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[14] Stugats, what are we going to do about the fact that your weekend observations again are on a Wednesday?
[15] We have not gotten to them the last couple of days.
[16] And very often, we are doing your weekend observations closer to the next weekend than to the one we previously had.
[17] Are your weekend observations ready?
[18] They've been ready, yeah.
[19] They're ready to go today and a Wednesday.
[20] Humpday, Dano.
[21] Okay.
[22] So can we like very early in the show, can we do your weekend observations?
[23] Sure.
[24] Because I don't know why it is that this keeps happening where your weekend observations are not on Monday.
[25] I think I have a solution for this problem for you guys.
[26] So we're calling it weekend observations and if you say it quick enough you could say week in observations and then these are two guys this week in observations because they're in the week and then they're right on time saved weekend observations or just w -a -k or just week yeah or just week observations or midweek observations is good too weekend observations okay how do we change the imaging we need we need to change the imaging bring my father in and change everything so he says weekend instead of week again, Jess, you haven't seen this side of my father.
[27] Billy and Chris, when my father was, I don't think Tony's seen this side of my father either.
[28] When my father was unhighly questionable, he morphed in front of everyone's eyes into a total diva that didn't want to be corrected on Gonzalo, we need you to say it, weakened, not weekend, and he didn't understand, and he'd just get mad at everybody.
[29] I don't want to see that side of Poppy.
[30] I just want to see the Colombo -loving, happy, sweet man that I know.
[31] The poppy that I know from when I started was if there wasn't pizza on Fridays, he was very upset.
[32] Well, this is part of it.
[33] It's not the same timeline?
[34] Well, then get him pizza.
[35] I mean, geez.
[36] And then he had like this weird, like, blaze pizza phase.
[37] He did, yeah.
[38] It wasn't a weird phase.
[39] My father was crushing LeBron James on air for seven years.
[40] And then LeBron sent him like 30 blazed pizzas.
[41] And my father was just purchased at that point.
[42] He stopped criticizing him because of how delightful the pizza was.
[43] Bobby was great with brand loyalty.
[44] Like, whatever sponsor there was for HQ, like that's what he was going to use for whatever that product was.
[45] Yeah, but his takes meant nothing.
[46] Did you hear what Dan just said?
[47] He was bought with pizza.
[48] Yeah, I mean, okay.
[49] Mirror?
[50] Who among us?
[51] I mean, yes, that's right.
[52] Stugan's like, Stugat, you can't, you can't rip my father too much for that.
[53] But, Billy, did you ever see Roy?
[54] Did you ever see Bobby's total divaside?
[55] Like, did you see how he became a television star, right in front of you.
[56] Yes, I've gone through it.
[57] I ran lines with him.
[58] That's not fair.
[59] He's a particular man. And he thought that he knew what was best in certain situations.
[60] And then did we have to, in the post -production process, have to combine words and take an E sound from this word and put it in an S sound here to make the word make sense?
[61] Yeah, maybe we had to do that from time to time.
[62] But who cares?
[63] Bobby.
[64] How it works, yeah.
[65] What is the most pissed any of you saw him?
[66] I think throwing papers up in the air Like, ah, I got to do this again, buddy Yeah He just wanted to putter around the house He was mad at me at the end for making him work I mean, but who amongst us doesn't want to reach that point, right?
[67] I want to putter too.
[68] God, I wish I could retire now.
[69] Already there?
[70] All of you want to just putter around the house?
[71] I have a good putter.
[72] This is not, this is not The thing to be saying to somebody who's trying to run a company who needs you guys to not have that general attitude.
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[77] I need some help from the group here because I do not know if something that someone has written me is true and my knowledge of the present marlins is so bad that I don't know how to pronounce this person's name.
[78] But someone has written in that a marlin named Christian Pache made his major league debut by striking out on a pitch clock violation.
[79] Oh, wow.
[80] Tell me that's true, please.
[81] Tell me that somebody, that somebody's first major league at bat was ended because the person couldn't adhere to time restrictions.
[82] It is true.
[83] It is absolutely true.
[84] That's the first time that that's happened, right?
[85] That has not happened to a major league player before where you're first at bad instead of an emotional celebratory time is instead an epic failure where you can't keep track of time because you're so nervous.
[86] It's a tricky situation.
[87] You have to be set with eight seconds left.
[88] Why do we still have eight seconds left if I'd be done with eight seconds?
[89] I can happen to anyone.
[90] I mean, it's only happened to one person.
[91] It's going to happen to anyone.
[92] But how long has the pitch clock been?
[93] How long has that rule been in?
[94] Like two seasons?
[95] Two seasons.
[96] You're just learning of this?
[97] No, no, no, no. I'm saying, Dan's saying it's never happened to anyone before, but it's only been implemented for two years.
[98] Well, no. People have struck out with pitch clock violations before.
[99] I don't think anyone in their debut has done that.
[100] Also, I've learned Larry Brown Sports is still a thing because they wrote an article about this.
[101] Good day for us.
[102] Congratulations.
[103] It was on a sack bunt attempt.
[104] So maybe he was nervous about having to lay down the sack bunt.
[105] I mean, the thing with bunt, it's like you've got to put your hands in a very specific place.
[106] You don't want to get your fingers hurt.
[107] It was his Marlins debut, right?
[108] Not his MLB debut.
[109] I don't know anything about this human being.
[110] I don't even know how to pronounce his name.
[111] I believe it was just his Marlins debut.
[112] If it's his major league debut and they say, hey, go up and lay down a sack bunt, I'm saying no. Like, I don't put me up there to lay down a sack bun.
[113] It's my first bat in the majors.
[114] I want to hit a dong.
[115] I think he's played like a couple hundred games in the majors.
[116] All right.
[117] So he was traded from the Phillies to the Orioles last week, and then the Orioles designated him for assignment.
[118] After one at bat, it looks like, and then the Marlins claimed him off waivers.
[119] So it seems like in the history of baseball, no one has struck out with a pitch clock violation in their first at bat.
[120] Excellent.
[121] Other than that, though.
[122] Congratulations to the Marlins, setting records all over the place.
[123] Hey, they're not that bad.
[124] They could be worse.
