The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Are There Still Circuses?

Episode Date: August 1, 2024

What show can go from a John Olerud parody song to talking about the disaster that was Donald Trump at the NABJ Convention in Chicago? We discovered that circuses are still a thing. We take a deep dive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Trademarks owned by Becle. SAB, the CV. Copyright 2024. Proximo. Jersey City, New Jersey. Please drink responsibly. This is the Don Leventor Show with the StuGuts Podcast. I am going to apologize on the front end before anything else and ask forgiveness of the audience if at any point today I am even more erratic than usual because I had forgotten because of the time continuum and all the problems we're generally having with time, I had forgotten that today is the one year anniversary of my brother dying until people started reminding me all morning and so I am a bit discombobulated and I wanted to start with and I wanted to start with

Trump and everything that happened at a disaster of An interview setting with the National Association of black journalists, but unfortunately Everybody here was howling with laughter when I walked in about a song created about the 2001 Mariners and so I have to start there for some reason Chris Cody and Mike Ryan were saying that we can't start there it doesn't make any sense I was wondering why we're wasting so much money with paying Taylor and other people to do dumb shit around here as Tony is on Bird Road right now looking for someone who can name a Marlins fan.

We'll check in with him to see if he finds anybody. This was not a text I was expecting from get to get from Taylor last night and it was just I've been smiling ever since I heard it. What is it? And I should name a Marlin right? You said name a Marlins fan. Yes, I'm gonna go Marlins man. I made the mistake of saying Marlins fan

Yes, we are gonna get Tony and see if he can find a Marlins fan who can name a Marlins player is what I meant to say, but I'm going to say on the front end Josh Gadd. Yeah Marlins fan big Marlins fan Drew Barrymore that one fall Josh Gad. Yeah, Marlins fan, big Marlins fan. Drew Barrymore that one fall. Is Josh Gad a big Marlins fan because he's friends with Sampson? He roots for all the local teams down here.

Okay. I know who Josh Gad is, but my brother Chris got a look in his eyes. I don't think he knows. Who was Josh damn Gad? All right, what has he been in that's famous? He was opposite- Frozen. He's Olaf.

Billy Crystal. The Lord of the Rings reunion episode on Zoom during COVID. What has he been in that's famous? He was opposite- Frozen, he's Olaf. Billy Crystal. The Lord of the Rings reunion episode on Zoom during COVID. The live action Beauty and the Beast. Book of Mormon was like his big break, yeah? Yeah. Who knew that we had so many Josh Gad fans here in the room? So explain to me again, Chris Cody,

Taylor was just wasting his time, he just texted you. What's he doing for us? Let me backtrack here because over the last three and a half years of MetalArk adding more and more employees, I don't know what some people here are supposed to be doing, what their job title is. What is Taylor supposed to be doing that he is texting you about the 2001 Mariners? Well, he's been spearheading our baseball trivia from the early 2000s division.

So he's been kind of taking care of that. Errol's pointing up on that division, by the way. And we recorded one of those yesterday, and I think a name that was said, and I don't wanna spoil it because you'll hear it in the song, inspired him to talk about the 2001 Mariners. Okay, now we know, we have learned over time here,

that this alienates, it aggressively alienates Jessica. Aggressively. The naming of baseball players from the 1990s and 2000. Lucy as well, it aggressively alienates her. I don't know if it agrees. Only when Mike Schur does it for an hour. There we are. We don't need an hour and a half of Terry Pendleton's and then etc.

