The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Set It and Forget It

Episode Date: October 21, 2024

Colin Barnicle is the director of "The Comeback," the new Meadowlark documentary on Netflix about the Red Sox miraculous 2004 season. He and Mike Schur join us to discuss the doc, but the conversation is dominated by Schur as he describes it as "the single greatest film ever made" and that Red Sox season as "the greatest joy of his life" ahead of his marriage and the birth of his children. Then, Stugotz gets confused over the difference between the sea and the ocean after delivering his Top 5 People Who Connote Something You Might Find In the Sea. Plus, Billy tried to have a dad day on Saturday, but it was spoiled by his kids. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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We got Mike Churon to talk about The Comeback, a three-episode docu-series that is debuting on Netflix this week. Metal Arch Media is proud to make it. Colin Barnacle, the director, is going to join us in just a moment. So weeks ago, maybe months ago, he was coming on here to review uh... this docu series the metal art media is doing because uh... mike sure this i think this is the happiest sports has ever made him this team coming back against the yankees unfortunately for mike sure the yankees are now in the world series right now

today and my guess is that you're a special kind of miserable right now Here's the thing though, man because of 2004 Things like the Yankees making the World Series once every 15 years doesn't that doesn't kill me anymore pre 2004 I would be fetal and and Inconsolable, but now it's like oh, that's cute. That's sweet for them that they got to make a World Series I'm fits. I don't like it. I hope they lose. But the difference between pre-2004 and post-2004 is that pre-2004, I would be dead.

I would be lying on the floor dead. But you say fetal and inconsolable. You were avoiding all Yankee at bats during the postseason because you feared this moment. Yeah. No, I hate them. I hate them deeply and completely. And I can't. You were avoiding all Yankee at bats during the postseason because you feared this moment. No, I hate them. I hate them deeply and completely. And I can't, well, I'm not going to watch their games. Like, I can't.

I'm not going to watch them beat the Guardians or the Royals. Like, that's not a good way to spend my time. But when they win, I just, I feel like sadness. I don't feel ennui. I don't feel like the universe is cold and indifferent in the way that I used to. All right. We'll get back to you in a second. Colin, thank you for joining us. Can you tell us what the feedback has been? Now it debuts this week, but people have seen it. People like Mike

Schur have gotten secret copies. What's the feedback been? Because if we're pandering to this particular fan base, my God, this is the easiest story ever told. Oh my God, yeah, I know. How embarrassing. We're just, we're airing it right as the Yankees go to the World Series. We're taking a crow walk around the fact that, we went in 2004.

Nah, the feedback's been good. The feedback's been great. I mean, you know, it's not really about the comeback from three down. It's kind of like how an organization comes back from 86 years of just being awful, not good. I think the way I put it, like, if you went to like a Rocky movie

and Apollo Creed beat rocky 85 straight times you wouldn't really consider a rivalry and That's basically what happened in this and so The story is just about like a group of guys trying to do something that they've never done before from you know, Theo Epstein in the front office, John Henry in the, in the ownership and then of course, you know, in the clubhouse, like how they came together, mostly because of Kevin Millar, who is unbelievable. He'll be my plus one from now.

I'm married, but he'll be my plus one. Yeah, I learned a long time ago that Millar's a good talker and he'll carry your film. He'll steal your film because he's such a good talker. I don't know how you felt about Kurt Schilling, but sure, what was your appraisal of the film and do you have anything you'd like to ask Colin about it? I have two complaints about the film.

Serious complaints, I would say. The first is that it's only three hours long and this is really a story that requires 28 to 32 hours, in my opinion. There's an entire episode you have to do about Orlando Cabrera's contributions, and it's just completely glossed over. Just watching porn in the clubhouse?

