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This is the Dan Laboratory Show with the Stuttgart podcast.

Amin.

Yes.

It's Billy, Gil, coworkers Hello. In Miami.

How's it going?

You did it. You got 1 over on Dan. Gotta send you to Vegas for this Mickey Mouse cup that they got going on there. Get to just play around. You're I see you're in a rogue sunglasses.

Spa. Probably drinking on the company dime. And maybe you go to, like, a Thunder game. Maybe you don't. Who knows what difference does it make?

You did it. Congrats.

Billy, first of all, I'm hard at work. I don't know what you're talking about.

I I

It's out here.

Hold on.

It's just us here. You don't need to

put on a front. Oh.

Hold up a fake microphone. No lights are on on

that thing.

We know it's a problem.

Alright. So, yeah, there's no wire right here. So, Billy, no. I've been working really hard. I hit the streets of Vegas.

I'm talking to NBA media people. I'm getting info and intel about all sorts of things. And by the way, NBA Cup, not a Mickey Mouse cup.

Emirates.

It's Emirates Cup.

Yeah.

Emirates Cup thing. Please get that right. They they're very, very, like, particular about that. They want you to say Emirates as much as possible whenever referring to the NBA Cup. And by the way, it's been fun.

We had great games. We had great performances. We got a great final of the night between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Bucks whose season looked like trash a few weeks ago. Now they won 12 of the last 15.

The Thunder who looked amazing all season long and get this. They haven't been a 100% healthy this whole entire time. Everyone's excited. It's great basketball. Why are you mad, Billy?

I'm not I'm not mad. I'm congratulating you on getting 1 over. You did it. You're there. Vegas.

You got a rope. Expense it. Ramp that. Take that rope home on us. Yeah.

That's your bonus.

I gotta take care of myself, Billy. I don't know if you know this, man. I fly a lot. I'm gonna be in Miami tomorrow on the show. Guess how I'm getting there?

With another red eye flight. I earned all of these trappings that I you see it before you. These sunglasses, this towel is terry cloth towel, this this bathrobe, which isn't terry cloth, it's kind of actually a cheap material, but I I digress. I've earned all these things because I work very hard for this company.

Are Are you coming just just for the party? Tomorrow. It's tomorrow. Is that Yeah.

Oh, is that

is that right? Aligned. Yeah.

Couldn't help but notice you were in New York last week for another company party. We have a lot of parties around here. We have a cup a 2 parter tomorrow, and I was also told and this is portraying a confidence. So I was told the video team gave themselves a departmental company holiday party as well. I saw that.

Dan just paid for a night out amongst friends because they go out with with each other every day anyways.

I'm learning of that right now. I had no idea what you're just reporting right now is all news to me.

You'll get the bell. Parties forever. Left and right.

It is. It does seem like a lot of parties.

What are we celebrating?

Shipping container party.

We're we're celebrating the rest of the media collapsing as, Amin steals money in Vegas, and our sugar daddy takes care of us because, because gambling is king. What are you doing right there, though? I mean, dress the way that you are, at at a cup that, I I do believe something interesting is happening in your sport, I mean, which is people now talking about the bad stuff and Charlotte and the bulls played a game the other day where they missed a record 75 threes, and people are complaining about all the stuff of basketball from woke to too many threes. And, man, the thunder are fun. But Billy's gonna make fun of your tournament, but, man, the thunder are fun.

Like, if you wanna see a team come at the Celtics quickly, the Thunder are fun.

So, Dan, some fun facts about Thunder. I'm gonna stop whispering now since I'm talking to you, and I'm not talking to Billy anymore. Billy, if you want some more conversation, I will keep this voice in check for you. But talking to you, Dan, the Thunder last year were the youngest team in NBA history to be the number 1 seed and the youngest team in NBA history to win a playoff series. And so everything they're doing is on accelerated time.

Right? Because they've come up so quickly, and it's not just Jake Lewis Alexander who's been phenomenal. It's a bunch of guys across the board. Now the crazy thing about the Thunder this year, Dan, 25, number 1 in the West, number 2 in overall, the best defense in the NBA, 1 of the best net ratings. Like I said earlier, they're not even healthy.

