Hour 2: Amin's Internet (feat. Amin Elhassan)

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: Hour 2: Amin's Internet (feat. Amin Elhassan)
Date: December 1, 2025

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Episode Overview

In this hour, broadcasting from the Elser Hotel in downtown Miami, Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, and the crew are joined by Amin Elhassan (eventually) to riff on the latest in the NFL, the oddities of sports media, board game debates, Chicago Bears hype, and the crisis that is “Amin’s Internet.” The conversation bounces between spirited sports banter, absurdist comedy, and pop culture tangents—including an in-depth discussion about James Bond movies and Daniel Craig’s famous blue speedo. Technical difficulties humorously derail the signature "Weekend Observations" segment.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. NFL Weekend Recap and Spirited Debates

• Surprise Teams and Flawed Contenders

  • Early on, Stugotz and Dan recreate Tony’s weekly “Top Five Football Observations,” poking fun at Tony’s absence (01:31–06:00).
    • Max Brosmer gets singled out for a "tragic" pick-six (“That was the worst feeling of the weekend for any football player…” - Stugotz, 01:50).
    • Matthew Stafford’s Hydroplaning Pick-Six is referenced with mock sympathy.
    • Geno Smith Sacks and Chip Kelly’s Playcalling: Stugotz skewers Geno’s protection (“Guess how many times Geno Smith has been sacked in the last two games? 15,” 04:20), while Dan and Chris Cody joke about Chip Kelly calling for non-existent plays.
    • The "First Down" Signal Is Over: Stugotz declares the celebration stale and overused (03:01–03:28).

• Does Anyone Believe in the Chiefs, Ravens, or Anyone?!

  • The group questions the staying power of the Kansas City Chiefs, even after down weeks. “The whole Chiefs thing is done. It’s done now, right?” (Stugotz, 05:52).

  • AFC parody and playoff scenarios are dissected (“The AFC is so broken… None of these teams can actually kill the Chiefs,” - Stugotz, 06:38).

  • Lamar Jackson’s seeming loss of athleticism and the toll on running QBs gets deep analysis. Dan philosophizes:

    “When you have just the slightest dilution to that athleticism… the difference between you and everybody else gets closed real quick.” (Dan, 07:03)

  • Notable Statistics: Chiefs, Bengals, Colts, and Dolphins remaining games and odds to make the playoffs are stacked and debated loudly (10:33–13:12).

• Houston Texans on the Rise

  • Respect grows for Houston:

    “The Texans are the team no one wants to see in the AFC playoffs because they can beat you with defense and pass rush.” (Stugotz, 11:58)

  • Derek Stingley Jr.’s dominance in the secondary is highlighted (12:22).

2. Absurdist Game: "Big Game or Not a Big Game?"

• Board games become competitive content as “Big Game or Not a Big Game” pivots to Clue vs. Monopoly vs. Operation (21:33–22:17).
  • Stugotz: “If Monopoly is not a big game, then what the hell’s a big game?” (22:02)
  • Chris Cody jokes about classic Monopoly moves and free parking cash-stashing (22:11).

3. Pop Culture: James Bond Rankings & Daniel Craig’s Speedo

• Chris Cody reports watching his first James Bond film, “Casino Royale.”
  • Amin Elhassan provides Bond historian takes (“Sean Connery obviously is number one,” 24:15).
  • Debate erupts: Does Daniel Craig surpass Roger Moore or Pierce Brosnan as Bond? Amin’s verdict: “Daniel Craig might be… in the conversation for second best.” (24:30)
  • The Daniel Craig speedo scene launches self-effacing humor about what the hosts would look like in swimwear:
    • “I actually saw that picture. Let me see if I could buy one of these speedos… then I was like, nah.” (Dan, 31:40).

4. Amin Elhassan’s “Weekend Observations”… (Derailment Edition)

• Internet Woes and Comic Disaster
  • Amin repeatedly attempts to deliver his “Weekend Observations” but is defeated by a garbled connection, to the crew’s delight (32:36–35:13).
    • Memorable moment: “What am I supposed to do? I wrote it. This shit’s good!” (Amin, 34:37)
    • Eventually, the bit is mercy-killed: “You got to do better next week, okay? You have to do better.” (Stugotz, 35:07)
  • The technical mess becomes its own running joke, with mock outrage and laughter.

5. The Value of Offensive Linemen (Lane Johnson/Trent Williams)

• Eagles Without Lane Johnson
  • The crew points out that the Eagles lose two-thirds of their games when right tackle Lane Johnson is out (36:24–39:20).
  • “When Lane Johnson is hurt, that team loses. Loses whether A.J. Brown gets his hundred yards or not.” (Stugotz, 36:24)
  • Side tangent: Praise for O-linemen whose names rhyme with “mall”—leading to a Paul soliloquy.

6. Conference Mayhem & Playoff Imagining

• NFC parity is discussed (“Bears atop the NFC… Bears mauling Philadelphia to get to the top,” - Stugotz, 41:20).
• Alternate playoff formats are proposed (“Let’s make a 12-team playoff, best 12 teams. I’ll leave my hat at the door with you.” - Greg Cody, 43:38).

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Memorable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• On Chiefs Paranoia:

  • “The whole Chiefs thing is done. It’s done now, right? Because we keep thinking they’ll come back. They’ll always come back. But this year, they’re bad.”
    — Stugotz, 05:52

• Dan’s QB Life Cycle Theory:

  • “When you have just the slightest dilution to that athleticism… the difference between you and everybody else gets closed real quick.”
    — Dan Le Batard, 07:03

• AFC Playoff Picture Summary:

  • “There are plenty of people who saw what happened yesterday and said, ‘The Texans are the team no one wants to see in the AFC playoffs because they can beat you with defense and pass rush.’”
    — Stugotz, 11:58

• On Board Game Importance:

  • “If Monopoly is not a big game, then what the hell’s a big game?”
    — Stugotz, 22:02

• Amin’s Internet Disaster:

  • “What am I supposed to do? I wrote it. This shit’s good! …Supposed to go out on top of the roof and have them hook up wires?”
    — Amin Elhassan, 34:37

