Transcript of Hour 1: The Undercover Shough-hold (feat. Tyler Shough)

This is the Dan Levatore Show with the Stugats podcast.

An NFL starting quarterback will join us in 20 minutes. A number of different questions I want to ask you guys. Speaking of NFL quarterbacks, I don't know if you guys have seen the Pizza Hut commercial with Tom braided. Tom braided doesn't really need to be making commercials with the amount of money that he's making.

So why does he?

I don't know the answer to that question, but the question that I wanted to ask you about that commercial is, do you guys think that Tom braided eats pizza? Because I assume he doesn't. He's anti-carbs. I assume he doesn't eat that pizza. Do you want, as a spokesman, someone who would famously not eat that product as your spokesman?

But it doesn't mean that he doesn't order it for his kids, for his family, one night. Aren't they the official pizza of the NFL? I love Pizza Hut, by the way. It's a great spot. Pizza Hut. I love that. It's my favorite of the chains. He doesn't even eat tomatoes. So how would he eat pizza? He literally doesn't eat tomatoes. If you spend that much money- You don't buy that white cheese pizza? I do. If you spend that much money to be the official pizza of the NFL, you Number one, you probably want me being pretty damn sure that you're the official pizza of the NFL. But number two, a good way to go about that is bring along the frozen face of Tom braided, who's so associated with that sport.

Yeah, but doesn't eat cheese or dairy or carbs.

Come on. Well, maybe he does now. He doesn't play anymore. A percentage of people know that. Lebron doesn't drive a Kia. You'll pull up to the arena and-LeBron's not drinking Sprite all the time? That Kia thing. But that's what a pitchman is.

Okay, so you don't care then is the answer to my question.

No, it's the spot good. Big name. Look, one thing that I do know is Tom braided is doing a Pizza Hut spot. For me to actually retain who he's doing that commercial for, that's impressive because during commercial breaks, I am in that phone. I think I saw Drew Barrymore and Orlando Bloom doing a cruise commercial, and I'm like, they don't go on cruises. I've seen that one. Msc? They don't go on cruises. I think so. Is that MSC? I believe it's MSC.

That's a good point that you got there, Chris, with when Mike gives you the from back there. That's got to feel pretty good about you going to your weekend. It's a good spot if I remember. Can we get, please, the sound here of a... People in Seattle are obviously very excited. Seattle doesn't win stuff that often. It's not a city, even though it cares about its sports deeply, that gets to win all of that much. During the live broadcast- News broadcast, local in Seattle. Yeah, a news broadcast locally, you've just got basically debauchery and things that can't happen anymore on local news. It can happen anywhere else in streaming, anywhere else on the internet. This is not shocking anyway. Cursing. We just had Al Michael's on yesterday. He's like, Yeah, it used to be a big deal if I said shit on the air, but now Al Michael's just letting it fly because all of the standards here have gone to hell, except on local television where you can't do this.

So tell me, you were inside there. I'm going to be the Patriot. It's a redo. Say that again without the F-blot. We're about to redo this shit. We're about to be the Patriot. Okay, well, I'm not too bad. Sorry. Can you translate for me? Tell me, what was that like? It's our revenge against the Patriots. We're going to take this to the bowl this year. Got so boring without the curse words.

Well, it got drunker. It somehow got drunker After the curse words, let's go. First of all, I should have told people there's a woman on a man's shoulders here, and the interviewer first goes to the woman on the man's shoulder. It looks like Rachel Nichols trying to interview Wembenyama because she is high up there and she's cursing. But then he goes to the boring guy.

No, first he goes to reset. He goes, Hey, you cursed. Do that again without cursing. And she curses more.

Curses more. Then he just goes straight to the drunkenness. Tell me, you were inside there.

I'm going to be the fuckingPatrius, we're going to redo. Say that again without the F-butt. We're about to redo this shit. We're about to redo this shit. Okay, well, I'm too bad. Sorry. Can you translate for me? Tell me, what was that like? It's our revenge against the Patrius. We're going to take this Super Bowl this year. Drunker and more boring. Lance?

