The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Ordering One Krispy Kreme Donut

Episode Date: July 3, 2024

The hour kicks off with another edition of Against the Spread in which Billy brings the hard-hitting research we have all been waiting for on the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest. It launches a conversation about Krispy Kreme donuts in which Izzy shares a shocking revelation about ordering one singular Krispy Kreme donut at the drive-thru. Plus, the show dives into WNBA All-Star Voting after Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese were the top two vote-getters in the league. How unhinged is the media going to be about this matchup between the WNBA All-Stars and Team USA? Plus, Tony is absolutely fired up for the 4th of July, which he believes is the best holiday on the calendar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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And it is brought to you by Draftkringz. Stay tuned because you'll hear about what DraftKings has to offer throughout the show. DraftKings, the crown is yours. Lucy, kick us off with against the spread. Tonight some WNBA action. The Mystics are at the aces, I almost said vases. That's not what they're called.

The Mystics are really, really bad. So I know it's a giant spread, but I'm taking the acces minus 16 and a half. The Aces are playing, yeah, back to back, but the Mystics are really, really bad, and the Aces are playing their best basketball of the season. So I'm taking the Aces minus 16 and a half, not the Vases, again, the spread.

Take a look. Jessica or Tony, who's next? I'll go. Lucy, I know you only picked that game because you didn't want to have to say Mercury out loud and that's who I'm taking tonight to cover the five-point spread against the Wings. Wangs! Even though they've also played several games back to back but that's besides the point.

Fina's Mercury. Can Lucy not say Mercury? Tony! I can't say a lot of things. Can you say Arnold Palmer? Arnold Palmer. I have to say it like that though, and it makes you sound super rude Can you say real world road rules challenge pretty fast what?

real Road rules challenge. I definitely can't say it really can probably are we're going to the MLB We've got the Miami Marlins and the Boston Red Sox I think they're doing fireworks tonight at the stadium. And you know what the Marlins are when they do fireworks? What are they? I don't know exactly, but very good. I'm gonna take the Miami Marlins

plus one and a half on the run line. Against the spread. Here's Lucy trying to say Arnold Palmer. I can say Mercury and Arnold Palmer now. It's not good. All right, Billy, over to you. Music. All right, Billy. It's not good. Over to you.

Music. All right. Oh, no pamo. It's with a heavy heart that I'm gonna have to make this choice. The Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest. Who's even in it anymore? Great question.

Bunch of hacks. A bunch of hacks. Well, it's a bunch of people that we don't know. I'm not gonna call them hacks, but Joey Chestnut is not in it, which means for the first time in a long time, we're gonna have a new winner. The favorite is Jeffrey Esper.

Now, last year, Jeffrey Esper finished in second place with 49 hot dogs. The year before, he finished in second place with 47 and a half hot dogs. A one and a half hot dog jump from year to year. In third place in 2022, we had James Webb with 41 hot dogs and last year at 47 hot dogs, a six hot dog jump. Finally, the type of research Dan wants for these segments.

As we mentioned, and I believe that Esper had 50 hot dogs in 2021, but I'm kind of speed checking here, so I'm not sure. So it seems like he's gone up and down fluctuated. James Webb, while not the favorite, is a plus 145, and I'm gonna take James Webb with an upset win in the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest. Money run! Money run!

Against us, bruh! You guys think Koiyashi feels like I retired too early? Well, he got banned. He's got a payday. He got banned too? Yeah, because he signed with a competitive eating company beforehand. And then he was up to like shenanigans.

So like he signed with a competitor, and then they banned him from doing it. And then he would go and like crash the hot dog eating contest, and then he'd get arrested, and they'd take him out. Like it was a whole thing. Arrested? Yeah, so then there was questions.

Is Joey Chestnut going to do? Is he goinged? Yeah, so then there was questions, is Joey Chestnut gonna do? Is he gonna, yeah, I don't know. So then Joey Chestnut, is he gonna pull off something? Nope, Joey Chestnut will be in a hot dog eating contest tomorrow as well. On Netflix though. No, no, no, that's I think Labor Day. Tomorrow he's gonna be in a hot dog eating contest

I think at Fort Bragg with soldiers. Is that with the vegan dogs? In the troops? Is that the vegan dogs? No, that's the Netflix one. The vegan dog is the Netflix one. I'm so confused about all of this Joey Chestnut stuff, but I do feel like I'm going to be more interested

in the hot dog eating contest than ever, knowing that we'll have a new winner crown. I gotta tell you. It's a different segment. I gotta tell you, I haven't watched a hot dog eating contest several times. Segway. Not, I haven't watched a hot dog eating contest several times. Segway.

