The Big Suey: Funniest Thing From the Sports Weekend (feat. Amin Elhassan)

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: The Big Suey: Funniest Thing From the Sports Weekend (feat. Amin Elhassan)

Date: September 16, 2025
Location: Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami

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Episode Overview

The "Big Suey" episode dives into the funniest moments from an action-packed sports weekend. With guest Amin Elhassan joining Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, Tony Reali, Chris Cote, and Greg Cody, the crew delivers their irreverent blend of sports analysis, pop-culture riffs, weekend recaps, and inside jokes. Central topics include NFL blunders, college football upsets, media reactions to the NBA Steve Ballmer scandal, and more trademark Le Batard banter.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Funniest Things from the Sports Weekend

Timestamps: 03:16–10:21
Each host nominates their pick for the funniest sports moment of the weekend, analyzing both on-field mishaps and viral social media moments.

Highlights:

• Jared Goff’s Lambo Leap (Detroit Lions)

  • Goff awkwardly imitates the classic Lambo Leap, compared to a 70-year-old attempting to scale a wall.
  • Dan: “Jared Goff can’t jump.” (04:04)
  • Tony: “It’s pathetic.” (04:03)

• Anthony Rizzo’s Home Run Whiff

  • Rizzo, in the Cubs Hall of Fame section, misses a home run ball he could’ve caught—a viral embarrassment.
  • Dan: “Put your phone down, buddy.” (04:42)

• Trevor Lawrence’s Lack of Field Awareness

  • Lawrence scrambles past the line of scrimmage and forgets to throw—a classic quarterback brain fart.
  • Dan: “We gotta find a way to get this yellow line on the field for the players.” (05:33)
  • Tony: “Is he the quarterback most likely to do this?” (05:43)

• UCLA Pays To Lose

  • UCLA pays $1.2 million to New Mexico—only to get blown out and fire their coach.
  • Dan: “One of my favorite things in sports—when the college team pays the other team to come play…and then they lose.” (06:13)

• Tom Brady’s Kareem Hunt Name Flub

  • Imagined but not aired; the crew jokes about “danger words” in live TV.
  • Dan: “Did he say—I didn’t hear the H there.” (07:18)

• Colts Mascot’s Crossbar Antics During FG

  • The Colts mascot’s pelvic thrust celebration under the goalpost after a game-winning FG.
  • Tony: “He celebrates it when they make it. It’s delightful every single time.” (07:44–08:14)

• John Daly’s Record-Breaking Par Five (19 Strokes)

  • Daly sets a pro record with 19 strokes on a par five.
  • Dan: “He broke his own record! …That’s on brand for Daly.” (08:34)

• Russell Wilson’s Bizarre Throw

  • Amin nominates Wilson’s awkward pass, comparing it to his own “shot.”
  • Amin: “No, not the INT. That wasn’t funny. The play right before…it just got away from him, and his hand kind of did this weird thing.” (09:29–10:06)

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2. Behind the Scenes: NBA & Steve Ballmer Scandal

Timestamps: 12:27–18:31

• The crew reviews Pablo Torre’s investigative podcast on Steve Ballmer and Clippers’ financial controversy.

• Discussion about why sports media seemed to downplay the story: Ballmer’s popularity, media relationships, and Pablo’s outsider status.

  • Amin: “He has the resources and the freedom…all his time is spent on breaking these huge stories…” (13:09)
  • Dan: “When you get beat on a big story, your instinct is to downplay it.” (14:30)

• Possible NBA consequences if allegations are confirmed:

  • Forfeiture of draft picks, voiding of Kawhi Leonard’s contract, heavy fines, suspensions.
  • Amin: “Article 13 of the CBA is pretty specific on what the commissioner can and can’t do to punish a cap circumvention situation.” (17:36)

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3. Media Jealousy and Story Competition

Timestamps: 13:09–16:22

• The sting of being beaten to a big scoop discussed candidly.
  • Dan: “If you’re a full-time NBA journalist…you sting. It stings.” (14:30)
• Jealousy over Pablo Torre’s investigative latitude compared to daily NBA beat writers.

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4. Weekend Observations & Rapid-Fire Sports/Pop Culture Musings

Timestamps: 23:37–34:41

Chris Cote’s “Weekend Observations” features:

• The NFL, college football highlights, and random pop culture.
• Commentary on Saudi money in sports, Canelo Alvarez’s resemblance to Blake Griffin, and Dak Prescott’s stats.
• Chris Cote: “Canelo Alvarez looks like Blake Griffin’s cousin from Mexico.” (25:52)
• The peculiar tragedy of “turf toe” PR—named versus actual seriousness.
• Drug anecdotes from the new Charlie Sheen doc—“seven gram rocks, folks.”
• TV: “Andor” praise; Sopranos vs. Mobland debate.

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5. The Circus Side of Modern Boxing

Timestamps: 42:11–45:00

• Netflix’s viewership numbers for Canelo/Crawford and Jake Paul/Tyson are debated.
• Decline of boxing’s mainstream draw; the circus of celebrity/crossover matches takes center stage.
  • Dan: “Is boxing dead?” (43:57)
  • Tony: “Fights that get numbers are the circus because there aren't very many people in boxing right now…that the mainstream finds interesting.” (43:57–44:08)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Jared Goff’s Lambo Leap:
  Dan Le Batard (04:04): “Jared Goff can’t jump.”
  Tony Reali (04:03): “It’s pathetic.”