• On Eagles’ O-Line Issues:

  • “They lose two-thirds of their games when [Lane Johnson] is out.”
    — Stugotz, 37:08

• Speedo Self-Deprecation:

  • “I actually saw that picture. Let me see if I could buy one of these speedos… then I was like, nah.”
    — Dan Le Batard, 31:40

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Notable Segments & Timestamps

• Tony’s Top Five (recreated): 01:31–06:00
• Chiefs & AFC Debate: 05:49–09:44
• Lamar Jackson Aging & QB Wear-and-Tear: 06:38–10:21
• Texas/Bengals Playoff Scenarios: 12:08–13:30
• Spectacular Catches (Bowers, Puka Nakua): 13:56–15:14
• Board Game “Big Game” Bit: 21:33–22:44
• James Bond Movie Discussion: 23:17–26:42
• Amin’s “Weekend Observations” Internet Meltdown: 32:33–35:13
• Lane Johnson/Eagles Impact: 36:18–39:20
• Alternate Playoffs & Conference Realignment Riff: 42:53–44:43

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Tone

The tone is irreverent, fast-paced, and conversational—creatively blending serious sports talk with inside jokes and goofy pop culture sidebars. The technical mishaps become comedy fodder, and there’s a clear sense of camaraderie and well-honed banter.

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In Short

This hour is a tour de force of what makes the Le Batard show unique: rapid-fire but informed sports takes, debate games that get out of hand, pop culture rabbit holes, and the kind of technical chaos that becomes the punchline. Amin’s failed “Weekend Observations” is both tragic and hilarious, and the show closes with Daniel Craig, board game arguments, and relentless banter about offensive linemen—as it should.

Transcript

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Stugats]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Stugats]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Stugats]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Stugats]

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[Chris Cody]

Who knew?

[Stugats]

Subject to availability terms and fees apply. This is the Dan Levator show with the Stugats podcast. Amin Elhassan will be here shortly to give us his weekend observations. There are some more football things I wanted to get to. Tony's not here today so let's just recreate his top five. I'll do his top five because Tony I don't know what happen. He had some sort of emergency. So I've got top five football observations mine on behalf of Tony. Oli Number one, Max Brosmer is the first quarterback that's ever played that Tony will not fall in love with. That play where he just flung the ball and I want to go play a pick six. I'm going to say that was the worst feeling of the weekend for any football player if it had not been for another Oli Matthew Stafford hydroplaning five yards backwards on a pick six as the final block makes him go from the five yard line on his back to the goal line is the worst he's felt in 10 weeks. Hydroplaning on his back. Two a pick six and two interceptions in the first quarter. A fumble at the end of the game. He's been clean for 10 straight weeks.

[Chris Cody]

Why'd Brosmer throw that?

[Greg Cody]

One of the worst plays in NFL history.

[Stugats]

We're still in Oli. Oh, really? Eagles fans are booing. Is that right? Is that right? Still an Oli. The Cowboys, huh? Also Oli. Guys doing first down. First down. It's done. It's over. You're done with the first down signal.

[Chris Cody]

You gotta let the crowd.

[Stugats]

No, it's over. It's all too. How will they know? Too many of you are doing it. It's too many of you.

[Chris Cody]

You know you can't see the yellow line when you're there in person.

[Dan Le Batard]

Keelan Marion for Miami did a first down signal when he was two and a half yards short.

[Stugats]

Number five.

[Greg Cody]

I believe Tua slid and thought he got a first down and then stood up and realized they marked him like.

[Dan Le Batard]

Tua got something wrong.

[Stugats]

Get them all out of here. Oh my God. Tua. Oli as well. Int 14 interceptions, worst in the league.

[Greg Cody]

Was that a punt? Have to check with McDaniel on that.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, tell me about that arm punch.

[Greg Cody]

It was on first down.

[Stugats]

Zaslow's just proclaiming him terrible.

[Chris Cody]

Bad, bad proclaim. Is anyone else watching the game besides me?

[Greg Cody]

Even Greg Cody's turned on.

[Chris Cody]

He is a broken, awful football player.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know if anybody watched that game outside of you.

[Stugats]

I was mad that I had to watch proclaim.

[Greg Cody]

I turned the sound off at one point. I had the four screen going. I had the sound on and I'm like, what am I doing?

[Stugats]

Number five. You want to guess how many times Geno Smith has been sacked the last two games? 615. 15. They're terrible.

[Chris Cody]

Tom Brady, bad owner.

[Dan Le Batard]

Did you see the reports about Chip Kelly? About how he was calling for personnel groupings that were non existent? How he was calling plays that weren't in a game plan. I mean, it looked like that, didn't it? That's why he got fired. That he was calling plays that weren't installed in the game plan.

[Chris Cody]

But like he wants the personnel that allows 13 guys on the field.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's calling for personnel groupings just weren't installed.

[Greg Cody]

That can happen though in Madden. Sometimes you'll like be playing with the team and you're expecting a play, but that's not what that they don't have that play in the offense. So you have to call a different play.

[Stugats]

Number four, Sky Moore has the coolest name in the sport sky with two Y's. Number three. I really loved watching Trent Williams against Myles Garrett. Seeing Myles Garrett struggle, that was something to behold.

[Chris Cody]

You've seen Miles Garrett's arms.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, they're big.

[Chris Cody]

Like, a lot bigger than mine, man.

[Stugats]

Yes, his arms are bigger than yours.

[Chris Cody]

But, like, a lot.

[Stugats]

Number two, check out the cold schedule the rest of the way. And number one. Oh, the Chiefs are done, huh? The whole Chiefs thing is done.

[Greg Cody]

They got the Texans this week.

[Stugats]

Oh, it's done.

[Greg Cody]

Must win.

[Stugats]

Well, the Chiefs thing is done now, though, right after. I guess that's a little unceremonious, right? Because we keep thinking they'll come back. They'll always come back. But this year they're bad.

[Greg Cody]

In one score game, I did a deep dive. You know, Dolphins still in the hunt. So I did a deep dive on every, you know, team kind of in the hunt and their remaining schedule. And I think the number to get to 10 and 7 should get you in the playoffs.

