Transcript of Hour 2: I'm Not Letting That Guy Beat Me (feat. Amin Elhassan and Jonathan Zaslow)

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This is the Dan Levatore Show with the Stugats podcast.

How about that Mariner's Tiger's game? Nobody cares. Nobody cares. Too much football.

Too much football. You're finally speaking my language.

I'm ashamed to admit this. My eyes got a little too heavy. It was an exciting night at the front on. I fell asleep because of all the emotional terrain that the Friday night match against Udonis Aslum's renegades provided.

I heard that you had to make an executive decision that was very unpopular as a leader.

Dan, I got into a shouting match in the locker room with one of our players. What? Yeah. The undetaker. For those that aren't following this amazing season that the cyclones are having in battle court, top of the standings right now, first place, we've had so many injuries. Dan, we've had injuries to injury replacements. We had to go into this Friday without our best player, Manu, the captain, the legend, the greatest backquarter on the planet. We needed emergency replacements, and yet we still got the dub. However, watching this match play out, Inyaki, our tremendous front quarter, he pulled a bicep. We had the match day secured, thanks to the bravery of Robin, and I made the call. Where's the Jigalo? Guys, the Jigalos there waiting in the wings if we need them. But I made the call with a six and final match that was relatively meaningless for the cyclones. I said, We're going to go ahead and forfeit this match, guys. We have the match day secured. And Unda was not happy. Really? Undah was yelling at me. Undo is like, You know how crazy I am? I think about this sport six days a week.

I'm like, Your math is a little off their butt. But he's like, I need to play. You need me to play so I can get better. I'm like, I can see that, but I'm not going to throw out Hyro for a third match when Inyaki's just torn his bicep a little bit. I got Manu getting treatment. We're walking match unit. We're like, Undo, you can go, but we're trying to save Hyro.

Were you involved in the shouting, too?

I was not there Friday. I had a parlay, honestly.

I was anti-Mike. I was like, Let's finish this thing. If you watch the broadcast, it was a little awkward because the players took the front on for match six while the GM was saying, We're not going to do that. And they had to get pulled off the front on.

That would be a national controversy if it happened in football or something.

That's a big controversy.

I like that competitive spirit in that fire from Undah. Those were good sparks. That is true locker room leadership. Manu had my back as a true captain does. We said, Boss, you made the right move. I got complimented from the league office that said, These players need a good GM to protect them from themselves. We are first place, and we're not going to risk injury in match six. You know why, Chris? Because the standard is championship level. We need to win a battle core championship here. We need to, and that is the main thing. Mike, question for you. Do you guys still have the curtain of the locker room? Yes. That sure is everybody's locker room? Mm-hmm. Okay. Just to be clear, that's the end of the-That's right.

Logist winner take all baseball game in the history of Major of the Base.

That's it? That's all? Alds talk.

I was watching The Lions Chiefs. I forgot all about them.

No, this wasn't- This was five days ago. No, this was three days ago.

He was watching it, though.

This was Friday night.

Remember, he's in pain. They also won yesterday.

It was pretty cool.

Cal Raleigh.

They should have bunted Crawford earlier in that game. Would have saved us all a bunch of sweat. But now that concludes ALDS.

Who do you forfeit to? Did you just throw a towel on the court?

I told the league. I told the league leadership.

Who's that?

The Savvins, the Commissioner and the commissioner's daughter. She works hard.

The league can't like a forfeit.

The league had my back. This was the right call. I mean, this- This was the right call.

But this largely exists for the action.

Someone in this room might have had a parlay and might have had different feelings about that. We won't pull that curtain back. It's me.

Were the fans booing?

Scooble struck out seven straight guys, and it's like he pitched a month ago by that time the thing ended up an extra inning.

Hold on a second.

You're a team owner, you're betting on your own team. A toner.

He never bets against them. Yep, always with us.

Allegedly.

No, Chester, I could show you the slip.

