The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Let Them Eat Urinal Cake

Episode Date: February 26, 2024

Shane Gillis said some "controversial" words on SNL, but how should we view his appearance on monologue? Then, Billy took a trip to Disney World last week and had some MAJOR issues with his experience. Plus, Chris Wittyngham is a coward and a quitter, and we have him on the show to excoriate him for abandoning his mission to say the word penis on a professional broadcast because he got a new job with Paramount+. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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slash legal slash CA dash PRU dash disclaimer. This is the Don Lebator Show with the Stugatz Podcast. It feels flimsy, thin to me Stugatz, what Jessica is saying. She's not wrong, but it just feels flimsy to me in argument culture, in debate culture, that if I disagree with person X's opinion, all I'm gonna do is say that person is irrelevant or say who the hell is that person, I don't care, but it is in line with things getting,

it seems to me, just a little bit dumber all over. And one of the places it has gotten, just a little bit dumber all over is where it is that you – I'm asking everyone in the audience here when I say you – get your comedy and how you get your comedy because Shane Gillis went on Saturday Night Live this weekend and he said to the audience there, you probably don't even know who I am because there are a whole lot of comedians like Shane Gillis who occupy a different space from in the audience at Saturday Night Live. It's a growing space, it's a freer space than the mainstream. There are a whole

bunch of podcasts in the top hundred by comedians who have giant economies around them and it's not the mainstream. Shane Gillis goes on Saturday Night Live, and I told you, Stu, guys, before the pandemic, I saw Louis CK, before Louis CK's troubles on Saturday Night Live, and this is a stand-up comic at the very top of his game, and I don't remember what the three topics were. I think he went Israel, Palestine, pedophilia, and then some other third rail topic effortlessly as the monologue on Saturday Night Live. And I couldn't believe how well he did that subject matter because it seemed hugely pressurized. Shane Gillis got celebrated this weekend for saying gay, saying and doing down syndrome stuff. He also said cracker in like a 20-second span and then said most of my stuff doesn't even work on television. He said, I can't do

most of my material on television, but he was being celebrated as someone who was pushing boundaries you know i mean not particularly well compared to what it is that i'm talking about even though the monologue was fine and eight the most pressurized situation of his career because that seemed to me as i was watching it before you know it seemed like a uh... a big nervous situation at the start and it seemed and he said so that he's never been that nervous it seemed like a big nervous situation at the start and it seemed, and he said so, that he's never been that

nervous. It seemed like a ton of pressure to go from, you were let go by Saturday Night Live before your career started when people started digging into your podcast past and now people have a problem with Saturday Night Live because you've gone to the front of the line and in the five years of cancel culture doesn't actually exist and can actually help your career, he got to host Saturday Night Live the way Eddie Murphy did when he was their star cast member by not being on Saturday Night Live. Did any of you see it? Because I thought it was a good monologue. Like, he's funny. I thought he was funny, and it was a real, real difficult situation for him. It is. And when you are basically not in to somewhere, not let in somewhere because of

something that you've done, but then they also kind of bend the knee and allow you to cut the line and host and let you do the things that you're great at. His Trump, I thought the Trump sneaker skit was really funny. Like he does an excellent Trump. There's things that Shane does in pockets that are really good. And yeah, it's an impossible spot for him to be there and be like, all right, I'm me, you know the story, but I'm here, I'm gonna try to make you laugh, even though it's kind of weird.

Do you guys agree with me, though, that they're not the same people? The Saturday Night Live audience is not necessarily the audience where Bird Kreischer and Seagru... Who is the Saturday Night Live audience, honestly? Is it, because I feel like... I think it's just people who wanna go and have viewed it as something historically cool.

Like, I don't know that there's that many people who are showing up specifically for a host. But do people like watch it, like live still? Cause I feel like it just now lives as like social clips, doesn't it? Yeah, like every other show. Yeah. So who's this audience?

Oh my gosh, the Notre Dame game went late a couple years ago on NBC and it went straight into SNL and it was like a jump scare. I was like, ah, where's the remote? Get it off. I don't want to watch this. Bedtime, three hours ago. Realistically, it's, I think it's a cool thing, right?

When you are a person that is not able to do something and then you are now able to do something because of what you've done in the back end to grow your career, I see it as a really cool thing. Regardless of what clouds the situation, like I like Shane, I've gone to see Shane live, like he's right, the things that he does in person, he cannot do on TV, but that's who he is.

