The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Aliens at Bayside Marketplace

Episode Date: January 5, 2024

Stugotz is powering through by showing up to the show today, and we're powering through technical difficulties to give you a show. We preview our upcoming Dolphins-Bills watch party, but first, we have to discuss the new conspiracy about aliens taking over the outdoor mall right next to our offices. Then, Roy and Mike are fired up about the Florida Panthers win streak, the crew's confidence in the Dolphins is wavering, and Billy Gil creates his dream park to be named after him. Plus, Nick Wright's Aaron Rodgers take sparks a new conversation on Rodgers and media literacy as Dan laments feeling alone in his convictions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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with video and everything that was happening? And Stugots is playing hurt here. He's coming in. He is so tough. He is. Playoff time, dad. He is medicated. He is really super sick.

He's really tired, even though he's worked two days out of the last 14. And he hustled in here today because he wants to get something off about Lamar Jackson. But are you worried as we head into bigger games and bigger things that metal-ark media and its video and its technological capabilities are somewhat flawed? Yes, somewhat worried. I mean, but the good thing is no one's asking for this watch party, so if it is a giant flop, it's not like we're letting anyone down. That's true.

No one did ask for any of this. We are going to watch. Certainly not me. Builds Dolphins game together because the bills are favored somehow. I'm just finding out about it now. I think the selling point on this is watch us suffer as Dolphins hopes maybe taken away from them as the season goes. Laugh at us as we're miserable.

You guys are nervous that the last time you had a watch along, disaster struck in the fourth quarter. What was the last time? The Tennessee one. The Titans game. We want their game. Oh, no, I mean, but that's the selling point, right? You weren't even watching them.

Make fun of us. No, please. You guys were all gone by the time that happened. I think Dan was still there in the back there. Dan, you were there. There was like a nice four minutes of a lot of fun and jubilation where you're seeing the dolphins, you know, fight song in the middle of dolphin mall

at 11.30 on night on a Monday outside when no one's around. And everyone, when you say my hand, you're talking super, and the energy was like great. And then it was like, they can't blow this right. And then they did, and they're like, how did this, how did this happen? Watch that on Sunday. I'd make the argument that that fourth quarter is both the happiest dolphin fans have been this season and the unhappiest they have been this season. And it was four minutes of

feel good against Tennessee. And wait a minute, they're not going to lose. Oh no, here comes December. Have you looked at the schedule? Oh, Buffalo's getting out here. And now we limp into the end of December with very little confidence. That's one of the joys of Hard Knocks. The season is that like while it was happening, you felt so high for like,

it felt like a longer period of time and then you saw in real time, like, oh no, that crashed very quickly. Like that was very quick that I felt good for what I thought was a really long time. And no, no, it was maybe seven minutes of actual clock time. Jessica has not actually gotten to enjoy the general fear around the dolphins, even though I think her favorite sports thing is just watching Miami fans fall apart at the end because they were so happy and delusional and joyous. And then it doesn't end in a championship. But I think we've lost Jessica and Jeremy because they're out

to alien land all over the world. People think right across the street from us here at Bayside there were or are eight to ten foot aliens what's happening on the internet with this. Well, first of all, Dan, I will be a Miami Dolphin fan on Sunday if the Steelers win because I am rooting for a smettie bowl.

But Jeremy brought to my attention this morning that there are conspiracy theories on Twitter about police presence across the street this weekend and it has made me profoundly sad. Yeah, I went on Twitter this morning and I saw Miami Mall trending, which first obviously had me concerned about, you know, the obvious things when you see anything trending, any sort of area trending and, you know, not good things. But then you see this video of police presence that we have here on screen. This, by the way way is exclusive video.

This is our video team saw that there were all sorts of sirens and lights outside. And our video team rose up. And that was the functional video that they were able to produce here to start today's show. Is what was video of video of what was happening out here where there was that's an enormous police presence. That looks like something awful has happened and you're telling me that the internet now believes it's aliens?

