The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: The Internet Is Ruined (feat. Jessica Smetana)

Episode Date: March 18, 2026

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This is the Dan Levatore show with the Stucats podcast. Jessica's going to join us here in a little bit, and it is strange to me, having heard so many of these arguments over Dominoes on Caya Ocho to hear Jeremy and Mike and Tony just yelling at each other during the break. It's just Cuban people yelling at each other about Cuba. You sound like my grandparents and my uncles. I was wondering why your shirt was off, but no, we weren't yelling. Like, we were getting along over here. Maybe because I'm Cuban and Italian, especially I talk with my hands. I'm Cuban and Jewish, so I talk with my hands even more.

Yeah, we were all aligned diplomacy rules back here. So if you want more commentary about both High Lie and Cuba, you can find your exclusive home for politics and sports. I'm saving it for High Line. I didn't hear from you and Roy, so maybe you guys can break that down during the High Line live stream today. It's Chris Cody's time. We'll get the player's thoughts after. Before Jessica joins us, though, and I want to get to some Max Crosby stuff with you guys and the LeBron thing, whether or not he's going to play in Miami or not. But I just want to ask you, I'm going to give you no other information about this, to tell you who it is that's saying this.

But I ask you guys to tell me how you feel about the person who comes into work today and announces to everyone. I texted all my friends tonight before the game. Harper has a big swing in him tonight. I heard this today. I didn't like it. Now, I'm just asking you guys how you feel about that person because Mike Ryan has said Ethan's on the broadcast today at 245. Is this if that's a selling point?

And I'm like, that's a reason to not tune in that Ethan is going to be yammering in part of the live stream when Ethan came in here today and he told us all. No, no, I texted my friends. Harper's got a big swing in him tonight. As someone who's in multiple group chats with Ethan, he never stops texting his friends. But that and that, though,

and he probably gets that nine out of ten times wrong, and he doesn't come into work and tell you what... He's Floyd Mayweather showing his winning bets on Twitter and then going broke while he's worth $1.2 billion. That's a conversation we didn't have with the MVP, you know, boxing situation. Floyd's going to be more active now in retirement that he was during his fighting primes, fighting three times this year.

He's going to make a bunch of... of money. Max Crosby is going back to the Raiders, and he has commentary now. Do we have the sound of this because he says he's healthy, and he says that the meeting with the Ravens was weird and cold and I guess confusing. Here's Max Crosby. Before I left, I wanted to see the head coach and just chop it up, talk football, talk ball. He's a defensive guy. Never met him before like that, so I wanted to chop it up. So I didn't get to meet with him to the end of the day. I didn't get to see the GM at all. I thought I was going to see him when I first got there.

I didn't see him for five hours. So he didn't come out. The old time you're testing or doing your fiscal, everyone was talking about the GM never. Never. Never. And I don't know why. I'm not going to speculate. I didn't see him one time.

I even asked the girl. I was like, where's the job? I was like, where's Eric at? Like I want to say. But you know what I mean? Like he just made the trade. Like I didn't see him. So I go and do my thing.

At the end, they're like, yeah, I'll take you up. Joe was like, I'll take you up and you go see the head coach, whatever, just before you leave. I was like, hell yeah. I was like, that's what I want to say what's up to him. So I went back up. I dab him up and they can just tell, like, the energy was a little bit off. And the GM was standing in, like, the hall, like, in the room next to me to the right. And that was the first time I seen him.

And, you know, I'm just in my head. Like, I'm just a whirlwind. Like, I'm so excited, like, fired up. You know what I mean? Like, this is a new opportunity, whatever. And you can just tell the energy was off. Like, I dabbed him up. He had like a blank face.

And I'm like, okay. I'm not thinking anything of it. Maybe he's just different. I don't know. I don't know him, whatever. I go into the room. They sit me down on the couch and he's like, man, I don't know how to say this. But, you know, one of our doctors has concerns with the results and whatever, like with your knee. Like some of them have, you know, are concerned about the future and da-da-da-da-da. And, you know, we really want you and this is what it is. But, you know, we're just going to have to get more and more opinions.

