The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Bring The BOOM!

Episode Date: July 26, 2024

Today's cast: Mike, Chris, Billy, Jeremy, Jessica, Roy, and Tony. Happy Olympics Opening Ceremonies Friday! The crew breaks down what they like (and don't) about the Opening Ceremonies and what to expect this year. Jessica and Mike also discuss some of the sports that have already started, an athlete who amputated his finger to compete, and the Canadian soccer cheating controversy. Then, Chris and Tony tell the crew about how A.J. and Big Justice bring the boom, Mike shares the Kyle Okposo "Dark Knight" story, and Billy takes out Roberto Luongo for how he ate pasta out of the Stanley Cup. Plus, Jeremy updates the crew on Meme Culture™️ surrounding the 2024 Presidential Election including Kamala Harris' brat summer, J.D. Vance's couch connection, and how it all relates to Taylor Swift. Also, he, Mike, and Billy dive into the moves made last night in Major League Baseball ahead of the MLB Trade Deadline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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and all it has to offer throughout the show. DraftKings. Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings and all it has to offer throughout the show. DraftKings, the crown is yours. Happy Friday everybody. It is the Day in Levitard Show with Stu Gotz, without Dan or Stu Gotz, I'm Mike. And it is Olympic Opening Ceremony Day. And this is actually pretty exciting because when you think about it, this is the first one of these in quite a while

for us to experience. You kind of forget that there were athletes that worked their asses off and had an entire Olympics cancelled. And for some athletes, that was their window. So when you maybe think about that, it's a bit of a buzzkill when you watch today's opening ceremonies in which there was a field hockey player I saw that cut's a bit of a buzzkill when you watch today's opening ceremonies in which there was a field hockey Player I saw that cut off a part of his finger. He had a part of his finger Amputated because if it stayed on it would have prevented him from playing in the Olympics So he's just like not chop that off Ronnie lot style put in a bullet chili and then sue Said like who did that? Some person did that.

Yeah, all right. So it's the Olympic opening ceremony. Watch Mystery Crate, you'll find out more. I have been watching Mystery Crate. So in my office, where I had my PS5, I've been playing like most people my age had been really playing CFB 25 a lot. And the default channel on that TV is DKN. So when I'm done playing the game,

automatically, DraftKings Network pops up on the TV. And throughout the weekends, they re-air Mystery Crate a lot. And I do love the recent trend of Mystery Crate existing as if Mike never listens to it. Like that's apparently very clear, like Mystery Crate is, talk about Mike as if he's never gonna know what is happening on this show. We talk about a lot of people.

Yeah, that's generally the whole idea. We like the idea of no one listening to it. No one's listening to this. Well, we did play back a clip from Mystery Crate one time, you did not enjoy it, so. I'm not gonna say that I listen every episode, but now, because of CFB 25, I'm able to follow along. So I saw last week's episode in which it was revealed that I spoiled the surprise

baby shower. Well, we blame, I mean, we were not blaming you for that, though. You honestly were too hard on my point. So here's the deal for the people that didn't listen to Mystery Crate. There was a surprise baby shower. The whole office was alerted to it with a text message that said in big letter, big bold letters, surprise. So I had kind of, I guess I had, I'm making excuses, but I had a lot of text and I just basically prioritized the link so I got a present for a friend that was having the baby shower and that's kind of the last I thought of it and then it was the day of and I remembered oh I have a haircut appointment now could I have canceled the haircut appointment and prioritize the baby

shower yeah but the baby shower was at 2 45 and I'm just hanging around the office for 90 minutes I could be doing so much in that time. I could be getting a haircut, for example. So I wanted to explain to the person that, hey, I'm not gonna make this. And I was unsure as to whether or not it was a surprise. Now, this is 100% my mistake. I could have just gone back to the text message

and I just decided to ask someone in the office, Mike Fuentes, hey, I'm like 99% sure this isn't a surprise, but can you confirm that for me? And he's like, I'm like 100% sure. And that's fine. I asked somebody else. I thought enough to ask somebody else. I should have thought enough to just check

the original text message or ask somebody different. But it's not point is his fault It's mine But then there was an entire mystery crate episode dedicated to it talking about Me in ways that weren't flattering and I just was uneasy It was no one else's fault, but mine big man big man. I've got to admit that one when you're wrong So what's on mystery crate this week for the for the people? We bring the boom to you for the people. Boom! Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!

We bring the boom to you! We bring the boom! So we got them! No, I'm kidding, we just talk about them. They did a video with Tua. Yeah, we played it. Yeah, we have Greg on the second half of Mystery Crate this week, but yeah, we're kind of obsessed with Big AJ and what is it?

