Hour 2: Pitbull Faces The Music

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Hour 2: Pitbull Faces The Music

Date: March 30, 2026

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Episode Overview

Broadcasting from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, and their rotating cast dig into a wide range of topics spanning baseball's new pace, quirky sports headlines, South Florida anecdotes, March Madness, the peculiar "Pitbull vs FIU anthem" drama, and the return speculation around Tom Brady. The conversation flows with the show’s trademark chaos, humor, and playful bickering.

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MLB Opening Weekend & Baseball’s Changing Pace

[02:07 - 05:34]

• The crew runs through notable opening weekend baseball stats, with special attention to the Tampa Bay Rays and historic singles:

  • “The Tampa Bay Rays hit 35 singles in their first three games. That's the most singles in the first three games of a season since the 1952 Dodgers.” – Dan Le Batard [02:07]

• The Marlins' performance garners praise, while the group pokes fun at what counts as worthy baseball trivia.

• Discussion trends toward baseball’s evolving duration—quicker games leaving less time for in-stadium enjoyment:

  • “If I'm in person, I want to get my money's worth… I need this game to be five hours long.” – Louis [04:10]

• Tony laments concessions running out by the sixth inning, especially missing out on the sought-after "El Machete" enormous quesadilla [04:27].

• Mike Golick marvels at the irony of years of calls to speed up baseball, only for fans to complain it now moves too quickly:

  • “We’ve been hearing baseball needs to speed up...and now you're saying it all moves too fast.” – Mike Golick [05:19]

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Manager Blame & Baseball Clubhouse Mentality

[06:05 - 09:31]

• Mike Golick highlights San Francisco Giants manager Tommy Vitello, criticized for going "fire and brimstone" after an anemic start; debates if managers are culpable for players’ poor hitting.
  • “The managing is done once the guy steps up to the plate… it’s an individual sport there.” – Chris Cody [07:11]
• Lack of respect for managers without major league credentials emerges as a theme.
• Stugotz humorously contextualizes Vitello’s overreaction:
  • “Three games in is the equivalent of having that statement after the first quarter of your first NFL game.” [09:17]

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Bizarre Headlines: Alec Bohm Sues His Parents

[09:31 - 11:16]

• Phillies third baseman Alec Bohm is reportedly suing his parents for financial mismanagement. The story’s oddest detail:
  • “His parents live in an RV, traveling the country. And I’m like, guilty.” — Mike Golick [10:33]
• Group debates whether a mobile lifestyle suggests guilt or innocence, exchanging playful stereotypes and observations.

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Weekend Observations: March Madness, Local Scenes & Pop Culture

[14:07 - 24:37]

• Stugotz launches into "Weekend Observations," letting loose on topics both random and insightful:

  • “Legendary moments. Start with the light, Dan. We finally made it the Final Four: Illinois, Arizona, Michigan and anyone but Duke. Thank God.” [14:24]
  • Shout-out to Caden Boozer “facing the music” after a tough loss:
    • “That kid did it. Might have to deal with capital punishment.” – Stugotz [15:01]

• Ultra Music Festival Observations:

  • “Downtown Miami during Ultra is like Zas’s algorithm come to life.” – Stugotz [15:12]
  • On nudity: “It’s nudity with taste...maybe you wear like a floss thing.” – Louis [15:39]

• College Basketball Rant:

  • “What’s rarer, a four leaf clover or finding five Black guys in Iowa vs. Nebraska?” – Chris Cody [16:05]

• “Face the Music” Etymology:

  • Dan explains, “One is that performers had to overcome stage fright...the other is from the military when an officer is dismissed…they had to face the music, the band.” [16:31]

• Bike Lanes Rant:

  • Chris Cody tells the tale of being told off by a cyclist while he was on the sidewalk, only to realize he was the one in the right hours later [21:01].
  • “No, you get the [expletive] off my sidewalk… They don’t deserve [bike lanes].” – Chris Cody [21:41]
  • “All of this is not a good reflection on you. 24 hours later, you’re having something to say.” – Mike Golick [22:41]

• Tangents on bike lane etiquette, shark attacks as metaphors, and miscellaneous notes (“Tiger Woods real one”), which Stugotz cannot remember the context for, to the group’s amusement [24:37].

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Celebrity Encounters and The Annoying Fan Problem

[25:23 - 29:12]

• Stugotz shares an airplane head-nod with producer Scott Storch, unsure if recognition was mutual [25:29].

• Mike Golick and Stugotz riff on celebrity recognition awkwardness (e.g., people thinking Golick is Jay Mariotti).

• Critique of fans seeking attention at games, using Dababy’s over-the-top behavior at a recent Hornets game as example:

  • “Buddy, you’re not the show. They’re the show.” – Stugotz [29:00]

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Tom Brady’s Possible NFL Return & “Ghost” Theories about Andrew Luck

[31:40 - 39:20]

• Brady reportedly asked the NFL about unretiring, but his partial Raiders ownership stopped him:
  • “He would have to give up his ownership in the Raiders in order to come back and play football at now 48 years old.” – Mike Golick [32:10]
  • Michael Jordan’s previous owner/player swap is discussed as precedent.
• Speculates which NFL teams would take Brady back; Stugotz suggests the Dolphins, Colts, Cardinals [36:02].
• On Andrew Luck:
  • An inside-joke theory that Luck retired after “seeing a ghost” at the facility, with the crew staging a hilarious Luck-meets-ghost skit [37:24].
  • “You have just said…the reason Andrew retired…is because he saw a ghost at the facility.” – Amin [39:27]
  • Commentary on viral fake news and how narratives take hold.

