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This episode of The Dan Le Batard Show covers a range of sports debates. The hosts and guests discuss the Philadelphia Sixers and San Antonio Spurs in the NBA, the 49ers' handling of wide receiver Brandon Ayouk, and whether Patrick Mahomes has lost his deep passing ability.

They also examine University of Miami football and the injury to Malachi Tony, along with a lighter argument over a Christian Bale film about Al Davis. Listeners will hear several opinions argued, from NFL roster moves to college football, plus a discussion about whether smart devices are listening to conversations.

In this episode Dan Le Batard, Greg Cody, Mike Ryan

This Dan Le Batard Show episode on the Miami Hurricanes and Christian Bale's Al Davis film was made with HappyScribe's audio transcription technology.

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Dan Le Batard00:01:44

I'd like to take this somewhere else with what it is that's happening throughout the entirety of the NBA, okay? Because the Sixers are 8-1, they smoked the Pistons last night in Detroit, and LeBron is telling everybody, "Hey, relax," even though Spurs and Philadelphia, if Embiid is healthy in any way—a giant, giant word, that "if." If Embiid is healthy, Spurs, Philadelphia is a lot of fun as Wemby does what he does last night, which is totally ridiculous.

But just so that you understand the finals that we're coming off of, that have no precedent in the history of basketball, you guys realize that the Miami Heat had gone 111 straight games when they're down by 20 or more without winning, and the Knicks won every game from the Spurs that way last year in the finals. Like, that's n—like, that—to understand how stupid it is what you saw in last year's finals, the Miami Heat, 111 games. They get down 20 or more, it doesn't matter.

Three is good at threes, not lose every time. Every time the Knicks won a basketball game against the Spurs, they were down 20.

Speaker 200:02:54

I, I, I think that's more about the Heat. Like, today's NBA—like, yes, what the Knicks did was crazy last postseason, but today's NBA, teams are coming back from 20 all the time.

Dan Le Batard00:03:06

Uh, understood. But the Heat having it in 111 games.

Speaker 200:03:09

Yeah.

Dan Le Batard00:03:10

And in the finals, it happened every single time to the Spurs. But Wemby yesterday—look, if you fear that Wemby's going to take over the league, it's going to look like what last night looked like. That's an asinine stat line. Doncic is on a pace right now that hasn't been seen since Wilt. Get everybody the hell out of his way. Get LeBron out of here. Get everybody out of here. Just give Doncic the ball and, and you will see something unlike anything you've seen since Wilt in the sport. And Wemby's here to give you eight blocks and asinine stat—an asinine stat line.

Just totally absurd.

Speaker 200:03:44

Doncic averages 36 minutes a game. He scores 39 minutes a game.

Dan Le Batard00:03:50

39 points. No, you—what? Did you say that?

Speaker 200:03:53

Averages 36 minutes a game, scores 39 points a game.

Dan Le Batard00:03:56

That's crazy.

Mike Ryan00:03:57

Says?

Speaker 200:03:57

Did I screw it up the first time?

Mike Ryan00:03:59

Yeah.

Speaker 200:03:59

You know what I meant.

Mike Ryan00:04:01

How's he been to that?

Dan Le Batard00:04:02

He's close. Zaz and Tony have been anchors today. Do you realize how hard it is to make the Boner Pill guy the bronze medalist today?

Greg Cody00:04:14

Thank you.

Dan Le Batard00:04:14

Uh, Greg Cody, I have a couple of questions for you.

Greg Cody00:04:17

Sure.

Dan Le Batard00:04:18

One of them involving Brandon Ayouk, because I don't know what's happening with the 49ers there. But, uh, is Drew Rosenhaus and—are Drew Rosenhaus and Brandon Ayouk rolling a grenade across the 49ers locker room floor of, "Nobody wants this guy here, and he's going to come walking into a winning team where nobody wants him because his behavior"? Uh, we've had a few of these over the last few years. Antonio Brown comes to mind, where a guy is behaving so erratically that I'm wondering, has football made someone a little off crazy in a way that makes them want to actively sort of torpedo their career and all the money because they're not quite sane, because football has made them insane?

Whatever you think of Brandon Ayouk, I'm being—you know what, I need to be a little bit more careful here.

Greg Cody00:05:11

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Dan Le Batard00:05:11

Because I don't like.

Mike Ryan00:05:12

I disagree back here, yeah. There's mental health issues for people.

Speaker 300:05:14

But what about when you lose the credibility and get reckless? Here is something we like to call reckless speculation.

Speaker 200:05:21

You're good.

Mike Ryan00:05:22

You're good.

Dan Le Batard00:05:23

The Brandon Ayouk thing, is it meant to throw Tempest and mental health issues into the locker room?

Speaker 200:05:30

Uh, no. I think it's meant to force the 49ers to release him so that he can go play somewhere else.

Greg Cody00:05:37

Yeah. And he has value elsewhere.

Speaker 200:05:40

I don't know.

Greg Cody00:05:41

I—look, he's still young. He's a breakaway receiver. He's a deep threat.

Dan Le Batard00:05:48

Was.

