The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Throwing Stones From An Ass House

Episode Date: August 20, 2024

An incredibly young looking Dexter Fowler joins the show to discuss the Cubs 2016 World Series victory, Stugotz's Joe Maddon takes, how baseball is evolving, the Little League Classic, and graduating college two decades after high school as a promise to his parents. Then, would you watch people on the internet be mean to each other as a sport? Plus, we have an update on the missing billionaire fiasco. Also, self-checkout, escalators at grocery stores, and a debate over Subway restaurants nearly breaks up the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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If it's up to Dexter, it's definitely gonna be good but us it's a question. All right well it's a toss up on this end too so. All right well Dexter seems to be ready so let's include him on the conversation we were having last week. Dexter Fowler is with us he hit one of the most famous home runs in baseball history leading off game seven of the two thousand and sixteen world series uh... the conversation we were having last week when erin judge got to three hundred home runs faster than anyone ever is why it is that uh... erin judge wouldn't be one of the top fifty most

famous athletes in america at present in terms of just stardom which seems like a baseball stardom problem, not an excellence problem. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, if you sit there and look at, you know, the body of work that he's done, he absolutely should be, you know, one of the top athletes in, I'd say the world. You know, you're playing for, you know, a historic organization like the Yankees and, and not to have, not to be on that list that's crazy. Stugatz I don't know if you know this but Dexter recently went back to Penn State after how many years to graduate Dexter how did it was it was actually 20. So 20 years you decide to go back had you been academically

dormant until you decided two decades in you know know what, I'm gonna finish this up, I've got a couple of credits left. I had, I was dormant, I didn't even start, so I finished four years in about two and a half, almost three years. Congratulations to you, Dan, he looks like he's in college. Fantastic. He looks fantastic. My goodness. Seriously.

It's not fair. He's getting younger. Yeah, he's 38 years old and he looks like he could be in the big leagues right now. He could swipe 50 bags right now. But what did it mean to you to graduate? Take me through the thought process. I don't think that people understand the obsessive compulsive commitment that athletics require to get to where you got to.

Well it all came about because I got drafted out of high school and I told my parents, like I was going to the U.S told him I said I'm really only gonna do enough to play baseball because that's what I want to do I said and my mom was a teacher elementary school teacher and my dad so my parents were big on academics and I told my parents I said I'll make a promise to you if I can go play baseball right now then I will go back and get my degree and they said, all right, if you promise to do that, then we'll get it done. And I ended up signing and finished my big league career and said, you know what, it's already paid

for it might as well go back and do it. Made that made that promise. So held true on my word. Was it emotional for you? How much family shared the accomplishment with you? I was actually trying to surprise them and it slipped out In conversation. I was like I got it. I got it I got to do this this essay for my class or and they were like what class and I was like, ah I slipped up. So I was gonna surprise them and be like, hey, what are y'all doing at this time? I'm getting my degree So I was gonna surprise them and be like, hey, what are y'all doing at this time? I'm getting my degree.

But that didn't work out. Dexter, how does this work? Did you get a good graduation gift? Did people give you gifts? I got no gifts. I'm still waiting on one from the Dan Leotard show. What an upset. Get Dan Leotard on that right now.

Were you in classes with 20 year olds, 21 year olds, or was this all online? I don't know. I was in, I was in, I wasn't in class physically, but we did, I did, I did a bunch of projects together, but I went by my first name. So I went by William. Were you anonymous? You were anonymous. You were able to do it anonymous. I think, yeah, my teachers knew who I was. I think my teachers knew who I was because you know some of my essays they were talking about like when I hit that home run for the Cubs. Accomplishments and all that. I was like I feel like I'm pretty accomplished.

Can you explain to us what it's like to be you in Chicago because I don't know that People totally understand what it means to that fan base that home run what your name means and what the Cubs winning means It was funny. Yes, you know the DNC is here right now And I was trying to cross the street yesterday And I saw one of the cops just keep looking at me and my buddy knew another cop down the way so he makes a call up and we're crossing, like the cop let us cross the street

and as we're crossing the street, that one of the cops goes, Dexter, thank you. Can I get a picture with you? I was like, I could have gotten this like 10 minutes ago, we didn't have to make a call down the street. But, uh, no, everybody, right? No, everybody's been great. Everybody. You see the Cubs fans all over. Um, I live in Vegas. So, um, you know, even walking down the street in Vegas and everybody will come up to you and just be like, thank you. And that's, you know, right. Anytime you hear that, you know, they're, they're Cubs hear that, you know they're a Cubs fan.