Yep, that's exactly what happened. So I saw Miami Mall trending and realized obviously Miami Mall doesn't exist. So I start seeing this video and it's all these red-pilled people being like, the government's hiding something from us. This is not a normal police presence. Now there's conspiracies that I was just saying a few minutes ago

before we started that this video is actually from eight to 10 years ago and the government's been stifling it from us for over a decade. The video Jason took out one of his time. Yeah, the video that Jason took like three days ago. Uh huh, yeah, that video. He's part of it. That it's been stifled for eight to 10 years and that actually, if you look,

there's a shadow, a malignant presence in the background that is alien life that's a 10 foot tall shadowy figure. Sort of thinking like stranger things, that type of thing. And right now, there's all sorts of conversation happening on TikTok and Twitter about the aliens that are being kept from us at Bayside Marketplace. Do we have a plan for the aliens when they do get here?

Do we have a plan because police is not enough? I feel like there should be military presence. There needs to be something more. That was your takeaway? Yes. That's what you're worried about with all these people thinking they're aliens. The aliens are coming. I'm telling you, they're coming any moment that I'm just...

Well, they'll be here. Well, I'm wondering if we have a plan in place other than just sending Miami's finest cops. I mean, there's a lot of cops too for a supposed possible alien, which I've talked to my people. They've already said that's nothing. Oh. Also, there's red pill and blue people, the blue pill people that believe in aliens, Jeremy.

Not on this conversation if you look at Twitter. All right. Well, no, but listen, okay. I don't know why we're defending the red pill people. I mean, we had an alien, we saw it. The Mexican Congress did, like, showed us an alien. That was a way. They did just both sides of the aliens.

They did a DNA test and, like, came back with all sorts of unrecognized DNA. We saw the alien. We just didn't know how to process it. So we kept it going on. This isn't the point. It was just the project. It was a firework. It's easier for us to convince ourselves that it's a doll of some sort. Wait, no, we have alien proof. I believe this week from Las Vegas locally. I don't know what you

expect the aliens to look like. But if I asked you for herky jerky motions and movements that you might get from an alien in human form, we go to a Las Vegas courtroom, and before you roll this video, I just want the still up how this video begins. And I want you to see that that man over the judge's shoulder clearly sees this as an alien on the way here. What you have happening here from former Miami's

news anchor Jorge Estevez is sheer terror that an alien is coming. Now run this video so that people can see because this is a couple of days old, but this judge just gets out of the way to God's. And that is amazing flight aggression hits his head on the wall behind the judge. The judge moves pretty quickly under the circumstances. The only thing I marveled at when I saw that video for the first time was not, you know, that the guy actually did it.

It was not the reaction of the people. Was his ability to hop over the bench like that? The guy's got hops. That's right. That's Levar Earrington. Who did that? Didn't clowning do that one time too? Earrington and clowning are the two players to have done that famously over a defensive line

I I aired those to God to pull them all a move Him too just a lot of stuff. Yeah I have aired in talking about aliens though before feeding Mike Ryan and Roy what it is they want Roy bounced in here this morning it wasn't just because of the free breakfast buffet it was part of it mostly but it wasn't just because of the breakfast buffet Roy bounced in

here because he loves the way that his Florida panthers are playing now I have found the way to alienate most of the audience and Jessica we've lost her. Panthers talk is hard up. There goes Tony. Tony. Tony. Tony. I just want to talk and Jeremy's right. This Miami thing is like it's everywhere. This is insane. And not the panthers. Did you say alienate on purpose? Stan Roy. Six game Winnestrick Dan. Six game winnestrick long as it is season. Good for a had a fight game winnestrick early in the season like this has just been amazing. So it took six weeks for Kachak to finally heal from the last playoff

run. Is that what has happened? No, it took Mike Ryan calling him out and the moment he called him out since then he said he was worried about Kachak. He was worried about the Panthers. He was worried about where the season was going and then boom six straight wins Congrats Mike. That's the bad games with a goal for Matthew Kachak. I don't know actually what to do with the fact that Panthers dialogue now includes to God. This is not a life that I've lived with Panther Hockey where Roy and Mike Ryan are coming in and shaking their heads and being like, well,

