The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz XX
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[30] This is the Dan Levator show with the Stugats podcast.
[31] Stugats, this is my favorite time of year.
[32] I am such a damn huge fan of the Suis.
[33] I thought you were going to say football.
[34] Oh, that too.
[35] The Suees and football come at the same time every year?
[36] Yeah.
[37] Yeah, basically.
[38] Like, we look at the NFL season as the start of our year, so the sueyes are kind of like our, year in review leading into the new football season.
[39] Our fiscal year end, but suey's.
[40] Is it like an award show that's out there that I can compare it to?
[41] It's like our Oscars, I think.
[42] Oh, is that it?
[43] Yeah, yeah.
[44] I think I've heard that before.
[45] So what point does a suey cease to be eligible for this season and become?
[46] You know, there's a blurred line.
[47] But for instance, my dad made a laugh in the first hour that I have.
[48] It's the first nominee for next year suey's.
[49] Wow.
[50] Okay.
[51] Okay, so that's 2025.
[52] Yeah.
[53] And the mistake Chris just made in the last segment is going to be the first mistake.
[54] Damn, I didn't write that one down.
[55] Can Joe Mauer be in next year's dismissals?
[56] Sure.
[57] Okay.
[58] Good.
[59] By the way, not my fault.
[60] One of my workers out there.
[61] Oh, wow.
[62] Nothing says great leader.
[63] I got out of there because I thought it was just me overlooking it.
[64] He's just like, I didn't, I cut that one.
[65] Wow, Dan's out of town and we're still throwing people under the bus here.
[66] Learned it from watching you, Dan.
[67] I was proud of him.
[68] He came up to me and was like my bad on that.
[69] Went off me and coach?
[70] Yeah, he did.
[71] And now I'm - and now I'm shaming him in front of everyone.
[72] There's someone here that takes accountability.
[73] It was nice knowing, Ethan.
[74] Who's that?
[75] Don't bother learning his name he's gone.
[76] Worst mistake.
[77] And now, the suey nominees for worst mistake.
[78] Poppy Levitard tells LeBron where to find the key.
[79] He's lousy.
[80] He's all.
[81] He's making too much money.
[82] But listen, LeBron, if you want to come back to Miami, the kid is under the mattress, buddy.
[83] We love you for you to come back.
[84] We've always loved keys under the mattress.
[85] Too much money.
[86] But listen, LeBron, if you want to come back to Miami, the key is under the mattress, buddy.
[87] We love you for you to come back.
[88] Why is the key under the mattress?
[89] To break into the house.
[90] If you want to come back to Miami, the kid is under the mattress, buddy.
[91] Roy Bellamy sounds drunk after the Florida Panthers win the Stanley Cup.
[92] All right, we have made it from Ammer and Beck and Ray.
[93] Oh, wow.
[94] Jesus, Roy.
[95] I've waited from Amaranbeck Arena to the infield, which is a couple of blocks down.
[96] We celebrate.
[97] We are going to celebrate a Stanley Cup championship.
[98] Stephen A. Smith can't say Amin El -Hasson's name.
[99] Oh, my Lord.
[100] I'm looking El -Amin Haassen.
[101] I'm sorry.
[102] Sorry to mess up being in.
[103] Taylor Vipolis's first time on air.
[104] I think you're going to flop this.
[105] I hope you don't.
[106] I can tell Chris.
[107] Cody.
[108] Oh, no. Taylor.
[109] This is your big shot, buddy.
[110] This one's for Lucy.
[111] I was Tori Taylor.
[112] It's just 19 yards away from breaking Johnny Pingles' single single season.
[113] No. I got cocky.
[114] I got cocky.
[115] He did.
[116] He shouted out Lucy before.
[117] Like, hey, this one's for you.
[118] Got too cocky.
[119] All right.
[120] We were all rooting for you.
[121] All right, let's try it again.
[122] You want to start from the beginning?
[123] I should have picked the shorter stat.
[124] Boxer Terrence Crawford has been constipating his future.
[125] What do the next few years of your career look like?
[126] I don't know.
[127] I don't know.
[128] I'm taking it day by day.
[129] That's something then.
[130] I've been constipating or just thinking.
[131] Constipating.
[132] Constipating.
[133] I love that.
[134] No, I love that.
[135] I said constipating.
[136] Yes, yes, right?
[137] He doesn't give a shit.
[138] You've been having trouble shitting about, yeah, you give no shirts about what your next two years look good.
[139] Amino Heson calls Dan Libetard dad.
[140] Wait a minute.
[141] Are you alleging that oddball should be more award -winning than the sports business podcast of the year and the best baseball podcast of the year?
[142] Nothing personal with David Sampson?
[143] Dad, oddball operates outside of the purview of mainstream society in your award shows.
[144] Did you call him dad?
[145] Yeah, I heard him say dad.
[146] Which feels like very appropriate.
