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This is the Dan Levator Show with the Stugats Podcast. It is time for Stu Gats to share his game notes. No one in the media will tell you what happened better than my boy, Stu.

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Weekend observations. I just ate. Bad sign. Brought to you by Miller Light. Great taste. 96 calories available for delivery.

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It's not just that he ate also as an added bonus. A heater. He said right before, well, the heater as well, but right before we started, he said he was too tired to do these today that he'd prefer to do them tomorrow.

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I feel like I hear some mashed potatoes in there, too.

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There are. Yeah. There's a lot of stuff scrunched up in my teeth. I don't know what to do about it. I really don't. I'm too.

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Tired to deliver the weekend observations.

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Dan, we haven't seen him since he withdrew from the Masters in the third round. This weekend, that changes as he will tee it up at the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas. Dan, just like that. Make no mistake about it, Tiger Woods is back. You're excited?

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I'm not discounting that you are indeed tired. Right. I'm not calling you a liar. I have every reason to believe you.

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I didn't say that to Dan, right? Okay, anyway.

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But I have every reason to believe you.

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You did so. What do you mean you didn't say that to me?

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But I do want to- Two shows today.

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That.

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Was off air though, Dan. -i do want to point out that it's just Monday. It's not even noon at the time that we've recorded.

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Quick question. Who's patrolling space? A lot of strange shit going on up there.

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I got a point.

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The final frontier. Dan. You know what the S in space stands for? I do not. Strange shit. What's happening up there? This James Webb telescope is becoming a problem.

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It is?

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It's finding things I don't want it to find. I don't care. Honestly, I'm in the moment. I'm only in the moment. I don't care what happened a billion years before we got here. I don't care. It's a dangerous game. Put the telescope away. Just saying. You're just you.

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Don't want more information.

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No, no, no, no.

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It's the most consistent thing about you that you don't want to open your mind.

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To the world. The earth is only 10,000 years old. Actually, Joe, it's only six.

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See? Put it away. Max, forHippen, said Vegas is not passionate about Formula One. See? Mashed potatoes. Max, Vegas is passionate about two things: strippers and blow. Another week, another moral victory for Mario Cristobal.

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Gambling didn't make the cut.

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No, gambling.

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I would have put the Golden Nights up there.

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It's like eating there and gambling. Come on. You're not passionate about it. Just a way of life.

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They love the races.

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Another week, another moral victory for Mario Cristobal. Dan, you know what the M in Mario Cristobal stands for? Moral victory. Good guess, but no, it stands for maybe, just maybe he's not a good coach.

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You tricked me on that one. That was tough. It was a real bait and switch. The old switcheroo.

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Congratulations to Mario, though, on becoming the fastest coach ever to get to 25 moral victories.

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Video. Go ahead and focus in on Billy there real quick. Billy, are you just tired of Stugat? It's a funny joke. When he said he was too tired to do- He's tired, too. -weekend observations, but is he tired of you?

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Two shows, Dano.

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I've read this script before. I know what happens. He's tired to do it on Monday, so we're put till Tuesday. Tuesday is tired. We put till Wednesday. Why do we have so much things to do on Wednesday? I'm tired. It's like, Because you didn't want to do it on Monday or Tuesday. That's how this happens. Every week.

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It happens. Thank you for your support, Billy.

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Do Y-Y-F-Y-S.

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Carissa Thompson. You are the sideline reporter I've been waiting for my entire life. I'm so proud of her.

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He came in here mumbling under his breath about Lisa Salter.

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I know.

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They all came out.

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Oh, they did. They did, right. I didn't realize.

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They had- A little too aggressive.

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I did not realize they had such an army. I did not realize the community was so united.

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An army of sideline reporters. It was.

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Imagine someone coming out, though, and saying everything you've dedicated your entire life to, you could just lie about it. No one cares.

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You'd probably say it. It's basically saying, But when they don't give me anything, I just assume.

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I sit next to him every day. Everything I care about, he comes in here and he shits on.

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That's not true. I mean.

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This is a place where I am totally unsurprised that you would advocate for the pure making up of shit on television.

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Come on, man. I care about Diddy. Whole story. What? What you care about, I care about. The story. I care about you care about. I care about the story. I'm not Diddy. You know what I'm saying? I care about the story. That's it. -perhaps you were too tired of this. -i don't care about you care about.