Sam Reinhardt is going to be expensive. And they're already worried about like future architecture. You're right, it's the first time this has happened to show history. The winning streak feels so good that they're already worried about future finances. Oh, they're not going to resign. They can afford them. They can't. In contention for the heart trophy, Sam Reinhinhart, who came into the league with a lot of hoopla

and was considered a prospect and had to kind of rebuild himself as such here with the Florida Panthers is fulfilling the early promise, 10 fold. He is absolutely a heart trophy candidate at this moment. And for much of the season, it was a bit of a freaky Friday situation with Kachuk and Reinhart switching productivity. But now there are signs of life for Matthew Kachuk, he's doing all the Chucky things in front of the net being a bit of a nuisance and seems like he's healthy. Sometimes I correlate the production with the health because he's been out there all

season long, but there were some in the Florida Panthers organization that built this guy kind of rush back from what was akin to a car accident. Would you guys say another made it to the cup last year, but two years ago, I think that was the better team. The team that you were more excited about headed into the postseason. They were playing a style that everyone was rightfully skeptical of and their point total. It's the best year in franchise history, but we saw in the playoffs how frustrating that ended up in a second round exit at the hands of the Tampa Bay Lightning. Last year, they really struggled

to play the brand of hockey that Paul Maurice brought, and in almost cost him a playoff spot, they get in there with a little bit of luck, and then they make it all the way to the Stanley Cup final. And now, they have mastered this style of hockey, which is a proven style of hockey, at least for this franchise and for palm trees personally in previous stops, that does bring results in the postseason. And as good as Boston has been this year, Florida is within two, three points, two points of the Boston Bruins.

And it could potentially be the top seed in the East if they keep this form going. There was some good and fun sports last night because that Penguin's Bruins game was great last night as well. The basketball was crazy. Three revolutionary freaks, one of them making a 40 footer at the end. Still surprisingly. I mean, all of it. Last night was a really cool sports night.

The hockey was unbelievable. McKinnon for the Colorado Avalanche probably is going to be the hard trophy winner. That was a great game against Dallas stars. Roy wants to name it the Reinhardt trophy. Oh yeah, absolutely. That's like Reinhardt. Yeah, that's what we're doing right now. Where do they find the hockey show? Occasionally after games and before game. The hockey show is every Friday. All right, the post game show we're working on that. So tonight, huh? Excellent promo. Folks, whether you're hosting a game day, a movie night, Dejorno knows that planning

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Because he's so vulnerable I just unfairly fade down the chickens. You just don't even buy himself. This is the Don Lebatar Show with this two cats! So we're doing a watch party on Sunday. Dolphins builds a watch along, a second screen experience, as who's gonna be in on that passionate dolphin fans? I presume. I don't have any idea. I suggested it earlier this week to Chris Cody. I'm like, this is a pretty big game. Do you think that people would want to watch your possible suffering on television, you and your father's possible, you know, generational suffering? I know that I tell

a lot of stories. I love the storytelling in sports. The dolphins bills, do you got? For 20 years, we've been watching these two teams try to get out from under the Patriots. The Patriots this week have a game. Imagine what we're going to head it into in a game. Never had a 17 game season before very recently. And now this last game, the dolphins would have won the division already. If there weren't 17 games. But they've got a 17 game. game season before very recently. And now this last game, the dolphins would have won the division already. If there weren't 17 games.

