The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: I...AM... BACK!

Episode Date: February 26, 2024

Stugotz kicks things off with his Weekend Observations and some remarkable Top 5s. Then, Nikola Jokic and Mike Conley each have a crazy Stat of the Day, we take a look at the most efficient offenses ever, and Duke and Wake Forest are part of a huge court storming problem. Plus, Stugotz torches Jim Cramer, AROD looks...different, and Dan has questions about the covers of movies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Din! Over the last three weeks, he's been in every time zone the United States has to offer. From Miami to Las Vegas, back to Miami, to Chicago, to South Bend, Indiana, back to Miami to Chicago to South Bend, Indiana back to Chicago to Boulder, Colorado and back to Florida and Dan just like that make no mistake about it. I am back. It's a Wednesday afternoon headed to Beantown. Big game BC Northwestern game of the year.

Number one team in the country. You hopped back on a bird for Friday's show because you're on the schedule. No. No. Carl has my schedule. The schedule I got at 9.30 last night says that you're working on Friday.

Speaking of time zones, enough. Good take, thank you. That's because you had to drive from Chicago to South Bend and back. We'll get to that. Since Dan, Brooklyn, and the Nets are good. They've been awful. And their coach was fired. Dan plus Dan praising your team equals coach killer. a week after Rick Petino threw his entire team under the bus then ran them over reversed over their body and then ran them over again. They upset number 15 Creighton.

That's how you motivate a team. Dan out kicked their ass. You know what Petino was doing? He was playing chess while everybody else was playing checkers. I tell Rick Patino to look in a mirror, but that's a dangerous game for him.

This is a vampire. Is it dangerous though or just they just can't see themselves? They can't do it. They won't do it. They don't want to do it. But it's not actually dangerous. There are no consequences. No, it's dangerous. The sunlight. No, because other people know that he's a vampire and then they'll try to put a silver steak through his heart. I guess it is dangerous.

Or wooden steak. Wooden steak is fine. Either works. Either works. Either works. So you can do a pure wooden like oak steak or stay in the steak. Medium rest. He's also allegedly a vampire just to get ahead of that. Right.

Patrick Cain. Playing spoiler. a vampire just to get ahead of that. All right. Patrick Kane playing spoiler on the night the Black Oaks retired Chris Czellios's number seven jersey. Caner and Shelley hockey is the best nicknames. Cubs to resign. Center fielder Cody Bellinger. Belly. Czellie and Belly. Sounds like a great name for a podcast.

A couple of Chicago athletes cutting it up. Metalark. Get on that. 80-20 my way. That would be a good pod. I'm telling you right now. Chelly and Belly. What were they talking about?

I don't know. It's got a good name. 80% of good podcast is the name It's not true in any way true new heights great name great name It's not like they're good. They're from new heights Dan, but they're also reaching all the smoke heights You get it. So why hasn't MMA hangout worked out it has? But you have no idea You idiot dork Alabama Kentucky the rare college game where you score 95 and lose by 22 I wrote a book still got booked up not yet you haven't well I'm waiting on you not yet you haven't that's not you haven't. Well, I'm waiting on you.

Not yet you haven't. That's not how I wrote a book works. I'm waiting on you. Stillgotsbook.com. I'm waiting on Dana. I mean, go forward. You can't say I wrote a book. You can't say it until you write a book.

Again, I'm waiting on you. Finish my book, please. The answer to... Hahaha You can't say after I wrote a book I'm waiting on you so it can be written those two sentences can't go together pre-orderstougottesbook.com Just me or is anyone else still recovering from Las Vegas? What happens in Vegas doesn't stay in Vegas

It stays in you for like a month stays in your bloodstream You went to like five other places after Vegas. I'll get to this Jurgen Klopp Winning a trophy in his final season. You know what the K and Klopp stands for Dan? I do not not Shosheski Thank you. That would be weird if his name was Shoshesky Klopp. Like, Lop. Baylor, Houston.

It might be February, but that felt like March. Did you see that one? Houston's from the lunch. So is Baylor. No fan base goes from wanting to fire their coach to booking their trip to the final four on a game to game basis. Quite like Kentucky.

