Local Hour: The Eclipse Is Coming

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show w/ Stugotz

Local Hour: The Eclipse Is Coming

Date: October 1, 2025
Location: The Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami
Hosts: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, Greg Cody, Mike Ryan, Jeremy

Overview

This episode delivers the usual South Florida-flavored sports takes, office banter, and pop-culture diversions the Le Batard Show is known for. Highlights include comedic gripes about Miami traffic and sun logistics, a full-throated debate over the Miami-FSU rivalry and its national standing, some movie reviews and nostalgic local media talk, plus a heated discussion about Tyreek Hill’s murky contract situation, Saudi sports money, and the ethics of prioritizing cash over principle.

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Main Discussion Points & Insights

1. Greg Cody’s Legendary Tardiness and South Florida Traffic

• Traffic Excuses & Sun vs. Rain Debate:
  • Greg Cody, as always, arrives late, kicking off a heated debate on why sunny days make Miami drivers more cautious (and thus traffic worse) than rainy days.
  • Greg insists, “On the 836, absolutely ... you’re staring straight into the sun. And everyone drives a lot slower than on a day that’s, like, cloudy. Not rainy. Cloudy.” — Greg Cody (02:50)
  • Stugotz quips, “It’s really nice out today. Traffic’s gonna suck.” (03:08)
• Airport Curiosity:
  • Observations about people slowing down near the airport either for the sun, to watch planes, or to observe the crew teams rowing on the canal.
  • “They keep making the walls taller and taller so people can’t see the planes and slow down. But people keep slowing down next to the airport … maybe to see if people are boating.” — Greg Cody (03:11)
• Greg's Epic Commute:
  • Offers a sleepover invitation so Stugotz can experience the sun-blasted commute himself: “Sleep over at my house the next time that we see it’s going to be a sunny day and just ride in with me. So you can go straight east into the sun.” (04:24)
  • Stugotz: “I’m not sleeping at your house.” (04:31)

2. Miami-FSU Rivalry: History or Hate?

• Is It True Hate or Just History?
  • Dan challenges ESPN’s billing of Miami-FSU as a rivalry “of history and hate,” arguing it’s mostly history, not hate, and citing Bobby Bowden’s likability as a factor.
    • “Bobby Bowden lost so much and was so lovable in losing that Miami doesn’t hate FSU.” — Dan Le Batard (07:08)
  • Mike Ryan, a die-hard Miami fan, agrees mutual respect outweighs bitterness:
    • “FSU didn’t have to routinely play Miami and they kept Miami on the schedule. That’s part of why there’s more animosity towards Florida ... Florida decided they didn’t want the smoke anymore.” (08:12)
• Miami as Cast-off Rival:
  • Mike Ryan: “Miami’s biggest rivals, whether it be Florida, Florida State, Notre Dame—they all have bigger rivals. So Miami’s, you know, always like a weird outlier.” (07:53)
  • Greg Cody laments, “I feel like that’s an indictment on Miami not being anyone’s biggest rival.” (08:32)
• Rivalry Records & Upsets:
  • Mike Ryan: “It’s also a weird rivalry in that the better team wins it almost all the time.” (10:09)
  • Stugotz asks: “When is there an instance that Miami had everything on the line and FSU ruined it?” suggesting Miami traditionally had the upper hand. (12:32)
• Memorable Games & Periods:
  • The crew reminisces about the Jameis Winston years as a rare “heartbreak” stretch for Miami fans.
  • “Strangely enough, the most painful stretch of Miami results, where the most heartbreaking results happened, was kind of like when Jameis Winston was there.” — Mike Ryan (12:42)
  • Jeremy: “I think FSU started for me in the early 90s. Bowden, all the wide rights ... like five or six meetings in a row where both were in the top five. I mean, it was an elite rivalry.” (14:25)
  • Miami’s original rivalry with Florida is affirmed as the true “historic heat.”
• Where to Watch Deep-Dive Rivalry Content:
  • Mike Ryan promotes his “intensely focused, one subject” preview show:
    • “We’ll be live at 2pm Eastern ... YouTube.com OfficialCanesInsight. Thank you for finally mentioning one of the best rivalries in college football this week. I appreciate it.” (06:53, 09:26)

3. Sports & Pop Culture Diversions

• Movie Review: “Eddington”
  • Dan praises Ari Aster’s “Eddington” as both a slow burn and a wild ride in its last half-hour, bemoaning that politics seem to tank movie ratings.
    • “I saw a really wonderful movie last night that gets a low rating ... just an insane half hour at the end … I would recommend to anyone listening.” — Dan Le Batard (35:28, 37:30)
  • Banter about Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, and local news legends transitions into jibes about making it in geriatric commercials in Miami.
• News Oddity: Shark Incident
  • Jeremy offers a darkly comic local news bit:
    • “A woman who was out swimming with her friends is believed to have been swallowed whole by a 13-foot shark ... That’s the weirdest part about that story. ... Where’s Shelly?” (19:46)
  • Greg Cody: “Every friend group has a Shelly though, that if they go missing because a shark ate them whole, you wouldn’t notice.” (20:06)

4. Deep Dolphins Dive: Tyreek Hill’s Contract & Uncertainty

• Contract Confusion:
  • Dan raises the issue of Tyreek Hill’s thickly worded, non-guaranteed contract and the disaster that is a serious injury under such terms.
    • “It’s a muddled contract with Tyreek Hill, and he’s not guaranteed the $36 million ... that is a truly catastrophic injury when you don’t guarantee that money.” — Dan Le Batard (38:24)
  • Stugotz summarizes: “He’s owed $36 million next year. None of it is guaranteed ... Even if Tyreek Hill didn’t get hurt, I don’t know that the Dolphins were keeping him next year anyway.” (42:26)
  • The group discusses manipulations like per-game bonuses and the possibility/ethics of cutting Hill while injured.
• Skepticism Over Agent Spin:
  • Dan calls out how Drew Rosenhaus’ optimism (“he’ll play in 2025”) means nothing, given his bias and incentive to promote a hopeful narrative:
    • “He’s biased, he’s compromised, and he’s incentivized ... for his own business ... not even his client.” — Dan Le Batard (44:27)
• Broader NFL Contract Takeaways:
  • Jeremy: “Tyreek Hill has to read the market right now. He’s going to be 32 next year coming off this injury. ... He’s going to lose a step.” (40:27)
  • Mike Ryan wonders if Hill’s leg will even heal in time for a Saudi flag football tournament side gig with Tom Brady, for which Brady is allegedly paid $75 million.

