Transcript of Hour 1: Dan's Favorite Rohden (feat. Lucy Rohden & Lucy's Dad)

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This is the Dan Levatore Show with the Stugats podcast.

This is the Dan Levatore Show.

Hey, Dan, it's your favorite Rodine, Lucy's dad.

We're here in Iowa. Go Hawks. Your favorite employee, Rose, is here, and we're going to do a handshake.

Yeah, we're going to do a handshake. Look at this, Dan.

One, two, three. There you go, because we're Hawks. Go Hawks.

We are Sight, sight, sight for Iowa.

My name is Steve, like the Minecraft guy. We're at Iowa, Panic Stadium, iconic.

How would you describe the Iowa game day experience? I would say electric. Yes. This is Luffy, everybody. Luffy.

You cannot get any better than this.

Got to be the next thing to heaven, right? Honestly, not so bad. We came out expecting corn, and it looks pretty good from our perspective. They've just We're even giving us shit that we don't deserve. We're just the episodes from Penn State doing our best.

The tailgating is good and the drinking is good.

The last time I came here was 10th, right? Because we were both in the top 10.

But now it's great. Now it's great. What do we all have to lose?

Being an out of fan, though, it's all about the unexpected.

And not too long ago, we were just rushing the field after we beat Penn State.

That was five years ago. That was actually a really long time ago. Oh, it's awesome.

I love coming down here. I come down here a couple of times a year, and I really love it.

It's like a family. It was actually my first Iowa game.

I'm a Nebraska fan living in Iowa.

Okay. And then for that, we saw the game last night. You probably don't want to speak on camera.

Have you seen the corn machine over there? Pan, pan, pan.

Wow, wow, wow.

That is what America is built on. America needs farmers.

Do you ever wish Iowa could score more points? Obviously, but you know, we're just used to it. You can't have high expectations. It just feels like tradition to not score that many points. How did you get your tickets for the game today? Oh, the Game Time app. Did you use a code?

Code Lucy at checkout. Hell, yeah. $20 off your first order. Term supply.

This hat is so sweating. Lucy dinner. We are here at the best tailgate in Iowa City. It's called Hawks to go. What makes not Hawks to go like Chapel Roan. That's different. They did this before Chapel Roan. But what makes this tailgate so special is they sell shots. They do a special one for the opposing team, which this week it's Penn State. And then the home team, they'll sell you the shots. You take it on a fun little shot ski, you get the fun tailgating experience, and then all that money goes back to the University of Iowa Children's Hospital.

Everything we do here is about the kids. 37 years ago, my brother's son, my nephew, had no soft spot. He was saved by the University of Iowa Hospitals. My brother and I drink a lot, and we looked at each other.

I think God was involved, and we were like, Let's do shots for the kids.

I shit you not.

They've been doing this for over a decade now. They have donated over $400,000 to the Stead Family Children's Hospital, which what is better than getting drunk, watching football, and helping the kids? The winning football is up there, but it's not as good as that. It's right under it. This is Orange juice. Are you ready for this?

Because I am.

Me too. Go Lucy.

I'm wearing blue on purpose. Unfortunately, I'm a Penn State fan. We're going to see what happens. We're down our head coach, we're down our starting quarterback. All we want is a great game.

What was your immediate reaction when you fired James Franklin?

Eight years too late. Should have been fired when he ran Trace McSorly on fourth of 5 at Ohio State.

Dumbass. It's about goddamn time.

Then firing their head coach only gives us a better chance to win, so I think it's going to be a good game.

Penn State should stay coachless and just give up on their football program.

Call it and invest all the money in the wrestling.

They should defund their wrestling program also. They can to invest all their NIO money into Iowa sports, what they should do.

So Penn State should just give all their money to Iowa just because it's nice. Yes. All right. Your favorite person on the Lepetard show. Lucy Rodine.

Are you kidding me?

I'm required to say it, but it is Lucy. I am going to miss Billy Gills. We love you, Billy. Probably Lucy's dad. As a Nebraska fan, do you look at Penn State firing James Franklin and be like, Oh, no, you can't do that. We've been there before.

We've been through a lot of coaches, obviously, but I don't think it's going to be a big deal.