Hey, I will not have his name defamed. Orlando Cabrera made a backhanded stop off of a Line drive low line drive off the bat of a rod and extra innings in game two. That's a whole episode man That's an hour you do an hour on that play So that's complaint number one complaint number two is I only cried four times and I was expecting 10 to 12 and I think that partially that's just a That's the because that's not long enough but i did cry for on four separate occasions including that i want to give

anything away but there's a really beautifully done sequenced in the in the end at the moment that there the uh... hurdle is is finally overcome where you see a number of those guys tron nixon and veritek and a bunch of other guys, just remembering it silently and in a sequence. And those guys were the most important people in my life and to see them now reflecting back on that moment. I'll tell you a quick story.

I moved out to LA in June of 2004 to move in with my then girlfriend. And the plan was we were going to live together for a year, and then if everything went well, we were gonna get engaged in the summer of 2005. That was the general plan. The Red Sox did what they did in 2004, and the day after they won the World Series,

I went and got a ring, and I proposed that Christmas. It literally, like, it was such a joyful thing for me. It accelerated my entire life by like eight months It moved up my entire life plan by eight months because I was like well I'm this is the happiest I can ever be I got to keep this rolling and I proposed seven months earlier than I was planning on Proposing so you married 19 years later. Yeah to keep it rolling. You got married. That's what you did, huh? Yes, do I love my wife? Yeah, to keep it rolling you got married. That's what you did, huh? Yes, do I love my wife? I mean it does sound ridiculous, but if Notre Dame won a national championship, I probably would be like alright, Leeman you can propose

Yes, of course you would it's like this is whatever this is you want to chase the dragon man like you Are you alleging that this represents the single greatest joy of your life? Yes, yes, straight up, yes. More, as much as I love my wife and my kids, this is number one. There's no, I've never been happier than- Your joy went downhill from there in merely getting married. I love my wife, I love my two children,

but it has been a slow descent ever since October of 2004. I get it, I totally my wife. I love my two children, but it has been a slow descent ever since October of 2004 And I totally get it Yeah, and by the way my wife knows that and is fine with it and my kids know that and they're fine with it like they don't under they they have a they have a deep and meaningful understanding of what that What that victory meant to me and they they're okay with it, and we celebrate each other just fine. Everything's fine in my household, but that is the happiest I have ever been, and it's the happiest I ever will be.

Is one of your children named Big Poppy? Here's another story for you. In the winter of 2003 to four, Peter Gammons used to do a music festival in Boston called Hot Stove Cool Music. I don't know if he still does it, but still does it. I went to Hot Stove Cool Music in that, it's still like December, whatever, January of 2004. Frankona had just been hired. They had signed Schilling, they had signed Keith Folk, and I talked to Frank Kona, I talked to Kevin Millar. I was talking to Kevin Millar, and they were,

Bronson Arroyo was, they were like, hey, he plays the guitar, do you wanna play a song? And he was like, great, sure, yeah, I'm gonna play a song. And I'm talking to Millar, Millar's out of shape, like drinking vodka and Bronson O'Rourke comes over and goes like hey man do you I'm gonna play black by Pearl Jam do you want to join me on stage and Malar goes I'm gonna curse so get ready everybody. Malar goes yeah I do and Arroyo goes great so he goes up and I'm talking to Malar and I can't believe how excited I am I'm talking to Milar and I can't believe how excited I am. I'm talking to Kevin Milar.

Like everybody's tingling with excitement and anticipation. Peter Gammon says, now here for a special guest, Bronson Arroyo playing Black by Pearl Jam. Everybody cheers. Arroyo gets on stage. He goes, joining me as advice to sing vocals on this song, Kevin Milar. People go crazy.

Milar starts to walk on stage, turns around, looks at me, and goes, I don't know a single goddamn word of this song. And then walks on stage and throws his arms in the air and celebrates the cheers from the crowd. And it's the first time in my life I thought, we're gonna win the World Series. Cause that guy, and then he just went up and like vamped on stage and just like groaned

and grunted into the mic and people loved it. And I was like, that guy's gonna give Boston a World Series championship because if he can if he's that fearless and he's that care like carefree that's exactly what we need so my just to be clear you're you're you're proclaiming this the greatest film ever made you're you're saying as a man I'm sorry I apologize I thought that was understood yes this is the single greatest film ever made it's the greatest story ever told uh... it it should be mandatory viewing it should be every