• Media Downplaying Ballmer Investigation:
  Amin Elhassan (13:09): “There’s a little bit of jealousy…Pablo has the resources…and the freedom…to break these huge stories.”

• Player/Celebrity Blur and the Sports Circus:
  Tony Reali (43:57): “We’ve turned boxing into the circus. The thing that’s going to get numbers is the circus…”

• Pop Culture Spin:
  Chris Cote (25:52): “Canelo Alvarez looks like Blake Griffin’s cousin from Mexico.”

• The “What Does the Fox Say?” Parody:
  Dan Le Batard/Chris Cote (11:02–12:08): Riffing for laughs using sports personalities.

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Other Entertaining Nuggets

• Pelvic-Thrusting Mascots (08:03): The Colts mascot’s celebration creates running slapstick.
• Personal Sports Attachments: Amin and Chris get deep on the pain and joy of being diehard fans.
• Drug Stories: Charlie Sheen’s sideburns and the thoughtful act of cutting drugs with weaker substances to help a friend—“Is your friend making the coke weaker so you can get weaned off it…thoughtful?” (28:38).
• TV Criticism: Sopranos/Mobland/Succession discourse (29:25–30:17).

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• 03:16 – Funniest Thing: Nominees and discussion begins.
• 12:27 – NBA/Ballmer story, media reaction, Pablo Torre’s impact.
• 23:37 – “Weekend Observations” segment: sports and culture rapid-fire.
• 34:41 – Canelo/Crawford, circus matches, boxing’s future.

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Tone and Style

As always, the show moves breezily from biting sarcasm to impassioned sports rants, punctuated with running gags, nickname drops, and the occasional vulnerable fan moment. Co-hosts don’t shy from calling each other out or riffing off one another’s ideas, blending expertise, irreverence, and sly in-jokes for loyal listeners.

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Summary prepared for listeners who missed the episode and want the key moments, jokes, opinions, and pop-culture crossfire without the distractions or advertisements.

Transcript

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Tony Reali]

Welcome to the Big Sui presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show.

[Chris Cote]

The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBatard podcast?

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm sorry. I'm not gonna apologize for that.

[Tony Reali]

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.

[Dan Le Batard]

I've done it.

[Chris Cote]

And now here's the Marching man to.

[Tony Reali]

Nowhere Fat Face and the Habitual Liar.

[Dan Le Batard]

This episode of the Dan LeBatard show is present by DraftKings. DraftKings. The Crown is yours.

[Tony Reali]

Amin Elhassan will be here momentarily to give us his weekend observations and spend the hour with us. I will remind you that the Carolina Panthers had Sam Darnold and Baker Mayfield in their quarterback room and then just decided to start spending draft picks on quarterbacks. I'm watching the television right now. Thumbs up or thumbs down on Dominique Foxworth being on get up. And they've got a segment zero Fox given and then It's Dominique Foxworth's head on a cartoon fox. That is a thumb down from Tony.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's on site with him still.

[Tony Reali]

It's still on site with him. Okay, so you're biased. I want to do funniest thing from the sports weekend.

[Dan Le Batard]

Thumbs down. Great bit.

[Tony Reali]

We've gotten. We've gotten away from funniest thing from the sports weekend. Do you like zero fox Given. And it's. And it's Dominique Foxworth's head on the cartoon body of a fox that didn't look like a fox. That only looked like a fox because it was zero fox Given.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's a play on words. Yeah, I get that. Thumbs down to the zero fox given. We want that thumb to go this direction. Thumbs up to the cartoon head.

[Tony Reali]

It's not a cartoon head. It's his head and a cartoon.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, that's what I mean. Same thing. Well, what does the fox say, Chris?

[Tony Reali]

What? Find the what does the fox say sound. But can you give me in the interim what was the funniest thing from the sports weekend? What would be your nominee? Chris?

[Dan Le Batard]

Hey, people, tell us what in sport made you laugh hardest this weekend. It is the same and we call what make you laugh this weekend. Dan. My answer is easy. It's Jared Goff doing his version of the Lambo leap in Detroit. Now we can't show this on video because it'll get us pinged, but look it up. It is hilarious. He's acting like that wall which St. Brown just kind of leaps, goes backwards and falls into as easy as possible. And Jared Goff comes running up. He's like, I want in on this. And he gets. Climbs it in a way that you would see a 70 year old trying to climb something.

[Tony Reali]

It's pathetic.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's hilarious. And then like the people are trying to help him up. It's just. And then St. Brown's like, I got you. It's just hilarious. Jared Goff can't jump.

[Tony Reali]

Jeremy. What is the funniest thing from the sports Weekend?

[Dan Le Batard]

Anthony Rizzo having a home run ball hit directly at him in the bleachers and just completely whiffing on it. He had an opportunity for this to be the coolest moment ever. The first career home run for Ballesteros, the Cubs catcher hit right at him and it just bounces right off his hands as he's inducted into the Cubs hall of fame.

[Tony Reali]

And there's Bert Kreischer. He got the ball instead of Rizzo. Rizzo's got to come up with that obviously has to come up.

[Dan Le Batard]

Why did he try to one hand that. What's he holding? His phone. Put your phone down, buddy. Brewers fan gets it.

[Tony Reali]

Is that Tony? What was the funniest thing from the sports weekend?

[Dan Le Batard]

Dan, nobody wanted to talk jags with you yesterday. It was very unfortunate. I was listening back, I was like, guys, great game. Somebody talk about it.

