The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: It's Largely Performative

Episode Date: July 2, 2024

Amin is passionate about Brazil soccer and breaks down how the pressure of the fan base can impact the team's performance. Also, JuJu wants to close the loop on an earlier take and Billy was flustered by a soccer take of his having an impact around soccer media. Then, did you root AGAINST the United States last night? Plus, the Cesta Cyclones are set to undergo a change in the front office. And have you ever raw dogged a flight? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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So the media landscapes really let me down in terms of really riling the base up and getting Greg Berhalter out of here. As I mentioned earlier, the United States Soccer Federation did come out and say that they're going be taking inventory of things and see and where they go from here but there is a pretty huge soccer game that does not feature the US. Amin, talking to you, you're wearing your Roberto Carlos number six blue Brazilian jersey. Big game or not a big game because there there is something at stake here and there's always something at stake whenever Colombia and Brazil get together. But there is positioning within the group and that affects your opponent in the knockout

stages. Brazil fortunate to be in a really top heavy group because this is not, they are not playing well presently. The first game they did not play well. They haven't been playing well recently. Yeah, yeah. Especially for Brazil. Yes, they are below standard.

We mentioned yesterday that Ronaldinho has just thrown his hands up and said, I'm not watching any of these Copa America games. There's a lot of weird stuff. Some of it honestly feels a little homophobic with some of the public stances, like we're not gonna allow pink hair. Like there's, the vibes around the Brazilian soccer team

right now are pretty bad, and yet they're going to easily get through this group, and they have a Colombian opponent which, again, miss me with all the talent on the US roster talk, you don't necessarily need talent to be a really successful international program. Colombia's still relying on James Rodriguez. They're still relying on the dude. That's crazy.

Lucho's a good player. Lucho plays for Liverpool. He's, I would say, like, you can make an argument Lucho's better than anybody on the US team. I think a lot of people that live and die. Colombia's talented. No, no, I'm not saying, for a Columbia national team, to get there, they're on an absolute heater right now,

a big unbeaten streak. Like they're really, really good. The talent in terms of Colombian teams from previous years, it's not like they have Hamas playing the same position like that he did in Brazil. Like they're asking him to do the exact same things. Lucho's a nice player, but this isn't an uber-talented Colombian team.

If you stack up the talent on the U.S. roster, the Colombian roster, and the clubs that they play for, not that that's the end all and be all. I wouldn't venture to say with conviction that the Colombian team is more talented than the U.S. I would not. But they're really good on the international level. Brazil needs this. Brazil, for their vibes, for their program, they could use this and they could use an easier opponent in the knockout stage.

Yeah, exactly. Number one reason is you wanna be the number one team in the group because then you get an easier draw in the knockout stage. And I will say, for the sake of this conversation, my favorite player in the world right now, the player that I would say is the best player in the world right now is Vinny.

Yes. Yesterday- Vinny Jr. is my favorite player. the world right now is Vinny. Yes. Yesterday- Vinny Jr. is my favorite player. Dude, he's my favorite player too, man. And honestly, his name should be in the conversations with dudes that overcome such horrible, blatant racism.

Oh, for sure. Not since Cap has there been an athlete that has had to deal with this, both on social media and in person. Leagues and federations doing nothing to curb it. I'm gonna say this, and I know Cap went through a lot of shit particularly when you go to social media, but like Cap at an NFL game is not getting a fraction

of the racism that Vinny gets at a league game. And he caught some heat from the federation too. Like everybody was upset that he had braids. Like some of this stuff is mad coded. Mad coded. But Brazil's not in a good place right now despite having a player that we both immensely rate. I'd call him the best player in the world.

What is going wrong with this Brazilian team? You always like Brazil's chances. You're always gonna be cocky. For those that don't know, African nations, they root on Brazil. That is essentially their adopted. My dad told me a story, my uncle watching Brazil versus the Netherlands, this is years and years ago, and like Brazil wins and he comes home and he sees his son, and he's like, oh yeah, Brazil won! And his son has a sad look on his face

and he says, I was rooting for the Netherlands. And my uncle was like, where did I go wrong? Like he literally had like an existential crisis of like, what have I done? I raised a child who's not rooting for Brazil. But yeah, no, I think all of this is the weight of expectations. The weirdest thing, Juju, were you with me

when, what's his name, when Joe Masula started talking about Brazil? Yep. So Joe Masula in the middle of the press conference, because one of the reporters is from Brazil, he starts asking him like, yo, what's it like for Neymar and those guys? Yeah, they get crushed every time.

It's like, yeah, is it fair? So he's trying to compare the pressure that Tatum. It's always dicey whenever Joe Mazzullo starts asking questions. Dude, I was, look, it was, we were. Could have been a jujitsu conversation, I don't know. We were all like, where is he going with this? Very strange, strange dude.

