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The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Lebatard podcast. I'm sorry. I'm not gonna apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging.

I have been tempted in restaurants, just walking past tables to grab some somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys. I've done it.

And now here's the marching band to nowhere. Fat face and the habitual liar caught.

Our breath to update ourselves on some memes and some breaking news. Jess, you've been on the MacBook the entire time, seeing all this news roll in. What's the latest?

Well, according to Mark Schleibaugh from ESPN, Scheffler faces charges of second degree assault of a police officer, third degree criminal mischief, reckless driving, and disregard traffic signals from an officer directing traffic. The assault charge is a felony. The others are misdemeanors. And he was released at 08:40 a.m. Eastern and headed to Valhalla. He arrived less than an hour before he was scheduled to tee off at 10:08 a.m.. Eastern. So his tee time, if you are watching this live, is in about 20 minutes.

I got to tell you, this is generally my experience. I'm not arrested, but in terms of, like, a mad dash to the course to make my tea time, this is pretty on brand for just having a kid and trying to get away for a couple of holes.

Probably forgot his golf shoes. Had to go back.

Had to go back. Yeah. But outside of the arrest, this is today.

Chris, I'm sorry. You are in the golfiest outfit.

I am playing golf today.

Okay, I want to turn my attention real quick back to this. This Panther Bruins series a little bit because I was alerted to a clip. That's glorious. All right, so explain to me what's going to happen in this clip.

So it's Bill Simmons, and, you know, he's a Bruins fan, so he's going to go after Florida fans here. So he's just kind of trolling South Florida fans. And if, you know, should we say on the front end where south. Where we play?

No, no.

Okay.

No, no, no.

So he's talking about South Florida fans and he's trolling us about our lack of hockey knowledge.

Florida fans, settle down. You didn't know what hockey was until, like, 1993. You. You literally didn't have hockey. You've never won a cup. The average person who follows sports has no idea what city you're attached to. You're the Florida Panthers. Are you in Jacksonville or you're in Orlando? Are you in Palm beach or. Nobody knows.

It's.

The answer is Miami. But literally, most people don't know that, Bill.

It's performance art right there.

I mean, does he know?

Is he trolling keeper of the cup, Bill Simmons, thank you for explaining hockey to me. No, they play in sunrise, which is in Broward county.

It's Miami, by the way.

Good. 45 minutes drive away from me in Miami Dade county.

Is he trolling us? And we're falling to the laureate?

No, see, at the turn of the century, they actually moved out of the Miami arena. Celine Dion christened the National Car rental center, and they've been playing there for the vast majority of their franchise's history.

In fact, they play so far away from Miami that if the Rangers and the Panthers do face off in the Eastern Conference finals, I will be more likely to attend a game at MSG than drive to sunroof.

Okay, New England Patriots.

Where the is New England? Yeah. Okay. Like, it's Maine, by the way. And Jess, you didn't have to say, we know that you're going to go to Madison Square Garden for this series. We know that this is turning into a New York trip. Lehman's a big Rangers guy.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, my. And he's a Knicks guy.

Oh, it's a big month for us. We have been locked in to all of my fake favorite teams.

So you're not going to back the Panthers here? We thought we had you. I know you're Blackhawks gal.

If they play the Bruins, I'm pro Panthers and I will be on the victory parade if they win the Stanley cup. Mark my words.

All right, but if they go through the Rangers, I mean, I love that you're supporting Lehman in this way and that you, you're going to fake being a Rangers fan and it's going to be terrible if we have to go through you. Really, it is. But I have no doubt that you'll find your yourself on that. It'd probably be on the river, right, and be a Las Olas river type of parade. The intercoastal. Look at us planning a parade already.

I want to be on there, too.

Like where they did all star stuff. They're going to set up a big. I'm on the planning committee. I'm getting involved.

It's weird that they would do it in Broward county considering team plays in Miami, Florida. By the way. But, yeah, I.

Chef's kiss that I really.

I understand, and I would, but don't.

Be condescending if you don't know where.

We put this kind of.

Why'd you bring up that specific point? No one was asking about where we specifically play. You decided to bring that part up.

I understand. We're the Oxboro. We're the ugly stepchild of hockey. It's been this way for us since 1942. Since 1942, as an original seven franchise, we've always kind of been considered, you know, not good enough, not a lean enough to be considered in that group. And I gotta say, the national media coverage of this, and I understand a lot of their points, Florida Panthers fans are a little annoyed, like anybody scratching to win their first cup, trying to be recognized by the national media elite, trying to be something more than a novelty.