That's how you play the game right there. That's great. Well, why'd you start something you can't finish? We do need an hour and a half of Terry Pendleton's. We're about to play a song. Steve Avery. Jeremy Brunitz. The Bureau, Ken Obergefell, the Bureau of, you're saying he's in charge of the Bureau of 2001 Mariners and baseball trivia. So what we've figured out is we're about to celebrate our 20th anniversary, a year-long celebration of your on-air relationship with Stu Gotz, but there were a lot of great teams

and stories we missed out on. So we assigned Taylor to cover all the stories that we just weren't around in front of microphones for. Are you 100% sure that my relationship with Stugatz is going to get to our 20th anniversary? Nope. Who? Go ahead and play the song, Chris. Saturday morning woke up for the game And put on my M's hat Got in my car and raced to the park

A season to remember Garcia and Moyer, best staff in the land Boone's bat brought the heat Panela just got ejected again Yeah Cameron's in the outfield, no balls hit the ground Kazuhiro Suzuki in for the save Ichiro was on the bases, yeah he's flying around

Edgar Martinez is a fan, fan, hey At first it's Sean Olarud Wearing a helmet in the field too At first it's Sean Ola Rude We'll loose to the Yankees anyway Loose to the Yankees Loose to them anyway Loose to the Yankees

Yeah, no matter where we play Loose to the Yankees Damn, this is blasphemy At first it's John Ola, Roooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo That's the key that Taylor has. He's aggressively bad at singing. I don't know why it is we've empowered him. You don't have to pretend like that was bad. I know that's the show bit. That was a great song. Inspired choice.

Yes, could the singing have been better? Of course, but that's not what we want from Taylor. He gave us a John Olarud song. At first, John Olarud. Yay! I mean. That's a great way to start my morning. It's just an excuse to say that the Yankees won.

Can you go, can you cut the yeah? I just wanna hear that part again. John Olarud did famously play, wear a helmet in the field at first base because he was protecting a brain, you know, a skull scar because he had some brain surgery. Every time I hear the name John Olarud, the only thing I think of is that Ricky Henderson was his teammate and played with him in, I think, Toronto and then again in Oakland. And when he was in

Oakland, he told John Olarud, hey, I played with a guy in Toronto who played with a helmet on his head in the field. And Olarud's like, yeah, that was me, Ricky. That actually happened to Ricky Henderson. Ricky's got 20 years. Aaron Boone, I saw a photo of him there. There's that one Aaron Boone season where he had 45 home runs as a second baseman or something ridiculous

I saw Brett Boone on the the famous trade with the Cincinnati Reds Thank you and Brett Boone for Ken Griffey jr. And the Mariners actually won that one. Thank you Correction good correction. I keep calling him Aaron Boone. I've done many boons for many years. Yes There's a there's a father Boone out know, I accidentally texted Aaron Boone by mistake, and he texted me back. Yeah. No, it was a pocket dial, and he was like, just checking in. Hey, I got a call from this number.

Hey, I rang you up the wrong way. I didn't mean to hit you up. He's like, it's all good, man. He was very polite in our exchange, Aaron Boone. That happened fairly recently. But why are you sharing that with us? Well, I just had an Aaron Boone. That's awesome. We're talking about the Boones, man.

Boones bad brought the heat. Penela just got ejected again. Yeah. I was actually trying to hit up Brett Boone. Yeah. Brett Boone had that one season where he hit 45 home runs and the only reason I bring it up is because I did see a piece of the Pete Rose documentary on Max last night

and I didn't remember this. You guys, I don't know if you knew it or not. I didn't think it was possible. Pete Rose won the MVP of the league hitting five home runs one season. Five home runs. I couldn't, I didn't remember it. I couldn't believe it.

I was just staggered and confused. Put it on the poll please at LeBotard Show. Just put this on the poll. Has anyone ever won the MVP of baseball hitting only five home runs in a season? Because I don't think even though it's a fact, I don't think that people will believe that that's something that can happen. I thought the greatest example for that I'd ever seen was Tommy Herr hitting fewer than 10 home runs one season and having a good offensive season. But I hadn't seen anybody win the MVP for that.

