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[18] Happy Friday, everybody.
[19] It is the Dan Levitard show with Stugats with, without Dan or Stugats.
[20] I'm Mike.
[21] And it is Olympic opening ceremony day.
[22] And this is actually pretty exciting because when you think about it, this is the first one of these in quite a while for us to experience.
[23] You kind of forget that there were athletes that worked their asses off and had an entire Olympics canceled.
[24] And for some athletes, that was their window.
[25] So maybe think about that.
[26] It's a bit of a buzzkill when you watch today's opening ceremonies in which there was a field hockey player I saw that cut off a part.
[27] of his finger he had a part of his finger amputated because if it stayed on it would have prevented him from playing in the olympics so he's just like no chop that off ronnie lot style put in a bowl of chili and then sue said like uh who did that some person did that yeah all right so it's the olympic opening ceremony watch mystery crate you'll find out more i uh i have been watching mystery crate so in my office where i had my ps5 i've been playing like most people my age, had been really playing CFB 25 a lot.
[28] And the default channel on that TV is DKN.
[29] So when I'm done playing the game, automatically, Traffking's Network pops up on the TV.
[30] And throughout the weekends, they re -air Mystery Crate a lot.
[31] And I do love the recent trend of Mystery Crate existing as if Mike never listens to it.
[32] Like, that's apparently very clear, like mystery crate is talk about Mike as if he's never going to know what is happening on this show.
[33] We talk about a lot of people.
[34] Yeah, that's generally the whole idea.
[35] We like the idea of no one listening.
[36] No one's listening to this.
[37] Well, when we did play back a clip from mystery crate one time, you did not enjoy it.
[38] I'm not going to say that I listen every episode, but now because of CFB 25, I'm able to follow along.
[39] So I saw last week's episode in which it was revealed that I spoiled a surprise baby shower.
[40] Well, We blame, I mean, we were not blaming you for that, though.
[41] You honestly were too hard on my question.
[42] So here's the deal for the people that didn't listen to Mystery Crate.
[43] There was a surprise baby shower.
[44] The whole office was alerted to it with a text message that said in big, bold letters, surprise.
[45] So I had kind of, I guess I'm making excuses, but I had a lot of text, and I just basically prioritized the link.
[46] So I got a present for a friend that was having the baby shower.
[47] and that's kind of the last I thought of it.
[48] And then it was the day of, and I remembered, oh, I have a haircut appointment.
[49] Now, could I have canceled a haircut appointment and prioritize the baby shower?
[50] Yeah.
[51] But the baby shower was at 2 .45.
[52] Got to make it 1 p .m. I'm just hanging around the office for 90 minutes.
[53] I could be doing so much in that time.
[54] I could be getting a haircut, for example.
[55] So I wanted to explain to the person that, hey, I'm not going to make this.
[56] and I was unsure this is whether or not it was a surprise.
[57] Now, this is 100 % my mistake.
[58] I could have just gone back to the text message and I just decided to ask someone in the office, Mike Fuentes, hey, I'm like 99 % sure this isn't a surprise, but can you confirm that for me?
[59] And he's like, I'm like 100 % sure.
[60] And that's fine.
[61] I asked somebody else.
[62] I thought enough to ask somebody else.
[63] I should have thought enough to just check the original text message or ask somebody different.
[64] but it's not Fuentes' fault, it's mine.
[65] But then there was an entire Mystery Crate episode dedicated to it, talking about me and ways that weren't flattering, and I just was uneasy.
[66] It was no one else's fault but mine.
[67] Big man. Big man. All right, I've got to admit that when you're wrong.
[68] So what's on Mystery Crate this week for the people?
[69] Boom!
[70] Boom!
[71] Boom!
[72] Boom!
[73] We bring the boom to you!
[74] Oh, those guys!
[75] We bring the boom!
[76] We got them!
[77] No, I'm kidding.
[78] We just talk about them.
[79] They did a video with Tua.
[80] Yeah.
[81] We got Greg, though.
[82] Yeah, we have Greg on the second half of Mystery Crate this week.
[83] But, yeah, we're kind of obsessed with Big A .J. And what is it?
[84] Well, AJ and Big Justice.
[85] Maybe I'll get around to watching Mystery Crate.
[86] Although I am into the Olympics, and I'm going to be watching the opening ceremonies today because they're doing it on the river.
[87] This is the first time they've done this parade of athletes on a body of water.
[88] It's a boat parade.
[89] Coco and LeBron are flag bearers for our nation, correct?
[90] So I'm excited about this.
[91] It's happening at 1 .30 for the live version.
[92] I'm going to catch a live version, but this is a bit awkward for some folks in that I've been watching the Olympics for a good three days now.
[93] And I had noticed on the TVs that the rugby seven quarterfinals were going on.
[94] So we're going to have a situation which like semifinals are set.
[95] Can you imagine if you're one of these countries that was just eliminated in the quarterfinals?
[96] New Zealand just got eliminated, like obviously a very good nation in rugby.
[97] And they're like, there's this whole ceremony.
[98] are like, and now the games can begin.
[99] And now New Zealand's rugby team, and they're all sad.
[100] So what are we watching for today?
[101] Because we've known from previous opening ceremonies, there's the possibility for viral moments.
[102] There was the oiled up flag bearer from like eight years ago.
