Hour 1: THE BUCKET RETURNS

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Hour 1: THE BUCKET RETURNS

Date: September 4, 2025
Location: Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami
Main Hosts: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz
Regulars: Chris Cody, Mike Ryan, Tony, Billy, Zazlow

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Overview: Episode Theme and Purpose

This episode marks the return of football season – and with it, the beloved (and oft-mocked) "bucket" segment, which brings heated (and chaotic) group predictions and punishments back into the spotlight. Amid calls for more football talk from fans and staff, Dan surrenders to the frenzy and lets the crew dive into Tony’s "Top Five Teams I’m Keeping an Eye On" (not necessarily "best") for the new NFL season. The show also sees the group dusting off their infamous punishment bucket for straight-up pick’em games, with on-air bickering and friendly jibes throughout.
The episode blends signature Le Batard banter: relentless self-deprecation, in-jokes, Miami/South Florida flavor, and inside-baseball references around the show’s evolving rituals.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Behind the Scenes Chaos: Opening the Show

• Control Room Confusion: Dan and Chris joke about the haphazard countdowns and in-ear communications as the show tries (somewhat unsuccessfully) to launch into football coverage.
  • "I just heard in my headset: Five, four, three, oh, two. And then you’re looking at me and you don’t have any idea what we’re doing." (Dan, 01:09)
  • Chris echoes Dan’s confusion, poking fun at being unprepared.

2. "Tony’s Top Five Teams I’m Keeping an Eye On"

Premise: Not a list of the best teams, but the most intriguing ones for Tony—those that (mostly) no one else thinks about.

The List:

1. Jacksonville Jaguars

   • Perennial punchline on the show; Tony continues his curious, stubborn support.
   • Liam Cohen now head coach: "I’m making a play on Liam Cohen. I think Liam Cohen revitalized Baker’s career..." (Tony, 04:11)
   • Dan roasts Tony’s Jacksonville fixation, referencing past failures and the uniquely grim “grainy footage” reputation of the Jags.
   • Group jokes about no one admitting when they're wrong about the Jags.

2. Atlanta Falcons

   • Excitement about new direction post-Arthur Smith, with Michael Penix Jr. at QB and Zach Robinson as OC.
   • Focus shifts to underperforming star Kyle Pitts:
     • "If it doesn’t happen this year, Dan, it’s over." (Tony, 07:08)
   • Dan’s memorable bit about odd football player comparisons (Kyle Pitts to Aaron Hernandez/Gronk; Tyreek Hill to Ray Carruth). (07:39-08:07)

3. Tennessee Titans

   • Rookie QB Cam Ward’s potential as a “number one pick.”
   • Group debates whether instant rookie QB success can be expected, with Le Batard pushing skepticism:
     • "No one knows what to expect from Cam Ward. But I’m telling you that all history suggests that he can’t be Jaden Daniels. It can’t keep happening like that…" (Dan, 09:13-09:54)
   • Back-and-forth about rookie learning curves, with Mike Ryan arguing players with extra COVID years are more ready.

4. New York Giants

   • Tony touts the defensive front and emerging offensive pieces, even though expectations are low.
   • "No one thinks the Giants are going to be any good this year." (Dan, 12:06)
   • Tony: “...they’re not going to be a ton of winning football, but they’re going to be fun.” (12:34)

5. New England Patriots

   • Mike Vrabel’s head coaching, rookie Drake May at QB (likened to "Josh Allen light"), and RB Travion Henderson possibly as rookie of the year.
   • "I think we got like a Josh Allen light in Drake May. I think he’s going to run the football. I think he’s going to throw pretty well." (Tony, 13:00)
   • Dan chastises Tony for focusing on, what he calls, "the very bottom of the league." (13:34)

3. The Return of "The Bucket" – Pick’Em and NFL Week 1 Chaos

• How It Works:
  • Every participant draws a team from a bucket. Can swap once.
  • Whoever gets assigned a team that loses faces a costume or other punishment (enforced by new contract language—thank you, John Amici).
  • Zazlow explains the (still evolving) process: “We rummage, you get two picks in the bucket. If you don’t like the first one, you can put it back...” (20:14)
• Immediacy and Chaos:
  • Several segments of confusion about the rules, who starts, and swapping mechanics.
  • First games previewed include Jags-Panthers, Bengals-Browns, Cardinals-Saints, Bears-Vikings, Jets (versus ?) and more.
  • Zazlow gets the Jaguars and is excited.
  • Mike Ryan takes Arizona, confidently predicts them to make the playoffs: "I like Arizona this year. I think they’re making a playoff." (21:20)
  • Billy picks the Bears: “I am Bear down, Billy. But I don’t like the last game of the week.” (21:45)
  • The "swap helmet" segment devolves into a comic, circular argument about how to correctly swap and with whom, leading to impromptu negotiation and a breakdown in picking logic (especially between Chris Cody, Billy, and Mike Ryan).

4. Punishments, “The Helmet,” and Show Rituals

• New, Strict Enforcement:
  • Contractual obligations (via John Amici) will now ensure that losers face costume punishments.
  • Dentek sponsors both mouth guards for punishment and the bucket/helmet segment.
  • Dan: “There are outstanding fines all over the place. We haven’t been able to get it under control. And John Amici wrote it into the most recent contracts... We’re doing the bucket again.” (18:58)
• Running Jokes:
  • No one pays their fines/costumes seriously.
  • Jeremy is now in charge of handling the costumes, apparently after recovering from being hit on the head with a bottle earlier.

