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This is the Dan Labatore Show with

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the Stukas Podcast.

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So one of the truly delightful things that happened yesterday

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amid the how many days

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since technological meltdown counter

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got reset back to zero because the video

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system broke down. One of the delightful

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things that happened was that we were forced to

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innovate and Stukas found

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his future. I

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mean, is it main hustle at this point? It's clearly

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a side hustle already, but it feels like a side hustle

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that could turn into a main hustle. Yeah.

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So good. TikTok Live.

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If you have not listened to this audio only segment from

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yesterday, I highly encourage

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it. Because the only segment

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in the history of sports media that involves

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Stugats repeating the word glizzies

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while also FaceTiming Joe Theismann. Correct.

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Yes. I apologize to Joe. He said, no

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problem. You're funny.

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I said, you're a good man, sir. But yes,

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I FaceTimed Joe Theismann. We

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later on. We were talking about the commanders,

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but the FaceTime to Joe Theismann

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was completely a coincidence. Joe

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likes the football team. Just so you know,

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he did. Like you know, when I get a text from

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Theismann, that's it's not stopping at, Hey, you're

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funny. Like we continued all

1:27

day and it's going on right now.

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He likes the Washington football team as

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a name. Oh, you guys are work shopping

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the rebrand. Well, we were debating commanders.

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I said, I liked the Washington football team. You

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guys laughed at me. I asked Joe, a legendary

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Washington quarterback. He said the football

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team was fine. He liked it. But

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the headline here is that we set

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Stugats on a path to take down

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Pinky doll. Yes. I'm the biggest TikTok

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influencer there is. NPC. Did

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I do it? I think I like, I

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like our foundation. Okay. Same. Hmm.

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And so today, Mike. We're going to explain

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our next roll out in this

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project.

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Who needs me? Yeah! Greg,

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do you have any idea what any of the words you've said

2:11

mean? I'm trying

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to figure out what TikTok means. I

2:15

know my podcast has

2:18

a TikTok channel, if it's called a channel,

2:20

but I never am involved with it. I don't

2:22

do anything. I don't know whether

2:24

there's a hyphen in TikTok or not. I'm

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just unfamiliar. I know it's a

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social media sensation. Perfect.

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That kind of thing. All right. So there's this superstar called Pinky

2:34

Doll that gets awarded gifts. They

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show up as animated emojis

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that show up on the screen. And each

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gift actually has a real

2:42

life monetary value. And

2:44

whenever she receives a gift, like ice

2:46

cream, she says, mmm, ice cream so good.

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I know when I was a kid, she goes, ging, ging. When

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I was a kid, I played TikTok TOE.

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Is there anything similar? Is

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it like that kind of thing or that kind

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of thing? OK. So what

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we're going to do is Fuentes,

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our handy Dandy TikTok person,

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is going to activate our TikTok Live.

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And we did do a brief run through. I told you, you have

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to texturalize the screen. You have to

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become an influencer. You have to have catch

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phrases for every gift that you have. And you have to repeat it.

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It's kind of a bit of a memory game for you. Oh,

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yeah. How many different gifts are there? Well, the thing

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is, I don't really know. Right. Find out.

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Because a cowboy hat and a mustache will show up

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on your face. And you've got to improvise. But when you improvise,

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just remember that needs to remain a

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string throughout. Because everything that

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you do

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is a potential goldmine for catch phrases. Oh,

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God. OK. But like, how many

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different ones are there? Like, there's 100 different

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ones? Scores.

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Scores. Oh, my God. I don't know, Lucy. I'm looking

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at you. There's a lot. A lot. You won't

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get a ton because each thing costs a different

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amount. So people don't want to send the really expensive

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ones. We get a lot of roses. Not

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with that attitude. Yeah. Really

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expensive. What are the most expensive ones? It's

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like like there's like

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a wreck. one that's a little more expensive,

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they're like more animated people, there

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are a lot of options. How about a diamond ring?

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I think there's a diamond in there. You get diamonds,

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that's how you get paid diamonds. Let's

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test this out. Inactable diamonds. If

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someone throws you a rose on the screen. It'd be

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cool. What do you say? How will

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I see it? You will see it, it'll pop up on your screen. We have a phone in front of you

4:19

right now that you're gonna play to. You're gonna play to

4:21

that camera,

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okay? So if someone throws you a cartoon

4:25

rose, what is your reaction gonna be? My reaction

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is gonna be, Villa Rose

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Pizza. Oh.

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Great, now you have to do that every time

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you see a rose though. What happens if someone gives you

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pizza? Villa Rose Pizza. What

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happens if someone gives you pizza? Is that one of the things?