If you're betting against your own team, that's a contravene.

That's what I'm saying. I never have. Even betting on your own team, that'll get you out of Hall of Fame. Ask P. Root. Well, you can't anymore, but you know what I mean.

Okay, Mike, I will argue that I will give you a stat from that game while you were falling asleep. What game on Friday? Not the Undetaker, not the Highly.

The Lions game?

Cal Raleigh, in the game where they were playing all of this perfect baseball where none of the pitchers can be hit and all of the pitchers are getting out of first and second base for your season jams Cal Raleigh had, and I couldn't believe this when they said it, they went out of the broadcast booth where, of course, Adam Wainwright was there holding an actual baseball because he's got to be. And he's sitting next to A. J. Przezinski, and both of them, as the game is going on, are getting more and more disheveled so that by the 15th ending, I really wanted them to lean into the cartoonish aspects of they look like they're a mess because this is exhausting. But during that game, Cal Raleigh had His first pass ball of the season? Yeah, I saw that. I couldn't believe that. How do you play an entire season catching baseballs being thrown at 100 miles an hour by those weirdos and not have a pass ball all season?

How is that even possible? It's not possible. He's a platinum glove winner.

He caught 17,000 pitches this season without a pass ball and hit 60 home runs.

The entire broadcast is just Adam Wainwright saying, I'm not letting this guy beat me. We're running out of guys that can beat you here, Well, and also another observation. Od-looking team, the Mariners. Josh Naylor straight up looks like a Bucaneer, not a Tampa Bay Bucaneer, a swashbuckling Bucaneer. He looks like a musketeer. If we want to go away from the seas, strange Change-looking dude.

When you say that, I'm not going to let this guy beat me, I did have a moment during yesterday's football that made me laugh. It's at the goal line. Baltimore twice goes push-push.

Wow, look at that lava lamp shirt.

Is that what that is? I thought it was a vacuum cleaner. It looked like a vacuum cleaner.

Let's really talk this out, dad.

I think it is a vacuum cleaner.

Talk out everything it could be.

It's a Hoover.

I mean, it looks like a vacuum cleaner.

What do you think it is?

A lava lamp?

I don't know. On Bertkrish.

I'm going to whisper in your ear, dad, what it is. It'd be a weird thing.

No way. I mean, I don't know that.

What do you not know? What do you mean no way? It looks exactly like one of those things. You don't know what one of those would look like?

Vacuum cleaners? No.

What are you looking at me? What are you want me to say?

That apparatus? Yeah.

I don't believe it's what it is alleged to be.

Oh, it is. It's for the big dumper.

Okay. All right. So if he had one of those, he wouldn't be the big dumper anymore.

Say it for podcast audience.

Wait, what?

No, it's not to plug the poop.

I don't think he has any idea what a butt plug is.

You tell me, Dan. Oh, Dan. You want me, Mr. Expert, over here? Go on. What is it?

I don't think that you have any idea what that is. But apparently, you do. But it's not something- But it's not something- It is not to plug poop. That's not what we're doing with that. What is it for?

What is it for? Dad?

I'm asking Dan. He's the expert.

Well, I'm not going to take a quiz, so how about you tell us? How Why don't you tell us what it's for?

That's what a modium was for.

To clear it up or to keep it in?

A modium keeps it in, no? I don't know.

Wait, just to be clear, you think when you hear the word butt plug- You thought it was to stop. You think it's to stop the flow of what's coming out?

I don't know. What is it? Somebody tell me.

Some people derive sexual pleasure.

What did you think? Who here has worn a butt plug?

Wow.

Put it out on the poll.

Your hand is up.

You just put your hand up. Worn it? Yeah. Do you classify it as wearing it?

I don't think so. We'll go ahead and clip that. Used? Maybe used one?

Who's used a butt plug? In that baseball game between the Mariners and the Tigres.

My hand was up seeking other people.