[Stugats]

So the Chiefs, the Bengals are in the mix at 4 and 8.

[Greg Cody]

Chiefs are at 6 losses. So technically I think they have one more game they can lose. But I think, yeah, Dan, it's going to be.

[Stugats]

So it's based on the AFC being bad and yet still, if you get to the playoffs and the Chiefs have to go on the road against the Colts with a broken fibula of Daniel Jones or the. Or the Patriots with two broken tackles.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, I like the Chiefs.

[Stugats]

We're going to keep doing that. We're going to do all season that the AFC is so broken that none of these teams can actually kill the Chiefs because you're not even going to believe in the Bills. You're not. You won't even believe in the. You can't believe in the Ravens, right? I didn't even get to the Ravens. I didn't even say the Ravens. Here. Lamar Jackson does not look like Lamar Jackson. What happened? But somebody explained that to me. He's the MVP of the league. What? Is he hurt? Why is he not running? He's not running.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think it's the same fear that everyone has with quarterbacks that are just so astronomically talented physically, is over the course of a career, those hits start adding up. And Lamar Jackson has had his injuries. When you have just the slightest dilution to that athleticism that made you so much more athletic than everybody else, then the difference between you and everybody else gets closed real quick.

[Stugats]

Doesn't it stand to reason, if we're talking about how good sports in general have gotten at measuring the value of people measuring the value of how good and important is this athlete. If I tell you in that sport the economics of it make it so that the running back is disposable. Even if you have someone as good as Kenneth Walker, the running back is disposable financially. You're telling me it's so. You're telling me we're going to burn through a Chan's body so that when it's time to pay him, you don't pay him. Just going to burn those years of his body and it's going to happen faster than you've ever seen because of how violent and big and giant all of these people are. When Mike speaks to the lost a step, I every Sunday marvel at the fact that these giant people can't tackle Josh Allen, that he's. That he's too big and strong and his body's not going to break down. He's available all the time. Herbert's available all the time. He's also physically very big. But Herbert is breaking body part at a time because he gets hit way too much. Way too much. Are we willing to say. And that position. The organization of the Ravens has been great for a long time, just organizationally over different eras of football. And one of the ways they game the system over the last few years is their running back has been their quarterback. And then they add Derrick Henry. You think the miles are going to end up costing Derrick Henry at some point. But the economics of the position and the physicality of the position has it chewed up. Lamar Jackson from inside the Ravens like architecture.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think it's a fair question to ask. When you look at the nature of his turnovers there, some of that was pretty embarrassing and it didn't look like the Lamar that we know. He is used to being able to escape that sack at the last second and underhand something. And the drop in athleticism could be as small as usually you hold onto that ball and it doesn't slip out of your hands. Maybe you're thinking a little bit more about what you have to do physically to escape that he was his own. He was his own play action before.

[Stugats]

It's crazy to consider that a lost step of athleticism would already be here for Lamar Jackson. Right. Makes sense. It doesn't. It doesn't though. Right. Because he's still a young man.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah. But he plays a style of football that ages you, I think, prematurely. Which is everyone's concern. When you get one of the mobile quarterbacks that enter the league sometimes it looks like that you have a quarterback that plays a little bit more traditional from the pocket, but also had athleticism aid him. Look what happened to Aaron Rodgers. The tail off in Aaron Rodgers play is about five years going right now. And you could see a dip in his performance once his escapability, which was always super underrated, started diminishing. And now he's a guy who's rightfully scared of any contact and he's throwing balls in the dirt to avoid it. And he's literally curling up in plays.

[Stugats]

That he's curling up to avoid. The play that got them beat at the very beginning of yesterday, where he doesn't have the physical sense in the pocket anymore to know that someone is chasing him from behind. It's just a Bosa. That a Bosa is chasing him from behind.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's just aging. And guys who are so reliant on their athleticism tend to age a little quicker.

[Chris Cody]

Do we point out that before Thursday night, the Ravens had won five in a row?

[Stugats]

Yeah, but they had the part of the schedule that was supposed to be easy. It was Browns and Jets and Bengals, and he wasn't.

[Dan Le Batard]

And he wasn't overly impressive.

[Stugats]

Look at the Colts next five games. You do not want that schedule. The Colts are headed for a buzz saw and their coat and their quarterback has a fractured leg. And Dominique Foxworth was saying before this last game, he was saying, play a little wl. The Colts have a quarterback problem. We're not going to do wl.

[Chris Cody]

It's only five years.

[Zazlow]

Look at the next five games.

[Stugats]

I'm just telling people, how can I.

[Greg Cody]

Look at it and not play that?

[Stugats]

The reason I'm doing that is only because I can't remember. It's twice against Jacksonville. It's once against Seattle.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, you're asking me to actually add Jacksonville.

[Zazlow]

What do we think?

[Greg Cody]

I believe I had them going 10 and 7. They were one of my 10 and 7ers. So at Jacksonville, that's a win.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, Spearo better be on that call. Just so I can hear him go.

[Zazlow]

The Jigs at Seattle. That's a tough one. What they just did against Brosmer. Then they host on Monday Night Football the San Francisco 49ers.

[Greg Cody]

They play the Jags twice. So they have. If that. If that's an easy game. Those are their two easy home against the Jags win.

[Zazlow]

And then final week of the season, they're at Houston for a playoff spot. Unless they lose to The Jacks twice.

[Dan Le Batard]

C.J. shroud. Good.

[Stugats]

There are plenty of people who saw what happened yesterday and said The Texans are the team no one wants to see in the AFC playoffs because they can beat you with defense. They can beat you with pass rush.

[Dan Le Batard]

I hear you. I'm going to go with the team that's made nine straight conference championships.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, I'd be okay.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't want to see the greatest quarterback of all time if I'm in the playoffs.

[Greg Cody]

Well, this week you get Texans, Chiefs, and the winner. The loser of that, I would say, well, I guess the Texans could lose that and still make it.

[Zazlow]

But Derek Stingley's been unbelievable for Houston. Like, he just eliminates the side of the field for them.