the u.s. citizens should be forced at gunpoint to watch this whether they like baseball or not okay whether they care about freedom or not i don't care i couldn't care less i should have said that right off the top uh... again only complaints not long enough didn't cry as many times as i thought but other than that yes gunpoint seems extreme though as somebody as a lib who loves his freedoms. It seems, deport? Deport anybody who doesn't watch the film? There are some exceptions that I will make for my progressive views and one of

them is that there should be no liberty, no individual liberty when it comes to watching this movie. Colin, this is who you're making it for, correct no liberty, no individual liberty when it comes to watching this movie. Colin, this is who you're making it for, correct? Yeah, no, this is it. The guy who wants to bring up the like alien sedation act from like 1789 to get people out of here. You don't have to leave if they watch it, they're fine. They can stay as long as they watch the movie.

I told Malar when we interviewed him, I told Malar, he was like, what's it gonna be called? And I said, it's gonna be called bad body baseball players. And he was like, this is perfect. This is, and I was like, that's something. That's how you sucked them in, huh? Unbelievable. I worked in the clubhouse.

I saw these guys, you know, all the time, you know, with nothing on. And I thought to myself at 21, like, I could make it here. There's no like yeah, our teams is eating a ham sandwich All they had was cappler all they they had capital was like a professional bodybuilders Yeah, but other than that no they were all beer league softball players. God bless every one of them. Yeah, I love them so much Bad knees, you know how hard it is to have like knees at 32, which just means you're not doing it. You're a professional athlete, you're like, I ain't got bad knees.

You're like, you're 31. You got your driver's license seven years ago. So what you guys love, the story that you love is this feels quintessentially Bostonian that these plumbers went out there and beat the Yankees. Kind of, kind of. Yes, 100%, of course it is. All the Yankees were like that stupid Steinbrenner thing of like, trim your hair, look like a proper gentleman, and you're not

allowed to have a beard because this is New York. And Jeter, Jeter's so handsome, and they get A-Rod and he's polished up and all shiny and then a bunch of Slightly big gutted beer league softball players went out and wrecked their shit and it was amazing It was it was not just great because of the history because of the story it was great because they were like shaggy and Unkempt and Bronson Arroyo put cornrows in his hair, which today maybe we would frown upon But at the time seemed awesome and they were they were just like they were like that I was very happy that one one thing that was included was that after they won the they clinched the playoffs that they all ran down to the bar the tavern near on

what used to be Lanzow Street I don't know what it is anymore and just like serve beer until like five in the morning. Like they were messy and funny and sloppy and not in any way equipped to do the job that they were sent there to do and then they did the job and it ruled. Colin, congratulations on the movie, the comeback, a three episode docu-series. It makes its debut this week on Netflix.

Thank you, Colin. Thank you so much. Thanks, Mike, I mean so much. Thanks, Mike. I mean, you cared. Yes, he hogged the segment. He did. I love it. This is the best interview I've ever given.

Thank you. I mean, Barticles said two words. He did. We barely included him. It was just a hyperventilating, fawning Mike Schur. How many more segments do I get to talk about this? He's got a new show on Netflix as well, a man on the inside.

I don't care, it doesn't matter. I have a stat of the day. All right, well get the stat of the day music here for a second and I've also gotta ask him, does Bartokal have one? I wanna ask him about the WNBA as well because I wanna ask him about last night. I mean, we had a game go to overtime,

we had a championship decided. Championship game. But let's do the stat of the day, please. Start of the day start of the day and this is the start of the day Start of the day start of the day and this is the start of the day Start of the day start of the day and this is the start of the day Start of the day start of the day and this is the start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day. It is the start of the day. Today's stat of the day is brought to you by Venmo.

Look, I understand some people are sick of hearing about the Red Sox 2004 and the whole story, but to try to put it into perspective for not a Red Sox fan about why this meant so much, here are some things that happened between 1918 and then 2004, the two years between Red Sox championships, the two years at bookend of the Red Sox championships. World War One ended. Iceland was founded. The general theory of relativity was proven experimentally.