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Don't bleep yourself, San Diego.

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You know what this C in PFD commenter stands for? It stands for Choke Job. He choked. I mean, I love him, but he choked.

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Did you do better?

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Could I do better?

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You're saying his stats? You were on.

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Game to score. No, he had a field goal to kick. He fancies himself as a field goal kicker for a lot of money, and he missed it. It wasn't even close.

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I thought you were talking about.

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His picks. No, I didn't even see his pitch.

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You got to explain, though, when you say he choked.

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Well, I mean, I figured everyone saw the field goal.

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We all saw him picking games at the end and thought that that's what you.

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Were talking about. I thought you thought he wasn't funny or something.

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He picked games, I mean.

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Picked the Cans. Really? Joke job. Michigan, Ohio State for the whole ball of wax. Dan. You know what the L in Lincoln, Riley stands for? Loss. Losses. Lots of losses. Dan, you're on your game. Hawaii, playing at noon Eastern is blasphemy. The Rainbows at 12 noon are a totally different team than the Rainbow Warriors at 12:00 AM.

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It's true.

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Different team. Chip Kelly wins his final game against USC as the UCLA head coach. One might say the Bruins won one for the chipper.

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Why would one say that?

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One might say. I didn't say they would say it. I just said one might say that. I said it. One might say.

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For the chipper.

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It's a bad joke. Somehow the Stealers and Browns made me yearn for Iowa and Illinois. The Illini. Sam Hartman. With the rare senior day against the team you played for, for five seasons.

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Can I stop you for a second on the IAWA game here real quick?

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Because-that's amazing. Hartman did that. Yeah, go ahead.

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I did see it reported that the last, I'm going to say nine, or was it 12, games that IAWA has had, the total has been 35 or under, and they've come in under every time.

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It's money in the bank. I bet it every week.

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No, it's nine for nine, but the number has been 35. The total has been 35 or under, and nine for nine. That's crazy.

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This week it was pacing to over, too, and then it just stopped. No points in the third. I was.

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Like, Oh.

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Let's go.

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Congratulations to Michigan as they celebrate getting their 1,000th win. Looking forward to doing it again when these wins get vacated for cheating.

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We are going to end up doing it again.

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Michigan blocking cameras with flags would hate for somebody to steal their signals.

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That was rich.

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How about a kid running onto the field with a T-shirt that said free hardball for the.

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Michigan team? I mean, I get it. I'm not going to say I don't understand the persecution complex, but they seem to have quit on it.

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The V in max versus Stappen stands for Viva Las Vegas. It also stands for Very Predictable. Clockstruck Midnight on James Madison. The Duke's. It took the Texans less than 10 games to find the quarterback I've been searching for my entire life.

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I hate them. He makes so many grave throws. Just absurd throws.

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They should have covered that game four different times yesterday.

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Panthers GMs are not having a great month.

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I'm gambling again.

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Big rat poison week.

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No, for the love of God, you with the rat poison. The back.

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Door wide open. Deion Sanders said, I'm bringing my luggage with me. And it's Louis. His Colorado team is about as Louis as one of those counterfeit bags on Canal Street.

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I see those more in New York than on Canal Street. I think of that as a New York trait, the fake stuff sold in the street.

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Canal Street.

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In New York.

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I'm sorry, I thought that was New Orleans. I think of New Orleans. You were.

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Not allowed to.

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Do the Italian things ever again. Are you tired?

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You cannot disrespect me like that. Put it on the pole, Canal Street, New York or New Orleans?

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New York. Always New York. Resounding. It's resounding New York.

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Not for me. I'm sorry. What do you want me to tell you?

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Apologize. I need you to change.

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Your mind. I just did.

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I thought you were sorry. No more Italian.

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Change your mind. When you type it into Google and just hit Enter, the New York one does come up first.

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Thank you.

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Say you were wrong.

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I.

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Already.

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Apologize. I don't know.

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I put it on a poll.

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I said, I'm sorry.

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I know, but you're hoping the listeners will make you look better.

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The actual.

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Words call yourself an idiot.

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I'm sorry.

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Start it.

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Call yourself an idiot. I'm not going to call myself an idiot. That would be redundant.

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Few things scarier for a quarterback than an unblocked Aaron Donald. Bad time out. Stupid penalty should be the slogan of Miami football. The H in Hurricanes. Stands for hardly anybody there to watch them lose.