5. Sports Doc Drama: The Charlie Sheen Documentary Bid

• Inside Baseball:
  • Metal Arc (the show’s company) nearly landed the Charlie Sheen documentary, and Dan asks the crew to guess how much they would have paid for it.
  • Billy jokes he confused "Sheen" with the Chinese e-commerce giant "Shein."
  • No consensus emerges on an acceptable bid.
  • Meta-joke: always the “bridesmaid,” never first to a big rights deal.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Dan Le Batard (on chaos at show open):
  "I just heard in my headset: Five, four, three, oh, two. And then you’re looking at me and you don’t have any idea what we’re doing." (01:09)

• Dan (roasting Tony’s Jacksonville fixation):
  "Tony, being a Jacksonville guy is one of the biggest national support voices Jacksonville has had, because no one cares about the grainy footage coming out of Jacksonville, which smells bad and is stuck in 1998 praying for Mark Brunell." (04:25)

• Chris Cody (on Falcons' improvement):
  "They should shift from playing bad to playing good." (06:34)

• Dan (on Kyle Pitts and football comps):
  "Because you just compared Kyle Pitts to Aaron Hernandez and you did it so casually. Next time you see a running back that flashes to you in college, compare them to O.J. Simpson." (07:39)

• Dan (on rookie expectation cycle):
  "No one knows what to expect from Cam Ward. But I’m telling you that all history suggests that he can’t be Jaden Daniels. It can’t keep happening like that where someone comes into the league and is immediately… That can it?" (09:13)

• Dan (sarcastically):
  "I want to issue a public apology to the audience for a list that, when…it took the show from me to talk fuck football, did so with the very bottom of the league to analyze the teams that have the very least expectations." (18:29)

• Group banter over the swap helmet/picking process:
  Hilarity descends as Chris Cody, Billy, Mike, et al. debate, barter, and get lost in the mechanics of the swap, leading to memorable lines like:

  • "You slobber with me, you want to do business with me? You wanna slot with me? Maybe I have the Broncos." (Chris Cody/Billy, 26:00-26:30)

• Mike Ryan (reminiscing):
  "We actually really did [fist bump]. Whether it’s that touchdown you didn’t see coming or just arguing about fantasy lineups, you and I did plenty of that." (14:37)

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Segments with Timestamps

• 00:59: Show officially kicks off.
• 01:09-01:37: Opening chaos and banter about on-air confusion.
• 01:45: Football focus begins; Tony cues up his list.
• 02:44-13:34: Tony’s Top Five Teams I’m Keeping an Eye On (detailed above).
  • Jacksonville Jaguars: 04:04
  • Atlanta Falcons: 06:18
  • Tennessee Titans: 08:11
  • New York Giants: 11:41
  • New England Patriots: 12:52
• 18:17-19:59: Dan’s apology for giving over the show to a “bottom of the league” football list; rituals reestablished.
• 19:59-24:16: The return of “the Bucket” and NFL Pick’Em, the rules, first picks, and confused swaps.
• 24:32-25:52: Arguments and chaos around the swap helmet – meta-game about who’s swapping, and how.
• 31:29: Jeremy is comically appointed as the new "costume enforcer."
• 32:03: Dan pivots to the missed Sheen documentary bidding war (more meta/media industry content).

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Tone and Language

The episode is quintessential Dan Le Batard Show:

• Loose, anarchic, and self-referential: The group continually roasts one another, subverts expectations, and mocks show bits even as they execute them.
• Sports as a medium for comedy: Football analysis veers into parody, with outlandish analogies and loving mockery of the game’s obsession with predictions and “takes.”
• Meta-show banter: The group references contracts, sponsors, show history, and the ever-growing list of inside jokes.

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In Summary

This episode captures the heart of the Dan Le Batard Show: the messy pageantry of football fervor, layered with wit, skepticism, invented tradition, and the show’s unique take on sports radio. The return of “the bucket” is at once a celebration of football’s return and a tongue-in-cheek send-up of “expert picks.” The “Top Five Teams” segment shows the crew delighting in discussing also-rans and wild cards, while the ever-present game-within-a-game and ritual punishments keep the meta-comedy flowing. Amid the football talk, the group can’t help but lampoon its own inability to focus, governing contracts, and many, many years of recurring bits and bets.

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Transcript

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[Chris Cody]

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[Dan Le Batard]

You know what's funny about what just happened there, Chris? As you expertly navigate some difficult waters. As I try to figure out whether I want to fight with more owners. I just heard. This is what I just heard in my headset. Five in the control room. Five, four, three, oh, two. And then you're looking at me and you don't have any idea what we're doing. You're like, you point to me. You heard the same thing.

[Chris Cody]

I got really nervous too, because they also said coming out to Zazla, what, What do we. What? I didn't, I didn't know what's happening. I screw up.

[Dan Le Batard]

Football is upon us. And everyone around here is a little bit crazy, at least in part because I'm getting criticized from all sides here for not talking enough football because today is football day. So Tony's got a top five list. All right. Okay. I give in. I know I'm going to lose to football. So go ahead, have your football fun. Tony's got a top five list. What's the top five list? Also, we've got. The helmet is back. You guys are going to be forced now to respect the helmet. John Amici has come through here and there will be. There's contract language now for all of you that has costumes involved. Legitimate contract language, because you guys don't respect the audience enough to dress up when you lose at these games. So the helmet is back and things are going to be enforced this year. And Dentek is going to make sure they get enforced here with their mouth guards. And I will tell you as someone who had headaches here, that these things help when, if you're grinding your teeth, if you're sleeping and you don't even know what you're doing in your sleep. So we'll get to the helmet at some point here. But first, the top five list with Tony. What's it about?