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The Pitbull vs FIU Anthem Controversy

[40:38 - 43:41]

• Mino brings up the social media buzz about Pitbull allegedly failing to deliver a promised anthem for FIU in return for the stadium naming deal:
  • “Last week there was a lot of hubbub online about this partnership going south…allegations that Pitbull had never come through with a contractual promise to deliver FIU an anthem…” – Mino Hassan [40:49]
• Both FIU and Pitbull issued a joint public statement affirming the partnership and that all payments are current, but doubt remains about any actual anthem.
  • “Feels like an easy kind of thing to do, right? Hit the studio one day…” – Louis [41:45]
  • “Just take any one of his existing songs and change a couple words.” – Chris Cody [41:57]

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Notable Quotes

• “Three games in is the equivalent of having that statement after the first quarter of your first NFL game.” – Stugotz [09:17]
• “I know who you are. And you’re like, okay, but like, wait, did he know who I am?” – Stugotz on celebrity encounters [20:23]
• “Buddy, you’re not the show… They’re the show.” – Stugotz about over-the-top fans [29:00]
• “You have just said…the reason Andrew retired…is because he saw a ghost at the facility.” – Amin [39:27]
• “Where there’s smoke, fire, there’s fuego.” – Mike Golick [42:29]
• “That’s probably what FIU was thinking…” – Mino Hassan on an easy anthem [41:51]

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Memorable/Comedic Moments

• Bike Lane Rant: Chris Cody’s delayed sidewalk-retort (“No, you get the [expletive] off my sidewalk…”) and the group’s mockery of his retroactive courage [21:41]
• “Face the Music” Etymology: Dan offers both the stage fright and military origin stories [16:31]
• Andrew Luck Ghost Skit: The group acts out Luck’s haunted retirement scenario [37:24]
• Pitbull as Miami's Musical Outsourcer: Joking that he could “just fart [an anthem] out,” and “just take any of his songs and change a couple words” [41:51; 42:01]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Time | Segment | |------------|----------------------------------------------| | 02:07-05:34| MLB stats, quick games, concessions | | 06:05-09:31| Manager blame for slumps, Vitello, coaching | | 09:31-11:16| Alec Bohm sues parents | | 14:07-24:37| Weekend Observations | | 21:01-22:50| Bike lane confrontation | | 25:23-29:12| Celebrity encounters, fans as spectacles | | 31:40-39:20| Brady’s return talk, Luck/ghosts | | 40:38-43:41| Pitbull-FIU anthem drama |

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Tone & Style

The episode is fast-paced, irreverent, and heavy on group laughter and rapid-fire takes. The spontaneity, South Florida specifics, and self-deprecating humor remain the show’s calling card, punctuated with just enough sports substance to justify the chaos.

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Conclusion

A quintessential "Dan Le Batard Show" hour—aimless in the best way, weaving sports, culture, and Miami flavor into a collective riff session. From MLB oddities and March sadness to haunted quarterbacks and Miami’s ever-present Pitbull, the crew offers both genuine insights and gleeful nonsense for die-hard fans and casual listeners alike.

Transcript

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[Dan Le Batard]

This is the Dan Levator show with the ST Podcast. Start of the day, Start of the day it is the start of the day Start of the day, Start of the day it is the start of the day Start of the day, Start of the day it is the start of the day Start of the day Start of the day it is the start of the day.

There are several MLB stats worth looking at from the season thus far. The Tampa Bay Rays hit 35 singles in their first three games. That's the most singles in the first three games of a season since the 1952 Dodgers. Dan's Rays.

[Mike Golick]

The Dodgers had 38 in those three games.

[Mino Hassan]

That's right.

[Mike Golick]

75 years since a team opened the season with so many singles.

[Dan Le Batard]

Incredible. You know the Marlins have the third best record in the National League since June 20th of last year. Sandy Alcantara.

[Stugats]

That's a good stat.

[Chris Cody]

Hold on.

[Stugats]

Yeah, I thought he was going to

[Tony]

say after three games Me too. It's a trick.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, it's the best.

[Mino Hassan]

They're tied for the best.

[Dan Le Batard]

It is just them, the Yankees, the Dodgers, the Blue Jays and the brewers, who are 3 0.

[Mino Hassan]

There are some folks saying, Dan, that they have the best 1 2.

[Dan Le Batard]

Sandy Alcantara and Auri Perez are the fourth pair of marlin starters to open the season with back to back starts of at least seven innings. The others, Kevin Brown and John Burkett. 1996. Ryan Dempster and A.J. burnett.

[Mino Hassan]

It's just Burkett.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, I wasn't. I was one year old. Ryan Dempster and AJ Burnett. That's why it confused me in 2002. It's Mickey Mantel and Josh Beckett and Brad Penny in 2004. The NL east is the first division in MLB history to have all of its teams start 1 and 0. Let me say it again. The NL east is the first Division in major League Baseball history to have all of its teams start 1 0.

[Stugats]

That seems like such a ridiculously low bar to cross.

[Mino Hassan]

I had a John Burkett pog.

[Louis]

Pog?

[Mino Hassan]

Hell yeah. No, no, not that kind of pog.

[Stugats]

Oh, yeah.

[Louis]

My bad.

[Stugats]

Oh, my gosh.

[Mike Golick]

Tony, did you go. You went. Did you finally go to opening day?

[Louis]

Dan went to opening day. Was incredible. Wanted to see. See Chris there. We didn't see each other, even though I know he was in the building. I texted Jeremy to come by our section. He also did not respond that text. Wanted him to come over and hang out and bring the camera, but went over with a. A friend of ours, Frankie was there. Me and Frankie were sitting together. Elvis, who got. Got us the tickets. Incredible seats. We sat there ordering beers, having food. All of a sudden, I look up, it's the fifth inning. I'm like, what the hell? What happened here?

[Tony]

We, you know, quick game Friday.

[Louis]

We keep talking, we keep looking around our seventh inning stretch already. What are we doing here? The fireworks rock. Before I knew it, then the game was over in like two hours. It's like we need the game to be slower, not faster. If I'm in person, I want to get my money's worth.

[Stugats]

Are. Are we trying the 9x9 this year?

[Louis]

The 999? We could try it. We could try it.

[Tony]

I tried to get the machete, but it was sold out by the time I got to it.

[Dan Le Batard]

What?

[Tony]

Lone Depot ran out of food about the sixth inning.

[Chris Cody]

Huh?

[Dan Le Batard]

I didn't do.

[Tony]

Or I guess I should.

[Louis]

You should have gone the first inning when you.

[Mike Golick]

Dude, how much is El Machete?

[Tony]

My wife went to go. So I didn't see the price. So I cannot.

[Mike Golick]

But it's a giant. What is it? Quesadilla or burrito?

[Tony]

It's a two foot long quesadilla with carne asada. Just a bunch of all the fixings. Yeah.

[Mike Golick]

This is startling to hear, Tony. Years after I've been hearing, for decades, we've been hearing baseball needs to speed up. Needs to speed up. Originally, the baseball poets would write their stories about. It's a game about going home again and there are no clocks. Box and isn't that charming? And then everybody's like, hey, I gotta get home. I can't have this, you know, five hour game.

