The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: In Defense of the Butter Sculpture

Episode Date: August 10, 2023

After last night's no-hitter by Michael Lorenzen, we are here to ask the important questions: what's the most impressive thing you can do in sports that no one cares about? Then, Lucy is here to defend the Iowa State Fair's butter sculpture of Caitlin Clark. Plus, have you heard of the derecho? Also, the Carolina Panthers are contenders, Thursday Thunder, and manatees and alligators. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. This is the Dunlabel Tarshou with the Stugat's Podcast. I'm staving off a mean going into his notepad on his phone, which is full of both, I believe, dreams, and also ideas for a show oddball that he hosts with Charlotte Wilder. It's really fun, check it out. Because I want to talk about this no-hitter that happened, which is only getting brought up now, this deep into the show, many layers of nonsense in, because Michael Oranson of the Phillies, I believe, yes, this is the man through it.

Exactly. So this dude threw a no-hitter and back in my day, a no-hitter meant something and then I'm looking through the list of no-hitters in regulation in Major League Baseball games. And there have been 19 of them since 2020. 19 no-hitters. Is that a lot or not a lot? It feels like so many no-hters, the point where it barely registers a mean as a thing that anybody cares about. And I feel strongly about this take, but I also am

mindful that this is kind of a peak accomplishment in this profession that is actually objectively or used to be hard to do. Well, the perfect game is more of an accomplishment than a no hitter. You're more accurate. You're not giving up any walks, your defense not getting up any errors. So that's more of a thing that's impressive. But I'm also not impressed by perfect games anymore either. Oh, God. Why?

Come on, sublime. The difference is there's been 24 perfect games in the history of Major League Baseball. There's been over 300 no hitters. So there is a difference in the rarity between the two, but a no hitter is still incredibly impressive, particularly when it's one pitcher. Now that pitchers are only going a few innings into the game and the difference of what you had from years past. No, no. I would like to care, but I don't. About the no hitter, like I feel bad. I know it's difficult, but it's not. It doesn't turn into a bite-sized little but it's not, it doesn't turn to a bite-size, little shareable internet clip,

which I think would help people care about it. Like one play is different. One, three seconds of excitement. The last strike, right? That's the, that's the share. It's kind of boring. But the last strike looks like every other strike. That's the, like what,

the one that goes back to my issue with baseball, I said, if I watch a football game, and someone says, hey Patrick, my home's playing, this guy's the best player in football, if I watch a football game and someone says, Hey, Patrick, my home is playing this guy's the best player in football. And I watch football game. Chance is on with the Patrick mom to do something amazing, throw it with his left hand or escape something or whatever. I watch a basketball game and someone says to me, Hey, Steph Curry is the greatest shooter ever. Chance on with the Steph Curry, shoot from like half core to make some amazing play. If I say, you know, Mike tried his greatest baseball player of all

time and I watch a mic trial game. There's a good chance. If I say, you know, Mike try to it's a great baseball player of all time, and I watch a Mike try game. There's a good chance all I see is him doing this. And then like, he's just standing there, and then at the plate just standing, and then he gets it walked through it. Like I don't get to see, unless it's a picture,

because I mean, even if you don't get to see the other players in the other sports, do amazing things. You get to see them do for the whole time, like you're out there for the entire time doing stuff, but the pitchers are the only ones that are kind of continuously in action. Even even a pitcher, though, is like, what, he threw it and the other guy didn't hit it. You don't even see like the amazing thing, which is the movement and all that stuff. You don't even see that really as a fan with the naked eye.

Well, this is going back to the conversation we had earlier about football and how much we understand because really what makes it more impressive if you see Mike Trout go over three in a game is watching what the pitchers did to get this great hitter out and understanding the sequencing of the pitches and how they threw off that hitter. And those are the things that are lost by most of the knowledge in the game. It's a baseball weird though. Super weird. It's such a weird thing.

It's like it's the only sport where it's like, it's my turn. No, no, you went up before Mike. It's my turn now to get a batten. And then it's like, okay, okay, you guys did offense. Now it's my turn to do offense. And then they run out in the field and stuff. It's just such an odd thing. But if you bat out of order, it's an out.

So that's pretty important to me. We know. But if you bat out of order, it's an out. So that's pretty important. I mean, we know, but the concept in another game would be like, all right, this is the point guards turn to shoot. Yes. Next time down the floor, the shooting guards turn to shoot. We have to go through the success. Imagine like a technical foul. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Wait, yes, again. Again. Again.