[Tony Reali]

Somebody talk about it with me yesterday. Either.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm here for both of them. We could do jags slash boxing. Why don't you call each other? We could. So we were texting actually during the game. We were like, this is it. This has to be it. Like BTJ has to do something. And then he shied away from 16 balls and dropped a fourth down. That would have won the game anyways. Most importantly, the funniest thing from the sports weekend is Trevor Lawrence in said game, rolling out, feeling pressure on the right side, going to the left, saying, oh, I got an angle here. Running three yards past the line of scrimmage on the side that the chains are on. So he sees the line of scrimmage, runs right by them, then throws the ball out of the end zone to nobody. He stinks. We got to find a way to get this yellow line on the field for the players. Is Trevor like the black one for the line of scrimmage? Like it'd be very helpful.

[Tony Reali]

Is he the quarterback in the league most likely to do that? I feel like he's the one I most associate with a lack of awareness about where these things.

[Dan Le Batard]

He does it once a season. I could see two a donut. Trevor Lawrence, he's the anti Baker Mayfield, he's the guy who started off like he's the superstar. He's going to be the next big quarterback. Has been the opposite and then his career has gradually gone this way.

[Tony Reali]

They got him a lot of weapons, man.

[Dan Le Batard]

I know.

[Tony Reali]

Billy. What? What is the funniest thing from the sports weekend?

[Dan Le Batard]

UCLA paid New Mexico $1.2 million to come and just take a loss and instead they beat the Bruins 35 to 10. They followed 03 and now they have fired their coach. It's one of my favorite things in sports when the college team pays the other team to come play at them and then they lose. I love that.

[Tony Reali]

But losing 3511 to New Mexico. Desean Foster. You guys remember his initial press conference, right? That career lasted one year and three games. That's an apocalypse.

[Dan Le Batard]

We could have known from the press conference. Right?

[Tony Reali]

It was pretty bad press conference. Greg, what was the funniest thing from the sports weekend?

[Dan Le Batard]

Now I did not hear Tom Brady say this. So I'm using my imagination to imagine what it sounded like when Tom Brady mispronounced the name Kareem Hunt. Yeah, we're not gonna play this audio. But it's. Yeah, let's not. But you know, I love making. I love making fun of Tom Brady. Love making fun of Tom. Great run by.

[Tony Reali]

Yeah. I'm afraid shot clock. For that reason. I'm afraid of certain words.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm not afraid of any word. I'll say what I said. He said it. And you're like, was that. Did he say. I didn't hear the H there.

[Tony Reali]

Herniated. Herniated disc. You got to be careful with zazzle. What was the funniest thing from the sports weekend?

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know if you guys saw this, but when the Colts kicked the game winning field goal against the Broncos. So, so the kick, it's going straight down the middle. Okay. They got to do over. The kick is good. But if you notice the Colts mascot, first of all, he's standing directly underneath the cross.

[Tony Reali]

Always makes me laugh.

[Chris Cote]

Like, why is that number one?

[Dan Le Batard]

Why is that allowed?

[Tony Reali]

It's allowed because he bangs his head against it when they miss it and he celebrates it when they make it. And it's delightful. It's delightful every single time.

[Dan Le Batard]

So he's right under the crossbar as the ball is mid flight, but as he sees it's going, going in mid flight. He's doing the thing where he's doing the pelvic thrust.

[Tony Reali]

That's right.

[Chris Cote]

Well, we're, we're mid play and he's.

[Dan Le Batard]

Standing practically in the end zone.

[Chris Cote]

Yes.

[Tony Reali]

That's why it's great at the best.

[Dan Le Batard]

Angle of the game.

[Tony Reali]

It is funny. And he's got the pelvic thrust, he's got the Bill Parcell's pear shaped body. And so the money, it undulates the, the love handles the lower half. It's wonderful. I'm going to nominate something that not a lot of people saw. John Daly broke the professional record for most strokes on a hole. He had a par five and he got a 19.

[Dan Le Batard]

I saw there was a four way tie for 18 that he was included in earlier in his career. So he broke his own record that he was tied with. So now he stands alone 19 strokes, one hole. That's on brand for Daly. I hate to say it, but he's now the man of the people drinking beer on the course. This enhances the image he has cultivated post real career. I read the details on it. This was a tin cup situation where he just, like, had a thing of like, I can make stubborn. I'm going to get this. He had, like four penalties in a row on one shot.

[Tony Reali]

I mean, what was the funniest thing from the sports weekend?

[Chris Cote]

19 strokes, one hole is pretty funny right there. No, I. I had the Russell Wilson throw. You guys know what throw I'm talking about. I was like, second down, down at the end of the game.

[Dan Le Batard]

He was so good that game. Throwing deep.

[Chris Cote]

He was. And then he had just that one throw where it was like, what's wrong? I'm gonna steal from my weekend observations. But it reminded me of my shot. Well, it was like, you can't call it correct.

[Tony Reali]

Correct me if I'm wrong, because while I remember that was a bit of a punt, it felt to me like he was just saying, do I have the wrong receiver? I was. Neighbors. Go do something. I'm going to throw one of these parabola balls up there and. And I've got neighbors on my team. Go do something. Isn't that who he was to?

[Chris Cote]

It worked for most of the game. But I'm not talking about that throw. I'm talking about the throw right before the int. It's. It's. He's trying to throw it out to the. To the slot, and then it just got away from him, and his hand kind of did this weird thing. And it. I. I saw it. I was like, damn, that's my shot.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think we all thought you meant the int.

