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"I'll pick it when I sweet well please." Jessica joins us to preview the upcoming weekend of college football, including a Factory of Sadness Game between USC and Oregon. We also relive a legendary radio call that reminds Dan of the origins of radio transmission to submarines. Plus, we go to The Bucket, and after a decade of playing, Dan shows us he still somehow doesn't know the rules. He then introduces us to our latest entity, Le Batard+ in a way only he can. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I take football Saturdays seriously. I have the games mapped out. Second screen ready. The third screen ready. Heck, even the fourth screen ready. It's a very specific plan for what I'm watching during every window. Then kick off a rise one of Seth Rowe's entire sport into chaos and day and once in hell what it all means for the human condition. That's a legendary game day and for me, it's even better with a Miller Lite. I've shared plenty of big football moments with friends while holding nice cold Miller Lite and this weekend comes plenty more. That's right Chris Wittingham. I'm coming to your Bachelor Party. I'm bringing the Miller Lites with me. From pack tailgates to those Bachelor parties to those games, nobody sits down for for the entire fourth quarter. Miller Lite is there. Chris refreshing with a clean finish that makes it my reliable choice for a long day of football. Miller Lite is the original light beer brewed with simple ingredients and a great taste that beer lovers have loved and trusted for more than 50 years. Take game day legendary. Go to Miller Lite.com slash band to find delivery options near you or you can pick up some

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All to help keep your engine running like new. Whatever you're driving, visit mobile one.com slash advanced clean to learn more. We are listening to the Dunlapatar show in partnership with the Draft King Sports Act now live in all 50 states. Have a lot of college football that I want to get to. Jessica and Lucy are promoting their new show on Katie Nolan's podcast. Katie Nolan is going to be on a public. Tory finds out tomorrow if you've not heard Katie Nolan on serious XM. She's doing an hour a day. The hardest thing the hardest way a solo act and she's been great at it. Jessica's with us now. We've got a number of things going on in college football. Where would you like to start Jessica? What what has gotten your attention this week? I want to start with I feel like Kevin Harlan right now because there's work going on in the hallway of my building and there is a noxious gas that I have been smelling for the last

two hours and I think I'm getting high. So it's noxious gas? It's not the good gas. It's not obnoxious. It's just noxious. It's poison. I don't know if you saw a Dan, but during the Giants Rams game. Someone was smoking a dooby and he was getting pretty stone. So that's how I feel right now. I'm a little loopy. I always ask for the gas when I go to the dentist, even if it's routine, you know, it could be it just filling in a cavity, giving that gas. Again, all nitrous. Oh, yeah. Got it. Got it. It smells so bad. I love it. Jess, did you see that UCF at halftime? Well, at their game this week against TCU until halftime, they're they have a pass where you get a ticket and unlimited hot dogs. No, I didn't see that. For me, you can't go half on like unlimited hot dogs till halftime. Like that's not unlimited hot dogs. Like either be unlimited or don't be unlimited. Don't tell me they're unlimited and say it cuts off an after. So you're going to be the sickle after half time again. I'm going to get six more dogs like I'm just saying all the dogs on the front end.

Don't put a big thing like they put a big thing out that says hot dogs unlimited. And then it's like until halftime. Like that's a big moment. That's an obvious limit. Thank you. That's a limit. It feels like it should be for the second half to get people to stay. And then also you don't have a situation where people eat so many hot dogs in the first half that the plumbing is clogged for all of the second half at the stadium. Jess, you like many college football experts out there. We're super bullish on organ entering the season. They have that shocking result to Oklahoma state. And now they are playing one of the biggest games of a loaded college football weekend against USC after a get right 84 zero performance. Is that just a bad game or was it super telling for their chances going forward? What do you expect to happen against USC? This is definitely a factory of sadness game. Mike for the loser because USC opened their season with three non power opponents and they look pretty good like playing a lot of their younger players. So defense was shaky at times. But then they had their first big 10 game of the week last weekend against Rutgers.