Do you think Matt Rule is going to take the Penn State job? I don't even know if I want him.

Yo, give me Joe braided. We want young, hot, sex appeal.

I don't know, Bill Belchick.

He might be the move.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I heard he's looking for a job.

I guess the guy at Iowa State is pretty good.

Oh, yeah. Matt Campbell. We'd be happy if you took him. How would you describe the last three weeks of Penn State football?

Basically, the last 30 years of Penn State football.

Train wreck, disaster, Armageddon, Hiroshima. Unnatural disaster is the right way to put it.

I know I'm a Nebraska fan, but I'm in Iowa today, so go Hawks.

I was so rude to him this whole time, too. I was not nice at all.

It's going to be a great game. Signing off on the Dan Levinard show.

October 18th, 2025 will go down in history for the Lebitard show. This is the first time in the so many times that I have made us go to Iowa football games that we have won. This has never happened before for us. Rose has never heard the Hawk-Eye victory polka until today. Dan, this is the best. This is why we do it for these beautiful moments where you beat a terrible Penn State team very close, and you keep it feisty, but it's for the entertainment and the joy of a victory. I love this place so much. I hope you guys got to see why I love it today. Go Hawks, Penn State. Maybe you'll hire somebody cool. You know? Maybe. Like Matt Rule. So cool. Only lost by like 30 to Minnesota. Whatever. Go Hawks.

It is the return of Iowa. Some things are a bit upside down in college football. Vanderbilt is six and one for the first time since 1950. They defeated two top 10 teams in the past twelve months. Georgia Tech is seven and over for the first time since 1966. Indiana's got the highest ranking it's ever had. Lucy is grifting the entire Metalark Media by going back and forth to Iowa every a couple of weeks, and is a bigger star in Iowa than she's ever been. I can't even imagine how much fun it is to tailgate with Iowa now that she returns home again and again, and this time to great victory and glory. This was the best weekend you've had in a while, correct?

We had so much fun. This is always one of our favorite places to go to, and I know that it's selfish that we go, but I always think the content is pretty good. We actually got some bonus content out of this weekend. Every week that we are on the road, Rose is begging people to let them throw the football with her. Usually, the answer is no. But we got a yes this weekend, and we have footage from that if you all want to see it.

Oh, that would be wonderful. I would love to. Does Rose have a big arm?

Throws the ball. Did she hit a baby?

Oh, my God.

She threw it in a baby's cart. She did hit a baby.

Rose, how for the love I did everything that way.

I'm so sorry. Imagine someone hits your baby with a football and you turn back and you see Rose's get up. You're like, Is she wearing a helmet because she has her headphones forward?

You never let her throw that football because she's got bad judgment, correct? No one wants to throw the football with her because she can't be trusted to throw it correctly.

Well, usually it's like 12-year-old boys who are throwing the football, and then Rose comes up, she's like, Can I throw it? And they're very overwhelmed by her. But this time they said yes, and we were screaming. We were like, Rose, there is a baby there. Please do not hit this baby.

But Lucy, what I don't understand, and I don't know why I would make you the governor of her, but the general radius of distance we're talking about there, there is only one place there where a football cannot be thrown. It was the one baby baby cart within a 10-mile radius of where she could have thrown the football.

Baby cart, like a farm machine. One more time. Can we see this? Because Lucy, I would like to ask you a question here. I can't make out who the intended receiver is.

No, we have no clue. I don't think she was throwing it to anybody. I really don't know who it was. If we turn the audio up on that, you can hear people yelling, Don't hit the baby. Please don't hit the baby. And then she immediately hit the baby.

So she ignores it. Don't hit the baby. For the love of God. Lucy, I cannot be sending you in public with these people who do these things. You can't throw a football at a stroller. Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Can you throw a football at a stroller?

Or Baby Cart. Baby Cart.

What's crazy is she didn't even apologize. She just ran away.

She ran away. She ran away. Looking all sorts of crazy.

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That was a rambunctuous group over at Iowa. It's not every weekend that you go over there and vibes are that good when they're playing Penn State.

