The Big Suey: 49 Nuggets

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

The Big Suey: "49 Nuggets"

Date: November 5, 2025
Location: The Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami

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Episode Overview

In this episode of "The Big Suey," Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, and the crew serve up their trademark blend of irreverent humor and sharp cultural and sports commentary. The show weaves through a quirky nugget-eating challenge, debates over dog cloning and sports greatness, a deep dive into New York's political scene, the chaos of streaming vs. cable, and some digestible but insightful NFL trade analysis. Expect rapid banter, self-aware meta-commentary, and a running tally of chicken nuggets consumed—all in the classic Le Batard Show style.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Chicken Nugget Challenge Shenanigans

Early and throughout [00:37–07:04, 25:12–29:29]

• Premise: Chris Fuentes attempts to eat 99 chicken nuggets, with the group both supporting and sabotaging his effort by questioning his counting methods and chunk sizes.
• Recurrent disputes on whether breaking nuggets in half counts as two consumed; playful accusations of cheating circulate.
• Quote:
  • Chris Fuentes: "I will work in a complete fake bite at some point in halves." [06:49]
  • Tony: "You guys keep ripping them off!" [25:52]
• Chris takes a strategic break midway; Tony suggests air frying the nuggets for texture improvement.
• Punishment for Failure: If Chris doesn’t finish, the group reserves the right to assign another, potentially worse, punishment.

2. Dog Cloning—Weird Science & Celebrity Excess

[01:40–02:34, 03:07–04:55]

• Le Batard reacts to news that Tom Brady cloned his dog, sparking a group debate over the weirdness and ethics of pet cloning.
• Chris Cote equates it to "Pet Sematary" vibes and raises questions about the authenticity of love for animals if adoption is eschewed for cloning.
• Quote:
  • Chris Cote: "Cloning a dog? That's some pet cemetery shit vibes to me." [01:53]
  • Mike Ryan: "That's some rich people shit." [02:18]
• Discussion extends to the potential for human cloning and references to pop culture (Nathan Fielder’s "The Rehearsal," Barbra Streisand, "The Prestige," "Multiplicity").

3. Who Would You Clone? — Athlete Fantasies and Sports Memories

[05:14–08:45]

• Dan poses a hypothetical: If you could clone any athlete—with full abilities and memories—who would it be?
  • Chris Cote: Shaquille O’Neal
  • Mike Ryan: Jackie Robinson and Barry Sanders (explains Sanders’ generational brilliance)
  • The perils of expecting identical greatness from a clone are humorously explored.
• Quote:
  • Dan Le Batard: "To assume that clone of yourself would be just as good at everything that you're good at, I think that's kind of a leap." [04:44]

4. NYC’s New Mayor & Media Fearmongering

[10:53–16:21]

• Dan goes on a “soapbox” about Zoran Mamdani, recently elected as New York City mayor—a young, Muslim, socialist of Indian descent.
• Critiques the panic and hypocrisy in some public/media reactions, particularly regarding religion and race in politics.
• Quote:
  • Dan Le Batard: "Do you really believe? ... All the levels of American government ... do you think everyone's like, well, he's the mayor ipso facto ... now New York's got it, the rest of the country, it's not Covid where it just spreads, right?" [12:19]
• Tony and Dan explain Mamdani’s focus on local, practical goals—transportation, housing—versus manufactured fears over "socialism."
• Discussion pivots to the irony of Americans fearing religious influence in politics while practicing it in other ways.

5. The Streaming Wars—Cable vs. Subscription Exhaustion

[20:13–24:11]

• The group vents about the headaches of modern streaming, with Dan blaming "cord-cutting nerds" for destroying the simple bundled cable package.
• Quote:
  • Dan Le Batard (in 'nerd' voice): "You had paradise and you said, not good enough, and now you want to cry." [23:06]
• Mike Ryan admits returning to cable out of frustration, pokes fun at streaming apps' endless logins, and criticizes Disney/Google corporate squabbles.
• The show laments the increased costs and user friction that emerged from the “a la carte” revolution.

6. NFL Trade Deadline Analysis & Franchises in Flux

[32:36–40:13]

• Lively breakdown of recent NFL trade “fireworks,” including Sauce Gardner and Micah Parsons deals.
• Indianapolis Colts highlighted as big movers, showing "win now" mentality by exchanging draft picks for proven stars.
• The recurring Jets “curse” is mocked—concern they'll squander their draft bounty.
• Quote:
  • Dan Le Batard: "The window is the window and you can't sit around thinking, oh, the window's going to be open forever. ... When you have the opportunity right now." [39:30]
• Dolphins are flagged as losers for lack of moves; Chris Cote details AFC East realignment.
• Stugotz preaches the “F them picks” strategy: when your window’s open, go all-in.

7. Personal Asides & Show Culture

• Chris Fuentes shares updates on his father’s surgery and texts with the group, displaying the show's camaraderie and willingness to mix serious personal notes with the absurd.
• Self-referential humor, frequent accusations of “fraud,” and playful reminiscence about old staff hijinks (falling asleep in a bush, WWE wrestler encounters, etc.) keep the energy light.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Chris Cote on pet cloning:
  "If I got to somebody's house, be like, yo, when you get this dog? ... Yeah, I clone my old one. I leave, I go home." [05:08]
• Mike Ryan on Barry Sanders:
  "Even on losses, this guy was dazzling. He did stuff that I have never, ever seen again in the backfield with his balance and his footwork." [07:58]
• Tony on New York’s mayor:
  "The premise here is that they've been using 'socialist' as this, like, dog whistle ... and yet somehow that’s not the fear." [14:11]
• Dan Le Batard on cord-cutters:
  "You had paradise and you said, not good enough, and now you want to cry." [23:06]
• Chris Fuentes on nugget-eating:
  "I've eaten 50 nuggets in two hours. How am I being judged right now? I'm nailing this." [37:01]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Nugget Challenge Comedy – Introduction, cheating, and air-fryer strategies: [00:37–07:04], [25:12–29:29]
• Dog Cloning Debate / Athlete Cloning Hypotheticals – [01:40–08:45]
• NYC Mayoral Election / Fearmongering Rant – [10:53–16:21]
• Cable vs. Streaming Rant – [20:13–24:11]
• NFL Trade Deadline Analysis – [32:36–40:13]

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Flow and Tone

The episode is fast-paced, zany, and sharp, alternating between ridiculous (the nugget-eating challenge) and insightful (media criticism, political commentary). Banter flows naturally, with no one immune from mockery—including the hosts themselves. The tone is irreverent and self-aware, with moments of genuine analysis punctuated by laughter, callbacks, and ongoing inside jokes. The crew maintains its authentic, conversational style while dissecting broader themes of culture, sports, and change.