[Dan Le Batard]

Solid player.

[Chris Cody]

I think the Bengals are gonna win the AFC North.

[Stugats]

They're 4 and 8.

[Chris Cody]

But you see their schedule, too.

[Stugats]

Yep.

[Greg Cody]

Let me see. Let's do this.

[Chris Cody]

They could win the rest of the game.

[Dan Le Batard]

I love. I love this.

[Stugats]

It's Joe Burrow 4 and 8, chasing down Aaron Rodgers and Lamar Jackson, who.

[Chris Cody]

Are limping and they play the race twice.

[Greg Cody]

Put up the angle schedule.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right.

[Zazlow]

At Buffalo. At Buffalo this weekend.

[Roy]

They could.

[Zazlow]

They could win, but make that a loss.

[Chris Cody]

Fine, fine.

[Commercial Announcer 2]

Just in case.

[Stugats]

But I wouldn't though, given that with Joe Burrow. That team has gone into Buffalo, like I said, has beaten Buffalo.

[Zazlow]

All right, so at Buffalo.

[Commercial Announcer 2]

Yep.

[Zazlow]

Then they host. The Ravens win.

[Chris Cody]

They host and pick up a game on them.

[Zazlow]

Okay, then they're at.

[Chris Cody]

And that would give them the season series sweep over.

[Zazlow]

The Dolphins will be in the hunt. Do we think they'll be able to beat the Dolphins in Miami?

[Roy]

Yep.

[Chris Cody]

When?

[Stugats]

Okay, video. Can you just keep putting stack schedules on top of each other?

[Greg Cody]

Oh, I thought you'd never.

[Stugats]

Just keep just the rest of this segment. Just continue to just stack schedules on top of each other.

[Chris Cody]

Dolphins offense can't keep up with.

[Amin Elhassan]

They're.

[Zazlow]

All right, so then they're going to host the Arizona Cardinals. I mean, that's an obvious W. And then at the end of the year, they'll host Cleveland.

[Stugats]

I. I have not mentioned enough. Okay, just let me walk through the audio. I'd like to walk the audio audience through something that is largely visual, but I saw two catches yesterday that I can argue among the best ever made in professional football. I can assemble the argument on that Bowers touchdown and on that Puka Nakua. You only have. He only has to get one hand open now.

[Greg Cody]

It's not even the defender's hand like pinched the ball.

[Dan Le Batard]

You didn't even see the trail in Burks one where he had. He has a finger that is literally.

[Stugats]

Taped together the way that Puka caught that ball is. I am going to try and describe this while pushing off a defender. I think that was Mike Jackson while pushing off a defender with his dominant hand, but his dominant hand turned away from his face. He is catching a football with his right wrist. A football thrown. 35 yards. I'm gonna say this is the good stuff.

[Greg Cody]

This is the good stuff.

[Stugats]

35 yards. I would love to just talk over this and describe both of the catches because I once saw Mark Bavaro catch a ball with one bare. It was close to the ground and he just snatched it. And then that's when I realized these people have limbs and stuff that are much bigger than ours.

[Chris Cody]

That's a tight end right there.

[Stugats]

But you saw the Bowers catch, correct? Well, Bowers is a tight end now. Good luck explaining to your parents, your or your kids rather, that Bowers was a dominant tight end. As dominant as you've ever seen, even with bad offenses and a quarterback being sacked 15 times in two games. And he looked like that head of hair. Like he is totally undermining what athleticism is supposed to look like by having that particular head of hair.

[Zazlow]

So the Cowboys are at the Lions on Thursday Night Football this week.

[Greg Cody]

That's a losers out game.

[Zazlow]

That's a make or break game.

[Greg Cody]

Losers out game. Then the Texans big game or not?

[Stugats]

Is Texans Chiefs a big game or not? Because you just said that's a team either. And that's a game that either sounds losers out. And then you said the Texans might be able to survive. Probably survive.

[Chris Cody]

Chiefs. Texans have seven wins. Chiefs have six. Both these teams will miss the playoffs. Not a big game.

[Stugats]

Whoa.

[Chris Cody]

Can't be a big game if both teams are not gonna make playoffs. Why would that be a big game?

[Dan Le Batard]

What?

[Chris Cody]

Why would. Why would a game be big?

[Stugats]

Chiefs only play big game with two.

[Chris Cody]

Teams that are not in the playoffs.

[Stugats]

I'm not gonna argue with this sound, but the Chiefs always play big games. You're going to tell me that a game that would properly extinguish them when we're sitting here arguing are they really out and would they be a favorite against all the other AFC teams? Like that's a.

[Chris Cody]

They're one game better than the Dolphins.

[Stugats]

Dan, why are we talking with such stupidity?

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Roy]

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[Stugats]

Don Le Batard. Yes, exactly. Help everyone with a story where he pe more than you do. St.

[Dan Le Batard]

I always like leaving hand on chicken because he's so vulnerable. I just unfairly fade down the chickens to just leave him by himself.

[Chris Cody]

This is the Dan Lebatar show with.

[Stugats]

The st.

[Greg Cody]

Are we playing big game or not a big game or are we not?

[Stugats]

You just said it's not a big game. And the Chiefs being eliminated, that's not something that can be quiet, right? It's not something that can happen quietly.

[Chris Cody]

They're 10th right now. It feels like they were eliminated yesterday or, you know, Thursday. They're 10th. They're closer to last place than they are first place.

[Zazlow]

But they do have two games of their five remaining at Tennessee and at Las Vegas, automatic.

[Chris Cody]

Wow. They'll split those.

[Zazlow]

They'll split those Cowboys. Lions.

[Stugats]

Amin Elhassan is going to join us for his weekend observations. In moments, I want to remind the audience, or I guess this year telling you for the first time, we have learned on how it is to do our toy drives over the years. And we have now partnered here with Branches and Amazon's wish list that Branches has So that before December 15th, all of you can support our annual toy drive without actually having to come to where it is that we are. You could just go to lebatardaf.com and know that if you're donating dolls, remote control cars, nerf toys, board games, craf kits, perfumes and colognes, building toys, Legos, Educational toys, action figures, gift cards.

