Hour 2: Zaslow Makes The List

Summary

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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: Hour 2: Zaslow Makes the List
Date: December 9, 2025

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Overview

Broadcast live from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, Hour 2 of "The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz" mixes the show’s signature blend of sports, pop-culture banter, and comedic chaos. This episode centers on an extended running gag involving Jonathan Zaslow (Zaz) repeatedly "making the list" for various on-air gaffes, a movie trivia segment that devolves into a stubborn dispute over an incorrectly remembered actor, and lively discussion about Philip Rivers potentially returning to NFL action. The cast also takes time to poke fun at college football playoff controversies and dig into social rituals around postgame interviews, fan reactions, and more.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The “Nutty Fan” Finals and Opening Banter

[01:40–02:17]

• Show launches with a comedic sponsored segment, hyping the “2025 Nuttiest Fan” finals, poking fun at the announcer tripping over the word “vote.”
• Lighthearted exchange on fan nominations, featuring South Florida references and classic show inside jokes.

“I said fote I was cooking there—vote and we will announce the winner at the end of the week.”
—Show Producer/Assistant [01:54]

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2. Zaslow’s On-Air Interruptions and the “List”

[02:17–03:07]

• Hunter Jurecheck calls out Zaslow for repeatedly interrupting Dan, which spirals into the show’s recurring “you just made the list” punishment bit.
• The team likens Zaslow’s flubs to disastrous sports plays.

“No, you just made the list.”
—Hunter Jurecheck [03:01]

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3. Movie Confusion: The “Rock” and the Golden Globes

[03:33–04:34]

• Dan incorrectly refers to Dwayne Johnson as “Rock,” leading to a spirited debate about wrestling personas versus “movie guy” credentials.
• The cast teases Dan about his supposed love of movies and wrestling, quickly exposing gaps in his knowledge.

“No, it’s not Dwayne Rock Johnson. It’s Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson.”
—Hunter Jurecheck [04:00]

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4. Movie Trivia Segment: “Yo, You Know That Movie?”

[07:02–20:01]

• Mike Ryan sets up a recurring game testing Zaslow’s recall of various movies.
• Zaslow admits to not seeing several films, and struggles to recall basic details of others, particularly “Outbreak,” insisting Michael Rapaport was in it.
• This devolves into a comic dispute, with the crew consulting IMDb and repeatedly admonishing Zaslow, adding to his “list” infractions.
• Banter includes references to movies like Paid in Full, Collateral Damage, True Lies, Step Up, Interview with the Vampire, The Prestige, The Illusionist, First Blood, and American Gangster.
• A highlight is the Mandela Effect-like confusion over actors in Outbreak, with Dan refusing to admit Patrick Dempsey played “Patient Zero,” not Michael Rapaport.

“He 1000% is [in Outbreak].”
—Dan Le Batard, refusing correction [15:49]

“Your name is Hunter Jurecheck. Right now you owe the biggest apology to Patrick Dempsey. Number one. Number two, our audience. Number three, me.”
—Hunter Jurecheck [19:37]

Memorable Quotes

• “Let's bet IMDb.” – Hunter Jurecheck [16:06]
• “I feel like I’m taking crazy pills right now. He was definitely in the movie.” – Dan Le Batard [17:11]
• “Guess who’s gonna be wrong in front of everybody. His name’s Mike Ryan.” – Dan Le Batard [16:15]

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5. Philip Rivers’ Return – Midlife Quarterbacking

[24:30–28:58]

• Discussion shifts to rumors of Philip Rivers possibly rejoining the Colts and what this might mean for Hall of Fame eligibility, his family life, and the quarterback job market.
• Panel alternates between sports analysis and riffs about Rivers' personal motivations, joking he must really hate being at home to want to return.
• Brief tangent on other NFL players pursuing “normal” jobs post-career.

“It’s like Rocky in Rocky IV. He’s like, oh, I gotta go fight in Russia. ... You’ll go anywhere when you’re sick and tired of all the noise at home.”
—Mike Ryan [25:27]

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6. Quarterback Alternatives: The End of the Kaep Era

[28:24–29:36]

• The cast brings up Colin Kaepernick as a “better fit” alternative to Rivers, then note how the NFL effectively waited out the public debate for Kaepernick’s return.

“It’s the first time I've thought about Colin Kaepernick in a good year and a half. ... That’s how you know this is well past the expiration date.”
—Hunter Jurecheck [28:41]

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7. Monday Night Football: Herbert’s Awkward Interview

[30:30–32:37]

• Laura Rutledge’s brief, awkward postgame interview with Justin Herbert is analyzed and mocked for Herbert’s lack of enthusiasm.
• The crew explains how highly coordinated these sideline interviews are, dismissing any notion of spontaneity and joking about Herbert’s naive reaction.

“The PR director literally says to her, okay, Justin’s ready to go. And then she starts asking him questions.”
—Dan Le Batard [31:58]

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8. Listener Mailbag & College Football Playoff Drama

[37:36–46:25]

• Dan and Tony air frustrations with constant listener messages about “Landman,” a recurring bit.
• They tease fans for demanding faster reactions to college football playoff drama, particularly regarding Notre Dame and missing out on interviews or podcast appearances.
• There’s in-depth breakdown of CFP process outrage, media spin, and the politics of Notre Dame’s standing versus SEC schools, poking fun at perceived injustices and conference maneuvering.

"They are all mad about being jerked around with the process at the CFP ... and Pete Bavacqua doesn’t have the stones to go at Greg Sankey because ... Greg Sankey actually controls the entire CFP.”
—Hunter Jurecheck [43:44]

“We all know what they’re doing. ... This is the one time you couldn’t win one of your two important games to actually get into the tournament. And you want to be a baby about it. And you want to punch down on poor Jim Phillips when you don’t have the balls to go after Greg Sankey."
—Hunter Jurecheck [45:26]

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Notable Quotes & Moments w/ Timestamps

