The Down Laboratory show, in partnership with Draft King Sports, is celebrating football season with a live, interactive event at a gas station in Miami, offering free gas and engaging fans through real-time voting and live challenges. The broadcast features a mix of humor, sports analysis, and deep critique of college football’s structure, arguing that college programs should operate as professional minor leagues with extended eligibility and professional budgets to provide viable career paths for athletes who don’t reach the NFL. The host promotes a shift from amateurism to professionalism, emphasizing the need for labor representation and career development programs for players. The show expands its digital presence across multiple platforms, including YouTube, where it airs live programming focused on Miami Hurricanes football with national analysts. A humorous "Best Limited Fake" segment features audience members impersonating celebrities and sports figures, adding entertainment and engagement. The conversation also highlights how college football’s financial and structural realities—especially the gap between college and pro earnings—demand systemic change, while the NFL’s monopoly and lack of support for feeder systems are challenged as outdated. Ultimately, the segment calls for transparency, fairness, and professional growth in college athletics.
You are listening to The Down Laboratory show. In partnership with the Draft King Sports Act. Now live in all 50 estates. (upbeat music) Tomorrow, September 2nd, is Draft King's game day. Guys, I'm super pumped about this. There are so many things that we've had to keep secret over the last few days. So many awesome things. Draft Kings and Draft King sports have planned for you tomorrow. Draft King sports is celebrating football season with free gas in Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, and the 305 of Miami. Plus, new offers and promotions throughout the day. Download the Draft King Sports Act. Now, so you're ready. Use code damn when you sign up. Draft King Sports is live in all 50 estates. In partnership with Draft Kings, the crown is yours and tomorrow our show is celebrating DK game day in a very big and bold way. We're broadcasting live from a gas station in Miami to bring you the show Olympics. (cheering) Zaz represents a Levitage show. 10-day Tony represents Mystery Crate. Matthew Coco represents nothing personal with David Samson. They will compete in a tire toss, a perfect pump challenge, and a windshield wash relay. And fans, you hear my voice right now. You can follow along and make picks. In a free-to-play contest on the Draft King Sports app, right now, go ahead and do it. We put the link out on our socials. You can help decide with your voice who you think is going to win the show Olympics. So, Zaz, though, are you gonna be all show tomorrow at a gas station flipping tires? Do you know how it is that this whole thing works? And we're giving away free gas. What other details can we give people so they can prepare for the idea that they need to get to a gas station? What time are we gonna tell people where the free gas is? - Dan, as you can imagine, I don't know if you picked up a newspaper lately, but gas in this economy is a great giveaway. So, some of these things have to maintain a level of secrecy so you don't have an entire circus out there. Also, at no point did I say, Zaz was going to be flipping tires. That was not in here. - It'd be so hard to flip tires. - For an entire show? - So hard. - That's not one of the show Olympic categories. No, no, no. A tire toss. - Yeah. - Yeah, he'll be throwing a football through tires. - Right through that hole. - The way that sexually suggestive boner pill ads do. - Yeah. - Are you gonna be out on the street all show tomorrow from a gas station? - I thought this line was very easy to follow. We are gonna be broadcasting live. - I'll answer it, yes. - From the gas station that trafficking sports is giving away free gas at. We are gonna use this as a sandbox that promote our incredible partner's trafficking is giving stuff away. - I'm gonna be doing all kinds of activities. - And Zaz is going to be flipping tires all show just to make you happy because now we have to do that. - So we've got a couple of things over the next couple of weeks that I want to inform the audience on. And especially if you are folks who watch the show on YouTube. As I've told you guys before, we are on now in more places than we've ever been. It's not just the DraftKings Network. It's not just Samsung TV Plus or the Roku Channel or Visio Watch Free Plus. It's not just DraftKingsNetwork.com. It's also Peacock and NBC Sports Now. And if you're doing it via podcast, it's Apple, it's Spotify, it's Amazon Music. It's also, as a radio show, serious XM channel 85. But what we're doing over the next few weeks on the YouTube channel specifically today from one o'clock till six o'clock commercial free. If you're a Miami fan and you want to get excited about a very exciting college football season. And I think I can say this flatly, this is the most exciting expectation and the opposite of the Miami Dolphin season. It's the most exciting expectation for a Miami hurricane season this century. I feel like I can say that maybe 2001 is, if not this century in the last 25 years, the last quarter century, this is a season of great expectation for