And we're actually good this year.

So we're cocky, earn respect. I understand where it all comes from, and we play the part. We're agitators and we kind of take on that team identity. I do think that there is a lot of both going on right now. The coverage of the Florida Panthers is pretty asinine, and that's. That is just a chef's kiss encapsulation of how dismissive.

It's Miami, by the way.

It's Miami, by the way. Hopefully we can dispatch of the Boston Bruins tonight, but if it's not tonight, breathe. So the New York Rangers, not that look, not that series prices are any indication on how these things go. It's hockey, you know, biscuit takes weird bounces and deflections, but Florida is entering tonight -750 to win this series. They have two opportunities to do so. If they fail tonight. I understand you start seeing ghosts. Are we going to blow a three one after Boston blew a three one? I just. Just hang my hat on Florida's quality. There is a talent gap here, man.

Couldn't they have said that last year?

Exactly the same approach.

Last year.

I think Boston was a bit more talented than they were last then. They certainly are this year because they had guys like crunchy and Bergeron.

Defensively, we hadn't come into what we are now. We were good. We were better defensively.

We went in as an eight, see, but I think that series proved, and it wasn't a fluke, by the way. The Panthers went on to make a run all the way to the Stanley cup final. Florida had more talent last year than the Boston Bruins.

I just got scared though. The idea, like, we did this to them last year. I hadn't really thought about that part.

Rent revenge.

Yeah, we're still good. I'll snap out of it. I'm back. We're good.

Do we have any other developments on the Scottie Scheffler front? Any other.

Well, he made a statement to Jeff Darlington just now. This is breaking.

He's like, Darlington, that's my guy. Are you there for me? I'm gonna.

You were my first call.

Where's Darlington?

Come here.

And he whispers it.

He said, this morning I was proceeding as directed by police officers. It was a very chaotic situation, understandably so, considering the tragic accident that had occurred earlier, and there was a big misunderstanding of what I thought I was being asked to do. I never intended to disregard any of the instructions. I'm hopeful to put this to the side and focus on golf today. Of course, all of us involved in the tournament express our deepest sympathies to the family of the man who passed away in the earlier accident this morning. It truly puts everything into perspective.

That is an a plus statement from Scotty Scheffler.

That was all whispered into Darlington's ear.

Yeah. Do not bypass the tragedy that happened. Don't go out this morning.

I was proceeding as directed by police officers.

Don't go at the police department. It was a very chaotic situation. Just play it straight, Scotty. And this goes off, it gets expunged.

Understandably so, considering the tragic accident that had occurred earlier. There was a big misunderstanding of what I thought I was being asked to do.

We get to wear the shirts at the waist. Management open with your face on it while you're wearing the orange jumpsuit.

I did have to make sure, again, this was Jeff Darlington, because this is very confusing on the Internet. Probably our final development for the morning, I would guess, on the situation.

Chris, you made yourself bleed this morning.

Oh, my God. In one of the dumbest ways you could possibly.

You alluded that you made yourself bleed, but why was it a dumb way?

Because I was. Okay, so I like, on a Friday, nice little, you know, I stop at a local beverage store, get a nice little iced tea. It's a little. Treat yourself on a Friday night.

You were definitely golfing today.

Yeah, but. So I was like, all right, let me get a little iced tea. So I have the standard, you know, you get the drink, put it in the cup holder. I'm in my car, grab the straw, do the move, bang the straw down on, like, the middle console. Straw goes into the mouth because the top end popped out of the paper. I bite the straw so now the straw is, like, in my mouth. I crumble up wrapping paper, toss it into the cup holder, just momentarily. And as the hand, like, my sleepy was up till 01:00 a.m. Watching hockey, hand flies back to my mouth to grab the straw to put and said, drink. I jam the straw, like, into my throat. I come in contact with your throat. So this straw, all of a sudden, I'm, like, gagging, and this. It could be a little sharp. It's, like, plastic.

That woke you up?

This wasn't one of these paper straws. And it just. I, like, felt the little, like, flap of, like, on my throat, and all of a sudden, I opened my mouth. Ugula, like, right near my tonsil. Like, my tonsil was red. I opened my mouth, and all of a sudden, I'm, like, shoving a napkin into my throat to, like, as gauze, and I'm, like, gagging on it. Your throat was bleeding for a split second. I'm like, is this a serious cut? Am I gonna gush?

