Local Hour: The Golden State Golden Yellow Jackets

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: Local Hour – "The Golden State Golden Yellow Jackets"
Date: November 7, 2025

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Episode Overview

Broadcasting from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, Dan, Stugotz, and the crew provide their signature blend of irreverent sports talk. This "Local Hour" delves into South Florida sports, the quirks of the Georgia Tech "Yellow Jackets" identity, college football job hierarchies, Lane Kiffin’s wild coaching journey, and a hilarious exploration of aging with Nick Saban’s birthday celebration.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Costume-Related Chaos and Chris Cody’s "Bear" Predicament

• Chris Cody is wearing a bear costume as a punishment and struggles to perform his usual producer/E.P. duties while in it, sparking laughter and logistical problems.
  • "I'm in a bear suit and this is going to suck. I had 70 chicken nuggets a couple days ago, and this somehow seems like it's going to be worse." – (Bear/Chris Cody, 01:10)
• The bear costume creates challenges with visibility and controls in the studio, leading to jokes about pressing buttons with "soft claws" and looking through the costume’s mouth.
• The chicken nugget punishment is revisited, with debates over how many were actually eaten by Chris.

2. Battle Court, Cyclones, and Local South Florida Sports

• Discussion shifts to the Battle Court season and the Cyclones’ pole position in the standings.
  • "They're all big this time of the year in the Battle court season. The regular season's winding down, and the Cyclones are in firm control of first place." – Dan Le Batard (02:27)

3. NFL: Los Angeles Dodgers Fandom, Broncos’ Ugly Wins & AFC Doubts

• Stugotz shares his surprise at L.A.’s passion for the Dodgers, comparing it to Miami Heat’s LeBron era and how outsiders react to "super teams" winning.
  • "How can you be this excited when you've got all the best players? But it really doesn't, it really doesn't matter." – Stugotz (04:41)
• The Broncos’ unpretty success is lampooned, with statistical oddities highlighted (e.g., a game where neither team had 10 points or more than 10 first downs).
  • "It's the first game in NFL history that neither team scores more than 10 points... first time that's happened." – Stugotz (06:30)
• Doubts persist over whether Denver is closing the gap with Kansas City.

4. Miami Hurricanes, Syracuse, and College Football Injuries

• The group discusses Miami’s numerous injuries before their matchup with a depleted Syracuse team.
  • "These injuries are worse than we're letting on." – Dan Le Batard (07:34)
• There's skepticism about Miami finishing strong, with talk veering into existential humor:
  • "The universe ended millions of years ago. We're just living in its echo." – Dan Le Batard (07:58)

5. The Georgia Tech “Golden Yellow Jackets” Identity Crisis

• A long, comedic examination of Georgia Tech’s branding: Why are the "Yellow Jackets" colored gold and navy, not yellow?
  • "When I think of Georgia Tech colors, I think of yellow gold. But what else we got in there?" – Stugotz (08:40)
  • "Gold and yellow are derivative." – Dan Le Batard (09:59)
  • "Gold is the best yellow." – Amin Elhassan (10:04)
• Chris Cote explains the "Rambling Wreck" song and the school’s tradition, while Stugotz challenges the logic of calling themselves "Yellow Jackets."
  • "A yellow jacket is an insect, but we're not insects. We're people." – Chris Cote (09:53)
• The conversation lampoons academic snobbery and rivalry with the University of Georgia, including pointed jabs at public figures who went to UGA.

6. College Football Coaching Carousel & Lane Kiffin’s Wild Ride

• Stugotz marvels at Lane Kiffin’s career arc—from Raiders flameout to college football’s most in-demand coach.
  • "It's startling to me to see Lane Kiffin be in a position through choices he made... to get one of the prime jobs in college football." – Stugotz (15:56)
• They trace Kiffin's dramatic stops:
  • Raiders flop → Tennessee firestorm → USC firing on the tarmac → Saban's rehab program at Alabama → FAU → Ole Miss
  • Kiffin’s ability to rebound from public disaster is both lampooned and lauded.
  • "He had to go to the Nick Saban school of rebuilding one's credibility." – Dan Le Batard (35:14)
  • "He rebuilt himself... now has his name pop up as the number one candidate during a golden age of jobs." – Dan Le Batard (35:26)
• Other coaches with “fascinating” resumes are nominated: José Mourinho, Larry Brown, Nick Saban.
• The importance of signature wins vs. expectations is dissected.

7. Is the Georgia Tech Job “Good”? Rigor vs. Recruiting

• Arguments over whether Georgia Tech is a "good" job given its academic standards.
  • "The Georgia Tech job is already plenty hard. Now I throw in academic standards that make it all the harder." – Stugotz (22:02)
  • Stugotz relates this to Stanford and Vanderbilt's challenges.
• Chris defends the school’s “tough job gets tough players” culture.

8. Nostalgia: Microfiche, Dewey Decimal & Pre-Internet Research

• A sidetrack into explaining microfiche and the Dewey Decimal System leads to generational humor about obsolete research methods.
  • "Let me tell you something about the Dewey Decimal System, my friend." – Chris Cote (32:49)