And I don't know if you guys watched it, but it was a fake shootout. They got a guy lucky with that pick six. That game was in the balance. It was fascinating. USC's issue for the last as long as Lincoln Riley has been there since 2022 has been their defense and their defenses let people score a lot of points on them. And Lincoln Riley in himself like he knows how to score points. So he's been in a lot of high scoring games like that. But against a Rutgers team that had just lost to UMass to open the season, not what you want to see in your first power opponent game of the season. And the flip side of that might be mentioned organ. Yeah, coming into the season, I was pretty high on them because, look, they were good last year. A lot of their best players returned. They spent a lot of money on their defense. And Dante Moore was someone who was probably going to go pretty high in the NFL draft, but decided to come back. And so far, they have not looked like the team that they were last year. Their defense, their offense is one thing. And, you know, they lost their play collar in Wolfstein because he took the Kentucky job. And so far, Kentucky's looked pretty solid this season. They upset Texas saying I'm over the weekend. But their offense has been pretty shaky and they haven't really been able to showcase

some of the weapons they have in this goal position. Places because the quarterback offensive line combination hasn't really worked out the kinks yet. And I think the thing that kind of gives me more pause is that the defense hasn't really looked as fearsome as they were expected to look either like that. Ed Rushers are okay, but like they weren't great against Oklahoma State. And so this weekend, it's very much like an unstoppable force, immovable object situation with like Oregon. Can they win this game that is kind of a must win for them already in week four and Lincoln Riley can his defense actually stop Oregon from scoring. I don't think that Lincoln Riley gets to play in an unstoppable, I don't think he gets to play in those movable force. Sorry, sorry. I said that stoppable for stoppable force, movable. Well, but thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Lincoln Riley's got to do. He's got some work to do before he gets to play one of those games. The assessment in general of Lincoln Riley, yeah, you can look like that when it's Baker Mayfield, when it's Caleb Williams, like we bought in on that. He was one of the first guys to be the big money transfer on.

He'll make a smarter than everyone else and they've done next to nothing. Yeah, but like at the end of the landing, I think like whoever loses this game, like the national narrative surrounding the losers going to be a lot different. But how about the fact that neither one of them's that good? Like, there's going to be a national narrative, but where are we on Lincoln Riley? We're supposed to save all things USC. USC was Alabama before Alabama. That's what he inherited. A lot of people not happy with Lincoln Riley's performance so far, Dan. And you know, we talked about the Notre Dame rivalry and his decision to end that and how that's made a lot of the alumni and former players unhappy there. And the fact that, you know, there's teams like Indiana out there who, higher Kurt Signati, he brings his James Madison players with him and gets a lot of players in the portal and he turns Indiana from the worst program in college football to winning a national championship in two years. And how come Lincoln Riley hasn't been able to do that with all the resources he has at USC? Why is it taking so long for them to try to fix the defense? That's, but he had Alex Grinch and it was very bad.

And then they had Dan Dunlin who was a good defensive coordinator, but then he was at USC and they were still really bad. And then now they have Gary Patterson and how did they, how did that even happen? Like he hasn't been coaching in a while. It's pretty bizarre. But that's the question mark about them. That's why I say it's a factory of sadness game because like Mike said, I think whoever loses this game is going to have to have a little bit of an existential dread looking forward to the rest of the season because USC still has a lot of hard big 10 games ahead of them. Same with Oregon, but obviously operating with two losses already is a tough place to be when you were considered a national championship favorite going into the season and just haven't looked good. Just Texas A&M is in Death Valley on Saturday night. And these are two teams who absolutely the expectation was playoffs at the start of this season. But it feels like this game is a season ender for the loser because they're going to have two losses in conference before the end of September. Yeah, another factory of sadness game. I'm glad you're bringing it up on prime time this weekend.

Like I said, Texas A&M, they're getting a little bit of a similar situation to Oregon in the fact that they had to hire new coordinators this season or at least promote new coordinators this season. And so far it's kind of the same thing. Their quarterback, this is like a very two very turnover pro and quarterback spacing off Marcel Reed and Sam Levit. And Lane Kiffin's LSU teams a little bit different because their defense had slightly more stability going to the season. But so far, I don't think you could say their offense can be trusted and that sort of his thing is to make the offense work for the quarterback and so far the quarterback hasn't really proven that he can read the defense and get the ball or needs to go and is going to be able to lead you on a game winning drive if you needed at the end of a big game. So you could see why perhaps Sam Levit wasn't the first choice for Lane to. I don't know if Sam Levit any good. I see you. I don't know if Sam Levit's good. Yeah, I think that's fair to say he three picks against Louisiana Tech two weeks ago through a couple of picks last week. He has moments like everyone, but I think same thing with Marcel Reed.