[Greg Cody]

The game of Clue. Big game, not a big game.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, what a game. Clue. Colonel Mustard in the kitchen with the wrench. That's a big game.

[Amin Elhassan]

Big game.

[Zazlow]

Monopoly. Big game, not a big game.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, Monopoly.

[Dan Le Batard]

Come on now.

[Stugats]

Come on now. Who. What kind of is that? Jeremy? Did Jeremy do that?

[Chris Cody]

$200.

[Stugats]

Let's go. Wait, is. Is Monopoly a big game? It's one of the old timers.

[Zazlow]

Some people don't like Monopoly.

[Stugats]

It's a. But it's a first ballot hall of fame.

[Chris Cody]

Roll doubles three times, get out of jail free.

[Stugats]

You're saying that how If. If monopoly is not a big game, then what the hell's a big game? Jeremy, you realize apparently no clue. Bigger game.

[Chris Cody]

You know about that? Free parking, but put it on the.

[Stugats]

Poll at Lebiton show. Bigger game. Clue or Monopoly?

[Zazlow]

Operation big game, not a big game.

[Stugats]

Don't try and cover your operation.

[Greg Cody]

Game is so Uniterranean Ave. If you land on it, like the purple. The sad first like purple one.

[Dan Le Batard]

You do that.

[Greg Cody]

I pass on that.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm just so locked in on board.

[Stugats]

Thank you.

[Dan Le Batard]

Like I can't see anything else.

[Greg Cody]

Maybe even give me the green. Atlantic Avenue, I believe the green one. I like the green.

[Zazlow]

Leave this one.

[Chris Cody]

The thing is, do you allow trading when you play?

[Greg Cody]

Oh, yeah. Late in the game on.

[Zazlow]

Of course.

[Greg Cody]

The only rule is there are no rules at the end.

[Stugats]

Levitard af.com we're teaming with branches. They do good work. We vetted them. And so the toy drive will be a bigger thing this year and it's been pretty big in the past because we're not asking you to actually go anywhere to give us physically toys. You just have to go to Lebatar af and there are an assortment of kids here who will get nice holiday things if it's easy for you. Lebatard af.comzaslo you you were cold all weekend and then you get on a flight and did you watch a movie that would make it. I mean, proud of you?

[Chris Cody]

I think so. I watched a movie on my way to Norman, Oklahoma this weekend. I watched for the very first time a James Bond movie.

[Stugats]

Okay, we'll get to that with a mean in a second. But he just dropped out, even though he was waiting the entire time. So we'll be seeing him back in.

[Greg Cody]

So he should be here in a second.

[Stugats]

So do you have a report for us on. And a report for a mean. Which movie did you see of James Bond?

[Chris Cody]

Now I. I admitted. I know I will like the James Bond movies. It's not like I'm like, oh, I don't want to watch James Bond. I do want to watch the James Bond movies. I just. I just hadn't. I'd never seen a single James Bond movie.

[Stugats]

So which one did you see?

[Chris Cody]

Well, I'm watching the Daniel Craig one, so I saw Casino Royale.

[Stugats]

The first 10 minutes of that are very good.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, I thought the whole movie was very good. I enjoyed it.

[Stugats]

The first 10 minutes of it were very good.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, he kills that guy, right?

[Stugats]

Yeah. But James Bond. It's Daniel Craig. Where. I mean, where would you rank Daniel Craig? Is he all time Bonds? Is. Is he second? Is he third?

[Amin Elhassan]

Oh, as far as James Bonds go, you know, so Sean Connery obviously is number one.

[Chris Cody]

That's obvious.

[Amin Elhassan]

That's. That's the consensus. That's what everyone says. Like, when people think James Bond, they think Sean Connery. Then it turns into.

[Stugats]

Are you. Hold up.

[Chris Cody]

I mean, like, if I watch the Sean Connery ones now, will it hold up?

[Amin Elhassan]

I mean, yes and no. Yes and no. It's an old movie. I am playing both rides. And then now, some people like Pierce Brosnan, some people like Roger Moore as. As the second best right there. I think, man, you know, Daniel Craig might be. Might be in the conversation for second best with Roger Moore. And, and.

[Stugats]

But if he. But if someone is saying to you they've watched a Bond movie, you said that your opinion should be disqualified as a movie critic if you have never seen a Bond movie. He's now seen one Bond movie with possibly the fourth best or fifth best Bond. Does that qualify him now to have more opinions about movies that you respect?

[Amin Elhassan]

Well, yeah. So when people say, hey, I've never seen James Bond, what should I watch? I tell them to start watching with the. The Daniel Craig ones because they feel like modern movies. I think people can keep up with them. Now, if he watches all the Daniel Craig movies, I'm going to. Maybe then we can start to. Maybe we could start to kind of like, have conversations. But right now, watching one Bond movie. Get out of here.

[Chris Cody]

No, I. I will not get out of here because I'm going to watch. No, I will not get out of here because I'm going to watch all the Daniel Craig James Bond movies.

[Amin Elhassan]

Yeah, you're gonna get out of here and go watch the rest of them, and then you can come back and talk.

[Chris Cody]

Where does Casino Royale hold up with the Daniel Craig Bond movies? Is it one of the better ones?

[Amin Elhassan]

I would say it's one of the better ones.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, it was good.

[Amin Elhassan]

I. I like them. There's. They have a quality. Here's the thing about the Daniel Craig, James Bond movies. They have a very Mission Impossible quality of long.

[Chris Cody]

I totally felt like I was watching Mission Impossible.

[Amin Elhassan]

Yeah, it's like, I enjoy watching this. I don't remember a whole lot. Right. It's like, oh, yeah, it was good. Like, what's it about? I don't know. It's a casino.

[Chris Cody]

It's a great point. Mission Impossible movies, Dan. The only thing I remember from Mission Impossible is Henry Cavill doing the thing with his wrists. That's right.

[Amin Elhassan]

Yeah. That's all I remember. Bathroom.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, in the bathroom.

[Stugats]

But the first 10 minutes of casino Royale are exceptional. Like, they might be the first. They might be the best 10 minutes of Bond that Daniel Craig did.