Greg Cody00:05:48

He was. He was, but.

Speaker 200:05:50

Been a minute.

Greg Cody00:05:52

If you're the Kansas City Chiefs, for an obvious example, why wouldn't you give him a shot?

Dan Le Batard00:05:59

They would.

Mike Ryan00:06:00

Several reasons. Several reasons. The health and what it does to your locker room and his health, both physical and mental. I mean, we—the video is pretty compelling from the 9ers' locker room. It doesn't seem like they're all too thrilled.

Dan Le Batard00:06:15

He has to return to the facility on Friday. Yeah, you know, I don't know if I really have anything to say about it. Kind of let that work itself out. Yeah.

Greg Cody00:06:24

Ah, man. Uh, I don't know. It's not my place, really. I'll dap him up. No hard feelings between me and him. On, uh, I—I don't make any of those decisions, so not on my radar. Just focus on my job.

Dan Le Batard00:06:42

So like until he shows up and is in your puddle as we're picking across the jury.

Greg Cody00:06:47

I haven't thought about it. Yeah.

Dan Le Batard00:06:50

They are fundamentally not prepared for the question. None of them. All three of them backpedaled.

Speaker 200:06:56

Yeah.

Mike Ryan00:06:57

You know, uh, the.

Greg Cody00:06:59

Yeah.

Mike Ryan00:06:59

CMC did hit the whole hard, credit to him, but two of the three were, "Ah."

Speaker 200:07:06

I'll dap him up. Quitting on your team is.

Dan Le Batard00:07:09

I'll dap him up.

Speaker 200:07:10

Is the biggest sin in sports. Like, I, you know, I can look at that and I wish that some guys would have that attitude when a guy like Josh Jacobs is coming back into the locker room. I wish I would hear that.

Dan Le Batard00:07:20

Right.

Speaker 200:07:21

We don't. But it shows you, like, the biggest sin is quitting on your team.

Greg Cody00:07:25

Yeah, but if you're another team that desperately needs a wide receiver, your attitude is going to be, "He's got a clean slate with us. We start from scratch."

Mike Ryan00:07:35

Aren't you waiting for them to release him? No, I think there was a window of interest in Brandon Ayouk. Remember, there was the summer of Ayouk, where they were entertaining offers, and he signs the big deal. It was the biggest NFL transactional subplot of the entire summer.

Speaker 200:07:50

Why didn't they trade him? Did they not want to trade him?

Mike Ryan00:07:53

They ended up signing him.

Dan Le Batard00:07:54

Yeah, they ended up signing him.

Mike Ryan00:07:56

To the big deal.

Greg Cody00:07:56

Then he had a multi-ligament tear in his knee, and that was that. And then obviously the rehab process led way to all the stuff that was happening here.

Mike Ryan00:08:04

There's, you know, it's probably a case for Pablo. But what I'm saying, Greg, is the time for, like, the trade acquisition probably came and went. This is about forcing them to set him free.

Dan Le Batard00:08:14

A couple of things here that are uncommon. He had a bunch of guaranteed money that the 49ers said, "We're not giving any of it to him because he has not been a professional in any way." Okay? And so I don't know how much here has a dark underbelly that none of us want to talk about, wherever it is that football and mental health and an assortment of other things end up colliding, where a guy that used to be good is no longer good. But I have a couple of quibbles here, and one of them is with Nick Wright, and I should have taken this up with him yesterday.

Nick Wright was fundamentally unsurprised when I said that no quarterback in 20 years has had three straight games like Patrick Mahomes dinking and dunking. That's a shocking stat. Like, he did plenty of dinking and dunking a couple of years ago, but no quarterback in the last 20 years has had more dinking and dunking than the last three games of Patrick Mahomes.

Mike Ryan00:09:08

It's shocking, but it may be tied to the personnel.

Speaker 200:09:12

He is flatly not good at deep balls. Like, he is not good at throwing deep balls accurately to receivers, and this is one of the greatest deep ball throwers we had ever seen.

Dan Le Batard00:09:24

Nick Wright being unsurprised by me giving you a roster of every quarterback who has played three-game stretches over the last 20 years, and none of them are throwing the ball less downfield than Patrick Mahomes, that seems to be a shocking stat. It's—that would seem to make a desperate team who want to get people away from Kenneth Walker, away from Patrick Mahomes, and stretch the field. If you're desperate enough to do it with the practice squad kicker who's not even a real football player, why wouldn't you be desperate enough to do it with Brandon Ayouk?

Because you can't find deep threats in the discount bin ever.

Speaker 200:10:06

You're right.

Greg Cody00:10:07

Yes. That's my point.

Speaker 200:10:09

You're right, but it won't be via trade.

Mike Ryan00:10:11

I'm not sure he's a deep threat either.

Greg Cody00:10:12

No. I mean, he's going to.

Mike Ryan00:10:13

At this point, he'll do anything, probably.

Greg Cody00:10:14

They'll release him. They have no choice but to release him. He's poison in the locker room. We heard that from three players without hearing it directly. He's poison to that franchise, not to everybody else. He's not poison to anybody else. They'll give him a clean slate. According to Scott Barrett, DFB on Twitter.

