The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: A Little Bit Of A Dum-Dum

Episode Date: August 5, 2024

Today's cast: Dan, Stugotz, Billy, Mike, Roy, and Tony. As much as Dan wants to start today's show with Olympics talk, Billy is back, so we need to kick things off with the Marlins Trade Deadline fire sale. Then, it's time to discuss the Olympics! The crew dives into Noah Lyles and his photo finish, Scottie Scheffler and Novak Djokovic's thrillers in golf and tennis, and if there's ever been as memorable of an Olympics for the show. Plus, Stugotz takes out Simone Biles. No, really. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Trademarks owned by Bekle, SAB, the CV, copyright 2024, próximo. Jersey City, New Jersey, please drink responsibly. Welcome back, Billy. Hey, thank you. I've missed you. Have you? Why? I mean a number of different reasons. I'm not very missable. I'm not very memorable also. I've met a number of people that say nice to meet you after I've met them a number of times. I had this one couple in particular that we'd go over to like our friend couple's house for like all kinds of events like pumpkin carvings. Like when you you first get married right before you get married new couples pumpkin carving

and gingerbread houses and friends giving and all those you know things that that you do when you're new young couples right? So anyways so we go over to that and every time I meet this couple they say nice to meet you and I realized I'm not a memorable person I'm very forgettable. Still miss him? I do. And I did especially last week. I mean I'm happy we've got him this week. I was afraid he was gonna need two weeks off. Billy's been working very hard. What's wrong with this week? No, no. I'm thrilled that you're back because this week you can be our national and international pole vaulting authority for the American mainstream

because nobody is more associate. There's no one in this country I don't think that has more fame for their pole vaulting expertise than you and we had a dong incident and I don't know how common it is Earl Bell would like to disagree I don't know a famous pole vaulter I don't I don't know why his dong hit the pole and how often that happens but a lot of people found that story interesting. So I'm glad we have you this week. But last week, I felt was an epic week in Marlins baseball and I wanted your emotions because-

What happened? Well, the room is flat. The room, well, they traded everybody. What? Yes. Again? I wasn't here. And the entire room doesn't care at all.

Like nobody cared at all. We're numb to it. I didn't here and the entire room doesn't care at all like nobody cared at all. We're numb to it I didn't care. I went out and tried to help this team Okay, the Marlins find a fan that could name somebody on the current roster. I went out and did the legwork Dan What are you doing to help trying to put trying to spread? Telling them the names of the players on the team no because I didn't know them Okay He was raising awareness. Raising awareness. Were you retelling them the names of the players on the team? No, because I didn't know them. I'm going to play that video here to lead the show, because we failed with that video.

Tony succeeded. Tony did his job very well. But I did not run long and hard enough with the idea that we wrecked an entire kid's childhood fandom right there on television, and didn't even address it. Just steamrolled a kid in an Arbetters who was just there to love baseball and didn't even address it just steamrolled the kid and our betters It was just there to love baseball and have hot dogs with his dad Literally and then he gives us three wrong answers and damn it that that all of them deserve to be right when he hit us

With Avicel Garcia like that kids got to get the $20 Yeah, well three strikes you're out there. I don't had to rip that 20 from his little hands stole money from a child No, no, I gave him the $20. I put it on the table I said hey kid if you can name me a current Miami Marlin this 20 bucks is yours and again in kid math 20 bucks is like a million dollars I'd argue that like exposing that child to obviously Garcia is worse than trading obviously Garcia away from the child I'm gonna play this video for you and you tell me we did not do enough with it We need to lead the show with it. I don't care what happened at the Olympics. This is the Don LeBattor

Show with the StuGuts Podcast. Today's episode is sponsored by DraftKings stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings and all it has to offer throughout the show. DraftKings. Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings than all it has to offer throughout the show. DraftKings, the crown is yours. Welcome back, Billy. His first moment in the chair and he sees me. He looks at my face and sees me in rage because I asked for something on Saturday morning and right now what's being shouted from the other room is just stall for 30 seconds. Yep. Stall for 30 seconds. Yep stall for 30 seconds little stretch, Dan Oh, yeah

while while Billy our panicked head of metal arc audio came in here and you said hey Carl because he hands me a Sheet of paper while you're talking that just says shrinkers on it while stretching shrinkers coming up Well good news of videos ready if you want to go to that but shrinkers I'm handed a piece of paper to God To God's this is why I'm saying this isn't the best way to do this on a Monday morning after you've had a weekend Of planning. Okay So God to tell me what shrinkers are the piece of paper that I was handed while Billy was talking about his vacation travail I have no idea. I'm thinking like shrink wrap. I don't know, like a machine. You put something in, it shrinks it down, you know? Let's be slightly more organized than this.

