The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz XX
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[15] Are you sure we're going to have a good interview, Chris?
[16] I'm like 70%.
[17] If it's up to Dexter, it's definitely going to be good, but us, it's a question.
[18] All right.
[19] Well, it's a tall sub on this end, too, so.
[20] All right.
[21] Well, Dexter seems to be ready.
[22] So let's include him on the conversation we were having last week.
[23] Dexter Fowler is with us.
[24] He hit one of the most famous home runs in baseball history leading off game seven of the 2016 World Series.
[25] The conversation we were having last week when Aaron Judge got to 300 home runs faster than anyone ever is why it is that Aaron Judge wouldn't be one of the top 50 most famous athletes in America at present in terms of just stardom, which seems like a baseball stardom problem, not an excellence problem.
[26] Yeah, absolutely.
[27] I mean, if you sit there and look at, you know, the body of work that he's done, It absolutely should be, you know, one of the top athletes in, I'd say, the world.
[28] You know, you're playing for, you know, a historic organization like the Yankees.
[29] And not to have, not to be on that list, that's crazy.
[30] Stugats, I don't know if you know this, but Dexter recently went back to Penn State.
[31] After how many years to graduate, Dexter?
[32] How did that?
[33] It was actually 20.
[34] so 20 years you decide to go back had you been academically dormant until you decided two decades in you know what i'm going to finish this up i've got a couple of credits left i had i was dormant i didn't even start so i i finished four years in about two and a half almost three years congratulations to you dan he looks like he's in college fantastic he looks fantastic yeah he's getting younger yeah he's 38 years old and he looks like he could be in the big leagues right now he could swipe 50 badge right now.
[35] But what did it mean to you to graduate?
[36] Take me through the thought process.
[37] I don't think that people understand the obsessive, compulsive commitment that athletics require to get to where you got to.
[38] Well, it all came about because I got, obviously, I got drafted out of high school and I told my parents, like I was going to Europe in Miami, and I told him, I said, I'm really only going to do enough to play baseball because that's what I want to do.
[39] I said, and my mom was a teacher, elementary school teacher, so my parents would been on academics.
[40] And I told my parents, I said, I'll make a promise to you.
[41] If I can go play baseball right now, then I will go back and get my degree.
[42] And they said, all right, if you promise to do that, then we'll get it done.
[43] And I ended up signing and finished my big league career and said, you know what, it's already paid for it.
[44] Might as well go back and do it.
[45] Made that promise.
[46] So held true on my work.
[47] Was it emotional for you?
[48] How much family shared the accomplishment with you?
[49] I was actually trying to surprise them, and it slipped out in conversation.
[50] I was like, I got to do this essay for my class.
[51] And they were like, what class?
[52] And I was like, ah, I slipped up.
[53] So I was going to surprise them and be like, hey, what are you all doing at this time?
[54] I'll get my degree.
[55] But that didn't work out.
[56] Dexter, how does this work?
[57] Did you get a good graduation gift?
[58] Did people give you gifts?
[59] I got no gifts.
[60] I'm still waiting on one from a Dan Leotard show.
[61] Get Dan Leotard on that right now.
[62] Were you in classes with, like, you know, 20 -year -olds, 21 -year -olds?
[63] Or was this all online?
[64] No, I wasn't in class physically, but we did, I did a bunch of projects together.
[65] But I went by my first name.
[66] So I went by William.
[67] Were you anonymous?
[68] You were anonymous.
[69] You were able to do it anonymously.
[70] I think, yeah, my teachers knew who I was.
[71] I think my teachers knew who I was.
[72] because some of my essays that was talking about like when I hit that home run for the Cubs accomplishments and all that I was like I feel like I'm pretty accomplished Can you explain to us what it's like to be you in Chicago because I don't know that people totally understand what it means to that fan base that home run what your name means and what the Cubs winning means it was funny yes you know the the dnc's here um right now and i was trying to cross the street yesterday and i saw one of the cops just keep looking at me and my buddy knew another cop down the way so he makes a call up and we're crossing the like the cop let us cross the street um and as we're crossing the street the one of the cops goes dexter thank you can you can i get a picture with you i was like i could i could have gotten this like 10 minutes ago we didn't have to make a call down the street.
[73] Yeah.
[74] But, uh, no, everybody, right?
[75] No, everybody's been great.
[76] Everybody, you, you see the Cubs fans all over.
[77] Um, I live in Vegas, so, um, you know, even walking down the street in Vegas and everybody will come up to you and just be like, thank you.
[78] And that's, you know, anytime you hear that, you know, they're a Cubs fan.