9. Nick Saban at Home: Birthday, Family, and the Real Vibe

• The show watches and comments on a video of Nick Saban's humble birthday celebration at home.
  • "If you're covering your feet and legs with a blanket like this, you're not returning to coaching." – Bear (Chris Cody) (42:01)
  • "It's a modest setup for the greatest head coach of all time." – Dan Le Batard (43:40)
• They marvel at Saban’s lack of TVs and Ms. Terry’s dominance of the household.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Georgia Tech’s school colors:
  • "What sense does it make that the jackets are yellow but the colors aren't? Like you're the yellow jackets, but the colors aren't yellow. The color's gold, but you're the yellow jackets. What sense does that make?" – Stugotz (09:42)
  • "Gold is the best yellow." – Amin Elhassan (10:04)
• On Lane Kiffin’s redemption arc:
  • "He had to go to the Nick Saban school of rebuilding one's credibility." – Dan Le Batard (35:14)
  • "What I thought was the end of Lane Given's career... to see him now, it's a pretty insane thing." – Stugotz (34:27)
• On Nick Saban’s birthday video:
  • "There is a radiating heat coming. Sauna costume." – Dan Le Batard (40:04)
  • "If you're covering your feet and legs with a blanket like this, you're not returning to coaching." – Bear (Chris Cody) (42:01)
  • "That's me and my happiest on a Sunday melting into my couch." – Dan Le Batard (44:25)
• Absurd, meta moments:
  • "The universe ended millions of years ago. We're just living in its echo." – Dan Le Batard (07:58)
  • "Slice me open and see what colors I bleed." – Brent Key quote, discussed (08:08)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Chris Cody’s Bear Costume & Nugget Debrief: 00:34–03:51
• Cyclones and Local Battle Court: 01:19–02:27
• Dodgers Fandom & Super Team Parallels: 04:32–05:18
• Broncos’ Ugly Wins & NFL Ineptitude: 05:29–06:30
• Miami/Syracuse College Football Previews: 07:26–07:58
• Georgia Tech Color Identity & Yellow/Gold Debate: 08:40–10:31
• Georgia Rivalry, Academic Snobbery Riffs: 11:07–12:29
• Lane Kiffin Career Retrospective: 15:52, 34:27–36:16
• Georgia Tech Job Value & College Coaching Debates: 17:56–22:33
• Microfiche/Dewey Decimal Nostalgia: 31:36–33:21
• Nick Saban’s Birthday & Aging Coach Life: 40:07–44:25

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Themes & Tone

This episode blends South Florida-centric sports talk, college football nerdery, self-effacing nostalgia, and classic comedic riffs on sports traditions, generational divides, and on-air punishments. The tone is loose, absurdist, and conversational—typical of the Le Batard Show’s charm.

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For New Listeners

• The show’s signature digressions are on full display: the hosts seamlessly transition from impromptu debates about colors to existential football questions, and from biting sports analysis to lampoons of daily life.
• If you wonder how a bear suit, microfiche, and Lane Kiffin’s job interview are all part of the same sports show—this episode is a pure encapsulation of “The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz.”

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Transcript

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[Stugotz]

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[Stugotz]

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[Stugotz]

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[Stugotz]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Stugotz]

Cuervo. Chris, people will see your costume in a moment. And I don't know if you're wearing this to highlight tonight, but I would like an update from the bowels of that costume that tells me what's going on tonight with the cyclones.

[Chris Cote]

What costume?

[Bear (Chris Cody)]

Why would I wear this to Hilai is the first question. I'm having trouble hearing you, so maybe. Maybe don't lead with me.

[Stugotz]

So your headphones aren't working now it's better.

[Chris Cote]

Now it's better.

[Stugotz]

Your headphones aren't working right. You just told Roy three seconds ago that you don't think you can do the EP job today, which doesn't seem like the way to do this.

[Bear (Chris Cody)]

Correct. Confirmed. I'm confirming I'm in a bear suit and this is going to suck. I had 70 chicken nuggets a couple days ago, and this somehow seems like it's going to be worse.

[Chris Cote]

Hey, bear, how's the eyesight doing inside that costume?

[Bear (Chris Cody)]

You know, I'm looking through my mouth at the moment. That's better. Eyesight.

[Amin Elhassan]

He's trying to get a claw to turn on the mic, but the problem is the claw kind of bends. So it's not like a hard claw, soft claw.

[Stugotz]

Tony, if you'd seen what just happened before the show is he got in his customary seat, he tried to look at, like, the console and stuff, and he's like Roy. He went immediately to the bullpen because he hadn't considered when wearing a bear costume that his job might be more difficult. So difficult that the one button he has to press in the seat back there, he can. And I keep seeing his teeth go up in the air every time he wants to talk to. Because he can't see out of the.

[Bear (Chris Cody)]

We're cooking now. We're cooking.

[Chris Cote]

He's got a.

[Bear (Chris Cody)]

We're cooking with gas.

[Chris Cote]

You got a stylus or something?

[Stugotz]

Got a pen?

[Chris Cote]

There it is.

[Bear (Chris Cody)]

I got makeup this morning. I was like, I don't know why.

[Stugotz]

Again, I was asking you about the Cyclones, not the difficulty in doing your job. That represents fewer responsibilities than you usually have.

[Bear (Chris Cody)]

Big one tonight, Dano.

[Stugotz]

Why is it big?

[Bear (Chris Cody)]

It's us versus Ikeda. That's how I'm looking at it.

[Dan Le Batard]

They're all big this time of the year in the Battle court season. The regular season's winding down, and the Cyclones are in firm control of first place.

[Amin Elhassan]

You think this is Chris skirting responsibility? When he ate the 70 nuggets the other day, he just sat there on two gummies and just ate chicken fingers. What are you talking about?

[Chris Cote]

Gummies?

[Bear (Chris Cody)]

We don't have to tell Dan about that part.

[Amin Elhassan]

Whoa.

[Stugotz]

You think I can't tell when the gummies are in your eyes? You think that's something that escapes my attention in your performance?

[Bear (Chris Cody)]

Believe it or not, first time I ever did it.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. I'm going to go with the not on. Believe it or not there. I don't see you as a very.

[Bear (Chris Cody)]

Responsible person at work, is what I mean. I hated it. Honestly. It was. I couldn't talk. Everyone was looking at me. Everything I. Every time I spoke, everyone's like, oh, you're high.

[Chris Cote]

There was a. There was a part where Chris actually tried to make a. Like, a serious point. I don't remember what we're talking. We're talking about the dolphins, but you could tell the thoughts were all kind of just bumping into each other on the way out his mouth. He was so high. And we all started laughing. And then he got really self conscious, and that's when he put the sunglasses on.

[Stugotz]

He has told me a number of times this morning that he ate 70 chicken nuggets. And I just saw a graphic that now appears to be a lie that said on our YouTube, 99 chicken nuggets were consumed. That was the goal, so. But you stopped 29 short.

[Bear (Chris Cody)]

I would say that I. I would say I did.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, he gave out. I mean, the punishment was the attempt. Go as far as he could go, and his body just quit. Come on.

[Stugotz]

The punishment is attempting. I feel like the punishment. I feel like Billy ended up at the hospital because we forced him to eat the remainder of the onion.

[Dan Le Batard]

Billy had two bites of the onion.

[Chris Cote]

Number one, he didn't eat an onion. He did two bites of it. Number two, Billy did not want to eat an onion. That man over there, that bear over there definitely wanted some ticking nuggets.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the ST Podcast.