5. Saudi Sportswashing & “Blood Money”

• Endless Oil Wealth & Buying Influence:
  • Stugotz: “I don’t understand how the Saudis have all this money.” (45:47)
  • Jeremy, Dan, Mike: It’s oil; the supply and money seem endless, and the regime pours it into golf, flag football, and sportswashing.
  • Mike Ryan: “They export the most oil. ... The oil keeps coming ... We declared a national oil emergency in this country.” (46:35)
• Big Offers Turned Down:
  • Jeremy: “They offered an amount to Tiger Woods to join LIV Golf that dwarfs what they offered Tom Brady, and Tiger Woods said no. So they don’t always get what they want, but they usually do.” (46:57)
  • Brief ethical sidebar: Some (e.g., Shane Gillis) reject Saudi money. Dan denounces others’ hypocrisy and greed:
    • “They bonesawed a journalist. Okay. ... That’s not money. That’s blood money.” (47:56)

6. Classic Show Banter & Notable Moments

• Blank Show Prep:
  • Ethan’s “show prep” is literally a blank page, leading to a running joke about the show’s ‘chaotic sloppiness.’
    • Dan: “He handed me a piece of paper ... literally no writing on it. Nothing. It’s a blank sheet.” (05:39)
    • Stugotz: “Lot of room for thoughts.” (05:39)
• Plane Pilot Preferences (and Prejudices):
  • Dan confesses: “The pilot started speaking and he had a lisp and I felt less safe. I trusted him less ... Put it on the poll—do you feel less safe on a flight if the pilot is speaking with a lisp?” (29:08, 29:40)
  • Crackpot debate: would you rather a blind or a deaf pilot? Greg, deadpan: “I would implicitly trust a blind pilot.” (31:04)
• Rapid Fire:
  • The group riffs on local sports media, local anchors, and what it means to “make it” in Miami broadcasting (36:32–38:18).
  • Jeremy’s parody traffic/government shutdown/eclipse rant: “All the highways, all the roads are closed. I jogged 30 miles to get here. ... There’s gonna be a total eclipse today.” (13:33)
  • Mike Ryan to Stugotz (regarding inside college football knowledge): “The best story to tell ... College GameDay tries to tell the best story.” (26:28)

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Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• On Miami Traffic:
  • “On the 836, absolutely ... you’re staring straight into the sun. And everyone drives a lot slower than on a day that’s, like, cloudy.” — Greg Cody (02:50)
• On the Miami-FSU Rivalry:
  • “Bobby Bowden lost so much and was so lovable in losing that Miami doesn’t hate FSU.” — Dan Le Batard (07:08)
  • “Miami's biggest rivals ... all have bigger rivals. So Miami’s, you know, always like a weird outlier.” — Mike Ryan (07:53)
• On Contracts & Greed in Sports:
  • “It’s a muddled contract with Tyreek Hill ... and he’s not guaranteed the $36 million ... that is a truly catastrophic injury.” — Dan Le Batard (38:24)
  • “He’s biased, he’s compromised, and he’s incentivized ... for his own business ... not even his client.” — Dan Le Batard (44:27)
• On Saudi Money:
  • “They bone sawed a journalist. Okay ... that’s not money. That’s blood money.” — Dan Le Batard (47:56)
• On Judgmental Plane Fears:
  • “The pilot started speaking and he had a lisp and I felt less safe. I trusted him less ... Does that seem fair in any way?” — Dan Le Batard (29:08)
• Absurdist Banter:
  • Greg Cody on missing friends: “Every friend group has a Shelly though, that if they go missing because a shark ate them whole, you wouldn’t notice.” (20:06)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Greg Cody’s Late Arrival & Traffic Debate: 01:29–04:52
• Miami-FSU Rivalry & Local Sports History: 06:52–15:10
• Movie Reviews & Pop Culture: 35:28–37:30
• Tyreek Hill Contract & Injury Fallout: 38:09–44:27
• Saudi Oil Money in Sports: 45:13–47:54
• Classic Absurdist Banter (Pilot Discrimination, Shark Story): 29:08, 19:46

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Closing Thoughts

Even though it’s billed as “The Eclipse Is Coming,” this episode is classic Local Hour: relentlessly off-beat, deeply Miami, and full of smart (and sometimes intentionally dumb) sports insight and banter. For fans seeking inside jokes, local flavor, and a blend of serious sports analysis with pop-culture stream-of-consciousness, this one delivers. The Miami-FSU rivalry gets a deep, honest exploration, and if you want to know who’s got the longer commute, Greg or Chris, that’s here too.

Transcript

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Stugats]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Stugats]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Stugats]

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[Dan Le Batard]

Zazzle, you're going to get some of the most glorious Greg Cody that you can get today because he's late.

[Stugats]

Yeah, where is he?

[Dan Le Batard]

And he's going to complain about traffic that everyone else also had but managed to get in here on time even though we know the traffic is bad.

[Stugats]

Yeah, here's the thing I don't understand with him. We've been through this before and traffic's traffic like it sucks and I get it. But why doesn't he make sure that he never runs into this issue and leave like 20 minutes earlier than he normally does?

[Dan Le Batard]

His son got in on time and comes also from Broward County.

[Greg Cody]

Well, I was late, but yes, I was able. I leave early enough that even if I hit traffic, I still get here.

[Stugats]

At least a little early.

[Dan Le Batard]

Both of you are coming from Broward. Billy is coming from a zip code called Casa Carajo as well. I don't know who's coming from further, who's coming in further, because at least Chris can come turnpike and can take it straight down on the turnpike. Billy, who's got the longer drive, you.

[Greg Cody]

Or Chris, Distance wise or time wise? Because here's the thing, on sunny days, I prefer a rainy day to a sunny day, because sunny day where there's no clouds. I'M driving straight into the sun. So I'm driving due east, and it's. The sun is right in everybody's face. Everybody drives slower. Everybody drives slower on a day that's not overcast because they're driving. If you're going on 8:36, people drive.

[Dan Le Batard]

Slower on sunny days than on rainy days.

[Greg Cody]

On the 8:36, absolutely. Guys, you don't know. I'm telling you, it sounds ridiculous. But on the 8:36, on a sunny day that's not overcast, where the sun is out and the sun is just rising, you're staring straight into the sun. And everyone drives a lot slower than on a day that's like, cloudy, not rainy. Cloudy, rainy days is a whole nother thing.

[Stugats]

It's really nice out today. Traffic's gonna suck.

[Greg Cody]

That is absolutely the truth. You guys don't get it. That's the truth. Because, like, the path that I take, the 836, it's not like north, east, southeast. There's a little curve. It's due east straight into the way of the sun is rising. So you're looking directly into the sun. So everyone drives slow. Also, the airport, I don't understand. Everyone drives slower next to the airport, I guess, to look at the planes taking off or whatever. And they keep making the walls taller and taller so people can't see the planes and slow down. But people keep slowing down next to the airport for some reason, maybe to see if people are boating.

[Mike Ryan]

Don't get me started.

[Greg Cody]

Boating in that, like, boating airport. Like the lake across the highway from the airport by that, like, office park. Yeah. People practice crew there. That's what I mean. It looks like they're doing Olympic racing. Yeah. Have you seen, you know, crew Zas?