the University of Miami. And from one to six, this venture that Mike Ryan has gotten off the ground over the last couple of years with a lot of help, Cain's Insight, is gonna be doing live programming on our YouTube channel. And of course where it is, you can get Cain's Insight, Cain'sInsight.com and on YouTube wherever it is that you find these things. But also next week, we're going to have programming that is more than just our show. David Samson's show is gonna start at seven o'clock in the morning to lead into our show. And we're also gonna have programming after that as well, after our show next week as we try to expand a little bit the vibrancy of your mornings here and connect some things within our network that we've been working for five years to connect. So next week is gonna have as we head into football season, starting in earnest is gonna have a bit of a blossoming here where you're gonna be able to get more live stuff over more hours just on our YouTube channel if you're somebody who follows us that way. >> Yeah, and if you have YouTube TV, NBC Sports, it's sprouted recently a 24/7 sports channel, the old NBC Sports Network that is alive on YouTube TV and our show re-airs there. Thank you for the opportunity today on our YouTube channel. I know you mentioned it's for diehard Miami Hurricanes fans. It absolutely is every year we do Hurricade, but there are big time national college football voices. I would venture to say the biggest national college football voices are gonna be joining our show. My favorite analyst in all of the sport Greg McElroy, he's joining us at two. Then at two 30, a great hurricane. One of my dear friends, Kevin Clark, is going to be joining us with David Lake, who is one of the best information guys in the business when it comes to the Miami Hurricanes. Then Bruce Feldman is joining us. The bear in Stanford C preview, this upcoming week one matchup, Josh Pate at four o'clock, Brett McMurphy, Linda Fletcher, Mark Fletcher's mom, who famously drives to every game that the Miami Hurricanes feature in, in a RV now that was gifted to her by my brother. >> She tried in Friday night. >> She's already on her way. So Linda Fletcher, who's an incredible mother, raised a tremendous young man, she'll be joining us and plenty of surprises that are also in barcode that I cannot share. >> You were not here yesterday when I suggested too much outrage because that's what happens when you go against the norm, that we do away with all of the silly superficial packaging and just officially take college football and just make it minor league football, not just in name but in actuality by removing the eligibility requirements that the toothless NCAA insists on enforcing even though the NCAA can no longer actually enforce its rules and get competitive labor salaries in a place where somebody who finishes college and can't quite make it to the NFL still has an ability to earn a living because you allow players to stick around for eight and nine years and do away with the idea that education is mandatory or classroom students is mandatory. The illusion really, the falsehood. I'm not saying that kids don't get college educations and I'm also not saying that college education is not important although it's less important than it's ever been now that people can cheat their way through college football by just using AI and now that the professors are using AI so they don't have to actually read your papers. Like college has never been worth less than it is now and I'm saying that because that's low and I don't know the percentages on this. - You mean just in terms of value because yes college it's gotten a lot more expensive over the years, isn't it? - Yeah, I don't mean in terms of what it costs. I mean in terms of the value to people given that you can now cheat your way through college by just having computers do your work for you. - Or you can learn the skills necessary to adapt to an ever changing workplace. - Yeah and unfortunately the degree has never been more necessary to get a job. So while you're learning less than ever you also need that degree more than ever. It's a really great time to be a young person in America. - It's all a cartel. Anybody that's still paying off student debt will tell you that these things are super expensive and the fact that they do get an education for a certain monetary value is important and I still think it should be offered and I don't think you're disagreeing with that. - Down lebatar. - John can you rate my alpachino from that billiard scene in Carlitos way if I do it for you? - I think it's pretty good. - Yeah. - Jonathan Sassilo. - You think you're big time? (laughing) - Where you gonna die? (laughing) - Big time. - That is my infamous scale of one to ten. That's a seven point six. - Solid. - Good job, dad. - Good job, dad. (laughing) - That's assuming not many right now. - Good. - This is the down lebatar show. (upbeat music) - I am not disagreeing with that this is my premise and I want you guys to think about this for a second because speaking of cartels, what I mentioned yesterday is the NFL has an obvious monopoly. They are the most lucrative sports league in the history of earth more than $20 billion a year and they get their minor leagues for free because college football is that so they don't have to do what basketball has to do with the G league that only has to do.
