Transcript of Hour 2: The Manager's Surprise

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I want to apologize to the audience yesterday because they want their hours and they want them every day, and they have made us a beast, Stugatz. I am really proud and happy right now in a contract year that DraftKings has been the best sponsor we've ever had. We love DraftKings, got a great relationship with them. Also, it It's the content free agent spending spree time where everyone in streaming is trying to get into sports. It's just an aggressive business time. And so I have been wanting to feed the addiction to our audience, and they continue to allow us to make a great business out of what all of this is. Yesterday, they expected four hours after two weeks off after football headed into the playoffs, and we can only give them three because the computers are melting. It was very hot and the air conditioning wasn't working. That's not winter problems that most media companies have, but they told me, Don't do it in Miami, Dan. You're an idiot. Don't ever do it in Miami. You're a fool. The equipment was melting yesterday. We didn't get the fourth hour out, but we did get you some Ron McGill best of, and I just wanted to apologize to the audience for that.

We will give you your full ration of addiction today. I didn't get to the Golden Globes yesterday. There were a thousand things I wanted to talk about that I never got the chance to talk about Apple, $95 million settlement because, yeah, we've been eavesdropping on people. Yeah, yeah. It's just the most common thing. We all know this now and accept it. Apple pays $95 million in a lawsuit to just be like, We listen to But we don't want to offend Apple because they're good business partners. Got to be careful who we offend in this age of free agency in a contract.

Everyone's hiring. If you order merchandise, don't criticize the company you order the merchandise for. They have this company starting.Dangerous game.

Also, the consequences for Apple doing things with our phone, we're just so dependent on them. Remember when they had to essentially admit, whenever there was a new update that came out, it would ruin your phone because you had to buy the new iPhone. We'd make that happen. They got slapped on the wrist with a fine, and we kept buying the new iPhone anyway.

Too big to fail.

Those chargers, though.

You mentioned Ron McGill. I saw Ron McGill over the break and had an uncomfortable moment. Really? In part because of Ron McGill. It was really a bad behavior on my part that I should apologize for to the people that I offended, but I don't know how to or if they're even going to remember it or experience it the same way. Do you guys ever have something and it played out differently in your head than you think that it was for other people? You feel guilt about something that other people, I don't really care about that at all. I had that with Ron McGill. I went to the zoo. I don't want to brag. I'm an annual pass holder at the zoo. No big deal.

You're a regular.

Yeah, I can go whenever I damn well, please. Because I have one of those family passes, right? It's $70. Honestly, I don't know why it's so cheap. I don't know why I'm saying this because now they're going to raise the price, but it's cheaper to get the annual pass than it is to take your family for a to the zoo. If you have interest in going to the zoo and you have a family, get the annual pass.

You are a zoo supporter, and it is cheap.

It is a bargain. I love the animals.

It's like the drink package on a cruise. It is.

Yeah, but that one seems more like a challenge. You get the drink package on a cruise, you're like, I'm going to make money here. Because what you do is you start counting the drinks, you start adding it up, and then you convince yourself that you actually made money by drinking more.

Billy, you're a man of the people, and I believe that your aggressive support of the zoo is something that is fun for the whole family. You are a McGill supporter, but what happened with you and him?

You know what I saw before we get to that at the zoo? I saw they installed cameras where I believe the chimpanzees are. I wanted to ask him about it whenever he comes back on because before, he wasn't there. I went to the zoo previously, and one of the chimpanzees asked a man to throw him ice cream, so the man obliged and threw him ice cream. Then the chimpanzee ate said ice cream. After waving the man and saying, Throw me the ice cream, he threw him the ice cream. Now there's The camera is set up everywhere, and there's a recording in English and Spanish of Ron McGill telling people if they throw the chimpanzees anything, they will be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. It's on an endless loop. I wonder, what's worse for the health of these chimpanzees, eating the occasional ice cream or having Ron McGill talk to them 24 hours a day, driving them crazy?

We need to ask Ron McGill this. You don't understand, okay? I don't know what's coming in the next four years. None of us know what's coming in the next four years, but I assure it's not people who will be interested in protecting the zoo and Ron McGill.