[147] Bill Simmons doesn't know where the Florida Panthers play.
[148] Florida fans, settle down.
[149] You didn't know what hockey was until like 1993.
[150] You literally didn't have hockey.
[151] You've never won a cup.
[152] The average person who follows sports has no idea what city you're attached to.
[153] You're the Florida Panthers.
[154] Are you in Jacksonville?
[155] Or you're in Orlando.
[156] Are you in Palm Beach?
[157] Nobody knows.
[158] The answer is Miami.
[159] But literally most people don't know that.
[160] Charlotte Wilder puts too much respect on Martin Scorsese's editor's name.
[161] Yeah, it's spending big.
[162] It's a big production.
[163] Also, let's put some respect on Scorsese's editor name.
[164] Thelma Schoonmaker, which I probably just did not respect by saying it eventually wrong.
[165] Thelma.
[166] F -H.
[167] S -H.
[168] Don't do this.
[169] Okay.
[170] So the Gilded -Age, the Gilded -Each.
[171] Charlotte Wilder's incoherent speaking.
[172] Guys, this would just light people's shoes on fire and we'd laugh about it.
[173] People just want to split each other with breach.
[174] Damn it.
[175] What?
[176] Go sit in a penalty box.
[177] Chris Cody has something that isn't sitting white with him.
[178] Chris, like Taco Bell.
[179] It just doesn't sit white with me. White?
[180] White.
[181] Well.
[182] Angel, make the t -shirts.
[183] I want in the next 90 minutes.
[184] I want T -shirts that say sit white with me. See?
[185] Even when I'm bad, I'm good.
[186] Chris Cody's bad English misreads a poll about the English.
[187] When it comes to proper English, who does it better?
[188] Americans or the English?
[189] 52 % I'm going to go ahead and say the English Just based off of that evidence English Yeah The English Well it's at the English slash British I was going to say the British Got it, yeah Chris Cody's interesting country of origin for Nicola Jokic Damn this is a good theory Stockton, Spokane Washington Woo Yoophe Yokic, Zerbia.
[190] Sorry, I made it a Z. Oh, man. Are you thinking about the tennis guy?
[191] Yeah.
[192] Zerick?
[193] Is that what you're thinking about?
[194] He has a jerk.
[195] Chris Cody's painter's taint.
[196] But I threw down some painter's tape.
[197] And I'm like, all right, let's get crazy here.
[198] The tape's there.
[199] Nothing bad could happen.
[200] I whipped that tape off afterwards.
[201] Paint everywhere.
[202] Just, and I get it, Billy's going to do, oh, is you made a mistake.
[203] But, hey, painter's tape.
[204] Be better.
[205] Tape.
[206] You're having trouble with the word.
[207] Well, yes, if you've done nothing but eat turkey and candy and gummies for the last 10 days.
[208] It does hard.
[209] You've said Painter's tape incorrectly four times.
[210] I think I said it incorrectly once.
[211] No, no, no, no, definitely not once.
[212] You put them M in there.
[213] Painter's Taint.
[214] Well, yeah.
[215] Chris Mad Dog Rousseau has trouble with Barack Obama's name.
[216] It's Obama.
[217] Michelle and Barrett and Barack if Barack Obama.
[218] Chris Cody's technical effuse.
[219] They're having technical effuse.
[220] Issues.
[221] Technical effuse?
[222] Okay.
[223] Is that a Freudian slip?
[224] They got me Lane Johnson back in his underwear.
[225] There you go.
[226] That was a technical effew from the video staff.
[227] I meant that how I said it.
[228] Chris Mad Dog Rousseau calls Billy Gill Mr. McGill.
[229] I love his too.
[230] He is the mayor of radio rope.
[231] Chris Mad Dog Rousseau can't say Jujitsu.
[232] How does Tom Brady, the magnificent, good -looking quarterback, how did he lose his beautiful wife to a Jazeux?
[233] How do you pronounce it?
[234] What's the word?
[235] I don't know.
[236] What is it?
[237] Jiu -Jitsu?
[238] Jiu -Jitsu instructor.
[239] I mean, that's the whole theme of the night.
[240] That she's going out with a jitsu instructor.
[241] Now, poor Tom, all by his lonesome.
[242] That's the whole deeathe's theme of the night.
[243] Dan Lebitard gives the video team some odd direction.
[244] The camera people, just come on Stugats' face.
[245] Whoops.
[246] Dan Lebertard texts his food order to Stephen A. Smith.
[247] I have in my phone, Stephanie, from a Mexican restaurant.
[248] And so I ended up...
[249] Where is this going?
[250] I ended up ordering tacos of fajita and margaritas from Stephen A. Dan Lebitard thinks he asks you God a question while talking to the Wu -Tang Clan.
[251] Would you God be kind enough to tell us when he looks at the entire landscape of hip -hop, who the people are that he he respects the most, that he would put on the tier with Wu -Tang in terms of authenticity, credibility, durability.