[79] Well, I'm, uh, the resident Cubs fan here.
[80] And to be honest, like, I have so many questions that I really don't know where to begin.
[81] But I'm sure you've talked about game seven a lot.
[82] Can you kind of just walk us through just what it was like starting the game on such a high note after coming back in the series, but then Cleveland comes back and then there's a rain delay and then the game goes on and on and there's pitching changes and it's just a whole mess.
[83] Like what did it feel like?
[84] Oh my gosh.
[85] Honestly, now it's a blur.
[86] Like everybody's like, do you watch the game?
[87] I said absolutely not because I get nightmares for Rajay Davidson's own run out.
[88] you know, it, like, it slips out of your hands.
[89] I'm like, no, we were this close.
[90] But I ended up getting a job done.
[91] But honestly, like, I think everybody was at peace.
[92] Like, even, like, when we were down 3 -1, everybody knew we were the better team in that clubhouse.
[93] And, you know, after we beat them game five at game six, we were like, oh, this is ours.
[94] This is ours.
[95] We're going to do this.
[96] And then just having a confidence of everybody behind me. Obviously, after that, we were rolling.
[97] We had the momentum.
[98] So, you know, momentum can take you a long way until it doesn't.
[99] Dexter, is it fair to say you guys won that World Series despite Joe Madden?
[100] Oh, my God.
[101] Fair to say?
[102] Here we go.
[103] I mean, Lester with the hope.
[104] Come on.
[105] He took him out to world.
[106] Oh, my God.
[107] It's okay.
[108] You can say it, though.
[109] If he's your guy, then he'll understand.
[110] Okay.
[111] Yeah.
[112] I think he realized he dropped the ball.
[113] Wow.
[114] And the glasses are fair.
[115] No, come on.
[116] You couldn't.
[117] Those are real glasses.
[118] You couldn't hold yourself.
[119] You couldn't show restraint.
[120] You had to immediately go.
[121] He's got this theory that Joe wears those glasses to appear smarter than he is.
[122] No, you know what?
[123] Joe was great with the clubhouse, man. He knows how to manage people, which is great.
[124] You need that.
[125] Do you like what it is that's become of the sport even since 2013?
[126] 2016 because I'm not sure that you're allowed to play baseball right now if you're not someone who strikes out one out of every four times and hits 40 home runs.
[127] I don't love it.
[128] I don't love it.
[129] It's kind of hard to watch at times, but hopefully the analytics and stuff that evolves into more of a tool and we get back to playing baseball.
[130] I think I just think that baseball at this time is what you know I'm in the commission of the ambassador program and we talk about it daily on how to make the game better and bring it back to cut you know the X's and O's of baseball you know whether that's speeding the game up getting a youth back involved cutting out on the strikeouts and all that but it's not an easy problem to fix I think we've gotten ourselves into this situation and we've got to figure out a way to get ourselves out.
[131] What percentage of the Cubs World Series is directly attributed to Jason Hayward's speech during the rain delay?
[132] Yeah.
[133] Jay, I mean, he got us all together.
[134] What a lot of people don't know is we were all scattered.
[135] Jay Hay kind of got the group together and, you know, kind of started it off.
[136] And then everybody said their piece and kind of got all this stuff off their chest.
[137] and then kind of cleared our minds to go back out.
[138] Like I know Rossi said something, I said something, but yeah, I mean, that was good, I call it field awareness for Jay Hay to get us all back together because you don't know where everybody's at mentally.
[139] I mean, you had like obviously Araldus in there and he was distraught because he felt like it was his fault.
[140] but it was a new game it was a new game it's that was that was uh i call it game eight dexter you the following season played in the little league classic with the st louis cardinals and there was actually a very cool moment that was shared during the broadcast from jazz chisholm junior that we wanted to take a look at and then i'll have a couple follow -up questions for you about that game i got on the plane one of his friends came right away because he was in he was way in the back his friends came up to me and he was like oh my best friend you're his favorite player bro like he can't wait to see you and like this kid was like this kid ran all the way from the back to tell me that his friend is like I'm his friend's favorite baseball player and then I'm just like okay like I can't wait to meet him like where's he at so I'm just walking through signing stuff I don't even get to meet the kid until it's like the last kid at the line really and he's just in the back is waiting on me and I'm just like I'm just signing and he's like you're my favorite baseball player I was like oh your friend told me about you he was like no like you're my favorite and he just like starts going into it and all that stuff and he told me his brother that goes to one of the events that I host baseball generations in California right and then we just started getting like to know each other and then I was like you know what kid I'm gonna be your big brother from date from here on you know what like I'm gonna make sure you have everything you need are you sliding meds leg guards gloves bats don't worry about it I got you just give me a call I got you, and I gave my number.