This game was so weird because Iowa fans still view it as a really big game because it's a really talented Penn State team. And Iowa has a quarterback that runs. That's never, ever happened before. So these people were losing their mind. Also, Iowa, to end the second half, had the dumbest special team's play I've ever seen, where they were going for a 70-yard field goal. It got blocked, and Penn State scored. Based off of that, it was devastating. And Kirk Farrens cried in this press conference about it. I literally shed tears.

He was crying. I'll indulge you with one more Iowa question. They are finding their form. They have an upcoming date with Oregon. I like what I see from Iowa. This offense is certainly, over the last few years, the one that you can trust the most. They're getting better as the year goes on.

Rose didn't look crazy at all.

No, she was totally normal. Everything was cool. Yeah, this is the best Iowa has looked offensively in five years or so. It's been a really long time. Mark Rynowski, I know he only had, I think, 60 passengers on the night, but he was running really well. Obviously, the defense is good. Special teams is great. They're figuring out their identity right now. Mark really struggled to start off the season, but it seems like they're figuring stuff out. Knick is a very difficult place to play if you're a top five team. That's a thing that has fallen away the last few years, but it used to be a given if you were a top five team and you went into Iowa, you were going to lose. I would not be surprised to see if they beat Oregon. Playoff hopes aren't dead, but I also am not buying into that. I'm not saying I was going to play off.

I want to cover a couple of different things here happening with Billy Napier and Mike Norvell in the market because Norvell started 12 and 16 in Florida State. Then they won 19 straight, right? And you could almost do whatever you want if you're going to win 19 straight. But then the snub happens, the quarterback gets hurt, or the snub happens because the quarterback gets hurt, and now they're 5 and 15 cents, and it would cost $100 million to get him out. So where are you on all these guys? Billy Napier, Luke Fickle, Hugh Fries, and Norvell, who doesn't appear to be fired because Florida State can't afford to eat the money.

There was a great little news bit. I think it was Warchant that put it out there that said, Norvell announced to his team that he was indeed staying for the rest of the season, and it was met with deafening silence.

That is so funny. With Billy Napier, obviously, this was a decision that we all knew was going to happen. It was just the timeline of win. I think it's a direct result of James Franklin because they fired him after a win over Mississippi State, a good Mississippi State team. It just felt like, okay, Florida probably assumed that after this season, that would be the top job in the market. And now I don't necessarily know if that's the case. I think Penn State is a better job. And so to go and see, all right, now we're going to have to compete with Penn State for the guys we want, or maybe we want James Franklin, who really knows. I felt like that was the catalyst of why Billy Napier was fired this week rather than a few weeks from now when the season was over. Also, maybe they were like, We really don't want to give him a chance to do what he did last year and win a couple of games, and now we're stuck with him.

Mike, forgive me for a second. Why are you making faces at Penn State being a good job?

I don't think so, just because of what I understand it was diluted by the success that James Franklin had over there. But there's a lot of Joe Pau's innocent people over in Penn State. Their fan base is pretty crazy. The standards seem to be an arrested development. The things that surround Happy Valley or tricky, to say the least?

I would agree with that, but also I'm like, Okay, well, your fan base in Florida all lives in Florida, so they're all so crazy, just in a different way. Perhaps even a scarier way. Who really knows? I just think resources-wise, Penn State has a bunch that they can work with. I do think Florida does as well. But Penn State, you probably feel a little bit more comfortable about job security, even though you know that, okay, James Franklin was fired after three bad weeks. He was there for 10 plus years before that. It feels I don't necessarily know if I agree with this, but I think people would think that the Big Ten is probably easier to compete in.

If you're Marcus Freeman, let's say, you look at both destinations because both of these schools are interested in Marcus Freeman, what do you decide? Do you go to a better talent base in Florida, or do you stay in that general region?

Are you now reporting this exclusively?

I'm not reporting it exclusively. There's a lot of people that are plugged in that know this and they share information, but I am, say, revealing it to you for the first time.

It's a new time. When you When you tell me the successful Notre Dame coach can be bought by Florida, we're in a new time and how we're going to be doing these things.

Marcus Freeman was in the college football playoff, and it was known that he was interested in going to the pros. There were programs like Florida who backchanneled engaged interest. That's why his name keeps popping up in these things.