Just- Shriners are the ones that drive around in the little cars. Slightly more. They're characters from Beetlejuice. They'll be here in a little bit. What? Yeah.

Shrinkers. Yes, shrinkers are gonna be here in a little bit. I understand. I'm glad the planning of the weekend has gotten to you guys and everybody's confused by what it is that I'm talking about. Sh about shrinkers are coming into studio yes something known as rinkers before we get to that they tell me they now have this video and i really do feel like we failed billy because

this kid knows his baseball this kid is there with his father who does not know his baseball his father in one any part of tony's trivia game uh... shrunk it up he said that he's a yankee fan i don't know anything about the marlins are in the water twenty dollars the kid wanted to play the kid kept swinging in mess it and just had a bunch of adults laughing at him i'm telling you we wrecked the kid on television the other day and i like the

marlin we just steamrolled his fandom in him and didn't even batten i'd bill, look at what happened here to this poor kid because this kid knew what he was doing. Here we go, all right. Name me a current Miami Marlin. Horace O'Leary. No, that was last year. He was traded last year.

He's a brave now, I believe. He got traded. Jazz Chisholm. No. Your dad's pretty happy about him now. Two strikes, you know how happy about baseball two strikes you got one more strike Abyssal Garcia, I'll be so Rip that $20 bill away from that table So we've got, Stugatz, this is what I'm telling you. So close. We aired, we're reckless as a show. Mike Ryan last week

at the take of the week for trying to defend his fragile four-year-old daughter from the crying of a tennis player. And we just took a kid's fandom and we ransacked him. And here's the worst part of it. like his father's right there And you can see the disappointment on his father's face. It reminded me of being bad at math and old poppy would just start screaming at me Like look at the disappointment on a father here who want who he was ready to be proud That's what the Marlins do to their youngest customers now It's our fault because we're a virus that carries it. But we wrecked that kid, Stugats. Yeah. How about the dad help him out? I mean, he couldn't. He tried. The kid was better. He said, what about the second one

you gave me? And his dad led him right into the bear trap. Do me a favor, don't be disappointed with your kid when you can't do it yourself. Let's just get up, dude. You didn't follow Craig Mish, you didn't follow Jeff Passon, you don't know what's going on with the Marlins. I mean, it's not in the kid. The dad should give him $20. Stugance, hold on for a second. Don't be disappointed in your kid if you can't do it yourself. I don't know how you are as a father this way, but I would imagine if your fatherhood was anything like your sports criticism, that you would be exactly the father who would

criticize his child for, or expect more from his child on something he himself could not do. I'm just saying my kid would get it right. If he asked Rachel to name a Met, she would be able to name a Met, a single Met. That's all I'm saying. Like Dad, honestly, don't be disappointed. You can't give Tony the answer,

and you can't help your kid out. So don't be disappointed when the kid chokes under pressure for $20. By the way, that looks like a great sandwich shop. It really does. It's a hot dog place. It's a Hall of Fame hot dog place. Oh, looks so good. In fairness, obviously Garcia is still on the Marlins payroll. Like they just DF8 him. So like, I feel like he's still collecting checks. I mean.

Well, let me, I think we got some stuff wrong because Saler wasn't traded, right? He left as a free agent and then he was traded, right? He left as a free agent and then he was traded, right? He left as a free agent, so we got that wrong. It's hard to keep track of. He was traded last week to the Braves. Yeah, he was traded on a deadline. We were on top of that. No, I know, but I'm saying that before that-

Crazy deadline, huh? Yeah, a real fun deadline. Very exciting. We didn't talk that much about it. You weren't here to enjoy baseball with us. I wasn't, and I would just see the Morland's players getting trained. I was surprised, honestly, and this is gonna sound bad

with all due respect to the Morland, I was surprised that they were able to move a lot of the pieces that they moved and get back in exchange what they did. They seemingly rebuilt their farm system, which we've heard a number of times, so we'll see. No, this time, but I trust this guy more to do it, do you not?

No, why? Well, just because the race- It's been your five minutes. I'm sure Peter Bendix is a great lad and all, but I don't know him from Tom Dicker-Harrie. I don't know if he knows what he's doing. You were just excited about this two seconds ago. No, I'm not excited.