But they've got a 17th game and the Patriots have a game. They are 15 and 0 against the Jets since 2016. They need to lose that game to secure a top three pick. The Patriots need to lose that game. That's what's happening with the Patriots, with Belicechek, the last game of possibly his Patriots career can be this weekend. What do you do if you're Bella check? I mean because you're probably on the way out. You're not happy about it. I mean, what do you do there? I mean, do you leave him?

You're chasing Shula. Plus you get to stick it to craft one last time out the door with, oh you want a top three pick? You're top three picked right here, buddy. Right here, but the bills dolphins are playing for the division and Billy, I'd like to rummage around here in your confidence in your fear as a man who has a frame to a jersey. You wear a dolphins baseball cap in here every day for years. You're feeling how about watching with watching with the country this dolphin watch party uh...

that it i mean if it goes bad for me it will go great for the people watching i think right so it's a win-win either i win or they win could i feel a people like watching a suffer from going to be on and how do you feel right now the where's your confidence level at at various points this season you put phanjio on notice you never stops various points this season, you put Fangio on notice. He never stops Josh Allen.

He sucked. You put Jason Sanders. You've been threatening to cut him all season. He's been great though. Physically cut him. But now would be a good time to really haunt Billy. Billy's been fearing this guy's going to make a miss an important kick. And he's due.

And we're going to be honest with you. He's been doing his job thus far, but you know, if history is any indicator, we got some misses in that leg. You know what I mean? Several people have written in and they are correct about this. They are correct to come after both me and Mike Ryan about this because we have said to us, fumbled 15 times and they write in, I never comment, but I pray someone from the show sees this and tells Mike Ryan that almost all of two

his fumbles are from bad snaps because Chris Cody has been playing center for half the season and they mess up their snaps all the time. I appreciate that. No, no, no, there are bad snaps. Yes, but no, dude fumbles a lot and gets lucky a lot. So thank you. Fakesless voice. You didn't doffin fans be confident though.

Alrighty fumbles a lot. We got it. And what should they become fit in it? Confident in their team. They've lost once at home. They're a good team. They've been atop the AFC East the entire year. And everyone is frightened that Josh Allen is strolling the town. They've lost their center. Right. Lost their two best pass-for-hers. Everyone's in your zone.

I know, but you're talking about confidence meter. Your second corner is gone. Your safeties are kind of banged up. Your linebackers aren't good. Your second receiver isn't there. Your pass rush is gone. Yeah, I said, your best two pass-for-hers are gone for the season. Like, what do you have confidence in?

McDaniels and Tyree, who's on a bad leg? Yeah. McDaniels. That's do you have confidence in? McDaniels and Tyree who's on a bad leg? Yeah. McDaniels. That's what I have confidence in. McDaniel. McDaniel. I added an S.

It doesn't have to be that. No, it's a Josh McDaniel. It's a tough name. I'm Cuban Iad S's, I'm sorry. It's not a tough name, but when you get to a certain age, you do start adding assets. It usually has an S.

I'm accompanying it. We haven't seen a center not able to snap well, bite any other team in the ass, coming down the stretch in this football season. Certainly not this week. I'd be curious, as I talk to a local audience, I've told you guys before, the local hours always been my favorite around here.

The local hour is what I wanted to always be doing in this space, not the other stuff. But the local teams were shitty, and so we had to talk about other things. But this football team playing this game is something I've been denied for basically 20 years. This football team winning this game doesn't have a precedent this century.

They lose this game. A generation of fans weaned on Dolphin football. Don't know what it's like to win important games. The generation before that and the one before that made this franchise matter in this city. Made this city matter if I'm being honest. The reason the the expressway is named after Don Shula is people learned what my Emmy was because that football team, that weird football team down south went undefeated in professional football, made Miami matter more dolphin football did in a way that no other franchise down here can ever resonate like that.

And Buffalo has only that. Buffalo has only that football sports identity. Buffalo is known for that football team loses. That football team loses in super balls, that football team never wins, but that football team is coming in here with expectations and I believe Dolphin fans down here are scared.

