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Billy
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Stugats
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Billy
As I ask you guys about this theme that I continue to hit because I'm interested in documentaries. I like documentaries. We're in the documentary business. Bill Belichick announced yesterday that the long rumored Hulu Docu series about UNC football this season is going to happen and is going to premiere this fall. His girlfriend, Jordan Hudson, seemed to have taken a victory lap on Instagram before the news was announced. She posted an image of her blowing a kiss to the camera as her and Belichick walked away and the caption included the Handles Forever Wonder, Hulu, Disney. Plus your level of interest in whatever this documentary is going to be, which I assume that Bill Belichick will have creative control over. I don't think we're going to see anything that Bill Belichick doesn't want us to see.
Stugats
Yeah, and that's the problem. Right. It's gonna be the Jerry Jones thing where if Belichick is controlling the whole thing, it's gonna be exactly formulaic, based on whatever he wants, and more important, doesn't want air.
Billy
But I'm interested. It is a natural evolution. It's a way for him to evolve in the modern age as a 70 year old with what is popular today when you guys are busy telling me the argument for two weeks now. Hey, Jerry Jones wins, Dan. He gets the money and the attention. That's all that actually matters.
Stugats
It's bound to be just a docum about Bill Belichick and his transition from the Patriots into college football and hopefully about his controversial relationship with someone a third of his age. Because if it ends up being the history of an unremarkable North Carolina, it's.
Billy
Not going to be his relationship. There's no way it's going to be about his relationship.
Dan Le Batard
They'll let us see what they want us to see and that'll be that. And it's up to the consumer to decide whether or not they want to make that investment on the front end, knowing his reputation, how secretive he is, knowing that this, that their fingerprints are all over it. Me, myself, not at all interested because I kind of have an idea of what I'd be getting there. And that's gonna be usually the case with documentaries that are authorized right now, unless you have a subject that is legitimately willing to give the entire truth. Look, you have buy in from Charlie Sheen in his upcoming Netflix documentary series. I'm pretty sure that's going to be super interesting. And I don't mind that it's authorized by him because it doesn't seem like he's gonna be pulling any punches there. So I'm in on that. But I think with most cases in the documentary world, especially the ones that go to streamers, the consumer is going to have to make an educated guess as to whether or not this is the truth and should scrutinize whatever they see. Understanding that is just one perspective.
Stugats
And it's probably going to end up being a glorified series of recruiting videos for the Tar Heels, which I have no interest in watching.
Billy
You mentioned Charlie Sheen. I hadn't mentioned to you how close we were to making that particular movie, but the amount of money that he wanted given in general what it is that is going on in his life seemed unsafe.
Dan Le Batard
Hey, man. We're constantly making. Making it to the metal stands.
Jeremy
A lot of second places.
Dan Le Batard
Your podium in F1.
Billy
That one we said no to. That one. That one we said no to. Yes. Because we broke up with him. Because the amount of money that he.
Dan Le Batard
Wanted to, he probably deserves. He said no to us.
Billy
Yes. And he would. No. He did not say no to us.
Dan Le Batard
Well, it sounds like you didn't meet the price. Yeah.
Billy's Football Friend
Like, if you go to a car dealership and they say, this car will be $50,000, and you're like, how.
Billy
Do you.
Dan Le Batard
I'm out of here. Too expensive.
Billy's Football Friend
Yeah.
Billy
It was ours for the taking if we had them.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah. I said no to a Maserati the other day. I'm not doing it.
Billy
No, it was affordable. Like, we could have done it. It just would have put some things at risk, but we could have done it.
Stugats
Really? Couldn't you have lowballed?
Jeremy
We would have lost. Jeremy.
Stugats
It sounds like there wasn't a lot of competition for this guy's story.
Billy
There is a lot of competition.
Dan Le Batard
I have broken up with Scarlett Johansson.
Billy
I understand.
Dan Le Batard
It was a tough decision.
Billy
You weren't. Look, man, you hit me the other day right after you hit me with. I made a musical Buster. Whatever it is you hit me right after that with. Oh, really, Dan? You're questioning whether Carson Beck looked like Cam Ward in fall practice when I was there and you weren't for both camps. So I'm in on the Charlie Sheen discussions and you're not.
Dan Le Batard
Well, it's just. It's cool. Like, you didn't meet the price, and he went with someone that made the price. It doesn't seem like he. You broke up with him.
Jeremy
Still second place, though.
Stugats
Yeah. Congrats.
Billy
No, it would have been first place.
Stugats
Silverman.
Billy
It would have been.
Jeremy
We chose second place, Silverman.
Billy
I didn't say we were saying.
Billy's Football Friend
First place is a lot of pressure.
Billy
We might have been tied with everybody else. We might have been tied forever. I'm not even saying we're second place there. On the Cowboys, we were second place. That's why John. Skipper's.
Billy's Football Friend
By our choosing or theirs?
Billy
That's their choosing. The NFL's choosing, I think. I don't think that was even Jerry's choosing.
Dan Le Batard
Well, because your pitch was probably. We'd like an honest look.
