The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Happy Birthday Roy!

Episode Date: July 11, 2025

It's Roy's birthday, so we have one of the oldest Friday shows in recent memory: a new Clipse album, a lot of Wimbledon talk, Izzy confusing Grok with Gronk, complaining about social media, and Billy's trip to the movies at 11 am on a weekday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Leventor Show with the Stugarts Podcast. Happy birthday Roy! Happy birthday Roy! Thank you. We put a smile on that face when you walked in. I didn't know you were here. Happy birthday to him! I don't care! Good luck! Is that 41 years old today? Correct sir, yes.

41 years old. I first met Roy, he was barely able to buy a drink legally. Jeez. And now he honestly hasn't aged a day. He's a grown ass man now. Grown ass man with a family. Great father. Proud of you, Roy.

Good job, Roy. How about Roy? How about Roy? Older than you are. I'm 25. That's our show game. We still alive. So we sing that every time a black man turns 40 plus.

We sing the Stevie Wonder song. You made it. Happy birthday. Hey, Tony, come on. Bring it culture. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday. All right, guys, we're trying to monetize.

I saw a comedian do a bit about Paul pitching the idea of a birthday song to the other Beatles. And they're like, we should do a birthday song. And they're like, there already is one. And he's just like, I'm telling you though, it'll be good. No it isn't. It's an age-old birthday song. I like the Beatles' birthday song. Do all the Beatles sound the same, Chris?

I know, I should have changed it up a little bit. No, they all do, actually. They all sound the same. 40-year-olds are having a moment right now. We got the first Clips album in 16 years, Mary Clipsmas. Deftones dropped a new single. We got a Superman movie coming out. We got the Wimbledon finals.

It's a big, big weekend if you're near 40 or just over. Or just over. Right there in the millennial. So Wimbledon's a 40 year old person thing? It is. What if you're like Tennessee, you're younger. I mean, Ethan's like an outlier. He's one of the few young people that I know that like.

He kinda likes everything though. But tennis and golf, older audience older demos for sure to get after but there's a lot to get into Let's start off with Wimbledon as it's going on right now. We got an American playing in a semi right now Probably gonna get his ass kicked by Carlos Alcaraz got broken in the very first serve. That's not good How can I screwed up you wore French open colors. Yeah it's not clay court season anymore. That's why I got my Toledo flag on courtesy of Billy. Got me right there just for anybody that was curious what this is. Nice, very thumping. I don't think anybody cared. Billy gave it to him in the best way to give a gift he

goes feel free to throw this away. Talk about pride. No, because I don't want him to feel like he needs to do like. Yeah, you're like being rejected. No, it's not that I want him to think my gift isn't cool. No. I'm like this is stupid here. You want this stupid thing? No, I just I understand like if you just give someone a flag they're like what do I do with this you know so like if you feel like you want to leave it here feel free to leave it here. Do't feel any obligation. I don't have a boat. No, not quite. You have a flag pole in front of your house? I don't have a flag pole.

Then I don't know what you're gonna do. You have a roof, you can just hang it from the roof. Do people have flag posts in front of their house? It would be the thing that you put on your roof. In the Midwest, for sure. I'm picturing now, like out in front of a school, a flag post. I have one, I actually just changed it out.

You have a flag post in front of your house? A flag pole attached to the house. Right, that's right, that's how I have it. I see it more down here than ever. I actually just changed it out. You have a flag post in front of your house a flagpole attached to the house, right? That's right. That's right. I see it more down here than ever I had the Florida Panthers family black people with a flag. No. No you don't huh? This is exclusively like a water on the pole. Yeah lately I would say over the last and set it on the pole But is anyone know a black person with a flagpole on their house? I like to I like to celebrate my teams.

When I first got it installed, when the heat were in the bubble, and I put a heat flag out there, for a full year, I had a Panthers Stanley Cup championship flag. I changed it for a little bit for the 4th of July weekend, put up a US flag, took that down, and replaced it with a brand new Stanley Cup champion flag. I'm getting used to this annual tradition. I like it around the house.

Just if I could only have like two to three flags up a year, that's great. And have them be Stanley Cup champion flags. I've got two flags. I've got a pride flag and a Florida Gators flag. And when I hang them side by side on the boat, I like to make people laugh because they think I just went alphabetical

at the flag store and went gay and gators. Sabalenka got eliminated by Anismova yesterday in a crazy set. Sabalenka has been defeated by Anismova six times. Wow. Anismova has not defeated any other tennis players more than she's defeated Sabalenka, which is crazy because Sabalenka is damn good. And Smova now famously, as people are telling her story, took 2023 off for a mental health break,

and she finds herself in a Wimbledon final, an American four straight Grand Slam major that a woman has made it, an American woman has made it to the final, which is kind of unprecedented in a post-Sarina era. Coco famously bowed out here in this first round. The WTA is kind of random. Sabalenka is actually one of the outliers right now. I love Sabalenka, I guess she's local, but.

