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Dan Le Batard
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Jeremy
This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats podcast.
Lucy
Hey, Dan, it's me, Lucy. And we are here on the beautiful University of Florida campus. And the thing about off roading is we schedule these trips out months and months and months in advance when things looked a little different for Florida. Thank you, sir. Tell us about this outfit you got on today.
Mike
Oh, it was something I created. I'm that hard gator fan. The helmet I painted myself.
Lucy
Wow. Painted the helmet himself. You would have never been able to tell. I can't believe you painted that. You have some talent. How do we make our friendship work on a day like this?
Mike
It's tough. It's really tough.
Lucy
This is the. We're watching a friendship breakup live right now.
Zaz
Depends who wins.
Jeremy
Honestly.
Lucy
Well, that's going in your favor.
Mike
He's my ride home.
Lucy
So how would you describe this season of Florida football? Underwhelming, unfortunate, depressing. Would you guys die for the program?
Zaz
I spent 40 grand a year to come here.
Lucy
So that's a yes.
Chris
To be honest, I haven't really been tracking it.
Lucy
Okay, so then why is your face painted like this if you don't watch?
Chris
I mean, I can represent.
Mike
Okay.
Chris
I mean, it doesn't. I don't have to watch them all.
Zaz
The time, but I do like them in my team.
Lucy
Represent the team that you don't watch. Is this your first Florida game?
Mike
It is.
Lucy
What do you think so far?
Mike
I actually love the atmosphere so far.
Dan Le Batard
It's really nice.
Lucy
The trees are awesome here.
Mike
Very.
Lucy
I feel like the Lorax, the way I speak for these trees. Look at that tree. Look at this tree. Look at that tree. Good tree. Breaking news. This is a sable palm and is the official state tree of Florida. We're really just doing tree content. They can't all be winners, you know. Were you a Billy Napier guy?
Dan Le Batard
Hell, no.
Jeremy
Not a single bit.
Zaz
I love him as a person. I think out of our last few.
Dan Le Batard
Head coaches, I will say he had.
Zaz
He had a soft spot for him.
Lucy
Rough. That was a real long way to say no. Did you know they fired their head coach?
Zaz
No, I did not.
Lucy
They did a couple weeks ago. Hey, did you know that Billy Napier was the coach?
Zaz
No, ma'.
Mike
Am.
Lucy
I kind of love you.
Zaz
I'm here to represent.
Mike
That's it. It's my team.
Lucy
You keep saying that and you don't know anything that's going on. Okay, so if we had our ideal choice for head coach, who would you guys pick?
Dan Le Batard
LeBron. Yeah, he's him. He's him.
Lucy
I agree with that. I agree with that 100%. Is that our top choice for the open job is Lane Kiffin.
Zaz
100%. 100%.
Lucy
Are you nervous he's gonna go to LSU? A little bit. They're gonna offer him a lot of money. If you don't get Lane Kiffin, who do you want?
Zaz
Anybody but Mario Cristobal. I know.
Mike
He's not even on the board.
Zaz
I just don't like him.
Mike
Fair enough.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah.
Lucy
This is a Miami based show, so we approve of that message. Actually, you got the one Miami hater here who's in a worse spot, Florida or Florida State? Florida State. They owe him like 75 million dol still and the coaching staff over 100 million.
Mike
It's like the battle of mid. I'm happy they losing. Yeah. As long as we get that win, it'll be a great season. It's a win for us.
Lucy
Sean McGill is here. Son of Ron McGill. He has confirmed that these are real. And I asked, where do you buy a Gator skull like this? And he was like, I don't know. A gas station. How has your experience been with Tennessee fans today? Have you talked to any of them? Not really. We just been tailgating with ourselves. Have you heard Rocky Top? Do you guys know that song? Yeah, we haven't heard it today. We haven't heard it Today. What do you think of it?
Zaz
It's a catchy song, unfortunately. Catchy?
Lucy
It is a banger. Is it better than Won't Back Down? Absolutely not.
Zaz
Absolutely not.
Lucy
Just asking the questions that I have to because I have a journalism degree. Do you know what they sing at the fourth quarter?
Chris
No, ma'.
Dan Le Batard
Am.
Mike
I know.
Lucy
Okay. It's really cool. I think you'll love it. They do Won't Back down by Tom Petty.
Zaz
Oh, I didn't know that.
Lucy
We are learning so much today. This trip to the Swamp was brought to you by Hampton Farms. Peanuts get nutty With Hampton Farms, the official snack nut of bowl season. I have decided I wanted to clear you the Hampton Farms nuttiest fan of the game. So we got you this combo pack of peanuts because he loves the Gators so much that he doesn't give a crap about what's going on. He just loves the Gator. Yes, ma'.
Mike
Am.
Chris
Oh, Gators.
Lucy
Let's win, Dan. While Alabama was playing Eastern Illinois and Auburn was playing Mercer, Tennessee had their own version of that. Playing Florida today, it was swampy in the worst way. Deeply unpleasant football game. Lane Kiffin, I really do think you're going to like it here. I really, really do. They gave me a Lululemon bag today, and I just know you would love that. I know it, Lane. I know it.
Mike
Lucy, I have admired your growth here over two years. Doing these packages, they are harder to do than people understand. But this is your first work of art, to see the energy drained of that swamp because they're losers at football and you not being able to pick it up with your presence because the energy is dead. And the one fan you found with a painted face didn't know anything about what he was there for. Like, that's the most useless environment fan of the game. This is the. No.