Dan Le Batard00:10:31

What did he say?

Greg Cody00:10:32

"Since Tyreek Hill left the Chiefs in 2022, Patrick Mahomes has fewer deep passing touchdowns than Will Levis. He's tied with backup QBs Aidan O'Connell and Mack Jones."

Mike Ryan00:10:41

I've been told by NFL people he's just not good at it right now, and he's not doing something that he's not good at.

Dan Le Batard00:10:48

I have a couple of questions for you, Mike Ryan. One of them is, are you wearing a costume today?

Mike Ryan00:10:55

Yeah, the Coast Guard thing.

Speaker 200:10:56

It's such a cop-out.

Mike Ryan00:10:58

Was he not here when we covered? Yeah, the Coast Guard lost, and I had to wear the losing mascot.

Speaker 200:11:02

It's a tough one for him.

Mike Ryan00:11:03

It is. Look, I—look.

Speaker 200:11:05

Show me.

Mike Ryan00:11:05

This is humiliating.

Dan Le Batard00:11:06

Ooh.

Mike Ryan00:11:06

It doesn't button up.

Dan Le Batard00:11:09

You have been skirting around the edges of the rules on this Commissioner's League for a while now. You haven't suffered any real, uh, obvious punishments to anyone who's been watching you for a couple of years now.

Speaker 200:11:20

Well, do not worry. He will be handcuffed to Tony next week as they both suffer punishment. Mike also has two more he has to select as the Jets lost two weeks ago, Seahawks lost last week.

Mike Ryan00:11:30

And I have the Raiders.

Speaker 200:11:31

So we have those there.

Dan Le Batard00:11:32

Yeah.

Speaker 200:11:32

No, it's garbage. Dan, I've been sitting here for the last 70, 80 minutes. I have to urinate so bad.

Mike Ryan00:11:39

I was re-used.

Speaker 200:11:39

But I can't take off this deal. Like, I would have to take the whole thing off.

Mike Ryan00:11:42

I was a Street Fighter. I mean, I'm picking from the board. It's not like I'm not picking from the board.

Dan Le Batard00:11:47

You're going to say with a straight face that you haven't been filled with on your costumes for two years?

Mike Ryan00:11:52

Am I trying to find the ones that are easiest for me? Yes, I'll admit that. You got me. But I'm picking what's available. I'm not skirting the rules.

Dan Le Batard00:11:59

Okay, but you're coming in today, and you generally can take some fashion risks that right on the line when I ask the question sincerely, are you wearing a costume today?

Mike Ryan00:12:08

Well, thank you.

Speaker 200:12:09

He's wearing a captain's hat. I got a blue arrow painted on my head.

Mike Ryan00:12:13

I didn't pick that.

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Speaker 300:14:19

Dan Le Batard.

Greg Cody00:14:20

I want to address Tony and all men who would wear that shirt in public.

Speaker 300:14:24

Greg Coty.

Greg Cody00:14:25

Don't do it.

Speaker 300:14:27

This is the Dan Le Batard Show.

Dan Le Batard00:14:35

The other question I have for you, and this is something that might be a little more shameful to you, so forgive me if I'm betraying a confidence here. You've had real stomach problems today. Is this Malachi Tony related?

Mike Ryan00:14:49

Yeah, and I'm not doing great. The protein shake in the morning is not selling.

Dan Le Batard00:14:54

You keep running in and out of the room saying, "Hey, I got to go. You know, I can be here sometimes and I can't be here other times."

Mike Ryan00:15:01

Some of that was working the phones.

Speaker 200:15:05

Yeah, hell yeah. McCains, you're looking to make a trade? Yep.

Dan Le Batard00:15:09

Your stomach problems, yes or no, they're related to this news that is a real disappointment that's in your stomach today.

Speaker 200:15:16

Yeah, man, I wanted to.

Dan Le Batard00:15:17

Because you fear the season's ruined.

Mike Ryan00:15:18

I wanted to win, ooh, Dave Oranda, maybe Dallas U. Bringing on the Saf. That's some breaking news there.

Greg Cody00:15:23

If you sign Ayouk.

Mike Ryan00:15:24

I wanted to win a six-national title in the worst way, and I thought that we were the best team in the nation, and I really, really thought that we had an opportunity to get back to the national championship game. And now I'm really, really sweating getting to Charlotte because I think Miami is about to play a style that I think they probably need to play, which is murder ball. Like, all right, let's trade possessions. We're going to trust our defense to be the defense that we were prior to FSU and win this game in the margins. And while I think that's actually encouraging for the 7 and a half in South Bend, it's also playing into the hands of teams that are less talented than you and Duke and Virginia Tech especially, and even Bill O'Brien's Boston College.

Thankfully, these games are at home, but.

Dan Le Batard00:16:06

Now you've gone too far.

Mike Ryan00:16:07

I am counting my lucky stars today that Syracuse beat SMU because I am genuinely worried about getting to the place where Malachi Tony can rejoin this team.

Dan Le Batard00:16:20

Your Milwaukee stars?