[103] Some people just love the production aspects.
[104] I remember the Beijing opening ceremonies were kind of awe -inspiring.
[105] So what is everybody looking out for today?
[106] Am I the only person that is in on this?
[107] I just got a text from my wife.
[108] Like, are we recording the opening ceremonies?
[109] Are we watching it live?
[110] I'm into this.
[111] My wife is working from home today to watch this.
[112] I'm going home after this.
[113] We're going to watch the ceremonies.
[114] Yes.
[115] And I am super excited about it.
[116] I'm a little skeptical of this boat thing, though.
[117] I like 3 ,000 people sauntering into a stadium.
[118] Okay, that's more my speed.
[119] You like watching people walk around a track.
[120] That's what I like.
[121] It is interesting.
[122] Like you said, there's, I think, 94 boats and 10 ,000 athletes.
[123] And they're all going down the Sen. And they're passing all of these, like, famous French landmarks, and then they're going to end up right by the Eiffel Tower at the end.
[124] And I read, we talked yesterday about how the dancers were going on strike.
[125] I read this morning, they reached an agreement.
[126] The dancers will be there.
[127] Dojed a bullet.
[128] They made an agreement with the dancers union.
[129] So I'm very excited for this.
[130] I agree with Chris.
[131] I do actually, in all earnestness, like watching them kind of walk around because you get a good view of all the different fits, which I think is like the highlight of the opening ceremony.
[132] Yeah, with a boat, it's going to be hard.
[133] Are these like pontoons?
[134] Am I going to be able to see, like, head to toe?
[135] I need someone to just do a twirl for me. That's what I'm saying.
[136] Does everyone just do a twirl, and we'll be good?
[137] Well, who's calling the opening ceremonies?
[138] Gotta be Tereco.
[139] I know he's going to be hosting the 7 .30, like, prime time re -air of it.
[140] But I don't know who's doing the one.
[141] It's like five hours long.
[142] What does Snoop Dog do?
[143] What does he have to do with the Olympics?
[144] He's one of the torchbearers.
[145] Yeah, but he was, like, doing stuff with Hoda.
[146] I think they're also a part of this.
[147] I don't know.
[148] I think someone saw the idea.
[149] of like snoop dog calling stuff and then we're like let's implement that somehow but we already have an olympic scandal before the opening ceremonies that we have to get to now calling it an Olympic scandal isn't necessarily on the up and up because this is a a Canadian soccer scandal that apparently dates back years but it is a tale of espionage billy are you aware that the Canadian soccer teams both men and women they've been using drones to spy on their opponents for apparently years now.
[150] I didn't know it was years I was made aware of this with the internet and the Olympics kicking the coach out of the Olympics.
[151] I guess Canada suspended the coach and then the Olympics just like remove the coach.
[152] So I'm not sure.
[153] Drones are involved and they were spying on New Zealand, I believe.
[154] Was it the, was it the Federation or the Olympics that kicked the women's national team manager?
[155] I think they sent her home.
[156] Like the team or the Federation sent her home, but I'm not 100 % sure.
[157] I know like right after the scandal.
[158] broke two assistants were sent home and it seemed like maybe they were trying to preempt like a bigger punishment by being like all right we got them out of here but then as more reporting came out that this is something that has been going on prior to these Olympic games and in fact may go back through several Olympic cycles it obviously appeared like it was a much much bigger issue and so Canada played the women's team played New Zealand yesterday they won two to one and they're the defending gold medalists they beat the US in the last Olympics so this is a This is a very, very big scandal because Canada tends to do very well at the Olympics, and there are, I think, maybe the eighth highest ranked team in women's soccer.
[159] I can't remember off the top of my head what their ranking is, but they're good.
[160] They're a very good team.
[161] Don't get too excited about that win because they might have them come back on and play the final three minutes, like tomorrow.
[162] We're going to get to that briefly.
[163] We didn't talk about that.
[164] We didn't talk about that on main shows.
[165] We got to talk about that.
[166] Jeremy, who made the call?
[167] The Canadian Olympic Committee made that call to remove her.
[168] So it was their decision, not the general Olympic committee.
[169] This is more of a soccer scandal than anything.
[170] Maybe the fact that there is an Olympic Federation involved, they have some more sway.
[171] This is a terrible distraction for everything.
[172] There is an American that is managing the men's national team, and he has been, since he got that job, doing it from a high horse, taking all sorts of shots at the U .S. soccer federation.
[173] And I wonder, he's going to be asked.
[174] Now, he's a relatively new hire, but he's going to be asked how much he knew about this, because this has been a practice that has been going on for both allegedly, men's and women's national team programs for quite a while.
[175] So I'm curious to know what Jesse Marsh says.
[176] But soccer always has these bonkers scandals around it.
[177] But even in the world of soccer, I saw something so shady and sicko that I'd never seen before.
[178] And that is saying a lot because I watch Conca Cap Champions League folks.
[179] Like I've got fanates.
[180] Like I am all over the place.
[181] I know League of Mekis.
[182] I know all the Comne Ball.
[183] domestic leagues, and I had seen something that I never saw in my entire life, and that was the Olympic soccer game between Argentina and Morocco.
[184] I never bet on soccer.
[185] This is going on.
[186] It was at 9 a .m. a couple of days ago, Morocco goes up to zero over Argentina, which, as you know, most dangerous lead in sports.