[125] Marlins' 2024, they could be worse.
[126] It could be to White Sox.
[127] Well, I sent a note last night, just last night I sent a note, hey, the rest of this season, I want to be the international leader in covering whether or not the White Sox are the worst team ever.
[128] Like, I want to see if they can break what I thought was an unbreakable record in our most historic sport, whether they could fail to win 40 games in a season.
[129] They're getting hot.
[130] They got, they won one, they won last night against Oakland.
[131] They did.
[132] To end their 21 to end their 21 game losing street.
[133] Oh, man, I feel like this is a glass houses situation, though.
[134] Like, we can't be the people to talk about if they're the worst team ever because that'll just piss off all the fans that are then like, well, you're Marlins fans.
[135] Oh, but no, but Jessica, nobody's ever been this bad.
[136] Like, we really are headed toward a special place with these White Sox where they've been playing, you know, this is, this goes back to whatever, you know, the St. Louis Spider, webs or whatever of the 1800s like nobody has ever been this bad that wasn't a team name no but something like that you know what i'm talking about the crazy old -timey names where all the players were named heinie and and it was the late 1800s and you know the pitchers would have 60 complete games in a season i'm very late to the white socks party uh but i saw yesterday ozigian and i saw that it was the clip from like 20 20 where he was just talking about how much he hated nick swisher like on the post -game show, pre -game show, whatever, I don't think the White Sox know what they have in Ozzy Gian doing pre -and -post -game work.
[137] Like, this seems incredible because most teams, if they're not having the best season, don't have their analysts just ripping the team and ripping former players where he flat out just said, I hated Nick Swisher.
[138] They're like, well, I didn't talk to him, I just hated him.
[139] And they're like, well, he was only on the team for one season.
[140] He's like, one season too long.
[141] Hated Nick Swisher.
[142] There are two things that I would say about Ozzie and just having seen the entirety of his playing career and his managing career.
[143] And the second most interesting thing, I would say, is I can't believe he's a champion.
[144] The first is, I can't believe he was a manager.
[145] The idea that they're putting him on the broadcast, given that he's always been that.
[146] He's always talked that way.
[147] In In terms of Marlins' debuts, Christian Pesches is only better than Ozzy Guians, which included becoming the Marlins manager and immediately praising Fidel Castro.
[148] In Little Havana.
[149] That's right.
[150] Was that a press conference thing?
[151] Was it Eddie?
[152] No, it was a Time magazine interview.
[153] It was a Time magazine interview introducing him to the local fan base.
[154] Here's our new shiny new managerial hire, a champion, Ozzy Gion.
[155] What's the one thing you can't say?
[156] I kind of liked some of the things that Fidel Castro did.
[157] Well, no, I think, for some context, I think what he said is he respected the fact that Castro hadn't been assassinated after being a dictator for 60 years.
[158] Keeping power.
[159] He's like, I respect the fact that he's still alive.
[160] And it's like, I have the reason.
[161] So not a praise a respect thing.
[162] Still, read the room.
[163] I have this from his Wikipedia page.
[164] I love Fidel Castro.
[165] I respect Fidel Castro.
[166] You know why?
[167] A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro.
[168] the last 53 years, but that mofo is still here.
[169] Yeah, the context got lost.
[170] No one heard anything after I love Fidel Castro.
[171] You can't start with that.
[172] The bad, bad opening line.
[173] I respect Fidel Castro as a bad second line.
[174] No one heard it.
[175] Well, it's not just that no one heard it.
[176] He was speaking to a bunch of people who are in their second language.
[177] Understand, I love Fidel Castro and nothing else that he said.
[178] So that's all they got.
[179] And that's how he opened his current.
[180] career.
[181] St. Louis's original baseball team was called the Brown Stockings.
[182] Wow.
[183] Just letting you know.
[184] There were spiders.
[185] It was the Cleveland spiders and I made it the spider webs.
[186] Spider -Wit?
[187] I was doing something.
[188] The Spidey webs actually.
[189] The Spidey webs is what I made them.
[190] Leaving a web.
[191] Go ahead and find me any information you want on late 1800 team names that you find funny, player names, player stats, and the White Sox are worse than any of them.
[192] Because we're really headed to a historic place and I'd like our show to celebrate this incompetence in a way that is worthy.
[193] I don't want to celebrate the good teams.
[194] I want to celebrate one that is, there's only one team in baseball that's looking to do something that's never been done before.
[195] And not being able to win 40 games in a major league season, Stugats, I'm not kidding you when I tell you, I do believe a AAA team can win 40 major league baseball games, a team that is legitimately not a major league team, just a AAA team, put it on the poll at Lebitog show.
[196] Can a AAA baseball team win 40 major league games?
[197] The Orioles had like a crazy I think AAA or AA team to start the season and they were all hitting their OPS was like all like 1 ,200.
[198] They're all in the big leagues now.
[199] And they called all of them up.
[200] Yeah.
[201] They're all major leaguers just playing in AAA.
[202] That's why I keep telling Stugats, that team's going to be good for 10 years.
[203] Stugats, important question.
[204] Did the White Sox make it into weekend observations and is it now rendered useless because they've won a game?
[205] Uh, perhaps.
[206] Yes, actually, I just checked them out.
[207] Do you not remember your White Sox observations?
[208] I mean, I know, right all of them.
[209] I did it once a Saturday.
[210] I mean, Taylor doesn't write all of them.
[211] I mean, I wish he would write all of them.
[212] He doesn't write all of them.
[213] He writes some of them.
[214] There's the Gastonia Honey Hunters.
[215] Ooh.
[216] Hmm.
[217] There's a National League team called the Chicago Orphans.
[218] Aw.
[219] Hmm.
[220] Jessica is into, uh, the most recent hard knocks that came on because it's about their bears.
[221] And I'd learned that, A, most of our show is still behind on the Giants, and Billy Gills still got two dolphin hard -knock episodes to get to.
[222] What?
[223] I'm waiting to see how last season ended still.
[224] Yeah.
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[237] Don Lebertard.
[238] Let's go to 80.
[239] His name is Bo.
[240] Wow.
[241] I think Billy typed an eight instead of a bee, fine.
