Local Hour: Darla, The Cool-Ass Dog (feat. Dominican Blade)

Summary

Podcast Summary

Podcast: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Episode: Local Hour: Darla, The Cool-Ass Dog (feat. Dominican Blade)
Date: December 19, 2025
Location: Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami
Hosts: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, with show regulars and guests

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Episode Overview

This Local Hour episode is a lively, raucous reflection on the show’s annual holiday party—complete with office politics, awkward gift exchanges, classic South Florida sports talk, and a parade of eccentric personalities, both human and canine. The team is joined by Dominican Blade and discusses party antics, company drama, Miami sports, and the universal struggle of combining professional obligations with holiday revelry. Oh, and dogs—lots of memorable moments about dogs.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Surviving (or Not) the Company Holiday Party

• Dan Le Batard confesses to being underprepared and hungover after the office holiday blowout:

  "The company party blew out both of my tires. This is the least prepared I've ever been..." (01:53)

• The show dives into tales from the party, including Greg Cody's legendary beer-acquisition "system" (04:15, 39:36).
• Trista brings her service dog Ollie, leading to debates about what's appropriate office party behavior—especially when you’re new to the crew (02:54, 12:28).

Notable Quotes:

• Dan: "The dog does not belong at the company party when you've been here...two days." (02:49)
• Trista: "Everybody after the fact is like, 'Oh, you brought a dog, that's so weird.' And everybody in the moment is like, 'Oh my God, who's this sweet little baby?'" (12:28)
• Amin: "There’s one dog I know named Darla. Darla’s cool, man...the problem is most of these dogs are not cool." (14:47)

2. Secret Santa Shenanigans

• A rotisserie chicken was given as a Secret Santa gift, sparking debate about gift appropriateness. It sat under the tree for four hours. (09:34–10:11)
• Dan runs a poll: "Is a rotisserie chicken an appropriate Secret Santa gift?" (10:00)

Memorable Moment:

• Rose: "And the rotisserie chicken, Tony, it was sitting under the tree for four hours before it was [opened]." (10:07)

3. The Fake Pregame Show & Office Content Anxiety

• Reminiscing about the "fake pregame show," a parody segment from earlier days (08:04, 37:12, 42:16).
• Dan asks for a "bigger open" for a new edition; production scrambles ensue.
• Creative disagreements arise, leading to semi-serious squabbling about who ducked out of recording the holiday video/song and why (24:23-30:52).

Notable Quotes:

• Dan (to Tony Kolada): "We put Tony in a bad spot because he had no way to defend himself for two days against the accusation that Tony...wouldn't want to try something artistically." (27:00)
• Tony Kolada (in Trump style): "Fake news smear campaign for the Le Batard Show. These low energy losers are running a witch hunt during the Local Hour..." (29:24)

4. Dog Drama & Service Animal Debates

• Amid service dog Ollie’s presence, Amin’s claimed dog-averse stance is debated—turns into larger talk of office pet policy and which dogs merit a pass.
• The “Cool-Ass Dog” Darla is referenced as the only truly “cool” dog (14:47–15:18).

5. The Spaghetti Bag Stunt & Event Content “Opportunities”

• The team plots hijinks for the night’s Jake Paul fight—specifically, sending someone to appear on the Netflix broadcast eating spaghetti out of a bag (20:44–23:39).
• Who will go? Who is “fat” enough for the sight gag? Will a service dog get into the arena? They consider content versus practicality.

6. Miami vs. Texas A&M: Pseudo-Serious Football Breakdown

• Dan and others break down the major UM football game against Texas A&M (45:14–50:16).
  • Miami’s line play, quarterback threats, and the unimpressive nature of this year’s SEC are discussed.
  • Trista argues that Miami coach Mario Cristobal is prone to self-destructive game management errors, citing his Oregon days (47:03–47:28).

Notable Quotes:

• Trista: "Mario Cristobal doesn't win the big games and he never has. And it’s always the result of something that he’s done, run in error..." (47:28)
• Dan: "This SEC, these SEC Teams...Hasn't quite seen something like the Miami offensive line or the Miami defensive line..." (46:26)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (Chronological with Timestamps)

• Dan, hungover and unprepared:
  "I'm just getting here to do this show after the single greatest football game ever played." (01:53)
• Trista, on bringing her dog:
  "I'm a little bit of a close talker, which is why Ollie is a service dog..." (03:00)
• Dan, on Secret Santa gift:
  "Somebody thought it was appropriate...to give somebody as a gift, thoughtlessly, a rotisserie chicken." (09:39)
• Tony Kolada, on dog appropriateness:
  "I kind of feel like just in a professional environment we don’t need pets." (14:47)
• Amin’s 'Cool-Ass Dog' standard:
  "There’s one dog I know named Darla. Darla’s cool, man...the problem is most of these dogs are not cool." (14:47)
• Juju reflects on party faux-warmth:
  "And its cop being fake." (12:40)
• Dan, on content stunts:
  "How lame is that as a content opportunity? That all we're trying to do is sneak into the Netflix broadcast with nonsense..." (22:08)
• Tony Kolada, in parody style:
  "These low energy losers are running a witch hunt during the local hour..." (29:24)
• Greg Cody’s beer hustle lauded:
  "He had people coming from every angle...He had a factory line of beer last night." (39:36)
• Trista, on Cristobal's history:
  "Mario Cristobal doesn't win the big games and he never has. And it's always the result of something that he's done, run in error..." (47:28)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [01:53] - Dan’s show-opening confession on his post-party struggle
• [02:48–04:15] - Office party talk, dog drama, and social anxiety
• [09:34–10:11] - Secret Santa rotisserie chicken saga
• [14:47–15:18] - Amin’s “Cool-Ass Dog” and dog policy speech
• [20:44–23:39] - Spaghetti bag stunt planning for Jake Paul fight
• [24:23–30:52] - Song/video production drama and holiday content disputes
• [37:12–42:54] - Recreating the “fake pregame show”; drunken production outtakes
• [45:14–50:16] - Miami vs Texas A&M football discussion

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Tone & Style

True to the show’s tradition, the Local Hour is loose, semi-chaotic, and full of inside jokes, irreverence, Miami-centric banter, and affectionate roasting. The spirit is fun, slightly combative, and completely unfiltered. At its core: a group of friends (and family) riding the line between work and play—just barely holding it together as the holidays approach.

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Final Thoughts

For both diehards and new listeners, this episode encapsulates the heart of The Dan Le Batard Show: inside stories, self-deprecating humor, Miami sports, holiday weirdness, and the kind of office drama only this team can generate. The secret to enduring the chaos? Be more like Darla—the cool-ass dog.