In concert with or just trying to find the person?

I have done that because I have not. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Unless there is. I don't know. Is it a good thing? Is it a bad thing? Do people do it?

It's the only one way to find out.

I have no idea. Maybe it's, don't knock it till you try it. There you go.

Hello.

That's the next bet. That's usually what you say. That's the next bet? That's the next bet?

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What do we got here? I got a Magnum condom. We won't get out.

That's shocking. Stugatz.

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Yeah.

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Can you find for me the sound of the Tiger's announcement after the game getting caught on a Live mic saying, Bleep this postgame show.

I don't want to do this postgame show because their season is over. When it is that Billy is pointing out the idea of as we're watching all of these games and thinking that other people can just recreate what these people are doing. The Baltimore Ravens, twice, because you're sitting here when you're talking about this high lie story and you guys are saying from your executive suite, well, just do it this way. This is the easy way to do it. So I watched the Ravens at the goal line. They twice tried the push-push. They failed twice. And Tom braided comes in helpfully and he just says, You know what I'm doing in this spot? And he circles Derrick Henry. I'm just giving it to this guy. They did, and he lost three yards. They couldn't do the... It was comedy to have Tom braided come in and see them not be able to get half a yard on a push-push twice. And he's like, What What are you doing? Just give it to this guy, and that guy lost three yards because everyone knew they were just going to give it to that guy because that offense can't do anything when Lamar Jackson's not out there.

You got tripped up like five yards behind the line. It was like, Oh, that's not good.

But it got me to thinking, because we were playing the gronk sound, Chris, when you think of what it is that you want from your announcers, because it's funny that gronk is being used on a pregame show where all he can contribute is being the court jester gronk, he's not going to He's not going to give you any good analysis, but he's going to be better than braided. Emeka at Big Bo. Because at the very least, he will give you that. He'll give you a couple of occasions where he'll simply give you this. Emeka at Big Bo. Like, Gronk is a hire as a higher as a broadcaster, truly awful. However, if you just get this from him every month or so, it's better than what you're paying braided $375 million for, which is just to circle Derek Henry and say, Give it to this guy. That's my expertise.

And Wainwright would be like, I'm not letting Derek Henry beat me.

That's the point I was looking for. It wasn't what Billy said, and it wasn't high lie. It was that point. I'm not letting somebody beat me was the point that you made. And that's what Tom braided was saying. I believe everyone on Earth knows that the Ravens aren't going to beat you at this point if they don't hand it to that human being. That's all they've got.

Wainwright predicted, probably, I would bet in that game, 70 fastballs that were sliders. Every single time, I'm going fastball. Oh, this one's going to be a fastball for sure. And that just shows where the game is at. But there was nothing as electric as in the 15th ending when Tommy Canely comes in, and you've got Adam Amin absolutely losing his mind over 93 mile an hour fastballs simply because Canely only throws change-ups. That's where we were in the game.

It was beautiful. It is. The level of play in that baseball game where every time a pitcher goes down in a 2: 0 count, even if the bases are loaded, it's like, No, I'm not throwing a fastball here, even though I throw 100. No, I'm going to put a 2-0 breaking ball on you. The pitching in that game was extraordinary. I couldn't believe that the Blue Jays... I thought for sure, at the very least, you got to fly across the country after playing that game when you've done that to your bullpen, that the Blue Jays are going to club you over the head because you're not going to be able to get any pitching. And then they went again yesterday.

And it starts with George Springer hitting a home run on the first pitch. So you're like, All right, well, this is going to go horribly. The Mariners threw 100 pitches. They threw 99 pitches in ALDS game five after the eighth année.

Can I get you guys interested in baseball with that or not?

I'm going to admit, I went to bed after 14 innings. No, I really did. I kept watching and watching because it was a great game. It was so compelling, so close, and great pitching. I'm just like, I can't stay up anymore. I'm literally falling asleep. This could go 19 innings. I'm out. Sorry.

