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Presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Lebitard podcast.

I'm sorry. I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging.

I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys?

I've done it. And now, here's the Marching Man to nowhere, Fatface and the habitual liar.

Billy, I am not kidding you. We were just talking about a young coach and a young coach's look. I did not recognize Don Mattingly when I saw a photo of him this weekend. I legitimately, when people were posting the photo, it's in a Blue Jay's cap, what the Marlins have done to age him.

He was there last year. Blue Jay did that to him. Blue Jay's have been a huge bust, by the way. We don't need to get into that today, but all those young stars don't do shit.

He looks like a slim down Santa. If Santa was like Joe Thomas, where he went from being an offensive lineman to then being a podcaster, that's what he looks like.

Zaddy Christmas.

I look at him, and because he was one of my favorite players growing up. Him and Dave Winfield were some of my favorite athletes growing up. Dottie Base.

The Winnie.

The way that he-I thought he was Joe Maddon.

Did you really? Yeah, when I saw Joe Maddon with the Blue Jay's now? He looks like it. Does he not look like him?

It's the white beard.

I don't think they look alike, though. They just both have white facial hair. Is that all it is for you?

That's all it takes? I just looked real quick. I was like, Joe Maddon is on Blue Jay. I'm like, Don Maddingly.

I think that I saw the other day Joe Maddon doing a broadcast somewhere, and I think he shaved the beard. I did not see the white beard, and he looked different. There is something else, though, Stugatz, that I wanted to show you.

He's broadcasting now? I saw him-Ran out of teams to rip off? I was surprised that his beard was so white because his hair was still black when he was coaching the Marlins just a year and a half ago.

What?

Joe Madden won a Championship, Stugats.

He did?

Raine Delay aided. The cubs won a Championship in spite of Joe Maddon. That's the whole thing. Fix was in.

Eventually, someone was going to win it, Dan.

He tiggered with the rotation a little much in that game.

Okay. Okay.

And grandpa Rossi. I mean, come on, you're a bench player.

A lot of guys have won a championship.

Pretty sure the broadcast-None for the Cubs.

Every year someone wins a championship, actually.

I don't know why I'm taking stegitis.

I don't know why any of you are doing this. It's hard to win a championship for the Cubs. You can go ahead and say that they won it in spite of him. All the other managers they had, they didn't win it either for them or in spite of them.

It's only if you believe in curses. Each year is his own separate season.

No, it's only if I believe in winning the last game. It's not the curses. They never won.

Did Madden win the last game? Technically, he did, but the moves he made were questionable. Questionable. Yeah.

Lucky about that.

They wanted to spite him.

He did win the seat. They dressed up in cute little outfits a lot of times on their road trips.

Yeah.

Sorry to Kairard really won the game, though.

Sorry to get bogged down on this.

Gave the speech. Well, but you're the king of all you have to do is win a championship and be golden. Hell, Jay Williams is out here saying, Caitlin Clark, and he's doubling down on it. She's not great because she hasn't won a championship. And get your own takes, Jay. That's Stugatz's. But what are you doing right now?

What are you doing right now? Just take it out Joe Maddon.

I thought you win a championship. I know.

But I like accuracy, Dan.

I'm all about that. The most complicated math that Stugatz does is you win a championship, I say you're the best. That's the way that one works.

Not so much in baseball.

Or when it regards Kevin Durant. There's certain people that doesn't... Join a super team. Exactly.

You'll read about it in the book when it comes out. Yeah.

That's right. Stugatsbook. Com. Check it out. Thank you, people.

When's the slated publish date on that?

Sometime in November. I think the 26th. Got some time here. Stugatsbook. Com. Number one, Amazon. Appreciate it.

So Yesterday, Stugats, I went to the Food and Wine Festival. What?

I'm so jealous. Why? Did you see Guy Fietti?

You could have gone.

I forgot it was this weekend. The Food and Wine Festival is also what I refer to as my weekdays, just every one of them.

