The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: With Great Power Comes Great Responsi-billy

Episode Date: July 23, 2024

Dwyane Wade and Carmelo Anthony are now writing the history of their careers via podcasts while LeBron James is still leading Team USA. How in the world is that possible? Also, remember José Ortiz? Then, despite our technical issues, we get to a Stat of the Day about Stugotz's availability on the show and learn about Greg Cote's new shoes, why he tried to pass off a meal as homemade, and how he got locked in a castle in Ireland. Plus, Ron Magill is here to share some knowledge about sea lions playing, lions being afraid, Irish wolf hounds, and why a Florida Man recently became "living proof for natural selection." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. miss it. Meeting with friends before the show? We can book your reservation. And when you get to the main event, skip to the good bit using the card member entrance. Let's go seize the night. That's the powerful backing of AmeriMexpress. Visit amex.ca slash ymx. Benefits vary by card, other conditions apply. This is the Don LeBattor Show with the StuGuts Podcast. I know that many of you recently here, because I was getting chased around all weekend about it still, are tired of the amount that we and the sports media in general talks about LeBron. I do want to just celebrate for a moment.

LeBron's going to outlast Skip Bayless, who's been chasing him around. I do want to absorb for a moment the idea that LeBron James, at his age, the oldest player in the league, would take out Germany in the Olympics while Wade and Mello are on podcasts telling you what could have and should have been. Wade's like, if I hadn't been injured, I'd go after Michael Jordan. And Carmelo's like, I had a chance, but I didn't want to be the fourth option with Bosch, LeBron, and Wade. I could have been a part of that team.

The idea that the two of them are doing their media careers while LeBron wins internationally is the oldest player in the league, please do not allow the celebration of Tom Brady and Diana Taurasi and what some athletes are able to do in their 40s to not allow you to absorb the greatness that is still on display when LeBron is carrying Team USA over Germany. It's one thing to dominate your NBA team. It's like, all right, there's a couple of stars on every team. He's still the best player in his team.

That's not surprising. He's on a team now with all the best players in this league. And it's just I'm the guy at the end. Give me the ball. Forty something years old. It like I know it's we're we've said it too much with LeBron, but it's just unbelievable. I'm telling you that I made fun of the decline of Team USA when they were having close games

against Carlos Arroyo and a Puerto Rico team that I was making fun of the center with Jelon his hair who was 40, in other words, LeBron's age. LeBron is now the center I was making fun of for Puerto Rico that was challenging the dream teams or tease was his name right the Puerto Rican guy who had gel in his hair I was making fun of that Puerto Rican team because it was Carlos Arroyo and this 40 year old center Ortiz LeBron is now the 40 year old I I do want to talk with you guys about what Mello and Wade were doing last week as we get into the

history writing portions of Mello and Wade telling you, hey it can be Anthony Edwards and Jason Tatum's league now but you're not gonna forget what we built over the last 15 years that everyone has had to topple here because I do want to take some inventory of what these guys did to the sport over the last 15 years for better or for worse? Yeah, was it tough as hell? Yeah, it was tough. But also too, I think I was the perfect person to play that role. And then a lot of people that could play that role. Brian is an amazing player, but you got to learn, you got to work around him. Right. And you to work with him. And so as you seen my first, the first years we were together, we did everything together.

Right. We did every interview together, every press conference, every time you've seen him, you've seen me, because we had to be so lockstep, because we knew, I knew everybody was going, and nobody wanted it. My team didn't want it. My family didn't want it. They were pissed. The Brawn team didn't want it.

No one wanted that to happen. The game of basketball didn't want to happen. So I made sure I linked myself to the Brawn even more because I knew we had to be so tight or it was going to be a failure. And we didn't want to, and I didn't want to be a part of that. So there we go. Tony, I can't hear your microphone. What are your thoughts, Greg, on the idea that