[Amino Acid]

It's the 15th inning, nobody scored. Put a runner on second. Get.

[Mike Golick]

Let's wrap this up.

[Amino Acid]

Now you're saying it all moves too fast.

[Louis]

Way too fast. Right. So it was Frankie on the row, his boy, me, Louis, Elvis, who got us the tickets. Incredible. We were all there hanging out. Make it happen.

[Rachel]

That's my guy. That's my guy.

[Louis]

That's my guy. But we were sitting in a section where they were like, hey, you order on an app, they bring you food, they bring you whatever you want. You don't to pay for it. Like, you make it happen.

[Tony]

Why do they do have to pay for it?

[Louis]

And all of a sudden, well, yeah,

[Rachel]

unless Elvis gets involved up front.

[Louis]

Up front, you don't have to pay for it. While you're there, you just kind of give the guy a 10 ski. Be like, hey, make sure you look out for ticket 72. That's us right here. You're bringing 14, you know, 14 beers and three hot dogs. So with all that, it's like we're doing our thing. We're going down, we're taking a shot or two. All of a sudden it's like, the game's over. I gotta leave. No, I can't leave. I need this game to be five hours long.

[Mike Golick]

What are we talking about? There are a couple of baseball stories I want to put in front of you guys and ask your opinion. Okay. I mentioned that the San Francisco Giants, like, historically the most impotent, offensive a season in our most historic sport, they got shut out the first two games. Against the Yankees, they scored a run in the third, and afterward their manager. I don't know if you know this story, guys, but the, the manager comes from college baseball. Tommy Vitello. He is somebody who doesn't necessarily know the pace and rhythms of 162 games. So after they were shut out in their first two Games. He's like, this is on me. I went too much fire and brimstone at the beginning of the season. We were tightened up a little bit. Do you buy for a second that this could possibly be on a manager? The fact that nobody's getting any hits in their first three games of the season?

[Stugats]

I kind of feel like, again, I am not a baseball expert. I just play one on tv.

[Chris Cody]

But I kind of feel like at the point the guy steps up to

[Stugats]

the plate and has a bat in

[Chris Cody]

his hands, the managing is done.

[Mike Golick]

It's an individual sport in the batter's box. It's the only place that that sport can be that individual in terms of its measurements. Like, they do a good job of isolating performance in that sport. Where you can basically scout a player in the minor leagues without ever watching him by just looking at all of his numbers. Because the batter's bucks does such a good job job of measuring individuals. But this is the one manager in the game who can't get away with that explanation after three games because he's an amateur like he is. He is going so far uphill. Baseball players don't respect a manager very much who hasn't played before. But if you haven't actually coached or managed at the major league level and then you do this after three games where you're like, my fault. On, no, we know it's not your fault, Skip. Like, we know how this game works. How can this be your fault? But you're going fire and brimstone. You're revealing to us that before the season has already started, you went fire and brimstone when you're before you're playing the Yankees.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's just a textbook, like college coach going to the pros. Right? Like we talk about this in other sports often where that mentality of like being hard ass on the players is, you know, it doesn't translate to the NBA in particular. We talk about that a lot more often. Where you don't really ever see this in major League Baseball. Having a guy come from a college baseball program to this. And it's like whether it was good managing, bad managing off the top and getting guys motivated, the putting it on yourself after just a couple of games. It's like very strange behavior to react to two games at all. You could get swept in those first three games. You gotta just like, hey, man, long season. There's 162 of these.

[Mike Golick]

The one manager who couldn't do do this. The one manager that can't put that in front of people.

[Mino Hassan]

Is this man the Nationals one, too? The one that's younger than Aaron Judge Fair.

[Mike Golick]

What is he, 29 years old?

[Mino Hassan]

33.

[Dan Le Batard]

33. Their president of baseball operations is 35, and their GM is 31.

[Stugats]

For reference, by the way, three games in is the equivalent of having that statement after the first quarter of your first NFL game. Like, imagine coming on the quarter break and talking like that. That's what he just did.

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[Mike Golick]

It's not showing any perspective for the length of a baseball season. The other. The other story, though, that I wanted to get into with you guys from baseball is the Phillies third baseman Alec Boehm. I don't know if you guys saw that. He is suing his parents for millions of dollars because they have mismanaged his finances, according to him. And I am generally innocent until proven guilty on all of these things, although it made me sad that a family would be fighting over these millions of dollars publicly. He's seeking $3 million of damages from his parents. But I went innocent until proven guilty until I got to the last sentence of the story. And the report was, his parents live in an rv, traveling the country. And I'm like, guilty. It's unfair. I know it's unfair what I'm doing, but I did it anyway. That is what happened to me.

[Amino Acid]

I'm like, that's suspicious behavior.

[Mike Golick]

You're wandering the country in an RV. Put it on the poll at LeBatard show. Do you think the people wandering in the country in an RV are more

[Amino Acid]

liable to steal from their Major League

[Mike Golick]

baseball playing son, yes or no, than people who have a home that's not on wheels?

[Tony]

I'm going the other way. I'm thinking, they'd have a nicer home if they stole a bunch of money.

[Mike Golick]

This is exactly how you get away with it.

[Amino Acid]

You live beneath your means, and nobody knows you're stealing the millions of dollars from the account.

[Stugats]

I'm learning about this story right now, but I'm just gonna guess they're white.

[Rachel]

Nailed it.

[Stugats]

All right, I think, then I think

[Amino Acid]

the Alec with a C didn't give it away.

[Rachel]

There's something about college hoops this time of year where you tell yourself you're just going to casually watch one game and suddenly your entire night is gone. That happened to me the other night. I was planning to stay home and keep a game on in the background, maybe pretend I wasn't checking scores every five minutes. Then a text comes in. We've got multiple screens set up. That's how they get you. So I said, yeah, I grabbed a pack of Miller Lite on the way. A little while later. Nobody's casually watching anything. Somebody's yelling because their bracket is already cooked. Somebody else suddenly cares deeply about a school they hadn't thought about in 10 years. And a game that looked over is somehow tide late. You take a sip, you look around and realize, yeah, this was absolutely the right move. That's why I reach for a Miller Light. It's clean, refreshing, easy to drink, brewed for taste with simple ingredients. The original light beer since 1975 and still hitting different cheers to legendary moments with Miller Lite. Great taste. 96 calories. Go to millerlight.com dan to find delivery options near you. Or you can pick up some Miller Lite pretty much anywhere they sell beer. It's Miller time. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Co. Milwaukee, Wisconsin 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces. Hey, Roy, buddy.