Quickly, we forget about Dominic Asherk. Yeah, 99 Stanley Kilpine. The Dominator. No goal. Would you guys want an expressway named after you sure I don't think I would I have all the things it's cuz at people hate expressways You're often cursing the expressway your late wherever you go you blame the expressway like name a park after me Name a light post after me name something not like a bridge

Not even a bridge. I don't want a bridge named after me either a building I'm for a bridge really yeah, yeah, how come I don't know I think of like the Roberto Clemente bridge and Pittsburgh it's a good bridge Would you want like a building named after like a library? I wouldn't want anything like that Why wouldn't you want a library? Well, I mean, I'm look at me You think a library should be named after me come on get real well You just were real quick to name a park after yourself for some Well, I'm saying if I'm giving a choice. Yeah, I'm a parker at the park yesterday

Tropical park Memorial I'm dead I don't know why can't I be alive when I have a big party to live people? Yes, they you got to be dead not I want a library library. I'm streaming services now. No. Give me a park with Wi-Fi. Get out of here. Yeah, you didn't know that? No dogs in my park. No library then. You got a streaming service.

No movies. You go there, you read books. No dogs. You pick it up. You pick it off the shelf. No internet. No, my park will be short. No dogs in my park. Some libraries have 3D printers. People are still going to shit in your park. No one will shit in my park. No shit in my park. That's on the sign. No dogs. No shit in my park. Some libraries have 3D printers. People are still gonna shit in your park. No, we'll shit in my park. No shitting in my park. That's on the sign.

No dogs, no shitting. Not even service dogs. I'm sorry, I don't know if that's legal, but no dogs. It's not. I don't want any dog poop in my park. Put it on the pole, please, Ju-ju. Do they put the names of living people

on parks at Levitage Show? I'd also like one of those like exercise areas in my park where you just use your body, you know what I mean? Or you stand on the thing. And you go like like, like, exactly the exact way. Don't lie. Don't lie. The ones we had to close during COVID.

You look at them like, what is this, too? We had to put caution tape on. Get you a shit. That's what it does. This guy can't do pull ups. It's a wild time. Billy, thank you for bringing this up because I have had this thought,

I've had this thought when those people are doing those exercises in the park. They're usually older people. Well, but I have said to myself, or show off, yeah kids, just messing up. Try to get some sweat in here. The weird exercise where you're just pulling yourself. I'm gonna lean on you. We really have to caution tape this thing out. This is a super spreader. the weird exercise where you're just pulling yourself.

We really have to caution tape this thing out. This is a super spreader. I have left going past those parks because there is police tape around the COVID parks. And I too have had the reaction of really grand pause, a liability issue swinging here, very gently not barely breaking a sweat on this machine that no one else but Grand Pause

has used in about nine years. Honestly, the liability is having an 80 year old on that machine to begin with. Or in the park in general. Not my park, mine's gonna be safe, well lit. What else? I'm okay, please, I'd like to continue building out Billy Gilpark So so far I've got a creaky rusty a

Liptical machine of some sort rusty. It'll be you know well coated with whatever the coating is to keep it from rusting The playground at the playground. They'll have like those those canopies that they have over the playgrounds now You know what I mean? And sand, there will be sand. None of that rubber crap that they put in playgrounds. Can't you just say that? Exactly right. None of that stuff. Very hot.

Need any of that. A melted rubber. Yeah, no thank you. No. Water fountains, the kinds that you can also put your bottle at too. But no dogs. No dogs.

No. Dogs, look, I love dogs. I almost kicked a dog right now by accident when I was doing exercises. A dog running about here But I don't want poo poo in the park. No one likes to step in poo poo and if you have dogs, that's what it leads to Because here's the thing people don't pick up their poo poo here That's the problem. That's the people. It's not the dogs. I love the dogs

It's the people with the dogs that don't pick up the poo poo Not a fan and then where does the poo poo go? I'm a shoe. And that's not what anybody wants when they go to the park. Willow is a menace. Jessica, again, makes her own rules on Friday. Back row Jessica has been a general menace around here. And Willow has now taken to breaking things. She is actively, there is a right behind you, Stugat. You can see a basketball that used to be inflated.