Well, AJ and Big Justice. Maybe I'll get around to watching Mystery Cradle, although I am into the Olympics and I'm gonna be watching the the opening ceremonies today because they're doing it on the river. This is the first time they've done this parade of athletes on a body of water. It's a boat parade. Coco and LeBron are flag bearers for our nation, correct? So I'm excited about this. It's happening at 1.30 for the live version. I'm gonna catch the live version, but this is a bit awkward for some folks

in that I've been watching the Olympics for a good three days now. And I had noticed on the TVs that the Rugby seven quarterfinals were going on. So we're gonna have a situation which like semi-finals are set. Can you imagine if you're one of these countries that was just eliminated in the quarterfinals? New Zealand just got eliminated.

Like obviously a very good nation in rugby. And they're like, ah. There's this whole ceremony. And now the games can begin. And now New Zealand's rugby team. And they're all sad. So what are we watching for today? Because we've known from previous opening ceremonies,

there's the possibility for viral moments with there was the oiled up flag bearer from a like eight years ago some people just love the production aspects I remember the the Beijing opening ceremonies were kind of awe-inspiring so what is everybody looking out for today am I the only person that is in on this I just got a text from my wife like are we recording the opening ceremonies? Are we watching it live? I'm into this. My wife is working from home today to watch this.

I'm going home after this, we're gonna watch the ceremonies, yes. And I am super excited about it. I'm a little skeptical of this boat thing though. I like 3,000 people sauntering into a stadium. Okay, that's more my speed. You like watching people walk around a track. That's what I like.

It is interesting, like you said, there's I think 94 boats and 10,000 athletes and they're all going down the Seine and they're passing all of these famous French landmarks and then they're gonna end up right by the Eiffel Tower at the end. And I read, we talked yesterday about how the dancers were going on strike.

I read this morning, they reached an agreement, the dancers will be there. Whoa. Dodged a bullet. They made an agreement with the dancers union, so I'm very excited for this I agree with Chris I do actually in all earnestness like watching them kind of walk around because you get a good view of all the the different fits which I think is like

The highlight of the opening yeah with a boat. It's gonna be hard are these like pontoons Am I gonna be able to see like head to toe I need I need someone to just do a twirl for me so I'm saying everyone just do a twirl and we'll be good well who's calling the opening ceremonies gotta be Trico I know he's gonna be hosting the 730 like prime time re-air of it but I don't know who's doing the one it's like five hours long yeah what is Snoop Dogg doing what does he have to do he's one of the torchbearers. Yeah, but he was like doing stuff with Hoda. I think they're also a part of this. I Don't know. I think someone saw the idea of like Snoop Dogg calling stuff and they were like, let's implement that somehow But we already have an Olympic scandal before the opening ceremonies that we have to get to now

calling it an Olympic scandal isn't that we have to get to. Now calling it an Olympic scandal isn't necessarily on the up and up because this is a Canadian soccer scandal that apparently dates back years, but it is a tale of espionage, Billy. Are you aware that the Canadian soccer teams, both men and women, they've been using drones to spy on their opponents for apparently years now? I didn't know it was years I was made aware of this with the internet and the Olympics kicking the coach out of the Olympics, or I guess, Canada suspended the coach and then the Olympics just like removed the coach.

So I'm not sure, was it the- Drones are involved and they were spying on New Zealand, I believe. Was it the Federation or the Olympics that kicked the women's national team manager out? I think they sent her home, like the team or the Federation sent her home, but I'm not 100% sure.

I know like right after the scandal broke, two assistants were sent home and it seemed like maybe they were trying to preempt like a bigger punishment by being like, all right, well, like we got them out of here. But then as more reporting came out that this is something that has been going on prior to these Olympic Games and in fact may

Go back through several Olympic cycles It obviously appeared like it was a much much bigger issue And so Canada played the women's team played New Zealand yesterday. They won two to one and they're the defending gold medalist They beat the US in the last Olympics So this is this is a very very big scandal because Canada tends to do very well at the Olympics and there are, I think, maybe the eighth highest ranked team in women's soccer. I can't remember off the top of my head what the ranking is, but they're good. They're a very good team. Don't get too excited about that win because they might have them come back on and play the final three minutes like tomorrow. We're going to get to that briefly. We didn't talk about that on our main show, so we got to talk about that. Jeremy, who made the call? The Canadian Olympic Committee made that call to remove her, so it was their decision, not

the general Olympic Committee. This is more of a soccer scandal than anything. Maybe the fact that there's an Olympic Federation involved, they have some more sway. This is a terrible distraction for everything. There is an American that is managing the men's national team and he has been since he got that job Doing it from a high horse Taking all sorts of shots at the US Soccer Federation And I wonder he's gonna be asked now he's a relatively new hire