[252] Who?
[253] You got there here.
[254] Oh, I thought you got.
[255] That's Kappa.
[256] That's Kappa, I'm sorry.
[257] We're going to edit that, right?
[258] We're live.
[259] I'm glad we're live.
[260] That's my, I'm sorry.
[261] I introduced you got before, and I thought he was here.
[262] You know, Newton Wayne is coming up here later.
[263] Not Wayne, but Newton Wayne will be here later.
[264] I know everyone had me making that mistake.
[265] I passed a bet just now, but I thought it was going to be.
[266] too.
[267] What was the bet you cashed?
[268] That Dan would fuck up.
[269] Get your money.
[270] Get your money.
[271] That's my bad.
[272] I'm sorry.
[273] I thought he was here.
[274] Dan's coffee ruins his voice.
[275] Why, when Billy showed up at one o 'clock, were you at Chili's?
[276] What has happened to your voice?
[277] Were you just at Chili's going on?
[278] Stop eating in between.
[279] It's coffee.
[280] It's not food.
[281] Stop ingesting anything.
[282] I feel terrible now.
[283] David Samson doesn't know what a wet, willie is wet willies gateway prank for sure is that the one where you squeeze the nipple no no no no is that the one in your ear the finger in your air yes it is a clip that guys thank you L Duncan calls Chris Cody Greg I hate this first sound oh hey what's up Greg that's L Duncan calling me Greg in the zoom before I started oh hey What's up, Greg?
[284] To make it worse right before that, she's like, oh, Jess, Lucy, Billy, hey.
[285] Oh, hey, what's up, Greg?
[286] She knew Lucy?
[287] Yeah, she did.
[288] She never worked with Lucy.
[289] Oh, hey, what's up, Greg?
[290] Greg Cody responds to the off -air talkback only in his headset.
[291] Billy, somebody is written in here.
[292] I need way more.
[293] I'm sorry.
[294] I just said in his headset, haven't you been to all of them too?
[295] It sounded like you was speaking aloud.
[296] My bad.
[297] Totally on me. That's 100 % on me. All right.
[298] Because I have what you mentioned.
[299] I, too, like Billy, been an eyewitness to all of the fans.
[300] Stanley Cup final wins, yeah.
[301] Continued it.
[302] But that goes without saying.
[303] Right.
[304] That it couldn't have.
[305] Well, now he said.
[306] He didn't.
[307] He didn't say it.
[308] He said it again.
[309] My apology is sincere.
[310] Lucy Rodin trying to say Arnold Palmer.
[311] I can say Mercury and Alderman Parmel now.
[312] Tony!
[313] What?
[314] I couldn't get it.
[315] And you were so confident against the spread.
[316] Tony, we got.
[317] Mike Ryan confuses everyone by inexplicably using henceforth in a sentence.
[318] Now, I do find this cute.
[319] I don't know how routine and commonplace that's going to be especially henceforth, but it's not something he could have done just in his home country.
[320] like that it's forth thank you for saying that it's going to be it's going to be it is going to be at times like a circus henceforth he dropped the wills too earlier wiles did you what do you go to you go to tahoe witty thing up knob with celebrities and you come back and speaking the king's English yeah that was a little weird I guess I don't know I could have said from here on out.
[321] But Dan, I'd like to be efficient with this microphone, especially with a co -host out.
[322] I'd like to know my spots.
[323] So henceforth.
[324] Yeah, I deserve to be dragged for that.
[325] Charlotte Wilder doesn't know the Fons.
[326] And it was the number one show in the land because the big star of this show was a man who was cool because he wore a leather jacket.
[327] The Fawz.
[328] Hey.
[329] The Frans.
[330] Fons.
[331] The German version, the Franz.
[332] Think she can do better than the Foss.
[333] which was her initial offering but then it became the French television show Happy Days with the Frans Charlotte Wilder Big Year Oh my gosh Rookie of the Year I don't know Arbor Parer was pretty good Arbor was good but when she said Slade with Breach I lost it on Yeah that was a good one That was my favorite one too I have that clip on a play right She was definitely She was just light people's shoes on fire And we'd laugh about it People just want to split each other with Breach.
[334] Damn it.
[335] What?
[336] She was definitely thinking Fazi Bear.
[337] The Fossi Bear.
[338] She's a big Muppets fan.
[339] Isn't that a Muppet?
[340] Yeah.
[341] Fosy Bear.
[342] I know what she was thinking.
[343] Oh, man. What about, Mike, I feel like they went too hard for you on Hensford.
[344] On Hensforth?
[345] Yeah, that wasn't really a mistake.
[346] It's not a mistake, but it's just like.
[347] Using a big word around Chris Cody was my mistake.
[348] Henceforth?
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[362] Don Lebertard.
[363] All right, we got to go back out there.
[364] That was big.