But eventually. NBA champion forever. Yeah, Jesus. Eventually, he landed the plane, and the plane he was trying to land was that Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown under an undue amount of stress and pressure from a fan base that has expectations

of greatness all the time. The weight of the badge, the weight of the shirt. It's a big thing in soccer. I'm playing for that country in particular. People are wondering, and the carton show was wondering how was Ronaldo crying after missing a PK? It transcends reason and logic you just don't understand in this country. You really don't. That's the thing when you know I remember maybe it was a year ago so we were having a conversation here about like the

greatness of individual careers and you guys were saying well Messi won the ballon. I'm like, none of that shit matters. Like, I know it matters, and they get paid for it and all that stuff. No, Messi's legacy was totally hinging on winning the World Cup. On a World Cup. On a World Cup, like, there's nothing, you're playing for your national team.

Because the all-time greats have that to their name. Exactly. There's what we were having with the McDavid conversation. Exactly. The greats win that game. You got to, you have to, You don't get to be in this conversation without A, a World Cup, and B. Welcome to the Carton Show.

Does Ronaldo belong in that conversation? Where's Tim Hardaway? I saw a story on ESPN that I was wondering your guys' thoughts on because I don't know the actual answer to this about Messi. And it said, this was written last week, at the time it said, Messi has yet to score in the Copa.

Is MLS making him worse? I love that. Billy, I'm familiar with your Copa America work. Congratulations on finally getting that to catch fire. No, I- What was your weekend like? What, mine? Well, I was at a wedding,

but I did see that I had leaked tapes come out that I did not authorize. We're in an off air conversation happened between Sugat and myself. You weren't performing at all there. No, we were actually in a break of God Bless Football and I read an article and I'm just reading out loud. We were talking into the mic.

Well, we were in a room with microphones in front of us. What were we supposed to do? I wasn't supposed to be betrayed. So like, why is this grenade exploding? Yeah. No, like this. Mike, it's like this. Correct. I don't understand this.

Pulls the pin out. A lot of hate all of a sudden. I didn't understand where it was coming from. You've been a volume shooter with this messy Copa America take, too. That's an actual article. Juju saw it. I showed Juju the headline.

I was like, I don't know the answer to this question. I think you were genuinely confused. Like, what did I do different for it to finally catch attention now? Did it catch attention? Yeah, really? Yeah, soccer worlds. Yeah in soccer world and in why I want to laugh at America world. Why I? Don't want to get into a bill. I think it was the cabana after that's to God said that's repeating that we were just talking Having a good time. You know what I mean? Just two guys talking dismissing one of the more prestigious competitions

Oh, please. If it was so prestigious, they wouldn't have let America in. That's a good point. Big Leone O'Measley. They've let America in a couple times. I've actually, like, that's a weird one because they only have a certain amount of teams. Like, sometimes you'll watch a Copa America,

which is South America's competition, and you'll be like, what's Japan doing here? Why do they do that? Qatar's here. I was just told that they use us for the stadiums. I don't know if that's true or not. No, they did. And they did it for the Centenario too. Like we, for a bigger Copa America,

like it makes sense to invite. It should always, it should honestly be one qualifying region, CONCACAF and Cognac Ball, but there's a lot of people in the U.S. Soccer Federation that'd be out of their cushy jobs if they actually had to compete with the likes of that to get into a World Cup. Oh my God, they'd never make the World Cup. They would never make the World Cup.

No, they'd get more slots in the World Cup that's expanding, but it'd be, they struggle at Trinidad and Tobago. Dog, Panama. You can kinda go play a road game in the mountains of Bolivia. Not in the segway, but I've had the chance to think about it, and you guys are right, I think I'm more interested

in seeing Zach Eaddy on the Memphis Grizzlies than believing that it's gonna be awesome. Sorry about that, guys. Accountability. Close the loop, yeah. Close the loop, okay. But back to the original point of today's game for Brazil. Usually, the international game is so funny, especially in these single elimination tournaments.

You can have poor performances like France has had, like England has had, and you keep surviving and advancing. Argentina? Argentina, multiple World Cup runs. Argentina came out of the games and lost to Saudi Arabia. It lost to Saudi Arabia. So it's a strange sport. Take me back to that time. You were so happy. Oh my God. Because the second game they played, I remember, were they down one zero, or was like, there was a moment. And that wasn't your vintage, giant slaying performance, like, Saudi Arabia was good.

Good, no, they went out there, they didn't sneak one by. No, man, that was a time, man. I was like, they're going to get knocked out in the first round? I was beside myself. Can you imagine the pressure that was surrounding Messi at that moment? I digress.