[Mino Hassan]

Yo. You know that energy shift when the game gets good and everybody all together

[Rachel]

in unison knows to stand up on their feet?

[Mino Hassan]

Oh, absolutely, Mike. Yeah. You've been at many big time sporting events.

[Rachel]

You know that moment quite well. That's what it's like when you take

[Mino Hassan]

your first sip of Cuervo.

[Louis]

Oh, delicious.

[Rachel]

It's the signal that says, we're not checking the time anymore, pal. It's when small talk turns into stories. Cuervo, man. It's that high five, a random stranger effect. That's right. The game is popping. You're hugging people you never met before. That's the kind of energy that Cuervo brings.

[Mino Hassan]

It's so smooth, so delicious.

[Rachel]

That's the Cuervo effect. Keep it Cuervo.

[Chris Cody]

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[Mino Hassan]

Don LeBatard Mino Hassan Stugats Amino Acid.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is the Don Levatar show with the ST Cats.

[Amino Acid]

Let's do Amin's Weekend Observations.

[Dan Le Batard]

It is time for to share his game notes. No one in the media will tell you what happened better than my boy. I mean.

[Chris Cody]

Weekend Observations is brought to you by Miller Lite.

[Stugats]

Legendary moments. Start with the light, Dan. We finally made it the Final Four. Illinois, Arizona, Michigan and anyone but Duke. Thank God. Nothing gives me more joy than seeing them lose in the most embarrassing manner possible. I wrote this before I knew how we were gonna do the show.

[Mike Golick]

I understand.

[Stugats]

Shout out to Carlos Boozer. You raised the real one. There's a lot of pros who wouldn't do what Caden Boozer did. Not the turnover. I mean, facing the music afterward. Saw that, he sat down, he answered the press.

[Mike Golick]

Why do we face music?

[Stugats]

You gotta face it. You can't turn away from the music. You gotta face the music. And that kid did it.

[Mino Hassan]

Might have to deal with capital punishment. Okay, more on that in a second.

[Stugats]

Downtown Miami during Ultra is like Zazz's algorithm come to life. Took a little stroll last night, guys.

[Louis]

Talk to him.

[Stugats]

Yeah.

[Mike Golick]

What's rarer, was there a lot of toplessness here or was it just because. No, there's a. No, there's a lot of taste. There's a lot of drunken nudity around here this weekend. More. More so than at any other time. You will never see this area filled with drunken nudity. This is not the area for that.

[Louis]

It's nudity with taste. Though, if you're gonna be topless, maybe you wear like a. Like a floss thing.

[Mino Hassan]

Just wait till the World Cup.

[Stugats]

Also, drunken is not the state of inebriation I would use to describe that crowd at all.

[Mino Hassan]

Yeah, famously, that demo doesn't really drink. Which is why you gotta wait till the World Cup.

[Mike Golick]

My bad.

[Chris Cody]

Drugging what's rarer, a four leaf clover or finding five black guys in Iowa versus Nebraska?

[Stugats]

Mighty white game, guys. I was like, holy shit. The time machine.

[Mike Golick]

Hoiberg having only four players on the court is crazy.

[Louis]

Bennett Sturt's good.

[Stugats]

Remember when college games used to put the player's year and their majors on the screen? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[Chris Cody]

I have no idea who these guys. I used to relish that.

[Stugats]

I was like, hey, he's a sophomore. He's a computer Science major.

[Chris Cody]

I'm like, really? Oh, how about that?

[Dan Le Batard]

Two theories for Face the Music, by the way. One is that performers had to overcome stage fright.

[Stugats]

Okay.

[Dan Le Batard]

And it was. They had to literally.

[Stugats]

Orchestra pit.

[Dan Le Batard]

Face the orchestra pit. The other is that it comes from the military tradition where when an officer is being cashiered or dismissed, they had to face the music, the band, as part of the dismissal process.

[Stugats]

They had a ban when they dismissed you

[Chris Cody]

playing.

[Mino Hassan]

I mean, so did Sabado Gigante.

[Stugats]

It's true.

[Mike Golick]

Can you also look up Jeremy and give us later in Weekend Observations. He used been around the block. I'd like to know, is that street walking? Is that like what's around the block? Where does it come from?

[Stugats]

Been around the block. Google Chrome updates a lot. What is that about? Every time I open Google Chrome, it's like, would you like to update?

[Chris Cody]

I'm like, what do we do now? Just been a week.

[Stugats]

Death, taxes and Sean Miller choking in the lead 8 fraud. I know this is a glass house type situation, but I honestly thought number two for Texas Weaver was wearing a white headband. No. It took me a while to figure out like, oh, that's his hair.

[Mike Golick]

Look at Andrew Luck coming through the paint there starts.

[Stugats]

He was giving him work.

[Chris Cody]

Ring, ring, ring, ring.

[Amino Acid]

Oh, really?

[Stugats]

It's Fred Hoiberg, Dan. He says he's free this weekend if

[Mike Golick]

you want to get together four players on the court.

[Amino Acid]

You can't have four players on the court late in a game. Fred. I thought you knew this.

[Chris Cody]

Cinefo. Episode 191, Dukes of Hazzard. Starring Donnie Knoxville, Jessica Simpson, Burt Reynolds and Stifler from American Pie.

[Stugats]

Wherever you get podcasts, I had a dream that I had two tickets to MTV Unplugged presents An evening with Roscoe Dash.

[Louis]

Girl, you are you moving?

[Stugats]

But it was.

[Chris Cody]

There was a live orchestra play.

[Amino Acid]

What a strange.

[Chris Cody]

And I was just like, who am I going to invite to take with me?

[Mike Golick]

You sleep so well to have like your REM sleep must be so good that you have all of these crazy stuff.

[Louis]

You went REM instead of REM Sleep.

[Dan Le Batard]

Best American band according to Dave Damaschek.