That sounds like a team that knew they weren't going to keep him before he arrived at the building that day. That's what sounds like. I mean, I would, not really knowing anything about how that type of situation works, but certainly listening to Max Crosby there, I would assume the GM who made the trade would be pretty excited to say hello to the guy when he steps foot in the building. Well, you guys don't really think in all of the coverage of this and the confusion and the clear back room of it and the fact that some of this feels borderline unethical, but nothing is really unethical in business if it doesn't happen legally.

you know, after the football calendar starts, Hendrickson can't happen in 12 hours unless they already know what they're going to do. You don't turn around and make a deal like that, that fast with an agent in 12 hours. That's something that they had to have known. That's simply not something that would happen that quickly. Well, the Ravens claim, again, claim they wanted to pair Crosby and Hendrickson. Yeah. And I hear your point.

I understand the logic behind it. sometimes these things come together very quickly. And I can also see a club casting its line for both players, figuring they got twice the chance to get one of the other, because those are A and 1A in terms of who you want at that. This doesn't get to go away not being suspicious. Sure, but also they probably didn't have the leverage of, all right, we're not going to keep Crosby, we don't like what his knee looks like. So Hendrickson, we got to come to the table strong.

We can't show him. He signed for 4 for 112. We can't tell him 96. Right? Like we have to try to meet his number. Well, what's suspicious to me is that one team doctor would say, nah, your knee isn't right. And the other team doctor would say, yeah, it's fine. It's like a Drew Bree situation. I think it sounds like in the two days, again, which is the legal tampering period.

I think in the two days, since they made the trade, they saw that Hendrickson was not getting the attention that they thought he would out there in free agency and realized before Max Crosby even got to their building, we could probably come up with a deal with this guy and not give up, forget one, two first round picks. Like that sounds like they knew they had in their back pocket, the out of the physical for a player who just nine weeks prior had an operation. Jessica joins us now.

Any thoughts on Cuba? No, just kidding. I was going to say my biggest takeaway from that clip, so he said they flew him into Washington and then made him drive two hours to Baltimore. Was that what he said? Well, I think, yeah. He did say that. Not, I don't think in that clip, but yes, he did say that. I mean, you don't want to sit in the car.

Those airports are very far away. The Washington airports are very far away from Baltimore. There's always traffic getting in between the two. I think that in itself shows a level of disrespect. I think he flew commercial. He should not be letting them get away with. He also flew commercial. Can't find a BWI?

I mean, I don't know. Put it on the poll. Did Crosby get hurt from having long legs in the car ride from Washington to Baltimore? because he might have gotten more hurt. It is a long drive. She's not wrong about that. We haven't talked a lot about brackets here. I don't know how anyone here feels about brackets.

I never filled them out. Like them. You do like them. Jessica, how do you feel about brackets? I love March Madness. I love looking at my bracket. The second I start filling it out, Dan, I get so mad at myself.

I end up with four ones in the final four, and then I just rip the whole thing up and start over, and then I end up with the worst thing you've ever seen in your life. So you're not brave enough. You can't actually bring yourself to ruin your bracket by risking a one or a two seed, losing early and then getting it wrong. Correct. And here's the problem because I watch more women's college basketball than men's.

And in the women's tournament, I believe the lowest seed to ever win was a three seed. So there's not going to be like four seeds making it all the way to the championship game generally. So there's a lot of chalk like later in those brackets. There might be some like 611 upsets. or early rounds and stuff like that. But like I watched those games. So those I feel like I can predict. And then I'll end up with the four one seeds anyways.

And that generally, you know, maybe I'll get three out of the four, right? But then on the men's side, like there is, there tends to be more like twos or threes that make it through. And that's where I don't know what the hell I'm doing. And I end up with Duke winning it. And I don't know why. I don't think they're going to do that. I like to work in a four to my final four every once in a while. You know, how do you feel about a four?

Like you never do well in these. That's right. Like that's right. That's right. Exactly. But still, I suck anyways. So, okay, but none of you are good at this, correct? I'm very good at it.

He bragged. Yeah. Go on. I'm great at brackets. That's it. I believe them. That's all you got to say. Yeah, I'm good at it.

But you want to tell us who it is that's going to, so who's your final four? Have you filled them out yet? I have filled it out. Glad you asked, Dan. Michigan. One seed. Brave. Arizona.

One seat. So brave. Duke. Oh, the bravering. Limbs creaking. Florida. Oh, my God. Salute to you.

Can't blame me. I went to say that. I have the same final four as you. Told you I'm good. I got all the best teams. I like you guys. You were doing your finals as. You were like picking a bracket and you're like, wow, the best teams are still available.

