The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: The "Meh" Tier
Episode Date: August 15, 2023Morgan From Australia is the Greg Cote Show with Greg Cote's World Cup correspondent, but she's a gun-for-hire and stops by the show to share her expertise in being Australian. Then, Tony stops by to ...share of the best #TonysQBTiers and let us know the Top 5 QBs Who Showed Me Something. Plus, we take a look at the latest on Michael Oher petitioning a court with allegations that the Tuhoy family lied to him to enrich themselves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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You're listening to Giraffe King's Network.
This is the Don Levertar Show with the Stugat's Podcast.
We're joined by the fabulous Morgan from Australia,
a super fan of the show, on loan from the Greg Cody show today
to the Dan Levittard show with two gods.
Am I right, Morgan?
That's right, I'm a gun for hire.
Yes, you are.
And the last time I saw you, you were in a dimly lit swimming pool
in Queensland, is that correct?
That is correct.
So I've decided that I would once again be in a dimly lit area just on hold on
I'm sorry Morgan. Morgan. I'm sorry to cut you off
It feels like you're interrogating her like you're trying to trap her is that correct?
We want to have a good time with
You want a damn leave it?
Is that correct?
River duckies
I wasn't expecting the Spanish inquisition from you Greg, but yeah, I'll take it.
Okay, we won't even get into how fast one-bats run.
Greg, we're not doing this again.
No, we are not doing that again.
Why? Why not? That sounds funny.
It sounds like an interesting conversation.
How did this come about, if I may ask,
because Morgan was trying to become
the World Cup correspondent for the main show.
And then somehow Morgan became your World Cup correspondent.
It seems like you swooped in and you kind of stole Morgan.
Groups and hacks, we swooped.
Scooped, scoop, scoop.
That's great.
I cannot explain why the Levitade show did not reach out to Morgan, but when they did not, I was, you know, I mean, she's a fabulous correspondent and has done a great job covering the World Cup Force. And the fact that Australia is now this close to a championship is all the better.
Yeah, could you preview the game for us Morgan? Right, so we've never been closer. Greg's right in that is wrong about the warm bats, but he's correcting that.
Sorry, tomorrow night Australia take on the motherland in England.
I would say that we're ranked outsiders, but that hasn't stopped us so far.
I think we probably would have been outsiders against France. Maybe favourites against Denmark, but we've been playing exciting brand of football.
We've had our best player still not perform to her best, and we've been able to survive
in advance to this point.
So, fingers crossed weekend.
That's all you have to do apparently.
So, fingers crossed we can get through tomorrow night. I think it's
going to be a really tough game. They probably have us beaten
across the park, but that doesn't seem to really matter because
as we've seen, lesser sides can win in the world top. I said this
yesterday once the United States was bounced out that our
allegiances should
change to Australia.
Great story, home team, and if you're not rooting for Australia, you're not American.
Period, end of discussion.
Greg, have you told Morgan that you think England's going to win this game?
She knows England's the favorite.
And England's a good story, too.
You can make it. It can't be a good story a good story too. You know, you could make it.
You can make it.
It can't be a good story.
Okay, you can make it.
You can make it.
You can make it.
England's a good story.
Are you sure about that Greg?
You ready?
Speaking of the end, it was almost never.
I don't mean historically.
I mean, in the football context,
England is arguably the best women's team
that hasn't won a World Cup.
I'll be happy with whomever wins.
I think Australia's a great story as well.
And one of the things is that-
You got to pick a side Greg.
This whole fan sitting thing, yeah.
Pick a side, ain't inter-Australia.
Yeah.
But one thing-
Not gonna do it.
No, I'm not gonna do it.
Morgan, one thing that interests me is that Australia
was never a country associated with being a soccer
loving nation, right? It's rugby. It's Australian
rules football. And now, how much of an in-road has soccer made? How consumed with this sport
is the country because of the women's world cup?
Yeah, you're absolutely right in saying that we don't really like soccer here. Or football is
they like to call it. We don't call it that. But the Matilda's have absolutely galvanized our nation.
The ratings are through the roof.
They have outrated every AFL and NRL grand final for decades.
The support they're receiving currently is unmatched.
And it's really, really exciting to see women's sport,
front page news, and getting the recognition of deserves.
Hopefully, with that recognition comes funding
that our grassroots football desperately needs.