Transcript

[Tony Kolada]

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[Amin]

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[Tony Kolada]

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[Dan LeBatard]

Fair enough.

[Tony Kolada]

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[Juju]

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[Tony Kolada]

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[Trista]

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[Dan LeBatard]

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[Rose]

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[Dan LeBatard]

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[Rose]

Yeah.

[Trista]

You seem pretty into it.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, the dog does not belong at the company party when you've been here.

[Greg Cody]

Two days, everyone got a plus one.

[Dan LeBatard]

Amin is. Is scared of dogs and.

[Amin]

Scared. I'm not scared.

[Trista]

He was pretty frightened. He was the only one, though. The thing that made me feel like it was a good choice is that I've got. I don't know anyone. This is, like you said, two days, and I've got bad social anxiety. And I'm a little bit of a close talker, which is why Ollie is a service dog. And everybody was touching Ollie, and they were getting into my personal space, and I felt like it created a lot of intimacy at a place where you know a lot about intimacy as well. Dan, you had your hands all over booties and hips. It was a lot of areas.

[Amin]

Your wife Trista's voice is.

[Dan LeBatard]

Thank you for the clarification. Crawling.

[Amin]

Crawling to that finish line.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's like Amin did Vegas and then stumbled into this. Stumbled sideways. And Valerie asked me, was Amin drunk? And I'm like, was the bar open?

[Amin]

Nobody could tell. I'll tell you right now. Also, this was light work compared to what I did in Vegas. You know why? Cuz I didn't lose $17 million on a slot machine.

[Greg Cody]

You want to talk about putting in work last night? Greg, Cody and all time?

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

I don't know.

[Rose]

He might.

[Greg Cody]

He must have slipped a Twinkie or something. Maybe even, like. I'm telling you, every time I saw a. A service person walking by with drinks, they had a Miller Light there.

[Amin]

Chris, I talked about this with your mother. He had a system.

[Greg Cody]

It was like, impressive.

[Amin]

This is what the system was. He would order a drink from one server, then he'd order a drink from another server, and it's like cascading. And so he'd always have a beer coming to him. And my favorite part was when he got caught in his System with a full beer. And another beer arrived. He's like, I didn't order that.

[Greg Cody]

At one point, there was three. At one point I saw three beers in his area.

[Dan LeBatard]

I learned last night. I'm not kidding here, okay? I don't know. Maybe we'll spend the whole show on the company Christmas party. I learned something last night that I did not know, okay? There. Tony thinks he's the sniper in the company. There is somebody who works for us. Who the person they're married to is an actual sniper.

[Tony Kolada]

That's sick. Who is it?

[Greg Cody]

Jesus.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

No, they're talking about how Frankie was dressed. No, crushed.

[Tony Kolada]

He was Dominican Blade.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's a different story for sure. Do we have pictures of Frankie?

[Tony Kolada]

I have a picture.

[Jeremy]

I'll put it up.

[Dan LeBatard]

I love Frankie so much. Frankie would kill anybody who walked through these doors. We are so safe here because of Frankie.

[Amin]

Especially if they're a vamp.

[Tony Kolada]

Holidays are back.

[Mike Ryan]

Jack. Drop a new track here with an audio almanac. We said, bye bye, Billy, and that was whack.

[Dan LeBatard]

When will Stu come out?

[Mike Ryan]

You know about that Thai food lifts my mood. Zaslow is a wild dude. Nice hat hole. I got the scoop. Salute Juju Gotti with the alley.

[Rose]

Ooh, what's the worst part of the life? Will Fork has got a new wife. Roy Bellamy loves to talk PA when Christmas is up. He says, does Craig have a back in my day. No, the traffic just got in his way. And then he says, you never know. Confirming you don't get the show.

[Dan LeBatard]

Hearing you turning over. Turning over.

[Mike Ryan]

We got Pablo vocal modulating. I mean's been weekend observatin. Connor McD's MCO rating again.

[Rose]

The Panthers took that.

[Mike Ryan]

So let's give it to Dan cuz his name's on the show and hand it to Mike cuz he happened to know. Now pass me the ball like Stafford Duka Happy Chuka.

[Dan LeBatard]

Over the old and ringing the new. Turning over. Turning over.

[Mike Ryan]

Fake pregame show.

[Dan LeBatard]

Head to head.

[Amin]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

University of Miami. So did we. Texas A and M, biggest game in 20 years.

[Dan LeBatard]

Head to head is always the number one criteria for anything. How does it rub you? Are you shitting me?

[Mike Ryan]

Fake pre game show. So did we. I need your support.

[Dan LeBatard]

Golden State gold, Georgia Tech, yellow jacket.

[Mike Ryan]

No fake pre game show.

[Dan LeBatard]

Six, seven, pregame it. Head to head.

[Mike Ryan]

So did we. University of Miami, Malachi. Biggest game in 20 years. That kind of thing.

[Dan LeBatard]

Zaslo, do you remember the fake pregame show?

[Rose]

I love hearing that so much. I mean, obviously it's not the same voice, but Just going back and thinking and remembering. I told you, it's one of my favorite things to do here is to reminisce about the old days. Of course I remember fake pregame.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay, so what do you remember about the fake pregame show? For the uninitiated, just the reason I bring it up is because I asked Chris Cody to make a bigger open than the greatest of the biggest opens for what we used to do, which is the fake pregame show on Sunday mornings with a giant voice. We'd interview a kicker and. And just make a. Make a mess of Sunday mornings and what? Tony, do you have any access to the fake pregame show or is that before your time?

[Tony Kolada]

No, no, I remember the. The fake pregame show.

[Jeremy]

We.

[Rose]

We were not the flagship of the Dolphins. I think we became the flagship dolphins our second year on air 790 a ticket. But of course, originally we were not the flagship and they wanted to do a pregame show. So they were the fake pregame show.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah. So anyways, you can probably find some stuff there that was good. And so I asked Chris do something bigger because the, um is playing a giant game. This is the biggest game. I don't know when Texas A and M played a game this big. I know they had Johnny Manziel. I know they had the highest paid coach. I've never thought of Texas A and M in this terms. They play for the championship. Mike has flown out golden cane. Couldn't be bothered with the company party. Couldn't be bothered. Well, sat there for Secret Santa, but I couldn't blame him. When I saw someone brought a rotisserie chicken like that seemed wildly inappropriate.

[Tony Kolada]

Somebody brought a what?

[Dan LeBatard]

Secret Santa.

[Tony Kolada]

I wasn't here. Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

It wasn't a hijinks going on there. Fake gifts.