Carmelo was saying in the middle of all of that? Carmelo is saying, I didn't want to be the fourth option with Wade and Bosch, not in my prime, and LeBron. Right. Yeah, I mean, that's his ego talking. He didn't want to be a role player at that point in his career, I guess. What Wade just said, though, he didn't wanna be a role player at that point in his career i guess but what what we just said though that didn't happen right away like the i think it was his second it was the second season when we finally said it's lebron's team although what did happen right away as they were giving all those

press conferences next to each other in fact it was super unusual in that lebron wanted to get here and look man let's let's examine this for a second because these people changed what the sport has been over 15 years in a number of different ways, playing it positionlessly, the moves that have had to be made to countermeasure

what it is that Wade was saying that nobody wanted there. What is the legacy of those 15 years in terms of altering the power the way those guys did so much so turning it into AAU buddies who are just going to control the sports by teaming up their powers for Mello to say I didn't want to be the fourth option in my prime I wasn't going to give up what it is that it would have had to be given up in order to join what would then end up altering the sport. Yeah, and Wade did exactly that, right?

Wade sacrificed himself to fit with LeBron, and it took a minute to get there for him, I think, but he did. And that's part of Wade's great legacy great legacy i think that isn't talked about enough is how he sacrificed his ego and in his structure in the packing order to to be second fiddle to lebron ran rightly so

can i just go back for a second wade is on mellows podcast they haven't played in a long time. What is LeBron doing holding the ball in all the important minutes as we're playing for our country still at the end of these basketball games?

What is it about his body, his endurance, his will, his greatness that allows him to dwarf even giants like Wade and Mellow as the oldest player in the league right now hiring his son hiring his coach running the Lakers running Hollywood running team USA he'd run team USB if Billy got his wish of having a second team USA in the tournament Dan you know who know who was locked in? Jose Ortiz. You nailed it by the way. He was 40 years old at the time of the 2004 Olympics,

played for Los Cangrejos de Santurce. Chael Sonnen had suggestions as to why this is happening. Yeah. We all just kind of ignored him though, because we didn't like his suggestion. No, that's probably what's happening. We just stopped caring about where it is that these guys wins in the margins.

If they're all cheating, all the other cheaters should cheat better if LeBron's cheating better than they are. I hate to fact check Dwayne Wade when he said no one wanted them to get together. I wanted them to get together. I very much so wanted them to get together. In fact, I went out and I celebrated the night

that they got together. They hadn't won or done anything, but I went out with my Dwayne Wade shirt to La Carreta and I was celebrating with a pot in a pan the fact that the big three came together. So the idea that no one wanted this to happen. Fooey. How is it that we're learning for the first time that their families didn't want it? That's not true. Okay. So he's lying now. I'm not saying that.

That is what that's exactly what no I mean if someone writes a nonfiction story, would you say they're a liar? No, they just are piecing together nonfiction. You think that what Dwayne is doing there is noveling. I think that You know, I mean sometimes revisionist history. Sometimes we forget that he was a bull and a cav also I'm just saying that doesn't have anything to do with what it is that he's claiming there Well, no when we say heat lifer, but we make a couple stops along the way, then that's not actually accurate as well.

Don't go to your greatest hits. Stay on point matters. I'm not, I'm just saying something. When we go back and we romanticize things, sometimes we don't exactly, you know, we fib a little bit, you know? Just stretch in the truth. I'm not saying it's a lie.

I would never call, never call, flash a liar. I would never, would never do that. I'm just saying sometimes we forget the facts a little bit. When I was growing up, my dad would always, he didn't like lying obviously, but he found there was like a little white lie he was okay with, but the bigger lies. What is a white lie?

Yeah, what's an example? What's a white lie is complimenting somebody just to make them feel good. Like what? Like if I'm dining at someone's house and they've made me a meal and I think the chicken is really overcooked and it's a little bit dry

and I'm like surreptitiously pouring gravy on it to just moisten it, I'm gonna say to my host, there's a beautiful chicken. Thank you for having me. My dad is such an annoying dinner guest because he always takes the most obscure item and it's just like, man, these sauteed mushrooms are killer. He's not gonna mention the steak, the brisket,

the mashed potatoes that you are homemade. They're not from the box. He stands up for the unsung heroes. He'll find the easiest thing that's not that impressive. He's just like, man, this bag Caesar salad is kicking my ass. It's kicking my ass. It's the rock star of the play.