When we go out to Tony on Bird Road, are you guys confident that he's going to be able to find a single Marlins fan that can name a single Marlins player who's- You could have ended the sentence at fan. I mean, that's Westchester though. If there is any place that you can find a Marlins fan, that is like among like the highest percentage of people that love baseball. You got the baseball fields right there,

hugely Hispanic area. I think he's going to find somebody. That's why we're sending him out to that area because he'd have no chance around here. And a lot of people yesterday were complaining about what it is that I was saying about jazz chism. Like someone writes in here, why do you have he'd have no chance around here. And a lot of people yesterday were complaining about what it is that I was saying about Jazz Chisholm. Like someone writes in here,

why is Dan so emotionally attached to an average baseball player on a bad team? And I'm simply telling you that what got cut open for me over the week of them treating everybody is just the post-traumatic stress disorder of the sports fan down here who cares about baseball and the ways that they have ruined it. A lot has changed over the years, audience. As you've been so kind in pointing out, my

shirt size has changed over the years. Look, I started this show as a 19-year-old boy, now I'm a 38-year-old dad. But along the way, one staple of my life has been Miller Lite. And those of you that have been listening to us know this I've been a Miller Lite guy since day one. I have been pretty honest about that. So let's get down to the nitty-gritty What is the best thing about the original light beer Miller Lite? It sparked this debate way back in 1975 And we still haven't settled it. For me, it's the undebatable quality It's great taste and it's less filling whether you're out with with your friends, at a game, at a bar, in the shower, Miller Lite delivers Miller Time every time. You don't have to choose what's best about Miller Lite. It has great taste and is less filling. Tastes like

Miller Time. To get Miller Lite delivered right to your door, visit MillerLite.com slash Dan, or you can find it pretty much anywhere that sells beer. Celebrate responsibly Miller Brewing Company Milwaukee, Wisconsin 96 calories per 12 ounces, fewer cows and carbs than premium regular beer. Don LeBattard! You were that kind of sad this morning taking the barrage of anger from Stugatz because you hadn't booked him enough interviews. The only reason I keep bringing this up is because you are throwing a big party on Thursday. You're doing it and I want people to support what you're doing because Stugatz has not made this easy.

Stugatz! Um, well, you know, I, I, well, yeah, you know. This is the Don LeVatar Show with the Stugatz. ["Stugatz Theme Song"] Right now I do want to play some of the sound and the video from as disastrous a public interview as you've ever seen an American president do. Roy, you're a member of the National Association of Black Journalists. I have not seen what the conversation has been around whether they should have even

done this. Was there a great deal of criticism for NABJ for even inviting him to make a mess of their proceedings? Yeah, nobody wanted it. Not a single member wanted this. And the problem was they screwed this up big time. They tried to invite Kamala to the convention. She couldn't do it because she had to attend a funeral

for a congresswoman, Sheila Jackson Lee, and she had to talk to a sorority. She couldn't do it because she had to attend a funeral for a Congresswoman, Sheila Jackson Lee, and she had to talk to a sorority. She couldn't make it. But she tried to work with DNABJ for a virtual chat. They wanted her on premises, so they couldn't make it work. So they were just left with Trump. It was a disaster. It was an absolute disaster.

Somebody on Twitter actually said that the people on the right are gonna believe that he's brave for going in the enemy territory Which is stupid to me because they're journalists. They're Americans. You're supposed to talk to these people. They're your constituents You're not storming the beaches of Normandy going into a race war here. Like what are you doing here? The explanation was that NABJ has invited both candidates since 1970s consistently. I'm not actually sure and I will defer because I have not read what the criticism has been. It may have seemed like a bad idea at the time and the way that it went certainly came off bad for Trump, but I don't think it looked bad for the NABJ. In fact, the first question out of the box to me is how I would

like Trump questioned with facts at all times. Like I would love Trump to have to answer for some stuff and get pressed on it in places that are simply factual. i don't know and i'm asking you guys is it fair after what you've seen to say that n a b j didn't do its job in a time when journalism is collapsing and you gotta throw these things into the light and to my way of thinking the way to beat trump advances just let him keep talking let don't do anything to get in the way of just let them keep calling women childless women you know pet owner

losers have them keep talking and you will end up winning this right I'm sorry Juju but they allowed him to pick one of the panelists Harris Faulkner and it was delayed an hour because Trump wouldn't let them fact-check him live. That's a huge problem. If you're a journalistic entity like the NABJ, you gotta fact-check this guy because all he does is lie. It's hard to fact-check in real time. You were saying, Juju. I was thinking that I think it was important for the NABJ to have him up there. Like you said, the first thing he did was, instead of answer a question,

sow right back into that divisiveness and attack the person asking the question. It's like, brother, you had an opportunity to actually win over some of the people you should win over and instead of that, you chose to talk about her race. She's an Indian woman, she's a black woman, she's a black woman. Like brother, that's not fire for someone to put their confidence in and I think he really dropped the ball last night