Because we can't compete on a world stage
if we're not funding our programs. So how have we been able to achieve what we have this
World Cup? It's pretty impressive. Favorite member of the Matilda's and also
favorite member of the Lebertards show Family and I will remind you Greg
Cody picked England. Oh it's not Greg Cody. It's not even my favorite member of the Cody family.
Wow.
Michael.
That's first.
Yeah, that's Greg's favorite.
Yeah.
I understand that changes as they go on.
So my favorite Matilda would probably be Sam Kerb.
That's a popular response, bit of a chic response.
Right.
Maybe I like Hayley Razzar.
I'm a big fan of a hair bow.
And so I like Hayley Raza.
McKenzie Arnold, the goalkeeper who took a penalty, missed it,
and then saved two in a row.
Absolute baller.
So maybe I like her too.
And my favorite member of the Levitade universe is obviously
Roy.
Thank you, Morgan.
Yeah.
I'll be very nice.
Wow.
I appreciate you.
You know something that I learned recently
as a super embarrassed to learn,
it's speaking of the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
So New Zealand obviously go by the Kiwis, correct?
And I just recently learned the Kiwis of Bird.
I was always thinking it was the Kiwi,
the fruit that they went after.
And I was very embarrassed to say that,
and I don't know why I'm not saying this for everyone to hear how dumb I am.
Man, I appreciate you sharing that, Billy.
That's a great story.
Oh, we were so good.
But they are good.
You're too nice Morgan.
It's okay.
It's a not great story, terrible story.
The correct response was $12, buddy.
Well, $12, oh, you're right.
Morgan, why do people in Australia hate New Zealand?
Well, because everyone hates the neighbor.
Yep.
Yeah, my neighbor plays that music loud as hell.
I feel you salute the Australia.
Bad music, by the way.
I assume they not paying that new due to you,
because if you pay that, you can pay that loud anywhere.
Yeah, right.
I don't want to appreciate that.
So, Gaki.
Look, Gaki. So I was expecting you to pick me as your favorite person,
Morgan, because I wanted to hear you say my name again.
And I wonder are American accents
at all useful anywhere in the world?
Because I feel like Americans love accents.
Like we enjoy another person accent.
I am a big fan of yours, Dominique.
I'm a big fan of your podcast.
I'm a big fan of Charlie.
Oh, sorry, sorry So shout out Charlie.
So yeah big fan of your podcast and I will say your name is many times required to keep this interview going.
Is Dominique? Is there any like value to the American accent in Australia?
Or do you guys just say? Absolutely not. Yeah, I didn't. There's's nowhere we can go no one likes our accent. We have we have trash accents
It's okay. You like you like you like send your own voices over there. I sure wear the most powerful nation in the world
I think they would love me and Melbourne
Well done with everyone else you do
I love you every right
Thank you more than all right
So Greg are you sending her to the rest of these games or what's going on paying for lodging?
What are you doing to contribute to Morgan's World Cup experience?
It seems like Morgan's just doing this for free for you. I believe an unnamed sponsor of
my shows is
paying some of the freight
You're here to announce that you're gonna cover the rest that would suggest you are covering the right. Yeah
You will be announcing today you're covering the rest of that cost, Greg.
Is that correct?
Is it?
Is it?
You're that wrong?
I'm gonna have to get with my podcast staff
on that one and figure things out.
We announced it.
It's just been announced.
You're welcome Morgan.
What you're providing is a platform, Greg.
That's what you're providing, right?
You're my, yeah.
I like to think so.
That doesn't pay for lodging.
Exactly.
No, no, no, No. I mean, you
don't have to pay for the deposit. I appreciate the sentiment. The sentiment is not
as great, but if you do want to contribute, I happily accept any assistance. Seems
though I have no accommodation in Sydney tomorrow and no tickets to the final due to a scam
else. So you can go to my Twitter, Morgan for Australia. There's a kind of girl fun
me there. Wait, what happened? You were scammed out of tickets to the world's game
and he had my ticket for the for the semi-final so i had to sell my final ticket
so i have a ticket tomorrow not
sorry about that
uh... justice for my
it had to go through all over
well what was the scam you just bought a ticket that was in a real ticket
yeah
it's probably well
it's probably terrible
probably one of those books I'm not pretty terrible Probably one of those blokes from England right rough
Outstanding I'm sorry Morgan to be laughing at you just accent while we talk about your pain. No, no
I understand thank you. Thank you. Do you appreciate you? I mean it is a island of criminals
So I mean, yeah, I expect to have that mark is find me. We get that ticket back to Morgan ASAP.
You know, colony is what it is.
