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Kings Network. Does anyone else feel badly for the Orlando Magic? Just as an existing thing that gets drugged by South Florida again and again and again. You come into the League at the same time. The best and most famous thing to happen to you is Shaq leaving you so he could win championships somewhere else. And last night, a Miami Heat team that isn't even healthy because they've been healthy for seven of 27 games, goes into Orlando. And this is the best Orlando... This is the most relevant Orlando team we've seen in how long?

10 years? At least. They're actually really good. They're one of the best defensive teams in the League, and they have a bunch of young players who have been great so far this season.

Young team, exciting team, but there's never been anything in this market. South Florida that has taken defeat after defeat the way the Orlando Magic have. Correct? There's nothing. It's not the jets. It's not what... It can't even be considered a rivalry. When they came into the League together, the Orlando Magic was hell bent on trying to create a rivalry with Miami. I guess I should point out, since Mike Ryan is deadpanning here, that all of the boys here are doing Anchorman today.

How does that make you feel? Four of us in costume. I can see that table moving.

The four of you in costume as an ensemble makes me... It moves me not below the waist, but it moves me just generally because Metallarke succeeded in doing something in unison and harmony. I learned when I got in here today. I saw Master Tespfacian outside, and he was explaining to me that he got everything right on his cowboys' preview with Tony. I'm like, What cowboys' preview with Tony? Then it was explained to me that Tony did something with Master. Master got everything right about the Cowboys, but then Tony went to Greece and it never aired. And so Master's totally correct prediction on the cowboys. Then Louis was around Tony. So Tony's like, I went to Greece. I don't know what happened. And Louis just said, Yeah, my bad. That one's on me.

Yeah, I owe Master a public apology because we did Tony's NFL Road trip before the season and we had 15 or 20 interviews with different people across the...

We did Tony's NFL Road trip, but you excluded America's team?

No, I didn't exclude America's team.

I did America's team. He did it for him, is what it sounds like. I never saw the light of day. He just wanted to talk.

To everyone. Here's the issue. This is why I need to publicly apologize to Master, because I haven't seen Master since that day. He's like, Bro, what happened? I'm like, To be honest, dude, I went on a 19-day vacation. I let it up to the powers that be that control the YouTube, and then it didn't get put up. Different time zones, I'm across the world, Dan. You know how it is.

Billy, why are you laughing?

Let's release it today.

I want to release it today.

If it's all right, let's release.

It today. -no, I'm going to. I'm already talking to Lewis. We're putting it up today.

I just don't understand your defense of, I went on vacation for 19 days. Not my problem.

Not my problem. But I gave instructions, Hey, release these first seven this day. Release these last seven this day. Then it didn't happen. What am I going to do? Punch people? Be upset? It is what it is.

You're not in an instruction-giving position.

Okay, so what? I need to talk to you so you can tell somebody else to do it? You want me to talk to Bimo? Who do you want me to tell.

To put stuff up? Someone, obviously.

It didn't work out. You want me to tell Dan? You want me to bother Dan in this very precious time to be like, Oh, Dan, can you tell somebody to do the plate?

But who did you? I don't understand how the hierarchy works here.

It seems like Tony thinks he's at the top of the hierarchy and he just walks around giving people orders and they're just like, It's Tony, and then things just don't happen.

That seems to be a flawed business model, I would say, in terms of getting content done and made. I don't know why Billy and Mike are laughing so much. I feel like he's their protege as a producer. No, he's not. What do you mean he's not? He's learning from you guys how to produce a show.

He doesn't learn.

He's incapable. I rate him.

Thank you, Mike.

Lucy is learning something that I had underestimated here as someone who has lived in South Florida his entire life. I had never given much consideration, given that I went to the University of Miami, and that's one of the few places where I had to actively go about getting into the discomfort of trying to make friends. This is a very difficult city for Lucy, for Jessica, for anybody who doesn't live here all their lives to move to and then make friends. And Lucy is as happy as I've seen her because this week, she imported friendship from someplace else. And then she went to Fort Lauderdale to go have shared happiness with a friend. She has rented a dog in search of companionship and friendship. I appreciate, Lucy, that you are aggressively trying to shake it up. But Lucy, who I view as generally not necessarily jubivalent, but pretty close to effervescent, is wandering around Miami and friendship is a problem. So Jessica is her closest friend. They get to spend time together, but you've imported a friend. And how did that feel this week, Lucy?