[Dan LeBatard]

Roy, you weren't there. What are you shocked by? Roy? Roy, somebody out there, somebody thought it was appropriate at the Secret Santa bonding party to give somebody as a gift thoughtlessly a rotisserie chicken.

[Greg Cody]

Our director, Jason ended up with it.

[Rose]

You know about that Publix Rotisserie chicken. You know about that?

[Tony Kolada]

Oh, I love the Mardi Gras flavor.

[Dan LeBatard]

Excellent.

[Tony Kolada]

Know about that Mardi Gras flavor?

[Greg Cody]

Lemon pepper, room temp.

[Dan LeBatard]

Put it on the poll at Levittard show. Is it. Is a rotisserie chicken an appropriate Secret Santa gift?

[Rose]

And the rotisserie chicken, Tony, it was sitting under the tree for four hours before it was.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's the other thing.

[Tony Kolada]

So somebody had. Simple enough. Okay. Brought in a rotisserie chicken and then was like, yeah, I'm just going to drop this right here.

[Amin]

We didn't smell it when it came in.

[Rose]

We did not.

[Greg Cody]

I got a medium Dolphins hoodie, good size.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, wait a minute. So Wait a minute. The way that.

[Greg Cody]

That was gross, Dan.

[Dan LeBatard]

All right, look.

[Greg Cody]

That was gross.

[Dan LeBatard]

Look.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, that's right, Gabe.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay, we can talk. You guys make an executive decision here. Do we talk secret Santa awkwardness of company party or the biggest game, um, and Texas A and M have played in 20 years?

[Greg Cody]

Secret Santa office party or how drunk my dad was during that imaging. I played Sam Donald.

[Tony Kolada]

That was great.

[Dan LeBatard]

Sam Darnold. It's good. That's a good one. Juju. We saw part of the game behind us because I'm talking to a man and he's just blowing gas in my face. At the company party open bar, gas hog verse. And someone accused him of putting a thumb in my butt. And he said, you don't know where that thumb's been. That's. That was like 10 o' clock that happened.

[Tony Kolada]

So hips, booty and a thumb in the butt. That's crazy.

[Dan LeBatard]

I did.

[Amin]

Well, someone.

[Tony Kolada]

Yeah, well, I. Trista said hips and booty. I don't know where it came from.

[Dan LeBatard]

Something happened behind me. It felt like I was goosed. I turned around and I mean said, you don't know where this thumb has been. It's true. That happened. I don't know how it happened. That was 10pm that's before we careened into 4am what the. Holy shit. What did Sam Darnold do last night? Juju. Were you watching this game? Because all I was looking was for Parkinson catches and then they threw. Everyone else has a catch and he's got one for four yards, right?

[Juju]

I was locked in Thursday. Thunder took a big poop last night, but the game was too phenomenal to be mad at it, man. Like, somehow I came out of that game more confident in the Rams moving forward.

[Dan LeBatard]

Those two teams could play 100 times and all the games would look like like the last two. And there's not a lot of difference between those teams except Sam Tarnold is going to throw a bunch of interceptions and maybe Seattle can overcome them. I wasn't watching the game. I had my back to the game and I'm looking at Trist and I'm like, I don't think it's an appropriate.

[Greg Cody]

I think you got your hands on hips, apparently.

[Dan LeBatard]

I think I'm an ally and I don't think it's an. It's appropriate for someone who's done two shows with Us to bring the first dog to the. To the company party when Amin's afraid of dogs.

[Amin]

Not afraid of dogs.

[Trista]

I was just trying to be a part of the culture, really.

[Rose]

My wife literally said. She goes, who brought a dog? When Trista walked in.

[Trista]

See, everybody. The thing is, everybody after the fact is like, oh, you brought a dog. That's so weird. And everybody in the moment is like, oh, my God, who's this sweet little baby?

[Juju]

And it's cop being fake.

[Dan LeBatard]

Fraud.

[Amin]

They're frauds. Exactly. By the way, Dan White, Tamra, big hit at the party.

[Mike Ryan]

Very nice.

[Tony Kolada]

Incredibly nice. Actually introduced herself to me. Zazzle. Didn't do it. I didn't like that.

[Amin]

By the way, charming adult.

[Trista]

You call her White Tamara.

[Amin]

That's her name.

[Dan LeBatard]

You were surprised that Tamara was white?

[Amin]

No, she. I guess Tristan is.

[Trista]

No, he. He called her White Tamara.

[Amin]

That's what we call her. Yeah.

[Juju]

He was like, hey, Juju, come meet White Tamara. I'm like, oh, what's up, sis?

[Dan LeBatard]

Sorry, I was. I was confused, and perhaps I should not have been by a handful of things in the awkwardness of Roy's not drinking. For some reason, Roy's favorite thing is an open bar. Has been for as long as I've known him. I'm looking at him and he's like, I'm not drinking. And I'm like, what are we doing?

[Amin]

Yeah, welcome to the last two years, then.

[Greg Cody]

But he was a pros.

[Amin]

Pro.

[Greg Cody]

He was. He didn't have, like, a water. He had a mocktail.

[Dan LeBatard]

But he said, it's not my choice. And I'm like, what, do you have a drinking problem? He's like, no, I just. It's not my choice. I don't. I'm not allowed to drink anymore. No. We are trying to have another baby. So there you go, Dan, how do you stop drinking?

[Rose]

Is that a thing, though?

[Dan LeBatard]

That's how it happened, though.

[Tony Kolada]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

You think that's not confusing to me? And I'm like, open bar. This is Roy's. This is the height of all of those.

[GameTime Announcer]

Oh, trust me, I know.

[Trista]

Dan, can you not have alcohol in the swimmers?

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Rose]

You'll have to excuse my ignorance on this. What's the relationship there?

[Greg Cody]

Not a thing.

[Tony Kolada]

It lowers the count. Yeah, it lowers the count. That really. Certain things lower the count, even if you eat. Like, we does things. Yeah. Shit.

[Amin]

The dog is barking outside. I gotta point this out. I know we're not supposed to, like, lift the curtain or whatever.

[Greg Cody]

More like a yap.

[Amin]

The dog is going nuts outside.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay, so can we Talk about this.

[Greg Cody]

Come on in.

[Dan LeBatard]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Greg Cody]

Come on in.

[Dan LeBatard]

Ollie Amin's afraid of dogs.

[Amin]

Not afraid.

[Dan LeBatard]

Willow.

[Greg Cody]

Willow's gonna be so mad that this dog's getting on air.