[Tony]

Dan?

[Chris Cody]

This is.

[Tony]

Oh, yeah, my bad. I totally forgot we had music to this.

[Chris Cody]

Hey.

[Tony]

All right, Dan. Obviously the Tony's top five starts after week one because we got to see the actual games to have a Tony's top five. But this is the preseason list of Tony's top five teams I'm keeping an eye on this season. Teams I'm going to keep an eye on. Obviously this is not the good teams. This is not the Patrick Mahomes and the. And Jalen Hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles. All these great teams out there. This is not that. This is teams that when I'm scrolling through the red zone, when I'm scrolling through Sunday ticket, I'm going to keep a little bit more of an eye on them because I like what they got going on.

[Dan Le Batard]

So Dominique says the Colts of the team. Well, wait a minute, though. But Billy and. And. And Cody say it's a must win for the Dolphins in week one. And Dominique is saying that. Everyone's saying that the Colts are one of those teams and the Dolphins aren't correct. Like that's what everyone is. There's no one saying who the do that. The Dolphins might be one of those teams and the Colts, the Colts might not be.

[Billy]

Greg said that?

[Tony]

Yeah, the voice that sounded like Greg said that.

[Billy]

Greg. Adam at 8 and 9 making the playoffs. The Dolphins.

[Dan Le Batard]

So where are we? Who do we have to watch? You're not going to do oi before.

[Chris Cody]

No.

[Tony]

Oi. Just fives. Just fivers. And I'm going to start with number five here. And I put them at number five because I know there's fatigue. I know everybody's going to say, tony, of course, this team. How do you always come back to this team? But I like them and I'm going to keep an eye on them.

[Billy]

Jaguars.

[Tony]

The Jacksonville Jaguars. Number five.

[Mike Ryan]

Not a cat.

[Chris Cody]

Dude, do I got a very.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't understand how.

[Tony]

Dan, I'm. I'm making a play on Liam Cohen. I think Liam Cohen. Revi just revitalized Baker's career.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, this. You need to give up. You need to surrender this prize.

[Chris Cody]

No, this is it.

[Dan Le Batard]

Billy.

[Billy]

Billy, I can explain it to you. No one here likes to admit they're wrong.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, that's what it is like. No, but this is embarrassing, what you're doing. He's taking the lane. It's. It is. Billy, you would agree that it is hard in the modern age to be at the trough and take a lane no one else is at. Tony, being a Jacksonville guy is one of the biggest national support voices Jacksonville has had. Because no one cares about the grainy footage coming out of Jacksonville, which smells bad and is stuck in 1998 praying for Mark Brunel.

[Chris Cody]

You like Jacksonville?

[Tony]

I'm gonna keep an eye on him.

[Billy]

Just this thing now. He changed. I'm gonna keep an eye on them. No, I never liked them.

[Tony]

I didn't say I never liked them.

[Dan Le Batard]

Tony, you've been wrong on Jacksonville the whole time and Mike's most.

[Tony]

Except the time that I wasn't.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, Mike's most hurtful bet in his history is the one time you were right on Jacksonville when they beat Herbert in the playoffs.

[Tony]

Thank you. And another topic I want to get.

[Zazlow]

To your team is Tony's a great start.

[Tony]

More Herbert or Mahomes? We'll get to that later.

[Dan Le Batard]

Tony, your team is bullshit.

[Chris Cody]

Okay? Dan, you got that bullshit team?

[Tony]

No, I don't have that bullshit team. Liam Cohen, who just revitalized Baker's career over in Tampa, he's now the head coach over Duvall.

[Dan Le Batard]

Where's the sound of Duvall?

[Mike Ryan]

Duvall.

[Tony]

I think this is Trevor Lawrence's last stand right here, Dan. If he can't do it with Liam Cohen, it's over. That's what I'm saying. This year is the year. Travis hunter, Brian Thomas Jr. They got a good running back base. Shaw Tootin from Virginia Tech.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, that guy's like a fire hydrant.

[Dan Le Batard]

Why did you say that? The way that Zaslo says Thai food.

[Chris Cody]

Why did you say bialtooten Thai food? Exactly right.

[Billy]

So I was wrong when I said no one likes to admit they're wrong. I was wrong about that. Mike likes to admit that he was wrong more than anyone he's told us.

[Dan Le Batard]

That is not true in any way.

[Tony]

It is true.

[Mike Ryan]

You just said I'm learning to believe.

[Billy]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

You admit that you're wrong about that. Please. It shows growth.

[Tony]

Admit it.

[Mike Ryan]

That's why we're in this whole pickle Duvall.

[Dan Le Batard]

Again with the pickle.

[Chris Cody]

My movie theater sells pickles.

[Tony]

Do we need to change the music?

[Billy]

How much?

[Chris Cody]

It's 299. It's a good deal.

[Tony]

Number four, the Atlanta Falcons. Keeping an eye on them, Dan? I want to see what Michael Penix turns into Zach Robinson. Their OC has had to shift some of the ways that they played. Obviously earlier in the season, last year with Kirk Cousins, they change things completely.