[Chris Cody]

That's undeniable. New season of bar rescue and we've

[Stugats]

got you covered at here's the Science of Bar Rescue podcast, hosted by real life bar and restaurant consultant Chelsea Reynolds, commercial kitchen and food truck vet Colin Kassard, and two guys who would absolutely frequent the Boar's Nest just to get served by Daisy Duke, Zach Harper and I. Wherever you get podcasts, is it just

[Chris Cody]

me or does number eight for Texas

[Stugats]

look like Sir Duncan the Tall? There's a side by side there. It's him. Well, that's him. And then let's get a picture of Sir Duncan the Tall up there. Yep, same guy. Little older, maybe a little dirtier.

[Mike Golick]

How is that show? I've only watched the first episode.

[Stugats]

Excellent. Excellent. It's excellent. It's better than House of the Dragon to me because it's not trying to emulate the feel of Game of Thrones. It exists in the same universe, but it's more light hearted and also it ties in, it's relevant. So I loved it.

[Mike Golick]

You're out on paradise, huh?

[Stugats]

Oh, boy. We'll get to that after the weekend observations. That's, that's.

[Louis]

I'd like to hear this because that's

[Stugats]

a segment on the last. The last episode of season one or season two.

[Louis]

Season two. I'm waiting for the final one to come out today.

[Stugats]

There are three types of people in this world. People who love Duke basketball and people who can't stand Duke basketball. And I can't stand Duke basketball.

[Mike Golick]

And the third.

[Stugats]

Oh, people in the Epstein Files. The trials and tribulations of being a Z List celebrity. Scott Storch was on my flight when he boarded. He made eye contact with me, gave me the head nod and I head nodded back.

[Chris Cody]

And then afterwards, I didn't realize.

[Stugats]

I didn't know whether it was because he recognized me or cause he thinks that I recognized him. That happened to you, Dan, where like, I know who you are. And you're like, okay, but like, wait, did he know who I am?

[Mike Golick]

Yeah, that's. That is something that happens to me a lot where people think I'm either Mike Golick or Jay Marioti.

[Stugats]

Damn, Jay Marioti.

[Louis]

Always funny.

[Amino Acid]

I mean, it's true.

[Mike Golick]

It happens.

[Louis]

It's always fun. It's the eyebrows, Dan.

[Chris Cody]

These bike lanes have got to go. They've got to go.

[Stugats]

This weekend in Phoenix, I'm walking down Third Street.

[Chris Cody]

Third street used to be two lanes northbound, two lanes southbound. A couple years ago, they took away one lane each and turned them into bike lanes. We're going to encourage people to ride bikes. We want to save the environment. I'm like, I'm all on board on this, even though it makes traffic worse on 3rd Street. But I'm on board. Let's give these people bike lanes. Let's make sure the bicyclists can ride safely. I'm making my walk down the sidewalk. I'm on my phone, guy on a bike Says, get out the fucking way.

[Tony]

I go, oh, I've seen that TikTok channel.

[Chris Cody]

I'm sorry. And I'm like, oh, my bad, man. I was on my phone. I wasn't paying attention. And as he drove back roll past, I was like, wait a second. I'm on the sidewalk. There's a bike lane. We got rid of cars for you, asshole. And you gonna tell me, get the out the way? No, you get the off my sidewalk.

[Mike Golick]

Well, you're saying that now, though.

[Amino Acid]

No, you're the guy who walks away from the confrontation and has something to say 24 hours later.

[Stugats]

I didn't realize it until 24 hours later.

[Amino Acid]

I was like, wait a second. But you're saying you wanted to say that. You didn't say anything. You just moved out of the way.

[Chris Cody]

No, I moved out of the way because I wasn't thinking because I was on my phone.

[Louis]

I had to apologize.

[Amino Acid]

You quietly and meekly got out of the with an apology, and now 24 hours later, you're bold, yelling all sorts of things.

[Dan Le Batard]

Dan.

[Stugats]

I was on my phone, not paying attention. So the initial, when you say that,

[Tony]

you're instantly in the wrong. I don't care where you were.

[Chris Cody]

Well, no, no, no.

[Stugats]

It feels like I'm instantly in the wrong. I automatically, oh, my God, I'm not paying attention. How rude of me.

[Chris Cody]

Until after he rode past.

[Stugats]

He's on a bicycle. He's going pretty fast. I'm like, wait a second.

[Chris Cody]

I'm on the goddamn sidewalk and we have a bike lane.

[Mike Golick]

This is not a good reflection on you. This. No, all of this is not a good reflection on you. 24 hours later, you having something to say.

[Stugats]

It was like. It was like a strong 30 seconds. I turned around and said, wait a second. As he wrote. But he couldn't hear me at that point.

[Mino Hassan]

No. I would say for the guy on the bike, be nicer.

[Chris Cody]

No, no, no, Roy.

[Stugats]

I don't care if he cussed me out. If I was in the bike lane, I would.

[Chris Cody]

No, no, I'm in the bike lane.

[Stugats]

It's like shark attacks. It's not a shark attack.

[Chris Cody]

You're in their place. But he came on to land and messed with me at the Cleveland.

[Tony]

That would be a shark attack.

[Chris Cody]

Imagine a shark walking up to you at the Clevelander and then biting you.

[Stugats]

Like, wait a second.

[Chris Cody]

This ain't your place. Get back over there.

[Mike Golick]

I still think it's a shark attack.

[Stugats]

If you're in the wall in the shark attacks, you're trespassing. That's why? Also get rid of these bike lanes.

[Chris Cody]

They don't deserve them. They don't deserve them. They ride in the middle of the street, then they'll ride on the sidewalk.

[Tony]

They'll be all over the sidewalk.

[Chris Cody]

Let them be all over the sidewalk.

[Stugats]

And now it's Mad Max.

[Mike Golick]

Put it on the poll, please. Juju at lebatard show. Is it a shark attack or are you trespassing?

[Stugats]

Because I tell you what, if it's me against him, I guarantee he's gonna get hurt before I will. You gotta keep your balance.

[Chris Cody]

I'm standing up, buddy. All I gotta do is shove you.

[Stugats]

And don't let it be me in a car. Oh, my God. You know what they call it? Vehicular homicide. They don't call it bicyclist homicide. You know why? Because no one's ever been hurt by a bike unless they were on a bike. Get rid of these bike lanes. Let's see how tough they are. Assholes. Sometimes when I wake up in the middle of the night and write these down with the intention of fleshing them out later. But then they never get fleshed out because I don't know what I was talking about. Case in point, my note was Tiger woods real one. What the hell was I going for there? Speaking of hell, Art Briles. Those are the weekend observations.