It's not really, we still talk about hot dogs. Only a few days. There's a reason why Joey Chestnut wins. Beyond just the talent, no the talent, beyond the talent. Like his technique. I see some of these other clowns that are trying to eat the whole hot dog. There's a guy putting ketchup and mustard on it.

He's like, guy, come on, we're speeding, buddy. What are we doing? Yeah, man. You shouldn't be able to dunk in water. Clowns are trying to eat the whole hot dog. There's a guy putting ketchup and mustard What are we doing? Yeah, man like you shouldn't be able to dunk in water. Why not? It's just like I think it should be old-fashioned eat the hot dog. I think that's more player safety, right? Yeah, yeah that the hot dogs getting lodged right here the bread That's I feel like personally. I'm not in watching shape for the Nathan's hot dog eating contest. I've had heartburn slash acid reflex the last few days. I'm a tummy ache survivor. I'm here at work. Tummy ache city.

Tummy ache city. And I just feel like I'm not ready to watch men and women regurgitate hot dogs on TV. I gotta say, you know, having, like I said, with all the hot dog talk, I talked about this with Fuentes a few months ago. You guys know about the 999 Challenge, right? Like you gotta eat.

I do, but tell Izzy. Nine hot dogs, nine beers, and nine innings at a baseball game. Ah. I think I can absolutely crush it. Who's pitching? That's a good question. Because if it's, I mean, if it's an ace, it's pretty short innings.

Dude, that seventh, eighth, and ninth inning are going to be the worst experience of your life. I think the beer is the hardest part. If you're like six, imagine being six of each. Like if you're doing the inning thing, like I'm gonna try to do one of each an inning, it's the bottom of the six, you just finished six hot dogs. I don't think you pace yourself on this.

You gotta come out quick, I would say. Yeah, you gotta get out to an early lead. And then, cause if you do like one, and then like I'm done for the inning, like, no, no. No, you're never gonna catch up. Your body, the more you eat quickly, the more you can eat. If you eat a little bit, wait a little, eat a little bit, then you can't eat that much.

I'm looking up this Jeffrey Esper, by the way, the person that I did not pick to win the hot dog eating contest, and it may have been a mistake. Jeffrey Esper, I'm on up this Jeffrey Esper, by the way, the person that I did not pick to win the hot dog eating contest, and it may have been a mistake. Jeffrey Esper, I'm on his official major league eating profile. He's 49 years old. He, uh.

Prime of his career. He, I don't know, the other guy's 35, which is also why I was thinking, big jumps in hot dogs. He's a widely fed. I feel like maybe we go. But this Jeffrey Esper has a world record, I guess, for eating 9. seven five pounds of spam in eight minutes

281 Buffalo chicken wings in 12 minutes Wow that's a lot of way he has Buffalo wings to 83 slices of pizza in 10 minutes. I've done that 23 point seven five pounds of strawberry shortcake in eight minutes 23 pounds of strawberry shortcake in eight minutes. Oh, thirsty as shit. 23 pounds of strawberry shortcake in eight minutes. How much milk do you have left? That's diabolical. Do you get to take a bathroom break? Is it okay to take a bathroom break during the nine inning challenge?

Yeah, only number one. Yeah, no, you can go to the bathroom. As long as you don't vomit, right? You can go to the bathroom. The idea is that in nine innings, you have to have nine beers and nine hot dogs. I think I have a formula that we can make this happen. I mean, what you do is you double up on the dogs.

Three pre-rolls. Now, sometimes if you're like a little stone, you start thinking about what you're doing. It's like, am I really stuffing nine of these things in my face? I'm not hungry anymore. I'm out of here. No, I don't think.

Man, can you do the beer first, knock the beer out of the way, I don't think, man, can you, I don't think you can do beer, can you do the beer first, knock the beer out of the way? I don't think that helps. I think you gotta go the other way around, right? Beer first, you'll be burping the whole time, you'll be too bloated. You also need a base, Izzy. Hot dogs first, you're not gonna be burping.

No, but the hot dog gives you the base, the bread and the dog give you the base. No, the base is pepsi AC, guys, that's the base. That's what I think. I think you go three or four hot dogs first inning. I think you got a shotgun. You can't eat four hot dogs in one inning. I think you got a shotgun. You can't eat four hot dogs in one inning.

Yeah, you can. Oh my god. What? I'll do it right now. Not half an inning. I'll do it right now. I'll do it right now. I'll do it right now.

