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Dan Le Batard
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Stugotz
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Dan Le Batard
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Stugotz
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Pablo Torre
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Stugotz
This is the Dan Levator show with the Stugats podcast.
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Dan Le Batard
I want to be excited about baseball as we head to October, but I feel like the feelings I used to have where NFL starts overtaking and it's happening earlier and earlier. Roger Goodell's getting his wish, but the preseason is getting underway starting tonight.
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Pablo Torre
Yeah.
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Dan Le Batard
And people are unnecessarily jacked up. And I'm not.
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David Sampson
I can't believe, like the hall of Fame game was what, last week? And I mean, I can't spend any time watching that. But you see what the ratings were for the hall of Fame, which is a dog shit game, all right. And people love it. Everyone's watching tonight.
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Dan Le Batard
Crazy. It's outdried in the NBA. It's outdried Major League Baseball and like big games. Do you understand? It's a Hall of Fame game. The hall, which is a preseason game. And can we name who played? Chargers, Lions. I think that's who played. And I think the Chargers blew him out. I think hall of Fame game. Can't name. I don't think any starters played. 6.9 million people watch that game. Side note, only two Stanley cup games. Hockey show, Panthers guys. Only two Stanley cup games. Drew Moore.
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Stugotz
That's crazy.
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Dan Le Batard
I feel like it's got to be like people are just kind of putting it on, right?
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Pablo Torre
People wanted to see Trey. Lance, man, big game for him. You just check in, right? People are not watching that game like.
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Dan Le Batard
They'Re watching the NHL final. I don't care. I just can't believe.
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Pablo Torre
Believe it.
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Dan Le Batard
You have to believe it. You just put it on, though. You just put it on.
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David Sampson
No, Chris is right about that. He's. You're not sitting there on the edge of the couch locked in. But more people are casually watching that game than these other huge games. Right there is crazy.
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Dan Le Batard
Still interesting.
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Pablo Torre
It's crazy.
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Dan Le Batard
NBA. There were two finals games that had that. Two non finals games with more. And that's it. And I think I have these stats, right? But you can cross check the point is that preseason is something, and they're trying to get rid of it, which they should. But now, what everyone wants to talk about, and I have a slightly different thought on this, is the Cleveland Browns. And I have. I don't know if you know this as. But my goal today, Thursday, my last day in the chair, was to see if I could see the veins on my grind. I just. That's what I've been looking for.
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David Sampson
Well, is Mike, like, are you still totally out on the Browns?
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Stugotz
Yes.
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Pablo Torre
Good for you, man.
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Stugotz
Yeah. But there was a way to be back in if Cam Ward got drafted by them.
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Dan Le Batard
By the way, quick side note, I've noticed ESPN this morning and NFL Network yesterday. Are we doing Cameron Ward?
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Pablo Torre
They're writing Can.
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David Sampson
I heard that this morning.
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Stugotz
It seems to be his preference in the pros.
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Dan Le Batard
Interesting. He's allowed to give that. I assume it's like baseball, where the players give the name they want, and then you spread that to all of the stadiums and networks. And Cam Ward is better. Someone should tell him. Yeah, Cameron, I think three syllables is always. Cam Ward just slaps, though.
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Pablo Torre
That's just a cool name.
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Dan Le Batard
He could just. I think you could just go with one name. But I. But, Mike, I want to talk about the Browns because everyone seems to think there's a quarterback sitch because Sanders is starting the first game. And I am trying. I'm trying to get people onto my side, which is I want the Cleveland Browns to be the best team in football because I want the Haslams to wallow in Deshaun Watson and recognize the fact that he was the problem from day one. And I haven't been able to get there, but I think this is the year with Flacco, with Pickett, with Sanders, and with, I think, two others.
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Stugotz
Gabriel, I think my guy Tyler Huntley's in the mix again.
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Pablo Torre
Oh, yeah. Snoop.
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Stugotz
Yeah.
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Dan Le Batard
Can I get you to watch the game?
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Stugotz
No, not really. I'm locked in on Cam Ward, though. I like Baker and Cameron.
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Dan Le Batard
I want you to be worked up about it. I want your.
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Stugotz
No, I think it's a very interesting hell of their own design. So I'd like to discuss that, but I see the. The biggest media star of the summer is onboarded here on our show.
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Dan Le Batard
We have Pablo ready?
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Pablo Torre
Yeah, he's ready.
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Dan Le Batard
Pablo, thank God you're here. We didn't get to see Mike's veins.
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Pablo Torre
I've been just waiting for the veins.
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Dan Le Batard
He'S been waiting for.
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Pablo Torre
Waiting for those varicose veins.