Like, I'm like, that's gonna turn into a sore. You're gonna have a rough weekend.

Luckily, it already seems to have healed.

Hmm.

Like. Like, you know us. Cody's like, my dad. His face healed in, like, a week.

Let me look in there. Flashlight.

Easy for me to say. I'm gonna just.

I had about 10 seconds of, do I need to go to the hospital? But I'm fine. I'm here. And it just got me thinking. I'm, like, laughing at myself. I'm like, you fricking idiot. Like, I just, like, I wish I had an instant replay of, like, just, like, my stupid hand.

Wish you had a russian dashboard cam.

But it's just like, does anyone have that beat in terms of, like, I made myself bleed, and I'm an idiot.

Jess has it.

I have a really stupid self injury that I did. It was, like, 2018, I want to say. So it was like New Year's Day, and Ryan Nanny was being the bloomin onion mascot for the Outback bowl that day, and it was, like, a 01:00 p.m. Kickoff or something like that. And so I had, like, gone out the night before on New Year's Eve, and I was, like, a little out of it, a little hungover, a little tired. And I went upstairs to get my laptop and bring it down so I could just, like, lay on the floor and watch the outback bowl. And I, as one would do, just was moving too quickly for the state of mind I was in, and I fell down the stairs, like, all the way down a staircase. Like, 13 steps on my ass.

Jesus.

Banged my elbow, like, into the wall. I wasn't bleeding that bad, but, like, it hurt so bad, and I thought I broke my arm and I was gonna need to go to urgent care, so I just proceeded to lay on the floor and watch the outback and watch my boss dance around the field in a bloomin onion outfit while I just thought about how stupid I was. Like, I'm watching Ryan.

It's scary, though. I think mine's dumber.

He's in a bloomin onion outfit, and I feel like the dumbass. Like, it was a terrible new year's day.

Roy, you got one?

Yeah. I was playing street football, and playing street football is dumb enough. And I made a. I caught a pass, and the tip of my shoe hit the street, and I felt it was a little pain there or whatever. So we were done with the game, and I still felt this pain.

Took the shoe off.

Took the shoe off. Nail was black.

Ooh, just black.

Yeah, but I'm winning.

So you got injured doing something that you could potentially get injured in. That doesn't really count.

I mean, it's stupid. It's stupid, actually.

You got her playing sports.

Okay, sure.

I was. The worst time I made myself bleed was podcasting. I had to go. I went to Marlins media day last year and was doing interviews with all of the guys, and then at the end of it, we're packing up everything. I'm having a debriefing conversation. I think it was with jazz we're talking, it all kind of starts winding down, and my podcast bag is essentially like a hard suitcase that has a handle that you can drag it everywhere. And I left the handle up, and so when I went to go grab a XLR cable that was sitting on the ground, I just very quickly went to the ground and bang, right above my eye on that handle and started gushing blood to where they had to take me into the trainer's room. Judges at Lone Depot Park.

Chris is still winning.

Chris is still leading.

It's dumb.

I gagged on my straw. Guys.

The fact that it's Dunkin iced tea at, like, 630 in the morning also is. I feel like it makes it worse somehow.

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For five minutes, I was watching everyone just like, nope, not letting you in. Not letting you in. So when I got up there, I had to say something and I said it. Cheaters never prosper.

Stugats.

My buddy was saying, not today. Yeah, but you're not today. I think that was what he was adding, yeah, that's so much better. But I'm telling you, the response I got from this guy, what I said was amazing.

He got him.

Cheaters never prospered. This guy yelled as angry as he could.

I ain't cheating. This is the Dan Levator show with these two guards and just saw someone recreate the OJ chase. But Scotty Scheffler was in a golf cart. This is when the Internet's at its best, when it's harmless.

I saw Johnny Cochran. If he's next on the tee, he must be set free.

Meme this morning, there was another one that Scotty Scheffler tried that in a small town. I bled one time because I was leaving my house, going to high school. I was gonna drive myself to Daisy. And from across the street, there was a very aggressive bird. And this is where my fear of birds was, uh, was born.

A fear of birds.

I have a fear of birds. Limited. And it stems. It stems from this.

All birds?

