The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Relational Vigilantism

Episode Date: June 27, 2024

Charlotte sticks around to discuss the rest of the NBA Draft including media darling Dalton Knecht, the Nikolas Jokic-Jovic-and-Topic, and being worried about the French. We also learn more about the Pope! Then, it's time for Thursday Thunder, we discuss the new Holiday movie featuring the Kansas City Chiefs, and finally get to the brawl between fans of Dave Grohl and Swifties. Plus, fandom in journalism, the biggest human beings of all-time, and Lucy tells a story of the guy sitting next to her on a plane swiping through nudes on his phone... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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S-A-B, the C-V, copyright 2024, próximo. Jersey City, New Jersey, please drink responsibly. This is the Don Leventor show with the Stugats podcast. Enough with the Knicks. We had a whole NBA first round of a draft last night and we're talking about the Knicks. How does this keep happening? Charlotte, do you have any like overall NBA draft takeaways other than you didn't know any of the players and most of us didn't really either,

except for that one. And that's why we're talking about the Knicks, by the way. They did transactions with players we know. I'm asking an NBA expert, please give me something here. Yeah, I mean, I think that it's always the sexier names are what I'm like, oh, the Knicks, fun, cool. I think that the, I'm worried about the French. That. I think that the, I'm worried about the French.

That's what I'll say. I'm worried about the French. I think that in a few years, the French national team, are you guys worried about the French? Let me pose a question to the room. Is this, are the French in a basketball sense, scary? They had a good night. They had a good night and they've got that extraterrestrial

that is gonna grow into the most dominant player in the sport if he doesn't get hurt. I just think, I just think in a couple years that Alexander Sarr, Zachary Risachet, look, they're coming for us. They're coming for us, we have to be ready, we have to be vigilant. And they also are very polished.

Just looking at those French guys in the interview room afterwards and their suits look so nice and they sound, you know, really smart because they've got these French accents. Let's go back to last year when you did this interview for some reason with Wemba Nyama in which you weren't holding a microphone. You were just, or not a microphone that was professional.

You just seem and look like a very giddy high school person just holding a rant. Well, because look at this microphone. This doesn't look, this is not the most professional interview Wemba Nyama's ever done. Oh, is that my fault? Is that my fault that we had a little lob that I had to hold up to Victor Wemba Nyama? I don't know whose fault it was.

Am I supposed to, is this a BYOM situation? I don't know where you got this microphone, why we didn't give you a better microphone, but let's look at this together and you explain what's happening here. And how do you say remember the Alamo in French? Sorry? Can you say remember the Alamo in French? Remember the Alamo?

Yeah. What is the Alamo? It's a San Antonio thing. Souvenirs du Alamo? Amazing, thank you so much. Congrats. He thought you said Elmo. That is not the Alamo. He thought you said Elmo.

What kind of work was that? That work was being like, do you remember the Alamo? And he's like, I don't know what that is because I've been in America for like two seconds at this point. Dan, I waited outside the men's bathroom for Victor Wembenyama to come out so that I could interview him. That was not giddy high school energy. That was me flipping out because I was like, this feels invasive. This guy's just trying to get to draft night,

but also like content is king. And he, look how far I had to reach. I don't even know if I could hold up a proper microphone for that long. I think it's good I had a lav. This freeze frame is wonderful for a number of reasons. Will you guys look at the look of confusion on Wenbon Yama's face as Charlotte-

Her elbow. As Charlotte thrusts- The elbow? The full extension of her arm and that tiny microphone into his confused face. Yeah, you know, I didn't get any of that last night, Dan. I didn't corner any tall freshmen, Frenchmen by the restrooms.

I probably should have tried harder. You were as obsessed as we were with Tommy DeVito's agent when he became famous last year, Sean Stilado. He was with the Pope here recently, and we have some footage somehow of him, I don't understand this, of him giving the Pope a football. Tommy DeVito's agent really has made it to the top of sport and religion by giving this football to the Pope. How does this happen? What is happening here?