[Dan LeBatard]

Amin, I want now 30 seconds of honesty from you, please. What is your relationship with Jessica Willow? That connection of. You did not want Willow in the office?

[Amin]

Well, I mean, yeah, first of all.

[Tony Kolada]

Willow's massive, massive dog.

[Amin]

It's huge, right? But to. To. To Willow's credit, I don't feel great about this dog being here either. I kind of feel like just in a professional environment, we don't need pets. But the other thing is not a pet. Well, it's a dog. The other thing is, I told Trista I don't have a problem with dogs as long as they're cool. There's one dog I know named Darla. Darla's cool, man. Darla be like, what's up, man? I'm like, what's up? And that's it. Like, the problem is most of these dogs are not cool. As evidence by the yapping outside the door.

[Juju]

I mean, tomorrow. I know, darling. Like we know who Darla is.

[Amin]

A dog. Darla's a cool ass dog. That's what Darla is.

[Dan LeBatard]

Chris, do you have any more sound of your father? Your father. So you. You leave the Christmas party. Chris dressed for a holiday party.

[Amin]

He.

[Dan LeBatard]

He formalized up. Zaz wasn't wearing his Roman Reigns gear.

[Rose]

I thought about it.

[Tony Kolada]

You should have that have been a great white camera.

[Rose]

Said, no, I thought about it.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's as good as I've seen Zaslow look in any professional setting. He's radio. He doesn't dress like that.

[Rose]

This is why I got into this. I. I want to. I want to wear my back to back Florida Panthers Stanley cup shirt like I'm wearing right now. That's why I got into this.

[Juju]

I feel like Zaz just didn't wear his hat.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's why I got into this. So that I would never have to dress up.

[Rose]

That's right.

[Tony Kolada]

He wore jeans at least, which was nice.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, those were pants.

[Tony Kolada]

Oh, they were pants, Tone.

[Dan LeBatard]

Whatever.

[Tony Kolada]

I wasn't paying attention.

[Dan LeBatard]

Tony, you're all about style, Zaz.

[Tony Kolada]

Well, my style, not his.

[Dan LeBatard]

Did it up last night. And so did Frankie, by the way.

[Tony Kolada]

Quickly, let's. Let's point out me, Frankie and Amin took an amazing picture night. And once we get Willow off the screen here, we'll throw Frankie on who looked like Dominican Blade. And it was a. Excellent.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, there it is.

[Tony Kolada]

It was an excellent outfit. So if you can't see it, because obviously there's the black on the shirt and the black on the vest is kind of tough to see. He was wearing a vest only, no shirt underneath with the blazer on top. But then he had the hat ready to go. So a a A plus effort from from Frank.

[Greg Cody]

See Jeremy in the background yapping about the heat.

[Jeremy]

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[Dan LeBatard]

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[Dan LeBatard]

Don LeBatard.

[GameTime Announcer]

In terms of Heat fans, you're the most irrational of us right now. What's the pivot?

[Greg Cody]

How am I irrational?

[Dan LeBatard]

Stugats. I don't hear your voice. If I were making a cartoon thing that was meant to symbolize irrational, that's the voice I would give higher.

[Greg Cody]

Premise. Premise.

[Dan LeBatard]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the stug. Can you help me with something? Because I'm having some difficulty with my birthday weekend and sort of what's appropriate. So if. If we were to throw the funniest version of that ringside tomorrow next to you Tonight. What? Or tonight. Excuse me. I'm sorry. The fight is tonight. What would be the right amount of people to send ringside or close to ringside, Wherever it is, the tickets are that Chris can get for tonight's Jake Paul fight. How many tickets should we buy to the fight and who should get those tickets for us to represent at that fight correctly.

[Juju]

Damn, that's a lot of responsibility for the kid. But, I mean, I'm gonna just go ahead and put my name in the hat just because, you know, ringside.

[Greg Cody]

Can I say that I've heard from sources close to that arena that if we arrive there with a spaghetti bag, things will happen. It will be shown. Like we. We've talked with people.

[Rose]

I heard that rumor, too.

[Greg Cody]

We've talked with people in the video room at that building and they said.

[Dan LeBatard]

But why aren't you doing it?

[Greg Cody]

I can't tonight.

[Dan LeBatard]

Who's going to do it?

[Juju]

I can if you need me now.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's ridiculous. We need a fat person to do it. It's got to be either me or him.

[Greg Cody]

Well, there you go.

[Rose]

Let me tell you something. This was strategic. Where yesterday I asked Dan what time the main event is going to be, and I think he said one amount. I'm so effing out.

[Greg Cody]

Maybe we send Stunt Dan and people will think it's you just throwing ideas, seeing what sticks.

[Amin]

I just want to point out right now that while yes, we do have sources inside the building and yes, I do believe their ability to get us on the broadcast, I think it's just adorable that Zaz thinks they're going to hold it for the main event at 1am that's when they're going to show you guys. You don't have to be there for that. You just got to be there early enough for them to show it. During the boring time where they just show random people in the crowd, you.

[Rose]

Don'T think they would take time away from Anthony, Joshua, Jake, Paul to show me eating spaghetti out of a bag.

[Amin]

You know, with a fork with it.

[Rose]

With a fork and spoon, by the way.

[Amin]

You know what? I stand corrected.

[Dan LeBatard]

I am. I think that we should. I really want somebody to explain what the lameness of this content opportunity is. The question is, because Metal Arc would have to pay for these tickets journalistically, what is the number of people to send there to simply get the lame viral moment of someone like Zaz eating a bag of spaghetti next to the stupidity of what this fight is like? What. How lame is that as a content opportunity? That all we're trying to do is sneak into the Netflix broadcast with nonsense because we want to look ridiculous and have juju notarizing all of this ringside.

[Juju]

You know, it's not going to be ridiculous. You just get some shirts made tonight. You feel me? Metal Art Media.com or whatever.

[Trista]

We're promoting alley oopshow.com.

[Amin]

We have a website.

[Juju]

Hey, come on. Eat the. Eat this. The spaghetti. Now. We got pretty much prime real estate in promo.

[Dan LeBatard]

Could we get Trista's dog in the building? You think we have?

[Trista]

Yeah, we could. I bet you. I bet you we could.

[Dan LeBatard]

Service animal. We write a letter.

[Trista]

Service. I already have a letter.

[Greg Cody]

I think, Dan, you'd have to be there for that.

[Amin]

Yeah, just put it in your pocket. No one's going to notice.

[Rose]

I think, Dan, you'd have to be there for us to get the spaghetti.

[Greg Cody]

That's a Ziploc bag.

[Rose]

Into the building.

[Tony Kolada]

I think.

