The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Consistently Erroneous Math

Episode Date: August 15, 2024

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DraftKings, the crown is yours. I am happy Amin is here today because I'm in a bit of crisis. I mean, I am not a weak person. I had never before in the last, I don't know, 50 years, I'd never before thought of myself as a strong person because I'd never had my strength tested in any meaningful way, but over the last few years, I've realized that I'm not a weak person, okay?

So when I come in here today and things don't work technically, like they haven't worked all week technically, and we can't get out a two-way interview that's, I don't know if it's newsworthy, but it was certainly interesting at the very least because things can't happen fast enough around here. I probably don't need to explain to you as someone who also worked at ESPN that there are certain creature comfort luxuries that I miss because self-employment is hard and I'm coming in here today and I know that I'm beginning the show today with our YouTube audience all sorts of pissed

because there's no live show because they've gotten very used to. You give us two hours of rocket fuel straight, six minutes breaks no one else does that this is what we're used to we expect that when you give us one it was enough used to give us three and a half hours that he s p n why do we only get one now to occasionally what's wrong with the so i come in here today in a super good mood about doing the show and as soon as i get here on my knees because i know the audience isn't getting what they want and what i also expect is the founder of companies i know who those people are no loyal they are in the deserve our best show

and i can't give it to them because our video shit doesn't work and because all the shit cost a lot of money and i'm worried every weekend that some is gonna blow it off the bay and make all the equipment ruined and then how do i pay for everything so like that's where i am all the time. And so today I'd like to get back and I'd like to apologize first to the people who are so loyal that they tailgate before the YouTube comes on because they're still around wanting every little fix of what it is that this company does because they

ride with us in a way I mean that I that I believe, if first take moved somewhere else, it wouldn't have the loyalty of audience that moves with them the way that this one did because those people know that we care about giving them what they expect every day. And they've been yelling at me and us for three and a half years because it hasn't been what they want it to be. So I'd like today to feel like it used to feel

back when we did this show with no cameras around and was a happier time for me generally working. Before all the success and the fame got to our heads. Let's just take it back to the underground. This is like Rocky III, Dan, I don't know if you remember. When Rocky loses to Clubber Lang. Mr. T. And he's broke, well, loses to Clubber Lang. Mr. T. And he's broken, well he's Clubber Lang,

he's not Mr. T, that would be weird. He'll always be Mr. T to me. He got that job only because he was Mr. T. Not because he was Clubber Lang. He's broken and he's depressed and Apollo's like, see, because you're living in this big house and you got all these maids and butlers and stuff, you gotta take it back.

And he goes back to the old gym where Apollo used to train in LA and all the other fighters are looking at him like, stuff, you gotta take it back. And he goes back to the old gym where Apollo used to train in LA and all the other fighters are looking at him like, oh, here goes Rock or whatever. And then Apollo's gotta teach him how to dance and all that stuff and they're running on the beach and they build it all back up. Or like Rocky IV after Apollo dies.

No, not Rocky IV. No, Rocky IV. Spongebob alert. When Rocky has to go train, he trades in Russia, does he trade in a super high tech gym with a LED screen? No. It's like Siberia or something. In the snow, yeah, picking up logs.

Carrying logs, yeah. So yes, let's get back to our roots right now. And so right around the ring here, gather around the ring, can we get Jessica to do walking lunges with a log on her shoulders in the other room. We have the ability to do that. Oh, Jessica doesn't seem like she's bothered by that. Now let me give you a little bit of a perk.

At the end of it, you get to just yell up to the heavens, Drago! That's. Feels like a good two for one exercise while I'm at work opportunity. So I'm definitely intrigued, but I don't think I wore the correct pants for it. Okay, well, and we don't have video though,

so it would only be the people in that room. Do we need to clear out the room so that you can do it in more privacy? It sort of loses all of its luster if we don't have video. I'm not the kind of person that I need people to see me work out, as long as they see the results. Like that's all that matters. Theater of the mind, Dan.

We can imagine her working out, climbing a mountain in the snow with a log on her back All right. I want you guys to imagine that going on around the studio. Yes, it's big log Giant log you don't know Rocky for right? I've never seen any Rockies actually any rock No, but my friend's dad was obsessed with Rocky when I was growing up, so he had like a Rocky tattoo. He used to talk about Rocky all the time, so I was like, oh, Rocky, I know Rocky, but I've never seen Rocky. I just knew about it because he would talk about it so much.

You knew Rocky from the tattoo on the man's arm? Yes, on his bicep, weirdly. I never do this, but listeners, the first person to put Jessica's face on Rocky's body, moving the log, you're getting an instant retweet on the follow. Oh, wow, ooh, and a follow. The follow is the big retweet and a follow. Oh wow, ooh and a follow. The follow is the big currency.