I mean, whatever.
I got five hundred more.
I got five hundred more.
Where can we follow you online?
Where can we go to your?
What are your social handles, Morgan?
At Morgan from Oz on Twitter, Instagram.
I don't know how to TikTok, but I'm trying to do that.
Yeah, you can find me anywhere.
The girl find me, you'll be listed on my Twitter page.
And any funds that I receive that is on top of what I need will go to run the girls substitute in Dalmat
Nice Greg you take care of this. I'm gonna take care of it and by the way, that's Morgan from
AUS a that's right a US right all right. Thank you Morgan
You've been a joy hopefully Greg Cody comes up all some of them bucks
I'll put something on it
We don't want you to get scammed even though you live in a penal colony. You don't deserve to be taking advantage of
This is what happens when you live in a penal colony everyone's a criminal. All right, see Morgan. Thank you
Thank you Dominique. It was a pleasure. Oh
All right, Greg, so do you feel at all guilty for taking advantage of this wonderful young lady who's offering
you free content all the time?
I didn't know I was taking advantage of her, but, you know, now that you know, what are
we going to do about this?
Well, this is the first time hearing about her being scammed and needing a ticket.
So, you know, it's like, how much are these tickets?
Top of your priority list.
Wait, wait too much for my mother's podcast to absorb.
I'll tell you that.
The guy had done an interview from the Screece
about Screece, right?
It was just outside.
It was a good old microphone.
It was a good old ring, a lot of songs.
Have you ever seen all the animals out there in Australia?
Like she's risking her life.
The wild animals are exactly right.
She's got some wild, wild spiders.
The fly goes, the animals,
the dingos run in the wild.
Wild animals.
Poisonous snakes snakes isn't it?
Like the, yeah, they got lots of platypusis.
Platypus and kangaroos.
I think it's pussis.
I know octopuses, octopuses, even though everyone says
octopi, I think it's pussis.
I think it's the dog with the bun on this one.
It's the pice, but I don't know.
Speaking of the N word, these tickets are expensive, man. Yeah, it's a big game. I heard. But what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what And these eyes when you don't need eyes 250 dollars isn't that much for a final ticket no real championship ticket
No, Greg's got that. Yeah, we got it. We'll cover you Morgan
Whoa, unless you get enough money through your go fun
Off the board kicks saving the but
It's what you're hoping I really am go to her go fun me page
So I don't have to pay for her final
world cup.
Oh, man. He's trying to get world cup coverage for a bag of doughnuts. It'll be not even
not even a bag of doughnuts. Morgan from AUS.
Don Lebertard. Well, Charlie sent Charlie, Charlie as far as I know, so just,
Charlie's title in my whole daily life.
Two guts.
Uh, how, how familiar were you at the time with Chewbacca?
Like how, you're upbringing, how, how, how, how much Chewbacca in it?
This is the Don Lebatard show with this two guts.
So I get here this morning, nice and early, getting ready to prepare, and I walk past show with this two gods. I feel like we can play it. Let that thing ride and I want you to listen to this great take from my man Tony.
Anthony Richardson, I'm very intrigued by Anthony Richardson.
And we're doing this during the preseason.
Of course, getting you ready for August,
getting you ready for football.
There was one play in Anthony Richardson's game against the bills.
Where I said, you know what, hey, the official tier is jury still out.
Obviously it's the rookie, mostly all rookies
are gonna get the jury still out.
But there was one play, Anthony Richardson,
off his back foot, arm angle,
like if he was throwing it from shorts up to first base.
It was a pick.
I'm just gonna throw a BF3 straight up with it.
It was a pick, but it was a laser.
A laser beam, back foot, side arm.
If we can redirect that laser
to a guy wearing that cult blue, dynamic, dynamic.
Any guy that wears two gloves, jury's still out on him.
And Teddy Bridgewater's not a starter,
I'm still out on him too.
Dury is.
Daniel Jones, this is a tough one, man,
because I wanna say the jury's one man because I want to say the jury still out I
Want to I
Think he lives in the man category. I think he's man. I think he's good. I think he's gonna I think he's gonna
Surprise people with his legs, but now the jig is up
Yeah, everybody knows you can run
The met here
So what are you guys?
Which one do you want to talk about first?
I mean, let's start at the end.
So, or you have a conversation with yourself
because you cause your dick to yourself in the middle.
You said the legs were not surprised people.
So, you know how it is, right?