There's an old Italian children's storybook. If you give a pope a football, he'll ask for a helmet. And then if you give him a helmet, no. Look, I don't know. This guy's everywhere. Sean Stiletto is... Okay, thank you. Sean Stiletto is like, he is still riding this high of Tommy DeVito having like four good games last year. I saw this on Instagram because I follow Sean Stiletto. Remember when we interviewed him? That was games last year. I saw this on Instagram, because I follow Sean Solano.

Remember when we interviewed him? That was fun. Anyway, I followed him on Instagram and he posted that. And I was like, okay, well, he's reached his final form. Do you think the Pope has ever held a football before? Yes. Charlotte, my culture is not your content. My bad.

It's probably all the football, but not a football. I think Jim Harbaugh was actually in the Vatican like two months ago. I shudder to think what that conversation was like. Did he give the Pope a football? I'm pretty sure the Pope has received several American footballs. Charlotte, how do you feel about knowing

that in the NBA now there is a Nikola Jokic, a Nikola Jovic and a Nikola Topic? Listen, Jeremy, don't let this go to your head. I retweeted your tweet about that. Oh my God, you did? Thanks, Charlotte. Yeah, yeah, you're welcome, I know. Once again, not to brag.

Look, there are so many, and I like the Bojan Bogdanovich and Bogdan Bogdanovich and Boban Marjanovic. See, this is- It's tough. You gotta worry, what? It's tough, it's tough. Did you say stop? No, you're allowed to stumble over some of that,

you are trying to say it quickly and it's quite the tongue twister. I don't blame you for stumbling there. What do you guys think the Pope, I thought I did a pretty good job. What do you guys think the Pope wears underneath the robe? Like some skims maybe? Football pads.

Skims? Like him? Skims? Like a partnership Like him? Skims? Like a partnership? Like an influencer? Maybe some khaki shorts, like Jim Harbaugh? Like what's going on under there? They have garments, I'm pretty sure.

Mesh shorts. Women's underwear. Now you're talking. That's una falta de repeto I think. I just wanted to put that out there. I think that felt like una falta de repeto. It is. It is.

It is. A falta de repeto is Spanish is. A falta de respeto is Spanish for that's a lack of respect. And that's indisputably a correct accusation to file at me. It is disrespectful for me to suggest that

underneath the cloak and the repressions there is a freak screaming to get out. It is not respectful, you are correct. I'm Jewish, so I would like to be excluded from this whole narrative. I just, you know, you just saw it. You give a pope a football.

I would give a rabbi a football. I think more clergy should carry footballs around. I think it would be pretty funny if in the middle of a service, someone, he's just like, you know, Baruch, I don't know, and go long, and just like chucks it into the, it's not an audience, what do you call it at a Congregation the crowd a congregation

Harbaugh gave him a helmet by the way, so we need someone to bring over some shoulder pads next Charlotte so has he ever received a football before question still stands Dalton necked fell in a draft Sorry, I apologize you right Dalton connect fell in the draft all the way to the Lakers. And so having an older player that is probably going to perform well right away in the league, combined with being a white guy on the Lakers,

how much over saturation in the media do you expect on Dalton Connect? Haven't we already had it? I feel like all I've heard since the draft is about Dalton Connect, which to be fair, falling to 17, like I do think that I thought he was going to go higher, but it is too perfect that JJ Reddick becomes the head coach of the Lakers. And there is a white guy who shoots threes and he from a school in the south and he's like, well, you know, let's just run it back. If I can't be out there on the court, at least I can, I can have someone as my proxy. But I do think Jeremy, you're right.

He's 23, like he's going to play, he's going to play well. And then there are all these, I think a big takeaway from that video of besides, you know, who are these guys that we played in the beginning of that draft class is that they all look very young because they're all like 18 years old and 18, maybe I'm just old now, but I don't hate the idea of someone who's- No, they look it, they look it. Those look like, a bunch of those photographs

or the video that you just showed me looked like a bunch of high school kids is what it looked like. Like very young children. Do you guys know that the Pope shaves more than once every day? Up to three times a day. Really? Is that right?