have to do what baseball has to do with the minor leagues. And I'm somebody who wants employees to be paid the most that they can be paid in competitive work spaces. When I tell you that this NFL season says there are going to be players all over the NFL making a great deal less than certain college players. When I tell you that if a player finishes college after five years and doesn't make the NFL, that player doesn't have a way to earn money anywhere but in Europe where the salaries are abysmal on what it is you have to do to play professional football in Europe. You essentially have people who aren't quite good enough to get to the pros fail to make the Browns and now Lane Kiffin tries to make him make them your tight end and what happens is the courts are involved and the SEC and the big 10 get real precious about protecting their powers on stuff. But all of them are protecting what are antiquated rules when I present to you as the fact not the opinion and the absurdity of the fact that all over college football, there will be players paid more than professionals are played to start NFL games this season. That's going to happen all over the league. Once you've allowed that as the insanity of what it is that you're doing, you no longer have to play by the previous rules of pretending that the books or the classes matter. I understand that people are precious about this but what's wrong with my idea of just make the college programs full blown minor league professional franchises that have to run on professional budgets and are trying to get the best players even if that player is in his eighth year of college because that's the tight end you want. He wasn't quite good enough to make the pros, but he's better than any of the kids you've got coming up that you'd have to develop. Well, the part that I would object to is it sounds like you don't like how when a player finishes his eligibility at school and if he's not good enough for the pros, what does he do now? Well, that's, I mean, that's life. That's the job market. That's also the argument for why you still offer a college degree, especially now if they have an opportunity to make money, you have learned the skill sets and background knowledge on finances. That's literally the point with that leg up. And if you're going to say, well, let's be realistic about that. Dan, brother, at some point, that's operator error. And the bonus follows on these young men to do something with that education that's being offered. I mean, don't you, you aren't made aware that even when you get that scholarship to play football in school, somebody's there telling you this doesn't mean you're going pro after this. Yeah. And I would say what Dan is saying is already to hear kind of schools operating on professional budgets. Let's stop pretending that this is amateurism. I think we're kind of already there. But why not keep going? It's what I'm saying. Once you're already there, why not? Because I require, because I requires collectively bargaining the sport in which they have to come to an agreement with the representative for the labor. And they don't want to do that because I want to keep most of the catch for them. And we want to feel the vibes on Saturdays. No, but the vibes will be the same. It'll be different though. There's a lot that I agree with when it comes to what Dan said. The NFL has had a free minor league feeder system for decades on end. Now it is smart business for this league to see how the NCAA fixes this. But if I am government and the government has been trying to inject itself into saving college sports, what I do is I leverage that antitrust agreement that the NFL has to have a monopoly in this nation. And I say, you come to the table and you provide some guidance. You provide some foundation here and a pipeline to get to the next level. And if you don't get into the next level, then career opportunities and training programs for people that go through that system and get rejected, whether it be broadcasting, whether it be scouting for an office things, I would really hold the NFL's feet to the fire and have them help be part of the solution over here. But I would also want the labor to have a seat at the table and they very clearly want to come out. Well, but this is what I'm objecting to among other things. But you don't get to have a monopoly and a free feeder system and get to keep all the rules the way they already are when you guys are sitting here and making the argument, well, a guy knows that if he goes to college, he might not make the pros. Yes, the odds are overwhelmingly against you being able to have a more professional career than after your minor league career. Just like in baseball, the odds are overwhelmingly against it. But here's the thing, though, Zazlow, when you say, well, you can get your degree in something or you got your degree in something else and you can stop playing football. If you go to college and you study engineering, yeah, you've got a number of