[187] Argentina Clause gets one back, and then, for whatever reason, for reasons that are still unclear to me, there was like 16 minutes of sobbing.
[188] time added to this game.
[189] In the middle of all of this, Chris Cody, when it was 2 -1, you placed a live wager on Argentina to equalize and for the game to end in a drop.
[190] Plus 240.
[191] I was like, you know what?
[192] I got a feeling here.
[193] Argentina is going to bring it back.
[194] And then we get to extra time, stoppage time.
[195] And it's like, 11 minutes in.
[196] And I'm like, okay, I lose.
[197] What a bad bet.
[198] It was a great game.
[199] Everyone around here knew I had the bet.
[200] They're like, Chris, they scored.
[201] And then I'm going crazy.
[202] And I'm celebrating high and five people.
[203] And then three hours later, they're like, we're going to play these final three minutes over again.
[204] Yeah, so let me get to, apparently, I was unsure if they even had VAR for soccer in the Olympics.
[205] And I learned that they did by them, as Chris mentioned, bringing both teams back to the pitch because an hour and 15 minutes after the final whistle blew, the official said, actually, that equalizing goal was offside.
[206] That is, I think it stands a reason to say that is far too long.
[207] And at that point, we've all seen bad calls in soccer.
[208] you just kind of live with it, but they demanded that the teams return to the pitch, and they added three minutes for Argentina to get an equalizer goal that for Chris's money had already cashed.
[209] And so money goes out of his account.
[210] The game ends to one Morocco wins.
[211] I had never, ever seen anything like that before.
[212] And I thought that is going to be the soccer scandal for the Olympics.
[213] Nope.
[214] Here comes the Canadian and men's women's national team, which, As Jess alluded to, Canada's really good on the women's side.
[215] And on the men's side, they went a hell of a lot further than the U .S. team did in Copa America.
[216] They were semi -finalists.
[217] They played in that third place game.
[218] So this is a bad look for a team that's all of a sudden gotten really good.
[219] And so you start asking yourself, you know, wind horse fingers, why is that?
[220] Could it be espionage?
[221] So we have that to look forward to.
[222] We've got fits to look forward to.
[223] We've got teams, several nations that have long since been eliminated having to walk an opening ceremony.
[224] It's grand opening, grand closing for them.
[225] I'm super in on the Olympics.
[226] The app in particular, this is not a paid endorsement.
[227] The app is incredible.
[228] If you want to follow along, because many people are excited, this is a first summer Olympics in quite some time that we can get behind and it's a normal, well, it's a manageable time difference.
[229] You can follow along on that app and see.
[230] literally every event get alerts on them and you can find out peacocks doing a tremendous job with their coverage so i'm really in on that there's quite a few shooting events going on today right before some people are getting some shots in before before the opening ceremony so i am super in on this when do like when do the real Olympic event starts and i say that and i know it's coded and people are going to be piss off about that but the track and field the swimming the gymnastics the people that become superstars because of this event, that's usually later on, right?
[231] Well, for me, it starts when the U .S. Women's National Team plays.
[232] I know that's not what you meant, but that feels like the official, like the U .S. Women's National Team has a lot of pressure to do well in this tournament.
[233] And so that's been something that I've been looking forward to seeing in this Olympics how they're going to play under their new manager, Emma Hayes.
[234] And so far, so good.
[235] They beat Zambia yesterday, 3 -0.
[236] That was kind of disappointing, actually.
[237] Well, okay, so let's talk about it.
[238] So the first half, I thought, they started out missing a lot of chances, which has kind of been their story over the last several games, maybe spanning even into last year.
[239] But they were quality chances, and then they ended up scoring three goals in pretty quick succession.
[240] Then Zambia had a player get a red card, so they were playing down a man. And in the second half, the U .S. subbed off a few other striker.
[241] Sophia Smith came out with an injury.
[242] Hopefully she's okay.
[243] You look bad.
[244] I don't know.
[245] You never know with soccer players.
[246] But how did they not score again?
[247] But I thought like.
[248] Someone that had the minus four.
[249] Now I see where you're coming from.
[250] I thought it was fine.
[251] Like I really did think that like there's probably some takeaways and some lessons you can learn going into the next game.
[252] But like that was the result that they wanted.
[253] They want to be able to finish those chances.
[254] And they did.
[255] Like Mallory Swanson had two goals in the span of 70 seconds.
[256] I don't know what more you can ask for from her.
[257] It was odd.
[258] They played really well for about 17 minutes and exceptionally well for like a seven -minute stretch.
[259] And then they had a player advantage.
[260] And they just decided, no, Mike's good.
[261] We'll win this game by three.
[262] And I could have used more.
[263] I'm sorry they didn't give you the extra goal.
[264] Thank you for apologizing.
[265] I am sorry about that.
[266] I am super excited, though, about Emma Hayes.
[267] I think they knocked that higher out of the park.
[268] It is the top tier higher that I wanted to run that program.
[269] And they did that.
[270] And I only hope that on the men's side, which has gone quiet a little bit.
[271] I hope that the men's side can do something, maybe not equally as impressive, because I don't think you can go to the very cream of the crop on the men's side, but do something that will impress.
[272] I'm looking here at the overall schedule and when we can start seeing some metals dished out, swimming gets going tomorrow.