Chris
Napier was fired.
Mike
This is the most useless environment we've sent Lucy into when she says this was planned months ago. No one could have seen what this is coming or everyone. They tried to kill Lucy, but she would not let them. She. This is a tribe, Lucy. You have not had a harder triumph since, I think the Army Navy game where they wouldn't let you anywhere near the facility during these difficult times.
Lucy
Yeah, it was tough. The trees were awesome, though. That's a beautiful campus.
Dan Le Batard
I'm glad you mentioned that. That's always my takeaway from Gainesville. Such nice trees.
Lucy
Amazing. The Spanish moss there is gorgeous. It's breathtaking. So at least we had that.
Zaz
Had you never been there, Lucy?
Lucy
I have. I Went once before. The last time I went, we, like, didn't send Rose with me. We just like met up with two journalism students and they took me to a frat party. So I didn't really get to see the campus.
Mike
You, I'm not sure that you've missed much. Congratulations on making your way to like the seventh most important game in the SEC that weekend. It was an understandable choice. But before we get to Florida being dead, Mike has been wanting to talk about what losers they are at FSU since before the season. I don't know whether he's gotten any of his shots off on his private ventures, but Mike has literally for months been wanting to talk about FSU being losers. And so now where are we with Norvell? Where they're stuck with him.
Lucy
Yeah. So they announced Sunday following a loss to NC State, a bad loss where Florida State committed a ton of just like stupid, dumb decisions and that's why they lost, which has been the entire Florida State season for the last two years. Mike Norvelli back for 2026. And it's pretty simple why they cannot afford to fire him. I think it's $56 million to get rid of Norvell, 72 to get rid of his staff. And when you look around and you're saying, okay, we're going to spend $70 million to start over and we are not the best job available or the second best job available or the third best job available. Florida State just feels like they're cutting their losses right now by being like, you know what, we're just going to wait another year. They said they're going to take money and invest it into the team during this time? Personally, I think that's just a waste of time, wasted space. Because what quarterback, what coordinator is going to want to come to Florida State next year knowing that everything is going to change?
Mike
It's not supposed to go. Lucy, from 131 to 2 and 10 to. Your coach is in trouble immediately. Like, that's not the way that one's supposed to work. Ever.
Dan Le Batard
Ever.
Lucy
Well, I think what's worth noting is that that season has with the context we have now, that season was the anomaly for Mike NORVELL. It wasn't 5 and 6.
Mike
Yeah. But it wasn't a fluke either. But it wasn't a fluke.
Lucy
But no, it sort in the sense that Mike Norvell has built Florida State by ignoring recruiting. Basically. He is not a good recruiter. That has never hit been his game. He's hit the transfer portal so hard and he got lucky with a bunch of really good hits. And since then he's not changed the strategy at all. Florida State has done everything exactly the same. They just have not gotten lucky with the portal. It's not just Mike Norvell, it's the system he has built there where like that year was absolutely a fluke. He's six years in, he has two winning seasons. Like he. We know who he is. He's not a recruiter. He just hopes the transfer portal works out.
Mike
That hurts though to like I understand how she's coming by the appraisal of fluke, but 13, oh, like when you see how difficult it is with these team losing two games. Like when's 13 and 0 ever? I don't care.
Dan Le Batard
This was predictable. I wish we could go back, give Ethan the job to listen to the shows after FSU got screwed. Ethan do that because this was all a house of cards. Because of what Lucy identified, which is they got. They struck on the transfer portal. They didn't supplement with the high school. To Norvell's credit, they're trying to recruit the high school better. And he did fix a lot of the issues from last year. The offense did get better. They hired an offensive coordinator when they.
Zaz
Were sitting at three. No, this year. Like you were fooled, right?
Dan Le Batard
No, I wasn't. No, no, no.
Mike
I'm telling you since before the season. I don't. Look, I don't know what happened to FSU because I did see them beat Alabama like that. We didn't imagine that that's the worst.
Zaz
Loss of the season for anyone now. Right.
Dan Le Batard
I said we were going to look back on week one between and said this might be a battle of like an 8 win team and a 7 win team. Now Alabama's had some one score luck. I think Alabama's proven that they. They're all right. Yeah, no, they're solid. But they lost to Florida State. Gus Malzahn did improve the offense. It just so happens that he and Mike Norvell hate each other.
Mike
Now, Lucy, before I get to your travels this weekend because Ryan Day is 81:10 against everybody but has lost the last four times to Michigan. They play Michigan this weekend. So I suspect that this will be. This is going to feel like a giant epic adventure. I don't know what the best environment you've found yourself in, but Ohio State kind of quietly defending its greatness because they haven't been tested and haven't played anybody. This game for Ryan Day is the only thing about Ryan Day that wouldn't make him better than Urban Meyer. Correct. Like, if. If we're talking, like, Urban Meyer winning the national championship, the game that you're headed to is a legitimately exciting one.
Lucy
Yeah. No, this is. This is it for Ryan Day. This is it. Ohio State. The last time Ohio State played anybody of any substance was week one against Texas. So, like, Ohio State has been, like, very. It's weird because they're the number one team in the nation and they look like it. They've just been under the radar because they haven't really had these marquee matchups. Yeah, this is sort of it. Like, you have lost to Michigan four years in a row for the last, obviously, this year, and last year, you're significantly better than Michigan is. If this is the hump you can't get over. Like, we're not at the stage anymore where we can be like, well, Ryan Day is going to get fired because he hasn't beat Michigan. When they're, you know, won the national championship last year, they. They have everything in front of them to win this year. It's just such a weird little, like, monkey on his back that he cannot get off because this Michigan team is a lot better than last year's team. But this Michigan team still is. Like, their offense is not very fun to watch. Ohio State's defense is very good. Everything should trend towards Ohio State winning. But, like, I don't know. I don't know. Vibes are odd.