[242] It's the clearest day behind $2 .00.
[243] Stugats.
[244] Number eight.
[245] It's Chris Corner on the line.
[246] This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats.
[247] Are you ready to do weekend observations, Stugats?
[248] Weekend observation.
[249] I am ready, Dano.
[250] All right.
[251] Are you ready, Billy Gill?
[252] Very late, way too late.
[253] White Sox.
[254] Here are the weekend observation.
[255] That is good.
[256] That is the way to do it.
[257] If we're going to not do it on Monday, they should be called the Weekend Observations.
[258] It is time for Stu Gads to share his game notes.
[259] No one in the media will tell you what happened better than my boys, too.
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[263] Dan, it had been over 20 years since an American could claim this title.
[264] When in 2004, Justin Gatlin sprinted his way to gold.
[265] Then came Usain Bolt's reign for three straight Olympic cycles.
[266] In 2020, an Italian even claimed it for the first time ever.
[267] But this year, in Paris, after a photo finish, it was Noah Liles, standing atop the podium.
[268] And Dan, just like that, make no mistake about it.
[269] America's claim for the fastest man in the world is back.
[270] It's been a while, man. 2004.
[271] Feels good, right?
[272] Usain Bolt kind of hogged everything for a while.
[273] Yes, we have forgotten.
[274] That run is over.
[275] It is.
[276] And the Italian guy came in, and now we're back.
[277] Yes, we are back.
[278] Yeah.
[279] And he's promising gold in the 200 as well.
[280] Hmm.
[281] Liles won it by one two hundredth of a second.
[282] Track and field.
[283] Game of inches.
[284] U .S. men's soccer.
[285] The gift that keeps on giving and losing.
[286] John Mayer playing the sphere with a broken index finger.
[287] Hockey player.
[288] Do you see that?
[289] I did not.
[290] His index finger.
[291] The most important finger for a guitarist.
[292] How about that?
[293] Put it on the poll.
[294] Still played.
[295] At Levitar show is index finger the most important finger for a guitarist and also, Stugatz, I would just recommend to everybody in an audience.
[296] Go listen to John Mayer with Conan O 'Brien.
[297] It was super interesting.
[298] The dead and company, what are they called now, dead and company?
[299] Dead in company, yeah.
[300] That seems like everybody's just on drugs in the audience, right, for the most part?
[301] Confirmed, yeah.
[302] All right, so that seems like the easiest one to fake.
[303] What are you saying?
[304] I'm just, I'm just, if anyone is not actually play.
[305] It seems like that's the prime spot to do that.
[306] Are you saying that John Mayer wasn't playing the guitar?
[307] I didn't say that.
[308] I'm just saying if anyone, if there was ever an opportunity to get one by a crowd, that seems like the crowd to get one by.
[309] That's the crowd to get one by.
[310] You're right.
[311] Just lay down tracks.
[312] Put it on the poll at Levitok talk show, Juju.
[313] Easier crowd to fool that you're playing fake music.
[314] A grateful dead crowd or what is the electronic music?
[315] Is it called the EDM?
[316] Yes.
[317] Which one?
[318] Which one is it?
[319] Is it Grateful Dead or is it the stuff that Mike Ryan's listening to all the time?
[320] Well, they just push play and then they just like, and then they jump out of their crazy heads.
[321] Everybody has a crazy head.
[322] I guess they're all ugly or something.
[323] I don't know.
[324] Drugs?
[325] A lot of drugs.
[326] America leads the total metal count by over 25.
[327] You know what everyone else is doing, Dano?
[328] losing playing for second place by the way america how about you weave in a few more golds i don't like the metal count i don't care about the silvers i don't care about the bronzes who is leading in gold medals that's all i care about it's not us i don't think it's sunday though the weekend i believe it is us now this is sunday when i wrote that over the weekend they were not leading in gold medals yeah weekend weekend observations skip ballis retired fox sports wants Nick Wright to be the face of the network.
[329] The rare face of the network that has a face for radio.
[330] Love you, Nick.
[331] What happened?
[332] John Rom was up four shots with eight holes to go and didn't even meddle.
[333] Total collapse.
[334] All -time choke job.
[335] Hasn't been the same since he joined Liv.
[336] I told you that, Dan, I told you a while ago that John Rom is struggling with his decision to sign up with Liv.
[337] He cannot look anyone in the eye.
[338] I'm serious.
[339] He can't.
[340] He hasn't been the same golfer.
[341] You think it's because of that?
[342] Yes.
[343] I think Liv is for guys who don't care that much about golf, only care about the majors, like Brooks Kepka, that's fine, and for guys who are well past their prime.
[344] They're not for a guy who won the Masters in the U .S. Open.
[345] I mean, they're not.
[346] He told you this a long time ago.
[347] I did.
[348] Thank you.
[349] By the way, the United States lead by two in gold medals over China.
[350] All right.
[351] And corrected.
[352] Jessica, when you say he told you this a long time ago, no one was out in front on Elon Musk more than Stugats.
[353] Stugats was the first person who arrived with public criticism of Elon Musk is a phoning.
[354] Thank you, Stu.
[355] Thank you, Stu.
[356] Thank you, Stu.
[357] You're welcome.
[358] I was just trying to imitate his slur.
[359] You call everyone a fraud, though.
[360] Eventually, you'll be right.
[361] Oh.
[362] Scotty Sheffler didn't win John Rom lost Scotty Sheffler The first golfer ever To win a gold medal A green jacket And an orange jumpsuit In the same year It's never been done before Imagine Going from unlawful imprisonment To winning gold for your country Scotty Sheffler The American Dream They should put him on a Wheaties box Jeff Darlington What could have been Novak Djokovic has now won everything there is to win in tennis.
[363] The D in Jokovic stands for debate over.
[364] You just brought something up here that I, does Wheaties still do that?
[365] Like is Wheaties going to take an Olympian, one American Olympian and put them on the box?
[366] Is that something that they still do?
[367] It should be Scotty in the jumpsuit.
[368] I mean, can you guys find out for me?
[369] I haven't seen a Wheatie box in years.
[370] I think they went to just online now.
[371] Oh, boy.