I think this one's a personal preference, weird enough. Marcus Freeman, I could see him. I don't think he leaves Notre Dame, and I'm not just saying that because Jess is one of my closest friends. I really don't think he does. But if he were choosing between the two, I feel like just the style of football at Penn State aligns more with what he's doing. I really think it's just a personal decision. I'm not quite familiar with either of their NIL standings, but I personally think Penn State is a better job, but I'm also like Big Ten bias. But that's why I think Billy Napier was fired, specifically because that is now your competition, where before it was Virginia Tech and Oklahoma State and potentially Auburn, which, by the way, something that I think is so, so funny this weekend was Auburn lost in double overtime against Mizzou. And Hugh Fries was like, It would be really nice if the AD came out and said they were going to keep me. It would be cool if they said they support me, and then they didn't do it.

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She's so smart.

Not Ian. No. See, this is what I want to do with our show. No, don't let Billy's team of dumb demons spew all over the bottom of this company and piss all over the show. No. Still gotts.

Ian broke down everyone that was drafted on the offensive line except centers because the Jets didn't need one.

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You didn't mention even...

We didn't get to Luke Fickle, did we? I mean, you've been saying for weeks he's going to be fired.

So he got another moment Department of Support this weekend where their AD came out and they were like, We support Luke Fickle. We believe in Wisconsin football. We're going to invest money into Wisconsin football, which is not something that Wisconsin has done. It's not something they've done for a long time, so I don't necessarily know how much I believe it, but they were shut out for the second time in a row this week against Ohio State. It's terrible times there, and I don't personally understand why they're sticking with Luke Fickle. Maybe it's because they look at this market now and you're like, Okay, we're competing with Penn State and Florida and Virginia Tech and whatnot. But it's clearly not working at all. That is a truly terrible football team. And Wisconsin fans are deeply unhappy for a lot of reasons. But the big one is that there's a Wisconsin-based gas dealership there that they give you discounts via how much Wisconsin scores, and they haven't scored at all, so all their gas is full price. Same thing with Culver's. They can't get any free food from Culver's.

Why isn't this working- No cheese curds. Why isn't this working out for Luke Fickle in Wisconsin? Because, yeah, He appears to be out the door. He proved that Cincinnati, there's something to him. He has experience in the Big Ten. I'm surprised that the job is too big for him.

It wasn't even the job was too big for him. Wisconsin was a job that did not need an overhaul. It just needed tuning up. Wisconsin's identity has always been set. Wisconsin is you run the ball, you have beefy Midwest offensive linemen, you have a strong defense, you need a serviceable quarterback and nothing else. Luke Fickle came And even though they had a system that was working, it just wasn't to its peak, because Paul Chris never was as low as Luke Fickle is. And he decided, I'm going to hire Phil Longo to be my offensive coordinator off the jump. Okay, bold move. That didn't work out at all. Completely deranged the entire identity of Wisconsin football. He said, We're going to do the air raid here. Where are you going to get the talent for that in Wisconsin? You're not going to do that. So it went so poorly. The defense suffered because of it. The offense suffered because of it. Their entire identity is gone. And so now he was like, Okay, I'm going to redo it. I'm going to start over. I went and got the offensive coordinator from Kansas. But it's too late because you've already lost all that talent that would work with the original Wisconsin identity, which is the only way you can win there.

And instead, you went and got a bunch of talent for a system that's just not going to work at your school. And in the meantime, Brett Bilema, he went and he got all those guys that you were going to have at Wisconsin. And now Illinois is what they are. It was just literally so dumb that I couldn't believe it when I was doing it.

It was so silly. I have to salute that analysis as the best that you will hear on Wisconsin football anywhere for this particular reason. What she is saying that Wisconsin can only win, and they'll win nine games a year and never any of the meaningful ones. But the only way they will do it if it's grass-fed, if it's corn-husker type of beef that it is fed, and it's going to win by punching you in the face, and we can't get athletes who do anything else.