Zaz
Lucy, if Michigan wins this Saturday and Oregon loses at Washington, Michigan's in the title game, right?
Lucy
Yeah. Yeah, that's totally possible.
Dan Le Batard
It really screws everything up for all the other teams.
Lucy
Don't love that. It's very weird that Michigan is still in playoff condition. They shouldn't be. I don't know. If you want.
Chris
Could they get in if they don't. If they. If they beat Ohio State but don't get in to the conference championship game, could they still then be in conversation?
Mike
They're not lost, Chr.
Dan Le Batard
They're going to be ranked pretty high tonight. And if they get.
Zaz
They're saying best win of the season.
Chris
If you're Michigan, you don't even want.
Mike
To make the conference conversation, honestly, in front of everybody. Okay, I want to ask everyone this question, and I want to ask it aggressively. Tell me what's going to happen in Ohio State, Michigan, because I defy you people to tell me Michigan's going to do that to Ryan Day. Again, I defy anyone here to stand behind the opinion of Michigan's going to do that to Ohio State again.
Lucy
I'm staying quiet. Don't talk to me.
Zaz
It was a lot more unlikely last year.
Dan Le Batard
I don't think Jeremiah is going to play in that game. Tate. They should be getting tape back, which is, you know, you contextualize the last couple of games that we've seen from Ohio State. They have a great wide receiver duo that's hampered by injury. But I'm really worried about this because the. The ultimate chaos factor and the CFP that deeply affects somebody. Teams. I'm making a Miami point. Somebody stake those fringe Miami teams. Like, if Michigan, like, wins that game, Miami's properly effed.
Mike
So did we.
Lucy
Yeah, for sure. Michigan has, like, the ability, I think this year's rivalry week, like, most of the things that are going to cause chaos with the playoff or actually things going according to plan aren't going to be upsets, with the exception of Michigan, because if Michigan wins, they can find their way in the Big Ten championship, which they will need that to get in because they do have two losses to Oklahoma and usc. I don't think Michigan wins. I watched that Northwestern game. I don't have any faith that Michigan beats Ohio State, but whatever. I didn't have any faith at all last year that that would happen. And then Rose got pepper spray, so everything went kind of.
Mike
That's a great sentence.
Lucy
Yeah, I know. It's wild that that still happened. I can't believe that that was a year ago. Yeah, Michigan is. They have so much potential to sneak their way into the playoff and do something stupid if they beat Ohio State. But that's a big if. And I got to be honest, if you haven't watched Michigan football, which they've also been a team that's kind of been under the radar, I promise you, you don't want to see them in the playoffs. We already have our own version of Michigan in the playoff with Oklahoma. You don't want Michigan there, too. You really don't.
Mike
Oh, my God. It would be so funny, though, if it can't happen again. I just defy any of you to stake the claim. None of you are willing to state. Somebody show me the. Who is. Who is. Is the shit stir. Joey Galloway doing it? Who's taking.
Chris
I'll say it.
Dan Le Batard
Michigan wins. My words mean nothing. That would really, really suck.
Chris
Oh, I hope it happens.
Mike
So nobody's willing to stay. Wait. I just.
Dan Le Batard
I'm afraid of it. I'm afraid of it because. Ryan Day. This is the. Come on. The right, um, will make the play.
Mike
Ryan Day. Come on. That can't be a thing. Right. We're not going to say that's a real thing. That 81 in 10 Ryan Day doesn't know how to beat Michigan. Even if they're vastly, vastly inferior. He doesn't know how to do it. He's going to lose the game for a fifth time. He's going to be one of the. He's going to know what that is. He's going to be. Yeah, I know what that is. That's Rose being pepper sprayed and it's cruel.
Dan Le Batard
Bird of prey.
Mike
It sounds like. And it sounds like a bird is attacking my arm argument. You think this is how Ryan Day feels? Michigan week. Like I got a number. I'm. I'm the greatest there's ever been except for this one thing, and this is that Jim is that Zaz thinks Jim Harbaugh is the greatest just because of what he started doing to me.
Chris
Sucker with that take.
Mike
All right. I want to get to. Because this.
Dan Le Batard
He's laughing, Dan. He knows it's a bad take.
Zaz
I don't know that. Yeah, you do.
Mike
You do know that. You now know that it's a ridiculous.
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Chris
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Mike
Don LeBatard.
Lucy
He seems like a not nice guy, and he's always been a not nice guy. I don't care for him and I hope he has the day he deserves.
Mike
Oh wow, let's see.
Dan Le Batard
Stugats.
Mike
I hope he has the day he deserves.
Lucy
That's how I get people when they're really mean to me. I'm not like, go f yourself. I'm like, I hope you have the day you deserve.
Mike
It's a great kind. It's a great kind. Insult. Yes, it's beautiful. It's leaving it to the cosmos to sort it out.
Dan Le Batard
That's a less Southern.