Has now been bitten and deflated because that's what dogs do she loves those maybe Willow is biting some wires earlier in the control room or something actually right before the show I saw I saw a little teeth marks in the main wire that is you plug it in and the whole thing comes on live so wonder wow yeah I ask again there's one wire and she's the main one, yeah. We haven't exposed. I want to ask forgiveness of the audience that expected to find us here on video Friday live because Willow or the aliens got to the wires. The main wire.

Yeah. Willow probably. Can't be sure. There was a lot of... Little nibble marks on the one wire. A lot of police presence out there. You don't know how aliens nibble though. You don't know you don't know.

You don't know. I mean, you you guys all of a sudden everybody around here is to know it all. They know all about the air. They're really large, but they have really tiny teeth so you never know. They're not really large. Did no one want to have any teeth?

They don't have any teeth. That was a take. Still got you came in here. Yes. Herding and drugged up because you had some words for Lamar Jackson. And we got to compete against Nick Wright. We don't like that he is stealing our shit,

which includes going viral while in costume. A professional thief, Nick Wright is, did, I hate that he stole my joke. And I hate that I didn't think of both of the take, which has been better than all of my takes, but also that that I didn't think of both of the take, which has been better than all of my takes, but also that he thought to do it dressed as a 1970s hippie, lethario, Jesus Christ, that he decided to do it in what looked like a shirt that was meant to make it appear like he was shirtless, and a sweater that is sort of Christmasy sort of surfery and then just full-on old

testament Jesus Christ. I've got Victorian area Victorian era vampire. That's a fine dano. He wasn't in the Old Testament, he was in the New Testament, which is why it's the New Testament. Thank you Tony, for the biblical help, but we've got to take from Stugas. I kept teasing him in the old testament. My band. It's like a Kanye album. It was a really bad mistake by me. That's a fine.

Don LeBatard. I actually thought you'd look kinda good. Stugat. Thank you. I had the Beards grown out a little bit. I got a little life in my face. I feel like little 10 Colorado San Francisco. Great time.

You get life on your face. You got death on your face. I think you got 40 to life on your face. Ha ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha. This is the Don Limita show with this Tugat. Tugat's, it doesn't happen to me too often in the entirety of my career. Watching everybody feed at the sports take trough, and then I hear something, and I'm

like, man, I wish I had delivered that way. I wish I would have been able to reach an audience with this communicated this well in this setting with this much context and the next step on what I felt when I saw what Nick Wright said and how he said it for 14 minutes. As a casual basically hip check to Dan, you were talking about the wrong things when this story broke, because I did get immediately obsessed

with Disney, Kimmel, Aaron Rogers, and the idea that Kimmel and McAfee would now be in a fight on Disney's platform where politics, depending on how you look at it, are either too woke as Ron DeSantis feuds with Disney or not woke enough because they now have a athlete on the air who's not even playing quarterback who's voicing things that are at least as objectionable politically as whatever it is you thought I and we were saying on ESPN

My viewpoint initially was to the drama and the soap opera of it and I can't believe how obvious this is now that Nick Wright has pointed it out and That I missed it, but that the deterioration of Aaron Rodgers publicly from state farm insurance man to now one of the most famous athletes in America, so famous that his words matter even when he's not playing, has gone full blown obvious to all internet conspiracy brain and the way that Nick Wright put it was artful. And I would just tell you, as an audience, if you wanna listen to 14 good minutes on it, you can do so. It's very thorough and it covers a lot of context and history.