And like it's either you like Shane Gillis or you don't. And it's okay if you don't, that's just but that's who he is. And like, it's either you like Shane Gillis or you don't. And it's okay if you don't. It's just, that's what it is. Most stand-up comedians are gonna sanitize what it is that they do for a general nationalized audience on SNL. What's weirder and seemingly more concerning, because I watched the monologue too and I thought it was funny. I didn't think anything was really too over the line.

He used the words that you mentioned, and now the right wing on Twitter in particular is celebrating the fact that he used those words as if he used them maliciously with any economy. This is why I'm saying all of these conversations and everything around this is getting just slightly dumber by degrees like when I'm telling you that what Louis CK did was on subject matter that's hard and

That and that Shane wasn't doing that He wasn't he wasn't actually pushing any of the boundaries that he pushes as someone who's in a bit of disguise pushing any of the boundaries that he pushes as someone who's in a bit of disguise to God's because he's getting the Bud Light promos, but Bud Light has had its business actually crater. Bud Light has been damaged and is now trying to correct it by giving money to UFC, by giving money to Shane Gillis, who identifies as every man, but is in costume. Like I think that if I had to check Shane Gillis'

actual politics, I think they would be closer to mine than the average person on the conservative side, but he's sort of playing on the line. He is, and I think that's where the brilliance of Shane is like, I'm gonna make fun of this, you don't really know where I stand. I told you I'm pre-Republican because I think about World War II.

And like he has those bits that kind of strayed the line of where he really is. But at the end of the day, like, again, it's too camps, I don't wanna hark on it, but it's like either you get it and you like what he does or you don't, right? Like there's people here that I have conversations with Matthew Cougar who doesn't like Shane.

He's like, I think he takes a joke too far. And I'm like, hey, I get that. But I like that part about it, right? Like that to me makes me laugh. So. I feel like we're overthinking this. They didn't want him to host the show before because he said bad things.

We overthink everything. And now he's just hosting the show because he's popular and they want the bomb of his fans. He was gonna be on the show. He's gonna be one of the characters and one of the people. He was gonna be on the show before. Right.

And then he got fired because of the things that he said, and now he's popular and they said, you know what, never mind, we don't really care about them, we don't have morals after all. It didn't hurt his career. And they brought him in for the priority. That's like when they brought him. They had Nikki Haley on two weeks ago. Yeah, and they brought Morgan Wallen back

like three weeks after he said the N-word. They had trouble. It's not like this is a standard. It didn't hurt his career at all to be let go, it probably sucked at the time, I'm sure it did. I helped his career. But no, it did, it did end up helping his career. And now Saturday Night Live needs those ratings bumps. They need to take more chances than that because they are not the

cultural influencer they were because so many people react the way that Jessica does because any Saturday Night Live conversation you hear these days is about how it's not what it used to be. But to Jess's point, it made it more controversial on Twitter, right? And so now the engagement with the SNL clips is there, because you have all of these people on the right propping up what this monologue was and all of these things, and then you have all of the people potentially on the left,

I haven't seen very much of it, talking about this SNL because, oh man, he was fired and he said this and they're trying to sort of track in that divisiveness where Shane is almost, in some ways, the exact opposite of that, and that he's trying to just sort of toe the line between you don't really know what I think.

Whether or not he's funny, I haven't watched all that much of Shane Gillis's standup, but the monologue was fine, and it wasn't all of the things that now people are trying to make it you can argue that He's bigger now, right like since his fiasco back at that point He's more popular now than anybody on the SNL cast Across the board. That's correct put some respect on Kenan Thompson's name

I mean Kenan's been doing it for a great time compiler. He's been there forever not the point, but yeah He has been a compiler really I mean thatan's been doing it for a great time. Copilot. He's been there forever not the point, but yeah He has been a copilot really I mean that's just my opinion. All right the host always more famous than the guest Yes, yeah, that's the point This one is different though like he was supposed to be a cast member now He's so big that he is now a host not a cast member He's bigger than every cast member that's there That's so different than some of the like writers who go like John Mulaney was a writer for the show that nobody knew and then He went on to have a stand-up career and he comes back and he's hosted it,

what like five times I think. And so it's because they get to go be so much more famous through standup comedy. When I talk about individual brands, those two guys throughout media being something that's helping media crumble, I'm talking about here. I'm talking about Saturday Night Live needs Shane Gillis for a night.