Oh my god. It's not like the pressure that's around. It's the thing I'm most upset about is now he gets to walk around like he got a World Cup. Like he got a World Cup. PKs, man. Like he got a World Cup. He was also electric in a final against another player

that can lay claim to arguably best player in the world. That's the best player in the world. I still like Vinny a little bit more, but we'll see. They're gonna be playing on the same team right now. And Bape, no question, on the international stage, on the biggest stage of them all, he's delivered for his country. Club, he's come up short, but he also plays in, he's been playing in France where it's not the best competition. That's why he's moving. Where Vinny, he steps up to every big moment, club and country country and he's gonna need to step up for country now He really is like it's not

Everyone's saying like what this Brazilian team has fallen off and I see Vinny so like first name on the team sheet I'm like trying to wonder like it'll never fall for these kind of problems. It'll never fall off. It'll never There's this little kid that's coming that like it never falls off. That's that's the beauty of Brazil It's like there's always someone. There's always- You're in a doldrum right now. Not really. Where are you gonna feel, what are you gonna be feeling

if they lose to Columbia? Like, it's still going, I mean, it's still, I mean- They'll still likely make it to the knockout stages. They'll make it to the knockout stages, that's not a big deal. Unless like a crazy- I want them to win because I want Brazil to win every game, I want them to win because I want them to have an easier

draw, I want them to win because I want Columbia to feel like, nah I want them to win because I want them to have an easier draw. I want them to win because I want Columbia to feel like, no, man, you're still down there. You're not up here yet. You know how we were saying African nations support Brazil? It's something that you have to do. It's essentially your birthright. That's kind of like Miami folks with Columbia. Everybody in Miami needs to have a yellow Columbia jersey.

Oh, I got the blue and orange one. You need to have a Colombian jersey in case of emergency when you're living down here. Master Tasvazian spent the holidays. Get out of here! Get out of here, Jason, we don't wanna see you! My buddy Master spent the holidays down here with me and for a Christmas present, I gave him a Colombian jersey.

He's like, why is this? I'm like, trust me, for as much time as you spent in Miami, you're gonna need this. So when Christian Polanco of Culligans was here There was an Adidas event with pop-up so he invited us all he said come through we went through and they were giving out Jersey's like get a token and you wait in line and pick from like this vast collection you get to pick It wasn't a mystery. Yeah, it was it was you get to pick and some of them were like really great kits Yeah, right and others were, the DC United jersey from 2002.

I think it's those great teams that they manufacture for. Right. And so I got there and like it was picked clean because I didn't want to wait in the long line. And I was like, I'll get it later. And then when I got there, I was like, damn. But I found a Columbia jersey in my size and shout out to Fuentes. He was like, trust me.

You're going to need that. You're going to need this one. You're going to need it. But you're not wearing it today No, I didn't even pack it. I didn't even bring it with me. You know why? because around here These stars mean something boy. Yeah, the colors mean I'm not saying that He became at a larger on all of a sudden

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Don Lebatard. Amino Hasson. Stugats. Amino Hasson. This simply safe Don Lebatard amino acid stugats This is the Don Lebatard show with the stugats Brazil's gonna have like some good watch parties around town Don't stray. I don't know if I want, I... But the Colombian parties are better. I'm gonna say this. I don't doubt it.

I don't doubt it. I realize one of two things, like I can't watch games in public for one of two reasons. If it's Brazil, I get emotional. It's funny, I make fun of fans. Yeah, I've watched a Brazilian game with you before and like you're pretty close off to the world. I don't, I just, I can't.

My kids were laughing at me watching the Costa Rica game because they were like, what's wrong, dad? And I'm like, shut up, get out of here, leave me alone, right? And then if it's anything else, I like making fun of, like, you know, if it's US men's national team, you know. Yeah, you? Yeah, I was like, Puente's was like, hey, let's go to Brightside.

I'm like, ah. I don't know if I made it out alive. Oh, you would have loved it. I would have been cackling the whole time. So like. I've been there for a Columbia USA game. I'm a very, I was, you know where I'm at with Greg Burlhalter, so.

Did you wear your Columbia jersey? No, I didn't do it. It was like the day of a Panthers game, so I was wearing my Panthers stuff, but I was high five and won Columbia's score. Nice. I'm not, I hate what I've become. I'm rooting against this nation in soccer

just because I want to see change that bad. One of my fondest memories ever was 1995. I'm in against this nation in soccer just because I want to see change that bad. One of my fondest memories ever was 1995. I'm in high school. I'm at Central Park. I'm playing soccer with a bunch of, you know, just pick up soccer or whatever, and the dudes had the radio on the side, and it was like, it was Columbia, it was like revenge against America,

because they lost in 94, 95. They'd beaten like 4-1 or 5-1 or some shit like that. And like every time, there's a lot of fallout from that loss. Oh my God, everyone was, that was I think my first like pangs of actual joy. Like oh, America getting destroyed, I love it. I mean, it's like ruining against the Clippers historically

though, like there's not a lot of opportunity for like getting at somebody. You know how the story always ends ends with the US and it's not like this is a country that will give you the tears It's largely avoidable on on the networks that cover this thing. Oh, yeah There's a really I passionate US soccer fan base said, you know the outlaws they live and breathe this So I don't know like you get a lot of satisfaction from the troll and there's not a lot of people like there to troll. Oh, first of all, Twitter would pick to differ. Oh man, I love it.