Go get me four hot dogs. Ethan, go get four hot dogs. And cook them. Beef, please. Cook hot dogs. No, don't get me raw ones. Don't get me pork ones. Chicago dogs?

Do you want to eat like a little tomato, a little sport pepper? And a big bucket of water, please, Ethan. Why not? A little salt. I'm not going to eat them fast. No, I'm not a speed eater, but I'll eat four hot dogs right here I'll eat four hot dogs in one segment, but for your safety Get over to me right now go get a good Nathan's I believe that he can have four hot dogs

It's not Chris. I don't eyes it for my boy dude. I like I go home. I want a snack I make hot dog my mom's like what are you doing? I'm like I just want a snack everyone in here could just crush for hot dogs in that one No In 12 minutes you need four hot dogs Saying I couldn't physically do it, but I'm gonna feel like shit. Yeah. Well, that's the thing. I like hot dogs Make mine carrot dogs, please. Carrot. But you don't like dogs? I don't eat meat.

I'm having second guesses on James Webb, I gotta be honest with you. 70 glazed donuts in eight minutes isn't that impressive to me. 70? Yes, 70. 70? In eight minutes. No, seven zero, seven zero.

I've seen Billy do a box of Krispy Kreme in five minutes. I had two this morning. My ex-husband had a professor, I guess an econ professor, who used that for, what's the theory, diminished returns, right? So he had him stand in front of the class and eat as many Krispy Kreme donuts as he could eat.

And I think he got through like 11 in just that one setting and had never eaten a Krispy Kreme donut again for the rest of his life. Again, wow. I think the last Krispy Kreme donut I had, I was like mmm this is it felt like it sat in my stomach for a few days from one moment

of vulnerability not that impressed with the Krispy Kreme don't know I had the saddest Krispy Kreme experience the other day and this was to answer Billy's question you asked me in the eating area earlier whether when the last time I had a donut? What's wrong with you?

It's the eating area. The commissary, the commissary. Sorry, the commissary as well. And the answer was just a few days ago, I went through, near me they have a Krispy Kreme drive-thru, and when I ordered a singular glazed donut, she responded with, they're not hot right now, and I said it doesn't matter.

It absolutely matters. I know, I ate it anyway. It matters so much doesn't matter. I know, I ate it anyway. It matters so much. I cried a little bit, then I ordered it anyway. I could have just come back later. What kind of monster orders one Krispy Kreme donut? Yeah, that's crazy. At a drive-thru.

What are you doing, my guy? These are not hot. I think that doesn't matter, just give it to me. I'll take one, please. That'll be $1.12. Thank you, have a good day. I had it. I have a sentence here that a lot of people are going to show. I thought about getting two. I thought about getting two.

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using promo code DAN, D-A-N at liquidiv.com. Don LeBretard. We didn't get to your guys' against the spread. You're right, you're right, you're right. I don't have it against the spread. Oh, well. Because I wasn't prepared for this segment. You need an Ian in your life.

You have actively played defense against me today in a way that has rarely been this undercutting. Stugats! Defense wins championships, baby. That's show business. This is the Don LeBattar Show with the Stugats. I was at a Walmart the other day and like there's no Krispy Kreme buy me right? There's not just a ton of Krispy Kremes in my area so like I will go to like a grocery store and I'll get like the pre-packaged like Krispy Kreme variety pack whatever right but a lot of times those will sit there like a day or two

right? You wish, like a week. I found that at will sit there like a day or two, right? I go with. I've found that at Walmart, they have like a little Krispy Kreme donut section, like a little donut window. That says delivered fresh. That you go in there like with the little tongs and you like take out the donut and you serve yourself. Oh, they're always filled. No one eats those things.

I do. So I went and I told my daughter because she wanted a pink donut. And I was like, okay, come with me to Walmart and we'll go get you a pink donut. I'll do the things that I have to get here, like some groceries or whatever, and we'll get you a pink donut with sprinkles.

That's what she wanted. But you can't just get one Krispy Kreme donut because as Chris pointed out, you're a crazy person if you do that. But the donuts there are priced per donut, right? So like you go, you take out the donut, you put it in the one donut sleeve, you scan the barcode and they charge you $2.12 or whatever.

Which is like a whole nother story. Donuts should cost 50 cents. Yes, that's what donuts cost now. That's the price of donuts in America. Got a little walk around donut first. They should cost like 54 cents maximum, a donut. That's a platform I think anyone would get elected on. The 54 cent donut.