Why wouldn't I pick the best teams? Exactly. I've got same. Lewis beating Michigan in the second round. Word. How about that, Cream Abdul-Jabbar? Didn't ESPN post a betting preview of the women's tournament

that had men's records instead of women's records? They did. It was allegedly pulled from, you know, AI pulled it from Google. It is still, and this is, you know, a surprise to no one. It's still very difficult to get what you want when you're

Googling basketball, college basketball. It always shows like several options for the men's basketball team, and then you have to put in women's, then you have to scroll a bunch. It sucks. But, yeah, apparently their betting preview had like South Carolina, who's, you know, a one seat in the women's tournament, had them winning like 13 games this year because the men's team had only won 13 games and on and on for the rest of the team. So that's quite disappointing, but luckily someone caught it and then they fixed it. Have you heard or read or reported any details on the WNBA settlement in the

middle of the night that would give me some information about whether or not the owner's won or the players won? I haven't seen exact numbers yet as we've recorded this, but I think the fans definitely win because we're going to get a on-time season. I think that was something that was certainly seemed like it was in jeopardy a week ago before they started all these marathon negotiating sessions. And I think that if there had been a holdout or a strike, I think a lot of fans would have uh... understood because me we all are aware of the economic realities of the

current cb a what the players are trying to do with renegotiation but it still sucked because obviously there's like so much momentum right now in women's basketball and it's always a fun time of the year when you go from the ncdbola tournament straight into the wmba draft and then you get you know that there's going to be two expansion or a double expansion draft this year and then the season starts three weeks later i mean it's a really exciting momentous time so it would have been i

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Don Lebertard. I don't like Smethe either. Stugats. Women stay home in the kitchen where they belong. This is the Don Lebatar show with a Stugats. This for sure is going to happen to baseball next year, though, right? There's no way that without a salary cap and with as much that's changing in all the television money.

There is no way that baseball avoids a stoppage next year. Yeah, that's the concern with all the momentum you felt, right? We're sitting here in March of this year. And it's like, oh, my God, baseball's amazing. Look at the Latin players. Look at the flare. Venezuela, DR. And this time next year, we could be sitting here saying,

all right, well, the season's been delayed at least a month or two. And a shortened season could be incoming. It would be a disaster for Major League Baseball, but it feels like where we're headed. The fan, it is interesting when she says, the fans do win here, but the fan could not possibly care less about who gets what percentage of what, just give me games or I'm going to hate everybody involved for denying me games. I agree, maybe in baseball, maybe, but I think in the WMBA, because I think everyone that is a fan

of the WMBA is aware of the economic realities and the fact that their favorite players have to you know, play overseas or, you know, why we have these other leagues spin up like unrivaled. the fans generally do understand that there is a, there needs to be a real recommitment and reinvestment into player's salaries. So I think maybe, like we're not talking about players making, you know, $100 million in this case, but certainly in baseball and that's why, although like you can obviously make the argument that fans who also have like jobs should be, I don't know, maybe more understanding of the labor dispute aspect of it. I know it's probably harder for people to, you know, commiserate with millionaire baseball players. So there is a little bit of a difference there,

I guess. Yes, I wonder if you think the players maybe should have held out longer or bargained harder because in the last couple of years, I don't have to tell you this, last year, 1.3 million average watched a WNBA game. NBA was only 1.53 million. That's a 12, 15 percent difference. The WNBA in the past couple of years has really drawn closer to the NBA in terms of TV ratings, however strong you gauge that. So should the women have taken a harder line to get even more? It's definitely hard for me to say that right now because I don't know the exact outcome of this. Like there was some reporting at like 3 a.m. that the deal was done in principle, but it hasn't been voted on yet. So I don't exactly know.

Craig, I know there's been reporting that the salary cap numbers expanded quite a bit. I mean, it was very low to begin with now. I think it's, I saw around $7 million, if that's right. So that's a pretty big increase. The revenue sharing structure was kind of the big hang-up. And so I haven't seen what that is yet. So I can't say, but yes, it does feel like there's two schools of thought here where it's like, you know, try to use the momentum and the high visibility and the popularity to get a monster

deal from the NBA and the WMBA and, you know, use all of that in your favor or the flip side is like, do you stop all of that in its tracks if there's some sort of holdout? And I think maybe the players and executives alike are walking a fine line with not really knowing the answer to that. But I imagine there were some big increases in this current deal and probably not exactly what the players want. But again, it is only like the sixth CBA, I think, in WMBA history. It's a very young league, so maybe lays the groundwork for even more next time.