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Dan Le Batard
Well, I guess I don't Think those are varicose veins? Those are just vein veins. But we. Pablo, he's been worked up. But I assume that you can't focus on this because you are knee deep finding stuff out. We gave you. There was applause in the room when it was announced that you had a rumored seven figure deal with the Atlantic.
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David Sampson
You're rich now.
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Pablo Torre
The Atlantic. Yeah. Careful. Thanks, I guess. Paolo, do you know how much you have to pay for these WWE pay per views or not? Like, what the hell is going on here?
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Dan Le Batard
Find that out.
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Pablo Torre
I don't know what's going on over there. I just know that if you're to total my like now cable sports, not even cable, but just like sports watching budget, it's almost $1,000. I don't know how or what I'm getting. I just know that it's an insane amount. I also know, by the way, that this whole Cameron Ward thing reminds me of how I got scolded for trying to call Patrick Mahomes, Pat Mahomes, because he also wants to do the full thing, right? This is the thing. Patrick kind of slaps, though.
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Dan Le Batard
Like, Patrick Mahomes slaps, like, more than Pat Mahomes. Pablo, please do not go past what you did and what you're finding out, because this has been the summ of you and I'm just not willing to just talk about nonsense here. I want to talk about how you're preparing, how the launch is going to be with the Athletic and the New York Times and whether we can expect continued what. What exactly is the passion that drove you to this partnership and what can we expect?
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Pablo Torre
Thank you for genuinely asking a question. I'm in an offensive crouch because every time I do this show, I'm trying to figure out how to distract Dan into not insulting me. So it's really exciting. Look, it's an exciting thing because we are going to keep making the show at Meadowlark Media like that's the most exciting thing is that the Athletic, the New York Times came to us at a meeting in the New York Times building and they made it very clear that they want us to do this show exactly as we've been doing it, which involves taste testing athlete weed brands, which involves making butter sculptures of myself with Dan Levittard's money. All of that stuff they enthusiastically want. And so the whole idea of what's changing is ideally for the audience like nothing, except for the fact that we will now have access if we do this right, if we earn the trust of our partners at the New York Times. And the athletic. If we do that stuff right, we'll do even more ambitious investigations and even more ambitious episodes. And the upside for us is that we get to access, we get to launder, I would say, our brand of occasionally high journalism, highbrow, also low brow journalism, into an audience that is unfamiliar with us as of yet. And that's really exciting. So that's what's happening on September 4th. That's the first episode we'll be launching with, which is a. I mean, I don't want to spoil that episode. It's a big one. But yeah, I'm really, really, really, really excited and grateful.
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Dan Le Batard
Can we help you with that one? Do you need help from Metal Arc or from Dan's show? What can we do to help you actually continue to grow and be great?
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Pablo Torre
I would say that for that episode, one of you in that room in Miami, one of you will be called upon. One of you will be called upon. I don't want to say anything more, but one of you is very important.
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Stugotz
Says, can we vote for it to not be someone. Yeah, me.
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Dan Le Batard
I think it's about Kyle Stowers.
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Mike Ryan
Must be.
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Stugotz
That was my fear.
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Dan Le Batard
I think that PAVLO is going to launch with an entire local PTFO Stower hours. You're going to find out whether, whether who is going to vote for Kyle Stowers as mvp.
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Pablo Torre
We're pivoting. We're pivoting to a Marlins podcast. Correct. That's what the New York Times has, has purchased.
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Dan Le Batard
That's what they've demanded now. They didn't purchase it. It's a license.
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Pablo Torre
Sorry. They purchased the right to license us. Yeah. And that's by the way, people, I guess I'm sort of numb. Like part of the journey for people who care about the journey of Meadowlark in which I am on lots of calls. And I am also confused about what we're doing here. It's really cool to see an institution basically be like, whatever you guys are up to, we want in on that. And that's why I've been wasting Dan's money. Guys, this has been the game the whole time. I want an institution to buy the right to license something, which means people who don't know what licensing is, it just means that they advertise, monetize, promote the show, but they don't own the show. To David's very correct correction, it's an ideal, sort of like rental of us with the promise of being long term tenants. And that's ideal. I mean, I was talking to somebody the other day about this, trying to explain it, because nobody knows what licensing is, and I totally understand why. And yeah, the reaction is this is the best of both worlds kind of scenario where we give up none of the freedom, but we have lots of upside. And they likewise, if we somehow regress into a Kyle Stower centric podcast, they can be like, yeah, this is a nice experiment. We don't want to do this anymore. And I would also understand.
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Stugotz
Pablo, I have a question about meaningful journalism, because you did some meaningful journalism that actually brought about change. Why does that work in the sports world, but it doesn't work in real life? For example, yesterday, one of the richest CEOs in the world gave the President a literal piece of gold in exchange to be exempt from the president's whimsical tariff policy. Normally that would be covered, but it's not really. It just happens in front of cameras. Hell, the administration uses that opportunity as a press moment, when in previous generations, this would be shameful. But you put out an episode and you see immediate shame and change is brought about because of it. Why doesn't it happen in real life anymore?