Go back to junior high, middle school days. Well, you're old. You sell your donuts, you're just a quarter per donut. A quarter? Atta boy. What were you paying for gas? You know how much money people were making? Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun Izzy had like a wax mustache. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I would always buy doughnuts off of them. So Krispy Kreme is actually from my hometown.

Really? Yes, it is. Winston-Salem, North Carolina, birthplace of Krispy Kreme. So all of our school events were always catered by Krispy Kreme. Are you over them at this point? I am not over them, but there was a point where my town was top 10 in obesity.

Hold on. Krispy Kreme. Coincidence, I wonder if there's a correlation. Cigarettes and donuts. Cigarettes, donuts, and I think also Texas Pete hot sauce. Okay, well anyways, so the point is this. If you go to like a Publix, you buy the prepackaged things, you pay like $10 or something for six, or like $9 for six, right?

Which is crazy, because again, 54 cents maximum is what a donut should cost in this country. Then I go to Walmart and they have a little box of six, so I'm like, I'm gonna get this box of six, it's gonna be cheaper, so I put in the six, I go to scan it, $12. They still charge me $2 per donut. They just had a convenient box, what do you mean impossible?

It happened. I would take it back, I would leave it there. I would absolutely not buy it. I would scan it and look at it and be like, no, I see ya. I can't do it, I used to be like nah. I can't do it. I used to work in retail. I can't just leave things unaccounted for. For $12 donuts?

If I see something that I've, even if I go to a fitting room, and let me tell you something, when I worked in retail, go-backs, my favorite activity. When the store was closed, I'd just go and I'd just take things back because you're just gonna bag full of clothes

and you're just talking to people the whole time, putting a bag, straightening out the hangers. You take your time. You know what time you're gonna leave. You're like, I'm gonna have this take as long as I need it to take. I like this. This is like an end of the shift activity,

is what you're saying? Yeah, go backs. So I was a cashier. Well, I wore many hats at Victoria's Secret, but I sometimes was a stock boy. I then was a cashier. But I'd like to do go-backs sometimes if I liked the people that I worked with

because I could just kind of pace myself and I could go in and talk to them and then the manager would be like, really, really, where are you on the walkie-talkie? And I'm like, doing go-backs. And they're like, you've been doing go-backs for an hour and a half. We want to go home.

And I'm like, well, panties aren't going to put themselves away. I'm the worst with that at grocery stores. If I have something in my cart and I decide that I don't need that anymore, that is going wherever I'm at. Well this banana, this is going aisle seven. You're the worst person on earth.

Chris, we know. See ya. You're a human nightmare. We know you're not putting shit back at the grocery store. Oh, like you guys are walking all the way back to the group. If I try things on at a store, and they're like, did it not fit? I'm like, I'll say yes, and then I'll go put it back anyways.

I'm like, yeah, no, it was great, I think I'm gonna take it and I put it back. But then you're depriving someone of the best time of the entire day. Yeah, but I see, I took inventory. I don't wanna say that I'm judging the people, but I see them like, this is a person that doesn't wanna be here later today putting things back.

I'm gonna give them a night off. So you're judging a book by its cover. Exactly right, but in a positive way, a good way. What were we talking about? Hot dogs? No, we were talking about the WNBA all-star the game Oh, yeah, the teams have been announced the top two vote getters are Just sells me rookies. Do we know no the top two vote getters were Caitlin Clark and Aliyah Boston

I think oh the second and then Asia Wilson the thing that was confusing So like I tried to vote for or I think I did vote for an All-Star team, and I just pick all Notre Dame players, that's like the only thing I do. I'm like Skylar Diggins 10 times. Didn't vote enough because she didn't make it. But you could vote for players that were already on Team USA, even though they were already going to be at All-Star because it's Team USA versus the WNBA All-Stars. So that's very confusing because I assume that people voted for like,

or didn't vote for people that made the Team USA team because they already knew they were gonna be there. I don't understand how any of that works. This is a little confusing, yes. Why would they just take off those names from the ballot? I don't know. I don't know if there's like a financial incentive to being like a top voter.

I don't know how any of that works. But if there is, I would complain about, wait,'s like a financial incentive to being like a top voter. I don't know how any of that works. But if there is, I would complain about, wait, there's a financial incentive, everyone already knows I'm gonna be there, so what if all the people who would have voted for me otherwise won't vote for me? I'd have a problem with that. I don't understand how, and the voting isn't even like,

the end all be all. There's like 50% of it is the fan vote, and then like other people decide. Yeah, media and players. Right, but Kailyn Clark received the most votes. She received like 700,000 votes. And that's a win for the WMEA that she did not make the Olympic team

because now she gets to headline the All-Star game, which is four eyes. And headline the All-Star game, playing against the Olympic team. So you get the rare snub, they get to do something about it directly. I also think the biggest selling point isn't even that. It's the fact that Kaitlin and Angel are now going to be playing for the same team.