Can you say something so compelling, I'm falling asleep?

Oh, yeah.

It happens. That second seventh-inning stretch, really, it's like, All right, let's get this done already.

Is the story around Kansas City and Detroit going to be that Brian Branch fought Juju Smith-Schuster? Is that what we're going to be... Is that what's eating up the news stream and how it is that people talk about these games? Because at this point, the Chiefs are in the position when it's only news if they lose, right? It's not the big news if they win.

It certainly isn't people admitting they were wrong about them.

It's big news when they beat Detroit and that stopped that mighty offense. But Brian Branch, I predict, will be suspended for multiple games.

Multiple games? Yes.

I think when you do that after the game, it takes on a whole another level.

I just saw a whole lot of headlines, marred, marred, marred, marred. And I'm like, what? More violence broke out after the initial violence? More guys fought I shrugged on, Okay, gladiator's got out of control. Whatever. That happens.

Really? Okay. I'll be interested to see what the league does. The league will do something.

But did it mar it? Because I saw a marred, marred, marred.

It was an ugly scene. Yeah.

I mean, we're talking about it, and that's the last thing the league wants. You have two of your best teams playing in prime time, and now you're talking about a fight between two players, one saying he was bullied. Ridiculous. Embarrassing.

What What is Zaz doing there? Look at Zaz. Zaz is looking in on us, haunting a little bit of haunting. Where are you, Zaz? You've been missed. You're traveling Europe. You've never traveled Europe before. What are you doing?

Bonjour, everyone. Bonjour. You know what Bonjour means?

Hello?

That's where I am. I'm in Paris. Hello. Hello, Dan.

Bonjour. What are you doing? You just looked like you're in a parking lot. You can be in Tamarack.

Well, that's true. I've said that several times on this trip. What are we seeing here that I've not seen Cooper City? That's funny that you mentioned that. My wife doesn't like when I say that. But behind me is the River Seine. You know about that river? You may have heard in the Olympics. We're about to go on it. We're going to go on a river cruise tonight.

Were people barfing in? They Can't somebody die?

Yeah, but don't worry about that. I'm not going to barf or die in this river.

What are you looking forward to? What have been the highlights of your trip?

Saw the Mona Lisa today. Got to see my girl in person. That's right. We toured the That's a very famous museum, Dan. We toured that today, and we've seen all kinds of great stuff here. Eiffel Tower yesterday went all the way up to the top. You can't be skirt. I went all the way to the very top of the Eiffel Tower. It's very exciting, Dan.

I can't help but point out that today in America, we're celebrating Indigenous People's Day, and you decided that the best way to celebrate that was to leave and go to the continent of the colonizers.

I mean, look, sometimes you I'm going to pick aside, right? I don't know what to tell you.

I don't know what to tell you.

Let my boy cook. Hold up. That's a holiday spirit. Let my boy cook. And you didn't call it by its right name. I saw an EO go out.

What's going on in sports, guys? Is the sports still happening while I'm away? It's very tough keeping track with the time difference. You know about the time zones, Dan?

I do, yes. The Lord's Time Zone.

They actually stopped all sports until you came back. It's the craziest thing.

Did you have any sports opinions that you wanted to share before flying back in a hurry? Are you here this week?

Yeah, I'm flying back home tomorrow. I'm coming straight to the studio Wednesday morning. I miss you guys. I'm excited to be there. I don't like keeping all these sports takes to myself. I haven't been able to see a single second of the Panthers because the games are 1: 00 AM over here. Terrible. If we were all in the Lord's time zone, it'd be so much easier to keep track of everything. But I know the Panthers are 3: 00. I love them so much. And I watch most of the Dolphins game yesterday because that was 7: 00 PM local time here. No problem. I saw most of it. Two or three interceptions. And then he questions the leadership leadership in players-only meetings, which really sounds like he's questioning his own leadership. So I don't know. You explain that bullshit to me.