More baked than Stevenson is what I was just about to say. Tony, why is it that Mike Ryan did all of the interviews with the big three champions other than Reggie Evans?

Yeah, I don't know. We Obviously, it was very loud. They were having a celebration out there. They were getting the rings, they were getting the trophies. So we were getting people left and right. And all of a sudden, I get Reggie, and we're like, We're going to do a little thing with Reggie. And then I look back, and then Mike's behind a sea of people on the other side by the restaurant. And I'm just like, Mike, you're going to do this? He's like, You got to point him. You got it. So I turn up Reggie, Reggie, what do you think about the NBA? Just transitioned to the big three, huh? I like to build up my teammates. Why couldn't you get Beazley? I hogged up all the time with Jack McClinton. I was like, Got to get my boy some reps. Why didn't we get Bs? Good question.

Okay. I'm glad we've got a good question.

We did talk amongst ourselves like, That would be a good get. He was the get. He was the number one, though. No. I think Rio. No, Rio was very clearly head and shoulders the number one get. Right. That's what we got him.

You may have heard earlier in the show, we were lamenting the possible end to the Panthers season, about a week after Zaslow admitted for the first time that he was officially worried about the Panthers. Now, the Colorado Avalanche have been good for a very long time, and they are one of the teams I imagine that you guys are scared of, right? You guys are scared.

They can't win the last couple of weeks, but yes, they're very scary. I mean, I'm not scared of the Avalanche because of the If the Panthers played the Avalanche, it'd be in the Stanley Cup final. If the Panthers are in the Stanley Cup final, they're definitely winning. They need them to win last night against Montreal, and they couldn't. Yeah, respectfully. I can't even look at the Western conference right now. I'm looking up at a bunch of teams in the Eastern conference. I'm sweating Buffalo.

So So I'd like to get to some sound here, though, of the avalanche radio announcement that I want to play for the audience here. If you have not heard this, let's play that sound.

You hear that?

That's a bunch of people who have chosen to leave a city on purpose for a lot of reasons.

But they continue their fandom.

Denver, Colorado.

This isn't Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. You left for a reason.

Leave your legions there, too.

155 to in the third period. Want to be a Flyers fan? Stay in Philadelphia. That is such loser shit. So the Avalanche, the game's in Denver, and the Avalanche are down 7 to 3 at the time. So the crowd there, there's a big Let's go Flyers chant going on. And the play-by-play guy, you can't handle it.

Ten years ago, Tom braided called soda poison for kids.

He's not wrong.

I don't think he's giving his kids pizza, though. I don't I don't think that that's what's happening. Incidentally, I should say, can you guys get for me the mystery crate video and sound? Zazlo, while he has a soda drinker's body, he has never tried soda before. And on mystery crate-Oh, you got to tune in this week. They had him try an assortment of things that he has not tried before. I don't want to ruin what's going on here on mystery crate, but can you tell me what this clip is, Chris, that we're going to? Which is the soda that he's trying in this clip? Do we know?

It's like in this clip, we're having him guess because he's never had Dr. Pepper or Root beer. Most people would know those flavors, so we put two cups in front of them and we let him figure it out. So let's play it. All right. This is actually a big one because Rootbeer, Dr. Dr. Pepper. People are stunned when I tell them I've never had either one. All right, here we go. Here we go. Down the hatch. This is either Dr. Pepper or Root beer. What is the distinctive flavor that you've been eating? He hates it right now. He hates it. I bet I know what it I guarantee you, I just want to guess which one it is. It tastes like toothpaste. Oh, I know which one it is. I mean, let's just have them guess. All right, zero. It actually is toothpaste. It's all a gag. No. I give it a zero. All right. That's so bad. I bet I know which one it is. What is that? Let him guess first. You had to guess. I don't know. I have no idea. A distinctive flavor that you can tell out of that. Yeah, toothpaste.