More than Shane Gillis needs Saturday Night Live for a night. I mentioned this about Shannon Sharpe a while ago, Stu got very quietly. Skip Bayless is going to be out of a job soon because his ratings have tanked because individual brands have helped Take the marketplace to a totally different place Where you follow the people you like the people who say the things that you want them to say a little bit more than you follow? credible news Organizations because of how all of this is fracturing. But speaking of comedy here, I want to show you what the Pelicans, the New Orleans Pelicans did to Stephen A. Smith

on their social media account after Stephen A. Smith. I think the reason for this, correct me if I'm wrong, is the reason for this because Stephen A. Smith said, you know, made a bunch of hamburger jokes at the expense of Zion Williamson. And so this is how the Pelicans react to it. Now this man was a bona fide scrub. He can't play!

No disrespect whatsoever but I'm sorry to call and tell everybody the truth that man cannot play the game of basketball. He has small hands. He can't catch the ball. He's got bad feet. He can't really move even though he's mobile. Doesn't really know what he's doing. Doesn't have a post move that he puts to memory that he can do two times in a row he has no game whatsoever plays no defense doesn't have

the heart the passion or anything that comes with I need to explain to the audio audience that that what you were hearing there was accompanied by video of Stephen A Smith falling down while on a basketball court recently and shooting an air ball and then was finished with his point totals from college which were a point a game and then the Wilch Chamberlain photo of him holding up instead of a hundred points, 1.5 his average scoring average. You was boxing too at some point.

He had dress shoes on. That's a tricky game on a basketball court. Yeah. It means right though. There's nothing funnier than someone falling down. I laughed out loud like a fad when he fell down On the court tough first pitch there, too Yes, there was it was just it was bad video of him harder than it looks I don't think I could do better, but you don't think you can do better than the bounced first pitch It would be close. It's tough dad you're throwing off a mound. It's at an angle. It's a whole thing

You ever step on a bump? I mean yeah zip one in there guys come on throw a BB right down the plate. I Don't think that's hard. Oh come on Dan come on. I could throw an orange a hundred Marlins Challenge to you get Dan Lebatard throwing out of first pitch. First pitch, guys. Have you ever done it? Yeah. I haven't. I don't think it's hard. Let's do it.

Off the bump. It's, hmm. Hey, folks. It's Mike Ryan. Now, you've had the distinct privilege of knowing me for close to 18 years. And you know that I've changed. A lot of my personal life has changed.

I've changed as a professional. I am a parent now. My level of involvement in my favorite college football program has also changed. But one thing as a professional. I am a parent now. My level of involvement in my favorite college football program has also changed. But one thing that hasn't changed for me is my favorite beer. You know when it's real with me. I think you do anyways. And you know how much I love Miller Lite. I've loved it forever. Really. It's my favorite beer of all time. And it made all the great moments in my life all that much better. And when Miller Lite came aboard on our show, I was super stoked about it because I believed in the product.

Because every time I take a sip of Miller Lite, I look around and I think, yeah, this was the right call. Times change. People like me can change. But you can always enjoy the great taste of Miller Lite. Tastes like Miller Time. To get Miller Lite delivered right to your door, visit MillerLite.com slash Dan. Or you can try to find it pretty much anywhere that sells beer.

Celebrate responsibly Miller Brewing Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin 96 calories per 12 ounces. Don Lebatard! Just playing, nickel back in the locker room and Stugats! They'll play D and show threes as they chase the nets for the six-seed. These five words in his head scream, are we winning games yet? This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats. I am looking forward to finding out the detail before I call Chris Whittingham a coward on why it is that he was broadcasting a game the other day after making such a big deal around here in our little playpen about why don't national and international broadcasters just say the

word penis when someone gets hit in the penis. It's a scientific term, it's anatomy, it's not a dirty word, it's just science. And he had his opportunity evidently this weekend to do it. We're going to play the video and the audio here, but somebody gets hit in the junk and all of our listeners who heard it pointed out like, what is this? I thought Whittingham was the brave soul who were going to lead a pioneering revolution on behalf of the word penis. Let me stop you right there Dan because you just said junk Why did you say junk and not penis?

Because I've been grandfathered in from a previous time of cowardice and his movement hasn't caught any strength or wind, his movement has just died. But he was the one saying he was going to be a principal penis pioneer. Yeah, but he's on CBS now. PPP. Paramount, but the thing is, it's tough because when you're broadcasting, right, and the ball ricochets into that area, there's into the penis.

No, this is what I'm trying to say. Cause it may not hit you in the penis. No. It may hit you in the nuts. It may not hit you in the penis. This wasn't an accuracy thing. This is, he's brave when he's on this show and then he's there doing like the real broadcast or things like, I can't do that.