[365] Wake him up.
[366] Uh -oh.
[367] He doesn't want to be bothered anymore.
[368] Now it's getting tense because he didn't need that as a result.
[369] He needs something that happens.
[370] You can see it.
[371] Mother Eppel.
[372] Can we bother?
[373] Are we bothering you right now?
[374] Turn on your microphone.
[375] My microphone's on.
[376] Stugats.
[377] Paint the scene.
[378] The paint the scene is I got to go to work.
[379] Good night.
[380] This is the Dan Lebatar show with a He and Chris want to live here.
[381] It's perfect down here, right here in his lair.
[382] He's saying this.
[383] They're saying in the facility that we're going to live here.
[384] I did just see something out there.
[385] It said mandatory weigh -in at 8 a .m. That wouldn't feel good for me. I wouldn't love to do that every morning.
[386] It's just to make sure that we're good in regards to, you know, practice and everything like that.
[387] Because once you get out of practice, they want to see how many pounds you lost because of the heat, so, you know.
[388] How much do you have to eat to, so, you know.
[389] How much do you have to eat to, not lose a bunch of weight in this heat?
[390] It's not so much about eating.
[391] It's about the fluids.
[392] So, like, per every pound you lose, you have to drink, you know, a certain amount of water to gain that poundage back, so.
[393] No, thanks.
[394] You have to have some fluids in you, man. We should have a way in at the studio.
[395] It's ridiculous.
[396] We're here with Stugats' friend, Rahim Mosterd.
[397] I thank neighbor, and, surprisingly, number one Florida Panthers fan, Rahim Moster.
[398] Yes.
[399] I don't know.
[400] In the parade.
[401] What were you doing in the parade?
[402] I'll tell you what.
[403] I got really good at connecting with a few people.
[404] And, yeah, it was awesome.
[405] We tried to get in that parade.
[406] Y 'all should have hit me up.
[407] Y 'all should have hit me up.
[408] We would have got you off for sure.
[409] No, it was awesome, though.
[410] You know, shout out to the Panthers and everything they did this past year.
[411] It was definitely memorable.
[412] I've been a Panthers fan for about like 11 years.
[413] Did you touch the cup?
[414] I did.
[415] Okay.
[416] Yeah.
[417] It was a lot of fun.
[418] Different sports.
[419] So it's fine.
[420] That's the thing.
[421] My wife.
[422] was freaking out.
[423] She was like, Rahim, you cannot touch that trophy.
[424] I was like, why?
[425] She was like, well, do you know that there's a curse if you don't win it?
[426] Like, if you haven't won it yet, you can't touch it.
[427] Does your wife know you don't play hockey?
[428] Yeah, I told her, I was like, baby, we're okay, we're good.
[429] I mean, I think we're okay.
[430] Yeah, yeah.
[431] 11 years you've been a Panthers fan?
[432] I have, yeah.
[433] Because how?
[434] So, my agent, Brett Tesler, he stays in Parkland Golf as well.
[435] And he brought me to my first ever game.
[436] And ever since then, I mean, I've always been around hockey a little bit, you know, even from the Tampa team.
[437] And, yeah, we don't say their name.
[438] I appreciate that.
[439] No, just Tampa team, that's it.
[440] He was a Panther fan, man. So, yeah, ever since then, I've just been locked in with the Panthers.
[441] It's been pretty cool to see you find a home here, the idea that you had 18 touchdowns last year.
[442] I was offended on your behalf that the running back position has been devalued so much, that there wasn't everybody throwing all sorts of money at you this offseason, because any time a person has had 18 touchdowns in my lifetime, that person breaks the bank when they get to the bank.
[443] Yeah, yeah, it's a little discouraging.
[444] But, you know, I'm an older guy now.
[445] You know, they want to put the age tag on me, which is unfortunate, you know, especially what I've done.
[446] You know, I was 31 last year and, you know, being able to run with, you know, 21 -year -olds and, you know, just doing what I did, I'd go out there and just play.
[447] And hopefully, you know, that changes in the near future with the running bat market.
[448] But it takes the younger guys to make that happen.
[449] But older guys have to step up as well.
[450] Where along the path in your career would it have seemed most likely to you or probable that you would make a Pro Bowl and have 18 touchdowns?
[451] Man, honestly, I would have to say, you know, a younger version would have to be year seven, eight.
[452] I felt like that was like the perfect time for me, but, you know, I didn't take advantage of the opportunities.
[453] At least I tried to, but, you know, just things were falling out, injuries and all that good stuff.
[454] So I'm just happy that I'm able to do what I've done, you know, at the time that I did, you know, last year.
[455] There can't be another story like that in NFL history, waived six times 18 touchdowns.
[456] and a Pro Bowl.
[457] I also should have won or could have won a Super Bowl MVP.
[458] Yeah, yeah.