different places where you can work. Not one, not one, you don't have to become a plumber after that because you, you've got one option in football. You have one real option to keep your career going. What if you are one of these players who's good enough to make $4 million a year in college, but not good enough to play in the pros? Shouldn't you be able to keep making $4 million if there's a coach out there who still wants you to be his quarterback beyond a fourth year? I mean, I would say no, because you're entering like you're looking at going to school on a football scholarship is okay. Football is going to be my profession. Okay. Fine. But you're, you're entering a territory where man really limited opportunities for the job that I'm trying to get into. Yeah. Again, I, I, I disregard your, your, your hypothetical here. It's not just football for the people that are going to school on a football scholarship. They have an education. I might think it's taking that. I'm not taking away the education from those people. I'm giving all of the people there the rights to get an education. I'm just making it more competitive for the money, which is what sports is. Right. But, but, but your take is built on a fallacy because it's not just football. They have a better opportunity to hedge against their career. I don't. If I, if I'm out of this workforce, I am f'd because I put all my eggs in what is tantamount to the football basket. And I got my career while I was in school. I wasn't even able to finish getting my BA degree. So no, I, they have opportunities that are incredible and they, the football is supposed to afford them the opportunity to do all. That's right. There's like, like a player like Quinnures who turned down way more money to return to college, only to go to the pros bet on himself. And it appears that that bet is failing. He has given himself a leg up already because he made millions in college to do something with his life. He's made unbelievable connections. And he also has a college education to fall back on. It is not this all in type of proposition for someone like that. But I get what Dan is saying, which is that if you had a situation where there was essentially an unlimited amount of eligibility for these college programs, Quinnures wouldn't have felt the need to bet on himself that way. Like if, if the Texas Longhorns were the direct minor league program for the Dallas Cowboys, and you could be promoted and demoted as many times as was necessary, just like in Major League Baseball. But if you were optioned, you know, that fifth time or whatever, now you're a free agent again. And some other program could pick you up. You know, if you're JJ McCarthy, you get sent down to Minnesota to be a go for for reps to then come back up to the Vikings in that program. Y'all would be really excited about that. The program. Yes, the program. What's happening with you? Well, he's got a country album that's coming out on Friday and I don't want to promote it too much, but he's very eager to promote it. We'll get to that in a second. Accent. Accent's not from your part of the country. When you like to see. And again, I'm making the example absurd on purpose because we're already at absurd. I'd like Sarkeesian to have to make the decision of whether he wants to have viewers for an eighth year or whether archmaning is what someone who can take you as job and just did make that decision, but you know what I'm saying to have it be even more competitive for the dollars and to have it be even more professional than it is because it's already at an unprecedented amount of professional and we're just pretending it's still amateurism. I think your your main problem is like everything that you're saying we're already there. We're already there. I think the only thing that's missing is the most obvious thing and it's why the record tells because they're cutting out the labor force. That's what I'm telling you. I don't like about this and I just don't know where it is that I can push it to where you're going to find it palatable because it's already been pushed to a place that people are not objecting to. Zaz, like I've been really surprised that college football has not sustained any kind of prestige. Even though it's become a kind of professional that would have been unfathomable as recently as five years ago. I think that there is things that don't cost the NFL a lot of money that they can actually look at. Hey, we can get an ROI from this. If you have them help establish some rules and the labor force in college is far more likely to agree to that if they know that this is the same set of rules that's at the next level. If the NFL comes to the table with things like a job placement program for people that go through the cycle of the league and end up not being able to cut it, then I think that there is some real good value here. You also probably have to silo it because everything that you're saying, there's probably someone that's over there that is a title 9 person and a non-revenue sports person saying, what do we do for this? Yeah, of course. That's always going to exist. And you've still got a monopoly with a