Well, I was happy, and we went to Fort Lauderdale. We did touristy stuff. It was worth it. I would drive to West Palm for her. It was so... Yeah, all the way.

All the way.

For Shannon. That's too far.

The highest compliment.

You guys also have to remember, I only have one friend here. Yeah, it's 62 miles. No, it's not.

Yes, it is. It's way further than that. It's like 500 miles.

Well, I would do it for Shannon, and I had so much fun, and it was so great to get to see a friend. Now she's gone, and I'm not happy anymore. Now I'm sad. But that's all right, because I don't know.

You've got a friendship hangover, and you sound like you're having trouble with your feelings. You're petered out there with, I don't know what's happening with me. I went from very happy to very sad, and now I'm just back in Miami and not necessarily friendless because Jessica exists, but having trouble with friendships.

Yeah, well, Shannon is a friend that I met living in L. A. And I actually met her on BumblebFF, which I have talked about before. It's my friendship app, where it's like a dating app, and you swipe to meet friends. I'm going to have to get back on Bumbleb. F. F. Once the New Year starts because that's my New Year's resolution. I've got to make friends.

Well, let's talk about New Year's resolutions for a second because I had never heard, and Billy was fascinated by this before the show. Lucy admitted to Billy and others that she was the only child in her neighborhood and her upbringing whose parents had created a New Year's Eve fairy.

They didn't create her. She's real. The New Year's fairy would visit me every New Year's Eve, and I've never met anyone else who had the New Year's Fairie come to their house. So every New Year's Eve, we would leave our shoes outside our bedroom, and the New Year's fairy would come and fill them with candy. And then you wake up New Year's Day and you'd have candy in your shoes, and it was awesome. So Christmas, I would ask for boots so that I could get more candy.

Oh, that's smart, Dan. That is a heavy play. Sounds like Three Kings Day down here where you leave out.

Your shoes.

That's what that is. So when do you guys do that?

-well, have you January?

-december the.

sixth, right?

Yes, it's.

The first-Well, January the sixth is Three Kings.

And also.

Something else. Let me ask you a question.

We had a first.

Yeah, I have a question for you. Have you ever met anyone else that knows about the New Year's Ferry?

Never. Just us, which is sad. I thought it was a divorce kids thing. No, it's not. We were the only family. So I would ask people about it, and then no one else had the New Year's Ferry. So now that I have a platform, I was like, maybe someone else out there, the New Year's Ferry would come to their house, too. But it sounds like it's something.

That we just ripped off. I've never heard of this. This is something. I've gone the entire life. I've been introduced to all manner of fictitious characters.

What do you mean fictitious?

Well, I still feel guilt about the note that I wrote to the Easter Bunny many years ago because I insisted on the most candy in the neighborhood, not surprising from the fat kid. I was 38 years old. Don Libertard. All of us who were watching college football elevated everything the weekend was because we missed football in general so very much.

You didn't watch the ending of Utep Jacksonville State. It was awesome.

It was easy. Boom. Still gots. It's such a lane for you. Just everything in college football is awesome. Any single thing that happens, she gets deliriously happy about.

Don't you miss viewing sports through that prism, though? I'm envious of Lucy. I wish that I could still be happy. This is the Don't Live at our show with the Stugats.

What did you do yesterday?

We don't need to relive yesterday. It went very bad.

I wouldn't say.

Very bad.

It was okay. Look, man, I'm sorry that there are people in our audience who have kids and need to keep up illusions around kids. No, no.

No, no, no.

Illusions of what? Stop it.

The New Year's Ferry sounds real. Did the New Year's Ferry visit you at both your parents' house?