You're doing a segment, it's just you,
you're filling in time, you got 12 minutes
to kind of get everything you got to get in it.
You're talking circles, yeah.
Talking, so you just do, you know how it is.
So, what I was trying to say was,
look, Danny Dimes has a great running ability
that people were surprised by when he first got into the league.
Now, everybody knows that he's gonna run,
so the jig is kind of up,
he lives in a certain category of quarterback.
But then I said, he's gonna surprise you with his legs,
meaning from like a defensive standpoint
where he's gonna run an RPO, something's gonna happen.
You're making it worse.
All right, so you have quarterback tears.
Give me all your tears.
What do your tears represent?
Because I heard Matt has one of the categories.
Matt's one of the categories.
So we have the Patrick Mahomes tear.
Okay, I wanna present that.
You'll find out.
Patrick Mahomes tear, we have the Elite Tear.
We have good enough, we have the May, we have Bad, the man we have bad and then we have jury still up who asked for these tears the man
Hmm, I do
It's football season Billy. You think you're the only guy here that can create football come on
Just ask like no people were probably wondering where they can get this where does this later on later on in the week
They'll be able to get them. We were just putting the finishing touches on him
I ain't going to lie to you. I've been waiting for these tears since the last football season.
Thank you.
So I'm anticipating.
But where can people find them?
Is what I'm asking.
Right here.
Exactly where they're listening to this.
A couple days from now.
I'll dance face when he listens to this segment.
I like it.
Tearshoek, I got it.
That was a laser of an interception.
It was.
I mean, you can all agree.
It was a laser.
So you were impressed by Anthony Richards
since very terrible throw.
Right, I like that.
Okay, I'm gonna go for that.
The rare impressive interception.
And right, but still get directed to a blue jersey
that it's fine.
A cold blue jersey.
Exactly.
Not just any blue,
because the bill's also,
that's all blue.
Yeah, a lot of blue.
All right, so who else?
And I'm hearing you have a top five for us.
I do, so I've been locked in on preseason as Stu has.
We were locked in this weekend on preseason football.
So I've got a top five cubies that showed me something
during the preseason.
Wow, exciting.
And it's not gonna be a list of who you think.
Wow.
Yeah, it's gonna be a little bit deeper.
So through one week, these are five quarterbacks
that showed you something.
I got no L.I. too.
Really?
Yeah.
What, but our eight.
So are we gonna do that, or just, yeah, you ready? Is that gonna happen today? Today, right now. Right got no lie too. Really? Yeah. What? But our eight.
So are we gonna do that?
Yeah, you ready?
Is that gonna happen today?
Today, right now.
Right now.
You ready?
Oh wow.
I wrote him down Tony.
Stuntie, stew is guest or less.
He's guest my list.
Okay, perfect.
I actually really like that.
He had a couple of names there.
The thing is, we in stew have both been watching preseason.
So he's got a lot of the names.
So, so wait, I have a question. Just so we all understand what this list is. This is a list of the top
five quarterbacks that showed you something during the preseason. So bad quarterbacks.
I would not say bad quarterbacks. Well, quarterbacks that have played. Jerry's still out.
I say. Some of them. Yeah. Well, wait, Jerry's some of the quarterbacks on this list have not played,
but they've surprised you?
No, no, no, they've all played, but they've showed me something.
So the jury is not out or it is out?
Well, they haven't gotten to the tier yet of me deciding whether the jury is in the round.
So none of these are on your tier.
Deliberating, they're delivering.
There is, let me see, one guy is in your tier.
Two guys on the tier.
Are they the top two on your top five?
No, is that a sequester jury or are you
allowed to be the jury? It's like an indictment jury. Yeah, it's a grand jury actually.
You're not a grand jury. So they show you something in week one, but they need to show you
a little more. Right? Break it. Some of these guys, two of the guys are starters in the NFL.
Who's getting indicted? Tony strikes me as a guy. Have you guys seen jury duty on Amazon Prime?
Yeah. Tony could be that guy, right? There would be zero chance that? Yeah. Tony could be that guy, right?
There would be zero chance that I could.
Tony could be that guy.
100%.
In a good way.
Yeah, it's not meant to be an insult at all.
That's not true from you.
That's 100% true.
This is a compliment.
That guy's very life-y.
I love that guy.
That's great.
Awesome.
You're saying that I would be hoodwinked and fooled
by people acting a fool inside of a courtroom.
Yep.
Which I never had.
You don't know that.
The first second really convinced me.
The first second, the first second.