They were like, we love it, what's Sudan doing? I'm like, well Sudan's about to qualify for this World Cup. And by the way, you think I'm obnoxious of Brazil, let Sudan make it to a World Cup in America? Imagine if they're in the same group. Dude, as Brazil? North Korea might make it. I've been asked that one, man. Imagine if they're in the same group. Dude, as Brazil? North Korea might make it. I've been asked that one, man.

I don't know what, I honestly don't know what, I think I'd just show up wearing black and be like, that would like, just like tennis, just clap for everything, because I can't, I can't even fathom, but I have- Me on Bill's Eagles Sunday. Bill's Eagles, yeah. There you go.

You get the half and half, where you got the half jersey, whatever. The thing I would- Or if you're traveling to see the Eagles and Packers where you got the half jersey, whatever. The thing I would think- Or if you're traveling to see the Eagles and Packers in Brazil, you're gonna have to wear black. No green allowed. Yeah, no, it's because of the stadium that they're playing in.

The gang violence. It's a rival color. Where are they playing? Which is the stadium that they're playing in Brazil. What's the team that they play? There's gotta be someone who doesn't keep up with the news that's just gonna show up in green Teams that both wear green. Yeah, a place you can't wear green. I kind of blame the NFL on that one

Yeah, like what are you thinking? They're they're not like a stadium They're playing in Sao Paulo. It was in Raiders commies. No green. I But if Sudan makes it to the World Cup I've decided that I'm going to have at least one event where I'm gonna take the entire team out I'm gonna foot the bill We're gonna have a big dinner and I'm gonna give them a speech about like hey, man We're like really proud of you guys. Whatever I in my dreams. They play Argentina and I'm like, we're gonna beat those assholes

I don't give a shit. I don't bet I've ever seen none of you high-five that little over there either like we're doing this shit hold on so you're just gonna reach out to someone and you're gonna host the entire World Cup team on your tab yes not just the players there's a big group that come out of it everything all right do you have that pull it's Sudan man like it's like one phone call imagine World Cup team there's security you have to get through to get there. His confidence in this makes me feel like it's not a difficult task.

Gringo already talk about security. As an owner of the Cyclones, we took our team out for dinner, and we had a terrible season after that. I said, fuck the Wall Warriors. Been all downhill from there. Oh, we made a final. Argentina's my wall warriors. Anytime that we've given our highlight team anything

in advance of a season, they don't reward that faith. Didn't you give them jackets or something? Yeah, and then we had another bad year. They're better when we ignore them. Really? Yeah. So it's almost like- We tried to get more hands on as we've gotten closer with the sport and the players.

What? Didn't they warn they were gonna take the team away from you because you weren't hands on enough? No, but in terms of communication. It takes from like six seasons ago, Billy. Yeah, that was like six seasons ago. Come on, ancient history. We really have gotten closer to the guys.

And it hasn't helped. Meddling. You guys are meddling. We're emotional now. We're keeping Manu forever. We don't have the cache of a Ray Lewis, but I would say in terms of involvement, we are the prototype. we are the template,

we are the standard for ownership groups that don't actually pay any of the money for their teams in Highlight. So Travis Kelsey wants a team. This year, all red shoes. Everybody on the team, red shoes, or just a unified shoe, because it's a lot of shoes that be mish-mash-y, and that blue and that white sometimes don't be coordinated.

I like the red accent on the uniform. I think you're onto something. I don't want to mess up the players and their routines. They get to pick the shoe, but I pick the color white. All right, I like that. Can you redesign the uniform or something? You're part of the ownership group. Can you redesign the uniform?

Change it. Change the uniform. We can't redesign the uniform. That's a league call? Talk to the league. I think we got one of the better logos in all of professional sports. Change the colors a bit. Meet our new head of marketing, Juju Gotti. league call talk to the league I think we got one of the better logos and all the professional sports change the colors of Billy Talk our new head of marketing juju Gotti Billy said talk to the league. What do you think?