I'm just doing my part.

Ron McGill is going to need our protection because I don't know how many of you remember the scene from a million years ago of Indiana Jones waving a torch at a bunch of snakes. But whatever is coming for government funding is going to make it hard for you to afford things like that precious, precious zoo that he cares about more than anybody because he cares about the animals more than anybody. But what was the awkward moment you had with our hero, Ron McGill?

Well, so as I mentioned, I have the annual a pass so I can support Ron's vacations. What happened was Ron was on a vacation to the Galapagos, which I think zoo people, I'm not exactly sure. I go to the zoo, and the people here who have kids know sometimes you will see your kids' classmates out in the wild. The kids are very excited when they see each other out in the wild. Totally awkward for the parents. Okay. Here we go. It's fun for the kids to see each other out in the wild. I've had this happen. But the kids, my eldest is three. These are three-year-olds. They see you like, they're screaming each other's names. They go, they're excited, they run up to each other. Then you go and you say, Hi to the parents. Hey, how's it going? How's the break? Small school is going to start again next week. You start the small talk, and then one of the parents says, Hey, look, it's Ron McGill. I was excited because you don't always see Ron McGill. Every time you go to the zoo, I'm going to see a giraffe. I'm going to see a zebra, I'll see a rhino.

But you don't know if you're going to see Ron McGill.

Billy, you know this. Ron McGill is a giant star. Sabado Higante is a show. Internationally, Ron McGill represents the fascination of how exotic Miami is to the world. He's a big star. When people see him at the zoo, he's the biggest attraction.

He is. It's exciting to see him because you never know when you're going to see him or if you're going to see him because sometimes we see him, he's in his office, and you'll see pictures of him everywhere. You'll hear his voice telling people, Don't throw things at the chimpanzees. But this person says, Oh, look, it's Ron McGill. And we're like, I got excited. So I was like, I got to go say hi to Ron McGill. So I just take off in the middle of this conversation to go say hi to Ron McGill. I jog over because he was on a golf cart. So I had to almost jog over to the golf course and I tap on the side like, Hey, Ron. Hey, Billy, how's it going? You know how he talks. So he gets out of the thing and I'm like, How was the Galápagos? Oh, it was amazing. Does all that Ron McGill stuff. Signed me about the Galápagos. He gets out of the golf car. We're talking about, It's so great to see you. Oh, I'm so sorry. There's so much construction going on right now at the zoo. Mickey Mouse?

I'm like, It's fine, Ron. Don't worry about it. We're here. We support you. We're here all the time anyway. It's not a big deal. So he gets out. I'm talking to him. He's talking to me. We're talking about the Galápagos, all that stuff.Time to look cool.Yeah. The parents are there, and then I introduce them. I'm like, Oh, here's my wife and my daughters. I don't know if you met my daughters. Then I noticed that at some point, the friends and the parents of the friends have left. I was like, Oh, should I have introduced them to Ron McGill? Should I have bailed in the middle of a conversation with them to say hi to Ron McGill? You big-time them. No, I felt very rude after the fact. Then they were gone, and we didn't see them the rest of the day. The whole day, I was full of regret of leaving in the middle of this conversation and then not introducing them to Ron McGill. That's a good way to live life. Talking to regret? Yeah, just-The only way I know how.

Overthinking.

Just feeling it all day. Feeling regret all day.

I was feeding the girass, and I shake the feeling.

You should send your apology.

I thought about changing my daughter's schools, honestly. I was like, I can't face these people.

Just tell your three-year-old the apology, and she'll relay the message.

No, and then the whole day, she's like, Oh, where? I'm just asking where her friend is, and I'm like, I don't know, but also, I They probably hate me now because I left very rudely.

A calamitous zoo visit that should have been wonderful.

It was a lovely day aside from that. Let me ask you guys another question, awkwardness aside, and how you would deal with that situation. The zoo has a split. We ended up going not in the same loop as them, I'm assuming, because we didn't see them. But you then have to have a... You figure it out, because if you go the same loop as your kid's friends, then you're in it all day with your kid's friends and their family, whatever. You have to decide, do I want to ruin another family's day by including me in it?

That's how you look at it.