minor league and we're gonna still keep pretending that all of this is amateur because people like to go on campus on saturday and remember what it was like at the frat house 35 years ago. Down lebertar. I hope he goes to your town so I can laugh because you think he'll make you a contender. Who's that impression of? The sports guy. Oh, oh! Do some more. Part of the message. It's a zapp. Let me hear some more. Dave, then a chick. I don't do a good semen but that's what I'm doing right now. That's maybe the worst sin I've ever heard. Hey, man. That's a bad impression. He media. This is the down lebertar show. We've got another sui category to get to. This is best limited fake. You can do the voting at lebertardaf.com. Now the sui nominees for best limited fake. Zazlow's limited fake mo green from the godfather. I'm mo green. I made my bones when you're going out with cheerleaders. Tony Kalatiyud. Limited fake George Costanza from Seinfeld. Jerry, I scheduled the tax. I couldn't change it. Roy Bellamy's limited fake rose saying Vancouver canucks. Lebanco the canucks. Chris Cody's limited fake Bob Dylan. Zazlow's limited fake bar city blues. I don't want your life. Zazlow's limited fake Al Pacino in two for the money. I want to be John Anthony. Mike Ryan and Jeremy Tashay's limited fake pirates offended by peg leg. I'd be filing a letter over to my HR if you could so kindly read that for me. Eight Maclouth. Thoughts as no serious leaders open up the scrolling. Oh, wow. There's really something here. Just wanted to go with his own story of the one you were inviting. I have been repeatedly referred to as peg leg in the workplace. Well, I'm known for my maritime enthusiasm. This be a step too far. There be no known correlation between scurvy and them loss. Also, Dan confused two black cubies. And that should not go unpunished. Captain Jack Bobo. I mean, El Hassan limited fake Chris Mad Dog Russo. He's the voice of the world says he's about to be right down the middle. Obviously, he's really the Zazlow. Zazlow limited fake Nikki from obsession. No, no, no, no. We were having a nice day. I mean, El Hassan limited fake Stephen A Smith. I mean, it's a propossus, Dan Lepetard. The next hand lost the 45 days and then 45 showed up. You think that's a coincidence? Jeremy Tashay limited fake Fred from Sanford and Son. I'm coming Elizabeth. Oh, Lord Chris Cody limited fake to a tag of my aloa. So I want to throw to them, but there's these, they're tall in front of me. And I don't see him, but I really want you to think that I know what I'm doing here. So I'm going to talk like I really think that they're just tall. So I just, I don't see them. Is that your tour? That's my tour. I want to work on that. No, it needs to. It's more of the tone of like I'm saying something really important right now. You have the cadence. Thank you. You're just trying to sound smart. Mike Ryan and Tony Colaudiudes limited fake Kirk Cousins meeting for Nando Mendoza. I can't imagine how long that handshake is going to be. It's going to be a lot. I do it. Hey. Great. No, it's an honor to meet you. What are you doing? I can't wait to go on this ride with you. I saw you. I saw you playing Atlanta. You did great. Hey, big fan. Big fan. Big fan of yours. Big fan of how you pro. I like your family values. Oh, I love yours. I like yours. How's your dad? He's great. My family. Great. How do you like your state? I don't. I don't. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Mike Ryan limited fake Lou Holtz. I knew you love it down. Being visited by the ghost that Christmas past. The show's limited fake Steven A Smith. Bavakwa. Yeah. It is. Has it overtaken Rachona Stem? It is. Thiago's splitter. It's in the class. Bavakwa. Slava Medvedenko. Yeah. Collars limited fake Tim Kirchian. This week we have a walk off. Pat your dinner experience for the first time. 1971. Roy Bellamy. Limited fake James Brown. This is a man. It's me. Jessica Smitana. Limited fake Adam Sandler. Do you ever, never do. That's what I'm picturing. This wedding. This wedding officiating. Like, look who's here. It's Dimitri Shalamy. Chris Cody and Mike Ryan. I did. We're duly beloved. We have gathered here today. Is that Adam Sandler? Did you hear me? Holy man. Devoted. My gravity. If you accept, please say shibidi do. Mike Ryan. Limited fake. Christopher Walkett. So I put a bullet in his eye. Then I put two more in him. Just to make sure. So if you have doubts about what's going to happen. If you don't deliver. Let me tell you something. I'll make gravy. I'm your little girl. Dave Damacechek. Limited fake Chris Burman. Look, Dan. There are a lot of football teams out there. We picked the wrong ones on this day. Look, there are a lot of teams in the AFCs. But the Miami Dolphins are truly atrocious. Back on the blitz. Chris Cody. Limited fake Al Pacino