But he's gonna be asked how much he knew about this because this has been a practice that has been going on for both Allegedly the men's and women's national team programs for quite a while so I'm curious to know what Jesse Marsh says but soccer always has these these bonkers scandals around it but even in the world of soccer I saw something so shady and sicko that I'd never seen before and that is saying a lot because I watch CONCACAF Champions League folks like I I've got fanat, like I am all over the place. I know Liga Mequis, I know all the Cumbia Ball domestic leagues, and I had seen something that I never saw

in my entire life, and that was the Olympic soccer game between Argentina and Morocco. I never bet on soccer. This is going on. It was at 9 a.m AM a couple of days ago. Morocco goes up 2-0 over Argentina, which, as you know, most dangerous lead in sports. Argentina, Klaus gets one back.

And then, for whatever reason, for reasons that are still unclear to me, there was like 16 minutes of sopage time added to this game. In the middle of all this, Chris Cody, when it was two one, you placed a live wager on Argentina to equalize and for the game to end in a draw. Plus 240, I was like, you know what, I got a feeling here Argentina's gonna bring it back.

And then we get to extra stoppage time and it's like 11 minutes in and I'm like, okay, I lose, what a bad bet. And then everyone around here knew I had the bet, they're like, Chris, they scored and I'm going crazy and I'm celebrating high five people. And then three hours later, they're like, we're gonna play these final three minutes over again.

Yeah, so let me get to, apparently, I was unsure if they even had VAR for soccer in the Olympics and I learned that they did by them, as Chris mentioned, bringing both teams back to the pitch because an hour and 15 minutes after the final whistle blew The official said actually that equalizing goal was offside That is I think it's it stands to reason to say that is far too long and at that point We've all seen bad calls in soccer. You just kind of live with it

But they demanded that the teams returned to the pitch and they added three minutes for Argentina to get an equalizer goal that, for Chris's money, had already cashed. And so money goes out of his account, the game ends 2-1, Morocco wins. I had never, ever seen anything like that before. And I thought that is gonna be the soccer scandal for the Olympics. Nope, here comes the Canadian and men's women's national team, ever seen anything like that before. And I thought that is gonna be the soccer scandal

for the Olympics. Nope, here comes the Canadian and men's women's national team, which as Jess alluded to, Canada's really good on the women's side. And on the men's side, they went a hell of a lot further than the US team did in Copa America. They were semi-finalists. They played in that third place game.

So this is a bad look for a team that's all of a sudden gotten really good. And so you start asking yourself, you know, wind horse fingers, why is that? Could it be espionage? So we have that to look forward to. We've got fits to look forward to. We've got teams, several nations that have long since been eliminated having to walk an opening ceremony. It's grand opening, grand closing for them. I'm super in on the Olympics. The app in particular, this is not a paid endorsement. The app is incredible. If you want to follow

along because many people are excited, this is the first summer Olympics in quite some time that we can get behind and it's a normal, well, it's a manageable time difference. You can follow along on that app and see literally every event, get alerts on them, and you can find out Peacock's doing a tremendous job with their coverage, so I'm really in on that. There's quite a few shooting events going on today, right before, some people are getting some shots in

before the opening ceremony. So I am super in on this. When do the real Olympic event starts? And I say that and I know it's coded and people are gonna be pissed off about that, but the track and field, the swimming, the gymnastics, the people that become superstars because of this event, that's usually later on, right?

Well, for me, it starts when the US Women's National Team plays. I know that's not what you meant, but that feels like the official, like the US Women's National Team has a lot of pressure to do well in this tournament. And so that's been something that I've been looking forward to seeing in this Olympics, how they're

going to play under their new manager Emma Hayes. And so far, so good. They beat Zambia yesterday 3-0. That was kind of disappointing actually. Oh well okay so let's talk about it. So the first half I thought they started out missing a lot of chances which has kind of been their story over the last several games maybe spanning even into last year. But they were quality chances and then they ended up scoring three goals like in pretty quick succession. Then Zambia had a player get a red card,

so they were playing down a man. And in the second half, the US subbed off a few other strikers. Sophia Smith came out with an injury. Hopefully, she's okay. You look bad. I don't know. You never know with soccer players.

But how did they not score again? As someone that had the minus four? Now I see where you're coming from. I thought it was fine. I really did think that there's probably some takeaways and some lessons you can learn going into the next game, but that was the result that they wanted. They wanna be able to finish those chances, and they did.