All right. Good seeing you. Any other sports opinions on your way out the door that you need to unleash because it can't wait till Wednesday?

I mean, Aaron Glenn, you fake punt at the end of the first half, you pick it up, and then you sit on the ball and run out the clock. Get the hell out of here. You're not a head coach.

All right. Very good. See you on Wednesday, Zaz. Take us- Bonsoir. Bonsoir. All right, thank you. Appreciate. He doesn't belong in Europe. They shouldn't let him in Europe.

His family has to hate that, right? He's like, Well, we can't go on this river cruise yet.

You don't think all of France hates him walking around looking like an undercover cop?

My son hates it. I'm embarrassing my kids. My kids hate that I'm doing this right now. They said, Dad, can you all walk 10 minutes away? I'm embarrassing them. What's to be embarrassed about? Look at me. I'm also... Dan Levatard. My algorithm on Instagram is Dan's all boobs.

Stugatz.

It's a good algorithm.

This is the Dan Levatard show with the Stugatz. Dan, it occurred to me earlier today. We're talking about this before the show. We're in a bit of a pickle today. I don't know if you've caught on to the fact that we're in a pickle here.

His movie theater sells pickles. How much? 2.

99. I can't even do his own bit.

He's gone. Sorry, we can't play your pickle game with him. He's gone. We have to welcome in Amin Al-Hassan instead. Maybe there'll be time for you to play your pickle game with Amin once he's done with his weekend observations. Are you ready, Amin? Or do you want to do pickles? Or do you want to do weekend observations first.

That's a hell of a deal, but let's do weekend observations.

Yeah. Amin also looks like a- It is time for him to share his game notes. No one in the media will tell you what happened better than my voice.

The hat's too small. That's part of it.

The It's the style of the hat, too. Officer, I don't have anything on me.

The hat is too small.

Where do I go around here to buy a bag of dope?

Where can a guy get a butt plug around here?

Haircut day is tomorrow, fellows. Weekend observations is presented by Middle Light. Dan, they said it was a wrap. They said the magic was over. They wrote him off. Even though he got a pen, a postcard, and a stamp, he never went to the mailbox because after 174 yards and one breakdown, make no mistake, my boy Gino is back. He got to win. That's all that matters, the most important stat of them all.

What was that? What was that, Tony? You just gave your-My boy, Gino. He did 174 yards in a countdown.

They beat the worst team in the league.

A win is a win. Get one in the win column. That's all he got. Just win, baby.

Off of that football weekend, you open with Gino Smith?

Not throwing a pick. That's the only thing he didn't do is not throw a pick.

Well, he did throw a pick. I just didn't mention it. He did throw one. It was a bad pick, too. I was like, Gino, what are you doing?

You're in the red zone, Gino. Come on.

Drake, the quarterback. Having as good a year as Drake, the music artist, had a bad year. There can only be one. Drake. I need a one, Drake. Here's a first. Kool-aid lost to Booty.

You see that one, Dan? I did, yes. Kool-aid's a great name for a college football player.

That was Boody.

I've seen Boody throughout the college experience. There are generations of Boody's.

George Boody.

He was the original.

There's no one I feel more sorry for than Brian Branch, not because he was bullied, but because he admitted to being in the lead. Doing that in Man Campbell's world has to be a cardinal sin with giant repercussions. Greg, you said multiple game suspension. Is that what you said?

I think so.

Book it. Yeah. Giant repercussions.

There There we go.

Dan Campbell. Speaking of a giant-Oh, I'm sorry, I ruined it. I stepped on it. Dan Campbell, though. Dan Campbell did call it inexcusable. I'm guessing Dan Campbell is not real happy with Branch this morning.