Well, I'm the resident Cubs fan here. And to be honest, like I have so many questions that I really don't know where to begin, but I'm sure you've talked about game seven a lot. Can you kind of just walk us through just what it was like starting the game on such a high note after, you know, coming back in the series,

but then Cleveland comes back and then there's a rain delay and then the game goes on and on and there's pitching changes and it's just a whole mess. What did it feel like? Oh my gosh. Honestly, now it's a blur. Everybody's like, do you watch the game? I said, absolutely not because I get nightmares from Rajay Davis's home run out.

It slips out of your hands. I'm like, no, we were this close. But I end up getting a job done. But honestly, like, I think everybody was at peace. Like even like when we were down three, one, everybody knew we were the better team in that clubhouse. And, you know, after we beat them game five at game six, we were like, oh, this is ours. This is ours.

We're going to do this. And then just having a confidence of everybody behind me. Obviously after that we were rolling. We had the momentum. So, you know, momentum can take you a long way until it doesn't. Dexter, is it fair to say you guys won that world series despite Joe Madden?

Oh my God. Fair to say. Here we go. Here We go here. I mean Lester with the It's okay you can say if he's your guy then he'll understand I think he realized he dropped the ball And the glasses are fake right? No, come on you could not you And the glasses are fake, right? I mean, come on. You could not, you couldn't. Those are real glasses.

Oh man. He couldn't hold yourself. You couldn't show restraint. You had to immediately go. He's got this theory that Joe wears those glasses to appear smarter than he is. You know what? Joe was great with the clubhouse, man.

He knows how to manage people, which is great. You need that. Do you like what it is that's become of the sport even since 2016? Because I'm not sure that you're allowed to play baseball right now if you're not someone who strikes out one out of every four times and hits 40 home runs. I don't love it.

I don't love it. It's kind of hard to watch at times, but hopefully the analytics and stuff that evolves into more of a tool and we get back to playing baseball. I think, I just think that baseball at this time is, but you know, we're in the, I'm in the commission's ambassador program

and we talk about it daily on how to make the game better and bring it back to, you know, the X's and O's of baseball. You know, whether that's speeding the game up, getting the youth back involved, cutting down on the strikeouts and all that. But it's not an easy problem to fix. I think we've gotten ourselves into this situation and we gotta figure out a way to get ourselves out. What percentage of the Cubs World Series

is directly attributed to Jason Hayward's speech during the rain delay? Yeah, Jay Hay, I mean, he got us all together. What a lot of people don't know is we were all scattered. Jay kind of got the group together and kind of started it off. And then everybody said their piece and kind of got all this stuff off their chest. And then kind of cleared our minds to go back out. I know Rossi said something.

Um, I said something, um, but yeah, I mean, that was good. I call it field awareness for J hay to get us all back together. Cause you don't, you don't know where everybody's at mentally. I mean, you had like, obviously, um, a raw this in there and he was distraught cause he felt like it was his fault. But it was a new game. It was a new game. That was, I call it game eight. Dexter, you the following season played in the Little League Classic with the St. Louis Cardinals and there was actually a very cool moment that was shared during the broadcast from Jazz Chisholm

Jr. that we wanted to take a look at and then then I'll have a couple follow up questions for you about that game. I got on the plane. One of his friends came right away because he was way in the back. His friends came up to me and he was like, Oh, my best friend, you're his favorite player, bro. Like he can't wait to see you. And like this kid was like, this kid ran all the way from the back to tell me that his friend is like I'm his friend's favorite baseball player, and then I'm just like okay Like I can't wait to meet him like where's he at so I'm just walking through signing stuff I don't even get to meet the kid until it's like the last kid at the line really and he's just in the back

He's waiting on me, and I'm just like I'm just signing and he's like you're my favorite baseball But I was like oh your friend told me about it. He's like, you're my favorite baseball player. I was like, oh, your friend told me about you. He was like, no, like you're my favorite. And he just like starts going into it and all that stuff. And he told me his brother that goes to one of the events that I host, Baseball Generations in California. And then we just started getting back to know each other. And then I was like, you know what kid?