[Stugats]

You're asking me if I know what crew is? Yeah, I know what crew is.

[Greg Cody]

I don't know. Everybody doesn't know.

[Stugats]

Yeah, I know a crew.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay.

[Greg Cody]

I don't know.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think that Billy sounds like he might be saying something ridiculous. But if you know south Florida drivers, they might drive more recklessly in rain than they do in sun. It certainly feels that way.

[Greg Cody]

No, they drive less recklessly in rain when it's rainy day. It's like, wow, this is like the safest that it's ever been.

[Stugats]

Torrential downpours, trying to explain, which makes no sense, I'm telling you.

[Greg Cody]

Got it. Look, sleep over at my house the next time that we see it's going to be a sunny day and just ride in with me. So you can go straight east into the sun.

[Stugats]

I. I'm not sleeping at your house.

[Dan Le Batard]

Do we know where Jeremy slept last night?

[Greg Cody]

We know, but is he going to tell us? Very little sleeping involved.

[Stugats]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats podcast.

[Dan Le Batard]

The daily chaos that we have around here is amusing in its sloppiness. Please put on the picture in picture, Louis. At some point the entrance here so we can watch a haggard, crazed Greg Cody run in late and then put all his stuff together noisily when he gets here because he's again not on time while everyone else got here on. But I just want to show you guys, just before we started here, Ethan ran in here with great urgency and handed me some show preparation. I want to show this to you guys what the show preparation is because he came in here and he handed me this piece of paper and it's got nothing on it. Like it's got literally no writing on it. Nothing. It's a blank sheet of paper.

[Stugats]

Lot of room for thoughts.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, I don't know, like he came here with great urgency and handed me a piece of paper. Like I think this is something that happens on there in production. Yeah. I don't see something.

[Greg Cody]

Maybe a black light situation.

[Stugats]

There could be something there.

[Dan Le Batard]

I see nothing on this piece of paper that he handed me. He came in here with great purpose.

[Greg Cody]

He seems to be walking back to the printer. Maybe he grabbed the wrong sheet.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know what he was trying to give me with urgency, but I can't tell anybody in the last six months. It's not the first time that has happened. And then he complains that I'm not using what he gives me and I'm like, well, I mean, I don't know what I'm supposed to do with what it is you've given me. Given me. I don't know when Greg will be here. We've got bad traffic. But Mike Ryan has given this um, FSU game one of the highest honors he can give. For the Notre Dame Miami game, he did a five hour live stream as part of his new ownership situation away from here where he is a co owner, not a co founder. You're not a, you're not a founder because it was founded before you got there, Mike. But you're doing a two and a half hour live stream today to preview the um, FSU Fall brawl.

[Mike Ryan]

Dano.

[Jeremy]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

Live at 2pm Eastern Time. YouTube.com OfficialCain's Insight. Peter Reeves, Dmoney and myself will be previewing the big game. Thank you for finally mentioning one of the best rivalries in college football this week. I appreciate it.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, I do want to talk about it. And one of the things I want to talk about is that ESPN did advertising for this game and calls it a rivalry of history and hate. And I don't think, I think it's hate like I think it's history. They've got a lot of history. But I think that Bobby Bowden lost so much and was so lovable in losing that Miami doesn't hate fsu. And I'm not sure FSU hates Miami, though they might have reasons to. But Miami's not FSU's biggest rival, is it?

[Stugats]

No.

[Mike Ryan]

Miami is in an interesting place. I'll readily admit Miami's biggest rivals, whether it be Florida, Florida State, Notre Dame, they all have bigger rivals. So Miami's, you know, always.

[Stugats]

I think FSU is third on that list that you just mentioned.

[Mike Ryan]

Always like a weird outliers, a private institution. But no, they. We dislike each other. No doubt. As someone that travels to this game routinely, like FSU fans don't like Miami. Miami fans don't like fsu. But you're right, this rivalry because of Bobby Bowden's approach, really to it and how complimentary he's.

[Dan Le Batard]

And because they lost all the time.

[Mike Ryan]

How complimentary he has been to Miami. Hurricanes teams when they would beat him more built on mutual respect. And keep in mind, FSU didn't have to routinely play Miami and they kept Miami on the schedule. That's part of why there's more animosity towards Florida, because Florida decided they didn't want the smoke anymore.

[Greg Cody]

I feel like that's an indictment on Miami not being anyone's biggest rival. And I'm not even saying, like, I don't know who to blame here. I want to blame somebody, but they got to be someone's biggest rival, like North Carolina. They have NCC.

[Mike Ryan]

I hear you. I get, I don't know. FAU is FIU's biggest rival.

[Dan Le Batard]

Right.

[Mike Ryan]

But FIU probably puts Miami on point.

[Stugats]

You know, if you say UF, UF's got maybe four other teams ahead of Miami. You say FSU. Florida's definitely ahead of Miami. And if you say Notre Dame, they.

[Mike Ryan]

Got usc, they got Michigan. Yeah, it's. It's kind of, it's kind of strange. But I mean, Miami is a strange program.

[Dan Le Batard]

Tell the people where they specifically can find you and at what time if they want, maximum, um, FSU coverage. Because it's not just you're doing live streams, gas bagging, you're grabbing a bunch of guests and you're doing an intensely focused one subject show from two and a half hours. And that's not something we really do around here. So where, if they want that, where can they get it?

[Mike Ryan]

Well, you can follow us on our socials at Keynes Insight. You can watch the live stream there on on X, but you can also subscribe to our YouTube page. We'll be live at 2pm Eastern. That is YouTube.com official canes insight. I appreciate that, Dan.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think it's false advertising to say that it's a rivalry of history and hate because if you were going to hate FSU players, Deion Sanders would be one that you would hate. But the memory that Miami is Cleveland Gary running over him at the goal line in the first game of the season, winning 31 to nothing. They'd have to beat you once in a while in ways that really hurt to make it something that has hate or lack class while losing, which isn't something they do either.

[Mike Ryan]

No, no, not, not really. Again, you're right. It's a little bit based more on mutual respect. It's also a weird rivalry in that the better team wins it like almost all the time. There is only one time in the in the history of this rivalry that there was a big time upset where one team was clearly worse than the other one. And that came in the 1970s. Very strange rivalry. You won't see results like Michigan, Ohio State happened last year. It's weird. Better team usually wins this one.