[141] Later on, they showed that Jazz also gave him a custom chain, all sorts of cool different things.
[142] Did you have any moments like this at the Little League Classic chatting with some of the kids about either being their favorite player or just kind of getting to bond like this?
[143] Because to me, this is like one of the coolest things that baseball has.
[144] Yeah, if I can remember, we were the first, the first time they did the Little League Classic.
[145] So I think it was now they kind of have it down.
[146] But, I mean, when we got out the plan, we were like, yeah, you'll be right on this bus.
[147] You'll be right on this.
[148] So it's kind of all over the place.
[149] And now they kind of, I like how they're doing it now.
[150] But, I mean, the kids are in awe.
[151] And then I had never been to Williamsport.
[152] So going there and I was in the booth with the SPN and getting a chance to, I didn't know the fields were like that.
[153] Like, it's really cool to watch.
[154] And the kids, they loved it.
[155] They love it.
[156] Like, and the fact that, you know, when you're doing, when you're playing, it's all kids in the, it's all the kids in the, um, in the stands.
[157] It's, it's, it's special.
[158] Does it feel like transport back to the 1970s or 19, a different time in America?
[159] It does.
[160] It does.
[161] It's nostalgia for, for sure.
[162] Um, they had, um, well, they've now fixed the lights.
[163] The lights were horrible we played.
[164] So, you know, you're used to have it, obviously, the best lights.
[165] And it's like, this is kind of dark.
[166] But it was great.
[167] Before I get you out of here, I should tell the people, he's now an analyst for the Cubs Marquis Network.
[168] And you've bought a Premier League team.
[169] Bournemouth, you've bought, explain to us this journey.
[170] How did retirement become I'm going to go buy a soccer team in the Premier League?
[171] I have great neighbors and mentors.
[172] My neighbor is actually Bill Foley and Bill is kind of taking me under his wing and put me on a few of his boards and so I've been doing a little bit boardwork for him but he came to me with opportunity and said, Dex, I love for you to be a part of this.
[173] And, you know, if Bill says be a part of something, you know it's going to be special.
[174] So ended up putting some money in to be a part of that and I'm going to start helping out.
[175] I've still yet to go to, I've been working so much.
[176] I've yet to go out to London and go to a game.
[177] But my wife and kids have, and I'm looking forward to kind of get my feet wet and in the ownership stuff.
[178] It was good catching up with you, Dexter.
[179] Thank you for making the time for us, sir.
[180] Absolutely.
[181] Thank you, Dexter.
[182] Thanks, Dexter.
[183] It was good.
[184] It was good.
[185] It was good.
[186] It was good.
[187] It was good.
[188] It was good.
[189] It was good.
[190] Not the Pirates.
[191] It's not good.
[192] I'll talk to you all later on.
[193] Thank you.
[194] Those glasses are fake.
[195] They're fake.
[196] They're fake, they're fake, text.
[197] I put them on.
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[209] Go ahead, Billy.
[210] Ask him your question.
[211] Is gymnastics?
[212] Pops.
[213] Possibly good.
[214] Oh, wow.
[215] Stugats.
[216] I got some fleb in my mouth, yeah.
[217] It's okay.
[218] Yeah.
[219] Is gymnastics possibly corrupt?
[220] This is Dan Leotard show with a Stugat's.
[221] You guys know that I am not a fantasy player, but I do understand the appeal of all of these addictions on NFL Sundays.
[222] You guys tell me, because I'm not familiar with how it is that one would track their fantasy teams on Sunday.
[223] However, YouTube TV is now offering a fantasy view.
[224] It's allowing Yahoo and NFL .com customers to link their fantasy teams to their YouTube accounts and then you get the plays and the multi -view options and you get all the stuff that's personalized for you.
[225] Is that worth it to you, Stugats, for an extra $300, which is what the Apple Plus package through YouTube is going for.
[226] It's twice the rate of what it is that the DirecTV package has been.
[227] I mean, I get the concept, you put your fantasy team in, it automatically goes to highlights of guys on your fantasy team when they do something good or bad, I would imagine.
[228] It seems appealing to me again.
[229] I just don't know how to set it up.
[230] I mean, someone's going to have to help me with that.
[231] I would pay for it.
[232] But you don't need that, do you?
[233] I mean, you can have, you can be, without that, you can just be on your phone or your iPad or your computer.