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Pablo Torre
I did love, by the way, the whole thing where Tim Cook, head of the richest company in the world, I think still when he presents what Mike is not exaggerating, which is a golden base with the whole like thing on top of it, much like what Gianni Infantino presented to him, by the way, for the Club World Cup.
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Stugotz
He's openly taking pails.
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Pablo Torre
He's openly like, it's very obvious. I think you just have to look at Donald Trump's face as he's smiling. It's working like the gift is working. That's why everyone does it, is that it works. The thing I actually am glad that David is sitting in the chair for is this conversation. Because the argument for why Tim Cook should do this, of course, is not anything related to some moral anything. It's that he has a fiduciary duty to the shareholders of Apple to do stuff that works and the quid pro quo works. It is absolutely, David, something that will make Apple more profitable, which is why everyone does it.
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Dan Le Batard
And you're super happy if you're an Apple shareholder, super duper happy, as you're looking at your ROI and you're looking at how your stock has grown and. And Mike, I think that this should be vain worthy. There are gifts that are given to kings all the time, and it's been going on for hundreds of years.
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Stugotz
Kings.
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Dan Le Batard
I said that word purposefully.
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Stugotz
Yeah, but we're not a monarchy.
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Dan Le Batard
Well, there's 80 million people who disagree with you that they elected this person.
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Stugotz
No, no, no, no, no.
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Dan Le Batard
Yes.
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Stugotz
No, no, no. That is a fallacy. And I hate it when my republican friends do this. That this is the will of the people, that this is not. This is the will of Project 25, which he expressly said he had nothing to do with. And then they just go with the lie. This is not what he ran on. It's not. Hell, even the thing that is closest to what he ran on was a lie because it's not violent criminals and gang members. So I don't understand why we're just willingly. And it's not. It's not by coincidence that habeas corpus is removed from the Constitution. And it's not a coding error. All right? It's not any of that. It's happening right in front of you. And because you're ignorant and you want to refuse to admit that you were wrong, you don't want to capitulate. You're literally going to turn into a monarchy.
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Dan Le Batard
I got the veins, Pablo. Can you see it?
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Pablo Torre
Yeah, they're, as I say, they're varicose.
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Dan Le Batard
They're still not varicose.
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Pablo Torre
I can see all of them. They're.
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Stugotz
They're protruding, but nobody seems to give a shit. They've effectively flooded the zone. I mean, what's happening? Like, the world's most notorious human trafficker just gets moved to a minimum security prison?
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Dan Le Batard
Maxwell.
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Stugotz
Yes, the most.
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Dan Le Batard
Wait, what did you call her most.
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Stugotz
Infamous living human trafficker.
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Dan Le Batard
I thought you meant, like, the best.
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Stugotz
No, the most infamous.
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Pablo Torre
No, we want a power rank. Can we get a top five human traffickers? David, you got that?
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Stugotz
But it's happening right in front of people, and it runs counter to the promises that were made on the campaign trail. And yet the base just goes along with it. Why? We know that Democrats are gonna be angry. Why aren't Republicans?
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Pablo Torre
Well, this is. So the question that you originated was a good one. Like, why does this matter in sports but not in politics? And I think the answer is in the ability, for shame, to be a guardrail, however fleeting. By the way, I wouldn't say that the NFLPA currently is covering itself in glory. And spoiler alert, I'm still reporting on that story. In terms of how they are handling the regime change. But there was a regime change, and there was somebody in the character of Lloyd Howell who was like, this is too much for me. I'm not built for this. I am, in fact, built. Not different I don't want this. Trump has certainly this bed of nails phenomenon where he can just handle everything and the more scandals, the less pain is inflicted. The thing, though, the thing about, like, okay, what matters, like the, the Jeffrey Epstein thing. I was just having this debate last night with some very smart people. And the thing I argue is not that we finally got him. We finally got the thing that Elon Musk was not when it came to like, ooh, his betrayal is going to be the real death knell, or the convictions, which were obviously something that he wriggled out of and nobody cares. The reason why is because I think when you run a campaign premised on the number one problem in America that they're not telling you about is pedophilia, and the deep state is what's enabling it. And then you become the deep state and now you're like the pedophilia thing, not a big deal. You lose those anti political people who don't care about politics, who you got into your coalition. And this is, by the way, this is Joe Rogan, this is Andrew Schultz. This is, I mean, go down the line, right? These are the Oban. These are the people who are like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. This feels like a bridge too far in terms of what our capacity to swallow is, Is. Is going to allow. And that, that sensitivity to his base, I think, is why Trump is acting so weirdly about this. I don't know what's in the files yet, but wait a minute, you know that he is behaving in a way that suggests that he is afraid of his base turning on him because of it. And that to me, he's always had a good read on his base and he's seeing these manosphere, quote unquote, I hate that term. But those guys being like, eh, this is too much. And that to me is interesting as a signal.