[Dan Le Batard]

When I was going to the University of Miami, Florida was their biggest rival. I don't know who Notre Dame would call their biggest rival, but for a time it was Miami because of the intensity of those things and because of the way Bobby Bowden always carried himself with grace. He was on so much with us after losing that he made it impossible to hate FSU even as Steve Spurrier was calling it an equator time free shoes university because they were cheating by giving their players shoes. Allegedly. But that's not, that is not a program that I think of as having something that Miami has biled toward. And when I ask you the most memorable time that FSU has beaten Miami, what does that look like? Because the season that we were talking about earlier this week, the 1984 season where the Hurricanes won their first championship, they lost the first game of that season 28 to 3 to Florida. And Florida was absolutely a school that there was hatred. Mike saying there's hatred between the fan base here. He's been in the stadium, he's Leaving sad painted orange and green. And Florida State did represent at one time a low point in Miami history because of how they beat Miami when It was on probation. 57 nothing. But they also represent seven nothing.

[Mike Ryan]

Whatever it was, it was bad.

[Dan Le Batard]

They also represented, though, Miami's return to greatness when Ken Dorsey and Jeremy Shockey announced, like a year. A year or two after that. Oh, no, they've closed that gap with Butch Davis and fsu.

[Mike Ryan]

That's my favorite game in the history of this rivalry. This is. I mean, I'm about to turn 40, but I think, like the most painful stretch because Miami has no doubt gotten the better of FSU in this rivalry, at least in my lifetime.

[Stugats]

Right. When is there an instance that Miami had everything on the line and FSU ruined it? Like, is there that instance?

[Mike Ryan]

Probably the early 90s. I'll go back and check.

[Stugats]

But it was Miami winning those games.

[Mike Ryan]

Strangely enough, the most painful stretch of Miami results, where the most heartbreaking results happened was kind of like when Jameis Winston was there.

[Stugats]

Where? Block at the Rock, Right?

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. Where Miami had inferior teams and had decent sized leads.

[Stugats]

And fsu, Jameis was still on that run where they were unbeaten. Right.

[Mike Ryan]

And there was another strange one. I think it was the largest top 10 spread in the history of the sport at the time. Miami was number seven in 2013. This was a Stephen Morris, Stacy Coley team. And they played FSU, and the spread was 21 and a half. And FSU just totally smashed Miami. 4114. Strange rivalry.

[Stugats]

Dad, you good? Can we get you anything?

[Jeremy]

I'm a little winded, so.

[Dan Le Batard]

Some air?

[Jeremy]

Yeah, give me some air. You know, it's crazy. I apologize being late. It's the government shutdown. I come out of my. I start driving here.

[Mike Ryan]

Democrat shutdown.

[Jeremy]

All the highways, all the roads are closed. I jogged 30 miles to get here. You know, brothers and sisters. Put the strap on the tortoise shell and get in the basement. Check the sardine supply because there's gonna be a total eclipse today.

[Greg Cody]

That was a sentence.

[Jeremy]

Nothing was happening. Nothing. There was. The roads were dead. I had to run here. I don't know about the. How'd you all get here?

[Mike Ryan]

You make no sense. This is rambling and incoherent.

[Greg Cody]

Why am I in the basement? You have to. The government shut down. The roads are closed.

[Jeremy]

Tell me about it.

[Greg Cody]

Put on the tortoise shell.

[Jeremy]

Look at the eclipses coming. What? Crazy.

[Dan Le Batard]

Please get. Just gather yourself, okay? Y going to get here late. Okay. Do me the favor of making sense. When you arrive.

[Jeremy]

I tell you what, like I said, I'm winded. But you're entirely right. The Gators were always the big rival down here. I mean, that was the original rival.

[Mike Ryan]

Back on track.

[Jeremy]

I think FSU started for me in the early 90s. Bowden, all the wide rights. There was some great. I think there was. There's a stat where FSU and Miami once had, like five or six meetings in a row where both were in the top five. I mean, it was an elite rivalry.

[Dan Le Batard]

Miami had a run, but the Bobby Bowden run of, I think, 20 straight years or something absurd. Finishing in the top five, I think. So good it was. But without winning only once, though. Like it was some absurd stretch of legitimately two decades finishing a season in the top five. They've never been able to get back to that. Even though Jameis Winston, I maintain, is the best freshman quarterback I've ever seen in college football.

[Mike Ryan]

The history of this rivalry is interesting, but I'm kind of pumped up about this year's incarnation of the rivalry because of that Alabama result. That makes this game really, really confusing. Was that game more about fsu? I kind of fall on.

[Stugats]

I think it's more about Alabama.

[Mike Ryan]

That game was more about Alabama. Like, to the eye, as it was happening, Alabama looked unprepared. And that, even to the layman, that's hard to do when you're watching a game live from broadcast TV angles. But this line has already done some funky stuff. It opened at four and a half, inflated all the way to six and a half, back down to four and a half. This is Miami's first road game of the season. Doak was electric against Alabama. It's tough to win in the acc. Miami's gonna have to get over that hurdle. Hey, Jeremy, old buddy, old pal.

[Dan Le Batard]

Hey, Mike.

[Mike Ryan]

I want to talk to you about Miller Lite. You and I have bonded over these last few weeks talking about our shared love of Miller Lite.

[Greg Cody]

That's right.

[Mike Ryan]

A great partner of our show for practically its entire existence.

[Stugats]

It's been a partner of this show.

[Mike Ryan]

Since I was 10 years, and it's been around for 50 years, and they've been a part of our show for almost 20. We're approaching incredible partner status with Miller Lite.

[Greg Cody]

I mean, to think that people were.

[Stugats]

Celebrating at my bar mitzvah with Miller Lite as they were a partner of this show is pretty incredible.

[Mike Ryan]

You're talking about the moments that are made better by making those times, those special times. Miller time. Jeremy, there's nothing like cracking Open Miller Lite with your crew this football season. It's especially true whether it's a touchdown you didn't see coming or just arguing about fantasy lineups you already know you're gonna lose. Miller Lite has been the taste you can depend on for 50 years. Brewed for flavor with simple ingredients, rich toffee notes that iconic golden color. And here's a kicker. Jeremy.

[Jeremy]

What's that?

[Mike Ryan]

It's just 96 calories.

[Stugats]

I still can't believe that we say it every week. I can't believe it.

[Mike Ryan]

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[Jeremy]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Jeremy]

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[Amin]

What's up guys? It's Amin. And those of you that listen to the show religiously know that I always talk about I'm not going to movie theaters anymore. There's nothing that can get me to the movie theaters. Just let me know when it comes out on streaming. Well, turns out I'm A big fat liar. Because one of the things that I watched in the movie theater this summer just a couple of months ago was the Naked Gun. And I laughed my ass off. I enjoyed it so much, being there in a movie theater full of people, everybody laughing, the communal experience. But now it's on Paramount plus and I get to do it all over again from the comfort of my home. I'm gonna grab my family, we're gonna gather around, we're gonna watch. That's what you should do. You should grab your friends or your family. Watch the Naked Gun. It's hilarious. Liam Neeson kills it as Frank Drevin Jr. Yes, Frank Drevin Jr. They're continuing the legacy. There are a lot of little callbacks and Easter eggs from the old Naked Gun movies. This one right here captures that spirit, captures that comedy. And why wouldn't it? It's Produced by Seth MacFarlane. You know how much I love Family Guy and American Dad. He's the producer. The director was Akiva Schaefer. You know him from snl. He directed Pop Star Never Stop Popping. He's hilarious. You got Pam Anderson in it. You got my man Danny Houston, AKA I'm surprised. Oh, my God. You have to go catch this movie on Paramount Plus. And why wouldn't you? Who doesn't like to laugh? It's fun times in your household tonight. Paramount plus, the Naked Gun.