But what I have seen, and I want to be a little bit careful here, Stugatz, because I I don't want to say that Miami has been ruined, but I have realized recently that I lived without realizing it during what the golden age of Miami was when it wasn't this of crowded because our traffic problems are really severe, and it is now taking an extra hour to get everywhere because all of New York has moved down here, all of San Francisco has moved down here. And anytime we do one of these giant things, it becomes a festival of we simply don't have any of the planning and strategic building of things that can handle this overload. And then the next thing you're getting all of these alerts that say, Hey, don't go in the water. There's all sorts of human feces in the water.

That was happening before everybody moved down, though, to be honest.

Agreed, but it's happening more now.

In Farido, that was all the time. We couldn't go to Farido because all of a sudden, there was shit everywhere. That's true.

That's part of our childhood. Yes, I know, but it's happening.

That's not New York shit.

That's just been there. Yeah, but to Dan's point, more people, more feces. That's correct.

That is what's happening. I don't know. But what do you mean? I don't know. What do you mean? He's not sure. What do you mean you don't know if that's true?

If we want to do an equation about shit and then more people coming in, I think the septic tank or whatever is spewing out there only holds a certain amount. So I think the same people are there. It's keep us game, probably. So it's like rich shit, so it's moving out the other way. That's true. There's a lot of stuff. We all know rich shit moves differently.

Yeah. Like an Australia.

More people means more shit. Put it on the poll, Juju at Levitar Show, does more people mean mathematically, empirically more human shit?

What if more people are eating the same amount of food because every person is eating less.

I'm just going to put it the way I'm putting it. I don't want qualifiers, asterisks, or nuance. I'm simply saying if there are more people, you're going to get more human shit. But, Stugatz, when I am at the Food and Wine Festival, and it's fun, and it's a great event every year, it really is, DJ Khaled, their big finish at the end of this was DJ Khaled and Rick Ross. Dj Khaled came out and was simply terrible. Just really, what are you doing there? I mean, it was just bad.

He played a couple-He's being honest.

He played a DMX He played none of his own music. He ran around saying, and another one. And then just shouting David Grutman's name again and again and again, making it obvious who was paying him for the appearance.

You got a vintage performance from DJ Khaled. What are you complaining about? That's what he does, Dan. We're the best.

But here is the vintage performance of him getting out behind the stage in his car, Stugatz. This is a heavy lift for his security people. He doesn't want to get sand on his shoes. Here is DJ Khaled arriving at the facility. I guess his security just knows what to do in this spot. They just come right over here and they just pick him up and they take him all the way to the stage. Tony, I'm obviously not a sneakerhead. I don't know the sneakers that he's wearing there. That is great. I mean, that seems unnecessary. It seems like that's not what part of security's job should be in that situation. Tony, you're the sneaker guy. Come on, sand that bad for those sneakers.

So here's the thing, Dan. Dj Khaled has a collaboration with Jordan where he'll get We the Best branded Jordan stuff. So he's got a Jordan deal. So they'll send him a ton of merch, a ton of shoes. He gets stuff that nobody can get. Those look to me like special Jordan 3s that are DJ Khaled versions. The thing is, he's probably got 10 of those at the house. They mail him a ton of stuff. He'll open boxes where behind them, he's got 65 pairs of shoes just from that one dropped that month. So when you're a Jordan brand athlete or somebody that's an influencer with the Jordan brand, every month, you get a massive box of all of the releases of the month, all the stuff for your sports-specific stuff. So DJ Khaled has that. Didn't Paul pierce get carried away like this, too?

What was a wheelchair?

Was it a wheelchair?

It was when he pooped himself.

He was carried to a wheelchair that way and out of the wheelchair that way.

That's what it reminded me of.

If he didn't do this, though, he wouldn't be talking about what DJ Khaled did yesterday. So it worked out. Didn't he also did this at a heat game where he had a pillow underneath his feet so that his shoes wouldn't touch the court. Yeah.

Steve Gots would 100% do this, though, if he could.Easier.

Lift.of.