Greg Cody00:16:21

Milwaukee.

Dan Le Batard00:16:23

You've gone too far with Bill O'Brien's Boston College. Take it back.

Mike Ryan00:16:27

Got to win three.

Dan Le Batard00:16:28

I need you to take it back. I need you to take that. You have till the end of the segment to publicly take back that you think the University of Miami without Malachi Tony will lose to Bill O'Brien's Boston College.

Mike Ryan00:16:37

I'm not saying I think they will lose, but I'm saying there's a whole new world out there. And look, dude, the stats are damning.

Dan Le Batard00:16:43

There's a whole.

Mike Ryan00:16:44

Damning.

Dan Le Batard00:16:44

There's a whole new world out there. That world does not include Bill O'Brien beating the University of Miami.

Mike Ryan00:16:49

The stats are damning when Malachi Tony is not on the field for this offense, which is the best offense in the nation. When you simply take him out, or even have him as a decoy as he was, even though he caught a touchdown as a decoy at wake. When you simply have him as a decoy and he is not himself, this offense looks totally different.

Dan Le Batard00:17:09

Can I ask you guys in all seriousness here on this in terms of college football? Because this sounds asinine some of this. It really does. Even though the stats are damning, the statistics are crazy. If you watch this team when he went out against Wake Forest, it went from this happened. Mensas completing 20 straight passes, and at halftime, the sideline reporter comes out and says, "Coach feels like his defense has been really great against the University of Miami." That they slowed down Miami, and then in the second half, Miami does nothing.

Nothing offensively. Just kept giving the ball back to Wake Forest and could have and probably should have lost that game, honestly, if Wake Forest just plays offense the way they have in every game since then. Because they gave Wake Forest the opportunity. You went from best offense in the country to incompetent offense. And the question I'm asking you is, when does that ever happen with a player who's not the quarterback? Like, ever. When you're watching college football, how often does it happen that you're watching what you knew to be the number one team in the country by consensus, and they lose a player who's not their quarterback, and everyone's like, "Man, they're finished.

They can't beat BC of Bill O'Brien." I'm scared of Bill O'Brien.

Mike Ryan00:18:30

I'm scared of not getting to Charlotte. It's kind of been the deal with this program. Like I said, I've canceled this hotel numerous times. I think Miami will get to the ACC Championship, but I don't think it's without a sweat. Now, Mario Crisbal went without three of his best players to Columbus and won with an Oregon team. Mario Crisbal and Shannon Dawson had the best offense in the nation with Jacobi George, Xavier Restreppo, and Damien Martinez. But this is a late-season pivot, and we have been heavily reliant.

And to me, the thing that really sticks out is when you've needed to play, it's always been Malachi.

Dan Le Batard00:19:08

But do you guys understand what I'm saying here? There's no such thing as a consensus number one team who doesn't lose its quarterback, loses a single player, and everyone's like, "Nah, their season's done. They can possibly lose their next three games." Like, in what world? In what world is a player that important? In what world do you forget about all the things that Mario Crisbal is supposed to be about running offense and you can't? You're saying, "Nah, we're going to need to change our entire game plan," and we still got the guy who's going to be at quarterback in the Heisman room.

Speaker 200:19:40

I mean, that's what happened in the program when Joe Kane had to go to rehab and the season went into tank, but he was a quarterback, you know?

Dan Le Batard00:19:48

Well, but not just a quarterback. They're talking about a number one pick. And it doesn't make any sense to me. It honestly doesn't. But let me segue here to a couple of other things outside of the University of Miami.

Mike Ryan00:20:01

Jeremy's got a good answer to that. It kind of caught me by surprise. I hadn't considered the non-quarterback question, but this is a great example.

Speaker 200:20:07

The best example I could find is 2011 South Carolina. They were ranked 12th in the nation with Marcus Lattimore as their lead running back. They immediately lost the next week once he blew out his knee. They lost two more games over the course of the rest of the season and were never close to the playoffs.

Dan Le Batard00:20:22

That team did not have the number one overall pick at quarterback possibly. Like, and so.

Mike Ryan00:20:27

Man, do you want an answer to your question or not?

Dan Le Batard00:20:29

There is not an answer. There's not one.

Mike Ryan00:20:32

I mean, there's not. There very rarely is there a talent like this. Very rarely is there a position player that's not quarterback that is a favorite for Heisman. If Jeremiah Smith got hurt, it would nuke Ohio State probably even more than Sayan's injury did.

Speaker 200:20:46

Yeah.

Greg Cody00:20:47

I still think that the concern is Miami's defense more than it is Miami's offense without Malachi Tony. That's what I think.

Mike Ryan00:20:57

Greg, I support you.

Greg Cody00:20:58

Especially the best defense.

Mike Ryan00:20:59

I support you. Miami's defense the rest of the way cannot be average. It certainly cannot be what it's been the last three weeks. Miami's defense, in order to get this team to a place where Malachi Tony can rejoin them, needs to be good. Needs to be a really good defense.

Speaker 200:21:16

Yes.

Mike Ryan00:21:17

And the last month has really put that in doubt.