Is she? Yeah, she lives down here now. She can't really rep, she's not allowed to rep. Well, I should be careful when I speak my opinion about her too loudly because she is currently my least favorite athlete in all of sports. Really? Yes.

She's damn near one of my favorites. Yeah, I love Samalekia. We have different tastes there. There's a lot of athletes, Izzy. I know. How many athletes, Hawk, like did you see what she did yesterday? I don't know if you guys know this whole tennis thing, right?

Where if the ball hits the tape and goes over and helps you win the point, you're supposed to apologize. Say, I'm sorry. Just saw Alcaraz do that. I was like, is that a thing in tennis? Yeah, you're supposed to do that. I'm sorry, I got lucky there.

My bad, okay? So Amanda, and I'm not gonna try to pronounce her last name. She's American, I'll call her Amanda. She hits the ball, ends the game, off the net, and I'm not gonna try to pronounce her last name, she's American, I'll call her Amanda. She hits a ball, ends the game, off the net and onto her side. Onto Sabalenka's side. Did she do the wave?

She did not. She started celebrating, did not apologize. Now, Hawk, Sabalenka has a history of choking. It's kind of her thing. Okay. She has overcome. She also wins. Okay.

She has overcome the history of choking. Okay, but it still creeps up a lot. And you know those people who choke. You can tell why. And part of Svalinka's issue is her brain is everywhere. She's not focused on the one thing. She talks about it all the time like, oh, I fall apart, I didn't focus, whatever. Oh, I have ADHD, I was diagnosed as a kid, it's something I've overcome to become one of the best tennis players in the world. Yeah, shut up, go ahead.

You are in a Wimbledon semi-final, and you just lost a game, and you need a break. You need to get back in this third set. And you're worried about your opponent not apologizing to you for winning a point. So Sabalinko's walking up and you can see her mouth, why didn't you say sorry? Well first of all, I'm not sorry, right?

Nobody's really sorry in that situation. But you said it is part of the game though. But do you want me to, do you care as the person who's losing that I didn't apologize for, like it's as if you're looking for the excuse. If your opponent says, oh, I'm sorry, then the world can see, you see, it wasn't my fault, she got lucky.

Or the edge. It's the Jordan mentality. Like, wait a minute, you're beating me, but is this disrespect that I'm feeling right here? Was that purposeful disrespect? Right, does Amanda not know what she's doing? Does that push me over the top to be like, okay, it's one thing to lose, it's another thing.

But she lost that exchange right there. If Amanda is playing the game. Did she come back and win? No, she didn't. Amanda won that game. Because she owns Sabalanka. She almost came back. Yeah, there was double championship point,

Sabalanka battled back and we're like, okay, this turns the narrative around and then she ended up choking. But this is coming off of the French Open. I heard she has a history. Where she choked against Coco Goff and then told everybody, she didn't win, I choked. What kind of athlete wants to say that out loud?

What kind of athlete says, no, no, I didn't get beat, my mental weakness showed up at just the wrong time? Why would you even say that? So her lack of self-awareness makes her my least favorite athlete right now. I'll allow it. I will admit, as a Sabalanka fan, it's been a rough couple of tournaments for a Sabalanka kid.

She carries herself, I think, gracefully when she's winning. Yes. Definitely in front. And I'm going to keep the same energy because last Olympics, I thought Coco had kind of a meltdown and it was a really bad look now a lot of this stuff isn't happening necessarily on the court even though the uh... you didn't apologize or that happened on the court she say sorry sabalenka has kind of been a sore loser after the fact

uh... she's on an incredible run again that w t a is very weird things like anis mova making a a championship finals not there in that sport like is the most consistent thing about women's tennis, right? Yes. Serena kind of spoiled a lot of people in that the expectation when it comes to the WTA is, well, if you're good, you're supposed to be good for a long time and you're always in that conversation. WTA, Serena was a demigod in that respect. No one else does what Serena did. No one else does that remotely close in the WTA. And Sabalenka, as you mentioned,

is one of the more consistent competitors out there right now, which is why I like that. It's hard to get attached to a WTA player in a post Serena world because they're often not playing deep in these tournaments. But let me sort of finish that thought on why her not, or her getting mad about not saying sorry is really annoying. If I was Amanda, after that, if I had this exchange with her,

why didn't you say sorry? I'd be like, first of all, I'm not sorry. I can't control that net cord. You know what you can control, Savalenka? That damn moaning and yelling every time. I know you do. I like it. Again, different interests.

That yelling every time. And we've seen this, and we've had athletes in the past talk about it. Yes, I can control it. I know you do. I like it. Again, different interests. That yelling every time, and we've seen this and we've had athletes in the past talk about it. Yes, I can control it. Yes, I get louder in big points. We've all talked about it. That is a strategic element to some of these women's game. And yet again, you're gonna get mad

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Don Lebatard! If Daniel Day Lewis did it, you'd be jerking off all over yourselves. Oh, come on. Yeah, I would be. Aggressive description? I mean, what is it? What is that? I'm just saying.