I know what he's thinking. Let's drink crest. That had to be root beer. Had to be. Had to be root beer. It was root beer. Oh, I love root beer. Do you taste any licorice? No, it tastes like toothpaste. It's horrible. It's quite the ensemble you got there. You look like you're in a 1990s hot dog commercial that can't afford licensing. Don't ever put Rootbeer in front of me ever again. That guy? Undercover cop. Yeah. He's a cop. That guy's trying to sell you tickets outside of a sporting event. Why is everything I wear Undercover cop? Why Why is that the go-to? I'm selling two. I'm not an undercover cop. Stop saying that. That's what a cop would say. Two things about me, everybody knows. I'm not an undercover cop, and I'll never be a cuckold. You know, if you're a cop, you have to tell me. It's entrapment. I'm not a cop.

You're not a cuck?

That, too.

You're not an undercover cop, and you're not an undercover cuck?

I would never be an undercover cuckold. Guys, let me tell you something. One of the greatest joys of my life was when they finally opened the White Castle in my neighborhood in Phoenix, Arizona. I lost my mind because I'm so used to eating White Castle at home when I was in New York. Now, I can have it all the time.

When I'm in Phoenix, But when I come to Miami, there's no White Castle. You know what I do?

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Tomorrow's great. I got to tell you, a solid argument for judging a book by the cover. You look like a wrestling fan. Okay, I'm proud of that. I don't care. I used to hide it as a kid. I don't hide it anymore. I'm very comfortable with myself. Yeah, I was very embarrassed as a kid. It was like a shame. I'm also one of those self-hating wrestling fans because they mostly look like Zaz, and I try to think that I'm better than them when I'm a bigger nerd. You're not any better than me. I'm not better. It's Royal Rumblin' Weekend. Matter of fact, you're worse than me. Wow. But not a solid argument. I'll wear it. The second best pay-per-view in all of pro wrestling is the Royal Rumbles. Very exciting tomorrow. As you know, Dan, as the lure goes, the winner of the Royal Rumblin', both men's and now women's because we're allies. They go on the main event, Russell May.

You guys are moving too quickly away from the genuine horror that was on Zaz's face and on his breath when he had this particular root beer. That is genuine, and he's horrified. I didn't think that anybody would ever have that reaction to drinking soda of any kind. Whether you like soda or not, very few people, I think, are just totally disgusted by soda.

Dan, this was not performative whatsoever. I'm never performative, okay? It's the real thing right here. I'm never performative. That's the worst thing I've ever drink. This is my real voice, not a performative voice.

I want to show you guys a little bit of video here. I don't know how surprised you were or weren't about Chris Fowler. Good job getting that wrestling shit out of here. I thought Mike was setting it up well, but we showed him who was boss. Just trampled his ass. Chris Fowler is in the wait room. One of my favorite Instagram followers. It's so hard for me not to answer that voice. I can't tell you how much difficulty I'm having not arguing with-Yeah, there was a little wool in the and Mike just slid in to make sure there was no awkward silence, and he did the wrestling thing, but I decided, Fuck you. This inner monolog is unbelievably accurate. I don't know what to do with the fact that the monolog is what's actually happening in my head, and I want to have chemistry with my inner monolog, but you keep instructing me not to talk to my inner monolog.

We should go back to the wrestling top. Go to hell.

Oh, now you're trying to be Phil Henry? It's Henry. No one's going to notice. I said Henry. You said Henry.

Play it back. Someone clip it.

Chris Fowler is in the gym. For those of you who do not know, Chris Fowler is jacked and works out very hard. He is somebody-Look at this. I was not expecting Chris Fowler to break out the guns and break out... He's going to be doing squats here, I would imagine. His mouth is open. He is working very hard in the weight room. How old is Chris Fowler? He's about my age. Is he not? I think he's 60. So he's working out hard here. And I want to put up as well, John Harbaugh. How much did John Harbaugh end up squatting the other day in a way that impressed you guys in the gym? Because John Harbaugh is also roughly about my age.

So then in the first one, we saw Chris Fowler doing more of a a deadlift with a trap bar than it was a squat. So we're going to see John Harbaugh, who did 405 on the squat rack, with a little bit more of a helpful squat bar.