• On Zaslow’s interruptions: “There was a sequence there. You interrupted Dan not once but twice in a matter of four seconds. ... You just made the list.” —Hunter Jurecheck [02:30–03:01]
• Dan clings to a misremembered movie fact: “He 1000% is [in Outbreak] ... Michael Rappaport was in Outbreak, and he had the monkey and he got really sick.” —Dan Le Batard [15:49, 18:30]
• Calling out quarterback motivations: “I took it the way Dan took it earlier, which is he must really hate his family ... You'll go anywhere when you’re sick and tired of all the noise at home, even Russia on Christmas Day.” —Mike Ryan [25:27]
• Mocking the outrage at CFP committees: "They are all mad about being jerked around with the process at the CFP ..." —Hunter Jurecheck [43:44]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Segment | Start | End | |--------------------------------------------------|--------------|--------------| | Nuttiest Fan, show warmup | 01:40 | 02:17 | | Zaslow interrupts, “the list” bit | 02:17 | 03:07 | | Movie trivia/"Yo, You Know That Movie?" segment | 07:02 | 20:01 | | Philip Rivers & NFL career resurrections | 24:30 | 28:58 | | Laura Rutledge & MNF postgame interviews | 30:30 | 32:37 | | CFB Playoff, Notre Dame discourse | 37:36 | 46:25 |

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Closing Thoughts

This episode is a classic example of “The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz” at its best—anarchic, irreverent, and deeply invested in sports and pop-culture minutiae. The team’s chemistry shines through in spontaneous arguments, escalating bits, and rapid-fire interplay. Whether they’re dissecting Hall of Fame eligibility, lampooning sideline interview protocols, or debating the details of obscure movies, the show’s energy and wit create a consistently entertaining and unpredictable experience.

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Transcript

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Show Producer/Assistant]

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[Hunter Jurecheck]

Burnt that food man.

[Dan Le Batard]

How you feeling about my performance today so far?

[Hunter Jurecheck]

I took some notes.

[Dan Le Batard]

Post show meetings can be rough for.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Me it was at there was that.

[Dan Le Batard]

Sequence forward to this.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

There was a sequence there. You interrupted Dan not once but twice in a matter of four seconds.

[Commercial Announcer]

It was.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

It was really bad.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

So much so that you were like, okay, go. Like I wish we got a video of you at the end of that. Talking over. You were just like, okay, yeah, yeah.

[Tony]

It was the equivalent of the Jalen Hurts play last night. Like you threw the pick and then you got it back, but then you fumbled it again and then they were going the other way.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

You know what happens to people who interrupt Dan twice?

[Dan Le Batard]

Come on.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

You don't want to know.

[Dan Le Batard]

Come on.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

No, you just made the list.

[Mike Ryan]

No.

[Sports Analyst]

Kyle Schwaber has signed a five year, 150 million dollar contract to remain a Philadelphia Phillies.

[Mike Ryan]

Mike is literally yawning.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

That's how bad that Stranger Things.

[Sports Analyst]

He has also been named to Team USA with Bryce.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, thank you. Vecna. Yeah. I don't know if you saw this or. I don't. You should know this about me. All right? If there's one thing you know about me, you know I'm a huge movie guy. I know movies. You see yesterday? Rock nominated Golden Globe best actor for.

[Mike Ryan]

The Smashing Machine or whatever it's called.

[Dan Le Batard]

What else would it have been?

[Mike Ryan]

I don't know.

[Dan Le Batard]

Hobson.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

Shaw, you go Rock.

[Mike Ryan]

Huh?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, Rock.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

The Rock.

[Dan Le Batard]

Rock.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

The Rock. No, it's not Dwayne Rock Johnson. It's Dwayne the Rock Johnson.

[Mike Ryan]

When you say Rock, I think of Charles.

[Dan Le Batard]

Charles, That's. That's a good. That's a fair point. That's a fair point. But when he was wrestling, he was Rock.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

No, B's the Rock. Rocky Mavia.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, Rock.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

You smell Rocky?

[Dan Le Batard]

Rocky.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

No, the Rock.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's Rock.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

He doesn't go by Dwayne Rock Johnson.

[Mike Ryan]

Hold on. Are we finding out that not only you're not a movie guy, you're not a wrestling guy either?

[Tony]

Wow, you a sucker. You've been a sucker this whole time.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yo, that's Rock. I call him Rock.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Turn. Care please turn. In your large Roman Reigns T shirt.

[Dan Le Batard]

Don't you ever tell me about turning in any of my wrestling gear. Because out of all of us here, only one of us is going to John Cena's last match this weekend as this guy right here.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, did you sell the stocks and bonds from 40 years ago?

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, I have to sell them. I got to cash them in, but I have them, okay? And yes, like, all I got to do is actually make my way to the bank and your boy is swimming in money.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

That does feel good to be Able to cash something that immediately pays for a trade. Oh, dude, I cashed all those. Miami. To make cfp. Notre Dame. No cfp.

[Dan Le Batard]

So good.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Oh, my God. Immediately.

[Dan Le Batard]

So I don't have to wait for this to transfer. Whatever. Nope. Give my money right now.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

That's.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm saying the teller behind the glass, like, you know, how do you want. Give me my money right now.

[Mike Ryan]

Behind the glass, huh?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, you know, you got to go up to the bank teller.

[Mike Ryan]

I go to a fancy bank. There's no glass. Because they can trust me. I'm. That's the kind of way I bank.

[Dan Le Batard]

Sounds like you go to a sucker bank.

[Mike Ryan]

The sucker bank is the one where they can't trust you. They're like, you'll put up some glass.

[Tony]

Payday loan place. What are you doing?

[Dan Le Batard]

I go one of them safe banks where they don't want to get robbed. That's where I go.

[Mike Ryan]

Sounds like they get robbed a lot. That's why they got the glass.

[Dan Le Batard]

Whatever, man. Rock. Rock was nominated for Golden Globe. He's got. I didn't. You know, I didn't see Smash.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

I gotta see this.

[Dan Le Batard]

I didn't see it.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

I know you're a big movie guy. I'm surprised you haven't seen it.

[Dan Le Batard]

I didn't see yet, though. I didn't see it.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't trust you.

I don't trust you.

[Dan Le Batard]

What would I have to do to earn your trust?

[Mike Ryan]

Watch some movies.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, you know, I'm in the middle. I'm in the middle of Quantum of solace right now. I started watching the James Bond movies.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

What do you think?

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, like, yeah, I think it's good. But I've been told that Quantum of Solace is the weakest.

[Mike Ryan]

That's the best title, though. Quantum of Solace.

[Dan Le Batard]

Casino Royale was good.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm in the middle of Quantum of Solace. What's the next one called?

[Mike Ryan]

Spectre.

[Tony]

Yeah, Spectre.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay. I'm looking forward to that, too. So I'm making my way.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

What was that? Tony?