Chet Holmgren has been out. Jalen Williams, the other Jalen Williams, who was a big part of their, you know, front court rotation, he's been out all year as well. So you've got a thing where it's like, oh, we're not even seeing the fully operational Death Star. This is just the thing that's still under construction. When they get fully healthy, that's gonna be huge because you're talking about a team that's missing 2 of their 3 top bigs, and they are, I wanna say, 2nd to last in defensive rebounding in the NBA.

That's their 1 weakness. Their 1 flaw is protecting the defensive glass so they don't have a lot of size. That size is coming. And when it does, I don't know what what answer the rest of the league is gonna have.

Attaboy. That's how you justify this. Just throw out some random stats no one's gonna look into.

I was

gonna look into Shane Gilchrist Alexander stats. What can they do?

I don't know either of the Jaylen Williams. It's like the other 1. I'm like, what's the other 1?

And you keep and you, for a season and a half, have called him Shane Gillis Alexander.

That's yeah. He's very talented.

That's a new season of Tires coming out.

Oh, is there? I love that show. So Jalen Williams there's 1 Jalen Williams, the 1 that's playing right now, the 1 that everyone believes is gonna be an all star. He's kind of like a combo guard. Right?

The other Jalen Williams is kind of lighter skinned. He's got, he's got dreads, and he's a big. And the the 1 who's playing right now is the better Jaylen Williams. Everyone understands that. But the 1 who's out, he's a big.

And like I said, they don't have a lot of bigs. They've got Hartenstein, they've got Chet Holmgren, and they've got Jalen Williams. And Hartenstein, is the only 1 who's playing out of those 3. So that's why it's, like, it's a big deal that he hasn't played yet.

What's going on with Milwaukee? Because they they've kinda turned things around here. I know health might be, a part of it, but is it also Doc Rivers has been around this team a little bit longer. Is he figuring out how to put some of these players in better positions?

Look, Mike Mike, I'm telling you. I had to talk to my throat guy the other day because I my voice is I'm killing my voice, but here still, Everyone tried to deal dump the gun, put us in the ground, but we needed we needed some time now. Have we beaten some garbage themes in this stretch where we're 12 and 3 over our last 15? Sure. But everybody's good records are built on the corpses of garbage teams.

Everybody tells it. I don't know why it's a problem with I mean, it's not it's not it's not Yannick's fault. It's not Yannick's fault. I don't know why you guys keep doing this. So what's happened is we built some momentum playing garbage teams, and now we're starting to be good teams.

And this is kinda closer to what we thought we would be. Now are we 1 of the best teams in the east? I wouldn't say that,

but you didn't hear that from me. Amazing honesty. Really just an amazing hear from you. I can't believe what honesty we just got from that Doc Rivers interview. I'm I'm I'm I am dizzy with the most honest, interview I've ever heard a coach give.

The the Bucks have been a mess, but I'm told that the way that you're expensing this is because you have a quiz you've prepared for Stugats, or for me, or for who?

It's for Stugats. I'm not

taking that quiz.

Specifically well, I mean, it's Stugats. Here's the thing. Like all great quizzes, it's multiple choice. So the answer is there. All you gotta do is pick it, And it's kind of designed to help you along with some things that have happened in the NBA since the start of the season.

I know you've been really focused on football. God bless football when the big juggernauts of our company go listen, subscribe, rate, review, all that stuff. Award winning.

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There you go. Mhmm. But Stugats, I've got these it's 5 questions. They're all multiple choice.

So Right.

Pretty softball stuff. Alright? We'll we'll start with something easy. Chris, do we have some music? Can I get a bed going, please?

Something pensive, please. Alright. Dark and ominous tones.

Since you have music behind you, I want you to sing your questions. Can you do that?

I can't because I can't hear the music because original sound for musicians is off. But that doesn't matter. All that matters is that you and the listeners can hear it. Right? Question number 1, Stegats.

Yes.

Who is the Knicks leading scorer this season? Is it a, Dylan Brunson? Mhmm. B, Karl Anthony Towns? C, OG Anunoby?

Or, d, Precious Chua?

I'm gonna say a, Jalen Brunson.

You are correct. He is averaging 2.2 points more than Karl Anthony Towns. So it is close, but it is still Jalen Brunson.

Okay.

Question number 2.

Yep.

The Cavs have the best home record in the NBA at 14 and 1.

Mhmm.

Who has the 2nd best home record? Is it a, Miami? B, Oklahoma City? C, Houston? Or d, Orlando?

I'm gonna say Oklahoma City.