Yeah. I don't like birds.

Do ducks count ducks?

I'm fine with chickens. Like, I'm. If I see a bird and it's stationary, we're good. I don't know. I'm not, I'm not. I'm not like a guest on the mori show. Like, I can. I can tough it out and be a tough guy around birds when birds start flying around me. Hate that. Hate that. So I was leaving, my house was like 16 years old, and this bird from across the street just starts dive bombing at me. Very confusing. I guess it had a nest that I was protecting somewhere nearby, but this was. I was getting dive bomb from across.

Sorry for laughing. It's just a funny visual.

No, it's terrible. That happened to me once. I got attacked by a goose.

What?

That. And geese are really scary when they start making those noises and they're bigger.

Yeah, this wasn't a very.

Was it flying?

Yeah, it was dive bombing me.

That is. That is really scary. This was not a big bird at all. This was, you know, standard, maybe hand and a half length, like a pigeon seagull.

What are we talking about?

No, I, like, swallow, probably. No, I would say it looked like probably the size of a mockingbird, but it was, like, gray. I don't. I didn't get a good. I tried to go to the police department and sketch it out. I. We. The assailant escaped, arrest the bird. So this bird starts dive bombing me, and I don't know what's happening. This is the last thing I expected in that morning. Being groggy, trying to walk to my scion TC and a classic. A classic high school car. And I duck. And in Miami Dade County, I was living in Sweetwater at the time. I don't know, in the eighties, it was really, like, in vogue to have these spiked fences outside of your home. And so I had a gate.

You went to high school in the eighties?

No, no, no. The house was born constructed in the eighties. And so, like, in Sweetwater, people know what I'm talking about. They have these, like, gates that are spiked, and it was just very in fashion. So I was living in a house like that at the time. I come down chin first on. On that spike as I'm disoriented, trying to avoid this bird that was dive bombing me. I know I'm bleeding. I know it's a lot of blood. I run inside the house, and I put a little something on it, and I have, like, this makeshift band aid as I drive myself to school. I get to school and I didn't realize my shirt was covered in blood. And it's the only trip that I ever made to a school. I didn't even know that Florida Christian had a school nurse at the time. But, like, they made me go see a nurse and I got stitched up right then and there because I busted my chin. Why? I split my chin wide open trying to avoid a bird. So that's the dumbest way. I still think that Chris Cody has judges beat.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

I'll collect my prize.

I held on the stairs.

Yours is like the most dangerous. You win the most dangerous. Cause that's terrifying.

I was trying to watch the outback bowl.

That's the part.

That part is the nice little nugget of Ryan. Nanny Roy. You got hurt playing sports?

Yeah, millions.

You had a couple injury stories.

Yeah. The other one, I was washing dish dishes and a big old meat knife. Right. For slicing and sliced right through the sponge and right through my finger.

Why don't you go with that one? I thought you got turf toe.

You always got to go away.

Well, yeah, I got turf toe. It was street football, and that's why it was dumb.

It's got to go. Blade out, man.

Yeah.

The sponge, that's like. It's like this and it has bristles in the middle and it's plastic.

Is it the smiley face one that was on shark tank?

I love scrub daddy and scrub mommy. Fire respect to scrub mommy, too. She's two sided. Respectfully. The sponge thing that coogler got me is like a plastic thing. You could put the knife blade in it and then it won't go through and cut you. It's a very good invention.

I cook a lot in my home, and I have this board that I put to slice veggies and whatnot. And I get mad nervous because I always think today is going to be the day that I slice my. It's already happened, thankfully. It wasn't like the gash where I thought I'd just get cut down to the bone. But I want to talk a little bit, a little bit more about Harrison butger. I try to avoid this discourse, and the reason why I try to avoid this Harrison, but is because, number one, I think it's easy. And I've been through these things before where I get loud in front of a microphone and I just get aggregated by bad faith right wing news aggregators. I did that with the UFC. And look for all the complaints about cancel culture. The only ones that have really shown that they can actually do anything are conservatives when it comes to canceling. Would be it a beer or a department store. Like, I'm just exhausted and I don't want you in my mentions, but at the same time, I'm not going to have a double standard. So when the UFC had very similar comments and I went in front of that microphone and I challenged Dana White or Jimmy Pitaro to do something about it, because this is, granted, it's a bit of a different situation, Harrison, but is doing this on his own time, and he's speaking out of college and he's speaking it to certainly the audience that it's intended for.