Speaker 200:21:20

Why do we pretend as if Mark Fletcher isn't awesome?

Mike Ryan00:21:23

Well, brother, I think the more important running back in that room right now, especially in this game, and I know that we're going to get 20 Mark Fletcher carries and he's a pillar to help bring this program back. All-time leading CFP rusher. It's JV Mallory for me. It's JV Mallory. That's the answer in terms of what this game in particular calls for. I think it calls for a running back with vision.

Speaker 200:21:46

Yeah, so why do we pretend like those guys aren't awesome?

Dan Le Batard00:21:48

The thing that I'm simply doing here is in the next two days, the University of Miami, and this is quite the flip, and they've got to it's an emergency. The game North Carolina just played against them is the game they need to play against Notre Dame. It's got to be get us in second and two. It's control the ball. It's our defensive. Our secondary is weak against their pass offense. This is possibly the best quarterback that we're playing. The point spread keeps climbing because the betting money is on the fact that they think Carr is going to be able to control the passing offense against this defense.

So you've got to play keep away with him, and you're now going in with an entirely different game plan than the one that you had before. A really poorly timed injury in practice that you don't see very often happen in practice in the middle of a season. Because that's the other thing that happened yesterday where you're like, "Oh my God, I was just so looking forward to this game." What do you mean? It's surgery from a practice.

Mike Ryan00:22:50

Yeah, there's been people on social media questioning how something like this happens. How do you have a practice? Because Malachi Tony has been carrying an injury. There's video out there of him post-UNC game walking down a ramp gingerly. And you asked the question, like, how is he going that hard in practice that someone can get tangled up? I don't know the nature of how this happened. Obviously, there's a lot of questions about how they're not swarming to the ball, and that's something that you cover in practice. But Mario Crisbal teams practice a certain way, and this is very much a next man up mentality.

And while next year's class may provide answers, I don't think they got the answers this year to replace that guy. It's going to have to look a lot different.

Dan Le Batard00:23:29

What do you think of this stat on Mahomes? He's got more playoff wins than passing touchdowns of more than 20 air yards since Tyreek Hill left. That Patrick Mahomes has more playoff wins than a touchdown of more than 20 yards. And I think some of those are to Kelsey where he's grabbing the ball somewhere and running. It ain't like he's throwing it down the field.

Mike Ryan00:23:50

Yeah, it's surprising. I was surprised to learn a couple of weeks ago that Patrick Mahomes is no longer what I would call I would still call the best deep ball thrower I've ever seen. Flatly not good at it anymore.

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Dan Le Batard.

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Baker Mayfield tearing up Tampa Bay. 38 for 45.

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This is the Dan Le Batard Show.

Dan Le Batard00:24:48

I wanted to ask all of you something that happened to me yesterday that it's still not my normal, will never be my normal. I find it appalling and really bothersome, and yet it is happening so much in my house that I had to go and get help with my phone yesterday and just sort of take off of my phone a bunch of stuff because of how clearly my devices are listening to me. I was talking to my wife about the fact that we cannot get the dog to stop barking when an elevator dings far away.

And then I start getting all sorts of advertisements that are obviously targeted toward getting a dog to stop barking. And it's bothersome to me, and I know it's normal, but you guys are noticing this in your house all the time that we have just come to accept that our devices are absolutely listening to us?

Speaker 200:25:45

Yeah, but I don't know. It doesn't bother me. You want to listen to me? Listen to me. What's going on in my house? Whatever.

Greg Cody00:25:51

It's not like you're plotting a bank robbery.

Speaker 200:25:53

Well, listen, listen.

Greg Cody00:25:54

Did they get you? What'd you buy?

Dan Le Batard00:25:56

You're not offended. Well, they tempted me.

Greg Cody00:25:58

Come on. I know you bought something. Something like absurd.

Dan Le Batard00:26:00

No, I didn't know.

Greg Cody00:26:00

Barkstopper.

Dan Le Batard00:26:01

No.

Greg Cody00:26:02

Barkstopper is called a shock collar.

Dan Le Batard00:26:03

I didn't know. Well, we tried that for a while, and I didn't like it because I don't like electrocuting my dog.

Greg Cody00:26:10

Brought in a Caesar type guy just to train the dog or something. Come on, you did something.

Dan Le Batard00:26:13

No, I didn't.

Mike Ryan00:26:13

Caesar type guy as opposed to actual Caesar.

Greg Cody00:26:16

The actual Caesar Malone? Yeah, he's got the money for it.

Speaker 200:26:18

Caesar Malone?

Greg Cody00:26:18

All that guy advertises.

Speaker 200:26:19

All that guy does.

Greg Cody00:26:20

Caesar type.

Speaker 200:26:20

You know what his secret is?

Greg Cody00:26:24

He does do that a lot. That's it. That's his whole gimmick.

Mike Ryan00:26:31

It's effective.

Dan Le Batard00:26:33

You sound like bugs dying in a zapper. I didn't buy anything. I can't believe how casual you guys are. You're all shrugging your shoulders about your privacy being gained.

Mike Ryan00:26:44

I can't believe you're just getting around to this one, pal.