Retweet is anything, but follow, that's currency. Put it on the poll please, Juju at Levitard Show. What's the real currency, the instant retweet or the follow? What's a like? Just child's play. Likes mean nothing these days. You can't even see who's liking what it's just like I'll throw this like away What is the most valuable thing on social media other than followers like what's second place?

Oh, no, the most valuable thing. Well, I don't know the followers necessary But the most valuable thing is when you have someone of high esteem Like saying hey, you guys should check out my guys so so and so, like that, the cosign, that's number one. Ain't it cool? Cosign is massive. Yeah. Cause the follow's only one time, right? And then it's like, oh, okay, it's done.

But the cosign kind of brings you back. I feel like it's the same as any other place. The best thing is like the meaningful compliment from a person on the internet, like, hey, I really like this. You know, when you type out a response or a quote tweet that's nice and complimentary, it's just like getting a compliment in person.

But that's so syrupy. The person has to be wildly famous giving you that compliment, correct? No, I mean, I love when people give me compliments, even if they're not wildly famous. I don't discriminate against compliments. You like it better, though. You can love the compliments,

but we're talking about the value hierarchy of things on social media. You can't tell me just a compliment is worth as much as a celebrity's compliment on social media. Look Jessica, I'm with you in that I really appreciate, I do a lot of little inside jokes every time I'm on this show, specifically so that one person can say, man, that was a great joke.

And that definitely makes me happy. It gives me enjoyment and fulfillment. But currency-wise, yeah, I need a cosign from a blue check. A real blue check, not one of those ones you pay for. A blue check that's so real that it's not there anymore. Is anyone with Jessica on this? Like she's saying the Syrupy thing, Juju, you can run Syrupy on us.

Are you with her on just a compliment that moves you from person X who gets you is more meaningful than The Rock giving you that same compliment? Oh, oh, nah, anybody giving me the compliment, it means a lot to me. Like a lot of the listeners, they say so much fantastic things in my DMs

to try to balance off the hate I get in my DMs and I appreciate everybody just as valuable if Cameron told me or somebody. But that comment from a random person doesn't slap as much as Field Yates doing it. That's not true, okay, here's an example. So, shameless plug for my F1 podcast with Spencer Hall, DNF.

This week, F1's on a break for three weeks, so we watched the movie Cars. So we talked about cars on the podcast, and I did an F1 Minute about the plot of Cars. Was it a minute? It was about a minute and a half, you're right, but it's okay, Spencer did not try to cut me off because he was not keeping time.

And anyways, so I described Paul Newman as a salad dressing mogul, and it was buried in my F1 Minute. And someone as a salad dressing mogul and it was buried in my F1 Minute and someone responded salad dressing mogul was the perfect description with a GIF from Cars. And to me, that lit me up all night. I was beaming because someone heard that one tiny little joke complimenting me.

I'm telling you, Jessica, I've said this before. I don't think Dan believes me or if he does, he believes my sincerity. I don't think he believes me, or if he does, he believes my sincerity, I don't think he believes that it's real, but the one person getting the hidden joke is so much more satisfying than everybody in the room and all the internet saying, ha ha ha ha, so funny. I swear to God, because it's just like, oh, they found it.

You know what I feel like? Anthony Hopkins in Westworld. It's like, oh, they got to the center of my maze. The thing you guys are doing, though, I know what you're, I understand, I feel like Anthony Hopkins in Westworld. It's like, oh, they got to the center of my maze. The thing you guys are doing though, I know what you're, I understand, I feel seen and the warmth of that. But the place this conversation started is, what do the masses think is the greatest currency

that goes at the top of, this is what I want to happen on social media. And if I give both of you the choice, hey, someone complimented you on cars or your inside joke or the rock complimented you on Something that wasn't that close to seeing you entirely which would you prefer as a retweet? you're gonna tell me that you want the syrupy authenticity instead of because I don't think you'd be addicted to social media and the wanting of extra audience

if you valued those two things the same. The Rock doesn't do it for me. Does it do it for you, Juju? Not at all. I feel like, for real, for real, as I've gotten to be around a lot of personalities that be behind, in front of the cameras, I've realized that a lot of these folk be fake as hell, and a lot of personalities that be behind in front of the cameras, I realized that a lot of these folks be fake as hell and a lot of these folks be lame as

hell. Not the Rock though. I mean not the Rock, I'm not saying nobody. But a lot of these folks, they're not as sincere. So when you touch the heart of somebody who has a job, a kid, and a wife, and they just randomly sending you words, like bro bro that means more to me. I want to add an extra thing there because we're talking about retweets or talking about follows and all that stuff I think going viral off a tweet is even more supersedes all of those things.