[Chris Cody]

They should shift from playing bad to playing good.

[Tony]

That's, that's, that's hopefully what they're going to do with Michael Penix now, Drake London and them boys, Bijan Robinson, they got Arthur Smith the hell out of town.

[Dan Le Batard]

So you said all those names. What is Kyle Pitts? Because out of college this was a person who was the best wide receiver, tight end thing I saw. And if Aaron Hernandez and Gronk can be that, why can't this person be that? Does anyone have any assessment on what's happened there? Because he has been a non productive football player and whenever you're talking about the Falcons, you needed to be speaking about him as if he's one of the stars.

[Tony]

Yeah, 100%. I think what happened to him is he was a rookie that caught close to if not a thousand yards his first year, but then was saddled with a terrible offensive coordinator in Arthur Smith, a bad QB situation with Desmond Ritter and Marcus Mariota and whoever else they trotted out there. That was a corpse. Now they got the corpse of Kirk Cousins out of the way. Michael Penck Jr. Plays golf with Ky with, with Kyle Pitts. Now we got the golf buddy narrative going on. So I think this is the year we talk about this being the year for Trevor Lawrence. This is the year for Kyle Pitts. If it doesn't happen this year, Dan, it's over. I want to see him ever again.

[Mike Ryan]

Dan, I think you stumbled on a great bit awful football player comparisons. Like, because you just compared Kyle Pitts to Aaron Hernandez and you did it so casually. Next time you see a running back that flashes to you in college, compare them to O.J. simpson plays the Juice.

[Dan Le Batard]

I did it to Aaron Hernandez and Gronk because the tight end numbers that they put up as a combination made Belichick look really smart.

[Chris Cody]

Who would we do it for? Wide receivers?

[Mike Ryan]

Tyreek Hill.

[Chris Cody]

But who are we gonna compare him to?

[Mike Ryan]

Tyreek Hill, Ray Carruth, number three.

[Tony]

I think Mike's in on this, obviously. Tennessee Titans, Cam Ward, number one pick. We want to see what he's got going on. Okay. Calvin Ridley, he's had an up and down career. Now he's number one. Bill Callahan's got that offensive line playing a lot better. Okay. Hopefully this year they got additions to that offensive line. Cam Ward, is this the year that we see a number one pick be great?

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, no one's saying that. Correct? No one. No one.

[Billy]

He's not saying it either. He's keeping an eye on it.

[Tony]

Keep an eye on that.

[Chris Cody]

Just an eye.

[Dan Le Batard]

The Titans don't have any prime time Games. Correct. They don't have any games. No one is going to see the. The Titans have the stage to themselves. As I say this. Is there anyone outside of Tennessee that expects anything from the Tennessee Titans this year? I think your list is the only one that's going to include that team. No one is saying that.

[Tony]

That's why I'm keeping an eye on him. Me and Mike both keeping an eye on Cam. We're in the Tennessee Titans.

[Dan Le Batard]

Do I have it wrong? Is there some.

[Tony]

So I think the Tennessee Titans could surprise.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay.

[Billy]

But you don't get the list. The list is just people he's keeping an eye on. He's not saying they're going to for sure be good or they're going to be mad. He's keeping an eye on that.

[Dan Le Batard]

The thing that I'm asking you. Okay. And I'd ask it of Mina and Dominique and all of these people who analyze football well, in the history of me covering this sport, I have very few times been subject to this guy starting his first game in the pros for a bad team. And I'm going to expect something because now the learning curve is such that you go straight from college to play your first game and we expect 10 wins out of you because you're on a rookie deal and hurry up about it. No one knows what to expect from Cam Ward. But I'm telling you that all of history suggests that he can't be Jaden Daniels. It can't keep happening like that where someone comes into the league and is immediately. That can it.

[Tony]

I mean, Jaden Daniels proved it last year.

[Chris Cody]

Right.

[Tony]

Like that's the thing where you. You look at.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's going to be the norm.

[Tony]

Not the norm, but you're. There's precedent now for it. Washington was a terrible team the year before. They had bad coaching, they had bad skill players. Jaden Daniels comes in, Terry McLaurin, who's nice. But they had Diami Brown running.

[Dan Le Batard]

But Jaden Daniels was averaging 10 yards a game per carry. 10 yards a carry, rather, per game. And he could run the ball as well. You guys are telling me that you expect the Tennessee Titans to have a season that's a winning season.

[Mike Ryan]

I think they're going to be playing meaningful football games late into. Into the season. Yeah, I do. And you mentioned Jaden Daniels. Bo Nicks also came into the league and made an impact. Connective tissue.

[Dan Le Batard]

So that's the new. That's the new normal.

[Mike Ryan]

Now I think you need to take a look at the guys that had that extra year of college because of the COVID year. They played a lot of football. And Cam Ward has shown you every year he gets better and sneaky weapons outside.

[Dan Le Batard]

But can't.

[Zazlow]

Tyler Luckenstein isn't gonna run.

[Dan Le Batard]

But isn't gonna run. Isn't gonna replace your running back because he also provides that as one of the options.

[Mike Ryan]

No, that's not his game.

[Tony]

But Tony Pollard is a great back. He's been proven outside of Dallas that he's been very effective guys.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's a different okay wherever it is that Shador Sanders suffers from doing loop de loops because the game is easy for him. Cam Ward's not going to be able to run away from those defensive ends in his first season. Trying to read deeps. Right.