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Mike Ryan
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Pablo Torre
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Dan Le Batard
I'm just gonna go on record, and I'm happy to go on record today at this moment, that if Pablo Torre finds out what's in the Epstein files and that's. He needs one of us in the room. And that's the first episode. Who's the volunteer? Who's there? Who do you got?
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Stugotz
I don't think anyone will care. We've. We've passed a tipping point. There is clear and obvious upfront corruption and bribes happening in front of everybody's face. Like the Maxwell Leaks yesterday, coordinated as they were, that she reportedly didn't have anything bad to say about Donald Trump. What a coinky dink. As Donald Trump's former personal attorney goes and meets with her two weeks ago and she's moved to a federal. A minimum security federal prison. This is overt. This is clear as day. These are in context clues. This is playing out right in front of you. The President gets to say in front of a microphone, oh, I know nothing about that. Really. That. That defies all logic. And plus he's lied several times about it. The files were made up. They were made. They're not actually real. They're on someone's desk. None of this matters. And I just. We're well beyond the tipping point of it ever mattering now. There have been societal shifts. I don't want to discount us from ever turning around from this. I think we can. But AI makes everything way more difficult. The rules that they put in place to really tear down the Republic makes it harder to climb out from. And it seems like we're further away than ever.
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Mike Ryan
No, I think they'll care. I'll do it.
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Stugotz
Yeah, I'll be there.
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Dan Le Batard
Yeah. Pablo, you got at least three deep people who want to be part of that episode.
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Stugotz
Look, the NFLPA head.
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Pablo Torre
You're on the. You want to be on the list. About the list. He's going to say, it sounds like you're going to reveal a list. And when you said it involves someone here, it's like, whoa, someone's on the list. About the Epstein list.
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Stugotz
Where's Joe? He's been on vacation too long. I need Joe to talk me down. Joe, Where's Mika Harbor?
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Pablo Torre
I hate you.
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Stugotz
Can you find out where the pin.
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Pablo Torre
I'm in. I'm in the green room. Joe was on the show today. What?
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Stugotz
Where was. Was he tan? He better be tan. That better be a nice base.
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Pablo Torre
We're all. We're. We're all tanner than we'd otherwise be in the month.
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Stugotz
How can anyone go on vacation during a time like this? Where's Dan?
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Pablo Torre
Can I. Can I. Can I briefly point out a couple things? Who is. Who is texting me? As a producer, Pablo Torre finds out some important information because people have been wondering, do we need to subscribe to anything? Is stuff going to be paywalled? What is happening? And so, to be very clear, podcast still given to you for free. YouTube videos, full episodes given to you for free. You should subscribe to the New York Times and the Athletic for lots of good reasons, but that's not because you must do that to listen and watch us. So just to clarify again, we're not gonna make you pay for anything. Although you can pay for subscribers to my substack, in which we'll give you exclusive content and like, meetups and stuff. And I'll make it worth your while. You can be on a list about the list, about the list even. You can be old about who should be on the list. You're gonna make it worth my while. Hey, your sub stack to know where to meet you. Well, how do we get Red Zone information? People are. How do we get red.
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Stugotz
How much am I paying for WWE now?
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Dan Le Batard
Careful here, Pablo, I'm just begging you to be careful.
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Pablo Torre
I don't know what you guys have been doing today trying to figure out crashing out we launched hours MVP candidacy and Adnan Burke laughed at Jerry.
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David Sampson
I'm just counting down the hours to go see weapons tomorrow.
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Dan Le Batard
It's been a day of questions. And Pablo, I would say that we've got one more question for you because your time has to be limited because you're saying that everything's for free. I would like to point out to Billy and Mike his podcast polite or finds out you don't have to pay for it. Easy to find just said that. But you guys are all up in.
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Pablo Torre
Arms about Red Zone, so, man.
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Dan Le Batard
Well, I'm tired of googling.
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Pablo Torre
Do I have to pay for reds?
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Dan Le Batard
And no one knows they've been losing their minds about what they're paying for. And so totally begrudging. Paying for quality where I have a totally different view that I would pay for your podcast. And maybe that makes me different. But all of your loyal listeners who are finding shit out, I would pay.
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Pablo Torre
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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David Sampson
That's a good title. But show Pablo Torre finds shit out.