His face? That's what the internet's telling me. Can they not have face wares like the Yankees that only have a mustache? Oh, I'd love to see the Pope with a mustache. His face, asks Charlotte at LeBataar's show, did you know that the Pope shaves three times a day? The background that you have there, Charlotte,

it looks like a bathroom tile in a bad motel. I understand that there is something on it there. There's skyscrapers and skyline on it, but where are you? That looks like bathroom tile. I think it's supposed to be subway tile with a sepia toned overlay of the New York City skyline across the Dan, and what you can't see is a little bit higher.

Says the Dan LeBretard with shtoo-gotch. Says the Dan LeBretard with shtoo-gotch in like the subway font. So I think this is supposed to be a subway situation. I don't know, I walked in and it was here and I think whoever made it did a really, yeah, look at that. Look, I'm in a subway.

I'm podcasting in a subway. Keep panning out there, whoever's handling that, keep panning out until it betrays her and you see how flimsy everything around her actually is. Keep panning out. No, it looks good in here. Keep panning out, keep going further and further out. Keep going out so that people can see

how it is that nothing that is behind her is actually real, that it's all fake. Charlotte. What? I'm in a subway right now. Can you hear the trains going by? It is a better background when we can see the NYC thing. Yeah, it is.

Too bad we didn't do it that way. Charlotte, thank you for being on with us. We appreciate it. Oddball. Thanks, Danny. Always a pleasure. Every day except Monday. That was one too many Danny's.

Yeah, you crossed the line. It was one too many. The fifth beautiful. It's not nice to have someone calling something other than your name, is it, Dan? Be quiet, Iowa. Can you guys tell me, because we have not talked about this yet around here, somehow,

JJ Reddick becoming the coach of the Lakers and then doing the bleep off bleep you press conference where he is being maximum redic and giving up a career that would have been exceptional in media and high paying and creative in media and less miserable than coaching will be when he realizes how little control he actually has over the results once the games are starting no matter how much of a control freak he is and no matter how much preparation he has I thought that JJ Reddick made an

exceptional choice for him because media will always be available to him he can come back to it the Lakers job does not become available all the time. You get one chance at that. But the journey to getting that job, super unusual. And basically he got that job with zero experience going right to the front of the line, the way Derek Fisher did, the way that Steve Kerr did, because we associate him with being smart about basketball. And we associate him with being smart about basketball because he did a podcast that was good and because he does media well. Went right to the front of the line. We saw Steve Kerr be very successful that way. We saw Derek Fisher not be successful that way at all. Steve Kerr had his choice of those jobs by the way

before the Knicks were run well. Steve Kerr could have had the Knicks job or the Warriors job. He chose the Warriors job. It was a good choice. The Lakers job does not become open very often, but, like I've told you before, they have finished higher than a seven seed once in the last 12 years. That is a really hard job he just inherited and his centerpiece is the oldest player in the league. I suppose you can keep expecting LeBron to be great when you give him a three-year max that's going to pay him something like 70 million dollars in the last year, but I don't know that you can just expect him to be great and healthy into his 40s playing basketball. That is not an easy job.

He just left an easy job for a job that is much harder in a West where the young people have already ravaged his team. Dan, I think you're gonna end up being right on this conversation. Remember you were saying that he was going to have a better post playing career as far as monetarily and things that he would do than in his actual playing career. I think you're on track. No, Dan stumbled into that. He meant in media versus playing in the NBA. Yeah. No one thought he was going to be the coach. No one was like, what if we sprinkle in Lakers head coach into that post season, post game career?

Okay. But I Whatever. Well said. I mean, yes, not very well said. I was out all night at 11 and it's been a long morning. You were out at 11. You were out at 11. I didn't stay up till 11. Like on game seven. Are you crazy?

You guys know the pope only has one lung? What? That can't be true. My princesses? No, not every pope. As a teenager, a serious infection came upon him and the pope underwent surgery to remove a lung, a procedure that likely would have been avoided today

thanks to advancements in antibiotics. You're just reading about the pope while we're doing the show? Spacklin', Dano. How do you survive with one lung? He is going to make an extraordinary amount of money, but he just put on the shelf a multi-million dollar property like his media job he had one of the best seats court side in the media and his sign project he owned it it was his he

doesn't he didn't have to share it with anybody I can't believe honestly that he's gotten a better job than the one he had guys I'm a massive massive proponent of good sleep. Quality sleep is essential. That's why the Sleep Number Smart Bed is designed for your ever evolving sleep needs. You can choose what's right for each of you whenever you like. Need a bed that's firmer? That's me.