[Mike Ryan]

Did you wash him? Watch him at Washington State. He has plenty of experience performing at a high clip with a bad offensive.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay. But Washington State. Not the pros. And not with a bad team that's worse than the other pros.

[Mike Ryan]

Okay. Apparel.

[Tony]

Touche. That's why I'm keeping an eye.

[Billy]

Keeping an eye.

[Tony]

Exactly right.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, this guy said that that was the best player he's ever seen at the University of Miami.

[Tony]

Now he said the best quarterback.

[Mike Ryan]

You're a hater.

[Billy]

As Xavier Restrepo.

[Mike Ryan]

You're a hater.

[Dan Le Batard]

Roger.

[Zazlow]

What number we on?

[Tony]

Number two.

[Billy]

Who knows.

[Tony]

And this one might be a little spicy. The New York Giants.

[Mike Ryan]

New York.

[Tony]

New York Giants.

[Mike Ryan]

Dan.

[Tony]

Have probably the best defensive front in football.

[Dan Le Batard]

And a great wide receiver.

[Tony]

And a great wide receiver. And let me tell you what. Jackson dart. He's probably not going to play till maybe midway through the season. I think the Giants had the nine the bye week around like week nine or something.

[Dan Le Batard]

They're saying things no one else is saying.

[Tony]

That's what I'm trying to.

[Dan Le Batard]

No one thinks the Giants are going to be any good this year.

[Tony]

I didn't say they were going to be any good. I said that they have the pieces to be interesting, which is why I'm keeping this defensive front. What do you want to do? You want to rush the pass?

[Dan Le Batard]

Rummaging around the bottom of the league?

[Billy]

But he's saying things no one's saying. The same way Adam McKay says things that would say you're kind of like, is everything all right there?

[Tony]

I don't know if that's a compliment or not. It's not defense.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, okay.

[Tony]

Thank you. That's judges decree on that with prejudice.

[Chris Cody]

I wouldn't even bring this bother bringing in the courtroom. Wow.

[Tony]

Okay.

[Mike Ryan]

Wow.

[Tony]

I don't know if that's worse on me or out of McKay. All right, you've got a defensive front that is best in football. You've got Malik neighbors. You've got a couple quarterbacks that I think are going to be pretty good. I think Russ is going to be better than people think. So I'm keeping an eye on the Giants, that they're going to be a fun team. They're not going to be a ton of winning football, but they're going to be fun.

[Dan Le Batard]

Don't do that. All right, so what is number one.

[Tony]

And number one, you.

[Dan Le Batard]

You. By. By putting the Giants in here. You've bored me. Just the. The.

[Tony]

Maybe I can bring you back on this one.

[Mike Ryan]

The very existence.

[Dan Le Batard]

The very existence of the Giants. Is anyone expecting anything from the Giants this year?

[Tony]

I'm expecting them to get the hell after the quarterback Abdul Carter play fun football. That's what I'm expecting from them. Number one, the New England Patriots, Mike Vrabel and them boys. I think we got like a Josh Allen light in Drake May. I think he's going to run the football. I think he's going to throw pretty well. Travion Henderson might be rookie of the year. We don't know yet. He's. He's run out of a cannon every time he touches the ball. Dan, did you see him return that kick for his first touch? Did you see it, Dan, in the preseason?

[Dan Le Batard]

The thing about this segment that bothered me and I'm sorry, I don't think you saw it. The thing that. About this segment that bothered me, you tried to make creative and thank you for trying. The very bottom of the league. I'd like to talk about the top of the league because you're talking about the very worst.

[Tony]

He didn't even want to talk about.

[Billy]

Philly keeping an eye on them. Exactly.

[Tony]

Right.

[Mike Ryan]

About Aaron Hernandez.

[Zazlow]

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[Mike Ryan]

Hey, listeners, it's Mike. Hey, Billy Gill.

[Billy]

Hey.

[Mike Ryan]

Hey, Billy. As a proud member of your inner circle, remember when we were hanging out last weekend?

[Billy]

Oh, yeah. Fishtail palms.

[Mike Ryan]

Fishtail palms. Great memories we made. Kids playing in the pool and in our hands, a nice ice cold pan of Miller Light. It was so hot out.

[Billy]

I know, but it was so cold in my hand.

[Mike Ryan]

Took that first sip. It was crisp. It was refreshing. Oh, man, there is nothing like cracking open a Miller Light with your crew and your inner circle bones.

[Billy]

Hell yeah, we fist bumped.

[Mike Ryan]

Whether it's we we actually really did. Whether it's that touchdown make a sound.

[Billy]

But I just thought bam.

[Chris Cody]

Boom.

[Mike Ryan]

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[Chris Cody]

What?

[Mike Ryan]

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[Dan Le Batard]

What?

[Mike Ryan]

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[Zazlow]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Chris Cody]

Don LeBatard.

[Tony]

We got Afrini Hardaway.

[Chris Cody]

Afrini, who is Afreeni Hardaway?

[Tony]

I was trying to read fast. UD was on the team. Luke Jackson, Bobby Jones, the Matrix, Shawn Marion.

[Mike Ryan]

Stugats, Zo Shaq Smush Parker, Chris Quinn.

[Chris Cody]

Wait a minute.