He does that, the rock star. It always has to be the least important item. No, I think that that goes along his the white lie situation, right? Cause he could not like the chicken, but if he compliments something else, he's not telling you he doesn't like the chicken he's just complimenting you on something else there's no need to tell someone I don't

like this you just tell them what you like yeah no that's that's perfectly up I've named a glass of ice water as the rock star of the play really doesn't even have to be wow something eaten with a fork you know another thing my dad does annoying if like let's say a restaurant has like it's like homemade like hot sauce before the food comes he he takes the hot sauce, he pours it into his hand and he just like eats it like a shot of the hot sauce in his hand. Yeah. Oh yeah. And like the center of his hand. Like you think maybe he'd go on a finger.

You wash your hands after you touch the menu or not? You know, let's not get into my personal. I don't think of him as a good hand washer. You're just having hot sauce straight out of the palm of your hand. Yeah. Put it on the poll at LeBataille show. Both of these questions at LeBataille show is hot straight out of the palm of your hand. Put it on the poll at Lebatard Show, both of these questions at Lebatard Show. Is hot sauce out of the palm of your hand lovely? And also, can ice water ever be the rock star of the dinner plate? Because I don't think it can be. Oh, 100% can be, especially because I know Greg just came back from Europe.

They don't do ice water there. They hate ice cubes. You get back from a summer abroad, you drink a nice cold, crispy ice water. Rockstar. USA, baby. Dan. In your air conditioned house.

One more thing about Jose Ortiz, he was not only the captain of the Puerto Rican national team, he's the same age as my dad. I know, I know. He was born in 1963. No, it was ridiculous. The team USA was struggling against Ortiz and now we've got our own Ortiz and it's LeBron! Ice water cannot be the rock star of the table! It can't be!

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Those were my deck shoes of long-standing With you Greg what's wrong with that? He got me on that one. This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stu Guards. There are a million things around here that we try successfully and unsuccessfully to disguise from you. The number of technical difficulties that we are having today that I don't think we've masked very well, but perhaps we've masked better than I think in terms of microphones not working at the right time, people not being able to hear me, everything being just a note off. Is it possible that Stugatz knew only two microphones in that studio were going to work

so he went to New York to get a microphone that worked and Greg is sitting in his chair because Greg's microphone doesn't work. You've told me that people are tired of the Stugats is out content. You just got done telling me that and then you, this is your move. No, but we're not doing that content. I'm just explaining to people.

I'm trying to, look, I'm taking everybody behind the fourth wall, because you brought us behind the fourth wall and there's technical issues And that's just one of them so you gots wasn't irresponsible He knew that there was gonna be a microphone issue So he went up to New York to kind of have us work around that situation now Chris hitting the wrong sounds was 100% Chris I had nothing to do with technical It was mislabeled

I also really wanted us to just pretend like we couldn't hear Tony for the rest of the day But that I couldn't get the message out quick enough I kept dropping dimes then Dan would look at me like I didn't say anything else like Dan. I was money whatever happened I'm gonna be honest with you. I unplugged it so you wouldn't stand next to me. What did we convince Tony? He was a ghost like in South Park What let's get away from the Stu got Nonsense, let's do a stat of the day start of the day start of nonsense. Let's do a start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, it is the start of the day.

Start of the day, start of the day, it is the start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, it is the start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, it is the start of the day. Hehehehehe Lite. This stat is courtesy of Taylor actually. I haven't seen it yet. I'm not sure what it is. Since April 1st, Stugatz has been on 55% of LeBretard shows. Good for him. Is that good?

Is it? That's the way to do it in a contract year. Yeah, he's flexing, man. He's playing it. This is a free market, and he's out there earning it, leveraging it. More power to him. I'd argue, I mean, last two shows,

he's been part of the show while not being part of the show, so I'd argue less power to him. So would I. Some power to him. No, no, no, no. Min Some power to him. No, no, no, no, no, zero. I mean look, FAN had a chance to give him the power and then didn't give him the power. You gotta be careful if you give Stu Gatz the power. Great power comes great responsibility.

He doesn't like that part. That's the part that he doesn't like. He just wants the great power, none of the great responsibility. Great power comes great responsibility, because you have to do everything. That is what happens. Yes, that's a good t-shirt. With great power comes great responsibility. Because that's exactly how that goes. I like that less. God bless football is fast churning toward you. The award winning God bless football.