And you guys were all impressed by this, right? Of course. How old is John Harbaugh here? Because this is 405 pounds. And yes, thank you for that correction. That shows you some of my gym ignorance. If the inner monolog was working correctly still, it would say, Fuck, he doesn't know the difference between a deadlift and a squat? What a fucking idiot. He allowed everybody in the entire to make fun of the fact that he never goes to the gym. I thought you didn't want a whiny voice. John Harbaugh at 405. How impressed were you?

He's not 405 years old. 405 pounds.

How impressed were you by him? He's- Maybe I should have done the wrestling thing.

John Harbaugh is 63 years old. So is Chris Fowler. Wow. 405.

Synergy. He's so slightly younger than 405. That would be really impressive. At 405, he is. What? All right. Do it.

Love a good spotter.

Put this on the poll, okay? More impressive, squatting 405 pounds at 65 or squatting 65 pounds at 405 years of age. Good point. Because I really did have John Harbaugh being a lot older than he was when I made him 405 years old.

I have one more feat of strength for you. It's Deion Sanders, 58 years old, banging out 245, eight reps on the bench press, told one of the kids, Hey, get out of the way. Watch how Daddy does it.

That's a lot for Deion Sanders. I do not think of upper body strength. When I think of Deion, I think of him as being upper body, small and weak.

What's most impressive here? That's down to the chest, baby. That's old man's strength. Tony, what are you most impressed with these three? 245 pounds free bar is heavy as hell. If you're 58 years old, it's really tough, especially when you don't really have a lot of great balance. I'm going Harba. That was my most impressive of those three.

Let me see that again, though, because even though I am clearly showing off some of my gym ignorance in making a deadlift, a squat. Oh, yeah. Wait. Okay. I thought he just had... I thought that was just 225, but he's got more than 245.

He's got two caddies on each side plus a 25.

Do you guys know why the 45 pound is called the Cadillac? I do not know the answer to Do you guys know why? It's the biggest and best, baby. Is that why? It's a good reason. I have here in front of me, Darien Ments has done an interview with on3. Com, and he says, The reason for going to Miami, leaving Duke from Miami, is, I want to make the NFL. I want to be a first-round draft pick, and all signs point towards Miami. He says, Miami is going to take me to the place I want to go, which is ultimately the NFL. They've got NFL coaches. Coach Shannon Dawson, what he does with quarterbacks, his track records is pretty amazing, and it's something I wanted to be a part of. Barry Jackson writes, UM has found the formula. Keep signing a very good quarterback in the portal every year. Keep showing them what this coaching staff and OL and weapons can do for them to help their development for the NFL, how they can play for an elite team and showcase their skills. Success begets success and will fuel this formula. Forget grooming, quarterbacks, and recruiting.

This is the formula to remain Championship contender every year. There is some risk. You'll You'll miss out on a quarterback one year. But this is the formula. It would make sense, right, to go... When you go Kam Ward, Carson Beck, Darian Mensah, it seems pretty easy, right? That if college football is going to become professional football. Professional football would love to just be able to go and grab quarterbacks that are already developed instead of having to develop them. But in the pros, you have salary caps, and the greatest advantage you can have is a quarterback at value. You don't have to worry about that. In college, just go get the most expensive quarterback and make sure you've got a quarterback.

It is a very high stakes game, and I don't know how sustainable it is. Tim's right to outline you run the risk of in an all-in move not cashing in. And all three quarterback pursuits, Kam Ward, Carson Beck, and Darian Mensa, if they didn't land on those quarterbacks, they would have had to go with Emory Williams, someone that was on the roster. And as it's played out, Kam Ward going number one overall, Carson Beck going to a national championship. Those bets cashed, but it was risky, and I don't understand why Miami keeps signing up for this specific process. Okay, Nikola, quiz Frage. Homeoffice Barstader or Fahrtkosten? Was bringt uns mehr? Moment. Ich check What is the worst part of the life?

The worst part of the life of what?