I mean, that the lawyer spills something, I'm like,
okay, this is a reality TV show game.
I think this is the time to tell them.
This whole thing has been a ruse.
You as an analyst, we've been playing the whole time.
What?
JKL.
All I.
Those videos aren't airy. Hold on, hold on, hold on. What? JKL. All right. Those videos aren't airy.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
This can't be.
Wow.
Number three, all right.
Bryce Young.
Oh, really?
You know what?
He showed me?
He can take a hit.
It's important.
True or not true?
That was a question.
Yeah.
Very small guy.
I need to see if he can take NFL hits.
He took a couple hits.
I like it. Bryce Young, wherever ocean wherever you are come on home brother?
It is supposed to be like hey hey
No, no hey, oh, I like them. Okay. Why number two L. O. L. I
John Wofford
Wow, keep an eye on that fellow keep an eye. You know why the door is slightly open for John
Wofford starting in Tampa. Slightly open. I agree.
Dominique.
Cowtask, please. Yeah. Baker, please. John Wofford, Spunky.
Spunky, Spunky.
He is.
He likes his open lung. Where?
What made somebody Spunky be? Yeah. Yeah, what's the difference? Is that similar to moxie? Yeah, someone who has moxie is also considered spunky
Right, is that in the same category assassin?
No, no, totally different category. Oh, okay.
Number one, oh, I of the cubie that showed me something. What was this something that he showed you? Cause Brian showed you
He could hit right there. It's something. He showed you something. He you he could hit right there a song offered to me
He showed you something. He showed me something where the doors open now in Tampa Bay
That he can possibly the starting so this is that's funky. He sees the doors open
Exactly he sees opportunity. It feels like a photo confidence for John Woffer, but also a
Shot at Baker and trust you right is kind of like a double-edged sword. You know how it is all right
It's a cutthroat game.
Not bigoted.
It was good in that game.
He was eight and nine right?
Yeah, but it's good.
We've already seen that.
Okay.
Maybe he's on the list.
We don't know.
No, Baker's on the list.
Oh well.
We need the top five QBs that showed you nothing.
That's a different list.
I can put that together.
All right.
Number one on my OLI.
Almost cracked the top five.
Dorian Thompson Robinson.
Oh, yeah.
ATR. Yeah, I'm on the top five Dorian Thompson Robinson Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm on the list.
I have an eight net.
DTR is a problem.
Get that guy in some open space.
Show me something.
Obviously, have a guy that they're heavily invested in.
So it's going to be hard for him to make it there.
I'm sorry.
But another team can take a look and say, hey, DTR.
I thought he showed you a little athleticism.
That's the something.
Show me some juice. Oh, show me some juice. Wow, juice athleticism. Show me some juice.
Show me some juice.
Oh, show some juice.
Wow, juice.
You did show me some juice.
Oh, wow.
Number five, the aforementioned Anthony Richardson.
It was that laser interception.
That's all it was.
Like, I'm basing everything just off the fact that he has the arm talent to stand back. Back foot throw,
side arm release. Again, interception. I want to make that very, very clear. It was an
interception, but it was a great pass to an opposing team. For what it's worth, that's
all his college film look like too. Exactly. And it showed the NFL something. So he actually
spun on here. But at this at this level, aren't you hoping that he like grows and
doesn't get there?
Not make that way.
Something bad news.
Everybody throws picks.
I couldn't agree with you.
Some picks are really bad, but some picks are really good.
I would.
His picks look good.
Exactly.
Yes.
I would I understand where you come from, but I would argue that that was a really bad
pick.
Like it's an RPO.
You can't throw RPOs late.
And my chapter back foot.
That foot Dominic. It's.ic. It's like a laser though.
It wasn't it. Yeah. It was sometimes interception's around the receiver. Right?
Not on the corner. That one definitely wasn't. Yeah.
I was trying to help you. No, because you see the play. He just throws it right to the corner.
There is nobody there. But again, redirecting the laser to somebody in cold blue or cold white.
Right. Yeah. It's there. Number four.
The chargers have another QB who is very good. East and stick.
Who showed me something? Wow. I want you to go back to the play.
Great name. Yeah. East and stick. And he stuck it in that. Thank you.
Thank you. Yo, my brother. Thank you.
I'm there for you, Roy.
There was a play where Eastern stick
threw a touchdown to Quentin Johnston.
Sandwiched it between the corner and the safety
in a tight, super tight window.
And he was able to put it right through Eastern stick.