[Tony]

D. Wade.

[Dan Le Batard]

Wait a minute.

[Tony]

Jason Williams. They're all right. I mean, stacked roster.

[Chris Cody]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats.

[Dan Le Batard]

I have some regrets. Okay. And we all do.

[Tony]

You want to apologize for the list.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, I want to apologize for the list. And I want to apologize to me.

[Tony]

For you saying things about my list.

[Billy]

Yeah, that seemed like you're apologizing for the existence.

[Dan Le Batard]

That is what I'm doing. I'm apologizing. I want to issue a public apology to the audience for a list that when it is you took the show from me to talk fuck football, did so with the very bottom of the league to analyze the teams that have the very least expectations. I don't think that that's what we should be talking about today if we're celebrating football.

[Chris Cody]

You're only as good as your weakest link. Dan.

[Billy]

Mm.

[Mike Ryan]

You want to rethink this whole Football Friday plan of yours?

[Billy]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

I Wet Blanket Friday.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, I will tell you part of why it is it's Wet Blanket Thursday around here, okay? Because you guys for years now have disrespected this bucket. Not as much as I did earlier when I was calling it this helmet. This segment is a bucket segment that is now sponsored by Dentek. And what it usually results in is us having to wear costumes occasionally some of us, and then eventually none of us. And Chris Whittingham still hasn't paid any of this. And there are outstanding fines all over the place. We haven't been able to get it under control. And John Amici wrote it into the most recent contracts. Like there's. It is now punitive and I can't believe it got to this point, but we're doing the bucket again. And so I am going to give you guys what you want about football. Football all the time. Football. We're going to do the games right here. It's the most predict. It's the. It's the most entertaining and creative thing that's ever done. Predictions, predictions on games. No one's doing that. We're the only ones in the podcast space doing that.

[Zazlow]

We are so back. Dan the Bucket is presented by Dentech's ultimate fantasy football punishment. Learn more and sign your league [e-mail] I'm very excited. I'm going first. Get over here.

[Mike Ryan]

Why is John Amici writing contracts for us?

[Chris Cody]

What? What?

[Zazlow]

All right, if you don't know if you're new around here, we rummage, you get two picks in the bucket. If you don't like the first one, you can put it back. We've simplified it, Dan. Not as many wacky helmets this year.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's just us, too, doing it. So we're going to be serving punishment.

[Zazlow]

I got the Cowboys. That's going back.

[Dan Le Batard]

Hold on.

[Tony]

You don't want to get points on.

[Dan Le Batard]

Plus eight and a half.

[Tony]

A lot of points.

[Zazlow]

We don't. We don't do points. Yeah, we just. You have to pick a winner.

[Mike Ryan]

What do we do? Setting the table, guys. We do this whole thing, like when we. I mean, you're going quick.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right.

[Zazlow]

I'm just making sure he thought that, like.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, I know.

[Mike Ryan]

We go straight up winners.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Billy]

Tony's supposed to start.

[Zazlow]

What's happening right now?

[Dan Le Batard]

Just Rusty and you're in charge.

[Zazlow]

The Jags. That's who I have. That's very exciting. Jaguars are at home against the Panthers. Three and a half point favorite. I improved.

[Mike Ryan]

Now, remember one of my favorite predictive analysis stats. Every time the Carolina Panthers have started the season. Week one against the Jacksonville Jaguars. They make the Super Bowl.

[Tony]

All right, here, first pick. I've got the Cincinnati Bengals and they're playing the Browns. Five and a half point favorites. I'm taking that.

[Chris Cody]

All right.

[Zazlow]

You got to keep that.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm going to go ahead and go now.

[Billy]

All right, let's do this.

[Mike Ryan]

Happy to be doing this in bucket.

[Zazlow]

Dentech.

[Dan Le Batard]

Mouth guard.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, I got Arizona. I'm keeping that. They're at the Saints. I like Arizona this year. I think they're making a playoff.

[Dan Le Batard]

Let me say Something here. Let's put these mouth guards in and give the rest of these picks the first picks of the season. Let's give Dentek the proper sponsors.

[Zazlow]

All right, let's do this.

[Mike Ryan]

I do mind, like, Matthew Tkachuk, because he's super cool, very comfortable.

[Chris Cody]

Another team I like is. What Billy just picked was the Bears.

[Billy]

Yeah, I'm putting them.

[Chris Cody]

They didn't make my list, though.

[Billy]

They're hosting the Vikings.

[Mike Ryan]

But you're Bear down, Billy.

[Billy]

I am Bear down, Billy. But I don't like the last game of the week.

[Chris Cody]

You know, Bears are plus one and a half. It's a small.

[Dan Le Batard]

They're small.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Billy]

Vikings. I got the jets, so big improvement for me.

[Chris Cody]

Okay, Zazlow's about to go. Chris Cody's about to go as well.

[Billy]

Versus the Jets.

[Chris Cody]

Huh? I'm hungry. Okay. Justin Fields, too.

[Dan Le Batard]

Again with the plain sticks.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, it tastes so good.

[Dan Le Batard]

Chris Cody.

[Zazlow]

I already went, Dan.

[Chris Cody]

I know, but Zazzle. Don't choke.

[Billy]

Good day for Dentek. How are we gonna have two mouthpiece segments? This one and the one with Mickey.

[Mike Ryan]

I need a mouth guard for one of them.