Warren Harding became the president. Ulysses was published. The USSR was founded. Time magazine was founded. Disney was founded as a company. Talkies were invented in the movies. Wall Street crashed. We had the Great Depression the Star-Spangled Banner became the national anthem the neutron was discovered Hitler rose in Germany the Hoover Dam was built Hitler tried to conquer Europe the atomic bomb was invented Hitler was

defeated Jackie Robinson integrated baseball Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier Israel became a country the hydrogen bomb was invented TV was invented the polio vaccine was invented. TV was invented. The polio vaccine was invented. Burger King was invented. The birth control pill was invented. Barbie was invented. The Vietnam War started, lasted for 16 years, and ended. The Beatles formed, record music for 10 years, broke up.

Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy, Malcolm X, all were assassinated. We invented space travel. We landed on the moon. Nixon ran for president, failed, ran again, won, served a term, was re-elected, was impeached and resigned. Pong was invented. Roe v. Wade made abortion legal in the US. Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates.

And then 30 more years went by, and then the Red Sox won the World Series. So you'll excuse me if I'm a little happy, revved up to watch a three hour movie about the history of that great event. Roe v. Wade, good times, huh? I thought my stat of the day was better when I said Daniel Jones hasn't scored an offensive touchdown in his stadium

in more than 600 days. That's pretty good. That was good. And yet he's upset that he was benched. Yes, I mean, he hasn't had a touchdown in front of his home fans in more than 600 days. What does Barnacle think? Mike, what did you think? We really did hog the interview. No, this is great. Oh, he's still there.

Barnacle! He's still there, common baller. I'm like, just hanging out here in the back room. That's fine, you can hang still there. He's still there, common baller. I'm like just hanging out here in the back room. That's fine, you can hang out there. Hanging out on the bottom of a boat. What did you think last night, Sher? Because we've been talking a lot about the officiating and I hate that we're talking so much

about the officiating. WNBA officiating was kind of rough all year and I hate talking about it too. I will say that call that sent Stewie to the line for the tying free throws was marginal at best. The thing is the Liberty were the best team all year and they, if you, if you shoot the way the Liberty shot last night, you like, you, you, like the other team should win. the fact that the links couldn't quite get it done It was just like I don't have a ton of sympathy for them

Like you ask it was what like one of 11 or over 11 or over 12 from three at some point Do it was having her third terrible shooting game of the series. I Like I don't know it all evens out to me. I feel like it was just the liberties year I don't I don't begrudge them winning the title at all. I didn't I as for an overtime game in a deciding game. I didn't I can't say I strictly speaking enjoyed watching it. I didn't think it was like a great game. It was kind of messy.

Like no one was like stepping up. It was close because neither team was playing especially well. I'm sympathetic to the Lynx's, the free throw disparity was insane, which it was for like the third time in the series. But at the end of the day, I don't know. I just feel like it was the Liberty's year and I'm fine with them winning.

I just wish that the game itself had been a little better. I wish that the stars had shot a little better. Collier was great. She was better in the first half and the second half. But other than that, none of the stars kind of didn't shine. And that's a bum better. Collier was great. She's better in the first half and the second half. But other than that, no, the stars kind of didn't shine. And that's a bummer. I would just wish that the I wish

you and Stu and Stewie had played a little better and frankly in the whole series. Definitely. Definitely agree with you. Thoughts on Kathy Engelbert wearing that dress to present the trophy to the Liberty. That's two dollars.

I'll demo you. A bold, a bold statement, a very bold statement, I would say. And I don't feel like I should maybe comment any more on women's appearances. What a coward. I'm not saying what she looked. She had a dress with like the New York City skyline on it. It was it was a it was a on it. It was a bold statement. It was a bold statement.