Sorry, Stugats. It's actually Orlando, believe it or not. Despite missing Palobankara for long stretches, and now, Franz Wagner's out with the same weird injury, by the way, a torn oblique. How many times have you heard of that? Now, how many times

have you heard

that in the same season? Now, have you how many times have you heard it the same season on the same team?

Jeremy is wandering around saying that Orlando's a bigger threat to Boston than Cleveland is.

Jeremy's out of his

mind. Mhmm.

Question 3.

Alright.

The Phoenix Suns are 14 and 11 on the season. Right. What is their record when Kevin Durant plays? Is it a, 13 and 2, b, 6 and 5, c, 14 and 11, or d, it doesn't matter, he has no rings in Stugats' personal record book, which you can now buy atstugotzebook.com. D.

Honestly, that is the correct answer. We're gonna accept it. The judges say you know, you can't argue.

Really? He really he really did. He check mated you there. You wanted him to select another 1, but you weren't prepared for Stuga's doing that to you, were you?

Oh, the the judge the judges say it's an accurate answer. The real answer obviously is a 13 and 2. The Suns are the 1 of the best teams in the NBA.

If not

the best team in the NBA when Durant plays. It's that simple. You should be in the MVP conversation bar with everybody else. Alright. Question 4, let's ratchet it up a notch.

After a December 3rd loss to the Dallas Mavericks in NBA Cup play, Ja Morant told the media, quote, I'm not trying to dunk at all. Y'all think I'm lying. I'm dead serious. Since saying that, Ja Morant has dunked how many times? Is it a, once, b, twice, c, 10 times, or d, 0.

Ja's a man of his word, and I have no reason to doubt him.

This feels like a c.

C 10 times. That's your final answer? That is. Unfortunately, incorrect. Wow.

The answer

is d. He's dunked twice. Wow. Including 1 the other night, we were like, I thought you said you weren't dunking anymore. That was impressive.

Those were good options. You set

it at 10. You had

a 0 in there. I thought for sure it was 1 of those 2.

I mean, that's how you do multiple choice, you know.

Billy, what are you laughing about back there in the shadows? Nothing. I'm just here, man. Billy?

What? Emirates cup. I'm getting ready.

You and Jess There is thunder. There. I got you.

Love. I wanna know

what you were talking about.

Who's who?

Want some of that show over here.

That's you, man.

Well, Dan, since you since Billy mentioned the bucks and the and the thunder and the NBA cup, the Emirates NBA cup The

layup, Dan. Basketball.

This last question

Wildall. Well done.

I think Billy might be saying we're wasting money in Vegas with a quiz. I think that might be why he's laughing that that where I

would never.

Well, I mean, the the quizzes of

why I

went to Vegas.

Keep milking that cow with me as long as there's milk. Thanks.

Thanks, Billy. But I'm not milking the cow. I'm milking it to make cheese and milk and yogurt and and and then I'm killing the cow. I'm making rib eye steak and I'm serving it to the whole company. That's what I'm doing here.

Alright.

Final question. We can't get anywhere else.

Great. Well, I'm gonna put

we got

a lot out

of it. This is a thief. This is a professional thief. Oh.

Who? Billy? He's cute. I agree.

He's funny.

Yeah. Billy agreed. I agree. Billy is a thief. You're a thief of joy.

Why do you hate joy, Billy? What? Sugat, your last question.

Okay.

On November 10th, Damian Lillard sustained a concussion that led him to miss the next 3 games

Yeah.

Including his 1st NBA Cup game with the Bucks. What caused the concussion? Was it a, he hit his head on the floor? B, he ran into an exceptionally hard pick set by an exceptionally large human being? C, he was elbowed in the head by a freakishly large referee?

Or d, Doc Rivers' hoarse voice does things to a man.

G.

To gods, while I appreciate your respect for the power of my voice, I'm sorry. The answer is c. Oh. He got elbow than the head by a rep. I mean, come on.

What are we supposed to do? We're already trying to fight the Celtics. Now you were you got us you got us playing the referee as well. You gotta be kidding me.

Gotta turn the tables here to close this, this game out. Who wins the Emirates NBA Cup tonight? Wow. Is it going to

be Multiple points.

Okay. The Milwaukee Bucks Right. Or, b, the Oklahoma City Cup?

What about c, dude? And we don't have an all of the above, do we?

Well, the viewers at home.

We have none of the above.

This should be a

good game.