[Jeremy]

Don LeBatard, a woman who was out swimming with her friends is believed to have been swallowed whole by a 13 foot shark park without any of her friends noticing. That's the weirdest part about that story. You're swimming with friends, you're having a good time and then all of a sudden people are looking around going, where's Shelly? Like nobody screamed.

[Greg Cody]

Every friend group has a Shelly though, that if they go missing because a shark ate them whole, you wouldn't notice.

[Stugats]

Classic Shelly.

[Greg Cody]

Exactly right.

[Jeremy]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

Stugats.

[Jeremy]

She went quietly, apparently. If I'm swallowed whole by a shark, you're gonna know it.

[Stugats]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats.

[Dan Le Batard]

A couple of things that I want to say. I do not trust the University of Miami yet on the road. Even though I believe they have great physical advantages in this game, I believe they are physically just from. Obviously it's an optics test, it's an eye test, but I believe that they have a good deal more size than fsu. This is, as Mike mentioned, first road game of the year for Miami. Miami's 152 at Hard Rock Stadium since the start of 2023, they're six and seven away from home. Although I believe this is the best and the most balanced of the teams that they've had during that stretch. Six and seven away from home is hard. And you just saw what happened to FSU when it went to Virginia because road games are very difficult. These are still kids. They're kids learning how to play football and road games are hard. I think Miami's going to have a problem with Robins. FSU 6, 6 receiver who did in the last game, something I've never seen in football before, lost the game. And the way that he lost the game is they were going to tie it after Virginia went up eight with the two point conversion. Robinson gets a perfectly thrown pass to him at the goal line. Perfectly thrown right in his hands. Bobbles it for a full 10 yards. Looks like a catch rule to catch on the field. They go to replay. Not a catch. He bobbled it for 10 yards. And if he had been 63 instead of 6 6, that would have been the ability to tie that game because he's 6 6. He bobbled it for a full 10 yards and his strides are longer than most. He's a very good receiver.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, I think Deuce Robinson and Daryl Jackson, who was with Miami before, probably two of the players that. You look at that FSU roster and say maybe you're a little too. These are guys that can play for Miami right now. Miami has a little bit more talent. That was a hell of a throw by Castellanos. Castellanos. He does.

[Stugats]

Is that Castellanos?

[Mike Ryan]

No, he goes Castellanos. Even though he's Cuban.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't think he gets a fake out. I don't think he gets to do that. No, it's Castellanos.

[Stugats]

That's Castellanos.

[Mike Ryan]

He goes Castellanos, but he's been more consistent throwing the football. I am curious to see Gus Malzahn and FSU like to run outside and they've done so very effectively. They're one of the best rushing teams in the nation. When Florida climbed back into that game in that third quarter against Miami, they found success running to the outside. When Alabama played Florida State, they had a nose tackle trying to set the edge. That's not the way you go about this. Miami is fast. Miami has the stuff that travels defense and a running game. This is going to be Miami's toughest test in terms of an offense that they're going up against. I'm really curious to see it. You mentioned Deuce Robinson, though. I'd counter that with saying most people don't know Xavier Lucas plays on this team right now because the broadcast never features him because he erases the side of the field that he is defending the opposing wide receiver on. Notre Dame's got good wide receivers. You wouldn't know it from watching that game because Xavier Lucas, the transfer from Wisconsin that Wisconsin suing Miami over, has been dynamite.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think Carson Beck still does have some things to prove. Okay, the Gator defense is exceptional, but he went 07 with an interception on passes longer than 10 yards against him. Okay, nine of his 17 passes were behind the line of score, so he has something to prove. But Miami, even though FSU lost to Virginia, Miami will show me something defensively if what I've seen so far bears out and is true. If on the road they can shut down Robinson and have the speed side decide. That made those championship Miami teams great where you can't get to the outside on them because their defensive linemen are too fast. Specifically Ruben Bane, who I believe is a top five pick if he is healthy. I believe that Ruben Bane is an unblockable menace. His. His size, his stature and his low to the ground make it so. That is absolutely a pro prospect. The best one I have seen on the defensive edge from them since Calais Campbell, where you see it right away on the field. I've seen it up the middle from them for a ton.

[Stugats]

Right.

[Dan Le Batard]

Russell, Maryland, Warren Sapp, yet Jimmy Jones. You had a bunch of guys who Cortez Kennedy up the middle. But on the edges. Miami hasn't had a lot of those. Like they've had like a Rusty Medeiros who doesn't translate to the pros. A Bill Hawkins who go gets first round but doesn't translate to the pros. Reuben Bane translates to the pros. If that guy. If that guy stays healthy, that guy will be doing that for 10 years. On every level you see him on, he's not a blockable person.

[Mike Ryan]

He's weird. He's got. He's like Aaron Donald in that people are impressed by his body. Even though he's very undersized for the the position in terms of prototypes. Guys on the edge that get drafted high. He's only like really 6 2, but he's. His body sticks out still because he is so stout. His arms are like like thighs. He's got such power and speed.

[Stugats]

A little bit of a bummer that game day's not that like they made a U turn and they're not doing like the Canes two games in a row. They Would have had game day on site.

[Mike Ryan]

Two. Two games in three weeks. The FSU conspiracy theory is that Kirk Herbstreet's afraid to go to Tallahassee even though he's on the call.

[Stugats]

What did he say about them two years ago?

[Mike Ryan]

He kept the, the, the belief among FSU fans is that Kirk Herbstreet was really the chief propagandist working for ESPN.

[Stugats]

Of them missing the playoff to keep.

[Mike Ryan]

Them out of the CFP. Again, he's on the game broadcast. College game day. 100% can confirm. Happen to know they were 100% going to Tallahassee.

[Stugats]

I happen to know that too.

[Mike Ryan]

Happen to know.

[Dan Le Batard]

Wait a minute. Happen to know there's a happen to know situation.

[Stugats]

The two of us.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, my God.

[Stugats]

He knows. He happens to know. Come, everyone come and listen.

[Dan Le Batard]

He happens to know.

[Mike Ryan]

Well informed 100% that we're gonna go to Tallahassee. Had FSU taking care of business against a spooky Virginia team. Instead they're gonna go to Tuscaloosa, which kind of deserves it because college game day tries to tell the best story. Keep in mind Vanderbilt upset Alabama. Diego Pavia's got a Heisman campaign.