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Pablo Torre
Disparaging to what he's finding out every day. Pablo. I was also called an elitist because I said 5 below should remain below $5. And they shouldn't sell anything above that. Ooh, yeah, see, I have a. I mean, this is obviously the Dollar Store argument. Like, why are you. What are we doing here? That's what we 99 cent store.
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Dan Le Batard
But why, why can't the Dollar Store have stuff at different price points?
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Pablo Torre
I mean, and change the name of your store? How is this even an argument?
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Dan Le Batard
Like, what are we doing here? Does Thrifty rent a car always charge fewer dollars than Hertz and Avis and Enterprise? You show them a better offer, they'll beat it. Well, that's Fast Eddie. That's very normal in the, in the industry that if you can beat an offer, a matching offer, these are all normal. But it doesn't matter what the name of the company is. Just because it's Dollar Store doesn't mean everything has to be a dollar.
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Pablo Torre
David, if the store is called everything here costs a.
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Dan Le Batard
Do I just kind of expect that? That's just all we're saying.
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Pablo Torre
Listen, it's probably appropriate. It's probably appropriate that the name of my show. Thank you, David, is probably. Torre finds out, and I make it a point to find stuff out. The name of David's show is nothing personal. You subscribe and everything is personal. So I guess there is a through line in his approach to titles. And the name of this show is the Dan Levatar show with Stugotz. And neither have been here for quite some time.
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Dan Le Batard
Listen, I happen to just say that the name, it's the whole wine label argument that we had before when Jeremy wasn't here and he was oiling his arms, that you have to, in every way possible, understand the products you're getting and then what you're willing to pay for that product. And you have to be willing to pay for stuff. It's why we work. It's why we earn money to spend on the stuff that we want. And I'm not embarrassed to say that I want. Pablo Torre finds out twice a week. Three times a week. Are you doing three times a week with a new deal or is it more?
- [26:06]
Pablo Torre
We're doing three times a week, but again, if you subscribe to my substack, I'm going to do some stuff that's exclusive to those subscribers in which, yeah, I'll do maybe a fourth episode in a given week just for that.
- [26:17]
Dan Le Batard
I do subscribe to your substack. I am a paid subscriber to your substack.
- [26:23]
Pablo Torre
Thank you, Pablo.
- [26:24]
David Sampson
Do you have a list, like, of all the things that you want to find out? Yes, like, how long is that list currently right now?
- [26:31]
Pablo Torre
So that's. Now Zaz is getting to what I'm here to talk about. So I think this is hard to see because my notes app is. There's an I. Hold on. You finally find the part I can show you that is seeable because I have an ideas.
- [26:47]
David Sampson
Well, what are you afraid to just hold up and show us? You got something shady going on there.
- [26:51]
Pablo Torre
If you scream copyright, then you can't do it. I'm going to make it so far back that you. You can't really see it. Copyright. Just. Just look at. I'm just gonna scroll. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [27:00]
Mike Ryan
We can't really see the phone.
- [27:01]
Pablo Torre
So you have, like, the blur feature, I think, on your. So we can't really see anything.
- [27:06]
Dan Le Batard
Totally working.
- [27:07]
Pablo Torre
We can't tell you're in a blue room either, because everything's blurred back there. Yeah, hold on. Let me see if I can. There's.
- [27:12]
Dan Le Batard
I called it a green room.
- [27:14]
Pablo Torre
It is a green room. Yeah. Zaz, it's a good idea. All. It's all written down, and I'll get to it eventually.
- [27:21]
David Sampson
Like, how many would you guess that you have?
- [27:24]
Pablo Torre
I want to show you the scroll bar. Hold on, let me. Oh, God, I don't want to. I can't show. It's just so. It's. You know how you do Instagram stories sometimes and you're like, that person posted way too many stories. Yes. And it's like the size of the period.
- [27:38]
Stugotz
Sure, sure.
- [27:39]
Pablo Torre
That's the size of the scroll bar on my notes. Apple ideas across the top. I got. Look, the thing that. And I'm so glad that David has been. Has been recently, and I so genuinely appreciate it. I've been a champion of PTFO and our staff and all people who make it. And by the way, this is so much about me getting help from people. I can't do it without them. All that I hope, is very obvious. David always talks about our staff. This is a victory for them. We get to do the things we do with them. That's so incredible for us. Even though Ryan Cortez is texting me annoying factual corrections. The reason I say all of this is because when it comes to, like, how we make the show. Yeah. Like it, man. There is so. I try not to spoil episodes, but.
- [28:33]
Dan Le Batard
We are insane sentences right now.
- [28:35]
Pablo Torre
I'm not even saying sentences because I'm trying to avoid what I think is important to convey, which is that we are actively investigating things that the federal government is also investigating. And I don't want to show you the Notes app file because I'm not kidding. And so how do we get to do that more with the help of people who like and subscribe. So thank you.