[273] Tomorrow and from tomorrow, the next like nine days is like all of swimming.
[274] We got judo starts tomorrow.
[275] We got some fencing starts tomorrow, diving, cycling road.
[276] So there's some...
[277] I love diving.
[278] Diving is...
[279] Crazy.
[280] When you see like the POV angle of how high up they are when they're doing it, that one, like, baffles me. That is one sport where I, if you put just your average Joe in there, they are going to hurt themselves immediately.
[281] They are going to belly flop so hard and injure themselves.
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[292] Don Lebertard.
[293] I think I'd like to know when I'm going to die because I sort of romanticize the idea of living like you were dying when you're on a countdown clock.
[294] Imagine all the life experiences.
[295] Like, I could go skydiving or Rocky Mountain climbing.
[296] Stugats.
[297] Roy brings up a point, though.
[298] Roy does bring up a point.
[299] Like, you might be risking paralysis.
[300] I just totally trample my bit.
[301] Just totally trample my bit.
[302] But, Mike, what if God forbid it says you're going to die in a week?
[303] What if it says a week, though?
[304] Like, or two days or a month?
[305] I don't want to know that.
[306] Well, then you just love deeper and speak sweeter and give forgiveness as those that you've been denying.
[307] Someday, I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying.
[308] Do you have more or is that it?
[309] No, thank you guys for let me go through that smoothly.
[310] This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats.
[311] So, we'll transition out of Olympics, but you can tell, most of us are excited.
[312] Most of us like the big Olympic scandals and we like the fashion and all that.
[313] Breaking, you're going to have to wait until August 9th and 10th for break dancing.
[314] For meddling, at least, in those categories.
[315] All right.
[316] Well, we have that to look forward to, and Dan will inform us because he has that beat.
[317] We need Roy to pick his sports.
[318] I think Jess, did you lock down years?
[319] We traded for beach volleyball, if I recall.
[320] I picked boxing and field hockey.
[321] Boxing is always a great...
[322] I don't know how they do it.
[323] Those boxers just like, yeah, it takes...
[324] Professional fighters go...
[325] I know that they don't have the head gear.
[326] But it takes them like, all right, we'll have a fight, and then I need several months to recover.
[327] Boxing is just like, yeah, just...
[328] I'll have seven matches in like four days.
[329] Let's do it.
[330] I'm curious to know your report.
[331] reporting on that front.
[332] Wait, who did you pick, Roy?
[333] Boxing and field hockey.
[334] Oh, okay.
[335] So tell us about the amputation.
[336] Apparently it was an Australian player, and instead of like an uncertain recovery, he was like, yeah, just cut it off.
[337] Cut it off.
[338] I think under his first knuckle.
[339] Do you have anything to add to that report?
[340] Well, you heard it here first on the Dan Lovittal show, which you got an Olympic coverage.
[341] You heard it somewhere else first, and then we said it's second.
[342] Well, you heard it here second, maybe even third.
[343] Who knows?
[344] Put him some calls.
[345] Chase that story.
[346] You did say something to me before the show that I want to talk about a little bit because we're seeing all these players and just did you see the b r's open ice account did a caliposo video caliposo this veteran islanders legend savers legend at the end of his career finally wins a cup with the uh florida panthers as like a fourth liner cool story he revealed that um he watched a batman franchise kind of like you know how missoula watches the town every day He watched a Batman movie every day for each round he was in.
[347] So for the first round, he watched the 1989 version of Batman.
[348] Then for the second round, he watched Batman Begins.
[349] Then for the third round, he watched Dark Night.
[350] So this was like, as a little treat?
[351] No, it was like, it was a theme for him, especially with the Dark Night Rises.
[352] And not just because he said, I'm not wearing hockey pads.
[353] That's not the scene that he was talking about.
[354] A good one minute fake.
[355] But his body had been broken.
[356] over time and dark night rises was like the theme for the very end of it but the video was put out on recorded around his day with the cup and this is like a traditional sports radio topic but right before we went live roy was genuinely curious what would you do with the cup if you had a day with the cup and i want to go around the horn and find out what everybody would do with the cup because this is the first time any of us had ever had to consider this so roy what would you do with the cup.
[357] I'll do one of those TikTok videos where you're mixing all the alcohol in it and then finally you put it ever clear in.
[358] We're going to have a party.
[359] It's funny because the way that it started, I thought you were just going to do a dance around it.
[360] Me too.
[361] I don't dance.
[362] No, you're like one of the TikTok bartenders.
[363] Like you're making like a concoction.
[364] Yep, exactly.
[365] You don't ever dance?
[366] No, I don't dance.
[367] Why?
[368] Not at weddings?
[369] I'm not a dancer.
[370] Pretty sure at my wedding at one point you were on the outskirts and like with your wife just like, well, I was dragged into that one.
[371] Yeah, I'm married.
[372] Were you swaying your hips?
[373] There was no hip swaying, no. So you would just drink?
[374] Yes.
[375] You wouldn't take it anywhere.
[376] You would just keep it at your house and you would just...
[377] He would make content with it.
[378] Isn't that the answer that you want?
[379] Well, I don't think he's actually making a TikTok.
[380] I think he's just doing it.
[381] No, I'm doing it for myself.
[382] Yeah.
[383] All right.