Jeremy
I do believe if you're not first, you last.
Billy's Football Friend
Why do you guys keep falling for this whole documentary thing, especially with sports thinking like you're going to get anything that's honest?
Billy
Well, this. Well, this is. This is one of the conundrums that's in play right now that I will reveal as it relates to the specifics of Isaiah Thomas, for example, as a documentary story that gets about 10 steps down the line with 10 different meetings with 10 different people, and at the very end, somebody says, hey, Isaiah, you know, we're gonna have to ask about the sexual harassment stuff, right? And that's where these things are gonna fall apart in the future, everywhere, wherever it is that you're granting access in exchange for a piece of the story. And it's what's gonna get contaminated in the storytelling, as you only have four or five entities telling any kinds of stories, and they'll do it the way the Gators did their story on Netflix, where it's just, you're getting a piece of it, but you're not getting the piece of it that I've told you before. The best sports doc, the documentary I've seen recently was the what Max did and Armin Katayn with Tiger woods, not Taurasi, available now. It did not have Tiger woods participation, and it was amazing because it didn't have his participation. You had an assortment of people talking the way I would have liked to hear some people talk about Jerry Jones. If they put any of them on camera who might have said the things about Jerry Jones, that would have been an exhaustive look at Jerry Jones as opposed to what it is that they did, which is just public relations for Jerry Jones.
Stugats
I totally get that. If I'm reading a book that says unauthorized biography, I assume it's going to be more truthful than the biography written by the autobiography. So, same way with documentaries.
Billy
I don't know, though, that anybody that's listening to this actually cares of that particular contamination in this age of both fake news and choose your own truth. Because we're, what are we, 15 minutes removed from Trump saying what about being a dictator? As everybody wonders whether he's hired hiding his ankles for. From us because he's in poor health.
Guest
Well, he's also hiding his hands from us. But on top of that, he said, I believe. And let me get the direct quote for you.
Stugats
Quote.
Guest
Nope, doing a bad job here. Wasn't ready to have this one. A lot of people are saying, maybe we'd like a dictator. That's the direct quote. A lot of people are saying, maybe we'd like a dictator. He went on to say, I'm not a dictator. I don't like a dictator. But a lot of people are saying maybe we'd like one.
Billy
When it comes to coaches, I do believe that most people in our audience would like their football team to have the boss that they themselves would not like to have somebody who's a disciplinarian and bossing people around and showing people who's in charge. So as this situation in Dallas escalates with Micah Parsons and Jerry Jones, Mike Florio is pointing out that Parsons is yet to practice and he's saying he's got a back problem. Now Jerry Jones says that's negotiating. Everything is fine with his back. They say he's faking it.
Billy's Football Friend
Well, I had to lay down in the middle of the game the other night too. Was hurting. He was definitely wasn't taking a nap during the game that he was sitting out of.
Billy
The MRI of Parsons back was according to shot Schottenheimer, pretty clean. I don't know what that means. It means clean enough to play. And as one source with knowledge of the procedure explained to Mike Florio, the Cowboys can now send a letter to Parson explaining that he's cleared to practice and that it's conduct detrimental and you know, also insubordination if he doesn't practice and they can go as deep as a four game penalty. Mike Ryan is dismissing this all as noise, but they. They. You would agree, correct, that there are certain things that you might not be able to take back in public when it's an 80 year old doing business against somebody in his early 20s in the modern age. And you can fix it all with money, as Jerry Jones often does by overspending just to have his spectacle in the. But we are in agreement that this risks something, are we not? Or are we just saying no? Their behavior, these behaviors are going to be fine and Micah Parsons is going to be understood by Jerry Jones at the end. As long as he comes and he pays him.
Stugats
I think if he gets the biggest contract ever at his position, then all is well. I have to think that heals and solves everything. If he doesn't. Maybe there's some after effect here.
Dan Le Batard
If he doesn't, then it would end differently. For the first time in Jerry Jones's history running the Dallas Cowboys.
Billy
The difference that I would say here though is at least not lacking in substance. This is the one guy the Cowboys have had who is insistent on having his own platform. This is the one star that they have who also wishes to be a star. With his mouth in a way that not everyone else is profiting off of because he wants his own platform. The same way Mike Bibby and all these guys have noticed that the platform has value. Micah Parsons. We are in agreement that the star that Micah Parsons is on that team different from Dak Prescott, different from CD Lamb. He wants to be a personality. Like, it's clear that he also wants the attention that Jerry Jones craves. That makes him different than any of the other Cowboys I have seen in the modern age.
Stugats
It makes him represent the modern age. He is what the athlete. And in this case, all Micah Parsons is doing is leveling the playing field because nobody has a bigger platform than Jerry Jones in the NFL. Jerry can say whatever he wants and everybody's writing it down and repeating it on the air. So Micah Parsons finally has his own platform and good for him.