But he was dressed like Jesus Christ. And he always dresses like that. And I really enjoy that somebody who's that good at this game dresses like that. And I really enjoy that somebody who's that good at this game looks like that. And that Jessica thought he was nude, thought he was doing it in a culty bathroom of some sort, and that the shirt was his actual skin. Well, he's always dressed in a suit

and that his casual leisure wear is, he believes his wife is also his stylist and so he's always very dapper and the long hair just does make him look. You know, he's got a look to him. I'll just put it that, but he's also for my money as good as anyone in the business right now. He's as informed, as smart, as quick,

as anyone I've ever come across. And it's been that way for years. And there's a reason why he has a highest rated show on Fox Sports 1. And watching that, you realize, even though it takes him 14 minutes, you realize that he's just operating on a different level and he sees us on things that I didn't even catch

because truthfully, I saw the Kimmelclip, I didn't care to seek out other stuff. I'm working, I don't have time to watch MacVee. I'm a big fan of Pat McVee and his brand, kind of checked out on the Air and Roger stuff, but I didn't capture the whole, I didn't get the whole alphabet mafia thing that he dropped. I learned of it through Nick Wright's take,

and I think it's deeply problematic. Well, one of the things that I would say to you guys, because of appreciation to God's for the art of this, because I want to get to your Lamar Jackson take. But what we do is extraordinarily stupid, obviously to call it art is an overstatement. But the take and how to do this, Nick Wright wanted to be what he dreamed of being is a radio

person. A radio person has the room to do 14 minutes on that, which is why that viral clip from Nick Wright ends up being on his secondary project that isn't on television because television can be very confining and doesn't give you the 14 minutes that you need to have all of that context. But I do wonder, given that Jessica is in the back, worried instead of finding funny and correctly, worried that police presence is making it a truth

in many parts of America that there are aliens outside of our building right now because everyone is so suspicious and media's falling apart. Jim, right there are aliens outside of our building right now because everyone is so suspicious and media is falling right there are. And everybody knows that information and misinformation can now be dangerous to a variety of people that it can be dangerous that we are throwing pedophile casually at anybody. At anybody, dangerous in a way that outside of a pizza shop in Washington if people believe the wrong things and are getting think they have more information when they're misinformed and they go go freedom fight they end up with guns being arrested outside of

a pizza parlor because they think there's a satanic cult of engaging in pedophilia one of the many strange things that Aaron Rogers said and about those comments when he was talking to Pat McAfee about the Epstein list is there is no reason even if Jimmy Kimmel was on the list he said he was going to celebrate he was going to toast with a glass of scotch and I want to like Aaron Rogers so badly than I do but he's making it really difficult even if you're right there is nothing to celebrate what are you celebrating that you were right? The Jimmy Kimmel was on a list with a bunch of people who did horrific things.

It's terrible. I like that even now you're still hedging because there's a chance you might see him in Tahoe next summer. I know. You still want to be able to do that interview. I know. The thing that is so disheartening and so frustrating and feels disingenuous about Aaron Rodgers and so many of these folks is like, they don't even seem to actually care about the crimes.

They just care that the people that they don't like are linked to them. So they'll completely ignore it if the people on their side are linked where on the other side of it, those people will legitimately go away and not like have power or a platform where people like Aaron Rogers are saying, I will celebrate if Jimmy Kimmel is on this list while passing over entirely what it actually means to have this list to begin with. It's infuriating because that part of it where you're linking the alphabet mafia which for those who don't understand

or know what that actually means, it's the LGBTQIA community. And then you have alphabet mafia and anti-trans rhetoric and COVID and Epstein listen, it's all just linked together as one giant conspiracy of the governments out to get us and they're putting chips in us and deciding who we need to vote for when all of those issues shouldn't actually even be related, which just shows you the brain rot that is actually going on with Aaron Rogers.