No, just my dad's house. I don't really know what that's about. But I actively believe, still do in the New Year's Ferry. I was hoping that someone else.

Would have-D, are you going to see your dad on New Year's Eve? Is the New Year's Ferry still going to visit?

No, I'm going to be in L. A. I think the New Year's Ferry just goes to advanced North Carolina. I think that's.

The one that I'm just on the spot. Put it on the pole, JuJu, at Labitard Show. Have you heard of anyone having a relationship with the New Year's Eve Ferry?

You know who doesn't get a good rap? Los Reyes Mago. Why do we not know their names? They've just Reyes Mago.

That's it. No, Baltazar is one of them.

Okay, keep going. We have two more.

Well, they brought Frankenson and Myr.

I know that. And Gold. Now you're doing the things that you know- Exactly. We don't.

Know their names. -but other.

Things that you don't know. They visited.

Baby Jesus. There's so many things that translate from that time in biblical history over to now. We know a lot of people's names.

Except the three Kings. I think Donatella was one of them. No.

Michaelangelo. No.

Raphael? But I want Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednegah.

Again? See, they keep going.

Yeah, Lucy, I've never heard of this. I do like that you're associating it with divorce. I got to thinking about something here the other day. I saw that Mike Lombardi and others, this is what we do when a team wins and we don't expect it to win, we find magic in the coach producing the unexpected result. I read an article about Pete Carroll, who I associate with positivity, but something that I don't generally associate with professional sports. They were talking about Pete Carroll, that where he goes, he brings love with him. Love. It sounds beautiful, and I want to believe it. I believe that Pete Carroll, as a boss, seems like a loving, positive man that I would want as an ally.

You don't want someone that publicly looks like a loving person because deep down they're pieces of shit, usually. There's skeletons in that closet. I'm telling you right now, you don't want that. Pete Carroll, I don't want to be that guy. You look terrible in a backwards hat. Put that on the right way.

I did not.

Like the hat look. It looks weird.

It was odd.

Yeah, because it was also like a snapback one with a strap, so the hair was coming through the front. He looked just totally disheveled. There's something going on there. He's not that happy. It's impossible.

Dan, correct me if I'm wrong, but Pete Carroll had a couple of opportunities in the NFL. Despite putting up seasons that might suggest that he would be brought back, he missed out and got fired a couple of times. Wasn't the book on him that he was too kind, that he was not tough enough?

I want to answer your question, but I have been taken aback by the aggressiveness of Billy saying the following, put it on the poll, JuJu. Do you agree with Billy? Because I'm going to put his name on it. Do you agree with Billy that Pete Carroll seems like a not happy piece of shit? Because I don't understand.

What were my words? Let me make sure that we.

Said that. No, don't put that on.

The poll. That's how you said it. What did I say?

That's how you said it. Have this be one of those that.

Dan just says. I didn't say him specifically. I said people that seem that happy. It was not specific to him. I would never. Not Coach Carroll. I'm my Coach Carroll.

You say he's not happy, and I don't know how you arrive at peace of shit. People who are nice or serene or balanced or have found something in life. I would say that Pete Carroll seems to carry himself as a man. I heard this said the other day because he seems to carry himself with a lot of positivity and a lot of love. But I heard a CEO say the following the other day, break down what his job was and called a third of it or more, Bad news. The job is of being the top guy is I got to go around and more than a third of the time what I'm doing is delivering shit news. It's not the job that you think it is of, I'm all powerful and therefore, I get the happiness. That job is a total misery. Most of the people coaching seem like a misery, wandering through the gray to work like Belichick. Pete Carroll doesn't seem like a misery. Seems like he really loves it, not just on Sundays, not just practice. Seems like he wanders around life. He's got a bit of the Henry Winkler vibe of just being happy, being a happy person and that being contagious.

And finding a way to be uber-successful in ways that coaches on the gridiron, he doesn't fit that personality type. But when you stack up his resume, being a guy that won it in college and in the pros, it's almost as good as anyone's when you look at the sport generally.