[Chris Cote]

No, not the int. The INT was just. That was a prayer. That wasn't funny. It was just sad the way it ended. But I'm talking about the play right before it where they were second and long because he kind of. His hand kind of flopped when he tried to throw the ball.

[Tony Reali]

Can you turn down the circus music real quick so we can transition to more serious subject matter? If you have not seen Amin lately on Pablo Torre finds out he's been kicking ass with David Sampson. Before we get into that story and before we get into Amin's weekend observation, since Jeremy mentioned it, can you just play what does the fox say so that we can close the loop on that and just make fun of stug's pronunc. Pronuncifications.

[Dan Le Batard]

Dan goes. Bo goes down. Tim goes. And Pat goes.

[Chris Cote]

Yard.

[Dan Le Batard]

Poppy goes.

[Chris Cote]

Dan goes.

[Dan Le Batard]

And the Van Gundy goes. And my gill goes. But there's one sound that no one knows. What does the guy say? Human guppy.

[Chris Cote]

Unparalleled.

[Dan Le Batard]

What the God say? May I meet creative stubborn Open Happy Apple October hiring reented A tux.

[Chris Cote]

Makes.

[Dan Le Batard]

It a hold recovery the elder digested remaining risks what the guy say Value.

[Chris Cote]

Hard Boyer what does the God say.

[Tony Reali]

Sideline Visit Replay the Tony rationalization brain.

[Chris Cote]

How long ago what the guy say.

[Dan Le Batard]

Sophistication Sophistication south brain stating reclamation among.

[Chris Cote]

Our friend family what the gods say.

[Tony Reali]

For those of you asking Stugots God bless football Stupatity it is quite the undertaking to do some stuff like this. That is business building on your own. You should know that Stugats will be back here shortly. As soon as he's got everything up and running.

[Dan Le Batard]

He'll be shortly.

[Tony Reali]

He always arrives everywhere shortly. Yes, that's how he does it. I mean, the story that you've been working on with Pablo Torre, that continues to have advancements and he is months and miles ahead of everyone on one of the more curious things. And I didn't get this. Why was the NBA media feeling like it was downplaying this story before Pablo had the second episode? It was weird to me to watch so many people just sort of want it not to be true that Ballmer wouldn't know. I thought that they would go the opposite way on that. What happened there? Do they just like Ballmer?

[Chris Cote]

Yeah, I think there's a lot of things at play. One of them is Ballmer's a nice guy and he is overall good for the league. He's a good ambassador for the league. He's been a good owner for the Clippers. He's invested a lot of money and into the fan experience. So overall, I think, like, I often wonder, if this were Jim Dolan, how would the media respond? I think everyone would have their knives out because he's an easy target. But Steve Ballmer makes people, oh, not Steve. He's a good guy, et cetera, et cetera. The other thing also is, it goes back to the thing you always like to talk about is that we like to think these guys are so brilliant and, and you know, when we are face to face with H, maybe not that brilliant, that kind of shatters our preconceived notions. And I think people have a problem with that. And then the last part is, I'm going to say it, I think there's a little bit of jealousy, a little bit, a hint of jealousy, because Pablo not only has the resources to do this kind of reporting, but also he's got the freedom to not have to do the type of reporting that most of these other people have to do. Everyone else is chasing who's signing where, get traded where and all that stuff. And Pablo doesn't have to spend any molecules of energy on that. All of his time is spent on breaking these huge stories and slash or having Alonzo Hamburger Jones on the show. It's quite the niche he's carved out for himself.

[Dan Le Batard]

I can speak from experience. When you get beat on a big story, your human instinct is to downplay that as if what you got beat on wasn't that big a story. And if you're a full time NBA journalist trying to get stories just like this and you get beat by a guy in a podcast who really isn't affiliated with the NBA much, you sting. It stings.

[Chris Cote]

Greg, what's an example of either a story you got beat on where you felt like, oh man, that's not that big of a story, or a story that you beat someone else to and they try to downplay it for you?

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, I go way back to the 80s where there was the, what was it called, Dan? Autogate. What was it called?

[Tony Reali]

The Miami News was breaking stories about the University of Miami. And what a quaint time now that you think of Nil. Somebody may have gotten a car as Carson Benk gets his Lamborghini stolen from a $5 million house, one of his two cars. But yes, you got. There was a Greg Cody, to be fair to Greg Cody. And I wasn't good at the breaking of news. I was terrible at, didn't like doing it. And Greg wasn't great at it either.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, I wasn't. I, I, I did have a couple of minor scoops when a, A, a guy, Dan's engagement a guy was arrested and I had that first. But that was a big story. The Miami News broke and yeah, my instinct is hot, man. How can I follow this story and, and make it seem like I wasn't beat as badly as I was on a big story? And, and so that's, I think that's what was at play. I think our last, didn't our last draftkings deal get reported and you didn't get that scoop? I think that's what you're ma.

[Tony Reali]

I find it hard to believe though, that, that what you guys are saying here would be right in terms of jealousy just because this, this story is so complicated and took so much time, I don't think anybody would have wanted to do it. It would have been too hard to do this story.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah, Dan, it's hard because most people, most reporters don't have again, the resources and the latitude. Right. Even given the resources Just the latitude of I can focus all my energy for seven months. Pablo investigated this, which is why when Mark Cuban has his rebuttals and all these other podcasts, like you guys are sitting on the, on your couch, basically. Ah, whatever. This dude put in seven months of reporting on this and it goes a little bit beyond just an opinion. Well, I don't think he would have done that or, or he couldn't have done that. The other thing I want to point out is people keep saying he wouldn't be that sloppy about Steve Ballmer. This was anything but sloppy. This was an incredibly sophisticated scheme, allegedly. Right. That is only uncovered by either A, Kwai Leonard deciding I need to get every last penny of mine so I'm going to be listed as a creditor, B, this company even going under to begin with, and C, Pablo Tory spending seven months tracking things down and talking to people on the record and all those things, like, that's a lot of stuff that needed to go wrong for the Clippers to get found out. So stop talking about how this was sloppy. This was anything but sloppy.