It makes sense that their defense suffers because complementary football, Dano. Lucy, I have to apologize to you. Last week, I trotted out the take that people don't like Carson Beck maybe because he's not handsome. I don't know. But it's because he occasionally throws for interceptions and then displays bad leadership postgame. What do you make of that upset? I know there are some people that are doom and gloom. I never thought that there was an undefeated team in this nation, let alone Miami. I always thought that they were good for a dumb loss. And Louisville, very quietly over the last two years, just flatly doesn't lose games by more than one score. That is a well-coached team. Jeff Braum has shown he can upset teams.

Look, you're going to love my answer to this because I don't think too much of it because we've all been Jeff Braum before. This has happened to me personally many times. He always does this. He is very sneaky in the way that every year it feels like he just pulls something out of his bag and he's able to beat a really good team. Jeff Braun, I think, is one of the most underrated coaches in college football. They have a strict identity. They knew who they are. He's such a good fit for that Louisville program. Yeah, Carson Beck had a rough game. I feel like the thing with Carson Beck, as you saw a little bit against Louisville, what you saw Georgia last year, where when he is good, he is really, really good. But the second he flounders a little bit, it's all or nothing with him. I don't know if he casually just has an okay game. It's either a great one or he's going to throw four interceptions. But I'm not too worried about it because that is a good Louisville team. I don't think that's a bad loss by any means, and Jeff Ron just tends to do that.

Yeah, the postgame presser, maybe not the best move. Maybe not a great idea. Maybe I would have just kept that one to myself. I think what's interesting is that Miami doesn't control their own destiny to the ACC Championship. They need Georgia Tech or Virginia to lose to make it to Charlotte, which is just crazy to be in that position with a roster this good, with the best team Miami has had in a very long time.

Well, I want to get inside, okay, when we make these students or young people professionals. I want to get inside of whatever it is Carson Beck has been living for the last three years. And just ask you, Lucy, as someone who was on the Georgia sideline predicting his interceptions last year, expecting his interceptions last year. When someone of this age is in a game where it is clear, Brahm is outclassing Miami everywhere, even though he does not have the athletes that Miami has. And also the game plan is clear Really? No, there will be no running in this game, friend. It's all you. You want to throw way downfield? Let's see, Beck, what you got. It's going to be all you. Plenty of pass protection. What do you have, Beck? You're telling me that that's a quarterback who shrinks there.

I mean, yeah, he's done that before. I think that was the issue at Georgia. I also think it's important to include the context of last year, Miami had a quarterback who could do that in that moment. So it's something you've been used to. Of course, Beck is obviously a lot of Cam Ward's caliber and just won't be. But yeah, I think it was just like, that was the first time they really had him in hell, and he just fell apart. And it's something he's done before. I don't think it's something that's going to happen a ton again, but it's also something worth noting. We're like, okay, it's good that you got this under your belt because you're going to play teams a lot tougher than Louisville going forward. I think my real issue with Carson Beck was just like, Hey, you lost a game. It happens. You got to be a little bit smarter in the postgame press conference because Mike is right in the sense that it is a little bit more difficult with him just because the reputation he has at Georgia and that people don't like him. You got to be a lot smarter about the stuff you're saying.

Yeah, they feel like Beck and his camp feel like they slaughtered his reputation with how talkative they were and how the narrative was when Gunner and took over. It's like, this is the team's guy. And he felt it was unfair because he played while he was hurt, encouraged by the training staff to go out there and play while he was hurt. He felt like he gave it all for his team and it wasn't reciprocated. I will say, though, I totally agree. He's got to be better in the post game That felt a lot like the guy they were telling me about. Now, I know from talking to his camp, this offseason was very difficult for him. It was a big transition for a young man, and he rediscovered his passion for the game, and he came out more mature. He's going to need to. Teams are going to to take the run game away from Miami, especially if they have a conservative run game, which is just committed to the A-gap. Now, they did that against FSU, and he torched him. The thing about FSU was he wasn't down 14-0 at the time and being in predictable passing situation.

So Miami needs to clean things up to make sure that the running game can stay honest.

But Mike, he had such a great fall camp. He did. Better than Kam Ward.

He did. You want to throw that in my face like, You know Jack shit? That's another one. You know Jack shit, Dano. You don't know Jack shit. And not by a little in fall camp. By a lot.

It happens to not know Jack shit.