Billy
Does it matter though, is what I'm saying to you? Once. Once you get past the contract negotiations of this, do you guys think that this is not going to be a problem going forward with Micah Parsons? He's already talking too much for their lik. These. These teams like to have control of these things. Tyree Kill did not speak when he was in Kansas City. Travis Kelsey did one season of his dating show. And then Andy Reid said, we need to not be doing that in public anymore. We're watching a Netflix documentary where Michael Irvin is the only one raising his hand and actually volunteering. I'll talk about all of my bad shit and I'll throw it all in in public. But Micah Parsons is willing to get messy with the owner.
Dan Le Batard
Des Bryant got messy with the owner and got his money. Ezekiel Elliott got messy. He got his money. Zach Martin didn't get messy. But the action of waiting to the very last second is, you know, it's messy.
Billy
People. What is the situation right now with Cam Hayward in Pittsburgh? Aren't some of these guys just trying to avoid all of training camp?
Stugats
All.
Billy
Aren't some of these guys just not wanting to do any of Coach is going to make me miserable for a. Just tell me when the collisions start. I'll show up. I'm a whatever it is that cam Hayward is. 14 year veteran. I don't need training camp.
Stugats
Can you blame them? I mean, if you're a proven veteran, you don't need. You need training camp. You don't need three exhibition games. Josh Allen didn't take a single snap in the preseason for the first time in his career. That's going to be a little bit of a trend.
Jeremy
I think no, they've been going the opposite. I've noticed this year more teams are playing players. I know that's an example of not, but two have played this year played this year.
Stugats
Two is not proven in a way.
Billy's Football Friend
That Josh Allen, Joe Burrow played every game. But the reason Joe Burrow played is because the Bengals seem to think that it's not that Joe Burrow has been unhealthy coming into the seasons. Why he struggles. It's because it takes a little while for him to warm up. So they're warming him up in the preseason, putting him at risk to get injured so that he's revving when week one comes around, which is an absurd theory, but we'll see how that plays out.
Jeremy
Kyler Murray also played this year, didn't play last year. I think it's going the other way. Like I saw more people playing this year.
Stugats
Okay, but if you're Cam Heyward, if you trust a veteran, accomplished player, and I'm the head coach, I'm going you tell me what you need. How much do you need to play in this preseason? Because you've proven it. You've been proving it in the NFL longer than I've been a head coach. You tell me what you need to get ready.
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Dan Le Batard
Hey, Tony.
Jeremy
Hey, Mike.
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Jeremy
Draft is crisp.
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Stugats
Don LeBatard I heard that as a woman faking pain, I didn't think that sounded real. I really didn't.
Billy
You know, it was not fake. It was in no way fake.
Dan Le Batard
You can spot a woman faking it.
Billy
Stugats.
Stugats
Yes, I can. Jess. Expert. I've been married 40 years. This is the Don Levatar show with the Stugats.
Billy
I was happy to hear from Billy. He also is warming up to be the Duke, one of the biggest insiders there is anywhere in national and international football.
Stugats
And I heard.
Billy
That Billy had a football proposal for us and I have been remiss in not getting to it before now. We usually clear the way when Dukey has a football proposal to make.
Billy's Football Friend
Yeah, so I don't know if you guys have caught on. Preseason's done season starting, but there's a week in between. College football is going to happen, but the NFL, you now Have a week in between where they can rest and get their bodies right and kind of just get sorted out for the season. So I was thinking, what if during the football season, we just had a universal buy where there's just one week of no, no football? And I know you guys are thinking, that's terrible. I can't do that. But I. I mean, I sometimes find it hard to get my things done, my chores done. I can't go out of town for the weekend because there's football that needs to be watched. I feel like if we have a football holiday in the middle of football season, everyone can get right for fans. A buy for fans and the players, too. Yeah. They can get healthy. You just have a universal buy for all the teams. You put it. I don't know.
Billy
Like, we have that before the super bowl, right? That's. That's not what you want, though. You want, like, a universal Pro Bowls.
Billy's Football Friend
Pro bowl games are that. Dan, you're telling me you're not watching the Pro bowl games?
Dan Le Batard
That's what he's telling you.
Jeremy
You got Tuesday, Wednesday.
Stugats
All right?
Billy
That's plenty of time to get your shit shows. I haven't seen him in 15 years.
Billy's Football Friend
I feel like the first week of December, maybe, you know, after Thanksgiving.
Jeremy
I don't like this.
Billy
I don't think I've seen a Pro bowl since Sean Taylor was alive because that's the last Pro bowl memory that I have. I don't.
Dan Le Batard
I'm inclined to believe that award shows get out of here.
Jeremy
In Revelations, Dan says he hasn't gotten a piece of mail in a decade.
Billy's Football Friend
Decade, yeah. That did happen.
Billy
Maybe 20th. I physically gone to get my mail.
Dan Le Batard
You didn't see any of the Ricky Gervais Golden Globes?
Billy
I saw. I saw of it. No, I've seen. I. I see award show the way that others. I imagine watching award shows, which is clips long after they're over.
Billy's Football Friend
What are you saying? Start to finish? Or like the 7, 8 situation to.
Billy
An award show in 15 years where I'm going to my television with the purpose of. I want to see this. Not even the Oscar show that we did here.