[Greg Cody]

I believe they have some Sort of population pasta station somewhere in that arena. Maybe we bring the Ziploc. Empty. Ziploc empty. And then we fill it up with their spaghetti.

[Dan LeBatard]

You think they sell. Wait a minute. You think they sell spaghetti?

[Greg Cody]

I believe the.

[Tony Kolada]

That media dining.

[Rose]

Yeah.

[Tony Kolada]

At all fights, they got a nice media dining set up. Last time I went to Vegas, they had an entire thing of.

[Greg Cody]

Even for the fans, I think there's a pasta station.

[Tony Kolada]

You know what we should do is take Zaz. We make them do that shirt. Metal arc, media, whatever. Zazzle Show 2.0. Whatever. But then as he's eating the spaghetti, he gets it on his hands, and then he puts it on the shirt.

[Greg Cody]

White shirt.

[Dan LeBatard]

Zaz is out. I don't want to talk about Joe Rogan's. Like, what's he.

[Greg Cody]

What's that guy?

[Dan LeBatard]

Guys, I don't want to talk about ideas. Tell me something we can actually do. Zaz is saying one. I want to watch football. He's saying one AM Too rich for my blood. I got to get up at noon tomorrow to watch the Hurricanes. That's a lot. In 11 hours, I want football and.

[Rose]

Go to sleep tonight.

[Amin]

Jonathan Zazlow, bad teammate.

[Rose]

Yeah, you can say whatever you want.

[Greg Cody]

It's like Tony saying no to the open.

[Tony Kolada]

Okay, first off, I heard that that was rich from a lot of people in here, by the way. A lot of people all the way down that way. I know that he was a part of it, so chose not to do it. He admitted that this guy. Right.

[Greg Cody]

No, I know.

[Tony Kolada]

I'm just saying my piece of.

[Dan LeBatard]

Wait, wait. I wasn't here to defend myself.

[Juju]

We snitching now?

[Greg Cody]

Hold on.

[Tony Kolada]

You said it.

[Juju]

We was in the courtroom pointing at each other.

[Jeremy]

Now.

[Dan LeBatard]

This is a lot to digest, and we've got a big game to get to. And I do want to talk about the University of Miami in Texas A and M. However, Tony has been sitting on two days of fury. Just. He's enraged by the entirety of the show's accusations against him. Can I go back for a second? I believe Yeti, who somehow was not invited to the company party last night.

[Greg Cody]

That was an oversight.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, you're careless. So the fact I believe that Yeti has made a certified banger. I believe that that is a good song. I may not have judgment here because I'm 57 years old. So the musically astute among us would say, what? Please, Tony, Juju. I think you guys know if I.

[Tony Kolada]

Would have been a part of it, it would have been great.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeti made something sound Latin. Yet Yeti has no Latin in him. That felt good as a song to me. I'm 57 years old. My taste is aged out. Perhaps I'm not good judge on this. I thought that was a good song. The fact that you guys refused to participate in it. The accusation Tony is saying is not true. We're saying he's. He didn't want his cool attached to what might have been a lame video. Do I have the accusation right, Juju?

[Juju]

I think you have the accusation a little bit wrong about Tony. Me, I can just speak for myself. I do music in real life. And so you asking me to do a song that I don't necessarily feel or, you know, like. I think Rose did a great job. That's just not my expertise, that Latin flare. So I. I called him, though. I ain't gonna chatty Kathy and call for four people and say no. I called, yeah, Yeti. I say no, brother.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay? And. Because I would see where Tony worked in the shadows, the risk there for Juju. He's not gonna notarize shit music, so he's not gonna. But that's not. That is no indictment of Yeti. What? Tony.

[Tony Kolada]

No, what I was gonna say is I didn't work in the shadows. I actually gave others opportunity. Right? If you start thinking about what I was.

[Greg Cody]

You're doing this.

[Tony Kolada]

I was like, ethan, you know what, buddy? You know what would be really good for you? You being the Santa. That would be incredible. And then all of a sudden, sudden, Ethan does a great job of Santa. People don't even know it's Ethan. It's Ethan, by the way, on the hook. Who could do it?

[Amin]

Rose.

[Tony Kolada]

Rose, I'm gonna sing the hook. How about you sing the hook, Kirsten? The same thing.

[Greg Cody]

Boom.

[Tony Kolada]

You sing the hook. All of a sudden, I'm. I'm an economy Dan. I'm giving people business.

[Amin]

Thank you, Tony Kolada, you good teammate.

[Tony Kolada]

Thank you. I do have. I do have a response to all the things that were said.

[Dan LeBatard]

I want. Yes, I do want to give. I want to. I want to give. Wait a minute. What we did to tone.

[Amin]

What.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay. I feel like as a show, we put Tony in a bad spot because he had no way to defend himself for two days against the accusation that Tony, who's been hustling for years around here, wouldn't want to try something artistically where he would get a shot to star in a video. But director Jason did say that you did not tell him that you weren't doing it until the very last day, which made him then rewrite the entirety of everything he was doing there because you bailed at the very last minute, so that's fair. Okay, so the floor is yours. Well, okay, so Jason was trying to make this video for three days.

[Rose]

I'm being told he bailed the day of.

[Tony Kolada]

No, no, I. I bailed the. The minute before. I was like, hey, we're done with lunch. You ready to do it? I'm like, yeah, no, Rose, I'm gonna need you to sing the hook. Ethan, I got a great opportunity for you, buddy. Throw on the. You were delegated exactly right. That's like, I'm not a businessman. I'm a business man.

[Greg Cody]

Right?

[Tony Kolada]

Ethan, here's your star turn right here. Boom. All way the son. Maybe you got. Maybe you get on mystery cake next week.

[Jeremy]

I don't know.

[Dan LeBatard]

All right, so if we're all being honest, did we think Jason was going to make something unspeakably lame and we didn't want our names attached to it? Can we be 100% honest?

[Greg Cody]

I.

[Tony Kolada]

That I don't know. All I know is, for me, I was extremely busy. It's the busiest. I've never been busier, actually busy.

[Rose]

He was literally sitting at the table out there.

[Juju]

Jason cool as hell, man. Jason be making a lot of good stuff around here. So I didn't assume it was. It just wasn't my cup of tea.

[Dan LeBatard]

I got it. Juju. Thank you for. I think we have clarified all of this except for Trista bringing the dog to the company party.

[Trista]

Well, I was just gonna say just a cosign for Juju. Do you remember when. You probably don't, but do you remember when Drake made Views and it had. It was this, like, flare of Caribbean and everybody was like, what is Drake doing?