[Tony]

Yeah, Spectre. What are you doing? You just got here. You're gonna do that from that corner or.

[Dan Le Batard]

Or our. You should know.

[Tony]

Don't you dare do it to Chris.

[Dan Le Batard]

You should know the do it to Chris.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Come on.

[Mike Ryan]

He's on the list.

[Dan Le Batard]

Wow.

[Mike Ryan]

Zaz, I want to play a game with you.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, I love games. I'm great at games.

[Mike Ryan]

Yo, you seen that movie?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, I'm good at that game. Let's do it. Do we have some, like, movie music? Can we get some fun movie music?

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Get some Tinsel town.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

Come on, let's go. Amin's ready for me.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

You got to give him a second.

[Mike Ryan]

I'll fill a buster. Yo, you see?

[Hunter Jurecheck]

You know what happens to people that don't give Roy a second to fill.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yo, don't do that, man.

[Tony]

Two times.

[Dan Le Batard]

Don't do that.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm only there once been written up. Yo, you seen that movie? Is brought to you by Cinephobe, the podcast where we watch movies that are poorly rated on Rotten Tomatoes to try to ascertain whether they're actually rated. Maybe they get a fair shake. Cinefobe, wherever you get podcasts produced by Anthony Mays, we're gonna start with. This is a softball for some people. For other people, though, might be off the beaten path.

As we continue to filibuster.

[Tony]

Keep filibustering.

[Mike Ryan]

Filibustering.

[Dan Le Batard]

I mean, this better be some perfect movie.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

I'll tell you what.

[Mike Ryan]

This week on Cinepo, we got Rush Hour 3 coming out. You seen Rush Hour 3?

[Dan Le Batard]

But I never seen any Rush Hour.

[Mike Ryan]

We haven't played that game yet.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, well, whatever.

[Tony]

All right, well, we're up to about.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, no, this wasn't the game. That was.

[Dan Le Batard]

I volunteered that information. That's not part of the game, Tony.

[Mike Ryan]

Making conversation, Tony. I'm just making conversation.

Freddy Krueger has chimed in there.

[Dan Le Batard]

I can't believe how long it's taken to get movie music.

[Mike Ryan]

I know.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Me neither. You know what happens when it take this long?

Royalty free music. Roy. You know what happens.

[Mike Ryan]

Give him a chance. Let's buffer him.

[Dan Le Batard]

Damn it, man.

[Mike Ryan]

I also found out that Kelsey Grammer's daughters are both actors. Spencer Grammer and Greer Grammer. Do you guys know that Greer Grammar. Greer Grammar.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

Didn't really think that one out.

[Mike Ryan]

What are we doing? I think. I think he's trying to wave you off there, Freddy Krueger.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

Good try, though.

[Dan Le Batard]

Try Vecna.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

All right, now that's enough.

[Commercial Announcer]

Thanks.

[Mike Ryan]

Is it Vecna or jackna?

[Dan Le Batard]

Vecna.

[Mike Ryan]

Okay. I thought it was a jackna.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think they were doing a play on words because he's.

[Mike Ryan]

Jeremy.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

Would dong first be ready? Better than hog first.

[Mike Ryan]

I think dong again is a little Same. Crude. A little crude.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

Dong and hog are in the same boat. Maybe.

[Tony]

No.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

Hog schlong.

[Mike Ryan]

Schlong is.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's walking past someone hog first while putting your hands on their shoulders. I don't. I don't even know what I would.

[Mike Ryan]

Do if they don't get up, put.

[Dan Le Batard]

Their hands on my shoulders.

[Mike Ryan]

Me keep Ignoring the pivotal piece of information, which is I'm trying to walk through this aisle and you're not getting up. How are you not more upset about that? You guys like, oh, I can't believe you do that. Like, I can't believe this person wouldn't get up.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yes, I. Okay, but part of it also is I don't like the idea of my hog being right in front of this random dude's face.

[Mike Ryan]

No one said it was a dude. But also stranger. Stranger's face. Neither do I. But I have to be prepared.

[Tony]

First Blood, though, which is what? I mean. Saying they struck first blood, so he has to retaliate even more.

[Mike Ryan]

Have you seen First Blood?

[Dan Le Batard]

I have not seen First Blood.

[Mike Ryan]

We're not even playing the game yet.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's on my list, though. You know that. All right, but you can go. You can go back first and you crop dust them on your way out.

[Mike Ryan]

No, you know what? There's just too much pressure on that situation. What if it doesn't come? What if it comes? What if gives too much?

[Dan Le Batard]

That's called gamble fart. You know about that? Gamble fart?

[Mike Ryan]

I don't like that gamble. You. You like that Gamble fart?

[Dan Le Batard]

No, but it's. I mean, it's gamble fart. It's the way it goes.

[Tony]

What if you're going in front of a pickpocket, you got your wallet in your back pocket, you're going butt first. All of a sudden, they take your.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

Your.

[Dan Le Batard]

I would never get pickpocketed. I keep my wallet in my front. I would never get pickpocketed.

[Mike Ryan]

All right, it's time to play. Yo, you know that movie?

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Wait, did I fill enough for Roy? Do you got one?

[Sports Analyst]

Finally.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Go. Hit it.

[Tony]

Write his name down again.

[Mike Ryan]

This Edda James. What is this?

At last.

[Tony]

Zaz?

[Sports Analyst]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

Yo, you know about that? Paid in Full? No, never seen Paid In.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't even know that I've heard of that.

[Mike Ryan]

Paid in Full? You've never heard of paid?

[Dan Le Batard]

Who's in that?

[Mike Ryan]

Makai Pfeiffer, Cameron Wood Harris.

[Dan Le Batard]

Man, I didn't see a movie.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

I don't like this music whatsoever.

[Tony]

Three times.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

That's the third time on the list. Five minutes to get this one right. God damn it, man.

[Sports Analyst]

Three timer. Just like Tyrese Maxey on the MVP of the Day list.

[Mike Ryan]

Zaz, I've been coughing. A lot of people think it might be contagious.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, I'm a little worried about that.

[Mike Ryan]

Have you ever seen the movie Outbreak?

[Dan Le Batard]

Of course.

[Mike Ryan]

Who's in it?

[Dan Le Batard]

Michael Rapaport.

[Mike Ryan]

That's not the first name.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

It is.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's like Patient Zero. That is the first person.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

We don't say his name around here. Is that so is that the one.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

They showed in health class? I feel like I watched out. Was it that one with the monkey got the disease?