Guest
You didn't see the opening of the 2010 Primetime Emmys when Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey, and the cast of Glee sang Born to Run? I mean, come on, Dan, by the.
Jeremy
Way, born to run. 50 years. Congrats, Bruce.
Billy
I have no idea what it is. Okay? This is. I don't have anything against these shouts of liar from you guys other than to tell you I'm not lying.
Jeremy
And Then it just gets not liar. It's unlikely. That's really what I'm yelling.
Stugats
It's the 15 years part. That's.
Billy's Football Friend
It just seems like a weird flex, let's say.
Billy
But I'm not flexing.
Jeremy
Could you have forgotten one that you.
Billy
Tuned into three years ago?
Stugats
Three or four years, not 15.
Billy
I understand that you guys don't believe me on this. No, I know you're clear in dismissing this. I just don't have anywhere to go after that other than to tell you I don't watch award shows and I also don't watch pro Bowls, but I thought that Billy's idea there of the customers getting a break midway through the season, I think I'd appreciate.
Billy's Football Friend
Yeah, go up to Epcot, a little food and wine action.
Stugats
Not a bad idea.
Jeremy
This is almost as annoying as when my dad wants in our fantasy draft to take a break. It's like a thing. In fancy drafts, you don't take a break. You have a break between picks. All right? The draft always is moving. My dad is like, after round four, we will now pause for five minutes and everyone go to the bat. It's like.
Stugats
No.
Billy's Football Friend
Ever heard a halftime junior?
Jeremy
Everyone does go to the bathroom when you're not picking, the draft always stays moving. There's no breaks in drafts.
Stugats
That's an arbitrary.
Jeremy
You go to the bathroom, you come back, you see what picks, picks you missed.
Stugats
No, you. You. You go five. I almost said innings. You go five rounds.
Billy
He almost said piss.
Stugats
You go five rounds, you take a five minute break. You go five more rounds, you take a five minute break, then you. You finish the draft.
Billy's Football Friend
There you go, right there.
Billy
Washington and Terry McLaren have agreed to a three year deal.
Stugats
Thank God. The Lobos just drafted.
Billy
Yeah.
Stugats
Wow. Yeah, wow.
Dan Le Batard
They made up after that ugly holdout.
Jeremy
You were mocked too.
Stugats
I know I was. Who's got the last laugh now? Go Lobos.
Billy's Football Friend
Go Lobos.
Dan Le Batard
I saw the 49ers have two guys that got shot.
Stugats
No.
Dan Le Batard
Purcell and who Robinson got traded there.
Stugats
Huh? It's true, Ryan.
Dan Le Batard
They got two dudes that got shot.
Billy
Do we have any details? Since we're now doing this as the breaking news reaction on Jaylen Brown's father stabbing someone. Since we're doing just a violent crime outbreak, somehow around what it is, the breaking news is.
Guest
I have some details if you. If you'd like.
Dan Le Batard
What a week for dads?
Jeremy
According to what I. I'm just kidding. Go ahead.
Dan Le Batard
Be helpful, please.
Guest
No, thanks.
Dan Le Batard
No, come on.
Guest
Seven year old Quentin Marcellus Brown was arrested and charged with attempted murder after allegedly stabbing another man in a parking lot. According to jail records, he was booked on that charge and his bail bond was set at $300,000. 3News in Las Vegas reported that the incident started over a, quote, door ding. The victim and his girlfriend were sitting in a vehicle at all American park when Brown parked his SUV next to them. Brown opened his passenger side door, hitting their vehicle. Witnesses identified Brown, who was listed at seven feet tall and £300 at the scene.
Billy
The stabbing as a crime is so personal and intimate that I don't know what to do with it as a talking point. Just getting so physically close to somebody that somewhere in what would be a car ding or rage, you would be capable of just stabbing them. Seems like a level of violence that I'm not capable of understanding.
Stugats
The gun's okay.
Billy
I'm not saying it's okay. I'm not saying it's okay. I'm just saying, in fact, the gun comes with bigger penalties and consequences for obvious reasons. I'm just saying the mindset of somebody who is willing to stab you is not something that I am able to comprehend.
Stugats
Where was the victim stabbed? Does it say? Cuz I think that matters.
Dan Le Batard
Oh, wow.
Stugats
Okay. If he's stabbed in the arm, you can't charge him with.
Billy
This is not where I had all of this breaking news ending up.
Jeremy
And if I try to stab you and I'm going towards your chest and I end up in your bicep, that's not attempted murder.
Stugats
I. I learned a lot. Not if I'm a defense lawyer. Hell no.
Dan Le Batard
Dan Lerd on stabbing Colon couldn't fathom it.
Billy
It's just too intimate.
Dan Le Batard
You have. That's the issue.
Stugats
Intimacy.
Billy's Football Friend
According to people. According to people. It says witnesses told police that Brown allegedly stabbed the coach as many as 25 times.
Stugats
Whoa. Yeah.
Guest
Youth football coach. A 28 year old youth football coach.