Speaker 200:26:46

No, I'm used to it.

Greg Cody00:26:47

It's constantly.

Speaker 200:26:47

What am I saying that you can't hear?

Dan Le Batard00:26:49

I'm just getting around to it because it's never been quite as obvious as that. There are all sorts of hints I have. There has never been something as obvious as, no, my device was clearly listening to me. I was just talking to my wife about this in front of my phone. And what happened is, and what it makes me wonder is the how of all that. Is there someone somewhere? Or is this all artificial intelligence? Is my information ending up with an actual human being anywhere in the world?

Are my private conversations at home ending up anywhere, or is this all computerized? It's all technology is so advanced right now that they can just pick up keywords and target their advertising to me.

Mike Ryan00:27:34

We've covered this trying to get to the bottom of it because it has been a show topic before. It's highly possible that at one point someone in that household has Googled something that would suggest that, and your IG might have taken that hint. Or if it was someone else that came into your home and shared that router, it could be a possibility. Or your devices could straight up be listening to you. In fact, there's a setting on your iPhone that you actually have to turn off because anybody with your Apple ID login can just listen in live and it becomes a microphone.

Dan Le Batard00:28:05

You know what? I'm going to turn mine on. Whatever.

Mike Ryan00:28:08

Oh, you don't know that?

Greg Cody00:28:09

Well, let me ask an evolution. Me and Mike turned it off already.

Mike Ryan00:28:12

We turned it off.

Greg Cody00:28:12

No, we can't tell you. Sorry.

Dan Le Batard00:28:13

You're allowing listening cucks all over the universe to be voyeurs and just watch and listen to whatever they want.

Greg Cody00:28:20

You said for sure. You want to have a look? Have a look. Whatever. I got nothing to hide.

Mike Ryan00:28:23

You got a couple things to hide, buddy.

Greg Cody00:28:25

Yeah, I got nothing to hide. I'm an open book.

Dan Le Batard00:28:27

You want to have a look? Have at it?

Greg Cody00:28:29

Have at it.

Speaker 200:28:32

You know, like people go through the airport security. They don't want to go in the machine there because, oh, they could see your naked body. You want to have a look? Have a look.

Mike Ryan00:28:42

I saw you in that Oscar suit. I don't want to see you anymore. Yeah. So go to your settings.

Greg Cody00:28:45

Why does this even exist?

Mike Ryan00:28:46

Yeah, go to your settings and search for remote control. Search for remote control. You'll see that it's on.

Greg Cody00:28:53

Yeah, mine was on.

Mike Ryan00:28:54

Yours was on.

Greg Cody00:28:55

Yeah.

Mike Ryan00:28:55

Yeah, go ahead and switch that thing off.

Greg Cody00:28:57

It says, "You have my ID."

Speaker 200:28:58

I know that I hide. Whatever.

Dan Le Batard00:29:00

This is a free service. A lot of people don't know about this. Turn off remote control.

Greg Cody00:29:04

We're just trying to help.

Speaker 200:29:05

Oh, it's that slow. They're going to look at pictures of you. Okay, good. Print out a wallet size.

Greg Cody00:29:12

Whatever.

Dan Le Batard00:29:12

I don't know why I'm receiving Zaz, and it may just be his general physical appearance. You want to have a look? Have a look. I'm receiving that as a threat.

Greg Cody00:29:21

Yeah.

Speaker 200:29:23

I don't.

Dan Le Batard00:29:24

You're saying, no, I very much don't want to have a look. And Zaz is just daring every Marauding Voyeur. Take a look at it. Drink it in. Have at it.

Greg Cody00:29:37

Marauding Voyeur.

Speaker 200:29:40

This is what I got to offer.

Greg Cody00:29:42

My wife and I have taken to communicating at home in pig Latin to confound the devices.

Dan Le Batard00:29:50

Put on the poll at Le Batard Show if you want to have a look, have a look, yes or no. I can't believe how casual you guys all are about, yeah, my privacy is being invaded, and I've accepted it. I've accepted it. I have no complaints. I have no observations. And if you want to have a look, have a look.

Greg Cody00:30:07

Pig Latin? Yeah.

Dan Le Batard00:30:09

Yeah, okay. You know what? Thank you, Chris. You're right about this, and this is delayed, and I'm sorry, but it's just useless.

Greg Cody00:30:18

You can tell it was coming from a mile away too. I've got a bad joke to make.

Dan Le Batard00:30:22

Yeah, I haven't made a bad one in a while. Have you guys missed me? You brought that onion guy in here. I didn't get to talk as much as I like here.

Greg Cody00:30:28

Hey, guys, this will help.

Dan Le Batard00:30:29

Here's a little floating turd for you guys. A little pig Latin joke. I didn't have this conversation with my wife at all. Here's a little lazy nothing for your perusal. Marauding turd giver. Just nothing. You weren't trying at all. Just, hey, here's a pig Latin joke. Just lazy after getting the day named after him in Plantation.

Greg Cody00:30:56

Damn right.

Dan Le Batard00:30:58

How's our petition going, Jeremy?