Yeah, can't be excused. Giant repercussions. Speaking of a giant, hey, Philly, you got a fucking dart in your neck. We're going to do this every week, folks. Pull what out. Dan? You know what Cam Skatebu had for dinner Thursday night? He had wings. Wings. Wings. Wings. Yeah. Eagle wings. Tender. Fall right off the bone. Dan asked if the colts are haunted, and Mike Ryan made an Ursay joke. And nobody went with them on it. Bad teammates, just like Tua. Stay strong, Greg Cody. Stay strong. A whole lot of football to be played. You know who a good teammate is? Mike Ryan. Thanks for the heads up on those World Cup tickets. San Francisco, here I come. Haynes King, 204 Four passing yards and one countdown. You know what that is, Dan?

I do not.

Solid. Haynes King, 60 yards rushing in two touch downs. You know what that is?

Heisman.

Best Running quarterback in the nation. How about that Georgia Tech yellow jackets, huh? Calling Jackson Smith and Jigba, J-S-N, is the ultimate announcement What's your cheat code? It feels like a very dangerous name. I'll be real careful around it. Just say J-S-N, and no one will think twice. Five thousand a week is a fraction of nick Wright's gambling budget. That's crazy. Meaning his annual gambling budget easily clears a quarter of a million dollars. You think with that money, he could afford to come up with his own bits? I'll tell you what, nick. You pay me a fraction of your gambling budget, and I'll come up for bits for you. Mvp conversation bar. We had it first. I dare someone to call Johnny Furphy of the Pacers, Sneaky Athletic. You guys have no idea who I'm talking about, but you will. Tony knows.

Johnny Furphy. I love him, dude.

That puts posters up. He puts posters up. A receding hairline and a bad back. Me and LeBron have so much in common. Let me just stop right here. Chris was like, How would you feel if you woke up every day and crippling back pain? That's me, mother. That's me every day, and I don't have a billion dollars. And it's free.

For free. They're the ones that all take that back pain. I'll take it on every day of the week. For $1.

3 billion.

I'll take it every day of the week. I don't want to be Bob Galata. I want to be Tiger Woods.

I don't want to be Tiger Woods. I just want Tiger Woods money. It's Quish. Penn State firing James Franklin. A couple of weeks after Penn State, hired Keegan Michael Ke to do a James Franklin impression. Feels like we should have known. Also feels like I shouldn't have called him Keegle.

Nobody got that. Yes, I got it. What is that, Greg? Greg doesn't know what you're talking about.

No, I I do. All right.

Bam out of bio. Bam out of the Bayou. Telling Asia Wilson he'll propose her after he brings the Championship to Miami. Oh, no. Asia better hopes he picks up hockey. Bam out of the Bayou. What does Mark Davis say to the barber when he gets a haircut? I'm asking the room. What do you think he says? I'll take the bowl.

He brings a bowl in and just puts it on his head. I'll have the usual.

Yeah, there you go, Mike. That's what he says. The uge.

Fuck my shit up.

Lewis. I like that. A fan is suing LeBron James for the second decision. How long did your lawyer say the process to take, Dan? Yes. I know that... Wait. Brace yourselves, everyone. Dan actually thought there was going to be a second decision.

I admitted that. I wasn't hiding from it. You thought you were going to shame me? You thought you were going to shame me by revealing private texts?

I thought he was going to sell a...

Obviously, I think everyone knew there was some advertisement with it, but I thought it was going to be part of an announcement, and then it was sold.

Have you guys never met LeBron James on TV? You don't know what he's about? You think that's how he announces his shit? Come on, man.

I don't know what he's about. I should have known he's about Hennessy.

That's how he announced his way to Miami.

He did an interview. What do you mean?

There was a build up to that. There wasn't just, Hey, by the way, tomorrow, I'm going to have an announcement. Everyone, pay attention. That's not how he does. When he does that, it's clear he's just doing... He's just silly. He's just showing. Are there any Black Ethan's in existence? Does anyone know a Black Ethan?

I do not.

Put it on the poll at Lebitard Show. Do you know any Black Ethans?