Mallory Swanson had two goals in the span of 70 seconds. I don't know what more you can ask for from her. It was odd. They played really well for about 17 minutes and exceptionally well for like a seven minute stretch. And then they had a player advantage and they just decided, no, Mike's good. We'll win this game by three.

And I could have used more. I'm sorry they didn't give you the extra goal. Thank you for apologizing. I am sorry about that. I am super excited though about Emma Hayes. I think they knocked that hire out of the park. It is the top tier hire that I wanted to run that program and they did that.

And I only hope that on the men's side, which has gone quiet a little bit, I hope that the men's side can do something, maybe not equally as impressive because I don't think you can go to the very cream of the crop on the men's side, but do something that will impress. I'm looking here at the overall schedule

and when we can start seeing some medals dished out. Swimming gets going tomorrow. Tomorrow and from tomorrow, the next like nine days is like all of swimming. We got judo starts tomorrow. We got some fencing starts tomorrow, diving, cycling, road. So there's some-

I love diving. Diving is crazy. When you see like the POV angle of how high up they are when they're doing it that one Like baffles me that is one sport where I if you put just your average Joe in there They are going to hurt themselves immediately. They are going to belly flop so hard and injure themselves Hey, it's Mike Ryan. How do you like to grill your barbecue? Tell me, I'll be quiet. I'll stand back, I'll listen for approximately two and a half seconds.

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Like I could go skydiving or Rocky Mountain climbing. Stugats. Roy brings up a point though. Roy does bring up a point. Like you might be risking paralysis. I'm just totally trampling my bed. Just totally trampling my bed. What if God forbid it says you're gonna die in like a week?

What if it says a week though? Like, or two days or a month? I don't wanna know that. Well then you just love deeper and speak sweeter and give forgiveness to those that you've been denying. Someday I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying. Do you have more or is that it?

No, thank you guys for letting me go through that smoothly. This is the Don LeBattar Show with the StuGuts. So we'll transition out of Olympics, but you can tell most of us are excited. Most of us like the big Olympic scandals, and we like the fashion and all that. Breaking, you're going to have to wait till August 9th and 10th for breakdancing. Oh that sucks.

For meddling at least in those categories. Alright. Well we have that to look forward to and Dan will inform us because he has that beat. We need Roy to pick his sports. I think Jess, did you lock down yours? We traded for beach volleyball if I recall. Mmhmm. Reclick click.

I picked boxing and field hockey. Boxing is always a great, I don't know how they do it. Like those boxers just like, yeah, it takes like professional fighters go, I know that they don't have the head gear, but it takes them like, all right, we'll have a fight. And then I need several months to recover. Boxing is just like, yeah, just I'll have seven matches in like four days. Let's do it. I'm curious to know your reporting on that front.

Wait, who did you pick, Roy? Boxing and field hockey. Oh, okay. So tell us about the amputation. Apparently it was an Australian player, and instead of like an uncertain recovery, he was like, yeah, just cut it off. And he cut it off, I think under his first knuckle.

Do you have anything to add to that report? Well, you heard it here first on the Dan Levitage show, which we got Olympic coverage. You heard it somewhere else first, and then we said it second. Well, you heard it here first on the Dan Levitato show, which you got Olympic coverage. You heard it somewhere else first, and then we said it second. Well, you heard it here second, maybe even third. Who knows? Well, I'm putting some calls to chase that story.

You did say something to me before the show that I want to talk about a little bit. Yeah. Because we're seeing all these players. And Jess, did you see the BR's Open Ice account did a Caliposo video? Caliposo, this veteran Islanders legend, Sabres legend, at the end of his career finally wins a cup with the

Florida Panthers. It was like a fourth liner. Cool story. He revealed that he watched a Batman franchise, kind of like you know how Missoula watches The Town every day. He watched a Batman movie every day for each round he was in. So for the first round he watched the 1989 version of Batman, then for the second round he watched Batman Begins, then for the third round he watched Dark Knight.

So this was like as a little treat? No, it was like a, it was a theme for him. Especially with The Dark Knight Rises. And not just because he said said I'm not wearing hockey pads That's not the the scene that he was talking about I got him in a fake But his his body had been broken over time and Dark Knight Rises was like the theme for the very end of it But the video was put out on

Recorded around his day with the cup and this is like a traditional sports radio topic But right before we went live, Roy was genuinely curious, what would you do with the cup if you had a day with the cup? And I wanna go around the horn and find out what everybody would do with the cup, because this is the first time any of us had ever had to consider this.