This is the Sudanese national team you just talk to someone Me Tony we're talking about taking over this team there feels like a hostile takeover I was talking to Scott and he's interested in possibly a hostile takeover taking it over we can give them knockoff Panthers logo Shirts and a whole thing. All right, cool knockoff two Fridays a month you guys got it See you there. I mean you get look every time I every time I've gone. I leave with 80 bucks Every single time there's free gambling there, and they're just giving you money. Yeah. Yeah Now they have an app you go on there. This is what you do All right, cuz I showed the last time I went it was one of my friend's birthday went

I you know what I'm gonna tell you what I did. No, tell me! Nah, I don't wanna tell you. He went for his friend's birthday, not to support the Cyclones. Well, I've been, I think three times, two times for my friend Nick's birthday, and another time I went to support the Cones, because Chris is like, we really need people that are gonna take away the team.

That's where I got that information from. Nick really likes the Cyclones, huh? He likes Highly. No, I don't think I've seen the Cyclones either time I went, actually no, one time I did see the Cyclones, and no one was there, and I'm like, oh boy, I'm gonna see people from work.

I'm like, nope, no one's here. And then the other time, it was two weeks before the championships, the semi-finals, it was a big one. This is when Greg fainted. No, I haven't seen Greg faint, thank God. I might not be able to take Greg's painting. Look at that beautiful logo.

We won that match. Best logo in sports. Yeah, but I'm saying, the jersey's white. You get like a teal jersey going. Or like get a black jersey. Oh man, get like, you know like the old No Fear or whatever? You get like a black jersey with just the cone's eyes there like right in the chest, right in your nips.

Two eyes. Save that Billy, save that. Dude, fire. The white Cyclones kits, they're essentially the pinstripes to baseball. Like this is an iconic look, you don't mess with them. But the red shoes I like. It's like the white shoes of the Oakland A's.

It looks nice, I like that accent. Head of marketing right there, congratulations, welcome to the team. You honor me, sir. No, you honored me. You get ownership stake too, right? Yeah, you get an ownership stake, you get the whatever.

I'll buy you beers one day. You should sell the team, now like the Celtics, you should sell the team. Well, they should have done that two years ago and they won it all. What do you. You should sell the team. Now, like the Celtics, you should sell the team. Well, they should have done that two years ago and they won it all. What do you do if you sell the team? Well, we don't sell the team. Well, you're the owners.

Basically, we have a marketing partnership with Battle Court. They're essentially allowing us to play owner, even though we give back. Mike buys beers after the game. I buy beers, I buy them presents. I support the sport. Chris and I, we became fiends about this sport. Sickos watching tons of highlight

that didn't even feature our team. And then we've gotten worse as we've gotten more. No, last year was a good year. We got bone on a bad draft pick. Everybody knew what was going into it. The draft didn't break our way. We went into this year realizing like, we should make the playoffs, but this is not a championship

caliber side anymore. But now we- Y'all made the sport more popular, though. Because UD's there now, Ray Lewis, everybody. Who's to say that that happens at all, or not for Cyclone's ownership? LT's there? LT's a champion.

LT? Champion. The LT? The LT. Wait, the real LT? The real LT. Or the one from San Diego? No, no, the real LT? The real LT. Or the one from San Diego? No, no, the real LT.

Okay. Roger Stone was there in explicitly one week. Roger Stone was there, I had no saying that. He was not on my list. He was on Tony's. We're told we're drafting the second best backcourt player in the world in Lopez, and we find out he cares more about real estate

than he doesn't. I mean, it is booming. The Pikachu dog is there sometimes. That one always makes me uncomfortable. The Pikachu dog is there sometimes. That one always makes me uncomfortable. The Pikachu dog. But look, their festive atmospheres. When the Cyclones Nation really comes through, and they, you know, there's a real solid smattering

of applause there. You could say sometimes maybe more than a smattering. It's an exciting spectacle. It's a great sport, it's a great time. I look forward to those Fridays. It's a little difficult when it's lined up against Gaines season, but. Are there cyclone fans who are like, ever since those two schmucks took over,

you've ruined this for us? Well, we won the championship first season. We won the championship the very first year of Battleclerk. Hey man, like people blame ownership groups all the time even after they win a championship. Yeah, fan LeBataille Show's been vocal. Like Mike Fuentes, he's on the hot seat. Fuentes is...

I think he just kinda got replaced. He's still like blue. He's our head of scouting and you know. Wait, Juju, do you wanna be head of scouting too? No, I defer to Mike Fuentes on that scouting class, cause I gotta do my numbers. It's not working though. Welcome to the team, Billy, do you wanna do anything

with our team? We can give you a bullshit title. That works. That's a yes. We'll put that on the business card. Yeah, I can see. We actually need a coach. We'll put that on the business card. Yeah, let's see. We actually need a coach. Ooh.

A coach? Do you guys have practices? The champion. So I've had this longstanding theory. You should hire Burhalter, and then he can't coach the US men's soccer team. I was about to say, there are some convenient things that fall into place for some of the more prestigious ownership groups.

So I'll just leave it at that. But now like the shine of year one has worn off. UD won in year one, LT and Ray Lewis won in year one. Okay, cool. LT shows up and the Wall Warriors turn into the 98 Yankees. Is that a good year for them? Wait, hold on a second.