That's not true though. Who's firing? Oh, God. Who's firing? Calipari. They fire their coach every other day. I mean, are you paying attention to what's going on in the blue grass state? Calipari was number one every year and they want him to stay number one. He's less. He's not no one wants him

Okay, very good. It was yesterday today's today. All right Wake Forest lives on the bubble the deeks a tip of the cap to lefty Dressel The Deeks. A tip of the cap to Lefty Drizell. Lefty, you are firmly entrenched in my top five sports figures who can know the direction. Oli, Phil Mickelson. Lefty. Number five, Easton Stick. Number four.

He needs his fanfare. Lefty Driressel. Number three, Scott Downs. Number two, Andy North. And number one, the great Joe West, the cowboy. You don't go to Ames, Iowa into Hilton Coliseum and live to talk about it the cyclones This is a tough one Virgil van Jik Clutch VVD Did I say it right you nailed it Did I say it right? You nailed it.

Dan, you know what the B in Boulder stands for? It stands for buds. Beautiful, luscious buds. Jay Williams, leave the bad takes to me. Headline, Kyle Shanahan said he has no regrets with Super Bowl performance Was he talking about his team or himself? Because he didn't know the rules Jay Williams if you want to steal some of my takes the Kansas City Chiefs ones are all yours

I Mean getting out there with Caitlin Clark's not great because she's it from me. A championship is an all time doozy. I didn't read the Shanahan article, by the way. Just saw the headline. That's why I'm asking. Someone get back to me. Dan, the sea in Colorado stands for cannabis. Philadelphia fans gave Kyle Lowry a standing ovation.

Dan, you know what the P in Philadelphia fans stands for? I do not pathetic. The Ellen Kyle Larry stands for L's Steve Kerr two years, $35 million, 29 and 27 pays a lot nowadays. You know what the the essence Steve Kerr stands for? I do not. It stands for ski mask, Joann Howard, hot seat. I'm tired of Kerr. Kerr is the most overrated coach in the history of sports. I'm saying he did not construct that team. He didn't draft any of them.

I am tired of Steve Kerr and his two year, thirty five million dollar contracts for what? For what? Maybe one champion. And then Mark Jackson's team he stole Luke Walton's wins also no I do remember when he had Derek Fisher got identical five-year 25 million dollar contracts and both of them were trying to choose between the Knicks and the Warriors and now Steve Kerr has gone from five years 25 million to two years 35 million ski mess the Miami Hurricanes have lost six straight games I see why they call them coach L

it's proud of that I'm stunned how bad they are this year they're so bad at defense. So bad. Blue blood, yeah. Mm-hmm. I took off in the Eastern time zone, landed in the Central time zone, drove 60 minutes to my hotel, where I was told I was back in the Eastern time zone. E.T. Here's an idea. One time zone.

Yours, right? My time zone. Whichever time I'm in. I know, I know. DEMVER AIRPORT DEMVER AIRPORT DEMVER AIRPORT DEMVER AIRPORT DEMVER AIRPORT DEMVER AIRPORT DEMVER AIRPORT DEMVER AIRPORT DEMVER AIRPORT

DEMVER AIRPORT DEMVER AIRPORT DEMVER AIRPORT DEMVER AIRPORT DEMVER AIRPORT for don't go there you know what the a stands for what's wrong with the Denver airport it's terrible disaster do not go down buddy rabbit hole Dan yeah I want to bring out the ponder file we can monitor it see don't do it but the Denver airport terrible Miami's airport is worse no it's not gonna take a tram to a train to a bus to this to that. It's enough. You know what's underneath there?

The biggest airport in Chicago is it not in terms of inconvenient size of an airport? When you land at O'Hare International Airport, you're halfway there. Then are they hiding UFOs under the O'Hare airport? Do we know that? And this is why I'm saying don't go on YouTube death. Wait, what? You guys don't know about the Denver Airport? No, there's no YouTube. Oh my God, the word. I YouTube a channel on YouTube about about the Denver airport what's going on

maybe the Tony show I'll explain that's about you need a better name Tony shows 80% the Tony shows a terrible Tony shows great part two coming soon don't yes you know what the a in Denver airport stands for? Avoid at all costs. The A in airport? D.I.A. The Starbucks Burger King rest stop on the way from Chicago to South Bend is like finding water in the desert. The Newt Rockney rest stop.