in any given Sunday. On this team, we tear ourselves and everyone around us. To pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know. That's going to make the difference between winning and losing. Between living and dying. And either we heal as a team. Or we will die as individuals. Wow. That's football, guys. I'm surprised you read everything perfectly. That's all it is. Mike Ryan. Limited fake Michael McDonald. I haven't heard Mike's Mike McDonald in a long time. I've been work shopping. Be ready next week. Oh, really? You're going to, we're going to. Perhaps a new pick. We're healthy. Again. This is very exciting. And the idea that we're going to break out Mike McDonald again. Because we have all the cool rules. Zazlow, limited fake hitman from Scarface. You think I killed women and children? You think that's what I do? And then he shoots me there. Look at you now. The shipping container. Limited fake Ed Orgeron. That's a practice round that he's like, "All right now." Here we go. That's pretty good. Thank you. Quite the four play there. All right, three to one. All right, here we go now. Does everybody have the right letters? Chris is good. Don't try it on me. We're not recruiting Joe Burrell. Jeremy Tashay's brother, limited fake Jeremy Tashay without Greg Cody knowing. Greg's absolutely right. We're running around at the Jackrabbit's pace and running around in the jet era. You know, the Miami Heat really all one of those teams. You don't want to see in the first round. He's a beetle. Yes, I'm George Harrison. I'm from the Beatles. And you know, Kalo, we're dominating last night on the class. Taser and Taser. All you need is love, am I right? Stop talking. Kid Miro, limited fake. Don't be honest. Attentive Coonbow. Milwaukee report is a man. Nice to him. They asked the questions. Oh, Yannis, do you consider this season a failure? And then the whole of the memory. The eddy. Eddie. Eddie. Eddie. You asked me this. You asked me this before again. So you know, then I tell you it's fair. I tell you it's not failure. It's not failure. It's not failure. It's all that shit. The New York Post. Chris Cody, limited fake John Skipper. Till in the cone. Thank you. Dan Lebert taught. I do believe Miss Linda will have to sit out a day of work. We will pay her, of course. But she can come back in a 24 hours time. I was far going leg going at the end. Wait, I gotta get Dan so Kate, you like that impression? No, I do declare that it is a decent impression. Jessica Smetana, limited fake misogynist. Bane. Should we talk about filet mignon again? I agree with Zazel, I was very happy to meet. And if you eat it, you might turn into a woman. Oh, what? I don't know. Jessica Smetana, limited fake unfaithful Bane. He had a public breakup with a girlfriend. And he cheated on her allegedly with Cuban girls. Yeah. I mean, it played out publicly. What's her marriage to do? Feeding is very cool, right, Tony? I didn't say that. I thought you agreed with me. I said when you get to Miami, things are different. I mean, a man gets tempted. Zoling someone she could do. That's what I just said. You just agreed with me. Because I disagreed because it was a legend. It was a legend. Allegedly. What is a legend? You just said the same thing that I just said. No, I said it completely different. No, we said it the exact same. I didn't say the C word. Whoa. Right? Two words. Two words. I said it at the same time. One, two, three. She did. She did. Thank you, Dan. I mean, El Hasen, limited fake doc rivers. I mean, this is doc. Oh, shit. What's up, man? You tell me. I'm not following. Never thought. It was a whole show. It doesn't even mention my name. I did not. It fired. I retired. I'll buy my own version. You're out here spreading an accurate report. Like dogs. Where's Lodging Needham? I mean, El Hasen, limited fake Barack Obama.
You did you see that on my f*ck apart? President Obama? Man, I was talking to Michelle. And who? And who's talking about it? And Michelle said, you know who get a kick out of this? You know what I mean? I'm flattered, Mr. President. But I think he actually retired. Hey, hey, listen to me. Eat cow, fire. Now, for folks outside, they want you to believe me retired. I mean, El Hassan, limited fake fibula. Well, I mean, this is me, fibula. Well, I'm just calling on behalf of my good friend, the rivers. And I want you to know that he's totally retired, completely under his own free will. Dan Lebertard, limited fake fibula. That's a bold fist-loi. That was trying to do. I was trying to do fibula, and I did it poorly. No, we know, we know. I mean, El Hassan, limited fake old-school internet connections. Evan Cohen and Mike Ryan, limited fake Zaslow. You're a big guy. I'm a small guy. I'm Jonathan Zaslow. And he has been radio. Just thinking of impression of those. Zaslow. You're a big guy. Bad impression. Who are you doing? I'm a small guy. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Not awesome. That is not an awesome impression of him. Jonathan Zaslow. I mean, good impression or bad impression? That's bad impression. Bad impression. I haven't heard a good Zaslow impersonation. Anyone that I've heard try and give a Zaslow impersonation, you're not the real thing. I'm sorry about that. I know, right? Well, who's talking? I third that. Is it me or me? I'm a small guy. It's me. It's me. And me. And me. I'm Jonathan Zaslow. Yeah, it's been radio. Mike Ryan and Chris Cody, limited fake Zaslow family reunion. You understand the SNL of the Sandler Party? That's how I imagine the Zaslow Party. Yeah! All with backward tab. Awesome. To see you. Awesome. You know about that missionary? That's how it's done. What's the spread in unison? This point. TIE FOOD! Tim Kirkchin, limited fake berry bonds. Hey, you do it a little man. I mean, El Hassan, limited fake Ben Stein. Here's the thing. My **** is really hard talking about gambling. Clear eye. What do you sound like, Shock G? Brushing piece. I once got visiting a birth king bathroom. That's pretty good. Right there in Brickle. Greg Cody, limited fake Miami Heat Broadcast. Eric Reed. Tonight is not a monster night in South Florida sports. It's the seventh biggest night in South Florida sports history this year. That's the first time Zas has complimented me this month. The 33rd time in his career. Dan Lebetard, limited fake Cyrus from The Warriors. Warriors come out and play. Jason Bonetti, limited fake droopy, singing Mary Tyler Moore. Who can take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile is you, Dan. And you should know it. With each glance in every little movement you show it. Love is all around. No need to waste it. You can have the town. Why don't you take it? You're gonna make it after all. Tony Colaudiude, limited fake Christopher Walken. Cock-a-walk, babe. Dave Damacechek, limited fake Bill Simmons. I hope he goes to your town so I can lie. 'Cause you think he'll make you a contender. I don't do a good thing, but that's what I'm doing right now. I mean, El Hassan, limited fake Wemba Nyama, getting ejected. Oh, Lala, I have to leave. Okay, okay. Salut, let me say goodbye to all my friends, okay? Goodbye, Dianne, goodbye, Jeremy, goodbye. Vaselle, goodbye, Johnson, goodbye, Katarph Ryan. Don't mess up anymore. Mike Ryan, limited fake RFK Jr. I don't know how you're getting read up. But I know how you're getting measles. Greg Cody, limited fake voice modulator. Hello, this is not Greg Cody. That kind of thing. Okay, not any questions. I do agree with Greg. Why are you talking so slow? I don't think you need to win this opener. It's because you can hear yourself. It's kind of awkward. Greg, what do you mean? Greg, do you have a pack of my day? A what? I stand behind Greg for not doing back in my days anymore. You all have him singing songs and doing so many ancillary things that is ridiculous and yet know it. Talk faster. What are you talking so slow? I'm talking you made my normal speed. This is, uh, yeah, my wife loves this deep sexy voice. I'll tell you that. Hey, how would you talk to her with it? Yeah, baby. What's your wife's name? I forget. You're not Greg. So, uh, yeah, I'm not Greg. My wife's name is Eileen. Eileen. Eileen that way and you know it. Mike Ryan, limited fake dance dogs in her monologue. This is Dan's door for a lights here on the top. Which is, I mean, let's be honest. It's a poor person's fish. Bottom speeder. Best. We go high grades. Born race. The hole with a little cruise cruise on the side. Tilapia is a trashy fish. It really is. Seabass, you guys. Peacan and Seabass. You think I am fancy. You should see the cat. I mean, El Hassan, limited fake FBI director. Cash Patel. If the Miami Heat defeat the Victor Wemba Nyama San Antonio Spurs, I'll turn the heat up on their championship aspirations. I don't think I can do this with you all show. You can bet on it. The listeners know what I mean, Dan. And you can bet on that. Mike Ryan, limited fake dance in her monologue. Good job getting the wrestling shit out of here. I thought Mike was setting up. But we showed him who his boss just trampled his ass. Chris Fowler is in the weight room. One of my favorite Instagram followers. So hard for me not to answer that voice. Yeah, there was a little wall in the action. It might just slid in to make sure there was no awkward silence. And he did the wrestling thing. But I decided. Fuck you. I don't know what to do with the fact that the monologue is what's actually happening in my head. We should go back to the wrestling talk. Counting how you're trying to be Phil Henry. It's Henry, the one's got a notice. I said Henry. Oh, you said. Play it back. Someone clip it. Mike Ryan, limited fake Greg Cody's in her monologue. His heart is glad that Dave Hyde was canned. There I said it. Speaking of cans. No, I, that's coming tonight. We're going to get safe drunk. Drunk, but not really. Not on my, the great Cody spectrum of drunk. Safe drunk. A good 9 beer box. Just to take you at y'all. Make it a little easier. Tell me I'm wrong. That is insanely accurate. 