Yes. It's gonna be a great game. DraftKings right now has it at minus 5 thunder, which, I think is is is is about accurate. I I think the thunder are gonna win. I think they are just too good.

Milwaukee depends on so many different things. They need guys to hit threes. They need Giannis to get out in transition, and they need Damian Lillard to be active and engaged in a way that sometimes hasn't happened in a Bucks uniform. Oklahoma City is running on all cylinders. Saint Joseph Alexander has been fantastic.

Jalen Williams, I know you've never heard of him, Mike. He's freaking good. Go ahead and check him out. I I see the Thunder a great team.

Which 1?

It's a

great team.

Where do

you where

do you stand on the big debate? I mean, that's going on now. People say that something as prestigious as the Emirates NBA Cup shouldn't be a 1 game sample. It should be a best of 7.

Absolutely not. The whole point of this is it's something different. It's something different that doesn't necessarily test who's the best team overall, but it just gives us like a flavor of, like, okay, who can get on a hot streak? That's what makes it fun is having that team where, like, what you made it here for the Houston Rockets and Atlanta Hawks, there was there was a little bit of fun in that, but of course, we always need our stalwarts. So that's why it's nice to have names like Giannis and and Damian Lillard and Shae Gilgeous Alexander in the finals so that people know what they're turning tuning into.

Alright. Big guy stepped out. You can admit. This was all Yeah.

Just He's going. He's gone. He's gone. Right. But you

I mean, come on. Seriously.

Guys, I I well, let me say this quietly in case he's listening in the other room. Right. I care about this NBA stuff so much, man. Mhmm. You guys don't understand.

You know? I make my jokes and all that stuff, but man, I'm here and I feel the energy. I feel alive when I'm around my NBA people. When I'm when I'm schmoozing.

Okay. Alright. But if it was an OKC, would you be there?

Well, yeah.

We could.

Probably not. Yeah. Probably not. I know.

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Don Libertad. You were that kind of sad this morning taking the barrage of anger from Stuttgart's because you hadn't booked him enough interviews. I the only reason I keep bringing this up is because you not are throwing a big party on Thursday. You're doing it, and I want people to support what you're doing because Stugats has not made this easy. Stugats.

Well, you know, I I well, yeah. Yeah. You know?

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So let's start because I've gotta annoy everyone on the show.

That was pretty good work. Quick work.

The voice is too good. That's the problem.

And you also have something in your voice, Dan.

I do. I'm sorry. I was just a mass consuming chicken at a high rate of speed. I'm sorry I did that. Have I got news for you is the new quiz show, and it is it's a news quiz show, slightly better than the 1 we just did with Amin.

It's Saturdays at 9 PM on CNN. It is, Sundays on Max, and, Roy Wood Junior is doing hard work during the holidays while Bill Maher and John Oliver get lazy during an important time and take all this time off. And, Roy, I appreciate the good work you're still out here doing on behalf of, comedy and the American people as these bums, John Oliver and Marr, take a bunch of time off during an important time, in the schedule. Are you a fan of the holidays?

I'm a fan of money, Dan Levittard. That's why we're gonna knock out 1 more episode real quick, and I might even go kick in New Year's Eve with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen. You never know. If the check is right, I'm a be there.

Oh, please tell me that's a thing that can be so. What do I need to do to get America to advocate advocate for that to be a thing? Listen to me, America. America, we need Roy Wood right now. We need to drink on CNN.

We need CNN to lighten up. We need CNN to be strong right now. CNN needs to get needs to get stronger than it presently is. And on New Year's Eve, you need to be allowed to unleash with Anderson Cooper.

Dan, I don't know if you know what happened to the last black man that got drunk on CNN on New Year's Eve. They kinda ran about the door, that damn levittard. I'm trying to keep a job. Oh, you know, limited. Try to dump lemon my ass.

Not a fan of the holidays, damn levittard. I I don't mind them, but I don't love it. I don't look forward to it. You just and I'm also at that age now where people are just gonna get me gifts I don't need. I appreciate, but I don't need.

I don't like, you yeah. And I'm I'm like that age now where I I I look at television commercials, and I'm like, I kinda need that. Because I finally realized there's, like, 3 stages of television commercials. There's you're in shape, and then there's here's a pill that can fix it, And then it's here's a chair to take your lazy ass up the stairs. And I'm and I'm between 23.