What, quarter was this in?
This was in, I wanna say the third maybe?
Oh, top tier got you.
Sticking it.
Thank you.
Number three, I got it.
I don't know if anybody here has heard of or mentioned at all.
Now I'm excited.
Aiden O'Connell from the Raiders.
Did you guys see Aiden O'Connell?
Oh, I have, we got it.
Aiden O'Connell.
Turn it some heads.
Turn it some heads.
Turn it some heads. They have something in Aiden O'Connell turn into some hits. Right out of Ireland. They have something in Aiden O'Connell.
If Jimmy Garoppolo, you know, unless Brady comes back
in the Southern story.
Which he is.
He's always lurking around every corner.
But Jimmy Garoppolo, we know what he is.
Give the young kid a little more.
Do you take into account that they're doing this
against not starters?
Like they're looking good against players
that probably will not be playing.
Semantics, I love this list.
It's his list.
I'm just asking the question if that's part of it.
Cause like remember last thought he had.
You can only play with who you're in the field with.
Yeah, but remember last.
You only play against Jalen Rams.
He's sorry, he's on the silence.
I can't play against him.
I'm just, do you not have to get defensive?
I'm just asking him.
I'm excited.
Remember last season we thought Skylar Thompson was great
after the preseason MVP the preseason
Exactly right and then he showed you and he went to Buffalo and almost beat the bills and and put the playoffs come on
What do we do with Bernie Parmalade?
I realized you gonna go to Buffalo
with Bernie Parmalade
Number two
I know I know I'm gonna hurry up Nathan Rork from Jacksonville. Oh one play one play
It's all you need to get out of a sack and then throw up a dime 35 yards on the field for touchdown
You got boys on your back come on something was shown
And he got the latest agony needs because that was my day
Drop down
Number one number one stew talked about yesterday. We thought he was going
to own car dealerships and George for the rest of his life, but let me tell you something
no way. With Matthew Stafford, out of the picture in the next couple years, the Rams have
a quarterback, Stetson, Bennett, the fourth throwing into tight windows, throwing touchdowns,
getting around, dodging people throwing touchdowns. That's it. That's a minute.
Don Lebertard.
At the end of our conversation with Alex Smith and we talked for about 30 minutes but I feel like
nobody is going to remember anything about that conversation other than
how you fell flat at the end with your very last word. Listen to how Stugats here at the end of this interview
says goodbye just exhausted to Alex Smith.
That's Stugats.
What happened?
Alex?
I'm dead.
I'm exhausted.
I haven't stopped talking in a month.
I mean, I don't know to tell you.
This is the Dunluba Tar show with their stugats.
All right, so Michael Orr, aka the blind side
is back in the news.
Jeremy, you and I were talking about the facts
in this case, you mind laying it out
before we get into discussing it for.
Yeah, of course, it seems like Michael Orr,
according to the media reports yesterday,
is suing the Toei family, most notably from the movie, you know, who were his now-seeming
conservators, not his adopted parents. He claims that he has just found out in recent months,
as recently as February of 2023, that some of the paperwork that was signed
in a time where he thought he was being legally adopted
by the family turns out it was more of a conservatorship
and that according to these claims,
they took advantage and made a bunch of money
off of the movie The Blind Side
and other things from Michael Orr
without him being able to capitalize the way that he probably should have at the beginning.
Now we're sort of into the back and forth phase of that.
It seems like he's been working for the last couple of years to try to get some of the
money that he rightfully earned from his name image and likeness being used ironically
for the movie The Blind Side.
I really hate that we already know what the documentary
about this case will be, which is called Blind Sided.
Not, yeah.
That's gonna be terrible.
It's great, anyway.
Yeah, I'm sorry, I had to say it.
I'm not sorry, you didn't have to say it at all.
I didn't have to say it at all.
I wanted to say it.
Yeah, well, nonetheless.
Nonetheless.
Nonetheless, this is a really sad story
because obviously The Blind Side was the feel good movie in a way that Sandra Bullock won awards for and
Everybody talked about how you know was such a white savior movie and now
Turns out that the NCAA agent in the movie that was questioning what the motives of the family were
Well, it turns out that villain was actually
Correct. Yeah, I was in ball. We think.
We think.
Well, yeah, Michael believes that.
Michael believes that.
Yeah, I was in Baltimore when Michael got there.
He, I think everybody knows right now that he always kind of hated the movie.
He never really liked the depiction of him as like kind of big oafie and helpless.