It's like they've got great receivers at Texas A&M, but so far it's if you can't make the easy throws, you turn the ball over a lot. It's really hard to win games against teams that are locked in and super efficient like Kentucky was. Kyle Mike, weren't the canes interested in Sam Levit? Yeah, he came to town and then Lane did his thing. But can I just bring up something here as we talk about some of these stupidities on what we do with Lane and everyone else? Let's just examine for a moment the intergalactic international stupidity in everyone telling you that Lincoln Riley was some sort of moneyed savior and no one telling you that Kurt Signetti was going to be able to do that. Let's just examine the all of that on all these coaches salaries that we're throwing around as Kurt Signetti, no one saw that coming. And if USC had hired Kurt Signetti and he had taken James Madison over there, he would have done whatever it is we thought Lincoln Riley was going to do with Caleb Williams. Can I give us a little bit of a follow up on something from last week's show, Dan?

Yep. I mentioned there was a famous radio call that was from Mike Valenti, Michigan Sports Authority. Oh, thank you. Thank you for bringing that back up. We didn't know what you were talking about. Thank you for bringing that back up. You're welcome. I heard from a few Levitard show fans that were like, hey, that was legendary. You need to make sure that you guys play some of that next week. So I cut out a few excerpts from it and I want us to listen to it now. This is from 2006 Michigan State versus Notre Dame who played last weekend in South Bend. That's why I brought it up. It's kind of a historic rivalry game, not like the top billing for either schools in terms of their biggest rival, but a fun series nonetheless. This was Brady Quinn versus Drew Stanton in East Lansing. It was raining. Michigan State was up 31 to 14. I believe at halftime Notre Dame came back in 1 40 to 37. And this was the radio the next morning. They choked. They absolutely died. While Notre Dame played with fire, emotion, poise and tact.

Michigan State sat there and choked on applesauce. They choked. Sounds like you choked. They choked. So no, I'm not going to name names, but they absolutely choked. OK, hey, tap. Listen. No, no, no, no, no, take a time out. You're not going to be able to finish like you're going to call my voices out. If you're losing your voice already, I was busy firing up my section. I did my job. I paid my $75 and I got a bunch of old answers off their feet into the air and got them cheering air ass off. OK. I didn't choke. I showed up. I know. But buddy. I'm going to go out and get a full album. I don't want to hear what you're about to lose your voice. I'm going to get that with this. OK, you're not going to be able to finish. It doesn't matter. No, boy. It doesn't matter. Truth is that it needs help. He can't do it alone.

And you know what, I saw at the end of that game. I saw a kid that had an entire program on his back. How does AM Sports Radio sound like it was in the 1420? What a sweet sound that was. I love it. Damn, this was. There was 30 minutes of this. Obviously, we're not going to listen to the whole thing. But we should listen to one more clip, I think. I don't know. Wait. Wait. Wait, wait. Boy, go hang a drink. Yeah, we're getting over that. Yeah. We're going to have to get this guy some honey. I'm not fooling around. I know you're not. But your voice is leaving. Mike, you don't realize it. You know what? I've been begging for a day off. Boy, now let me finish. Just sit back. Play for around. This week it pissed me off. Obviously. That's right. Let me get to the coach. It's because it's 50% on them. How about the good time you had with your dad this week? Tom, I'm not screwing around.

This is what I discussed with you. Shut up. Chris, can you tell me when the submarine was invented? Because that sounds like it's, if I told you. I don't think that guy's fooling around. If I told you that is being broadcast from the original submarine. We're just hearing two guys talk after the game. And it's the original submarine and it's 20,000 leagues under the sea. And it's the first communication that's going from the bottom of the sea to the top. Why does that sound so much older than 20 years ago? It's sound. It's choked on applesauce and normal phrase. Let me hear some more of that. Lorney, outfit rules and understanding your timeouts are not like cell phone minutes. They don't carry over. They're so deep down there. How do we hear them? I can't believe it. It's so good. When was the original submarine invented? Chris, because that sounded like it came from the bottom of the sea. Jessica, are we headed to a place?