You guys, wait, everybody wins the championship year one So is this sport you want one well moss riddle didn't win one and moss riddle. He doesn't have a team anymore Oh, what happened you got it taken away from people was an owner of a team and then all of a sudden he was just like a People still hanging around I'm not sure what an owner to just a figurehead are these people do these people show up to the games Yeah, yeah, moss riddle didn't but moss I saw moss at all there once but he obviously definitely there I've seen LT you Donna shows up l Duke is there randomly some

Yeah, he just likes high-level in area loves the game some of them love America Some of them try to subverted at every every turn. Big bounce back year for us. I think so. When's the draft? I don't know. Yeah I'm not sure. I gotta check my calendar. I don't know if I can make it. That's Fuentes' job. I don't know. Yeah that's why he's on the hot seat. He doesn't even tell us when the draft is. No we care about the draft. We care about our players. Even though we may only bring back one of them. Manu? Two. Salute to Manu. I think two. I think you gotta run it back. All-star. He was an all-star this last season.

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while I'm, breakfast flan, dun dun dun dun. Stugats. Have you never heard the breakfast flan song? No, hit me with it. Okay, I wish I had some breakfast flan. Da da da da da da da da. Breakfast flan. Da da da da da da da da da.

Where can I find a breakfast like that? Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da. This is the Don LeVatar Show with the Stugats. I want to shout out to Jujugari, who does such a great job with our social media. Now, we've all felt a little raw sometimes. We say these things into the microphone, we have to be responsible for what we say. Sometimes these things are out of context. Sometimes you say things off here in the air. Sometimes you're going to have to explain to your daughter 15 years down the line, why did you say into a microphone,

what could possibly be the context, why you said into a microphone, you love Matthew Kachuck more than me, and then I have to say, it's largely performative, it's an amplification of what I'm saying. Largely performative, but in that moment, I meant every word. You just have to say that, it doesn't to be true. You just have to say it.

The burden of performing for this audience and the host that sits in the seat, usually, is heavy. It's like the badge of Brazil. There you go. But I saw the Greg Berhalter clip. And I usually, I've been trying, I've been working on myself. Stay away from words like loser and dumb. Like stop assassinating the man's character.

No. But in this instance, I will not walk that back whatsoever. I will change my tone, but I don't think Greg Burr-Holter's any good at this. And I actually don't like his attitude. I think he thinks he's smarter than everybody. I think it shows you a lot that he didn't just recognize what was going on and remove his name from consideration.

I think there's a considerable ego there and there is no real success to back it up. So I wanna see you gone, like away from this program forever. Take your brother with you. I want the US Soccer Federation to realize what's in front of them, realize that

they've wasted really valuable time. You could get Mourinho in there, you can get Klopp in there, you can get Pep Guardiola in there, and I don't think we have enough time to fix this mess because of your decision several months ago. So please, listen to me. Greg, you do the right thing, because I have zero faith in everybody else doing the right thing. Walk away. Do what you should have done 18 months ago when that played out in public. Go away. And then the US Soccer Federation, if and when he does or you decide by some miracle he's not good enough, do what you did for the women's national team. You went to the very top of the of the chain and you got Emma

Hayes, someone that's been there, done that one at the highest level, commands respect, do that. Because these opportunities, they don't come around often. Sometimes they don't come around at all. You're hosting a men's World Cup, the biggest World Cup ever. Do something that meets the moment. I think you cleaned that up.

I mean, you just flew in from San Francisco. I did. Did you raw dog it? I did not, well, no, I didn't raw dog it because I went to sleep. But raw dogging, I am fascinated by this new cultural phenomenon. You guys familiar with raw dogging?

Oh yeah. Lewis invented it, man. Tony's gonna be a dad, so he at least has a scene of it. Oh. No, no, no. I know exactly what you're talking about. Not wearing underwear? No, that's commando.

I'm wearing underwear for the first time in several weeks right now. These joggers don't have the inner lining. Nice. In South Florida, dude, I just realized six years ago, underwear and I, done. Done. No more underwear. There's gotta be a protective barrier, man, between.

Between me and you. There's a lining in a lot of the pants. No, that's not enough. Why? Too thin, too thin of a lining. No it isn't. No, you want a thin lining. No.

No, I'm telling you. You're a little bit thicker of a lining. Okay, look, guys, we're not gonna agree on this. I like my balls hanging free and clear. The only thing that's in its way is the very thin lining is really muggy down here That's the issue We need a couple layers between us But guys that be snug be snug but anyways back to rod on that's not raw dogging raw dogging Chris

Do you really not know what rod dogging is I do okay? Rod Jeremy you know what rod dogging is yes Yes, but Billy doesn't so I don't know So rod dogging is you get on a plane you get on a flight and You don't listen to music. You don't listen to podcast. Oh, maybe I didn't know what it was Both you don't watch TV You just you don't read you don't read and you're not wearing a condom on the airplane. That too, yes. I usually do. Very important, by the way. But I recently stopped.