Has anyone had an other opinion other than that one? Everyone's just calling him a coward. It feels dishonest. It feels like he was pioneering for something he's not actually brave enough to do himself. I agree with that. I think he's also trying to impress the new bosses, trying to make himself sound serious,

trying to shed the Lebatard show, like cast that has been put over him by being on the show and being, you know, the funny guy. Now, he's serious, Chris Whitting, he's no longer... He used to be the funny guy. Whitty the fancy lad. Exactly, funny guy, Chris. guy. Now, he's serious, Chris Whitting, he's no longer... He used to be the funny guy. Whitty the fancy lad. Exactly. Funny guy, Chris.

Yeah. That's what everyone called him. Exactly. Were you guys or are you guys now ashamed adjacent? Were you ashamed of him? For not... For advocating... I don't think of him.

It's not gonna get ashamed or proud, I just don't really have any thoughts. I had no idea you called the game open. Yeah, me neither. I saw him like, good for him him but I'm not watching conca-calf whatever the hell all right let's play that video from conca-calf whatever the hell assessing his options tries to get the early crossing and forcing Gaby up to lunge at it I'll say that no play by play needed for that set. Alright that's just cowardice. It is.

Silence. We all felt that one. I mean you can't say that. Well and you're sitting there watching this dude. Grab. With both hands. Correct. Yep.

You know exactly what's going on. He's waiting there in silence, waiting for the color commentator to say something first. I'm with Tony on this. It needs to escalate from penis to hog. Right in the hog would have been laugh out loud funny. Cock a calf. It was a Siri A game. Is that Leeks Cup or is that?

Oh my God. You know during that silence, Witty was just like. Oh, he was thinking about it. Shit, shit, shit. I hope no one's watching this. We're going, no one's watching this. That's not true. He said, I hope no one's watching this from the live-at-art show.

I don't think he was hoping that, though. Yeah. Let's see. We're going to talk to Witty and we're going to get him on and ask him why he was such a coward. I'm proud of Woody. I am. Showing some restraint. He's got a big gig.

He's trying to impress the bosses. He's not letting the LeBitard show, you know, kind of, you know, he's not bringing any of this into his broadcast. I think Woody's doing a great job. You can't go penis there, Dan. You can't do it. It's his first couple of weeks of the job.

Can't do it. I feel like, well, it's not. He's been gone for like a year and a half already. Yeah, but this is a new gig for him. Calling games for Paramount and CBS. And he's very excited about it. It is a bigger job. It's a bigger gig.

He's on the ascent. He's getting some of the bigger jobs in the sport. I feel like if he's doing his job as like a color commentator, play by play guy or whatever it is that he does, right? He says like, well that doesn't need any explanation. Like there's a lot of people that don't have penises that don't know what that pain is. Maybe you walk them through exactly why that hurts so much.

He should be describing the pain. Exactly right. You've been there before, you've probably gotten hit there. There's people that haven't walked them through it. That's what an analyst does. That's what a good play-by-play person does. Dead air is the worst case scenario. You just say nothing, get out of here.

Yeah, he should describe exactly why it hurts to be hit in that area. Explain that sometimes there's a delay. Like it's when you stub your toe sometimes. There's a delay, you don't feel it right away, but you know it's coming. Because as someone without a penis, my whole life no one's ever actually told me

or informed me that it hurts to get hit in that area. See? Right. Witty could have filled that void. You will be able to ask him all of these questions in a few minutes when he comes on with this. Yes. There's been some bad phrasing

over the course of this segment. Can you tell me, Billy, you were gone last week. What did you do with your free time? Did you go anywhere? I went to Disney World then. Ooh. How'd that go? Oh.

Disney World with kids is different. Yeah. It's great. Love it. I don how'd that go? Ow. Disney World with kids is different. Yeah. It's great. Love it. I don't believe that. Love kids. It's work. You texted me something different.

What did I text you? I texted you? I'm going to find it. I'm going to find it. I love my children and my family. Love them. Love Disney World. Couldn't do a single thing I wanted to do at Disney World,

though. What did you want to do? You know, ride the rock and roller coaster, Tower of Terror, any of those things. There's a new Guardians of the Galaxy ride. That one is really fun at Upkart. That's a whole thing. Don't get me started on that because Disney now.