[Greg Cody]

You remember that make.

[Trista]

I'm sure you remember. It was all the rage and everyone was like, wow, Drake's appropriating Caribbean music, which he has no connection to.

[Dan LeBatard]

Controller. Controller.

[Greg Cody]

By the way.

[Tony Kolada]

We look. We look very happily back on Views. Very good album, by the way.

[Trista]

It was. That's what Juju is trying to avoid is like, what does Juju have? I know that his doordash name is Julio, but that's the only connection that he has to Latin culture.

[Juju]

Stop snitching.

[Trista]

My bad.

[Tony Kolada]

Would you like my comment, Dan?

[Dan LeBatard]

Yes, please. The floor is your. Tony. I'm sorry. In some ways, I'm sorry that it has taken this long to actually give you the room to defend yourself against an assault of allegations such a long.

[Rose]

Like Diego Pavia thinks your Tweet was long, dude.

[Tony Kolada]

He thinks that maybe he's part of this tweet. All right. Nobody's bigger on Christmas than me, folks. Love the holidays. Love the reason for the season. Jesus Christ. Tremendous. But fake news smear campaign for the Levitard show. The biggest. These low energy losers are running a witch hunt during the local hour, saying I skipped their little holiday intro rap because I was scared of losing my cool card. Total disaster. Fake news sad. Let me even. Don't even get me started on Chris Cody. Fraud played both sides, by the way. As an aside, he. He was like, you can't do this. You can't do this.

[Greg Cody]

That's not true.

[Tony Kolada]

He's like. He told me personally. He took me aside and literally grabbed my arm and said, please don't do this. I care about you. Don't do this.

[Greg Cody]

You're lying.

[Tony Kolada]

Oh, now I'm lying. Okay, fine. We'll keep going.

[Juju]

Your honor. Look at all the snitches.

[Tony Kolada]

I'm just being truthful. You're honest.

[GameTime Announcer]

Honor.

[Dan LeBatard]

Zaz.

[Tony Kolada]

I mean, I'm being honest.

[Rose]

Yeah, Honesty is what we need.

[Dan LeBatard]

Thank you.

[Tony Kolada]

Okay, I'll tell you the real story. Right now. My life is huge. Massive deals, tremendous things happening. Schedule more packed than ever it could be. If I would have done it, I would have won the Golden Globe like Dan said. And that's it. They're jealous, folks. Very jealous. Merry Christmas. Anyway. The haters and losers. So that was my comment.

[Rose]

I wanted to make sure emoji. Three American flags.

[Tony Kolada]

Three American flags. Of course. You know, three times. For the. For the chat.

[Trista]

ChatGPT. Please write me a tweet in the voice of DJT to respond to the DLS.

[Tony Kolada]

That was all off the easy.

[Greg Cody]

No.

[Tony Kolada]

No GPT needed.

[Amin]

Well put.

[Dan LeBatard]

You were fired up. You were mad at us.

[Tony Kolada]

I'm at my in laws house and all of a sudden I see a thing says happy holidays except for Tony. And I was like, what does this have to do with me? And then I listened to the local hour. Completely bashing from everybody here. It's insane. And maybe I warranted.

[Dan LeBatard]

I think it's a good song and I think we should be proud to be. It's not really easy to make music that's not corny and terr. Horrible in the sports. Fear. Do you hear a lot of it? Like yeti. How is he not invited to the party? Oh, and another thing. Another thing. Ron McGill's charity was supposed to get money from the highlight thing, and no one even invited Ron McGill to anything. He was Supporting that highlight team. How are you so careless? Chris Cody.

[Greg Cody]

Welcome to the season, Dan. Yeah. The league moved on from Ron McGill. We didn't have any control over that.

[Rose]

Didn't Ron leave upset last night?

[Greg Cody]

It would be awkward to invite Ron. He's like the X. Like, the league made us break up with Ron. That's not. That was not enough. Yeah, you think? We kicked Ron out.

[Dan LeBatard]

But Ron didn't know you guys had won the championship.

[Greg Cody]

It's a little awkward when he gets kicked out. Like, what are we gonna be like, hey, Ron, come celebrate with us. You're not with us anymore. But, like, it was awkward.

[Amin]

He left last night pretty early, and I was kind of surprised, but I thought he just had another, like, event.

[Greg Cody]

No, he told me I'm dead to him.

[Dan LeBatard]

His feelings are hurt.

[Greg Cody]

No, I know. I felt bad. I could have invited him, but he. The league moved on from him as our sponsor for their own reasons that we didn't have anything to do with.

[Dan LeBatard]

No one told me this.

[Greg Cody]

Well, we were not happy about it. And there's. We're celebrating with our current sponsor.

[Rose]

Yeah, that money could have went to Ron's foundation.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah. Wasn't our choice, clearly.

[Dan LeBatard]

Your championship stole charity money from Ron and the animals.

[Greg Cody]

That's fair.

[Dan LeBatard]

And no one invited him to the party.

[Greg Cody]

But that I feel bad about. I can. I couldn't have done anything about the.

[Dan LeBatard]

Sponsorship stuff, but why was Yeti not invited to the party? We will do next.

[Greg Cody]

He lives in Georgia.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeti, I'm sorry that we did not invite you to the party. We have aired there.

[Greg Cody]

So does juju.

[Amin]

If only someone who lived in Georgia were here.

[Tony Kolada]

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[Dan LeBatard]

Don LeBatard Quiet man.

[Amin]

Yes.

[Mike Ryan]

You know I'm a married man. I don't cheat on my wife. Despite that gratuitous line in back in my stugach. I wish you were here.

[Greg Cody]

My wife.

[Mike Ryan]

I really miss her. No I don't. That's the thing about being married, you know, you not allowed to say I don't miss my wife. I've been gone two days. I haven't been gone long enough to miss my wife. I'm sorry. I call her, I'm on with her. 30 seconds. You know, what am I. Hello? All right, all right, we'll see you. All right. And then, you know, I'm going to see her in two days. How's jumping, Charlie?

[Dan LeBatard]

Good. This is the D Ler show with the two gods. I'll get to the UM game. It's not appropriate to work for developmental at leather tart show. Is it appropriate to work somewhere for two days in a studio and then bring your dog to the holiday party?

[Trista]

Service dog.

[Greg Cody]

What about. Can I also put up. Is. Is it appropriate to send work tasks to your crew at 5pm or on company holiday day?

[Dan LeBatard]

I needed an open for the fake pregame.

[Greg Cody]

Me and Jeremy are like this mother.

[Dan LeBatard]

Did Jeremy make one?