- [28:54]
Dan Le Batard
Have do you have lawyers on staff ready to roll?
- [28:57]
Pablo Torre
We have a lawyer at Meadowlark who is incredible, by the way. Shout out thank you for giving me a shout out opportunity. To Christopher Poe, Meadowlark's attorney. He is somebody who vets our episodes when there's legally questionable or rather legally interesting material. And it's just rare to have somebody who's a champion for the journalism and not trying to actively discourage it. I've worked at companies where that's not the case. Which companies? You know?
- [29:26]
Dan Le Batard
No, I don't know. That's why I'm asking.
- [29:29]
Pablo Torre
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Dan Le Batard
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Pablo Torre
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- [31:25]
Dan Le Batard
Don LeBatard. David Sampson.
- [31:28]
Pablo Torre
Weirdo.
- [31:29]
Dan Le Batard
Because he was not.
- [31:31]
Pablo Torre
He was not the fun substitute teacher.
- [31:33]
Dan Le Batard
Who'D wheel out a TV and play a VHS tape of Armageddon in science class. He was the weird one who would eat an egg salad sandwich while clipping his toenails into the trash can and.
- [31:44]
Pablo Torre
Ranting about Ronald Reagan stugats. The guy kept talking about how his ass was smooth, smoother than a newborn's cheek. He wouldn't stop bragging about his bare buttocks to me. This is the Dan Levatar show with the St.
- [32:07]
Dan Le Batard
Well, while you're thinking about whether or not I can find that out, I think Mike may have a top five for you.
- [32:12]
Stugotz
Yeah?
- [32:12]
Dan Le Batard
Is it a good one?
- [32:13]
Stugotz
Top five pitches that I have for Pablo Torre finds out.
- [32:16]
Dan Le Batard
Nice. Yeah, nice.
- [32:19]
Stugotz
Number five. Is Nick Saban, a paid lobbyist?
- [32:26]
Dan Le Batard
Easy to find out.
- [32:27]
Pablo Torre
It was very funny when he was asked like, so you're on this commission, right? This. Trump asked, you're on this commission? He was like, no, fired.
- [32:36]
Stugotz
He is. And he's speaking before Congress and he has a lot of gravitas to him. And he is speaking and espousing these virtues on cable TV's biggest college football studio show. And he has never been asked on camera as to whether or not he's a paid lobbyist. Because he should disclose that. Because no one on that show is really presenting a counter argument. And the machine just keeps going.
- [33:01]
Dan Le Batard
It's public.
- [33:02]
Stugotz
Mike, I would like to know if he's. If he's a. I know he's certainly a lobbyist because he is lobbying Congress on behalf of the old guard. But I would like to know if he's being compensated for it. Okay, conventionally or with some other concessions down the line.
- [33:19]
Pablo Torre
That's a good idea. I mean, look, Derek Dooley is running for Senate. Tommy Tuberville's an actual Senator. These are not ridiculous questions to ask.
- [33:28]
Dan Le Batard
Number four.
- [33:29]
Stugotz
Number four, Max Schuss. Ten minutes after he hit a three pointer, they changed the score. Eastern Conference. Finally, ten, ten minutes later. We had never seen anything like that.
- [33:48]
David Sampson
Potentially cost me a third championship ring.
- [33:51]
Stugotz
Pablo, we haven't seen anything like it since. The source was just trust me, bro. There hasn't been a single image of Max Schrouss's heel actually touching out of bounds. Bullshit. Jimmy Butler should have been driving to the lane with a tie game and just dunking for a go ahead bucket. They changed history. This was the Score that existed in a game for 10 minutes. And then Mike Breen explained to us just out of the blue. League officers decided he was out of bounds. Even though we have no evidence to actually support that. We've never seen anything like it since.
- [34:27]
David Sampson
I'd be a three time champion broadcaster.
- [34:30]
Dan Le Batard
That's Vera coast veins. Pablo, is that interest that interests you.
- [34:35]
Pablo Torre
In any way that it's. It is interesting. It's also interesting that Mike's. Mike Breen is Lorne Michaels.
- [34:46]
Stugotz
Number three, Rick Rielly. Where is he? Where is he now? I mean he signed a deal. It seemed like a bad deal. He was like the biggest writer in America and then he joined the biggest brand and it just never worked out and he just went away and I don't know what's happening to him.
- [35:04]
David Sampson
Is he still on the payroll?
- [35:06]
Stugotz
I was gonna say Sports by Brooks but then he came out and he kind of revealed that he's like a history buff now. So I settled on Rick Riley.
- [35:13]
Pablo Torre
So Sports by Brooks was dming me the other day and it was such a delight to hear from Sports by Brooks who is a history buff and has lots of thoughts about sports and history and politics. Now I used to go to his site for the boobs. I'll admit that now he has pivoted.