I just think, nevermind, I'll keep that thought to myself. Yeah, see? You're right. I think the Lynx should be really disappointed in the fact that they weren't able to build and sustain a lead given that New York couldn't shoot threes until late into the fourth quarter. And then, and they were still still like Stewie was still not three

Sabrina was still taking them and they were just still defending it at some point just like let her miss Yeah, I they although they kind of did back off toward the end in the fourth quarter It's why she hit one or two one or two I can't remember now, but like they kind of did fall back into drop coverage a little bit one or two, I can't remember now, but like they kind of did fall back into drop coverage a little bit. But I just feel like the the the players on the Lynx who McBride was great and Collier was great in the first half, but like no one else kind of seized the moment. I mean the and the Liberty at some points went to like that five big lineup they use and

it's like the Lee every player and the the links was faster than every player on the Liberty. And I feel like they just couldn't quite strategically like work out how to how to take advantage of that. And I don't know. It was it was it was a great series. I feel like it might be the best finals ever. It's in the running for best finals ever. But it's still there was like I had a slight bit of like of like sadness when it was over, cause it wasn't quite the like decisive final game that you wanted it to be. I am gonna miss every time like a UConn player,

former UConn player like sneezes, Mike sure texts me. I am gonna miss that, but then the college season gets to start in like a few weeks. Yeah, Ice Brady. Can't wait. It's gonna be great. It's gonna be a good season. I think it's assuming they're all healthy

for the first time in five years. Stugats is so uninterested in your WNBA talk that he handed me an index card that says I've got top five athletes, entertainers and authors who can note something you might find in the sea based on Colin Barnicle. So if you guys don't mind, get out of the way real quick. Number five.

Shell Silverstein. Yes. Great author. Number four. Colin Barnacle. Number three. Doug Plank. Number two two Bill Parcells big tuna number one seal sure didn't know why you did Parcells no Greg Norman no Ariel Helwani I don't think

sharks are in the sea what where do you think they are? The ocean. Big difference. What's the difference between? Salt. I don't think sharks live in the sea. Check it out. Look it up. What's the difference?

What do you think the sea is? Between the sea and the ocean? Seas are smaller, Dan. A lot smaller. Everyone knows that. Caspian Sea, very. Dave Casper. C.C. Sabathia, we are back!

Oh my God! Do you think? Where is the Caspian Sea, Stugats? I have no idea, I have no idea. Do you think seas and oceans are different things? Well, they're bodies of water, of course. Like a lake. I think he thinks seas are,

he thinks seas are lakes, I think. Do you think everything's an ocean? Like, do you think think everything's an ocean? Do you think a lake's an ocean? A river? What do you think a lake is, Dan? Mickey Rivers, I mean. Oh!

Oh! Yeah! Mike, thank you. What are you doing, dad? Mike, I appreciate you being on with us. Thank you for making the time, as always. Alan Lakers. Frank Ocean.

Okay, thank you. Billy. For nothing, yes. Franco Harris. Franco Harris and Billy Ocean. Thank you so much. The Oceans. Appreciate all thank you. Billy. For nothing, yes. Franco Harris. Frank and Billy Ocean, thank you so much. The Oceans. Appreciate all of your help here. Franco Harris?

Georgie Lanotte. I can't believe that Stugats is 51 years old and doesn't know that there isn't a difference between an ocean and a sea. How is that possible? Doc Rivers. Thank you Mike, appreciate your time. Bye everybody.

Billy, I have not used you enough as the inflatable car wash man today and I understand that you had a wonderful or terrible dad's weekend. Which was it? I think of dad weekends as being possibly unpleasant. Well, if you love your family, I guess they're okay. But you know, it's just one of those things. What did you do? I don't know what you did. Well, let me ask you something, Dan,

because you, I think, have a unique experience, and Jess, I feel like, is in the same boat as Jeremy. Really, if you don't have children, you're in this boat, right? Where you can kind of get up and just decide, this is what I want to do today and do it, right? Cause I don't experience that anymore. Cause I got up on Saturday and I said, you know what?

I have some coops over here, like let's go and take the fam over to Krispy Kreme because I could get a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts for 9.99 mixed. Yeah, if they were just glazed, it was 8.99, but mixed 9.99. That's a great coupe. What is mixed?zed it was $8.99, but mixed $9.99. That's a great coupe. What is mixed?