[Dan Le Batard]

I mean, let's say that the NBA's findings, I know they've hired an outside firm, but let's say the findings are what Pablo has reported on. Worst case scenario, what does Adam Silver do?

[Chris Cote]

Worst case scenario, we're talking forfeiture of picks, we're talking voiding of Kwai Leonard's contract. Steve Ballmer suspended, Dennis Wong probably suspended, hefty fine, probably up to $10 million, I believe. And that's. That's pretty much it. I know the commission talk about he has broad powers, but the collective bargain agreement is pretty specific about what the penalties are. I had someone ask me, can they lower the cap on them or lower the apron? No, you can't. Because the rules in Article 13 of the Collective bargaining agreement are pretty specific on what the commissioner can and can't do to punish a cap circumvention situation.

[Tony Reali]

Does Malik Neighbors doing the night night celebration leading to the Cowboys win? Is that something that would have been the funniest thing from that game instead of you choosing the throw before the interception?

[Chris Cote]

Yeah, the night night thing. As soon as he did it, I looked at the clock. I said, that's not when you do it like you do it when it's done when they're in the ground. And that hasn't happened quite yet. Again, it wasn't funny because I was watching the game and I went from the high of, oh my God, the Giants are about to do this. The day after Georgia Tech beat the shit out of Clemson. Well, how about that? We're not going to just scoot over that one.

[Tony Reali]

Congratulations. We talked about today. You've got a well coached team. You've got a team that overachieves. It's such a nice looking team.

[Chris Cote]

Dan. I, I'm. You know what? I was watching that game and I was so happy and at the same time I got incredibly sad and it reminded me of, of I was sad because I watched Brett Key and I was like, oh, he's going to be Alabama's coach next year. Like there's no chance we're going to hold on to this guy. He's too good of a coach. He's going to get a bigger job. Probably Alabama when they fire the, the jamoke that they have right now. But when I thought about the happiness and the sadness at the same time, it reminded me of my dad. My dad would, would sigh deeply on Friday and I'm like, dad, what's wrong? He's like, Monday is like the day after tomorrow. Like he was already looking forward to the disappointment of Monday on Friday, coming home from work. And that's how I felt. Like I was only looking forward to disappointment of Brent Key leaving after he's done so many amazing things at Georgia Tech.

[Tony Reali]

That's an excellent way to go through life. Always miserable, never feeling actual joy. Put it on the poll at Lebatar show. Should DeBoer's first name be legally changed to Jamote?

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Chris Cote]

Don LeBatard.

[Dan Le Batard]

Doesn't matter anywhere. We could do it in Buffalo or Baltimore either.

[Chris Cote]

He said you could do it where?

[Dan Le Batard]

Anywhere.

[Chris Cote]

Oh, whoa.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh. That's crazy.

[Chris Cote]

That's crazy.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's crazy.

[Chris Cote]

He said he could do it anywhere. That's crazy.

[Dan Le Batard]

Murder.

[Chris Cote]

Murder.

[Dan Le Batard]

Tell him Stugach. I had no idea Mean had that in his locker. That might be his death. That's crazy. I'm not kidding. That's crazy. Killer.

[Chris Cote]

It's two America's dead. You don't get it.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugach.

[Tony Reali]

Let's do weekend observation, please.

[Dan Le Batard]

It is time for Stugats to share his game notes.

[Tony Reali]

Nope.

[Dan Le Batard]

No one in the media will tell.

[Tony Reali]

You what happened better than my boy Stu.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's coming, Dan.

[Chris Cote]

Oh. Weekend observations is presented by Miller Lite. Dan, this past weekend in Vegas, we had ourselves a throwback. The stars are out. The pomp and circumstance was first class. The attention of the entire sports world was fixated as we watched a black guy and a brown guy beat the ever living out of each other in a meaningful boxing match courtesy of the Saudis. Remember when everyone was up in arms about live golf being in Saudi Arabia? That was fun. Patrick Mahomes gets the blame for the interception because Travis Kelsey made a business decision. That seems unfair. There should be a different stat for when an interception is thrown because the receiver messed it up. Right? Like that's encountering on the quarterback. Should it. No opinions. Got it.

[Tony Reali]

No, I'm sorry. It's Tony's. Tony's heckling me. I'm sorry, Tony. While you were talking, Tony's like, hey, Dan, how about Sam Morrell taking 500,000 from the Saudis to do the comedy festival? That's what I was getting. Getting in my.

[Dan Le Batard]

And Joe Coy's on fire.

[Tony Reali]

As you were, everybody.

[Chris Cote]

Everybody took the money? Yep, everybody took. The money's there, too. Santino's there. Bobby Lee's there. Everyone's there. Chip Kelly, offensive coordinator for the Raiders, said he goes through film two to three times a week with Tom Brady. Might want up the dosage there, chief. Great seeing Max Kellerman working again. So that's where he's been. Hey, Smetty, Your alma mater sucks. No, not that one. The other one. Although that one sucks, too. Where's Tyler when you need him? Canelo Alvarez looks like Blake Griffin's cousin from Mexico.