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The Fahs. Hey. The Frans? Fahns. The German version, the Frans. Stugatz. I did not think she could do better than the Fahs, which was her initial offering.

But then it became the French television show. Happy days. This is the Don LeBattar show with the Stugarts. That's right. It's time for Thursday Thunder and is sponsored by DraftKings. Stay tuned because you'll hear more about Draft Kings and all it has to offer throughout the show. Draft Kings, the crown is yours.

Tony, what do you got? Juju cooked it up. Juju cooked it up. We are staying in the W. WNBA matchups for tonight. We've got the first leg of Thursday Thunder is over 16 and a half points for Kelsey Mitchell. Over 16 points.

He doesn't have the sound effects, so we'll just do, yeah, mouth sound effects. Second leg over six and a half assists for Kaitlyn Clark tonight. Late start for the Indiana. I'm so late. Ten o'clock start. for the Indiana points for EZ. That's your Thursday Thunder. We're in a contract here. We've got to do better. So is she. She just signed a new contract. Sound effects got to be better. The Magbogor. Magbogor has to be better. I saw that Hallmark. I don't know how the people listening to this feel about Hallmark, but the greeting card industry, a commercial enterprise that basically

was simply created to profit off of emotion. No one does that better than Hallmark. They're associated with syrup, and Hallmark is now making a movie. I think it's called a Christmas movie, Holiday Touchdown, a Kansas City love story about Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift. We can play that video now of Travis Kelsey on stage with Taylor Swift. A lot of people love this because he's in a tuxedo, he's filled with romance, he's very confident on stage. Clicking the heels the heels clicked his heels. Oh my god

He is he is very much in love and I saw the other day that Dave Groll had the audacity To be you know mildly it was I don't think even mentioned Taylor Swift by name but it seemed mildly critical to the Swifties and as Young people are want to do with any level of age wisdom or expertise Credentials at this point they dismissed Dave Grohl as a musician and it's like what are you doing? You can't you can't be that ignorant you can't well you can be but you can't be you can't be so ignorant as to as to dismiss Dave grow who has had it was got wild range and has had successes in multiple places that are like the Hall of Fame

eternal like what are you doing. They sort of pivoted there's this popular like tiktok going around right now that was like you you know, Dave Grohl is wrong and a reason for that is because he was part of a band and Kurt Cobain would have loved Taylor Swift. I don't think there's anyone Kurt Cobain would have hated more than Taylor Swift. He's super anti-billionaire pop stars.

That was his whole thing. Dave Grohl almost, I'm gonna say he introduced me to the idea that music videos could be funny. Everybody was taking them so seriously before. That's where I start with Dave Grohl, just creatively. Nevermind musically that he can do everything that you ask him to do on stage. Learn to fly, that's such a funny music video

with like Jack Black accidentally doing cocaine on a plane and Dave Grohl's dressed as a woman and a baby and all these things are going on. My favorite Dave Grohl clip ever is him doing an interview with Pharrell and they're talking about Smells Like Teen Spirit and Dave Grohl's like yeah I stole all of that from the Gap Bands. Everything I've done has all been from disco. It is the best video ever. It blows Pharrell's mind when he says it. You see it all click in his head, sort of like those memes where all the math equations are going.

He's like, oh my god, you did steal it from R&B. It was also like his comment was very benign, right? Like he was saying that like they don't use backing tracks, so they make mistakes during their live shows. It's like, guys, it's just, it's going to be okay. That wasn't like, there's so many meaner things that people say. That one was not one of the top mean things. Attacking Dave Grohl's credentials.

You guys have seen this, right? This is happening more and more. Never mind if you disagree with person X's politics, but if you disagree with old person and young people get to be right on this stuff because they're the ones in control of what it is that gets popular so even if they're wrong they get to be right but having ignorance rewarded again and again by

dismissing people who have these lengthy resumes of credentials because you don't know who they are and you don't know that list of credentials, I, I, it feels to me like it's happening more and more across all of entertainment where people who I see who are, I mean that happened the other day with Stu Gotts here and Bob Costas, where you're just dismissing 40 years of career because you don't agree with something. Kind of like I did to Jeff Perlman today. Kind of like you did to Jeff Perlman today. Not 100% like the way, but kind of.