But can we talk about the idea of love in that workplace, please? Let's explore that for a second. The idea of can it be? Is it possible? I know we like to associate it with coaching all the time, youth coaching all the time. Sometimes we do it with college and high school coaches when that's not why the coaches are in it. They're in it to compete and they're in it to win. Sometimes it's to raise good young men, but sometimes that's just an umbrella, camouflage for no, I want to make a lot of money, win, and have a lot of power and be a famous person in football. Love in professional football. Possible from a coach?

Yeah.

I think Mike Mcdane Daniel has been a good example of someone who seemingly, according to Toa, has injected a lot of love into his life and that level of confidence has helped not only obviously, schematically with what he's done in building a great offense around him, but really just injecting him with that type of positivity and confidence. You hear the way through Hard Knocks and all these other NFL Films clips, the way that they speak to each other, like their friends. That's the first example that I've seen where it's not just like Jovial Pete Carroll, it's a genuine connection between people at that level.

This is what Jay Glaser is talking about in terms of the seismic generational shift in leadership in that sport, that you cannot connect with young people if you're lording over them as their boss. They have to feel like you're there to help, that you're on their that whatever the discipline is, is to make them better, not to make the coach's job easier.

I think it's what's helped Pete Carroll get to the point where he's the oldest head coach in the league, because what was held against him in the '80s and '90s is now in line with where coaching went. Just based off of what Jay Glaser said, we're moving away from the Bill Belichick archetype, and we're moving more towards the Dickvermeel, Pete Carroll, more sensible, more sensitive type of personality manager.

I like this look that you have on today as your character, U. M. Insider, who takes days off from his prestigious- I was working yesterday. -executive job in order to simply follow the trades and the sheets and the information highway that brings you all of the recruiting classes that you want. I know, Lucy, were Lucy and Jessica in this portal, in the signing day portal with you?

I can't speak for them, but I thought it hijacked yesterday's news cycle. I love early signing day, and it's horrible. I have immense respect for the people that actually cover this and make a living in it, because I don't think there's a more difficult assignment in all of sports, chasing around 17 and 18-year-olds as they can't make up their mind from day to day.

Who's the best now? It used to be Tom Lemming and Joel Bucksbaum. Who's the best now in terms of information insider, chasing high schoolers around to find out who's got a top five class? It's the usual suspects, right? It's Alabama, it's Ohio State, and now Miami is in the top five, correct?

Yeah, Miami is number three. Presently, it's the first time since 2002, 2003 that they've had consecutive top 10 recruiting classes. So that's really good. These companies on three and 247, I think the best at it are the regional guys that are just over... Gabby Uritia does a great job down here locally, but they feed to their network of two, four, seven. That's how guys like Andrew Ivins get all these scoops, even though they're plugged in their own right. But I think the best at it are the guys on a specific beat.

Have you noticed that Mike has a tell when he's trying to be modest but also say something positive about Miami. Not that you're wrong. They did very well yesterday recruiting, but he's got to tell. He'll go like this, cover his mouth. Normally, people do that when they're lying. But Mike does it when he's trying to say something that he knows we might jump on because it was pro Miami Huricans. He does it every time.

I do change my posture.

He's like, They had the number.

Three class. He's self-conscious about being buried as a U. M. Homer, because among other things, people listening to this do not want to hear about a top three recruiting class on a Thursday in December.

I'm really happy Miami has a reason to be happy in December.

Mike, we talked about this yesterday while you were gone, so we might as well bring it to your attention. We're a little worried for you and your proximity to U. M. And that you may be U. M. 'S Connor Stallions. We feel like you might be the fall guy if something goes on.

I think we all know who the fall guy is going to be. It's someone that hasn't been around the program in two years. Well, same surname.

The fall guy always doesn't know they're going to be the fall guy, so we're worried that they're bringing you in close and this is how.

It happens. I think this is the rare occasion where everyone knows who the fall guy is going to be.

Have they gotten your text messages yet, though? That's what I'm worried about.

I have started as a hobby, repairing old vacuums.