I was surprised they were able to move as many pieces as they did, and they were able to get as many caliber prospects back that they got back. Who surprised you that Pock, because I've told you, I don't understand. and they were able to get as many caliber prospects back that they got back. For who? Who surprised you that Pock, because I've told you, I don't understand. The baseball has become so fast evolving, Stugatz, that a left-hander like Pock, to me,

I watch him pitch and I'm like, nobody should be able to hit that, but he's got control issues. Like, who were the guys that you had that you were surprised they were able to get anything back for? Well, on the flip side, I was kind of disappointed

that Bell went and we didn't really get anything for Bell. They just kind of took salary for him, maybe a player to be named later, because they were just trying to get rid of his salary. I saw a thing the other day, and I don't know how accurate this is, but I'm gonna tell you as though it is accurate, that the Marlins pay the second most amount

to players not on their team. I think only the Yankees were higher than them, so the Marlins were paying close to $60 million in players to not play for the Marlins. And I think that their salary is $14 million for players to play for the Marlins, which isn't how you wanna do it, typically. Well, but Billy, this part's funny, right?

This is where I missed you, because the appalling mismanagement of this franchise that now gets another clean-up, Avicel Garciacia is one of those pieces they're paying him a ton yes terrible here he was just truly terrible here but they skate on all of it like there's not there aren't any great uh... on it i'm curious what you think of this to gots because uh... thomas out there was telling us while they were

booking shrinkers that he saw that forty marlins fans were on a flight to atlanta to watch the marlins split against the break series big win well i don't win this way that's dedication man and and so he was wondering uh... well he was wondering what a sad trip it was for those marlins fans and what i thought to myself was how this show had failed those fans because this show stopped caring about shit like last week.

And those fans still care about that stuff. It's not the show's fault, it's not our fault. We stopped caring about the Marlins because the Marlins have given us every reason to stop caring about them. I mean. I imagine they booked that trip before the trade deadline. I don't think that they were inspired

by the trade deadline to go to Atlanta, per se. But hey, I don't think they've lost a series since the All-Star break. They're getting hot at the right time, the Marlins right now. They have split against the Braves. Watch out for the Braves. May miss the postseason.

Just mark my words, may miss the postseason. Weren't you jealous, weren't you jealous of Roy getting to win the Stanley Cup, Mike getting to win the Stanley Cup, Mike getting to win the Stanley Cup, Mike getting to the finals again and again with the heat. It's about time for your team around here. Do you know how much joy our fans, our show, would get from you making some sort of run

because they fixed their farm system and they didn't have all the incompetence that they've had for so many years down here? I think my value to the fans is my misery. I think that they enjoy me suffering more than they would enjoy my happiness. I think they'd want to see me get frustrated. They'd want to see the fire sale Billy.

They'd want to see the one that's trying to get Louis Brinson into the All-Star game, a career regret of mine. They want to see these things. They want to see our fire sail Billy, they'd want to see the one that's trying to get Louis Brinson into the All-Star game, a career regret of mine. They want to see these things. They want to see our team suffer. Because suffering is more entertainment than success. This is the thing though, and Stugance, Billy has become an extraordinarily popular character

in this world, and he knows better than I think anyone around here in the cruelty of the internet, he will not give them any vulnerabilities. Like I can't get a care, a public care out of him. Does it suck that Jazz hit 8,000 home runs as soon as he went to the Yankees? Yes. Was I happy about that? No. I was happy for him, I suppose, because we made a date to go to the Bahamas together, which still hasn't happened. That's right. Was I happy to see him hit two home runs in back to back game? No, I was not super happy about that. No, it didn't make me happy. I was getting texts as if I was a member of Jazz's family

the day that he got traded. Everybody was telling me, Jazz, Yankees, Jazz, Yankees, Jazz. It's like, I got it. Leave me alone, okay? Yeah. On vacation. Timeline here, maybe.

You were getting pelted on your vacation. Yeah, everybody talking to me about Jazz and how great Jazz is doing. I'm happy of the timeline here, maybe. You were getting pelted on your vacation. Yeah, everybody talking to me about Jazz and how great Jazz is doing. I'm happy for Jazz. I'm so happy for Jazz. Not happy for me. Right, but you weren't happy watching him hit home runs for the Yankees.

No, no, I wanted it. But you're happy for him, right? I feel like he's hit as many home runs for the Yankees as he did for the Morillans this season. He's got that we gave that. That short porch needs to be banned. Don't even get me started on the short porch. It's unfair, you're right. It's ridiculous

Jazz was down here saying it was gonna be a 40-40 guy, right when he was it's like dude Let's be a 15-15 guy first. Okay, like enough with the 40-40 stuff I love jazz, but that's 15-15 first and let's not try for a home run every time now we can But what is the wall out there in Yankee Stadium? 270 feet? It's ridiculous. It is. It is. And they built a new stadium and they still built that little cheat wall out there. It's absurd. It is an unfair advantage. You have to question all the Yankee records. You do. I would go back in the record book and do it. You really need to.