Who was it that told me that his mother is actually a fairly accomplished scientist?

Yeah, that's true. That's true.

All right. Harrison Butker, who, by the way, quite predictably has the number one selling jersey in the NFL right now, does this. So it's not at a press conference where there's a bunch of media. But I'm not going to make any more excuses. I do think that someone with the league, and maybe they have put out a statement, but I do think that the league and its partners should come out and say that this is rhetoric from a bygone era and wasn't a right back then about women saying in the, in the kitchen and just very misogynistic statements from Harrison Butger. And I'm not just doing the thing where this is a kicker. I'd expect them to come out and say anything about any player. And this seems like a pretty easy spot, especially when you consider the things that he was saying.

The league's chief diversity and inclusion officer, senior vice president Jonathan Bean, did put out a statement and said Harrison Butger gave a speech in his personal capacity. His views are not those of the NFL. As an organization, the NFL is steadfast in our commitment to inclusion, which only makes our league stronger.

I do think that the conservative strategy in bucking up against this stuff so much is working because I myself did the math. I'm like, this is exhausting. I don't want to do this anymore. But I do think that it should go a couple tiers above the director of inclusion over at the NFL. I would like to hear Roger Goodell weigh in on this. And we don't have a media day coming up soon for the Kansas City Chiefs, but Patrick Mahomes has recent media availability. Patrick Mahomes owns a women's professional soccer team. We all know Travis Kelsey standing in the pop culture world right now and who he's dating. Certainly an icon when it comes to women being empowered. So I do hope that the teammates and the Chiefs particularly take the opportunity to come out and say something along those lines. Just a public acknowledgement that this is not great. This is bad stuff. This is poor rhetoric and a poor message. And certainly it's not something that Patrick Mahomes believes in. I know it's not something that Travis Kelsey believes. And so why not take a fairly easy stand and saying, no, women don't belong in the kitchen?

Homemaker is not the dream job.

It's so amazing that when he said the word homemaker, he started tearing up as if that were this just truly emotional, incredible moment. I mean, it was so remarkable to hear this man quote Taylor swift in this speech.

That's the part that's so crazy, too.

Is like he somehow found this to be, what? Empowering for women. Like, I don't, I don't understand what his mindset was here. It's so outdated.

I'm surprised Travis Kelsey hasn't already gone the Will Smith route to saying, keep my girlfriend's name out of your mouth.

Well, he did invoke a Taylor Swift lyric, right?

Yeah, he did.

I'm drafting him first overall in my fantasy league next year.

Let my boy cook. I really don't know what they're doing with their special teams unit. And all this landed, I think, on Matt Arise's birthday. They put out a graphic just to kind of remind everybody that their special teams unit. Thankfully, we don't see them all that often in Kansas City. But like I said, I would like, and I know that Patrick Mahomes, he's played this, this game in the public eye quite, quite deftly. You know, he's been asked about his political stances, and he's very much team. Do your own research, and he won't make waves there. But this one's a fairly easy one.

Yeah.

And I would like to see them take the opportunity to make this one an easy one.

There was an article written by Jessica Valenti, who does a lot of reporting on abortion in the United States, which was basically saying that, like, Harrison Butger's comments are the law in this country now. Like, he went against everything that has now been disbanded since the overturning of Roe v. Wade. So, yeah, I mean, it may be an easy stance for them to say something along those lines about the comments about women having careers, but essentially, that has been co signed by the Supreme Court.

Well, not to get overly political, because I was at a rock concert and I was watching Limp Bizkit. Not that I have, like, high expectations for Fred Durst, but Fred Durst was going on the microphone. He's like, man, I really hope we get a new president. Truth be told, I don't know which one he was talking about. He could have been talking about the dude whose brain was getting eaten by a worm or the guy that was already president, but he took this, and, you know, there was claps and some people that were just genuinely confused that Fred Durst decided to inject politics into this concert but don't want to lose sight of when people just say, we need a change, we need a new president. And they cite other things. It's very easy to lose sight of what is actually on the ballot when it comes to how they are calling their shot and making it their main platform to kind of reset the timeline and go back a couple of decades, especially when it comes to women's rights. So I don't want to ignore that fact. There are very important things on the ballot, and just because there's a name attached that you may feel some kind of way about doesn't mean you should overlook it.