[Chris Cody]

I gotta floss. Oh, he's got the swap helmet. Everybody wants the swap helmet. You wanna keep that?

[Dan Le Batard]

No, you're.

[Zazlow]

Now, what you do is if you're keeping that, you pick another team and then you can switch that team that you pick next with anyone you choose. If you choose, you can keep that helmet. So pick a team. You got to pick another team. If you're keeping the swap.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, it's a good helmet to have.

[Zazlow]

Then you can take another helmet and now you have the option. Oh, my God. Oh, I thought it was the Saints. Army, Navy, Air Force. So now.

[Billy]

Thank you for your service.

[Zazlow]

You can pick to swap with somebody if. Or you can pick Army, Navy, or Air Force.

[Chris Cody]

You don't have to swap now. You get to pick up.

[Dan Le Batard]

And support the Army, Navy, and Coast Guard game.

[Chris Cody]

I'm checking it out.

[Billy]

It just says Army, Navy on that, so.

[Chris Cody]

I got the Bills.

[Dan Le Batard]

I got the Bills. The Bills.

[Billy]

They're a good team.

[Chris Cody]

Ravens. Yeah. Tough game.

[Billy]

Very boring on Hard Knocks, but a good team.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'll take the Bills. I'll take them against the Ravens.

[Chris Cody]

You wanted me to talk about the boring bills.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, I don't want to talk about the boring bills, but I do want to think that they're good again this year and they're going to win the division.

[Chris Cody]

Sure, but that's not fun, Zaz.

[Billy]

You don't need to worry about who you're picking in the thank you for your service helmet. Because you're probably going to swap with someone. So they're going to then have to.

[Chris Cody]

Think about maybe I won't. I'm going to see who? Army, Navy and everything.

[Mike Ryan]

Army's playing K State.

[Chris Cody]

That's not good.

[Zazlow]

Navy's playing at home against uab.

[Dan Le Batard]

Isn't K State open?

[Chris Cody]

UAB has Trent Delbert team. He sucks.

[Zazlow]

Okay, so maybe Navy at home against.

[Tony]

Them, I guess maybe army just lost the Tarleton State.

[Chris Cody]

All right, well, like I said, that might not be a good team to pick who's ever worth playing.

[Mike Ryan]

Utah State.

[Chris Cody]

Tough to have you break it down. College football expert. I always like to bet on Utah and Utah State. I always like for them to be a little bit better than people think they are. Yeah, I gotta go with Schwa. I'm out of the swap. So who do you want to swap with?

[Dan Le Batard]

Which is someone.

[Billy]

The Jets, I think he said.

[Zazlow]

I think Tony has the biggest favorite. Five and a half point favorite. Bangers.

[Chris Cody]

I don't know about that. Mike. What do you got? I got nothing.

[Mike Ryan]

You got to worry about.

[Chris Cody]

What? You got nothing.

[Mike Ryan]

It's on you for not remembering.

[Billy]

Yeah, he's right.

[Chris Cody]

That's not the way to play there. That's not the way.

[Mike Ryan]

I gave him analysis. I said I like them making the playoffs.

[Chris Cody]

But now you're testing his memory.

[Dan Le Batard]

And no one explained to him that.

[Chris Cody]

This was a game of wits. Well, what you got, man? He's playing it for the first time. We stole it from him and Joy Taylor. It was a totally stolen idea. I'm glad you're finally a man. Actually, he's still mad about it. You took our shit from me. Yeah? Yeah. You and Joy Taylor complaining You stole our bit and you took it national and all I did was hate it. I hate this bit. And now I'm supposed to remember Jims.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. You invented making predictions.

[Chris Cody]

No, I invented. I had a Wheel of Jackson. That's right. He had a wheel. Wheel. It was a Wheel of Humiliation.

[Mike Ryan]

Either way, you don't know my team. And it seems to be like you're in a pickle.

[Chris Cody]

The Wheel of Humiliation. Wheel of Humiliation was better than the. Than the bucket of. It was better. Yo, Mike, who you got? Don't make me come over there. I'll come over there. Billy, who you got? You just. You say I'm swapping with Billy or are you gonna say the team? You want to squat with me? No, I want to know what team you have. Okay. You want to squat with me? No, I Want to know what? Shibuya.

[Billy]

What if I had the Eagles?

[Chris Cody]

You want to swap and get the Eagles? No, I don't want the Eagles. What if I had the Broncos? You want to squat for the Broncos? If you had the Broncos, I would squat for you. So take a gambling man. I am a gambling man. So if I had the Broncos, you could have the Broncos. But if I have another team, you got that team. That's not how this works. Pick your poison, buddy. I want to know who you got, man. No, you got to pick who you're slobbering. Slapping with is usually a good thing. You're swabbing with a person, not the team. You're slobber with a person. You slobber with me. You want to do business with me? You wanna slot with me? Maybe I have the Broncos. You wanna slot? No, I wanna swap the team. I don't swap with you. Who you got? It's not how I do business. Well, you don't make the rules. Maybe I got the commanders. You want the commanders? You guys gotta stop doing this. Your microphone's off. Gus, if you want the commanders, then I wanna swamp. So you wanna do business with me? If you have the commanders, say, I want to swap with Billy. I want to swap with Billy. If he has the commanders. No. No contingencies. Pick a person to swap with. This is what you get for not keeping up. Yo, Chris. Who you got?

[Zazlow]

I have the Jags. Mike has the Cardinals. They're the biggest favorite.