It is the most 1950s thing there is anywhere in baseball. The fact that they insisted on keeping that a short porch in right field Back before medicine back before players were 6'9 250 pounds back when Roger Marist who got said that last week How's he not in the Hall of Fame because he had that one season with the short porch where every rough fly ball goes right out of the park Here Chas was constantly trying to hit home, and it would go to the warning track. And it's like, Chaz, just get on base. Run around, steal bases. Like, enough.

You don't need to be trying to. Now, he hits the ball the same distance as in the upper deck in New York. That's ridiculous. That's wonderful. No, it's not. It is. It's ridiculous.

You are funny, though, in how you just casually say, the Marlins are paying other players to play for other teams. Like four times that they're paying them to play for us. Well said by me. Yeah, nailed it. The Marlins are paying other teams and designating for assignment a bunch of salary. DFA, yeah.

The other team might be good, I mean. Well, he's. Did you see that Josh Bell home run, Billy? Oh my God. That hurt too, right? That was a scorcher. What a weird start to that game in Pittsburgh the other day huh there was a triple and then there

was an air and there was a homerun and back-to-back-to-back home runs rough day at the it's one of the hardest hit balls I've ever seen in my entire life wait but do you guys agree with Dan like seeing Josh Bell do that did that hurt like who cares about Josh Bell and I'm gonna judge well lamenting like the the suffering that the Marlins fans Josh Bell was a big part of a playoff team that was a playoff team last year Look, I understand you don't care about anything But the man took a discount because he enjoyed the four good minutes of baseball we had down here Did he take a discount or did he realize that the money wasn't out there last offseason?

So he opted in to get 18 million dollars a year. Oh, yeah You think that he was gonna get 18 million dollars a year? I like him as a player! I do too but the market last year dried up he wasn't gonna get 18 million dollars. You don't think that was about enjoying yourself? Blake Snell wasn't on it he won the Cy Young and wasn't on the team until like a week before the season started and then he sucked and then he pitched a no hitter. He had two Cy Youngs. Here's the thing about Blake Snell. Blake Snell, and this is like a popular thing that goes around. Okay, so Blake Snell has two Cy Youngs, right?

And before he pitched his no hitter this past weekend, had never gone into the eighth inning of a baseball game. Two Cy Youngs. Nolan Ryan has seven no hitters and zero Cy Youngs. What are we doing with you trying to foul a ball off of Nolan Ryan? What are we done? We done anything? I'm ready whenever he wants to show up. I'm here. Yeah, I'll do right here right now. We'll send you to Houston We're gonna get no no he's got to come to me By the way, you didn't lose anything in Houston jazz

Home runs in Miami 8 in New York for. We had the stat last week that he had three multi home run games as a Marlin in 401 tries. He had two in three games as the Yankees. And what I was trying to spit out earlier is you have to admit it's amazing mismanagement when they put you in the same breath as the Yankees for erasing mistakes by just paying for them to go away. Like that's unbelievable. That's the Yankees for erasing mistakes by just paying for them to go away. Like, that's unbelievable. The Yankees are a payroll for all time for 50 years. They're always one of the lead payrolls.

The Marlins cannot be in that company, but let's move on to other subjects. It may have been the Mets, but you don't want to be in the Mets category either. They're a disaster. Either one. It may have been the Mets. Even though they've been hot, how the Mets do you gots? The Mets are good.

The Mets are a wild card team right now. The Metropolitan. It's a rebuild for 300 plus million dollars. They did it the perfect way. Everybody gave up on the season early because Ron Darling and Keith Hernandez were just sobbing in the booth saying this is the lowest it's ever been and then they fixed all of that. A lot has changed over the years audience as you've been so kind in pointing out my

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I don't have it against the spread. Oh, well. Because I wasn't prepared for this segment. You need an Ian in your life. You have actively played defense against me today in a way that has rarely been this undercutting. Stugats. Defense wins championships, baby, at show business.

This is the Don LeVatar Show with the Stugats. ["The Stugats Show Theme"] But I wanted to get something from the weekends to guys. Do you have any idea, any idea whatsoever what happened with Noah Lyles? Noah Lyles. Okay, so you don't know who Noah Lyles is? Olympics. Getting warmer.