This is the Dan Levatard Show with the Stugats.

We are joined now by somebody who was a very good college quarterback, played for a lot of years, seven years. Tyler Shuck was with the Saints this year, had a great rookie season for the Saints, actually turned their season around. As soon as he started playing was a bit of a surprise. He went five and four as a starting quarterback. It is good to see his face here. It's been hidden behind a helmet. Tyler, forgive my ignorance here. You were in college about six or seven years, correct?

That's correct. Yeah. Not by choice, but through COVID and the medical, I was able to outlast it. Yeah, I had a blast, learned a bunch, was at Oregon, Texas Tech, and finished up at Louisville.

And so when you went through that process and you imagined whatever it is that your life would look like in the pros, how close did it come to resembling what actually ended up happening?

Far from it. Yeah, I mean, there was a lot of times where the reality sets in when you're in a cast, you're in a sling, where, Man, I don't know if I'm going to be able to get my opportunity to go to the NFL. Everybody around me just having that mentality to keep going. Got that opportunity. I wanted to make sure I took advantage of it. It's a whirlwind right now, looking back. But now I know there's so much more to go.

Given how difficult the position is, given how fast everything moves, can you now be honest about whatever was happening in your first game if you had a piss your pants moment where you're This is all too much. All of this is too much.

No. I remember the first time I came in was against the Bucs defense and Todd Bulls, and my first start was against the Rams who were obviously deep in the playoff. So it was definitely It's not a warm-up game. You're not playing against a FCS team in college. I loved it. You got Vita Vea coming after you got... I think the biggest one was Byron Young came free on the edge, and he hit me right in the jaw, and I had to get needles in it. It hurt pretty good, but I got acclimated pretty quick.

I don't believe you when you say it's a lot of fun, Vita Vea, coming through the middle there untouched. I think you're lying to me. It's fight or flight. I believe that you're lying to us when you say it's a lot of fun to see him coming through the middle unblocked. Nobody wants to see that coming up the middle.

No, you just run. You just run for your life.

Okay, Tyler, I've been thinking about this recently, and you bringing it up is a great case. So you said you went to school, you went to Oregon, you went to Texas Tech, you went to Louisville. If your team, if the Saints, are good enough to play on Sunday night football, and they do the player intros, and the player comes up on the screen with the graphic, Tyler Shox, and then you got to say, What school you went to? Which school do you say? You've been to so many schools.

Yeah, I think you just got to go the Terrell Sugs, Ball So Hard University. I don't know. I got to really think about it. I'll probably go Louisville because that's obviously the most recent, and they helped me get kit to this point. But I have ties, I have connections, and a lot of love for all three.

I don't think you're saying that right. They correct me around here all the time. You don't say it wrong.

You don't say it wrong.

How do you say Louisville?

Louisville.

There you go. So simple, Dan. Shit.

You got peanut butter on the roof of your mouth, man. You can't. It's not Louisville, it's Louisville. Thank you. Louisville.

What bothers you more when people mispronounce that or your last name? Because I'm sure you ran into plenty How many coaches in your day that have butchered that last name. What's the worst pronunciation of Shuck you've heard?

Show, Shug, Shoe, Shuff, Show. It should be all those things, but Shuck. It fits in New Orleans because there's so many weird words here that you have to memorize it and it fits. You're Shuck and oysters. You got the F word that correlates with it, so it works out.

Are you allowed, as a starting in the NFL to just simply answer this question? You can tell me whether you're allowed without answering it. Are you allowed to answer who's better, Sam Darnold or Drake Mang?

I don't know if I'm allowed to answer it, but I think both those guys are playing really well. I'm obviously a huge fan. I grew up watching Sam Darnal when I was in college, wanted to be like him. And obviously, Drake, I'm getting to know him. We have similar quarterback trainers, the same guys, and I'm watching their film. It's hard not to be a fan.

Let me do this another way with you because you're already expert, even though you're a rookie, at not answering questions as a quarterback.

Yeah, it was a real brain Buster. Rank the quarterbacks as a starting quarterback.