That's the best. The Newts. The Newts. The Newts. Stugaz is travel log of like airplane observations and just coffee shops. No offense to Indiana, but I was driving through your state and the entire time I was thinking to myself, besides Larry Bird, of course, who the whatever want to live in Indiana? No offense to your state.

Who's your state? You know what the who and who's your stance for Dan? Who the f*** would ever want to live in Indiana? The things you do when in the passenger seat and you are trying to kill time driving through the state of Indiana with two gummies in you. Top five athletes. Wait a minute, you're driving with gummies?

I said the passenger seat. You made your wife drive? Yes! What? I had two gummies in me! I don't believe for a moment that he was in the passenger seat. Did you think maybe I don't have to take gummies right now? I did not think that. You shouldn't do that. Trying to get through the state of Indiana. I took the gummies. The newt. Top five athletes whose name could also be a real name for a type of street. Donald Drive. I mean. Euston Street.

34 Euston Street. Euston Street's great Jerome Lane You found the page did you? Yeah you know. Charles Way Margaret Court Donald Drive her yeah watch out for the Leafs Where was it you're at watch out you're at Margaret Cork you were parked on Margaret Court I say yeah damn eat me over 28 Charles Way. Anyway, scouting combine, free agency, draft, you can smell it in the

air, Dan. My favorite season, lying season, top five seasons. Number five, the second Number four summer number three a good four seasons you love that chest number two is Christmas we stayed at the two seasons number two is football season Number one, lying season. Doc Rivers telling reporters in his return to Philadelphia that Joe LMB should have gotten the ball more in their series last season against the Celtics. That's a good idea. Maybe the head coach should have made that happen. Also, doc, the Stugatz is strong in you. 10 points, seven rebounds, countless screens, a bunch of picks, some elbows, a few hard fouls. Al Horford did what Al Horford does. Dan, pitchers and catchers just reported and Mets Ace, Kodai Senga is already dealing with arm fatigue and will

start the season on the IL only the Mets I'm telling you hell will freeze over before the Mets win another World Series speaking of hell or Pryles Dan those are the weekend observations Dan, those are the weekend observations. Staying up late, hanging out with friends, yelling at the game on TV, you do a lot over a big weekend. So when it's time to start another big week, celebrate Hydration Monday with Liquid IV. When I was out on the road doing my little college football series, I had the time of my life, but let me tell you, I was moving, I was grooving, I did not have time to stop and get a water, so I used the Liquid IV sugar-free

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17 years, Mike Conley has been playing in the NBA. You stumble into one. He is now in Minnesota and he was being celebrated the other day. Evidently, technical fouls were being handed out and he like ran away from where they were being handed out and didn't get a technical foul. There are every day some sort of new Yoke-kich stat makes an appearance that is asinine. He's got a triple double against every team that he is faced. Only Westbrook and LeBron can say that. But also in the last three games and last night as people are still talking about how the warriors are going to get in it, are they going to figure it out? They ran into that dude last night and

they're not going to figure shit out against that dude over a decode He is the second player in NBA history to have at least 80 points 50 rebounds and 45 assists over a three-game span The only other was wilt in 1968 It's a modern day I'm still more impressed by the Conley stat, sorry 17 years without attack? It is. Nico Jovic got ejected.

He's been in the league for like a year. I know it. You are talking about, and the stunning part about Jovic is nobody knew. Nobody knew he was going to be that good. Nobody had, nevermind that good. Nobody knew he was gonna be excellent Not even the nuggets. I know

They started nirkage for like a couple years before they realized oh wait this guy. Yolkage is actually pretty good Let's ship nirkage somewhere else. I don't know if you guys saw this Kirk Goldsbury has been doing for a long time Some excellent basketball analysis. I'm off the top of your heads, just looking at you, what would you say you imagine are the best offenses that you have ever seen when you think the history of basketball and watching great offensive basketball, memorable offensive teams? I know in my time, when I think of nostalgic past,

I think of Pat Riley's showtime Lakers. Lakers and Warriors is probably the first things I think of, maybe the Celtics of the 80s. It wasn't the same as the Lakers, but they still scored a ton of points per game. Well, the thing that's happened in the sport, and this part, I guess, is not gonna be surprising to people because you see the scoring in the sport,

but the most efficient offenses ever, most efficient offenses ever. most efficient offenses ever. This year Celtics, this year Pacers, this year Thunder, this year Clippers, this year Bucks. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. The way that they have surgically scalped all the inefficiencies out of the game. Ever?