The wait seven hours for that one to come. I had Disney figured out, Dan. I had it figured out. I knew exactly how you do the best Disney, how you go on and you reserve your fast passes and then you elites came in and now All of a sudden you can't go to Disney for a reasonable price number one You can't write anything unless you buy this genie plus thing which is a $30 a day On top of like a hundred and eighty dollars just to get in for the ticket like it's a whole thing

Then you can't get more than one at a time before it was free And if you put in the work you could have a great day at Disney. If you went there and you had like the schedule and you did this whole thing, I drove my family crazy for years. When we had the Free Disney, which was planned horribly timing wise on my part, where I had it for free and then I had kids

and then I lost and now I have to pay. And it's just, it's a whole thing we don't need to get into today. But I used to drive my family crazy because they were bouncing from thing to thing, one side of the park to the other. We got all of our steps in for the year in our Disney trips. Tell you, but we went on everything.

Now it's impossible to go on all these things. And then even these lightning lanes that you pay for, then there's an additional cost on top of that that you have to pay if you want to go on a newer thing. It's a whole thing. And also, I remember being happier and friendlier than it was. That's a great point.

Not the friendliest. Walt Disney would be rolling in his grave. I'm getting yelled at if I want my dull whip in a cone or in a cup. Well, what does a cup look like? What size cup is it? I don't know. It said that it was a cone.

Now you're switching up on me after the side cone or cup. Very angry. Very angry the way they were yelling at me. It wasn't nice. It made me feel not good. Yeah, and then I was driving on the expressway and I was driving past like the Star Wars thing and you know what I saw?

Steel beams, turns out those aren't mountains. Just the tips of them are mountain tops on the edges of steel beams and you can see the exposed steel beams. I feel like this is what Walt would not have wanted. He didn't want us to see how things actually worked. I wanted to think I was in Narnia or whatever Star Wars world is called over there

where you see the actual mountain tops not Yeah, that's not yeah beams. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking That's not the case anymore. Why are you all waiting in line to take pictures? How many pictures do we need to take with Mickey Mouse? That's your kids fault. We met Mickey like four times I feel like once suffice per trip right we met Mickey. Okay now we're going to meet Mickey the next day It's like Mickey remembers us from the day before. We don't need to take another picture with Mickey and then sign the autograph book. And I also think, and I will posit this to the class

and tell me what you guys think about this, there should be separate lines for adults who go to Disney World as just adults. Because they really slow everything down for the people that are there with the children. Adults don't need to take pictures with Mickey Mouse. Okay, adults, if you're waiting 45 minutes to meet Mickey Mouse, reprioritize your life. Okay, and I don't want to be that guy that Mouse, okay? Adults, if you're waiting 45 minutes to meet Mickey Mouse,

reprioritize your life, okay? And I don't wanna be that guy that says that. It's a whole thing. You're anti-Disney adult? Anti-them holding up the lines for children who are there to meet their heroes. When you're there and you're like, oh, please, oh, please.

You were just complaining about your children. I know, I love my children, but that's why it becomes such a chore and it's so much work is because I'm going and I'm waiting in 50-minute lines to meet these characters because there's all these groups of adults that just want to take pictures with them. Do that when you're a child, do that another time. Why are the rest of you agreeing with... Because I'm right, because I'm right about all of this Dan, I'm right. Well I don't know how they know

that you're right about Disney's being less happy and less friendly. It's not even look it's not even a thing that I'm just making up. Disney at one point in time and you can look this up was the happiest place on earth. Right. And guess what happens when you drive in now? You know what the sign says? The most magical place on earth. At some point someone said you know what? Not as happy as it used to be. We used to be a proper country. There earth. I don't know when realized it. I've only been to Disney like one time What I am not I mean I didn't grow up in Florida. It was like a big deal to go to Disney World We only did it once so I don't have Disney Bonafide. I was like you guys go there like ten times a year

I feel like no I can't afford that anymore We didn't do that anymore. When you work for your husband. When it was free. We used to. We used to. Did you only get like two vouchers a year? Two vouchers please. Two please, child's play.

They used to give us a silver pass. The silver pass was you plus three guests. With park hop. What? With park hop. With parking. You plus three guests. With 20% off at the store.

And the parking situation I didn't explore because I'm not ballsy enough to do it, but it's just your Disney ID. I've done it. I've done it. You just show them your Disney ID. I give it to my brother, Paul, who looks nothing like a Disney I've done it. I've done it. I've done it You just show me your Disney I give it to my brother boy I like me and he did it that's crazy because now it's $35 to park there $30 $35 So that's a park that three days you saved a hundred dollars just by showing them your old Disney ID the silver pass right?