Course, yes. But if you're part of a security team, you have to carry the guy in. That's part of the deal. If he says, Carry me in, you carry me in. We should have carried Dan into Vegas. That would have been fun. Exactly that way.

That would have been fun because the mic wasn't working super well when we did Dan's entrance. It would have been funny if we carried him out and whatever we were carrying him on also broke.

That's not funny. That's not something that hurts the confidence at all. The microphone not working with your first words.

Would have been worse if you fell off of some throne, though, that we were carrying you in on, right?

I started sweating. Yes. It was 30 degrees out.

Chris took a victory lap. Oh, I shouldn't have said that. Chris took a victory lap when the microphone didn't work. Because the day before in rehearsals, he's like, Is the microphone going to work in this tunnel? And then he was quickly like, Shut up, idiot. And then he was like, Oh, okay. It won't say anything. And then it didn't work. And he just gave me a little look see across the stage. You were, Who asked about the mic yesterday? I was like, Not Chris. It's not the time.

Read the room.

In mentioning that Miami's overcrowded, Billy, how are you feeling about Bad Boys 4 making a return to- Why is that happening? Filming in Miami and stomping all of our... They film wherever they want to. I can't believe the clout that Bad Boys has in our city. They are able to get licenses for things that no one's able to get licenses for that just stop all of our traffic.

They're doing donuts and street racing and everything all over the place. Why are they doing that? Who's asking for a Bad Boys 4?

I'm They're literally filming in the heart of Brickle on eighth Street. My wife works at a hotel there, and she actually saw Will Smith in one of the elevators because they're staying at her hotel. She's like, They shut down the entire street. They're doing donuts, they're filming stuff. It's like, That street is one of the most busy streets in Miami, eighth Street. What is it? Brickle Ave or whatever? It's incredible.

Our makeup artist posted a video of one of the cars doing donuts on eighth Street, and I was like, Oh, my God, the drivers down here are out of control. Two days later, I saw it on Only In Dane, and I was like, Oh, that was for a stunt for a movie. I thought that was an actual Miami driver.

That does happen, though. They do just like, Have you seen this, Dan? Fridays and Saturday nights, they'll just close their expressways and have their own-They'll do it at this intersection in downtown.

Just for funsies.

No, but this has been something that has now been... They're cracking down on the criminality of this.

They're doing it on highways.

That's why my grandma told me nothing good happens after midnight, and she was right.

She's right about that.

Billy, you ask who wants a Bad Boys 4? Bad Boys 3 did $425 million internationally. I saw that. Yeah, I mean...

Grandma's not right about that. There are plenty of grandparents having sex after midnight. What?

What? What? What?

On the street?

They're staying up until midnight? The villages. What?

Bad Boys is a wildly successful franchise, and people love remakes. I saw that, is it Ridley Scott now? He's $150 million over budget on Gladiator 2. It was supposed to at 165 million.

Glad Eater 2? First of all, it was like 50 years ago.

Who wants this?

What do you mean? I think it's proven again and again that people love the nostalgia stuff. They love the- Ridley Scott is 86 years old. They love the giant franchises.

Executives love the nostalgia, Dan.

They just love it. You said five minutes ago, you were excited for the re-release of Shrek 2 in the theater. I am excited for the re-release of Shrek 2. I said you could watch it at your house any day.

It's going to be amazing. The 20th year anniversary, I saw it for my ninth birthday.

I can't wait.

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Don Levatard. This is largely performative, but we need to establish at least some reasonable doubt. Yes, exactly. Absolutely. But you still isn't still outside Stop everyone with a space tour where he pays more than you do. Stugatz.

I always like leaving Dan on high. I hate the chicken.

Because he's so vulnerable, I just unfairly fade down the chicken.

So just leave him by himself.

Dc This is the Dan Levatard Show with the Stugatz.

The landscape in sports journalism, Stugatz, has changed plenty in our lifetime. There are some places that I don't even recognize where it is that I began doing this. But I will say I should stop for a moment here to celebrate the career of Peter King, who has announced his retirement. I don't know if we're going to even make anyone like that anymore. The lifetime print journalist in football who has so many relationships, so much credibility, inherited the mantle from Paul Zimmerman. Is it Dr. Z?