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I think so. Oh boy. Yeah,

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I gotta tell you now, or I can't. You gotta figure it out

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though. Okay, I have to figure it out, yeah. How long

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do I take to figure it out? I'd start thinking

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about it. Like. Well, there's

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dozens.

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There's an infinite number of different

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emojis people can throw at me.

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This is terrifying. Well, we have now loaded up

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your TikTok Live. I see red hearts.

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All right, so what's your thing whenever you get a heart?

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Is that one of them? I think so. It

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could be. It could be. Oh, I don't know. Also,

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solicit gifts right now. Tell the audience you want their

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gifts. You want glizzies, you want ice cream,

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you want. Oh, Greg. Okay,

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hey, look at me with a hat. I sent

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you a rose. That's a pretty good saying.

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Oh wow. Okay. Oh

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no. Must have been

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the roses. Something like that, Greg. That's

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who gots his catchphrase. Villa Rose Pizza.

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All right, you got a gift. Go, go, go. All

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right, what was that? These are all coming from us. I didn't

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see it. This is sad. You got a hat

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on. Come on, we have this on. A party hat. Another

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cowboy hat? You got a party hat on. Don't look

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at me. Okay, where's my party hat? Look

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at the camera and the phone. I'm looking at all

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the people who are drinking off to this.

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He wants his hat. You got a bear.

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What is that? That's a bear. That's not

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a bear. It's a bear. Just do something with a bear.

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Okay, I can't bear it. Okay,

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but...

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Do stuff with your hands too. Cowboy hat. This

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is new to me. You got a basketball. You got

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a cowboy hat. Come on. I like a cowboy hat.

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Hey, giddy up, giddy up, giddy up, giddy

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up. There you go. That's your thing. Every

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time you get a cowboy hat, you do that. That exact

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thing. Oh, a panda bear? What is that?

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Yeah, you can't ask what is that. You got

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to just react to it. It's tiny. Get

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closer. Bear, hang on just a second. There's

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something waiting. Okay. What is that?

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A pair of red socks? Stop asking out loud what

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something is and you just react. It's not too bad. In

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fairness to Greg, I needed my glasses. Do you want my

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glasses? Yeah, let me try mine. Okay. All

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right. Very good. You're

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bad at this. I think, I think Sue gots it safe. It's always pinky

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doll.

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Ooh, a hot dog and a bear. You got a hot dog.

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Okay. Thank them for the glizzy. For

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the love of Joey Chestnut. Excellent. The

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classic old person moved to look up for

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the love of Joey Chestnut. Yeah.

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I think you're starting to get the hang of this a little bit.

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What is that? A high heel. A high

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heel? That's highfalutin.

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Oh, a cowboy hat. Whoo.

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Giddy up, giddy up, giddy up, giddy up. Sorry.

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Don't apologize. Okay. Are you

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liking this? You're being adorned with praise right now. You're making

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money, Greg. You're making real money by doing. Get closer to the

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camera. All of this goes to

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charity, by the way. Every cent I earn. It'll

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be like a dollar. All right, but that's what I'm saying. If it

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were more, I'd keep it. That is what you're earning, sense.

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Okay.

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Anything north of a dollar? Yeah. Going

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in your pocket? Exactly. You're missing

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gifts. All right, a rose by any other name.

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Love that. I thought you were doing

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Villa Rose Pizza. That's a thorn in my side. Stigat's

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going to have to take over pretty soon, Greg. Yeah,

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I'm ready to hand this off to Stigat. Stigat's, get

7:41

in there too and share the microphone. Show

7:44

me how to do it. Show them how it's done. Show

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me how to do it, Stigat. Greg, you were really... Our

7:48

expectations are low, but holy shit. You

7:51

were so excited to do this. I really

7:53

wasn't.

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I was super excited because

7:55

it's like classic old guy, new technology.

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Also, Greg loves crooning. Greg, this is...

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This is a great, great, great.

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Of course. Get out of the way. Let the professional handle. First

8:04

of all, I could barely even see what the,

8:06

the little bad at it. You stink.

8:09

Great. Greg get out. So you got show them how it's

8:11

done. Show me how it's done boss. All

8:13

right.

8:14

You're not going with

8:16

the glasses with the badge attached. That was kind of your avatar.

8:19

Yeah. I know. I gotta find them though. I'm using Greg's glasses.

8:21

Oh, these are terrible glasses. No

8:23

wonder you can't see like a boxer

8:26

robe. I don't know.