Mike
Bless your heart. This is the Dan lebatar show with the Stugach. The thing that I want to go back to, though, because this is funny, okay? What I'm presently watching happening in college football, if you have any sense of history, is amusing. Lane Kiffin, who. Who is 13 and 25 against ranked opponents. Everybody is dying to have him. And I'm reading stuff on the Internet that's like, lane better win this one on Friday. And it's like, no, Lane's going to land in a wonderful place because you don't give a shit if I win or not. Lane could right now say, yeah, lsu, I'll pick you up in about six weeks. Can you have Orgeron handle the recruiting for me? I've got to get to the beach this weekend in Boca for a couple of.
Dan Le Batard
He had a great answer to, like, what about the kids? He's like, it's different now. They can leave whenever they want. We're good.
Mike
He's 13 and 25 against ranked opponents. He can have any job that he wants. He's been embroiled in scandal two or three times with, as Mike likes to say, burning mattresses. Where's this going to end up? Because it's laughably funny how Lane Kiffin can do whatever he wants.
Lucy
I think it ends up with Ole Miss losing to Mississippi State.
Mike
Mississippi State.
Zaz
Sneaky, decent, Lucy.
Lucy
They're sneaky good. And there is a dark, weird energy in Starkville. There always has.
Mike
Come on. They're not going to fumble. It's not going to be fumbled at the Egg Bowl.
Dan Le Batard
This is a recipe.
Mike
It's the Egg Bowl.
Lucy
Yeah, it's the Egg bowl that helps everything.
Mike
You guys are just going to keep doing this with rivalry.
Zaz
You know about that Egg Bowl?
Lucy
No, but it's the Egg Bowl. It's different.
Dan Le Batard
It's not just. It's not just the Egg bowl on that. That's the dark arts right there. But also it's a coach that is clearly checked out. I mean, when have you ever seen a statement like, you've seen, like, from Ole Miss? His future will be addressed after the Egg Bowl. This is. This has all the makings of this team losing. And, Lucy, if Ole Miss loses and Lane actually leaves, that has ramifications.
Zaz
Come on, committee.
Lucy
No, I agree with that. So I think that one, if You're a player at Ole Miss. This is the weird situation. You're standing on the sideline at Starkville, Mississippi, getting, like, cowbell psychosis happening, and all you can think about is, is, is this going to be my head coach in five hours? Because you don't know, like, the decision is happening then. I understand the ultimatum on Ole Miss's part because you want an answer, but also it's like, all right, you have just completely overshadowed this game that is already weird against a team that may not win a lot, but is very good and can be very sneaky and difficult to play against. You have all of that. If Ole Miss loses that game, which is a very, very possible outcome, and Lane Kiffin leaves, the committee, I believe, has already come out and and said that that is something they will take into account. You could very well see Ole Miss get left out of the playoff because they do not have a head coach because he has to make that decision by the Egg bowl, which hurts Ole Miss.
Zaz
He's already made his decision.
Lucy
Yeah, and I'm sure he's already.
Dan Le Batard
He made it on Friday. He made it on Friday. And that Ole Misstatement tells you everything. That doesn't scream he's coming back. I can tell you that Florida is trying to do what LSU did to them, which I can tell you. And I can tell you I happen to know Florida's.
Chris
He happens to know.
Mike
Second risk, Scott.
Chris
He happens to know. He happens to know.
Dan Le Batard
Gather everyone.
Zaz
Get the children.
Chris
He happens to know. So wise.
Dan Le Batard
He made his decision on Friday.
Lucy
Text me where he's going. I want to know.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah, I, I, I think he's going to LS.
Zaz
He's the next coach at.
Mike
LSU's already reported that.
Zaz
I already reported it on ESPN.
Mike
Zazlow has reported that on ESPN. You guys keep pretending to be journalists as Zazzle continues to kick everybody's ass. Sasso's already reported on ESPN that, hey.
Dan Le Batard
So get that info.
Zaz
Don't worry. I'll never give you my sources. Don't worry about that.
Dan Le Batard
He texted me before your show.
Zaz
Yo, I don't know why you guys chattering, too.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah, Lane is the. The ship doesn't have any leaks now, but I think a decision was made after Friday. I do know that Florida is trying their best. I like it the way that LSU hijacked it, but I think Lane Kiffin is leaving, and I think when the dust settles, he's got to be at lsu.
Zaz
That's what I heard, too.
Lucy
This leaves Florida in such a weird spot because it seems like, the next guy that you would want is John Sumrall, who already was like, no, not Florida. I don't know where they go from here.
Dan Le Batard
The summerall thing I was hearing was just both schools kind of collaborated on, like, let's make Auburn hire him.
Zaz
Oh, that's.
Lucy
No, that's where I think he should go. That's how that's the most natural fit. I actually like that hire, which is weird because normally if Auburn wants to hire a guy immediately, I'm like, like, oh, that's bad. That's not a good look. I just don't know where that leaves forward at all. I don't know who they go for after that because I haven't heard a ton of names outside of just Kiffin.
Dan Le Batard
I've heard. I've heard a couple of names and one of them is frigging shocking.
Chris
Go on.
Mike
You can't do that.
Zaz
Come on.
Mike
You can't do that.
Dan Le Batard
Oh, he can't say it.
Chris
I'm going to speak for Mike here.
Dan Le Batard
He can't say it.
Lucy
Text me. Text me.
Dan Le Batard
Okay, I'll text you.
Mike
Wait a minute. So now he was about to say it.
Dan Le Batard
Lucy, I was about to say it.
Zaz
But say it to the mic while you're going to text her.
Chris
Just say it.
Lucy
Just say it.
Jeremy
Just say it.
Mike
Against journalism being done on this show, wherever it is you're telling us you got.