Stugats
Oh, my God.
Billy
So how did we end up here?
Billy's Football Friend
I don't think location matters. At 25.
Stugats
Yeah, that.
Dan Le Batard
That we'll give him for details. And then you said I can't do anything.
Jeremy
You'll give him attempted murder, dad.
Stugats
Will. Yeah. I love how Levitard calls stabbing an act of intimacy. That's interesting.
Billy
I'm not taking it back.
Stugats
Okay. Or should you?
Billy
It is. It is.
Jeremy
I do like, like, not. I don't like this. The visual of like a romantic stabbing is what you're painting there, baby. Intimate.
Stugats
Like an intimate moment, baby.
Billy's Football Friend
That's how you keep the Cody name alive.
Dan Le Batard
That is not just because they're Too close together. You're not allowed to keep it alive if you just give Graceland your last name. Yeah, that. That. That doesn't come.
Stugats
What if she adopts my last name?
Dan Le Batard
It's cheating the system.
Stugats
I don't think it is.
Dan Le Batard
That's not the true bloodline.
Stugats
Why should women give up their surname?
Billy's Football Friend
That's a great question.
Jeremy
What if I adopt a boy?
Stugats
Will that?
Dan Le Batard
Will that you accept that that's not the bloodline. Another asterisk. I'm sorry. You could love him like a son. He could be your son.
Stugats
Yeah.
Billy's Football Friend
What if. Wait, I don't like that. What if. What if Greg gives the adopted boy, something happens, A blood transfusion. Then Greg's blood is back in play here.
Stugats
You know, that's not a bad idea.
Jeremy
I'm naming him Fred.
Stugats
I want to get that going. Fred.
Jeremy
Fred Cody.
Billy's Football Friend
I don't like this conversation. Fred. Back to the stabbing.
Dan Le Batard
My bloodline dies with me, and I'm okay with it.
Stugats
You're okay with that? Wow. I still got Michael. You know, maybe he can sow his seed and produce a blood.
Billy
What's going on with you? Where? The last couple of weeks, we're talking about your tombstone, your mortality, and you're giving a lot of thought to how your name is remembered and placing it in your youngest son's middle name just so that it gets remembered right.
Stugats
You know, once you get to be 70, you know, knock, knock, knocking. You know what I mean?
Billy's Football Friend
Yeah.
Dan Le Batard
Evan Store. Yeah, I get the reference. You're saying you're almost dead.
Stugats
I appreciate that. No, I mean, I hope to be here in 15 years. I'll be here. The show will be gone, but I will be in this studio all by myself 15 years from today.
Dan Le Batard
That's a good bet. What lasts longer?
Billy's Football Friend
You know, I've often wondered. I drove by. I drove by the Clevelander, like, two weeks ago, and I wondered because it didn't seem there was much activity. I feel like if I walked into the Clevelander, there's still just the studio there.
Dan Le Batard
I got a message on social media that led me to assume the Poppy elevator door wrap is still alive. Yeah, there are artifacts of a bygone era.
Billy
You guys should read, though, about what they're doing over there. Cause it's one of the controversial moves. They're gonna build that straight into the sky right now where there's all sorts of fighting going on.
Guest
Great idea. Super superb idea. In the infrastructure that we have on Miami Beach. That's a really great idea.
Billy
Well, if you saw the INF infrastructure That we particularly had at the.
Stugats
That's what I'm saying.
Dan Le Batard
It's insane.
Guest
That's crazy.
Dan Le Batard
I mean at that point it all feels like this is some grand conspiracy to allow for lawlessness to devastate an area so real estate landlords can come over and feel like conquering heroes and have buy in from an adoring public to clean up the streets.
Guest
But who would have connection to those real estate landlords? I don't understand.
Billy's Football Friend
So you guys are out on my football universal bi week week.
Stugats
I think it's a great idea.
Billy's Football Friend
All right.
Dan Le Batard
No, it isn't.
Stugats
No, no, no.
Dan Le Batard
We waited too long. The bye week was a six months that happened.
Jeremy
You have Tuesday and Wednesday. Get your done.
Dan Le Batard
Yes.
Stugats
May I suggest a tweak to Billy's grand idea? Yeah, my tweak would be call it halftime.
Jeremy
Stand to the halftime.
Stugats
It's a halftime show. And talk to the mic though. The mic and the stars are your fans. Oh, wow. Okay, here's what you do.
Billy's Football Friend
Yes.
Stugats
You split a season right in the middle between NFL and college. Right in an agreed upon middle. You have a not one, but two weeks break. A two week break at halftime, double halftime after two seasons.
Billy's Football Friend
And you make the fans the stars.
Stugats
Yes.
Billy's Football Friend
What does that mean?
Stugats
Well, you know, both leagues get together. Goodell and the commissioner of college football, which there is none. I wish I was that. They get together and they have a series of concerts, a fan all star gaming of concerts and the fans perform.
Billy's Football Friend
Wait, fans perform fans?