Greg Cody00:31:00

Don't say the number. Just say a lot of people.

Mike Ryan00:31:01

No, I mean a lot of people thus far. We have 47 signatures.

Greg Cody00:31:07

Say dozens.

Mike Ryan00:31:07

And that's just over the last 20 minutes. We've jumped up from 20 to 47.

Greg Cody00:31:12

How about that?

Mike Ryan00:31:13

I mean, we're nearly tripling the numbers. There's your petition right there if you want to scan that QR code and joining us and changing the name of Plantation Florida to Codyville.

Greg Cody00:31:22

Keep that right there for a second.

Dan Le Batard00:31:23

Greg, you deserve this from that pig Latin joke.

Greg Cody00:31:26

It's not my photo.

Speaker 200:31:28

I'm signing the petition.

Greg Cody00:31:29

What do you mean?

Speaker 200:31:31

It's not me.

Greg Cody00:31:33

I Googled Greg Cody. That was the first thing that came up.

Dan Le Batard00:31:36

Something that didn't come up yesterday, and I was surprised by this, and I was surprised that I was unaware of this. I don't know whether I'll be surprising anyone in the room. But I don't believe that what is about to come out is either a John Madden movie or a Nicolas Cage movie. I was not aware until yesterday that Christian Bale is playing Al Davis. That sounds to me like a Christian Bale movie and an Al Davis movie, not a Nicolas Cage movie and not a John Madden movie.

Speaker 200:32:08

That's what I'm saying. You're telling me this must be terrible. It's Christian Bale.

Dan Le Batard00:32:12

Well, but I did not know until yesterday that Christian Bale is in that movie. And all we've been doing is Mike Ryans, Nicolas Cage as John Madden. Christian Bale.

Mike Ryan00:32:23

I'm here.

Dan Le Batard00:32:24

What an unusual choice for Christian Bale to choose to play Al Davis. I don't know if you guys saw him interviewed by ESPN. Christian Bale sounds nothing in real life like you're used to hearing Christian Bale. He hides his accent in the movies in a way. I mean, Christian Bale is one of the top five actors of now for sure, and you can put him in any conversation with any actor ever in terms of being great at it. Al Davis, Christian Bale is more interesting to me.

However, he decides to play that character than Nicolas Cage playing the less interesting character, who is John Madden.

Mike Ryan00:33:03

I hear you, but we love David O. Russell, and we jump at the chance to work with him. It's like going to director school. It's a great hot name in directing. Hot.

Dan Le Batard00:33:21

You knew this, Zaz? You were aware? I simply didn't know. Put it on the poll at Le Batard Show. Did you know that Christian Bale was in that John Madden movie? And did you know that Al Davis is a lot more interesting than John Madden?

Speaker 200:33:35

Debatable. That's been my main argument with people who are deciding to pan this movie who haven't even seen it yet. It's David O. Russell who has done Academy Award nominated films, and Christian Bale is in it.

Greg Cody00:33:48

I'm shocked that you find Al Davis more interesting than John Madden. I don't. Are you more interested in a John Madden movie, in a biography of John Madden?

Dan Le Batard00:33:58

You don't find more interesting, unlikable, and controversial than likable and not controversial?

Greg Cody00:34:05

No, not in this case. I don't think controversy is the basis of someone who's interesting.

Dan Le Batard00:34:11

You don't find somebody who was willing to fight the league and fight everybody at every turn more interesting than someone everyone in the league loved?

Greg Cody00:34:19

No, not in this case.

Dan Le Batard00:34:21

I'm not wearing football pads.

Mike Ryan00:34:23

It's a dichotomy.

Greg Cody00:34:28

Chris Mortensen.

Speaker 200:34:30

Oh, what?

Greg Cody00:34:30

That's my Al Davis impression.

Dan Le Batard00:34:33

Mortensen. Just win, baby. Mortensen.

Greg Cody00:34:37

No, John Madden, one of the most interesting people on Earth.

Mike Ryan00:34:41

Did you see the trailer for Lords of War?

Greg Cody00:34:43

Was.

Dan Le Batard00:34:44

What?

Speaker 200:34:45

They're making a new one?

Mike Ryan00:34:46

They're making a sequel to Lord of War, which is one of the great underrated Nicolas Cage movies.

Speaker 200:34:49

Nicolas Cage is in this one too?

Mike Ryan00:34:50

Nicolas Cage is in this movie.

Speaker 200:34:52

And this is Lords multiple?

Mike Ryan00:34:53

There's two warlords now. It's him and Bill Skarsgård.

Speaker 200:34:57

Is Jared Leto in it again?

Mike Ryan00:34:58

I don't think so.

Greg Cody00:34:58

All right, good, because he's poison.

Dan Le Batard00:35:01

I'm surprised by what Greg Cody is saying here. Do I have it wrong, or does Greg Cody have it wrong? If you're measuring interesting, do you think the controversial, unlikable people are more or less interesting than non-controversial, likable people?

Speaker 200:35:18

I don't think the general public knows who Al Davis is the way they know John Madden.

Greg Cody00:35:21

Thank you.