And that's never happened before even in the AAU circuit or USA basketball back when they were, you know, teenagers. It's going to be something that people care probably way too much about in a bad way. Do you think they're going to do the thing where like that we've we gotta show the world that we don't have any problems with one another, and so they're gonna be over the top, like, oh, good one, and joking around and stuff? She only pastored the angel four times. Definitely. I feel like they kind of do go out of their ways

to be like, we don't hate each other, like this whole rivalry is a media construct, which I feel like a lot of rivalries are, because I remember when I was growing up and I thought like, oh man, Notre Dame, this is just an example personally, Notre Dame football players, they really hate those USC players.

And then I went to college and was friends with a bunch of football players and they were like, yeah, it's a big rivalry, but for cool with them, it's fine. That's just a thing that I think all fans kind of like, some rivalries, some rivals I think do hate each other, truly, but for the most part, it's fine. That's just the thing that I think all fans kind of like, some rivalries, some rivals I think do hate each other like truly, but for the most part it's like, no you respect the other team and you just want to beat them.

I wish Juju were here for this too because I heard him say yesterday that he watches every WNBA game, which I do not believe. I believe it. And NBA game. And NBA game. Can we check in on how we think the game is being talked about right now? Because something happened to me yesterday while I was watching. It kind of made me switch the channel because Kelsey Mitchell fouled Kelsey Plum and then

the announcer just said that those are two of the greatest scorers the game has ever seen in the history of the game. In the history of Kelsey's. And then they said they kept talking about it and then said, well, they were in this place until Caitlin passed them last year. And I was like, oh, you're talking college basketball. That's an entirely different discussion to me than professional basketball, at least on the men's side.

And so the idea that this is like the WNBA feels like the way a lot of people talk about it. And I think this goes back to the goat discussion because we never talk about goats when they're graduating college, right? It feels like the WNBA is like an extension of the NCAA for some people because they're just no more about the NCAA

and they're just getting to the WNBA. I'm confused by it. I think that like maybe there, I heard the same thing and I heard, I've seen like different comparisons where they're like taking into account people's college careers, like into the pros and giving it like a lot of weight, which I think is kind of trying to help

maybe some of the new fans that are just now starting to watch because they were fans of the college game. And I think maybe that's where some of the bleed over is coming, because you're right. I think if I ever watched an NBA game and they were saying these are the best scores in the history of the game,

and they were the best scoresers in men's college basketball. I probably don't even know who those people are honestly. I looked up yesterday the top whatever 13 scorers in men's NCAA history. Number one, Pete Maravich, there's a couple names on her that are recognizable, Oscar Robertson, Hersey Hawkins. By the way, I only know pistol Pete's on that list because Caitlin Clark recently broke his record

and people got a bunch of arguments about the three point line. The one current player on that list, Doug McDermott. Iowa. If anybody would have said. Creighton, actually. Creighton. No, I mean, he's from Iowa, he's from Ames. If anybody would have said in his rookie year

or in his second year, one of the greatest scorers in the history of the game, without specifying college, people would have gotten nuts. Like, what are you talking about? He just got to the league, we don't know if he can score with these people, and it's the same thing with WNBA rookies or young players. We don't know if they can score with these women yet.

Give it some time. And so it feels like it's just more of the conflating stuff that I find confusing, and I just think it's unfair to, this is probably why some of the vets are upset. It's like, wait a second, I'm actually one of the greatest scorers in the history of the game, because upset. It's like, wait a second. I'm actually one of the greatest scorers in the history of the game because I got a 10 year professional career behind me.