[Rose]

Did you?

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, he did.

[Dan LeBatard]

Let's see what he's got.

[Jeremy]

It's the fake pregame show and it's. It's good, isn't it, Joe?

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Jeremy]

Mike Ryan's Hurricanes are saying, I need your support. And they represent the acc, not the Golden.

[Dan LeBatard]

Golden State gold Georgia Tech yellow jacket.

[Jeremy]

With Malaki leading the charge. It's the fake pregame show and Merry Christmas. Mike Ryan will be screaming no. And are you me if Mala doesn't come through, did you expect there to be different fake pregame show music?

[Mike Ryan]

So did we.

[Jeremy]

Well, there's not, but we found this and that's.

[Rose]

It's good.

[Jeremy]

Dan, do you like this? Is this good for you?

[Dan LeBatard]

How does it rub you?

[Jeremy]

Well, Greg, Cody says hello before we say goodbye. So watch my 6, 6, 7. Before Malaki leads the Canes to victory. It's the fake pre game show.

[Mike Ryan]

And boom goes the dynamite.

[Dan LeBatard]

I've got an honest question about all of this because I don't know what's right. You will help me understand what's right. I'm of the belief that we should, for example, be doing a live stream off of the UM game tomorrow because it's a pretty important game. But we had a holiday party and people need time off for the holidays. So you think it's wrong that I ask Jeremy and you to make some music before our last show?

[Greg Cody]

No, I thought just the tie. Like, I'm literally about to leave my house to head to the party and.

[Dan LeBatard]

I get the text and so the work reflects that.

[Greg Cody]

If you hear the one that I did, my dad's work parts. I did that last night after the party.

[Dan LeBatard]

So let's talk.

[Greg Cody]

I have the raw footage of me like getting those clips from him.

[Dan LeBatard]

Please, let's do this. Please, let's do this. Because. Because you guys have it, right? There was no more impressive thing at this holiday party then the surgical way. And I'm telling you, there's a sniper there. I learned last night that amongst us, somebody with our group is married to a sniper. An actual person. If you're, if you're a sniper once, you're always a sniper, correct? If you were in the United States military.

[Tony Kolada]

Yeah. That doesn't go away.

[Rose]

You can grow.

[Trista]

There was more than a sniper.

[Rose]

It's like riding a bike.

[Dan LeBatard]

You're once a sniper, put it on the pole at Levitturt show. Once a sniper, always a sniper. Nothing more impressive. And I'm talking to him about being a Navy SEAL and the height of the military, surgical incisions on discipline. And what I'm seeing nearby is Greg Cody ordering beers in a way that's more Navy SEAL team than anything I've seen. He had people coming from every angle, including his wife and me. He had a factory line of beer last night.

[Greg Cody]

The wait staff was impressed. They were like, you have another one?

[Amin]

It was such a sophisticated system. I talked about this with Chris's mom for a while. Like, this is incredible how he's got this going. His whole. It's almost like a Rob Peter, Pay Paul kind of situation.

[Rose]

When I was ordering drinks last night, you know, one server would come up, you know, hey, can I get you a drink? I said, of course, you know, makers on double on the rocks. And then like two minutes later, another server comes up, like, can I get you something to drink? And my response was, he already took my order. Thank you.

[Greg Cody]

You, I, I mean, my dad in that spot every time. Miller Light, right? You ask him if you need a drink, Miller.

[Rose]

Like anyone who comes up to him, can I get you a drink? Just, he's just giving his.

[Greg Cody]

And he has my mom going around multiple times. My mom comes up to me and she's like, I'm looking for the waiter. Your dad needs a beer. So it's like, it is like I'm telling you, impressive. And so after that, I needed some work parts. Cuz last yesterday before the party, I was able to throw my work parts together, but I needed some fake pregame show, that type of stuff. So I had a drunk Greg Cody do it. And I have, here's the 45 second wait.

[Dan LeBatard]

This is you working in the middle of the night?

[Greg Cody]

No, no, this is me in an Uber Last night, heading back to my house with my dad, where it's just me shoving a phone in front of his face and being like, whisper, fake pregame show. All right, so whisper fake pregame show.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't know what you mean.

[Greg Cody]

Fake pregame show.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't know what that means. Fake pregame show. Again, fake pregame show.

[Greg Cody]

Biggest game in 20 years.

[Mike Ryan]

Biggest game in 20 years.

[Greg Cody]

University of Miami.

[Mike Ryan]

University of Miami. Texas A. Texas A M. That kind of thing. That kind of thing. That kind of thing. That kind of thing.

[Dan LeBatard]

Just do.

[Amin]

Again.

[Mike Ryan]

Fake pregame show. Pregame show.

[Greg Cody]

Fake pregame show.

[Mike Ryan]

Fake pregame show. Pregame in it. Pregaming it. Pregaming it. Pregaming it.

[Greg Cody]

So I took that. I took those work parts and I was able to make this. Oh, wait, that's Jeremy. And I was able to make this.

[Mike Ryan]

Fake pre game show.

[Dan LeBatard]

Head to head. Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

University of Miami. So did we. Texas A and M, biggest game in 20 years.

[Dan LeBatard]

Hello. Head to head is always the number one criteria for anything. How does it rub you? Are you shitting me?

[Mike Ryan]

Fake break game show. So did we. I need your support.

[Dan LeBatard]

Golden State gold, Georgia Tech, yellow jacket.

[Greg Cody]

No.

[Mike Ryan]

Fake pregame show. 6, 7. No pregame in it.

[Dan LeBatard]

Head to head.

[GameTime Announcer]

Social. Did we.

[Mike Ryan]

University of Miami. Malaki. Biggest game in 20 years. That kind of thing.

[Dan LeBatard]

You know what? I'm sorry. Huh? You did the most good, good job, Chris. Good job.

[Greg Cody]

And I'm not going to lie. I thought of this. I was like, should I do it on the way to the party? I'm like, you know what? This will be funnier after the party.

[Rose]

Well, he had such a hard time comprehending what you were.

[Amin]

I don't understand what that means.

[Dan LeBatard]

I don't know what that means. 20.

[Greg Cody]

All right, so whisper, fake pregame show.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't know what you mean.

[Greg Cody]

Fake pre game show.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't know what that means.

[Rose]

There's no meaning.

[GameTime Announcer]

It's just.

[Rose]

It's just. Whisper it.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's. That's the thing.

[Greg Cody]

And then my mom. My mom chimes in. He just wants you to whisper it.