[Mike Golick]

You don't remember?

[Stugats]

I have no idea.

[Mike Golick]

So you just.

[Stugats]

I woke up, I wrote it down, I was like, oh, this one's gonna be good. And then I went back to sleep.

[Mike Golick]

I think that the editing of Weekend Observations should be such is if you don't know what that is, you don't bring it to Weekend Observations.

[Stugats]

But it was pretty funny to try to imagine. What the.

[Mike Golick]

But what could it have been? Why is Tiger Woods a real one?

[Stugats]

I don't know.

[Mike Golick]

Okay? This is not help. This is notes by your bedside that don't deserve to leave your bedside and be brought out onto the air. They should stay by your bedside if you don't know what that means.

[Stugats]

If it was something very mundane and blase, I would have left it out. But because it was so select, how could I have possibly gotten Tiger woods real one out of whatever happened this weekend? I was like, this is.

[Mike Golick]

You don't know. We don't know. We still don't know. And now we're all just wondering.

[Stugats]

We can come up with a punchline.

[Mino Hassan]

Scott Storch is a good one. Oh, man, that's a good airplane encounter.

[Stugats]

Tony said, how did you know? It's got sort. Did he have the glasses on. And I said he did.

[Mike Golick]

And what is your best guess on what happened there? Do you think he recognized you and gave you a head nod or he recognized that you recognized him and gave you a head nod?

[Stugats]

I think it was the latter because I would have thought he would have said something like, hey, so who you think is going to win the Final Four? That's how they usually do, right? They, when, when it's a famous person, they never like come out and say, unless it's Michael Jordan. They never come out and say, hey, I love your work or whatever. Michael Jordan did say that to me. But usually they'll just.

[Mino Hassan]

Michael Jordan, the NASCAR owner?

[Stugats]

Yeah, I know, it's crazy. Look at me. Double. How about that? But like for instance, I remember Tyson Beckford asked me like, hey, who you think is gonna win the Super Bowl? And I was like, I don't know. I felt like I let him down because I wasn't like on top of my NFL shit. I was like, I don't know, I just left it. I should have lied.

[Mino Hassan]

I'm sorry. Tyson Beckford, it's not really my lane.

[Mike Golick]

I wish he'd asked you about Dababy. You would have had all sorts of opinions immediately if he had been in your lane asking you basketball questions. And about Dababy's behavior at a Charlotte

[Stugats]

Knicks game, can we, can we say unequivocally, like, we need to stop giving attention. I know, I'm doing exactly that. Stop giving attention to the clown show in the stands. Hey man, we don't go to your concert and then focus on, I don't know, lamelo ball. Kind of like just interacting with everyone else.

[Chris Cody]

You guys see this this weekend?

[Stugats]

So the Knicks play the Hornets.

[Chris Cody]

The Hornets won by a lot as

[Stugats]

a good win for the Hornets. And because it's the south, there are a lot of Knick fans, all like Atlanta, Washington, here in Miami. That's a normal occurrence. You go to a Knick game at home here, but it's like most of the crowd are Knick fans. So he sat courtside, as he usually does a baseline, and he was talking trash to all the Knick fans. Oh, it sounded real quiet, whatever, cuz the Hornets were up big.

[Chris Cody]

But then he just keeps going and going and going. He's getting people to throw him jerseys and he's taking off a belt and he's whipping the jersey at the belt.

[Stugats]

Which by the way, copyright infringement. Right?

[Chris Cody]

That's not yours.

[Stugats]

Right?

[Chris Cody]

Then at one point he tears his. He's wearing a tank Top in this video, he tears it Hulk Hogan style.

[Stugats]

I'm not talking about, like, pretending to tear it completely tears it. And it's shirtless for a strong, like, 20, 30 seconds, just standing there talking trash before he starts to slowly put on a shirt while still talking trash.

[Mike Golick]

Those people were so annoyed by him. You saw nothing but people not enjoying their NBA basketball because of this annoying person wandering around it.

[Chris Cody]

Just like.

[Stugats]

And I know what people are gonna say, like, oh, I mean, you're just salty. But I'm like, I don't care who wins or loses the game. The Hornets players seem to be, for the most part, very engaging with it. I know Miller had a dunk and then he daps him up after the dunk. That's a pretty cool moment.

[Chris Cody]

But it's like, not if you're just standing up the whole time yapping away. At one point, Lamelo is trying to inbound the ball.

[Stugats]

He's running an under out of bounds play.

[Chris Cody]

And this fool's over here, Melo. My mom wants a jersey. I need a jersey signed by. Just let him play the game, man. Let him play the game.

[Louis]

One of his boys got the ball and tried to shoot it over the back. Try and shoot like if it was Horse. It hit the back side of the backboard and hit Con Canople in the back. And he was like, what the hell? That video is great.

[Stugats]

And then he yelled at him. So you just hurt the rookie of

[Chris Cody]

the year right there.

[Stugats]

And then Con Cannibal hits a three and then he starts.

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[Stugats]

Yeah, look on Cannibal is really good, but I'm just. I was just like, maybe I'm turning

[Chris Cody]

into old man Dan. But I'm just like, just, just.

[Stugats]

Buddy, you're not the show. You're not the show. They're the show.

[Chris Cody]

Let them be the show. Be happy, be supportive. Yellow. Even dap him up when he dunks. That's cool. I wish that was me, that part. But all the rest of it, like,

[Stugats]

nah, man, we don't need this.

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[Mino Hassan]

Don LeBatard Chris Cody does an impression. Just be careful.

[Tony]

Dangerous game here. This is a dangerous game.

[Mike Golick]

I don't want to play this game.

[Mino Hassan]

No, he was saying, man, I could do such a great country.

[Mike Golick]

No, I don't want to play this game.

[Mino Hassan]

He's like, man, this is like him.

[Amino Acid]

This is who we're gonna trust.

[Dan Le Batard]

I mean, you do it.

[Tony]

Let's let a mean do it.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think still got.

[Stugats]

I think you could do it, Chris, because you did a great Charles Barkley.

[Chris Cody]

You're one for one there.

[Amino Acid]

Did no one just hear the segment we just did with Amin? We cannot be taking judgment. Is not the council from the local drunk on whether or not you should do the impersonation of a black man stumbling over his words like you don't see the bad judge.