[372] Are you asking the last time Wheaties put an athlete on a box?
[373] I'm asking if it's a still...
[374] You just mentioned something, and I'm wondering if your weekend observation is not only dated from this weekend, but is 10 years dated because Wheaties no longer does that.
[375] I've got a very, very exciting update for the Wheaties box.
[376] I went on to Amazon.
[377] The most current Wheaties box you could buy has J .J. Watt on it.
[378] Oh, Jesus.
[379] Let's get it for some guys.
[380] Little J .J .J. Watt double.
[381] Why?
[382] But why?
[383] I don't know.
[384] I don't know.
[385] the Wheaties website.
[386] They have Billy Jean King with an autograph on it right now.
[387] It's on the website currently.
[388] From like 1970?
[389] No. That's a mold cereal.
[390] That cereal's going to poison you if it's 50 years old.
[391] You said they went online.
[392] I mean.
[393] Find out for me if Wheaties is going to put it on the poll at Levitard show.
[394] Is Wheaties going to put an Olympic athlete on the box?
[395] I found an article, but it's behind a paywall.
[396] Oh.
[397] Uh -oh.
[398] It should be Sheffler in the orange.
[399] jumpsuit though, right?
[400] It's a good idea.
[401] I mean, the colors don't match up because the Wheaties box is orange.
[402] You have an orange jumpsuit.
[403] It might be tough to decipher Schaeffler in the box.
[404] You know what I'm saying?
[405] Where does Schaeffler stop and the box start?
[406] I mean, I feel like you're ripe for kind of like making fun of it, right?
[407] Where you just kind of like draw his face and then you drew like a collar and then it's like implied like this is the, you're like, oh, they just drew his head.
[408] It's like, no, that's the jumpsuit.
[409] Wheaties is tricking you.
[410] Trinity Robman.
[411] Holy shit.
[412] updated list of top five most important goals in U .S. soccer history.
[413] Number five, the shot heard around the world.
[414] Which one was that?
[415] You're not familiar with that shots?
[416] Is that Landon Donovan?
[417] No, it's the shot that got the U .S. into the first World Cup.
[418] I mean, geez, no, you're soccer, man. You know, you meant Lexington and Concord.
[419] Jeez.
[420] What year was it?
[421] I don't know.
[422] Okay.
[423] You're criticizing me for not knowing.
[424] Can you give us any more information on your number five?
[425] There was a goal, Dan, and I don't know who scored it.
[426] I don't know what year he scored the goal, but it was the goal called the shot hurt around the world because it got the U .S. to their first World Cup, that goal.
[427] This is one of the ones you wrote, I'm assuming.
[428] Number four.
[429] Landon Donovan, 2011 World Cup, unfortunately.
[430] 2010, excuse me. Number three, Christian Pulisix, penis.
[431] header number two Rodman number one Brandy Chastain took her shirt off here come the White Sox wait a minute when you wrote this from the weekend it was Marlins they had one two straight I was doing some math and the White Sox are 12 games behind the other worst team in the MLB the Miami Marlins but the worst team ever is the 1962 Mets?
[432] The worst team ever.
[433] What the White Sox are chasing is 42 wins, I think, is the lowest number in the history of the sport.
[434] Death, taxes, and Mike Trout, out for the season.
[435] Trouty.
[436] Team USA's three -on -three men's team won't meddle and was eliminated after losing 21 to 6 to the Netherlands.
[437] What an embarrassment.
[438] The Dutch.
[439] We can't lose to the Dutch in basketball.
[440] In any form, one -on -one, two -on -two, three -on -three, five -on -five, you can't lose to the Dutch.
[441] They lost 21 -6.
[442] I know.
[443] Can't do it.
[444] Embarrassment.
[445] I have a confession.
[446] I don't know when any Olympic events are on.
[447] Sorry about that.
[448] And where to find them.
[449] Is there a calendar?
[450] I've been too afraid to ask.
[451] Scott the Internet.
[452] I feel like I'm watching things live.
[453] I'm not watching them live.
[454] They've already been played out.
[455] to 200 -meter hurdles last night.
[456] My daughter told me who won before the race started.
[457] It's a disaster.
[458] Oh, my God.
[459] You're my grandfather.
[460] I've told you the story of tricking my 80 -year -old grandfather with a World Series classic game by telling him before the pitch was thrown.
[461] I think Jim Leritz is going to hit a home run here.
[462] You're my grandfather.
[463] You're not helping.
[464] I mean, that's crazy, Stugats.
[465] Everybody's watching the Olympics.
[466] All you have to do is...
[467] Confession.
[468] I mean, it wasn't hard.
[469] I feel better now.
[470] Peacock's been great for the Olympics.
[471] So NBC has the rights of the Olympics.
[472] Peacocks, they're streaming partner.
[473] But you can watch any event that you want at any point in time on Peacock.
[474] Like, it's just there.
[475] You just have to search for it.
[476] You can watch it.
[477] So if you miss an event, you can watch it in its entirety just by clicking the thing.
[478] Have you guys heard a single complaint about the Peacock coverage?
[479] Anything?
[480] Like usually nothing gets...
[481] This is not on Peacock, by the way.
[482] It's on me. No, I know.
[483] But I'm just saying...
[484] And my daughter.
[485] The way that things are consumed in this country, Nothing gets universal applause.
[486] Everything comes with criticism.
[487] What's the biggest criticism you've heard of the Olympic coverage?
[488] Too much Chad Collinsworth for me. Was it Jack?
[489] Chas Collinsworth?
[490] I think I called up Chad.
[491] That should be his name.
[492] I would imagine that Chris Collinsworth would name his son, Chaz.
[493] Is it Jack?
[494] Yeah, with no K, by the way.
[495] A couple of Cs, cutting it up.
[496] Congratulations to my friend Dwight Freeney for his induction into pro football's Hall of Fame.
[497] I've said it before and I'll say it again.
[498] He should have gotten in on the first ballot.
[499] You know what the Fffin' Frini stands for, Dan?
[500] First ballot.
[501] First ballot Hall of Fame or you nailed it, Devin Hester.
[502] I love you.