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For fans and newcomers alike, this episode is a quintessential Le Batard blend: high-energy nonsense and sharp, unfiltered insights in equal measure.

Transcript

[Dan LeBatard]

Welcome to the Big Sui, presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show, the podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBatard podcast?

[Stugotz]

I'm sorry.

[Chris Cote]

I'm not going to apologize for that.

[Dan LeBatard]

In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries that if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys.

[Tony]

I've done it.

[Dan LeBatard]

And now here's the marching man to Nowhere, Fat Face and the Habitual Liar.

[Chris Fuentes]

This episode of the Dan Levitart show is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings. The Crown is yours.

[Mike Ryan]

Don't choke, man.

[Dan LeBatard]

What's the counter up to now?

[Tony]

37, 29.

[Chris Fuentes]

No, I ate a few during the break.

[Tony]

No, you didn't.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, you didn't. A few were eaten during the break.

[Chris Fuentes]

Not so sure everybody else did.

[Stugotz]

The dog had one.

[Tony]

Percy Addison did it. The calls his dog by his first.

[Dan LeBatard]

And middle name, which, by the way, her.

[Tony]

Sorry.

[Dan LeBatard]

The dog feeding it breaded chicken nuggets.

[Tony]

Ridiculous.

[Dan LeBatard]

Y' all already playing with fire. I wasn't gonna bring this to air, but since the dog came up, I'm gonna bring it there now. Ethan, while walking the dog yesterday, stepped in dog shit or something.

[Chris Fuentes]

You sure it was dog?

[Dan LeBatard]

It is downtown Miami. And then walked in here and tracked it everywhere. No.

[Mike Ryan]

He did what?

[Dan LeBatard]

Then he had to scrub it in the. In the bathroom over there. And I'm like, dude, you can't. And then he came in wearing the same shoes today. I'm like, come on, man. Come on, man. This is why we can't have animals in the studio.

[Tony]

You mean Ethan.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yes.

[Mike Ryan]

That's unbelievable.

[Dan LeBatard]

Unbelievable, man. This place is so gross, man. Oh, it's cute. It's cute. Oh, it's not, man.

[Chris Cote]

Nah, Dudu's not cute.

[Dan LeBatard]

Dudu's never cute. Ever. Unbelievable, Unremarkable shit. Speaking of dogs, Tom Brady cloned his dog. You guys know that.

[Chris Cote]

Yo, you saw this story.

[Dan LeBatard]

I did. I don't.

[Chris Cote]

I don't like this. Like this. This is some pet cemetery shit vibes to me. I don't like it.

[Dan LeBatard]

It doesn't make sense.

[Chris Cote]

I don't like this.

[Dan LeBatard]

Like, what about the dog would make it remember you if it's a dog, doesn't you clone the brain so you're just getting the same type of dog, you know? You know what you could do? Just go buy the same type of dog.

[Chris Cote]

Cloning a dog.

[Mike Ryan]

That's some rich people shit.

[Dan LeBatard]

But it's like. But it's it's the worst kind of rich people shit. Rich people should. Should be things that we can't do that we wish you could do. Like, for instance, having a robot maid or butler. That's awesome.

[Mike Ryan]

I wish healthcare.

[Chris Cote]

Look at this.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's some other worst people shit. Having health care.

[Chris Cote]

Look at this. Quote, I love my animals. The dog passed away two years ago. All right. Quote, I love my animals.

[Stugotz]

And.

[Chris Cote]

And he cloned this dog just recently. Okay. They mean the world to me and my family. So far, he's the same as everybody else. Okay, I continue. A few years ago, I worked with Colossal Biosciences and leveraged their non invasive cloning technology through a simple blood draw of our family's elderly dog before she passed.

[Tony]

Non invasive is the funniest word.

[Chris Cote]

You know, I told this is pet cemetery to me. I don't like it.

[Mike Ryan]

You guys. You guys are thinking too small. This is a beta test for Tom Brady to clone himself.

[Dan LeBatard]

Clone himself? Oh, wait a second.

[Mike Ryan]

What's the company that he was working with?

[Stugotz]

It's colossal. The same people that brought back the direwolf that are trying to bring back the woolly mammoth too.

[Mike Ryan]

He is definitely cloning himself. He's gonna end up like Jeff Goldblum in the fly.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay, here's my question.

[Tony]

Though only boring on a broadcast. Have gotten a crush on.

[Dan LeBatard]

If you clone yourself again, will it also clone your brain and your memories in the movies? Yes.

[Mike Ryan]

In real life, the dogs.

[Chris Fuentes]

I'm imagining him just being disappointed constantly. Like, oh, the other one used to do this. But I paid so much to have the same dog. It's like, you don't jump off the bed the same exact way.

[Mike Ryan]

Can we look at the Yelp reviews? Has he provided some feedback?

[Chris Fuentes]

He might hate it. He'd be like, what a waste of money. This was a different dog.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, do they have a Yelp? I want to know. Like, I don't know anybody. Didn't Barbra Streisand cloner clone?

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, she did. I think this is years ago though. But here's my question. Wait, hold on. How many of you guys watched the rehearsal season two? Wasn't that a storyline cat? They cloned the. Is it a dog? I thought it was a dog.

[Mike Ryan]

I thought it was a cat.