[Mike Golick]

There was Mose and Moody.

[Tony]

Moody Moses.

[Mino Hassan]

It sounds worse. Be careful, man.

[Amino Acid]

We gotta like. We cannot do this. It's too close to the line. This is where the line is. Something legitimately funny can't be funny because we're scared our Ginger's gonna do something racist by accident.

[Tony]

Carry the hell on.

[Rachel]

Dan.

[Tony]

Rachel.

[Chris Cody]

Dan.

[Stugats]

The line is where we feel alive, though.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the st.

[Mike Golick]

When we were talking earlier about the absurdity of Michael Jordan being more excited talking NASCAR or baseball than he is basketball, I was thinking and didn't get to the story from this weekend that made a very quiet appearance that Tom Brady asked the NFL about coming out of retirement. Tom Brady went to the NFL and asked what it would take and about. And I don't know when this was. I don't know if it was a year ago, if it was three years ago. But he went and asked and they wouldn't let him because of his ownership. You can't. He would have to give up. He would have to give up his ownership in the Raiders in order to come back and play football at now 48 years old.

[Stugats]

You know who did that once upon a time, Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan divested his ownership in the Wizards to play. And under the understanding that when he was done, he would get it back. And then when he retired, Abe Poland

[Mike Golick]

said, ah, nevermind, I want to get to the Brady story. And we will in a second. But it's now the second time we've brought up the Hornets here today. And it just reminded me of something that happened that Zaslo was calling lamelo ball. It couldn't have been but a couple of months ago, the most unserious player in the league. And he was doing so because of this video and the questions he was being asked about how recklessly he drives his car. It's very recklessly he drives, you know, a superhero's giant redemption. Ridiculous, absurd. You know, I don't even know what kind of car it is that he drives. It's just a giant boxy hummer. So let's look at. Let's look at Lamello ball here and why it is that Zaz calls him the most unserious player in the league.

[Reporter]

How were you kind of made aware

[Mino Hassan]

that the other person in the accident was also okay? I know she did suffer some injuries.

[Reporter]

I know I've seen her get straight out the car. Can you put into words the last 24 hours with you how. How it's been emotional for you to have to deal with that and then come here playing games tonight. On top of that, I'm just alive, blessed, bro. So God is great. Like I said,

[Mike Golick]

The audio audience. His shorts are hanging under his ass as he gets off of the podium. There to see people now making this. He's matured because whatever. They've won 2/3 of their games over the last month is funny.

[Stugats]

I like the little table drum.

[Mike Golick]

Yeah, he was done with the questions about. About his car accident. But getting back to what I was asking you guys about Tom Brady, there's nothing he's going to find in broadcasting that feels the way that Sundays do. But when we were. When we're pairing this with Michael Jordan and his enthusiasm about NASCAR and baseball, are you in any way surprised that Tom Brady, approaching 50, is asking the league about giving back his ownership st because there can't be anything that feels like what his life felt like on Sundays. There's no replacing that.

[Mino Hassan]

Can we get down to when this was, though? Because in my mind, I got it moments after he hit Gronk in the back of the end zone of the flag football contest. Because both of them should have came out of retirement after that One play.

[Stugats]

I feel alive.

[Mino Hassan]

You know, what we all did, we all fell alive.

[Mike Golick]

But so Gronk immediately pulled his hamstring and it reminded me of Mario. Mariano Rivera didn't tear his ACL in an Old Timers game because these guys all think that they're younger than they are and they try to go back and summon whatever it is the prime of their competitive spirit is. But in Brady's case, if I told you right now that he unretired, how

[Amino Acid]

many teams would be interested given that

[Mike Golick]

Aaron Rodgers is still out there and McCarthy's talking about what a nice story it would be if Aaron Rodgers came back to Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh isn't actually doing anything to, to dissuade.

[Amino Acid]

Dissuade us from thinking that Aaron Rodgers

[Mike Golick]

is going to be their quarterback next year.

[Amino Acid]

Because who the hell's their quarterback going to be if it's not Aaron Rodgers?

[Mino Hassan]

I don't want to say a crazy number because I got to account for. There are certain teams that would like Tom Brady, but realize like we're. We're the Cleveland Browns. He's not going to come here. Let's not even do this.

[Stugats]

I love this game. Let's start right here. Locally. Dolphins in a heartbeat.

[Mino Hassan]

I think they're. That one's loaded though.

[Louis]

And no, they just signed Malik Willis.

[Mino Hassan]

They can't.

[Louis]

They can't.

[Stugats]

And Malik, it'll be yours in a year or two, whenever he's done.

[Mike Golick]

I assume that the timing of this is that he wanted to be Raiders quarterback because he'd wait and groom Fernando Mendoza and would be sort of a stopgap. I assume that that's how that was happening, that he was thinking that he would be renouncing his ownership for the Raiders in order to be the quarterback for the Raiders. But that wouldn't be a great deal of fun given their offensive line issues. Last year they had real incompetence on the offensive line.

[Dan Le Batard]

Bad team.

[Louis]

That's why the number one pick because they were a terrible team. Terrible coaching, terrible team. They were terrible.

[Mino Hassan]

The Colts should do it.

[Stugats]

Oh my God.

[Mino Hassan]

For the Colts.

[Stugats]

Yes. I like it.

[Louis]

Brady with. Brady with the Cardinals.

[Mike Golick]

That's how you.

[Mino Hassan]

That's how you get that paper.

[Louis]

Cardinals will be very bride.

[Stugats]

Marvin Harrison Jr. You got tools, got weapons.

[Mike Golick]

Wouldn't you guys assume that if Andrew Luck came out of retirement right now and that one's been really interesting to see him retire early and they're not even be a hint from anybody that he has any interest in coming back?

[Stugats]

But yeah, as soon as I Saw him on that bicycle, I knew he's cooked.

[Louis]

Yeah, you can't ride a bike and then be an NFL coordination.

[Mino Hassan]

And also, we all believe the legend as to why he retired so abruptly. You're in tune with the legend. No, he saw a ghost at the facility, and it scared him away from the game. Oh, this is a big time Internet theory.

[Stugats]

The ghost of.

[Mino Hassan]

He saw a ghost.

[Stugats]

A ghost.

[Mino Hassan]

There was like this tweet that's like, you know, I. I have a family member that works for the Colts, and the hot rumor going around was he saw a ghost, which is just. He's the perfect dude to see a ghost.