So Roy, what would you do with the cup? I would do one of those TikTok videos where you're mixing all the alcohol in it and then finally you put the Everclear in with an out of the party. It's funny, because the way that it started, I thought you were just gonna do a dance around it. Me too.

I don't dance. So you're like one of the TikTok bartenders. Like you're making like a concoction. Yep, exactly. You don't ever dance? No, I don't dance. Why? Not at weddings?

I'm not a dancer. I'm pretty sure at my wedding, at one point, you were on the outskirts and like with your wife, just like- Well, I was dragged into that one. Yeah, I remember that. Were you swaying your hips? I'm not a dancer. Not a woman. Pretty sure at my wedding, at one point, you were on the outskirts and like with your wife. Just like. Well, I was dragged into that one. Yeah, I remember that. Were you swaying your hips? Were you swaying your hips?

No, there was no hip swaying, no. So you would just drink? Yes. You wouldn't take it anywhere. You would just keep it at your house and you would just. He would make content with it. Isn't that the answer that you want? Well, I don't think he's actually making a TikTok.

I think he's just doing it for myself. Yeah, all right. Chris, what would you do with the cup? I would copy everything Matthew Kachuck did. I would just take it to the Atlantic Ocean. I'd go to Elbow Room. I'd want to take a nap with it. Just like a good old fashioned nap.

He took it to schools, fire departments, police departments. I do hate the ocean, but you know. Exceptions can be made. Yeah, I would definitely drink out of it. It sounds like someone else's idea. An ice cream sundae. cream side get an ice cream sundae in there at some What do you want to do with the an ice cream sundae that one's mine? Did you guys see Luongo when he got the cup which I understand why he got before a bunch of players, but that's a whole story Well, this was like after they had won it.

Like he's gonna have an assigned day with it, but. That dinner seemed like it was like a front office dinner. Like that Italian spot where they were all there. Yeah, I think that was like the entire front office of the couple. There was a thing where he was eating pasta out of it. He looked grossed out by it. Well, but if you find the picture and put up the picture,

it was fake, like there was a bowl inside of it. He was eating out of a bowl. Yeah, no, I don't like that Oh, yeah, that was bullshit because you should have to scrub The rest of us do with our so when Roy is making a drink He's making a drink inside of a bowl inside of the cup. Like what is that? Who cares? They often have like plastic wrappings to just like a fancy candelabra. Like who gives a shit? Dirty the cup put it in the cup.

Put the ice cream and the banana split in the cup. Exactly right. What else? Peanuts? If they'll let me, I'll do that. Wait, Billy, you wouldn't actually want that? There have been babies baptized in that thing. I want that. Well, were they actually or were they baptized in something inside the cup?

Probably put plastic wrap in it. Now this is like a whole, this isn't real. We're not actually doing things with the cup. The cup is just like, you know, wrapping for what we're doing. Who cares? While we're on the subject, do we even think that was the real cup?

That's a good question too. Cause he has multiple cups. That one was the real one in that it had a bunch of dents. We have this video here. We're looking here. If you watch him when he finally eats it, he eats like one piece of pasta.

He's like gross. There's a bowl in there. I'm telling you though, he's grossy. You see the bowl, the hidden bowl? There's two. Watch this little bite that he takes here. He bites like one noodle off the fork. Well, he also has to say, no matter what.

Look, he like barely bites it. He did the thing where he put the fork in his mouth, but then he spit out the rest of it. Well, it was hot. He ate this. Like, he was an actor who had to do like 12 takes. Have you ever seen it? In a movie, they take like really small bites.

What called it? What are you coming out at? Dude, there is so much steam coming out of that pasta. And he just realized like, shit, well, I'm not going to make this person holding the cell phone wait. I blow on it a little. I also don't want to be slurping up spaghetti noodles. A little.

The hesitation that you see is like, I'm going to burn my entire mouth with this. There's nothing uncool about the. He's a hockey player. Exactly right. There's nothing uncool about the player exactly right He's been through worse. He was a mask Tony. What would you do with the cup? Um? Obviously you guys know the grand importance of the cup for me Specifically I've seen a bunch of other people with their Tony Colabo Shirts, and I was told like since I like to wear double XL's that I got some issue. I saw Big Show wearing one

Yeah, he's got one. Yeah, where to wear double XL's that I gots an issue. I saw Big Show wearing one. Yeah, he's got one Yeah, where's my double XL? Pay him he doesn't give them for free no I'm not 45. I gave him the plug. I'm not paying for this shirt He says well, no you keep saying that I got you. I got you you don't have I'll drop you one off at the house Today, how about that? Did you see they sent they sent barstool cease and desist on their shirts? You gotta be careful, buddy. I told you I said don't play with fire and you said they're gonna do anything to me. Just watch out. I'll be alright. I'll drop you off at the house today How about that? Okay? He's getting one for free you said everyone you're making everyone else It's different, but they make pennies compared to you and they have to pay $45 for a shirt I'm the plug what are you doing?