Lucy
That was popular.
Mike
A shocking name.
Dan Le Batard
Do not be surprised if Florida does fall on its face here and Lane Kiffin goes to lsu. Do not be surprised. You're going to hear the normal names say Urban Meyer. Do not be surprised to hear Dabo's name.
Lucy
Arkansas has been trying to make dabo to Arkansas happen. They have been crazy online.
Dan Le Batard
Dabo camp has been about. Talked, talking.
Mike
No, put it on the poll at Lebitard show. Dabo camp has been talking. Yes or no? Lucy, I want to get to some other things with you, but I'm gonna say it again. 13 and 25 against ranked opponents.
Dan Le Batard
Can't believe you made me say it.
Mike
13 and 25 against ranked opponents. 13 and 25 against ranked opponents.
Lucy
But he tweets all the time. It's so funny.
Mike
Might lose the egg Bowl. Sneaky, decent Mississippi State. Don't be surprised. Get out of here. What are we doing? Okay, what are we doing? Sneaky, decent Mississippi State 11 conference game in two years. He's doing a bit on sneaky, decent Mississippi State. You guys are expecting him to lose? I don't the egg bowl because of dark energies.
Lucy
What kind of analysis that, that is the egg bowl.
Dan Le Batard
Darts.
Lucy
You don't get it. You don't get Starkville.
Dan Le Batard
You don't get the egg ball on a Friday day after Thanksgiving.
Zaz
You know about that egg bowl?
Dan Le Batard
You don't know.
Mike
Well, so Zaslow says, do you know about that egg bowl? And you've had a couple of.
Dan Le Batard
You have a guy doing like a.
Mike
Dog urinating celebration about this Ax celebration.
Chris
Or the transfer the axe, Dan?
Mike
The Stanford California celebration.
Zaz
Be awesome.
Mike
Why are you, why are you yelling at me?
Chris
So they have the transfer of the axe. Cal, Stanford, every year, whoever wins the game. And the best part about this is with like two minutes left in the game, a bunch of, I'm going to say it. A bunch of nerds walk out onto the side of the field and they just stare at each other. I'm telling you, we're. We're looking at a photo here with 1 minute 30 left. This started with about in game time, about 2 minutes and 50 seconds left. And it goes through the end of the game. Game. And they don't break. They just stare at each other for about three minutes of game time. Which is what in real time?
Dan Le Batard
10 minutes.
Chris
Like 10. We're talking like two minute warning. Commercial break.
Dan Le Batard
And then Simon Cowell walks between them and everyone starts dancing.
Chris
And who won this year? So Stanford won. So they had to give it up this year. Cal has holding it. So this is the passing.
Mike
You've won accelerated. This is electric dance.
Zaz
Can you feel the tension in the air right now?
Dan Le Batard
This is one of the better rivalries.
Mike
I love this, as I called it, the ax celebration. I don't believe that that's what it is, but I don't know what. It's not like I. There's an ax involved. There's a transferring of an axe.
Chris
It's an odd looking ax. We can put it back up. It doesn't look like a normal ax to me. It looks like a.
Dan Le Batard
That's Cal in Stanford. I mean.
Mike
Yeah. Okay. Okay. Oh, really? We're gonna do that? All right. It's an Internet minute. All right, let's go. Sorry. Time to get in it.
Chris
It's Lucy's Internet minute.
Lucy
So we have some breaking news out of some lower courts in Missouri. A judge has been suspended for, I believe, six months because he got in trouble for making too many Elvis references. And he would show up to court dressed as Elvis and he would do Elvis voices and he was always making these weird Elvis references. And finally someone reported him and they were like, hey, dude, you're a judge. You really gotta stop doing this. And he was like, oh, I didn't realize it took this bit too far. I'm sorry. I didn't know that everybody didn't love Elvis. I guess I realize now, in retrospect, maybe I shouldn't address Step as Elvis so much. I was just trying to make court a little bit fun, and that's what happened on the Internet this week.
Mike
Okay, so overruled.
Dan Le Batard
He's trying to make the jailhouse rock.
Zaz
If I show up to court and the judge is doing, I'd throw the book at you.
Dan Le Batard
Just looking at you, he's so pissed, you got a real suspicious.
Lucy
And also, it's doing, like, bad things too. Like, I think he was, like, taking bribes and stuff like that. Allegedly. I'm not 100% sure, but really, it was the Elvis thing that did it.
Mike
If you've got any others. Blue suede shoes, if there's anything you got in the holster there. As.
Dan Le Batard
As Elvis, sir, I think you're the devil in disguise.
Mike
You're. You're.
Dan Le Batard
Thank you very much.
Jeremy
Good.
Dan Le Batard
Limited fake there from Jeremy the Rare.
Mike
Yeah, thanks.
Dan Le Batard
He's got one. He usually offers us nothing, so that's great. Thank you.
Chris
I'm really upset right now.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah, no, you're right about all of it, Chase. The look that you gave Zazz when.
Mike
He said Eskimo Lucy is heading to Ann Arbor for the game this week, and Ohio State looks to beat Michigan for the first time since 2019. One last thing, Lucy, before you get out of here. Tony has been riddling Zazz with judgment because he's a now veteran of going into college football winters, but he does not know how to dress when representing ESPN and the top of the audio ESPN food chain. So his teeth were chattering. I could hear it in his broadcast because it's like 300 radio stations. I like to text him that I'm listening on. On. On Saturday mornings when he's, like, dominating the airwaves. But I can hear that he's cold because he's outdoors and it's Madison and it's 20 degrees and he's gonna dress like this again this weekend.