[Dan LeBatard]

Maybe it was a cat, but the whole thing was. And then Nathan Fielder recreated this couple's like, original apartment and everything, trying to see that if you could teach the cloned animal through the same kind of learned experiences that the original animal had, would it be the same and and the answer was no. No, it would not. And so again, even as a dog, it was a dog. There you go.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, Babs did.

[Dan LeBatard]

But, like, the idea that, like, cloning yourself, to assume that that clone of yourself would be just as good at everything that you're good at, I think that's kind of a leap.

[Chris Cote]

Can you claim to love animals if instead of adopting one, you just clone?

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah. Xerox them? Yeah. There's nothing I love more than sheets of paper and animals. Just stick them in the machine. Come back out. Here we go.

[Chris Cote]

I don't like it, man. If I got to somebody's house, be like, yo, when you get this dog, like, yeah, I clone my old one. I leave, I go home.

[Dan LeBatard]

Having said that, if you could clone, successfully clone any athlete and they would have all their memories and their abilities and all that, who would you clone?

[Chris Cote]

Well, I'd want someone for one of my favorite teams to be back on my favorite team.

[Dan LeBatard]

Right.

[Tony]

Is that.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, sure.

[Chris Cote]

Probably Shaq.

[Dan LeBatard]

Shaq. Yeah.

[Tony]

Wow.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Chris Cote]

You know, good the heat would be if they had Shaq Prime.

[Dan LeBatard]

Shaq right now.

[Chris Cote]

Be so good.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

Mike, I feel like you've got, like, a plethora of names that are all.

[Tony]

I don't know why you do that, Zaz.

[Chris Cote]

That guy's an underachiever, and that's why you want him. He's so good. That winning four titles was underachieving. Thank you. Thank you for bringing up games.

[Mike Ryan]

How does it come out? Is the other eye cross eyed?

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah. Oh, yeah, that's. They mix it up. That's how you tell them apart. Wait a second. Look at me.

[Mike Ryan]

If you're watching the main broadcast right now, you saw Chris Cody Mouth playing him like a fiddle. I'm on to some suspicious behavior over here.

[Dan LeBatard]

We have to have a. What do you call it? A mon.

[Chris Fuentes]

I can't help it if, like, some of these are little.

[Mike Ryan]

He's. He's breaking them in half.

[Tony]

Okay, that's ridiculous.

[Chris Fuentes]

Well, there's also a lot here, and I want to have enough to get this.

[Tony]

No, no, no. We'll order more.

[Dan LeBatard]

All right.

[Mike Ryan]

He was caught on camera saying, I'm playing him like a fiddle. By the way, he saw Batman Returns and he's like, that's a great idea. Let me replicate that evil plan.

[Tony]

This means he's at 34 and a half.

[Dan LeBatard]

Also, Chris, you're on camera all the time, regardless of whether it's on the monitor or not. You know that we have four people in that room back there who are watching.

[Chris Fuentes]

Said Playing them like a fiddle.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay. He wants to do a little victory lap on it.

[Chris Cote]

Okay.

[Chris Fuentes]

I will work in a complete fake bite at some point in halves. Hey.

[Tony]

What?

[Dan LeBatard]

There he goes. There will be one point.

[Chris Fuentes]

There will be one point where I go in, like, here, and nothing goes in. And then he'll.

[Chris Cote]

He'll go up one. What would you like to be at by the end of Big suit?

[Chris Fuentes]

How many have I eaten in this?

[Mike Ryan]

34 and a half.

[Chris Fuentes]

What was I at before? I feel like I've slowed down a lot.

[Chris Cote]

What would you like to be at?

[Chris Fuentes]

I'm hoping to get to 45.

[Stugotz]

45.

[Mike Ryan]

That's a good number.

[Chris Cote]

You wouldn't even be halfway done.

[Mike Ryan]

So is 47 and 48.

[Chris Fuentes]

What did we land on? We don't have an answer yet for how many I need to do.

[Stugotz]

We land on more.

[Dan LeBatard]

More.

[Mike Ryan]

More. Definitely more than what you have right now. Eating.

[Dan LeBatard]

Keep eating.

[Mike Ryan]

There you go.

[Dan LeBatard]

We didn't need that.

[Mike Ryan]

There we are.

[Dan LeBatard]

Roy.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

Athlete. You could clone. Who would you clone?

[Mike Ryan]

In my heart, Jackie Robinson.

[Dan LeBatard]

Really?

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

I wouldn't want to watch Jackie Robinson get rocked by these pitchers now, man, I, like, keep his legacy.

[Chris Cote]

What it is, man.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't know, man. If he gets on base through that again, it's going to be great. But I don't think he's going to go through the same thing he went through back then, though. Would have to be an athlete. I would clone Barry Sanders.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, Barry Sanders.

[Mike Ryan]

In today's video, Barry Sanders was so like. There's a whole generation in this studio that has seen, like, YouTube highlights or something like that. I'm telling you, every time, even on losses, this guy was dazzling. He did stuff that I have never, ever seen again in the backfield with his balance and his footwork, he was just amazing to watch.

[Chris Cote]

So here's the thing with the cloning, right? So if you clone Barry Sanders, does he then quit, too?

[Dan LeBatard]

I mean, it's the same memories and experiences. But here's the deal. If you put him on the Detroit Lions, this team's good. He never had a team this good.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, does he? Is he even RB1 now?

[Stugotz]

He's Jameer Gibbs.

[Mike Ryan]

He's definitely RB1.

[Chris Cote]

I feel like in a few years ago, like, man, I feel like a strong urge to quit. I don't know why.

[Stugotz]

He's just already programmed in him.

[Tony]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

Best running back room ever, dude.

[Dan LeBatard]

I remember watching one of those NFL films things, and it was like a team that was getting ready to play Barry Sanders, and what they had their scout team do was against the defense. They'd had two guys with two footballs running and the defense had to stop both. That was the best simulation of trying to stop Barry Sanders.

[Mike Ryan]

Look, they knew they were playing Detroit. There was one thing to stop. They had Scott Mitchell at quarterback, you know, and it didn't matter.