I saw they were comparing Caitlin Clark and Asia Wilson stats. So on the one hand you have Caitlin Clark, who's by far, I think the best passer on the Fever by far and is shooting long threes in every game. But Asia Wilson's averaging 26 points per game. I think 11 rebounds or something like that. And Kaitlyn's averaging like I think 16 points per game and maybe like six or seven assists and maybe three rebounds,

I'm not sure, five rebounds. So thank you Lucy. So I think it's like a little unfair to even like set them up because you're comparing like a rookie who's very, very good, not saying that she's not great, obviously. But Asia Wilson is on another planet. She's having an insane season. She might break the record for the highest points average of any player in WNBA history this year. And this isn't a knock on any one person, one announcer,

one analyst. I just feel like it's kind of all happening that way. It's just kind of lumped in together, except when I hear certain conversations, like some here on this show. Ooh. Are we doing a good job? Yeah, I mean, look, you, Juju,

I mean, you guys know what you're talking about. It is what it is, it's obvious. And not to say that the announcers that are calling the game don't know what they're talking about. It's just about how we're talking about the game, how we're introducing it to new people, perhaps. Shouldn't we, if they already know the young players

who are bringing their eyes there, then tell them about the other people who have already been here and say, hey, these are also great players who have done these amazing things, and though maybe we get that balance that we're looking for. I do think it's probably,

to like maybe give like a little bit of credit to the people calling the games, it probably is hard because they want to make sure that the people tuning in for the first time get what they're coming for for which is like Caitlin Clark and Like the fever and and like the things that they're like the fever have obviously become very popular this season Alia Boston and Kelsey Mitchell also received a ton of all-star votes They were all stars last year and Alia Boston was rookie of the year

But like the amount of people voting on the all-star game like quadrupled I think since last year who was a player that. So. Who was the player that, sorry to interrupt, who was the player that Kaitlyn dropped? She missed a shot, but she dropped somebody. It was, I think it was Rebecca Allen on the Mercury. I'm not sure, it was on Sunday, right? I got the chills when I heard that call and it was my guy Mark Jones saying he dropped her

like a diss track and I was like, ah, thank you. Thank you WNBA for giving me that moment. Because if she would have made the shot, it would have been an all-timer. Gotta hit the J. People would have gone insane. But I do think the announcers are trying to strike the balance of, we know there's new fans here

that wanna hear about Caitlin Clark and all of the things that comes along with that. But at the same time, yeah, the Fever are not one of the best teams in the league, they are playing a lot better, but the Aces are still far and away, much better than the Fever, and have much better overall talent, and are just playing at a different level right now.

Back in my day, Tony, what they used to call million dollar move? 10 cent shot. 10 cent finish, that's how we used to do things back in my day. I think there's also a pressure probably coming from their networks and their employers, where it's kind of like how we always see first take talking about the Cowboys.

It's because there are ratings that follow it. They're probably saying, hey, you need to talk about Caitlin. We need to have Caitlin Segments and Sports Center. And they need to be kind of the focus of the halftime show. I'm sure I don't have a problem with that. Just specify. Just say college. Just say one of the greatest college scores ever. And now transferring that into the NBA.

And also, to be clear, when you're the announcer calling the game, like in a studio show, yes, we have a limited number of topics and what we talk about is what's on the screen. I'm calling the game, Caitlin Clark's in the game. I don't have to talk about her.

If I just keep people like, oh, you're calling Caitlin Clark, she's right there. She's right there, run up, yep, now she's running back. I could talk about whatever. So the idea that even the commentary has to be in this weird kind of prism is sort of silly and ridiculous.

Also, I looked up the top scores in women's college basketball history. 10 of the 13 have played like in the last 15 years. And three of them were on the court last night? Salute. Happy birthday, America. Howdy folks, it's Mike Ryan and as you know, I've been telling you on the air about the Game Time app.

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Do you go somewhere for fireworks with your kids? A little staycation for Lauderdale Beach for me. I gotta tell you, Jess. Not into it? They done grew out of it. Like it's like, okay, we get it, it's fireworks. It's always been a sort of a backup, background holiday for me.

I think I'll go to like the Cody family celebration on the beach more than my family will do anything. I am actually going to Orlando with my family this time, but it just happens to be around. A background holiday. It's weird that you just said I don't usually hang out with my family when do anything. I am actually going to Orlando with my family this time, but it just happens to be around. It's weird. It's weird that you just said I don't usually hang out with my family when you're going to hang out with your family.

Like the first time in probably 10 years I've hung out with them on the fourth. Izzy, July 4th is the greatest holiday on our calendar. What? Bar none, easily. Okay, so I would think that you could relate to this. Here in July in South Florida is the worst possible time to be here.

And so every time- It's not that bad. Like everyone freaks out about this heat, all right? It's not that bad. Jump in the pool. It's not just the heat, the weather you can't predict it. It could be raining during the fireworks.

It could be raining all day or it's just gonna be steaming hot. I'd rather just be out of town doing something random. That's life. Sometimes it's gonna rain. Sometimes you're not gonna be able to see the fireworks. But you know what? America is always ready for you.