What are you doing? I'm just trying to figure out why they have to pay. What are you trying to do? Don Lebatard. I mean they used to call me Chris Karaoke. Stugats. Daryodes. That back row is bringing it today. This is the Don Lebatard Show with the Stugats. I put my Memphis Tiger football program first. In life, I basically cleared out my calendar for a month because of this game.

I'd been finessing it and preparing my family for it. And last night, I had an incredible night. It was almost better than release night, if you can imagine. It was our first off-season in CFB 25. Approximately nine coaches got together and we hammered out our off-season recruiting. Same place? Signing date? No, all on a party, like remotely. Some people had PSPs for remote play. Like, it's hard with these dynasties. It's hard to get nine people on the same schedule. You're probably running into that with your thing.

We have 25 people in the league that we do with Charles McDonald, our buddy. And we just got to week zero. We're recruiting the hell out of the ball. LSU is coming out of the gates hot, by the way. But you're still in week zero. We're still in week zero, though, yeah. Right.

No, I haven't played a game yet. I'm in year two. But part of the sacrifice that I'm making in doing this is I'm missing out on summer concert season. There were plenty of concerts down here that I saw videos of that wasn't a money thing. It was like, I gotta be there for my Memphis Tiger program and my fellow coaches.

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Matthew Kachuk was there and I saw Carter Verhage was there the photo that I saw no one cared to tell Carter Verhage that his fly was down You know who else was there who else was there? Mystery crate all right mystery good well to it was in there too. Yes. It was everything you like those guys I love them can't stop watching the greatest of all time probably on the internet I Chocolate chocolate chocolate chocolate bake do! We bring the boom! Do you think it's already fallen apart for Hawk to a Girl? She's like come on!

Kind of seems like there's a whole like sad economy to this and Hawk to a Girl like she she waited two weeks to get the right representation and she had like a formal rollout she did that Barstool interview she appeared at a Zach Brian show but it was almost as if like, yeah, the two weeks that you were trying to really maximize your monetization for this, like that's actually when you should have shrugged. And then people are hearing interviews with her,

and they're realizing, oh, she just said that really funny thing that one time. Like, why are we asking her about politics? She just. This is a normal person. She seems lovely, by the way, but it's not, the fact that she is, it's not going the way that maybe she thought it was,

has nothing to do with her. It has everything to do with us. Like, we made her convinced that there was an economy around this. And I understand why she got agents. 10 years ago, she would have been on Ellen. I'm just saying. Ellen's, there ago, she would have been on Ellen. I'm just saying. Ellen's, there is, Ellen could have helped launch batter.

Like that. Viral fame has, the window has gotten even smaller, I think. That was a chain of- There's more people, but the window's smaller. That was a chain of events in that you go viral and then you go to Ellen and then there's no step two. There's no step two for Hawk to a girl. So do you think that the boom guys

have a more sustainable fame than Hawk to a girl? Cause they at least put out new videos. Like what is Hawk to a girl gonna do for second act? Yeah, they go around and taste restaurants but they're always a boom. Oh no, sometimes they give a doom. You gotta work in some dooms or else I know where you're going here. Well remember, Big Justice has called out baby Gronk

in Athletic Feats. He's also with the Rizzler. The Rizzler! There's a lot of stuff with Big Justice. All right, so I need meme culture. And he has his baseball career too. I need meme culture constantly explained to me, because I'm aging out of this stuff,

and also I got blinders on. My main focus is bringing the Memphis Tigers to prominence. So I bring in my resident young person, Jeremy Tashay, who tried this out a couple of days ago and he put up like a TikTok video and I was left kind of in bewilderment wondering what was so entertaining about it. But apparently I had seen it again after that and I saw the numbers on it. The Kamala Harris remixing is doing beaucoup things, beaucoup numbers, and I was just like, I don't get it, but maybe I'm at that age. But here's resident young person Jeremy Tachay to walk me through meme culture yet again. Jeremy, what are we tackling today? Well today we're going

to keep it going in the launch pad from the videos I introduced earlier in the week About Kamala Harris and Brat Subbers. Where does big justice play into this? Big justice unfortunately doesn't play in yet but I imagine a boom in the polls is what everyone will be looking for I like your shirt by the way. I like your general outfit. The tank top underneath the bowling shirt. That shit works. Thanks man I really appreciate that. Well Kamala Harris, the big question was, is Kamala Harris brat? And CharlieXEX confirmed it herself. Kamala Harris is brat is what was tweeted.