Do you? Mixed so I could get some strawberry with sprinkles. Not special, not anything, not specialty. It says it in the fine print, not specialty. Do they have any pumpkin spice ones for the holidays? I'm not sure, they have Ghostbuster donuts now. I'm not exactly sure what Ghostbuster donuts are. So wait, it's a second tier,

the coupon only allows you a second tier of donuts? No specialty donuts. You can't get the premieres. Nickel premieres nickel and diming no no you can get like the regular don't if we can't get special like just glazed is 899 yes correct and then if you want any variety whatsoever 999 one dollar extra jay glazer yeah mm-hmm so I thought like hey it'd be great to do this but there's no there's no Krispy Kreme's by me so I was like let's go to the one in Hialeah and then my wife said let's look further south and there's one inpy Kremes by me, so I was like, let's go to the one in Hialeah. And then my wife said, let's look further south. And there's one in Perrine.

And then my, like, Perrine. Where's Perrine? It's by the zoo, because that's where we ended up that day. I thought we were just gonna get up at 8 a.m. and go get donuts. Instead, we ended up at 10.30 at the donut place, and then we were at the zoo all day.

Then we got home, and I was like, okay, fine, like whatever. And then what does my Sunday entail? Cawking. Was doing a lot of cocking yesterday, Dan. Stopped at Home Depot, got the required things. Do you get the spade? You do like a little like cock and you spade? I got a cocking tool, I had one previously,

but I lent it to my dad, and I'm not one to buy things multiple times. But I said if I wait for my dad to find this, this cocking tool. The tool is just the gun, right? It's a gun? No, no, no, no. How have you ever caught? I did a gun? No, no, no, no. Have you ever caulked?

I did a long time ago, and all I remember, but I caulked at a time that perhaps was outdated. I don't have the modernized caulker. Non-caulker. I'm an old-timey caulker, evidently. It would appear. It was just a gun. You put the tube in the gun,

and you start shooting toothpaste all over the place. You smooth it out. The caulking tool. Sir Big Spur over here. He's your finger didn't you your finger guy your finger Are you doing your bathroom where you're caulking in your bathroom? No this kitchen? I have an ant situation took me started on the ants Is your uncle you don't like your uncle either they're fine, okay The kitchen that was it I just got just spent the whole day cocking. And then I went to get donuts and we ended up at the zoo, the end.

Joe Cocker. Why don't you cock? The donut sounds like a wonderful story though. I wanted to sit down in the actual donut shop and enjoy them and then we ended up in the drive-through and then we were eating in the parking lot of the zoo. That wasn't the experience I was hoping for. Well what happened?

Why aren't you in control of the situation? I got married and I had kids. I thought you were gonna dad it up, but dad and donuts, that sounds like a lovely Saturday morning. Yeah. Cars in the parking lot. Then the old ball and chain got involved, you know?

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Parakeet Cortez for me and then tell Parakeet to say hello to Art Briles. This is the Don Lebatar show with the Stugats. You know one thing that I thought I did do this weekend we didn't get to it while I was cocking? Here's a good thing, I did our DraftKings weekly fantasy league, joined GBS weekly contest for a chance to compete against the cast plus win cash prizes. Dkng.co slash Smirnoff presented by Smirnoff, the world's number one vodka, please drink responsibly. So I did that, and here's the good thing about that, right? Set it and forget it. What was the thing that was set it and forget it?

Do you guys remember? Slow cooker? It was something. It was some sort of cooking device where you used to set it and forget it. It's a slow cooker. Yeah, I remember that. Stove top.

Was it? It was the Emeril Lagasse thing. No, that's bam. No, no, but he's Emeril Lagasse thing. No that's bam. No, no, but he's... No, boink. No, doink. He sold it on... No, he's on the heat.

At like 2am. Yeah, that's right. What? He sold it at like 2am. Who? The set it and forget it guy. What did he sell? It's like a...

It's a rotisserie oven. Yeah, something like that. Is it? Yeah, like he said. Right. It was Emeril? Yeah, I think so. I don't think so. Set it and forget it. Is that the?