I'm gonna be your big brother from here on. You know what? I'm gonna make sure you have everything you need, Aria sliding mitts, leg guards, gloves, bats. Don't worry about it, I got you. Just give me a call and I got you and I gave my number. Yeah, that is so cool. Later on they showed that Jazz also gave him a custom chain,

all sorts of cool different things. Did you have any moments like this at the Little League Classic chatting with some of the kids about either being their favorite player or just kind of getting to bond like this at the little league classic chatting with some of the kids about either being their favorite player just kind of getting to bond like this? Because to me, this is like one of the coolest things that baseball has. If I can remember, we were the first, um, the first time they did the little league classic.

So I think it was now they kind of have it down, but I mean, when we got the plan, I was like, yeah, you'll be riding on this bus, you'll be riding on this. So it's kind of all over the place. And now they kind of, I like how they're doing it now, but I mean, the kids are in awe. And then I had never been to Williamsport. So going there and I was in the booth with the SPN

and getting a chance to, I didn't know the fields were like that. Like it's really cool to watch and the kids, they loved it. They love it. Like the fact that, you know, when you're playing, it's all kids in the stands. It's special. Does it feel like transport back to the 1970s or 19 a different time in America? It does it does it's nostalgia for sure. They had

Well, they've now fixed the lights the lights were horrible we played So, you know, you're used to having obviously the best lights and it's like, this is kind of dark. But it was great. Before I get you out of here, I should tell the people he's now an analyst for the Cubs Marquee Network and you've bought a Premier League team. Bournemouth, you've bought, explain to us this journey. How did retirement become, I'm gonna go buy a soccer team

in the Premier League? I have great neighbors and mentors My my neighbor is actually Bill Foley and Bill has kind of taken me under his wing And put me on a few of his boards and so I've been doing a little bit for work for him, but He came to me with opportunity and said Dex I'd love you to do to I'd love for you to be a part of this. And if Bill says be a part of something, you know it's going to be special.

So I ended up putting some money in to be a part of that. And I'm going to start helping out. I still have yet to go to, I've been working so much. I've yet to go out to London, I mean, to Bournemouth, and go to a game. But my wife and kids have and I'm looking forward to kind of get my feet wet in the ownership stuff It was good catching up with you Dexter. Thank you for making the time for us, sir

Absolutely. Thank you Dexter. Thanks Dexter. It was good. Talk to you. It was good Christmas, right? It was good. Yes. It was good Not the pirates that's not good In the NFL, there is no margin for error. One mistake can change the outcome of the game. Science proves quality sleep can help boost reaction time, recovery time, and overall athletic performance. As the official Sleep Wellness Partner of the NFL, Sleep Number's mission is to provide players with data and insights to optimize their sleep for the ultimate competitive edge. Sleep is essential for recovery, and we all have unique needs. That's why Sleep Number Smart Beds are perfect for couples with individualized settings for

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two gods I got some phlegm in my mouth yeah it's okay yeah gymnastics possibly corrupt this is a leotard show with a still got You guys know that I am not a fantasy player, but I do understand the appeal of all of these addictions on NFL Sundays. You guys tell me because I'm not familiar with how it is that one would track their fantasy teams on Sunday. However, YouTube TV is now offering a fantasy view. It's allowing Yahoo and NFL.com customers to link their fantasy teams to their YouTube accounts and then you get the plays and the multi-view options and you get all the stuff that's personalized for you. Is that worth it to you, Stugots, for an extra $300,

which is what the Apple Plus package through YouTube is going for? It's twice the rate of what it is that the DirecTV package has been. I mean, I get the concept. You put your fantasy team in, it automatically goes to highlights of guys on your fantasy team when they do something good or bad,

I would imagine. It seems appealing to me, again, I just don't know how to set it up. I mean, someone's going to have to help me with that. I would pay for it. You don't need that, do you? I mean, you can be without that, you can just be on your phone or your iPad or your computer. That's how everybody's doing it now anyway, isn't it? It sounds pretty incredible, Dan. I'll be honest. I've never been a I've never had Sunday ticket, and I've never had red zone. I always have just used whatever free trials exist To be able to get that on certain weekends This is the first time the idea that I could just link my fantasy team and just be shown my players all weekend long

It's the first time where I'm now considering like all right Do I want to drop hundreds of dollars to be able to watch this? I have a problem, my phone doesn't get YouTube, so. Yeah, can't be true. Not true in your phone, Wayne. Hold on, hold up your phone. Absolutely not the truth.