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

Renee Dust. He's Patient Zero. Dustin.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

I think I watched that in high school.

[Mike Ryan]

Outbreak. My dad showed my kids Outbreak during the pandemic and I was like, what are you.

[Tony]

Good parenting.

[Mike Ryan]

What are you doing?

[Show Producer/Assistant]

Outbreak.

[Dan Le Batard]

A movie.

[Mike Ryan]

Relevant. All right.

So, okay, so you're one for two.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay.

[Mike Ryan]

Haven't seen Paid in Full, but you have seen Outbreak. What about Collateral Damage?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yes.

[Mike Ryan]

Who's in it?

[Dan Le Batard]

Arnold Schwarzenegger.

[Mike Ryan]

What's the premise?

[Dan Le Batard]

It has to do with like, war and, you know, someone dies as collateral damage.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, here we go. Yeah, that's, that's.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Welcome to the movie. We have clocked that at six and a half minutes.

[Commercial Announcer]

We finally got there, everybody.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think they kidnapped his daughter.

[Mike Ryan]

Nah, you ain't seen that movie.

[Dan Le Batard]

I have seen it.

[Mike Ryan]

No, you're, you're, I, I, you're doing the thing.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Has he said one thing right, Commando?

[Mike Ryan]

I don't know what he's talking.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's 25 years old. Why do I remember the plot of random Arnold Schwarzenegger movie? I've seen it.

[Mike Ryan]

End of Days.

[Dan Le Batard]

Of course I've seen that.

[Mike Ryan]

What's that?

[Hunter Jurecheck]

They kidnap his daughter in True Lies.

[Mike Ryan]

In Two Lives.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

No, no, the daughter's on top of.

[Dan Le Batard]

The airplane, hanging over like the Scott.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

At the end he's holding her up. Eliza.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Eliza Doucheq.

[Dan Le Batard]

Really? Young Eliza Douche. Coop.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, now you made a creepy.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

Bring it on.

[Mike Ryan]

She in that?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yep.

[Tony]

Chris would know, I guess.

[Mike Ryan]

See, it's. I think of Gabby Union. I think I'll bring it on.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

I think of her too.

[Mike Ryan]

Have you seen Step Up?

[Dan Le Batard]

Of course.

[Mike Ryan]

Who's in that?

[Dan Le Batard]

It's like the, you know, the dancing.

[Mike Ryan]

The dance is.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah. Channing Tatum.

[Mike Ryan]

Channing Tatum is.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think it's his first movie.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

Ever since I saw Bring It On, I've always wanted to flirt with someone while brushing my teeth. Yeah, you know, like Kirsten Dunst guy. Elijah. Dusky's brother.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

How does it get cold in here if there's shamrocks in the atmosphere?

[Mike Ryan]

Speaking of Kirsten Dunst, Interview with the Vampire.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's right.

[Mike Ryan]

Who's in it?

[Dan Le Batard]

Brad Pitt.

[Mike Ryan]

Uh huh.

[Dan Le Batard]

Tom Cruise.

[Mike Ryan]

Yes, of course.

[Dan Le Batard]

I've seen.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

We have to do something here because I like the movie Outbreak and Michael Rapaport's. Appearance in that movie would ruin that movie for him. So I would have thought I remembered that and Jackna looked it up.

[Sports Analyst]

He was not in that movie.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, you're wrong. Because he, a thousand percent was. He's patient zero.

[Sports Analyst]

I was fed something in my ear.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, you're wrong. And the person who fed it to you in your ear is also wrong.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

I thought it was the dude from the TLC video.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, but it's not.

[Mike Ryan]

All right, hold on. We gotta get to the bottom of this.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yep.

[Mike Ryan]

Is he in the movie?

[Dan Le Batard]

You can get to the bottom, but I'm on top.

[Sports Analyst]

I literally can't see. I cannot look up anything for you.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's patient zero.

[Mike Ryan]

Zaz, have you seen American Gangster?

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Yes, he had Covid in 2020.

[Tony]

That's close enough to the opera.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Yeah, but I don't think he's in the movie.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yo. Yeah, you play me for sucker. I don't like it.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

He's not in the movie.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yes, I have seen the movie. You just said.

[Mike Ryan]

What movie was that?

[Dan Le Batard]

American Gangster, okay? Denzel Washington. He shoots string a bell right in the street in front of everybody.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

Why?

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Because.

[Tony]

How much does he want?

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, he wanted his money.

[Tony]

I know, but how much? A percent.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't remember that.

[Tony]

Let's want a 20%.

[Mike Ryan]

Let's update or let's upgrade the difficulty here. Zaz.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, come on.

[Mike Ryan]

In 2006, there were two movies, two really well regarded movies that had the same premise about magicians. What were the two movies?

[Dan Le Batard]

I thought you were gonna go with the Deep impact Armageddon, but that was before 2006. Okay, say it again to me.

[Mike Ryan]

In 2006, there were two movies that were very well regarded that had the same premise about magicians.

Can you name the two movies?

[Dan Le Batard]

Was the Prestige back in 06?

[Mike Ryan]

The Prestige is one of those movies.

[Dan Le Batard]

What was the other one about magicians? I don't know if I know the other one.

[Mike Ryan]

The answer we were looking for. The illusionist.

[Dan Le Batard]

Who's in that?

[Mike Ryan]

Ed Norton.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know if I've seen that. Gotta be honest.

[Tony]

We can tell.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Michael Rapoport is not in the 1995 film Outbreak.

[Dan Le Batard]

He 1000% is.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Do you understand what a thousand percent is?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

It means 1,000% would show up, right? Oh, yeah. Look it up. Look it up on the IMDb. See if Michael Rapoport is in the 1995 film. Let's bet IMDb.

[Dan Le Batard]

Let's bet then. You win. Let's bet.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Yes, Let us bet.

[Mike Ryan]

Let's bet.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Let's Bet.

[Tony]

Put his name back down.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Guess who's no longer going to see John Cena. As if you ever could.

[Dan Le Batard]

Guess who's gonna be wrong in front of everybody. His name's Mike Ryan.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Do you know what happens?

[Tony]

Don't.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Do you know what happens? Do you know what happens. Oh, no. To people who hijack the show with an incorrect take about Michael Rapoport being in the 1995 film Outbreak. Do you know what happened?

[Dan Le Batard]

I know what happens when they're right. And that's me.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Do you know what happens when they're wrong?