Track and field. Do you know what happened with him or no I know we want something you know how we want his him winning was an interesting but all of it I think I think we can all agree that is artistic and symbolic that in twenty twenty four the way we decide athleticism is with technology cuz I still don't know who won that race but you tell me he won by point oh five seconds okay but that's usually horses

that do it by a nose i've never seen human beings do it by a note and that announcer will be haunted for the rest of his eternity no one had a worse moment in track and field in that guy so let's tell stugats the story and get him caught up on the weekend because uh... i wanted to get to other stuff, including Stu Gott's thinking that Adam Vinatieri should be in the Hall of Fame.

But what happened with Noah Lyles was the story of the weekend because there's never been a race that close and you've never had an announcer name it for the wrong guy for eternity. Like, what Tony? You're shaking your head. Yeah, I mean, come on, Dan Dan it was a photo finish right? We're looking at something where three guys are about to cross the line at literally the exact same time. Like as a play-by-play guy you're like God can somebody pull away here? It's like how do you call it?

Well but you can't call it for somebody else. You can't call it for the second place finisher. No man that guy will eat his face off. Like announcers who care about that stuff they get one chance like that for all time. 100 yards hard to pull away I mean he decided it was a very close race and it looked like a photo finish as it was happening and yeah there was a late surge and I think everyone I think initially thought that maybe that was the result possibly aided by the play-by-play guy but you got to lean on what's the finish gonna be here? Like or just really accentuate the fact that it's close But he decided to go for it all and decide to back a winner for an iconic call and he just missed out on the

Winner, it's like the the was it miss America miss universe where they called the wrong person Was that Steve Harvey Steve was it Steve Harvey yeah,. He rebounded. Yeah. Look at him. He sure has. Track's weird, huh? It has to be your chest that goes across. Cause if a foot or your arm goes across first, it doesn't matter. Yeah, I didn't understand that rule.

Yeah. It's a weird one. Jamaican dude definitely had the foot down first. That's what I'm saying. If you just see this still, it's super confusing. Like, wait, this person looks like he's like the fourth closest. Let me hear the call here.

Cause this is for all time. You get one shot at this. This is one we're all watching. These numbers for the Olympics are huge. And this is for all time you one shot at this this is what we're all watching these numbers for the olympics are huge and this is one of the signature events you gotta get this right you cannot you cannot go back and fix this after you've done it you got michael johnson's watching race and he doesn't know what happened. That's not the call though.

The guy, he's... We can't play the call. It's the Olympics. Very expensive. Very expensive. He called the wrong winner. I mean, you got to call him as you see him, Dan. No, you got to say it's the photo finish.

That's the bell out. Yeah. I know that you were trying to get to the end, but you said the fact that he won isn't interesting. Yes, it is. It's very interesting. He talked a lot before this before this Olympics He's also overcome a lot now. He can walk around the Olympic Village and taunt team USA basketball until they do their job

It's pretty interesting. He's the world's fastest man. So forgive me. I Spoke too fast if that is what I said that it wasn't interesting. I just think that the announcer in that moment is ravaging himself because of how hard it is to do that and I do think in that moment to the degree you've been paying attention to Noah Lyles for four years you did see for half a nanosecond some kind of humility right after the race when he wasn't sure he had won and he was congratulat- he wasn't sure he had won he did not know he had won and so you saw humility from somebody a lot of people wanted to see humble. I was watching the very start of the pre-race stuff on mute and that alerted me to change to the

audio but it appeared like he was mouthing to himself, this is my moment, as he was getting ready. So to have that pre-race routine, to have that race, that finish, him tear off the Lyles placard from his chest and hold it up in the air, it was pretty iconic. It's cool, but I can't tell you how many times before a track meet I said, this is my moment

and I know how I did the meet. Happ happens all the time. Every athlete sits out there like this is not my Olympic moment. I can't wait. I'm going to show the world. Oh no I hit the bar. It's done. I'm eliminated. Five minutes after I began. Time to go home in shame. Why did I fly to Paris? Why am I sleeping on a cardboard box? It's all of them. It's all of them start the race thinking that, correct? But I think one of the things that's interesting about Lyle's winning is he represents maximum American athlete bravado speed division where wide receivers in football and track stars,

you better be the most confident person in the world and in that sport they're showing it to us all the time there isn't a lot of fake humility in that sport those people have to be hugely arrogant and he's as arrogant as we've ever had like there were a whole lot of people rooting for him to lose because that doesn't feel like sportsmanship in track and field who cares about sportsmanship like and and this is where the olympics get wrapped up in the flag and how are you representing our country you can see what it means to these athletes even the pros were shefflers

crying and joke of it gets going crazy like you can see that it means something to these people to still play for the country's to got it is the coolest thing when sports is the best of us right like these are hugely divided times like the Olympics a lot of times have a hell of a lot more politics than these have in them and the athletes are representing us like they really deeply care about representing their flag in their country, a country that has made it hard for a whole lot of people, including black people. Doesn't it warm your heart to see the reaction to this Olympics?