Oh, shit, tacky mushroom. Thank you. Oh. So it's not fair what we're doing because what we are essentially doing is being critical of like another country's culture because we don't understand it. So for people who do understand

baseball and appreciate it, then this all makes sense. I like the picture. Imagine if it was a technical foul because wait a second, the Wayne Wade, you already shot. It's Mario Chalmers turn now. But there is a thing about this specific baseball custom waiting turns that makes this sport so different from basketball in a way that is fascinating to me. Because in basketball, right, the whole point of why one athlete really matters is because you can just give him the ball

every single time. You can choose who defends you in a play. You can choose using switches, calling for picks. You can basically be a one-man team. In baseball, there is a democracy that you're forced into even if it is also a very boring democracy as a result. The weirdest part about baseball in that way is that it's the most individualistic sport and that there's all of these individual battles happening throughout the game that

go in a particular order, but you also need potentially the deepest team because one player's impact doesn't really mean that much because even if you have the best pitcher in baseball, and Marlon's had Sandi Alcato last year, it meant nothing. The angels have two of the best players of all time. They have one player who is two of the best players of all time. Shoheo time is one of the greatest hitters and the greatest pitchers of all time by himself. And it doesn't mean any of us players of all time.

The other thing I don't get is because of what you just said, how individualistic it is. Why do we care about clubhouse chemistry and baseball? Like what what teammates of stuff do you guys do? Ask that to Chicago White socks fans this year. Yeah. Oh, because he got his ass whipped and nobody helped him or what? Well, there's a bunch of apparent clubhouse consternation disputes. Not people not getting along.

Everyone's mad. It seems like they're. And everybody's mad at Tim Anderson. Is that I don't, yeah, I was guessing that's what you're talking about because he got his ass beat. Nobody came to his rescue. But in Tim Anderson's defense, he didn't get his ass beat. He got caught by a lucky shot. Dude. I mean, it was a fatal one.

It was a fatal way. Eyes closed swing. The man got caught by Lucky Punch. The man who only will be interested in a no-hitter if there's a good viral gif cannot then say that, actually, there's context to this viral gif that you don't appreciate. No, I, if there was a good viral gif, I would still not be interested in no hitter to be clear. It's called Jeff, by the way. We go get that. We go get we're a gift. Well, I was good guy. Yeah, my mom would call it Jeff. I would call it Jeff. Good man, but he changed his name. So I am going to go respect his religious wishes and call him

gift. What's the most impressive thing you can do in sports that no one actually cares about? Apparently, a no-hitter. What's the second most impressive thing you can do in sports that no one cares about? A complete game or perfect game. What's the third most impressive thing in sports you can do that no one cares about? A cycle. Yeah, I am for a cycle. So baseball, right?

All baseball and it's entirety. Yeah, the answer here. Four home runs in a game. A player for the Marlins yesterday hit a home run from both sides of the plate. Oh, and nobody cares. Impressive. Yeah. And we saw during the home run derby, didn't we?

Yep, see? Lucy's sarcastic. Yeah. DeGaaf. Lucy did the, uh, the drink. Ooh. Like, okay, Lucy said when we talk about baseball, she hears Charlie Brown's parents.

Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob. That's mean. It's, I'm sorry, baseball, but they kind of did it to themselves. It's when we are all like, everything's evolving and we accept that all the sports are changing and developing with us. Baseball has been steadfast in their

group. So they just did. That's the point that I'm making is why we were along the process football is altering the rules every year. We don't know what a catch is. Basketball is altering the rules every year. And that's the risk you take. There's a give and take with every decision.

It doesn't matter. We still watch it. Yeah. But it's because sometimes things are going to be, are gonna, you're gonna go too far. And then you bring it back. Baseball. Baseball, wait, Baseball is out here giving us sped up games. Guys getting punched in the face. Now that happened once.

Now. Now they fight a little. And they're listening to us complain about how it's not done. I was like, you know, the point is, the point I'm making about Base is they're finally accepted that they need to change things. But they did it too late. Like, if this had happened when I was younger, maybe I would care more because it would

have been more accessible then. Also like, baseball is still very much not an accessible sport. If you want to watch baseball in Iowa, you literally can't. It's blacked out in the entire state. Why would you want to be in Iowa? Um because that's where a world-class university is and that's where Caitlin Clark's butter sculpture is. Can we talk about this butter sculpture? It's so I'm sorry. It's so it's okay. I don't even know I'm describing it. It exists. It sounds like a euphemism for something that's absolutely You've been to the Iowa State Fair correct. Yeah, so the Iowa State Fair is a very big deal.

When I went, Corbin Blue was there. Don't they just fry stuff, isn't it? Who's there? They fry stuff that's not so deep fry. They're not so deep fry. They're not so deep fry. They're not so deep fry. They're not so deep fry.