[Chris Cody]

You son of a. But my man had. And I don't like to use that word, but you made me. I might have to come. Commanders. My team's in his hand right here. You have the commander. Maybe it's right here. Take a look. It's in this hand. Let me see your hand. You seeing it? You blind? You are the commanders. I got my team in this hand right here. You want them? If that team is the commanders, I'll want them. I think Chris Cody gave you a clue. Want this team or not? I don't want that team. I'm declining. I don't want that team.

[Billy]

Wow.

[Chris Cody]

Your funeral. We need to swap. I want Mike's team. Give me your team, Mike.

[Zazlow]

All right.

[Chris Cody]

Don't make me come over there. It's Cardinals. All right, so Mike now has.

[Dan Le Batard]

What are you taking? Air Force, Navy, Army?

[Chris Cody]

Who you taking?

[Zazlow]

He'll announce it.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, they're all not great.

[Zazlow]

Thank you, Dentek.

[Chris Cody]

I had to judge. Good. I'm glad I didn't take that bad business.

[Tony]

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[Dan Le Batard]

Billy. Somebody has written in here. I need way more.

[Chris Cody]

I'm sorry.

[Zazlow]

I just said in his headset. Haven't you been to all of them, too?

[Chris Cody]

It sounded like you were speaking aloud. My bad. Totally on me. That's 100% on me. All right. Stugats. But that goes without saying, right? That it couldn't happen?

[Mike Ryan]

Well, now he said I didn't.

[Chris Cody]

He didn't.

[Billy]

Say it again.

[Dan Le Batard]

Greg.

[Chris Cody]

My apologies, Greg.

[Dan Le Batard]

Why Greg? Yeah, Greg.

[Chris Cody]

He apologized.

[Dan Le Batard]

Craig, sincerely.

[Chris Cody]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats.

[Dan Le Batard]

Thank you. To Dentek. The bucket is back. The punishments will be paid this year. You say we haven't established John Amici is writing the character. But then you tell me that that black guy that hit Jeremy with a bottle two and a half hours ago, that that's a character we've established just to be sure I've got all of that right. Hit Jeremy in the head with a bottle. I haven't heard from Jeremy since. Have you. Have you seen Jeremy since?

[Mike Ryan]

No, but if you're asking me if that's accurate, yes, it is.

[Tony]

I've got good news. Jeremy's gonna be the one handling all the costumes for the dental.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's in charge.

[Tony]

He's in charge.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, but wait a minute. That's not gonna work, you guys.

[Tony]

We're not gonna listen to him.

[Dan Le Batard]

We're gonna hit him with a bottle of the contracts. It's in your contracts. The punishments have to be paid. That. That part nobody's fooling around on anymore. I wanted to ask you guys something. Have any of you seen the trailer for the Sheen documentary?

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, yeah. I think this one's gonna be good.

[Dan Le Batard]

So you guys were making fun of me because you were saying, oh, Metal Arc finished in second place for that one.

[Billy]

And I thought you meant Sheen, the place where you order really cheap stuff. Because I think Hulu did a thing. I'm like, on that. I'm like, why does Danny even know what Sheen is?

[Dan Le Batard]

The Charlie Sheen documentary was offered to us for a price.

[Zazlow]

We would have second place again.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, this is what you guys did last time, and that's not what.

[Billy]

Always the bridesmaid.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Billy]

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[Dan Le Batard]

So I want to. It's your money. Seriously, because the company's ours. It's your money. That this bet would have or would not have been made with. And so I ask you this question when I tell you that the Sheen movie could have been ours if we had paid a price, would have closed the bidding and would have been ours. It's not second place. It was. No, that. That seems a little steep. What I ask you is too steep. I'm asking you guys to guess. I'm asking you guys to tell me on behalf of the company, what do you think would be too much money to pay Charlie Sheen? That would have closed the category, that this would have been not just a giant week for Metal Arc, but it would have been everything with Pablo Torre and we would have been debuting the Sheen movie. What's the price that any of you have been willing to pay on the behalf of this company to have that movie be ours this week?

[Chris Cody]

I mean, is there a baseline as to how much this kind of thing usually cost?

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm just asking you. Yeah, well, I will tell you. Hold on a second.

[Mike Ryan]

$0 because we already didn't get to football.

[Chris Cody]

Barely. We didn't do enough. Football.

[Zazlow]

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[Mike Ryan]

Hey, listeners, it's Mike. Hey, Billy Gill.

[Billy]

Hey.

[Mike Ryan]

Hey, Billy. As a proud member of your inner circle, remember when we were hanging out last weekend?

[Billy]

Oh, yeah. Fishtail Palms.

[Mike Ryan]

Fishtail Palms. Great memories we made. Kids playing in the pool and in our hands, a nice ice cold can of Miller Light. It was so hot out.

[Billy]

I know, but it was so cold in my hand.

[Mike Ryan]

We took that first sip. It was crisp. It was refreshing. Oh man, there is nothing like cracking open a Miller Light with your crew and your inner circle bones.

[Billy]

Hell yeah, we fist bumped.

[Mike Ryan]

Whether it's we we actually really did. Whether it's that touchdown didn't make a.

[Billy]

Sound, but I just thought bam, boom.

[Mike Ryan]

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[Billy]

What?

[Mike Ryan]

It's just 96 calories.

[Chris Cody]

What?

[Mike Ryan]

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