I'm sure he had to be quick on his feet there. Just who's better, Drake, may or Sam Darnold? My guess is if someone asks him that privately, he's allowed to answer that question. He's just not allowed to answer it publicly.

Just a couple of guys, no one's watching.

Can you tell me, Tyler, what are your go two clichés in front of your locker when the reporter asks the question you don't want to answer? Because you've got a game plan here. You've got a playbook for how not to answer questions. So just take me through that.

Well, there's two trains of thought. You can go the Seahawks, Marshawn Lynch. I'm just here, so I don't get fined, which is ill-advised for my position. So I usually just... You resort to the miscommunication. I mean, it was just a miscommunication. I'm We're going to have to go back to the drawing board.

Oh, drawing board is a good one. I love a drawing board.

That's a good one. Go back to the drawing board. We'll refocus. I don't know. You got to go in there and you got to play it cool.

So help me, though. What questions do you have in the data rank for miscommunication? Take me through the playbook of how to answer questions correctly in front of your locker that you don't actually want to answer. What are the kinds of questions that are going to result in you going straight to the cliché playbook?

I mean, any time a reporter is trying to pass blame or really make somebody else feel like it was their fault or they're going to talk crap on somebody else when that's not the case. Or even if it was my fault, say I threw a really bad interception, you got to take the blame. So I think that's the biggest thing, a reporter trying to get maybe a dicey answer.

Maybe when they ask you to rank two quarterbacks.

Yeah, I don't know. You got to be smart there. You're trying to get a headline.

We're all team Tyler there. Your head coach, somebody I have a ton of respect for, Jeff Braum, had one of the iconic XFL quotes of all time. I'm sure that was circulated in group chats there. When anybody was heard in that Louisville locker room, were people asking, Do I or do I not have a pulse?

That was probably the sole reason I committed to Louisville out of the portal. I saw that video and I was like, Let's go. This guy gets after it. But that's not fake either. That's how he is on the headset. Him custing you out over the headset whenever you got to play, or him just having that attitude. It's real. But, yeah, no, it's a whole thing there, and I love it.

Put us next to you in front of the television when Louisville was playing Miami last year. Louisville. Louisville.

I was fired up. I was fired up just because we couldn't get it done against them last year. It was a really fun game against Cammore in their team. But I think the way they battled in Miami, and obviously, they went to the national championship. It was pretty cool.

Let's put a picture up here for Tyler Shuck and have him tell us what's happening in this photo. Can you explain to me everything that's happening here where you are apparently dressed as team owner, Gael Benson? And my God, what a package.

Yeah. No, thank you. I really appreciate that. That is the rookie Halloween contest where you have to obviously dress up and do a whole thing for it. And I got the blessing from The staff and Ms. Benson, obviously really close to them. And it was a hit for sure. I lost to major pain. Our running back, Devon Neil, did major pain, and he had the gold tooth in. He killed it. But it was fun. I think you got to not take yourself too seriously.

What's happening over there on the right, though, of that photograph? Just not with you, but over there on the right. That's Vector. Yeah, but lower. What's happening on the right? Lower.

I don't know, man. I I think he's got a hotel pillow stuff in his pants to try and do the... He's got a gut, the, Oh, yeah, the Vector. And then we got a dictator in the right hands. We had a great group, man. Great rookie class. And I think I was That was the best part. The whole team loved it.

You had to be nervous to ask the owner for that, though.

Yeah, I was crapping my pants. But I think that was the best part, was it was bold, and everybody loved it. And like you said, you can't take yourself too seriously. You got to have some fun with it.

Most of the people talking about and critiquing whatever is your performance don't understand the difficulty of all the information that you have to process in 25 seconds. If you were trying to explain to somebody listening to this, all right, let me explain to you this play call, how long it is, what it sounds like, what's just come to me through the helmet very quickly. What is the most complicated thing that you could say right now as just a play call and explain what that play call the most complicated sounding play call you guys have that has to get in there in 25 seconds.