Well, I'm glad you brought that back up because we were talking earlier. Jeff Perlman is an accomplished author. He writes very good sports books, well reported, exhaustively worked on, right? I don't think that he writes a book until he's talked to at least 100 sources on what it is that he's doing. So you see the reporting in what it is that he does, but Perlman was lamenting something and Stugat said to me, he said, you hate what's become of sports coverage where the journalists are no longer objective. And I don't hate it. I'm just going to keep pointing it out to the audience because I don't want it done quietly. I want people to notice what it is that's happening to sports coverage

so that you see the change and you see where it is that people are biased on things because all of the gates have come crumbling down and when you reward as ESPN is doing Shannon Sharp and McAfee and Stephen A. Smith for something other than journalism you're in the entertainment business wholeheartedly but ESPN has always been in that the E stands for entertainment it's the first word. And then they chose to be in journalism. They did not have to do that. They chose it because they wanted the credibility of newspapers with their sports coverage. But all of these

televised products are partners with leagues. Like they're compromised from the start. That they choose to manage around the conflict of interest is something that I thought was laudable and noble while it lasted. I got used to it. I profited off of it, but I don't expect it to continue being the standard, especially when you get to young people who don't know who Dave Grohl is, not caring about what sports journalism was. They just don't care about it anymore and they decide.

I don't get to decide. I'm a guy shouting at clouds. So I have to resign myself to it. And Stu Gotts thinks that I don't like it, but I like entertainment. I've sold myself for the entertainment dollar. I'm hugely grateful for what it is that ESPN decided to do for 20 years that the business didn't have to do

because again, they're business partners with the league. Journalism doesn't work with that. The fact that they were able to do it for 20 years is amazing to me. Journalism is struggling for several different reasons, including what you just mentioned there corporately, but is knowing the fandom of a journalist a problem? Or is that maybe a good thing?

Because I think for years before, we were calling out journalists for having certain biases towards certain things. Now that's all laid bare. Now we know who people root for. We know their affiliations. We know the teams that they care about. We know that Adam Schefter loves Michigan.

We know that Stephen A. loves the Knicks. We know these things. And I don't know that that's necessarily a bad thing. Like we're all just human beings. Journalists even throwing their biases aside are humans influenced by the things that have brought them up. Yeah, I don't think it's necessarily like inherently wrong to know if a journalist likes a team, especially if it's not a team that they cover. Like Adam Schafter's not doing like a ton of college football stuff, but I just think there's fewer jobs where journalists can just be journalists.

Now you're incentivized to be part of this like entertainment journalist industry. And like, if we were all just like not fans of teams, like what would we talk about? Like the part of this whole show's shtick is like the heat and the Panthers and like all the local Miami teams and being homers for the Hurricanes and stuff like that. Like there's just fewer straight up journalism jobs now

because of all the corporate reasons that have made it a really hard industry to work in. Do you guys know that the Pope, before he was the Pope, was a bouncer at a bar? Whoa. That can't be true. With one lung? Yep, a one lunged bouncer. I wouldn't have signed him if he was a, like my bouncer that can't with one lung. Yep. A one lunged bouncer.

I wouldn't assign them if he was a, like my bouncer going to come in with one lung. Give me a break. Put it on the pole, please. Juju at LeBotard show. Did you know that the Pope was a bouncer once upon a time? And also would you hire a bouncer that has only one lung? Can you imagine Dalton walking into the bar

and all of a sudden the Pope with one lung, it would have given him a whoosh. It's a weakness. Kick right in the other lung. Can you imagine Dalton walking into the bar and all of a sudden the Pope with one lung, it would've given him a whoosh. It's a weakness. Kick right in the other lung. I'm not doing a lot of chasing though as a bouncer. And I don't think you walk up to him and you're like, that guy has one lung, right? Probably.