So it's you plus three guests then when you get married you tell them I got married and you get an extra silver pass So you get one your spouse gets them I got married and you get an extra silver pass. So you get one, your spouse gets one, plus three guests, plus, plus, plus, plus, twice a year, they'll give you two free passes that you don't have to be there for that you can just give as gifts to people. I think you were just happier when you used to go to Disney because you weren't paying for it. It was the best, are you kidding me?

Oh my God, I love this so much. You're projecting on everyone else. And then like at the holiday time, they send you like popcorn passes and all these things that you go and you wait in the line. Oh, I love this so much. But if you're an ESPN employee and you live in Bristol realistically, like are you ever using those?

Oh, it's a total waste, a total waste for those people. Yeah, they go once a year maybe with a total waste. Has there been an announcement of any kind that it went from the happiest place on earth to the most magical? Like was there a moment? No, that's one of those things you do that under the radar.

Done under the cloak of darkness. Exactly right, you can't tell people that you're doing that. Who wants to admit the place is no longer happy. Exactly. It used to be the happiest, formerly happiest place on earth doesn't sell as many tickets. Magical place?

We'll tell you, the Universal Studios employees, they're a lot happier than the Disney employees. And it's actually magical there because they have the Harry Potter stuff. They're way, way nicer to you than the people at Disney. Yeah, every year we take Camp Fiesta, the camp that I'm involved with to Disney and to Universal and at Disney now They they used to give us like free passes to skip the lines because we're good dealing with cancer who are going and can't really wait out In the hot Sun now all Disney does is give you those genie plus passes that people can pay for where Universal Studios

They're still taking in they're asking everybody questions They're doing it with a smile on their face where Disney we got yelled at for trying to get a kid an extra bottle of water. I just Googled the happiest place on earth, turns out, Finland. What? Wow. Took it from Disney World.

Oh. Please. Put it on the poll please, Juju, at LeBatard Show. Did you know that Finland took the happiest place on earth, Bonafide, from Disney World? Since 2023 it seems. Also put on the poll, where would you prefer to be? The happiest place on Earth or the most magical place on Earth?

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Salute to that boy. Okay, I don't think that's proof. I don't think that's proof. I think that's a lie. I don't think that's... He said salute. I mean... I don't think that is evidence. I don't think that is evidence salute to that boy

So it suggests camouflage. It suggests that juju does no idea what we're talking about And now it's just googling it still gots. I'm not googling it my grandma was stayed in the country I watched the Braves. I watched Colombo, I watched Matlock, I watched Andy Griffin. Yeah, a classic. You said that you go to the penalty box, Dan. You tell him, you tell him, you tell him, you tell him, you tell him, you tell him, you tell him, you tell him, you tell him, you tell him, you tell him, you tell him, back to you Stu.

This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stu guys. ["The Stugas"] Connecticut, no way, dude. No way. It's Kinetikution, it has to be. I'm 80% sure. Kinetikian. Kinetik...

I think it's Kinetikutter. No man. There's no way. I think that's the best one of the available options. What do you call a person from Kinetikut? It can't be a Kinetikutter. Lane. Here is Chris Whittingham speaking of Lane.

Give him his introduction. Chris Whittingham rising, rising broadcaster, conquering the industry with great professionalism and disappointing our audience and the shipping container with what happened this weekend. So we will allow him to explain himself. I am five minutes removed of saying I'm proud of Chris

Whittingham and now I'm booing him. That's right. That is how it works with Stugatz. No thought travels from one sentence to the next with him. No consistency, nothing of the sort. Whittingham, it is nice to see you. What was the reaction? Did you get a lot of general hostility and disappointment

from our audience because you get a lot of general hostility and disappointment from our audience because you were a coward once you reached the heights of broadcasting prestige and you couldn't pull the trigger on penis? It's Paramount Plus, I mean, come on. How did, the Super Bowl was on Paramount Plus. The Super Bowl was on Nickelodeon also, Paramount Plus, no one said what channel

is the Super Bowl on Paramount Plus. Get out of here, buddy. I'm so proud. We set streaming records for our ability to stream the Super Bowl on Paramount Plus. No one said what channel is a Super Bowl on Paramount Plus. Get out of here, buddy. I'm so proud. We set streaming records for our ability to stream the Super Bowl on Paramount Plus. I'm not having this. I'm not having this. Anyway, yeah, once Ryan Cortez texted me,

you're a coward, I knew that things are gonna go poorly for me on the internet and that I was going to get ratted out because believe it or not, this has happened before and I just got away with it. Nobody from the audience happened to be watching. And so whenever this happens, I look at the screen that I'm calling the game from

and I go, oh no, am I gonna have to say it again? And I've just decided, you know what guys, I'm out. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. I did it once. I'm out, it was your thing. I know. And you know what happened Tony?