No. It's a great way of putting it. But it is the thing. It's It's like so much-Do you want to ruin your day? No, it's their day. They didn't come to the zoo wanting to spend the day with my child and me, but I know how kids work. Do you go the way of the friend of the school, or do you go the opposite way? We didn't have that situation. We ended up just going the opposite way, but it's something that goes through my head.

Take a bathroom break really early on so that that way you know you're not doing the same thing. No, because then everyone- No. Hey, we're going to stop for food. You have to go the same pace.

You guys go on a head. Look, Billy, I'm promising you here. I want to go wherever it is that the end of this takes us, and I also want to make a stop at whatever it is that happened to you at the rental car center this morning.

Never go for the manager special.

But I just want to tell you- You always go for the manager special. Hold on, please. Everyone settled down, okay? Sorry.

Just for a second. We're talking rental cars.

I will follow Billy wherever he wishes to go here, which is rare for me, okay? But Mike Ryan is going crazy. He is. Because for 10 minutes, he's had giant NFL news. He just took a call. No, Mike Ryan, for 10 minutes, has had giant NFL news.

Let's do that.

I didn't know. No, no, no, no, no, He's just teasing it. No, I want to hear the rest of what you have to say here. Please take us on this joyride.

No, that was it. We was just talking about the zoo. That's it. Then we were just having one of life's conundrums. If you run into one of your kids' friends in the wild, do you follow them or do you go the opposite path? The road less traveled. A literal fork in the road, if you will.

I always go the opposite way. Same.

But why?

Because I don't like people.

Right. Yeah, same here. What'd you choose?

Well, I didn't get to that choice because they never got to the fork in the road. No, I did get to the fork in the road, but they had left while I had rudely started talking to Ron McGill, so I didn't have the decision to make. But I was thinking, had I reached this decision, would we have made an opposite decision, and then they'd be mad at me anyway? It's just one of those things. You'll get it, Dan.

I almost don't want to have a positive interaction with a student's parents.

They're so young, though.

But your kid wants to hang out with the other kid. That's the conundrum.

I understand, but I just hope this isn't a positive experience for us because this can't be a thing.

Well, Here's the thing, Stugatz, you've been through. Your daughters are in college. One of his daughters, I don't know if you guys heard on God bless football yesterday, studying abroad in Australia.

Yeah.

Down under.

That's incredible.

Down under, yeah. Somehow closer than her home would have been down here. For the For the record, because he just casually dropped this in. Stugats is planning a trip to Australia at some point where he'll just disappear and he'll tell us, I told you I was going to Australia. I think he said it was for the open, but I'm not 100% sure.Mark that on your calendars now. Just mark that on your calendars. What happened? He already dropped in, I'm going to be open in Australia.

Australian Open, yeah. When in Rome. Keep an eye on that one.

They're playing the warmup tourneys.

During the of the NFL.

Shout out to Rael O'Pelka, a friend of the show. He's back.

I had this same exact thing happen, running into one of my daughter's friends at the mall over the holidays, but I did not go in for the shake hands and introduce. I kept the distance. I let the kids talk, and I just... I acknowledge the parents, but it was just like a hello from a distance. I didn't want to do the thing of let's get into 10 minutes of small talk.

No, we did that. But I've been getting pep talk and see, guys, this is where you come in because you've been through this. My dad's been giving me pep talks about this, and he's like, You need to make friends with these people. You're going to be going to school with them the entirety of their time in school unless one of you leaves. He's like, and he keeps saying this, These are the families you're going to go to Disney World with. You need to start making these relationships now. And it's a lot of pressure. Right.

I could tell you I never went to Disney We were with a single family. None of them. None of my kids' friends. We never went together. I coached their La Crosse team. That's how I got out of everything. That's how I brought them all together. That's how I spent time with the families by not spending time with the family. Because I was on the sidelines coaching the team, they were watching the games.

The Australian Open is in five days.

You want to go?

God bless football.

So are the NFL play-off. We'll find out together. We'll find out. Contract here. It's an amazing time to be a company in the contract here.