[Tony]

There's a show on Netflix called Living with Yourself starring Paul Rudd, another top five Jewish actor who millennial shiks. Paul Rudd seen and developed crushes on Jewish guys. But what's really interesting in this Tom Brady is in this show he has a cameo. And the cameo revolves around a joke where both people are going to a spa. And at that spa, you clone yourself. And Tom Brady says that he has cloned himself six times in the show.

[Dan LeBatard]

Wait a second.

[Tony]

He's just soft launching the idea that there have been Tom Brady clones. Now in real life, he's actually cloning a. This man is on a mission.

[Dan LeBatard]

Wait a second.

[Tony]

To normalize being cloned.

[Dan LeBatard]

Wait a second. Wait a gosh darn second. Okay, maybe it's not him soft launching. He's going to clone himself. Maybe the truth is right in front of our very eyes. Maybe Tom Brady already cloned himself. That's how he went on up them Super Bowls. We're like, how does he not age? Cuz he just kept xeroxing himself over and over again.

[Tony]

After the age of, after the acl, he just took that time off to clone himself come back even stronger.

[Mike Ryan]

The prestige.

[Chris Cote]

What a movie.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh my gosh. Vile.

[Chris Cote]

What a movie.

[Mike Ryan]

So basically he's Michael Keaton and multiplicity. She Touched My Pappy. Steve.

[Dan LeBatard]

Chris, where we're at, I usually.

[Chris Fuentes]

Get an eight count.

[Tony]

We're 39.

[Dan LeBatard]

39. There's no way he had five in the.

[Chris Fuentes]

No, I was just cooking dude the whole time and I was showing. I was dropping him in like a pelican. Like a pelican.

[Mike Ryan]

Give me six more.

[Dan LeBatard]

I. You know what? I, I want to talk about this. I do want to talk about this. Right? Yesterday, New York City, they elected Zoram Hamdani, which don't even get me started. To many, many, many, many people in this country is the most terrifying thing ever. He's of Indian descent, born in Uganda, and he's Muslim and he's a socialist and he's 34 years old working for the police party. And now he's the mayor of New York City. And I gotta say I'm shocked. But I'm not shocked by the number of people that I follow or people that I know who Were like clutching their pearls over this guy getting elected. By the way, people have no connection to the city of New York. Never lived there, not from there. I'm from New York City. And in American politics, right, doesn't matter what you are, whether you're a Republican, a Democrat, whatever. But there seems to be a permanent furor about if this person isn't the thing that we've seen all along. So the idea of this guy being the mayor of New York staggering people for what reason other than he's just different, right? It's fascinating to me the things that are said, like, there's gonna be Sharia law. I'm like, they said that about Barack Obama too, by the way. He's gonna bring on Sharia law. Do you really believe that? Do you really believe as he's like.

[Mike Ryan]

In the DJ booth at a gay bar, right?

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm just like, do you really believe? Let's just assume that's his evil master plan. All the levels of American government, all the people working, do you think everyone's like, well, he's the mayor ipso facto. And now New York's got it, the rest of the country, it's not Covid where it just spreads, right? But the other part of this that is not lost upon me in terms of how ironic it is, is like you're worried he's gonna put Sharia law in because he's a Muslim. So you're worried he. He's going his religion to inform policy. You're worried that he can't separate church and state, which is one of the bedrock foundations of this country.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm not sure where you're going all of this.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's amazing to me, it's the very definition of pot and kettle. Oh, you're going to get. Oh, it's going to be everywhere. I'm like, what are you talking about? What are you talking about? And this hypocrisy and this fear mongering, right? Because he is not Josh Johnson or whatever, very safe name with a safe background. His socialist ideas seem to be the least of their fears. That's the funny part. That's the funny. That's the least of their fears. Their biggest fears is he's a Muslim from Uganda, but he doesn't look like people from Uganda. Except if you knew about Uganda and its history, you would understand. Yeah, of course.

[Tony]

The fear over all of those things, over socialism is a fascinating one, right? Because that's been the thing that was like the key word that this Republican administration, Chris just said. Wow, I didn't eat it. It's still in my hand.

[Chris Cote]

He just put it next to his cheeks.

[Tony]

I'm playing them like a fiddle. This is unbelievable. First of all, the self narration is probably not a good idea if he doesn't want to be caught.

[Mike Ryan]

Good deflection, Chris. Keep it going.

[Tony]

Speaking of pot and kettle, how are we doing, Chris? So the premise here is that they've been using socialists as this, like, dog whistle for all of these people the entire time. And yet somehow that's not the fear. When Mamdani himself has done a really good job of just sticking to the messaging of what he actually wants to accomplish.

[Dan LeBatard]

Right.

[Tony]

Hey. Transportation, housing, all these things that are.

[Dan LeBatard]

Gonna help New Yorkers.

[Tony]

Like that. That's. His goal, is to locally help New Yorkers. It's why he stayed out of other conversations.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yes.

[Tony]

Of which he has opinions on. He stayed out of those conversations.

[Dan LeBatard]

That has nothing to do with New York.

[Tony]

I'm a man.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm the mayor of. I'm not the president of the country.

[Tony]

That's right.

[Mike Ryan]

You guys think Iowa jumps into the teens if they beat Oregon?

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm really happy for all of my friends and family who live in New York. Cuz it feels like the tide is turning because they're moving.

[Mike Ryan]

They're coming down here.

[Tony]

I'm just excited because I'm gonna be able to sell my house at a higher price with all the people fleeing.

[Dan LeBatard]

No one's fleeing New York.

[Tony]

I know.

[Mike Ryan]

Of course.

[Dan LeBatard]

No one's fleeing New Yorkers.

[Mike Ryan]

This is actually huge news for the Democratic Party. If they can effectively place a candidate that removes New Yorkers from your city.

[Tony]

Ooh, that'd be good news for the.

[Mike Ryan]

That is a platform, pal.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's the other funny thing. And that's why I started with. It's not politics. It's not. Excuse me. It's not party driven. Because Zoron wasn't even operating with the support of his own party.