And I don't think he agreed so much with the white savior thing, but like the family
made him.
Yeah, right.
The Tui family was around often,
and he did have them involved in his affairs.
I remember doing charity events with Michael,
and they would show up.
So at that point, they were still in his life in some way.
And it's an interesting thing,
story to look back on because I could see how this could happen.
You're a young kid. I could understand the way that they how this could happen. You're a young kid.
I could understand the way that they're painting the picture.
You're a young kid and this family has to the best of your knowledge looked out for
you up into this point.
And they asked you to sign some papers because we're going to make you an official member
of our family.
Apparently, that's what Michael believes happened.
And it was actually just taking over a conservativeorship, which we all unfortunately know a lot more
about conservatorship, thanks to Britney Spears, but it's
essentially having the control of an adult's life.
Dominique, what kind of a guy is Michael?
Did you like him as a teammate, as a person?
Yeah. I mean, he was Michael was a great, he was low key,
kind of soft spoken.
So the whole whole around him was higher than you would normally have
for an offensive lineman and he never really liked it. I know lots of people say that they
don't but he seemed to not like. I don't know if he was that he didn't like the attention
but he didn't like the reason for the attention. So he was never much engaged in that stuff
but he was always like incredibly cool low key guy who I mean sincerely really liked.
Did they seem close the family at the time he saw them? That's hard. I mean, sincerely, really liked. Did they seem close to the family?
At the time, he saw them.
That's hard.
I mean, that's hard to say.
They were around.
So like, I'm not going to pretend like Michael and I
were the best of friends, but he was off into the line
and so I didn't spend too much time with him.
But like, they would pop up.
They'd be there.
So he welcomed him to the facility from time to time
and it games.
And so they were around and in his life.
It's kind of fascinating because a lot of people
are going to the worst place.
Why now?
He needs money.
Why now?
I'm certain because they took him into his house.
Like he trusted them.
Whatever papers he signed at the time,
and maybe he wasn't the smartest thing to do at the time,
but he signed those papers because he trusted that family.
And that family apparently, we'll see how it plays out,
according to Michael Orr, took advantage of him
and his portrayal in the blind side, a movie that I love.
I think most people love that movie, right?
But they made a lot of money off of that movie
and he didn't make it die.
And so the timing on it doesn't matter to me.
He came to a realization, oh my God,
this family made so much money off of my story,
my name, my image, my likeness.
The family said they didn't make that much.
They did, because now there are new reports
according to New York Post, where that family,
bought 115 fast food joints, flew on private jets, and went on lavish trips
with the movie profits.
And so Michael's like, hey, where is mine?
I want it and I want it now.
And so I'm tired.
Like, people questioning the timing on this, no, he's entitled to the most amount of money
in that equation.
It's his name and it's his story.
For what it's worth, the lawsuit alleges that it was three months after he turned 18 in
2004 that he claims he was tricked into signing a document that made the two EC's his conservators
and that they ultimately earned more than $300 million through something that was originally
obviously his story and they've gone on to, you know, profit from the fact that they
were the people associated with the blind side as well.
He says he didn't again find out about this until February of 2023.
It's worth noting that Michael Orz attorney and Michael Lewis, the author of the blind
side, declined to comment to us.
Is it a look at me, Louis, if I say I was in the movie, The Blind Side?
And I had a wonderful time meeting Miss Sencha.
Look, I caught a ten-team.
And I saw Michael all along the stage. it. Oh, it is never mind.
Back to you, Dama.
No, I didn't get to work.
Yeah.
I was in the blind side.
Michael always daring well.
Like I was in the hood.
We was in the mechanics room.
So, look at everybody apart.
But, yeah, they told us to act like Sandra Bullock came into your hood for real and just talk to her any kind of way.
At this part, we didn't know if it was gonna be rated R,
or rated PG 13, everything that came out of my mouth
was a customer.
You know what I mean, speaking of the inward,
it was just all bad.
So, salute to Michael Orr, salute to my aunt C. Sandra Bullock.
Look at me, Louis, I was in that movie.
She earned that Oscar.
It said that the movie itself made $309 million on the budget of $29 million.
So a lot of money, and I think the New York Times article suggested that I think the two
ies said that everyone made in the teens of thousands of dollars, that all the family got the
same amount, and it was like 16 or something like that thousand dollars a piece.
They said we split it five ways.
Like, okay, it was millions of dollars, you split five ways.
Is there any allegation here that the conservative ship
also took a piece of his NFL earnings?