Billy
Look, I saw the fans perform on the Zoom pandemic draft where they were all on screens and nobody could beat together with each other. And that just made me sad. Now you have a talent show involving the fan. Billy, I don't know what you're laughing here. You got us here. Look, I'm grateful I took us over to Jalen, Brad's dad.
Stugats
So I'm.
Billy
I'm just grateful that. That you guys are making a total mess of this just to get me away from the previous total mess I made. But what you're saying is ridiculous. I don't want to replace the football season with two weeks of fans performing.
Billy's Football Friend
Nationwide though like an American Idol show. And the two commissioners, one of which doesn't exist, are judges for the talent contest.
Stugats
You take the Dolphins as as an example since they're from our area. Do the Miami Dolphins have 50 fans who are truly talented? Of course they do. You know, maybe you get an mc, Gloria Estefan, maybe somebody some local.
Billy's Football Friend
Are celebrity fans allowed to participate? Yeah, we encourage Darius Rucker could do something.
Stugats
Exactly.
Billy's Football Friend
Got it.
Jeremy
Cody could participate, but they can't do what they're good at. Like Darius Rucker would have to cook.
Stugats
Why?
Jeremy
Serena Williams could, like, do ballet. Like she can't play tennis.
Stugats
That's a thought. Not a good one, but that's a thought.
Billy's Football Friend
Yeah. Chris, you got to take this more seriously, man.
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Stugats
Oh, come on.
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Stugats
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Billy
Don LeBatard.
Stugats
What do we got here? I got a Magnum condom. We won't get that out.
Billy
That's shocking. Stugats.
Stugats
Here's a picture of Christopher when he was like three years old.
Billy
Right next to the condom.
Stugats
Yeah, that's a little reminder.
Billy
Never forget it.
Stugats
This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats.
Billy
Billy, you've been very critical of Chris and his social media recently. I don't know what Chris is doing wrong that has you in his sights, but what is happening here with Chris Cody?
Billy's Football Friend
No, not critical. Chris had an interesting social media weekend. So Chris didn't tell us, but Chris apparently went and participated in a poker tournament in which he won. And very early, either Saturday or Sunday morning, we saw a post go out there that was posted by the tournament that Chris won with a very sleepy looking Chris Cody sitting at a poker table with all his chips saying that he won and there was a $40,000 pot and all this stuff. So the Internet was ablaze talking about Chris Cody and his newfound fortune and all the money that he had won. Chris Cody reposted the celebratory post saying that he was the big winner of this tournament and this and that and what, whatever. And then like a couple hours later, Chris then made a follow up post telling people, by the way, didn't win that much money. Which was a weird, I thought, kind of turn to this story.
Jeremy
Well, is because the post said tournament 40k. And I just kind of assume people know po like, that's the total prize pool. And I had like dozens of messages.
Billy
Like, you won 40k.
Jeremy
And I was just like, I just felt the need to get out there of like, I did win some money, but it wasn't 40k.
Billy's Football Friend
Why did you feel that need to just tell people? I did.
Jeremy
Because I had dozens of people being like, let me borrow my, like, dude, you just won 40k. And I'm just like, guys, back off.
Stugats
So let me get this straight. When you win a poker tournament at X Blank place, that place publishes. Who won there?
Jeremy
They have a social media. This particular one, I don't think all places.
Billy's Football Friend
Was it because you're a celebrity or.
Jeremy
No. If you look, they. They post every Friday.
Stugats
I wouldn't like that. I wouldn't like that. I want to remain private. I'm a private winner.
Billy
You know what's funny about this? That Boog Schombi won a bunch of money in Vegas, and Greg Cody reported it in his blog, Infuriating Boogie Schombi. And your father defended his right to do that and now just contradicts himself by saying, I'd want to keep that private. When you betrayed Boogie Schombi one time because he simply won, I don't know, 10 grand playing blackjack, and you published it in random evidence of a cluttered mind. He published it right on his blog.
Stugats
And in the newspaper books of public figure. But I also have a memory. Tell me if I'm wrong, because this is a vague memory.
Jeremy
If you do something private with a public figure, that doesn't make it newsworthy.
Billy
Chris isn't a public figure.
Stugats
Public. Ish.
Billy
Will you decide that?
Stugats
Yeah. Who else but me?
Billy
When you're maybe the public, when you're not busy being the commissioner.
Stugats
Didn't I steal? Not steal, but didn't I grab a $500 chip from Boog in a casino once and start running off with it and he got pissed? Or am I making all that up? I have a memory of that. Get Boog on the phone right now and ask him.
Billy's Football Friend
So you stole $500 from him?
Stugats
I think I did.
Billy's Football Friend
Did you give back?
Stugats
And a couple of times over the years, we've reached out to Boog to be on my podcast Crickets. So I don't think I'm. I don't think he's a big fan of mine to this day. You know, what if you win $10,000? You can't keep it a secret. When he. When he tells me he wins women's dollars, we don't have to say how much I won. I assume. I assume that he told his wife.
Billy's Football Friend
You want me to bleep that one or.
Stugats
Come on.
Jeremy
Oh, Dad. I posted it on Instagram but didn't tell my wife.