Simply not true. Didn't even try. No, it's true, some phones just don't get it. Thank you. No, that one doesn't get, that's not a YouTube. This phone, I'm sure I could get YouTube on it. StuKatz, for the love of God. We know it's an iPhone.

Get him his AARP information, please. I wanted to ask you guys something based on both internet culture and what's real and what isn't about where it is that all of us live in 2024, online, more connected than we've ever been, more disconnected from others than we've ever been. So somebody put up the Tuah clip with the words positive energy and empowering someone goes a long way. Now this of course gets rained on by acid from every corner of the

internet because positive energy and empowering someone is not the thing that the internet is here for. So someone writes in of to his commentary, bleeping blaming another man because he didn't hug him. What kind of shit is that? That's some weak boy shit. You actually said another man didn't kiss your ass enough and tell you that you're good and give you affirmation on the lips. That's why you bleeped up. Maybe work on your arm strength instead of your mouth. And I just want to ask you guys, because I don't think that's rare. I don't also think

that's a bot, although there's plenty of that out there as well but there are a whole assortment of people who are just generally unhappy who are getting something that feels like a dollop of medicine on happiness for them the stimulant of just sending that out into the universe and creating a fight around it right it's almost by definition trolling correct yeah but there are also a lot of people Dan who don't have a choice as to who their boss is they don't make nearly as much money they're trying to make ends meet they go to work every single day and their boss is a jackass and they're like hey if I could deal with it if I can make it through for 250 million dollars you should be

able to do the same I think it's ridiculous I do because what is to a really say he would prefer to show up to work every day and have a boss that is nice to him. That's his preference. If you, at home, would rather show up to work and have a boss who's a complete jackass to you every day, then go for it. The choice is yours. But Tua is saying, no, I don't want that. And he's not afraid to point out who the jackass is. And he's saying, I want to go to work every day and work for a guy who respects me a guy who is going to be nice to me. What's wrong with that? Dan's talking about the people that go one step forward though and post all of that on the internet very cruelly for other people to see. Maybe a lot of people think that way, but I agree, Dan, there's a lot of nasty, cruel people that post things on the internet

that I honestly have to just block out because I have to tell myself this is just not what most people think, hopefully. My point, though, is this is now sport, correct? We have, we are now in a place where find comment Take another side on the comment and it all becomes some form of politics some form of we're divided some form of We're going to fight about this and it speaks to a general anger That's out there that Stu gots isn't wrong about that

Person X who is struggling with the daily survival of I can't afford things, it becomes an issue larger than all of the other issues in your life until you then have health problems and then you have to take that into our medical system without the proper insurance. And then you're drowning. And then you're forever drowning and you're angry, and it makes you feel some modicum of better to instigate that fight so other people feel miserable too,

to come out against positive affirmations, to basically be against speaking kindly to subordinates. Yeah, that's exactly right. I'm gonna take the opposite side on being kind and how I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna call you a bleep boy. Misery loves company, Dan. Yeah, you got it, Dan. If being mean on the internet was a sport,

I'd wanna watch it. And if I was going to watch it, I would use Game Time to get tickets to go watch people be mean on the internet. To watch people on the internet? Be mean to me. Must be nice to be perfect. Download the Game Time app, create an account, use code Dan for $20 off your first purchase.

If you want to go watch the internet, I would go watch the internet if it was a thing. And I would go on the second market and I'd go to Game Time and I would get to see exactly where my seat was from the little app. You see a little angle, like look I'm looking down down. This is exactly where my seat's gonna be. It's a beautiful thing. Download it, use code Dan for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply, last minute tickets, lowest price, guaranteed. Well, watching Chris say PP and stuff, people.

I feel like we owe game time money. I had front row tickets for this one. Chris, you're speaking the last six or seven days as a... You're doing great, kid. I mean you Had a boy Stu glasshouse someone needs to tell him I mean positive reinforcement. Yeah, you're the future. You're not reddit I am throwing stones from this ass house. I Am I am but at dolphin camp there were a handful of times I wanted to hug you. I don't know if they edited it out

or whether your fear will be noticeable to all, but when you sink into the lack of confidence that is reading or being polished broadcaster, you can sink deep with ratatatat mistakes. Thank you for that, Yes, you are right. I thought I crushed that read. Good transition. Listen, you're a great reader, okay?