It's harkening back to a bygone era. Olympic ratings kept going down, they were in a free fall. Everyone was talking about how live sports were in a free fall, and now they've bounced back in a major way. These are major talking points. People have been galvanized by what they see on the TV. These are massive numbers.

I mean, 35 million people gathering around the tube as a family to watch Team USA. That's something that was happening when I was a little kid. I'm so glad that it's back. You had a day over the weekend where it felt like a regular sports day. You had Scottie Scheffler. You had what felt to a lot of people like a major. It wasn't by the way, Scheffler would give that gold medal back for a green jacket tomorrow.

Really? I want to talk to you about the golf because it was happening at the same time and we kind of had to make a decision. You had them on both screens because the golf, you had players that were in top form and the tennis, while Olympic tennis isn't really height of the sport, the rules are a little bit different. That was in terms of pure tennis being played. Yes. One of the all-time matches because it's not a five-setter who won't get the attention but every point in that match was an absolute war and Djokovic to do that at his age with a knee injury he almost retired during that Sipas match because he couldn't move it was visible for Djokovic to do that in the face of a dude that is so on right now that was this is a I guess the day in LeBretard show drinking game coming for his stuff in profound ways

that's why you saw that reaction because yeah it's a golden slam for Novak but he realized I just did something that I myself doubted entering that match he was a substantive underdog in ways that we haven't really seen that was probably the most impressive thing I've ever seen Djokovic do. Whoa on the other side you had Alcaraz emotional that he let down his country so it was listen it was a great moment I'm just saying Djokovic gives that gold medal back if he can have the Wimbledon title. I'm serious. Mike Alcares won the one that you want to win. Wimbledon. Dan, know what my larger point is, DT, I don't care. My larger point is tennis, golf, they were not Olympic sports when these guys were born. They didn't grow up wanting to be Olympic champions. They grew up wanting to win the US Open in Augusta. That's it.

This is what I will tell you about what we're presently experiencing because it is pretty cool, Stugats. I don't, we hit sort of a breaking point with the pandemic on just how everybody got battered in the head right after Kaepernick and that stuff in sports got battered in the head right after capper neck and that stuff in sports battered in the head with george floyd marches and things are going to change now and things are going to be different and then the pandemic olympics happen and nobody was watching any of that and now as live sports are king as the streaming services are going to fight it out peacocks just through a haymaker out of nowhere first to dot

for the streaming service fight that is for all our dog up dollars i don't know if you saw venues now that cost forty two ninety nine if you want e s p n and discovery and fox is going to cost you for forty two ninety nine a month apple raises prices because it can couple bucks up just cuz it can they don't need your money but a couple more bucks they're raising it peacock has been pouring so much money into this they just got the nba and the whole leash ship the noise they've made with these olympics covering

them correctly and still got this is one of the few times in our entertainment and broadcast history of sports fans that were all going to the streaming service to make the numbers jump huge past amazon football because this is the explosion hey aren't sports great yeah and streaming service land it's live sports are king they're going to make a break everything you're doing for billions and billions of dollars for these games too so far feel pretty

apolitical at a divisive time just making people feel good about winners we win we win and when they hand it off to la tom cruise is going to do a closing stunt it's being reported so he's doing a closing stunt at paris and then part but that's just half the stunt because then he's taking the flag and he's skydiving into the Hollywood sign not into it but around it to deliver it to Los Angeles the whole way I'm a zip line the whole way I would not count him out that this is a transit length transatlantic squirrel suit situation for Tom Cruise I I would watch out. Gold zone. He's going to take him there like one shot. He's going to slingshot from Paris to the Hollywood sign

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Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com slash prep. That's LinkedIn.com slash prep. Post your job for free. Terms and conditions apply. Don LeBretard. Photography's not as hard as it's made out to be. And now with computers, I mean, you can make anything look like anything, Dan. It's almost cheating.