[Amin Elhassan]

That's the one in Mexico, right? So it's in Mexico City.

[Stugats]

That's all the parkour that they're doing through the construction site. The lunacy of that chase.

[Amin Elhassan]

The. I don't remember. I'm still trying to remember. If is the one where it starts with the parade in Mexico. The funny thing about that, Dan, is that parade did not exist prior to that movie in Mexico, like, in real life. But then the Dia de la morte and, like, life imitated art.

[Stugats]

So I'm worried about your Internet and I'm worried about doing weekend observations this way. But we're going to power through it at the beginning, and if you have one failure, we're going to get rid of you. And it'll still be better than last week was.

[Dan Le Batard]

You know, the Royale, the one where he also emerges from the waves in that powder blue Speedo.

[Stugats]

Looking hot.

[Amin Elhassan]

Yeah. Is it Is. I thought it was the second one. They all come.

[Stugats]

No, I believe you.

[Dan Le Batard]

You talking about his dick.

[Stugats]

I'm gonna go ahead and question Amin's knowledge, given that he doesn't have basic facts about Casino Royale. He's merging his Daniel Craig movies and can't remember what's what.

[Chris Cody]

Dan, I'm gonna tell you something else about a meme that I learned over the weekend. I learned something about you.

[Stugats]

You.

[Chris Cody]

I mean, and I'm. I'mma tell everybody about it now. Right now. What's up, Amin? Big time.

[Amin Elhassan]

My Internet sucks.

[Chris Cody]

Big time. TV fraud. Big TV fraud. How you've never seen Stranger Things? Get the hell out of here.

[Amin Elhassan]

N. Man, I'm not watching that.

[Stugats]

Man.

[Amin Elhassan]

I ain't watching that. What am I watching? A show about kids, you fool.

[Stugats]

School.

[Amin Elhassan]

Oh, the little kids. Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

I feel good about this I think.

[Stugats]

We should do it.

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Stugats]

Today.

[Greg Cody]

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[Stugats]

Don LeBatard.

[Dan Le Batard]

I actually thought you looked kind of good.

[Stugats]

Stugats. Thank you. I had a beard's grown out a little bit. I got a little life in my face. I feel like little tan.

[Chris Cody]

Colorado, San Francisco.

[Stugats]

I had a great time.

[Dan Le Batard]

You got life on your face.

[Stugats]

You've got death on your face.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think you got 40 to life on your face.

[Stugats]

This is the done Levatar show with the stool guys. I mean, let's just stop. Let's start weekend observations. I didn't think you could do worse than last week, but I salute you for doing somehow worse than last.

[Chris Cody]

Whoa.

[Stugats]

Yes. Daniel Craig was packing. Yeah. Very, very hot. Unquestionably hot.

[Dan Le Batard]

I actually saw that picture. I'm like, let me see if I could buy one of these speedos. And then I was like, nah. Yeah, I won't look at it. Really?

[Stugats]

You thought you'd look like that?

[Dan Le Batard]

It may made it Made you want to see. What does this cost?

[Greg Cody]

Everyone wants to see what they'd look like in that I'm with.

[Stugats]

That's not true in any way.

[Greg Cody]

Just take it for a walk.

[Stugats]

Too much take it for a walk.

[Greg Cody]

Maybe you walk out, show your wife, be like, yay. Nay.

[Dan Le Batard]

I was also part curious because I'm pretty sure this Speedo cost like $3,000.

[Chris Cody]

Chris, you want to see what you look like?

[Greg Cody]

I. I like I said I'd like to see. Like I said, take it for a walk.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'd like to see that. I'd like to watch you walk.

[Stugats]

I would not want you taking a walk. Ah, the love handles.

[Zazlow]

New bucket. Punishment, folks.

[Dan Le Batard]

Punishment is emerging from the waves. And that's.

[Greg Cody]

I said take it walk.

[Stugats]

Yes. No, we're going to do it at the walk. Out of the way, out of the beach. It'll be either this one. I was more half kidding you or me or what? Yes. Amin, are you ready to do your weekend observation while we're doing it with bad Internet? Let's do it.

[Chris Cody]

It is time to share his game notes.

[Stugats]

No one in the media will tell you what happened better than my boy.

[Roy]

I mean.

[Amin Elhassan]

Weekend observations is presented by Miller Light. All right, we got that part in. All right, we're good. All right, cool. Then Georgia Tech had the dream season, led by a Heisman worthy quarterback with hopes of a college football playoff birth on the horizon, but with back to back losses, including where I lost.

[Stugats]

Unbelievable.

[Greg Cody]

Now you're cooking.

[Chris Cody]

Keep cooking.

[Stugats]

We didn't hear any of the. We didn't hear anything you said.

[Amin Elhassan]

Not giving a sink. Awesome. Tremendous. El Duncan making a bet to potentially wear Georgia tech gear on SportsCenter, then leaving ESPN the next day. Eddie Play. Can't be mad at that. The Colts, losers of three of their last four, they'll have the Seahawks, Niners and Jags twice left on their schedule. You hear that sound, Dano?

[Stugats]

I can't hear anything you're saying because you're garbled. Happen. No, we got you. Keep going.

[Amin Elhassan]

That's the sound of a clock striking midnight pumpkin time. The Fins keep hope alive. I told you, Greg.

[Stugats]

Stay strong. Stay strong, Greg.

[Amin Elhassan]

Cody, where is he? Where's Greg Cody?

[Greg Cody]

He'll be here tomorrow, on Wednesday.

[Amin Elhassan]

Okay.

[Stugats]

Oh, boy.

[Amin Elhassan]

For about a half a football. I thought the Raiders were actually the Chargers.

[Stugats]

All right, that's enough. All right, get out of here.

[Amin Elhassan]

That again?

[Stugats]

Just get out of here.

[Chris Cody]

Going out like a sucker.

[Stugats]

You got to do better next week, okay? You have to do better. I mean, you have to do better next week. I mean, what do I.

[Amin Elhassan]

What to do? I wrote it.

[Zazlow]

I wrote it.