I didn't schedule this. I don't schedule the Australian Open. I don't schedule studying abroad. I'm glad Emma is doing it. It's a big opportunity for her. She's having a blast. I want to go visit her. I mean, I'm not going to go. Dan, I'm going post-March. I'm not going anytime soon. The Australian Open, it was a joke.

Post-march, though, but then it's their winner, and that's no fun. You want to go when it's your winner and it's their summer.

I'm not doing winner. I might not see Emma. We'll see.

A number of things that I need to get to. You guys can't let me get out of here without saying more on that Fox Sports lawsuit. You guys know that that is the click chum everyone loves. Everyone loves the garbage.

Five days, huh? Watch me.

I want to get to a witty call, and I want to get to Dylan Gabriel possibly being stoned, okay?

If you want to talk rental cars, I'm still here.

No, I do.

That's what we got all excited about.

I want to get to Mike has breaking news, okay?

And against the spread.

Mike's got an I happen to know.

And you should promote the Dan interviews Dan thing one more time.

You should label it Dan versus Dan because people like fights.

Yeah.

Dan versus Dan. Dan interviews Dan. You know what? Let's change it. No, no. Dan versus Dan.

No, we can't change it. Oh, sorry. Posers have been printed. Let's change it. Stop coming up with good ideas after the fact.

We'll include him on the front-end. Duke it out.

Dan like Dan interviews Dan.

Dan versus... Well, it was two Dan's walking to a bar.

Two Dan's cutting it up. We went Dan interviews Dan.

So many good ideas.

The arrows go both ways. They're both named Dan. Dan versus Dan is better. Has anyone checked in with Dan? Which Dan?

How How would you take out Dan Patrick in a fight?

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So you're doing this Super Bowl week. You're doing it one night in New Orleans?

While you're in Australia, yes.

Wow.

Hopefully an American takes it. It'll be me and Billy on God bless football.

You're expecting this trip?

We will get you as a correspondent from the Australian open.

What percentage do you give an American winning that? It's been a while. It has. American men's tennis is as good a position as it's been a while.

Fritzy.

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Don Lebatard. That's not my favorite region.

Context needs to be applied.

I thought that context was applied. We'd like to rip that out of context. I was going for a thing.

I have a family. You're going to pretend here that you don't love Matthew Kachuk more than you love anybody you've ever loved?

I don't love Matthew Kachuk more than my daughter. Stugatz. Now, it's pretty damn close.

This is the Dan Levatard show with the Stugatz. You guys know that Hockey canceled their All-Star Game? They're just having four countries fight each other?

Yeah, that's awesome. Chris and I are going. More on that. Really?

Yeah.

Wow.

Guys- Oh, Roy is going to be mad.

When it comes to... Oh, my God. He had green text. When it comes to more on that in a second, I've got a lot that I have to get to, okay? I don't think there's going to be time in the last 15 minutes because Mike has what we believe to be giant news.

I can tell you right now, wholeheartedly, who the number one pick of the NFL draft is going to be. Wow.

Wow. But- That's exactly- Regal cars.

Wow is a curious word to choose.

But I can't get to it right now or against the spread because I have to know why it is that Billy tried to get a rental car today, chose the manager's surprise. Stugatz is sitting here saying, You have to choose the manager's surprise, and I am led to believe that you regret, just from the look on your face and how you You came in here today that you regret choosing the manager's surprise.

Well, I got in a car accident. I'm fine. Thank you for asking. Anyway, so I rented a car for a couple of days, and I did the manager's surprise because it was the cheapest thing available. It It's like, well, it's only cost $29 a day or whatever. You do the manager surprise, I'm like, I don't care what car I get. I'm just trying to get to work. When I got the manager surprise, boy, was I surprised? It's an electric car, which is fine. I don't have a problem with an electric car. But the way that you have to return the car with the same amount of gas, I need to return it with the same amount of kilowatts or whatever. Now I need to find a place to charge it. A charging station. I need to figure out how many kilowatts an hour this thing needs to get in there before it is that I take it back to Hertz. It's more work now. I would have rather just taken the car for $3 more that I could put gas because I can control that. Again, not against the electric vehicle. It's cool, but this is now a job.