They're not so deep fry. I don't know what that is. I thought it was like a football coach, like Corbin Blue, or maybe he's a country singer. It sounds like a check. It's like you come to the line of scrimmage and you see that the defense is rocked, it's covered over to the nickel, you got a blitz coming over there. Check, check, hold, Corbin Blue, Corbin Blue.

Sounds like the producer. Right, is it? Of an incredibly popular pop song, right? And it turns out he's Swedish though. No. My name is Corbin Blue. What? B-L-E-U. Yeah. My name is Cobyn Blue. What?

B-L-E-U. Yeah. It is me. L-E-U. That is how it's spelled, yes. At the risk of burying the lead here, there's a butter sculpture. Yeah. So at the Iowa State Fair, they got a lot of stuff going on.

But they do butter sculptures every year because like, why not, I guess? And they will do them a famous Iowa wins, which is now, you know, our girl, Kaylen Clark. That's Caitlin. It's a little hurtful. It's a little offensive. It is like the Ronaldo sculpture. I feel like. I have no idea what the hat is.

Like a little top hat. Yeah, it's a little top hat. For the podcast audience. Like an alcohol. We're going to look at hands. Organ Grindr Monkey. You know how they wear a little hat? Is this so, is the point of it to be bad?

Is this one of those moves? There was like, you know what, you know how they wear a little. Is this so, is the point of it to be bad? Is this one of those moves? There was like, you know what, you know how we get attention by making it terrible. No, I don't, they weren't like, let's make her look bad. Make her look bad. Why is there, why is there a tiny, is that a tiny top hat?

No clue, if you have to staple a picture of the subject on the shoulder of the sculpture, you have done a poor job, my friend. Let's see you do better. No, I'm just shopping off and putting on some toast. I would defend the butter sculptor here. I see. You tell it's a basketball player.

I mean, it's a basketball player, so yeah, sure. Where are the hands? I'm just a knob. I feel like. I feel like. I feel like. I feel like. I feel like. I feel attached to a nub. I feel like. This is our modern day Michelangelo, guys. You got you got a Michelangelo.

It's total. You got to you got to do a sculpture out of non butter and lie to us. Say this is butter. No spray paint up but a sculpture. Y'all always say this is butter because this is a trophy. As bad as this looks, I would walk up to it with a knife and scrape a little off and put it on a piece of toast. Maybe a corn cob. If it looked good, you know what you wouldn't do to face it.

That's a good point. I'll put a face on it. I want to talk about Iowa and me and a me and I think are in a race to figure out who can say the inappropriate joke we have in our heads without getting in trouble. I've been watching a means face and I've been seeing my face. Oh man, it's the thing I like least about you Pablo, because you're your desire to always say the weird joke. I don't think it's a weird joke. What would dad do? He'd make a mean say it and then claim no credibility or responsibility over it and then kick him out. Come on. Yeah. So don't do it. The best thing it? The best thing for you? You don't have time to do it. I do. She's just a bit of a butter fist.

Oh. Oh, it's a smitter. Don't let me. Tard. One of the great benefits of being married is your wife's purse. You can put so much stuff in there. I would hate to be your wife's purse. You walked in here the other day with silverware in a pocket. That's purse. You can put so much stuff in there. I would hate to be your wife's purse. You walked in here the other day with silverware

in a pocket. That's right, because my wife wasn't here to put it in her purse. Still got your wife must must must be amazed at what a child you are. What do you mean? Just your eating habits. I'm prepared.

I am here to say you're eating habits. You know what? The mess that your desk is. Yeah, the mess that my desk is. I'd just like to say this right now, every single person in here, everyone who's has benefited from something that I've had underneath my desk.

You think that I haven't given people spare socks before because you'd be wrong? You're a hoarder. I'm prepared. Underwear. Underwear. Chris wore my underwear once. VCC, the lebatar show with a stugat!

Lucy, were you in Iowa during the Dorecho? I was not, so I think it was 2020. I had just graduated and thankfully I was not there. But nobody really talked about that an inland hurricane hit Iowa. Like, it was like that during the state fair, it was not during the state fair. I don't know if they were able to have the state fair. I know people who were without power for over a month.

That's crazy. So I did not know what a derecho was until now. It means right. I think that's what I thought. I knew it was the least. You would get those left that it just writes. Never seen a better school show. Never seen a derecho.

I remember that being talked about, but I don't remember much about it. But you were like, oh, it's Iowa, hmm. It was- It was like, it's like insane. Like if you, I sent some pictures in the video, don't if we wanna see, but like corn silos were flattened.