Dr.

Z was Paul, his first name. I only know him as Dr. Z.

I'm not even certain he was a doctor.

No, I put a question mark at the end of Zimmerman because I wasn't sure his first name is Paul because I call him Dr. Zimmerman. But Peter King took what Zimmerman was doing and perfected it and leaves a legacy of print journalism being respected by people in football because he did his job well, he did his job fair, he cultivated relationships, and he did it for 30 or 40 years.

I'll carry the torch, Dan. I think it ended for Peter King when he was evaluating Billy doing dishes on God bless football. I think that was the end for him.

False since that was a high.

I do have top five Kings of all time, if you're interested in honor of the great Peter King.

No, the highest honor. You've got a top five there. It is one of the last things Peter King did with his career, it may be why he retired once he looked up and saw he was doing dishes with the Duke and he saw the... Well, the future of this business is the Duke internationally acclaimed. I can't keep up with him. He's too good at all things, including washing dishes. Maybe I need to get out of the business now.

I actually read his retirement article very early this morning, and it seems like he decided after last season, this was going to be it, right? But he also says, I'm retired, but I'm also looking for something else to do just now what I'm doing right now. So I thought, you know what? It sounds like you're going to be coming on the show Washing Dishes with me a lot more often. Nothing but time on your hands now. You know what I'm saying? A little Peter and Billy podcast, maybe?

He's going to miss the things that he's been doing for 40 years.

He's going to start doing bachelor recaps. Oh, that would be awesome. He's going to do a Vanderpump podcast with you, Billy.

God bless. Bravo.

Oh. I'm in.

Bleep that out. No one take that.

Stugan says, I'm in. Couldn't name a show on Bravo.

No, I said my man. That's what I said. That's a fine.

Captain Lee.

Stugats knows Captain Lee, this Bravo Captain, former Bravo Captain, because he's been a guest on Supanity twice. I don't know if he told you this, but he- I sent an email to Jimmy Johnson.

You did?

No, not that. It wasn't that. I don't know if he told you this. When we were in Las Vegas, and I promise fans, we will not talk about Las Vegas anymore. When we were in Las Vegas, he saw Johnny Damon downstairs at the hotel and just screamed Captain Lee at him because Johnny Damon once was on below deck. I don't think Captain Lee was even the captain. But he just screamed Captain Lee at Johnny Damon as he was getting in a car. That's all I had.

You're hilarious.

You could just leave Johnny Damon alone. That is an option.

It's not an option for me.

No, Stugats has celebrity Tourette. I see someone first thought, let me shout that I know that person.

It's like a word association game that he plays.

But from the story, he told me it worked. Johnny Damon got out of the car he was getting into to go talk to him. He did.

Stugatz, if he sees someone famous- Got my guy. I've been embarrassed by him a number of different times, the way that he behaves around celebrities. It's like children behave around the animated characters at Disney, and he will just shout the first thing that to mind and try to have that... It's trying to find any connection point, and there's no thought involved to anything, consequences or anything. Just let me have a human connection with this person to try and convince him I'm human when I'm not. I've just got a Tourette's that shouts the first thing in my mind that I associate with that person.

You should have heard what I yelled at Urban Meyer sitting at the bar at the circa. I didn't get my guy, though.

What can you tell me about your top five list in honor Peter King, the legendary football sports writer?

The list is so deep, Dan. There are so many great Kings that for the first time ever, I have an O-O-O-L-I. How about that? Wow.

It's big, Dan. Carroll King's got to be on this list. Wait a second.

Instead of outside looking in, you've got outside, outside, outside looking in is what you're saying?

O, O, O, O, L, I.

Okay, so that's an extra.

Well, Carroll King.

Four O's now. What does that mean? We have 16. Do we have 20? What does this mean?

We have 16 right now.

For your top five?

Yes. Technically, there's only five in the top five.