9, I said, you know, laugh it a little bit more. Drink responsibly. I always do. It's a week. It's a two night number. Yes, it's a two-day night. Night number. Weekends. You'll never see me without a beer in my hand. Straight up. Well, I want to know like. I'm a safe 10, oh 11 E risky drunk bushes. Jason Bonetti. Limited fake boot shamby. I, uh, I wasn't told that there were, uh, rules to this. So I, uh, you know. I didn't know you did. I didn't know you had a boot shamby in your repertoire. I didn't know that. I, uh, you know, uh, it's, it's fine. But I thought, uh, I thought we were friends. Levitard AF.com is where you can vote on that all week. The Suis will continue all week. And I'm looking at my television at what I'm assuming. Yeah, this at the time of day has to be a rear of get up. And there it is. As though can you feel it? Is Cowboys roster built to make deep playoff run? It's right here. It's right here. It's right here. It's right here. It is here. There it is right there. You can put that question up any time of year, any year, and get content out of it. Not good content, but content.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
Draft King Sports is celebrating football season with free gas in Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, and Miami, plus new promotions and a live event at a gas station in Miami.
The show is broadcasting live from a gas station, featuring games like a tire toss, perfect pump challenge, and windshield wash relay, with fans able to vote in a real-time free-to-play contest.
The Down Laboratory show is expanding its reach across platforms including YouTube, Peacock, NBC Sports Now, Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, and XM Channel 85, with live programming dedicated to Miami Hurricanes football.
Key national college football analysts like Greg McElroy, Kevin Clark, and Bruce Feldman will appear on the show, highlighting the growing excitement around college football.
The host critiques the NCAA’s amateur structure, arguing for full professionalization of college football programs with extended eligibility, professional budgets, and career pathways for players who don’t make the NFL.
A major point of discussion is the NFL’s monopoly and lack of fair feeder systems, suggesting collaboration with labor and the NFL to create job placement programs and realistic career options for college athletes.
The show features a "Best Limited Fake" voting segment with numerous exaggerated impersonations, including of figures like Al Pacino, Steve Smith, and Chris Rock, adding humor and audience engagement.
Summary:
The Down Laboratory show, in partnership with Draft King Sports, is celebrating football season with a live, interactive event at a gas station in Miami, offering free gas and engaging fans through real-time voting and live challenges. The broadcast features a mix of humor, sports analysis, and deep critique of college football’s structure, arguing that college programs should operate as professional minor leagues with extended eligibility and professional budgets to provide viable career paths for athletes who don’t reach the NFL. The host promotes a shift from amateurism to professionalism, emphasizing the need for labor representation and career development programs for players.
The show expands its digital presence across multiple platforms, including YouTube, where it airs live programming focused on Miami Hurricanes football with national analysts. A humorous "Best Limited Fake" segment features audience members impersonating celebrities and sports figures, adding entertainment and engagement. The conversation also highlights how college football’s financial and structural realities—especially the gap between college and pro earnings—demand systemic change, while the NFL’s monopoly and lack of support for feeder systems are challenged as outdated.
Ultimately, the segment calls for transparency, fairness, and professional growth in college athletics.
FAQs
Draft King is hosting a live event celebrating football season with activities at gas stations in Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, and Miami. The event includes fun challenges like a tire toss and windshield wash relay.
Fans can visit gas stations in Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, and Miami to participate in the live event and enjoy free gas and fun activities.
Yes, fans can participate in a free-to-play contest on the Draft King Sports app and vote on social media to help determine the winner of the show's competition.
The promotional code to use when signing up is 'damn'.
The show is available on YouTube, Peacock, NBC Sports Now, Samsung TV Plus, Roku Channel, Visio Watch Free Plus, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and XM Channel 85.
Greg McElroy, Kevin Clark, David Lake, Bruce Feldman, and Linda Fletcher will join the show to provide expert analysis and coverage.
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