Well, let's see how it started because again, you may not think it's polite. You may think it's impolite to disrespect an authoritarian figure Right off the top without a greeting by just presenting to him a series of facts that he's responsible for but the brazenness of Trump recently where he's saying you won't have to vote again in four years if you get me like the brazenness of pissing all over democracy I will tell you that dictators do not like to be questioned

and racist ones and misogynistic and sexist ones do not like to be questioned by black women most of all. And he tried to waltz that back, his team tried to waltz that back and say, well, he just meant that once we vote him in, we will have so much confidence in the party. It's like, brothers, like, you have an oppor- this country has leaned into divisiveness for some reason.

Instead of just presenting facts, like we wanna hear you talk about Sonja Massey, bruh. We wanna actually hear your opinion instead of you getting so offended and not answering the question, like, how does this happen? I'm not gonna ramble on, but I just think it's very embarrassing for that to be propped up so heroically. It should be noted that while his campaign

has tried to walk back his comments when he was speaking to a large gathering of Christians, he's had several opportunities to walk it back himself, and he has refused. Let's listen to how this whole thing started. I wanna start by addressing the elephant in the room, sir. A lot of people did not think it was appropriate for you to be here today. You have pushed false claims about some of your rivals, from Nikki Haley to former President

Barack Obama, saying that they were not born in the United States, which is not true. You have told four congresswomen of color who were American citizens to go back to where they came from. You have used words like animal and rabbit to describe black district attorneys. You've attacked black journalists calling them a loser saying the questions that they ask are quote stupid and racist. You've had dinner with a white supremacist at your Mar-a-Lago resort. So my question sir, now that you are asking black supporters to vote for you, why should

black voters trust you after you have used language like that? Well, first of all, I don't think I've ever been asked a question so in such a horrible manner, first question. You don't even say, hello, how are you? Are you with ABC? Because I think they're a fake news network, a terrible network. And I think it's disgraceful that I came here in good spirit.

I love the black population of this country. I've done so much for the black population of this country. I was having a conversation with a friend of mine. We were talking, laughing, crying about Stugatz and wondering whether or not Stugatz could do the job that he does for us the way that he does it anywhere else, like at FAN, that way, aggressively, stugats. And the place that we stumbled on conversationally was, can Donald Trump in this country get

another job other than the one he's trying to get? Like, he's not allowed as a felon to drive kids to school in a school bus. Is there another job available to Donald Trump that he could have in America given his list of things other than president of the United States if he topples all the rules, gets the judges, changes the way everything works in our system, and stays out of jail by winning the, or prison by winning the presidency. He can't even go work at McDonald's with that attitude.

Like, brother, you gotta be more inclusive than this. If you want to be, if you want the support of brothers and sisters around the world, first of all, you're gonna have to take off your aggression cap. Answer the question, like that's, to me that's the most simple part. Answer this lady's question.