- [35:28]
David Sampson
You say that as if that wasn't all of us, Pablo.
- [35:33]
Pablo Torre
I just remember like the sidebar of his site was just like a list of jpegs basically. And I clicked. I did click. Rick Riley was, for those too young to remember, one of the great long form writers before he was the preeminent sports columnist, back page magazine columnist, at least in America. He was incredible. An incredible. Read the story about Marge Schott, the former Cincinnati Reds owner that Rick Riley wrote. It's just one of the most fun, skilled pieces of writing in any genre anywhere. And I have no idea where he is now.
- [36:07]
Dan Le Batard
But why is Mike worked up? Why are you worked up about that?
- [36:10]
Stugotz
I want to find out.
- [36:11]
Pablo Torre
Mystery.
- [36:12]
Stugotz
Okay, Pablo, you might have done this episode and I'd be very embarrassed. I don't listen to all the episodes. I tried to.
- [36:21]
Pablo Torre
That's.
- [36:22]
Stugotz
I try to. Did you do an episode on the yips?
- [36:27]
Pablo Torre
We at ESPN Daily did an episode about the yips. Have not done our PTFO treatment of the yips. It's. I mean, look, it's self evidently fascinating, right? It's called white line disease. I'm sure Dave has encountered someone with the yips in his capacity as executive of a baseball team. It's been called all Sorts of euphemisms. It is real. It is something that manifests most prominently in golf and basketball and Ben Simmons at the free throw line. It's a real thing. It's a real thing.
- [36:57]
Dan Le Batard
I thought the Yips were solely baseball in terms of where they. Where the name came from. It's happening in golf, it happens in other sports. But I thought the name Yips was baseball generated.
- [37:08]
Stugotz
I'd like to see the PTFO treatment on it. And my backup for that was NASCAR Charters. But, you know, I've been pitching that privately for years.
- [37:18]
Pablo Torre
We did it. Nothing that gives me a lot of nascar. NASCAR ideas.
- [37:21]
Stugotz
And number one, Spanish tax laws. The game's biggest icons in both coaching and playing have all been pinched by the Spanish government. And initially it's been reported like they're going to serve jail time, yet they never do. Why does nobody ever pay their taxes in Spain? Why do they always get penalized? But not really. I'm talking Ronaldo Messi, Jose Mourinho, Carlo Ancelotti. This happens to everybody over there. There's always some kind of felonious scandal when it comes to taxes, and I don't understand it. I'd like to find out why you.
- [38:00]
Pablo Torre
Wanted to be the correspondent on that one.
- [38:01]
Stugotz
No, I don't. I have nothing to offer other than like, this is happening.
- [38:05]
Dan Le Batard
Well, correspondents go and find out stuff. They go correspond.
- [38:09]
Stugotz
No, that's what. He's there. I got this job, he's got that job.
- [38:11]
Dan Le Batard
No, you understand that he has the other people do the job and then he gets the credit.
- [38:16]
Stugotz
I happen to know that Pablo Torre does a fair amount of sleuthing.
- [38:20]
Dan Le Batard
Whoa, you wait.
- [38:21]
Pablo Torre
I do some sleuthing.
- [38:22]
Dan Le Batard
Especially Spain. If it's Spain.
- [38:25]
Pablo Torre
There's another. There is another episode that's taking me to Spain sometime in the next year that I am actively. I've been reporting as long as I've been reporting any story. I might make a pit stop for tax law while I'm over there. It's a good idea.
- [38:40]
Dan Le Batard
The honeymoon of Belichick in Jordan, will it be in Spain?
- [38:43]
Stugotz
Jordan.
- [38:44]
Dan Le Batard
Jordan. Excuse me. Thank you.
- [38:47]
Pablo Torre
I don't believe that they are engaged. Despite the fact that Bill Belichick's boat has been renamed Nine Rings or whatever it is. I don't believe that that is the case, but my investigation into that continues.
- [39:00]
Dan Le Batard
Pablo, it's not an accident.
- [39:02]
Stugotz
I'm going to stroke you real quick. You've had an Adrian Beltre contract year. You've had a big time summer. You dominated sports, pop culture. With the Belichick thing. And then the NFLPA thing was. Honestly, you may win awards for that journalism there. You have this new partnership. I know you, and I know you like being talked about, so you're going to try to Tommy top yourself. But how do you.
- [39:25]
Pablo Torre
September 4th, one of you is going to help me top myself. And I don't mean that in the way that some of you may already presume is disgusting and graphic, despite the fact that you are on a list about the list. Not the same list. Not the same top. But we are going to Tommy top ourselves.