Stugats
I mean, you know, I'm just assuming.
Jeremy
Yes, you can believe that, Jeremy.
Billy
It's pretty good.
Jeremy
All right.
Stugats
Yeah, Believe that. Whatever. It wasn't 40.
Billy
You just revealed to everybody what the number was when your son had not.
Stugats
Revealed what the number I thought he had. I'm sorry.
Billy's Football Friend
Uncle Sam's not listening. You're fine.
Dan Le Batard
Let's put that on Cam Norman.
Billy's Football Friend
So what are you going to do with all that money?
Billy
That's not a lot of money to you, Chris. That sounds.
Jeremy
I've played a lot of poker tournaments. Like, it's not all profit.
Billy's Football Friend
Folks.
Jeremy
We're chasing here a little bit. Well, now we're up. But we were chasing.
Billy's Football Friend
College fund for Grayson, maybe Greg.
Stugats
Yeah.
Billy
What did you just do? The entanglement of what you just did. Betraying your son, betraying Boogie, Being inconsistent in general about what your take is on this. And then defending. Defending again. Your right to publish and betray both. Boogie and now your son right there.
Stugats
I'm spitting facts. You know, Jack. It's a jack.
Jeremy
How do we all say it back here?
Stugats
It's a. It's the same way when I reported about your engagement to Val. I'm not doing anything wrong. I'm reporting a fact. You're a public figure. Boog Shambi. Yeah. Big star baseball broadcaster.
Billy
You just said of your son that you wouldn't like it very much much if they published the amount of his winnings. And then you said the amount of his winning.
Stugats
It should be up to him to report it. Yeah. Not up to said casino.
Jeremy
I mean, granted, I did share that I won, but I didn't say the specific amount. So you revealed the only thing I had kept.
Stugats
Because they bleeped it out.
Billy
No, don't bleep.
Jeremy
No, we're going to bleep it.
Guest
I'm bleeping.
Stugats
It.
Billy
Was. It was how much it was. It was dollars.
Dan Le Batard
That's all right.
Billy's Football Friend
What? Second place. Get. Really.
Jeremy
What are you doing? The best part was if we're going to get into a little detail here, I got heads up with a guy who called him not. I'm not going to disrespect him. He said pro, and I was like, it's late here. You want to just chop this thing? Piece. Bleep that and get out of here. And he's like, you know, I'm a professional, so I'm going to have to decline. I like my edge. It's nothing against you. You played very well. Well, and then I beat him.
Stugats
Damn right.
Dan Le Batard
Piece. So then. Then you won.
Jeremy
If we had split. It was like that plus extra.
Billy's Football Friend
Are you fixing. Are you kidding?
Jeremy
I got to have to quit.
Guest
35 in this hour.
Jeremy
You guys don't understand how part like you can make a deal at the end of a tournament, and if you don't want to play it out, you can, like, split the money.
Dan Le Batard
So you want dollars? No, it was 12.
Jeremy
Have fun. Jeremy.
Stugats
He won.
Billy
Don't bleep it out. Jeremy. Leave it all.
Stugats
Please bleep it out.
Billy
No, leave it in.
Guest
I do think comedically it's actually funnier if we bleep all of it.
Stugats
Yeah, it is.
Guest
Can you imagine the amount of bleeps these people are gonna have to listen.
Billy's Football Friend
To in their car?
Billy
I don't wanna do that to them just because the mess that Greg Cody just made. I believe the betrayal should stand out. Right? We shouldn't hide it from our audience. It's already out there. Look, I've had to live with a worse betrayal from your father. You can live with this betrayal from your father and the consequences of that, and the audience will appreciate the honesty.
Billy's Football Friend
Oh, it's a betrayal.
Billy
Even though it'll be funnier.
Jeremy
The exact amount he gave.
Billy
The exact amount.
Billy's Football Friend
No, no, you. Their engagement's not a betrayal. It's a celebration of love.
Stugats
Thank you.
Billy's Football Friend
Yeah, you're ashamed.
Stugats
You want the world to know the greatest news in his life. Yeah. I share it from the mountaintops. He gets mad at me.
Billy's Football Friend
Dance in love.
Stugats
Ridiculous.
Billy's Football Friend
Celebrated.
Stugats
Please. You're welcome. Well, as far as I'm concerned, Valerie didn't tell her.
Billy
That's right.
Jeremy
She wasn't ready for the info.
Stugats
What better way to learn than to read it in the air?
Jeremy
Family don't want to earn.
Stugats
Yeah, that's right. Family don't want to earn. Don't want to learn.
Billy
That's a good. That's a good tombstone for your. For your father.
Dan Le Batard
Brought you by DraftKings.
Billy
I don't want to earn. Urn. Guy don't want to learn. Brought to you by DraftKings. Like, it's, it's. It's pretty good.
Stugats
Yeah, that's not bad.