After I did it, by the way, I did it like a year and a half ago It's been a long time My goal was that eventually the industry would change and there would be a swarm of people that would come from behind me and Realize that this is now acceptable. It's not I didn't change a thing. Nothing happens So why am I gonna bang my head against this per this proverbial door? Welcome and humiliate myself on television. I don't want to do that. This is how things work. It's not giving up on the revolution that quick Exactly imagine if George Wash is like 1777 America never mind

Then we'd be living in England right now, and I actually think that'd be kind of nice You would like that You weren't during the silence during that broadcast after you realized he had been hitting the penis, you 100% were thinking, oh, God damn it, not this again, right? But that's what's going through your mind. Yes, absolutely. 100% and especially I'm waiting for, I'm kind of waiting,

because the last time that this happened, the analysts carried me through it. I forget where it was and when it was, but the analysts just kept talking and talking. I was like, thank you for allowing me the out to not have to say this, but once he goes, no further analysis needed of that Then I have to go. Oh, no, I have to come up with a quip

I have to say something and I came up with well no further play by play needed of that then but it's I Express my cowardice. It seems like you're pinning this on the analyst for saying that yeah, yeah No, I mean realistic. I was one can hope one can hope that the analyst will come to my aid, but in this case, he did not. I don't like this picture in picture that's happening right now. This is unpleasant. This has been staring at me from the bathroom

every single day since we moved in here last evening. Since you left, that's on the bathroom. Every single day. We can say penis more. Wait, on the bathroom or in the bathroom? On the door to the bathroom. It reads, we can say penis more. It's our giant urinal cake, actually.

Yeah. You just piss on it with your turns. Left and eat urinal cake, am I right? You can't lead a revolt and then just wander off into the bushes scared and have it be because you reached at a more prestigious level of broadcasting. Like you can't be proud of yourself there.

Is Apple TV not a big enough platform for you either? Yeah, I have given up. I've given up. I've given up my revolution. It's been a year and a half, not one other broadcaster on one other platform. You can make fun of me for being on Paramount Plus. There are plenty of broadcasters

that are on platforms smaller than that, that don't use the word either. And so why am I going to continue? We made headlines, it turned into a thing on the show, this is a big program with a big reach, and yet somehow I was the only one. Yes, I've given up, I've laid down my sword. You think Billie Jean King was like,

ah, people aren't going along with this whole equality for women thing? You're an awful quitter. This cause isn't as important! I don't know what you're talking about, this is't going along with this holy quality. You're awful. Quitter. This cause isn't as important. I don't know what you're talking about. This is a hugely important cause, Witty. Billy Jean King was fighting on behalf of not having a penis. You're fighting on behalf of being able to say penis. It's not that different.

I would say it's considerably different. The size and significance of the causes depends on the person I can't believe you're just giving up. I can't believe you're quitting. Yeah. Yeah, I'm quitting I'm quitting until I lay I lay out a marker I lay out a challenge to all the other play-by-play broadcasters of America if one of you one Says the word penis on television. I will follow suit and I will return to my cause. But until then, I am laying down my sword because I'm not fighting this battle without an army.

I need an army. I needed an army a year and a half ago when I thought I ended my career. I'm not doing this again. I'm not doing this again without having some kind of support, without having some kind of help. Can one other person be an adult and use the word, the anatomically correct word, which is my argument at the time,

can somebody use the anatomically correct term for the male organ in order for me to follow suit? Because I'm not doing this on my own anymore. I issue a challenge to the broadcasting community. If you really want this to happen, can the audience of this program, which by the way has not ceased to remind me for 20 months, any time, anywhere in America

is hit in the male organ. If all I did, if I turned off all other news sources and just to check to my Twitter replies, the only thing I would be aware of in this world is where in the world someone has been hitting the penis. That's great. Otherwise. I wouldn't be aware of anything. Why have the audience bother other people into doing this The only person you're crusading the pioneer here. Yeah anything your message It's time for other people to join the crew clearly. I'm not a convincing crusader. No Why am I gonna keep crusading when I'm not good at it? Let's name some names Burkhart. Yeah, you're next

challenge the I'm not good at it. Let's name some names. Burkhart. Yeah. You're next. Challenge them individually. Yeah. Burkhart. Hashtag penis challenge. Burkhart. Challenge them by name. I gotta be honest, male organ sounds dirtier to me than penis.