[503] But if Josh Cribs gets inducted into Pro Football's Hall of Fame, I'll stop caring about the Hall of Fame.
[504] You know what the C and Crib stands for?
[505] Not Canton.
[506] Julius Peppers inducted into pro football's Hall of Fame Pep Taylor Julius Peppers gave Michael Jordan credit in his Hall of Fame speech that's how you do a speech Taylor top five athletes that canote something you might find in your nachos but that's number five let's see this should be good Chip Kelly Strong Start Number four, Julius Peppers.
[507] Number three, Billy Bean.
[508] You're shaking your head because Peppers, jalapeno, jalapeno peppers, right?
[509] No, you're shaking your head?
[510] Why are you shaking your head?
[511] I'm shaking my head because a Billy Bean passed away yesterday.
[512] And Matt Dogg was confused about which Billy Bean.
[513] And he did a whole eulogy for A's Billy Bean.
[514] And then he found out it was not A's Billy Bean.
[515] No, no. It happens.
[516] No. I wrote this, though, on Saturday, Billy Bean was still alive, so...
[517] Well, the other Billy Bean says, respect.
[518] Couldn't cross it out.
[519] Number two, corn elder.
[520] Did a mic for that.
[521] Doing like a Santa Fe kind of...
[522] Corn?
[523] Corn?
[524] Oh, I get...
[525] Of course.
[526] In the tortilla chips.
[527] In the tortilla chips.
[528] Cornelder.
[529] In the chips.
[530] Well, I was picturing corn in my nachos.
[531] But, okay, fair enough.
[532] Number one, Chili Davis.
[533] Good list.
[534] Thank you.
[535] I mean, corn.
[536] I'm sorry.
[537] It's okay.
[538] You would think naches would be my specialty.
[539] To anybody complaining about the new kickoff rolls, shut up.
[540] You're not going to like the on -side rules.
[541] You can't do it if you're winning.
[542] You've got to announce that you're doing the on -side kick.
[543] You can only do it in the fourth quarter.
[544] You're not going to like those.
[545] Yeah.
[546] The Braves have a guy named Nacho Alvarez, Jr. Oh, man, I missed.
[547] It's a big whiff by me. You don't put nachos in your nachos.
[548] That's true.
[549] Thank you.
[550] I do.
[551] Nachos on top of naches?
[552] I put my nachos in my nachos, yes.
[553] Now, I wrote this over the weekend again.
[554] The White Sox have lost 20 straight games.
[555] The last time the White Sox won a game, Dan was still in Africa.
[556] Skipping the White Sox stuff is an option.
[557] Two guys.
[558] It's available to you if you're quick on your feet, if you're light on your feet.
[559] Right.
[560] I understand.
[561] Random baseball thoughts from the golf course.
[562] How many more pages do you have there?
[563] On a gummy.
[564] We've got two segments that we've got to get to.
[565] This can't go much longer than this.
[566] Random baseball thoughts from the golf course on a gummy.
[567] Every team in the early 2000s thought they were an Octavio Dotel away from competing.
[568] Do you agree?
[569] I do.
[570] Jesse Orozco.
[571] pitched in 1979 and 2003.
[572] You know what that's called, Dano?
[573] Across decades.
[574] Wait, what?
[575] 1979 to 2003?
[576] It's amazing, yeah.
[577] Yeah, I had to look it up.
[578] Someone said it to me on the golf course.
[579] I was in a gummy.
[580] I didn't believe him.
[581] I looked it up.
[582] It's true.
[583] Anyway.
[584] Michael Jordan should try baseball again.
[585] He'd make this White Sox team.
[586] Put this on the pole.
[587] If you make a trade with the Marlins, do you automatically win the trade?
[588] Watching Sports Center over the weekend with Zubin Mahenty and was thinking to myself, Zubin, Jay Williams, Kishan Johnson.
[589] Strange pairing.
[590] That is right where ESPN gave up on radio.
[591] Hmm.
[592] Right there.
[593] That show?
[594] That right there.
[595] Not us?
[596] No. We may be the reason they gave up.
[597] up on another bleep this none of this is worth it we got a big empire over here no one's listening to radio anymore why are we paying anybody matt carpenter still playing still a cardinal amazing carp the most prepared i've ever been for an interview was last week when i thought the 1980 nl MVP mike schmidt was coming on can we book george brett next week when otani makes contact with the baseball it looks like like it's going to the moon.
[598] Home runs should count for more if they go a certain distance.
[599] Track it as a stat.
[600] Moon shots.
[601] I like that.
[602] Yeah.
[603] I like that.
[604] It's a good idea.
[605] It is a good idea.
[606] You're always in the game.
[607] If you hit it a certain distance, it counts as five runs.
[608] I don't think it's carried away.
[609] That's the way I would do it.
[610] But there is a way to do it.
[611] We ran out of music on the bed.
[612] Yeah, it's only 17 minutes long.
[613] Circling back to golf.
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[634] Stugats.
[635] One, two, three, Brett.
[636] One, two, three.
[637] Brett.
[638] This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats.
[639] This is very exciting, Stugats, because we're going out to Paris right now, and we are throwing some sugar on the David Sampson segment.
[640] Ellis Dawson is the Candyman.
[641] He has gone viral at the Olympics for being the only person on international television other than David Samson to carry around a gigantic zip lock bag full of candy.
[642] He's the director of national team operations for Team USA basketball.
[643] He's been with the program for 20 years.
[644] He handles player personnel and basketball operations, but all he does is give candy to players.
[645] That's the only thing we know him as, and we have no other interest in asking him about anything other than his candy budget because David Samson, this is a hero of yours, correct?
[646] This is somebody you're looking at this.
[647] You can't believe that we've done.
[648] got Ellis Dawson from Paris joining us right now, The Candyman.
[649] This is your number one booking of all time.
[650] Ellis, I just want to say that you are my inspiration.
[651] What you do for your players is something that I dreamt of doing for my players and they would just make fun of me because I carry around bags of candy and we are brothers from another mother.
[652] Yeah, well, thanks for having me. I'm really excited to do this.
[653] I never expected to be at this level of, I don't know, internet sensation, if I want to call that, it's exciting to be part of something bigger than me. I just didn't think it was going to be as big as this candy thing.