8:28

Must've been

8:31

here in the roses. Hey

8:33

bear. You got just learned that glasses

8:35

are different based on who has those

8:37

glasses. Terrible. Oh,

8:39

Strombin the guitar. It's

8:42

all

8:45

I

8:46

got for guitar. Hold up. I

8:48

need glasses. Pablo, can you find my

8:50

glasses? It's right next to the weed in my backpack.

8:52

Yep. Okay. Thank your weed.

8:55

You were just, you were just given a corn.

8:58

I was. Yeah. Okay. Sorry. Come

9:02

up with something for corn. I will. Oh, didn't

9:04

you say it was in your poop. Corn is in my

9:07

poop.

9:07

I love corn in my poop. Little

9:09

corn in the cob and the poop. What else do I

9:11

have? Whoa. I love corn in

9:13

the cob and the poop. I don't

9:16

know. Must've been

9:19

the roses. I'm going to change

9:22

that to run for the roses. Run, run,

9:25

run for the roses. Can't do that.

9:27

Oh, there are my glasses. I already have it. We are back.

9:30

Okay. Hey bear. All

9:31

right. All right, Greg, are you learning?

9:33

Are you learning? This is good shit right here. This is,

9:35

this is how it's done. Hold on a sec.

9:37

I'm going to change the bear to Chris Felica. Every

9:40

time I see a bear, it's Chris Felica. I

9:42

like tape. Bear. I don't

9:44

know. Must've been

9:47

the roses.

9:49

Time to make the donuts. Greg, are

9:52

you learning? I'm waiting. Yeah,

9:54

I'm learning. So Greg, you need to have a catch

9:56

phrase for every single symbol that is thrown

9:58

up. Right.

10:00

Rhytm Cowboy!

10:03

That's the lasso I was doing with my hand. You know what

10:05

I'm saying? I got a gift! How

10:07

about that? Rhytm Cowboy!

10:12

We are so trendy. Flames,

10:15

fire, or brials. Say

10:17

hi to them when you go to hell. I thought yesterday

10:20

was hot, hot, hot. It was. Yeah.

10:22

Or hot, hot, hot. A slice of the pie.

10:25

That's a terrible one. This is what Dan meant

10:27

by younger and smarter. Mike Piazza.

10:31

You're not doing enough with your hands. Well, I'm

10:33

sitting. I'm not in a normal

10:35

position. It's weird. You talk with your hands all the time,

10:37

but when you're on TikTok and you're supposed to, you stop.

10:39

Yeah, I know. I know.

10:41

Oh, the bolts! I love the bolts.

10:44

Austin Eckler, underpaid. Watermelon,

10:46

a slice of heaven.

10:48

What do you mean? Watermelon,

10:50

what do you mean? What do I mean? I don't know. Slice

10:53

of heaven. A slice of watermelon, to me, is a slice

10:55

of heaven. Yeah, it is. Damn right. I'm

10:57

twisted up like a pretzel!

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that the listener doesn't seem to really appreciate,

11:11

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Leb tard.

12:06

Greg Cody, your thought Stu gots.

12:09

Greg. Okay, very good.

12:11

You know,

12:11

I'm here. This is the Don Leb

12:15

tard show with Stu gots. So that segment

12:17

made me a

12:18

little sad. I think we all expected that

12:21

Greg, his ability to

12:23

see might have been

12:26

stronger, enabling him to be the

12:28

crooner that we were going to be the tic tac joke toe joking.

12:30

You did. Yeah, yeah.

12:33

I can't describe how uncomfortable

12:35

I was doing that

12:37

because until 10 minutes earlier,

12:39

I had no idea what this

12:41

was not just tic toc but roses

12:44

and worth money. And this

12:47

is all something that was totally foreign to me

12:49

and then not being able to do now.

12:51

Don't get me wrong. When the cowboy

12:54

hat was superimposed over my loved

12:56

it. I loved it. I would wear a cowboy hat nonstop

12:59

because that was a beautiful thing. But the little

13:02

rose, it looked

13:04

like a pair of red. It looked like a Red Sox logo to me.

13:07

The Rose. Greg, I want to take full responsibility

13:09

for two things. Number one, putting you through

13:11

that in that way. No explanation. But number two, I

13:14

want to take full responsibility for the gift

13:16

you've given us of being the control group in society

13:18

that still

13:20

is rightfully confused by what

13:24

the is

13:25

happening online. Thank you. You need a one-time show.