Greg Cody just revealed to me something. Many of you who have been listening and watching for a while know that Greg Cody had that pair of deck shoes for about 30 years that he wore with his rotten talons and no socks for three decades. Just horrific shoes that he once buried. They had a name, did they not? I love how as you say just horrific shoes, my dad nods along.

Like, yep, everything checks out. I still have them. No, you buried them. The ones I buried, yeah. Do they have a name? You buried them in your backyard in a ceremony. I thought that they had a name. Did they not have a name?

I think they were Deck and Deckle, weren't they? Okay, was it Deck Cody and Deckling Cody? Yeah, Deck and Deckle, something like that. They're buried in the backyard. He just told you what it was and you still got it wrong. I still have my deck shoes though, but they're relegated.

They're not number one anymore. They're number three. Wow. And so that's a major change in my closet. What happened? Well, I have major change in my closet. What happened? Well I have new dogs on my feet. Oh. Let's see those doggies.

They're beauties. I don't wanna advertise shoes but. All right, oh he's lifting the leg. He has purchased Skechers. Purposely hiding them from the camera, like lift them up a little bit. He can't lift his leg that high and his belly gets in the way.

He doesn't have the Chris Cody flexibility. Dad can you put your foot over your head? Can you answer the phone? No, no, no. Put your foot over my head. He has proclaimed them the greatest shoes he has ever had. What did those cost you, Greg? My father continues to buy shoes from Publix, $5.99, in the bin at the grocery store.

It's very strange. My mother, my mother, this has been a funny conversation to watch recently to my father's eighty and he continues to be cheap she just keeps looking at him she seventy nine what are we saving it for like when but what is it is the time that we were saving it for why are you still being cheap this is a big expenditure for you you buying sketchers shoes is you really throwing down some money on wardrobe i was shocked how expensive

shoes are nowadays uh... in in these are lightweight to you know you're not getting a lot of heft for the money because they're so lightweight they're comfortable yeah you walked around the cliffs of more in those i did i sure did uh... in in ireland. I climbed all the way up past the sign that said, danger, you may fall into the cliff and kill yourself. And there's actually a plaque there for all the people who have died at the Cliffs of Moor. But these shoes...

I knew we were going to get to the vacation whether I wanted to or not. I think they cost like 75 or 80 bucks. Wow. Those should be heavy at that price. Exactly, they should be hefty. The more shoes cost, the heftier they should be, I think. They should be, yeah. Like big work boots. No, I disagree, lighter. They should be lighter. They should be comfortable.

Those shoes look comfortable. I'm walking on air in these shoes. They're beauteous, seriously. I don't brag about shoes, even deck shoes. Is that a word? Is beauty a word? Yeah, it is now. Sure is. That kind of thing. E-O-U-S, I guess, on the end of butte. But they're great. The older I get, the more pleased I am with life's simple pleasures. And to me, when you buy a pair of shoes and you actually think to yourself,

these are the best shoes I've ever worn in my life. I was grinning like a mule eating briars for three days. Sometimes I do that, I want to go buy multiples of the same shoes, because you can never find them again. Yeah, that's right. And I surveyed the entire line of shoes. Yeah. Because what I was looking for was an upscale, a handsome pair of sneakers. Oh, and you found it.

Walking shoes. Yeah. But are these even considered walking shoes? Let me see. What are these? Sneakers? They don't know what they want to be. I think that's what people at restaurants wear.

I think they're hybrids, yeah. Like kitchen workers wear those. What? Kitchen workers? Yeah. Backbone of our society. Well, I have. I work in a kitchen every day. Made a beautiful meal last night.

Made a sandwich called the Gerber. Ooh, go on. Not named after the baby, but it was in a famous St. Louis deli. It's a St. Louis sandwich. I could give you the recipe right now, but it was, it was, you know, it was good. One of my dad's moves is whenever he travels,

he comes back and the first meal he makes has to be like from that place, like this past Sunday. He had an Irish stew. Yeah, I honor the country I've just been in. And I think they appreciate that. Thank you. Do you have a Guinness? Yeah, beef and Guinness.

And controversially, It was good. The mashed potatoes were on the side. The mashed potatoes were also boxed. Mashed potatoes are the rocks for that dish. No, not these. Really? Christopher just ratted me out.