[Stugats]

I'd love to workshop this with you, Mike. I'll be the ghost. You be Andrew Luck. Okay, so I'm into practice.

[Chris Cody]

Ooh, these are some pretty big showers.

[Mino Hassan]

Jeepers.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, didn't I see you 100 to 200 years ago on a battlefield?

[Amino Acid]

Wait a minute.

[Mino Hassan]

Who's there? Jack.

[Amino Acid]

What does he do? What is what. Why is Rick Patino somebody. Anytime you talk like this?

[Mino Hassan]

Brandon Stokely.

[Amino Acid]

How do you not know the difference

[Mike Golick]

between how a ghost sounds and how

[Louis]

vampires talk like this?

[Chris Cody]

When I'm vampire, I always start with bleh. I have accent.

[Stugats]

Blair.

[Chris Cody]

Also, I used to date Jennifer Lopez. True story.

[Louis]

Fibula.

[Stugats]

Thank you.

[Tony]

He says thank you.

[Amino Acid]

He's just so grateful that he didn't have to explain. I'm Fibula, the vampire that lies to you. Cause he was feeling so alone with that impersonation.

[Mino Hassan]

Because a year from now, Pablo's gonna set up that impression so poorly, but you're gonna spin it into a win by the end of it.

[Chris Cody]

Just give me time.

[Mike Golick]

I don't want you to have such

[Amino Acid]

Internet brain rot that you believe the things that you have learned from the Internet are things that America at large knows. You have just said that the reason that Andrew retired from football, forsaking hundreds of millions of dollars and doing what no quarterback has ever done in his prime, is because he saw a ghost at the facility.

[Mino Hassan]

Right? This is how fake news works. Because you see something on the Internet that confirms things that you already believe. Like there's this big thing of fake news about Trump asking Desantis for reporting for Tiger Woods. And the reason why it's gotten so much traction is, like, it's totally believed, believable that Trump would say, like, no consequences for Tiger. This is something that I choose to believe. This is my truth. It was a strange retirement, and I want to believe the reason behind it is Andrew Luck was getting his things. He was like last guy out of the locker room and he happened upon Ghost. Ghosts are one of the few things that you happen upon.

[Chris Cody]

Andrew, I didn't think you'd be here. Let me get my towel. Coach Pagano, they're gonna shower.

[Mike Golick]

What's going on with Pitbull and fiu? Why is there. Why is my news stream being fed a bunch of conflict between Armando and the Panthers?

[Mino Hassan]

So I'm gonna need some education here too. But last week there was a lot of hubbub online about this partnership going south. Allegations that Pitbull had never come through with a promise, a contractual promise that he had to deliver FIU and FIU anthem in order to hold up his end of the Pitbull Stadium deal. I guess the Flames have risen to a point that FIU athletics and Pitbull have now had to put out a joint statement confirming their partnership and their shared. Their shared enthusiasm for continuing the partnership and looking forward to continuing to build it. That brings lasting value to the department, university and students and the broader community. It got so bad that they actually had to put this out, which leads me to believe maybe the whole Anthem thing is true.

[Louis]

Feels like an easy kind of thing to do, right? Hit the studio one day. What do you like? I like this. I like that. Put the drums on it. All right, darling, let's go.

[Mino Hassan]

That's probably what FIU was thinking.

[Stugats]

First day we're gonna growl. I'm yelling, panthers, whatever.

[Chris Cody]

Just take any one of his existing songs and change a couple words.

[Tony]

Work this. I like that song.

[Mino Hassan]

Maybe we're a little too close to this, but given that we are the co GM of the year and owners for Battle Court, the Fireballs expansion team, we were led to believe that that was gonna be Pitbulls.

[Tony]

And then that's why they got the name.

[Mino Hassan]

And then cold feet. Pitbull, all of a sudden nowhere to be found.

[Stugats]

Is everything okay with Pitbull? There's a lot of like, concerning news.

[Mike Golick]

You're saying that the joint. Joint statement that where there's smoke, there's fuego. That's what you're saying. You're saying that would have been a good song.

[Louis]

Where there's smoke, fire, there's fuego.

[Mike Golick]

You're a writer. That's all that you've got.

[Amino Acid]

Chris is darling.

[Mino Hassan]

The joint statement says both paid ahead of their due dates and their third installment remains on schedule. I don't know, man.

[Stugats]

Give me aspiration.

[Louis]

Pablo.

[Stugats]

Oh my God.

[Mike Golick]

What are you alleging? What are you alleging? That that Chris segment that keeps saying Chris just Keeps saying dali, I want to know.

[Chris Cody]

There you go.

[Amino Acid]

That's what you're.

[Louis]

Panthers.

[Mike Golick]

The. The naming of the stadium. Pitbull thought he wasn't going to have to you doing stuff because it was

[Amino Acid]

just FIU and maybe people wouldn't notice.

[Mino Hassan]

Pitbull was at this press conference and he said that he was gonna make the FIU anthem. That was several years ago. I haven't heard an FIU anthem. Have you?

[Mike Golick]

And you would think it would be pretty easy for him to just sort of fart that out, right? I'll have one tomorrow, darling.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'll have one tomorrow.

[Amino Acid]

Chris, do you think you have rhythm when you shake your shoulders like that? No other part of your body is moving. It's just the top of your shoulders.

[Tony]

Mike, you know I have one rule to live by, right?

[Mino Hassan]

Don't place parlays on multiple long shots. Don't say a game is won when it hasn't hit triple zero.

[Tony]

Always drink your Jagermeister ice cold. That's the rule. Everything else is merely a suggestion.

[Rachel]

Everything else?

[Tony]

Everything else.

[Rachel]

Wearing clean underwear every day, well, that's

[Tony]

just a personal decision. Brushing your teeth, obviously smart, but not a rule.

[Rachel]

Never pee pee on an electric fence.

[Tony]

Okay, maybe there are two rules. But the one that is 100% that I insist on completely, Jaegermeister, must be drank ice cold or don't drink it at all.

[Dan Le Batard]

Damn, that's cold.

[Tony]

Exactly. You're finally starting to get it.

[Mino Hassan]

Drink responsibly.

[Rachel]

Jaegermeister liqueur, 35% alcohol by volume, imported by Mass.

[Mino Hassan]

Jaegermeister, U.S. white Plains, New York.