[Stugotz]

Miguel Rojas I know I'm late to the proceedings here, but I was taken a little bit aback by how excited Los Angeles is about the Dodgers. I consider them a pretty indifferent sports town, and it made me realize while I'm there, oh, that's how everyone experienced the Miami Heat winning the championship when they had LeBron and Dwayne and Chris Bosh. Which is. I'm walking through a bunch of people who are saying, did you see that over dime game? Like, they don't know what they're talking about, but they were very excited about the Dodgers. And I'm like, you had all the best players. How can you be this excited when you've got all of the best players? But it really doesn't, it really doesn't matter.

[Chris Cote]

I got that going. Like, you had all the best players. How could you be this. Oh, now I get it.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, now I get it. Yeah, that's, that's, that's. But I didn't even realize it. Right.

[Chris Cote]

Slow realization.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. I slowly realized, oh, that's how the nation felt when the Heat was winning those championships. What is that? What is that region so excited about?

[Chris Cote]

That's why they were booing in Memphis and Utah.

[Stugotz]

I'm reading a headline here on ESPN.com Broncos admit offense is lagging following ugly win over Raiders. They don't, they don't need to admit it, Dan.

[Amin Elhassan]

We see it all. But I saw it when my, my top five. I know you were watching from la. Thank you for that. By the way. I said the Broncos have the most ugly wins of any team in the NFL. You look through some of their, their wins. Jets 13 11. They had a comeback win against the Giants. They beat the Texans. But Davis Mills 1815, Raiders 10, 7. It's like, this is ugly.

[Stugotz]

That is the team that has closed the gap between them and Kansas City, and no one will trust that team if it has to play Kansas City on the whole, at home, on the road. No one will trust anything coming out of the AFC to be. What are you making faces?

[Amin Elhassan]

I just, I think their defense, obviously, if they get Pats or Tam back, it's going to take a little bit because he's got that strained pack. But I feel like defensively they can hang around and make life difficult enough for Patrick Mahomes where their inept offense can maybe squeak out like 16 points.

[Stugotz]

Thursday night Football is back because that game. This is from Scott Kasmar, an NFL writer. It's the first game in NFL history that neither team scores more than 10 points. Neither team has more than 10 first downs. Both teams have 11 plus penalties. That's the first time that's happened. And the question I wanted to ask you guys that I don't think many people are asking today or in general is Pete Carroll is questioning why he bothered to do that, right?

[Chris Cote]

No, he's not. He knows why.

[Stugotz]

You don't think that people like Pete Carroll and Deion Sanders are looking like, where's my exit ramp? Like, what am I doing with the remainder of my life?

[Dan Le Batard]

I guess he can lump in the goat in that conversation too.

[Stugotz]

And Jordan, at least that team's improving. At least that team went to Syracuse and won a football game. And you can see the obvious improvement in North Carolina even though Syracuse was playing. Was that their third string quarterback? Is Syracuse playing with their third string quarterback against Miami?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, they got like a walk on the spread against Miami's 29 and a half. That being said, Miami's got a ton of injuries and these injuries are worse than we're letting on.

[Chris Cote]

Wow, way to get ahead of it.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, no, there's multiple name players that are. That you need to see again.

[Chris Cote]

Noah Eagle is starting for Syracuse.

[Amin Elhassan]

Propaganda machine.

[Chris Cote]

Come on, man.

[Stugotz]

Mike, he works hard. The Syracuse team is really bad.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, yeah, Miami's gotta destroy them. It's not about Syracuse. It is how they respond to it. But you know, I don't think Miami goes four and oh in the next month anyway. So, I mean, the universe ended millions of years ago. We're just living in its echo.

[Stugotz]

I imagine you guys spent some time talking about, talking about the loss to SMU and the state of the Miami program as Amin's Golden State. Golden State gold. Georgia Tech yellow Jackets have a coach a rambling wreck. Dano, everybody wants. Brent Key is 47 years old and he's being asked about every job in America. There are a lot of job openings, a lot of valuable and coveted job openings. And Brent Key's quote is, slice me open and see what colors I bleed. And I want to ask the group, because I really don't know. When I think of Georgia Tech colors, I think of yellow gold. But what else we got in there?

[Amin Elhassan]

Is it yellow, little navy?

[Stugotz]

So when you guys think, I know Amin knows the answer to this question, but when I say the colors of Georgia Tech, are you putting any dark colors in there? Because I just think of yellow and yellow gold. I don't put any dark in there.

[Dan Le Batard]

When I think of the Golden State Golden Yellow Jackets, I also incorporate navy.

[Stugotz]

What colors do you bleed golden Navy, man. Okay, put it on the poll at lebartard show. Did you know that Georgia Tech's colors or the Golden State yellow jackets colors.

[Dan Le Batard]

Say golden yellow jackets were.

[Stugotz]

Were gold and navy. Because I don't think most people know that.

[Dan Le Batard]

It is back, Jack.

[Chris Cote]

Now, gold is the primary color, right? You see it all the time. Even though the name is yellow jackets, it's gold. We wear gold, but then the second accent is always that navy blue. Think of. Think of Stephon Marber and Kenny Anderson. You know, they had those basketball teams. They all had the side trimming with the navy piping on it.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's what it is. Can you explain the rambling wreck aspect?

[Chris Cote]

Yeah, Rambling wreck from Georgia Tech. Hell of an engineer. It's a song.

[Stugotz]

What sense does it make that the jackets are yellow but the colors aren't? Like you're the yellow jackets, but the colors aren't yellow. The color's gold, but you're the yellow jackets. What sense does that make?

[Chris Cote]

Well, a yellow jacket is an insect, but we're not insects. We're people.

[Stugotz]

You don't find some of this a little bit confounding?

[Dan Le Batard]

Gold and yellow are derivative.

[Stugotz]

Dan, put it on the poll at LeBatard show. Our gold and yellow derivative.

[Amin Elhassan]

Gold is the best yellow.

[Stugotz]

Go ahead and try and sell yellow on the open market. See if they sell you that, you can use it for derivatives.

[Chris Cote]

Especially back then. Right. You gotta think a lot of these colors were picked at a time where it's like yellow belly. Oh, no, I can't be a yellow belly. It's a gold belly, so it makes a difference. A gold. Oh, that. That feels very luxurious. Yellow belly. You're coward.