They weren't from scratch, they were boxed. But the, What he does is he takes like three of those like Evan homemade, like Evan homemade like Evans Microwave yeah, and he like pours them into a big bowl right and he like he tries to present them as if they're his mashed potatoes I don't ruin the secret recipe. I saw you shoveling them out of the Bob Evans Wasn't doing it doing it surreptitiously But I make it my own and here's how. I put a little S&P on there. Okay, a little S&P goes without saying,

but also I used Kerrygold, the ivory powder. Kerrygold. Nothing but the best. Yeah, and then you mix it real good, you whip it good, and it was lovely. I mean, it was beautiful. Is he supposed to serve it out of the box, Chris? Yeah, come on.

On Thanksgiving, he, you know, real potatoes. Well that's a special holiday and your mother who, you know, doesn't lead the league in kitchen. Oh no. Your mother makes the mashed potatoes every Thanksgiving. No, she would admit that. She'd admit it. No, just like I'd admit that I'm Fier Salacada.

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Deposit and eligibility restrictions apply. See terms and responsible gaming resources at dkng.co.mma. Don LeBretard. Chris, what was happening there? Can you please just explain to me, just give the audience a glimpse into what's happening inside your soul as your father is delivering clunker after clunker.

It's just not surprising. He was texting me last night, trying to get lines for it to make it funnier. And I was just like, I don't know if this one works. You're not really bringing anything to the conversation. It's just classic Greg Cody. Stugats. Actually, Christopher and I never had that conversation because I did reach out to him and got zero response.

That's not true. That's what I could show you in my text right now. I just, I wasn't a fan of it. All right show me that text. There are the Cody's tag teaming the show to kill it. The Cody's as the crazy tag team duo, the show killers. This is the Dun Lebatard show with the Stugats. Off air for some reason off air Greg can you stop typing for a second? Yeah, we're packing away. Are you typing? Okay, we're busy working in my defense. I am working. I'm doing show research I'm fine tuning the question that I plan on presenting to Ron. Okay

You're welcome You could have all you could have done that the 15 minutes before we were on air in the prep time that we had before this. I was too busy not doing another back in my day. It could be a good question that took a long time. Yeah, it could be. Thank you, Billy, for always supporting Greg in times of need. Greg Cody has told me again, off air, not on air, that he was locked in a castle in

Ireland. He got locked in. It was his hotel. locked in a castle in Ireland. He got locked in. He got into a car accident in Ireland. That his wife is a terrible back street driver who spent the entire time screaming at him about how he was driving. And also he forgot his computer at the rental car place and drove a hundred miles before realizing

that he had forgotten it. So had to drive back in order to double. He had to Dublin back and go and get the computer. It wasn't just his computer, it was him and his wife's passport. Yeah, we had to go back. He lost their passport in Ireland. But how is it that you told me all the interesting stories?

We've been on for a while now, having all sorts of technical difficulties, I could have used all the content, why did you tell me during the break? and then when you could have been preparing your question for ron mcgill during the break why did you start doing that as soon as we started the segment you know i'd take things in order i'm not a great multitasker i take them one at a time that kind of thing i am on the latest greg cody show podcast episode i talk a lot about my ireland trip i don't want

to bore your listeners because you know we did have some calamity over there I'm not gonna pretend like we didn't but overall it was a beautiful experience did you get out of the castle eventually it took like 45 minutes of harrowing back and forth thank you back and forth between what I mean they got to listen to the podcast in his hotel room well it was a castle hotel. But he got locked in his hotel room. That's true. I did.

What can I tell you? They had to like take a pole and like put keys up like to the second floor. No, not keys. That would have been too easy. They sent up a screwdriver. I had to, from the inside of my room, I had to remove the deadbolt.

Heroin. That didn't work. You know, eventually the, you know, the King of England comes over and breaks down the door with his right foot. We got out eventually and they comped us the room. Wow. So my whole ruse about being locked in worked. Now I'm just kidding. Was there a moat? There was not a moat. No, that sort of disappointed me. But you know what there was? Ron, I don't know if you know this... Greg Moat....this breed.