Billy
I don't. I want our audience. We're going to have a Contest. See who it is that can do better. But, yes, the problem there was less with me, though it was also a betrayal of me, than it was my scampering bride, who had to then inform everybody of information that your father had released before it was ready to be released. And if we can get a hold of Boogie Shambi, we can get to the bottom of whether Greg Cody did indeed run off with $500. A $500 chip. But for sure, he betrayed him in print. For sure he did that.
Stugats
Well, I mean, you know, why would he be betrayed? Did he not tell his significant other that he had won? Is that part.
Billy
It's not information that he wanted public. And it's the same thing. You just. I don't want to do this with you again. You just argued 10 minutes ago. You argued that this is not something that you would want in public. I pointed out to you this past of yours that includes another betrayer.
Billy's Football Friend
Seems like Greg's just spreading good news.
Stugats
Thank you.
Billy's Football Friend
I haven't heard any negativity that Greg has put out there yet. He's just celebrating his friends and their accomplishments.
Stugats
Exactly.
Billy's Football Friend
Yeah.
Stugats
Yeah. No, there's no doubt about that. And when the. I almost said I don't know, that it was held at a. Might not have been, but the casino. The casino puts out there that $40,000 people can figure out. Well, the winning total of 40k is not 40,000 because they pay others. So, you know, I'm not breaking any shock. Shocking news by saying bleep.
Billy's Football Friend
Well put.
Stugats
That kind of thing.
Jeremy
Better tell my wife, huh?
Stugats
Yeah, no, I. She knows because she comp. She.
Jeremy
Trust me, I lost, like, a quarter of it instantly.
Billy
Did you say she confiscated?
Stugats
She commented on it, is what I said.
Jeremy
Wives love money.
Stugats
She may have confiscated.
Jeremy
As soon as I got home with that, she's like, all right, three of this is going to the credit card bill.
Billy
Love money. You were gonna say the verb. His wife confiscated it when. When he got home.
Stugats
Yeah, I meant to say commented on it when they were at our house for our PFPI fantasy draft yesterday. Lobo's really kicked ass. Even Christopher, who hates all my drafts.
Jeremy
He had a good draft.
Stugats
Yeah. Thank you.
Billy's Football Friend
Did you do the two halftimes?
Stugats
Yeah, we did.
Billy's Football Friend
Nice.
Stugats
Yeah.
Billy
Do you have the Lobos imaging so that we could get all your father's thoughts on this before we get out of here for the post game show? Let's see if we can get a full Lobos update here now that he made the big trade that he got.
Stugats
Nope. Good. Thank God. Because you were fitting to get me on the hard network. Out. That's what you were doing.
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Billy
Cuervo? Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up.
Dan Le Batard
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Billy
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Dan Le Batard
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Billy
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Dan Le Batard
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Billy
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Billy
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In this episode, Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, and the Meadowlark Media crew deliver a classic, freewheeling mix of sports, pop culture, behind-the-scenes squabbles, and personal revelations from their perch at the Elser Hotel in Miami. The hour features lively debates about the authenticity of modern sports documentaries, NFL player empowerment, outrageous family betrayals over gambling winnings, and a characteristically absurd proposal for a universal football "bye week"—all laced with the show’s signature blend of sarcasm, bickering, and earnest insight.
Bill Belichick’s UNC Football Docuseries:
Key Quotes:
Debate on Documentary Value:
Micah Parsons and Cowboys Contract Standoff:
Veterans and Training Camp Avoidance:
Key Quotes:
A Universal Football “Bye Week” for Fans and Players:
Award Shows and the Decline of Shared TV Events:
Key Quotes:
Jaylen Brown’s Father Charged with Stabbing:
Key Quotes:
Surname and Bloodline Debates:
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The Social Media Poker Saga:
Stugotz Calls Himself Out:
Comedy in Bleeps:
Key Quotes:
On Docuseries Honesty (03:38):
“They’ll let us see what they want us to see, and that’ll be that. And it’s up to the consumer to decide whether they want to make that investment, knowing his reputation and how secretive he is…” — Dan Le Batard
On Player Empowerment and Social Media (11:28):
“Micah Parsons, he’s the one guy… who also wishes to be a star with his mouth… He wants his own platform. He also wants the attention Jerry Jones craves.” — Billy
On Stabbing as “Intimacy” (24:23):
“I’m not saying it’s okay. I’m just saying… the mindset of somebody who is willing to stab you is not something I am able to comprehend.” — Billy
On Surnames and the End of the Line (26:36):
“My bloodline dies with me, and I’m OK with it.” — Dan Le Batard
On Family Betrayal Over Poker Winnings (36:15):
“What did you just do? The entanglement of what you just did. Betraying your son, betraying Boogie. Being inconsistent in general… and then defending again your right to publish and betray…” — Billy
Hour 2 is a quintessential Le Batard Show ride—sardonic, playful, sprawling, and occasionally poignant. Whether skewering the manufactured authenticity of sports documentaries, diving into the modern athlete’s media power, lamenting (and celebrating) legacies, or calling out family hypocrisy amid poker winnings, it’s a master class in radio chaos where real insights jostle comfortably alongside running jokes, unfiltered bickering, and genuine friendships.