But I don't know exactly if I could say that without knowing what the number ultimately is and how it's being split up. You guys were all excited about those glass courts, that glass court. We're never going to do that again, right? That's the last time that'll ever happen. It's so stupid. I mean, first of all, it looked stupid. Why are you spending all this money on a glass court and then just making it gray? I don't understand that.

It's just so ugly. The women's players played their entire tournament on it last. weekend, Dan. Women, we got a glass ceiling and we had to deal with the glass floor, Dan. All right. And people complain. They said it was slippery. I'm waiting for, I'm waiting for, I'm waiting for the, I'm waiting for the left. Come on. She wanted the Hakeem Nick's lap. She paused. She paused for it. Amazing. She did, she did like a comic does. It felt kind of pre-planned like the Jeter line, but. I thought I was going to get a loser game show sound, but I'll take those. You demanded. But then the, but then the men were like,

oh, and it's too slippery for us. So the Big 12 said, oh, okay, well, I guess we'll give you a real hardwood floor then. Oopsies. After the women already played their championship on it, so lame. But, yeah, this was a stupid experiment, in my opinion. The Oscars were down numerically. The Oscars were pretty weak in terms of saying anything loudly about the state of current affairs in Hollywood. There's been a beating down of people in Hollywood who have few.

or jobs than they used to have. Did you have any Oscar thoughts? Did you get wrapped up in the Oscars? It was such a badly produced show this year, Dan. Like there were so many technical mistakes. They kept cutting people off. It was very sad. There were a few funny bits, though.

I don't know if you caught the bit of the Conan Casablanca skit that they did, where they were making fun of the fact that, like, studio executives are allegedly, you know, saying that, like, they need people to constantly be. resetting in the TV shows and movies that they're making, the stakes and like the characters and the plot lines because people are watching shows on their phones and need it to be repeated to them over and over. So they did a bit where they were like, were pretending it was Casablanca and they were continually restating, you know, World War II. That's the one with Hitler, right? And it was very funny. There were like a couple good like AI jobs. But yeah, overall,

it was like not that great of a show, which is a bummer because I enjoyed the movies. And I, I love the movies, but I don't know if like the Oscars needs to be the most watched award show program for people to care about the movies. Maybe I don't know. I don't think it matters too much. I think people that really, really care will watch it and other people will just watch clips on social media later. Greg Cody, is the red carpet a sacred space?

Is it, should influencers be allowed on the red carpet? No. No, influencers. I feel the same way. When I see an influencer playing in a, in a social. Celebrity NBA All-Star weekend game. It's ridiculous. Come on, celebrity.

Influencer. You've got to be kidding me. Cedrusky. Exactly. Too many awards shows, though. He heard that. Golden Globes. Sag Awards.

The Actor Awards. Naming Award. You know about that BAFTA? That, too. I mean, there's too many award shows now, and they all seem to come ratat-tat-tat. You know, it used to be the Oscars was the big one, and so everybody would gravitate to it.

Now it's like one of four or five, and we've already seen the other three. Oh, is sinner going to win? Maybe not. Who cares? Jessica, influencers on the red carpet? I don't know how we're defining influencers anymore because our influencers, does that include people who are comedians that don't do stand-up but post videos on their social media? Like, does that include people who host podcasts?

I don't know what, I don't know how we're defining influencers. I don't know what a content creator is, are journalist content creators. It certainly seems that journalism. companies want their journalists to be quote unquote content creators in this day and age. But Dan, I don't know if you saw there was a bit of a stir over a red carpet host. His name's Jake Shane. I suppose he's a influencer slash perhaps content creator. Also podcaster.