Yes. Like those five? Ever. Yes. Huh. Good offensive year, Dan. You need to declare a good offensive year. Ever yes, look at those five yes, yeah ever yes, huh? Good offensive you Why you're saying that because what do you mean? Any team ever this year this year all of them yeah, that's right five of them the Denver Airport

Yeah, don't don't look into that. Contavius called will Pope has five texts this season. KCB. Still got the fact that at 50 years old, you still get such pleasure from doing that. I love it. Is I shorten technical. You're an adult. You're a you're a you've raised. You've raised children who are now adults and the amount of delight that you get It's sad from just being able to blurt KPC

Can you guys tell me if you see P by the way? Oh, I'm sorry KC P my bad. It's okay. Gotta get to see in there Do you guys have any strong opinions? Seth Greenberg had very strong opinions about Kyle Flappowski and Duke's always got, feels like they've always got a Flappowski getting run over on the court and he said he administered, he distributed shame on Wake Forest. It looked super dangerous. We've gotten a number of angles, including overhead. I won't say Flopowski was blameless,

but I also think that he's a victim of just, that has to be scary, that amount of people running at you in a hostile environment. I was actually concerned for him, and I'm concerned for players when other teams fan storm the court Like it just seems like a dangerous situation

And it seems like those guys have trouble getting off the court and just getting to the locker room He's seven feet tall. I know Come on. What are we doing? Tony? There's 20,000 people rushing at sure He twisted his ankle because people were like running at him. He flopped to it did okay flopkowski They all flopped leg a little bit. Okay. Flopkowski. They all flopped. They all flopped. I feel like the issue with the court-storming situation

is that none of the ways that they've tried to limit it or prevent it actually matter to students. Like if I'm a student and my team wins a huge upset game, I don't care if they're about to get fined $100,000. And if you try to ban me from a game, like I'm still gonna probably try to find a way to get in. And knowing how the basketball calendar works, like there's probably not gonna be another home game

this year that I wanna go to where that matters to me. So like there's not really a great way to make students like care about it. And it sucks because it's like, I've been to games where there's been field storming, court storming, like that's one of the things that's fun about being a student at one of these schools. Like you might get one of these chances

when you're there for four years or whatever, however long you're in school, but, like they're not gonna be able to convince students who are only on campuses for a couple years to not wanna do this. Like it's just hard, I don't really know how you fix it. I know you stop it when the game you're supposed to win and they don't storm the court on you.

That is true. Dude, you're so great, this is in your hands. They only storm the court because you lost the game. Win the game, they won't storm the court. Never seen them storm the court after a loss. It's super dangerous for players like Caitlyn Clark earlier this year got drilled by a fan at the Ohio State game.

It's very dangerous. There has to be a way to make sure that the team gets off the court before the court's storming and the officials get off the court and then they allow it to happen. But by being like, we're not letting any of this happen, students don't care, they're just gonna do it anyways.

They carried him off the court like DJ Khaled. Like, it wasn't that bad of an ankle to his. Looks like he stepped on a landmine. It doesn't matter though. Like, it doesn't matter how bad it is. It could have been really bad. And there have been people that have gotten injured by fans tearing down the goalposts at football games

or by court stormings. And also Martin Grimantica jumped towards ACL on a celebration. Like things happened. Did Flappowski get hurt on the overhead angle I saw where the first person that came through he looked like he was sort of tripping them as well. And again, I'm not going to second guess how it is that someone's behaving when there are

that many people running in and around them and on the road in a panicked and hostile situation. But was the injury suffered? Because the overhead shot I saw, he initiated that contact, and I would understand why it is you're just being afraid because everything is coming toward you. I don't know. I watched it several times, and I can't tell you exactly where his ankle got hurt, because there's several people that make contact with him before one of the staff members grabs

him and then they carry him off. So I don't know exactly what actually caused him to get hurt, but yeah, like you said, when there's like 100 people sprinting at you and they're all making contact with you, it's just a dangerous position to be in when you're an athlete in any sport. Reporters are saying that that is indeed

where he hurt his ankle, that collision. And it was a big collision, it really was. We're watching the overhead angle. He goes out for a little bit of an extension to kind of clip somebody as they're walking by. He did, he did for sure. But again, I will tell you, he did do that. He's walking forward also, so.