[384] Chris, what would you do with the cup?
[385] I would copy everything Matthew Kachuk did.
[386] I would just take it to the Atlantic Ocean.
[387] I'd go to elbow room.
[388] I'd want to take a nap with it.
[389] Just like a good old fashioned nap.
[390] He took it to schools, fire departments, police departments.
[391] I do hate the ocean.
[392] But, you know, it would just be cool.
[393] Exceptions can be made.
[394] Yeah, I would definitely drink out of it.
[395] That sounds like someone else's idea.
[396] An ice cream Sunday.
[397] An ice cream Sunday.
[398] I'd get an ice cream Sunday in there at some point.
[399] What do you want to do with the coffee?
[400] That one's my idea.
[401] Skip the beach.
[402] He's barbecue in that thing.
[403] Did you guys see Luongo when he got the cup?
[404] Which I don't understand why he got the cup before a bunch of players, but that's a whole other story.
[405] This was like after they had won it.
[406] Like, he's going to have an assigned day with it.
[407] He shouldn't.
[408] That dinner seemed like it was like a front office dinner.
[409] That Italian spot where I think that was like the entire front office There was a thing where he was eating pasta out of it He looked grossed out by it Well but if you if you find the picture and put up the picture It was fake like there was a bowl inside of it He was eating out of a bowl Yeah no I don't like that Oh yeah that was that was bullshit because you should have to scrub That marinara sauce stain outside of the inside of the cup Like the rest of us do with our so when Roy is making a drink He's making a drink inside of a bowl inside of the cup Like what is that who cares They often have like plastic wrapping too It's just like a fancy kind of Labra.
[410] Like, who gives a shit?
[411] Oh, good work.
[412] Jesus Christ, so dismissive.
[413] What the hell, man?
[414] Dirty the cup.
[415] Put it in the cup.
[416] I was going to ask you.
[417] Put the ice cream and the banana split.
[418] In the cup.
[419] Exactly right.
[420] What else?
[421] Peanuts.
[422] If no, let me, I'll do that.
[423] Wait, Billy, you wouldn't actually want that.
[424] There have been babies baptized in that thing.
[425] Well, were they actually or were they baptized in something inside the cup?
[426] Like, that's the thing.
[427] Now this is like a whole, this isn't real.
[428] We're not actually doing things with the cup.
[429] The cup is just like, you know, wrapping for what we're doing.
[430] Well, we're on the subject.
[431] Do we even think.
[432] that was the real cup.
[433] That's a good question, too.
[434] Because he was multiple cups.
[435] That one was the real one in that it had a bunch of dents.
[436] We have this video here.
[437] We're looking here.
[438] If you watch him when he finally eats it, he eats like one piece of pasta.
[439] He's like gross.
[440] I'm telling you though, he's grossy.
[441] You see the bowl?
[442] The hidden bowl.
[443] There's too...
[444] Watch this little bite that he takes here.
[445] He like, he bites like one noodle off the fork.
[446] Well, he also can't, he also has to say, no matter what.
[447] He like, he like barely bites it.
[448] He did the thing where he like put the fork in his mouth, but then he spit out the rest of it.
[449] Oh, it was hot.
[450] He ate this, like, he was an actor who had to do, like, 12 takes.
[451] I've ever seen in a movie, they take, like, really small bites?
[452] Roy called it.
[453] Dude, there is so much steam coming out of that pasta, and he just realized, like, shit.
[454] Well, I'm not going to make this, this person holding the cell phone weight.
[455] I blow on it a little.
[456] That's not cool for content.
[457] A little.
[458] The hesitation that you see is, like, I'm going to burn my entire mouth.
[459] There's nothing uncool about the -hockey player.
[460] Exactly right.
[461] He's been through worse.
[462] He wears a mask.
[463] Tony, what would you do?
[464] with the cup?
[465] Obviously you guys know the grand importance of the cup for me, specifically.
[466] I've seen a bunch of other people with their Tony Colabo shirts, and I was told since I like to wear double XLs that that's an issue.
[467] I saw Big Show wearing one.
[468] Yeah, he's got one.
[469] Yeah, where's my double XL?
[470] I got you.
[471] You keep saying that, but I...
[472] You have to pay him.
[473] You have to pay him $45.
[474] I gave him the plug.
[475] I'm not paying for this shirt.
[476] He says...
[477] Well, no, you're paying for it.
[478] He keeps saying that, I got you.
[479] I got you.
[480] You don't have me. I'll drop you one off of the house today.
[481] How about that?
[482] Did you see they sent, they sent bars to a cease and desist on their shirts.
[483] You got to be careful, buddy.
[484] I told you.
[485] I said, don't play with fire and you said they aren't going to do anything to me. Just watch out.
[486] I'll be all right.
[487] I'll drop you on off at the house today.
[488] How about that?
[489] Okay, cool.
[490] He's getting one for free.
[491] You said everyone, you're making everyone else pay for them.
[492] I'm the plug.
[493] It's different.
[494] Yeah, but they make pennies compared to you and they have to pay.
[495] I'm the plug.
[496] I'm the plug.
[497] I'm the plug.
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[516] Don Lebatard.
[517] I mean, they used to call me Chris karaoke.
[518] Stugats.
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[522] I put my Memphis Tiger football program first.