13:27

Thank you. You need to watch Pinky doll and I think

13:29

you get it. She's a maestro. You

13:31

got to just give my dad some slack. He learned this

13:34

weekend who Sebastian Maniscalco is. Oh,

13:36

he's great. By the way, I'm just telling you,

13:39

my dad, I want to see him. He goes. He

13:41

goes. Who's that? Never heard of him. Look, you don't

13:43

have to be a big Sebastian fan, but he just

13:45

had no clue he existed. It's all moving fast

13:47

for my dad. And then he went down a rabbit hole. The

13:49

next day he's like, that guy's funny. He was great.

13:52

I binged him for an hour and a half on Saturday. I went to see

13:54

him at hard rock live. It was bumping

13:57

like that. Still renovating always reaching out good

13:59

stuff like that.

13:59

Maniscalco. I mean, he has an ability

14:02

to really make you let he's relatable

14:04

and he has an ability to make you laugh without cursing

14:07

and no curses. Yeah. And he's a physical

14:09

comic. Take no Pablo. He's a physical comic

14:12

shade of me. Reminds me of the late

14:14

grade George Carlin in terms of the physicality

14:16

of his act.

14:17

Fantastic. Highly recommended to anybody

14:20

who hadn't heard of him like me. You guys should check out

14:22

Chris Rock. I've heard of him. This

14:24

show contains multitudes and

14:27

I feel like we got to do the thing where we acknowledge what's

14:29

happening in the outside world as sports news

14:31

is actually demanding that we acknowledge it in

14:33

July. Because

14:34

there are a couple of stories that are tricky

14:36

for us to handle, but I'm so excited to handle them for

14:39

you because

14:40

they all kind of interlink in ways that are kind

14:42

of eerie. And so the most uncomfortable

14:44

one is this update we just got about Bronny James. So

14:47

Bronny James is LeBron James's son.

14:49

He goes to USC.

14:51

He's an all American. He's the most famous

14:53

kid in college basketball and

14:55

he suffered a cardiac arrest on Monday,

14:58

fell to the floor on

14:59

the court. And Shamsharanya

15:02

was reporting that he was taken to the hospital. He's

15:04

now in stable condition, no longer in the ICU.

15:06

There's a whole statement medical

15:08

staff treated him. We are very happy

15:10

that this did not become

15:12

something more than that. Bronny James's

15:14

heart stopped while playing basketball

15:16

and he had to be nurse back to

15:18

health, nurse back to life. Well, Bron

15:20

James almost lost his son on a basketball

15:23

court in Southern California. We

15:25

found out about it today. I can't even

15:27

imagine

15:29

the terror

15:30

that went through the James family. I

15:32

hope Ronnie can continue to play

15:34

the sport and continue to live a healthy

15:36

life. But that is stunning

15:39

in the moment. And I'm almost glad we found out about

15:41

it a day later because the reckless

15:43

speculation and

15:45

the panic around that

15:47

story. I

15:48

don't know. They kept it quiet, especially in a, in

15:50

a hub like Los Angeles, where TMZ

15:52

is lurking behind every corner and he's so high profile.

15:55

It's amazing that this story was kept

15:57

under wraps as long as it was.

15:59

TMZ waiting a day to break this

16:02

in conjunction with Shams was a nod

16:04

to the gravity of what was

16:06

at stake.

16:07

And it does feel also like, again,

16:10

how do we process news in the modern

16:12

era? I'll tell you where my brain went. My

16:14

brain went to, A, thank God

16:17

he's okay. What a horrific news cycle

16:19

that would have been. And also a real life event,

16:21

period, absent any of this news stuff. But number

16:23

two, my brain went to,

16:26

am I just gonna Twitter search or X search

16:28

and I'm gonna go to the vaccine

16:31

conspiracies now?

16:32

Because anything involving the heart, this is

16:35

the DeMar Hamlin story. I just can feel it

16:37

already brewing, even

16:39

if I haven't even done the search yet. It

16:41

was happening with Shaka Hislop, who passed out while covering

16:45

a Real Madrid

16:46

game at the Rose Bowl. Happened

16:48

to Keontae Johnson as well when

16:50

he passed out

16:51

at the Florida game. Yes.

16:53

And in all of these cases, look, I'm

16:55

not here to re-litigate vaccine conspiracies. At

16:57

the time, wasn't Vax, but was being propped up. That

16:59

was a sort of all these

17:02

theories that people just dropped dead if they take the vaccine.

17:05

But

17:06

in the moment, you don't have finality

17:08

either way on your hypothesis and you just take everything

17:10

as confirmation bias to the point that people think that

17:13

DeMar Hamlin's a clone.