[Stugats]

And last year the Vanderbilt game came immediately following the Alabama win over Georgia. And it's the same, you know, order of events this year. It's a good story.

[Greg Cody]

That's a good call by game day.

[Mike Ryan]

It's the best. It's the best story to tell. And the main broadcast team is going to be in Tallahassee anyways. But Pavia, and I mean, Vanderbilt is smoking teams. This is a, it's a ten and a half point spread. Vengeance on their mind. They try to tell the best stories.

[Stugats]

You know about that? Diego Pavia?

[Dan Le Batard]

I do. He is Jessica's September Heisman frontrunner.

[Greg Cody]

I mean, what is the conspiracy? They blew the game like they had it in control. Lee Corso is going to be honored at the game. We're going to have a possible Lee Corso college game day reunion like five minutes after we just saw him. Like the guy that graduates high school and then is back a year later.

[Stugats]

Wow, so you're anti Lee Corso, huh?

[Greg Cody]

I'm not anti Lee Corso. I'm just saying FSU ruined this moment.

[Stugats]

Sounds like it's me.

[Greg Cody]

They blew it. It was right there for them. It was there for the taking. They're going to have college game day come. Lee Corso is going to be there and they blew it. Now they beat Virginia.

[Jeremy]

They did blow it, but you don't pivot away from Miami, fsu. Just because they lost a tough game at Virginia, yet you do such a homer.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

Why? They did.

[Greg Cody]

Listen, they just had Miami two weeks ago.

[Stugats]

They literally pivoted the plate.

[Jeremy]

But you don't. You shouldn't.

[Greg Cody]

But they did.

[Jeremy]

Okay. I know, but. But you shouldn't. It was a bad mistake by espers.

[Stugats]

You said you don't.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Jeremy]

Tallahassee is the perfect way to honor Lee Corso. Okay. He's associated with fsu. He was.

[Greg Cody]

Kind of honored him a lot.

[Jeremy]

Born in Miami.

[Mike Ryan]

He kind of nailed it.

[Dan Le Batard]

You say the association. I saw this bothered me. I saw at the Notre Dame Arkansas game that Lou Holtz was wearing Arkansas gear. And it looked weird to me. He was an honorary captain. He flipped coin out there. He did coach there for a while before he went to Notre Dame, but it looked wrong to me to have him in Arkansas gear. It's a race shield.

[Stugats]

I have a lot of love.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'd like to interview you about your politics. Lou, you surprised me walking around the.

[Stugats]

RNC with a crown royal.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, that's somebody else's bit. No.

[Greg Cody]

Does he have, like, an impediment that we're making fun of?

[Dan Le Batard]

It's a Les Pals.

[Mike Ryan]

You know what? He's fair game. I was asking.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm curious, actually.

[Mike Ryan]

We voted for this to be fair game.

[Dan Le Batard]

I had a bad reaction. I was ashamed of myself the other day. I'm gonna debut a segment here at some point today. Shameful admission I'm gonna make from yesterday's baseball games. But I have another shameful admission that's just. I didn't know it was in me. And I was surprised to learn that was in me. I'm sitting in an airplane and the pilot starts talking.

[Stugats]

What class were you sitting in?

[Greg Cody]

You were in an airplane yesterday? No, it's a quick flight somewhere and back.

[Dan Le Batard]

Not yesterday. I was just in an airplane.

[Jeremy]

Private jet was in the shop.

[Mike Ryan]

Pilot in the G6 just turned to you instead of going over a PA. D's bored.

[Greg Cody]

He said, I just want to fly. They take him off in his pj, fly him around a little bit, back to Tamiami Airport.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is not a story from yesterday, but I did learn something while in flight about myself. And I didn't like. Like that. I. What I saw in the mirror, which the pilot started speaking and he had a lisp and I felt less safe. I trusted him less. And it seemed like that was the wrong. Like that doesn't seem fair in any way. Put it on the poll at Lebanon show. Do you feel less safe on a flight if the pilot is speaking with a lisp. Yes or no?

[Mike Ryan]

No. Dusty Rhodes found a way to be intimidating with the lisp.

[Dan Le Batard]

I wouldn't want him flying my plane, though. I wouldn't.

[Mike Ryan]

The son of a plumber.

[Dan Le Batard]

I would not trust Dusty Rhodes. The American dream in flight. If he started talking in the air about the Omni in Atlanta, what other.

[Greg Cody]

Uncontrollable traits would a pilot have that you would discriminate against immediately?

[Jeremy]

Blindness would be one for me.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. Eyesight, it's up there.

[Greg Cody]

Would you rather have a blind pilot or a deaf pilot?

[Jeremy]

Deaf. Deaf how?

[Greg Cody]

You can't talk to the air traffic control, but someone could.

[Mike Ryan]

Someone else could.

[Greg Cody]

And sign to you what to do?

[Jeremy]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

Well, I mean, you can also have, you know, a co pilot that could see. I'd rather be able to control, like, be in communication with the tower. So you'd rather have him be blind and have the person next to him being like, all right, a little lower.

[Mike Ryan]

I know it's a Wednesday, but this one seems pretty comfortable.

[Stugats]

Are you a serious person today?

[Greg Cody]

I think that. I think that the planes do a lot of the work, if going. To be honest. I don't think I said not a cruise ship. First and foremost thing that you need to fly a plane. I would think communicating is a lot more difficult.

[Stugats]

You're making the case that there's something other than sight that is most important for a pilot.

[Greg Cody]

If I had to choose one or the. Look, this is in a world where having a lisp disqualifies you for being a pilot. I'm just going to start with that.

[Dan Le Batard]

I didn't disqualify the pilot. I said I was ashamed of my lack of trust in the pilot. I thought it was unfair of me. I'm making a shameful admission, and I'm.

[Greg Cody]

Saying that I would implicitly trust a blind pilot. And somehow I'm the bad guy here. So that's not discriminating based on, you know, things that people have.

[Stugats]

So if we're keeping score at home. Yeah. You're okay with the blind pilot?

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Stugats]

Flying a plane. And a lot easier driving in the rain here in South Florida.

[Greg Cody]

No, you're misrepresenting that. I told you at a certain time, driving due east into the sunrise, the driving is a lot worse than if you drive in rain. Thank you, Greg. And we didn't even get to the government shutdown thing because I didn't want to bring politics into it, but Greg opened the door.

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[Jeremy]

Don LeBatard My wife says this is a sexy voice.

[Greg Cody]

It really is. Yeah, I'm hard.

[Jeremy]

Thank you. Wow.

[Mike Ryan]

Stugats.

[Jeremy]

So am I, actually. I don't know why.

[Stugats]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the stuff.

[Dan Le Batard]

Thank you for not bringing politics into it. I saw a really wonderful movie last night that gets a low rating. No, not on the plane. I was not flying yesterday. It was a really good, artful movie and it surprised me a number of different ways. Ari Oster is asked, is a great director and he makes horror and doesn't want to totally be making horror, but he makes dark comedy.