And don't let anyone tell you otherwise. You are a fantastic reader. You'll only get better, okay? So don't let Dan get to you. Everyone wants a nice boss. Think about what Tu has said. You want positive reinforcement, and I am telling you that everyone trips up occasionally

when they read, even Dan does the guy You just power forward. Okay, you just move forward Chris I believe in you it's hard to do that when everyone stops and looks at me every time I make the slightest mistake Yes, PP. I'm sorry like PP's funny. That's an attention grabber true. These aren't normal reading circumstances though. Chris is right Chris this is this is an egregious mistake though if while reading the Sponsor you say when watching peepee on the internet Say go watch people say go watch people be mean on the internet Yeah, tough one play for me please the sound of Dexter Fowler getting my name wrong

It echoes from sea to shining sea or my name isn't. Dan Leotard, chef. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Dan Leotard, chef. That's so good. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. He made a mistake, we should laugh at him. You owe him a gift, I mean.

Dan Leotard, chef. Dan, while you were gone, there's been some developments in this missing billionaire. Oh. Huge deal. Ah. Seems as though Sugat's may or may not be onto something here.

Inside job. Well, it turns out that Mike Lynch's co-defendant, a man named Stephen Chamberlain, who stood for trial alongside him before they were acquitted, died just days before Mike Lynch went missing. He was hit by a vehicle while out for a jog in the UK. Maybe an inside job, Dan. People are going for these guys.

Do you think they're some scores to settle potentially here? I mean, he takes that jog every single day, never gets hit by a car, and then suddenly, boom. So on the lam, on the lam? That tends to be how car accidents work. That is how they work. Now the question becomes though, Dan, before we thought it was an inside job

and that this person was faking their own death, it seems as though maybe there's a Batman out there, Capes Crusader, who's just going and settling some scores, it would appear. I feel like we're flying fast and loose with conspiracy theories about a guy who's worth lots of money. Yeah, probably shouldn't do that.

Probably should be a little more responsible than that. Researching, I mean. Yeah, we're just putting it out there. All right, suspicious and inside job. Right, with speculation. Chamberlain. I guess Dan's liable for any possible. Yeah, I would prefer not to be.

Thank you. I think I need to, yeah. Time to throw away all journalistic credibility and get reckless. Here is something we like to call reckless speculation. Now you're good. No, it's a little too late. Well, if the billionaire sues you then we know he didn't actually die. Spinoff knows there's no I in football. It's a we thing, an experience best enjoyed together. Whether you're home or away, we rally together, we cry

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because it was Levante. Well, when Fidel died the first time. This is the Don Leventhal Show with the Stugats! I wanted to ask you guys something that came across my newsfeed the other day. You have a personal newsfeed? That's right. We all do, Stugats. Anybody who's interested in having a personal newsfeed, it's pretty easy to set up. My phone doesn't get that.

Yeah, you've got to sign up for YouTube. On my personal newsfeed, I found out that Walmart is improving, they are fixing, their self-checkout situation with a great technological evolution. Really? They're bringing back humans. Wow, what a concept. They're doing it the correct way.

They're not gonna do it with these machines anymore because you can steal, I'm guessing, so much from those machines without humans around. I've told you before that Walmart loses like three billion dollars a year or something to theft and they're like screw this we're gonna go back to human beings. The whole electronic thing didn't work. We're not headed toward the future just yet, not at Walmart. I feel like, maybe it's a theft thing, but I doubt that. It's probably because the machines suck,

they always break, you always need a person to come help you anyways. If you're buying alcohol, you need a human to come do it. There's usually a floor manager for the machines. The last time I went to Walmart, like it might have been like two or three weeks ago, there were four people in the self-checkout area helping. What, like that can't, what?

Just help me the whole time. I hate self-checkout so much. And the goddamn machines at CVS, they just ding at you nonstop. Skip bagging, ding ding, skip bagging, no receipt. I don't want to hear this stupid thing ding at me all the frickin' time. Just, it's incessant and it never ends.

So that's interesting, because I was gonna say the CVS machines are great. Like you could fly through those. She said just the opposite. No, I know, but I think they're great. The Walmart ones are a disaster. They're different machines. I go to CVS and it's easy for me.