Lucy
You did that in Madison, right by the lake?
Zaz
That's right. I'm brave, right? No, I didn't know that there was a lake.
Lucy
You didn't know that? That's, like, Madison's whole bit.
Dan Le Batard
But also.
Lucy
Did you just look at the forecast?
Mike
No, he didn't, Lucy. It's wind off a lake in the winter in Madison. Like, oh, it's awful. It's lunacy.
Chris
It's lunacy wearing his yard work shoes.
Lucy
I. I have been to Madison in November. It is. That is unreal. So you need one. A new jacket. Because you can't just be wearing a sweatshirt. You need more layers. You need winter shoes. I didn't see gloves.
Zaz
No, no gloves.
Lucy
You probably get a scarf. Did you have hand warmers?
Zaz
I didn't wear my long johns. I look good in my long johns. Lucy, you know about that.
Lucy
Why would you not wear that to Madison?
Chris
I want to see that photo place.
Lucy
You have to do that.
Zaz
It used to be bookshom be screensaver on his phone when I would call. Picture me and my long johns.
Chris
Oh, man.
Dan Le Batard
Lucy, see, that's. That's how a radio professional dresses, right? But the thing is, you want to elevate your game, you got to be better than that, right?
Chris
It's not just about radio.
Dan Le Batard
You got to be out there with the people like Zazzle thinks he is.
Chris
Why do you have a cigar?
Dan Le Batard
What do you mean?
Chris
In this photo that we're showing.
Dan Le Batard
What do you mean?
Chris
That's because you look ridiculous.
Dan Le Batard
Dan, you tell me. Cigar, the vibe or not the vibe? Dan, you tell me.
Mike
I wish Tony was having these opportunities as low squanders. Don't Tony. Tony would be dominating college football by dressing better than anyone in Madison. On his side, he'd be like, who is this guy?
Dan Le Batard
And then show up in a chinchilla.
Zaz
Like, yeah, what's up?
Dan Le Batard
At lion eye by 30, it said.
Mike
Zazlov's doing it maximum Daytona style.
Dan Le Batard
He's doing it. 790 the ticket. Dude, this is bigger than that.
Zaz
That's right. I represent home team all the time. You know when the never forget where I come from.
Dan Le Batard
You know, in like any movie about the Invisible man, when he goes out in disguise and puts on makeup. That's what Zaz looks like. Zaz looks like the invisible man in disguise. Looks like Hancock. Yeah.
Mike
Lucy, good seeing you. Thank you. Enjoy Ann Arbor this week and you will both be there. So he would.
Lucy
What are you gonna wear?
Mike
Same thing.
Lucy
Really?
Zaz
I'm not gonna be in Ann Arbor?
Mike
Oh, I thought you were. Oh, my bad. Even worse.
Lucy
Oh, then you're fine.
Dan Le Batard
It's a guy in Norman.
Lucy
He's fine.
Mike
He's fine in Oklahoma. Norman, Oklahoma. This time of year is going to be okay.
Zaz
I'm packing the same get up.
Lucy
Could be nearly as bad as. As miss. Yeah. That is a perfect outfit to wear to Norman.
Dan Le Batard
I don't know about perfect outfit. What does Amber say about your getups when you. When you walk into the studio.
Zaz
Not. Not that big of a fan.
Mike
Settle down. Figured. Okay. Yes, it's a fine. I think you've eliminated college Town.
Dan Le Batard
You actually paid to me in perpetuity, remember?
Mike
Thank you, Lucy. What is the fine? Okay. Good talking to you, Lucy.
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Mike
Don LeBatard.
Zaz
I've never stepped foot on that campus.
Mike
I.
Zaz
If you told me right now your life depends on it. Go to Santa Fe University and just, just, just take a picture.
Dan Le Batard
Stugats.
Zaz
I would die. I don't know where it is.
Mike
This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugach. I wanted to backtrack for just one second. Oh, I forgot to ask her. I think she admitted to being a Miami hater during that video. Yes, I let her.
Chris
There's not, there's not much to ask.
Dan Le Batard
Right.
Mike
Okay. Well, I didn't know. I didn't know it had been confirmed. I did not know that she had confirmed. That was the first confirmation. I'd gotten that from inside. The calls coming from inside house that Lucy, a Meadowlark employee, was an anti. She's a Miami hater. I did not know that.
Dan Le Batard
I knew it when she moved away.
Mike
No, people can move. People cannot like Miami without being Miami haters.
Dan Le Batard
No, she's happy. When anything bad happens in the industry.
Mike
That'S a different thing.
Dan Le Batard
Maybe he has a city, too.
Mike
All right, but that's a different thing, though, Am I not. Am I wrong when I say that that's the first confirmation that we have that Lucy is a Miami hater?
Dan Le Batard
More the last three years.
Mike
Okay, that's. All right, fine. So proof but confirmed. And now we've got it in the highest form of honor this show gives, which is. Yes, the echoing Gary Furman. That's the height of journalism. Gary Furman, local legend. If he stamps it, it's confirmed. Lucy's a Miami hater.
Dan Le Batard
Getting carried away with legends. Yeah, everybody's a legend around here.
Chris
You roll shook up.
Mike
Wait a minute.
Dan Le Batard
Local guy that's been around.
Mike
All right, so. All right, so who's a legend? Is Fredo a legend? Because no.