Like gas stations were completely destroyed. Like it was a major hurricane just in Iowa. It was something I've never seen. I need to know the science behind who you have our hurricane inland, but also like in my defense, it was August 2020. Yeah.

That happened. There was other things popping folks. Which is why we didn't hear about it at all, but it was like devastating to the state. Like they're still recovering. Isn't it, isn't hurricane just a tornado? No, because it was like the entire span of Iowa.

Like it wasn't like a hurricane, or not hurricane, tornadoes are small and they have one path. And it was a funnel. This, yeah, this thing was huge. I remember looking at the weather radar and it was just like a line of black. You know when it's like the weather radar

goes from like red to orange and then like the really scary is like the pink and then it's white. It was like pink white and then it was black. Like we don't. It was the craziest thing I've ever seen. It doesn't occur to me that the other thing beyond the NFL that we all consume

that we don't understand is the weather. I mean, tell me you're not from the Midwest without telling me you're not from the West. We love looking at radar in the Midwest. Can you imagine, can you imagine something scarier for the state of Iowa than a big black thing coming at it? Didn't know how to transition. No, no laugh.

Well, what's your next one? Where is it, keep nicks? Keep nicks, nicks with an end. Thank God. Thank you. I thought hurricanes really required a great deal of water. I didn't realize that hurricanes did not require water. It was like an inland version of a hurricane.

It was like the same amount of damage. It's all terrifying for the record. This is all there are videos on youtube.com slash levitard and friends. Photos that Lucy has provided. Oh wow. A coverage that clearly deserved it at the time. Three years too late. Three years too late. Three years too late. I'm that clearly deserved it at the time. But that's the last two years to wait by three years too late. I'm still looking. I'm still searching.

Oh man, the submersible. Trying to get to the bottom of that. That was a crazy week. It's the best player who was born in Iowa. Who was born in Iowa? Harrison Barn. Kurt Warner. He's an Iowa guy.

Oh my dog. I love Iowa. I'm sorry. I take everything out said of an Iowa, I take back. Her one is the man. And Caitlin Clark. Oh, and here's some Barnes. I'll say it. And Doug McDermott. That's loose on best friend.

That is like my life. That's my life. I'm like, I'm feeling Clark. Hi, I'm Caitlin Clark for the record. Joe Berg. Yeah. From home believably fun to Fred Hoyberg, the mayor. Yeah, Fred Hoyberg.

Me. Alan Lazar. I was scrolling this list of NFL players who went to high school in Iowa and I was looking for a certain type of person as you may have guests. Bob Sanders. Bob Sanders. I don't think he's from Iowa, but he did go time. Yeah, I know he went to Iowa, but I'm looking for people who like say, frozen, falls is what you were looking for Bob fellow. Ashton Kutters from Iowa. Dan Gabel. Tristan Wurfs, baby. I will guy. This low low Jones.

This is fun radio right here. Ricky Davis. Sean Johnson. Lucy. Which Sean Johnson? The gymnast. Oh, how do you go? Marcus Page.

Names. Are we just all running from the idea of talking about disaster, which we all realized collectively was very serious when you saw that photo of the crumpled together like silo? Yes. Reggie Roby. I saw a disaster in the parking garage recently, which I have now dubbed the biggest asshole in the world

move to make in a parking garage. And as you know, I've complained previously on the show about how when you live in Miami, you spend a lot of time in parking garages. More times than you should. It is a terrible thing and indictment on the infrastructure of the city and our dependency on cars. However, there is no worse move to make in a parking garage than being the guy who barrels

around the corners and instead of slowing down, you honk your horn so that if someone's coming, they'll know that you're coming as you're about to speed around a corner. It is the most asshole thing you can possibly do in a park ride. How about gunning the engine? Oh, it's ridiculous. Because today, walking in some dude in a Corvette gun the engine as he's rounding the corners, I'm like, come on. I mean, it was like an alert like I don't know.

I don't know. Because that's what this guy is doing, right? He's honking so that instead of looking in those little stupid mirrors that they have to see if there are people coming, he's honking, he's not looking, he's not slowing down, and then he's taking the high speed corner, like he's freaking landon Norris, and it's ridiculous. It's a driver.

F1? Yeah. Baby lando. Shout out, baby lando. The parking garage here is going to be the end of one of us. What's more deadly? We just take people into this.