I need to figure out how to fill this thing up and now sit at a bench somewhere while it charges itself up, and then I need to play the game where I guess how long a kilowatt an hour goes and what is a kilowatt an hour versus a minute an hour. It's one of these things. Is it metric? I don't know. I don't know how these things work. I need to figure this out. Where's there a charging station? How much does it cost? How do I find one? What if I plug it in wrong? What if I get locked out of the car?

You went the cheapest. Of course. And the cheapest resulted in an electric car, and you've never used one before, and it ended up being a disaster. It is a disaster.

Well, no, it's not a disaster.

How confusing is that break?

Full disclosure, my wife has a hybrid, so I'm somewhat familiar with the electric, but this is all electric. Again, it's cool, but the kilowatt hour is this. Where do I charge it? It's a whole thing.

You don't know how to charge your car like a phone.

He doesn't know where to go to charge your car.

I don't know where to go to. Exactly. I could find a gas station on any corner. Now I need to download apps. I need to look at maps. I need to figure out where to go. I need to know, is this a good price for kilowatts? I don't know, but I don't want to be overcharged for a kilowatt. Then they ask me, Well, if you just pay a fee and then you'll be covered. I'm like, No, not a chance. You're going to charge me $50 a kilowatt or something, and I'm not going to pay. I know a kilowatt. I don't know what it costs, but it's not $50 a kilowatt, so I'm not going to pay that.

There are charging stations, I think, at most gas stations, aren't there?

No, not at most gas stations. Really? I don't know. I don't know, but I need to figure it out. I need to figure out how to charge it. And like you were saying, electric cars are not cheap, but I'm assuming no one is choosing to rent them, and that's why they're the manager's surprise. I've been surprised twice out of the last three times that I rented a car. One time was with a Chevy Bolt EV, which is this one, a little tiny car that you plug in. The other time was a 15-passener van in Kansas City, which was another... That one was a pleasant surprise, but I knew where to fill that thing up if I had to. It's just always a surprise, and I'm starting to learn you don't like the surprise every time.

That van was a beauty man.

Oh my gosh.

It sounds like great fun to me. I'll go with the manager surprise. Put it on the poll at Leventhal shows. Will you choose the manager's surprise every time? Are you expecting the manager's surprise at the rental car place to be the cheapest thing? Because I'm with Sougats. Delight me. Surprise me with my purchase, but it sounds like a disaster. All right, listen to me. If we don't get to Mike's news, we're going to have a problem here because everybody needs the NFL news. Now, unfortunately, we're in a contract here and we've got a sponsored segment here. To bring maximum attention to that, we got to tell people that we're doing against the spread here. But Mike's news is big. I happen to know that's bigger than most I happen to know. Give me our Our sponsored segment first, please.

That's right. It's time for... Against the Sprint. It's presented by DraftKings. Draftkings, the Crown is yours. Jeremy, what do you got? Guys, I've never been allowed to give this advice until the Florida Panthers were no longer a part of my regional sports network. Now I can tell you to bet on the Panthers tomorrow night. Stay up for a West Coast, East Coast, 10 o'clock start, West Coast game. That was really confusing. It was terrible. I'm normally good at broadcasting, but I got confused because they're not on our Regional Sports Network anymore.

Share an Emy. Thank you. I have two now.Major penalty, four minutes, four stumbling.I have two Emys. You have two minutes. Is it a personal one or an ensemble?

It says my name.

It's part of a cast.

Get out of here. Someone I also make the bet.

What was his pick?

I don't even know what's the Panthers. Mine is one and a half. I get the Utah Hockey Club tomorrow night. Again.

That's a nationally telemedic change.

He used four words one time.

Mike, what do you got?

I'm going to take Texas. Again.

The Spread.

How are you doing? Thank you. Well, I would like to give some insight. It could be any text. I just really like... Well, I have to give some gambling insight. Look, Ohio State is feeling themselves right now, but they should do this. They have all the talent in the world. They're the best I still don't think we've seen the best of Texas. I think Texas can hang inside that number, particularly because I really like that defensive line for Texas, and that's why I'm taking them against the Spread. Thank you.

I don't mind a lot of words if they're going to be informational, but him coming in- Start time. His own was important.