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That was a bad crowd.

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It.

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Always is. That's a top 10 team coming into town.

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They also had a terrible buy one get two free promo. Like, what? What? Yeah. Three tickets for the price of one.

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Tyler from Spartenberg. Should get some Heisman votes.

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They haven't lost this. They're playing so much better.

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At least Coach of the Year consideration.

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They are playing so much better since they pissed off, Davo.

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Nobody goes down seven to nothing and then proceeds to choke you out and beat you into oblivion like the Georgia Bulldogs. They love to do that. Spot you seven points.

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Tennessee was feeling pretty good. Yeah, we're going to be like, Never mind. We're going to be the ones who do it.

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Missouri is the top 10 team. That's all I got. Dan, that's why you go out and get Jalen Ramsey. That is right. Nc State. Four straight wins. You know what they're doing, Dan?

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Peaking at the right time.

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They're getting hot at the right time. Good guess. Good guess. Close.

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Nocigour. I feel like Dan's was better.

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Yeah, but you had that idiotic canal street thing.

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He doesn't know where to canal. That's right.

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I'm moron.

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The S. And Brandon Staley stands for Scorching, Hot Seat.

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Wow, it's upgraded to Scorching. Yeah.

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Jaylen Ramsey. All he does is catch interceptions. Nick Fancia. Stay upstairs. Another week, another one score loss for the chargers. Jim Schwartz and Miles Garrett had Kenny Pickett in hell all game long. While he was there, I wonder, I do wonder if he said hello to ARP Riles for me. Dan, those are the weekend observations.

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Dan.

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Lebertard. Well, Charlie, as far as I know, so just Charlie's title in my- Are.

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You going to say anything? -two guts. How familiar were you at the time with Cheubaca? Your upbringing had how much Chewbaca in it?

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This is the Dan Levator Show with the Stugats. I feel.

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Like an idiot for asking this, someone writes in, but when Dan said, I have sources saying Aaron Rogers was less injured than reported. Is he being serious? It sounded so serious, but maybe it was just really good, deadpan.

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You don't get this show.

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I want to go back for a second here, Stugats, and tackle what it is that I felt pretty lonely about over the course of this weekend, and I understood it because I do believe that Stugart speaks for the majority when he says of all of these sideline reporters gathering together and protecting the integrity of their craft. There was absolutely an undercurrent here because this is a blonde woman from other sideline reporters saying, Hey, the stereotype about us that we're always trying to climb over in order to get to credibility, Carissa has blasphemed against the seriousness of the profession in a way that made a whole bunch of people gather up defensively on what I think is a fairly obvious point, which is the reporter can't make something up. But we're at a place with where it is that people feel about journalism and media in general, that I believe that I am in the minority when I say what I think is an obvious thing, a reporter making stuff up in my history and journalism has always been a fireable offense. Now, I'm not saying that she should be fired. I'm saying that the industry standard on this has always been that, except it doesn't seem like it's that now, and it also doesn't seem like people at large care very much.

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There is where I feel super lonely, Stugart, on the idea of this seems obvious to me that this can't be okay. Yet Stugart is hardly alone with saying, Yeah, don't care. Just assume sideline reporters make.

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Stuff up. Before we get to your thoughts there, Sue Gauts, I want to play the original clip from part of my take that got Carissa Thompson all in this trouble.

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I've said this before, so I haven't been fired for saying it, but I'll say it again. I would make up the report sometimes because A, the coach wouldn't come out at half time or it was too late. I was like, I didn't want to screw up the report. I was like, I'm just going to make this up. Because first of all, no coach is going to get mad if I say, Hey, we need to stop hurting ourselves. We need to be better on third down. We need to stop turning the ball over. Press the quarterback. Yeah, exactly, and do a better job of getting off the field. They're not going to correct me on that. I'm like, It's fine. I'll just make up the report.

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I'll read her statement now. Let's address the elephant in the room. I have a responsibility to myself and employers to clarify what is being reported. When on a podcast this week, I said I would make up reports early in my career when I worked as a sideline reporter before I transitioned to my current host role. Working in media, I understand how important words are, and I chose the wrong words to describe the situation. I am sorry. I've never lied about anything or have been unethical during my time as a sports broadcaster.