Well, there's five in the top five, but there's an O, O, O-O-L-I, that's one, then an O-O-L-I, that's five, then an O-L-I, that's another five, then the top five. You get it.

I'm looking up this Dr. Z. I don't know if Dr. Z was actually a doctor, but was married to a doctor. He was not a doctor. Well, that has to cause marital strife, you would think, right? If you're married to a doctor and you're running around parading yourself as a doctor and you're not, but your spouse is a doctor, you'd be like, No, you're not a doctor. I'm a doctor.

Now you're going to tell me Dr. Jack wasn't a doctor. Or Dr. Seuss. He was a doctor, right?

Billy Jean King has got to be a top five, right?

Oh, wow. Hold on. O, O, O, O, L, I. Billy Jean King.

How many O's are there?

We're up to 17.

They're not 17 O's. There are 17 King's. How many O's are there?

That was five. Then, Carroll King is four. Then we get to O, O, O, L, I.

You corrected me when I said O, O, O, L, I. You said you had an O, O, O, O, L, I, and you made it up. There were not-I left out Joe Exotic, the Tiger King.

O-o-o-o-o- I could see them together.

King Charles is definitely not on the list, right?

No. Put it on the poll, please, Juju, @LevitarShow. Can you see Exotic Joe and Machine Gun Kelly hooking up?

Joe Exotic. That's a fun- Joe Exotic.

Excuse me. Thank you.

Different guy. I don't know who the other guy is.

Stugan, are you ready? I am, yeah. Go ahead.

O-o-o-l-i.

Why are you doing it this way?

I don't know. King James.

I feel like he's about to do an O'Reilly auto parts, jingle.

O-o-l-i.

He doesn't know. O-o-l-i. He's putting a question mark between the L and the I. The L.

It's the emphasis on the L is the weird part.

O-o-l-i.

Looking in.

Richard Petty.

The King.

The Lion King. Elvis. King. The King. Pete Rose. The Hit King. King Kong. O-l-i.

Oh, that was all just O-L-I. O-o-l-i. Correct. And then the first one was O-O-O-L-I.

Right. Yes. Got it. Okay.

So this is O-O-L-I? No, O-L-I. O-l-i.

Oh, got it. King Rice. Point Cribs Guard, North Carolina. Remember him, Dan?

Ahead of Elvis.

Well, yeah. It's my list.

And Billy Jean King.

Yeah, my list. Vladi Divats. Burger King. The Lion King.

You already did that one.

You did that already.

A repeat. Carol King.

Go sit in the penalty box.

Carol King. Marcel Dion.

Go sit in the penalty box.

I need to know if Kevin King is on this list. The King of Queens. Sequel. You said everyone loves sequels.

Go sit in the penalty box. Just get out of here.

Don King.

You can't.. I don't know how his list keep getting lazier. It's not possible. Just leave, please. Okay. You don't want number 5? No, thank you. Just leave. Yul Brenner. Thank you. What about the top four, Dan? Can you guys get for me, please, the sound from Bob Costas on CNN? Sharp pivot.

You sure you don't want the top four?

I I don't want somebody whose list is so sloppy that he can't be bothered to remember that he just said the Lion King five Kings ago.

There were two of them, though, in fairness. Actually, there was another half. Yeah, or the play. Yeah, different. Bunch of options. You know?

A muñequito.

Thank you, Tony.

There was that one starring Timone and Pumba Only.

Didn't they have a show?

Lion King One and a Half, I think.

Oh, yeah.

We're not going to make any more Peter King, right? That's not even going to be an avenue that anyone has as a career anymore, the idea that you can write about the sport for 45 years.

I think you could just narrow it down to people working in sports media for 45 years. As more and more of these companies continue to disappear, it's like, where would you even do that?