[Stugotz]

Who is. Who is that? Is that a Western person?

[Chris Cote]

That's someone. Someone in the 60s.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

Some South 60s. Okay. I thought that was mining for gold is what I thought that was. A gold miner.

[Chris Cote]

Because they watch. They watch like Looney Tunes and stuff. And Looney Tunes stuff is based on the Westerns and the Westerns based on the Cowboys.

[Amin Elhassan]

Whatever.

[Chris Cote]

It's not actually in the moment. All we're doing is referencing references. You see how it goes? It cascades. It's like a kind of poetry.

[Dan Le Batard]

None of this changes the fact that they don't have any good wins.

[Chris Cote]

We got one coming. Thanksgiving at home. Bring that ugly ass dog with you.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, you're not at home. You're doing that thing where you go to the Mercedes Benz Stadium and. Yeah. You do the revenue thing.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah, it's not even the revenue thing. You know what it is, man? It's like everyone in the state of Georgia. I'm gonna say it. And where's my camera? Right here. El, Duncan, and the rest of you people, all you toothless hacks who couldn't. Yeah, all of the rest of you people. All of them. Maria Taylor, you're on that list.

[Stugotz]

Toothless.

[Chris Cote]

All of them. All of them.

[Dan Le Batard]

John Isner.

[Chris Cote]

John Isner. Oh, yeah, I seen you in the tennis chat, trying to talk up all of you. You guys couldn't pass CS 1501 if your life depended on it.

[Dan Le Batard]

The Widowmaker.

[Chris Cote]

So it's a more inclusive university. Ernie Johnson, you on that list, too? All you hacks, Everyone who has a pulse in the state of Georgia can get into uga. So that's why they're like, hey, that's our team. Georgia Tech standards. Standards, right. And so they're like, oh, you don't like us. I don't want to be a part of a club that won't have me. That's how they feel. So when we play in a neutral site in the state of Georgia, what ends up happening? All those hicks come over there with their straw hats and their overalls and their bare feet and they go, hey, now. Hey, bear.

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[Stugotz]

Dan Levatard.

[Bear (Chris Cody)]

I got a Slater scoop.

[Dan Le Batard]

Stugats. This is the Dan Levatar show with there's two guards.

[Bear (Chris Cody)]

I thought you went to Arizona State.

[Chris Cote]

I graduated from Arizona State. You know why?

[Stugotz]

The widowmaker?

[Chris Cote]

Cause Georgia Tech has standards.

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[Chris Cote]

I say I salute. I respect standards. I'm like, you know what? Hey, I wasn't good enough. Not like these cowards that went up to Athens, like, oh, let me go to the school that won't say no. Underwater basket weaving was a course there. Remember Jim Harrick? Remember the classes they were teaching?

[Stugotz]

I don't think that in 2025, you're allowed to come to a microphone and say that Elle Duncan and Maria Taylor have no teeth.

[Chris Cote]

And Ernie Johnson and John Isner, all of them, they know it. They went to uga. Now, they're all very successful. So I'm sure they went to the dentist and said, hey, you gotta fix this situation. I'll be on tv. But when they got to uga, when they got to Athens, the first thing that happened, all their teeth fell out.

[Stugotz]

And they said, howdy, let me talk for a second about the job openings and the amazing career ascent and just general journey of La Kiffin, who's going to have his choice of these jobs. When I know this is happening a lot all over the world and in America, where people are really forgetful of just general history, but even recent history. It's startling to me to see Lane Kiffin be in a position through choices he made, taking jobs that didn't have anything in the way of expectations, to get one of the prime jobs that's anywhere in college football. I'm going to go through some of the journey in a second. But as it relates to your coach. Okay, because what we have seen with Signetti, with Rhett Lashley, who just improved his stock by beating Miami in one of those games where you're like, I know that team's not as talented as that other team. So the reason I'm going to say that team won is because of the coach. And you see a million things in that game that tell you, ah, well coached. Your coach at Georgia Tech is saying in the press conference, these are my colors. This is the school that I coach for. There will be nowhere else that I coach. That's what he's saying. Slice me open and see what colors I bleed. Are you expecting to lose him or do you think these words mean something? Because Nick Saban said the same things Nick Saban said. He didn't say the same thing, but he said, I'm not going to be the Alabama coach. And then he was the Alabama coach soon thereafter. People expect these guys to lie in these situations.

[Chris Cote]

Brent Key's an alum. He's a Georgia Tech alum. He actually went to Georgia Tech when I went to Georgia Tech around the same time. So I believe him. I fear I told you this earlier the year. I fear he's too good. He's so good, at some point, the competitor, you look for a greater challenge. Right. And greater resources and all that. But when he says that out loud, I believe him. I'll take his word for it. You know why? Cuz he's a rambling wreck from Georgia Tech and a hell of an engineer.

[Stugotz]

Well, but hold on, let me just, Let me just backtrack for a second. Because you can be someone who has a great allegiance to your school and you can also say, ah, that might be the best college quarterback he'll ever have. That school's not going to be that good ever again because they've never been that good. And it's going to be really difficult to continue to be that good because of where the academic standards are at that school.

[Dan Le Batard]

National champs in 1992.

[Chris Cote]

I'd like to introduce you to a gentleman named Joe Hamilton. Went down to Tallahassee and stared the monster in the eyes. Came down to one touchdown that they won by. But still, like, this is not the greatest Georgia Tech team, not by a long time.

[Stugotz]

This is not a good job. And this is the best quarterback they've had.

[Chris Cote]

It's the best quarterback they've had since Joe Hamilton.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, since then. He knew Joe Hamilton.

[Chris Cote]

Joe Hamilton way better.

[Dan Le Batard]

Heisman runner up.

[Chris Cote]

Joe Hamilton was incredible. Joe Hamilton.

[Dan Le Batard]

Joe Hamilton.

[Chris Cote]

Shout out to Joe Ham.

[Dan Le Batard]

I do love Haynes King, though. He's one of the players that you identify and you're like, this is why this sport is so great. That guy's not gonna play quarterback at the next level, I don't think. But he's just gritty. The ESPN profile on Haynes King that came out last week about Coach Key asking him how his shoulder is. Shoulder's fine. Pissing blood, but I'll be good to go.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah, that's my guy. Man, I love Haynes King.