17:14

Right. And all conspiracies,

17:16

all theories are rooted in a plausibility. And

17:19

when something happens like this, you don't know. And

17:22

so at some point, yes, we will do the statistical

17:24

evaluation of, okay,

17:26

how often do things like this happen

17:28

with people who are vaccinated? Was

17:30

Bronny James vaccinated? We don't know. And

17:33

also, by the way, cardiac issues

17:35

have been around sports long

17:37

before the coronavirus. The vaccine.

17:40

And the vaccine and all of this stuff. We've had examples of this

17:42

throughout sports. Yes. Yes. When

17:45

Hank Gathers. When Hank Gathers happened,

17:48

there wasn't anybody. Letting

17:50

by us. There weren't people out there saying, oh,

17:53

the vaccine got him. So as that

17:55

is happening,

17:56

as I presume it's happening on the internet.

17:58

And thankfully it's. happening like a

18:00

day after, again.

18:03

Would we have confirmation that it's okay? Because

18:05

it was a 911 call, this happened in a block of food. There were sirens on

18:07

the ambulance. This is a degree

18:10

of concern that was beyond the let's

18:12

just be dutiful to be safe

18:14

here. There was actual

18:16

concern for his life. Yeah, there was a coordinated

18:18

effort to also keep the privacy and

18:21

respect for the family, which I find actually

18:23

oddly hopeful. A rare

18:26

line when it comes to what dignity

18:28

we're preserving. But simultaneous to

18:30

all of this, this thread interlinking news

18:33

on the internet is the fact that as

18:35

we're talking a minute ago, Sham Sharania has

18:37

a follow-up story about how Jalen

18:40

Brown disagreed to a five year, $304 million Supermax contract.

18:44

The richest deal in NBA history,

18:47

as we've anticipated, as we've been wondering what's

18:49

taking us along with Jalen Brown. And

18:51

the reason this connects back to all of these

18:54

stories is because now that we know

18:56

that Bronny is okay, we can also do a little

18:58

bit of hypothesizing about the timeline

19:01

of his dad's tweets about

19:04

money in sports. And he

19:05

realized that when LeBron was posting that meme

19:08

about how he was Forrest Gump running towards

19:10

the money that the Saudis were offering,

19:13

well now the timeline's a little confusing

19:15

to me and I don't wanna dwell on that, but the point

19:17

is here we are now, LeBron

19:19

James, Jalen Brown, Draymond

19:21

Green, Yana Santo de Cumpo, all of these guys

19:24

figuring into this conversation about are

19:26

NBA players being paid enough

19:29

and should they actually be running to the Saudi sovereign

19:32

wealth fund to get what they're not being offered

19:34

domestically? Well,

19:36

you mentioned the timing of it and by

19:38

reports the call went out in the morning around

19:40

like 9.23 local time and

19:43

that tweet went out later in the evening. One

19:46

can assume LeBron by then had been

19:48

given all assurance that Bronny

19:50

was okay, he's moved out of the ICU.

19:53

So

19:54

LeBron decides to venture into the social media

19:56

landscape after all of this and he picks

19:58

a pretty taboo subject.

19:59

And LeBron, who is not without controversy

20:02

when weighing in on China decides to

20:04

have a laugh with

20:06

all the Saudi money being spilled. Well, as

20:08

did Draymond Green,

20:10

as did Yanis, who said, I kind

20:12

of looked like killing an M.B.A. pay who just got offered,

20:14

as we talked about yesterday's show reportedly,

20:17

yeah, close to 700, whatever

20:19

it is,

20:20

half a billion dollars for a year

20:22

reports out there. And

20:24

we don't know the true number, but there are reports out

20:26

there that the entire package transfer fee player

20:28

wages, additional endorsements, it's a

20:31

belly for one year with the acknowledgement

20:33

that in BAPA can go to real Madrid at the end of the contract.

20:36

So instinctively, I understand if you're an MBA

20:38

player who is not making that much money

20:40

despite being literally LeBron James

20:42

or Yanis or even Draymond, I understand

20:45

why your instinct is to laugh

20:47

and wonder about a world in which you did get paid

20:49

that because some sovereign wealth fund was going to

20:51

pay you that. But what Mike brought up

20:54

about

20:54

the word taboo is what was so fascinating

20:56

to me is because it did not feel like

20:58

that taboo even vaguely

21:01

registered with the speed and

21:03

the humor

21:04

with which these guys were tweeting about it.

21:06

And it made me wonder, it made

21:08

me wonder about if the entire sports

21:10

washing conversation, it's just already

21:13

over. Like this is, it's, it's, this

21:15

is just,

21:16

this is just another sign that the argument's done.