Dalton would know. Yeah, probably not. Okay, maybe. Objectivity is an illusion. It's only something that can be aspired to. It is not in any way human. And here's what's funny something that can be aspired to. It is not in any way human. And here's what's funny about that. Joe Buck, when he's announcing the game, is objective,

but nobody thinks he is, because everybody watching is not objective. And so he ends up getting swallowed by what people think are his biases and his allegiances when he doesn't have any, and furthermore is aspiring to the illusion followed by what people think are his biases and his allegiances when he doesn't have any and and furthermore is aspiring to the illusion of objectivity on top of that even though he doesn't have a rooting interest in the game.

I do like people's conflict of interests spoken and shown as opposed to hidden, but then what you get is when the Knicks make the playoffs, all of a sudden ESPN is cheerleading the New York Knicks and every other fan base ends up getting upset by that. What Pearlman is lamenting is absolutely a seismic shift in how ESPN does business, but it's been slow. It's a slow shift. It's been over many years and now at the end of it as these guys cash in, keep an eye on what's happening with Stephen A. Smith and the amount of money he wants because all of the money ended up going to the white guys he built that thing and they're given all the money to everybody else who's working a lot less

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I'm like, I hope you have the day you deserve. It's a great kind insult. Yes. Beautiful. It's leaving it to the cosmos to sort it out. That's a less Southern bless your heart. This is the Don LeBathardt Show with the Stugats. Stugats, welcome back.

I am not generally, as you know, someone who excoriates athletes. I like to enjoy and mock some of the absurdity around sports, but I generally don't spend a lot of time hammering athletes for things so that I got into a controversy last college basketball season when I said of Zack Eaddy, I just don't like watching any of what's happening there aesthetically. It's not even athletically though that too. I just just don't love even as many people don't love the evolutions that there have been

in the pro game of somebody cement-footed who's just bigger and stronger than everyone else who doesn't exactly play like Shaq while being bigger and stronger than everyone else. In 1985 he would have been the first pick in the draft. So he went ninth last night, but the reason that I just bring this up because the sport has changed so much that once upon a time, that's the guy you take first. I saw that Florida has a commitment from a player who's seven foot nine.

I saw on our Twitter account, a woman in China who is seven foot five. Are we making these people bigger than we've ever made them? Where are these things coming from that Wemba Nyama is somebody athletically who could do things at seven four that you've never seen? And I don't know if this seven foot five woman from China or this seven foot 9 kid at

the University of Florida can actually play but if you're 7 foot 9 and you don't get injured my guess is in basketball you're going to have a modicum of success being a foot taller than any of the other people out there. Dan have you seen the videos of this kid, Oliver Ryu, playing basketball? It looks fake. He's like head and shoulders and almost stomach bigger than everybody else and he's grabbing the ball

and just turning around and dunking it. It's like, is this AI? How come it's not happening in football? How come there's not one offensive lineman that's like 900 pounds? Like there's not like, you would think- It is 900 pounds, you can move like Larry Allen. I'm just saying, I wanna like, I'm surprised there isn't

some insane outlier offensive lineman out there. They all seem to be generally six seven, six eight, three fifty, like. Chris, it was Baccellus. There is, go ahead and look up, there are freshmen all over campuses who are 400 pounds trying to lose the weight that will make them a defensive tackle at 350. There are 400 pound people wandering around

as freshmen D tackles out there, because I put it on the poll, please, Juju, at LeBataar's show. Are we making human beings bigger than we ever had? Because when I saw the video of the woman from China at seven foot five, obviously that was wildly out Unfair every time I saw the basketball thrown to her I was I felt bad for all of the players who were on the court with her

But I don't know if someone that size can stay healthy running up and down the court. We talked about Bill Walton having 40 surgeries and so many foot problems because it's completely unnatural to put wear and tear on the ligaments at that size. Well Dan, good news is there's an article about this in Scientific American. Apparently people have gotten taller over the last two centuries,

but I'm gonna need like 20 minutes to read this and get back to you on why. She's 17 years old, the Chinese center. If you're seven nine, it's worth a flyer, right? I mean, it is, just to see if the kid can hoop, I mean. Well, he isn't one of the best prospects, even though he's IMG. He is not as good as you might assume at 7'9", but yes.