[459] If we would have gotten a ball, you know, the running game for that game against the Chiefs in 2019, that was, that was, it was keyed up and dialed for us to win it.
[460] And, you know, we just strayed away from the run game and, you know, we would have been in Super Bowl chance, for sure.
[461] You don't get to surf here at all, right?
[462] Mm -hmm.
[463] There's no such thing as you being, Who would surf here with the sharks, I mean?
[464] Well, no, but I mean, he's used to waves.
[465] He's used to sizable waves, and he loves the ocean.
[466] Yeah.
[467] Yeah, every year I feel like I'm always taking a trip to Hawaii, so I get my, like, you know, surf fix there.
[468] This past offseason, I went to Hawaii to support Tula and his foundation.
[469] He had a golfing event, and he had his football camp, but unfortunately I didn't make the camp because I had my own down in South Miami, but went out there for the week.
[470] We left, what, Sunday night, got in Monday morning.
[471] And, yeah, we were just, me and my family hanging out.
[472] And we had a couple days of surfing, so it was fun.
[473] What was the free agent process for you, like, coming off of that kind of season?
[474] At the beginning, it was a little slow.
[475] And then things started ramping up, starting, you know, getting some talks just because I was still under contract with the dolphins.
[476] but, you know, my second year, my last year wasn't guaranteed, which would have made this year, wasn't guaranteed.
[477] So then just, you know, went back to the table, started talking, and we felt like there was, you know, a deal that you couldn't refuse.
[478] But it was disappointing to you?
[479] Not necessarily to come back here, but to not have that season rewarded the way that I would have imagined at any time in a running back's lifespan, it would have been rewarded.
[480] Yeah, I mean, you know, then again, And it happened to be the market, right?
[481] Everything is the market value, whatever, the market sets.
[482] It's on, you know, those positions to value, to be valued in a way that, you know, makes sense.
[483] But unfortunately, like you mentioned earlier, it's the running back market, you know, especially given my age too.
[484] So, yeah, I'm 32 now, but I'm not an old man. No, I'm not an old man. Just 10 touchdowns.
[485] You're not an old man. Wait, right.
[486] Does that bother you, the running back market?
[487] just the way that position is treated.
[488] Because growing up, Dan and I watching the guy, Mitt Smith, those guys, they got the ball and they got paid, man. Yeah, no, you know, I feel like it's definitely changed these past couple of years, and it's unfortunate.
[489] But, you know, that's just the, in time it will get back up.
[490] I feel like it'll be more valued, you know, once the younger guys start to realize, hey, you know, I don't have to be, we don't run the ball like that, you know, back then.
[491] And guys are getting, you know, they were getting hurt at some point, running the ball, you know, 20 plus times.
[492] But now it's such a pass in league, these running backs there are in.
[493] Like, you know, I talk to Devon all the time.
[494] And I'm telling me, hey, you know, you catch the ball out of the backfield.
[495] That's what's going to help your case, you know, especially when it comes down to, you know, those contract talks.
[496] So he's taking it well, running routes.
[497] You know, we're all running routes.
[498] And I'm happy to see that type of progression right now for him.
[499] What's that running back room like right now?
[500] Because you're in there.
[501] We haven't coming off the season you did.
[502] Devon A. Chan, coming off a season where he broke out, they draft Jalen Wright.
[503] So it's just like there's a balance between being teammates and competing with each other.
[504] Yeah, you know, I think the biggest thing in our coach, Eric Stoosville, he does an unbelievable job and making it feel like it's more so a brotherhood and lifelong friends.
[505] You know, that's the most important thing because, you know, in this NFL world, man, it's any given day.
[506] You know, you can have the best game of your life.
[507] and you can be on the highest of highs and then something major can happen and then it turns into the lowest of lows but you have to have your brothers that's right there behind you and I feel like without our running back room we are the best running back room in the lead there's no doubt about it you know there's other guys that want to compete and say you know well you know so and so has this title but if you go down the line of all the backs that are in our room specifically each and every one even our younger guys each and everyone has made some type of impact in this league or will make an impact in this league when their time comes.
[508] So I just feel like this room is just tailored to what we do as a group and as individuals, too.
[509] Do you know where you're ranked in the NFL's top 100 players?
[510] Have you seen where you're ranked?
[511] Yeah, I did.
[512] What's the number?
[513] 60.
[514] How are we feeling about that?
[515] That was too high.
[516] I felt like, especially what I did last year.
[517] Too low.
[518] Too low.
[519] It was bullshit.
[520] It's technically high up if you go by numbers.
[521] It's high.
[522] Yes, yes, but you thought it should have been a better ranking.
[523] Yeah, better ranking.
[524] Just, you know, I broke, you know, a 40 -year -old record that hasn't been touched in 40 years.
[525] And, you know, to be able to break Ricky Williams record.
[526] And, you know, I looked up to Ricky when I was a little kid coming from, you know, in Florida and stuff like that.