[Stugotz]

Was it Key who was quoted saying, that's the toughest player I've ever met?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah. And there was, like, one, like, emotional moment where Brent Key doesn't seem like the super emotional guy from what I. What I know, engineer. And he was asked, like, the biggest compliment I can give Haynes King is that when this is all said and done, I'd like to have a beer with him.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Chris Cote]

Heck, maybe three outpouring of emotion. Daniel. See that? That's, you know how you, like, complain about, oh, my father. I don't know. I don't know did he love me or not? Like, he probably said something like that. You just didn't pick up on it. When he says, I like to have a beer or three with you, man. He says, I look at you like my son. That's what Brent Key just said about three beers. Three beers. Come on.

[Stugotz]

I don't like amines cubed assessment of my relationship with my father. Do you know how you complain, Dan, that you don't know whether your father loved you or not? That is not something that's ever come out of my mouth as a complaint.

[Chris Cote]

It's a Cuban assessment.

[Stugotz]

I don't know why. I don't know why it is. You took the entirety of my father's love over the course of a lifetime and turned me into a person who was questioning whether or not my father loves Me?

[Chris Cote]

I've chastised you many a time, Dan, about your incessant whining about the, oh, my dad doesn't know how to show emoji. I'm like, what are you talking about? He shows it every day. I see it every day. But you know why, Dan? Because you are a spoiled child. A spoiled child of this country. You didn't come from the old country where you understood, man, if my dad wanted to have a beer with me, the greatest honor imaginable. Now, Brent Key is not from the old country, but he is from Georgia Tech.

[Stugotz]

Golden State Gold Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Billy. So to be clear, I just want to be clear. You are saying that Brent Key is not a Sudanese exile. That's what you are. Just to be clear.

[Chris Cote]

Or a Cuban exile. But you know what he is? He's a rambling wreck from Georgia Tech. And that, ladies and gentlemen, has a lot of connected tissue. Right. Like, you cannot be from the old country and still have a lot of old country ways. If you had to go to CS 1501. The Widowmaker.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah. And a hell of an engineer.

[Chris Cote]

Yes, absolutely.

[Stugotz]

Hey, Bear, that is not a good job. Georgia Tech is not a good job.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's a tough job.

[Chris Cote]

It's a tough job because the academic rigors make it hard to recruit for.

[Stugotz]

Not a good job.

[Chris Cote]

Hold on. Will we call Stanford not a good job?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yes.

[Chris Cote]

Okay, never mind.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, anything that makes it really hard to get.

[Dan Le Batard]

Stanford's a tough job. Any job can be a good job.

[Amin Elhassan]

In modern college football, you can go grab any player. And the ACC is always wide open because there are no powerhouses in that conference.

[Stugotz]

Jeremy.

[Chris Cote]

Look how they swoon over Vanderbilt.

[Stugotz]

Why?

[Chris Cote]

Because Anderson Cooper, his family created it. Who cares? They do it because it's like, ooh, you have the SEC title all of a sudden. That's a good job. Get out of here. Get out of here. Georgia Tech is a tough job, but you know what tough jobs get, Dan? We get tough players.

[Stugotz]

Tough players. Look, I can accept what Jeremy is saying in the macro, that it's easier for random school to win today if it has money than it was in the past. But if I'm going to cripple a program with one thing more than any other, it's an inability to get players because your academic standards are too high. It's what makes something a much harder job. The Georgia Tech job is already plenty hard. Now I throw in academic standards that make it all the harder.

[Dan Le Batard]

Dan Lebatah. There's always a way around them. Academic standards they're in Georgia. And Georgia's high school football recruiting base is damn near tops in the nation. I think it surpassed Florida. It's in a metropolitan area. While it does have its challenges, I would still consider it a good job. Now, if you look at it compared to all the jobs, let's say it becomes available because Coach Key leaves, it's probably down around, like, 9, 10, 11 in terms of what's available out there for some of these jobs.

[Stugotz]

I'm not actually saying it's not a good job and then wondering whether someone else would want it. I'm saying it's not a good job. And that's why Brent Key will not be there. No matter what he bleeds ten years from now. He's not giving the entirety of his career. Look, I saw this the other day while I'm watching on television. I was stunned by this. You know how long Rice's football coach has been there? Because he went to Rice. Rice is never any good. Rice's football coach should be changing every year. He's been there 14 straight years.

[Dan Le Batard]

Get out of town.

[Amin Elhassan]

Good for him.

[Dan Le Batard]

Get out of town.

[Chris Cote]

I got waitlisted at Rice, but it's.

[Stugotz]

Also because they don't care about football at all, and therefore there are no football standards. And so that he could. He could stay there for 14 straight years.

[Dan Le Batard]

How does he have that job security? That's crazy.

[Amin Elhassan]

Good baseball school.

[Stugotz]

It is a good baseball school.

[Amin Elhassan]

You like that?

[Stugotz]

Hell of a pull from Tony. He's right.

[Bear (Chris Cody)]

Baseball guy, though.

[Chris Cote]

I like baseball, Tony. This is a great evolution.

[Amin Elhassan]

I just got to gamble on it.

[Stugotz]

I like waitlisted at Rice, Amin. That's what I like.

[Amin Elhassan]

Also good academic school, though to this.

[Chris Cote]

Day, I'm still confused about that.

[Dan Le Batard]

I got accepted at Gonzaga since we're all bragging.

[Amin Elhassan]

No, you did.

[Dan Le Batard]

I didn't go because it was far too far.

[Chris Cote]

Why'd you apply?

[Dan Le Batard]

I opted to go to D.C. instead. I got accepted into Gonzaga.

[Chris Cote]

Why did you apply?

[Dan Le Batard]

Huh? They were interested, and they were good at basketball at the time. That was around the time of Batista with the catch. It was like, wow.

[Chris Cote]

That's why I went to Georgia Techs. That's why I went to Georgia Tech, by the way. It's like they're good at basketball.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, it was them and Campbell. Campbell was like, on my ass. I went to a Christian school. No, Campbell. The Camels.

[Stugotz]

I came in today and I was handed a piece of paper that had all of the week's polls when Amin was in charge. Okay. It's all of the week's polls.