But I think it's also a nine o'clock.

It might just be Jeremy, too.

Listen, I'm going to start doing employee reviews around here. He's a trigger. When I sit- He's a good kid. Yes, he's a good kid.

And an Emmy winner.

Yeah, and an Emmy winner. Two times. Okay, yes. A part of the cast.

Yes. Agreed. His name's on the trophy, though.

Agreed. He's a broadcasting prodigy. But let me play for you some witty sound because the standard- Prodigy. Wait a minute. This dude was prodigious. He's got two Look, listen to me, Stugats. Jeremy Taché has some of the best jobs locally in sports broadcasting, and he's a child, okay?

There are times that I look at him, I'm like, Why do you subject yourself to this? You're good at what you do.

Yes, he is. But he likes to do a little tap dance before getting in and giving the information in that smarmy broadcasting way. Do you have an Emmy? That is the antithesis of everything we want to do around here.

You don't have an Emmy. The website for his event says he does.

Well thought. You're not the Emmy winner. Maybe that's the other Dan because it's Dan interviews Dan.

Dan versus Dan.

Dan versus Dan.

Well, if the competition is to win an Emmy, it ain't Lebitard.

That is correct. I've never won any of the broadcasting awards.

That's why you're so upset with Jimmy.

No.

You won a New Times.

New Times, best show. Green doesn't look good on you, Dan. Best AM Afternoon show.

You're a perennial winner for best mistake.

Except Olive Green.

Listen to me. When it comes to prodigious talent birthed by our show, Chris Wittingham came onto the scene here when he was about 15 or 16 years old. Mike, I'm asking you genuinely how you feel about this call because Witty is living his dreams as a young broadcaster. He's no Noah Eagle. No that. But in terms of what we've had in South Florida, there's never been a broadcasting sports prodigy like Chris Whittingham. So let me play for the people this call, which is Whittingham arriving at his dreams and getting to voice them. It's turned in. Tammy Abraham is the Super Cup hero. From 2-0 down, Myland. A famous victory in the Danube de la Maldonina. That's showing off. That's showing off.

He will give Sergio Cunceição, his first trophy at the club after just two games.

That's bullshit accent by winning him.

He's so good, though.

Just isolating it. He did great the entire match. That's the Italian Super Cup, and it's Inter Milan versus AC Milan, arguably the biggest rivalry in Italy. The game was amazing. There were great chances, end-to-end, You knew he would show up for January 6. He absolutely killed it. It was an amazing game. For him to have that crescendo, like an at-the-death winner and lay out for that moment after a huge monumental, 2-0, Most Dangerous Lead in sports, monumental comeback in a huge moment for that club. He is so great at what he does. He's now the lead voice over at Paramount for Syria A. Playing that back literally warmed my heart. That was incredible by him. He's so good, so good.

He's no Noah Eagle, but he'll keep trying, and Jeremy will keep trying. Hopefully, Jeremy will be playing a xylophone while calling heat games in three years.

He hoisted babies, if you remember.

That was a good one. But he wants to be He wants to be a theater kid.

You very much don't like him. It's obvious. It's okay.

Just say it. It's okay. You'll feel better. He'll feel better.

What do you mean?

Everyone feels better. Wait a minute.

It'll be less tense. Audience agrees. Just say what you want to say. The audience knows.

Prodigy. What I would like for Jeremy-He's going to make it up for some stuff there.

I mean, come on.

Is for Jeremy to realize in some instances that he doesn't know everything. Oh. Well.

I do.

That's right.

I've just learned from you guys.

What you need to-Just so you know what you don't because I do.

That's right. Because I do. That's correct.

And because Dan does.

Jeremy, that's what we're saying. I'm learning in real time. Jeremy, what we're saying is you don't get to be the guy who knows everything because I am.

Even if I know.

It doesn't matter. You don't know. Okay, got it. I think you know, but you have no idea.

So even if I know- What don't you understand?

I get it.

No, I know. Now I know. Don't you understand the gig. You're too strong. Yeah, I get it.

The gig is you can't know everything if I knew.

If I know, I just got to give it to you so that you can know.

Precisely. I got it.