No it doesn't. Yes it does. Hey hey trust me going viral does not. That was viral decontextualization that's a different story. No it depends. You need to call a lawyer for that by the way. And it wasn't your tweet it was that's a different story. You need to call a lawyer for that by the way. And it wasn't your tweet, it was Miles's tweet. Exactly.

If you make a tweet that all of a sudden millions of people see because it goes viral and it's like that's my joke up there for everybody to see that I was told to group chat but now the entire world saw it. Chris Cody, can you find for me please, we haven't done this since, the hierarchy of anger I guess

that was the steps of us climbing at the Clevelander, brouhaha, fracas, you know, gaga song, whatever it is the hierarchy was, we created an order for this. I would like a hierarchy, an order of best things that can happen to you on social media, not best things that can happen to you, I guess things that have the most value, because I don't think we're going to get agreement here and I want to

get a formal, before the end of the show today, I'd like to have a formal ranking of whatever those things are. I wanted to ask the group here, we don't have a baseball fan, a huge baseball fan among us but Aaron Judge hit his 300th home run last night faster than anyone has gotten to home runs and I'd just be curious, I mean, as we have numbed entirely to the numbers in baseball, they don't really mean anything anymore and as in my lifetime I've seen baseball go from the national pastime where people would go in top hats and suits to the game

and it was more important than football. Yeah, it was top hats. It was hats, it was a top hat. They wore baseball caps. They were not- It was like a Bear Bryant hat. They were formal hats. T-Pain hats.

They were formal hats. We've gone from that to, Oh, Tony's a star, but america care about him trout is exceptional at baseball but nobody knows who he is and now there's someone wearing the most historic uniform in sports who's a physical giant who does the thing that the steroid jade brought us which is guys strikeout now in that lead more than once every five times like Like throughout the league, one out of five plays is a strikeout because everybody's

swinging for the fences and he's the biggest, the baddest, the furthest. They walked Soto last night to get to him. And Soto's been great. Soto in the last... Soto's amazing. Soto is six for his last 11 with six home runs and four walks. And so they're like, Soto, you can walk, but S't have an amazing season judges having a better one and they walked him and on three-o pitch judge hits a bomb against a team that's won 29 games hadn't hit a bomb off of a three-o pitch since 2021 Dan Oh that's correct he's only done it now three times he's that's amazing baseball

information from a mean look how strong he is on baseball. That's correct. You know why? It's this jersey. It gives me super baseball powers. No one can see it because our video doesn't. Can you describe it to us? I thought it said the churros on the front, but apparently it doesn't.

I thought it was a Kenny Powers joke jersey that he was wearing from the Mexican league that said churros. The one guy got the joke! There you go! It's so, and Dan's a celebrity, so that takes it even a higher level. You know what, Dan? You were right.

You win the currency battle. My compliments are better than a compliment from Chris Cody, even if Chris Cody's compliment is better than my compliment? Because Dan. What if Steve Martin also needed a compliment? Because I said it two seconds before. Oh, shit, he did say it. Oh, man.

But did you say the Mexican league part? That's the part that Dan hit on. And that's what this is. This is a authentic Kenny Powers charros, not churros, charros jersey. He's horseman, right? Churros on the mind. I met a dog named Churro the other day. Big fan of the show. What's his favorite part? Tony's top five? It's Willow actually loves when Willow's on Tomorrow Jessica. Do you watch eastbound and down? I did like forever ago, and I honestly I barely remember it my Attention span it's not my attention span. It's like my long-term memory. It's not there

It's just it just hasn't been there in a long time like memento Yeah, kind of short-term memory pretty good if I read something I'll remember it like exactly for a few hours hours and then woof poof. It's gone Well, will that happen even on the things that you think are special? content creation because I would think that you're rejecting eastbound and down if that's how you Experience it because I remember eastbound and down being sort of pioneering so much stuff has I mean HBO when they got into sports, they started with R-List and it was wildly successful.

And then what ended up happening is eastbound and down might be the best sports thing outside of Brian Gumbel's show that HBO has ever done. Do you know what year eastbound and down came out? 2011? 2009. I mean, that's a long time to like remember jokes from things, for me. I mean, admittedly long time to like remember jokes from things for me

I mean admittedly I did a I did a rewatch so I'm there you go on it. I'm super fresh You can't forget Ashley Schaeffer though that that lives forever Crazy that an out and outtake is the most memorable yeah, like that's the most viral from that show no absolutely Absolutely, that's the most viral from that show, no? Absolutely, absolutely. That's the most memorable part of that show. My wife Donna. In my plums. You don't remember, Jessica, what it is that we're talking about.