The one on. What's more deadly? Cleveland or parking garage? This one's worse, I think. That one was like bio-warfing. I like the, I like the Elser generally better. So Cleveland or parking garage to me, whenever I visited felt like a little bit of like

the last of us, Rosambi's situation. Yeah. We're out of some corner. Mike Crawler guy with just like mushrooms growing out of his head. Ready to bite you. This one feels like I am playing a game of Frogger that I was unaware of until it's too late. Like you're coming around. Cornies are walking through to get to this studio.

It is. I'm hooked up against the walls, man. I'm gonna tell you right now. Oh, yeah. Don't be walking out there. I look hard say right now. Oh, yeah. Don't be walking out there all afternoon. I look hard way. You've got to just hit somewhere, always get a little wet.

I see, I smell him before you see him for sure. But no, that's even when he's not. I mean, you're perfect darking your way through. What's that video game? Oh, you're talking about it. Was it Metal Gear? Metal Gear Soliding. Yeah, it's your Metal Gear Soliding your way.

It was Snake. It was Snake. Snake. I have not had these incidences, Metal gear solid it. Yeah, it's your Metal Gear Solid it your way snake I have not had these incidences, but I would be scared if a car was coming around the edge like Brian Burns the past rusher before The oh, you see that great one and The Panthers underrated team right now I like mess around and sneak into the Super Bowl Wow, that's wow Stanley come final Hathers underrated team right now. I like them. Mess around and sneak into the Super Bowl. Wow. That's, wow. That's a Stanley Cup final.

It's a tough time. It's tough. Definite contender. I mean, they are, in my view, they've brought in talented coaches. They got Bryce Young. This is real question is how good Bryce Young is going to be because they got the number one overall pick because of a trade.

They were not a team that had a talent level of number one overall pick. The shortcoming is they got rid of of DJ Moore. They're true number one receiver, which most of the competitive teams have a real number one receiver. But yeah, he went to the bearers, but defensively, they got some talent. They got offensive minded coaches with quarterback experience and a young number one overall pick, like what they got great offensive line that maintain a running game even after Christian McCaffrey left.

Seat or horn. What's the JC horn cornerback on other side? I really love him like that. The way that I just took this and steered us in a direction and no one cares about, but you know what? You're really football. And that is WDD that. Yeah.

They also have the show's close personal friend, Adam Deeland, who golfed with us in Tahoe. Go Panthers. Good locker room guy. I don't think he's got much left in the tank. How do you know he's a good locker room guy? Why would they have brought him in? He was a good point. He was really nice to us on the golf course.

He's probably a pretty good locker room. Yes, you went to Tahoe, we know Jeremy. Damien. Topros. Feels like we got a sneaky fast situation out in Thielin. I never really seems to be a good locker room guy. Well, it does remind me of another man's Zell related dynamic, right?

When we're talking about these stereotypes that were sort of assuming based on demographics, Bryce Young, right? The whole thing was that he was about Mina Kimes height, that photo that went viral, that almost tanked his draft stock until she exclaimed, exclaimed that he was wearing heels. Yeah.

And that he's like a solid, I don't know, like 5'11, shout out to everybody who's 5'10 and 3'4". What do we make of this Dominique? Like in terms of height of quarterback, where did we land on this? Because that's another story that came and went. We were in a situation where we had all kind of accepted that the restrictions on quarterback height

was something that was overrated. You remember, we had droopries having success. We had Baker Mayfield being drafted number one overall. People were considering this like two-a- Shiny manzo. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kyler Murray was driving number overall to a before he blew up his hip.

People were projecting, was numbering overall. And everyone was like, quarterback height is no longer an issue. But none of those people with the exception of two as resurgence last season. None of those people really continue to prevail. And then we got to the point where we were looking at Bryce Young

and we were back saying the height does matter. But the bigger thing I think that people pointing out for Bryce Young is not his height as much as his like, girth and his sturdiness. Thin, he's a very thin guy. Yeah. Lack there of is what you're thinking of. Yeah. And so it's his durability.

And I laid out for you, but you didn't do anything with it. But I did the little laugh. Yeah. That's the, uh, that's the telltale sign. He's found his voice. He also dropped his voice to this register. Right here.

Try to meet me where I'm at. No. I'm one deeper. No. All right, I've had it. I'm going. I've had it. So I think that's the concern is how many hits

you can take at that size because quarterbacks are going to get hit as much as we try to protect them particularly ones who have some level of athleticism and you need to be able to like prolong place and so how many times can a 260 pound 280 pound person hit someone who is 200 pounds and 5.11, I'm being generous of 200 pounds. I think he got up to like 190 or something for the combine, which suggests that he's actually like one hundred pounds.