That's what I got it. I wasn't hired as any specific role. I don't even think I've ever signed a piece of paper that says I work here. But I'll be a producer. Sure.

Make him look like the guy who knows, not yourself.

Did the air just cut off?

I think I get what's going on here. I'm sweating. The whole prodigy thing. Dan's trying to talk him up so someone comes in and scoops him away. Dan doesn't have to deal with it.

He's doing the opposite of Riley. He's trying to build up my trade values.

You're the free agency here. Look at where we developed. The next one's here. Just take him from us.

Okay, now I understand.

I'm passive I'm not aggressive that way. Been in all my relationships, my entire life.

You and boss and Connor.

I'm sure me and Barstool will get along great.

Mike, what's the news? What's the news? Because you're locking this down. You're saying this is so because people are going to eat this up. They're going to eat this up.

This is his biggest report in his early reporting career.

I wish I lived in a DraftKings safe because I'm locking Shadr Sanders, number one.

No, this one... No, Messi is the biggest story he's ever broken. But in America, this one will create more stir.

We know the breaking news from today. The Titans have parted ways with Rancarthon. Rancarthon, I happen to know, liked Kam Ward. The head of scouting was a former Miami Hurricane, AJ Highsmith, related to Alonso Highsmith. And came word as of right now even, is still the favorite to go number one. However, the news of this broke and Deion Sanders took to Twitter and responded, quote, tweet, Wow. Now, If you also go back into Deion Sanders Twitter, do you have it open? I know you were looking at it before. Who has Deion Sanders been publicly supporting to get a job for general manager this entire offseason to the point that it's been a little odd? It's been Lou Riddick. Wow. Very flattering tweets about him. So now there's this job opening. Early consensus is Lou Riddick is in the mix for this job. We know that Deion Sanders loves Lou Riddick, has been publicly endorsing him, has not been endorsing other GM candidates. Because why? Because he knows if Lou Riddick gets that job that is now open in Tennessee, his son Shador Sanders goes number one to Lou Riddick's team. That is what I would be banking on because I happen to know.

Now, what does this mean for the number two spot that falls now to the Cleveland Browns? And if we go down this path where Lou Riddick goes to the Titans and we expect Shador Sanders to go to Tennessee as well, Cleveland is on the clock. Kim Ward is there. Wow. I might be coming home.

Mike's coming home.

Deion Sanders is saying...

Wow.

That's so good.

All knowledge and class is what he's saying of Louis Riddick. What you're basically saying on top of who is going to be number one and number two, if Louis Riddick gets that job, Deion Sanders is going to feel like he's everyone's boss in both sports?

Well, they also have a head coach opening. Well, not yet. But what if the GM doesn't like the head coach? It could mean for Deion Sanders, too. I'm not fantasy booking that, but we know that there is a GM candidate that Deion Sanders has publicly endorsed in strange ways. He's not doing this for other people. Scratch my back, scratch yours. Tennessee, all of a sudden, I have faith in this place as a location for my son. Also, we know that the previous regime probably had Kam Ward. I happen to know, probably had Kam Ward rated ahead of Shador Sanders. But I can't say that for Lou Riddick, who'd bring an entirely different staff, a staff possibly devoid of Miami Hurricanes alumni.

That one's super interesting. This is juicy, man. Well, but I think the juiciest part of that, I don't know. You tell me if you think there's something jucier than this part of it. If Deion Sanders is wanting to run this sport the way that he ran that sport, Louis Riddick doesn't have any pedigree that wouldn't make it so that Deion Sanders is now in business with Louis Riddick on protecting the career of his son because Deion Sanders is going to run this thing with Louis Riddick. And can Coach Colorado is doing it or not? Because never mind the coaching parts of it, he's just getting into business with Louis Riddick at the top of pro football after doing everything he had to do to get there. That one's pretty... Man, what's better than that one?

He's becoming partners with Louis Riddick to ensure what he thinks will give his son the best chance of success in the NFL, which is a very cool thing. I do wonder if Deion wants to coach in the NFL.

The mind certainly wanders over there, but let's keep our eye on the ball here, which certainly came word to the browns at number two.

Mike's coming home. Look at him.

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