It's a good question that Billy asked. Put it on the pole, JuJu, please. Does the fall guy ever know that he's the fall guy?

We know. We know with this case.

That's what the fall guy would say.

Is it? The fall guy always thinks somebody else is going to be the fall guy.

I'm definitely not the fall guy.

That's exactly what a fall guy.

Would say. The fall guy is not self-aware. I don't think of the fall guy. You're like, You get bambooled, you get cornered, and then the fall guy looks up and he's in jail. He's like, How did that happen?

The fall guy is the guy in the room that when the authorities come, is looking like, Yeah, I can't… Then the hands are behind the fall guy's back and he's walked out. He's like, What? All the people.

Are over there. Sounds like you guys had a lot of fun yesterday and said I missed it.

Or just worried is.

The thing. It's Johnny, Dep, and blow sitting at the table when everyone else is in on it. He's got.

The little.

Belly, too. But he was so happy just seconds before not knowing he was the fall guy, just seconds before, was as happy as he had been. He made it back in the game. It'll probably be, yes, you're correct, John Ruiz, as quietly after making a lot of noise as a billionaire, and then all of the headlines after that being some form of that money is not real. It's not in any way real.

Even though it was real and stood up to compliance and not just with the NCAA, but also the SEC and not the conference. Inevitably, there will be an article written in a couple of years, and I'll have to remind everybody. I'm telling you right now, Guy hasn't really been involved in the last two years. In the last two years, Miami has found a way to have consecutive top 10 recruiting classes.

You look a little Paul McCartney-ish.

I do. It's a wig. I had to steal Jeremy's wig because the Ron Burgundy costume did not have a wig that came with it. We got by with Jeremy because Brian Santana famously has sideburns and, if who may, and chew.

Yeah, I got a haircut. And if you had that wig, you'd be a little George Harrison-y, I think.

Yeah, you're probably right. There's another punishment that was supposed to be people dressing as the Beatles. So we probably could just tweak these and make that work somewhere down the line.

Dan would love that so much.

I can see the wood.

One of the.

Things-.

Norwegian wood. -that I appreciate... It's a deep cut. One of the things that I appreciate about the costume that you're wearing, not just because I have a kink that's now out in the open about how much I enjoy the costumes, is that you're saving the company money by wearing a jacket that still has the tags on it.

Yeah, it's tucked in. That was not.

For air. Amazon look away.

-yeah, this is.

Not for air. Well, I know, but I do it too.

Also, you can tell by my posture how deeply uncomfortable I am with it because I presently feel like I'm in a sausage casing. If I yawn, my whole outfit would just explode.

It's too tight?

Yeah, it's very tight.

Are you feeling self-conscious beyond having the number three recruiting class in the- I feel great about that. -in the country? But are you feeling self-conscious because physically... Look at Tony back there. Tony right there, that character has never looked that swammy. I mean, Tony looks sultry. He looks steamy.

Back there. Tony's had to glow up.

Dan, the key is to have the hat. You can't wear like a square on your head like this. The hat has to be on a bit of a tilt. So when somebody looks your way, like Jess, look at me right now, ma'am, you hit one of those. You got only one eye showing so they can see, but it's all about the tilt of.

The hat. No, this reminds me of when we were in Austin for South by Southwest, and Tony just walked around for three days and just went sheriff to anyone who would.

Look at him. Just had one in Texas.

Tipping his cap. Billy, your relationship with Tony is a complicated one. You usually lord over him. You've been here longer. You feel generally stronger than him. But when it comes to pulling off suave and style, I feel like you look at Tony with something that resembles disgust because I feel like he pulls it off, but I don't feel like you think he's pulling it off.

No, I complimented him on the outfit today. I said it was a good look, and I told him that he looks like a Mexican pop star that could win El premido de la Norte.. Yeah. I could see him on the Piata America singing his latest hit, and he just does a dance. You know what I mean?

I do like a...

Yeah. A handshake with a...

Are you do like a...

I know, but, Billy, you don't carry yourself with that confident grace-I don't need it. -about your style.