I've never walked like this. It takes a lot for me to defend a Duke basketball player, by the way. I'm just saying like I don't That's a blatant call for me. That's easy. I know you guys guys You've never had 20,000 people storming at you like how do you know how you react? I won those games. I Don't even this specific case to me doesn't even matter because this is something that happened to Caitlyn Clark earlier this season Too like this is this happens all the time and it's always like, what are we gonna do about this?

And certain conferences are like, we're gonna find you and then everyone's like, we don't care, we're gonna do it anyways. I just saw the foot too, the foot and the arm is going. Yes, he's dirty. That contact. That's dirty. No one says I feel bad for that fan

who got clipped in the shoulder and neck. Because the fans on the court, where the fans don't belong. So yeah. They can be both things. Oh, I feel bad for that person that willingly ran onto the court. Well, he was also a little pissy baby that he lost. So he was like, you know what?

I have a free shot here. This guy's not looking at me blindside him. And then he ran into his ankle and he heard himself. Like, it's both things. He was kind of being a sore loser. And he was trying to take a cheap shot at someone. And he heard himself in the process. He deserved it.

I didn't say that. What did you call him though? But what did you call him? Wapkowski? Pissy baby? Pissy baby maybe? I don't know. Yeah, possibly.

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Don lebatard you are very comfortable talking about how you met your wife How much you love her how important she is to you and that's the reason that I asked the question I've always admired that about you that you are and you have no problems whatsoever professing your love Well, the thing is I got a new wife now. You know, me and Bianca didn't make it. So I moved on. We moved on. It was for the better for both of us. Stugatz!

Things just got a little awkward there. So let me be the first on this show to congratulate you on the new wife, Vance. Congratulations on feeling whole, feeling complete, you know. Let's talk tailgating. Yeah. Don't be those don't feel awkward, buddy. I don't. I mean, it's too late for that. I appreciate you soothing me in this regard, but I already feel terribly awkward. And then my teammate comes to my defense with not a question but just a healthy congratulations and the further pointing out of that awkwardness because he's always good for me in those spots I'm

also thinking of divorce Vince after many many years 18 years with a partner who does things like that to you this is the done levbatar show with the Stugat When we stick a hand out you're asking for one there's a guy that pushes him in the back This is great. This is I'm sorry. This is crazy. Okay, if it was an athlete you like you would be freaking out about it I would say the same thing I have the same take no matter what you could put any athlete there It does not matter when you extend your arms bad bunny there. That's fine the same thing you he extended like when he threw a phone I didn't think that was right you think those are the greatest of biases that Tony has in defense and zealous defense of bad bunny I Really do think that I am not shocked a lot on this show, but I am surprised that Where this conversation with pissy baby surprised that where this conversation went,

Pissy Baby was not where I expected it, Dan. You shouldn't injure a player who's just trying to leave the court. I will make a correction. I didn't make it to Stugott's the first time, but when he doubled down and said it a second time, it wasn't 20,000 people who were storming the court. Sounds better, Dan.

I know, it sounds better. There were plenty there. You don't have to exaggerate it. It looked like a herd of thundering bison. It was plenty. It just wasn't 20,000. Also, while we're on the topic, I'm glad the court storming's getting a lot of attention,

although maybe it would have been better if it wasn't attention from this group, because I don't know how we're gonna fix any problems if Tony's gonna be like, well, you know what happens. But we do need to pay attention to how crappy the lighting is because I don't know how we're gonna fix any problems if Tony's gonna be like, well, you know what happens. But we do need to pay attention to how crappy the lighting is in Wake Forest Arena because it is so hard to watch games on TV at Wake Forest.