It's Will Ferrell and he is standing in the middle between Kenny Powers and Craig Robinson. Craig Robinson and all the bloopers cannot keep it together because it's, Will Ferrell is exceptional just riffing and so people break around him all the time. But he looks like Ric Flair and he's in, they're in a car dealership

and they're gonna face each other, they're gonna have a single pitch against each other, I guess Kenny Powers is gonna come out of retirement. I don't know any of the details from it You're like, I just remember their face the face I haven't seen it in ten years and you know My memory is going because things like our video doesn't work and I've been made crazy for five years but this I remember down to the detail because Nobody could keep it together because of how good Will Ferrell was at riffing,

looking like a car dealer dressed as Ric Flair. And he then starts talking to them about his wife Donna and how it is that their son watches them have sex. And it's clear that he's just inventing it all as he goes, that all of it is just will fare Like the depths of will ferrell's mind. I wish video that we could play that right now would be a good thing Well, I mean cuz we're not live you can splice that in guys all right, go ahead and splice that in later and and put it in the show because

yeah, I remember I I Wonder all the time if things like that are gonna hold up and I'm gonna maintain that show you could put it on right now and you are going to laugh if you like sports. Brockmeyer, the first three seasons of Brockmeyer are the same way. You know what the funny thing about it, the difference between Brockmeyer and Eastbound and Down

is that Hank Azaria is a big sports fan. He knows his stuff. What he is doing, he is doing things is a big sports fan he knows his stuff wait what he is doing he's doing things that as a sports fan he absorbed as a child growing up listening to these radio play-by-play guys for about all accounts danny mcbride is not a sports guy does not know anything about sports

no mckay told me it took them twelve months to teach him how to physically throw a baseball He doesn't know anything about sports doesn't know or care about sports of any sort But he nailed like this the the bravado of the washed-up athlete So perfectly so perfectly and he does every season is like a different stage There's season one is he's trying to make the comeback and at the end he thinks he's making the comeback and it turns out that Adam Scott,

spoiler alert, is just on drugs and has lied to him. Season two he lives in shame in Mexico, where this jersey comes from. Season three he comes back to play minor leagues in the US. And then season four he gets called up to the majors and quits before he even throws a pitch. And then he becomes, ironically, a TV show host, a sports, kind of sports show thing.

And Dan, when that season came out, I was still working for the Phoenix Suns at the time. And I remember, you know, as Kenny becomes more and more confident, when someone's going along, he would go, Kenny's cutting in and do little scissor hands. And then he would just interrupt and he becomes the star of the show. And I remember watching, I swear to God saying, oh man, one day I want to do that.

Then I was like, when are you ever going to be on TV, you idiot? And literally did not remember it again until this year when I watched that scene again. I was like, oh, that's right. But now I have the power to go, Amin's cutting in. did not remember it again until this year when i watch that scene again with us right but now i have the power to go amines cut man uh... man what a great gambit you have not gotten juju and uh... tony and jessica invested in a show that i think if our audience doesn't already know it and love it will our audience would specifically love that show would you

not because can't because kenny powers again 12 months it took him to learn how to look like he was a pitcher the way Kevin Costner in all his movies looks like he can actually play baseball not not just throw a baseball it doesn't take someone 12 months to lob a baseball but to look like a pitcher I didn't even understand how that could possibly take 12. How unathletic are you if it takes you 12 months to learn how to look like you have a minor league

or major league pitching motion? It can't be, I don't know. I mean, that specifically feels very difficult. It's a motion that you grew up knowing a little bit, but this does harken back to the age-old debate about actors in movies is it better to get a good actor play an athlete or to get a good athlete to

try to become an actor and man it really depends i watch challenges a few months ago and then dia she did a good job there were some scenes where i was like come on this is and they had a body double did like a lot of the tennis scenes and stuff like that, but still, like you just, if you watch a lot of sports, like you know the difference. Yeah, look, I think the most important thing is nobody watches sports movies to watch sports.

That's not, so what was the show that was on? Oh, it was clipped. I was like, look, no one's here to watch how the Clippers beat the Warriors in the first round. They're here to watch the Donald Sterling look no one's here to watch how the Clippers beat the Warriors in the first round They're here to watch the Donald Sterling stuff. They're here to watch like 100% I was watching challengers for the sex stuff, which there was not really any of shock. There's no set I mean you you see the trailer and you're like, oh, they're there's there's they're gonna do it. This isn't a sex thriller, dude Not sexy enough, but I was totally like a damn but still really like the movie. I almost rented the damn thing.