It's not fair. If you push a button and it takes a thousand pictures, you're going to make anything look like anything, Dan. It's almost cheating. It's not fair. If you push a button and it takes a thousand pictures, you're going to find a good one in the batch. There were a lot of photographers there taking a thousands of pictures. One got that photograph. Okay, good retort. Stugats! Haven't you ever passed by photographers?

I guarantee you when that shot was taken, we didn't just hear, that's not what you heard. If you were by that camera, in my ear with that, he does a good camera. This is the Don LeBathardt Show with the Stugarts. Have you guys noticed and been surprised by what a giant noise the Olympics had made? I legitimately, when the Olympics started, before the Olympics started, I could not remember in our history as a show, us ever having a moment from the Olympics that we were excited about together as a show. I don't remember at any point in our history, this America being the America it used to be, which parents gathered around televisions with their kids

to root on America, cause America was great. Because we were better at sports than everybody else. And I've legitimately been surprised. I don't know if the pandemic screwed me up. I don't remember us covering 2016 in a way that like what are the memorable moments that this show has ever had with the Olympics? And if I go back and say,

give me a moment from our entire time talking about this. We talked a good deal about the Redeemed team and that was around LeBron, big three, he weighed looking as good as he did. LeBron with the slam magazine covers in his hands. So Redeem team, I think we talked about. So Olympic basketball, probably. Michael Phelps captured the nation.

Phelps also happened in there. There you go, that's one moment. Who was the other swimmer guy? Oh, Ryan Lochte, remember Lochte? For the long reasons. You loved him, you loved Lochte. Kind of a dumb dumb Lo was the other swimmer guy? Oh, Ryan Lochte, remember Lochte? For the long reasons. You loved him. You love Lochte. Kind of a dumb dumb Lochte.

Respect. Come on, wait a minute. Wait. He's a Florida gator. He was a little bit of a dumb dumb, right? That's fair to say, is it not? I think he- That he's dumb?

No, no, I didn't say he's dumb. Just a dumb dumb. Yeah, there's a difference between a little bit of a dumb dumb and he's dumb. I think he leaned in. I think you're good. Yeah. He leaned in. Yeah, isn't that his thing? Here's why- between a little bit of a dumb dumb and he's dumb. I think he leaned in I think you're good Yeah, he leaned in. Yeah, is that his thing? Here's reality show to like was it like looking for Lock the yeah, he was on the traders on peacock full circle

I Don't mean to make you feel like you're bravely Going past the woke But if we've arrived at a place in language where I can't say that Lochte's a little bit of a dumb dumb, you have taken away my American freedoms in a way I will not accept. Everyone knows Ryan Lochte's a little

bit of a dumb dumb. That was his brand. But you said, but you said, okay, put it on the poll please, Juju. Was Lochte a fun dumb? Or a dumb dumb? A fun dumb dumb dumb. You said kind of a dumb dumb respectfully. And last week we were arguing about with all due respect and no offense being things that you say on the front end of something that end up turning into the opposite of what it is that you intended.

You do it, you did it back end. You said kind of a dumb dumb respectfully and I don't think you can say that. Why? Because it's not, that's never respectful. You can't say kind of a, you can't. He's an American hero. I'm not saying, I mean, not like our firefighters and you know, our police officers, those are different types of heroes. And our teachers. And he's saying kind of, he's not calling them a full dummy. First responders and military, who could forget. I mean, there's different levels of hero dumb. Dumb. Hero dumb dumb?

Yeah. Well, that is what Ryan Lochte was. He was a hero dumb dumb. Respectfully works in both ways. You can have it pre-sentence and post-sentence. Respectfully works both. No, you gotta put it on the front end. No, respectfully, you gotta put it on the front end. No, respectfully, you gotta put it on the front end.

You put it on the back end, you've already insulted. And now you're just softening what you know is an insult. It is, he did the respectfully because he got scared of the woke. Well, I didn't intend, I didn't intend to insult him. Right? I mean, I guess I'm asking myself, I know I didn't intend. Kind of a dumb-dumb is never a compliment.

No, it is. Like a little, you know. No, no, no. Not just because you say it is never a compliment. No it is like a little you know no no just cuz you say it is yeah no it's like a little silly goose. You think Lock D would say thank you? I mean Lock D? Yeah. I think he'd agree. Really? Really? Yeah. That he's kind of a dumb dumb? He's you know, just you know. Keep getting smaller. You know what I'm talking about. You guys know what I'm talking about. You're pretending that you don't. Okay, I'm sorry.

I think he's dumb as rocks. Whoa. That's too far. Respectfully. Yeah, respectfully. I mean, he made a whole economy around him being dumb. Smart. That is actually kind of smart.