[234] That's how everybody's doing it now anyway, isn't it?
[235] This sounds pretty incredible, Dan.
[236] I'll be honest, I've never been a, I've never had Sunday ticket and I've never had red zone.
[237] I always have just used whatever free trials exist.
[238] to be able to get that on certain weekends.
[239] This is the first time.
[240] The idea that I could just link my fantasy team and just be shown my players all weekend long, it's the first time where I'm now considering, like, all right, do I want to drop hundreds of dollars to be able to watch this?
[241] I have a problem.
[242] My phone doesn't get YouTube, so.
[243] Yeah, can't be true.
[244] Not true.
[245] Hold on.
[246] Hold up your phone.
[247] Simply not the truth.
[248] Did even try.
[249] No, it's true.
[250] Some phones just don't get it.
[251] Thank you.
[252] No, that one doesn't get, that's not a YouTube.
[253] This phone, I'm sure, I could get YouTube on it.
[254] God, it's for the love of God.
[255] We know it's an iPhone.
[256] Get him his AARP information, please.
[257] I wanted to ask you guys something based on both internet culture and what's real and what isn't about where it is that all of us live in 2024, online, more connected than we've ever been, more disconnected from others than we've ever been.
[258] So somebody put up the Tua clip with the words positive energy and empowering someone goes a long way.
[259] Now, this, of course, gets rained on by acid from every corner of the Internet because positive energy and empowering someone is not the thing that the Internet is here for.
[260] So someone writes in of Tua's commentary, bleeping, blaming another man because he didn't hug him.
[261] what kind of shit is that that's some weak boy shit you actually said another man didn't kiss your ass enough and tell you that you're good and give you affirmation on the lips that's why you bleeped up maybe work on your arm strength instead of your mouth and i just want to ask you guys because i don't think that's rare i don't also think that's a bot although there's plenty of that out there as well but there are a whole assortment of people who are just generally who are getting something that feels like a dollop of medicine on happiness for them, the stimulant of just sending out into the universe and creating a fight around it, right?
[262] It's almost by definition trolling, correct?
[263] Yeah, but there are also a lot of people, Dan, who don't have a choice as to who their boss is.
[264] They don't make nearly as much money.
[265] They're trying to make ends meet.
[266] They go to work every single day, and their boss is a jackass.
[267] And they're like, hey, if I could deal with it, if I can make it through for 200, $150 million, you should be able to do the same.
[268] I think it's ridiculous.
[269] I do, because what does Tua really say?
[270] He would prefer to show up to work every day and have a boss that is nice to him.
[271] That's his preference.
[272] If you, at home, would rather show up to work and have a boss who's a complete jackass to you every day, then go for it.
[273] The choice is yours.
[274] But Tua is saying, no, I don't want that.
[275] And he's not afraid to point out who the jackass is.
[276] And he's saying, I want to go to work every day and work for a guy who respects me. a guy who was going to be nice to me. What's wrong with that?
[277] Dan's talking about the people that go one step forward, though, and post all of that on the internet very cruelly for other people to see.
[278] That's just like we're, like, maybe a lot of people think that way, but like there are, I agree, Dan, like, there's just, it's, there's a lot of nasty, cruel people that post things on the internet that I honestly, like, have to just block out because I have to tell myself, like, this is just not what most people think, hopefully.
[279] My point, though, is this is now sport, correct?
[280] we have we are now in a place where find comment take another side on the comment and it all becomes some form of politics some form of we're divided some form of we're going to fight about this and it speaks to a general anger that's out there that stu gotts isn't wrong about that person X who is struggling with the daily survival of i can't afford that things.
[281] It becomes an issue larger than all of the other issues in your life until you then have health problems and then you have to take that into our medical system without the proper insurance.
[282] And then you're drowning.
[283] And then you're forever drowning and you're angry and it makes you feel some modicum of better to instigate that fight.
[284] So other people feel miserable too, to come out against positive affirmations, to basically be against speaking.
[285] kindly to subordinates.
[286] Yeah, that's exactly right.
[287] Yeah.
[288] I'm going to take the opposite side on being kind.
[289] And how I'm going to do it, I'm going to call you a bleep boy.
[290] Misery loves company, Dan.
[291] Yeah, you got it, Dan.
[292] If being mean on the internet was a sport, I'd want to watch it.
[293] And if I was going to watch it, I would use Game Time to get tickets to go watch people be mean on the internet.
[294] Watch what?
[295] On the internet?
[296] Must be nice to be perfect.
[297] You were there.
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[300] If you want to go watch the internet, I would go watch the internet if it was a thing.