[654] Well, tell me more about how it is, what your budget is, how it came to be.
[655] What's the backstory on you giving American athletes so much sugar?
[656] Well, I think it's something that just kind of every team I've been with, like I said, I've been there for 20 years.
[657] So this is my fifth Olympics.
[658] My first Olympics was in Beijing with 2008.
[659] And I've been with the men's program.
[660] I've been with the women's program and I do a lot of things with junior teams.
[661] And the common theme I feel like is always like, what kind of candy do you have at the bench?
[662] What time are at the scores table at practice?
[663] And it's kind of, it evolves over time.
[664] I know a couple of our coaches, like certain kinds of candy and like mince and different types of things like that.
[665] But it just kind of evolved into, You know, Jerry Colangelo, who used to, you know, run the men's program.
[666] We'd always have this certain kind of bubble gum they always had.
[667] And it's just something that, to me, it was more of a little bit of a home feel because most of the time our teams go overseas.
[668] And the first thing they look for is what's American that's there?
[669] What can I get?
[670] It's that kind of gives them a little bit of a feel from home.
[671] What's your most requested candy?
[672] You know, it's more like some of the mints, I think.
[673] Mints are a big deal.
[674] I thought chewing gum would be the biggest type, but for some reason, it's, I feel like it's something that you just, you don't want to chew gum.
[675] I think it's just something that's, you know, what do you do with it when you want to spit it out?
[676] I think that's a big thing.
[677] So we've had some caramel type of meals and different types of things, or meals, types of candies that kind of make it happen.
[678] David?
[679] I assume you fly charter with the team, but I must tell you that I get stopped every time with my bag through security because I've got bags of candy and what they do is they look and they see all the good and plenty and all the black jelly beans and cinnamon jelly beans and skittles and they rifle through it not thank God inside the bag but they touch it over the bag and it makes me insane have you had any issues flying with all of the bags of candy you need for all of your international events and before you answer that alice just put it on the poll juju should you immediately be profiled and arrested if you go through airport security with black jelly beans at lebiton show what were you saying ellis uh you know we do it like a lot of our national teams are a little bit more charter our junior teams do not charter so we go commercial um everywhere i think we had a team that uh you 17 team that went to turkey on the men's side and we went on the team and went to mexico and i think we just kind of have a like a you know what you want call a manager bag full of different types of candies and different types of things.
[680] And obviously you have your markers and your whiteboards and all your different types of items.
[681] When it comes to a team like this, you know, I just had a bunch of our support staff when we were in Las Vegas, hey, I need you to go.
[682] And I need you to go grab these different bags of candy and make it individually wrapped and we're going to take it with us.
[683] We're going to bring it with us.
[684] We're going to keep it with us.
[685] And, you know, the level has dwindled a little bit, but I have a, I've had a few people come from the States and said, hey, I need this kind of candy.
[686] I need that kind.
[687] And just bring it and we'll have it, uh, they'll have it available for these players.
[688] Uh, it's, you know, it's kind of excited to be part of that and, uh, you know, to see what, what we have, so.
[689] Stugats, I'm, I'm kind of stunned that mintz are the most popular.
[690] If I were to ask the shipping container, what would you imagine should be the most popular candy?
[691] Would we have a consensus on that in the other room?
[692] Because mint, I wouldn't even be in my top five.
[693] Yeah, it's obviously Recy's piece.
[694] Oh, yeah.
[695] It's like Gummy, right?
[696] It's not good in plenty.
[697] I don't know what's going to see?
[698] Um, what?
[699] You can't do dots in a clubhouse.
[700] What?
[701] You cannot do dots.
[702] Why?
[703] What do you mean?
[704] not allowed because you could then need a dentist.
[705] What?
[706] It could, they, dots can remove like your filling and it can get stuck.
[707] Only in a clubhouse?
[708] Wait a minute, Ellis, Alice looked at him like he was crazy.
[709] And I think Ellis is more of a candy authority than David is.
[710] Ellis, you're looking at him and you're saying, what are you talking about?
[711] I'm the dots king.
[712] I got dots.
[713] I'm not taking out any fillings of Olympians.
[714] No, it hasn't gotten a concern yet.
[715] I should probably not put that in the atmosphere.
[716] but you never know.
[717] I would say that probably a chocolate type thing wouldn't be something we'd have on the bench as much, but you would be surprised that our coaches do the cough drops a lot and the mince, so I think that's kind of a popular thing.
[718] And sometimes it's usually just, you know, on the bench, I think more of our coaches go for the candies and different types because, you know, it's just something that they're always, you know, yelling instructions or, you know, whatever.
[719] So it may be a little different.
[720] And then, you know, in a locker room, it's a little bit more the players take what they need and, you know, get a little bit of a hit of sugar.
[721] And, you know, it's, it's, it's fun.
[722] It's also your job to clean up after them with all the little wrappers that are all around.
[723] And that's kind of a pet peeve of mine.
[724] I like to keep the area kind of, you know, as well as, as clean as possible to make it, you know, just make sure we're spotless.
[725] Ellis, how much wriggle room do you have to get cute?
[726] You know what I mean?
[727] Like, if they want kick cats, but you want to go and you want to sneak in some of like the Japanese varieties of kick.
[728] cats with different flavors do you ever do any of that or no i don't i stay true to what we bought unless someone says hey you know i'd like to get you know something a little bit different um you know maybe a butterscotch here and there or caramel but most of it's just not i stay with the you know trying true and until someone tells me who likes worther's original on the team pop don staley really she was our she was the she was the original um deeper of that so and then and then Grant Hill loves it.
[729] Some of our senior staff, like our USA staff, likes those as well.
[730] So it's kind of an older hit, I guess.
[731] Do you do red vines or do you do lick or twizzlers?
[732] Neither.
[733] Hmm.
[734] What?
[735] No, it's just not an option.
[736] For me, it's just easier to grab, it's a little bit grab and go.
[737] The individually wrapped items are a little bit easier to handle.
[738] What's the oddest candy request you've ever received?