You just sit and you watch the flight plan on the map. Or just. If you have one. If you have one. Some planes don't even have one. They stop doing that. I stopped being able to see where in the world I was. I was just hoping we were on the right flight path.

Here's an image. That is. That's Raw Dog here. He's not in the air, though. It's easy to raw dog when you're at the gate. Anyone can raw dog on the ground. Yeah. Also I don't believe anyone is actually raw dogging

because they're taking their phone out to record themselves raw dogging these really minuscule moments. You're at least getting your phone and to post it on social media. Like that's not a raw dog. A raw dog, there's no visual evidence. Well, there might be if someone else records you,

but not of your own. You have to be in a middle seat for it to be a real raw dog. A raw dog, there's no visual evidence. Well, there might be if someone else records you, but not of your own. You have to be in a middle seat for it to be a real raw dog. Yeah. You could do like the Chipotle thing. You could raw dog for this dog. Have you ever been turned off by all the Chipotle videos, which is not the actual person recording, it's someone recording the person recording?

How do we set this shoot up? What's our intention? What Chipotle videos are you talking about? The Chipotle videos where someone hosts, no, no, no, where you basically put your phone out and you force them to just pack your bowl with more meat. You missed that whole thing? No, yeah.

That was like a thing, like, hock to a girl, this is your future. Three weeks ago we were talking about the Chipotle packing the bowls thing. Yep, so they're making them pack more meat. It's a pressure, it's a social pressure of having a phone and being like I'm recording you. I wish I worked at Chipotle and someone tried to do that. I'm like and? So? Tell my boss. You will not be at Chipotle the next day because the CEO made a video of how to get this done. Yeah. He said give them a look and be like. Yeah give them a look.

Really? We actually have that video, let's play it. First I can tell you the portions have not gotten smaller. One of the things I think is great about Chipotle is if you come into the restaurant and you want a little more rice or you want a little more pickle, all you gotta do is kinda like,

and usually our guys and women, give them a little more scoop. Guy looked a lot like Buzz Lightyear. Not protein by the way, this is only for the side like was like not protein by the way I thought I'd walk by the way I love how he said our guys and women didn't show his face there but he probably looked around like I got enough of his face I was what there's a real square jawline can we can we just throw up we have to play the video but could we just get a look at his face again because he reminds me of Ken Mar, do you guys know?

He was who is the the host on the show Sporty down. No, he was yeah He was one of the guys and party that but I always remember him from Eastbound and down when the late stages Kenny Powers on this sports show and the main host of shows Ken Reno. Oh, yeah, he was really good at that dude So here's a funny thing about that show. When I was watching Eastbound and Down, I was still working for The Suns. And so I remember watching that clip

and where Kenny goes, Kenny's cutting in. And I said, yo, it would be so cool if I could do that on a TV show. Then I swear to God, I remember saying, when am I ever gonna be on a TV show? On everything. And then I completely forgot about it until I rewatched it like a couple weeks ago. Camarino's also like the sound engineer

on the rock and roller coaster in Hollywood Studios. Huh! When Aerosmith, yeah, look for Camarino there. He's also the stepdad in role models. Yes he is, oh my God. He's great in that. Billy, did you know that Camarino was in that Aerosmith ride?

Yeah, I think they're revamping that. Yeah, they are. It was closed when I was. I don't like that. They have to. Yeah, they have to. After the Michael J. Fox video has to be Coldplay. Get him the stretch.

Make that a super stretch. Classic line. Wait a second. Raw dog it. I love that idea. Yeah. Who said that? So farum!

Remember when they used to have, I don't know if they still did at the end or if they still are going to, but there was an employee who was paid to pretend to be tuning the instruments. So they would have the video where you see Aerosmith and the person at Ken Marino's there, and then they'd have a person who works for Disney

who would be like, oh hey, Jim, give me my guitar. And he's like, and then he'd pick up a guitar, and he's like, I got it. And then he just put it back for the next thing. Pandemic killed that guy. It really breaks my heart. Actually? It breaks my heart to see like these once

great amusement rides and now you see people go through the motions. Like the first time I rode Transformers, it was like, get in, get in, get in, get in EVAC right now. and you're like, whoa, this is crazy, and now it's just like, whatever, measure yourself. How many?