[301] I would too.
[302] And I would go on the second market and I'd go to game time and I would get to see exactly where my seat was from the little app.
[303] You see a little angle?
[304] Like, look, I'm looking down.
[305] This is exactly where my seat's going to be.
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[312] Well, watching Chris A &Pee and stuff people.
[313] I feel like we owe game time money.
[314] I had front row tickets for this one.
[315] Chris, you're speaking the last six or seven days as, uh, what?
[316] You're doing great, kid.
[317] I mean, you're, you, well, out of boy, Stu.
[318] Glass house.
[319] Someone needs to tell him.
[320] I mean, you need to tell them.
[321] I mean, you need it.
[322] You're the future.
[323] You're not read it.
[324] I am throwing stones from this ass house.
[325] I am, I am.
[326] But at Dolphin Camp, there were a handful of times I wanted to hug you.
[327] I don't know if they edited it out or whether you.
[328] you, uh, whether your fear will be noticeable to all.
[329] But when you sink into the lack of confidence that is reading or being polished broadcaster, you can sink deep with rat -a -tat -tat mistakes.
[330] Thank you for that.
[331] Yes.
[332] You are right.
[333] I thought I crushed that read.
[334] Yeah.
[335] Yeah.
[336] You did.
[337] Listen, you're a great reader.
[338] Okay.
[339] And don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
[340] You are a fantastic reader.
[341] You'll only get better.
[342] Okay.
[343] So don't let Dan get to you.
[344] Everyone wants a nice boss.
[345] what two has said.
[346] You want positive reinforcement, and I am telling you that everyone trips up occasionally when they read.
[347] Even Dan does.
[348] You just power forward, okay?
[349] You just move forward.
[350] Chris, I believe in you.
[351] It's hard to do that when everyone stops and looks at me every time I make the slightest mistake.
[352] You said peepee.
[353] I'm sorry.
[354] Like, pee pee pee -pee's funny.
[355] That's an attention grabber.
[356] These aren't normal reading circumstances, though.
[357] Chris is right.
[358] Chris, this is an egregious mistake, though, if while reading the sponsor, you say when watching Peepee on the internet.
[359] I want to hear that back.
[360] You guys are taking this.
[361] He did say, go watch Pee Pee Pee.
[362] They say, go watch Pee.
[363] Let it go, Chris.
[364] People be mean on the internet.
[365] That's a tough one.
[366] Play for me, please.
[367] The sound of Dexter Fowler getting my name wrong.
[368] It echoes from C to Shining C, or my name isn't.
[369] Dan Leotarche.
[370] Yeah, Leotarche.
[371] That's so good.
[372] He made a mistake.
[373] We should.
[374] should laugh at him.
[375] You owe him a gift.
[376] I mean...
[377] Dan, while you were gone, there's been some developments in this missing billionaire.
[378] Huge deal.
[379] Seems as though Sugats may or may not be on to something here.
[380] Inside job?
[381] Well, it turns out that Mike Lynch's co -defendant, a man named Stephen Chamberlain, who stood for trial alongside him before they were acquitted, died just days before Mike Lynch went missing.
[382] He was hit by a vehicle while out for a jog in the U .K. Maybe an inside job, Dan.
[383] People are going for these guys.
[384] You've got to find out who it is.
[385] He can't find out who it is.
[386] He's going to settle potentially here.
[387] I mean, he takes that jog every single day, never gets hit by a car, and then suddenly, boom.
[388] So on the lamb, on the lamb.
[389] It tends to be how car accidents work.
[390] Boom.
[391] That is how they work.
[392] Now the question becomes, though, Dan, before we thought it was an inside job in that this person was faking their own death, it seems as though maybe there's a Batman out there, Cape Crusader, who's just going and, settling some scores it would appear.
[393] I feel like we're flying fast and loose with conspiracy theories about a guy who's worth lots of money.
[394] Yeah, probably shouldn't do that.
[395] Probably should be a little more responsible than that.
[396] Researching.
[397] I mean, we're just putting it out there.
[398] Suspicious and inside job.
[399] Reckless speculation.
[400] Chamberlain.
[401] He does Dan's liable for...
[402] Yeah, I would prefer not to be.
[403] Thank you.
[404] I think I need to...
[405] Time to throw away all journalistic credibility and get reckless.
[406] here is something we like to call Rugless speculation.
[407] Now you're good.
[408] No, it's a little too late for that.
[409] Well, if the billionaire sues you, then we know he didn't actually die.
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[430] Don Lebertard.
[431] That was a long story.