[739] received um i don't know if there's been one i don't know if i give lots of options i feel like what they take what they get um but you know i don't i stick stick with the mints and the fruity kind of uh jolly rancher type or you know even a sour patch kid or something like i don't really i don't have too many off the wall off the wall like i'd have to think it's probably be more of a junior team or somebody who's kind of used to sour type of something and you don't have it you try and find it but most of the time it's it's available and it's not as popular.
[740] I feel like it got a lot popular a week ago because of what was seen on TV and then I jump on a different interview shows and it's just a little different for me. What is your budget?
[741] Well, it's all kind of inclusive, but I feel like I have a good budget, but I also kind of know that I don't want to go home with a bunch of candy either.
[742] So my goal is when I leave Paris on Monday, I believe, is I don't want to have any of that candy.
[743] I want to just leave it and just, you know, start fresh with a different team.
[744] And we've got an October mini camp that's coming up with a bunch of junior athletes.
[745] And then we have a fall fire for another event in November.
[746] So it jumps right into, you know, we have about six weeks before we jump into a new event.
[747] I'm going to try again.
[748] What is your budget?
[749] It's endless.
[750] It's endless.
[751] An endless budget.
[752] All right, excellent.
[753] It's one of the sweetest budgets I could find.
[754] Okay, what is the weight of what it is that you're carrying around if you had to put it in pounds?
[755] When we started, I think it was probably over 30 pounds, maybe.
[756] Love it.
[757] So we all put it in one giant bag and I just refill it every game.
[758] So it's just a refill of everything that's there.
[759] And then we kind of go to, it looks like I lost some of my lights.
[760] But yeah, I think we just kind of replenished.
[761] And the box is probably now down to maybe 12, 15 pounds or something.
[762] You pay attention to using the zipper Ziploc versus the one that you press closed because with candy, the zipper is the way to go because you can guarantee the air comes out and the candy stays fresh.
[763] The one that's the pressing clothes sometimes can sneak open.
[764] Have you found that?
[765] Yeah.
[766] And also like when I, I don't know if you saw on the video, I carry a like it's, I don't know, rubber mane or something.
[767] And it's like it's got a little, like a little button at the top where you actually press the button so you can, like, press the air out of it.
[768] Oh, he's got, he's got the finest of technology.
[769] This man's a veteran.
[770] He's learned how to do this.
[771] Did I hear you correctly, though?
[772] Did you say no chocolate?
[773] You said no chocolate?
[774] I don't do chocolate.
[775] No one's fully requested it either.
[776] All right.
[777] Ellis, I'm going to have to.
[778] Personally, I do chocolate.
[779] No, but Ellis, I'm going to have to ask you to leave.
[780] Okay.
[781] Well, that's harsh.
[782] No, but I thought I was dealing with somebody who was the truth, okay?
[783] And you can't be the truth if you're somebody who doesn't do chocolate and your candy.
[784] Like, so I'm going to...
[785] He does chocolate.
[786] No, but he's not giving away chocolate.
[787] No, but he's not giving away chocolate.
[788] I'm going to have to ask him to leave.
[789] I'm sorry, I'm sorry that I've desecrated you at the end of what was an excellent interview.
[790] I have shamed him, but I'm going to have to ask you to leave because you've offended me. We never found out what Spow likes.
[791] Oh, yeah.
[792] What does Spoh?
[793] Oh, now you want him back.
[794] Oh, gosh.
[795] He goes for the mints.
[796] He did those high chews, the fruit, the fruit chew things.
[797] But yeah, it's just kind of, like I said, it's a hit or miss. It's also like your mood, your mood kind of determines what you want to do.
[798] So today you might be this candy, you might be that candy.
[799] You might be no candies.
[800] You might do cough drops.
[801] So it's just, you know, like I said, it's more of an opportunity to kind of bring some home to the, to the field.
[802] or to our play and give it an opportunity to enjoy some little piece of home even if it's a small piece of care.
[803] But what part of your job is setting the mood?
[804] Like if we win the silver medal, how much of it do we blame on you for not having the right candy and not having chocolate and not putting people in the right frame of mind?
[805] I'm not sure I want to answer that question.
[806] We have a really big game against Serbia tomorrow, which I'm excited for.
[807] A women's team played tonight against Nigeria and the quarterfinals.
[808] So I'm excited for all of our teams, and I think it's, you know, the Olympics are a great opportunity to, you know, get some international basketball and see, you know, NBA or WMBA people in a different uniform.
[809] And the camaraderie and the brotherhood of what it is is great, too.
[810] But you also want to go out and win the gold medal.
[811] And that's, you know, our goal is to do that.
[812] And, you know, I'm excited to be part of that.
[813] And whatever I could do to help that is my biggest step.
[814] David, do you have a top five list for Ellis?
[815] I do.
[816] I have to give you a top five list before you go.
[817] If Dan, you'll allow him to stay.
[818] I'm loving this just being around you, being in the presence of candy greatness makes me happy.
[819] But I'm going to do a top five candies needed if you're going to be the candy guy.
[820] First, we start with an O -L -I.
[821] You have to have ice cream.
[822] When the players are doing Red Bull, they're doing espresso.
[823] They may be doing some greenies.
[824] You have to have ice cream in the clubhouse and helps them calm down.
[825] That's a O -L -L -I.
[826] I'm not a candy.
[827] That's not a candy.
[828] That's why it's flipping greensies in there.
[829] It's not, oh, you don't know how to do OLLI.
[830] That's, Alice is embarrassed.
[831] Ice cream.
[832] And what do you have?
[833] Quit embarrassing us, Samson.
[834] Number five.
[835] High chew.
[836] You just mentioned it.
[837] It made me smile.
[838] High chew is a critical candy.
[839] You get the variety pack, which has the different flavors, which no one can tell the difference of.
[840] And you have to rip it open on one side only.
[841] And then you have to be careful of the rappers because they can stick to your hand.
[842] But number five, high, Guzant height.
[843] Number four.
[844] Mike and Ikes, but sour.
[845] Mike and Ike Sowers are incredibly popular for players, incredibly popular for staff.
[846] You can put them in jars.
[847] You can get them individually packaged or you can get the big multi -pound bag.
[848] Love that.
[849] Love those.