Still really like the movie. Do y'all remember Leonardo DiCaprio playing basketball when he was young in some movie? I can't remember. Yeah, so bad. Basketball Diaries. Yes, Basketball Diaries. So the funny thing is, he's actually

an avid pickup basketball player. He plays like one of those LA leagues and stuff. Yeah, but probably because everybody mocked him at that youth. A lot of travel He's at how bad he was looking at basketball. The best one I've seen is I Don't know the name of the baseball movie

But John C Riley as a catcher trying to catch a foul ball while running toward Toward the dugout, looked like someone who didn't know how to run. He ran the way you might imagine that John C. Reilly runs. It looked, that's the thing that stands out to me is something that couldn't have looked less like someone knew how to be an athlete. For love of the game. Good movie.

This begs the question, what do you think would be the easiest sport to learn if you were an actor who had never played any sports before? Kevin Costner looked like a good golfer in that one movie I can't think of at the moment. He looks like a guy who golfs. You think he grew up not golfing?

Like he probably, golf is the one also, like this is just from like, for anyone, whether you're an actor or not, like if you don't get that muscle memory when you're young, it's like learning another language. It's like, how am I supposed to do this? This is impossible. I remember one scene in the professional

where a bunch of police officers are running into the house. This isn't exactly the same, but the police officers clearly were thespians who learned on Broadway how to act. Learn how to run? No, the whole thing of coming into a place with your gun near your face, you have to do that in a way that's aggressive

and confident and all of them were just sort of, yeah, jolly bobbing in to get the professional. And I'm like, you have to do better in casting than this. Your police officers have to, they have to be giving off aggression as actors. They cannot look like they're in a happy bounce house dancing in a Broadway play. Have all actors just become too attractive?

Like I've heard people say, I mean, this is a question for you, cause you're the big movie guy. Like I've heard people say this, where like we don't have any actors anymore that look like they could be like just regular people. All of our actors now look so polished and they just all look like actors.

So you're saying we don't have any John C. Reilly's anymore basically? I mean we've got the occasional Jonah Hill and Buscemi and stuff. No, but those guys are all, that's not the generation she's talking about. She's talking about all new actors. That you're not allowed to,

who is the young person now because Jonah I don't think of Jonah Hill is not old I know but I mean that's that I mean Jonah Hill was a child star so if what age are you talking about here under 30 you're saying we're not making any non-beautiful under 30 actors anymore I'm not sure what I'm saying Dan I guess I'm saying that there's a guy with the eyebrows Everybody knows him the guy with the eyebrows. He's not an incredibly good-looking guy I'm big the the one where he was with we get the guy with the I know He's in remember he gets his dick bit by the spider in

Dan knows what I'm talking about. I don't I'm afraid but you're alone here now You're gonna look it up. Because those are, look, Tony. Dick, big, Dick Bid by a Spider Eyebrow guy. Tony, those are all good cues, but I will tell you what happened to Tony there, as he pointed, Dan knows what I'm talking about. He realizes that he interrupted the show

to get in there with something that none of us had any idea what he was talking about. He gave us two good identifiers. The first one weaker than the second, admittedly. Guy with the eyebrows, not as helpful as he would have liked it to be. But when you say, Spider, bite your dick. We are the Millers.

That kid. Oh, yeah. I forgot the name of the movie, guys, my bad. But you know that guy, and he doesn't look like an actor. He looks like a little guy. He does, but I don't know if he's, what else is he in? I just don't know. It doesn't matter.

McLovin would like a word. McLovin is a young gentleman here. We're not making Steve Buscemi's anymore. I guess that's my point. No, yeah, you're right. Everyone's super hot now. That is, that would be a good point if throughout the history of movies

we'd only made one Steve Buscemi because his, he must be a- We only needed one, Dan. That's correct. He must be a great one that's correct he must be a great actor to have climbed him and giamatti the two of them had some degree of difficulty and if you look like them as a woman you're not allowed in hollywood they don't allow it they don't allow you in hollywood can i offer tom

holland who i know is an incredible shape but face wise just looks like a regular boy next door, doesn't he? Well, I want to get back to what it is that I was talking about yesterday when it came to Brad Pitt and George Clooney being on the cover of GQ Magazine. And I wonder, as I asked the group, is that the last kind of that movie star?