I saw that, um, No. 1620. That's what that's that sound from the bottom of the sea in the 1620s right there. We need communication. Let me proof of life down at the bottom of the sea. We sent a tube down there. It seems dangerous. Thank you. There's still alive. We heard it. They're fighting for death, but there's still alive. They seem to be choking on applesauce. Delivered by little Caesars, the official pizza sponsor of the NFL. Right now, score two baves just for you with Detroit style slices and sticks. It's the biggest duo since Monday nights and football. Two pieces of Detroit style deep dish pepperoni pizza and four pieces of Italian cheese bread and crazy sauce for just 499 only at little Caesars. Make your game day delicious with little Caesars. Officially delicious. Going for two when you're up by five, switching the zone when man isn't working.

Oh, and building your new stadium in a state your team actually plays in. It sports. Some things just make sense. You know what else makes sense? Drinking Yeager, my sir shot. Ice cold. Drinking it any other way would be like punting on first down or letting you worse hit her that first or like going for two when you're down three with a second ago. It wouldn't make any sense. So don't let the team down when it comes to Yeager, my sir. Drink it cold. Or don't drink it at all. Yeager, my sir. Damn, that's cold. Prec responsibly. Yeager, my sir, the cure 35% alcohol by volume imported by mass to Yeager, my sir. US white planes New York. Down lebertar. If I may say for a second, I am. They were circulating the snap count the entire game and they were clapping at the line of scrimmage. And the only thing I want to see clapping are them cheeks on this. Met in my face, my sir. All right. So that's one thing. Jessica, it's Montana. There are a bunch of cheaters, Dan. And you know who should be cheating? Mrs. Met on Mr. Met and he can watch if he wants.

This is the down lebertar show. Are we headed to a place with all of the money that's coming into this sport where Northwestern, which got like I don't know a $35 million donation from somebody to its athletic department. And Northwestern is never any good at football. They've now got a new stadium and students don't have a section in that stadium. Like there's no student section in a beautiful new stadium that I don't call I don't know how much that costs. But how do you not have to stand? How do you not have a student section? No, they purposely did this because they were trying to model it after like European soccer stadiums, I guess. Mike, you could probably speak on this because you've been to more of them than I have. But yeah, this was like a $900 million dollar football stadium renovation. And there's a 2000 seat section. Well, I shouldn't say it's 2000 seat section, a 2000 person section where students are just going to stand against railings for the whole game, which I mean just put like regular bleachers both backs.

Like what are you going to do during half time? Don't make them stand. How is that not a safety hazard? Like there's aren't they just going to pack into each row? Yeah, it's a safety hazard if it's just bleachers like you see in multiple big time college football venues. But bleachers at least have have seat numbers on them. No, they have a little sticker. Yeah, like you're you're tempting fate every time. You're worried about people's safety in a college football game. I thought you traveled with you. I should worry about safety. No. Just your anti-punched. Every place is a hazard. This actually seems safer because it's got that rail at the midsection. Then at the at the OB you throw your hand. You go first. Ah, that's the upper deck. You're still rolling at Daytona. I saw a guy do a cartwheel head over heels. He went down 14 roads. We're rolling now. Mike Valenti would love this because he was complaining about having to get people to stand in his section during this Michigan state game, which I I've been there before, buddy, at Notre Dame games like, come on guys, let's throw down.