[Dan Le Batard]

Now, I am finding this very weird where AI on Google is saying Michael Rappaport isn't in the famous 1995 outbreak movie, but I'm still gonna go with he was in it.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Also, you don't understand how Patient Zeros work, because Patient Zero was the monkey.

[Dan Le Batard]

But he was with the monkey.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Patient Zero is who the cure comes from. Came from the monkey.

[Mike Ryan]

There's Michael Rappaport. Right?

[Sports Analyst]

There must be a Bernstein Bears situation.

[Mike Ryan]

Daz, I'm gonna end it with this one.

[Dan Le Batard]

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills right now. He was definitely in the movie.

[Mike Ryan]

In the movie Terminator 2, the T1000 disguises itself as a police officer.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's right.

[Mike Ryan]

And it is looking for young John Connor.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's right. Everybody knows.

[Mike Ryan]

That's really good. Who is the person that the police officer Terminator asks? Who get. Who ultimately misleads him?

[Dan Le Batard]

The friend in the arcade.

[Mike Ryan]

The friend?

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

The redhead who's a friend.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm supposed to know that stupid kid's name?

[Mike Ryan]

The redhead. Can we show him on the screen?

There he is.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

Oh, that kid was in everything.

[Mike Ryan]

Young Jonathan Zaslow.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Yeah. It looks like you.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's the kid from Big.

[Mike Ryan]

It is.

[Dan Le Batard]

He had long hair in Tournament.

[Mike Ryan]

You're wrong.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

You grow up, you dumbass. All right, the person. The character name in the movie Outbreak that got sick from the monkey initially. The white man.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Jimbo Scott. You know who played Jimbo Scott in the 1995 film Outbreak?

[Dan Le Batard]

Michael Rapport.

[Tony]

No.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Patrick Dempsey.

[Mike Ryan]

How could you get those two confused?

[Tony]

How?

[Dan Le Batard]

I. I think you're wrong.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

Rapaport's very happy about that.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't believe you. I think you're wrong.

Michael Rappaport was in Outbreak, and he had the monkey and he got really sick.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

He was not.

[Mike Ryan]

He just told you who played the.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

It was McDreamy from Grey's Anatomy.

[Dan Le Batard]

You don't. Nobody needs to explain who McDreamy is. Everybody knows who McDreamy is.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

I think I know what you're doing.

[Dan Le Batard]

He also is not out.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Brad, I didn't know. I think I know what you're doing. And I'm not going to say it over the air because I happen to know he's a bit litigious, but I think you're doing a source thing.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay? You're the one who said that and not me. And right now I'm looking on Google. I looked up.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

Look at the screen. Is that the guy you thought was rapping?

[Dan Le Batard]

I looked up McDreamy outbreak, and I will say it looks like some really good Photoshop of McDreamian outbreak.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

We have a photo, a still of patient zero.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

Is that who you thought was Rapaport?

[Hunter Jurecheck]

1995 Bill Mouthbreak. It's Patrick Dempsey. You owe more than an apology. You owe money.

[Dan Le Batard]

Who do I owe an apology?

[Hunter Jurecheck]

You said you wanted to bet money.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, I want to know what.

Epic, what pandemic movie Michael Rapport was in with a monkey.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

You're moving the goalposts. Your name is Hunter Jurecheck. Right now you owe the biggest apology to Patrick Dempsey.

[Mike Ryan]

Number one.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Number two, our audience. Number three, me.

Who called. I sniffed it out right away. I was like, no, no, no.

[Sports Analyst]

This is definitely right.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

I like this movie. It can't possibly be a movie I like if Michael Rapoport is in it.

[Dan Le Batard]

You never seen Beautiful Girls? That's a good movie.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

No, I haven't.

[Sports Analyst]

What about Higher Learning?

[Hunter Jurecheck]

There is actually a Tarantino film. True Romance.

[Mike Ryan]

Yes.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, he wrote it. He didn't direct Deep Blue Sea, but.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Yeah, he wrote it.

[Mike Ryan]

And because of his.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Tony Scott directed it. Because I, unlike, you know, cinema.

[Mike Ryan]

How did Tony Scott die?

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Jumped off a bridge.

[Dan Le Batard]

Jumped off a bridge. Yep, that's right.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Do you know who Tony Scott's brother?

[Dan Le Batard]

I can confirm Ridley Scott. I'm a movie guy.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

It's actually Byron Scott.

[Mike Ryan]

Little known fact. That's why he was at all those Laker games.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Why do you think they were called Showtime?

[Dan Le Batard]

Scott family, are you sure about Michael rapport and outbreak?

[Hunter Jurecheck]

100%. You've made the list five times. Oh, wow.

[Mike Ryan]

Five. Timers Club.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

I'm off the hook now.

[Tony]

You're still not off the hook.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

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[Hunter Jurecheck]

Boom.

[Mike Ryan]

Checkout.

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[Tony]

Hey guys, Tony here. The NBA on Prime is back with an exciting week of Emirates NBA cup action. The knockout rounds start with a quarterfinal double headers on Tuesday and Wednesday night. Then the quest for the cup heads to Vegas for a semifinal double header on Saturday. It all culminates with the championship game next Tuesday night. If you're not a Prime member, that's not a problem. Sign up for a 30 day free trial to get started today. Emirates NBA cup coverage continues this week only on prime. Restrictions apply. See Amazon.com amazonprime for details.

[Dan Le Batard]

Don LeBatard. Jon, can you rate my Al Pacino from that billiard scene in Carlito's Way if I do it for you? I think it's pretty good.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Stugats.

[Dan Le Batard]

You think you're big time when you're gonna die big time.

That is on my infamous scale of 1 to 10.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

That's a. That's a 7.6 solid.

That's a suey nominee right there.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugach.

So earlier in the show, we were talking about Philip Rivers, all right, Philip Rivers, who apparently worked out on Monday night with the Indianapolis Colts. But I don't think we brought up the most interesting part of this. Philip Rivers potentially joining again, the Indianapolis Colts. And that is next year, Philip Rivers is eligible for the hall of Fame. Now, whether or not you believe he's a Hall of Famer or not, at worst, he's a borderline case. All right? Next year, he's eligible for the hall of Fame. He's going to start the clock back five years to play in a couple of games with the Indianapolis Colts. That seems crazy to me.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

Maybe he doesn't like his chances. So he's like, hey, I'll just prolong this five more years. I'll restart the clock. People will forget that I'm not a Hall of Famer.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

You got the wrong angle here. Indianapolis can make the playoffs. He's looking to add to that resume.