[Dan Le Batard]

Amie.

[Amin Elhassan]

Dan, you know what? I see the paper in front of you. We did a bunch of great shows. Okay. It's not indicative of the polls.

[Dan Le Batard]

They were. Okay.

[Chris Cote]

What?

[Stugotz]

I don't have a lot of evidence that you did a lot of great shows because I only have this sheet of paper as evidence. And this sheet of paper has three polls on it. And here's a third of the polls. Who's better, Jacoby Brissette or Kyler Murray?

[Dan Le Batard]

This is a question that Arizona asked itself.

[Amin Elhassan]

That was a great shot.

[Dan Le Batard]

We were ahead of it.

[Amin Elhassan]

What was the answer there, Daniel?

[Chris Cote]

We were way ahead of the conversation. And guess what? You were.

[Stugotz]

Tony was. Tony was way ahead of the conversation where he was saying Kyler Murray weeks ago. You got to get. You got to move off, guys.

[Amin Elhassan]

Guy sucks. Get him out of here.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, he's out of here.

[Stugotz]

He would appear to be out of there. Jacoby Brissette, as the answer is not the answer.

[Chris Cote]

Now, Dan, I'd like to. In my defense, there is a poll question that did not get posted. Juju made an editorial decision not to post it. But on Wednesday, as Greg Cody is going in for surgery and as the bear over here is going for 99 nuggets eaten, we had a poll question. Who's more likely to die today, Greg Cody or Chris Cody? Juju said we can't post that one. So that was a. That should have been on the sheet.

[Stugotz]

That's good judgment from juju. What?

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Stugotz]

Don LeBatard but it's just his titties are sitting on the shelf that is his belly.

[Dan Le Batard]

Stugats. He said titties like shocked me a little bit. I wasn't quite prepared for titties. This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats.

[Stugotz]

Speaking again of the Broncos Raiders game from last night. Though I am loathe to do it, it's not just Pete Carroll. Chip Kelly is making $6 million a year. Chip Kelly as their offensive coordinate offensive coordinator. They've scored 10 or fewer points four times this season. The Raiders four times. And I'm asking you again, you really think Pete Carroll is sitting there in his office every day? And I know he's optimistic and I know he tries to be sunshine. You think he's happy with the decision that he made. Like, you think that the Raiders. The Raiders are. I think this is relatively quietly kept. The Raiders are kind of the Dolphins over the last 25 years. If not for the Dolphins, the Raiders would be the ringing, echoing streak of incompetence in that sport that never makes the playoffs, never wins a playoff game, is largely irrelevant. They've done nothing in. How many years has it been since Rich Gannon and.

[Dan Le Batard]

And they made the super bowl in. So unlike the Dolphins, they've made it to a. You know. Well, did the Dolphins even win a postseason game?

[Stugotz]

Not for the Dolphins. The Raiders would be the thing that we were laughing at about 20 years without anything in the playoffs. Nothing. I mean, the Bills have fixed all of that. The Lions have fixed all of that. In the middle of that, the jets.

[Dan Le Batard]

Did some winning, I think post Rich Gannon. They made the playoffs with who? Was it Connor Cook, the quarterback? Like they had an injury at quarterback. Was it Connor Cook that started the playoff game?

[Stugotz]

Do you want to try and remember the last time the Raiders won a playoffs?

[Dan Le Batard]

They should have won that game in Cincinnati. That whistle. That whistle screwed them. And it sparked a Cinderella run for the Bengals in that postseason. But no, I don't remember the last time they won it. If I had to guess, it would have been the AFC Championship game that got him into that super bowl in which Jon Gruden knew all the plays.

[Chris Cote]

Steps back.

[Stugotz]

It brings me back to this Lane Kiffin conversation and how startled I am to see what was once a child prodigy who then got the job of his lifetime in his early 30s. Okay. And he ends up flaming out with the Raiders at the start of what it is that I'm talking about in such a dramatic way that Al Davis, the old crypt keeper, owner of the Dolphin, of the Raiders, the late crypt keeper, owner of the Raiders, came out and did a press conference in which he excoriated Lane Kiff in a memorable press conference where he kept going to the microfiche and saying, mortensen and I always get it wrong, because that's not microfiche. It's that protect. It's that projector. That's not microfiche. It's something else. What's that? You should remember.

[Dan Le Batard]

It was a projector.

[Amin Elhassan]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

Engineer over here.

[Chris Cote]

Celluloid.

[Amin Elhassan]

What is microfiche?

[Chris Cote]

Microfiche is the thing from, like, Austin Powers.

[Stugotz]

When they're looking through the microfiche is actually when and. God, Tony. It's funny to say this because it's from the. It's from libraries and it's where you would go and find old newspaper articles by like. Yeah, just. You guys are doing a lot of.

[Amin Elhassan]

This motion, like, getting your hands, like, turning them over. Like, I don't know what that's supposed activ. Reading the definition of it. And I still don't understand.

[Chris Cote]

Let me tell you guys, right, what it was. So back in the day, you wanted every copy of every newspaper ever, so you could go back and look up what was the Dallas Morning News the day JFK got shot. But of course, you couldn't just stack papers and papers. And they didn't have scanning technology like we do now, where it's a website. So what they did, they would take an image and scan it into an image, and then the image would be printed on this really, really small film. So if I held it up, you're like, I can't see anything. But then you put it in this machine, and they would light up and magnify it. And then. Then you would, like, adjust, and you could see the whole page. And it was called microfiche.

[Stugotz]

Amin, thank you. That is as wonderful and efficient, as competent as I've ever seen you be. You've rushed right into the breach and had just a perfect explanation. They still don't get it, and I.

[Amin Elhassan]

Still don't get it.

[Stugotz]

They still don't understand.

[Amin Elhassan]

So it's tiny. That's why they called it microfiche. Anything done, like, ever.

[Chris Cote]

Let me tell you something about the Dewey Decimal System, my friend.

[Dan Le Batard]

Dewey Decimal.

[Stugotz]

Oh, Dewey Decimal.

[Chris Cote]

If you had to find a book, you couldn't just say, oh, yeah, I'm gonna find this book over here under B for, you know, Branson Johnson, who wrote it? Nope. The books were all organized by the thing called the Dewey Decimal System. You had to go to this, like.