Because now Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds, they're in that, and Jake Gyllenhaal, he's, Gyllenhaal, excuse me, I always get that one wrong. They're in that second tier, but now she's talking about like the Chalamets of the world. She's talking, the George Clooney, Brad Pitt, dinosaur age of 60 year olds who are beautiful men and old-timey movie stars. You're telling me that the 25 year old now will never

be that? Cannot be that? Oh, that what those two human beings are representing a time, because those two guys in Denzel are the three, correct? They are the three men who get to be the, Tom Cruise has had an up and down, he had an up and down period, but the movie stars of the time, are those the three guys? Because I was reading, I felt like I was transported into another time reading GQ Magazine about Brad Pitt and George Clooney because I remember back when they were coming through

Stardom and Brad Pitt marries Angelina Jolie. I remember a Matt Damon article where Matt Damon was talking about him, George Clooney, and Brad Pitt walking through Italy. And they they're like you think we're famous me including you should have seen what happened to brad pitt the moment that he married angela and joe lee and cloney can walk in italy and walk in different directions and everyone chases after brad pitt and that's where brad pitt sort

of surpass george cloney is america's movie star and now cluny's a political activist he's gotten into directing, he hasn't made those kinds of movies in a while. And who's coming for their thrones? Like who's gonna replace them? So to answer the question, yeah, like you have to give it time. I think of DiCaprio, we mentioned earlier.

Early in his career, people are like, ah man, he's just a pretty boy or whatever. But then like you start getting into those roles, they're like, aw man, he's just a pretty boy or whatever. But then you start getting into those roles that are like, oh no, he's serious about this. He's a great actor. And I think Chalamet, right now I look at him, he's like a vapid young pretty boy, right? I saw Dune, I saw Dune too.

I wasn't blown away by his performance. But those are the movies that it's like, okay, he gets more roles, and then he gets to choose which one of these roles are meaningful roles that allow's like, okay, he gets more roles, and then he gets to choose which one of these roles are meaningful roles that allow him to stretch his acting ability. And 10 years from now, 15 years from now, maybe we're talking about him

the same way we talk about these guys. But we won't be. His generation will be. Sure, sure. Because they grew up on... Because we'll be dead. Because they grew up on his movies. Why you guys keep killing me

the last couple of days? No, we. I said we. I know, but you... My example was did say we. Dan, I did. My example was something specific to what you said. You said you will not remember something for the rest of your life, and your rest of your life probably ends at that day.

I had to bring it up, sorry. I think my point is that, like, you were saying with the police officers that don't look like real police officers, it's cause they're all, like, all the extras, they're all super good looking. Like, we just don't have, everyone's too good looking now. I bought Freddie Prince Jr. as a crafty lefty in Summer Catch.

Hold on, let me tell you something. Freddie Prince Jr., another real athlete. Like that's the difference, right? Like they're the guys that grew up playing sports, and then they're the guys that are like, you have to teach me how to look like I play this sport. And Freddie Prince Jr. is in the former. No, Dan, we're gonna remember Timothee Chalamet. It's just are we also gonna

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hit me with it. Okay. I wish I had some Breakfast Flan. Da da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da This is the Don Lebatar Show with the StuGards. You're doing this differently than I am, I mean, and I think it might be because you're 10 years younger. I'm not going to remember Chalamet. I'm not. I'm telling you now that Chalamet will be remembered by his generation and the ones around it, but not mine, not me, the way I remember Pitt and Clooney. This is why I'm telling you

that this felt like an article I was reading about the last of a dying breed of movie star, because they mean that to me, and Chalamet will mean that to a younger generation, and Pitt and Clooney won't mean that to the younger generation who will not think of Pitt and Clooney as anybody other than, you know, whatever it was that the movie stars of the 50s were. But the movie stars of the 50s were people like the salad dressing mogul Paul Newman.

Clark Gable, your buddy. Clark Gable, who has always existed only as a joke. For me, Judy, yesterday you were saying that Chris didn't know who Clark Gable, who's always existed only as a joke. For me, Juju, yesterday you were saying that Chris didn't know who Clark Gable was. And I always just thought, it's like, isn't that who Jamie Foxx calls people, Dark Gable? Like, that's the joke right there. But yeah, but we remember all these actors.

Bela Lugosi, we talked about this week, right? Like, we remember these people, Dan. It might not mean the same, you're right, like someone who grew up where Jimmy Cagney was like the greatest actor of their generation. Yeah, I'm not talking about remembering them. I'm talking about them being the seminal movie star

for a time. If I tell you, you gotta name one, you name one. You can only name one. For my generation, I'm watching two of them on a cover that are making the top five of the argument for me Like I'm saying your goat is basically what you're saying like your generation's acting goat in the same way that Stugats will never

Release release or relinquish Michael Jordan as the goat doesn't matter what anyone does there might be a seven-year-old right now Who's gonna grow up to be better than all of them, right? So guys like nope, not better than Jordan. You're saying when we bring actors to you, any new actor, you're gonna be like, nope, not like Brad Pitt. Pick one, Dan, who is it? Well. One, there's one goat. I can only pick one.