Dan Le Batard00:35:22

Agreed, but I wasn't talking about who's more famous. I was talking about who's more interesting.

Speaker 200:35:27

I mean, I'm just saying that's why Madden's going to be the center of this movie.

Dan Le Batard00:35:31

But again, I'm not quibbling with that. I'm quibbling with Greg Cody's contention. I'm not saying that the movie's not going to be more successful because it involves the more famous and likable person. I'm just talking about interesting. Christian Bale choosing to play this character is more interesting than Nicolas Cage choosing to play that one.

Greg Cody00:35:51

I'm just saying, unless you're Jerry Jones, I don't think anybody really cares about owners in sports. George Steinbrenner was an exception. Jerry Jones is an exception. I don't think Al Davis is in that category for me personally.

Speaker 200:36:05

It seems like you're more intrigued by Christian Bale doing it than if you knew Al Davis was going to be part of this movie.

Dan Le Batard00:36:11

No, no, no. Guys, the history of Al Davis is unquestionably more interesting than John Madden's. He was fighting with the league all the time.

Speaker 200:36:17

Right, but.

Dan Le Batard00:36:18

We don't even have owners like that anymore.

Speaker 200:36:20

Yeah, but I just feel like you weren't saying that until you found out Christian Bale is in it. When you have thought the whole time that Al Davis would be in this movie, so it's just, I don't know.

Dan Le Batard00:36:28

Agreed, but I'm more interested in the choices that Christian Bale makes than the ones that Nicolas Cage makes because Nicolas Cage is doing a million movies, and he'll do whatever it is you ask him to do, and he'll do it crazy.

Mike Ryan00:36:41

So you're getting both things. You seem pumped. It could be a movie about that too. Tune in. Why are you yelling?

Greg Cody00:36:51

Because he's got a losing argument. That's why he's arguing.

Mike Ryan00:36:53

I mean, he was interested in the choices that Christian Bale makes. This is one of them. You actually get to see him as Al Davis in this movie. They'll probably cover some of that stuff.

Greg Cody00:37:02

I think if you ask 100 people randomly chosen.

Dan Le Batard00:37:06

How about two?

Greg Cody00:37:07

Would you rather watch a movie about John Madden or about Al Davis? I think you would be shocked that Madden would win to the tune of 85 to 15.

Dan Le Batard00:37:16

Has nothing to do with what it is that I was asking.

Speaker 200:37:19

I want you to go around and ask 100 people that and get those results.

Greg Cody00:37:22

I'm going to. And they're going to go, "Al, who?"

Dan Le Batard00:37:25

Can you please, Roy, because we want to apply some sort of balm to Mike's stomach before we have to deal with him the rest of the day, Mike Ryan came in here with a wheel of Miami issues, and he wanted to talk about an assortment of things, but we do not have it at the time today to talk about all of the things that he wishes to talk about. So would you please spin the wheel here, and I will tell you the categories that are on it, and please, Greg Cody, tell me what it is that this lands on because Mike's wheel has Malachi's injury, Malachi's replacement.

It has defensive personnel. It has number 14 versus number one on it. It has the women's home opener versus FAU. It has Darian Mensa. It has upcoming schedule. It has the AD search on it, and it also has the legend of Elijah Lofton. So let's go ahead and spin the wheel, and you tell me, Greg Cody, what it is that this landed on.

Speaker 200:38:31

Oh, wow. Still spinning.

Dan Le Batard00:38:33

It's still spinning. You can't say the wow until it does.

Speaker 200:38:35

He was able to tell.

Greg Cody00:38:36

No, that's what I was hoping it would land on. It's the women's opener against FAU.

Mike Ryan00:38:41

Coach Gullib's ladies came out strong. Two prestige Final Four brands at the Watts Goes Center: FAU basketball and Miami Hurricanes basketball. Remember, they made a Final Four in the same exact year, just on the men's side. Easy victory. Ane Adams was unbelievable. Shorter player, but can absolutely shoot from outside. I'm going to be more competitive than I thought.

Greg Cody00:39:03

Well, how about that? Foul out on the prowl, but not the other night.

Dan Le Batard00:39:06

Spin it again. Oh, wow.

Speaker 200:39:11

I don't like those know-it-all people that know when that thing's going. They try to predict it three clicks away. It's like, we get it. You watch Wheel of Fortune.

Dan Le Batard00:39:20

Greg, what did that land on?

Greg Cody00:39:21

I forget the other categories. What were they?

Dan Le Batard00:39:23

Just look at the wheel. Just look at the wheel, Greg.

Greg Cody00:39:25

Oh, yeah. Defensive personnel.

Mike Ryan00:39:28

I'd like to see Moore Torre, who died in college station, blitz a little bit more than our Nickel Corner. We've been struggling tackling because we've been sending smaller guys. Moore Torre has zero sacks for the University of Miami this season. He had 13 and a half at Rutgers as a pass rusher. Send him more.

Episode description

"I'm going to the dentist."

Dan gets really angry about the Nicholas Cage-John Madden movie not being more of a Christian Bale-Al Davis movie for some reason.
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