[Tony]

That's right.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

They were out here like, oh, I don't know about this. You got Hakeem Jeffries talking about. They're all trying to distance themselves.

[Mike Ryan]

I like that guy.

[Dan LeBatard]

Because they all subscribe to the same sort of weird dogma.

[Chris Fuentes]

I'm not playing anymore.

[Mike Ryan]

What? What? What's the matter?

[Stugotz]

All right.

[Tony]

It's up to 44.

[Chris Fuentes]

All right. They're back. They were messing with me. It was going down well.

[Mike Ryan]

You're messing with them. I was straight.

[Stugotz]

That's.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm.

[Chris Fuentes]

I'm a showman.

[Chris Cote]

You push the buttons, Braun.

[Dan LeBatard]

Showman. Anyways, that's my soapbox. You know, that was my Dan lebatar minute of the day.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, just the overall result for.

[Dan LeBatard]

Democrats yesterday is just overall tremendous. But I think Zoran is a little different from all the other races. It's true. Because they didn't want him.

[Mike Ryan]

Find a sports tie.

[Dan LeBatard]

I don't have to find shit. Substance teacher over here. I said it.

[Tony]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Chris Fuentes]

How irrational?

[Mike Ryan]

Stugats.

[Dan LeBatard]

If I were making a cartoon thing that was meant to symbolize irrational, that's the voice I would give higher.

[Chris Fuentes]

Premise. Premise.

[Chris Cote]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats.

[Dan LeBatard]

You know what? To hell with that. To hell with sports. I'm going to go straight to this Disney YouTube stuff I know we talked about.

[Mike Ryan]

Everyone's pissed about this. We didn't spend enough time.

[Dan LeBatard]

Mike, Mike. I was with Fuentes yesterday and I told him, you know whose fault this is? Whose fault all of this is?

[Mike Ryan]

The mayor of New York.

[Dan LeBatard]

Nope, Nope. We've moved on. All the nerds who are like, why do I have to pay for sports? I just want the channel to die. Watch. Once upon a time, I want to watch tv. Hey, I'm your cable company. How about all these channels for this price? Sounds good. And that's it. I was like, are there channels I don't watch there? Sure. I don't watch tlc.

[Mike Ryan]

C Span.

[Dan LeBatard]

I Don't watch C Span. But I understand, collectively, we all, all benefit from having these channels for a set price.

[Mike Ryan]

I've been living, like, I've been ashamed of my behavior over the last football season. You know that final scene in Cable Guy where the cable goes out? Dude just looks over at a book and starts reading, enjoying it. When my YouTube TV and Disney disputes started affecting my life, I just turned on my cable box and I was like, I get all the channels. What am I doing?

[Dan LeBatard]

It's insane. We had it. We had the strategy. We had the product that made everybody happy. And then some people said, I don't know why I'm paying for this. I just want to pick the channels that I want. And then, like, Disney and Netflix, just give you these movie channels. And these channels right here. That's better. No more sports for me. But what's happening is that everyone realized, oh, I can charge all these people for the two or three channels that they may watch, thus fracturing this whole thing. And so now you're like, oh, my God, in order to watch everything I used to watch, I've gotta pay so much more money. Yeah, because you didn't want the buffet. You said, I want a la carte. Well, guess what? The a la carte is in front of the horse now.

[Chris Cote]

Who's the impression you're doing?

[Mike Ryan]

A nerd. He said he was a nerd.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm a nerd.

[Chris Cote]

Why am I paying for this? Sports channels. Yeah, okay. All right, Just checking.

[Dan LeBatard]

I found out that people gotta order an app and pay a subscription just to watch the local sports teams because they're not. Like, how is that possible?

[Chris Fuentes]

I'm doing great.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'll tell you how it's possible, because you guys listen to all of these nerds tell you to cut your cord.

[Mike Ryan]

And how they sound.

[Dan LeBatard]

They sound like this. Roy, Roy, I'm gonna cut my cord. I don't need any of these channels.

[Stugotz]

I'm gonna cut your cord.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm gonna cut my cord. Hmm.

[Chris Cote]

You know about cutting that cord, buddy?

[Stugotz]

My cord's never been cut.

[Dan LeBatard]

Never been cut. Never been cut. I'm still corded up right now.

[Mike Ryan]

Wow.

[Dan LeBatard]

Holla at me. NBA TV. 216, ESPN. 206, ESPN.

[Tony]

I know that.

[Dan LeBatard]

209, DIRECTV. I know exactly where my channel's at. I can find it in the dark every time. Oh, two games on flashback, flashback, flashback. Oh, picture and picture. Got that, too. On my dtv.

[Chris Cote]

That is the worst part of the apps is not having the flashback button.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, wait, hold on.

[Chris Cote]

Let me Log out of this app.

[Dan LeBatard]

Log into the other app. Oh, nerds. Nerds. You had paradise and you said, not good enough, and now you want to cry.

[Mike Ryan]

As a consumer base, we could just say f both of you when it comes to this Google Disney thing, but I am kind of side in with Google on this one a little bit. It's very clear what Disney is doing, as they've invested so much money, they've increased the price point, they've made acquisitions like WWE that aren't exactly helping matters. They're leveraging their sports partnerships by having head coaches embarrass themselves, look into cameras and say, YouTube TV is wrong. The big corporate overlord Google is bad. Side with us over here at Disney. This is all ugly, stupid. We're all paying the price. As the economy gets worse, everything gets more expensive. They're not helping things. F both of y'.

[Dan LeBatard]

All.

[Chris Cote]

Can I add a correction real quick? Overall point still, you know, counts. But yesterday, you and I had a conversation about WWE's attendance being down on Monday night, and Monday night Raw. That building was small. That building only held 6,000.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, but they're booking smaller buildings. That's not what. That's not what WWE does.

[Chris Cote]

Well, they're in Boston on Monday night.

[Mike Ryan]

The start of the TKO era. Well, it's Boston and John Cena returning to his home.

[Chris Cote]

Okay, I was misinformed. I was misinformed because I thought the upper deck was. There was no upper deck. They were in, like, Rio Rancho, New.