[527] So to be able to break his record, that meant so much more to me than Mark's record, right?
[528] But, yeah, you know, it is what it is.
[529] it just gives me more motivation this year so who was the running back on the list higher than you that you were like what the uh well i'm saying it was probably a couple no it was this guy doing up here christian obviously he's i think he's just a hell of a bad you were good with that you were five guys there has to be a guy what the hell is he doing he had 14 touchdowns though you had 18 he had 14 yeah yeah um but we tied 21 touchdowns total so i that's right and he led the league in in russian so you know i i talked to him all the time We bullshit with each other and stuff like that And it's fun, so And then Derek Henry I feel like that's also another You know, he just You're good with those too Good with those guys But who's the guy you're not good with Yeah, come on, that's got it sounds like The rest, it sounds like I don't know who's there, there has to be a name I don't know who else is there Who's in the 50s?
[530] Hereston, look that up for me Yeah, we need to figure that out Because, you know, I just see it as I'm the 60th best player You know, after what I did I felt like I should have been lower you know in regards to that higher higher higher we all know what we mean we all know what we've been 60 yeah lower but higher yeah but you know I'm just I'm just happy and blessed honestly to make the list for the first time and you know it can only go up from here that's how I see it I know you you keep in touch with all the guys in San Francisco you keep an eye on what's going on there you love that organization what do you make of what's going on with IUC right now um you know first of foremost I don't know what's been going on with I you and it's contract but you know i i do definitely think he deserves whatever comes his way because he's he's always stayed quiet he's never been you know the most outspoken one unless it's involved you know um his contract issues and stuff like that um and he's he's a hell of a player i mean the guy goes out there he doesn't say anything he goes and gets his yards and does what he needs to do um i watched him when he was a rookie um and and talking with him when he was a rookie and just to see the growth, man. I just want nothing but the best for him because he definitely deserves it.
[531] Has money changed to her?
[532] No, no, no, no, money hasn't changed to it.
[533] What was he doing with the mic, though?
[534] Like, why did he grant the mic?
[535] That was awesome.
[536] No, that was actually like, you know, I felt like that, at that moment for him, it was definitely, you know, it's something that he cherished because, you know, he didn't, he's not a guy that talks a lot, you know, he's humble.
[537] He's the most humble human being you'll ever meet, you know.
[538] He doesn't talk about what he has.
[539] He doesn't talk about all the fame and glory he's had.
[540] You know, he's just always wanting to work and get the people around him better.
[541] And for him to, you know, have that statement, show me the money.
[542] You know, we joke around me and T. Stead joke around with him right now, right?
[543] And it's just all fun, man. It's just happy to see that, you know, especially what he's been going through.
[544] What's the confidence level with a guy like Tua?
[545] When, you know, you have the criticisms out there of, you know, maybe not as accurate outside of the pocket.
[546] Cold weather, we haven't seen.
[547] him do it like in the locker room are we confident that he can get over all those hurdles that people put out oh yeah definitely i mean if you're seeing what he's done you know in college and dealing with you know Alabama his hip injury right coming back from that um and and then being drafted here by a coach that really didn't want him um and and then going through that whole process to looking you know we get here first year with mcdaniel and he has a stellar career and it's just been going up and up, you know, and his leadership is just unmatched.
[548] This guy comes in, and he wants everybody around him to get better, and that's something that you need.
[549] And also, he takes pride in his lack thereof of all the skeptic, you know, the skeptical things, right?
[550] And he just wants to get better each and every day, and you can see it.
[551] Many years ago, Zach Thomas talked about I wouldn't fight Tim Bowens if I was the only one who had a gun.
[552] Jason Taylor said, time he threw a co -can at Larry Chester and ran away because he was afraid of Larry Chester.
[553] And one time, Daryl Gardner, or no, I think it was Tim Bowens and Mean Joe Green got into it on the sideline and everybody was afraid.
[554] Who's the dolphin in the locker room that everybody's just a little bit afraid of?
[555] I mean, it's hard because, I mean, well, you got Callais Campbell in that bad way.
[556] That voice.
[557] Six, eight.
[558] And, you know, that's a grown man status right there.
[559] You know, he's played 17 years of the league.
[560] I tell him that he's 44, you know Busset chops a little bit But when he speaks, you know, it has some validity You know, that man speaks from the heart And he speaks true And you could tell that that guy's he's about the right stuff And that's something I'd line up with him And if he has a problem with somebody I'm backing him up But he's a friendly monster He's friendly But you should see him on the field You see him When we break in the huddle And you see a 6 -8 giant on the other side of the ball, you're like, okay, yep.
[561] I'm going to zip these up real quick.
[562] Last question before we get you out of here.
[563] I don't think it's terribly insulting to be the 60est best football player in the world.
[564] Is there another list that's more insulting that you've seen?
[565] Because I know you track this stuff.