Let's get up. Now these students throw up. They don't have anywhere else to go. Chris, how much does the unlimited hot dogs that are limited to the first half cost? I'm gonna look that up. What is that? Because that sounds like a great deal. Does it not any one of us? Does it sound like a great deal to use as the idea that for one half you can get as many hot dogs as you want for a fixed price? I don't know what you guys are up in arms about. Okay. It's all you can eat through halftime. I mean, if you expect all you can eat should be for every time you go to just don't say something's unlimited when it's limited. That's all. It's unlimited until halftime. That's not unlimited. Okay, but if it's unlimited for the game, that's not unlimited. It's unlimited with limits. When you show up to the next game, it's limited. You don't get it. It's clearly limits. Of course is limits. It's not forever. Bottomless mimosas until your on-trade comes. It's like, okay, well, that's not bottomless. It's a gag. When you get bottomless mimosas at brunch, Jess, and you show up the next week. Does your bottomless mimosas continue? I mean, you already bought it.

No, that's right. It's not the next day. You don't get bottomless mimosas more than more than the periods. There's a limit. You think you think you could come back to bottomless mimosas in the evening after you've had brunch? So you think you should have hot dogs unlimited throughout the game? So what if I don't want to lose when it's closing? Just don't say it's unlimited. If it's limited, if it's limited, it's safe. I live in this stadium now. I get unlimited hot dogs no matter what. It's still a good deal. What you say is free hot dogs with purchase of a ticket until halftime. You don't say unlimited hot dogs at this game. It's a gag. Thank you, Chris. Raw dog. We're on the same, we're on the link right now. That's a good side to be on. I want to get to the Grim Reaper and not ascendant you here a whole lot, but we've got to go to the bucket together in a second. But that's okay. I don't need that just now. I just want to know if there's anything else because we haven't talked to Jessica. Yes. Is there anything else from the old Miss LSU game? Because we've got to enjoy that one still before next week. That was just, it was tasty for everybody. You rarely get that kind of story where a game of the century allows everybody to laugh at the person that they tuned in to laugh at.

Record numbers. I think my favorite college football photo of the year will be tough to beat. Was the Ole Miss players pointing at Lane Kiffin running down the field? I saw a local news clip after the game where it starts out with like, okay, it's a bunch of people yelling into the mic. They're super excited. But then at the end, one guy comes on and you're like, that guy's going to say something like pretty profound. And he says something hilarious. So we're going to listen to that now. Hey, you guys can't curse, right? You guys can't curse. But I want you to tell the people we got some people watching right now. How does this love your feel? It goes up really sick. What is it? What is it? What is it? I don't know your job. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. And again, again, without cursing, how does it feel to defeat Lane Kiffin? I don't know, so I'm going to say, hey, let me give this. I don't like it. There's a lot that I'm having. I know. And then it turns out that Southern hospitality, some things are big of it in football, right? So what is it like to...

I'm so happy with every family. I'm so happy with every whole thing. It's not there. We're all in the world. It's a cry. We're all in the world. Okay. We're all in the world. Okay. We're all in the world. Okay. We're all in the world. Okay. We're all in the world. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Lane Kiffin is a s**t. Alright. You're dead. Who did Tommy Tucker will come from? He said, SHIT HED for those at home. Again, though, we got audio from a 1420 submarine. That's what we've been featuring here. What is Jess's spell out hat? I don't know why she spelled out head there. Let's go to the bucket, please, so that Jessica can participate. No! Jessica's going to choose first here. Roy, you go ahead and choose for Jessica. And we will see whether or not she wants to keep whatever it is she gets here. The New York Giants. Okay. No, God. You should keep that. The Giants are at home against the Titans, though. There are three point favorite, actually, on their third.

On James Winston time. Put it back. I'm going to cap that. Guys, I watched that whole second half on Monday. See the Titans? You don't want to have James. Oh, crap. Lovely. The Rams. The Pittsburgh St. That's worse. Root on God. You don't have a choice. This is your second element. Downgraded. Yeah. The Steelers are at home against the Bengals. They're in a three and a half point doubt. Aaron Rodgers is in his comfort zone to blame the microcar. He's already there. Yeah. Yeah. He's already there. He does. What can you do better? I don't let the coaches know they can call better plays. Beautiful stuff. That was funny, but in a bad way. It's such a great quote. I need to do a better job at telling the coaches when they're wrong. I don't think you're right. This is my car. You know, I'm a gentleman here. You can see that impression right here. Yeah, Atlanta Falcons tonight against the Green Bay Packers return of my car. Packers return of Michael. I don't know. Dan, I don't really packers that much.