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There is a discussion to be had as to why she's not getting the access that she should be getting, considering the right fees and what they pay for. They pay for that access. That's a separate conversation. But Dan, the reason no one cares is what is she lying about? It's sports. It's football. Someone is going down to her for a report, and she is saying, I spoke to the coach. The offense needs to.

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Block better. That's what she's.

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Lying about. I know, but Dan, it's sports. More people would care if this was serious stuff. It's not serious stuff. It's a football sideline report.

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I would say that credibility should matter, and you should have a standard for what it is that you expect to be spoken from your broadcasters. The standard shouldn't be so low as to, If it's made up, I'm good. If it's totally a made-up thing that she...

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First of all- Well, she's denying that she made it up, even though she said in that clip. I mean, you line up her quote and what she said there, she said she chose the.

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Wrong words. Yeah, she said it's not.

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The first time she said that. No, her statement goes on to say that the stuff that she would say on the sideline reports would be stuff that she learned throughout working on the week. So it wasn't like she was being disingenuous about what the game plan was set out to be. She just had to think on her feet. I think that that's a discussion. She got alluded to it. Rachel Bonetta actually changed my perspective because I saw everybody lining up against Karissa Thompson, who I'm not sure if everyone's familiar with her story, but it hasn't had an easy go of things in the public eye. Rachel Bonetta made me really think about it differently in that the discussion is everybody going up against Karissa Thompson. You can understand why. But not how Karissa Thompson has to deal with... I mean, there are billions of dollars in rights fees to make sure a coach is available for these meaningless half time things that all of a sudden we've attributed a ton of meaning to because heaven forbid, Karissa Thompson think on her feet because a coach didn't want to give her the time of day to speak.

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How is that allowed? How is the issue? Some of us talking about, Wait a second, someone has to go as far as making things up because a coach doesn't want to talk to Karissa, Thompson.

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She doesn't have to make it up. That shouldn't be one of the options.

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Even if the coach isn't available. Well, one of the options shouldn't necessarily be. The coach can just buzz me off.

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Well, she went on to say, In the absence of a coach providing any information that could further my report, I would use information that I learned and sought during the first half to create a report. For example, if a team was 0 for 7 on third down, that would clearly be an area they need to improve on in the second half. In these instances, I never attributed anything I said to a player or a coach. I have nothing but respect for sideline reporters and for the tireless work that they put in behind the scenes and on the field. I am only appreciative and humbled to work alongside some of the best in the business and call them some of my best friends. The issue is and why everyone came out after her that's in the industry is because then you just assume it could be made up by any one of these people. A lot of these people had to work, not that she didn't, but a lot of these people had to work their entire careers to even get that opportunity and get to that position. If you have someone coming on here saying, I could just make my own report based on things that I'm seeing because no one talked to me, then you're like, Well, they could say anything.

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Can't I just be in the middle on this? That's the part that I was taking a back by, the reaction of just... She's on a podcast, she's saying the thing. She's not lying about, she's not attributing, like she said, if she's making it up, she's not saying that it's a quote. She's just like, Oh, they're bad on third down, they got to be better. I feel like most times these things are white noise. I'm not even listening to these things, and everyone's so irate. It just feels like people are just looking for a reason to get mad.

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But she's basically telling you what the coach would have said had she had access to the coach. Like, why do we care so much? Jay Billis has come on this radio show, this podcast, and he has said a number of times, Of course, I don't watch every college basketball team play, but that doesn't prevent me from going on.

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Dan, he has told me this. It's not the same thing. Stugat, it's not the.

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Same thing. Dan, he does the NCAA preview show, and he's talking about a 16th seat that he's never.

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Watched before. -pretending expertise is not the same. Play the sound again because misspeaking… Stugat, I didn't actually talk to the coach.

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I've said this before, so I haven't been fired for saying it, but I'll say it again. I would make up the report sometimes because A, the coach wouldn't come out at half time, or it was too late. I was like, I didn't want to screw up the report. I was like, I'm just going to make this up. Because first of all, no coach is going to get mad if I say, Hey, we need to stop hurting ourselves. We need to be better on third down. We need to stop turning the ball over. Press to the quarterback. Yeah, exactly. And do a better job of getting off the field. They're not going to correct me on that. I'm like, It's fine. I'll just make up the report.