[Amin Elhassan]

This shit's good. The jokes are good. What am I supposed to do?

[Greg Cody]

All right, keep cooking.

[Amin Elhassan]

I supposed to go out on top of the. The roof and like, have them hook up wires and like. I'm responsible.

[Stugats]

All right.

[Amin Elhassan]

Okay, we're good.

[Roy]

All right.

[Amin Elhassan]

All right, here we go. We fought through it.

[Stugats]

You got one more chance at this and then you're doing the rest of this on social media.

[Amin Elhassan]

Only for about a half of football. I thought the Raiders were out of here. You're gonna be.

[Dan Le Batard]

You're not peeking at the right time.

[Stugats]

Do the rest of it on social media. Do it.

[Amin Elhassan]

Progress.

[Stugats]

Finish it. Without our help. Get out of here. You're not ruining any more weekend.

[Greg Cody]

Observations are presented by Miller Light.

[Chris Cody]

I'm so now, but What a disgrace.

[Amin Elhassan]

Hey, hey. I'm gonna quit my job.

[Stugats]

Go up.

[Roy]

All right.

[Greg Cody]

Back to your show.

[Stugats]

Do you know how hard it is to be worse than he was last week? I didn't think it was possible. Head to head. I didn't think it was possible to be worse than he was last week, but and yet somehow better. Because what's funnier than his first entire punchline being garbage?

[Greg Cody]

Perfect timing for him to get cut off, honestly, from the Internet.

[Stugats]

By the Internet. Oh my God. All right, enough of Mario Cristobal. We've talked enough college football. I wouldn't mind if a mean broken voice continued to make appearances over the next seven minutes as he just sits there. Put him in the picture in picture and just make him suffer there without being able to do anything other than sit there.

[Greg Cody]

The frozen picture.

[Zazlow]

Right now.

[Stugats]

I wonder, I want to know how many times I have to shout. For as much as we analyze football for as much as we analyze football around here year round and especially this time of year, the Eagles fundamentally falling apart every time Lane Johnson is hurt is crazy. Like in terms of Jason Kelsey's the one who got all the fame for being the offensive lineman on that line. And yet when Lane Johnson is hurt, that team loses. Loses whether A.J. brown gets his hundred yards or not. They kind of need Lane Johnson to be out there mauling people. And I don't. I know. We know that Lane Johnson and Trent Williams are the most special of the physical beasts that there are at the tackle position. I forget about Paul in that sport.

[Chris Cody]

What about Paul?

[Stugats]

Paul is not quite in the Trent Williams category. That's a Pro Bowler.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, second year.

[Stugats]

I'm not saying he's not good. I'm not saying he's not.

[Dan Le Batard]

I exclusively watch Paul on Dolphins place now. I'm so dying. It was really great analysis from Chris Cody and now I watch him more than I watch Fred Warner isolated. I'm just like, man, this Paul guy, he's a player build around him.

[Stugats]

It's great to have an offensive lineman whose name rhymes with mall. Yes. And you can just call still don't.

[Greg Cody]

Know first or last name.

[Dan Le Batard]

Me neither. But he's good.

[Stugats]

You'll agree though that it's funny that we spent so much time talking about AJ Brown that Al Michaels, who's fed up goes on Amazon prime and prime during the game on Friday. By the way, the rest of you Ebitur. Did you forget there was an NFL game on Friday? Because I did.

[Greg Cody]

We can get to this tomorrow. PFPI forgot about that game. Bunch of people didn't make picks controversy. We can get to that tomorrow.

[Dan Le Batard]

They were not happy at the sports bar in Pittsburgh when I asked for Georgia. Georgia Tech on On the sound please.

[Stugats]

Did you look for inter Miami as well, while you were in, had zero.

[Dan Le Batard]

Luck getting Apple TV at the sports bar. But also I was living and dying with every Michael Van Buren Jr.

[Stugats]

Pass.

[Dan Le Batard]

So I understood.

[Greg Cody]

So we had Damascek down here being like, where's the Pirates game? And now Mike's up in Pittsburgh being like, where's the inter Miami game?

[Dan Le Batard]

Different accent, different places.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, Mike adopted the accent just for being in Pittsburgh.

[Greg Cody]

Comedic purposes.

[Dan Le Batard]

Hey, Yin's got messy.

[Stugats]

You just couldn't find a championship level, a game to get to the MLS Cup.

[Dan Le Batard]

We were all at dinner, like, again, desperate for LSU's offense to do anything. It was. Somebody had it on their phone and we were following the game. The game was pretty well in hand. Like 10 minutes into it within Miami.

[Stugats]

Al Michaels is so fed up with just the general nature of sports media that he spit, like with acid on the fry broadcast that A.J. brown is surrounded by a cacophony of crap. A cacophony of crap.

[Dan Le Batard]

Like, that's great.

[Stugats]

Meaningless, meaningless talk. But we talk so much about Saquon and A.J. brown. Like, why are we ignoring that? They lose every time. They lose their left, their right tackle, their record. They lose two thirds of their games when he's out.

[Dan Le Batard]

But I guess over the last few weeks they've been strange. Like, their form has just been kind of all over the place, even when Lane Johnson's out there. But I heard you. If you keep on with this herky jerky form and you don't have Lane Johnson, Lane Johnson probably deserves like more credit than the other lane in sports right now for someone pointing to it and being like, this guy's really great.

[Stugats]

The reason I bring all of it up, okay, is because, look, you can have all the surprises you want in the NFL. You thought Detroit would be better this year. You're surprised the Bengals are still in it at 4 and 8. Everywhere you look, you can find an assortment of. This is the wildest sort of football season of. I'm not totally sure who's not flawed out there where you can see just about everyone being beaten. But the. For Dallas to be in the position to chase down Philadelphia because what we saw. I know, I know a lot of people are shocked by Rams Carolina result, but football sometimes happened. The Rams had a nice run run. The thing that I saw over the course of the last week that was the most surprising thing to me is the Bears O line gutting on the road. Philadelphia gutting Philadelphia champion Philadelphia team that has championship defense. I didn't see a bigger surprise than that. This Weekend. And I'm understanding what I'm saying that Carolina was a 10 point underdog at home.