Well, that's 70 pounds. If anybody knows what the combine is really measuring, it's very wide in there, it's up to him what's going on. What's that? Very wide over here in your studio. I like it. No. We gotta have a baritone, he's like the guy from Boyz the Man

who talks. The one who quit. Forever, that's always the amazing thing. Like this is the guy said, you know what? I'd rather be in a con. Ha ha ha. Bryce Young weighed 204 pounds at the combine. And I feel like Dominique, you know

that weight at the combine is not a true measurement. Oh yeah, I weighed what a 185, I think, at the combine is not a true measurement. Oh yeah, I weighed what a 185 I think at the combine, which was 10 pounds of water. So you get up in the morning and you drink, you drink, you drink, you don't pee. And so after you finish getting weighed in so that you can get the weight to where you want it to be, and then you throw out.

Yeah, and then you throw up and then you go run fast. That's what I did. But other people who have other, the other issue, we can get that. The way you before the running and all of a sudden. That's on a different day. OK. Yeah, you're there for multiple days.

So interviews running, the testing day is when you only do testing. So yeah, the weight day is the day where you do the naked pictures, too. It's always the weirdest part of the combine, by the. So why why are they making y'all strip man? People feel like they know they can learn something they can gain something from your body types. You know why it's Actually kind of that's a more one talent evaluator who is actually secretly a pervert and and that's the way we're gonna do it It's like the old Patriso Neil bit where he talks about TSA.

There's got to be at least one TSA person who's an absolute pervert. Just doing this on purpose. Step aside. Okay, definitely been, yeah, the TSA perv is really. There's got to be at least one. I'm not saying I'm 99. My dad was in high school. They used to make all of the boys swim naked in swimming class.

Yeah, what? Yes. What? What? in high school, they used to make all of the boys swim naked in swimming class. Yeah. What? What? What? And they claimed it was like, oh, because like, you know, it's just easier than I thought. Oh, I don't know. They don't have to get swimsuits all these stuff.

And I'm like, yeah. I'm guessing that's not why. We also have, I'm also going to take photographs so we can compare your times from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. Right. And you know what, did your dad believe that this was like a county-wide thing? Or is this? take photographs so we can compare your times from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. Right. And what? Did your dad believe that this was like a county-wide thing

or is this? No, I think they all knew that it was like really fucking weird, but like, what were they couldn't do anything about it? They could. They could not get. Not really. Couldn't really question it. Back then, they didn't have notes.

You couldn't put a note from home. Yeah, right. It's called hammer-on. They hadn't been existed. They hadn't created it. Oh, what? No, this is what our coach is making us do right now. Who would you take it to? Everyone knew it. I could be intended. That's terrible. I can't imagine that. That's a real, real failure

by your grandparents. It's proof. It's also happening. The camera was probably like this big what he's talking about. Flash. All right. Yeah, with the little flash light up here and I'm going to catch coach Jenkins red handed. Say cheese. Everyone say very still. Don Lebertard. Listen, it could be Julius Randall's building. Have a look at the mecca. Where's Julius?

The mecca. Spulgatz. Steve Martin was a pro. Listen, it could be Julius Randall's building. How about that? The Mecca. Where's Julius? The Mecca. Spugats. Steve Martin was a prop comment. You said that. I said it two seconds earlier than you. This is the Dan Levatar show with the Spugats. You know what that sound means? That sound means it's time for Thursday Thunder!

It doesn't look like a dorech out of me. Oh, it doesn't. Okay, Thursday Thunder. Thursday Thunder is brought to you by our friends at Draft King Sportsbrook. You can follow our parlay on the D King's sports book app let's go to Jeremy folks I definitely know how parlay's work and gambling it's me uh we've got a three game parlay three-pick parlay i took a good start from three different sports oh boy um the first baseball which I know everybody really loves uh if any of you remember Noah's Cinderguard Thor? Yeah, that guy had a hair. He's now a Cleveland Guardian.

No way. And he's horrible at baseball. So we're going to go ahead and take the Toronto Blue Jays to beat up on Thor. I mean, to be fair, I really enjoyed when Thor joined the Guardians of the Galaxy. That was a really good twist. Saturday losses, either.

The best mix. MCU movie. That was a really good twist. Seven losses, either. The best mix. MCU movie. And that excuse me, he's not pitching well. Ragnarok. So he stinks now? Yeah, he's not any good. What's the ZRA? I'm a baseball guy.

Where's Matt Harvey? Gone. All of the mess pictures. All of the mess pictures are in a bad way. Every one of them. The grom got hurt. Sindergarde is bad. I'm learning now. Matt Harvey had a drug problem that was famous

in the tabloids that did not go well. Yeah, not good. Stephen Matts, not guy. He's a cardinal, I think. Anywho. Anywho, anywho. NFL preseason. You got action tonight.