[Tony Reali]

Put it on the poll, please. At Levitard show. Does Canelo Alvarez look like Blake Griffin's cousin? And shorter from Mexico?

[Chris Cote]

Next time someone asks me about something I don't want to talk about, I'm going to start talking about construction going on at my house. The Dolphins are owing to Greg Cody. Stay strong. Baker Mayfield. He's got the goods, dude. Haynes King. Best running quarterback in the nation. Book it. I can't tell whether the injury. Turf toe has great PR or terrible pr. Is there any injury that sounds more benign than turf toe?

[Tony Reali]

Right.

[Chris Cote]

Turtle sounds like, oh, I had some Turtle. And this guy's out for three months now because of Turtle. The Giants lead The league in fun names. Dart neighbors, Scatterboo. They even have a thibodeau. This one is black though. Jorge Garvajosa is the president of FIBA Europe. So that's where he's been. Russell Wilson threw that one pass. Like I shot that one shot. You know both the pass and shot I'm talking about. Apparently not though, because everyone acted like they never remember that pass.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay.

[Chris Cote]

What'S the Charlie Sheen doc? In it, we learned that Charlie Sheen once got loaded drunk on a commercial flight and the captain let him fly the plane.

[Tony Reali]

That was horrifying. That was horrifying. That's how it started. That's how the documentary starts.

[Dan Le Batard]

What? What?

[Chris Cote]

Dan? For some people that idea is horrifying. For others it's slightly less horrifying than having a black pilot. Isn't it weird when drug addicts are clean shaven shaving? You think about. I think about that like I'm watching Charlie Sheen throughout this entire documentary. Two part documentary, which is really revelatory and him crashing and all this stuff and looking really a wild eyed and crazy. His hair is crazy, but he's always clean shaven. Like every morning Charlie Sheen's getting up in front of the mirror like all drugged out and like hold on. Gotta make sure this thing is nice and smooth.

[Dan Le Batard]

Absolutely.

[Tony Reali]

I think the Sheens and the Estevez is just have trouble growing facial hair. All three of them. Martin, Emilio, none of them can grow facial hair.

[Chris Cote]

I don't know. He had those sideburns that one time he came out of rehab that were really funky looking. Everyone needs a Tony Todd. That's his best friend stuck with him through thick and thin. Everyone also needs a Marco. That's his other best friend who's a drug dealer who made the crack weaker so that Charlie could get weaned off of it.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's awful.

[Tony Reali]

Put it on the poll at Lebitard show. Is your friend making the coke weaker so you can get weaned off it? Thoughtful.

[Chris Cote]

Not coke. Crack.

[Tony Reali]

Sorry.

[Chris Cote]

Seven gram rocks, folks.

[Tony Reali]

Sorry.

[Chris Cote]

That was real. Hey, Netflix reboot Ozark with Steve ballmer, Jamal Haynes, first round talent. Genevieve O'Reilly should have won an Emmy for Andor it's the best show that none of you guys are talking about because it's Star wars, but it's actually a really well done show. It's got a lot of politics in it. You should watch it.

[Tony Reali]

Where did you side when I said that if I gave Mobland six or seven seasons like the Sopranos, it would be better than the Sopranos?

[Chris Cote]

I think think I could see how you get that logic. But I think you always have to give respect to how well the Sopranos was done because that basically informed a generation of TV creators. Oh, this is the standard now.

[Dan Le Batard]

There have been so many good shows that fall off after a few seasons. I get that you don't think that would happen here, but that happens a lot.

[Tony Reali]

Understood. But Guy Ritchie tends to make good things. And it's usually not directors that are making the shows like, it's not, it's not signature directors from the movies. You think Scorsese is going to fall apart after five or six seasons? Like, do you believe that he's an editor? Things that are bad.

[Chris Cote]

Well, to be fair, Boardwalk Empire, while I liked it all the way through the end, it certainly wasn't the same as it was at the beginning.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm almost done with it. I think it's good.

[Chris Cote]

It is good, but it's not as good as it's when it started, Right?

[Dan Le Batard]

Correct.

[Chris Cote]

There you go. And that was Scorsese, Right. All right. The more Steve Ballmer, Mark Cuban, Andre Cherny and the Worldwide Leader and anyone else deny the allegations, the more Pablo looks like the truth teller of the year. Halftime of Raiders chargers came after 11:30pm Eastern East Coast. How do y' all do it? RIP Charlie Rosen. Great. Author of books like the wizard of Odds, More Than a Game Players and Pretenders and Perfectly Awful, all of which describe me on a date. Adam Silver. Calling the NBA a highlight league is like admitting that you don't actually read the articles in Playboy. We know you aren't lying, but don't say the quiet part out loud. Shout out to Nile Knights this weekend in New York City. Tickets available now. Support a good cause. Keelan Rutledge is a grown ass man. Dan, do you know about this kid?

[Tony Reali]

He's a grown ass man.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah, he was place for Tech. He was in a car accident two years ago and they nearly amputated his foot. Same foot would go on to help stomp on Clemson on Saturday.

[Tony Reali]

You're feeling yourself now, huh? You're, you're, you're no longer a rambling wreck.

[Chris Cote]

Dan. I. I actually started looking at hotels for the ACC championship game.

[Dan Le Batard]

Wow.

[Chris Cote]

That's where I'm at.

[Dan Le Batard]

Wow.