[432] Yeah, it's the only kind he tells.
[433] It was a short one for me. I tried to speed it up for you guys.
[434] You forgot about the Leagues Cup.
[435] Stugats.
[436] Yeah.
[437] La Caretta is a place where the best of the celebrations has to be the 97 Marlin celebration because it was Levant.
[438] Well, when Fidel died the first time.
[439] This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats.
[440] I wanted to ask you guys something that came across my news feed the other day.
[441] You have a personal news feed?
[442] That's right.
[443] We all do, Stugats.
[444] Anybody who's interested in having a personal news feed, it's pretty.
[445] easy to set up my phone doesn't get that yeah no yeah you gotta get to sign up for YouTube um on my personal news feed I found out that Walmart is improving they are fixing their self -checkout situation hmm with a great technological evolution really they're bringing back humans they're doing it the correct way they're not going to do it with these machines anymore because Because you can steal, I'm guessing, so much from those machines without humans around.
[446] I've told you before that Walmart loses like $3 billion a year or something to theft.
[447] And they're like, screw this, we're going to go back to human beings.
[448] The whole electronic thing didn't work.
[449] We're not headed toward the future just yet, not at Walmart.
[450] I feel like maybe it's a theft thing, but I doubt that.
[451] It's probably because the machines suck.
[452] They always break.
[453] You always need a person to come help you anyways.
[454] If you're buying alcohol, you need a human to come do it.
[455] There's usually a floor manager for the machines.
[456] The last time I went to Walmart, like it might have been like two or three weeks ago.
[457] There were four people in the self -checkout area helping.
[458] Yeah.
[459] Like that can't.
[460] Not efficient.
[461] Just help me the whole time.
[462] I hate self -checkout so much.
[463] And the goddamn machines at CVS, they just ding at you non -stop.
[464] Skip bagging, ding, ding, ding, skip bagging, no receipt.
[465] I don't want to hear this stupid thing ding at me all the freaking time.
[466] just starts incessant and it never ends.
[467] So that's interesting because I was going to say the CVS machines are great.
[468] Like you could fly through those.
[469] She said just the opposite.
[470] No, I know, but I think they're great.
[471] The Walmart ones are a disaster.
[472] They're different machines.
[473] I go to CVS and it's easy for me. Well, why is Jessica struggling with this and you can't get YouTube on your phone?
[474] I think it's the beeps.
[475] I don't know.
[476] There are a lot of beeps, but the beeps don't, they don't bother me. The frequency of the beep is at a level that just bores into my brain and it doesn't stop.
[477] Put it on the please, Juju, more annoying beep, the CVS self -checkout machine or your car seatbelt beep.
[478] I would assume that there is more theft because of the self -checkout, I would assume, simply because you can get away with putting extra things in when no one is looking.
[479] If you don't scan it and beg it, when you walk out of the Walmart, alarms will go off.
[480] I'm telling you right now, it's impossible to steal from that machine.
[481] It can't be right that it's impossible.
[482] Bringing back Yemenis is a bad idea.
[483] I know someone who out of spite for the fact that self -checkout machines were hurting labor and getting more people fired who steals one item every single time they go to public.
[484] Just one two or three dollar item.
[485] The cheapest thing they could find, they put it in their bag just out of spite while going to the self -checkout line.
[486] So a line.
[487] Checkout tax.
[488] Fun fact, there are no Walmarts in New York City.
[489] Put it on the poll, please.
[490] show.
[491] Is it a fun fact that there are no Walmarts?
[492] I love it's fun.
[493] New York didn't get a target until I think like 2016.
[494] There's not a lot of big box stores that fit into a little tiny.
[495] There used to be a Kmart though.
[496] The Kmart closed.
[497] It was at the Astroplace subway stop.
[498] It was a big thing.
[499] You could walk into it from underground and now it's gone.
[500] Downtown targets.
[501] Stink.
[502] Why?
[503] They're just they're not, they're not rural targets.
[504] Well said.
[505] Did I screw up that time too?
[506] I mean I mean, kind of.
[507] You know, the self -checkout at Target is not that bad.
[508] In fairness to Chris, he was not expecting a follow -up.
[509] I mean...
[510] The one at the beach is terrible.
[511] I will give Chris that.
[512] The target at the beach isn't very good.
[513] There's not enough square footage for a target there.
[514] The one at the beach, people walking in barefoot with sand on their feet all the time.
[515] That's a vacationer's target.
[516] I mean, come on.
[517] Smells like mildew because you've been battered by sea air for, I don't know how long?