New England Patriots and Houston Texans. The Texans are a favorite, but we are going to take the New England Patriots on the Money Line. And finally, WNBA Action. The Atlanta Dream are going to take down the Seattle Storm tonight. That is our three-pick parlay. So you have the Toronto Blue Jays on the Money Line. The doing the Patriots on the Money Line. The Atlanta

Dream on the Money Line and that will give you plus five thirty-four on your spread. Hmm. Thursday Thunder. Brought to you by Dram kings. That's awesome. What? Why is everyone laughing? So much adusy out of all the decks. Roy is falling out of the chair. Roy, where did Roy go? Roy's on the ground. It's a big women's world cup match tonight too. Spain and the Netherlands, 9 p.m. eastern on Fox.

We didn't include that in the car play because truthfully, I don't know who's going to win that one. It's going to be a good game. I'm scared. Roy, scared. I don't know who's going to win that one. It's going to be a good game. I'm scared. Why? I don't know. I just am. I just feel fear when I watch soccer now. I'm going to have this feeling with me probably for the rest of my life after Sunday.

Roy, literally, R-O-T-F-L-T. Yo, man. That's awesome. Look, man. I was just trying to be supportive in the situation and also provide some transition as we move from that segment to whatever we're doing next that didn't because there's just a silence there and As you guys know, that's the one big no-no of this this format. You can't be silent Roy falling out of his chair was mostly inconvenient for me because I wanted him to press that button in that moment of

By the way, I am a person speaking of ROTFL. I'm a person who started saying LOL like completely ironically LOL Larry in my Well, oh, in your text. Okay. I'm not loud Your LOL and like All go from a curew enthusiasm. Susie. Now, what's Susie doing, L.O.L.? L.O.L.? Susie not doing the L.O.L.L.L.L.L.L.L.L.? He was doing that.

No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, that it can't be qualified as ironic anymore. I'm just a guy who says lol. What are your loles mean? You have different loles for different parts of sentences, different texts, different meanings. So I'm always choosing between lol and ahaha, and then potentially. Oh, yeah, ahaha, or ha-ha-ha. And ahaha is the highest compliment.

What about that? Ahaha-ha-ha-ha-ha is the highest compliment I can pay in a text? I'm looking at the last. Each million texts I've had with Pablo. Nairian LOL, a ha ha, an LMAO or anything. Just straight conversation. I think I found something.

This is from April of 2022. He says ha ha, because that said Tony brothers looks like a manatee. And he does. He does. Tony brothers. All the whiskers. They're gonna see cow. Yeah. Yeah. I do. Gogg. Yeah. That's what he said. Manatees are really cute. Have you guys ever seen a manatee drinking water out of a hose? Oh, yeah. Many times. I've never seen a manatee. You never seen a manatee. Not in real life, not in a picture. It comes just sits there.

It looks like a walrus with no tusks. Yeah, exactly. It feels like one too. It just looks like a big rock in the water. Oh, big rock. But like, you're in fresh water. Like, if you go to a marina, especially I saw this in Keyes County. Oh, what?

Excuse me. A marina? Okay, that's not what you said. It's like my carina. Yeah, he's having a marina. You go to the marina, I was like, that's not what you said. It's like macarena. Yeah, he said morena. That's like, you go to morena. That's also what it's on. I do have a little bit of Miss Vicki's sea salt

original kettle chips in the back of my mullers right now. If that maybe something happened there. Yeah. I went original. Yeah, because honestly, sometimes you need to pair the flavor with what you're craving after a lunch. So if you eat something that's like a little sweet, you might want the vinegar to balance it out. you eat something that's like a little sweet,

you might want the vinegar to balance it out. I had something that wasn't very salty, and I just needed straight salt injection into my bloodstream. So I went with the regular sea salt, because they're the saltiest. No, the vinegar, sea salt vinegar one is the saltiest, and that's the one I always go for.

Yeah, salt vinegar. The regular sea salt's pretty damn salty. I can't do it. Let's compare sodium levels. The thing about man, it should be sour. It should be paid for this. If you go to a merina, we might be beginning to pay it for these chip noises. Well, you have Ms. Bittys. 125 milligrams of sodium. Yeah, this one's way more 240. Damn. 10% daily value. This one's only five.