Four and a half point favors are a dog. S H I T team. I don't like them whatsoever. I'm going to take them in an upshed. I'm going to put it back. A D. I would have taken that. I know you would have, but I would have taken the giant. So we're one and one. Did I mean leave to avoid this? Did I mean leave? I'll pick for me. I got to a minute. Minnesota Vikings. Which I very much like. They're at the box. They're at the box. Desperate Tampa Bay Bucks. The Bucks are one and a half point dog at home. Mike, go ahead and pick for a mean there please. Pick for a mean first. Make sure to check out Jess's weekly Notre Dame podcast with Mike Goliath Jr. This is not an echo chip. Got the Carolina Panthers. They're at the Cleveland Browns. The Panthers are favored by two and a half. We're going to go ahead and put that one back. Wow. You're doing a mean dirty there. Why did you do that? How's good? He's going to like this one even more. Live from Rio de Janeiro. Copacabana Beach. Which even ace made it.

Showto Sandals in the sand. Six days early. Wait, I got a pick too. I'll come back this way. There you go. That's for me. What team did you get? The Cowboys. I got the Miami Dolphins. I'm putting that back. Cowboys are a three and a half point dog against the Ravens in Rio. Out. You know what? I tempted fate. That's karma. The Browns are a bad pick under all circumstances. They're at home against the Panthers. All right. I'm going to revenge. She went a half point under dog. Go to the bottom here. All right. The Swap helmet. See what I'm. Would you like to consider the Browns? The Golden Helmet of Life. Swap with me. So I don't think I need the Swap. Wow. That's the best ball that there's ever been in the history of the show. Well, wait a minute. What's the rule, though? Do you have the Swap? No, it's always a rule. You. Yeah. The man stands great for not knowing how to play a game that we've been playing for 10 years. It's crazy. F-U-C-K-I-N-G-Y-E-A-R-S. Halliburne. Roy, what do you got?

The Seattle Sea Hawks. Good pick. Good team. Everyone I said they weren't going to make the play. I'm going to make the play. I'm going to make the play. I'm going to make the play. I'm going to make the play. I'm going to make the play. I'm going to make the play. I'm going to make the play. I'm going to make the play. They're at the commanders. They're at the 7-point. Faberian. Marcus Merriota starting, by the way. So Zaz is about to go here. I don't think it's an unreasonable question to ask whether someone has to use the Swap Helmet before. It's never not been used. Oh, I got it. It has been sat on plenty. All right. What? What do you do it? It's never not been used. That's not true. No one's not true. No one's in line. Anyone gets the Swap Helmet. It's a great thing to get the only thing better than a Swap Helmet. What is it like? It's the golden helmet of life. It's a golden liner like you are. I just pulled the Raiders. Raiders are two and O's as real good defense on them, boys. They'll come back there. They're at the same. Yeah, they'll come back there. Same to our 3-point favor. I think the Raiders are a live dog, boys. I got the Bengals.

Good pick. I like you. Yeah, like three and a point here. You don't have to worry. You can get over there, Tall Reaper. Roy, can you just stop everything real quick? That music and play the celebratory golden helmet of life music that is... The golden helmet of life. Yeah, great for the nostalgia. The golden helmet of life. There it is. So I have the Wizard of Oz helmet. Is that Tiger's Bears? Lions, tigers, bears. And I can do it. Can I do all of college on luck? You have all Lions, tigers or bears, yes. The Lions are playing the Jensen at Cal. You have the Detroit Tigers. I've got to see what I've done. It's for a sign playing. I understand. I'm going to keep it and find out which team I want. I've got all Bears, Lions and Tigers from college and throw football. I want to see this spread. No, that's great. Pay off for the audience. I'm going to figure it out. Thank you, Reaper. I'm going to keep it.