[523] In life, I basically cleared out my calendar for a month because of this game.
[524] I'd been finessing it and preparing my family for it.
[525] And last night, I had an incredible night.
[526] It was almost better than release night, if you can imagine.
[527] It was our first off -season in CFB -25.
[528] Approximately nine coaches got together, and we hammered out our off -season recruiting.
[529] Signing day.
[530] No, all on a party.
[531] Like, remotely.
[532] Some people had PSPs for remote play.
[533] Like, it's hard with these dynasties.
[534] It's hard to get nine people on the same schedule.
[535] You're probably running into that with your thing.
[536] We have 25 people.
[537] in the league that we do with Charles McDonald, our buddy.
[538] And we just got to week zero.
[539] We're recruiting the hell out of the ball.
[540] LSU's coming out of the gates hot, by the way.
[541] But you're still in week zero.
[542] We're still in week zero, yeah.
[543] Right.
[544] I haven't played a game yet.
[545] I'm in year two.
[546] But part of the sacrifice that I'm making and doing this is I'm missing out on summer concert season.
[547] There were plenty of concerts down here that I saw videos of that wasn't a money thing.
[548] It was like I got to be there for my Memphis Tiger program and my fellow coaches.
[549] But Zach Bryan was in town.
[550] Those shows always look super fun.
[551] Missy Elliott, Buster Rhymes, Timbalin, were at a show together.
[552] And out of curiosity, I always checked the GameTime app to see what the prices would be because of that lowest price guarantee.
[553] And, man, I almost abandoned my Memphis Tigers football program because the prices were so damn good.
[554] And while I was confident that GameTime had the lowest price in the secondary ticket marketplace, even if there was a lower price out there, I have the low price guarantee with GameTime, where if there is a price out there that is lower game time will match it 110%.
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[558] Now that our good friends' business is out of the way.
[559] I want to go to another set of business with Jeremy Tashay.
[560] Can I jump in real fast?
[561] Did you see who was at the Zach Bryan concert?
[562] I saw Ekblad was there, I saw Matthew Kachuk was there, and I saw Carter Verhege was there.
[563] The photo that I saw, no one cared to tell Carter Verhagie that his fly was down.
[564] You know who else was there?
[565] Who else was there?
[566] Boom!
[567] Mystery crate.
[568] All right.
[569] Mystery, well, Tua was there too, because he was there with him.
[570] You like those guys.
[571] We love them.
[572] Can't stop watching them.
[573] The greatest of all time, probably, on the internet.
[574] Double chocolate chunk, chocolate chicken bake.
[575] Do you, uh...
[576] We bring the balls.
[577] Do you think it's already falling apart for Hock to a girl?
[578] She's like, come on.
[579] Kind of seems like there's a whole like sad economy to this.
[580] And Hock to a girl, like she, she waited two weeks to get the right representation.
[581] And she had like a formal rollout.
[582] She did that Barstle interview.
[583] She appeared at a Zach Bryan show.
[584] But it was almost as if like, yeah, the two weeks that you were trying to really maximize your monetization for this.
[585] Like that's actually when you should have shrug.
[586] And then people are hearing interviews with her and they're realizing, oh, there's, she just said that really funny thing that one time like why are we asking her about politics she just a normal person and it's not she seems lovely by the way but it's it's not the fact that she is it's not going the way that maybe she thought it has nothing to do with her it has everything to do with us like we made her convinced that there was an economy around this and I understand why she got agents 10 years ago she would have been on Ellen I'm just saying Ellen's There is Ellen could have helped launch batter Like that Viral fame has has The window has gotten even smaller I think That was the chain Of more people But the window's smaller That was a chain of events In that you go viral And then you go to Ellen And then there's no step two There's no step two For Hawk to a girl So do you think that the Boom guys Have a more sustainable fame Than Hawk to it Because they at least put out New videos Like what does hock to a girl going to do for her second act?
[587] Yeah, they go around and taste restaurants, but they're always a boo!
[588] Oh, no. I just want to see, you got to work in some dooms or else, I know where you're going here.
[589] Well, remember, Big Justice has called out baby gronk in athletic feats.
[590] He's also with the Rizzler.
[591] There's a lot of stuff with Big Justice.
[592] All right, so I need meme culture.
[593] And he has his baseball career too.
[594] I need meme culture constantly explain to me because I'm aging out of this stuff and also, I got blinders on.
[595] My main focus is bringing the Memphis Tigers to prominence.
[596] So I bring in my resident young person, Jeremy Tashay, who tried this out a couple of days ago, and he put up like a TikTok video, and I was left kind of in bewilderment, wondering what was so entertaining about it.
[597] But apparently, I had seen it again after that, and I saw the numbers on it.
[598] The Kamala Harris remixing is doing Buku things, Buku numbers.
[599] I was just like, I don't get it, but maybe I'm at that age.
[600] But here's resident young person, Jeremy Tashay, to walk me through meme culture yet again.
[601] Jeremy, what are we tackling today?
[602] Well, today we're going to keep it going in the launch pad from the videos I introduced earlier in the week about Kamala Harris and Brat Suburston.
[603] Where does Big Justice play into this?
[604] Big Justice, unfortunately, doesn't play in yet, but I imagine a boom in the polls is what everyone will be looking for.
[605] I like your shirt, by the way.
[606] I like your general outfit.