Lucy, does a one loss Miami team that doesn't even appear in the ACC Championship game? Do they Can we make a play?

Oh, this is begging, and I won't have you do it. This is begging, and I won't have you do it. It's disgusting what you guys are doing.

That's theoretically not possible. Or I guess... No, yeah, it is. Have some dignity, Saz. What are you doing, Eina? Because if Virginia and Georgia Tech finish the season undefeated, and Miami beats SMU, but they still UVA and Georgia Tech undefeated, then they won't make the ACC Championship game. Any team that only has one loss that's in the power four is going to make the playoff. That's just going to happen, especially because I test Miami as a very good football team. I think it would take another really stupid dumb loss, which I actually don't think that the loss was stupid, but we all know there is the concern with Miami that that happens.

To me, this one was just so obvious in terms of how it is that Beck must have felt alone out there. Oh, I'm being outcoached everywhere. They're begging me to throw the football. They're not allowing us to run, even though the advantage we have in this game, the biggest surprise in that game is why wasn't Miami couldn't run? Bram wasn't going to let him run. He was going to try and cover those receivers with that secondary, and did. They made three great interceptions.

Yeah, they made unbelievable plays. I am curious, if Miami does drop the other one, we know the other dumb one. Let's say it's just like last year, less by one score.

It could be Virginia, it could be Pittsburgh, it can be anywhere.

Well, it could be Virginia Tech. They don't play Virginia, which is another weird quirk. Who's the one that you're talking about? The ACC had this situation last year, and they're trying to address it by adding an additional conference game. But yeah, you have Georgia Tech. As Lucy mentioned, you had the weird thing with Virginia where they lost to an ACC team but are undefeated in the ACC conference. It doesn't count. Because it was a non-conference game because the teams decided they wanted to to be playing. It's so funny. Where Miami is- That's bullshit. Where Miami is aided is that unlike last year, their non-conference wins appear to be really good. They have the USF win, they have the Notre Dame win. Based on form, Notre Dame looks like a top five team all of a sudden. We know the committee likes good losses. Right now, presently, Louisville's ranked in the team. What if Miami just says their Louisville loss is not an ACC game?

They should. Lucy, why is that so funny?

Because it's just like, ACC is so stupid. They're so dumb. What do you mean? Miami truly would be in a great spot if that game had counted because Virginia lost, but it didn't. For no reason, they were like, Yeah, we're just going to play each other, but it's not a conference. What? Okay, sure. That is so ACC I love this silly little conference. They're so silly.

Don Levatard.

He seems like a not nice guy, and he's always been a not nice guy. I don't care for him, and I hope he has the day he deserves. Oh, let's see.

Stugatz.

I hope he has the day he deserves.

That's how I get people when they're really mean to me. I'm not like, go F yourself. I'm like, I hope you have the day you deserve.

I think it's so much like, it twists the knife. It's a great kind insult. Yes.

It's beautiful.

It's leaving it to the Cosmos to sort it out.

That's a less Southern, bless your heart.

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You and Zazlo are going to be in the same place this Saturday. Have either of you done Baton Rouge at night? Because it's insane. I have not. It's totally crazy. Lucy, have you done this before?

This is one of my favorite spots, so I'm very, very excited, even though that this could be a Brian Kelly gets fired game, which actually, I think is going to make it way more fun. I'm so excited. I love LSU fans. They are nuts.

Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. I went last year. It was a day game, terrible game. They played UCLA. Get the hell out of here. But this game, night game, everyone tells me, Death Valley at night. Death Valley. Okay, what do you got? I'm going to be there. It's going to be pretty epic. Texas A&M is really good, but they're playing in a conference, which, again, they're doing this thing.

Does this count in the conference?

It does. But I do think the conference is overrated because it's being judged against its reputation from years past. I think it's a type of conference where Texas A&M can lose to LSU, especially a nighttime game in that stadium. I don't understand why Tennessee is ranked ahead of the teams that they're ranked. They don't have a good win. Their best win is against Mississippi Mississippi State. But again, good losses inside that conference.

I think we all need to take a moment to just reflect on the fact that Vanderbilt beat LSU this weekend and did not storm the field.