[Stugats]

Horror.

[Dan Le Batard]

And Eddington is the name of the movie and it got a low rating, I think only because politics will end up being something that knocks 30 points off of any movie's ratings immediately, no matter what the politics of the movie are.

[Jeremy]

So it's a name for a movie.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's Joaquin Phoenix, it's Pedro Pascal, and it's Emma Stone in it. And I will say that I movie in a while.

[Greg Cody]

Pedro Paul Pascal Odzie oder. Makes movies ar Odor.

[Mike Ryan]

Not that. The NBC guy.

[Jeremy]

He's good. I've seen him act.

[Stugats]

He loves.

[Greg Cody]

Great.

[Jeremy]

He's good. Yeah, he's really good. Arser. Yeah, he does commercials for, like, Geriatrics.

[Greg Cody]

That's the guy keeping my dad in.

[Jeremy]

The local news scene even though he's younger than me. Harry.

[Greg Cody]

I think, like, is that a destination? Like, when you're like, a local person like, let me get to the geriatric commercials.

[Jeremy]

Yeah, I think so.

[Greg Cody]

Or like, you sad when you get there? Like a.

[Mike Ryan]

Like Lori Jennings.

[Jeremy]

It's easy money. It's easy money. Nobody talks to me about it, but I'd do it in a heartbeat.

[Mike Ryan]

What did Lori Jennings do? Lay own medical centers.

[Jeremy]

Yep.

[Stugats]

Billboards and everything.

[Dan Le Batard]

The movie Eddington is a slow burn. I don't know why. I have no problem whatsoever burning through eight episodes of Black Rabbit, which cost me eight hours. But if you tell me sit in front of a television for a two and a half hour movie, I'm like, don't know if I want to do that. It's two and a half hours. And the two hours are a slow burn, but it escalates. The last half hour is totally crazy. It's just. It's an insane half hour. At the end of that movie that I would recommend to anyone listening to.

[Mike Ryan]

This, it's becoming Ari Asser's signature.

[Dan Le Batard]

Tell us more about your friendship with what Chris Cody says. Is the media member keeping you alive? Ron McGill does this very well. Places a few media friendships to keep his career alive at the end. And Greg Cody speaks well of Aria, if you have.

[Greg Cody]

If Ariadne needs a sports story covered, Greg Cody's his man.

[Jeremy]

Arian's great. He's a legend in this market. Nobody does it like him. He's the best.

[Dan Le Batard]

I saw that Channel 7 is still running out. Deepa Squally and Drew Rosenhaus. And? And who else? There's somebody else on that.

[Greg Cody]

On that.

[Stugats]

Josh Moser. He's the other guy.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, the black guy.

[Greg Cody]

Whoa.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm sorry.

[Greg Cody]

Donovan Campbell.

[Dan Le Batard]

Thank you. I had to help you.

[Greg Cody]

He could fly a plane. Dan.

[Dan Le Batard]

I couldn't place his name.

[Stugats]

Does he have a list?

[Jeremy]

A black guy coming out.

[Dan Le Batard]

I couldn't place his name. That was the problem that I had. And when I gave you the black guy, you gave me his name as opposed to. As opposed to who didn't give me the right guy. He gave me the guy who was distinctly not black. So. So when I gave you the descriptive adjective, you helped me find the name that I was looking for. Local news, local sports news. I was surprised to see Drew Rosenhaus saying that. I wonder if this Sunday he'll be saying that Tyree Kill is totally fine. He said the surgery was fine yesterday. I don't understand the contract, Greg. He is. It's a muddled contract with Tyree Kill and he's not guaranteed the $36 million. And that is why I would tell you Those football contracts are super, super bogus. And if you've read about Tyree Kill's life off the field, you know that he has a great many payments to a great many women that he has to make because of how irresponsible he is off of the field and him not being able to get that $36 million, that is a truly catastrophic injury when you don't guarantee that money. Have you read anything about the contract details? Because it's a weird, confusing, muddied contract for Tyreek Hill will to extend with Miami to be at the height of his value to find real superstardom in Miami and leaving Kansas City and have none of that money guaranteed next year. So when that happens to him, it's not merely a catastrophic injury for him. It's not merely a catastrophic injury for the Dolphins and all their architecture. It's a catastrophic financial injury. Because there is no way that Tyreek Hill coming off his leg, looking that way is going to get good money after that.

[Jeremy]

No, I mean, contracts are reworked all the time. And I think this one will be. I think they want to keep him. It was encouraging that Drew Rosenhaus said flatly that he will play in 20.

[Dan Le Batard]

That doesn't mean anything.

[Stugats]

What do you expect?

[Dan Le Batard]

It doesn't mean anything.

[Jeremy]

I think it.

[Stugats]

He's toast.

[Greg Cody]

I think he might play by the end of this season after hearing Drew talk, to be honest with you, I think it.

[Jeremy]

I think it does mean something. I don't think you put that kind of pressure on your athlete unless you know that the surgery went well. Well, that there was only one surgery needed. There's no nerve damage. There were encouraging signs, but Tyree Kill has to read the market right now. He's going to be 32 next year coming off this injury. He's. He's. He's going to lose a step. I don't think there's.

[Dan Le Batard]

Why would you. Why would you believe the agent on this? Why would you believe that agent on this? What else is he going to say?

[Jeremy]

He's going to vague it up. He's going to say the surgery went successful. All the plan is that we're going to play next season. Greg. We don't know if he'll be ready for training camp.

[Dan Le Batard]

Greg, you saw his leg. You saw his leg. How can you make any sort of assessment about where he'll be in six months or a year when his leg. It doesn't look like a human leg.

[Jeremy]

Okay. I can't and neither can you.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, but I can doubt it. You can't tell me that you're gonna take Drew Rosenhaus word for it.

[Jeremy]

Okay, I can doubt it too. That's why yesterday I said that I thought there was a chance his career might be over. And I still think there's a chance of being that. And I don't trust an agent. I don't trust an agent. I know Drew a little bit, but I don't trust him because I don't trust agents. But you can vague it up as well. And he was pretty clear about that.

[Dan Le Batard]

And the words don't mean anything today. Nobody's going to remember like that's what he's got to do and say for his client. And that's all he's doing.

[Jeremy]

Okay. Drew Rosenhaus has done something that you and I haven't. He has actually spoken to the doctors. He has gone gotten firsthand information on what the medical prognosis is and he's relaying that now. You can choose to not believe that.

[Dan Le Batard]

It'S not a credible source. It's just not a credible source. No, the agent's not. He's biased. I don't even trust the words to get from the doctor to the agent and be the same. The agent is totally biased. He's not credible.

[Stugats]

Did the doctor have a lisp?

[Jeremy]

That's a great question.