Yeah, I don't care what people think about the way that I look or dress. It's fine. I'm married. I give up.

I'm married, too.

You'll get there.

I won't.

How long does it take?

I do. That's it. It's done. I did. As soon as I do, I did, and.

It's done. You have to do the classes first, and then you got to do the wedding. It takes a little bit of time.

Put it on the pole, please, JuJu. Did you give up so thoroughly that your marital vows should have been, I did? Don't let me in. Which is largely performant, but we need.

To establish at least some reasonable vows.

Yes, exactly. I'm so tired. I'm so tired. I'm so tired. I'm so tired. I'm so tired. I'm so tired. I'm so tired. I'm so tired. I'm so tired. I'm so tired. I'm so tired. I'm so tired. I'm so tired. I'm so tired. I'm so tired.

I'm so tired. Itugats. I always like leaving a hand on the line. I hate to leave the chicken. Because he's so vulnerable, I just unfairly fade down the chicken. He just leaves him by himself.

This is the Dan Levator Show with the Stugats.

I hope that Jessica and Lucy enjoyed the Ryan Day Presser so close, Ryan Day, so close to a wildly successful season by any reasonable standard. But you lose at the end against Michigan, and now they get the glory and the shame of having to play Alabama in a way that is going to hurt. But we'll get to that Ryan Day Presser in a second. First thing I wanted to put in front of you guys, though, is what Guy Fiete is saying about his inheritance, his money, and his kids. And he quotes Shaquille O'Neal. Shaquille O'Neal has said to his kids, You're not rich. I'm rich. And Guy Fiete is of a similar mindset where he says, quoting Shaq, If you want this cheese, you got to get two degrees. And in two degrees, he means postgraduate. He says, I've told them the same thing my dad told me. My dad says, When I die, you can expect that I'm going to die broke and you're going to be paying for the funeral. I told my boys none of this that we've been, that I've been building, are you going to get unless you come and take it from me.

Legend, sounds like Greg Cody.

What is that?

That's good parenting. I like that. It's issuing a challenge to your children. I like that. Great. I don't mind it. I'm sure they'll end up getting their nut.

What? Hell, yeah.

Just challenge them a little bit. That's a good job. I mean, they're in this bubble, right? They've lived a life of privilege, and you might as well try to institute some blue-collar work ethic there. I like that.

Isn't this akin to something that I don't know if you guys parents ever said this to you, but mine used to say this to me like, This isn't your house. This is my house. You don't own anything in this house. I do. And I'd be like, Okay, just wanted to go out and see a movie with.

My friends. Yeah, coming from exiles, the visuals I have that I most remember of my childhood are my father standing over the checkbook as my mom filled anything out and reminding us at every turn, Who do you think is paying for all of this? But I do have a lot of friends who have money or have had success, and they do worry that they make their children soft. They don't know where the line is. I think there's a line between, I'm going to give my children too much and you're going to pay for my funeral. I'm Guy Fiete. I'm going broke, taken care of me. You don't have anything. There's probably a line somewhere between those.

Two things. How about just parent your kid? How about just teach them morals values while still having money. Make them so that they're never wanting, but that they're also never needing. You could be in a place where you parent your child to be able to have respect for money, even if they have a lot of it. I don't understand. Instead of threatening your kid.

Jeremy, but you also didn't grow up with $175 million access to a family. No, I did not. It's very easy to say that from your perspective Yeah, just parent your kids. But when you're the person with $175 million, you're like, Okay, I'll have somebody else raise the kid.

Well, I guess that's the part, right? Is if you're just going to have someone else raise the kid, then don't threaten the kid that they're not going to get your money because you've been spending it on not parenting your kid.

What if I make it a YouTube ad while she's on the tablet?

No, the way to do it if you're super rich is like what they do in Down Abbey. You have someone else raise the kids, and then they come out for breakfast and play time, and then they go back and you never see them. Those kids all turned out fine.

It seems extreme to threaten your kids with, I'm dying broke your paying for the funeral.

It's not a threat. It's more of a warning. Start saving your allowance now because you're paying for this.