21:19

Pablo, you were saying like when they, when they have their

21:21

board meetings over in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia

21:23

and the person that has the sports account and

21:25

we try to figure out what the end game is. Yes. Yesterday

21:28

we talked about there's celebration when he

21:30

sees LeBron normalizing the conversation,

21:33

the greatest

21:35

money meme. Oh my gosh. We

21:37

did it. He wants our money. He did

21:40

it Joe.

21:42

Mission accomplished. We have these

21:44

guys that were not even offering contracts

21:46

to asking us to offer them

21:48

contracts. And that's the point.

21:51

Like that's the point to me.

21:53

So is this chess being played by the Saudi

21:55

Arabian government in terms of will there be

21:57

returns on this financial investment? I

22:00

don't know. I just know that

22:03

the point at which you are willing to

22:05

joke about this,

22:06

let alone the point at which you will watch games

22:09

because you love them more than you hate the people

22:12

who are buying them, then all

22:14

of this proves the point that they're just here

22:16

now and the conversation's over.

22:18

I would love Namor to tweet about Jalen

22:20

Brown's contract and say, imagine

22:23

what he could get if he could go left. Imagine

22:26

what he'd be able to make if he could dribble

22:28

because it's not like there is an absurd

22:30

money being spent in the NBA. I

22:32

understand looking at it through that entire prism and

22:35

believing whatever aggregate you run through and

22:37

we don't know the actual numbers of Mbappe's deal,

22:39

but yes, they get paid more handsomely

22:41

in that sport than basketball. It's not capped

22:43

over there.

22:44

But also the follow-up question then to me

22:46

is like, well, what did LeBron, Draymond,

22:49

Giannis, what did they pay in

22:51

exchange for these tweets? What's the cost

22:54

incurred? And to me, the cost incurred

22:56

is only a cost that I can impose as

22:58

guy filling in for Dan Levitar trying to do a

23:00

serious story after we did a TikTok

23:03

live, which is to say that I hope

23:05

that it costs him his credibility when it comes

23:07

to being a moral authority on other stuff

23:10

because that's the only cost we can

23:12

levy. You really think that's going to happen though?

23:14

You know better than that. It happened in the public

23:16

eye when it came to the China stuff and it's

23:19

something that he's had to live with every time

23:21

he weighs in on

23:21

anything. His silence. People are always

23:24

throwing in his face the China stuff. And I

23:26

found it, I found it really surprising

23:29

that he decided to venture into those waters

23:31

again, considering how China went

23:33

for him. And he does seem to be a guy

23:36

that relishes the reputation

23:39

that he could be a moral authority. Historically,

23:42

he's done a lot with the platform.

23:44

The convenience of what part of your

23:46

conscience is activated by horrifying

23:48

stories.

23:49

LeBron should speak about the issues that are important to him.

23:52

I'm glad his family is safe and healthy. All

23:54

of that.

23:55

What I'm wondering about is whether that

23:57

math of, oh, there are all

23:59

these

23:59

other people

24:01

living under the thumb of this regime whether they

24:03

actually matter

24:04

to my math. Dan Lebatard.

24:06

We like to call this one a chorus of Owen

24:08

Wilson. Ready? Stu-gats.

24:11

Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.

24:15

Wow. Wow. This is the

24:17

Dan Lebatard Show with the Stu-gats.

24:21

It is time for Stu-gats

24:23

to share his game

24:25

notes.

24:29

No

24:32

one in the media will tell you what happened better

24:35

than my voice, Stu. Weekend Observations

24:38

brought to you by Miller Lite. Great

24:40

taste. 96 calories

24:43

available for delivery. Dan,

24:47

he comes and goes,

24:50

weaving between his ESPN

24:52

responsibilities and

24:54

whatever it is he's supposed

24:57

to be doing for Metalarc Media.

25:00

He was here a couple of weeks ago, not

25:02

here last week, but Dan.

25:05

After receiving a text from him over the

25:07

weekend asking me

25:10

to bring him some

25:12

cannabis on Monday morning,

25:15

make no mistake about it, just

25:18

like that, Pablo Torre

25:21

is back.

25:23

Thank you, by the way. You're welcome. He

25:25

came through. I did not think you would come through, but you

25:28

are two for two on that request being fulfilled.

25:30

There's more in my backpack. Oh. Yes.

25:34

If you want, just say it. Noted.

25:37

Okay. Hosting a panel

25:39

with Peyton Manning this week in New York, thinking

25:42

about calling him Eli just for the joke.

25:45

I have to do that, right?