[Mike Ryan]

Mexico, which is, like, rare for them to be playing smaller markets. That's the tell. Like, when they were humming, they were playing arenas all the time, and they were not doing the small venue.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah, I had a listener who pointed out yesterday I didn't even know that, so that was my bust.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, but they're.

[Stugotz]

They called you a sucker, too.

[Chris Cote]

Yo, I. I already told you about that, all right? I'm not.

[Stugotz]

You said you were a sucker.

[Dan LeBatard]

You had a very bad couple of days, I must admit.

[Chris Cote]

What else?

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, first of all, you embarrassed yourself with Braun Strowman.

[Chris Cote]

No, I did not. And you know what? I resent you making me look stupid in front of a WWE wrestler. I love wwe.

[Dan LeBatard]

You did that on your own, Ron.

[Chris Fuentes]

What's it like when you're famous and people come up to you?

[Chris Cote]

That's your impression of me. I would work on that.

[Chris Fuentes]

That's how I feel right now.

[Dan LeBatard]

How you seen you paused here at 46.

[Chris Fuentes]

Taking a little break, a little recess.

[Tony]

46 is a really good spot, Tony.

[Chris Fuentes]

I'm telling You. Every girl going, I've gone to here.

[Chris Cote]

It's just.

[Mike Ryan]

It's.

[Dan LeBatard]

Grill's not the way.

[Chris Fuentes]

It's not the.

[Stugotz]

I don't know why. I don't know why you guys chose grilled.

[Mike Ryan]

Just put it all. How about you just put a bunch in your mouth? It's a pallet cleanser.

[Chris Cote]

Well, honestly, what would happen? Like, okay, so you're at 46 right now. What if you just threw four in your mouth right now?

[Mike Ryan]

Put four in your mouth and you'll be do their thing. Going to even fit.

[Dan LeBatard]

Don't do four. Don't do four. Cuz then you're going to be chewing for 30 minutes. Do two. Do two and then take a swig of water and two more.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, two. Two holes.

[Chris Fuentes]

Like a big thing of trying to.

[Tony]

Make these things work.

[Chris Fuentes]

Guys keep ripping them off.

[Tony]

Don't rip them.

[Chris Fuentes]

Not going to be one.

[Stugotz]

It's got a point there.

[Chris Fuentes]

I mean, when one becomes two, it's got a point.

[Mike Ryan]

All right, kick it in, huh? It's raging right now. We're like 15 rips in half.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's. That's one. One dog.

[Stugotz]

47.

[Chris Cote]

Shit, dude.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's 40.

[Chris Fuentes]

48 in. You guys are doing this game with me right now. You guys are playing this game with me.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, Chris, I'm. None of you did half of what.

[Chris Fuentes]

I'm at, except for maybe Tony.

[Dan LeBatard]

Chris. Chris, I'm going to tell you right now, gross. This is the. I'm doing what you guys are doing. This is the conversation I had Chris during the break. The conversation was Chris isn't going to hit 99. So what's the punishment for not landing? The punishment.

[Chris Fuentes]

And no, Jeremy, who runs this ship now when it comes to these, like.

[Stugotz]

The run shit, it's you, Donnis Haslam that runs it.

[Chris Fuentes]

Jeremy is the custodian UD answers to Jeremy.

[Tony]

That's right.

[Chris Fuentes]

Visualize that.

[Dan LeBatard]

Chris, the punishment for not completing this punishment is that this room gets to choose another. Another punishment for you. I promise you, you don't want to go down that path.

[Chris Cote]

I do have good news for you, though. Chris. You eat two more. Halfway there.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, he's halfway there.

[Chris Fuentes]

Just ate two. Put another one up there.

[Stugotz]

You ate half.

[Chris Fuentes]

I'm at 48. You guys are full of it. That was. Those were two gigantic ones. I'm not saying I haven't eaten a half. At some point, those two. Thank you.

[Tony]

All right.

[Chris Fuentes]

Thank you respecting me. Thank you for respecting me.

[Dan LeBatard]

Video Team Brad, how's your dad doing?

[Mike Ryan]

I checked in with him.

[Dan LeBatard]

Do you have Updates?

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, I had a brief text exchange with him.

[Dan LeBatard]

Did he talk about French toast?

[Mike Ryan]

I. I said, good luck. Don't die. And he said, we'll give it my best.

[Dan LeBatard]

So he's still under now we're all.

[Mike Ryan]

Rooting for you to not die.

[Dan LeBatard]

How long is the procedure, Chris?

[Chris Fuentes]

I was told it was from around nine to noon. Like, he should be texting me before.

[Stugotz]

Like.

[Chris Fuentes]

Like, he literally, like, waking up too. Like, he should be texting me and leaving there around noon.

[Dan LeBatard]

Got you.

[Mike Ryan]

He's coming too.

[Chris Fuentes]

But if you want to see my text exchange this morning with my dad.

[Tony]

I love you, dad.

[Chris Fuentes]

Text me after. Will do. If it comes up on the show, say that people can wish me well by listening to my podcast.

[Dan LeBatard]

Like, I want that famous last words.

[Chris Fuentes]

You know, God forbid that. That's my last exchange with my dad.

[Mike Ryan]

What's the photo of him that you have?

[Tony]

Where's the love, you two?

[Chris Fuentes]

The photo of him is him in my car passed out. That's the bush night. That's the night he fell in the bush.

[Stugotz]

Dark hero.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah. A lot more pepper than salt right there.

[Chris Fuentes]

Just out.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's awful, man.

[Chris Fuentes]

That's why he fell in the bush, because he was asleep.

[Dan LeBatard]

But also before. Also hilarious, right? If that were his last words.

[Chris Fuentes]

Is that when the U was back? Actually, that was the Marty Smith night.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, we went to the Grove.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, is that where it happened?

[Mike Ryan]

He was back. Briefly. Brief moment.

[Chris Fuentes]

You were there that night.

[Mike Ryan]

We haven't been irrelevant for two decades.

[Tony]

It was a little outlier every eight years or so.