[Dan Le Batard]

Drawer that had cards, card cataloging.

[Chris Cote]

You had to look it up. And the numbers meant something. It's like the first number meant what kind of category it was. The second one, fiction, nonfiction. And the third one, whatever. And based on that, you knew what part of the library to go to to go find the book, only to find out somebody already checked it out.

[Dan Le Batard]

This was essential. This was essential education. And when I was in middle school, they taught me how to card catalog and do this, like, as if I would when I. It was preparing me for my life as an adult in which I would have to go to the library because AI and computers and the Internet wouldn't exist.

[Chris Cote]

Jeremy, even when the Internet did exist, right, you'd be at home like, oh, I'll Just look it up. Okay, sit down. First thing you gotta say, mom, mom, don't get on the phone. I'm about to get on the Internet. And then you'd hit a button and it said, welcome. And then you'd hit hear. And you would wait and wait and this thing would blink and blink and finally I'm in. And then you found the thing you were looking for and say, okay, download that. And it would say, estimated time remaining 13 hours. And you just had to get up and walk away and hope it downloaded in time before your dad came home and said, hey, let's order pizza.

[Stugotz]

So I think microfiche was the Internet before the Internet with some library thrown in is how I'm going to describe how it is that was used. I always make this mistake. But again, Al Davis, the late owner of the Raiders.

[Chris Cote]

Oh, that's what we talked about.

[Stugotz]

Went in front of everybody after letting go of Lane Kiffin and just aired all of the Raiders dirty laundry and placed it all at Kiffin's feet and said he was in cahoots with Mortensen. Yes. He just kept hitting. He kept saying again and again, we've never seen an owner press conference like this. This is the start. And what I thought was the end of Lane Given's career. Mortensen and to see. Then he goes to Tennessee and they're burning mattresses on campus because of everything that happens there.

[Dan Le Batard]

Cause he decides to leave to usc and then usc. Dan. They fire him on the tarmac. They don't let him get on the plane. This is a guy that was a pariah. He had to go to the Nick Saban school of rebuilding one's credibility.

[Chris Cote]

Pariah Carey.

[Dan Le Batard]

And he did that. He rebuilt himself. He had to go to fault the Lane train in Boca Raton to show that, no, I could run a program. And then he gets a call up to Ole Miss. And now this person who already has one of the most fascinating careers, and I think when it's all said and done, will probably have the most fascinating career in the profession, has his name pop up as the number one candidate during a golden age of jobs available. You got LS you. You got Florida, you got Penn State. You'd be hard pressed to have one of those jobs open up over the course of five, 10 years. And he's the top man wanted at all of them. It's a pretty insane thing. Especially when he hasn't done big winning for whatever reason. Losses like what he had last year with Jackson Dart in Gainesville against the Gators that kept him out of the playoff, they don't stick to him. Everyone likes this guy. He doesn't have the same kind of work ethic when it comes to talent acquisition, but he's really smart and people dig his vibe.

[Amin Elhassan]

To be fair, he was 31 when the Raiders hired him as coach, which is insane to think about. The longevity. Yeah, because he was 31 when he started coaching. It's been 20 years.

[Stugotz]

I'm interested in the longevity, but I'm also interested in the forgetfulness of people because that's some very public learning that he was doing with failures that are hugely embarrassing. And I do think it matters what Mike Ryan just said on Give me all the signature wins. Because the reason Lane Kiffin gets credit is because he's never expected to win. Like the game he often wins in the SEC when the expectations for Lane Kiffin and Ole Miss are you're not supposed to win, you're not going to win. How are you winning? And so it's been wonderful career management since he spent his entire 30s. You have to understand, this is the most coveted person in college coaching right now is a person who spent the entirety of his 30s, at least in part because of that Al Davis sound. Morton that started this cascade of that's not a person you can trust. You cannot. Tennessee will tell you that's not a person you can trust. The Raiders will tell you that's not a person you can trust. USC will tell you that's not a person you can trust.

[Dan Le Batard]

All three locations would probably hire Lane Kiffin right now if they had to.

[Amin Elhassan]

Look what Tony said, him being 31, that's like me being hired as the Raiders head coach next season.

[Stugotz]

Wow.

[Dan Le Batard]

And he's grown from it.

[Amin Elhassan]

That's crazy.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's absolutely grown from it. Plenty coaches have had failure and have turned themselves into great coaches. Bill Belichick, you know, didn't have it have it go great in Cleveland before he became reputed to be the greatest head coach of all time. He's just a fascinating guy because he doesn't do it like everybody else. He's shit talking David Stone on the sidelines. He's got a vibe about him and. And I do think that you need to have a really good tight program and a lot of resources. But that doesn't often guarantee you like Ole Miss again, had a ton of resources. Look at their roster. They were absolutely loaded last year. But people what worked against him when he was younger, now that he's older and more mature, he hasn't changed. We've changed.

[Stugotz]

They've had a ton of resources for a long time. I forget the player's name. He never panned out. But everybody was looking around when they got the number one recruit in the country 10 years.

[Amin Elhassan]

Robert MDCH.

[Stugotz]

Yes, it's close. I was going to call him Kim D.J. but it's in. It's in that area. They got the number one recruit in the country at one point.

[Dan Le Batard]

Was there.

[Stugotz]

They were ahead of this whole, yeah, we'll just buy the players and. And. And everyone will be like, why'd that guy choose Ole Miss? That makes no sense whatsoever.

[Dan Le Batard]

They had A.J. brown and D.K. metcalf at the same time.

[Chris Cote]

Damn.

[Stugotz]

When Mike says that Lane Kiffin might have the most fascinating coaching career of all time. What goes into that conversation? What other coaches are you guys nominating? All sports, all time for?

[Dan Le Batard]

Jose Mourinho.

[Stugotz]

What a fascinating path that person took.

[Chris Cote]

Larry Brown. Next town Brown.

[Stugotz]

You mentioned Nick Saban as well. I suspect that he will be in this discussion. We've got some Nick Saban birthday video. That is awkward. How old is Nick Saban turning here, Chris? What is the age? What is the context for some of this video that we're about to watch? You've been fundamentally useless for an hour. This bear costume has been something that's been a punishment to me and no one else here.

[Bear (Chris Cody)]

I've looked creating art back here.