[Tony Reali]

Yeah. That's gonna be Miami, Georgia Tech.

[Chris Cote]

Oh, well, you know how that's been recently. Northwestern will be the first sports team in history to make a massive step down when they move into their new arena. Do you guys see where they're playing? They're playing in a Makeshift stadium, but it's on the lake. It looks beautiful.

[Tony Reali]

It looks. It looks picture perfect.

[Dan Le Batard]

The surrounding area is gorgeous. But the stadium itself, Those seats, no bounce house.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah. George. The Messiah in an aura ad. Makes me want to call my agent and wonder where we went wrong. You guys know George the Messiah is.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yep.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

Scott took that ass.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah, he did. Do you guys see? He was in an ad during the Canelo fight for the aura rings. And I was like, this guy's got an agent.

[Tony Reali]

When? When? Scalabrini. Have you talked to Scalabrini about taking him down in Rucker Park?

[Chris Cote]

It wasn't Rucker. West 4th Street. It was at West 4th. But yeah, I talked to him briefly about it.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Tony Reali]

This is.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is a guy.

[Tony Reali]

For those of you who do not know, this is a guy who trash talked and said. Said he could take everyone down on the playground and that he could beat NBA players. And then Scalabrine just dusted him.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, no, he specifically said he would beat Scalabrini as call out had no chance.

[Tony Reali]

None. That's why Tony has no chance against Amici.

[Dan Le Batard]

Come on. Michi's like 80 at this point, isn't he? Guy hasn't touched the ball in 17 years. Come on.

[Chris Cote]

It's like riding a bike, Tony. Back to the Canelo Crawford fight. Some faces in the crowd. Stephen A. Smith looked like he got his shirt from Dan Flashes. Dave Chappelle looked like he was styled by the Incredible Hulk. I pray I never get buff enough where, like, sleeves are an impediment. Mark Anthony, button that shirt up. Angel Reese Yowza. Wilmer Valderrama. So that's where he's. Macaulay Culkin. You still got the Moakleys, Mr. Beast? When is your 15 minutes up, turkey? Let me hold a dollar, Dan. That was the conspicuously Saudi Arabian looking gentleman sitting ringside and then entered the ring after the fight.

[Dan Le Batard]

The most important guy in the building.

[Chris Cote]

Most important guy in the building. Tennessee, you had one job. Dan, do you know what a Georgia Tech alum will respond if you ask him what the good word is?

[Tony Reali]

I do not.

[Chris Cote]

To hell with Georgia. Speaking of hell, Art Briles. Those are the weekend observations. Howdy.

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Dan Le Batard]

Don LeBatard, you're getting started on the breakfast flan.

[Chris Cote]

Oh man, I've been singing a song to myself all morning while I'm breakfast flats. Have you never heard the breakfast?

[Dan Le Batard]

No. Hit me with it.

[Chris Cote]

Okay. I wish I had some breakfast. Fl where can I find a breakfast like that?

[Dan Le Batard]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugach.

[Tony Reali]

Before we let you get out of here and before we talk to you about Cinephobe, you mentioned Pablo and looking good. During these times, I'm reminded of a quote, I do not know who said it quote. During times of universal universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. What do you believe to be the most interesting thing of all the things that you and Sampson have sat there for? As Pablo surprises you again and again, because he's unveiling his news to you guys from the entire macro of the story. Not just surprises. Individually, what do you think is the most interesting thing?

[Chris Cote]

Oh, I mean, I think the most interesting thing, like I said, is how sophisticated this, this alleged scheme is. It's not, it's, I mean, it's, it involves a corporate partner and shell companies and money's diverted and a no show job. And it's like there's a lot of layers to this. And it pains me whenever people say, well, call me whenever they have the Joe Smith smoking gun. And I said, I mean, clearly they learned from the Joe Smith situation. Like you can't have just a direct piece of paper. Here's money under the table. You've got to be more sophisticated. And I think like I said earlier, they did a remarkable job, allegedly. And the only thing that basically undid them was the corporate partner being a huge scam. They couldn't have seen that coming. The, that quiet Leonard and his camp could not just let the last 7 mil go. And that Pablo Torre exists, that he exists and he did all this work and, and Doug and found all that out. But other than those three things happening, they would have got away with it scot free. And I think that's something that a lot of people need to keep in mind. Also the fact that the dude's daughter worked for the company. Dennis Wong's daughter. Come on, man, she works hard.

[Dan Le Batard]

I mean, what's been the most enjoyable part for you, like as a bystander, watching all of it unfold?

[Chris Cote]

I think the most enjoyable part was watching like having recorded the episode already, but the episode didn't drop until Thursday. So watching people react to Adam Silver's press conference after the board of governors and then making up all these kind of, oh, I'm sure these explanations or whatever and knowing, oh no, you guys don't even know the next part. Part where the vice chairman has a, has a 2 million dollar cash infusion into this crashing ship. Right? And also, you know, like just that part just, just finding out, oh, the money came from DEA88 and that's registered under Dennis Wong, who owns 1% of the Clippers. The only percentage that Steve Ballmer doesn't own. Oh yeah, he's his college roommate. Oh yeah. He knew that the company was going down or had to have known because his daughter worked there. There. All of that having to sit and keep that to myself while people were like, yeah, I don't know about this reporting and all that. It was Just so good.

[Dan Le Batard]

So good.

[Tony Reali]

One of the things we've been telling you guys around here is that in this time of individual creators, a lot of people around here are starting their own thing. Amin, for a long time has had Cinephobe. It is a project, a labor of great love for him because it's different than any anything else out there in terms of who's talking about movies, where. What's coming up on Cinephobe Maine this.