The Irish Wolfhound. Oh, great dog. Big, tall, very wire-haired dog. Very tall. It almost has the face of a lion. I'm gonna have to... I'll send you a picture and you'll see what I mean. One of the most majestic animals I've ever seen so we pull into this castle hotel and they're standing alone Was a beautiful Irish wolf hound just looking at my rental car Eventually he moved but man what a beautiful sight that was I I want to get me one of those I've always talked about having a Greyhound or a Whippet. Now my sights are on an Irish Wolfhound, but can you even get that dog in the States? You can get any dog in the States. You know, you've got to be careful what kind of climate

you keep that dog in. I've actually seen Irish Wolfhound statues at some of the big, you know, I don't think they call them mansions in Great Britain, but some of the, you know, some of the... Yep, the... Yep. The manors. The manors. There you go. The manors.

I've seen actual Wolfham statues. I love that dog. In the front door. Yeah. Yeah. That's why I say it. They reminded me of a lion. I tell you, it has a certain face.

It looks nothing like a lion. Well... You didn't see this one. I showed the photo. It looks like a Benji on steroids is what it looks like. I showed a photo of my wolfhound to the bartender at Toners. Really? One of the literary pubs we went to and without prompting he said it looks like in an Irish brogue. It says it looks like a lion. Were you getting an icy? Yeah What's a literary pub?

You know what James they have pictures of James Joyce all over the place the Empire double J Famous writer of the 19th century or was it the point is the guy who ruined Andres Galarraga's yeah that guy Yeah, he's famous in Ireland apparently but Yeah, that guy, yeah, he's famous in Ireland apparently. But it was just, I'm- Christ almighty, can you guys get one thing right between any of you? I have a question for Ron. Like all of you together.

I nailed manner, dude. All of you. Armando Golaraga. Big cat. Mostly 20th century. Ron, I'm sorry for wasting your time. I've got some videos to show you here. I also would like at some point for people to just put up on on the screen an assortment of the wonderful

artistic photos that Ron McGill took in Africa because he really is an extraordinary nature photographer. But I also want to play for you some video here. This is in California. Federal law requires people to stand 50 yards away from the sea lion and local business leaders want sea lions kicked out here before the city closes off beach access because of encounters like this one where the sea lion is basically just running people off.

You know, and these animals are more afraid of us than we are of them, but what's happening here? Is this just panic, Ron? No, the problem is that these sea lions have become incredibly habituated to people. So believe it or not, they don't fear people anymore. I wouldn't be surprised if these guys are just playing games and saying, listen, this is my beach, clear the beach.

I don't see any aggression. I don't see them opening their mouths or going after anybody. I think they're almost actually enjoying the thrill of watching these foolish people run away like little roaches when the lights go on. What are some of the greater examples you could give us Ron of animals that are afraid of us even though we think of them as you know that we're more afraid of them than they are of us? You know a classic one would be lions. I mean as you

heard when we were out just there out there in Southern Africa recently, the rangers told us, listen, if we stepped out of a vehicle, the lion would most likely just run away. And that's likely what would happen. You know, a lot of these larger animals, believe it or not, are generally speaking, afraid of people. That's a natural human fear from generation to generation when humans hunted everything. So the bottom line is most animals naturally are afraid of human beings. Having said that, once they've been exposed to humans for a long time or people start feeding them or,

you know, start basically desensitizing them to human beings, that's when they become the most dangerous. Ron, I saw a bird last week. It wasn't a flamingo. I can't remember what it was called, but it was also. Yes, that's what it was. It was pink from eating shrimp. And we know that flamingos are also pink because they eat a lot of shrimp in their diet. If I ate enough

shrimp, would I then turn pink as well? Well, it's not it's not just shrimp. It's a lot of different crustaceans that have what we call carotenoids in them. And those carotenoids who are given that color. And yes, you know what, Jessica, if you ate enough carotenoids, yes, you would start getting a bit of a salmon color to your skin. Because I tried last time. But it also might be toxic because you're eating just too many of them.

Salmon color. That's funny. Mickey? By the way, Ron, I just texted you a photo of that wolfhound that looks like a lion. Wow. Tell me if I'm right. Can you confirm? Text to the video team. That's a great looking wolfhound,

a beautiful man, a nice head, nice hedges. Yeah. You know, I'll give you that. It's a little bit of a longer snout than kind of squished head than a lion, but the way he's sitting there, it surely looks regal like a lion. Yeah, I'll give you a little pass on that one, Greg.