But apparently, and podcaster, yeah, apparently he does a very celebrity friendly podcast or something like that. I have not listened to it. That's not going to. But he got in a little bit of hot water because he asked some questions that people, found a little offensive. I'm wondering now, and this is why I never thought I would say this, but I

kind of wish David Sampson was here right now because one of the questions pertain to a movie that I'm certain only David has seen. Have any of you seen the movie if I had legs, I'd kick you? I loved it. Yeah, I've seen it. Oh, Dan's seen it. I can't believe how well she acted that a baby was annoying

her the entire time when she was never around a baby. Okay, so I'm shocked that anyone else has seen this movie, but I'm glad that you have, Dan. It was a good move. Roseburn got nominated for best actress for her performance in it. So anyways, this guy, his name is Jake Shane. Apparently he kept asking, I believe Julia Fox and Damson Idris, he was like, that kid was really annoying, right? The kid from the movie. And it rubbed people the wrong way because the whole point of the movie

is that Roseburn is like really, really in the thick of it with her daughter who has his chronic illness. And the whole point was that. that the kid was annoying. So on the one hand, I'm like, well, the interview is right because the kid was pretty annoying. But maybe there's like a tone context thing missing here where it sounds like he's being a little bit too glib. So then anyways, Dan, Variety wrote this whole article

talking about how the red carpet at the Academy Awards is no place for influencers. It's a sacred place. And there's no, you can't be an influencer on the red carpet because it's just not good and the celebrities hate it. Movie sounds terrible. It's a little bit more... It's tough.

It's pretty meta, too. Like, the ending kind of explains why the child is out of picture, and it doesn't really have much to do with the child that has a lot to do with Rose Byrne's plight throughout the film. I'm a big fan of Rose Byrne, but I don't know that I'm watching. This movie will make you anxious on purpose. Oh, no, I can't see that. It's a bad title.

Good dose of birth control, though. It's a great title. And definitely will make people who don't want kids be like, yeah, I probably still don't want kids. It's a great movie, though. And see, now I'm being great. Lib. Would I say that on a red carpet, though? Probably not, Dan. And I think that's maybe the point. But it is a good movie. I didn't love it. It wasn't like the best movie I've ever seen. But it was good. Rose Burns, excellent. Conan O'Brien's in it. Conan O'Brien's in it. Conan O'Brien's in it. Agerald explodes. I don't know how you guys feel about the movies. But do you want a movie that makes you

feel something bad because many people don't want that from a movie. I want a movie that makes me feel anything, right? Like if a movie makes me feel something, I will admire that movie for moving my feelings. That movie made me anxious. Jessica, you see value in

movies that sometimes make you feel very unsettled. They're like, uncut gems did this. Those are immersive experiences, I think. Same with Marty Supreme, which was very similar to if I had legs I'd kick you where you're just kind of like, Oh, God, I don't know where this is going.

I don't know what's going to happen next. I think the only reason, well, there's two reasons I didn't love if I had legs. I kick you. One is that I felt like, you know, the metaphor for the hole in the ceiling, a little literal, Dan. It was a little, yeah, like there's a hole in the kid with the feeding tube and the ceiling. I kind of got that. It was like a little surreal at times, which I was unsure. I mean, I guess that was kind of the point.

She's sleep deprived, whatever. But second of all, it just reminded me of being with my mom. Not in a good way. So, yeah, it was very triggering for me. And you're right. I think that's why we watch the movies to make you feel something. The worst movies are the movies where you leave. And you're like, I didn't need to watch that.

I feel nothing. I much rather feel sadness listening to music than movies for me personally. I'm good with sad music. Yeah, plus they're only three minutes long. Sad movies. What's your sad song go to, Chris Cody? Wow. I'll get back to you.

That's not. Dude, little Phoebe Bridgers. Not great on your feet thinking there. I mean, me, I don't want to just fake. Fake it. You brought your dad to coughing. He did bail. He didn't want to go through the entire timeline of all the movies.

Titanic songs that he likes. No. He doesn't like, really. Leo, he looked good. Am I right? Do you love lyrics? Best musical performance. Thank you.

At Levitard Show, do you watch movies that make you feel anxious at Levitard show? Oh, really? Let's go ahead and do that. We've got an internet minute. It's internet minute. Guys, I don't like the internet anymore. I'm out on the internet as a whole. The things that I used to love the internet for,

I just now assume they're all AI or staged for clicks. And lately, the latest example of that was this Pelicans guy who apparently did an Irish jig so fast as pants fell off. And look, it's a funny video. Don't get me wrong. I laughed when his pants fell down. But is it real? I have no idea.

I don't trust it. Is it staged, possibly? I mean, it may have happened in real life, but been, you know, look at the hands of everybody else. That seems real to me because of the size of the thighs and how blousey the shorts have to be when your thighs are that size. You know what? You know why I'm going not real? I look at the crowd reaction to stuff like that.