Zaz
Legendary Smelly Mike.
Mike
Wait a minute.
Dan Le Batard
Frito's not a legend. Is he still doing it?
Jeremy
No.
Mike
Hold on.
Dan Le Batard
Everyone. Not everyone gets to be a legend.
Chris
He's got to have a podcast earlier.
Dan Le Batard
Do you want to know. Do you want to know if he has a podcast? Because I'm good to go.
Mike
Let's play that game.
Dan Le Batard
I'd much rather this game because I actually happen to like Josh Friedman.
Mike
I. What?
Jeremy
No.
Mike
What? I was. I. Look, there is no.
Dan Le Batard
Loves him.
Mike
There is no bucket I like to rummage in.
Zaz
Not even a little.
Dan Le Batard
You know what time it is?
Mike
Listen up. Time to think fast.
Dan Le Batard
Is this a real or fake podcast?
Mike
Wait. Just. Just slow down for a second so that I don't exclude listeners who don't go right back to the beginning when I was sounding like I was wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving, and I did not know whether the microphone smelled like Frito or Fritos. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. This microphone smells like crap. When I was asking the question. The question of the microphone because we were using all the same microphone, it smelled like. Also Fritos and Frito. It smelled like both of those things. So Zaslow wants to talk about this, but he doesn't want to talk about it. And I don't think we want to bury.
Zaz
I'm fine talking about it.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah, I.
Mike
You better not say that.
Zaz
I threw at you again.
Dan Le Batard
You did, by the way, but this is a different story. There was one time as a seven Day Ticket Promotions assistant that I went.
Zaz
Which I don't remember.
Dan Le Batard
Of course you don't, because you didn't think of me at that point. But now you see me every single day. But there was one time where I went after the. Into the bathroom after Frito did. Mistake.
Mike
Now, wait a minute. That's.
Dan Le Batard
I'm just. I'm just telling you my experience.
Chris
All been there.
Dan Le Batard
Come on.
Mike
That's.
Dan Le Batard
Look, I'm just telling you my experience. Oh, you gotta go.
Mike
Listen to me.
Dan Le Batard
Those bathrooms were not.
Mike
Hold on. So. So Frito's not a legend? Like.
Lucy
No.
Dan Le Batard
Come on, man. Talking about he's, you know, he put in a shift.
Mike
All right. Who are you guys willing to give? Legendary staff. Wait a minute. Is. Bob was choosing a legend, not a South Florida legend.
Dan Le Batard
I mean, he's the best voice in hockey.
Mike
Wait a minute. He just said yes. And you said, not in South.
Zaz
He's a legend, but not a South Florida legend. You're right. I think you're right about that.
Dan Le Batard
I think he's like a New York legend.
Zaz
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Mike
He's not a South Florida legend just because he was here too short a time.
Zaz
I think most people don't know that he did work here.
Dan Le Batard
You're. You're alerting people to the fact that he started down here.
Mike
He learned at the knee of boogie.
Jeremy
Yeah.
Dan Le Batard
Most people don't know that. That the illustrious career of Chuckle started right down.
Zaz
He is a legend, but not a South.
Mike
So who are you guys willing to get Bug?
Chris
A South Florida legend?
Dan Le Batard
Of course. Yeah.
Zaz
Yeah, of course.
Chris
Very quickly. Chuckle will join us tomorrow at 9.
Dan Le Batard
25. Good. I'll give him a piece of my mind. Of course.
Mike
All right. So I give away legend too freely. Then when I say.
Dan Le Batard
All right.
Mike
So. So what are you laughing at? They put up his picture.
Zaz
Oh, my God.
Mike
He makes me happy.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah. I mean, he was nice to me.
Chris
When I was editing. I was first working on the show.
Mike
He.
Chris
He was in the. He would. His show would be right after ours.
Mike
He wasn't nice to everybody, though.
Dan Le Batard
No, he wasn't nice to everybody, which I have a problem.
Chris
He may have yelled at me on air when I didn't put the city of the caller.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah, that. That's true. He did do that.
Chris
I was trying to go above and beyond. Our show ended. I'm like, you know, I'm gonna stay and do some calls for Fredo. And I just put the name up there. And he's like, why don't I see the city?
Dan Le Batard
It's gotta be Ken from West Palm. Not just Ken. What kind of shop you running over there?
Mike
In the afternoons, I side with Frito. Here I side.
Chris
Gotta put the city.
Dan Le Batard
Did you do that on purpose? Frito here. That was his tagline. Rito here.
Mike
So who are the legends who aren't legends that I give legendary status to? Too freely? You guys have. Because I think of anybody who can work in this market. This is how I do this. Right? I do this with Steve Shapiro. I do it with Jim Barry.
Zaz
South Florida legend.
Mike
No. But if you guys can. What about deepest quality, deeper squally, too?
Dan Le Batard
If you just got to be around for a while.
Mike
No, no, not just be around for a while. Not just around in a transient place.
Dan Le Batard
Do you think he Has a podcast?
Mike
15 Years is the cut off. What's the cut off? Where you're willing to give me if you're able to make a media career, Years and impact.
Zaz
Yeah.
Dan Le Batard
How do you quantify impact?
Mike
So how do I give it to freely?
Zaz
It's like, you know, when you see it.
Mike
How many. Okay, so how many legends in the history of the South Florida market are there that you're willing to give it to in radio?
Zaz
Like, there's a lot. I think there's a lot.
Mike
There's a lot.
Zaz
Yeah. I think there's a lot of South Florida.