[Mike Ryan]

I took it a different way. I took it the way Dan took it earlier, which is he must really hate his family, do anything. It's like Rocky and Rocky iv. He's like, oh, I gotta go fight in Russia.

[Dan Le Batard]

Everyone's like, why are you doing that?

[Mike Ryan]

I was like, because Adrian is on my ass every single day, and that child can't win. You've seen him. You know how strong he is.

You go anywhere when you're sick and tired of all the noise at home, you'll go anywhere. Even Russia on Christmas Day.

[Tony]

It is a crazy concept. Like, here's the thing. I'm gonna fight in Russia on Christmas. Everybody's like, wait, what?

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Family Day?

[Mike Ryan]

Where's the fight gonna be? Rock Russia.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

We are about to find out exactly how much goodwill Carly Irsay Gordon has bought by simply not being her dad. Because this is a Jim Irsay ass move if I've ever seen one.

[Dan Le Batard]

Why do you say that?

[Hunter Jurecheck]

The guy that hired Jeff Saturday. From television. Television's Jeff Saturday as the coach. Okay.

[Dan Le Batard]

But they feel that. They feel Philip Rivers has a better chance of winning a game than Riley Leonard Zaz.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Philip Rivers hasn't thrown a pass in the NFL in five years. He is 44 years old. I come there must be like, since COVID There has to be.

[Mike Ryan]

The last time he took a snap was Covid.

[Commercial Announcer]

Where's Tannehill?

[Hunter Jurecheck]

There has to be a better option.

[Mike Ryan]

Where is Tannehill?

[Tony]

Where's Tannehill? This is like, I want to wait on the couch until there's a playoff. You know, contending team. Well, here it is.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Tanny, where are you? There was a Philip Rivers I got One More in me window. And that window closed after Brock Purdy got hurt the first time. Remember that storyline that Kyle Shanahan would have brought in? Philip Rivers is starting the Super Bowl. Had they make it. To me, that was a very end of the I got One More in me Philip Rivers storyline. We are now two and a half years since that window closed.

[Mike Ryan]

What do you think he's been doing?

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Like, he's coaching. I know he's been coaching.

[Mike Ryan]

Coaching what?

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Coaching and banging high school. He's been coaching and banging. I know that. Those two things for sure. Yeah. Then he just have another one.

[Mike Ryan]

You know what I just saw the other day? You guys remember obviously Mike Glennon, who has a very special relationship with this show. Mike Glennon's in real estate now.

[Tony]

Good for him.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. Justin Tuck works for Goldman Sachs. Yep. There's a lot of NFL players who, like, have regular ass jobs post retirement. That's kind of shocking to me.

[Tony]

You figure you make a lot of money, you don't have to work, you know, for the man, a nine to five. And Justin Tuck's like, going to the office like, all right, guys, what do we got today? And they're like, oh, you got seven meetings today. And he's like, oh, shit.

[Mike Ryan]

You know what? That sounds like better than dealing with what's at home.

[Dan Le Batard]

I just don't understand how. Oh, no, you should know.

I don't like.

[Mike Ryan]

I. I'm fine. I'm fine.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

No, that one's for coming in sick.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm not sick.

[Sports Analyst]

I could think of a quarterback whose skill set fits closer to what Daniel Jones does.

[Dan Le Batard]

Go on.

[Sports Analyst]

How about Colin Kaepernick?

[Hunter Jurecheck]

You know, Baker's right. I was actually thinking about this last night. Because Philip Rivers is a name. And from an era in which we would always spout out the cliche like, what does Colin Kaepernick have to do to receive a phone call? And when Philip Rivers came around, it's the first time I've thought about Colin Kaepernick in a good year and a half. And my initial reaction to Philip Rivers getting a call was, what does Colin Kaepernick have to do to receive a phone call? That's how you know this is well past the expiration date.

[Mike Ryan]

They really waited it out.

It is pretty incredible. They just waited it out.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

He burned up a lot of goodwill with whatever circus went around, those tryouts.

Pablo needs to find out about what happened because the league orchestrated all these tryouts. They wanted Colin Kaepernick to sign. There was a lot of momentum for him to sign with the team there. And the general feeling is like maybe he didn't want it as bad. Maybe it was better for him to be a mortar because. And the league was put in a position where they couldn't come out and reveal really what happened there. But it was kind of a circus.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Let's defend the league.

[Tony]

History wasn't great.

[Mike Ryan]

Wait a second. Hold on. That was. What was that? Vecna.

[Dan Le Batard]

Vecna's not supposed to last.

[Sports Analyst]

Have a great. Zacky.

[Dan Le Batard]

Did you guys see after the game last night. So the Eagles lost, what, their third in a row? I think it was. Eagles lost their third in a row last night. Cowboys still in the mix of that division. I like it.

[Mike Ryan]

Still the hunt.

[Dan Le Batard]

But the Chargers. So the Chargers got a huge win last night in a game that they turned the ball over five times. Justin Herbert was not good last night. Justin Herbert barely threw for over 100 yards. He was under 50% for the game. He was very bad last night. Got sacked seven times. He's playing hurt a little bit tough after the game. Did you guys see after the game when Laura Rutledge, you know, she does the on field interview for Monday Night Football? I mean, did you see this where, you know she's going to track down the star player.

[Mike Ryan]

Right.

[Dan Le Batard]

Right after the game. So Laura Rutledge, she tracks down Justin Herbert after the game.

[Mike Ryan]

Okay.

[Dan Le Batard]

She wants to have a word. And. And Herbert, if we have the video here, Herbert was, you know, not really interested.

[Mike Ryan]

No, I know. But can we just talk to you really fast? What was it like to watch the interception there that sealed this game for you guys to get this win?

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Yeah, the defense played incredible.

[Dan Le Batard]

It wasn't really into it. I just want to celebrate with my team.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

I feel like that has to happen a lot. We just don't see that part of the interview.

[Mike Ryan]

Is this his first time?

[Show Producer/Assistant]

But this is, like, this is not that crazy. I bet this happens all the time. We just usually see it after, like.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, you might mean you're right for some reason.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

They're rolling before the interview starts.

[Mike Ryan]

Maybe, maybe.

[Dan Le Batard]

But also, well, Laura probably said, okay, I'm ready.