I do love the 4th of July, but I am kind of just like neutral on fireworks. I don't think of them positively, I don't dislike them. I am just like a flat line. A lot of places are doing the drone show now Chris. Yeah. How do you feel about the drone show? Look, I've never seen one in person, but I've seen the videos, and they remind me of Spider-Man, Far From Home. And I'm like, you know what, this is pretty cool that we're in the future,

we could do things like that with drones. So we found out the other day that there's a drone show in Miami, and we were like, oh, that'll be good, it won't freak out our dog. Is it this show? No. And then we realized that our dog

is actually afraid of drones, because one time my boyfriend's dad flew a drone Near my dog and she lost her fucking mind. She went crazy. So we're definitely gonna be hunkering down. Okay, let's let's play this out Let's talk the biggest payoffs For holidays. Okay Christmas by far the biggest payoff for me, right? Actual gifts things that I like I enjoy payoff versus payout dress exactly the stress of oh we have to get Another gift here, and we're late, and we got to do something else you got a plan for 17 people I gotta beat it is how that's a holiday itself, or is that preparing for the holiday?

It's all encompassing. It's all encompass on okay. You guys are more gift receivers and gift givers? I know I'm a gift giver. I was just doing that for the show, but I Of course payoff wise I love it more than any other holiday. Okay, probably second place to me Thanksgiving Love Thanksgiving. I put Thanksgiving second to third place. You don't go to two houses. Probably Valentine's Day. Yeah for payoffs Chris you're doing in-laws and your parents for every holiday? The major like eating one, like Thanksgiving and Christmas have lessened for me as I've like gotten

the family thing going, because it's just like we gotta go here and then we gotta go here and it's just, Fourth of July is like, Daddy's gotta drive. Fourth of July it's like we're all going to the beach and let's get fucking drunk. Oh God, nothing like it.

And on that note, I wanna cycle back to Izzy having Valentine's Day in his top three. That was a stretch. Sucker's holiday. He's saying fucking drunk. Oh God, nothing like it. And on that note, I want to cycle back to, is he having Valentine's Day in his top three? That was a stretch. Sucker's holiday. He's saying good payoff. It's all about the payoff. I get what he's saying. Hell yeah.

It's like these people don't like chocolate. And then probably put birthday after that, even though that's not really a holiday. It's not a holiday. Everybody has one. It's a personal holiday. It's a personal holiday. But yeah, I just think,

I just don't think the payoff of the fireworks is enough And I thought about the fireworks get fireworks on the holidays to get over the fireworks the fire What is it? It's about a beach day with the beach? pool the cold Right the great taste less filling whatever they Want a Miller light right now just thinking about filling whatever they want a Miller light right now just thinking about the boat and you got the middle light with a little sweat dripping down the can

come on now dude you're a boat guy I'm shocked that you're not like I'm gonna go on the boat on the 1st of July the 2nd of July the 3rd of nothing's like the 4th though but that's when all the assholes are out, so I don't blame you for that. It's Miami, the assholes are out all the time. Good point, touche. It's more waste than one. What?

Anal bleaching. But yeah, I think my excitement for Fourth of July directly correlates to my access to a grill, and since I moved to Miami, I've had almost no access to a grill, so I've just not had the best Fourth of July. Don't they have grills here at the house? Let's grill, let's go up to the deck and grill right now

We ran out we ran out Yeah, I can I tell you guys an idea for a bit that I had that I discussed this with Lewis Well, we can talk about this on there because none of the main participants are gonna be here Okay, good. So here's my idea and tell me guys what you think about this. Sometimes I just have ideas. Yeah, right So it's it's for Greg Cody on a Tuesday. I love it already. And what I was thinking is, because Miller Lite's a sponsor, he's a Miller Lite man,

I was thinking of bringing one of those little personal coolers and having it here under my desk, and I was gonna have it filled with ice cold Miller Lite's, and every time Greg made what I deemed a good point, I was gonna reward him with a Miller Lite. I was gonna be like, Greg, you know what? Great point. Why don't you enjoy an ice cold Miller Lite?

And then we do like the Miller Lite read and just keep giving him Miller Lite throughout the show. Do you have to drink them? Yeah, of course. He gets to drink them. He gets to drink them. No, but Billy, what you're supposed to do is when he makes a good point, he says, you know what, Greg?

You hold up to the mic. You earn this one, an ice cold, yeah. You gotta do that, cause that sound, and way the best sound the sound from a Miller light can It's like there's acoustic panels in the can somehow also oddly I feel like it's easier to chug than any other beer Oh, it is responsibly of course responsibly if Miller light if you make a good opening a Miller light where we're a holiday where would that rank it be July 4th? Yeah, what are we talking about V day, baby?