Updating our story of the day, Scheffler is on the tee box right now. I'm seeing Marty Smith, like, kind of trailing him. Do you think Marty is a little jealous of Jeff Darlington today?

That was right place, right time. Yeah, that was like sedano walking in front of LeBron's house and spotting moving trucks. That is.

I just picture Marty like, damn, man, I overslept by a half hour. I missed it.

That is one of the first people I'd want to see the leaving prison, though. Well, a holding cell you do. Yeah. It wasn't. He wasn't.

What are the dad jokes being said to by the other golfers? Like, hey, watch out. Ooh, convict walking by. There's got to be some really bad jokes being said to him right now.

Scheffler is presently standing under a. An umbrella. I thought he was just going through his phones liking memes, but he is really, really looking at that. That card.

He's got to be distracted today. Like, he's got to play like shit today. I would take the over on whatever the over under is on his score today. Because golf is such a game of concentration, his mind has to be racing through this of just, like, what happened today.

I can't.

Weird day.

What happens if he actually has an amazing round and this is a tale of heroism?

I don't know. I feel like golf is one of the sports where players can, like, lock the best players can, like, lock it up. Yeah.

Yeah. I. I'm kind of hoping for him to win this whole thing now because I want to see what Nan says. That's been a meme. Yeah. I want. I want to see how this thing is. Is called, but. And I want to see, like, generally how people. How people conflate these two things, their love of golf and also backing the blue. This is really putting people in a blender at the moment.

Apparently, when Scheffler made his way back in, Marty Smith did ask him for comment, and his response was, love you, Marty. So at least Marty Smith got. Got his moment as well. Not just Jeff Darlington.

You should Dominic Mysterio this thing and show up in cuffs with his ankles also cuffed up. Just really lean in. I mean, he can break, like, their.

Fake ones, like kids one. So he walks up, chant, and he just like, busts out.

Is this one of those tournaments where the caddies wear a white jumpsuit? Because if so, just change the color on the caddies. On the caddies jumpsuit. What a fascinating thing to happen to a sport that is not at all that fascinating.

I did not have us spending this much time on golf.

No, Sugat is gone, and we've spent the most time on golf that we've probably spent years.

Still no comment from Stu Gats.

Cannonball. You're not going to have a comment from that guy for the next, like, week and a half, given some of the videos that I saw. Yeah, no, it's.

It's cool.

They jam and there's stuff on a.

Really big screen to segue completely here. Have you guys talked about this portal thing that opened up. Not the transfer portal, the portal that opened up between Dublin and Dublin and New York, where there was close. It's like an art installation. Yes, it has since been closed. Tragically, it was an art installation where you could live stream yourself to people in real time in Dublin and people.

Everyone had to handle this with maturity, probably.

Right.

Why Dublin? Has anyone said, like, why?

I'm actually not exactly sure I will look into it. But people were, you know, waving and smiling and saying hi, and then they started doing other things in front of this portal, and a video went viral of a woman flashing her breasts in front of it because, of course, then soon thereafter, it was shut down. But, oh, we are not gonna blur that.

Probably should.

Fascinating social experiment to have done this in two of, I think, probably the drunkest cities in the world to do this in.

Is this being done from New York to Dublin or is this from Dublin?

I think that was in Dublin. That didn't look like Times Square.

Why did we put that video?

The preview I saw was more of a from behind, and we definitely had a side shot there for a second.

Sorry about that. Let's blur that in post, folks.

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Don Lebatard World Rar three stugats.

We're gonna get that off the wall.

World Rar three colon. Our group chat has a pretty good feeling about this one. This is the Dan Levator show with these two guys. Can we reopen this portal, though? And if so, can we put Dabbo Sweeney in New York City so we can finally have a portal dub?

Coaches can transfer whenever they want, so the portal should really always be open.

Do we have this sound from Dabbo about the transfer portal? So outside of military academies, Clemson is the only school to not land a recruit from the transfer portal. As of right now, they can still. There's still time for them to do so. I gotta say, this isn't actually all that surprising, which is shocking when they're in the conversation with the service academies. But here's Dabbo kind of explaining why that's the other part of it.

And honestly, every player is technically a transfer.

You know, we just signed a whole class of guys transferring from high school, so we like our guys. We like our starters. Oh, Dabbo colored his hair.

That's what you saw?

Yeah.