What is it closer to a warning or a threat? Because it seems aggressive. It seems aggressive when you're a multimillionaire making whatever it is. I mean, what's he worth? How much is he worth?

$170,000 now, Dan.

He's worth a hundred?

Just signed a big $100 million deal for three years.

What's the salary for mayor of Flavortown?

I thought-It's a public service. It's juicy. Yeah, you do that job for free to serve the.

People of Flavortown. So you make the money from lobbyists?

And construction companies.

I feel like it's more than a warning. I feel like it's closer to a threat to tell your kids, I'm going to be broke and you're paying for the funeral. You're basically threatening them with, Dad's going to be reckless with his money for the rest of his life and you're never getting any of it.

I would say that Guy Fierry does just off appearance alone, fit that profile.

You think he's reckless with his money?

I mean, his shirt has.

Flames on it. Yeah, but he's not one of them.

He's got a beautiful house in Northern California. Also, his son, Hunter, has been on a lot of his shows. During the pandemic, Hunter became a mainstay on Triple Ds when they were doing the pandemic episodes via Zoom with all these restaurant owners. And Hunter has now come up through the Food Network, I guess, talent sphere and has made a name for.

Himself on food network. Look at that, doing it on his own via nepotism. That's great.

Put it on the pole, please, JuJu. Does Guy Fiete look like he is reckless with his money? Lucy, can you give me some context for how you feel about the Ryan Day press conference sound that we're about to play?

No, I cannot. I was busy hanging out with my friend. I haven't seen it yet.

Jessica, can you give me some context here? Because Lucy was too busy, not working, not preparing, trying to make friends. What do you mean? What are you getting mad? Yes, you were with your friend, but this is your wheelhouse. You and Jessica have a hidden new podcast that now has a- foot.

It's a segment. And no foot. There's no foot.

No foot. What?

Surely Jessica-.

Lucy did what Jim Harbaud does on National Signing Day, which is do other stuff. Interview for NFL jobs. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.

I feel like National Signing Day means nothing anymore because these aren't actual commitments. Then there's another signing day in the spring, and half these people end up leaving anyway.

These are actual commitments. In that early signing day, you have to send a letter of intent, which is binding. But now there are ways, as we saw with Jayden and Rishadda last year, you can get out of.

It- Then not binding.

-depending on whether or not you were lured to that school under false pretenses, you can go through a process, but it's not guaranteed. You can't just say, I'm undoing my letter of intent. There is a process.

To it. But you can also transfer now after your freshman season with no repercussions and potentially transfer more than once. So it is definitely changed in that it's not... Your recruiting class isn't the end all be all of the amount of talent you'll have on your roster in a given season. And that's the biggest change, is that you can have a worse recruiting class, but you can bring in talent and plug holes and still have a successful team.

The part that I would like some help with here, because we've been doing this in September, it'll be 20 years that we have been doing this. And I can't recall a time ever in this show's history where we have spent any time, never mind multiple segments. I'm talking about any time on The Microscope is on the high school kids. We have always skipped past this day as something someone else cares about. It seems to me both an unusual evolution, but an interesting one if college football is going to be king sport number two and people are going to want information on how the business is changing because we've really made it something. This part is both crass and wonderful, commercially for me, as capitalism. It's like, Yeah, who wants to buy their way into this game? Here we go. We're starting right now. You're going to get to enjoy where the quarterback's salary goes from 1 million to 2 million to 5 million. Who wants to play? The Texas A&M oil money is Lincoln Riley going to be exposed as an offensive coordinator because you got to figure out the business parts of this. You can't just run around with your quarterback.

The business parts of this matter. I'm looking at who might get ahead more quickly just simply because they're.

Spending dollars. It doesn't always equal success. A couple of years ago, Texas A&M had the greatest recruiting class of all time, and now Jimbo Fisher is out of a job. Especially with the portal nowadays, there has been a dilution to early signing day, but it does give you a certain amount of lottery tickets. And all you're trying to do is sack as much talent as humanly possible and hope that it gets you an expanded college football playoff.