Well, why is Jessica struggling with this and you can't get YouTube on your phone? I think it's the beeps, I don't know. There are a lot of beeps, but the beeps don't they don't bother me I'm ready. Is that a level that? Just bores into my brain and it doesn't stop put it on the pole Please do do more annoying beep the CVS self-checkout machine or your car seatbelt beep I I would assume that there is more theft Because of the self-checkout I would assume simply because you can get away with

Putting extra things in when no one is looking if you don't scan it and bag it when you walk out of the Walmart Alarms will go off. I'm telling you right now. It's impossible to steal from that machine It can't be right. Bringing back humans is a bad idea. I know someone who out of spite for the fact that self-checkout machines were hurting labor and getting more people fired, who steals one item every single time they go to Publix.

Just one two or three dollar item, the cheapest thing they could find, they put it in their bag just out of spite while going to the self-checkout line. So a line. Self-checkout tax. Fun fact, there are no Walmarts in New York City. Put it on the poll please at Leviton Show.

Is it a fun fact that there are no Walmarts? I love it's fun. New York didn't get a Target until I think like 2016. There's not a lot of big box stores that fit into little tiny, there used to be a Kmart though the Kmart Closed it was at the Astor place subway stop. It was a big thing You could walk into it from underground and now it's gone downtown targets stink. Why they're just they're not

They're not rural targets Did I screw up that time too You know the self-checkout at Target is not that bad. In fairness to Chris, he was not expecting a follow-up. The one at the beach is terrible. I will give Chris that. It's a bad Target. There's not enough square footage for a Target there.

The one at the beach, people walking in barefoot with sand on their feet all the time. That's a vacationers' car day. Come on, smells like mildew because you've been battered by sea air for I don't know how long. I don't like going up an escalator to shop. Yeah, same. But that's like half of Miami

because you have to go in the parking garage and you have to go up like seven layers of a parking garage and then you have to go down an escalator or up an escalator and then you have to get your cart and then you have to put that on the stupid escal up an escalator and then you have to get your cart and then you have to put that on the stupid escalator or you have to carry everything and your arms hurt and it's such a pain in the ass

because there's nowhere to park because the city is just full of parking garages. It's crazy, you put an escalator in a Target and it rattles me, but if you put one in a JCPenney, I love it. Love a JCPenney escalator. A part of a mall. I'm going up, I'll see you guys in a little bit,

because that's always where the men's stuff is. Men's clothes is always on the second floor. Are you a Coles Cash guy? Oh, yes. I knew it. That target on the beach, okay, for 10 years has been urinated on by offensive linemen who fly to Ireland and get arrested

and get rerouted back to Boston. That target has been ainated on by offensive linemen who fly to Ireland and get arrested and get rerouted back to Boston. That target has been a literal target of all of South Beach's debauchery for as long as it's been there. Boston, Ireland, same place. Also coming across my newsfeed, my personalized newsfeed just for me. Wow, new feed?

Oh, oh. How do I get one? Oh. A new feed? Oh, yes. Check in with Chris Cody's peepee on the internet that be on your phone. Is subway in trouble is subway or subway franchise sales Something that's in trouble. I have told you guys before that subway is or has been the last time I checked the second largest Fast-food distributor we've had in america behind mcdonald's for a long time i suspect a lot of people

might think the burger king is right behind mcdonald's or something else but it's been subway in terms of franchises but i would imagine the five dollar footlong is now twenty five ninety nine i'd i would imagine uh... i would imagine that uh... that that the business of Subway is getting more and more expensive and I don't know if people are running around buying franchises at the same rate that they were once upon a time.

In 2023, Subway's revenue increased to $971.9 million. Subway.com. They're doing just fine. I've seen a few Subways close around me. Of course, they're closing. That doesn't mean they're doing poorly. I'm pretty. No, no, no, no, no. Some of these are franchised out. No, no, no. You're wrong. First off, some of these are franchised out. So, if a couple of stores close,

it means that particular store has not done well. It doesn't mean Subway as a whole is not doing well. I mean, come on, know your franchises. I don't know the status of Subway as a whole, but does Subway taste good? Like, are there not just better sub options now? I've always been pro-Subway. My wife hates the smell of Subway.

The bread. Like, just walking in there, she's like, she can't even do that, where I've always been pro-Subway. Wait a minute, I thought the smell of bread is nice. Is it too many years of the bread? I agree, not after 30 years, Dan. That bread wears on a man. Okay, let's put it on the porch.