- [39:45]
Dan Le Batard
Pablo. Thank you. It's Pablo Torrey finds out and Meadowlark. It's a victory for Meadowlark. It's a victory for everyone in this room, everyone listening to this show. And they're still doing shows three times a week, but starting September 4th, it will be associated with the Athletic and the New York Times. Pablo Torre. See, this is how it can go when we're all nice to each other.
- [40:06]
Pablo Torre
You know what? I just want to say thank you, Dan, for letting me waste your money and then hopefully waste less of your money, even though you're never at the show that you host. Thank you.
- [40:20]
Dan Le Batard
Wow, Zaz, I'm just.
- [40:21]
David Sampson
I'm trying to figure out who's the person that's gonna be on the list that's gonna be about the list.
- [40:26]
Dan Le Batard
I. According to Mike, it doesn't matter, because everyone knows who's on the list. Mike, apparently your point of view is that you know that the list is.
- [40:34]
Stugotz
I mean, we know he's in the files. It's obvious. It's in the file. He's in the files. It's been reported by reputable. It doesn't matter. But it would. I. He was saying that we have to hold people accountable for being in the files.
- [40:49]
Dan Le Batard
I just want to know who else is in the files.
- [40:51]
Stugotz
And then you always hear, well, then why didn't Biden release the files? And then I have to explain that the files were sealed. And then someone who is very stupid looks back at me and says, why does that matter? And I'm like, well, before, the division between the executive branch and the Department of Justice used to matter. But they don't understand that because they're stupid.
- [41:12]
Dan Le Batard
Do you know the three branches of government?
- [41:15]
Stugotz
Judicial, Executive.
- [41:17]
Dan Le Batard
Yes.
- [41:18]
Stugotz
And I think Pat Riley and Nick Harrison oversee the third. But there's, like, a power struggle. I think, ooh, Pablo should find out about that.
- [41:25]
Pablo Torre
Yeah.
- [41:26]
Dan Le Batard
You think that Nick Arison is involved somehow in the legislative branch?
- [41:31]
Stugotz
No, I was making a joke to move the show on.
- [41:34]
Dan Le Batard
Why would. Why? I don't want to move on from your insanity about this. I feel for you.
- [41:38]
Stugotz
The one that Marjorie Taylor Greene's a part of.
- [41:41]
Pablo Torre
Oh, that side? Yeah.
- [41:43]
Stugotz
The one that represents the best of us.
- [41:47]
Dan Le Batard
I will move on from that. I'm glad we had Pavel. That was the thing as the whole process of getting that deal done and figuring out sort of the best place for Palatore finds out.
- [41:57]
David Sampson
So he had a bunch of options.
- [41:59]
Dan Le Batard
It's Palator finds out. People wanted to find out with him, go for him. And so the reason why the Athletic makes sense is it's just as they said in that press release. That's a press release where we all knew what to do. So I don't know why people thought like, oh, is it paid or not paid? Is it still free?
- [42:14]
David Sampson
Well, I mean, he explained it there. He did a very clear and concise job of explaining this is what it costs, which is nothing. And you could still get it available here. See, I understood how to get it.
- [42:25]
Dan Le Batard
They released the story and he's like.
- [42:27]
Pablo Torre
There was one question, and here's the answer to that question. It was very nice.
- [42:32]
Dan Le Batard
So my commitment going forward is to try to demystify some of these press releases like we do on Nothing Personal, because there are some press releases that are ridiculous and ask more questions than they answer. But Pablo's one, which was worked on by a lot of people, was very clear, and I'm personally excited for September 4th.
- [42:51]
David Sampson
Any idea what? That episode's going to be very secretive.
- [42:54]
Dan Le Batard
If he's. He just said that he's investigating the files. He also said he's got more on the NFL pa. Did you hear him say that? I'm looking for context clues, Mike. Lots of context clues. Because you tell me that that's what I miss often on and off the air. So he said something about nflpa. Who's left to kill at the nflpa?
- [43:15]
Stugotz
I mean, there's new. There was a mission statement sent out. There's new leadership already.
- [43:19]
Dan Le Batard
And so he's going to take down the new leadership after taking down the old leadership.
- [43:23]
Stugotz
I don't know. I don't know what Pablo's going to do.
- [43:25]
Pablo Torre
Someone here knows. Someone's going to be involved in that episode.
- [43:28]
Stugotz
I have a.
- [43:29]
Pablo Torre
That person knows already.
- [43:30]
Stugotz
Yeah, it's you. Because we all talked. It's none of us.
- [43:33]
Pablo Torre
It can't be me. What do you know?
- [43:38]
Stugotz
It's you.
- [43:39]
Dan Le Batard
You think that everyone is telling you the truth.
- [43:43]
Stugotz
Do you think you're credible enough it's me.