Every day feels like a holiday when I have a Miller light. I'll tell you that right now I won't be watching fireworks tomorrow. Can I take another idea that I had a guess? I know you think I have two more ideas to run past this is this the one I'm thinking you're talking about This is wedding week. Ah, okay. Okay, here's wedding week. So we mentioned on the air that people sometimes, from time to time, will send us wedding invitations. Yes.

Chris Weddingham, by the way, he was welcoming that. I think that was where it all started. Chris Weddingham? Chris Weddingham, yeah. He was like invite me to your wedding because I want to dance at a wedding. Yeah. Well we see now he dances at hockey games, so.

Instruct me how to Douglas. Ha ha ha ha ha. So the idea for wedding week is, I wanted to solicit wedding invitations, and then for a week I was gonna find coordinated weddings that I could just travel the country, showing up unannounced to people's weddings that they announced.

Like Don Madden? That they invited us to. Yeah, like just have like a bus or whatever and take me to weddings across the country. I found one and I hate to break the news to Mesa and Greg here. I'm not gonna be able to attend your wedding in Portugal because it's the day before NFL kickoff

and I think I'm gonna be at the game for that. I'm not sure yet. But it is a Wednesday wedding. It is a Wednesday wedding which would have been great for wedding week. So if you're out there, you have Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday weddings. We would love if you could coordinate it for a week so we can kind of just go on this wedding week situation.

Send us your invites here over at the office. I don't know the address. You can figure it out. Google.com. You know what's funny Billy? I was just thinking if you had a Tuesday wedding would you have going up on a Tuesday on the band list or on the playlist? Band list.

Band? It's on a Tuesday! Who is this guy? This is not my Israel Gutierrez. You are not, yeah. This is not him. You're not a fun wedding person, that's what I'm finding out. Is it a good dancing song?

Yeah, man. Does it matter if it's good or not? It's a great drunk song. Squad going up, everyone see every. That's for the after party. You gotta play, you gotta wait. The reception? Yeah, no, the after the reception. After the reception.

Yeah. After party is the after party. Hey, so Prim Serpipat and my buddy Ben, who I call Ben Serpipat, when they got married, they had like a wedding and all the older people were there and then at some point the DJ started playing the explicit version and I was like, oh, and I realized, oh, it's just us.

And then after that, we went to a club. And Gojo was with us till like five or six in the morning. He had seven a.m. radio. Was that with Stu Gottz on Sunday? He's a legend. He missed the show because he was at a wedding. Was that one? Yes, that was the one.

That's the one he no-showed? By the way, when we were talking about the hot dog eating contest, I think Gojo called one of the hot dog eating contests, I think he did a COVID year when there was no crowd and it was just him and one other broadcaster in a closed building where they did the hot dog eating contest. We were so desperate for sports because most of the sports

hadn't really restarted yet. I remember just being like, oh my God, there's an event today, I'm gonna watch this. I'm so excited for 4th of July. I was back when we were clamoring for the Valero. South Korean baseball. Like three of you nodded, I don't think you guys even get that reference, do you?

Yeah, clam for the Valero. Just being a good teammate. Valero. The gas station. Everybody knows. I love the Valero. We'll always have the Valero. You want my other idea?

Yes, please. Joe Trillionaire. Oh, wait a second. Billy, we have a minute left in this segment. I don't think you can do Joe Trillionaire justice in 60 seconds. Okay. Oh, I don't.

Nevermind, then I won't tell you. Well, I just saw. There was a challenge, actually. Okay, so, let's say you're a person with a net worth of $100.5 billion. Is the.5 important here? It's 500 million, yes it is. Very important.

Because in this show, Joe Trillionaire, you get someone who has $100 billion and then 500 million, and you see if they're willing to gamble the $100 million on 10 to one odd to be the world's first trillionaire. Explain the math, because we're American. Explain the math for me. 60 seconds really wasn't enough time.

We in a mean had this conversation privately and it had a bunch of different channels that we could have gone down in 60 minutes, like 60 seconds. What are we supposed to do? You know what we could do? Let's tease it for the next segment. Let's not, this died out of line. That was a bad idea.

Joe Trillionaire's dead. Forget it TV execs. It's not happening. Well, if there's anything you've learned in this segment, just remember America is always ready for you. Am I right, Tony? Thank you. Howdy folks, it's Mike Ryan. And as you know, I've been telling you on the air about the Game Time app.

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