Get in there, how many in your group? Cool, all right, welcome to Transformers. I like the added like theatrics. It's cause Gen Z, man, they're too cool for school. That's who's getting these jobs now, bunch of kids. But are you really? They're taking our jobs. So you fell asleep on your flight over from SF. Oh, you haven't actually

Successfully raw dog. I can't because I'm not rod dogging if you fall asleep The reason I brought this up about Lewis raw dogging being like the first person I've ever seen do it is because Like Philip Rivers, but when we went to Vegas for the Super Bowl I Like like Philip Rivers, but when we went to Vegas for the Super Bowl I was on the aisle side and he was in the middle seat and then all he was doing was sitting there He didn't have headphones. He didn't take out his phone no gummies. He didn't do any No, no, I I don't know why he wasn't big. He was just sitting there just Did you hit him with the Elaine and putty like you need some real? I told I was like yo, do you want to I'm like I'm watching something. Do you want me to like share?

I mean dude at some point like you gotta help your boy out. He's just sitting there doing nothing He's like dog good five and a half hours just just sitting there just Didn't get didn't drink water. That's something that that didn't get like one of the snacks You have seen no sustenance wait like they asked him and he said no, he didn't want it? Why? Is he crazy? I think he did invent raw dogging. I'm telling you, he was the first person

ever seen decline everything. Every, every. Did he think they charged you? Telling you, he was so big. That's what I wanted the Panthers flight from Edmonton to be, like you all feel this right now. I heard a great interview with Caliposo on Spin Chicklets and apparently they were

just playing poker as they usually do. Nice and light, no, you raw dog that flight from Edmonton. You feel what I'm feeling. That's what they let a dream to do sometimes. No, we were down 100 points. I don't wanna swag surf, get your arm up here. I forgot headphones this past weekend I was flying. I forgot headphones for myself, like my daughter got them,

which is like, come on, I'm daddy, I should get them. But she got the headphones, I forgot them. Yeah, so I like. But the ultimate sacrifice is like, my life is gonna be a lot more difficult if you don't get the headphones. Exactly right, yeah. So I watched the show on mute on my phone.

Nice. Subtitles? No, no subtitles. Which one? I'll figure this out. Was it Lucy that watched A Quiet Place? And it was like the perfect movie? Yeah, it was her.

Yeah, she watched A Quiet Place with that. Watching it over the shoulder of someone else on the place. But it was like a show, it was like Brooklyn Nine-Nine or something, I'm like, ah, I'll piece together what's going on here. You know what their voice is. Yeah, I know what's going on here, I'll write my own story, this is fine.

Ken Marino also on Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Do a Terry Crews voice for us. What? Do a Terry Crews voice. Don't do it now. Don't do the voice. I'm not gonna do that. Just speak in the third person.

Or just sing Vanessa Carlton. Dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun. Who do you think that song was better for, her or him? Him, her. 1000% first of all, as I told this story on the Dan Leventhal Show a few months ago. What is she doing now? She's not hosting America's Got Talent. I'll tell you that right now. Number one. Number two, as I told the story months and months ago, she was about to be kicked out on the street and evicted and everything,

and then her agent called and said, you'll never believe what happened. Your song's number one. Like, how, how? I thought it flamed out. And she said, her agent was like, no. You know who the Wage brothers are? And she was like, what?

The song was gigantic. Who named me Mr. Berrygarden? Literally years before. Who do you think gets asked about the other person more, Vanessa Carlton or Terry Crews? Because I think, like it's synonymous. Like you can't picture that song without thinking of like Terry Crews hamming it up.

Vanessa Carlton looks like everyone. Yeah, what did she look like? No, no, no, but I'm saying, when people approach Vanessa Carlton. I don't think people do. Yeah, because they don't know. They just say, hey, can I have more beans on my Chipotle? She don't.

I'm just trying to make my way downtown. She's a multimillionaire. She made 10 million. Yes, thank you Wayans my way downtown. She's a multi-millionaire. She made 10 million. Yes, thank you, Wayans. Terry, it worked out for Terry Crews, too. Stu Gatz here from my friends over at Simply Safe. Imagine a burglary at your home.

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And as you know, I've been telling you on the air about the game time map. It is where I go exclusively for the secondary ticket market. And I've been there a lot this summer between the hockey playoffs and summer concert season. I've been spending a fair chunk of my time on this app. Why though? Because I know they got the low price guarantee. I know that when I open up the Game Time app, this is the premier place for value in the secondary ticket market. I get all in pricing, just a little touch of a tab up on the top right of my app, and I get no surprises at checkout. Zone deals, flash

deals, I made an impulse buy for game 7 of the NHL final and I absolutely loved it. I'm a world champion! Game Time is an authorized ticket marketplace of Major League Baseball so why don't you take the guesswork out of buying MLB tickets with Game Time. Download the Game Time app, create an account, use code DAN for $20 off your first purchase, terms apply, again, create an account, redeem code DAN for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply, again, create an account, redeem code DAN for $20 off your first purchase. Download Game Time today, last minute tickets, lowest price, guaranteed.