I saw a commercial for a bathtub with a front door. And I was like, I might I might get that.

I saw the same 1. I was intrigued.

He didn't

do anything. Yeah. You just

I don't even take baths. But if I had like, if you could put, like, a and you have, like, a trip lock on your backaches, that's aller, bro. This ain't even got nothing to do with orthopedics.

You're between stage in 2 and 3, and that's a bit depressing. Correct? Once you get to the Yeah. Yeah. Scary.

Yeah. Because that's what I want. But the people go, what do you want for Christmas? You you think I'm gonna tell you you think I'm gonna say out loud, I really I've been thinking about that bathtub with the front door where you can just walk into your tub. Like, that just sounds terrible.

So I will go home for the holidays like I always do and listen to family members confess terrible secrets under their breath between bites of food and act like they didn't look. You know, you got 3 3 brothers in Dallas. You'd have to be, mhmm. Paste the cornbread. It's like, you can't you can't do that to people.

You That's what the holidays are for.

Are are you, how how does it are you a good gift buyer? Who do you have to buy for? Do you buy for for your son?

Yeah. The boy, we we we always you know, I'm in a co parenting situation, and it's and it's good. It's a very healthy 1, and, you know, we're gonna we're gonna, like, get him gifts or whatever, but it's gotta be learning. He wants a drone. He's 8.

And so he wants a drone for Christmas. So to kinda audition him a little bit, I put him in the VR hits at drone. Let's see if you can drive the fake drone. And he would have essentially gutted himself in the stomach a couple of times with the open blade drone because it kept coming right back at him because he doesn't know what he's doing. So I don't think he's ready for that, and I don't have the health care set up to be taking care of a child who sliced his leg open.

Plus, it's a bad time for drones.

You know, Roy? It's a bad time for drones.

Oh, yeah. Jack, it's perfect time. Go ahead and send that up in there and get everybody scared, son. That'll that'll be be nice and smart. How stupid are people?

It it's it's the aliens. It's the aliens. We first off, it's too many people saying that there's aliens for there to be aliens. There used to be 1 designated person per year who got vacuumed up into the sky.

Oh, man.

Everybody see the alien? Come on, dawg. It's Randy Quaid from Independence Day telling you time and time again the whole movie. I'm telling you. They vacuumed me up there, and they diddled with me.

And now everybody? In Jersey. Come on. You think aliens going to Jersey? They got guns in Jersey.

Aliens ain't stupid. Stupid people over there. Why don't you come to a populated area like that? So, yeah, we'll take my son to a museum. That's my point, Dan Levitan.

We'll take him to a museum of natural history and pretend why I have to stand there and pretend to be impressed by fossils? Can we can we stop acting like dinosaurs were so great? They die. They lost. And and you and you dick up their bones and you and you exalt them.

And it's not like dinosaurs got ran off by pollution or mankind intervention. You just lost to mother nature. You're weak. And these museums, you hang up all of these trophies of losers who just didn't evolve, didn't figure it out. You died.

An asteroid hit, and you couldn't figure it out. And now I'm supposed to be impressed by your bones. But but you can't say that because he's a child, and you want him to be impressed by the world. I I think the dinosaurs weren't real. Rumor was started by parents who are tired of going to these museums.

Well but you okay. So you have, you have seen us in a unique space in America where people are believing on the Internet all manner of conspiracy theory, and there are movements behind this. We are not talking about this alien thing enough. This alien thing is not something that this program or any news program is covering enough that people really believe that those drones are something from another world.

The the problem with conspiracy theories now is that they're too easily spread. It's too easy to just say something stupid. Taylor Swift, the the lizard lady who supported Joe Biden. And people just go, okay. If you believed in something wild back in the day, you had to print it on a flyer, you had to stand on the corner, and you had to pass flyers out and tell people what the hell was going on.

You tell them.

You had to form a cult. Remember, they have been no then why do you think these documentaries about cults is all from, like, seventies eighties where people would read? There's no new cults because you're too lazy. Like, if you believe something back in the day, you had to get out and you have to take people in the forest, build a commune, have a couple kids, and then the feds would raid you and shut you down. That's how conspiracy used to start.

And now you just say something stupid and

then you're right. You should be able

it's too easy. He ain't too easy. He said

you should

be able to earn your cult. You gotta earn it. You gotta work hard.

To look another person in the face and go, hey, man.