It makes me wonder because he had a pretty nice career
and he got like almost $30 million in guaranteed money.
If he does need the money now, how did that happen?
It makes me wonder.
Yeah, I mean, I don't think that, yeah, it's impossible for us to know any of these
ulterior motives.
Well, just accept the actual motive is that he feels like he learned now that he was wrong.
That's the motive.
I don't think
he makes any allegations that they dipped into his NFL money in any way. I don't think those
allegations in a piece. Do you see anything else, Jeremy?
It's not necessarily that part, but I just think it's worth sort of comparing this to
the modern times in College of Ball where we're so worried about players being taken advantage
of in the NIL world. And this is just an example of what was going on there
if people capitalizing off of a player,
whether it was for business purposes
or their own ultimate success.
So you have the two E's who get to build a brand
and name recognition off of being involved
in a story like Michael Ors,
whether they took all of his money or not,
they get to capitalize off that.
Hugh Freeze was his high school coach.
He ends up at Ole Miss as a result,
and we've seen the college coaching career that Hugh Freeze has had as a result of really being in
the right place at the right time with Michael Orr as well. And then getting to hitch onto
Ed Orrjan's bandwagon at Ole Miss. So it's just, it's a sad example of the way that
college football in particular or college basketball as well. But college athletes have
been taking advantage of and kind of stepped on their success to be able to get others to where they need to be.
So many unanswered questions here, it's fascinating and one of the questions I have is, if
Michael Lawer's allegations are correct, did the families deceit reach the level of criminal
activity?
Is there anything that jeopardizes this family for any of their actions? Lock them up. Yeah, we'll see. I mean, I think your point, Jeremy, is interesting one
because we look back at those days like we're in a better place now. We aren't. I mean,
the players are still while NIL is something that exists. The players are still working
for free and they still find opportunities to use these guys as stepping stones to better lives and careers.
Most of the times it's the coaches and many cases, especially in basketball you can find
coaches from low ranks riding a guy up into a having a career.
It's a sad state that we're in where these players aren't necessarily viewed as players and
I can't climb into or I can't go into time machine and figure out
what was the true motivation of the twoies back when they brought Michael or in but they certainly seem to have benefited from this and
maybe he benefited from it also but they certainly seem to have benefited greatly from bringing him in in the first place and at least
publicly, you know, they're still saying we love Michael
they always have no matter when there's been disputes or any sort of anything in the past.
This just seems to be obviously the most public break in their relationship.
But I mean, we even talk about that and you know, you mentioned it's like bag man and college football
that recruiting in the iron he is is S J to be so that the sun saw Sean Jr.
He's kind of the bag man at UCF. Like he's involved in the NIL collectives
now when you look at UCF and their football program. And this is someone who was literally
born and bred by being around as a little kid, what was going on in the recruiting of Michael
Orr. And now he's just watched that go over the years. And now what what's he doing?
He's overseeing NIL somewhere else. So you could argue for him,
maybe that was an example of,
I wanna make sure these kids get paid right.
He might have the right intentions there himself.
And I'd like to, as a UCF guy,
I'd like to believe that he does.
But also, you see this example
and you see this lawsuit that comes from Michael Orren.
It just, it makes you question the entire system
that we've already questioned,
but to now have one of the only pure stories
sort of ripped away from us,
it was the obvious,
like, of course this happened. You assume that, I think this case gets a lot of attention because
they are not as biological parents and there's obviously the racial component him going to all miss
is just a think piece writer's dream for writing the story of the kid, the black kid, taking in Wattawite family, going to play for the rebels
of all teams.
All that stuff is incredibly interesting
and offers a good story.
But if you are not, there are kids who are in relation
with their parents who are also getting taken advantage
of their parents.
Absolutely. And it's like the child's their parents. Absolutely. By their parents.
And it's like the child's-
By their actual parents.
By their biological parents.
It's a child's star like risk, because you are not fully developed intellectually, and
you're not fully exposed or mature professionally, and you have to trust people.
And it's ridiculous because these young kids have such a rare special talent that they are so valuable
and then the people flocking around sometimes get like dollar signs in their eyes and make
the decisions that are not necessarily the best interest of the kid but are in the best interest
of them.
And for the people saying, oh, he just wants money, it's a money grab.
Yeah, and he deserves the money.
He don't need no money if he look his flies.
Yeah, and he deserves the money.
He don't need no money if he look his flies.
Dude, you did in that movie.
Look at him on the internet.