[607] The tank top underneath the bowling shirt, that shit works.
[608] Thanks, man. I really appreciate that.
[609] Well, Kamala Harris, the big question was, is Kamala Harris Brat?
[610] And Charlie XEX confirmed it herself.
[611] Kamala Harris is Brat is what was tweeted.
[612] But he's not a whiteboard for the audio audience.
[613] There's a whiteboard.
[614] I'm connecting all these things together.
[615] He just circled Kamala Harris's name.
[616] You're telling me it's not Brat?
[617] It's Brat.
[618] I thought we were talking about brots this whole time.
[619] Brat Summer.
[620] Brat summer.
[621] That's the key here.
[622] The boom guy should do Brat summer.
[623] Instead we guess he with an accent.
[624] Brats.
[625] Brats.
[626] Brat.
[627] Brat Summer for Charlie XEX is the theme.
[628] And what was happening originally is Gen Z was creating these memes all on their own.
[629] My general concern is Kamala Harris and her campaign and all of the Democrats have kind of embraced this a little too much and started to create this content themselves.
[630] You got to leave it to the kids or else it will become corny.
[631] Should they call themselves demo brats for the election cycle?
[632] See, this is what I'm worried about.
[633] Please do not call yourselves Demabrats.
[634] That is going to be a problem.
[635] Let the kids do it themselves.
[636] But you have Kamala Harris is brat.
[637] You have Charlie XX.
[638] Now, the question with Charlie XX today is, will she be doing a remix with Chapel Rhone?
[639] That's sort of the rumor mill going on right now on social media.
[640] There's also meme culture going on around Kamala's campaign and the song Feminonomenon by Chapel Rhone calling it a Kamala nominon.
[641] And when you move over to the Republican side of things.
[642] That was very well done to not trip up on that.
[643] You have J .D. Vance.
[644] And the rumor around J .D. Vance is that he f*** the couch.
[645] Yeah, I saw that.
[646] I saw all these funny videos of him, like, lussing after a couch.
[647] I'm like, why does everybody think that J .D. Vance wants to see for this couch?
[648] So there was a tweet, I believe, on July 17th, that insinuated that in J .D. Vance's book, Hillbilly Elegy, there was a passage about his coming of age story in which he admits to having sex with a latex glove inside out between couch cushions when he was a younger person.
[649] That's the tweet.
[650] And that tweet went so viral that all over TikTok, there were people creating videos, romantic songs with images of J .D. Vance and then a leather couch.
[651] And then J .D. Vance and then a couch cushion.
[652] And that was sort of the general vibes.
[653] So it became so popular that the AP yesterday put out a story.
[654] No, J .D. Vance did not have sex with the couch.
[655] But that story was retracted, and they said they can neither confirm nor deny whether or not J .D. Vance had sex with a couch because they figured out that the original tweet wasn't true.
[656] So my question is, if this keeps going, will J .D. Vance have to say, no, I did not have sectional relations?
[657] will he say it was just a one nightstand or will he just say I'm so faking tired of this but he also has been going viral for saying that any woman that has not had a child in this country should not really be participating in politics he's had some really rough and just honestly scary rhetoric but he referred to them as childless cat ladies now I can think of a very important person in pop culture who is child childless and also a cat lady.
[658] That would be Taylor Swift.
[659] Now, we obviously know that Taylor Swift's public endorsement of Kamala Harris is going to be really important to get voters on the side of the Democrats to potentially even swing an election if she can motivate her voters.
[660] But the thing that no one's talking about then might cause some concern, the link between Charlie XX and Taylor Swift.
[661] Now, what is it?
[662] Charlie X, X, X, X, X, X, engaged to George Daniel, the drummer of the 1975.
[663] Who's the lead singer of the 1975?
[664] Well, that, ladies and gentlemen, Maddie Healy, Taylor Swift's controversial ex -boyfriend.
[665] So, will the bad blood between Taylor Swift and Maddie Healy potentially also cause bad blood between Charlie XX and Taylor Swift?
[666] And in turn, maybe leave the sour taste in the mouth of Taylor Swift regarding Kamala Harris, embracing Charlie XX.
[667] These are the questions we'll have to answer over the next few months in pop culture and meme culture.
[668] Okay, wait.
[669] So you're telling me we need to get Charlie XX to break up with her boyfriend to get Taylor Swift to endorse Kamala Harris to get the Swifties to register to vote and vote for Kamala Harris because then they'll have something in common.
[670] Or Charlie XX and Taylor Swift will need to work it out on the remix.
[671] That's really the only other option.
[672] I understood very little of that.
[673] You weren't supposed to.
[674] The only note is you got to end on the high note of sofa puns.
[675] It was really well done.
[676] Thanks.
[677] I really appreciate it.
[678] You lost Tony with the whole Brat, Bratworth thing?
[679] Yeah.
[680] So it's not Broughts?
[681] It's brats.
[682] Brat.
[683] I'm out.
[684] Yeah, I'm out.
[685] It wasn't for you.
[686] I enjoyed it.
[687] Jeremy, not only are you our meme culture correspondent, but you're also my personal baseball correspondent.
[688] So stay right there or come right in here.
[689] But I got more questions for you as we've got, my Mariners made a big trade.
[690] Flip the whiteboard, Jeremy.