And no one in the crowd there is reacting to the seemingly funny thing of his pants falling. So you have somebody going into AI and typing in the prompt, New Orleans Pelican fan doing Irish dance. No, this is a setup. Like, it's a put on. Like, it's performed. It's one or the other and I don't. I just, there's no such thing as organic, funny, laugh out loud moments anymore. You know what I mean?

Yeah. Dude, this sucks. There's no coming back from it and it's only going to get worse. I don't know what's real. It's like, it's like VAR and soccer. I can't celebrate it. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. It's great. That's a great comparison. Yeah, it stinks. And I used to love going on the internet. I'd see something funny that happened in a game and I'd say, wow, that Pittsburgh Pirates fan just demonstrated oral sex with his partner. That's very funny. And now I see it and I'm like, that might not have even happened.

If I had legs, I'd kick you. Because fans don't go to Pirates games. Go on, Dan. If I had legs, I'd kick you, I didn't really understand the title. I liked it. I told you it was a bad title. I don't think it's a bad title. It makes it sound like a comedy. Makes it sound like a comedy. I thought she was going to be wheelchair-bound. Thank you. Also, there were a lot of leg themes in movies this year. I don't know if you guys saw The Secret Agent.

There was a hairy leg in that movie. I don't know if you saw Song Sung Blue. There's a, I don't want to spoil it, but man, something happened with the leg there. Did you like the Secret Agent? I did really like it. I didn't, when I watched it initially, I didn't really understand everything that was going on. And then as I read more from the director afterwards, I realized how much of it went over my head because I am not Brazilian and have never been to Recife. But then I did really appreciate it.

And I thought Wagner Mora was really, really good at it. What was the sound of that door? Yeah, ours are H's in Brazilian. Sounded like Willow. Was that Willow back there? Did I hear Willow scratching on the door? Yes. Let that poor dog into that?

She let herself out. Okay. She's fine. She's all right. All right. See you later. Jessica. A reminder to every.

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Don Lebatard. What do we got here? I got a magnum condom. We won't get that out. That's shocking. Stugats. Here's a picture of Christopher when he was like three years old. Right next to the condom?

Yeah. That's a subtle reminder. Never. Never forget. This is the Don Lebatar show with the Stugats. I want to update some more of this tournament here because I got to get all these teams out before all. these games start. Tomorrow it's going to start getting crazy. Friday, 3 p.m. in the Midwest. I was mentioning Alabama. Alabama is the four-seat and it's represented by.

Paul Feinbaum looks like the matri-D at a fancy restaurant. It's a really good one. It's a French restaurant. Oh, yeah. Versus number 13 Hofstra. What do we got? Dan Marino looks like the third place finisher in a David Hasselhoff look-a-like contest. That's good. Like Roy with the turkey. We have to stop you. I'm so confused. Yeah, you said Mike Cullen Jr.

And were you making a joke that went over all our heads? Yeah, because I made that mistake before where I actually sounded like I said. I'm sorry, I missed that. We were all so like frozen. Got it. That someone had to say something. Okay. Yeah, she made fun of me the last time.

I was out last week. I was out last week. Yeah, she made fun of me. Villanova, that's fine. That's good that everybody, it's good that you do that. It's why I drive home yesterday and at night I wake up at about 1 a.m. Did I call him Justin Bateman instead of Jason Bateman yesterday when we were talking about? There's the Justine happens to a lot of people.

No, but I'm saying this is what's happening to me with age. You guys as buzzards have me where I have a traumatic stress disorder on I'm getting enough names wrong at this age that I suspect I'm getting them wrong. It's what happened to me on J.J. McCarthy when I went to Stutter Island. Like I had the name and I thought I had it right and then I lost confidence because somebody looked at me. me wrong and that's what happened. Then I looked at Zaz and I'm like, did I get that right? And then I blew the whole thing. Yeah. The other day, I forgot who Pablo Escobar was. Imagine. Pablo Escobar. Like top of the heap when it comes to Narcos, right? This is what happened to me with J.J. McCarthy.

J.J. McCarthy, not because I thought for a minute there is it J.C. McCarthy. Did I get it wrong? And that's just what happens with age. Any relation to Kelvin Escobar? Why would you do that? Because I didn't know Chris is going to play a sound. It was a bad joke. It was just. like loser game show and whatever. Yeah, it's fine. You've been on a heater, dude. You're good. I've been doing well. Air ball. Airball, is that what you're trying? This one every once in a while, you know. He was feeling, he's like, throw me the ball. Throw me the ball.