But I'm going to try and figure out who my team is so that I can take the biggest favorite. Not an unreasonable thing for me to do. No, just please do so within the segments where our audience knows. Jessica, thank you. Appreciate the time. Good seeing you. Enjoy the college football this week. AYEE. And enjoy her show with Lucy Rodin. She discarded the foot girl's name that Mike was trying to. That's a good name. She didn't want it. Her name. And we love these segments. She broke free from foot girls. And she and Lucy are now doing something better than the soft moroc foot girls. And I'm proud of them for breaking free from Mike's creative. Once again, the name of that is college football happy hour everybody. That much better than foot girls. Thank you. Again, they love that. Jessica, appreciate the time. And happy foot girls. It could have been. It could have been happy foot girls. But it's not happy foot girls. Detroit Lions are minus six and a half. That's probably your best lion. I want to look at the college. I want to look at college teams. But you want to look at, we'll start looking for you.

Thank you. And I can just stop and go look it up myself. You don't want to throw a hosting. But I'm not going to allow you to sit here and foist upon me with some sort of pressure. You don't want to go up against the jets. You're afraid of the jets. We got it. I want the biggest point spread. And I want all the information before deciding what I decide here. I'm not going to be pressured by your soft moroc tactics here to just decide to move the show along and take a bad pick. I'm not going to do it. Okay. Even though you accuse me of always wanting to wear the costumes, I don't. It's a pain in the ass. I have to drive to work wearing some of these itchy type things. You can take the Netany lions. I'll be there against Wisconsin. What's the spread in that game? Oh, Jesus Christ, man. Oh, okay. I'm fair for me to ask for more information. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Totally. Do it all the work for you. Yes. Okay. Don't do it the way. Same. Please hold. I want. I'm not going to. You know what? I'm not going to trust you on this. I'm going to move on. You don't have to do it. I'll pick it when I sweep. And if I don't get the pay off on it.

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Zazzlo 2.0 has been exploding in numbers and people really like Zazz and his show is doing very well. So I urge you to check out Zazzlo Show 2.0. And while I'm in a promotions mode, I'm going to remind you guys of a handful of things and tell you something that we're doing that is new. So, Publatory and Mother Jones combined on an investigation that I'm strongly recommending. It's a really easy watch and it's super interesting. And I will be real interested to see if people love Tim Tebow so much that they will just immediately forgive any questions because Tim Tebow is that. Lovable and Tim Tebow can do whatever he likes. And the Baylor Bears are a 10 point favorite against Colorado team that just dismissed a bunch of players. They have a coach that speaks in tongues to calm himself down because everyone knows that that's exactly how tongues work. I like that Baylor pick. That's right now, my front runner.

Mother Jones, is that a person? What is that? It's a great journalistic entity. One of the few still remaining. We're in a time. We're in a time. We're in a time. Yeah, probably. But there's probably a history there that Chris can look up for us while he's raw dog. Where do you work? I work at Mother Jones. But they do good work. Newspapers are falling apart. Another Pablo. I trust them more with barbecue. It's a barbecue joint. Mother Jones, I'd be like, that's the best barbecue in Houston. I don't care what you say. It's Mother Jones. It's journalistic outfit. Well, okay. What do they do? But you can take the champagne. You can take the U.C. LA broodens. What's the point spread there? It's only one and a half. Yeah, see I'm not going to fall for your trickery. I'm helping you out here, pal. You're trying to help me. Yeah. The Mother Jones magazine is named after Mary Harris. Mother Jones, a famous labor organizer and activist in the early 1900s. So they don't have no barbecue. You can take Missouri State. They're the bears. What's the point spread? It's 34. They're the underdog. They're playing at SMU. an ad SMU. I see. I've got to keep my eye on you because you'll give me bad information.

You can take Mizzou, their Tigers. They're a six and a half point dog to Camario Taylor. That's actually what the school changed their name to. I don't trust you. They are no longer Mississippi State. I've got to look it up and I will inform everyone what my pick is when I sweet well please. I do think Baylor is your best option. I don't trust you and I don't care what you say. I'm helping. I'm being honest here. What I was beginning to say is as newspapers collapse you might not believe this but the onion is the fifth largest newspaper now in America and public. It also did a really great episode on what the onion had to do to get info wars from an Alex Jones who had taken his gloves off with Steve Bannon and how uncomfortable the all of that was. So public. We're doing extraordinary work including today check it out tomorrow he's going to have Katie Nolan. After our show today we've got South Beach sessions with Aaron Ryan and Alyssa master Monaco and that's a very popular podcast and I urge you to stay with us after the post game