[566] You still have the list of all the teams that have waived you.
[567] You don't like that very much.
[568] There's a top 15 list right now, top 15 running backs.
[569] And I don't know who put out the list list but you're not on that list.
[570] I'm not.
[571] I'm yeah.
[572] You know that right.
[573] Yeah, I think it's about time for me to come out and say this.
[574] Whoever's making those damn lists is definitely they don't know their stuff.
[575] That's right.
[576] Listen to the man. Just because, you know, if I'm not even a top 15 back and I was a top 10 rusher last year, I mean, come on now.
[577] What are we doing?
[578] Yeah, you got guys on the list that, you know, no offense, I think that every back in the league is, you know, superior and dominant in their own perspective ways.
[579] But, you know, for me, I feel like, you know, I should be in the top 10.
[580] I deserve to be in a top 10, but, you know, that's always fuel and there's always this year to get even better.
[581] Let's go.
[582] You nailed the dismount, sir.
[583] Thank you for being on with us.
[584] Your neighbors with Stugats, have you yet met him at his clubhouse?
[585] He's promised to spend time with you.
[586] I'm waiting.
[587] No, that's not fair, man. You're going to do that to me. We spent time with your wife and your kids.
[588] We were out of the rain, man. You did.
[589] We actually, you know what?
[590] We spent plenty of time on the chipping greens.
[591] You know, my kids were.
[592] trying to steal a couple of his golf balls.
[593] I was trying to steal theirs.
[594] Yep, yeah, but, you know, it was definitely a good time.
[595] But I did stand you up at the bar one time, I did.
[596] Yeah, we ain't going to talk about that.
[597] No, I believe that.
[598] He's the king of that one.
[599] I just thought I'm sitting there.
[600] That sounds like you.
[601] That even says, it still got his game good, golf game.
[602] How is it?
[603] You know what?
[604] You don't have to be nice.
[605] No, no, no. Honestly, I saw, I saw potential.
[606] Okay.
[607] I saw potential.
[608] I've always bitching on the green right from his house.
[609] He's always pitching on the green.
[610] So, yeah, absolutely.
[611] Well, hey, man, I just want to say thank you guys.
[612] You know, I think that your guys' this show is awesome.
[613] I'm more than honored to be on anytime y 'all just let me know.
[614] Stu, you already know, so thank you guys.
[615] I appreciate it.
[616] Thank you.
[617] Thank you.
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[638] Don Lebertard.
[639] I heard that as a woman faking pain.
[640] I didn't think that sounded real.
[641] I really didn't.
[642] You know.
[643] It was not fake.
[644] It was in no way fake.
[645] You can spot a woman faking it.
[646] Stugats.
[647] Yes, I can, Jess.
[648] Expert.
[649] I've been married 40 years.
[650] This is the Dan Lebatar show with a Stugats.
[651] I love the rejoins.
[652] I love the look on Jessica's face as she realized she was an unwitting pawn in one of the most obvious set -ups ever.
[653] Unwitting pawn.
[654] I'm the one that set up the joke.
[655] Moving on.
[656] You want to hear the rejoin again?
[657] No, she's right.
[658] I thought about it.
[659] I know she's right.
[660] I have the f***ing hiccups, and I'm pissed back here.
[661] Really?
[662] Hold your breath, swallow three times.
[663] Oh, Jesus.
[664] Yeah, there you go, Chris.
[665] Or that.
[666] Or that.
[667] That's how you do it.
[668] Chris scared her.
[669] That actually might have worked.
[670] That's how you do it.
[671] And it was done perfectly because it was right in the middle of Suggats giving his bullshit advice.
[672] What do you mean?
[673] Well, I'm just saying like...
[674] Well, she just hiccups against.
[675] It didn't work.
[676] Damn.
[677] Do you do that for your daughter?
[678] Like, you just lunge it?
[679] I have done that before to my daughter.
[680] Try this.
[681] Hold your breath and swallow three times.
[682] Okay?
[683] I am telling you it works every time.
[684] I'm telling you.
[685] 86 % of the time.
[686] It works 100 % of the time.
[687] Scaring my daughter is one of my, I enjoy that.
[688] Oh, all the time.
[689] One of my big things is, oh, it's bedtime.
[690] And so as we're starting to walk up the stairs, I sprint ahead of her.
[691] And then I go into her room.
[692] And so I'm like, behind the door.
[693] I'm in the closet.
[694] it and then she like looks for me and then I pop out and I scare.
[695] I do that when we come back from outside, park the car in the garage and I get out the car real fast and then I get on the other side and then as they're walking up the stairs or something child fear.
[696] Yes.
[697] Cheer.
[698] I feel like that's like that's a building block right?
[699] To your great character is someone startling the shit out of you.
[700] Zagak.
[701] That was quite the hiccup right there.
[702] I'm telling you the reason that I'm so annoyed right now is because When I get the hiccups, I have the hiccups for a really late.