[Mike Ryan]

But also, is this your first time? Do you not know how this works?

[Dan Le Batard]

The quarterback on Monday Night Football won the game.

[Mike Ryan]

They interview. They give you two softball of all softball questions, and you keep him. He acted like it's gonna end by the time he goes, all right, guys, I'm ready. Like, oh, we already did the celebration, bro.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

And he was short, too. Like, she was like, how you feeling? Your injury, your hand? He's like, I feel fine.

[Dan Le Batard]

And what happens on the field there? Celebrate. My team is confetti about to rain down for a Monday Night Football victory on the field.

[Mike Ryan]

Grow up. You know what?

[Tony]

You're nine and five.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Like, yeah, grow up.

[Dan Le Batard]

And by the way, if I could just educate, you know, people out there who don't know the way this works. No. You know, but I'll just get. People don't know this works. Laura Rutledge doesn't just run around and grab a player after the game.

[Mike Ryan]

This is coordinated.

[Dan Le Batard]

The PR director literally says to her, okay, Justin's ready to go. And then she starts asking him questions.

[Mike Ryan]

It goes beyond that before the end of the game because the game is in question. We don't know. Both PR directors have handed her a list of names. Sometimes it's one name. Sometimes it's a couple of names she picks. If it's you guys, then I'll talk to Justin. If it's the other guys, I'll talk to whoever I'll talk to. Jalen hurts. Boom. The PR directors know as soon as the game is over, they are informing their players, hey, you got to do this one. Two quick questions with espn. The idea that he's like, you know what he reminds me?

[Dan Le Batard]

Six years.

[Mike Ryan]

You know what he reminds me of? Wait, there's my camera. He reminds me of people sitting at a game when you're trying to walk out the aisle and they won't stand up. This your first time doing this? You know what Laura Rutler should have done?

[Dan Le Batard]

She should have walked past him.

[Mike Ryan]

Hug first, hug first. Teach him a lesson.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm trying to go celebrate with my teammates.

[Mike Ryan]

What a loser. Ass sentiment. Well, I'm trying to celebrate with my teammates.

[Dan Le Batard]

Shut up. Do you think he walked out into that locker room afterwards? He's like. And everybody's like, yo, it was crazy. You missed it.

[Mike Ryan]

No, we had. We had dwarves and acrobats and trapeze artists and balloons. All that happened. You could say dwarf. You can't say the other word that Mike said. I'm very disappointed.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

I didn't say anything.

[Mike Ryan]

You said.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

I didn't say it. The other guy's out of control.

[Sports Analyst]

You said.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

You said a lot of stuff.

[Mike Ryan]

You know what? Give me a pen.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

What other stuff?

[Mike Ryan]

Give me a pen.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

I said write down stuff.

[Tony]

He writes down stuff.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Oh, no. I said, how you. How you do a certain polar kiss?

[Dan Le Batard]

Eskimo kiss, whatever.

[Mike Ryan]

Come on, man. You can't say that. One Inuit kiss is how we say it now.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

Twig and berries first. Does that work?

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Puller kiss the berries?

[Mike Ryan]

Not so much. It really is the twig that's doing the work there. Hmm. But that's how he was acting.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

What do they call it? Polar beer. It's, you know, it's kind of swelling.

[Mike Ryan]

Relax.

[Dan Le Batard]

That was weird.

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[Hunter Jurecheck]

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[Tony]

Hey, guys. Tony here. The NBA on Prime is back with an exciting week of Emirates NBA cup action. The knockout rounds start with a quarterfinal doubleheaders on Tuesday and Wednesday night. Then the quest for the cup heads to Vegas for a semifinal doubleheader on Saturday. It all culminates with the championship game next Tuesday night. If you're not a Prime member, that's not a problem. Sign up for a 30 day free trial to get started today. Emirates NBA cup coverage continues this week only on prime. Restrictions apply. See Amazon.com Amazon prime for details.

[Dan Le Batard]

Don Lee John.

[Mike Ryan]

How you love that cat.

Bad news for opposing teams in the triple A2 guts.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is the D. Levatar show with the st.

I feel like some listeners have been wondering. I've certainly gotten the messages, too.

[Tony]

I've even had friends text me about Landman.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yo, stop. Stop tweeting at me. Stop texting me about Landman.

[Mike Ryan]

Do you know about the Landman?

[Dan Le Batard]

Like, no, I don't know about Landman. And there's literally anytime this Landman does something I. I know every movie makes. All right, Stop tweeting at me about Landman. I don't give a shit about this guy. Right, and you could tell the Rams, too. I don't give a shit. About Landman. Whatever. All right.

[Sports Analyst]

Gunnar Henderson has been added to Team usa.

[Mike Ryan]

You did that one already back then.

[Sports Analyst]

While Sandy Alcantara has been named to the Dominican Republic.

[Dan Le Batard]

So I have been getting messages, though, from listeners who want to drink Jessica smitten his tears, and they're upset that we haven't spoken it just yet.

[Mike Ryan]

Guys, I love people who are huge fans of this show and they love these characters and fail to pick up on the simple rhythms of. She appears every Wednesday, guys.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Guest booking.

[Mike Ryan]

She's on every. It's just like me on Mondays. Like, I'm here every Monday. That's when the segment is.

[Dan Le Batard]

So tomorrow, we're gonna drink her tears.

[Tony]

Of course, you guys actually have us drinking her tears. Do you know this is the ultimate play of like, oh, I don't care. This doesn't.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

You think she's gonna give us her tears?

[Dan Le Batard]

Has anyone spoken to her yet?

[Hunter Jurecheck]

I have not. She doesn't want to hear from me. Come on. Like, she doesn't want to hear, like, hey, you guys got screwed by SEC in Alabama. She doesn't want to hear that from me. I will be listening to her echoes. Interview with Pete Babaqua, though.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, did they book it?

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Yeah, I've been searching that feed all damn week.

[Dan Le Batard]

Can I also say, you don't know that she got him. You're expecting.

[Tony]

No, no, no.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

They're. They're promoted.

[Mike Ryan]

They're promoted.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Yeah. Yeah, they got Pete Baqua. The. The still looks like something really bad happened. Like, it's just three faces all sad. Yeah, I've been waiting for this one.

[Mike Ryan]

I do want to be self critical, if we may go on. Earlier today, with great excitement and exuberance, we played a clip from a Notre Dame live podcast of them live reacting.