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It's just weird judgment, right? On doing it, on sharing it on a podcast that you know is like, part of my take is the biggest part of the podcast. She said it before, though. Everyone's getting to hear this. Well, I mean, okay, the lane that she lives in now is that that's not her job, right? Now she's a host. But you then questions like, Well, who's making this up? Who's not making this up? If she's still in the position, it's a completely different reaction, I think, right? If she's still doing that.

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Job- Is it? She's been promoted.

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No, I think if she's still in that job and she says, I've been making this up, she's fired. But because she's a host now rather than a sideline reporter, what are you going to do?

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I don't know which judgment is worse, doing it or admitting it years later when you have a $700,000 a year job.

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Don.

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Libertard. You got to know I'm a big Colombo guy. Salute to that boy.

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Okay, I don't think that's true. I don't think that's true. I think that's a lie. I don't think that's that.

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He said, Salute.

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I don't think that is evidence. Salute to that boy. It suggests camouflage. It suggests that JuJu has no idea what we're talking about, and now he's just Googling it.

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Stugarts. I'm not Googling it. My grandmother stayed in the country. I watched The Braves, I watched Colombo, I watched Matlock, I watched Andy Griffin. You said that you go to the pill in the box. Damn. You take your ass to the pill in the box. You tell him, Ju-Ju. You tell him, Ju-Ju. Back to.

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You, Stu. This is the Dan Levator Show with the Stoo Gods.

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We've got a couple of dueling stats of the day. Me and Stoo Gods both have stats of the day. Let's see who's got the best one here.

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Give me the start of the day. Start of the day. Start of the day. It is the start of the day. Start of the day. Start of the day. Start of the day. Start of the day. It is the start of the day. Start of the day. Start of the day. It is the start of the day.

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Me first?

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Would you like to go first or would you like me to go first? Which one has more pressure on it? Going first or.

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Going second? I think going second has probably more pressure. I feel very confident in mine, so I will go second. You go first.

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Okay, so the college football leaders this year in plays over 20 yards are pretty predictable, Stugat. Offensive plays over 20 yards. You have more than 131 college football teams. Number three is Washington, obviously has a great offense. Number two with 76.

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Is USC. Right.

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And tied with USC at the top spot is Jaden Daniels.

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That's a good stat.

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Just Jaden Daniels. It's USC, it's Washington.

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And Jaden Daniels.

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And just Jaden Daniels.

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That is correct. Wish I went first now.

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What do you have?

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This according to the Action Network, TD passes over the last two seasons. Matt Ryan, 14. Kenny Pickett, 13.

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You told that in the wrong order. You should have the….

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That's my stat.

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Yeah, but the punchline would have been, Kenny, it's not your stat.

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It's.

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Action Network. Matt Ryan would be the way to end that.

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The way to end that would be like you come in and won. Kenny Pickett has 13, and then Matt Ryan is the last word.

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Matt Ryan hasn't played since week 14 of last season. I understand what you're saying, Dan. Yeah, I botched the joke.

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You're tired. You're tired. Because weekend observations really took it out.

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Of here. Yeah. It's a great stat, though. Think about that. Matty Ice has more touchdown passes than Kenny Pickett over the last two years. That's so great. I love that. I wish the jets had Matty Ice. I do. Be eight and two, I mean. Or Kenny Pickett, for that matter. Seven and three with him.

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We will get to some Ron Washington sound in a second, Stugat's his favorite manager. But why, Billy, were you and Chris Cody arguing this week about ways? Because I needed you guys last week when I was talking about not trusting some of the technology. In fact, I said to my wife, my wife spent a good portion of the weekend laughing at me because she on Ways had said we get someplace in 24 minutes because of traffic. And I actually announced like some superhero, not with me driving. And I took a bunch of back routes and stuff.

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Trying to.

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Beat Waze up. I got there in 23 minutes.

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You're the problem, actually.

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You won.

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Well.

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You won. -congratulations. -i was not, though. Not really. I didn't win by enough for it to matter.

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I'm telling you, Waze is a dangerous game, man. You're always trying to beat that thing.

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-you're driving recklessly. -that is true. You are always trying to beat it. But I don't like the person who's smarter than Waze. When you get in the car, Waze, we're going this direction. It's like, No, no, make a right here. I have no time for this because-What.

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If that place is actually right? If you take this right turn, you're not running into the school. There's a school there that letting the kids out.