But he's not a whiteboard for the audio audience. There's a whiteboard, I'm connecting all the, he just circled Kamala Harris's name. You're telling me it's not brat? It's brat. I thought we were talking about Brats this whole time. Brats summer, Brats summer. That's the key here.

Charlie XCX. The boom guys should do Brats summer. You said we got to say it with an accent. Brats. Brats. Brats summer for Charlie XCX is the theme. And what was happening originally is Gen Z was creating these memes all on their own.

My general concern is Kamala Harris and her campaign and all of the Democrats have kind of embraced this a little too much and started to create this content themselves. You gotta leave it to the kids or else it will become corny. Should they call themselves Demo Brats for the election cycle? See, this is what I'm worried about. Please do not call yourselves Demo Brats. That is going to be a problem. Let the kids do it themselves. But you have Kamala Harris' brat, you have Charlie XCX. Now, the question with Charlie XCX today is,

will she be doing a remix with Chappell Rhone? That's sort of the rumor mill going on right now on social media. There's also meme culture going on around Kamala's campaign and the song Feminine Omnimon by Chappell Rhone, calling it around Kamala's campaign and the song Feminine Ammonon by Chappell Rhone calling it a Kamala-nom-anon and when you move over to the Republican side of things that was very well done to not trip up on that you have JD Vance and the rumor around JD Vance is that he

f***ed the couch yeah I saw that I was I saw all these funny videos of him like lussing after a couch I'm like why does why does everybody think that JD Vance wants? So there was a tweet I believe on July 17th that insinuated that in JD Vance's book hillbilly elegy There was a passage about his coming-of-age story in which he admits to having sex with a latex glove inside out between couch cushions when he was a younger person. That changes everything. That's the tweet. And that tweet went so viral that all over TikTok there were people creating videos, romantic

songs with images of JD Vance and then a leather couch and then JD Vance and then a couch cushion and That was sort of the general vibe So it became so popular that the AP yesterday put out a story No, JD Vance did not have sex with a couch But that story was retracted and they said they can neither confirm nor deny whether or not Vance had sex with the couch because they figured out that the original tweet wasn't true. So my question is if this keeps going will JD Vance have to say no I did not have sectional relations? Will he say it was just a one night stand or will he just say I'm so fucking tired of this? But he also has been going viral for saying that any woman

that has not had a child in this country should not really be participating in politics. He's had some really rough and just honestly scary rhetoric, but he referred to them as childless cat ladies. Now I can think of a very important person in pop culture who is childless and also a cat lady. That would be Taylor Swift. Now we obviously know that Taylor Swift's public endorsement

of Kamala Harris is gonna be really important to get voters on the side of the Democrats to potentially even swing an election if she can motivate her voters. But the thing that no one's talking about that might cause some concern, the link between Charlie XCX and Taylor Swift. Now what is it? Charlie XCX engaged to George Daniel, the drummer of the 1975. Who's the lead singer of the 1975? Well, that ladies and gentlemen, Maddie Healy? Taylor Swift's controversial

Ex-boyfriend so will the bad blood between Taylor Swift and Maddie Healy potentially also cause bad blood between Charlie XCX and Taylor Swift and in turn Maybe leave the sour taste in the mouth of Taylor Swift regarding Kamala Harris embracing Charlie XCX These are the questions will have to answer over the next few months in pop culture and meme culture. Okay wait so you're telling me we need to get Charli XCX to break up with her boyfriend to get Taylor Swift to endorse Kamala Harris to get the Swifties to register to vote and vote for Kamala Harris because then they'll have something in common. Or Charli XCX and Taylor Swift will need to work it out on the remix. That's really the only

other option. I understood very little of that. You weren't supposed to. The only note is you gotta end on the high note of sofa puns. It was really well done. Thanks, I really appreciate it. You lost Tony with the whole brat worst thing. Yeah, so it's not brats? It's brats. Brats, I'm out.

Brats, I'm out, yeah, I'm out. Wasn't for you. I enjoyed it. Jeremy, not only are you our meme culture correspondent, but you're also my personal baseball correspondent. So stay right there or come right in here. But I got more questions for you as we've got, my Mariners made a big trade.