I took a nap and woke up to number 19 Johnson catching a shutdown for Tampa Bay. I thought I fell into a time warp. A Quixon? I had to Google if the kid wasn't Keesha's kid. Just a random Johnson wearing 19 for Tampa Bay.

I know this isn't a surprise here locally, but it is still a little jarring to see an Ironde Geadston running around for the chargers.

There was another Johnson for the Tampa Bay Bucaneers, by the way. Tez Johnson caught his first career countdown from Baker Mayfield yesterday. The crowd chanted MVP, and Tez thought the chance was for him. He said, But I had to ask Sterling Sheffer. I didn't even do anything. That's my first step out of the year.

Three Johnson's when you consider the 6'1 lining up under center.

This kid is going places. That's a good one, Mike. In 1778, during the Revolutionary War, the British carried out the Cherry Valley Massacre, in which they targeted and killed 30 non-combatants and took 30 more prisoners. After 247 years, we finally got our revenge yesterday by sending one of the most boring games imaginable, Jesus Christ, Broncos and Jets. At one point, Justin fields a thrown for minus 10 yards for the game. He finished with 45. It's ice cold. Top five things colder than Justin Fields. Olai, Miller light. Number five, the North Pole. No, we're not doing… Ben forgot it. Thank you. That's usually when I say Ola, that's a sign that the list has started. Number five, the North Pole. Bare. I mean, barely. I looked it up. It It was like 42 degrees in the North Pole yesterday. Global warming. Youch. Number four, the dairy section of Costco.

Freezing in there, but a nice little respite of stuff when it's hot out there.

When you're hot outside, you go get the milk first. Go in there, hang out for a little bit. Get the eggs. See what eggs they got going on. Look at some strawberries. Absolutely. Then you come back out, and now you're good. Number three, the tweet from midseason from the guy who said, We were witnessing the decline of Asia Wilson. She ended up being, Finals MVP, Defensive Player of the Year, Scoring Champ, and MVP.

Pretty good.

Yeah, not bad. Number two, any flight I get on when I I have to bring a hoodie or jacket. When I bring my hoodie or jacket, it's always 60 degrees in there. I forget it. It's 22 degrees. I get frostbite on the flight.

Below freezing, is that right? But you're flying at below freezing temperatures.

I can see my breath. If I don't bring a hoodie or jacket, if I'm comfortable and I'm hooded up, it's all good. If I don't bring it, I could see my breath. The number one thing that's colder than Justin Fields yesterday, the Dolphin season. He's strong, Greg Cody. Why is it when team score versus the Niners, the TV trucks always Robert Sal. What the hell? Speaking of hell, and that beat that didn't come out after my what the Hell, Art Brials.

Wow, you're not working correctly with a mean. He needs the notes to be heathed. What the hell? It did. Correctly. That's the cue.

Hey, he's about to wrap it up. I think it's a Zoom. It's a Zoom audio prioritization thing.

Well, those are the week-end observations.

Bad team. Except your apologies.

I have a couple of sounds that I want to get to from what it is that he was just talking about because Aaron Glenn did snippet reporters for suggesting, did you consider removing your quarterback when he had the worst first half any of us have ever seen. Sacked nine times for the game, passing total of negative 10 when you take the sacks, 55 yards of sacks, and then take away all of the passing totals, which is eight yards on the final drive, 37 before that. So I've never seen such a bad game in normal weather conditions. I also want to get the sound of the Detroit Tiger'souncer who said, Bleep this postgame show during the postgame show. But I wanted to talk to all of you, including Amin, about the new standard in college football, where James Franklin can be fired six games after having his team a half from playing for the most meaningful of games.