[518] I don't like going up an escalator to shop.
[519] Yeah, same.
[520] But that's like half of Miami because you have to go in the parking garage and you have to go up like seven layers of a parking garage and then you have to go down an escalator or up an escalator and then you have to get your cart and then you have to put that on the stupid escalator or you have to carry everything and your arms hurt and it's such a pain in the ass because there's nowhere to park because the city is just full of parking garage.
[521] It's crazy.
[522] You put an escalator in a target and it rattles me. But if you put one in a JC Penny, I love it.
[523] Love a J .C. Penny escalator.
[524] A part of a mall.
[525] I'm going up.
[526] I'll see you guys in a little bit because that's always where the men's stuff is.
[527] Men's clothes is always on the second floor.
[528] Are you a Coles Cash guy?
[529] Yes.
[530] I knew it.
[531] That target on the beach, okay, for 10 years has been urinated on by offensive linemen who fly to Ireland and get arrested and get rerouted back to Boston.
[532] That target has been a literal target of all of South Carolina.
[533] Beach's debauchery for as long as it's been that.
[534] Boston, Ireland, same place.
[535] Also coming across my news feed, my personalized news feed, news feed just for me. A nude feed?
[536] Oh, whoa.
[537] How do I get one?
[538] A nude feed?
[539] Oh, yes.
[540] Check in with Chris Cody's peepee on the internet.
[541] That'd be on your phone.
[542] Is Subway in trouble?
[543] Is Subway or Subway franchise sales something that's in trouble?
[544] I have told you guys before that Subway is or has been the last time I checked, the second largest fast food distributor we've had in America behind McDonald's for a long time.
[545] I suspect a lot of people might think that Burger King is right behind McDonald's or something else, but it's been Subway in terms of franchises.
[546] But I would imagine the $5 footlong is now $25 .99.
[547] I would imagine that the business of Subway is getting more and more expensive.
[548] And I don't know if.
[549] people are running around buying franchises at the same rate that they were once upon a time.
[550] In 2023, Subway's revenue increased to $971 .9 million.
[551] Subway .com.
[552] They're doing just fun.
[553] I've seen plenty.
[554] I've seen a few Subways close around me. Of course, they're closing.
[555] That doesn't mean they're doing poorly.
[556] I'm pretty sure.
[557] No, no, no, no, no. Some of these are franchised out.
[558] No, no, no, you're wrong.
[559] First off, some of these are franchised out.
[560] So if a couple of stores closed, it means that particular store has not done well.
[561] It doesn't mean Subway as a whole is not doing well.
[562] I mean, come on.
[563] No, your franchises.
[564] I don't know the status of Subway as a whole, but does Subway taste good?
[565] Like, are there not just better sub options now?
[566] I've always been Pro Subway.
[567] My wife hates the smell of Subway.
[568] The bread.
[569] Just walking in there, she's like, she can't even do that.
[570] Where I've always been Pro Subway.
[571] Wait a minute.
[572] I thought the smell of bread is nice.
[573] Is it too many years of the bread?
[574] Not after 30 years, Dan.
[575] That bread wears on a man. Okay, let's put it on the poll.
[576] At Lebitard show.
[577] At Levitard show, do you like the smell of bread in Subway?
[578] Because I would just say the smell of Subway.
[579] Yeah, but everything's getting recal.
[580] I have no idea what's one anymore.
[581] Everything's getting recalled.
[582] I don't know if Boershead is good.
[583] It's all disaster.
[584] Everything's getting recalled.
[585] It seems like everything's getting recalled.
[586] Can I just take it back for a second?
[587] I thought the smell of bread was universally.
[588] Good information, Stugats.
[589] I appreciate you.
[590] Boers, that is dangerous right now.
[591] I appreciate it.
[592] Maybe that's why the subway close was recalled.
[593] Monkeypox, yes.
[594] Can you guys not agree?
[595] I thought we can agree on one thing in America at this time that we're all divided.
[596] And it's that the smell of fresh bread is something that we all like.
[597] You're right.
[598] You're thinking of a different smell.
[599] Now, maybe this is not fresh bread at subway.
[600] No, there's a subway smell.
[601] It's not a bread smell.
[602] It's just a subway smell.
[603] But it's the smell of bread.
[604] No. It's the smell of the bread, but the bread smells like plastic bread.
[605] That's right.
[606] But Dan is saying when you walk in.
[607] It's like a bread candle.
[608] In the morning, you wake up, you walk into a bakery.
[609] It smells fantastic, right?
[610] Subway is not a bakery.
[611] It smells like subway.
[612] I get it.