Flip the whiteboard, Jeremy. Yeah, flip the whiteboard or something because my Mariners made a big trade that I'm excited about. So the Mariners are like, it's a weird combination of maybe arguably greatest pitching staff of the modern era but also just terrible bats and they needed to do something and they

brought in a player yesterday whose name not only did I know but I've known for a couple of years and my Mariners group chat was on fire. There were four techs that I woke up to this morning and that bad boy, lower volume than some of the other ones. Jeremy, what can you tell us about the big trade yesterday and what big trades might be around the corner as we are approaching the MLB trade deadline? Yeah, there's a few big moves that have already been made. You just mentioned Randy Arroz-Arena

from the Tampa Bay Rays to the Seattle Mariners, desperate for a bat. And if you look at Arroz-Arena's numbers this year, they don't look all that impressive. He's only hitting 213 as a batting average. His OPS is not that high, but since June 1st, his OPS is over 900 and I think he has seven homers and nine stolen bases in that span. He's also, I believe, got the third highest playoff OPS of any hitter ever behind Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in the history of Major League Baseball.

So he's a major post-season performer. The Mariners are desperate for bats. It seems like a really good move for them. They gave up a pitcher that they really liked in their farm system, but you mentioned their pitching is young and their pitching is deep. They were linked to jazz chisholm a little bit. They were.

This would kind of maybe take them out of that. Well, the jazz chisholm a little bit. They were. This would kind of maybe take them out of that? Well, the Jazz Chisholm stuff is really interesting, because the national media reports around jazz have kind of been using what feels like some coded language. In baseball? Yeah, shocker, right? But jazz, the Yankees apparently are not interested in jazz because he has a strong personality.

And there was another report that says he's too focused on his brand. And then there was another report, I believe it was from Jeff Passan, that said not just the fears about his ability to stay healthy, but his brashness have turned off some teams. And it's really confusing because-

I understand the coded language, but I think the brashness stuff around Jazz, I think he would admit that he's brash. And he doesn't really care about that. But that's also not a problem in a major league clubhouse. Look, the Marlins had a problem. It's reportedly been a problem before in his clubhouse. Well, it was a problem with three players

on a team that was bad. And most of that team took his side when that breakup happened between the two of us. Billy, are you ready to break up with Jazz? I mean, I'd also say this team is worse than that team, as it stands right now. Which is why they should make a move. The Marlins made a trade yesterday, didn't they?

That trade was AJ Puck for, I believe his name is, Davison De Los Santos and Andrew Pintar. And De Los Santos leads the minor leagues in home runs with 28. He has an OPS over a thousand He's 21 years old and he's done that between double a and triple a he's instantly the Marlins best hitting prospect So feels like a really good move for AJ puck and they still have Tanner Scott and other relievers that they can move as well Real quick briefly. Where are you on the on this? It's very clearly a rebuild

There's nothing that you can do to stop it. What are you just hoping for here, Billy? I'm kind of disappointed the way the whole jazz thing has played out because I assume that what the Marlins will get in exchange for jazz is not going to be anything comparable to Zach Galin, which is the way, unfortunately, you have to kind of judge this. You traded a guy that ends up being an all-star pitcher for jazz who who at the moment

hasn't lived up to expectations that we had for him or maybe he even has for himself. He definitely didn't shy away from those expectations. His expectations for himself, I think, are higher than the fans' expectations are for him, right? And he hasn't lived up to that. And it seems as though the market for him is not going to be as plentiful or bountiful as you were hoping that it might be so you're kind of

Taking a loss on this one, which seems to be a theme and a lot of these station for the Miami more That's the part that's like interesting about how the national media has been reporting this right because you have all these different leaks that suggest all these different things about personality and you wonder if the market would be bigger if those things weren't there, or if they're sort of trying to suppress value. Because look, he's been good as of late, by the way. He's been really good as of late. Not that that necessarily is gonna change things.

But you may find a desperate team that now on the page is like, oh, he's getting hot at the right time. But like- The Mariners would have been that desperate team. Instead, they picked Rosa Rainer. That also might be about the package. There's still a couple days, right? Someone may get desperate and then you may get a better deal than you're anticipating.

But also like this is a big time if you're a Marlins fan and kind of seeing what Bendix can do, right? Because the Arias trade, they told us was the best option out there at the time and that didn't seem to be a great haul. One of the players isn't even with the organization anymore, so we'll see what they do at this deadline. Wait, Jeremy. Lay out for Chris to finally fire off this sound,

because Chris and timing with sound has been a bit of an adventure since he started sitting in that chair. Who did the Mariners acquire? There's a guy who hits his name Randy or Rosarena. Every time he takes a swing, is a thing it's cosa buena Run and run the bassist. He's as fast as a hyena Rosarena I I promise you in the next segment. We will not ask David Samson about jazz chism

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