I was thinking over the weekend because I left here and I was surprised by the amount of objection that I got to the idea that JJ Redick might make more in his broadcasting career than he did in his NBA playing career, given that I'm in meetings where I'm listening to what the value of individual brands in media are. I know what the value of people are and what's being paid for it. He's going to be able to work for 25 years in the media if he wants to, given the jobs that he's starting with at the start of his career. He's going to be making millions of dollars and owning his own shit on the side as well, which is what so many of these content creators have learned. Everyone in the room disagreed with me on the idea that JJ Reddick would make more in his media career than in his playing career, when his media career can be three times as long as his playing career.

As you say that, Dan, I actually do think about it. He owns his YouTube channel that has a million subscribers. It's only going to get more as he goes through.

You guys all objected to it. I'm like, I don't know what you guys are looking at in the media space, but it's collapsing. Everyone's going and grabbing their own lifeboats. I've said before to people around here and outside of here that in Florida, we have a number of different producers on this show that If they don't work on this show, this job doesn't exist anywhere in the state of Florida anymore. You guys are making more than television anchors because of the way that local news is collapsing. I don't know. We will get to this Bob Costa sound in the next segment, but I don't know how it is that the people in general listening to this, especially if they're voting for candidates running on a platform of fake media and just hatred for the media, I don't know if the people listening to this understand the danger in what it is that's crumbling around you because many generations of people haven't been taught that the media protects democracy. They think that the media undermines democracy, and it's just a backward way of looking at it as I've looked at it my entire career. But I will say in regard to Peter King, I am grateful for his grace over those years that he would have that many contacts, would be that interested in informing the public, teaching the public about football, and would do what the best of the old head dinosaurs do is evolve with the sport the way Kerkshan did, instead of fighting the advanced metrics and the changes and the whiz kids, learning how to intermingle with them to keep your career evolving from 40 years and beyond.

I can't believe that he put anyone ahead of Elvis.

Do he think DraftKings is on this list?

Don Lebetard. He needs a wheelbarrow like Mike McDaniel, this dog.

Got a pair? Really? Man, does he get a pair?

My granddaughter sees his schlong and says, What are you talking about? What are you talking about?

And says, What's that?

She doesn't.

No, she did.

My granddaughter saw his schlong in the kitchen.

She said, What is that? What is this? A game of clue? What was he doing in the kitchen?

I said that's what he pees with. She saw his-Okay.

How else am I going to explain?

Stugatz. It was a little extended. I don't know why he was so excited. All right, very good. Baby. No. Can we beat him? Can I take this out? It is a baby. Anyway, he ate my couch.

This is the Dan Levatard show with the Stugatz.

Number 4.

Great.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Mlk.

Mm-hmm. Number 3, Luke Robetail.

That's just wrong what you did. What? It's Black History Month. You can't do that. What do you mean?

Just doing a list of top five Kings of all time. He's not on it?

He can't be number 4 behind Luke Robetail.

Number 2, Peter King. Number one, Dano, DraftKings.

We were worried.

No, Gretsky.

No, Gretsky, yeah.

A cup of coffee.

Did you forget? Who? Draftkings. And then you were going to do Wayne Gretsky. I thought you meant Gretsky. No, you swapped it out. Perhaps.

The Accountant 2 is filming now. We were saying about sequels. Ben Affleck's The Accountant 2. It's going straight to Amazon.

This damn executives What the hell? Account One wasn't bad. It was a good movie.

It was fine. But we're just talking about sequels being made all over the place. I also saw that the director of Roadhouse was furious because he wanted a theatrical release, and he's only getting Amazon. It's going straight to Amazon, and he's feeling lied to. How many steroids is Conor McGregor on in that? All of them? I've seen that he's on all. Just all of them. Put it on the poll, please. Juju at Levitard show. Is Conor McGregor on all the steroids in There's a reason why we haven't seen the announcement for the fight between him and Michael Chandler.

We don't know what weight it is because we don't know what he can get off of in a matter of time to fit a certain weight.

Did Chuck Liddell fall off his boat?

Chuck Liddell has fallen off a couple of things.