Why'd you sing it? And then he'd say, bam! That's the way he did it. Emeril did. The crowd would chant, set it and forget it. Billy, it's very funny to have your costume fall apart there to hear the, for those of you just doing via audio, it's funny on video, but if you're just doing audio

and you know that Billy's swimming around in an inflatable suit, that that's unpleasant. It's an unpleasant punishment, correct, to do today? Like, because it's been falling apart the entire show. Jessica saved you at the beginning, but the engine doesn't seem to work. Not enough flailing for me. No, it's like, it's the hole. It's the head hole, you know what I mean?

The hole. What happened to the engine? What? No, it's going, it's still going. Well, you look like you're deflating. Yeah, we hear it, Billy. We got it. But he's been falling apart for like four segments.

He's been- Oh, that's the good noise right there. But his arms aren't really moving. I don't know if this is really fulfilling the punishment. What the hell was that? What? Jess farted. What happened?

Jess! Come on. Jess! Pulling a pet. He loves doing that. Chris, help me with this. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Look at delighted.

It's a pet, it's a QK. No, this is, listen, we're here now. We're here now, this has bothered me about him for 45 years. We haven't known each other that long. Since I was 10 years old. That's a fine. When someone farts, Greg Greg Cody says who let a pet

Only he's amused by that. He says it in mixed company all the time. Nobody knows nobody nobody ever knows what he means That's thank you. I thought it was like who stepped on a no He calls a far delights He delights in this happening every time he says something nonsensical that makes sense to no one and this happening every time he says something nonsensical that makes sense to no one that's only interesting or funny and not even in his own household because Chris has been annoyed by this as often as I have. When he says who led a pet in mixed company,

he also says everyone does that. That's what everyone does. Wait, let a pet or say it? No, say it. Everyone says it. Everyone lets a pet. That's how everyone describes it in their home when someone farts. I don't think I'm the only one. You are the only one. That's how everyone describes it in their home when someone farts.

I don't think I'm the only one. You are the only one. It's like dancing swords. You are the only one. Right, thank you. It's not like dancing swords. Dancing swords. It's if you have to take a shit.

Yeah, dancing swords. It's just stomach. That feeling down below. When your stomach is roiling. You never learned that. When you meet a special someone. Everyone says it. Yeah.

It was the Ronco kitchen accessory. That's where you said The point was that our weekly fantasy contest presented by smirnoff the world's number one vodka. Please drink responsibly It's just like that you said it and forget it while I'm out there cocking I don't need to worry about my team because I already set them up and I know you're saying Billy You've been a disaster this season. No Daniel. I haven't I finished 490th place last week. Guess what big Bounceback Billy that's what they call me because I finished 41st this week just out of the money Carefree cocking I did not talk enough baseball today and I

want pleased the call because it was the coolest at bat of the postseason. Juan Soto being at the plate dugout and announcers talking about a baseball hitter as if he's the only thing worth fearing in this exchange, that the pitcher has to be worried that a puma is prowling around him, Aaron Judge is on deck, and you're talking about, nobody thinks you should pitch to Soto. Even though runners aren't first and second,

even though you'd be loading the bases for Judge, it's terrifying that Soto is up there because he's a modern-day ted williams and he's nodding the entire at bat because everyone on both teams knows he's stalking the picture he's timing him he's gonna get a hold of one of these and this is what it sounds like in spanish having a i think it doesn't

as a little bit of a little bit of a big thing viene hace el jardín central a rápidamente a lo profundo y no no no no no no díganle que nuestra pelota 550 por el pecho de él I said it before and I reiterate it, this was from Zabroski, it wasn't from Gadis. And there he is paying the price. Vox, for not having had a lefty ready to come and throw Soto. Excellent work Billy. I and so many listeners experience every day, which is why I partnered with simply safe to offer Levitational listeners 50% off a new system. Visit simply safe.com slash DLV Old school security systems only act once someone is already inside your home Simply safe is changing that with its new active guard outside protection

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