You can go any way with that, but I can give you a different version of our offense. I don't want to give our plays out too much, but it'd be-Come on, give us one of your plays. Mode of flop left stack, F buzz, pop, raptors, toss, double post, wheel, can to duo spot. And then you got multiple reads within that. You got a pass run option. You got your one high, two high, then you can let it ride. Then you got a protection element. Say you get a pulling guard on that one. If you get pressure, you're going to kill the protection to get you in a six-man pro to still run the pass. But if you get a shell look, you're going to go to run. You got to play clock clicking down, and you got to snap the ball.

I think he likes us. He's not just on with us for that reason. Maybe working a promo? All right, we'll do Shuck yes or Shuck no him about Super Bowl parties. Are you ready to play the game Shuck yes or Shuck, no with us as I offer you an assortment of Super Bowl options for a Super Bowl party?

Shuck, yes.

Okay. Pizza. This guy gets a job. Pizza. Shuck, yes or shuck no?

Shuck yes.

Super Bowl commercials, shuck yes or shuck no?

Shuck yes. You just got to make sure they're not at 100 volume.

Watching the game with no sound, shuck yes or shuck no?

Shuck no.

Hot dogs, shuck yes or shuck no? Shuck yes. Chicken wings, shuck yes or shuck no? Shuck yes. Cupcakes and cookies shaped like footballs, shuck yes or shuck no?

Shuck no.

Half-time show, shuck yes or shuck no?

Shuck yes.

Super Bowl Squares, buying squares, shuck yes or shuck no?

Shuck NA. I don't know if I can even answer that, but if I was not playing-This guy is good.

Just go Shuck, no, I think.

Shuck, NA.

Pointed out the mic there, Dan.

Better quarterback- Get Shuck, Dan.

Come on, have some better questions. What are you doing?

Better quarterback, Sam Darnal or Jake May. Shuck yes or shuck no.

Shuck you, Dan.

Yeah!

Now let him promote his stuff. Promote it. Let's go. What are you going to be doing this Super Bowl Sunday?

Man, there's a couple of options. I might be in the hospital with my wife giving birth to our first son, or I might be watching the game, or probably both, maybe. But unfortunately, we'll be down in San Francisco, but we'll be here in New Orleans.

Congratulations, sir. It was fun watching you, and it was fun talking to you. Appreciate the time and appreciate your interview style.

Thank you, guys. Appreciate you.

I like that young man. I'm a Saints fan now. That's a Saint-Saint now. That's a Saint-Saint now. I tried to tell I like that Saints team. I tried to tell you guys. I like that Saints team. I love this guy. I love this guy. Look at us. That's how you kick off Super Bowl week. Right there. Shuck you, Dan. That was great. That was incredible. Impressive young man.

Put it on the poll. He was looking to. The best way to kick off Super Bowl week by saying, Shuck you, Dan, because I think I agree with that. Are you guys excited for what's coming next week? Because I dread all things Radio Row, and it's storming toward us, but we will have a whole lot of guests. You know that Dominic Foxworth said last week with us, he's like, I don't listen to you guys' show for the guests. I don't want guests. I want you guys doing show.

Fred Warner, Tuesday. Hell, yeah. That's a big get, Dan. Shuck and Fred Warner.

I think we should play Shuck Yeah or Shuck No with all of the guests.

You know the Couping for the Saints? Just see how many questions it takes before they say, Shuck you, Dan. Yeah, that's great. I'm more excited for the Royal Rumbling. Yes, I thought that's the direction you were going.

I think the biggest story in sports is Denny Hamlin. Yeah. Wait a minute. I was just endorscing you. Oh, no. We're in this together, buddy. No, no. Wait a minute. You were at the wrong microphone there. The Cathedral of Sport. Storytelling. You were in the wrong... You were at the wrong microphone. That was not interminal monolog. That was intermicalog. His dad died. In a fire. Come on. This is the Dirty Demon of Debate. This is not the inner monolog anymore. Shit. Seemed to have worked myself into a predicament.

Quick, go to Zaz on this Royal Rumble talk.