No, I didn't notice.

Yeah, you see him wearing a cap? Throw the sill up there one more time. This dude definitely dyed his hair fairly recently.

It's a great equivocation between like, high schoolers transferring into college versus college players transferring.

Technically, everyone's transferring.

Why don't you ask me how many your kids are transfer transferring to the kingdom of God? Because all our guys are portaling to heaven.

He already did the gods nil thing, so I feel like that's not far off. It is weird, though. Like the biggest they've lost transfers.

Yeah.

Since the season I saw some of.

His reasoning was, truth be told, most of these guys in the portal aren't good enough to play for. I don't know, I'm kind of turning George W. Bush, but these guys aren't good enough to be playing at Clemson. I saw who your rb one was last year. Yeah, no, some of these guys are good enough to transfer to Clemson. Yeah, he's a good little player. Good little player.

I just can't believe that he, his tactic with this is I'm just going to be stubborn. Everyone else is kind of can't believe that with Dabbo. No, but I can.

But it's just like, dude, like, it's, it's not sustainable. And I think this is my take on it. You know, how they close the season out strong and Davo took that as an opportunity to give a big fu to everybody that was kind of doubting them. He would never say f you. You know, just for the record, I understand he's a good man, but I think that that little mini run at the end of the season last year is going to end up setting them back. There's just, there's just vibes. And I'll say this, Jim, Laura nega, the way that he's been talking about the transfer portal, and I know college basketball is bonkers. That also makes me a little bit nervous. You're seeing a lot of coaches just step away from the sport. Katie Meyer did, too. A lot of that is because the current climate, this is all crazy. And I do think that you have to be cut a certain way to really excel here. Dabbo's been plenty successful with a different set of rules, and you have to be concerned with the kind of quotes that leave his mouth because that is not how I think you actually gain an advantage in these streets these days.

It is interesting because I was talking about this with one of my friends the other day. There was a CB's, there's their college football guys all did like a ranking of the best college football coaches and Davao was pretty high up, like top three in most rankings, which totally makes sense. He's won multiple national championships, Heisman Trophy winners. Like, he has done a phenomenal job at Clemson and no one ever expected him to do that when he was hired. So it's hard to take him out of like the top five. But since the transfer portal era in the Nil era started their team and since he lost bread Venables, frankly, his team hasn't been as good. So it's just, it's like hard to compare the two different eras as distinct things for him because this is one area where I think he's gotten a lot of criticism. Because if you watched Florida State play last year, a lot of their transfers made immediate impact and put them in a national title conversation, whereas Clemson could have used a couple guys like that.

I think, to be uber successful. And granted, there are some successful programs that kind of predate nil and they're still right getting that wave. And once you start stacking classes, that's sustainable for a while. I think you need to be kind of everywhere. You have to check all the boxes and I think you have to have a certain mental makeup to really excel in what is presently this Wild west down here in South Florida. When it comes to approach, when it comes to talent acquisition, when it comes to grinding, I think we have a. We check a lot of the boxes there. When it comes to game management, very clearly from last year, there's a lot of room for improvement there. Dabbo's proven that he can be a really good coach. As you mentioned, he was a stopgap. He wasn't ever supposed to be this multiple time net a winning national champion. But there's a reason why when we were starting to talk about that Alabama job, and if there was ever a day that Nick Saban would step away from that job, white Abo, it was always assumed, not just because of his ties to the school, White Abbott was the natural pick.

And for there to be a hiring cycle at the University of Alabama and for Davo to be dismissed, totally out of pocket, no shot in hell. That or heck, no shot in heck. That dude is going to be the head coach over at Alabama. Tells you exactly where these programs that know exactly what it takes to be done right now, when it comes to talent acquisition, being successful in the modern age, Davo doesn't really fit that profile. He's at the perfect school because he's at the school that he had all that success with and he brought them all the way back that they're not going to get rid of Dabbo. And like I said, they had a strong finish to the, the season last year. But I'd be nervous. I'd be real nervous.

Apparently a guy also mooned the portal, so his ass was broadcast. I'm not sure actually which side that was on. His, his ass was broadcast in the portal either in New York or in Dublin.

Dublin showed a picture of the twin Towers falling down in the portal to New Yorkers.

What?

That's another thing.

I think it's pretty unfair to just categorize this as the entire city of Dublin. There was one wayward dude that put a phone.