[Mike Ryan]

Shut up.

[Dan LeBatard]

He's holding you accountable.

[Chris Fuentes]

All right, another one down the hatch here.

[Dan LeBatard]

Where we at? 48. No, wait, hold on.

[Stugotz]

That was a half.

[Chris Fuentes]

Shut his mouth, dude.

[Dan LeBatard]

Look at these.

[Chris Fuentes]

I can't make them bigger. They are what they are.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, you can make them smaller, though. That's. That's the idea.

[Chris Fuentes]

I can't physically make them bigger.

[Tony]

49.

[Chris Fuentes]

You know what I can do 49.

[Tony]

That's 49. That one was 49.

[Chris Fuentes]

That was me.

[Stugotz]

I could take the grilled ones, put them in the air fryer a little bit. Yeah, they're nice and hot all the way back.

[Mike Ryan]

We can put them in there. Soggy thing, like, literally just take. No excuses. No excuses. Let's get done.

[Stugotz]

Eat these. I'm gonna take these.

[Chris Fuentes]

No, throw them all in the air fryer.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, wow.

[Chris Fuentes]

This is smart.

[Tony]

This is smart. This is smart.

[Dan LeBatard]

This is a good move.

[Tony]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

This is the way you did that.

[Tony]

It's okay.

[Chris Cote]

20.

[Mike Ryan]

Shake them up.

[Chris Fuentes]

Separate them.

[Tony]

20.

[Chris Fuentes]

Oh, man.

[Mike Ryan]

You'Re pretty high, huh? Pretty high.

[Chris Fuentes]

Yeah, he is.

[Mike Ryan]

This is irresponsible, really, but I don't know. I don't have to work high.

[Stugotz]

The girl ones are good.

[Dan LeBatard]

I don't know what he's talking about.

[Chris Fuentes]

I'm not.

[Dan LeBatard]

I can't.

[Mike Ryan]

He didn't show up to work high. He got high at work. It's a dip. Oh, yeah.

[Chris Fuentes]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

Podcasters up there still slide guitar.

[Chris Fuentes]

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[Stugotz]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Stugotz]

I think I would have been on his side.

[Dan LeBatard]

I would have looked at you like, what did you say?

[Chris Fuentes]

I'm telling you, me and my friend, the rest of the way home, all we kept saying was I cheating stuff.

[Dan LeBatard]

I think he got your ass.

[Chris Fuentes]

I got his way.

[Tony]

Chris. Chris won this one for sure. Not. Was that Jeremy? It was great.

[Chris Cote]

This is the D. Levatar show with the St.

[Mike Ryan]

Gods.

[Dan LeBatard]

NFL trade deadline.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, fireworks, yo. That was some big ones.

[Dan LeBatard]

We got some fireworks.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't know if Quinton William Williams gets tariffed because he has to move to Texas now as a New Yorker, but Sauce Gardner, that was pretty shocking. Like. And look, Diana Marusini said, I don't expect Jerry Jones to do anything. I'm like, diana, they just lost a Monday Night Football. He can't help himself.

[Chris Cote]

He.

[Mike Ryan]

And he did do something. I thought these were impactful moves. And quite, quite seriously, like, I love what Indianapolis did, even though Sauce Gardner really has him too fast.

[Stugotz]

I didn't like.

[Mike Ryan]

I didn't like that part. But he can help them. No doubt.

[Chris Fuentes]

They're not going to be top picks.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, you can pass all over them, and I know that they've been dominant in these games and they've been playing a lot of offenses that have been having to chase the games, but their pass coverage numbers are not good. Even in an isolated beginning of the game scenarios, you can throw all over this team. So they address a big need on the defensive end of the ball. I thought Indianapolis got a lot better.

[Stugotz]

It's like they're going for it, obviously, because they have the team that looks to be one of the best teams in the NFL. But, like, Sauce Gardner hasn't been that good. Right. Like, we remember his rookie year where he was great, and then it's kind of been on a slow decline ever since.

[Chris Cote]

But he's likely a massive upgrade on what they have. Right?

[Mike Ryan]

For sure.

[Stugotz]

For sure.

[Chris Cote]

That's all that matters.

[Stugotz]

But you don't think there's a better corner that you could have gone out and gotten for two first rounds?

[Chris Cote]

But wouldn't you assume that they tried that?

[Stugotz]

Sure.

[Dan LeBatard]

Can we go the two first? Is it safe to say that the jets were a big winner because they got a lot.

[Chris Fuentes]

They will mess up these.

[Dan LeBatard]

They'll mess it up.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Chris Fuentes]

Well, I saw some jets fans trying to take a victory live. It's like, you guys have done this before.

[Tony]

You screw up the picks.

[Chris Cote]

I'll tell you, though, I thought the Dolphins were a huge loser yesterday and not Just because there seemed to be. It seemed to me that they had guys. Bradley, Chubb, Minka, Fitzpatrick. It seemed that they had guys who may have some, maybe a market out there and that they didn't move. But overall, we're back in this same spot, man. It's not just the Dolphins rebuilding, but you look at the division where Bills are awesome. Not going anywhere. Patriots are clearly on the rise. And now the Jets. Yeah, jets are terrible, but they have five first round picks in the next two years. And look at you, you know, you're stuck holding your. You know what? Like they're so in the gutter, the Dolphins.

[Dan LeBatard]

What are they holding?

[Chris Cote]

You know what they're holding, man?

[Dan LeBatard]

Cards.

[Chris Cote]

Google that shit.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay.

[Mike Ryan]

We have big breaking news.

[Dan LeBatard]

Do we?

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. And it affects everybody. It's a global game, folks. FIFA has made an announcement.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay.

[Mike Ryan]

FIFA will present its inaugural FIFA Peace Prize Football Unites the World Award during the World cup final draw on December 5th in Washington D.C. not Trump.

[Dan LeBatard]

Not Trump.

[Mike Ryan]

Not Trump.

[Dan LeBatard]

No.

[Stugotz]

No.