Dan Le Batard
Stevenson.
Mike
No.
Dan Le Batard
Brandon Guzio.
Zaz
No.
Mike
Josh Darrow. No.
Dan Le Batard
Love that guy.
Mike
Joe Zagaki.
Zaz
Yes.
Dan Le Batard
Yes. Kane's voice. Yes.
Mike
I like zaz as judge for whether Rogers.
Zaz
No.
Mike
What? No.
Dan Le Batard
K. Roj, come on.
Mike
No.
Dan Le Batard
His toe was falling off the room.
Chris
Heard the room react to that out there.
Lucy
There.
Mike
His tongue was falling off. Get the Kevin Rogers couple of clips that we have there of him being lonely at the super bowl because Kevin Rogers will be furious.
Chris
Your tongue ever fall off?
Dan Le Batard
Does anyone care this. Does anyone care or know what we're talking about?
Mike
We're gonna do faker real podcast in a second, Mike, but I just want to get to the bot. I do want to get to the bottom of zaz proclaiming whether people are legends in the market or not.
Dan Le Batard
Jonathan Grundfast.
Mike
Let's play money. Mark Eisenberg. Let's do real or fake podcast.
Chris
I had K. Raj, but okay.
Mike
Okay. Go ahead. That's fine. Lincoln Kennedy.
Dan Le Batard
What's up, man? Yeah, I'm working. Where you going?
Mike
You want the FHM party tonight?
Dan Le Batard
You going to FHM tonight? All right, I'll see you later. It's such a 2005 clip.
Zaz
I was there.
Dan Le Batard
You're going to the FHM party tonight? You know that hot magazine that's kind of like Playboy, only they're not totally naked? You're going to that party? They always throw a good one. Lincoln Kennedy.
Jeremy
All right.
Dan Le Batard
Real or fake podcast time? Wingman with Matthew and Brady Kachak. Real or a fake podcast?
Zaz
Real. It's been getting some run lately.
Chris
Is that the name though?
Dan Le Batard
Hey. Your conviction is not helping. Tricky Dan. So adjust according.
Zaz
Play the game.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah. That's a real one. Thank you for being so certain.
Zaz
Why do I not get to play the game?
Mike
Way to know. Because.
Dan Le Batard
Because Dan was nervous. I saw it in his eyes. He had no idea.
Chris
Let Dan answer first.
Mike
If you know I'm going to be like Cody. Yesterday I was unsurprised that I'll never forgive him. I can't get over that.
Dan Le Batard
He's like, what?
Mike
Can we readdress it, please? Just very quickly before Mike continues. Because Jeremy worked hard on that bit. Four hours for a buildup. Chris was enraged that your father can't be surprised by. I just know he's existing.
Chris
I know this move of my dad's, of when he's confused on something and he feels like he might be getting got. He just goes into what Jeremy's enraged. Like. It was just this, like, indifferent of. Of course.
Zaz
Yeah.
Dan Le Batard
I thought I've been talking to a different person for three hours. I thought you hired a guy.
Chris
Ran through a thousand scenarios in my mind of how yesterday could go. Indifference was not something. Not the one we were like, oh, maybe because he. He wants to be sure that he doesn't look senile.
Dan Le Batard
He won't ask even when he thinks it's somebody else.
Zaz
I didn't think that because he didn't.
Chris
Want to look senile. He would just pretend. It didn't surprise him. I was eating. There was another human here. I was having dinner with my family last night. Not even talking about it. And I just started shaking my head. And my wife's like, what's wrong? And I'm like, my dad ruined everything.
Dan Le Batard
Dad spoke to somebody for three consecutive hours. Was then revealed to him that the person he thought he was talking to was not that person and was like, huh, would you look at that?
Mike
Can I. Can I just. I know that I've. I'm out of time here, but I do just want to explore for one moment here what happened there. Because I felt like you guys not guarding against his senility was you guys not knowing your teammate there. To assume that he would have a surprised, befuddled reaction to Jeremy appearing in a different form suggests that he was thinking about anyone other than himself during yesterday's show. Like that he doesn't care.
Dan Le Batard
You think that that would stir up some kind of thought about he will.
Mike
Not have a real relationship with Jeremy. He would just be a person in the corner who's not Billy who doesn't support him the way Billy he was.
Chris
Just excited that there was a George Harrison he could name facts about.
Mike
Right on. We could have had Roy in that costume and it would where my church.
Chris
People at that minute on Ruth was great.
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Dan Le Batard
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Mike
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Mike
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Date: November 25, 2025
Live from the Elser Hotel in downtown Miami, Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, Lucy Rohden, and the crew bring their signature blend of sports, irreverent humor, and pop-culture takes—this time with a heavy focus on the vibe in college football, particularly the fate of Florida and Florida State, the high-stakes Ohio State-Michigan rivalry, the coaching carousel (with Lane Kiffin at the center), and what happens when tradition, futility, and chaos collide in late November. Lucy checks in with Gators fans in Gainesville, and the group reflects on what it means to be a college football “legend” and the unique energies of rivalry games like the Egg Bowl. As always, sidetracks and laughs abound.
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The show’s tone is deeply irreverent, blending sarcasm, hyperbole, and genuine sports insight. Lucy’s deadpan college football dispatches contrast nicely with the panel’s running bits and hot takes, letting the episode serve as both a roast and a celebration of college football’s weird energy.
Summary prepared for listeners who want every nuance, joke, and storyline from an episode true to the Le Batard Show’s DNA.