Because because, listen, like, for all the weird stuff that you hear about the drone and the UFO, you haven't heard it from another person. If you were standing in line at Starbucks and someone in front of your line just turned and just looked at you, hey, man. You know those drones that's flying over New Jersey. Then then then you rap over, man. The government don't want it.

Then they all want it. I know the truth. And then you decide whether or not to go in the woods with that man. You recruit 1 by 1, brick by brick, and now it's too easy to just say something stupid, and our minds are already jello from all of the nonsense we watch on television that it's easier to believe than force someone to prove their and show their work.

I want to do.

Back in the day. At least I grew up with rotten.com

Yeah.

Where you could show me a picture of Tupac's autopsy, and then I can decide whether or not Tupac is alive.

A purer time. I long for those romantic days when Roy Wood could just go to the Internet and be discerning about whether Tupac is so alive.

About this. You used to have to sell someone on your idea,

on your cult.

It's too easy to fool the dumb people now. That's what he's saying. It's just too

ridiculous. Aliens behind the comet come to my house and drink the poison. You wouldn't have done that off of a Reddit post. Marshall Applewhite had to go face to face.

You should respect me more by having the more convincing cult. You have to be you have to work more. He's so right about all of this. Let's go into sports with a couple of things here. I want, the Internet is talking about Travis Hunter, Travis hon Hunter's feast, fiance.

She's Yeah. She's defending herself over a viral video. Where are you on all this stuff?

I think it's unfortunate that 2 young people have to live out their relationship in the eyes of people whose business it is not. You know, they're together and, you know, my uncle used to say, you see 2 people being happy, let them be happy. For a young woman to have to go on the Internet and explain every single thing where people are attacking her, it's it's it's sad, man. You know? Like, it's none of our business, their relationship, but she walked us she like, girl, made an 8 minute video, man, walking folks through this incident was this.

It was not what you thought. This incident was this. It was not what you thought. This incident was the so just let them be in love. And even if they aren't in love and even if Travis Hunter is headed into a bad relationship, let them.

You gotta learn. That's what your twenties is for. The twenties is for picking the wrong person and hoping you have enough money or therapy to survive it.

Is it?

It's fine.

You're right, dude.

I I

didn't realize that. Card.

I didn't realize that is unbelievably succinct as a Hallmark card.

It's none of our business. Let them live. Let the boy catch the ball to make the money to support his family. I'm just happy that this narrative if if there's 1 upside to following Travis Hunter and his fiancee, is that the media hasn't lived inside of the narrative of Travis Hunter's father being in prison. Because, normally, if you have a jail story to tell about a black athlete, that's all they talk about.

It's a daddy. Yeah. There's a 15 yard completion to Travis Hunter. He's stingy. As as you recall, his daddy grew up in jail for drugs trafficking.

Travis had 2 brothers, both of whom died in a tragic catfish accident, and then Travis lost his arm. And his daddy went to prison selling kilos of cocaine to get him another arm, and that's why he's a top tier receiver, 2nd and 10 now for the Buffaloes. Like, that I would rather be arguing about whether or not he's in a happy relationship than seeing people continue to live in that narrative, which is, I guess, in a way, a win, but, you know, I just see 2 young people in love who unfortunately get to have their relationship play out in social media, which is sad. We all deserve the right to argue and put you think I want people to know about that argument I got in at a Sbarro's Pizza at Century Plaza Mall in 1997? That's not cool.

Can we move on on the football season? Are you done with college football, or are you still here? Because Jessica's headed to Notre Dame. Lucy's still excited about football. We wanna send her to the Pop Tart Bowl.

Are are you done, or are you still with it?

Do you think this is too much football? College football. 12 teams. It's like we won it. Like like, the 12 team playoff is like McDonald's breakfast.

We all thought we wanted it, and now we got it. And now I'm not sure if I wanted it. I don't I don't know. Because here's what we this is what we forgot, Dan. That those middle weeks of December were for us to miss college football, and then they give you a couple of random bowl games on the 27th and 28th, the pull in weed eater bowl, the TurboTax bowl, or whatever the hell.

And then you get the big dogs, New Year's all the way through the championship. And I just I don't know, man. I think it's I think it's too much football. I think it's this was where we were supposed to have some NBA time to catch up on the NBA regular season if you hadn't checked in till college football ends. The the NFL was supposed to have a set.

Everybody's infringing on the NFL's December now. It's not fair.