[850] God, I love those.
[851] Number three.
[852] Kit -cats.
[853] Players love Kit -Kats.
[854] Your whole thing against chocolate is staggering to me. and you don't get the double Kit Katz, you get the single Kit Katz.
[855] You know, the big ones come with four and you can rip them.
[856] The ones that you talk about, it should be only the one, one at a time.
[857] David, how do you feel about the Kit Kat big cat, the big massive bar of Kit Katz?
[858] You can't do it.
[859] It's too much and it gets sticky in the fingers.
[860] The one you can rip, you can take the wrapper off, keep it on the bottom of the single bar and then eat the bar in either one bite, releasing the wrapper at the end or in two bites, and then the rapper's done, and no mess, no fuss.
[861] How did you feel about Giancarlo Stanton eating the Kit Kat like a monster when he was on your team where he would just bite into the four bars at the same time?
[862] They would do contests.
[863] So that was a little different, what you have in the clubhouse.
[864] I'm trying to talk about what it is to be the candy guy, but Stanton can do some stuff with his mouth.
[865] Number two.
[866] Expand, please.
[867] Eminem's Blaine.
[868] And again, not the multi -pound bag.
[869] You get the individual bags that have between 7 and 12 M &Ms in because that is the top rip and then the poor and you get them all in one bite.
[870] You don't want the position where the players are putting their fingers in the bag to get more M &Ms out.
[871] So it's one full role.
[872] And that's the small little like you see him at Halloween.
[873] I mean, of all the M &M's, plain M &Ms, that's ridiculous.
[874] Number one, David.
[875] There's been one good candy in his top five and he had ice cream.
[876] Mike and ice cream, unbelievable.
[877] Number one.
[878] Seeds.
[879] Oh, you got to.
[880] Oh, that's not candy.
[881] Token like a guy with no taste.
[882] Are you a bird?
[883] Man, terrible list.
[884] Ellis, what do you think of his terrible list?
[885] He thinks it's awful.
[886] Don't answer, Ellis.
[887] I mean, you're going to throw a sour pass kids in there.
[888] Those seem to be pretty good.
[889] Yeah.
[890] Give him the fan.
[891] I just don't like opening a bag of M &Ms, and there's only like four M &Ms in it.
[892] Ellis, thank you for being on with us.
[893] We appreciate your time, sir.
[894] Yeah, thank you very much.
[895] Looking forward to working, you know, hopefully getting home with a couple of old medals and then move in again to, you know, to our next events and just, you know, having more candy for more athletes and hopefully our coaches and everyone.
[896] People do call.
[897] They call you the Candyman, right?
[898] I saw that in our graphic we called you the candy guy.
[899] people call you Candy Man, right?
[900] Not Candy Guy.
[901] Yeah, I've been called Candy Man. I actually went to the Nike House today, and someone said, hey, I saw you on TV.
[902] You're the Candy Man. I was like, okay, let's go with it.
[903] What percentage of the players on the team don't know your actual name and only know you as the Candy Man?
[904] Fortunately, that they know me by name.
[905] I've definitely earned that.
[906] I've earned that.
[907] Thank you, Ellis.
[908] We appreciate it.
[909] we should tell people he's the director of national teams operations for team USA basketball so he does have another identity beyond this but this is the one that made him famous thank you ellis yeah thank you alice uh so david sampson before we get out of here on a segment that has been eaten up by candy i want to hear more about stanton's mouth incredible things that he could do with it nothing huh that's a real picture david what did you make of yesterday's news that pit bulls is naming, putting his name on FIU Stadium.
[910] Boy, oh boy, that's quite a deal, isn't it?
[911] He's paying $1 .25 million per year for five years.
[912] He is getting naming rights to a stadium and a bunch of other areas at FIU, except it's also really an endorsement deal because that number is way too low.
[913] And so the endorsement side is he's got to do a bunch of social media posts.
[914] He's got to go meet donors and he's got to maybe write an anthem for FIU.
[915] It's an interesting marriage between a school that obviously wants to get more international and national attention as being the number one public school in Miami, which it is.
[916] And Pitbull giving back a hugely charitable guy, which he is, a big philanthrop.
[917] But this deal, it's a bizarre way to feed an ego while being a person who is so interested in helping kids with charter schools and helping underprivileged people.
[918] So I just found the business deal fascinating.
[919] I went into pretty good detail about it on today's Nothing Personal.
[920] That's already out.
[921] But I'll say that it's a match made in heaven for Miami.
[922] I just don't think it's a long -lasting match because you can get more than $1 .25 million for naming rights.
[923] And they will eventually.
[924] What's the movie that you're reviewing for us this week?
[925] And I will remind people that when he mentions nothing personal and some of the things that he goes into deeper depths on, and nothing personal as a podcast that should be part of your daily rotation.
[926] If you want to get very quickly informed on a variety of subject matter, what's the movie you're reviewing for us this week?
[927] We're reviewing Cirque to Soleil.
[928] It's a documentary that came out on Amazon, and it's called Without a Net, and it is about how they got Cirque to Soleil back after COVID.
[929] For those not familiar, it's a Montreal -based company.
[930] They have shows all over the world, and it's like the circus, but really unique trapeze -style shows.
[931] and COVID shut it down.
[932] And this show, oh, is in the Bellagio, and they let cameras in as the show was closing, and then throughout the 400 days it was closed, and then what it is for these people to come back and do these performances without the ability to really train during COVID.
[933] It was fascinating what these individuals had to do.
[934] It's a quick documentary, about 90 minutes, well worth your time, as is going to see Cirque de Soleil.
[935] It's very good.
[936] Dave, I saw that, and I couldn't believe one of the facts in that documentary, which that, oh, is the most profitable daily entertainment thing in the world.
[937] If you go to Bellagio, you will know exactly why.
[938] Seven days a week, it is packed out, always.
[939] And what they do during that show, they use water.
[940] It's the first show ever.
[941] It's basically a pool, and people are diving in and out of water in ways that you cannot believe.
[942] and this documentary goes behind the scenes showing some of that.
[943] And I really did enjoy it, and I think you would too.
[944] Thank you, Samson.
[945] Thank you.
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