100%. I mean, Augusto, there are guys. Yeah, just make sure you guys tag all of these commentators on Twitter. The Chris Whittingham hashtag penis challenge. No, it's not tagging me in this. No, this isn't about me anymore. Don't tag me. I'm done with this.

Hashtag safeness challenge. At Wolfe, sir. Tag Big Cat from Barstool. He's the only one that's done this since. It was a heck of a penis though, right? What, the defender for AC Milan? Yes. I have no idea.

What? I have no idea. What are you doing? Go sit in the penalty box. Get out of here. Quitting him. It's a strange follow. With someone in the room was suggesting,

I remember who, that when this happens, you should describe the act, because you said, there's, you know, we don't have to describe what this person's going through. But there's a lot of people that don't have penises that don't know what they're going through, that it may be helpful to describe the act because you said there's you know we don't have to describe what this person's going through. There's a lot of people that don't have penises that don't know what they're going through that it may be helpful to describe the pain that they're going through. Do not think that that information has made its way into the wider public. Poor Mateo Gabia by the way I'm just I'm watching him

writhing around on the pain right now writhing around in pain right now on the screen. Horrifying. Poor guy. But it's fairly self-evident, one would imagine. Did you feel like a coward while you were silent? Because the silence was long. Let's play this, let's play the entire clip so that he can stew in the shame of his cowardice and he can hear how much silence there is. Sessing his options,

tries to get the early cross and enforcing Gavia to lunge at it. You know immediately, obviously. He's holding his male organ with his right and left hand. He's making it obvious to all that they're deeply unpleasant. Yeah. We all thought that one a bit. I'll say that no play-by-play needed for that set. Just disgusting.

Despicable. I'm ashamed of you. I've always been proud of you. Your entire career, you've been a pillar that has made us and me proud of everything that you've done, and now look at you at a moment, at your moment, your big moment when you could have ascended even higher in the industry by being not just professional broadcaster Chris Whittingham, but controversial professional broadcaster Chris Whittingham, you declined.

You took an exit ramp on pioneering, on penis earing. I decided that I was was, you're right, it was a very long time. And I knew that if anybody from the audience was watching that they would absolutely pull me up on it. But I decided in that moment, I'm done with this. I'm no longer going to continue with this pursuit. And it was a fruitless endeavor, albeit it created

some content. And by the way, there's no shortage of me saying humiliating things that don't get repeated on this program every single day. You guys, it seemingly played the rejoin of me saying Zaddy every single day. So there's plenty of content available. So I mean, look, I've humiliated myself plenty

and I decided in that moment, I'm done. I'm done. I'm not doing this anymore. Until someone else joins me. Yeah, unless Joe Buck does it and then you're good. Yes, exactly. I mean, I would settle for anyone doing any college basketball game on a weekend.

There's four million of them available on the ESPN network of platforms. There's any number of broadcasts, of any number. I'll take international ones. I've been sent the clip, I guess, of these Indian announcers describing someone getting hit by the post of a soccer match, very descriptively.

I'll take anybody else doing this. You're moving, Rick. And then I will rejoin. You are passing the buck and I was hoping you would pass Joe buck I was hoping that in your career you would just go past him and instead of leading you're following you're literally You're quitting instead of leading and you're telling us you're quitting and will only do this as a follower Not as a correct. I mean. That's correct.

I'm a coward. And you know what? I'm okay in this particular instance with my level of cowardice. You know what? It's been, how long has it been? It was like April of 2022 when I did that. I went home, I laid down in my bed in a cold sweat.

I was horrified at what I had potentially done to my career and I didn't like how I felt that day. And 22 months later, it happened again. And you know what? I decided I didn't like how that felt. I don't like being alone. I was alone. And no one was there to help me, only to mock.

By the way, Whitty, do you want your old job back? We have an opening here. Yeah. I'm good. Can you take this thing, please? I'm tired of looking at it. We are all tired of looking at it. T are all tired of looking at tossing the bin then No, like no one needs to be looking at that. What's your idea? Is there a garbage at the new studio?

I dress a lot of fun. Let's mail it to him. Let's mail it Your address Say hog more. Hog, hog. Say penis challenge. Say penis challenge. Hashtag penis challenge at Bob Costas. Twisted stick! Hey folks, it's Mike Ryan.

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