There you go, thank you, Ron. Send that to Chris and then Chris can send it to video and then everyone can see it. I'm gonna do it right now as we speak. Yeah, that would be a better way to do it so that we can share with the audience. It could be an immature lion that hasn't grown in his full mane yet,

giving that big rounded look. There you go. Immature lions have that kind of scrawny mane that that wolf hound seems to have right there. Again, Greg, could have been done during the break, during the preparation. Dad, go to your text messages with Ron. I'm doing it right now! Christ almighty.

Let's play the video for Ron as we just wait for Greg Cote to try to figure out, in general, his life. Let's play the video for Ron of, yes, thank you for informing us that you have now sent it to video, this Gator And in the general stupidity of a Florida man, because of course, it's a Florida man Opening a beer with the help of a Gator's mouth Ron. What is that? What is happening? What is happening to humanity here? You know what this is? This is all social media crap is what this is This is all let's get to some video. Let's see how many likes we can get. This is just, it's stupidity, Dan. That's all I can say about it is stupidity and these guys think they're being cool and they are, you know, they're, I'll tell you what, they're living proof for natural selection.

The alligator can't stick its tongue out, correct? No, it cannot stick its tongue out. Put it on the poll please at Lebatard Show. Did you know the alligator could not stick its tongue out? That put on the pole please at lebatard showed did you know the alligator could not stick its tongue out that was also not in the dangerous enough alligator to actually be problematic correct uh... no it was danger uh... dangerous enough i could have grabbed his hand pulling water and round them no question about it given a pretty bad wound uh... you know it's it's not going to consume the guy

but it certainly could have been put through a really bad injury and trust me if that had happened you know what would happen next the authority would have found that gator and euthanized it because it took out a stupid guy i thought it was crocodiles that couldn't stick out their tongue or is it all crocodilians all crocodilians they have a tongue but it's fixed in the bottom jaw so it can't move up and down but they can't stick it out of their mouth

ron thank you for being on with us we appreciate the time i will remind the audience at every turn at lebatard show what are you doing what are you showing me here mouth. Ron, thank you for being on with us. We appreciate the time. I will remind the audience at every turn at LeBotard show. What are you doing? What are you showing me here? What are you doing? It says crocodiles can't stick out their tongues. Yeah, but he said that. I'm doing a show. I just said that. Yeah. All crocodilians, crocodiles and alligators. Craig, have we lost you? What is happening? They aren't called alligations though, so I understand the confusion. They should be. We have the photo now that my dad says.

Wow, that's a beautiful dog. Looks like a lion. Ooh, that's a lion. Let's see this thing that looks like a lion. It does look like a lion. Thank you. I'm not wrong. They're screwing with you.

No, they're not. That looks like a lion. I am not. I'm being honest. And I want to get invited on that f***ing yacht, Chris. Don't blow this for me. I'm telling you. A reminder to take care of

Ron McGill's substantive endowment. Evidently the listeners were very strong last week for you, Ron. They raised a lot of money. Thousands and thousands of dollars came in. Thanks to you and your listeners, Dan. I can't tell you how profoundly appreciative I am. We are grateful because I have seen firsthand what it is that he does with that money and how it goes to people who show great care with the animals so you can rest assured that if you donate to Ron McGill's Substantive Endowment the money will get to helping people. Thank you helping animals and helping people who help the animals. Thank you Ron. Have a good week guys, take care. You were a disaster, that segment.

Why? Like, you were trying, you were not doing the show we were doing for the many people that we do it for. You and Ron were having a personal exchange the way that you would in another room, as if microphones and cameras weren't around. Yeah, the Wolfand, the Wolfand, Irish Wolfound entranced me. It did. It had me under a spell. So your listeners paid for your and Ron's trip to Africa? How does that work? Is that what happened? He said thousands and thousands of dollars were donated. It's amazing

that that kind of a scam going. I paid for my own trip to Ireland. I mean unless the listeners want to donate I mean, sir. I got a go fund me to Cuse you locked yourself in your castle and got a free night of castle. We were there eight nights I mean, you know twelve point five percent of my state McGill's endowment also paid for that McGill's endowment also paid for that. Eight nights in a cast. Okay. Hey, it's Mike Ryan and by now you know how much I love Game Time. It is the greatest app for the secondary ticket marketplace that I've ever come across.

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