No. The NFL is infringing on the college football playoff. They are putting 2 games on Saturday, the first ever Saturday with college football playoff games. We have Chiefs, Texans, and Steelers, Ravens. It's ridiculous.

I don't wanna watch the NFL. I wanna watch the college football games. Get off my Saturday, NFL.

This is the the 12 team playoff is us rooting for a bunch of sevens that we think are tens. And they're competitive teams, and they deserve to be there. But you know Notre Dame's not heard. You know SMUs. I'm gonna do it.

So it's fine to watch, but it's, I don't know, I enjoy that little break of missing college football, and then it comes back after Christmas, and I can renew the relationship with them.

I don't

know. 2 is not too at least I'm not arguing for Alabama over SMU. I I will accept that as a Southerner, but I don't know. I'm not a fan of it. It's it's a it's too much football, man.

Scrooge.

And people say we're an echo chamber. Look at this controversial opinion this man comes with.

No. But Roy is right. Like, time apart makes the relationship stronger. He is right about that.

Exactly. Yeah.

There was 1 secret. There was just army navy.

Right. Well

That's the saddest week of the football year.

I know, but we used to have a full month. I didn't think about college football, see college football, deal with college football for a month, and then, you know, its absence made my heart grow fond.

It'll be 16 teams before you know. Yeah.

I like what I like me, Kentis. I like it I like it when our, like, when our armed forces are good at football because it makes me feel like we're approaching more peacetime because they're not studying war. They can actually have time to look in their playbook. Because, like, if army was, like, 3 and 10, they're, oh, we're going to war, but it's rock is about to fly. They doing extra drills.

That's why they missed practice.

Roy, good like it when

the armed forces are good.

Good seeing you again, Roy. Thank you. Have I got news for you? It's the news quiz show. It's Saturday 9 PM on CNN.

It's Sundays on Mac, and it's really good. It's smart. It's fun. It's light. It's it's got a lot of range.

Thank you, sir. Appreciate the time.

Absolutely. Love y'all.

Happy holidays.

Thank you, Roy.

Let's get to against the spread here, Chris Cody. Let's conclude here with a little bit of against the spread.

It's time for The Guess

of Spread.

Great point about Army Navy though.

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I was gonna pick for the Idaho Potato Bowl, but I decided instead I'm gonna go NFL. I'm gonna go NFL. The Ravens are favored by 6 points to beat the Steelers this weekend. That's too many points.

Yeah.

I'm gonna take the Steelers to cover that game. Wow.

It's a

it's a Saturday game.

It's a Saturday game. And it's the first of a a rough Steelers tripleheader.

Roy pissed off. Jessica and

said Against us.

Roquan Smith called that a check your manhood game.

There's never been a full month off in the month of December. I don't know what he was talking about. Normally, the first bowl game's, like, December 17th, and and, like, conference championship weekends, like, December

2nd. But why can't you have them both? Like, Saturday is the greatest Saturday in football history because of the college football playoff. This is traditionally the weekend. You always get Saturday NFL games.

Now you get 3 college football playoff games. What a day.

God. Spread. Let's see.

What do you got? Sorry.

Sticking with college football because that day belongs to us. The NFL has enough.

They're done.

They've taken it all. They took from the NBA. They're not taken from us. But I'm taking Tennessee plus 7a half against Ohio State. Ohio State's got some some offensive line issues.

We saw that against Michigan, and Tennessee's defense is phenomenal. Also, fun fact, Tennessee fans have started planning where they would take the goal post and dump it in the river if they beat Ohio State at Ohio State.

Oh, good. That's bad. That's bad. You should go over 1.

Don't plant the flag.

Whatever you do.

Billy, bring us home.

I'm gonna go with Lions minus 6a half over the Bears. We told you last week, this is a game the Lions have to lose. That's why we took the Bills over the Lions plus 2a half at the time. Sure enough, the Bills won. Lions lost the game they needed to lose.

Dan Campbell said as much today. He said, you know what? We needed that 1, and we're gonna get back on track. And there's no team to get back on track with better than the Bears. Bears are horrible.

Terrible. Terrible team.

Oh, get this back.

The Lions are going to maul the Bears against this spring.

Bounce back.

Roquan Smith said last week's Steelers game is a check your manhood game.

Yep. Coming on. Yeah. Yeah.

This spring.

Let me check. Nope. Still not

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