Yeah, I'm not gonna, you know, I was gonna give a comp but I'm not going to because then I know what you guys are gonna do to me and I'm not gonna fall for this trap today. Not gonna compare him to Gronk. You're not gonna fall for it! Put it on the pole, Juju. What? Dumber than a box of rocks. We have a Simone Biles update. She fell on the beam this morning. I saw that before I left for work. Her and Sunni Lee both fell and so failed to metal at the beam. And now in the floor routine, Rebecca Andrade from Brazil, a rival, longtime rival of Simone Biles has taken the gold. Simone gets the silver. Rebecca got robbed of winning the gold for the vault.

She did. I don't want to say this, like I love Simone Biles. I do. I really do. All right? I get how great she is, the athleticism. She's amazing. Everything she's been through, I get it.

But she won a gold on the vault for simply being Simone Biles. Respectfully. And Rebecca Andre, whatever her name is, this Brazilian. Oh, here we go. Respectfully. And Rebecca Andre, whatever her name is, this Brazilian. Oh, here we go. Respectfully as well. She is so good. Here's what I like with the vault,

Dan. I need you to stick the landing. I don't like any hops, okay? And Simone Biles hopped on both her vaults and Rebecca did not. It's like 12 and a half feet in the air. I don't care how high you jump. I don't care how many twists and turns

you do. You need to stick the landing. Rebecca stuck it twice, Simone did not. I'm telling you, Dan, I'm telling you, if Rebecca, okay, if she does the same vault as Simone Biles and Biles does Rebecca's, you know who wins? Biles. That's what I'm trying to say.

You like that double step, that little hop? Like when you land, I want you to, ugh! Like plant, stick it, blow out your knee if you have to, but you used to, Kerry Strug didn't do that double step, that little hop. Like when you land, I want you to, ugh! Like plant, stick it, blow out your knee if you have to. But you used to, Kerry Strug didn't do that double step. Don't twist, don't turn, jump straight up in the air and just stick the landing. You do like that, and then you hold it. If you do that and then you go back,

I feel like it's not, that's not vaulting. The hops, I mean. Mike, you whimpered in the middle of that, the only context that matters as these two criticize a little hop from Simone Biles because they do their job with such perfect dismount. This isn't like some random competition in Tuscaloosa. Like this is the Olympics. Like we want sharp. If you're going to give a gold, give it to someone. But you don't win reputation medals. Exactly.

Okay. But I understand in this country. We're now celebrating Ignorance as expertise. I understand that we're doing that. I would just say to you that when Mike whimpers She's eleven and a half feet in the air, which I think is higher than any of the men can go like it's an it's an Unbelievable height she's allowed a bit of a hop even though you two would like her not to hop Because she's doing something no human being is able to do at that height It is a degree of difficulty in what she's doing and you don't have the savvy to understand it because you're ignorant Okay Wow. Respectfully on that one. What are you? Gymnastics expert Daniel Leventhaler. I am not a report carder. OK.

Respectfully, I don't know these things either. I need social media to explain it to me, because in gymnastics, they're not all going at the same time. It's not like a photo finish. So it's really hard for me to understand how much higher and how much more difficult Simone's routines are. Which is why the hop is so key. If there's no hop, no hop. If there is a hop, then there's

a hop. But what I'm saying is if they're going at the same time, you can see how much more difficult her routine is and how much more air she is getting. By the way, breaking news update, Jordan Chiles has won the bronze medal in this. So it goes to Andrade Biles Chiles, two Americans medal in this event Gymnastics is corrupt, right? All right, Andrew Siciliano is here We will ask him that question and more in a second because he's our gold goes gold zone correspondent He's very busy. You can ask him just that Billy. I We're talking about the second best individual gymnast in the world. It's not like she's not deserving

She jumped high as well. She stuck her the world. It's not like she's not deserving. She jumped high as well. She stuck her landings. That's all I'm saying. Who's robbed? You can take this to Siciliano. The rare public ally that can't pronounce her last name or even refuses to attempt to.

No, it's fairly amazing what just Stugance is doing and now sits back in his chair pleased with himself. Knows so little about everything he's talking about. I mean, God forbid you call out Simone Biles. I mean, jeez, I'm not saying anything bad about her. I'm just saying the other one got robbed. No one person is above the sport. That's all we're saying.

No, she is literally. No, no, she's physically literally above the sport. Yeah, but she hops where she lands. Yes, okay. We'll do this with Siciliano right now. He will give us his expertise. When you're hiring for your small business, you want to find quality professionals

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