I'm going to say it again. Vanderbilt, this is one of the things that gets James Franklin and Billy Nabil are fired. Vanderbilt is 6-1 for the first time since 1950, and they've now defeated two top 10 teams in the last 12 months. They can play with Alabama. Everyone can see that they can play with Alabama.

No, they hung in that game. The final score isn't of what a battle that game was. However, there is some fake news to this because I saw a report that said, Vanderbilt, reputed to be a very intelligent school, very expensive school. They waited till LSU's personnel and players left the field so they would not be subject to the SEC fine, and then they went on the field. Boo.

Boo.

We have Lucy's Internet-Unserious program. Lucy's Internet Minute. But, Jeremy, any last thoughts as Mike hogged everything here with UM talk in a way that didn't allow a lot of room for objection.

My name is Jack Shit related to the Shit family, as exemplified here by my, Hello, my name is Jack Shit. I think Mike-Name tag, Mike. I don't know, man. Hi, Mr. Shit. How are you going to tell me I don't know Jack Shit?

You don't know Jack Shit.

You thought Carson Beck was better than Cam Ward.

In fall camp. Yeah.

Also a better run. He was right at the time. No.

I wasn't.

He was right at the time.

You were right at the time. Still right. You better fall camp. Were you at fall camp? I didn't see you there, Mr. Shit.

Again with the Mr. Jack Shit.

I was looking around for Mr. Shit.

I didn't see him. He hit me yesterday with, Some alums don't do anything for the program. That's what he hit. You hear, he's throwing vealed shots all over the place. Speak their name. He was looking right at me.

Okay.

He was looking right at me and touting his own...

I know what that means.

Well, time to get in it.

It's Lucy's Internet Minute.

Yay. That's so great. Kim Kardashian went on the Call Her Daddy podcast this weekend, which I'm actually not really a big fan of that podcast. We could talk about that later. What she saying? But she had the most Lucile Bluth moment ever, where Alex Cooper, the host, asked her how much money she spent on makeup a year or on glam, and she was like, I don't know. I don't really know the price of things. I'd love to figure out how much milk carton cost. Oh, girl, you could just go to the store. Also, milk carton? She's had a weird week. They released a new line of skims, which include a Bush thong, which is just hair on the outside of the thong. She did an interview with a ski mask. It's not a ski mask, but I don't know what to call it. Something completely over her face. Yeah, not even a veil, though. It was real creepy. Yeah, she's having a weird week online, but she doesn't know how much milk costs, which I didn't think she did, but I I probably would have just kept that to myself.

How much are baby carts?

More expensive than you think.

Much more, Dano. Depends on the taste. But you know why, Zaz? Oh, I know what they like. You know who also loves that? Babies.

It's a banana, Michael. What could it cost? $10?

How much is a baby heart on the black market?

You don't want to know. Don't ask that question ever again. Do not ever ask that question again. That's not ask that question. Never ask that question. I love you. I respect you. Don't ask that question again. Why did you think that was a good question? Ask the Democrats.

Lucy, thank you for being on with us. We'll talk to you next week. Jeremy is mad about the UM talk, and he's also mad because we're not talking enough baseball. I do not blame him. There was a game seven last night. Mike doesn't want to talk about Baker Mayfield all of a sudden.

He's missing high. Let's just get to that by. No, I watched the entire baseball game. Multivue, Dan. And this baseball game was incredible.

It was good. I'm devastated. The greatest mariner season of this century dies on the doorstep because Toronto clubs the baseball. But also, God Almighty, is Toronto going to have any chance? They really, really hit. Vladimir Guerrero hits everything hard. Doesn't strike out and hits everything hard, but do they have any chance against four aces?

I mean, they have a chance. The Mariner's pitching was really good throughout that.

Cody has to walk to Seattle. Excuse me. Yeah, he does. Cody has to walk to Seattle. He loses that bet. Sorry about that.

We've developed a plan, though. I'm glad you mentioned that because we do need to close this. Remember, he's old. He's old. And he has a bad knee. And he's got a trick knee. We didn't say where he's walking from when he gets to Seattle. So we're going to find a neighboring town. Okay, we all-Fly him out. We are committed to... Thank you. You can take this to the bank.

Thank you.