[Stugotz]

I've looked a number of times for help for something. And then I see you in the eating area and I see the back of your costume isn't even bothered to be zipped up.

[Amin Elhassan]

It's hot in there, by the way, Dan. I went to fix his headphones.

[Stugotz]

Punishment of someone other than me.

[Dan Le Batard]

There is a radiating heat coming. Sauna costume.

[Bear (Chris Cody)]

I am schwitzing, but I am really into this video with Nick Saban. So this is his family celebrating him. There's a couple back here. I want to play it first and let you observe just it and then we'll discuss it. Go ahead.

[Stugotz]

To you.

[Dan Le Batard]

Happy birthday to you Happy birthday, dear.

[Chris Cote]

Happy birthday to you.

[Amin Elhassan]

All right.

[Stugotz]

Got a good wish.

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Good one.

[Amin Elhassan]

Make it good.

[Dan Le Batard]

Make it good.

[Stugotz]

Grease Edley Cruz family good. Oh, my God. I'm just noticing what happened there, which is a football family. Took no inventory of what was on the television and what Nick wanted to be watching. That's Bill's Chiefs at 28, 21. Like it's not early in the game. Like that's like that's as if those people do not know the man who's in that Lounge in that lounge chair.

[Chris Cote]

That. Is that when Mahomes was making the drive after the dude missed the kick.

[Stugotz]

Damn. It's your offense. It's on the field.

[Chris Cote]

Oh, no.

[Bear (Chris Cody)]

My favorite part of the video is when Ms. Terry approaches with the cake. He's lounging, leaning back, and she hits him with a sit up. And he sits up. It was just like. That was just like a big observation there. That guy's terrified.

[Stugotz]

We learned that when Nick Saban was here, that Ms. Terry ran that household. And Ms. Terry would give up the details of. Yeah, Nick was someone who liked to play the accordion. And there were all sorts of things that Ms. Terry gave the audience because, yes, Ms. Terry is in control of everything that's happening there. And there should be no shame in that. She's clearly. Even though she's got the dictator champion in her house, she's clearly very responsible for all the success that's happening.

[Bear (Chris Cody)]

Also, if we can just put the still shop still shot. I see right now in preview, if you. If you're covering your feet and legs with a blanket like this, you're not returning to coaching.

[Chris Cote]

Okay.

[Bear (Chris Cody)]

That's just like a rule that I can make. That is a man that is happy on his lounge chair watching some football on Sunday.

[Stugotz]

We can agree that's not a flattering angle of Nick Saban's hair, right? We have never seen his age. More than we can agree on that from that angle. Thank you. You have been not helpful this segment in.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's been great here.

[Bear (Chris Cody)]

All right, you know what? I'm out of here.

[Dan Le Batard]

You couldn't be more wrong.

[Chris Cote]

Oh, he's taking the elevator down.

[Bear (Chris Cody)]

No.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, no, he's going down. Bear in the basement.

[Stugotz]

Nick Saban cannot be flattered by anything that's happening there. Not his wife summoning him in a way that makes him react the way his players do when he summons them. Not the timing of that game. Not the angle that shows the back of his head in a way that he never wants it seen by himself or others. What are you smiling about?

[Chris Cote]

I mean, I just remember Shane Gillis calling him Alabama Jones.

[Amin Elhassan]

He looks kind of dead there, right? Like they just kind of like, propped him up.

[Bear (Chris Cody)]

Hey, we're like, no.

[Amin Elhassan]

God forbid. God forbid.

[Stugotz]

Respectfully, though, you know what?

[Amin Elhassan]

When you look at him there, it's.

[Stugotz]

Like, oh, my God, Tony's not wrong there. That is not far from whatever angle his body would be at if he was being placed in a coffin.

[Bear (Chris Cody)]

Until she says, sit up. And then he springs into action.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right. Yeah.

[Amin Elhassan]

Like you're out of the grave.

[Dan Le Batard]

Like, you guys are the picture of health in that window on an NFL Sunday.

[Stugotz]

Springs is a good verb because it was the springs on that chair that made him go forward.

[Amin Elhassan]

Microfiche.

[Stugotz]

And it was. It was very slow. His. She. She is dancing in front of him with the cake. And he wants all of this to be over because there are five minutes left in the cheese Bills.

[Dan Le Batard]

Kind of a modest setup for the greatest head coach of all time, right?

[Stugotz]

What did you expect? Multiple television?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, yeah.

[Stugotz]

That's just old guy television.

[Bear (Chris Cody)]

Odd chair placement. Across the room there, right in front of that tv, there's a chair, like, facing the opposite direction.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, I don't like this, coach.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, Wait a minute. If any of us. If you were to tell any of us. And this part you guys are under. Underestimating. Hey, guys, your football Saturday and Sunday, it. You could lay there like a vampire in a coffin all night with a chair. With a chair that's been dented by your ass over the decades, laying in that coffin all night. We would all take that setup. We might want more televisions, but as old people, that's the setup that Nick Saban absolutely wants. If he wanted a better setup, he'd have a better setup.

[Dan Le Batard]

I mean it when I say this. That's me and my happiest on a Sunday melting into my couch. 20 milligrams, stuff in my face. Left turn football America.

[Amin Elhassan]

That's me for so long because of the baby now, where I'm like, man, I look at that and I'm like, it's reaching out to it.

[Stugotz]

Roy, do me the favor of playing again. How it is that I return from four days off and try to say the Georgia Tech yellow jacket. Golden State. Georgia Tech yellow jackets.

[Dan Le Batard]

Now's a good time to remember where tequila's story truly began. In 1795, Cuervo invented tequila. Cuervo, what are you doing here?

[Stugotz]

Cuervo? Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, I do know that to be true. But even during ad reads like Cuervo, I think he could lay out especially for one of our great partners.

[Stugotz]

Sweet, delicious Cuervo.

[Dan Le Batard]

Since then, Cuervo has stayed true to its roots. The same family, the same land, the same passion.

[Stugotz]

Cuervo.

[Dan Le Batard]

So enjoy the tequila that started it all. Cuervo.

[Stugotz]

Cuervo.

[Dan Le Batard]

The tequila that invented tequila. Proximo Cuervo.

[Chris Cote]

Com.

[Dan Le Batard]

Please drink responsibly.

[Stugotz]

Cuervo.