Don't just disrespect this woman in front of all these people, bro. Go ahead Jess, I'm so sorry. No, you're good. I'm happy to hear your opinion. I think that all the reasons that you listed Dan are why people have an opinion that he shouldn't be treated like a normal candidate and why he shouldn't be extended the invitation to speak for journalists at something like NABJ and that's why there was a lot of backlash people and membership were very upset about the fact that they even extended the invitation to him given

especially all of the things Roy listed about why some journalistic faux pas were made in you know him being able to decide the manner in which he was being interviewed and who was going to be moderating the interview. So I think that what you said right there is the problem, is that there's a huge disagreement between a lot of people about whether or not you should deplatform Trump or whether or not this is someone that you have to give the same Considerations to because he's a presidential candidate There is nothing in this country stopping felons from making money in the avenues that he's made his money entrepreneurship real estate investments and reality show hosting

the things that this person has done to journalism so easily so oafily have been Shocking to me heartbreaking to me, and I believe in the modern age of journalism that he went to one of his moves right off the bat, which is just call her fake news, cause that works. Nasty, he likes that one. But just call her fake news because it works, because there is a segment of a population

who believes and trusts in the credibility of this man more than it does in the American media. And that population sometimes, like, salute to everybody in the world, but some Caucasians, poor Caucasians in Alabama, for example, they are ready to jump on his policies as if it will help them, but just because they like the figure and they don't even understand like brother you voting for that that's gonna keep you poor. It's like a lot of his followers and supporters are blindly following him through the breach and

it's like wake up America wake up please wake up. I wasn't really surprised I know a lot of these things are shocking, but Donald Trump has remained pretty consistent with how he handles interviews when he's pressed on things. This just offered up a whole new world of possibilities given the setup. But I was interested in, given the audience that he was speaking to, to see if he would actually do anything as it pertains to policy, because inflation has affected many people, including black Americans, and it was more just promises. And it ignored his four years as president.

Black unemployment is at a record low under the Biden administration. He kept pointing to the border as if that does affect black jobs and it affects every job. Yeah, I understand why the border is secure but he needs to be secure for people's jobs but he once again doesn't provide details. There has been resolutions pending that Donald Trump has reportedly stopped the Republicans from signing off on and at

the time Republicans were very confused. Look, this is the same exact bill that Donald Trump drew up. The wall is built. But they realize if they actually do anything about the border, that hurts his cause because there isn't actually substance. If you hold up his record, there's some excuse and some look over here type of stuff. But if you actually judge him based on his record

and the things that he says, you were in charge for four years. You're not campaigning. These are promises that you can fact check. And you don't actually, you didn't actually do anything about it. And certainly compared to this administration, you're lagging well behind. And he also said he would pardon the January 6th insurrectionists and that's also a problem. Oh there are a bunch of things here. Let's get some of the other sound. There was also

something funny here that happened with a water bottle. We're going to have Jamell Hill on here in a little bit. But the comfort, the casual comfort with sitting in front of that audience and saying that Kamala Harris turned black, like the casual comfort with that can only come from a lifetime of privilege as being a mediocre man who bankrupts a bunch, who goes bankrupt a bunch of different times and keeps reinventing himself because he's white and wearing a suit. He was always of Indian heritage and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn't know she was black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black and now she wants

to be known as black so i don't know if she indian or is she black she is always a black i respect i don't know what college i respect either one but she obviously doesn't because she was indian all the way and then all of a sudden she made a turn and she went she became a black just speak she made a turn and she went she became a black person. Apparently he doesn't know that much about genetics, you know, I mean, that's your stance.

Your stance is she is Indian and or is she black? That has nothing to do with the office. This is my point. Stop letting the wool be pulled over your eyes. And this is the same Kamala is I'm not supporting Kamala, I'm just saying, let's just keep the facts facts, bro. Come on. Pick a race.

The idea that any of this is this close to the presidency again, disgraces, again, yes. But worse this time than the last time. And favorite to win. Worse this time than the last time to the idea that any of this can be so crude and cruel as to work and as to harm journalism in a substantive way, I felt bad for those women who were doing their job. Well, I did not want to be in that position of trying to fact check someone who is so aggressively slippery with just pouring lies in your face that you simply can't keep up with fact checking. It's not possible in real time to call him on everything without interrupting him every two sentences. Yeah, I think there's a lot of

questions to be asked, but chief among them is why does he have to be so Ola Rude He is old and rude. Yeah that's true. DJ. Ola Rude Yeah. Look at the range of this segment. How about us? Can we just for a second? We started with the Chuts. 2001 America.