[691] Yeah, flip the whiteboard or something because my mariner has made a big trade that I'm excited about.
[692] So the Mariners are like, it's a weird combination of maybe arguably greatest pitching staff of the modern era, but also just terrible bats.
[693] And they needed to do something.
[694] And they brought in a player yesterday whose name, not only did I know, but I've known for a couple of years.
[695] And my Mariners group chat was on fire.
[696] There were four texts that I woke up to this morning and that bad boy, lower volume than some of the other ones.
[697] Jeremy, what can you tell us about the big trade yesterday and what big trades might be around the corner as we are approaching the MLB trade deadline?
[698] Yeah, there's a few big moves that have already been made.
[699] You just mentioned, Randy a Rosarena, from the Tampa Bay raise to the Seattle Mariners, desperate for a bat.
[700] And if you look at a Rosarena's numbers this year, they don't look all that impressive.
[701] He's only hitting 213 as a batting average.
[702] His OPS is not that high.
[703] But since June 1st, his OPS is over 900, and I think he has seven homers.
[704] and nine stolen bases in that span.
[705] He's also, I believe, got the third highest playoff OPS of any hitter ever behind Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in the history of Major League Baseball.
[706] So he's a major postseason performer.
[707] The Mariners are desperate for bats.
[708] It seems like a really good move for them.
[709] They gave up a pitcher that they really liked in their farm system.
[710] But you mentioned their pitching is young and their pitching is deep.
[711] They were linked to Jazz Chisholm a little bit.
[712] They were.
[713] This would kind of maybe take them out of that.
[714] Well, the Jazz Chisholm stuff is really interesting because the national media reports around jazz have kind of been using what feels like some coded language.
[715] In baseball?
[716] Yeah, shocker, right?
[717] But jazz, the Yankees apparently are not interested in jazz because he has a strong personality.
[718] And there was another report that says he's too focused on his brand.
[719] And then there was another report, I believe it was from Jeff Passon, that said, not just that.
[720] the fears about his ability to stay healthy, but his brashness have turned off some teams.
[721] And it's really confusing because - I understand the coded language, but I think the brashness stuff around jazz, I think he would admit that he's brash and he doesn't really care about that.
[722] But that's also not a problem in a Major League clubhouse.
[723] Look, the Marlins had - Well, it's reportedly been a problem before.
[724] Well, it was a problem with like three players on a team that was bad, and most of that team took his side when that breakup happened.
[725] Billy, are you ready to break up?
[726] with jazz.
[727] I mean, I'd also say this team is worse than that team, as it stands right now.
[728] Which is why they should make a move.
[729] The Marlins made a trade yesterday.
[730] Yeah, that that trade was AJ Puck for, I believe his name is Davison de los Santos and Andrew Pintar.
[731] And Delos Santos leads the minor leagues in home runs with 28.
[732] He has an OPS over a thousand.
[733] He's 21 years old, and he's done that between AA and AAA.
[734] He's instantly the Marlins best hitting prospect.
[735] So feels like a really good move for AJ.
[736] puck and they still have Tanner Scott and other relievers that they can move as well.
[737] Real quick, briefly, where are you on this?
[738] It's very clearly a rebuild.
[739] There's nothing that you can do to stop it.
[740] What are you just hoping for here, Billy?
[741] I'm kind of disappointed the way the whole jazz thing has played out because I assume that what the Marlins will get in exchange for jazz is not going to be anything comparable to Zach Gallen, which is the way, unfortunately, you have to kind of judge this is you traded a guy that ends up being a all -star pitch.
[742] for Jazz, who at the moment hasn't lived up to expectations that we had for him, or maybe he even has for him.
[743] He definitely didn't shy away from those.
[744] His expectations for himself, I think, are higher than the fan's expectations are for him, right?
[745] And he hasn't lived up to that.
[746] And it seems as though the market for him is not going to be as plentiful or bountiful as you were hoping that it might be.
[747] So you're kind of taking a loss on this one, which seems to be a theme.
[748] Petulation station for the Miami Moreland.
[749] That's the part that's like interesting about how the national media has been reporting this, right?
[750] Because you have all these different leaks that suggest all these different things about personality and you wonder if the market would be bigger if those things weren't there or if they're sort of trying to suppress value because look, he's been good as of late he's been really good as of late.
[751] Not that that necessarily is going to change things.
[752] But you may find a desperate team that now over the page is like, oh, he's getting hot at the right time.
[753] The Mariners would have been that desperate team.
[754] said they picked a Rosa Rana.
[755] That also might be about the package.
[756] There's still a couple days, right?
[757] Someone may get desperate, and then you may get a better deal than you're anticipating.
[758] But also, like, this is a big time if you're a Marlins fan in kind of seeing what Bendix can do, right?
[759] Because the Arias trade, they told us was the best option out there at the time, and that didn't seem to be a great haul.
[760] One of the players isn't even with the organization anymore, so we'll see what they do at this deadline.
[761] Wait, Jeremy.
[762] Layout for Chris to finally fire off this sound Because Chris in timing with sound Has been a bit of an adventure Since he started sitting in that chair Who did the Mariners acquire?
[763] There's a guy who hits his name Randy a Rosarena Every time he takes a swing, it is a thing It's Cozabuea.
[764] Run and run the bases He's as fast as a hyena A Rosarena I!
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