[613] It's a different thing.
[614] It just doesn't smell like the same.
[615] Like you walk into a really good bakery and you know that that bread was made that morning.
[616] Right.
[617] Where the subway bread, I don't know that I trust that necessarily.
[618] No, when I was a kid, the subway bread, smell was a magical smell.
[619] Right.
[620] Yeah.
[621] It was the smell of I'm about to eat the biggest fucking sub I've ever seen in my life.
[622] You just got to layer on the meat and the cheese and the sport peppers.
[623] You got to stay strong with your beliefs.
[624] If you love Subway, then if an article comes out saying their tuna doesn't have actual tuna in it, you say, screw that and you go to next day and you order a tuna sandwich like I did.
[625] I love Subway and all the athletes that represent Subway that we booked through the years through Subway.
[626] God bless Subway.
[627] You guys are really shaming Subway.
[628] It's one of the, it has been, in the history of fast food, okay, it has been a somewhat healthy alternative at an affordable price.
[629] It is, America has spoken on this.
[630] Now, you guys...
[631] They got you with the healthy alternative.
[632] I love Subway.
[633] It's so healthy.
[634] I said a somewhat healthy alternative compared to, look, a turkey sandwich is a little healthier than a bacon, a cheeseburger.
[635] Huh.
[636] And French fries, I would assume.
[637] You could get a salad at Subway.
[638] It is, most fast food is crappier health -wise than Subway.
[639] You think I'm saying something controversial there?
[640] I'll take a 12 -inch steak and cheese, extra meat, please.
[641] I get that sweet onion chicken terriaki and just pour that terriacchi sauce on top of that chicken that's been sitting there for 14 hours unwrapped.
[642] Chris, with extra mayo, but the light blue mayo.
[643] You think you get a foot long floor or a pasta until August 27th for just 649 each?
[644] Crazy.
[645] Subway, eat fresh.
[646] You know what?
[647] Maybe I just associate Subway with the last time I had Subway, which was when I was dating this guy that used to eat meatball subs with mayonnaise on it.
[648] Oh, terrible.
[649] Yeah, the problem is you hate the guy and you're blaming Subway for that.
[650] I don't hate the guy.
[651] I just think he's disgusting.
[652] No, it's so bad.
[653] You guys are doing this and their app?
[654] You guys are showing your sub -elitist streak.
[655] You guys, this is affordable fast food, and you guys are judging from on high all your gluten -free tower.
[656] Last time I had Subway, my friend Josh Allen gave me a churro from there.
[657] And a foot -long cookie.
[658] Delicious.
[659] So good.
[660] Oh, the cookies?
[661] Come on.
[662] They're amazing.
[663] I like Jersey Mikes because the Jersey Mike CEO comes on TV and talks to me during football games every year.
[664] That guy's always on TV.
[665] He's so relatable.
[666] Just a random guy.
[667] I like that they didn't even try to hire an actor.
[668] They're like, this guy's Jersey Mike.
[669] You believe us, right?
[670] Because he looks like he's Jersey Mike.
[671] And I'm like, you're right.
[672] If I walk into a subway and I get a turkey sub.
[673] Pepper and Sini Peppers, and I leave for $5.
[674] I've gotten a great value.
[675] I will not have you guys blaspheme against this because you don't like a smell from nine years ago.
[676] Firehouse subs?
[677] Thank you for your service.
[678] I'm not saying that all the subs aren't better than this, but this is affordable.
[679] Dan's right.
[680] It is.
[681] It's affordable and it's decent.
[682] I mean, it is.
[683] You bring your million dollar bill into Subway so they can break it for a $5 footlong?
[684] Is the $5 foot long still $5?
[685] No, that hasn't been a case since about 1982.
[686] It's a monthly mortgage pay.
[687] It's a good jingle it was, though.
[688] You guys are trying to tell me that Subway's not healthier than the average fast food chain, while Stugats last week was arguing on behalf of Long John Silver and it's fried fish down your gullet.
[689] And there was that guy, Jared.
[690] He was so likable.
[691] What happened to him?
[692] $5.
[693] Oh, come on.
[694] Come on.
[695] I think Jeremy knows what happened.
[696] I think he's setting you up, Dan.
[697] Come on.
[698] Jeremy's trying to trick you, Dan.
[699] Come on.
[700] The chick of deriagi is really good, though.
[701] Oh, it's delicious.
[702] Come on.
[703] Lost so much weight eating subway.
[704] It was amazing.
[705] Just get out of here.
[706] We've got a penalty, five minutes.
[707] Major asshole.