I got it. I talked about. Hey, you remember those goggles. He's like the fan dancing and then his pants were. Come on. You saw the goggles. So it's not real. That guy's thighs. That guy's thighs looked real. That's real for me. That checks out. Greg, do you even internet anymore? It's got to be just like so confusing. It's confusing for me. Now it's just everything is fake. Every time I see Jim Laranaga out, I overhear him saying, have you seen this AI? And I imagine for Jim Laranega

Chachy P.T. and Sora and all these other things, got to be wild. We've ruined the internet, correct? Yeah. It's absolutely crazy for me, and I don't do that, but my wife does that. You don't scroll. But she's a scroller, your mother. I think my dad still gets his news, like, on a website. Like, he goes to, like, AOL.com, and, like, that's how he gets Honestly, a month ago or whenever punched the monkey was happening, I'm telling you.

A month ago, she comes out with a Punch the Monkey video, and my first impression was that's AI. I don't believe that. And that's what's happening in society now. I'm skeptical of any unusual video before I verify it. So if it's this bad already, if you guys are now ancient and fossilized, if all of the search engines and all of the social media is infected, it's only going to get worse from here, and it's already been poisoned. in a way that you guys are trying to wean yourself off of the addiction because you know how bad it all is? Because you can't believe anything like that. How did we ruin the Internet already?

It's the greatest invention in the history of man. All of the world's information is right in your hand. No one's ever had that before. How did we screw that up so fast? It's too much knowledge, Dan. You could go to your phone and everything everyone has learned throughout history is in your hand. It wasn't meant to happen that way. It's the doom scrolling, though.

It's the stuff I don't need to know that I have to scroll by. It's what they want you to know. Also, I have the top trending now headlines on AOL.com if you're interested. I, well, but are they still doing it? AOL.com, it exists. The most famous chocolate bar in the U.S. isn't Hershey's or Recy's. That'll be a Greg Cody show topic for sure on Friday. A basic monthly bill Americans can't dodge is becoming a midterm flashpoint.

One of the arguments that was absent the last time we covered the gentleman from the Riesiesies. family that said it's not real chocolate is uh yeah recess i'm sorry is that this is a very bitter man and he's been saying this for years and he's considered a crackpot a jealous crackpot because of all the millions he's lost and that context is largely missing and every once in a while he gets what he wants which is to be aggregated and everyone to be like oh there's chocolates we're not real no it's been this way for a long time. Heidi Klum's semi-shear body-con dress is the sartorial

version of a dirty martini. I still have and use my AOL email. I do too. Loyalty. Keep it alive, baby. What's wrong with that? A sad one, Ohio mom whose tummy tuck complication went viral has died. And finally,

Gwyneth Paltrow's alleged backstage rant exposed after she flashed the cameras at the Oscar. We'll stumble there. Quick that one. Number eight, Villanova is represented by Paul Skeens looks like someone who tried to draw Josh Allen from memory. That should have been seated higher.

I don't know. I pounded the table for them to get in and be at a higher seed. I don't know why I got put it in an eight. That's a two seat. Paul Skeens looks like someone who tried to draw Josh Allen from memory. A favorite to advance in the second round. An eight, nine. Come on.

If you're watching on your. YouTube, that is so much stronger than you know it is if you're only listening to it because of skeins and how he looks like Josh Allen with a mustache. That's facing Utah State a nine seed represented by Kirby Smart looks like the wholesale tire rep who tells you he didn't charge you for that alignment even though it's complimentary. Mike, you know I have one rule to live by, right? Don't place parlays on multiple long shots. Don't say a game is one when it hasn't hit triple zero. Always drink your Yeagermeister ice cold. That's the rule. Everything else is merely a suggestion.

Everything else? Everything else. Wearing clean underwear every day? Well, that's just a personal decision. Brushing your teeth? Obviously smart, but not a rule. Never pee-pee on an electric fence. Okay, maybe there are two rules.

But the one that is 100% that I insist on completely, Yeagermeister must be drank ice cold. Or don't drink it at all. Damn, that's cold. Exactly. You're finally starting to get it. Drink responsibly. Yeagermeister liqueur 35% alcohol by volume imported by mass Yeagermeister U.S. White Plains, New York.