[Dan Le Batard]

What are the contract details that are muddied here like this?

[Stugats]

So his contract's kind of weird. First of all, he's owed $36 million next year. None of it is guaranteed. Doesn't even matter injury wise. So I'm not so sure, especially coming off of the events of Tyreek Hill, the end of last year and this year, what was clear or what is clearly not going to be a good season. Even if Tyreek Hill didn't get hurt, I don't know that the Dolphins were keeping him next to next year anyway. All right? But the $36 million is fully non guaranteed. Doesn't even matter about injury. So you would assume that they are going to cut him. But here's where it gets kind of weird. He's owed throughout this year $1.8 million in per game roster bonuses. So if the Dolphins and he's got, you know, what are we talking, 13 more of those payments coming as well away if he were active. All right? If the Dolphins cut him at the end of the season, he doesn't get any of that money because, hey, you weren't active. You didn't play in those final 13 games. If the Dolphins actually cut him right now, he will get that money one and a Half million dollars, that's left of it. They will save a little bit of money, the Dolphins, obviously a dirty move if you cut him right now, but they won't have to owe him. You know, they, they, they would then be paying him the rest of the season. It'll be like doing him a solid, essentially, if they cut him now. So it's a little bit weird, his contract. But I would go back to what Greg just said where, you know, Drew Rosenhaus can say that he's going to be ready now for next season because he doesn't need the additional surgery. If he needed the additional surgeries. Drew can't come out and say we expect him to be ready for next season. But because he doesn't. Yeah, Drew says that because when the Dolphins cut him, it's out there so that another team is like, oh, but Drew said that he's going to be okay, he's going to be ready. So, yeah, Drew's likely like, he doesn't know magazine is full of shit. Because maybe he will be ready, maybe he won't be ready. But because he doesn't need the extra surgery, Drew can come out and portray it as if his client is going.

[Dan Le Batard]

He'S biased, he's compromised and he's incentivized.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

For his own business. It's not even his client. He's incentivized to say he's going to be fine.

[Mike Ryan]

To the least, forget playing for the Dolphins, forget playing for other NFL teams. Is he going to make it to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, by the end of March for Tom Brady's fanatics flag football competition?

[Greg Cody]

How much is he making for that?

[Mike Ryan]

They have not announced what they're making, but all the announced players that were as a part of this press release did receive front end permission from their NFL teams. Now that can change, especially if the Dolphins intend to keep Tyree Kill. They can say, there's no way that you're going to do this. I guess medically there might be no way he can make a March flag football tournament anyways. But it's a big payday.

[Greg Cody]

I'm gonna report exclusively. I feel like he's gonna be there.

[Dan Le Batard]

Can you guys find out for me if Tom Brady is indeed getting the number that people are saying, which is $75 million to participate in that? I don't know what the reporting is on that. I've just heard people say that number again and again and I find it really hard, hard to believe even with the way the Saudis are spilling blood money in order to launder that money through sports.

[Greg Cody]

I know Dave Portnoy went out and said that that's how much he was making. And Brady retweeted it saying that that was not true.

[Stugats]

I know this is gonna sound stupid when I say it. I'll say it anyway. I don't understand how the Saudis have all this money.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's just oil.

[Jeremy]

Oil.

[Stugats]

But. But it's. They have like an endless amount because.

[Dan Le Batard]

They'Ve got so much oil, right?

[Jeremy]

How does Jerry Jones have all that money?

[Stugats]

No, no, but Jerry Jones, like, like there is a limit. Like Jerry Jones. There is a limit. All right, The Saudis, there's, you know, it's the golf and it's the flag football and it's the WWE and it's. They just. They just have money for everything.

[Dan Le Batard]

We all need oil. We don't have elect. The reason that Elon Musk is so rich is because he's providing an alternative, possibly in the future, to us not needing that amount of oil.

[Stugats]

What are you laughing at there, Chuckles?

[Mike Ryan]

You don't understand how the Saudis have that much money.

[Stugats]

It's just. It's an endless amount of money. I don't understand.

[Jeremy]

Literally, oil.

[Mike Ryan]

They export the most oil. The oil keeps coming in this country. We've signed executive orders to kind of limit ulterior forms of electricity such as wind, solar. The EV credits are gone. We declared a national oil emergency in this country.

[Stugats]

So they get to just do and have whatever they want.

[Mike Ryan]

That's correct.

[Greg Cody]

You just learn about money.

[Stugats]

There's no limits.

[Jeremy]

Not whatever they want. They offered an amount to Tiger woods to join Liv. Golf. Golf. That dwarfs what they offered Tom Brady and. And Tiger woods said no. So they don't always get what they want, but they usually do.

[Greg Cody]

Everyone but Tiger. Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

No.

[Dan Le Batard]

Shane Gillis, too. Shane Gillis refused their money. He was one of the comedians.

[Greg Cody]

What do you think about that one, man? You're in a real classic pickle here. A patented movie yourself.

[Stugats]

Pickles, dog.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah. How much?

[Stugats]

2.99.

[Mike Ryan]

That's a big deal.

[Jeremy]

It's a lot of money for a pickle.

[Greg Cody]

So truth teller and beacon of whatever philosopher, modern day guy that Dan loves, Bill Burr took the money and Shane Gillis, who you've described as one of Joe Rogan's cronies, said no, not for me, dog.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, you guys said earlier this week that we were a little hard on Phil Mickelson, and I don't think we were a little hard on Phil Mickelson. I think he opened the door for everyone else to be greedy and cowardly about this as well. And some people will stand up for their principles, and most people will just grab at the money because.

[Greg Cody]

Plus Shane Gillis has got a little progress.

[Dan Le Batard]

They. I mean, they bone saw to journalists. Okay. Like, that's. And I understand that there are all sorts of human rights violations that America is also responsible for, but I'm. Yeah, that's not money. That's blood money.

[Stugats]

So the Saudis never check their bank account. It's just nonstop money.

[Mike Ryan]

Hey, Jeremy, old buddy, old pal.

[Dan Le Batard]

Hey, Mike.

[Mike Ryan]

I want to talk to you about Miller Lite. You and I have bonded over these last few weeks talking about our shared love of Miller Light.

[Stugats]

That's right.

[Mike Ryan]

A great partner of our show for practically its entire existence.

[Stugats]

It. It's been a partner of this show.

[Mike Ryan]

Since I was 10 years old, and it's been around for 50 years, and they've been a part of our show for almost 20. We're approaching incredible partner status with Miller Lite.

[Greg Cody]

I mean, to think that people were.

[Stugats]

Celebrating at my bar mitzvah with Miller Lite as they were a partner of this show is pretty incredible.

[Mike Ryan]

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[Jeremy]

What's that?

[Mike Ryan]

It's just 96 calories.

[Stugats]

I still can't believe that we say it every week. I can't believe it.

[Mike Ryan]

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