Who else is doing this? Are you doing it McAfee? No. You're not doing this. You can't applaud. Yeah, I don't want the smoke. Look, let this just be a, let Kamala or Dono earn your vote, America. Don't let these folks off the hook.

Let, make them earn your vote. No matter who you support, go out to the box and listen to the policies, because that's going to be the most important thing. You did a good job there, Juju, of speaking right to the camera. You were speaking right directly to America. You were, it was very intimate the way that you did that.

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Stugats! How am I irrational? Did you not hear your voice there? It's been tucked in, my boy. Your voice! If I were making a cartoon thing that was meant to symbolize irrational, that's the voice I would give it. Entire premise.

This is the Don Lebatardpe Show with the Stugarts. I assure you Chris Cody that you should not be applauding and patting yourself on the back for that segment. We should not be applauding and patting ourselves on the back for that segment because I promise you the audience does not want that segment from us. However, as I have explained before, all of the arduous things that we have tried to do with what we're doing around here for the last three and a half years is at least in part so that we can speak freely and without corporate encumbrance when something like yesterday happens and the next three

months are going to provide for us a whole lot of stupidity to spend analyzing. So we will get back to that with Jermell Hill in just a second, but I wanted to ask you guys from among these set of facts because of how appalling the Marlins payroll is, which of these facts would you guys pick from as the most interesting when I tell you that for what you're paying the Marlins, all of them, you can get almost 32 games of Shohei Ohtani. So almost 32 games. You can get a minute of ad time during the Super Bowl for what all of the Marlins are

being paid. You can get Beer Can Island off the coast of Tampa. It's for sale for $14 million, a little more than what the Marlins are paying everybody. Junior Bridgman, former NBA player, bought Ebony Magazine for more, 14 million dollars than all of the Marlins are being paid. Now is Beer Can Island an island made of beer cans or an island that just simply looks like a beer can? I'm assuming that it's an island that is a place where people dump beer cans. It's

just an island. That's what I'm assuming is there. In my youth, I collected beer cans and there was a place that I went that my parents would take me on the weekends. I would suggest that there's a landlord for beer can island. I mean, that's a sweet deal. It's apparently because of the beer cans

left behind by boaters. So it's an island covered in beer cans. But I would- That makes me sad now. Which part? Well, we can buy it. That it's called Beer Can Island because of all the litter on it. But we can buy it.

We can clean it up. Let's do that. There's a shopping center in Waukesha, Illinois that costs more than all of the Marlins are being paid. The rediscovered Rembrandt titled The Adoration of the Kings sold for more than all of the Marlins are being paid. Vin Diesel, obviously, at about a million dollars per word

is paid more per movie than all of the Marlins are being paid. You could get three and a half days of advertising on the sphere. Three and a half days. When you mentioned that they could do a Super Bowl ad, I'm trying to think, what would be more beneficial for the brand of the Marlins to just punt on the entire season and do a really clever Super Bowl ad?

And then people at least, they're like, all right, they're trying new things here. Whereas just be bad team, like just punt on the season, forfeit all the games, but make a really clever Super Bowl ad. I think perhaps what we should do is just the three and a half days on the sphere instead of the Super Bowl ad.

Fair. I think the federal court building is being sold right here by government center for more than that. I'm starting to think that maybe the local government should let the Marlins out of this lease agreement and allow someone to purchase them and move because that land might be more valuable to the local government if they just sold it and flipped it. Like a high rise might be more beneficial to this market. You know what's funny about what you're saying there? The death of my beloved Miami Herald and Knight Ridder, its parent company, all of that started when a Chinese casino conglomerate realized that the building where the

Miami Herald was on the bay was worth more than everything involving journalism at the Miami Herald. That the land there, and so Knight Ridder sold it, and that's exactly where it is that the death of the Miami Herald began as soon as they sold their land to China. And currently there's a circus tent there, and I think there's a circus in town. That is correct. Well, it's something that looks like a circus.