No, I No, I'm dying to talk about Denny Hamlin. No, it's a good idea.

No, I'm dying to talk about Denny Hamlin.

I promise it worked really hard on this. I can't talk enough about Denny Hamlin. Let's talk about Denny Hamlin. Okay. One door closes.

Denny Hamlin, if you're familiar with His story. Heartbreaking loss. He's basically the Buffalo Bill. He's never won a championship.

Where's the gear head?

Really? I'm going to touch on serious subject matter. Let's make sure that we have the video of him. Juggle more things. Bob Pocras. Denny Hamlin had a heartbreaking Championship loss. Devastating. They were in the pits. Kyle Larson takes a gamble on the tires. Denny Hamlin loses a race that he was completely controlling. And the Cup Championship him once again. When all the stars appeared to be aligning for him, he wanted to win that title. He wanted his terminally ill father to watch him win that title. And months after that devastating defeat, Denny Hamlin's terminally ill father passed away in a tragic house fire that also injured his mother. I can't even imagine the devastation. Denny Hamlin. Nascar season is starting this Sunday with the clash at Bowman and then Daytona on the horizon. He sat down with Nascar's preeminent journalist, and these are the first words that I've seen Denny Hamlin speak. And visibly, if you know what he looks like, he looks like a man that has gone through hell. He is absolutely wearing this tragedy, and he gives voice to it. Your heart breaks for Denny Hamlin here. How are you doing? Okay, as to be expected.

Does it look like your mom is doing okay?

Yeah, she has good days, bad days, but getting It's better. Did you consider not racing after everything that happened? I mean, I've considered all options. I made a promise to Joe, to give his family. Do you think it's going to be difficult to race? I don't think so. I think that once I get in the swing of it, it'll actually be good to get back to it. I haven't locked in for the season necessarily quite yet. Is there anything you want to say to so many people who have reached out and said things on social media? I'm curious if there is. Is there anything you want to tell people or- Well, I try to answer back some. It's impossible to answer back all. But yeah, it just certainly the NASCAR family has always been a very tight group and appreciate the condolences and the well wishes and everything from everyone. It certainly does mean a lot. Have you had much time to work with the team at all, or have they pretty much given you time to be with the team? Yeah, today will be my first day back at the shop since November, probably.

Best of me, I think, be you an old hat. I mean, it'll be pretty much like you're going to be ready for it.

I think so. I think so. I mean, those guys have been working and preparing and whatnot. I'll be obviously a little bit behind, but I feel like I can catch up pretty quickly. Obviously, pretty heavy stuff there. If you were watching us on the video supplement there, you can see a dude that looks broken. But I know NASCAR is not everybody's cup of tea. Dan, I know you're a big sports guy. You like what happens between the lines, but you also love the story behind sport. I'm telling you, if Denny Hamlin finds a way to even win Dayton, that He's incredible. He's done it before. But if he wins this cup, it is one of the greatest comeback stories in the history of sport, and everybody should be rooting for Denny Hamlin, who oftentimes embraces the villain role. He has really been bouied by the NASCAR community here It's a face turn. He is what everybody's rooting for. I'm a Kyle Larson guy, and Kyle Larson won that Cup Championship, and I was bummed for Denny Hamlin, and I am so rooting hard for the '11 car this year.

Well, sports are cool in a lot of different ways, and we were joking when we started today about Jeremy correctly saying, Come on, you guys, you can't tell me that Denny Hamlin and Jokeovich are a bigger story than onto to, but if those stories were in the sports you cared about, you'd think they were. If we You are taking these athletes and moving them into the things that you actually care about, you would have been moved by what happened with Jokowitch this morning. And the Denny Hamlin story has been fascinating for at least the last year.

Yeah, transparently, I had no idea of what was going on with Denny Hamlin when I said that. I'm just more of a Pella Larson guy. I understand that. But this is why we share these stories, because Brett Farve on Monday Night Football, Jordan embracing the trophy. Those are story lines that people to. And Denny's got a story that I think everybody can identify with.