The thing with Conor McGregor, because Stugatz, he looks enormous now, physically just unreasonably thick, looks in these trailers like a heavyweight. But the thing that I wanted to ask you about Kevin Garnett, and I don't know when this stuff stopped being news that spreads, but Kevin Garnett said of LeBron James, he's on that Balco, he's on that new juice, and nobody cares.

Dan, Chael says he has the same guy, and nobody listens to Chael.

But it's just strange. It's a strange thing for Kevin Garnett. That's not a nobody that's saying that. Kevin Evan Garnett saying that of LeBron James, to not have it become anything within any time in my life, somebody being accused by a super famous peer of steroid use would be something that would become news.

The NBA would never suspend him for that. Ever.

It's so different than baseball where every week you see a new Barry Bond stat. Like, Oh, he walked more times than he fouled pitches off in his whole career, and yet he's not in the Hall of Fame, and LeBron were like, Oh, yeah, he's doing steroids. It's fine. Who cares? Has he ever been tested? Ever?

Yeah, I'm sure he's been tested.

Sure? Are you sure, Dan? You sure he's been tested? Winking an eye.

You passed.

You have that guy that's in Milwaukee, puts the pea in a crate downstairs, whatever. Ryan Braun situation.Walks away. Exactly right. In the meantime, Jimmy Garoppolo just like, Oh, by the way, suspended steroids. You're like, What? Is he using it right?

He wasn't steroids. What was it? It was something else that got him two games prescribed. He could recognize and speculate, but I don't know.

Well, I mean, what it got him was two games of suspension. Now there's more money for the Raiders to sign off on that court.

That is correct. After the new-He's agent?

What is this? Are you reporting something?

I'm just saying, if you connect the docs, Tom Taleco is over there now. He's the guy that brought him in. I'm just saying he lives there. He moved out of LA. Now he's living over in Las Vegas. He hasn't told me anything, but it doesn't take an astronomer to connect these dots.

Let's get that Bob Costa sound, please, Stugatz, because I found myself bothered by the reaction to Bob Kosta over the course of the weekend because he went on CNN and he did this in response to the question, Why isn't Joe Biden running a full campaign? There are that I've quoted from, You come at this from a position of not wanting to see Trump get elected. You should state that at the outset. True?

Yes, absolutely. He is by far the most disgraceful figure in modern presidential history. He's only become more disgraceful since 2016 and since 2020. He is a bubbling cauldron of loathsome traits, and it's only those who are actually suffering from Trump derangement syndrome, which is the way they and Fox News and all the rest of mega media try to brush aside all the legitimate criticisms of Trump. You have to be in the throes of some toxic delusion in a toxic cult to believe that Donald Trump has ever been in any sense, emotionally, psychologically, intellectually, intellectually, or ethically, fit to be President of the United States. But his supporters are locked in on that. There is no cult of Joe Biden. Even It doesn't really finish this thought, Michael. Even if he had not run explicitly with a pledge that he would be a one-term president, even if halfway through this term, he had said, Look, I've done my job. I have some policy successes. I'll continue to do my job. Now the Democrats can get, as I said before, some people up in the bullpen and sort through it. He had a chance to be seen as a statesman and a patriot.

Now his legacy is likely to be that of a man whose hubris prevented him from seizing the moment in an appropriate way, and at best, he can tweak by Trump. That's at best. Or he could lose to Trump and subject the nation to four more years of this ongoing insanity. Or if he tweaks by, it's very likely that he cannot to complete his second term. He'd be '86 at the end of it.

He was, I thought, very good on saying, How is this the best we can do, these two candidates? He was not exactly pro-Biden in everything that he said. We're just playing to you a clip there. But the response to him was consistent, and I've certainly gotten used to it, Stugatz. This particular dismissal, who is Bob Costas? Shows such a disregard for history, for perspective, for knowledge, and you're only interested in dismissing someone if you're claiming that person is irrelevant when he's only one of the best people in the history of television. As a dismissal, it is so ignorant and lazy that it renders invalid almost any criticism you have after that if your starting point is, who the hell is Bob Costas?