What a celebration. Yes. Speaking of not wanting salt though, manatees, they like fresh water. If you go to a marina sometimes, you'll see a fisherman or a boat's man holding of hose and the manatees will swim up and they'll just spray the fresh water and the manatee sits there on its back and floats and it just sits there and it drinks and it's so happy. That sounds amazing. You think it feels like man, all the water we usually get is salty or shit. Now, what is this electable thing that you're giving me? Oh, it's so sweet. I'm not, yeah, and I'm not sure if you're supposed to do it or not.

Now that I think about it, just like- You have to feed them. Generally, you're not hearing with wildlife. Like, I was on vacation recently, and there was an alligator attack where I was, and they think that when humans interact with the alligators, it makes them more aggressive and they're more likely to go after human beings. And this alligator apparently went after some poor old woman and drowned her.

And that's why now it's in a lot of places it's illegal to interact or harass alligators because they don't want people interacting with wildlife. So now I'm questioning if this guy should have been feeding the manatee water at all. Let me just say right now, that sounds like some stuff they got to tell white people. Don't interact with the alligator. I can't. Well, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, ago somebody hopping on the back of a manatee and they get arrested because they protect the species. I mean, I really thought you guys were going to go with that. Nobody won with it. That's pretty amazing.

It's dead fish. I thought we were all silent. We were pondering it. Where's my camera? Is it right here? It's pondering over here. Hey, uh, hey, Jeremy. The video team is a no other guy than it.

Hey, Jeremy, catch. There you go. It's all yours, buddy. It's rare when a bit embodies the thing the bit is about. I'm still trying to figure out who's engaging with Alligators. Hello, Mr. Alligator. Oh, you're a good boy, aren't you? Would you like some chum?

Oh, I don't know. Uh, that's really, uh. Uh. I think a lot of people think like, oh, I can go up really close to this alligator and take a picture of it. I've seen, I saw a video recently. Roy, play it. Who thinks that?

Who thinks that? Who thinks that? What, guys? Anyways, I saw a video recently of a white guy. White guys. White guys. The one, one, one, one, one. We got up really close to this alligator anyways i saw video recently of a white guy but what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what it and the alligator ended up going back into its little hidey hole cave in the lagoon that he was in, but it was pretty scary. Well, that's the hard, fastest gator out. He's right.

They teach you to run in zigzag because gators and crocodiles can't run zigzag. They can't change direction. So when you, when you pivot and you hit that three yards out, three yards out, you got it. They can't catch. I would love to watch Tony do this especially because I feel like I've heard that before, but like the alligator is just going to go in a straight lining. No, he doesn't get it.

No, no, no, no, he doesn't get it because I'm going this way, but I might go six yards serpentine. You have a whole drill. You can't cut back too soon. You got to wait for him to start to adjust. Six to 10 yards cut back because he's already changed directions. And Dominique knows once that those hips change directions, I got you. What you don't want is a joke line situation.

Joe Klein was the center who played in the NBA like 25, 30 years ago and they were talking about who was the guys that gave Hakim a larger one the biggest problems, right? Defensively. And it was Joe Klein. It's a joke line. He was so big and slow. It came so fast. And he said, yeah, but Hakim went and done like his third or fourth year.

And Joe was still there because he hadn't reacted yet to the first one. That's what you don't want to be. Tony seeking approval on hip flipping from Dominique. Yeah, I mean, I don't have the same problem as you guys. I know you guys think alligators are fast, but I will ride on that gator straight line for me, baby. Yeah. A way. I don't know. I thought you gave him a zigzag is for you. No, I looked it up. You're not supposed to zigzag. You're supposed to just sprint because it just wants you out of its territory. Look at look at the screen. This is why this is why YouTube.com slash levitator and friends you can be with alligators. This guy is about question. See an alligator just got a regular pocket. Kind of looks like he already did ask the question. Yeah. There's a smile on the alligator space right there. He's about to eat him. Are we sure that this guy survived this encounter?

It's at a selfie. Did was he holding a selfie stick? Nah. Nah. So there's somebody else that's that close to the gator. Yeah. My favorite gator is Izzy Gutierrez. Oh, he's a great gator.

Same. Izzy Gutierrez. My favorite Gator's is he good ears. Oh, he's a great guitar. Same. Is he Gator's? That's for Gator not not yeah, he The cleanup on this is that's what we clear Gator here is my point on that. Oh god I didn't even think about it. Oh my god. My favorite bit that I used to do is he I used to do That fish I used to do a show at is the audience be a radio and Like every once in a while, you know He'd be mentioning something he'd say like and then me and my boyfriend and I would just stand up

Like your gay and just look step away from the mic and my favorite thing was all the people on Twitter said I mean no, hasn't just found out that Izzy could hear us is gay on air. We got to get Izzy in studio. I bet you love that. Yeah, I bet he really enjoyed that.