[703] Jesus Christ, I don't like this.
[704] Yo, it's very...
[705] Did you try my method?
[706] Did you try my method?
[707] It didn't work.
[708] It's four times.
[709] Wait, what day is it?
[710] No, it doesn't work.
[711] Wait, what's the temperature?
[712] What's the temperature?
[713] 88, too warm?
[714] Not whistling weather.
[715] Too warm.
[716] Like, sometimes I'll be in bed at night, and, like, Lee and I will be, like, talking, and then he'll make a joke, and I'll start, laughing and then I get the hiccups and then he's like oh fuck like the whole night's like it's over like you're going to be hiccuping for the next six hours we're never going to fall asleep you have a very frequent hiccup you usually mine the gap is so long that you think they're gone maybe they're gone and then look no still here still here yours are pretty yours are like a cartoon character no they're like super aggressive and like my entire body like hiccups convulsors you're like a cartoon character see like in the cartoons at the especially when they're drunk.
[717] I'm not doing that.
[718] I'm working on right now.
[719] Is that a 20 -CB thing?
[720] In the cartoons, if you're drunk, you'd hiccup, I said, you got to, you know, that's how the cartoon.
[721] Yeah.
[722] That first sip of Coca -Cola, always does it for me. Yeah?
[723] That's if you drink it too fast.
[724] Really?
[725] Yeah.
[726] Because there's an air pocket in there.
[727] I always choke on the first sip, always.
[728] Why you go in too hard?
[729] I'm like the Tom Brady of doing that.
[730] Every time I take a sip of anything, especially if I'm really thirsty, I'm going to be coughing for a little bit.
[731] Give me time.
[732] I want to ask you guys a question because I think we're all in a situation where no one here lives alone, right?
[733] Everyone's got someone that they live with.
[734] And every once in a while, you're going to the store and they say, hey, bring back this from the store.
[735] And you say, fine.
[736] And then you get the inevitable text of, oh, and also this.
[737] I think my biggest pet peeve is getting that text after I've left the store.
[738] The worst.
[739] What do you do?
[740] I get it all the time.
[741] You go back?
[742] You just text and say, I already left.
[743] And I say I'm almost home.
[744] Sometimes I'll have just checked out.
[745] What if it's your fault, though?
[746] What if you texted, do you need something and you just didn't look at your phone again until you got in the car?
[747] But the text was sent right away.
[748] No, I'm talking about the text was sent after the shopping experience has ended.
[749] What if you're in line, though?
[750] You're saying you've left a store already.
[751] What if you're in line, though?
[752] Do you ever do the mid -scanning items?
[753] Like, I'm going to go get one more thing and there's people waiting in your sprinting.
[754] So you're up next, right?
[755] And there's a long line behind you and your significant others says, hey, I need this.
[756] If I'm having tacos and I forgot sour cream, I don't care who's behind me. I'm running back to get that.
[757] This is what you do.
[758] It depends on how many items you have.
[759] If you have a shit ton of items, I start loading them on the conveyor belt and then I sprint back to go get the thing.
[760] You have time, yes.
[761] Yeah.
[762] But if I go, all I had was milk and like, oh, it's a sour cream.
[763] I'm not going to.
[764] What if the item is near the chart?
[765] That works, actually.
[766] This is a valid point.
[767] Like, if it's the aisle right closest to you, then I got time.
[768] Three hops.
[769] That's the rule.
[770] Yeah.
[771] You can hop on one foot three times or foot, opposite foot, original foot again.
[772] If you could triple jump to the item, you're fine.
[773] I love triple jump.
[774] Who?
[775] Underrated sport.
[776] Do you have to triple jump back or?
[777] You don't have to, but it's encouraged.
[778] You know what I hate is these, like, cheap bags of chips in like, I don't like anything.
[779] My daughter's always like, can I, in like, the conveyor belt, right?
[780] over the conveyor belt.
[781] The impulse bisection.
[782] They got the chips.
[783] They got the gum.
[784] The magazine.
[785] My daughter's always wanting this stuff.
[786] I don't, I don't like candy.
[787] I don't like candy.
[788] I don't like candy, right?
[789] I'm not a candy person.
[790] But for some reason, those impulse buy candies, they've never looked better, man. Right there, the Kid Cat, like the Reese's peanut butter cups, all of them, they're like, hey big boy.
[791] And I'm like, oh shit.
[792] That's what it's like going to Alta because they have a mini version of all the fancy makeup by the checkout.
[793] And for some reason.
[794] you can convince your...
[795] I thought you were cured.
[796] God damn it.
[797] We're going to check in with...
[798] We forgot about him.
[799] He's trying out for the golden oldies.
[800] You guys have her impulse by the Princess Diana Tribute magazine?
[801] Oh my God, I love those.
[802] Or like the Life magazine.
[803] It'll be like 50.