Yeah, but on that platform, I think a lot of people are saying, who the hell is Bob Costas? They just don't want to hear from Costas on that platform. They want to hear him talk about the Hall of Fame and whether Bon should be in or not.

It's like Emmeralda Gussy coming down and bringing down the heat game. Who cares?

Because he's one of the best people in the history of television. And the way that he puts together thoughts is unusual in the history of televised speech. He is very clean about how he delivers thoughts. He's not saying anything there that other people haven't said. He's saying it better.

Well, he's saying whatever it is that he's saying, and he's entitled to his opinion. I just think people aren't interested in Bob Kostas' opinion on who should be the next president of the United States.

Well, CNN is. They're asking him.

I understand that.

He's a guest on CNN.

But, Dan, you're right. He wasn't pro-Biden, but it's so anti-Trump that it comes off as pro-Biden. Who cares? It just does. I don't care.

Wait, you know who needs to get the ball more? Bam.

You're onto something here.

I think so. And a jumper by.

I do think, Dan, people of a certain age group probably don't know who Bob Kostas is. I only am familiar with him because of stuff he did 10 years ago because he's been on HBO the last 10-ish years, five-ish years. And if you're not watching that content, he hasn't been doing Sunday Night Football, he hasn't been doing the Olympics. You might not be aware of who he is.

I also see this in direction of Bill Maher all the time, and it just ignores certain things. There are certain resumes you just can't come after. You can disagree with anyone out there saying whatever it is that they're saying that you disagree with. But to dismiss a who is Bob Costas or who is Bill Maher when anyone doing it doesn't have the credentials that those people have at anything, at being excellent at anything, it's dismissive in a way that shows a lack of knowledge on the subject matter, if that's your starting point.

I don't think that's true. I've pretty much ignored Bill Maher's existence my entire life, and it's been pretty easy to do so because no one in my circle talks about Bill Maher.

No, but when someone says, Who is Bill Maher? As if he hasn't been doing groundbreaking television since 1995, it ignores the... You don't have to listen or consume what it is those people are saying. But ignoring their resume and dismissing their resume just because you don't know what their resume is undercuts whatever the criticism is after that.

I agree with you on the principle of dismissing the resume, but I think there is difficulty in putting Bill Maher and Bob Kostas in the same conversation in that Bob Costas seems to stem from a journalism background, and his whole premise is coming at you just with facts and being able to put it as eloquently as possible Well, Bill Maher is coming at you from a comedic lens. And over the last several years, his biases have shown, where Kostas is coming in here and doing, as you mentioned, he's not necessarily propping up Joe Biden as much as he's saying the obvious about Donald Trump and his lack of qualification. So yes, the dismissal of who is this person is problematic, and it just goes to our media literacy in general.

No, but if it's a question of, I don't know who this person is, that's one thing. But to describe a person that's irrelevant with that resume, I'm asking you, Stugats, what the bleep does the resume have to be for you to be impressed by it if that's not a resume you're impressed by?

Yeah, but the resume doesn't include political commenter. Dan, he's out of his lane. If Kostas was doing this on MLB Network, talking about who should be in the Hall of Fame, who shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame, and then someone afterwards said, Well, who is Bob Kostas? Because they disagree with him. Then I'd I understand it. In this vein, I do understand why people are saying, Who the hell is Bob Kostas? He's talking politics. No one wants to hear from Kostas on that.

He always talked politics, though. I know. He got in trouble for talking politics years ago on his platform, which was a sports platform.

He did a gun essay on Sunday Night Football.

I know, but you're feeling like the resume deserves some modicum of respect from- It does.

No, no, no. No, no, no.

It does on the MLB Network. It does it on CNN when you're giving political views.

Stugat, excellent. This is excellence in your field, and anyone criticizing Bob Kostas's resume does not have one as good.

But no one genuinely cares what his resume is. If you like what he's saying, you agree with him, and if you don't like, you're going to be like, Who the hell is this guy? It's the nature of reacting to politics. If you like what you hear, it's great, and it's funny, and you're going to share. And if you don't, you're going to shit on whoever said it.

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