Florida's a good program, and he was coveted, because I'm gonna guess seven nine and growing if you're just getting to college I'm guessing that seven nine I don't know that he is necessarily growing and that's seven nine Dan that's the teen it's three inches from eight feet tall he's gonna put it on the pole please juju at LeBattard show is the seven foot nine freshmen at Florida going to keep physically growing? It's impossible. You know what? It's no way you get to college

I feel like every I don't feel like anyone has reached their maximum height by the time they've arrived at college I believe I did freshmen physically. Were you this same height me too. I was taller. Yeah, I'm shrinking that You were taller? Yeah. Because I think of college in metaphorical and physical ways as a time of growth. How tall were you as a freshman, as little Danny Levitard? Little Danny Levitard was not yet six, three and a half. That was not a height I was in college. But I feel like by college,

you're only growing another what, inch or two maybe? Well, if you're not seven, nine. If you're not. Then you're only growing another what inch or two Maybe if you're not seven nine if you're done growing know you're seven nine No, if you're growing at the rate of a seven foot nine person I don't think you stop growing upon college entry Jeremy I'm telling you look it up there has to be a guy who entered college at six three and left college at six seven The Anthony Davis is the greatest example and College at six well the Anthony Davis is is the greatest example and high That's real this video is funny wait a minute he looks like he's playing on a Nerf hoop against fourth graders

It's like me playing versus like six-year-olds It's absurd every time Stu gots comes back from a trip. He comes back. You'll notice it in the weekend observations he comes back with an assortment of travel observations and airplane specific Specific observations. Did you have any from your most recent travels because I feel like I've been denied them recently People on airplanes have become annoying. I mean they really have I don't know what they're doing Listen, I have a rule when you take a flight and it's the first flight out, 6 a.m., 6.15, 5.30, do me a favor. Keep the window down. I'm sitting next to this guy. He's got to have the window up. The

sun is shining in my face. I'm trying to sleep. He's taking pictures. Hey, bud, you know what's out there? The clouds, the sun, and the sky. That's what's outside the plane. Why? Because we're flying in the air. I mean, enough with the pictures, enough with this, enough with that. You know what, Danny? Here's the other thing. I caught a guy I had a show on, and he was watching the show on my TV. Do me a favor. You have your own TV. Stop watching my show. You have your own TV. Watch it with the volume up. You're watching

my TV. You're hoarding my stuff. So, he's keeping me awake, okay, because the sun's in my eye because he has to take a picture of the sun, the clouds, a possible mountain range that we fly by. I have no idea. But you can't do that at 6 AM. And then secondly, because he kept me up, I started watching TV and he started watching TV with me. What are you doing? So I was on a flight back to Miami this weekend and I caught the guy next to me watching my screen I have zero problem with that. I watch everyone else's screen Get your own screen, but he was in the middle seat

He was pretty large and he kept like elbowing me So sometimes you look over and I look over and he's just going through his pictures That's something we all do on flights However, he did not turn his brightness down on his phone and he kept nudging me So I look over and this man is just going through nudes like just nudes of a bunch of girls I'm like, oh, all right. Wow didn't didn't mean to see that and I'm like, whoa So he can see that like I've caught that like glimpse and so he like turns his phone like thank God Dangerous game my man. He's looking over at my screen. He keeps like he's really he's like a really tall dude So he keeps elbowing me and every time he elbows me. I want to look over cuz you're elbowing me

He's looking at nude photos Is there a chance he wanted you to know that he was looking at nude photos? I hope not but if you're I don't want to I'm not showing off about this person But I hope that the girls out there who are dating them know it's not just you. It's not just you girly. I'm multiple. But it wasn't like a folder of them. He was just going through his like pictures in general

and he just had him saved out there. I said, you got to get an app for that or something. Jeremy just brought up something that I saw happen as well on TikTok when he says you could expose this person. I saw recently on TikTok that a woman who saw a husband, a married man, meet a woman at a bar, she then exposed him by overhearing all the entirety of their conversation and giving the details that will absolutely expose that man not just to the internet but obviously to his wife as well and where did people fall on the doing of that of

of exposing that person that way for an immorality i don't think it's her job to do that like i think if i were in the situation if that was happening to me sure i'd probably wanna know if my my partner was cheating on me but like the wife of that situation you don't know any of the context of it she could know he's cheating on her they could have an open marriage but you have put her information well like she didn't put her information out specifically but she gave enough information about the flight the dude with the picture with a picture of the guy it took 30 seconds for his

government name to be found out for his job to be found out, and then all his wife's information is out there as well. And that's something that she probably didn't want out there. And like, you have to kind of let people deal with their relationship privately. Like, I'm not gonna tell anybody that the guy was like, looking at other people's news. I don't know the situation.

