The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Sorry, I Was Hardly Listening (feat. Maxwell Frost & Jessica Smetana)
16 Oct 2025
Chapter 1: What are the challenges of managing a fantasy football league?
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Chapter 2: How does the fantasy football punishment reveal impact players?
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Mike, you know I have one rule to live by, right? Don't place parlays on multiple long shots. Don't say a game is won when it hasn't hit triple zero. Always drink your JƤgermeister ice cold. That's the rule. Everything else is merely a suggestion. Everything else? Everything else. Wearing clean underwear every day? Well, that's just a personal decision. Brushing your teeth?
Obviously smart, but not a rule. Never pee-pee on an electric fence.
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Chapter 3: What insights does Maxwell Frost share about the government shutdown?
No, he's a White Sox fan. He's laughing at me right now. The Pope is laughing at me, Dan, and I deserve it. I deserve it for being a Cubs fan. And this is what I've said my whole life. God doesn't love the Cubs. It's obvious. 2016 was a fluke and it sent the whole universe into some sort of dark black hole tailspin that we still haven't fought our way out of.
God does not love the Chicago Cubs, Dan, and neither does the Pope.
Put it on the poll, please. Was the Pope trash talking? Because that's as close as a Pope's ever going to come to trash talking, is it not?
I love that he responded in Spanish first, too, and then translated it into English. That was solid Pope work by him.
I have a number of different college football controversies to get to. So which do you want? Handshake gate, tortilla gate, or Trent Dilfer being fired by UAB? Which one would you like first?
Well, I'm shocked you guys haven't covered the Trent Dilfer news because it was the big college football head coaching news of the weekend. He was let go by UAB.
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Chapter 4: What is the significance of the upcoming USC vs. Notre Dame game?
But no, let's talk about the tortillas first, Dan, because this is one of those silly college football things that it started off a little silly, then it got real, and then it got real. Now there's fines involved, and now Kansas' head coach kind of looks like a liar.
A liar?
Dan, you know of the Texas Tech tortilla throwing tradition?
I do. It was up for Hampton Farms' Nuttiest Fan of the Week a couple of weeks ago.
Love those peanuts. Anyway, so this past weekend, huge game between Texas Tech and Kansas, and the fans were throwing tortillas, of course. And over the summer, the Big 12 said, if you throw tortillas, you'll get a warning, and then eventually you'll get 15-yard penalties because you can't throw stuff on the field, which you know, makes a lot of sense.
Even though tortilla is very soft, they don't hurt. They're not hurting anyone, but it is a pain in the ass to clean up and you shouldn't throw stuff on the field regardless. Anyway, so the Texas Tech fans were throwing the tortillas. Texas Tech was getting fined. And Lance Leopold, the Kansas head coach, was not happy after the game.
And there was a very awkward handshake between him and Joey McGuire, the Texas Tech head coach. And you can hear the audio on it. I'm not sure if we have the video, Dan. If we do, we'll play it. But you can hear the audio. Here's some expletives were said during this very tense handshake.
I know. Coach, I can't do anything about it. You want me to do something about it?
I just heard. I know.
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Chapter 5: How did the tortilla throwing incident escalate in college football?
Void in Ontario. Restrictions apply. Don Libertard. Billy's got a conundrum here.
He's got a dog now, and he doesn't know how to socialize with other dog owners.
Two guts. Dogs, Dan. I don't know if you're aware of dogs. Dogs like to smell each other and kind of like socialize and all that stuff. So then I'm holding on to a leash with my dog on it while another owner is doing the same thing. And I don't know how to interact with this owner in this case.
Like, hey, you know, my dog likes your dog's butt smell. As you guys know, I'm not good at small talk. So like this is a nightmare for me because what do I talk to these other dog owners about? I experienced this exact same thing with my kid at a park. It's the same thing. Kids and dogs are basically the same.
It's the same exact thing. Put it on the poll. At Levitard Show, are kids and dogs basically the same?
Because my two-year-old wants to run over and play with other kids, and all of a sudden I'm standing there, and our two kids are kind of chasing each other, and we're like, hey, yeah, there's our kids. How about that? This is the Dan Levitard Show with the Stugats.
We like to talk to Congressman Maxwell Frost. We're getting, as you can tell, a little more and more comfortable with him in ways that are inappropriate. He is from Florida's 10th District. He represents the people of his hometown in Orlando and Central Florida. And he's been giving us fairly honest and factual information at a time. It's hard to get honest and factual information.
So thank you for joining us again, Congressman. What can you tell us about the government shutdown that is most problematic? And where is all of
this headed yeah well thanks for having me on man and yeah so essentially people who don't know the federal government is currently shut down what does that mean it means Congress has Congress has not done its damn job to make sure that there's funding allocated for the government when that doesn't happen the government essentially shuts down a lot of people get furloughed which means people are told don't come to work you're not going to get paid
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of ICE raids on local communities?
Let's demand that we be let into this facility, but not just to go in for like a photo op and to talk about it on the news. Let's go and talk with the plaintiffs that are suing them and figure out what do you need to know about this facility? So we did that. I walked in with a binder this big.
I've been inside that facility twice and was able to fill that binder with very specific answers to questions they had, which informed the lawsuit. And it's going to go back and forth. Unfortunately, they're starting to become there. There's starting to be more people in Alligator Alcatraz, but it was shut down for a while.
And the judge in her decision actually quoted my declaration after I left the place saying, this is what Congressman Maxwell Frost found and his findings in there. I bring this up to say that oversight and seeing ourselves as people who can put ourselves in situations that other citizens can't go in, I think is really important. The other thing is people power.
Power on the streets, there's a No Kings protest this on the 18th. A lot of people come up to me and say, Maxwell, what's the purpose of a protest? The purpose of a protest is it is oftentimes the entry point for people to get involved in political advocacy. We know that one protest in and of itself doesn't solve all the problems.
But what it does do is it shows an authoritarian that you don't have the people on your side and it gives the organizers on the ground an opportunity to see a bunch of people they've never seen before and get them involved in the day-to-day things that are going on. People ask me all the time, Maxwell, what can I do?
And I always tell them, get involved in a local group that will answer that question for you every day. Because I can give you some abstract things that are really important and some tactics, but there's people in your community right now who are doing this work who, quite frankly, have been asking for your help for a long time. The good thing is it's not too late.
Get involved, and protests allow us to do that as well.
Beyond the health care crisis and what you were telling us earlier, what do you see as the greatest life and death dangers involved with the government shutdown?
Honestly, I'm thinking a lot about our federal workers. And I did a round table last week with a bunch of them from the TSA, from Social Security Administration. People gotta realize that starting a few days ago, they're not receiving any pay.
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