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You're going the back way. Because way more often you get there later and you're the idiot. It's not worth it. It's not.

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Worth it. I have spent so much time in a cul-de-sac feeling shame in front of my wife because I've now gone a direction I should have gone.

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Well, that, you can't. I swear went through.

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What happened here. You got to look at the little map on Waze and see that the streets actually connect where you want. The thing is, Waze is like the champion of taking you to a place to make a left where there's no light and you have to wait an hour. They're just assuming, Oh, you're going to be able to make a left here and not have to worry about it. They don't account for traffic or whatever. It's like, No one's going to let me make a left there. I'm not bold enough to make that left? Get out of here.

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Do you ever take, if you're on a lane that's like, Oh, the traffic is not bad here today. You just say that there's a cop there, maybe get people to not go there.

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You lied on ways. Really? You can do that.

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You can put misinformation on Waze, you can do that? I mean, the thing is that-Because usually it asks me, Is the.

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Cop still there? Well, that's how it works. I'm reliant. Yes, exactly. That's what you need. You need people that are like, I see what's going on here. I'm going to.

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Say yes to this. But I say yes because it blocks my map, so I can't see where I'm going. So yes, yes, whatever. Just get out of here. Just to get out of the way. Please get out of here. Also, Waze have cut lying to me in the mornings. I think that Waze is evolving and is going from trying to give you the most efficient traffic route to trying to create traffic patterns. Because I'll find ways sending me in different ways, no pun intended. Then I'm like, No, I'm going to look at the different routes and I want to go the same way I always go.

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It's got to be more than a five minute difference for me to change routes. No, if you suggest another route that's two minutes faster, I'm just going to stick with my.

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Normal route. It will give me a different route, and then when I go and I pick my regular route, sometimes it's shorter than the route that it's sending me on. I think it's trying to control traffic. I think it's saying, You know what? You're one of the early birds here. You're not going to get the worm, though. You're going to go this way, and then the later arrivals, they're going to go the more direct route because we know that it's going to fill up, so we may as well send you this less popular way now to clear up traffic for the late arrivers later on. I'm on to Waze. I'm not 100 % yet. I'm still in the - Accusation, in the. No, the exploratory stage of this situation.

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That might be the smartest thing Billy's ever said on this program before, because with Sentient AI and what's happening with the AI models, maybe Waze has a proprietary AI. You don't know what.

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That is. You're just saying words. That sounds smart.

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I'm saying normal things that you can.

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Follow on. Sentient AI, please. Explain that to everybody.

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Okay, I'll explain it very quickly. Thank you. An AI that has its own way of thinking that has now thought past its human creators and is now thinking for itself. But if Waze has had their hands evily on a plot to control a Sentient AI, and their first thought is, Let's control the traffic, all of a sudden, Billy's done something.

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I'm trying to help you. -there are times where it's, There are times where it tells me to get off 95. It's like, No, I'm staying. -right. Do you guys believe-And it works out for me. -rarely, though.

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But sometimes.

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It doesn't. It almost never does. Sometimes I'm on the exchange at the top of that thing, and I'm just like, Oh, I'm going to be here an hour.

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I saw a guy in Europe somewhere that he found out that they... Okay. He found out that they were using phone tracking things to tell where traffic patterns were. He went and he bought a hundred phones and he put them in a wagon. Then he started walking around the street in the wagon, and they thought that there was a lot of traffic because there was 100 phones that seemed to be on the same street at the same time. There was just one man walking around in a wagon. He really cleared up traffic for someone that wanted to take it that day because he had them invent a traffic jam that didn't exist.

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I don't need to know about the car stopped on the side of the road. If there's an object in the middle of the road or a cop, those are the things I want to be alerted for. I don't need to do the thing where it's like, Is it still their car? I don't know if this car a quarter mile. I'm not looking at the side of the road right now. I'm focusing.

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Right here. You know what, Waze hasn't factored in yet is express lanes. That's true. On the way here, they're always telling me I'm going to get here at nine o'clock, then I get to that express lane, and all of a sudden it's bumped up to eight o'clock, like bumped up an hour. It's not smart, Waze. It's not. Not as smart as it could be. It's not factoring certain things in. It's just not.