[Mike Ryan]

I wonder who, I wonder who's gonna win it. So that's actually. I applaud that. He couldn't win the Nobel Peace Prize, so he just had Infantino make one. That's incredible. That is really.

[Dan LeBatard]

Johnny, you know what?

[Mike Ryan]

You got me. Johnny.

[Dan LeBatard]

The Johnny.

[Mike Ryan]

The infant Johnny. Soccer.

[Stugotz]

You know, really quick to get back to the original football that we were talking about.

[Dan LeBatard]

Original football.

[Stugotz]

Original football. We were talking about Trade dead.

[Mike Ryan]

Stay on message.

[Stugotz]

Thank you. Revising the Micah Parsons trade. When you look at what they got, not bad. I'm in. I'm very intrigued. So packers got Micah Parsons. Cowboys got a first round pick, Kenny Clark and Quinn and Williams, like that's.

[Chris Cote]

That'S a decent haul for the linebacker from Cincinnati.

[Stugotz]

Right, Wilson?

[Chris Cote]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

Cincinnati, you need better defensive players and you're trading way your better defensive players to a team that has.

[Chris Fuentes]

Micah, you would have argued was like top three in the league in terms of value. So like that is a great package. But there's not a lot of guys who would get in the entire league like in terms of value, age and how good they are.

[Stugotz]

100%. Like, yeah, still.

[Chris Fuentes]

But, but I get what you're saying.

[Stugotz]

It's better than, hey, I got, I got three first rounds pick first round picks, but I don't know if those guys are going to materialize into good players. Like I got a stud in Quinn Williams, I got a really good defensive tackle in Kenny Clark and I still have a first round pick. So it's like I'm getting established players rather than the hope and dream of a first round pick that can end up being something. Or he can fall flat on his face.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, quick update. We sent Fuentes to go air fry the nuggets. He's eating them. What are we doing? What is going on here? Shenanigans.

[Tony]

Oh, it doesn't.

[Chris Fuentes]

I'm at 50.

[Stugotz]

You know what brings them down?

[Mike Ryan]

Two forms of idea.

[Tony]

Ridiculous. Fuentes.

[Dan LeBatard]

Why is this entire office riddled with fraud? Everyone.

[Tony]

It's just the Fuentes brothers.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, it's Chris. It's everybody.

[Chris Fuentes]

I'm. I've eaten 50 nuggets in two hours. How am I being judged right now? I'm nailing this.

[Tony]

Yeah, he is. I. You got to give Chris credit where it's due.

[Chris Fuentes]

And speaking of doing it where it's due.

[Dan LeBatard]

51.

[Chris Fuentes]

I'm two away from doing sauce.

[Tony]

Gardner has not allowed more than two receptions to a single receiver in a game this season. He's forced a tight window on 52 of his targets as the highest rate of any player targeted at least 20 times in coverage. So he's a. He's still.

[Stugotz]

He's been better this year.

[Tony]

Down corner.

[Stugotz]

He's been better this year, but if you look at the numbers from the past couple.

[Tony]

Right. But he's a young guy, very average. A young guy who's coming back to the form that you saw him as a rookie. Right. I mean, he was, he was an impact player from the moment he entered the league. And now he seems to be playing the way that, that you would desperately, desperately need if you're that Colts defense. And I look giving up two first round picks in the NFL is. Is a lot like it can change a lot of things about your franchise. But. But if you feel that confident about your team, that confident about your offense.

[Stugotz]

And all in move.

[Tony]

Well, for that matter, it's the type of move that maybe the Dolphins should have made that first year with TUA where they were lighting the world on fire with Mike McDaniel, where, hey, the offense isn't going to be stopped this year. We don't know if schematically people are going to catch up next year, but this year we know we have an elite offense. Let's try to just cash in and see if we can make a run at it. I kind of admire what they did.

[Chris Cote]

They did do that, the Dolphins.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Chris Cote]

They traded for Bradley Chubb.

[Tony]

They trade for Bradley Chubb and that's the type of thing that you do. Right.

[Chris Cote]

And then the next day they traded for Jalen Ramsey.

[Mike Ryan]

Right.

[Tony]

And that's My point is, is going all in around something that you think is going to work is a good idea. And look, it didn't work out for the Dolphins, obviously, but when you have that type of offense going all in and making that choice is a good thing.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

F them picks. At the end of the day, if you have a really good team and you figured out you. You think that Daniel Jones is going to be the quarterback of the future for this team, Right. Like they were always a piece away and now they've got that piece. They're playing well, obviously not this past game notwithstanding, but it's like you try to put the players in position to win a championship and it looks like what the Eagles do every single season, it's like, who's somebody that we can just pick up for nothing? Oh, Jair Alexander's out there. Perfect. Let's get him. Jalen Phillips is out there. He kind of sucked in Miami, but he's going to be really good here. Okay, let's get him.

[Tony]

And hand up in a moment of honesty, I did forget that they traded for Bradley Treb at that time, that deadline. I thought it was all in the off season. Bradley Trub. Yeah, Bradley Trub. What? Revising that trade as opposed to revisiting or despite dispute, we can all the.

[Dan LeBatard]

The window is the window and you can't sit around thinking, oh, the window's going to be open forever. Oh, can't trade these picks. The window's open for the Colts. They didn't know it at the beginning of the year. They know it now. They have a chance to win the super bowl now. You can't sit around and worry about a 2027 first rounder when you have the opportunity right now.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah. Who cares? Who cares like if they wind up winning even if they don't win the Super Bowl. The Colts.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Chris Cote]

Get to the AFC Championship game in two years from now when they don't have that late first round pick, you think anyone's gonna be saying, wow, wish they really had that pick.

[Dan LeBatard]

No.

[Chris Cote]

Like, go out there, win games right now. You had to give up for a couple first round picks.

[Tony]

Who cares?

[Chris Fuentes]

I got a little break here. I'm feeling a nice second for the second half here.

[Mike Ryan]

There he is.

[Tony]

He's back.

[Dan LeBatard]

The kid is back. Back. Yeah.

[Stugotz]

Coming again.

[Chris Fuentes]

Elizabeth.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, Lord.

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