It is the worst lighting of any basketball court in the history of basketball. It's terrible. I have said before that the footage that comes out of Jacksonville seems to be a little grainier than any other sports footage. I don't know if they have digital or cable communication issues that are a little antiquated. But Wake Forest also has been so crappy at some sports for a long time that I expect the

lighting to be poor on any news that's coming out of Wake Forest. Speaking about things that are darker than you expect them to be, A-Rod was in the news this weekend. There was 14,000 people at that game. Sorry. A-Rod is trending because, and he felt the need, when he came in here for that

South Beach session, I would urge you to listen to it. I have not heard A. Rod that kind of self-aware introspective. He has done some living and he has done some learning and he was willing to talk about things more openly than I've ever talked with him about things. But when he came in here, he was super dark, but not as dark as he was this weekend when people were accusing him of the reverse samosa because they just couldn't believe how tan he was. And he says he fell asleep on vacation.

And I see it around his sunglasses a little bit. Where the indentation Tony what? Come on come on what are you doing there you think you guys Lee come on look at that guy Whoa Alex Rodriguez that I played who played in the Sun for 20 years Dominican. He told us with a hat Okay, you're with a. That's gonna protect. Okay. You're saying he got burned in a- he fell asleep in a tanning bed,

is what you're saying. I don't think he fell asleep. I think he thought it looked good, and now he's looking for excuses. Because he got burned extra crispy. He does look good. Does he not? He always looks good.

He's incapable of looking anything but good. But he looks several shades darker than any of us have ever seen him look. It looks like he's on stage for Mr. Olympia, you know, like all the bodybuilders or they have that brown coloring to like show their muscles. It's about the flags. He just got painted that.

Give me what they get. I'm just not gonna work out for it, just give me what they get and then that way we can look good. You're not believing, you're saying it's flatly a lie, Jeremy, that he fell asleep in the sun on vacation. I mean, I don't know Alex Rodriguez to be a liar, but. Still got speaking of things that were,

I can't even say speaking of liars. What are we doing? Speaking of things that were trending over this weekend, NVIDIA, the company, had a bigger gain on Wall Street than has ever been had on a single day. It was $273 billion in a day. It would make it, I would imagine, a top 10 richest nation at that number. And the market cap is now $2 trillion for NVIDIA. It's an artificial intelligence company.

AI. It is ahead of all other artificial intelligent companies. I don't know if you've seen what happened with Tyler Perry. Tyler Perry said he has stopped working on expansions of his studios because he has seen what AI can do. He no longer has to go to the Denver Airport or Colorado for snow. He can just recreate it. And Fran Drescher did a typical Stugatz thing,

which is say, why don't you pioneer hiring human beings? How about that? Why don't you pioneer instead of pioneer? How about that at the end of the graph? How about that? Then Annie. And I'm curious what you thought of the numbers being thrown around.

I am terrified of all things AI related. Clearly it has various nefarious uses, and we have found in today's globe that we will exploit human beings in the name of profit at every turn. And what comes this way with AI Seems super dangerous to me for a variety of different reasons But navidia is sort of out in front of tesla and anything else on developing what it is that the future will look like

Here's what's bothering me about navidia I can't stand when a stock does this and everyone says i told you so I hate that person. I've owned the stock since this day. I've owned the stock since it was at $100. I've owned the stock. I've been telling you to buy this stock and Jim Cramer, I'm talking to you.

I watch your show all the time. You've never told me to buy that stock. And people walking around today and the last couple of days at Tony, I know you felt this, telling me, when they purchased NVIDIA, what price they got it at, shut up. You don't own it, you've never owned it,

and stop telling me how much money you made off NVIDIA stock. You didn't make a cent. The end in NVIDIA stands for never owned it. You didn't own it. It's like the 86 World Series, Dan, Game Six. A billion people will tell you they were at the game, but only 42,000 were at the actual game.

And right now, with the video, what people are doing is, there's a billion people out there saying, I own the stock at X. I own the stock at Y. They're lying. 42,000 people may have owned the stock, but not a billion people who keep coming up to me and telling me, hey, I got in at $15. No, you didn't.