[Dan Le Batard]

Hey, at what point do we give Jerry Jones credit?

[Chris Cody]

Right now I.

[Dan Le Batard]

Because I understand. And Micah Parsons has been fantastic for Green Bay, but the George Pickens trade was unbelievable. He added Clowney, who has made a difference. And they look different with Quin and Williams. Jerry Jones doing a pretty good job with the personnel.

[Chris Cody]

They could totally win the division.

[Stugats]

They fixed their defense is what they did. That was a wor through the first half.

[Greg Cody]

Trading Micah is why.

[Stugats]

Yes, for the first half of the season, they were terrible at defensive defense. Go look at those split. Look at the numbers. Their defense was on a pace to be truly terrible.

[Greg Cody]

Dolphins all time bad.

[Stugats]

And Dallas now isn't quite good enough, though, because in the nfc, this is all crazy to say, right? The Bears atop the nfc. The Bears mauling Philadelphia to get to the top of the nfc. The Bears having a better record than the Rams. When you were all questioning the Bears, and they're eight and three going into that game. For the Bears to be at the top of the NFC and for the 49ers to be at the bottom at 9 and 4, that's an insanity. Like what's happening over there.

[Chris Cody]

You're talking playoffs.

[Stugats]

Yeah, I'm talking. Yeah, I'm talking about the bottom of the playoffs. I'm Talking about that 9 and 4 barely gets you in and knocks out Dallas in its current form and the Lions in the current form because the conference is too good. Like the. The top. The conference is too good because no one should understand how the 49ers are 9 and 4.

[Zazlow]

Well, Cowboys at Lions, like we said on Thursday. And then after the result of that, zaz. I mean, the Cowboys have Minnesota at home after that. W. They'll get the Chargers at home after that at the Commanders W. And then they finish the year at the New York Football giants.

[Chris Cody]

That's a 10.

[Zazlow]

That's four W's.

[Chris Cody]

That's five and one. And you see them beating.

[Zazlow]

So you see them beating Detroit on Thursday in Detroit.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, you didn't give me Detroit.

[Zazlow]

Detroit was where we started.

[Chris Cody]

No l there.

[Stugats]

L. Okay. But anyways, big game. Big game or not a big game. So big game.

[Chris Cody]

Cowboys and Lions.

[Stugats]

Cowboys. Lions.

[Chris Cody]

I just told you, I think the Cowboys are going to win the NFL, NFC East. The Lions are fighting for their playoff lives. Dak Prescott, jagoff. That's a big game.

[Amin Elhassan]

Big game.

[Chris Cody]

That's a big game.

[Roy]

Knocking front.

[Stugats]

That's big game for the Bottom of the conference playoffs while four and eight Bengals are still in it. Where you know what? We need to check in with the committee of things that are done to just because our show wants them ACC letting them in. No, just let. Let's pick the best teams from the NFC and let's let the AFC sit it out there year. Let's just take them.

[Zazlow]

So no Joe Burrow.

[Stugats]

Maybe Joe Burrow. We'll let him in. Play in a few of the games.

[Zazlow]

We let in Mahomes, Josh Allen, but no Drake May or Bonito.

[Stugats]

Just change.

[Dan Le Batard]

I mean it's already crumbling. We invoke three names.

[Greg Cody]

Let's do an NFL committee.

[Dan Le Batard]

It took the first three names. Let's all take them presently out. For Dan to be like okay, probably bad idea but maybe maybe four AFC teams.

[Stugats]

No, I think the Dallas Cowboys are someone everyone would enjoy seeing. Why don't we just playoffs now in this form.

[Greg Cody]

Why don't we just leave our hats at the door and make a 12 team playoff. 12 best, 12 teams. I'll leave my hat at door with you.

[Chris Cody]

Is it best or most deserving?

[Dan Le Batard]

Do we count head to head while.

[Greg Cody]

We'Re cleaning stuff up? If you wanted to see what I would look like in that Speedo.

[Roy]

Well, didn't you. I don't.

[Stugats]

Didn't you want to do a beauty pageant didn't you want to do a beauty pageant where all the college football teams were allowed to stand in front of everybody mocked me. Arguments.

[Greg Cody]

You mocked me for saying the ACC commissioner should just come out and say it's Virginia, Miami. That's who's playing.

[Zazlow]

And I'm packing.

[Chris Cody]

Packing some heat.

[Greg Cody]

I think when there's a tie all the two. How many two lost teams in the ACC are there?

[Zazlow]

Four.

[Dan Le Batard]

And you're talking about your dick.

[Stugats]

I'm not sure that's heat packing.

[Greg Cody]

There's four. Two loss teams.

[Zazlow]

All right.

[Greg Cody]

They're in the final.

[Dan Le Batard]

Let's see you stud.

[Greg Cody]

All the other ACC teams.

[Chris Cody]

That's heat, baby.

[Greg Cody]

Vote like a beauty pageant. Which two should deserve to go. No one's listening to me. It's fine.

[Dan Le Batard]

Sorry. We were all looking at Daniel Craig's dick.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Stugats]

That is what was happening. And then imagining me in that. And then Michael Ryan threw it.

[Greg Cody]

Why did I get the smallest package?

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, mine looks bigger than Chris.

[Zazlow]

Yeah.

[Stugats]

Okay, great. Let's.

[Greg Cody]

Can we zoom in? I'm kidding.

[Stugats]

That's what we're doing.

[Greg Cody]

It's the shadow. Yeah, you're right. That is the shadow.

[Chris Cody]

I'm pretty proud of myself now.

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Stugats]

Cuervo.

[Dan Le Batard]

What are you doing here?

[Stugats]

Cuervo. Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up.

[Dan Le Batard]

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

[Stugats]

Sweet, delicious Cuervo.

[Dan Le Batard]

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

[Stugats]

Cuervo.

[Dan Le Batard]

So enjoy the tequila that started it all. Cuervo.

[Stugats]

Cuervo.

[Dan Le Batard]

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

[Stugats]

Cuervo.