25:47

You're hosting a panel with Peyton Manning. Don't

25:50

ask me how I got roped into this. Well,

25:52

you can ask me. Are you going to pitch him on

25:55

some quarterbacks? I'm

25:57

not certain what I'm supposed to do. I'm supposed to

25:59

show

25:59

up there it's me golek

26:02

golek Peyton Manning and Roger Goodell

26:05

what you're on a panel

26:07

with Roger Goodell I can't carry the

26:10

lead on that yeah seriously oh I mean

26:12

Peyton Manning headliner

26:15

now does Roger Goodell know this I have

26:17

no idea you said roped into this it's

26:20

like heaven for you well I know but if

26:22

you're wondering how I got roped into it money

26:27

vacation days really how much did

26:29

you have to pay them hey my

26:34

paradox is said I was

26:36

a classic overbrusher after

26:39

I told her I loved her I asked

26:41

her for her top five overbrushers of all

26:43

time was a reflex

26:45

reaction

26:47

she looked at me like I was crazy top

26:50

five people in sports that I

26:52

imagine are classic

26:54

overbrushers number

26:56

five Dan Campbell

27:00

number four Mike

27:03

Keenan

27:06

I went off the board on you I went off the board

27:08

on you I know Mike off the board and

27:10

you loved it number three Bill Cower

27:16

number two Bo

27:18

Paulini wow

27:22

and number one will

27:24

must champ

27:26

so just to recap your paradigm just

27:29

said that you brush your teeth too much classic

27:31

overbrusher yes let the toothbrush

27:34

do the work stop working so hard

27:36

you know huh

27:38

the electric toothbrush

27:41

it goes around and around and around you

27:43

don't need to do anything just place it where you want

27:45

your teeth brush that's what she told me but

27:47

I don't it's

27:50

going around and around and around and around I'm really

27:52

digging in there and I don't need to dig in there and it's making

27:54

my gums worse the only place where you're not lazy

27:56

the rare do less we're from the dentist

27:59

Watch out for the Reds. Lionel

28:02

Messi. Do it in

28:05

the Premier League. I

28:07

don't like this Ole Messi thing. Did

28:10

he ever play in that league? No,

28:12

but he beat Premier League teams in

28:14

the Champions League. Really? Well, do

28:16

it somewhere else. Yeah, he has. He's done

28:18

it almost everywhere else. You won a World Cup.

28:21

Do it in MLS. It's

28:23

easy. Child's play, right? We

28:25

do it again in the MLS. Was

28:29

watching the Baseball

28:29

Hall of Fame induction ceremony over the weekend.

28:33

They introduced Ozzy Smith, and

28:35

I blurted out, not a Hall of

28:37

Famer. The Wizard. The

28:40

greatest defensive shortstop of all time is

28:42

not a Hall of Famer. The top five

28:44

Hall of Famers who shouldn't be in the

28:46

Hall of Fame.

28:48

Number five, Bill

28:50

Mazarowski.

28:52

Maz. Number four,

28:56

Burp by 11. Burp.

28:59

Burp, be home by 11. Number

29:02

three, Lai Levin. Ozzy

29:04

Smith. The

29:06

Wizard. You can't have 10. I got

29:08

it. I heard you the first time. Burp,

29:11

be home by 11. You also don't know how to say

29:13

Chuck Knoblock. Chuck Knoblock. You

29:15

always say Knoblock. I do. Ozzy

29:18

Smith, I am sorry. You cannot have 10 homers,

29:20

have a career average of 262. Have,

29:23

you know, 300 RBIs for a 20-year

29:25

career and be in the Hall of Fame. I don't care. I

29:27

don't want to hear about it. He does not deserve

29:29

to be in the Hall of Fame. And neither

29:32

does Burp. Burp, I think,

29:34

has as many losses as he does wins. He wasn't

29:36

that good.

29:36

300 wins you get in. He's

29:38

stuck around for three decades. Enough.

29:43

Number two, Phil Negro. No

29:47

business being in that Hall of Fame. Zero.

29:49

Classic compiler. Yep. Number

29:52

one, Phil Rizzuto.

29:54

The Scooter.

29:56

He had one MVP season and

29:58

that is it. And one MVP.

29:59

season does not make you a Hall of Famer. It's

30:03

the Hall of Fame Pablo. It's

30:05

not the Hall of Very Good. Wow.

30:11

We're pretty good. In

30:13

the case of Phil Negro. Look at

30:15

his ERA. It's terrible. Doesn't

30:18

deserve it. Scott Rowan is

30:20

three years younger than I am.

30:25

Let that sink in. I

30:31

feel bad for Scott Rowan still. Tom

30:34

Amansky should have gone into the

30:36

Hall of Fame with Fred McGriff,

30:39

the crime dog, Jim Tomé

30:42

might want to consider a salad once in a while.