[Dan Le Batard]

It was awesome.

[Mike Ryan]

I didn't know. I knew we had a clip. I knew. Oh, these guys right when the announcement happened, their reaction, like, cool. As soon as it came up on the screen, before we even hit play, I'm looking at it. I'm like, is that a dorm room? Are these children? Are we laughing at children here? Look at this. Without this on the screen. These are kids, man. The one in the bottom with the flag behind him, he's got acne.

[Tony]

He sounds like Fernando Mendoza.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, he does. He's like, morty sounds like, yeah, but.

[Dan Le Batard]

They have like a.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

Like a.

[Mike Ryan]

Like a show.

That'S not a show. We should be like, I don't want.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

Dude, if you're streaming a reaction, like, you're asking for it.

[Mike Ryan]

What are the kids, man? What are we doing?

[Show Producer/Assistant]

You know how happy they are we're playing this?

[Sports Analyst]

These children are asking for it.

[Dan Le Batard]

Are you shitting me?

[Mike Ryan]

Geez, Rick.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know, Rick.

No. Are you the friend? I mean, are you the friend?

[Sports Analyst]

Former Mets closer Edwin Diaz has signed a three year, $69 million deal with the Los Angeles star.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, no more Timmy Trumpets in.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

No.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

No, they got another one.

[Commercial Announcer]

They got all the money in the world now.

[Dan Le Batard]

I mean, are you the type of friend? Because speaking of Jessica coming on the show tomorrow and drinking her tears.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, my God.

[Dan Le Batard]

Are you. Oh, yeah. Here's a promotional look at how they.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

All did the Charles Barkley. We need to start a dialogue phase.

When you're doing the Charles Barkley, we need to start a dialogue phase. That's enough for me. Gojo.

[Mike Ryan]

Gojo is the one we need to focus on because I know this face very well. This is Gojo. He has to predetermine. I have to look serious. I know that look. He doesn't know how to look serious.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

Smirk, too.

[Dan Le Batard]

You don't think they took a previous photo? Like, he actually posed for this?

[Mike Ryan]

Yes, absolutely. I know Mike Golic Jr. Very well. That's not someone who can be like.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is what we're going to use for promotional materials for your Sit down with Pete Bivaca.

[Mike Ryan]

Yes, yes. So. So, Gojo, here we go. You need to be serious in this one. It's like. Okay, hold on. And this probably the fourth or fifth take. That's not like the.

[Dan Le Batard]

You don't think you can get it right on the first?

[Hunter Jurecheck]

No, I think this is a screen cap and that's just the tenor of the conversation the entire time. There, there. If you listen to anything Jess does and you go there for tears, it's not going to happen. But this, again, this image is enough for me.

[Mike Ryan]

There is a sadness in her eyes right here.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, it's a rough two years for her. Last year they get to the national championship, they lose, and now this year they get, you know, if you want to say, snubbed, whatever, but it's a rough couple years.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Pete Bavaca. Enough of this guy. First off, ridiculous name number two.

[Show Producer/Assistant]

I get why they're sending him out. Number two, he just gives off personality.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Why?

[Dan Le Batard]

Why?

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Why are we letting him change this narrative? They're not upset about the ACC thing. It's just like a sprinkle on the crap covered cupcake of what happened to them. They are all mad about being jerked around with the process at the cfp, which I get because Miami should have never been behind them. And they're mad that Greg Sankey's Alabama got in ahead of them. And Pete Bavaca doesn't have the stones to go at Greg Sankey because, number one, he aspires to have the power that Greg Sankey has. And number two, Greg Sankey actually controls the entire cfp. So instead he looks over to Jim Phillips, who many have called a cuck, and he sees an easy mark.

[Mike Ryan]

This is. This is like the scene from Hollywood Shuffle, which I know Zaz has absolutely seen that movie.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

He is just punching down on Jim Phillips because he can. And if he wants to echo the virtues of a good partner, he is the exact example of a bad partner. They have actually led their fan base to believe that the ACC was saved by Notre Dame in the COVID season of 2020, thinking that the ACC wasn't going to play football unless Notre Dame decided to join the conference temporarily. Go take your Olympic sports. Go take your non revenue sports elsewhere if you think you mean that much. Believe me, if I actually believe Notre Dame could destroy the acc, I'd be rooting them on from the cfp. But they can't. They got no moves. You know why they're so pissed at USC for breaking that rivalry? Because USC figured this whole scam out. We don't need you to get into the cfp. You need us.

[Mike Ryan]

Mike, let me ask you a question. We obviously have that memorandum of understanding that kicks in next year that says that if they're in the top 12, they're guaranteed in the CFP. Now, you said something earlier in the show that kind of went under the radar.

[Dan Le Batard]

I understand why that's a thing.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Well, that's why he's not going at Greg Sankey, because presently it is a thing. And you know who can make that thing disappear? Greg Sankey.

[Mike Ryan]

But, Mike, something you said early in the show was that he wasn't even the guy that negotiated that.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Yeah, I don't think so. I think they had a different ad.

[Mike Ryan]

So you really are a clown, Mr. Bavacqua. Like you. You out here yelling like I was gonna give him credit, like at least he got that deal done. But you ain't even do that. You just inherit. You're Jerry Krause in this Rod Thorne pick, huh? That's a. Michael, I have to.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

I have to clarify because I know, like the previous ad. The previous ad negotiated the whole, like, buy thing. And I don't know if this is. Yeah, I don't know if this is an extension.

[Sports Analyst]

Who insinuated Bavaqua got the new deal.

[Hunter Jurecheck]

Ross Ellinger is a really good reporter. So if Bavaqua did that, that's great. And look, I do understand why they say, well, you're just jealous of Notre Dame. Yeah, I'm jealous. Notre Dame is an incredible deal. They play about three true road games a year. They only have to play. Yeah, they pick Purdue and the bottom of the power conferences to say they play power conference teams. Like all of this is calculated. We all know what they're doing. They don't have to share any of their playoff revenue. They have a sweet deal occasionally, very rarely, you'll run into a point in your history in which your independence works against you and you go up against actual power, like the power that the SEC has. And this is the one time you couldn't win one of your two important games to actually get into the tournament. And you want to be a baby about it. And you want to punch down on poor Jim Phillips when you don't have the balls to go after Greg Sankey.

[Dan Le Batard]

Look, I've thought about it, and I don't understand why I can't find a picture of Michael Rapport from Outbreak.