeBron James end up fitting in with a group of people when you've been the great thing the entire time? AJ Brown is a mess around a team that should not have any messes given the level of success that they have. But what happens when you getting yours? Conflicts with the team getting. It's like what does happen there? What do you do with A.J. brown if you're the Philadelphia Eagles and you have an unhappy superstar? Unhappy, clearly. Even though you've won 23 of 25. 23 of 25. What do you do with that? How do you lead that if you're Nick Sirianni? How do you keep eating it in these press conferences where your. Your star receiver and videos on social media is being like this. This isn't for me. This isn't. I'm clearly not happy.

[Zaslow]

So it'll be a stupid question. I'm just gonna ask it anyway. Why can't they just throw the ball?

[Kirby D. Frog]

A.J.

[Dominic Foxworth]

Brown more.

[Zaslow]

He's really good. Like, why can't they just throw it to him?

[Bennett]

Three targets last week.

[Dominic Foxworth]

Yeah.

[Bennett]

13 yards, right?

[Dan Le Batard]

Some. Sometimes it's not the most obvious thing, you know, Hand the ball to Marshawn. Who knows?

[Bennett]

Get the press conference.

[Dan Le Batard]

Gotta take what the defense.

[Bennett]

All right, all right, Look, I'm coming.

[Dan Le Batard]

Up on two minutes here. Coming up on two minutes.

[Bennett]

I know that already. I just said that. You're aging and I asked for your press conference materials. All you've been doing, all show is chewing. Does your jaw hurt?

[Dan Le Batard]

It actually does a lot.

[Bennett]

All you've been doing for two hours, three hours now, is chewing. Chewing in the meeting before the show. All right, let's do the press conference. Let's review the last hour. Go ahead.

[Zaslow]

He looks haggard.

[Dan Le Batard]

You're in the shot.

[Dominic Foxworth]

Really? Aids.

[Dan Le Batard]

Sorry about that.

[Dominic Foxworth]

PR guy coming.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, for coach. Well, let me couple things here. False start on the first dentech. We got to clean that up. We got to clean that up. We'll hit that heavy in practice. We gotta learn to lay out too miscommunication. But we touched on all the sports. A lot of different looks. I thought Chris Cody bounced back. Really responded to the adversity. Love to see that. Building the good locker room culture over here. Now we'll open it up to questions.

[Bennett]

Do you think you're actively keeping Amin from being distracted?

[Dan Le Batard]

He was a little rattled during the Amin diddy thing. I tried to do what is called a callback. You know, just.

[Bennett]

Why was there a whistle in the press conference from our bounce back player? Of the show. Our comeback player of the show, Chris Cody. Why is that? The mind is a press conference. Why? I've never heard somebody blow a coach's whistle in a press conference. Have you?

[Dan Le Batard]

Where's the question here?

[Bennett]

You're distracting Amin. Do you not notice it?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, I mean, I could have. I wanted to see what. What kind of response he had for a mean Diddy. When we saw what Amin was made of, he. He had a great conversation about commingling. I thought Zazzle made really good points. Got to finish a little stronger, no doubt. But to be able to counteract what Amin was throwing at him, Real good job, coach.

[Zaslow]

You know about that?

[Louis]

Did he? That's it. No more questions. We're done on that. By the way, Coach, thank you. Appreciate that.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's my time.

[Bennett]

You did peter out. You realized that, right? You.

[Louis]

You.

[Bennett]

You stumbled toward the.

[Zaslow]

I did.

[Doug Christie]

I'm.

[Zaslow]

I'm gonna. I'm gonna lose a little sleep over that tonight. I'm not gonna lie. I'm gonna be lying in bed, you know, feeling good about the show for the most part, and that's going to keep me up.

[Bennett]

Can we see how Mike is age? Just trying to be in this cauldron for three hours of running both video and audio at the same time.

[Dan Le Batard]

Run the graphic.

[Bennett]

This is staggering here. This is really how he looked at the start.

[Roy]

And then that was hour two. And that's now.

[Dan Le Batard]

Now's a good time to remember where tequila's story truly began. In 1795, Cuervo invented tequila. Cuervo, what are you doing here?

[Bennett]

Cuervo? Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, I do know that to be true. But even during ad reads like Cuervo, I think you could lay out, especially for one of our great partners.

[Bennett]

Sweet, delicious Cuervo.

[Dan Le Batard]

Since then, Cuervo has stayed true to its roots. The same family, the same land, the same passion.

[Bennett]

Cuervo.

[Dan Le Batard]

So enjoy the tequila that started it all.

[Kirby D. Frog]

Cuervo.

[Dan Le Batard]

Cuervo, the tequila that invented tequila. Proximo, Cuervo.com, please drink responsibly.

[Bennett]

Cuervo.