There's always a circus in town. It's where the Marlott's play. Is it not an actual circus? I don't know, it looks like a circus. What is the circus in 2024? I don't know what that is. It looks like a circus. I doubt it is the circus.

I'm not sure that that's something it does. That's something even does that even play or they're still traveling circuses. Is that something that's still done in America? Yeah, yeah, they got rid of Barnum and Bailey, but there are there are other people like trying to seize on that. But I think most circuses are more acrobatic now. It seems it seems that tenting because it's an expensive piece of land, but what Jessica's talking about there, it seems and feels a little dirty. The traveling circus in general, I would say, is something that has a little bit of dirt on it. I've got a couple of more facts for you. By the way, Ringling Brothers is still like doing their thing. They're just not doing the

thing that, you know, angered all those animal advocacy groups. So they have animals but not... They're not doing it the same they're not getting down the way that they used to but yeah you can catch Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey on tour. Fort Worth Texas this weekend. What do they feature though they don't do like elephants they don't do some of the smarter animals that shouldn't be it's quite so caged in these circumstances. Looks like a lot of trapeze stuff, a guy riding on like a tricycle with four wheels high, you know, that type of stuff.

Are there any animals? Are they just small animals? Is it more like petting zoo? Because when Mike says doing their thing, I don't think that he knows exactly what that means. No, no, there's no animals on the website, so that's a pretty... We have the Lopez family doing the triangular high wire.

We have the flying carcasses, the crisscross flying trapeze. That's a really unfortunate name. Stunt bikes. I don't believe that to be their name. The flying carcasses. I think you're reading incorrectly there. C-A-C-E-R-E-S.

Cockeraces? It's not carcasses. It's a family name, whatever. You can't be cocker. Stunt bikes? You can't be cocker. Tallest unicycle, that's the one on four wheels. Double wheel of destiny.

The unicycle would be on one wheel. But I'm telling you, it was a unicycle stacked up four ways. Well, maybe that's a different thing. It's called the tallest unicycle. It's four on top of the human rocket and laughs for the whole family. Well that's gotta be the clowns. The juggling.

Yeah, where are the clowns at? Teeter boards. A lot of fun, Dan. You. Flying carcasses cannot be their name. Are not allowed to move away. How's that word pronounced, Smarties? Well I'm not reading it,

and you just read in the letters, but I guarantee you, like that guarantee you, they vet that name, and they're like, something that invokes dead bodies? No, we're not going to do that. C-A-C-E-R-E-S. So not C-A-R. No, the R is after the E. It's Saras.

All right, this is what I'm about to do. What a fool I am! All right, everyone's going to stop talking for a second. I'm going to talk now, all right?. Everyone's gonna stop talking for a second. I'm going to talk now, all right? Everyone's gonna stop talking for a second. Chris Cody is now going to go into the other room and he is gonna spend the next segment speed walking

in the other room as punishment for what he just did where he gave Ringling Brothers and- Ringling. Ringling what? Go now. Now would be a good time to go. Do you know how to speed walk, Chris? We need to have a judge out there to make sure he doesn't lift up those toes.

Jessica, you go now too, because I asked to speak, okay? You go with him. You can speed walk with him. I need you guys to stop interrupting me and allow me to get to where it is I would like to get here, please. Thank you. If you can't read something, you do not give a traveling circus their acrobats the family name of the flying carcasses,

because you can't read the word and just want to say a word that you recognize. I would think that that would be executive producing 101. If you're not gonna say the correct word, don't just choose another word that makes it so now we're going to the circus and seeing flying carcasses. That's all. I feel like Chris is just way too flippant about when he can't read. It's kind of like getting the vice president's name wrong, right?

The other two facts that I wanted to get to that I believe are better than any of the other facts for everything that the Marlins are paying all of their players you cannot afford Memphis Grizzlies guard Luke Kennard for even one season. And for everything that you are paying them... To be honest though, he's probably a liability in the field. For everything that you're... I should send you out there too, but I'm running out of people for interrupting me. For everything that they are paying all of their Marlins players.

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