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Do you guys believe, as I do, that being stubborn about directions? I've had this thought when I'm in a cul-de-sac after I've told my wife I know where I'm going, and now I'm driving around in a dead end. Just in a circle. This is gender-specific, right? Stubborn about directions is male. I think it is. Not asking for directions, not wanting to ask.

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For to open to you. -he's stopping at a gas station? I've never.

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Done that. No, you're telling ways. I know these streets better than you do. And there's nothing wrong with that.

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But sometimes you do. I mean, if you live those streets, you know those streets, what you have to do, Dan, every time you end up in a roundabout that you didn't know was there is you just have to always, That didn't use to be there. Then it's like, They're onto you.

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They've been putting up these roundabouts, like change traffic patterns all over the place. There was an intersection that I was at that I was like, There was not a roundabout here two weeks ago, and now there's a roundabout.

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Why? I don't know. I don't think there's a proliferation of government development and a roundabout. How do we.

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Feel about the roundabout? If you know the way Pippa D is, you could get a roundabout on your street.

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How do we feel about the roundabout? Well, what do you mean? Just in general because they're popping up everywhere. Annoying. I like a classic. Give me the classic four-way stop. I could.

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Use a roundabout on my street, honestly. Four-way stops suck.

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Four-way stops. They're the worst. I mean, it's a dangerous game. You're the worst. Everyone wants to go. No one wants to go. Roundabout means I'm.

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Going first. Roundabout is a more dangerous game than a.

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Four-way stop. No, but if you put a roundabout that used to be a straight street without a stop at all, then it slows traffic down, and then you're not getting kids running on the street, getting hit by cars.

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Put it on the pole, please, at Levitar's show, JuJu, more dangerous game. The four-way stop or the roundabout?

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Speaking of the pole, this is amazing. Canal Street, New York or New Orleans? I cannot believe this.

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Going.

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Well for Dan. 65% of the audience thus far, early voting, Dan, says New Orleans.

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Almost 1,000 votes.

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That's amazing.

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Is it? I get Dan smirk, and.

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He's like, Dan, right? It's the.

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Only reason you put it up there. Is it amazing? It's not the only reason you guys are yelling. You made me apologize.

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Dan, be meaner. Say everyone.

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With the context of fake bags. No, very serious. It was always canals. You should still apologize.

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I think we owe you an apology, Dan. I think we do. I'll do it. Dan, I'm sorry.

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I think we do. Thank you, Chris.

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Excellent point about not having women drive, though. Selling.

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Let's play this Ron Washington sound for Stugart because I'm surprised that Stugart hasn't been made lightheaded by Ron Washington in his initial Angels.

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Press conference. Tony just learned that he's the manager of the Angels.

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I had no idea. Well, listen to this, though. See if Ron Washington is showing his age here.

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Once we get things together and we get these guys together and spring train and start to work, our whole focus is going to be to run the West down. You can take that to the bank and deposit it.

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I have a lot of questions. Why is the media clapping?

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My question is, does anyone still go to the bank to.

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Deposit it? Did anyone tell him he's not going to have Showhay or Tony or possibly Mike Trout?

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To me, that media group clapping is just as offensive as what Karissa Thompson did. I mean, it couldn't. Just applauding a male like what is this? That's an introductory press conference.

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That is showing bias. That's unfair.

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There's invited guests.

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At those things. There's people there on behalf of the franchise and our family.

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There's people there on behalf of wanting someone in the world to say, I'm going to take it.

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To the bank and deposit it. Run them down. I mean, Peter.

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Gammon is a.

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Lot of people.

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I deposited it through my phone, Ron.

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I'm going to go to the Bank of America on Washington, and I'm going to go to the teller, and I'm going to go, Hey, Ron Washington told me that he's going to chase down everyone in the A. L. West. I'd like to- I'd.

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Like to deposit that, please.

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I think you could call the police, Dan.

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You put it in an envelope. I'd like to deposit. I put it in an envelope. In the chute? And I'd like to...

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Wait a minute. No, I'm not going through the drive-through. I'm not taking it up. Are we still using those chutes, those tubes to make the suction sound? They're still being used?

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Are you sure? Yes. They're still there, those drive-throughs, but no one's ever in them.

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It's usually the employees park their.

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Cars there. It's like a finger sandwich in there. There's not a tube anymore. I'm going to do that. I'm going to videotape myself doing that to see what the teller has to say.