But let me stop you for a second, because I know at this point in the proceedings, okay, because I've seen it happen in a way that's a bit alarming to me, as I've seen social media change to God, and I felt the nature of how criticism of me has reached me, and I'm a little bit baffled, right, that you can hate me like that, because this program, the last 10 minutes of it,

look at that echo chamber of openness. All they do is agree with each other and talk about the same things. And there is another side to hearing this that is so diametrically opposed that if I were to dismiss what you're saying, Jeremy, is unfair and stupid, the answer would be no you're unfair and stupid. You're the one that's biased. You're the one who is always going to come out against Aaron Rogers. And furthermore, hey, you are a little loud on Kyrie Irving. I caught you in that inconsistency there. You are

a little loud and Kyrie Irving does do a lot of good shit, but you kind of hit him super, super hard on things. And there are a lot of people who are looking at Aaron Rogers and Dave Chappelle as brave who are getting a set of facts that make them think those people are freedom fighters that they are fighting for the right things and they're the ones who are telling the truth and in the golf between those things however it is that this show sounds to you on a daily basis because I know what I'm getting criticized for and I know what I'm trying to do. I'm getting criticized that every turn by only surrounding myself with people who think like me because there's

another side to how I think. And those people tend to flock elsewhere in wherever Joe Rogan or Barstool or wherever it is you can find something that is less left than this. And what has happened in the country is that where I thought in talking about race stuff that I was, yeah, sure, left in sports that I've been left behind, that I'm now on the fringes because the middle has moved, the right has moved, and now I'm the one who's

too sensitive and too soft and, and, and everyone's leaving New York and San Francisco. You've noticed, right? And Hannity's coming to Florida, because the free state of Florida is safe. And I'm surrounded by Cubans in Miami who don't like me very much, because I'm not on their side. I'm not on the side of my people

when it comes to some of this stuff. I'm more, more alone on this corner of earth as the internet gets louder and angrier and more poisoned. And the people I'm arguing with have a totally different set of facts than I do. And don't like me from the jump because of whatever it is they think I am before we've even arrived at a conversation. This is an issue with media literacy in this country as well. Because some of these things, you cannot both sides them.

There are facts and there are not facts. A YouTube video is not the same as an actual fact that exists. And, you know, yeah, where you were just talking about, I did go hard after Kyrie Irving because he was sharing anti-Semitic videos and then double downing on it. It wasn't right from the jump.

It's the people who decide to then harden their stances and people like Aaron Rogers who are continuing to dive in on the same things over and over again and only leaning further and further into it. It isn't left versus right. It's facts versus falsehoods. Yeah, but that argument was so two years ago. Like that's yes. 2024. Me, it's better than what you're doing, which is trying to rationalize with them.

You want to level with them? Like they've left you in the dust because they want their opinions reaffirmed. Do you feel like you're on the road? They're going to other places because they're sick of being told that they're wrong. They're going in the warm bosom. And that's how when anyone gets sucked into any of this stuff

They tend to dig in deeper as we've seen progressively Aaron Rogers dig in deeper That's just the way of the world. So lamenting that you can't rationalize with them I did that's that's where we are right now and to Jeremy's point about media literacy There are some states in the union that are doing something about it That's where we are right now. And to Jeremy's point about media literacy, there are some states in the union that are doing something about it. It's becoming like required curriculum in high schools. And there's a whole generation

that's gonna have to find their way through a whole new muddied world. I feel bad for older people. I saw it happen with my grandfather before he passed, where he started, where he discovered YouTube late in age, and he started going down these rabbit holes and his own beliefs were reaffirmed through an algorithm and fortified to the point that I'm casually eating pasta with my with my granddad during his last days and he's like, you know, Michelle Obama's a woman. I'm like, okay, okay

All right, that's just where we that you can't there's a certain Segment of the population that you can't, there's a certain segment of the population that you can't reason with. She's a man, is the internet. She is a woman. She is a woman, right now look at what we've done. What happens? He just misspoke and, and, and,

Guess we're not that far left after all.