Except all of our listeners. Yeah, but no one knows his name. No one knows any details about him except for that he was tall. Right, you didn't post a video of him. I feel like the, I mean, this specific example leaves a very icky taste in my mouth, but like just in general, like the proliferation

of filming random strangers in public and posting it and trying to like become involved in their personal lives in some way and like blow it up on TikTok has gotten like really really weird and there should be some sort of rules around that sort of thing. But is it is it weird or is it just the inevitable permutation of people seeking attention and virtue signaling at every turn? Like if attention is the currency of the day and you can virtue signal look I caught this cheater And I'm exposing him isn't that just sort of the proliferation of what is happening in general on the internet like how is this inevitable? It's like I saw someone make the comparison

It's like when someone films themselves giving money to homeless people we're like hey what you're doing is good But like why are you filming that you know why are you're doing is good, but like, why are you filming that? You know, why are you? Who was it? JJ what? Yeah. Like why would you wait now we're showing it on screen on our podcast. We're doing this is like maybe with the information you have found, you can tick tock found his government name in 30 seconds. Maybe instead, if you really want to help you find that information out, you don't publicize it and then you send the hey girl message You know what we should do is if she's doing relational

Vigilanteism then what we do is we take her picture and then we put it out there be like do you have dirt on this Lady she better be perfect. So I Come on. Yeah, it's the playing out in like on in public that I think is what makes it weird Like it's not it's one thing I think people are conflating it with this happening in a lot of different ways. Like, oh, I overheard someone talking about cheating on their wife, so I sent them a DM on Instagram.

That's not what this is. This person took a video and posted it of someone they don't know doing something that they thought was immoral, not committing a crime as far as we are aware, not doing something. It's not a crime. Right, like not doing something that's not a crime right like not doing something I would say that that's in the public

interest necessarily I would say that what she did is more criminal than what he was doing his was an immorality it's not against the law I would say window up 6 a.m. should be a crime I mean seriously well I don't agree with you on the idea of video sharing though like I feel like you could look at somebody else's television. That's allowed if you don't want to hook up all of your equipment. That's one of the most incredible things of any flight is seeing, going around, seeing who you're sitting next to and what they're watching. Like if Stu, you're a couple of

seats in front of me, I'm like, I don't know what that show is. I wonder what's going on. It's only Sports Center. Stu Gotts, I'm sorry. Window open for takeoff and landing. I need to know when I'm landing. I was on a flight the other day. I had no idea where we were. I was need to know when I'm landing is I was on a flight the other day I had no idea where we were I was trying to track it on my little screen and I kind of like just Got lost didn't know when we were landing all of a sudden we landed and I Gasped out loud because I didn't know what was coming. It was terrifying because the guy next me has window closed I'm saying it's fine on the landing. I need to know as well. It's the takeoff. I'm having issues with it's 6 a.m. In the morning 6 a.m. Implies. Yeah, that's redundant. It's like it's 6 a.m. in the morning 6 a.m. implies yeah that's

redundant it's like it's like Copa Cup 6 a.m. in the morning copa here cabana there I mean enough with soccer I don't believe that in the history of words being thrown together in the English language I've ever heard relational vigilante I've given you bangers I've never heard it before. I'm giving you credit for unprecedented word choices strung together in the history of words being spoken and put together. I've never heard relational vigilanteism put together. Thank you Happy summer everybody. It's Mike Ryan as you know, I'm a big fan of Miller Lite I tell you about it all the time It's summer and it is the perfect time to be grilling out there and whether you're smoking your barbecuing

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