show and this is the bit of new information. The Memphis Tigers have a buy please take that. Thank you. I'll take that. There you go. If I can trust him. If I can trust him. You might be lying to me right now but I will take that and next week. Now they have a buy. You're the Memphis Tigers. I'm glad we all figure that out together. So one of the things that I was thinking about here when we put up Devonte Adams and that purple Taco Bell card is of something that I was doing last week with Roy. Roy is going through our archive and just finding a whole bunch of funny stuff that we've been loud and wrong about and I urge them to find what it is that me and Mike Ryan had to say once upon a time about Devonte Adams when we were saying he was not only not a number one receiver but not a good receiver of any kind. Both of us were locked in on that opinion. He's of course a hall of fame or he just is coming off of almost a career night. A famously bad opinion but something that we're doing is that we are trying a levitard

plus. It's a subscription audio only service for our most loyal fans and everything around here is going to remain free. Everything else is going to remain free. But for the most loyal among you we are trying something where we're going to just make some exclusive content and have a little playground in private. Mike does or did some of this on X where he was just giving unique information to you to the most die hard among you if you want a little bit extra. Still knowing it on Instagram you just press that subscription platform. We are making you some money. So levitard plus is something that we're unveiling here and we're starting slow on purpose and it's going to be worth your while in time because we are devoting resources to this and we want to take care of our most loyal people and you know I've been very careful about making charges for anything around here. So this is just going to be a place for bonus stuff, a playground for the most loyal among you and we are excited about what that's going to become. We're starting slow on purpose but we're promising you and I try to you know under promise

and over deliver that that's something that's going to be worth your time in time. So starting a couple of months. Yeah you don't have to start right now if you don't want to if you want to save some money. Yeah you can wait till we're ready to go. I would start right now folks. That would be the better way to sell it but I don't want to. It would be. I don't want to over promise though at the beginning. I think we're very clear you are not over promising. Okay and you have to you don't have to worry about seeing clear that one. I'm not over promising but I am promising that I'm not over promising and that's going to be worth your time and I don't say that if we're a third time in three months later not but we're debuting it today. Well maybe it'll be worth your time today. It'll be good eventually. If you want to beat the rush but eventually it's going to really be worth your money. It might not be today. This is going to be good. To help like next July. Oh by then it should be humming. Well this is what happened with Roy though. I'm like Roy this archive. You know it's pretty hard to get the intellectual property. Conan O'Brien Howard Stern they've done some things with those treasures and Roy just looks at me like all of it.

I don't know like yeah Roy we got to go in there and grab all of it. We're mining for nuggets here. Nobody even remembers how wrong in us Mike and I were on Devonte Adams. That's internationally embarrassing that take. That's right. I would look at the Sunday night football games in Devonte Adams either rookie or second season when the guy couldn't catch a cold. We really got it. We really got it wrong in terms of all time and legendary wrongness to say it guys. He's a Hall of Famer now. He's just and he's coming off what might have been his best game. You can make an argument when they're super limited. How do they do that? Is that just Stafford? It can't be Cooper. It can't be Cooper. How do they do that with their contracts? I don't know how they do it with their contracts. How do they do that? Where whoever's their number one receiver is going to put up the 200 yards. Well, in this instance, it's a Hall of Famer. I believe when you guys were talking about Devonte Adams, I said he would someday have a Taco Bell card. Can we find that? I guarantee you I said that. I didn't know there was a Taco Bell card.

I was like, he's a damn good player. He's still good. He's going to have a Taco Bell card. I know he's all about tacos because one time we were both playing in Tahoe and we were playing in holes that were right next to one another and we both poorly struck our balls and we were both looking for our golf ball and I picked up a ball. I'm like, I found my ball and Devonte Adams starts walking over and he's like, no, that's my ball. I'm like, well, my ball has tacos on it. He's like, so does mine. I'm like, what are the chances? Lake Taco. Go back to not talking. No, I was going to say let that be the last words on the show in a day. He said he wasn't going to talk anymore. He said he was going to raw dog it and he was going to end it with just 14 seconds of silence on a shit joke.

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