[Rose]

Well, like a baby.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay. He's not. It's not just that he's a baby. Just so that you understand the perspectives from which I see the Cody. Earlene. Cody is a wildly impressive human being wearing a Rolex for 30 years of service on her wrist because she runs a gangster law firm and she's wandering off to get that guy a beer. That. That guy.

[GameTime Announcer]

Like what she's.

[Greg Cody]

She's so worried about.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, that guy needs another Beer. As if he doesn't have seven people. And now the sniper bringing in beers. Me too. Every, everybody just funneling in beers. She's walking away mumbling, I'm a serious person at work, people. I'm. I'm an important person. Why am I getting this fool his 12th beer when he's got three other people bringing him 12 beers? So. So that he can make that magic.

[Juju]

Earlene, definitely the biggest gangster in the party last night. She was cool as hell. Like we talk about 10 minutes. Cuz a couple weeks ago, Greg and Earlene came to Atlanta. Atlanta. And so me and my girl took them out. You feel me? And we, we get, we got way closer. So early, man, she's so funny, man. Salute, Early.

[Amin]

She's awesome. So is white Tamara.

[Tony Kolada]

Yeah.

[Amin]

Everything you just said about early and I'm like, yeah, it's kind of like white Tamara. This is accomplished, smart person, very charming. And I'm like, and this guy, you gotta dress him, you gotta dress him before you go out.

[Rose]

My wife's a huge fan of a mean now. I, I think they're making plans like my wife's a big amin guy now.

[Dan LeBatard]

Zazlo, can you please. As someone who's covered college football all season, Lucy Rodine is gonna. I think she's gon at Texas A and M. So is Ron McGill's kid who's enjoyed following them around. Let's break this down as quickly as we can through this prism, okay? I believe this is the best team the University of Miami has faced and I think Marcel Reed is the most dangerous quarterback they've faced. I know CJ Carr has been very good this year and doesn't turn the ball over. But C.J. carr cannot run, did not run all season and he was playing in his first game against Miami. So I think, I think even though Kevin Jennings of SMU is very good, I think Marcel Reed at quarterback is the greatest threat they have. But Greg was telling everyone at the party and I think he's got this right, that Miami's advantages on both lines of scrimmages make it so that Miami is gone from a five and a half point dog to a two and a half point dog and is getting healthy and I believe can expose the SEC as a fraud from this perspective. Arkansas lost 10 games in a row. Arkansas put up 42 on Texas A&M. They didn't put up 42 on anybody else. When I saw Arkansas play Notre Dame, Notre Dame dragged Arkansas across the line of scrimmage. I think this sec, these SEC Teams because they're playing against each other. Hasn't quite seen something like the Miami offensive line or the Miami defensive line. Because you think of the SEC as Georgia, Alabama and Oklahoma. They're not what they were, none of them. Those are hugely flawed teams. Texas A and M hasn't beaten anybody in a conference that people think is good. I do think there's the chance Miami drags them.

[Trista]

No, I mean, we just haven't talked about the most important element.

[Rose]

I know where this is going.

[Trista]

I just feel like I really wanted to say something to Mike, but I know Mike has been here a long time.

[Rose]

She went to Oregon, you know, where this guy.

[Trista]

And probably would have slit my throat if I would have said this like right away. 2 seconds in proverbially 2018.

[Dan LeBatard]

I don't think that's how you say.

[Trista]

No, that was a bad. That was bad. That was matriculated also then.

[Amin]

I don't think, I don't think that's how you say it either.

[Trista]

That was bad. That was bad. We're both having a bad, bad word day. Oregon led Stanford 3128. Under a minute left, holding the ball on the 43 yard line. And instead of just kneeling down, Mario Cristobal called for a handoff and instead Verdell fumbled, Stanford recovered, tied the game and won it in overtime. Mario Cristobal doesn't win the big games and he never has. And it's always the result of something that he's done. Run in error. And I think that will come to rear its ugly head proverbially tomorrow.

[Juju]

I don't know about that.

[Tony Kolada]

Trista, he played the biggest games this year outside of the SMU game in the, and the Louisville game, obviously the big games on the schedule. Notre Dame, like that was a win. They, they won that game convincingly. That we always talk about it. But that first drive of the second half where they went for like 16 plays, 16 plays, 9 minute drive where they ran the ball up the middle, the middle six times in a row, like that shows you how strong their offensive line is.

[Rose]

And I think they're just scoring on them.

[Tony Kolada]

And then when you flip on the defensive side of the ball like these guys talk about Reuben Bane, it's like, okay, one on one, Ruben Bane. Don't send a tight end to help. Don't send a back to Chip. That guy is a menace and he's going to wreck everything they want to do. My only worry is that the Canes, looking through their schedule, didn't really play a quarterback that was Dual threat in the way that they have struggled with Haynes.

[Dan LeBatard]

K. Jennings isn't this.

[Tony Kolada]

And he's no. And he's not that whatsoever. Marcel Reed is the guy that can get out to outside and really create stuff with his feet. So it's a lot about the containment. Those edges, Mezzador, Bain, they're going to have to get around and then force him to get up the pocket. But the linebackers are going to have to keep an eye on Marcel Reed so he doesn't escape.

[Dan LeBatard]

Do you agree? As someone who's a college football expert, you have been saying the schedule of Texas A and M, when you look at it, you're not going to see a whole lot of impressive things. Marcel Reed is averaging five yards a carry. He's their second leading rusher. Their receivers, they've got three very good receivers. They can score on any.

[Rose]

Anybody not going to sit here and tell you I'm not worried. It's the biggest crowd the Canes will play it in front of all season, like by a wide margin. All right.

[Dan LeBatard]

And it's the best team they will have played.

[Rose]

Yep. Yeah. Yeah. And I just. This Texas A and M team, one loss in the SEC is super impressive. Obviously they've played all the bottom tier SEC teams. They have no wins. They didn't play any of the top ones. The best SEC team they played is Texas and Texas dominated them in the second. Second half. I don't think Texas is that good. I think the Canes are going to score on them tomorrow. Canes might take that ass.

[Juju]

I got a cane. I got a cane by canes by 12. Get him out of here.

[Dan LeBatard]

Trist is alone here. Everybody's out here now. We've swung wildly on this.

[Trista]

Homers.

[Amin]

I don't care.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay. Indifference is a good way to end the segment before the biggest game in 20 years for, um, football. And Doug. Here we have the Limu Emu in its natural habitat helping people customize their car insurance and save hundreds with Liberty Mutual. Fascinating. It's accompanied by his natural ally, Doug Limu. Is that guy with the binoculars watching us? Cut the camera. They see us.

[Greg Cody]

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[Dan LeBatard]

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[Greg Cody]

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