College game day was at Happy Valley, like 15 days ago. And James Franklin was being interviewed by Saban. Right then, Penn State was in the middle of a good run, made it to the national semifinals. A corner slips, you lose that game. And now, next thing you know, you're losing to UCLA, which, by the way, Deshawn Foster must be the worst head coach on the planet for UCLA to turn their season around the way that they did. And James Franklin is out of a job despite all of us conceding, not a bad coach, just can't win the big one. $50 million, buyout, triggered, decisive. That is them knowing exactly which direction. Matt Rule's agent, by the way, is a Hall of Fame agent because he's already linked to that job, restarting the clock over there. But this was a shocking result. And then we were having the conversations immediately after that result, Drew Alar out for the year. Seemed like he had a bunch of people fooled. But this is pretty stunning.

Isn't it shocking and stunning just because Penn State finally did it? Because we've been talking for such a long time. He just can't win the big game. Look at all the talent he has. He'll get into the playoff now that it's 12. They'll never fire him if he keeps getting to the playoff. Then they actually finally did it, which I think is what actually surprised people.

It's two games that cost him his career. One we've never seen. Ucla was 0-4 and had lost at home to New Mexico, 35-10. Ucla was terrible. A team of Penn State's caliber had never lost to an 0-4 team like that. Then I'm telling you, you lose to Northwestern and you get gone.

But it's a long time coming. He's had years and years of not winning the big games that they hired him to come win. His career is not over. He He will end up somewhere and he'll be just fine. It didn't work out at Penn State.

The crazy thing, Dan, is even the NFL, definitely the NBA, Major League Base, you can fire a coach midseason because, Guys, all we got to do is get a hot enough run, and we'll get a wild card, or we'll get in a play in or whatever, and then we'll see where it goes from there. We even saw Michael Malone getting fired with two games left in the season, which is outrageous, but still enough time for Denver to turn something meaningful out of their season. What's the point in firing James Franklin right now? What does that do for them? How ahead of the eight ball are they? Then the other part of it is, if you fired him now, that means you already felt like firing him early. It's going to have been the first inkling you had about thinking about making a change. Why didn't you make the change earlier? It's always the weirdest thing when college football coaches get fired midseason.

But we're literally talking it's four halves that got him fired. If he wins that over time against Oregon, he's not fired. If he wins the overtime against Oregon, he does not get fired. It'd be embarrassing.

But he still has a UCLA loss and the Northwestern loss at home?

I believe this happened in three losses. I believe it was three losses, the cumulative effect of all three of the losses, and the last one being Northwestern. You can't tell me the last two games are James Franklin not being able to win the big game. They have nothing to do with the big game.

No, but they're brutal losses. You're probably right. It's the three because there would still be a path to the CFP, even if they just lost to UCLA and Northwestern, even though those records combined are bad.

Well, his reputation is he can't win the big game, but he can always win the games he's supposed to win to still get himself into the playoffs. Then once he stopped doing that, the reason it happened after this loss is because three losses for this Penn State team, they're not going to make the playoff. So the season ended for them this weekend, more than likely.

That's correct. But I do ask you, again, if they simply make the comeback, they were down 17-3 against Oregon. If they come back to beat Oregon on the same day, like Indiana just beat Oregon to expose Oregon some. But this was four-halves ago. Four-halves ago, they were in overtime against the top five team at home. They'd be coming back from down to touch downs in that game to win that game.

I don't know. I can't imagine the conversations being held by the boosters as they're losing to Northwestern at home.

Northwestern got him fired. Nothing 12 years happened that wasn't Northwestern getting him fired. You lost to Northwestern, and we cannot abide that. We are serious people.

Dan, you could say it. They lost to nerds.

I already did say it. They lost to Mike Greenberg's school, and we cannot have that.

This is like Liam Neeson on the ice road up in Nepal, trying to spread his brother's ashes on Mount Everest, which, by the way, Ice Road, Vengence, the Cinephobe movie from last week, this week on Thursday, come now, Retribution, another Liam Neeson movie. We're getting a little Liam Neeson slate going on on Cinephobe, wherever you get podcast.

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