Greg Cody. Yes. As long as I have air in my lungs, we'll be walking to Seattle.

He lost the bet.

Just from a nearby town. Why would he think a team can't come back from two do nothing. I don't understand. Why would you be so confident that a team cannot overcome two games to none, let alone in baseball?

Probably because he had not watched either of those teams play the entire season until those two games. If you only watched those two games, it seemed like there was a giant disparity between the talent levels.

And then he offered up the thing he would do if it happens. No one said, Hey, what were you doing? I'll walk to Seattle.

I really do love this World Series, the World's World Series, okay? Because Canada doesn't get to win these things. This team is like, it's got a Major League Baseball chromosome because more than taking descendants... We haven't seen Bichette yet. This team rakes.

And he's supposed to be back.

I thought Baltimore was going to win that division for 10 years. I'm surprised that Toronto had more wins. Toronto deserves to be there. Toronto, I think, had more wins during the regular season than the greatest roster ever assembled. Didn't Toronto win more games than the Dodgers this season? If they didn't, it was close because they won like 93 or 94 games. They're great and they mash, but Dodger pitching is unprecedented with an ERA, never mind the ERA, all the other advanced metrics that say it's the best starting pitching you've ever seen in a playoff.

No, you're right, Dan. To have Blake Snell back. The reason that the Blue Jays did win one more game this season than the Dodgers did is because they maintained their health for most of it. Now, Bichette was out at the end of the year. That offense was consistent all year long. In the playoffs, actually having Andres Jimenez at shortstop was an advantage because Bo Bichette is not a tremendous defensive shortstop. But to add him to that lineup, a guy who led that team in hits, who was right near the top of the American League in hits. If there's a team that was going to be formidable for the Dodgers, it's this Blue Jay's team because their bullpen is so spectacular that if the offense can give them a lead early, you have an opportunity to do some things. But George Springer, he's the guy here where now he's tied for third all all time in postseason home runs. He has his moment in a Blue Jay's uniform.

I love that Blue Jay's playoff crowd. It's so good.

It was spectacular. To watch him be able to do that in that moment. Remember, just a few days ago, he took a 96-mile-an-hour fast off his knee. I thought he broke his kneecap. He was wriving around on the ground, and then he comes back and has this moment in that spot to give them the lead as one of the great playoff performers of all time. He's the only guy on that team with World Series experience, including their bench coach, Donny Base, who gets to be there, Donny Teeble.

This feels like a real World Series, though, where you have, obviously, Shohe O'Tani doing Hercule in things, and then you've got Canada's team. Canada's team responsible for Joe Carter's home run, which once, a generation ago, is the time that felt most like this.

Poor Mitchell Williams.

It felt most like this in what it is you see. The last time you saw this in Toronto might have been the Batista bat flip in terms But you're talking about 20 years of this region cares deeply about this baseball team, and now it goes to fight the greatest roster ever assembled after a slug fight against the best Seattle team we've seen this century. It's good story lines, but you got to give us some drama against the Dodgers. You can't just roll over. They're steaming everybody. They're steam rolling. The Dodgers, the brewers are a very good baseball team. They had no chance.

It's The difference between the brewers and the Blue Jays, though, is that the Blue Jays' offense is more potent. What the brewers were able to do throughout the year was all the little things right. They would lay down bunts, they would bun for base hits, they'd pull off hit and runs, they'd go first to third really well. They weren't able to do those things against the Dodgers because they were striking out so much. The Blue Jays have more pop. I mean, look at this photo, putting Joe Carter and George Springer next to each other in those moments in Toronto. They have a chance. Do I think that they're going to win the series? No, I the Dodgers should win this series. But if there was a team in the American League that had an opportunity, that if they got hot and played their best baseball that could beat the Dodgers, it would have been the Blue Jays probably from the start.

Congratulations to Bellevue, Washington. You're the closest city we deemed worthy of Greg Cody walking from. And how do we classify a city? City's got to have a mayor. So this is about a four-hour walk that Greg Cody's got ahead of us. Not a small feet. It's 10 miles in total. This is a man with a trick knee, folks.

He's got to make the walk. In the interim, let's hear the home run call, Springer home run call in French.

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