Yeah, sorry. That's fair. The one person.

But I do think that the, the lady flashing her boobs does speak for all of New York City.

Another, she was in Dublin.

Another, she was in Dublin.

It didn't look like Times Square. I mean, we don't have to put the video back up, but she was in Dublin. I was pretty sure that one was in Ireland.

Wow. I'm not sure what I'm doing there, but good on you. Ireland. Wasn't familiar with your game.

Another update, ESPN.

They don't have boobs there.

ESPN broke into first take to show Scheffler's first shot. So this is, it's already good.

I cannot wait to hear Stephen A. Smith talk about Scotty Scheffler. Oh, my God. What is it going to be?

He's just going to rip the officers. Just rip them. A disgrace.

I don't really know what the, what the takes are here. I don't, I don't know what the move is here with the Scottie Scheffler thing, other than the laugh.

She was in New York, apparently. According to what? According to the New York Post, she's an OnlyFans model. It says Onlyfans model who flashed NYC, Dublin portal. Same woman who told doctor Phil she'd rather, quote, die hot than live ugly.

Hell yeah.

Yeah. So, like, when you, when you cut me with, they don't have boobs in Dublin. I'm like, I'm sure they have boobs, but when it comes to OnlyFans models, I like the chances of it being in New York. And that's gave off Lincoln bio.

I still think you're selling Ireland very short.

Well, I would like to be there. No doubt.

Florida State, Georgia Tech, aero lingus. College football.

Are you going to week one, college game day, announced that they're going to be at Kyle Field college station for strongly considering it.

Maybe Lucy and I can do a little metal arc trip together, tag team.

The off road in. I loved college station. I loved my game day experience there. They're nutty. It's a cult. That's not a cult.

But Notre Dame's that got none of that.

So the catholic religion has none of that going for it.

Were you hoping for, um, Florida?

No, but I was surprised that it was a 330. And it's come to my attention that the reason that they got that 330 window because noon is Georgia and Clemson. Like, I'm a big Kane guy and I love our rivalry with the. The Florida Gators. Hate them gators. But when I tell you the games here are Notre Dame, Texas A and M, Clemson, Georgia and Florida Miami, it's pretty easy to tell who should be the noon start there. But I think ESPN with this brand new SEC deal, as you know, SEC football, the window is that 330 window. So they're using Miami and Florida to really launch pad the SEC on ESPN. Same window as you always remember, just different network, which is really cool for Miami to be a part of that. I'll double down, talk to more people about this because I floated that take.

Out there even more important.

It's the most important game in the history of, um, football, if I'm being honest.

I wasn't looking at the background of the video, I was looking at her boobs. So that's why I couldn't tell.

You've been on the record saying it's the most important game in the history of the program and you got word back that you've undersold it.

I thought, I've just heard the counters and I understand national championships and all that. I'm not discounting those. What I'm saying is the investment from the university, the investment from the boosters, the ability to step up to the plate in ways that this fan base that quite honestly does a lot of stuff from the sidelines. And it's understandable why there's a very small student body. Most of the Miami fan base didn't actually go to the school. There really isn't an active alumni base when it comes here. But the fans stand on the sideline and a lot of people stepped up to the plate in ways that the fan base didn't really understand were even possible.

Apparently she also licked a toilet just as the COVID-19 pandemic was spreading a toilet seat on an airplane. So yes, that's the girl. American. Very american.

I thought she looked familiar.

But Mike, if they lose against Florida and win out like they're going to be in the playoff. They're going to. You can paint.

You can paint that scenario, but I think Florida, this is essentially a loser leaves town match between Billy Napier and Mario Cristobal. And I'm not saying like Mario, you can't, but in terms of perception, you can basically write off the loser. Given how these two programs are being talked about right now, they need to show you something for the University of Miami. This tree needs to bear fruit. This investment in year three of Mario Cristobal, you actually need to see some real marked progress. And I know that the over unders, again, aren't gospel, but if you look at this, you'd be shocked to learn Miami is the same over under win total as Alabama and Michigan. Nine and a half. Nine and a half. This is a team that hasn't won over that number since they maybe done that once in the last 20 years. Notre Dame year, it's nine and a half. Now, if you really want to get into the betting weeds, the reason for that is the SEC is stronger, the Big Ten is stronger, the ACC is a weaker conference. But also they expect Miami to be better. So the expectations are there.

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