[Chris Cote]

Week we have the 2007 movie War featuring Jet Li and Jason Statham before he fully committed to shaving his head. So he still has like this weird peach fuzz on the top of his head. It is everything you want from an early 2000s action movie. The kind of action movies that don't exist anymore. I kind of miss them. Right? It's not about like quick cuts and slick hand to hand combat like John Wick. No know. It's just big dumb action. Get a gun, shoot a bunch of people, have Jet Li roundhouse kick someone. Great fun.

[Tony Reali]

We have not talked about Robert Redford passing away at 89 years old. I'm wondering if this is when. When he dies, that if that time dies with him, that it's not even possible for someone to be a movie star like that anymore because of how fractured things are and where it is you get things, some of them on television, many. Some of them on your phone. Do I have that wrong? That the movie star cannot be what Robert Redford was anymore? Do I have this? Incorrect.

[Chris Cote]

I mean, it's harder for sure. Like who's. Who's the. Who even has a chance of being that?

[Dan Le Batard]

Timothy Chalamet.

[Tony Reali]

Chalamet is the argument.

[Dan Le Batard]

Is DiCaprio too old for me to.

[Chris Cote]

Put in that argument?

[Tony Reali]

No, DiCaprio of the. He's sort of the same ushered in. I'm talking about. I'm talking about next. I'm talking about.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah, no, I said yeah.

[Tony Reali]

See you later. I mean, good talking to you. Thank you. Did you guys see the numbers that Netflix put out on Canelo and Crawford?

[Chris Cote]

No.

[Dan Le Batard]

41 million. They claim. They claim million whites. No way. Nanoseconds.

[Tony Reali]

What do you mean no way? No 41 million viewers.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't believe that.

[Chris Cote]

That.

[Dan Le Batard]

I can't believe that.

[Tony Reali]

Would you believe it when I tell you that Jake Paul and Tyson did 108 million?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, because Jake. Jake Paul is the face of boxing.

[Tony Reali]

Wait a minute, you guys.

[Dan Le Batard]

You.

[Tony Reali]

You are sitting here saying that you think that it's normal for Jake Paul to do two and a half times what the best boxer in the world did against Canelo Alvarez.

[Dan Le Batard]

Is this them claiming that this is how many people TV streamed it, or is this their math of people watching it? You know what I mean? Because I could have 10 people at my house watching one TV. We did. I was at the bachelor party and there was 12 dudes huddled around the TV watching Canelo. That's why I'm wondering if they're doing some math of that's how many people watched or that's how many sets were streaming.

[Tony Reali]

I'm used to the narcissism you guys generally have that if you haven't seen it, it's not important to anyone else. But there were a lot of people who were interested in this fight and it still only drew a third. As much as a circus carnival act, it's there. Somebody's going to put. It's being put together, right? Mayweather, Mayweather and Tyson. Like, we've turned boxing into the circus. The thing that's going to get numbers is the circus because there aren't very many people in boxing right now fighting that the mainstream finds interesting. You've got to have boxers people care about. You've got to have. If it's not going to be giant punching power, it has to be either stories people care about or people fighters people care about. And so that's what happens, right? The Mayweather Tyson fight's going to happen. Correct? Correct.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah. It's just like, at what point do you feel like the circus kind of runs out of gas and it's like Mayweather, okay, this is the last time we saw him was fight Logan Paul. Clearly never. It's all a scam. It's such a scam. And is boxing dead?

[Tony Reali]

Well, no, it's not dead. 41 million people allegedly just watched Canelo. When Canelo Alvarez fights, it's always Pay per View monster. Always.

[Dan Le Batard]

Remind me, what's the other guy's name again? Terrence.

[Tony Reali]

We're really doing this. He's the best.

[Dan Le Batard]

Bud Crawford. He's been on the show before for.

[Tony Reali]

I hate this. I hate what we're doing here.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is like respect, Dan.

[Tony Reali]

No, but it's just we don't see what we're showing in terms of our ignorance by yawning and being indifferent about a story that a lot of people do care about. Not any of them.

[Dan Le Batard]

In this room, it says 41 million viewers. So it's not for, like, if it's. I don't know. I want to know what they mean here. Whether this is 41. Netflix accounts that were streaming or 41 million people.

[Tony Reali]

It was 41 accounts. All of them had a million people.

[Dan Le Batard]

There you go. Well, that would be clear for me. Me. I mean, you can't think that Mayweather versus Tyson is a good thing for boxing. You can't think that, can you?

[Tony Reali]

What a good thing for boxing that I saw Canelo Alvarez look undressed the way I've only seen one other time with Floyd Mayweather. And Canelo said afterward that Crawford is better than Floyd. Like, I'm not going to not find that interesting. But I'm talking to a group of people who could not possibly care any less about this.

[Dan Le Batard]

Neither does that younger and smarter audience that you want. Dan Thursday Night Football is on, and it's only on Prime Video. This week, an AFC rivalry ignites as the Miami Dolphins battle the Buffalo Bills in a heated division showdown in the Empire State. Coverage begins at 7pm Eastern with football's best party, TNF Tonight, presented by Verizon. Not a Prime member? Not a problem. Simply sign up for a 30 day free trial. It's the Dolphins, Dolphins and the bills, Thursday at 7pm Eastern only on Prime Video. Restrictions apply. See Amazon.com Amazon prime for details.