One of them made Batman and Robin, so. Yeah, but man, I wanna go Denzel there. Oh, well, and Will Smith is in there too You said Tom Cruise had ups and downs I would argue Tom Cruise has had a more consistent Career than probably any of those guys that you named. Hi everybody Al Pacino Robert De Niro. What's all about your generation Dan? Yes, and there have to be men I'm assuming. Yes, that's, yes. Tom Hanks, I mean. Meryl Streep. What do we do with Tom Hanks?

Roy, act like that's this generation. Boy, your ass is old as hell. Meryl Streep. What? She's still acting, isn't she? Roy, where'd you come from? Claire's first day of school was today. She's now in first grade.

That's why the traffic sucked today. Yes. Traffic's the worst. Not because of you dropping off Claire, because of school's back. Well, but wait a minute. I thought Greg Cody and Stugatz came in here breathless on Tuesday, because they were saying that was school traffic that the beginning of the week was the first day of school.

Broward started Monday, Miami Dade started today. Hell yeah. Roy, so hold on a second. So Princess Claire, wait a minute. Wait a minute, what? I want to examine this for a second. I'm learning that the joy of your life, the only thing that makes you smile like that.

I am. You took her to school, first day of school, but not first day of school of any kind, correct? Correct. This is the first day of first grade. But kindergarten was last year. Yeah. Okay, so I thought today was the first day of any kind of school. Were you emotional last year when you did this?

Ummm... Mmm... kind of, yes. Yes, kind of. Good-bye, Claire. Right. No. He shook her hand. No, it was a big hug

It's over to get out I Was told to get out a Formal handshake you gave her on the way to school did Roy doesn't get teary-eyed Emotional when he drops his daughter off for school the first day does he first day of all time did you walk her in? Yeah, we walked her in we walked her in and the teacher wasn't there so we stood there for about 35 minutes. She was stuck in the traffic guys it was terrible this morning. I'm gonna tell y'all right now because you guys are all fairly new on the child adventure. I mean six years is kind of not fairly new. It's still fairly new compared to me like yeah you guys

are walking them in and saying like I love you have a great day and I'm still fairly new compared to me. You guys are walking them in and saying, I love you, have a great day. And I'm like, get out of the car! I don't wanna see you for eight hours! That's, you quickly, Dan, let me tell you something. Parents all over this country wait with bated breath for the first day of school just so like, oh my God. I don't have to hear those noises

for at least a strong six or seven hours. I get to leave and be stress-free, relatively speaking. Early in the journey, you're like, is she gonna be okay? I'm worried. Give it a couple of years, she'll be like, yeah, go, go, go, go, when school start again, huh? But the other thing about this is

you have multiple children. I do have multiples, yeah. go, go, go, when's school start again, huh? But the other thing about this is you have multiple children. I do have multiples, yeah. Yeah, so. And multiplies. Made on man. I've heard a lot of contention amongst parents with school starting earlier and earlier in the summer every year.

A lot of parents are like, hey, we don't want school to start until after Labor Day because we want to go on trips. We want to do stuff in August. This is ridiculous. This is too early. And in Broward, school started on, wanna do stuff in August. Like this is ridiculous, this is too early. And in Broward, school started on like what, was it like August 12th this year?

I mean that's like the whole month of August, that's crazy. Jessica, are you ready to have your mind blown? My kids, last day of school was the Friday before Memorial Day. I said I didn't know. Their first day of school, July 24th, in Phoenix, Arizona. What? When it was 100 bajillion degrees.

Recess, ha! Sit your ass in this classroom and just wait for it to end. There's this whole thing where it's like, instead of having a long summer break like we had when we were growing up, they now sprinkle everything out. So fall break is two weeks. Spring break is two weeks.

Winter break is like three and a half weeks. So I would rather they have summer August, like you said, because I'm real busy in June and July doing MBA stuff. I want August to be able to go on trips. Having said that, I don't want them starting school like after Labor Day because then I'm going crazy. I like get them the hell out of my house. I'm gonna get back to this escalating tensions list here.

Just remind people what it is that we were talking about. And Roy, I'm gonna include you here to find out which of these social media things you value the most as we try to put together our social media list of escalating values. So here's the chart of escalating tensions. The weakest of the tensions, you know, I think this started because of an on-field baseball brawl

and we were talking about how those aren't actually brawls. Chicanery is the weakest. Hijinks, malarkey, skullduggery, shenanigans, they're all very weak. Right there, you stop right there at shenanigans, that all these, not only are weak, they're lighthearted. They're like, ah, they're just horsing around. They shouldn't even be on the list, honestly.