Who are these people? What are you, how often are you having this conversation? They're coming up to me. I'm not asking for it. They just walk up to you while you're at the dock. He's right. He's talking stocks. Thank you. Is this what you talk about at Northwestern La Crosse Games? Because that's all you've been up to. Portfolio's on. I'm not naming names. I'm not saying where I heard it. I'm just saying

people keep, you know, coming up to me. Northwestern parents actually would be the demographic. I just would be coming with They actually can't afford it right the person's got oh, yeah, I've got stockings you got one share buddy You're lucky to have that give me a break So talk talk from Tony. Everyone's a liar about everything. Oh, you think everyone owns the video get out I don't think everyone owns the video, but I also think that you're wrong when you do the absolute of no one owns the video You know who does know in the video? Nancy Pelosi

Look at that. I'm talking more about the stock guy. Don't you hate that guy? What is stock swords and you have people saying hey, I got in at four Tony go sit in the penalty box Okay with insider trading now. Just pass the line. Just go sit in the penalty box for your just general shame. The video is like a weight loss. I don't know what it is.

And who's keeping. It does sound like a pharmaceutical. Who's keeping track of Jim Kramer, by the way? Is anyone doing that? What do you mean? We keep track of all the sports takes. Who is keeping track of the financial takes? I am telling you, I watched that show

and he never told me to invest in the video. A lot of people are holding Jim Cramer accountable for getting a lot of things wrong as the pioneering revolutionary on television who basically just does business talk with a little smidgen of entertainment and therefore he's slightly different than all of the other starch suits talking business. Jim Kramer has made a giant career for himself out of just being a little bit louder and more jazz hands about giving

you business information. But it's easy to say hey I told you ten years ago to get in on NVIDIA after NVIDIA has the run that it's at. I don't remember him saying it. I don't recall him saying it. You're probably not watching all the things Jim Cramer says all the time just because Grant, did I haven't watched every episode? You occasionally watched Jim.

Well, that's how you get away with it though, Dan. That's how you say it. I told you about it, because no one's watching all the episodes. Get out of here. This is an insane conversation. It is. Why? I don't like that here. This is an insane conversation. It is. Why?

I don't like that person. It's just accusing everyone of lying at every turn. The I Got In on the stock early person is an annoying person. Dan, they haven't stopped coming up to Stugott's telling me. Everyone. These imaginary people at Northwestern Games will not stop claiming that they got in on NVIDIA first. It was at Notre Dame.

Well, that tracks, too. I noticed something the other day that It was at Notre Dame. Well, that tracks too. I noticed something the other day that I had not seen before. You tell me how uncommon you guys think it is. I've seen when sort of watching, looking for movies to watch that on iTunes, the way that some of those movies are luring me in are for the first time, I am seeing the studio prominently placed on the cover of what that movie is. A24 is now something stugas, and I've noticed this as the quality of entertainment has gone down because so many people are making so many different things, you need to know that in some places you can get something that you know is good. And A24 consistently makes good shit at a time

when a lot of people are just making a lot of stuff and not good stuff, just a lot of it. So the first time I'm seeing this, I don't know if it's new to you guys, where a studio is putting its name on the front of stuff because when you're scanning through stuff, Stugac, you want some help, more than word of mouth on what's good, more than rotten tomatoes, what's good, give me some help, and this is the first time. I've seen Hulu's offerings have gotten better post-strike.

It's gonna take some people some time to catch up because of everything that happened during the strike to make the good stuff again. But you're saying you're right because it's confusing trying to find good content out there. There's so much of it. What do you mean by they're putting their name on the front of the screen? I'm saying when I'm flipping through iTunes and I'm just looking at movies and how they present on First Buy when you're doing the window shopping on stuff, I'm seeing that these movies now have that some of the A24 stuff that I might not choose otherwise, I'm clicking on it because it says A24.

And so if it says A24, they have a good enough reputation where there's a pretty decent chance it's gonna be good. Again, I'm saying something that I don't know whether it's accurate or not. Maybe other studios have done this. It's the first time I've noticed that A24 is doing it and that movies are allowing it to be done.

Usually it's your signature stars or however it is that you wanna sell a movie because you're getting one chance at catching someone's eye. And they kinda categorize it differently. Like I know on Macs they'll have like A24 or if you like this watch these kind of movies from this character or whatever. So like I see that all the time

and A24 is the only one that I know that has like a production house or a studio that has the movies in that category. The bigger question here Dan is you're using iTunes for movies? Movies are free, like everywhere, on all these apps. You're buying them on your iTunes? Not all of them.

The video, you got Apple stock? Not everything, not everything. Not everything that is in theaters is available everywhere but it will be eventually I gotta say for you I was gonna say Tony knows a thing Tony knows a guy