I love college football so much. But honestly, early signing day, this whole recruitment process, they lose me on it just because I don't ever find myself that intense with like, Here's what all these 17 and 18-year-olds are deciding to do. My favorite team is a school that doesn't recruit particularly well. They're like a developmental type of program. This has never been a day that I've really put that much talk into. Now with the transfer portal, I don't even think about it. I don't.

Even think about it. I find it fascinating. Fascinating because NIL has indeed leveled the playing field in that a lot of talent is going to a lot of places. Lane Kiffin has spent three years trying to engage his NIL collective, and they finally made Inroads, especially in the portal. You have a school like Mizzou, which is becoming an NIL powerhouse. You have Nebraska back in the game, and you have a lot of these top players not just going to one or two schools right now. So I do find that fascinating.

Is Mizzou ahead of the game now? Has Mizzou just made itself a power? This isn't one trip to the top 10. That is Mizzou, a SEC afterthought now in the game for good, because they're ahead of the game and the business of the game.

Mizzou is in a really interesting standpoint because the state law in Missouri is that if you go and play in state for your sport, you can earn NIL money in high school. They have found the perfect legal workaround to keep all of their top talent in state.

Yeah, the program itself might not be ahead of the game, but the state is, and other states are envious. Arkansas, basketball also has a similar situation, which Muslims just did crazy damage in the transfer portal and basically got everybody. Several things in this country depends on what state that you're in, and that determines your advantages. So a school like Mizzou, I do think, is going to be hanging around and it is sustainable. They got the number two recruit in the country and they're linked with damn near everyone in the portal. That's a legitimate power that's going to be sticking around, I think.

Let's get to this Ryan Day sound, please. I will ask indulgence of the audience here because I understand if many of you are objecting to how much college football we are talking.

It was early signing day.

I am more interested here than I have been in a long time. But go ahead and play this.

Ryan Day. Well, let me provide some context of what this is right here. Jeremiah Smith, the nation's number one recruit, a player whose player comped by 247 was Julio Jones. He is as Camp Miss as a South Florida wide receiver prospect as there has ever been. It was not without drama last night because what we're going to play here is Ryan Day finding out around 12:30 in the afternoon that Jeremiah Smith has indeed committed to Ohio State. Now, he was committed to Ohio State throughout this entire process, but they had to fend off Miami and FSU to a degree, but FSU didn't make the table in terms of hats. Ryan Day, you could see on his face exactly how afraid he was. Now, a fun part of this story is, Jeremiah Smith didn't actually sign his letter of intent for another 11 hours. But here is Ryan Day finding out that the hat that he put on his head was an Ohio State hat.

Really?

Yes, really. It's real. Yeah.

There's pictures.

And video. I'm trying.

Totell you. How nice were you?

You.

Want to take us to your motion, do you want to make sure? Yeah, you're feeling it? You've got to address that. The floor is yours. You got to address.

That one. Yeah, well, I don't know if everything's in yet. Jerry, you got to check to make sure it's in. Hey, Mike, do you want to check.

With Justin?

Yeah, before I do something to get myself.

In trouble.

All right, his knees gave and he looked like he was hyperventilating and all of that creeped me out a little bit. It feels wrong.

Yeah, well, the part that felt wrong was he got a little bit of reaction after the first knee buckle and then Ryan Day, the performer, revealed himself. Oh, you like this, huh? Here's a little second knee buckle. Oh, what Jerry found out, I'm sure gave him nightmares for several weeks afterwards because it got really interesting after that Ryan Day moment. And Miami got really close. Miami got really close to having one of the greatest highway robberies in the history of the sport. But it's gross.

It's gross for an adult to be that happy about his career chasing a 17-year-old around, trying to convince him that this amount of money is better here than that.

Amount of money. Does it make you feel less gross that Ryan Day isn't actually doing that much work? This is all Brian Heartline?

It's other adults doing his work on behalf of seducing kids. It's all a little bit gross.

Whoa, whoa. Just for money, though. Whoa.