30:45

Come on. It's getting away from him. I

30:49

mean, I'm no one to. We are living in glass

30:51

houses. You're right. Said

30:54

this yesterday. I'll say it again,

30:55

because it's worth repeating. Ricky Henderson

30:58

still looks like he could swipe 50 bags.

31:01

That's true. He does. Looks great. Mike

31:04

Greenberg decided to show up

31:06

to his radio show and

31:08

asked if it's unfair to

31:10

start having the Brady Mahomes discussion.

31:13

Hey, Greaney, get back to me

31:15

in 50,000 yards, 400 touchdown passes and

31:19

four ranks. Hashtag Greaney.

31:25

Hashtag July. I've

31:28

never seen a team and city

31:31

so excited to up their record

31:34

to five and 14 on the season.

31:36

Inter Miami act like you've been

31:39

there before. What

31:41

was that? It's been in count for that record.

31:43

It's a different competition. I don't care. It's their fifth

31:46

win of the year.

31:47

It's not like I have, I

31:49

have celebrate less winning a Super

31:51

Bowl. Another competition that

31:53

don't count for it. It's just your math is wrong. All right. Well,

31:56

they're five and 14. That's right. Right. I

31:58

mean, they didn't get an extra.

31:59

win in the league standings for what they did against Cruz

32:03

Azul, which plays in Mexico. Leagues

32:05

Cup match. Lionel Messi, playing

32:08

in the MLS, is like Patrick

32:10

Mahomes, playing in the XFL.

32:13

Hey Messi, heads up, because

32:16

you don't know Miami, my friend, but

32:19

everyone is illegally using

32:21

your name and likeness to make money. I

32:24

was at a place over the weekend, there

32:26

was a sign that said, you,

32:28

Messi, were going to make

32:29

me a chicken sandwich and serve

32:32

it to me. I ordered

32:34

it. That's not what they were saying. Oh

32:36

yes it was. The photo is of Messi handing

32:39

someone a chicken sandwich. False advertising.

32:42

Even worse, does he know about this? Is it called the messy

32:44

chicken sandwich? It is called the messy chicken sandwich, yeah.

32:47

But everyone's got a messy chicken sandwich. Yeah, but he's

32:49

actually making money off his name and mention likeness

32:51

with that particular endorsement. You ordered a

32:54

sandwich off a painting? Positive. Messy

32:56

chicken sandwich, yes. How was it? Messy.

32:59

He went to see Sebastian, he was at that same

33:02

sandwich. How'd you know? I don't know

33:04

why you don't want to say hard rock. I

33:06

don't know.

33:08

I did say hard rock live early. But

33:10

what's the name of the place? The Hard Rock. It's

33:12

the Hard Rock. Yeah, yeah. There's a lot of restaurants

33:14

inside. That's where the doors are. By the way, it looks great over there.

33:17

Yeah, the guitar. Renovated, it's nice, yeah. Guitar

33:19

Hotel? Yeah. Very nice. Blackjack

33:22

table gate.

33:24

It did. It always does.

33:27

And that's why he's on a panel with Roger Goodell. Exactly

33:29

right. Source,

33:33

Jimmy Garoppolo, passes Raiders

33:35

camp physical. I promise

33:37

you, he will fail that same test.

33:40

The second Dr. Brady administers

33:43

the exam. Brian Harmon,

33:46

thanks for ruining my weekend. And

33:48

congratulations on winning the

33:50

Open Championship. Talk to you on

33:52

Stupodity in about 18 minutes.

33:54

You just remembered you

33:56

have an interview. You keep scheduling interviews

33:58

in the middle of our show. Sorry. bonus

34:00

decide to take Chris Cody with you. Yeah,

34:02

it's a golf interview. I mean, what

34:04

do you mean?

34:06

I'll take Greg. Chris Was

34:09

disappointed That

34:12

the suit Craig Bizio wore to the Hall of

34:14

Fame ceremony wasn't dirty

34:17

and surprised He didn't jump on

34:19

stage five seconds before

34:22

his name was announced. Was he wearing an elbow

34:24

guard at least? He was yeah That's

34:27

the BGO. I know going outside dangerous

34:30

game Pablo using

34:32

several words that I'll pretend

34:34

to know the meaning of

34:36

but won't collision course

34:39

Tampa Bay Rays welcome to

34:41

second place Told you to keep

34:43

an eye in the O's the baseball

34:45

Hall of Fame has lost its luster

34:48

speaking of Hall of Fame's