At Lebatard's show, at Lebatard's show, do you like the smell of bread in Subway? Because I- I would just say the smell of Subway. Yeah, but everything's getting I have no idea. What's what anymore? Everything's getting recalled. I don't know if boars head is good Disaster everything's getting recalled seems like everything's getting can can I just take it back for a second? I thought the smell of bread was Universally good information stugats. I appreciate you bo A board set is dangerous right now. I appreciate you.

Maybe that's why the subway closed, it was recalled. Monkeypox, yes. Can you guys not agree? I thought we can agree on one thing in America at this time that we're all divided, and it's that the smell of fresh bread is something that we all like. You're right, yes.

You're thinking of a different smell. Now maybe this is not fresh bread at Subway. No, there's a Subway smell, it's not a bread smell, it're thinking of a different smell. Maybe this is not fresh There's a subway smell it's not a bread smell. It's a subway smell, but it's the smell of bread Plastic bread that's wrong, but Dan is saying when you walk in you in the morning you wake up you walk into a bakery It smells fantastic, right subway is not a bakery. Yeah, but there's no way but I get it It's a different thing It just doesn't smell like the same like you walk into a really good bakery and you know that that bread was made that morning right the subway bread

Trust that necessarily no when I was a kid the subway bread smell was a magical smell right? Yeah, the smell of I'm about to eat the biggest fucking sub I've ever seen in my life You just got a layer on the meat and the cheese and the sport peppers. You gotta stay strong with your beliefs. If you love Subway, then if an article comes out saying their tuna doesn't have actual tuna in it, you say screw that and you go to next day

and you order a tuna sandwich like I did. I love Subway and all the athletes that represent Subway that we booked through the years through Subway. God bless Subway. You guys are really shaming Subway. It's one of the, it has been in the history of fast food. Okay. It has been a somewhat healthy alternative

at an affordable price. It is, America has spoken on this. Now you guys. They got you with the healthy alternative. I love Subway. It's so healthy. I said a somewhat healthy alternative compared to, look a turkey sandwich is a little healthier

than a bacon cheeseburger and french fries, I would assume. You could get a salad at Subway. Most fast food is crappier health-wise than Subway. You think I'm saying something controversial there? I'll take a 12 inch steak and cheese extra meat please. I get that sweet onion chicken teriyaki and just pour that teriyaki sauce on top of that chicken that's been sitting there for 14 hours unwrapped.

Chris with extra mayo. But the light blue mayo. Or a pasta until August 27th for just $6.49 each. Crazy. That was pretty crazy. You know what, maybe I just associate Subway with the last time I had Subway, which was when I was dating this guy

that used to eat meatball subs with mayonnaise on it. Oh, terrible. The problem is you hate the guy and you're blaming Subway for that. I don't hate the guy, I just think he's disgusting. No, it's so valid. Subway's not. You guys are doing this.

And they're app? You guys are showing your sub elitist streak. You guys, this is affordable fast food and you guys are judging from on high all your gluten, from your gluten-free tower. Last time I had Subway, my friend Josh Allen gave me a churro from there. And a foot long cookie.

Delicious. Delicious. So good. All the cookies? Come on, they're amazing. I like Jersey Mike's because the Jersey Mike CEO comes on TV and talks to me during football games every year. That guy is always on TV.

He's so relatable. He's just a random guy. I like that they didn't even try to hire an actor. They're like, here's this guy's Jersey Mike. You believe us, right? Because he looks like he's Jersey Mike. And I'm like, you're right. If I walk into a subway and I get a turkey sub

with pepperoncini peppers and I leave for $5, I've gotten a great value. I will not have you guys blaspheme against this because you don't like a smell from nine years ago. Firehouse subs? Thank you for your service. I'm not saying that all the subs aren't better than this, but this is affordable.

Dan's right. It is. It's affordable and it's decent. I mean, it is. You bring your million dollar bill into Subway so they can break it for a five dollar footlong Is the five dollar footlong still five dollars? It's a monthly mortgage payment now good jingle it was though

You guys are trying to tell me that they bill you Subway's not healthier than the average fast food chain whilst While StuGott's last week was arguing on behalf of Long John Silver and it's fried fish down your gullet. And there was that guy Jared, he was so likable. What happened to him? Five dollars. Oh, come on.

Come on. I think Jared knows what happened. I think he's setting you up, Dan. Jeremy's trying to trick you, Dan. Come on. The chicken teriyaki's really good though. Oh, it's delicious. Come on. We lost so much weight eating Subway though. Oh, it's delicious. Come on.

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