Then there's a line, and then next comes. This is where the violence escalates. The lowest of the strongest violences is Tif. A Tif. A Tif, right, after shenanigans, because all of the other stuff, there's no real harm, but a Tif. Yeah, it's like, ugh, a little bit of an annoyance there.

Then a spat, a quarrel, tomfoolery, that seems like it should have been elsewhere. Tomfoolery, drop, yeah. Skirmish, porlist, skirmish, fracas, hullabaloo, ballyhoo, dust up, br Brujaha, Armageddon. Okay, that seems, they're a lot after Armageddon. So. Big jump there.

Brujaha to Armageddon. Is this an order? I would say. Well, I thought it was an order, but I'm not trusting anybody in video, anybody in production today, I'm not trusting anybody. Dan, really quickly, I'd like to say Dust Up

is where it's actual full-on fighting, because there's dust flying up as they're arguing it. Well, I've never viewed this list as flawed as it clearly is, because we escalate very quickly. What's after Armageddon? Well, hold on. Malice at the Palace.

I'm trying to do this in a way that respects the list. Brujaha escalates to Armageddon, and then Armageddon escalates to agree to disagree. Oh. And it makes me feel like this list was not given to me in the correct order. Checks out for me. Someone go check the stairs.

Oh man, what do you think is going on? I don't know. And it makes me feel like this list was not given to me in the correct order. Checks out for me. Someone go check the stairs. Oh man, what do you think is going on on the second floor of the Clevelander right now? Drugs. Sex, yeah. There are 10 sex on concrete sinks that were put in as concrete so that they wouldn't fall because people have sex on them.

How are there 10 on this list after Armageddon? What are they? Well, it's agree to disagree, gloves off, fisticuffs, kerfuffle, hubbub, hurly burly, slobberknocker, Donnybrook riot, now there's war. This is not the right list. It's just not the right list. Bruce Willis, we didn't talk about him earlier,

speaking of Armageddon. Chris Cody just not the right list. Bruce Willis, we didn't talk about him earlier. Speaking of Armageddon. Chris Cody, what is your list of social media hierarchy values? It's not my list, we're working on it as a group back here. Right now at the very top, in terms of social media feeling rankings,

going viral for something good. Like that's the top of the food chain right now. This, by the way, we call that the Rex Chapman. Correct. Next we have compliment from a celebrity that's quote tweeted or reposted. And then below that compliment from a celebrity in a reply. And then below that cosign from a celebrity.

Below that compliment from a random person reply. Below that follow. Below that retweet. Below that like. Below that going viral for something bad. I'm going to push back on a couple things. Number one, I think the cosign from the celebrity is more important than a compliment. Because the cosign is like, yo, this is the guy right here

and that breeds a lot more follows and likes and views and everything else. So that's second after going viral for something good for you Like that's next after that we can because this is yeah, this is fluid we can stuff up. I would say cosine Yes, do we agree on that or is this just a me? I mean, I think it obviously depends on the celebrity like there's certain people that they interact with your tweet even if it's positive And you're like oh, yeah, I don't know well But I means when you put at the bottom of the list

going viral for something bad, yes, that's terrible if it's actually shameful, but Amin likes it when he goes viral on one of his quote unquote bad things. Well, Dan, I'm glad you brought that up because yesterday something awful happened to me that should have gone viral, but this country's values are all out of whack.

I know what you're talking about. I've got a note here from somebody who wrote in, as a middle school math teacher, Amin's consistently erroneous math in hour one yesterday had me horrified. I'm horrified. It was still not as bad as Tony's shower beers, but continue.

No, no, no. It's way worse. What? It's way worse than anything. And I thought for sure, I was like, oh, I don't wanna open my phone. And I opened my phone, I looked at the mentions, and there was nothing.

I went on Reddit, there was nothing. I went everywhere, I went on Instagram, I went on threads, nothing. And I said, you know why? Because this country's education system is failing us. Failing us, it's failed us all. You guys care more about a jump shot than math! I was embarrassed by, and for, Amin yesterday.

He stopped the show in its tracks to do, it's Cardinal Sin, like, you did to say, hey, I've got math I'm gonna do, and then you got it wrong. And then you got it wrong twice. And you never actually got it right. We still don't know the correct answer. Pay the teachers. Howdy folks, it's Mike Ryan and as you know, the boys of summer, Major League Baseball, the games are getting more and more important. That means demand for these tickets goes up

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