You know what? That's me. You're just saying what? That's me. That was something Bruce did yesterday. I see that photo of Daniel Day-Lewis looking like Lincoln before he's about to start filming Lincoln. And you know what I do?

I mean, stugats. I jerk off all over myself. That's what I do. Lincoln, who you outed the other day? Don't make this a rejoin. This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats. Let's turn our attention briefly to the gentleman before we move on to non-niche sports. I'm sorry, guys.

I know it's the old drums of summer here. It's the gentleman in the ladies' semis. We have an American playing right now. He's getting his ass kicked promptly. Alcaraz is destined to make it to the Wimbledon final on the men's side. Who he plays against, that's up in question. Most people would assume Sinner, Bionic Sinner's dealing with tennis elbow right now, go figure.

He's up against Jokovic too, which should be a marathon match over there. I mean, look, I think Sabalinka and Jokovic are actually pretty, pretty close in terms of how they approach the game and how people can seize on some of the things that they do and are unlikable. I don't like Joker personally on the men's side.

I think if there's been a villain of this era, it's been Joker. But I, and I know I'm talking out of both sides of my mouth, but on the WTA side, it's hard to get any kind of rooting interest because it's just such a revolving door of competitors. The fact that Djokovic is here right now, I think it's his 52nd Grand Slam semi-final, which

is just an amazing achievement. While these guys are trying to take it from him, I think they've effectively taken it from him. Djokovic is probably set for semi-finals. Maybe he can dial up a championship here and there, but the days of him running rough shot are over. You pumped up for this semi on the gentleman side now that Fritz is probably letting down America. I am, although I spent that entire time thinking if Andrew Hawkins has ever been this boxed out in his life. I mean, I'm not even turned to him. I was like, man, I did not know

that Jokic played tennis in the off season. I had two thoughts on it. I thought Sinner. The nuggets are about to win the win. Did I say Jokic? No, you did. All right, good. The Sinner is the perfect name for a sports cheater who got caught for cheating. The nuggets are about to win the win. Did I say Jokic? No, you did. All right, good. Joven.

Sinner is the perfect name for a sports cheater who got caught for cheating. But the thing that I love about it is people are going to look at that matchup and say, oh, yeah, Sinner is the guy who got caught for cheating. So he's definitely been cheating, not the guy who has played at this level for this long and seems like he sort of jumped leapfrogged over everybody

else like that. But I think the Jokovic chase for, was it 25? I think is very intriguing. I think the Janik Center to me after watching him in Wimbledon, I think he is a mega villain. I think he's a super villain. I think he has the look. I think he's got the history obviously with the PD situation. Yeah, he's got the cheating in his background. Perfect name as you mentioned. And the idea of somebody's going to have to beat him because he's not gonna lose it.

In the last tournament, he kinda did. He did kinda. And so that's why this sets up, potentially, if it's Alcaraz Sinner as a great fighter. Look, as a part Italian, I would find almost any excuse to... Italian? He's Italian?

Italian! Italian! He's Italian! He's Italian! But Sinner doesn't feel Italian to me, I'm sorry. It's the name, it's how he looks. I can't really get behind the guy and it's the cheating. I'm an Alcaraz guy because I was an Andal guy

and if you were an Andal guy, you have to be an Alcaraz guy. Them's the breaks. And also, Tommy Paul, baby. I love babe. Let's turn our attention to one of the four major sports here in the United States. A lot of people watching Summer League last night.

It was Brawny, who had an attempt to win the game last night. It was Cooper Flags debut in Summer League. Cooper Flag going with a goatee. The 1990s goatee. The boss in coffee shop type of goatee. An odd look for Cooper to debut on there. Really low scoring game, but I also had it on a third screen and I opened up social media to see what people were saying about this and a lot of people

were having to go with Brawny. You can understand that. The algo almost rewards that kind of behavior, but I was hoping that this would be an event to tune into and I was so disappointed by my social media experience because back in the day, Twitter was so amazing to watch, primarily basketball with, it was such a supplemental enhancement of what you were watching on TV. You had a community, they would pop up in an organized fashion on your timeline. It looks like a magician.

It's a terrible look. I don't know what Coop's doing right there. That's kind of an Izzy look though, if you take out the mustache, Izzy uses that. No, it doesn't look good. No, but true not Izzy look, though. If you take out the mustache, Izzy uses that. After we say it doesn't look good. No, it doesn't look good. No, but true not Izzy. You had that when you were doing the playoff beer with the Panthers.

He just had the bottom. He had the bottom. I had the chin beard. Yeah. Sans mustache. That's an Izzy look. So yes, from the bottom lip down, kind of looks like me. Thank you.

Hmm. All right. But I guess my point is I was really disappointed by my social media experience, as I often am. X, it doesn't prioritize who you follow anymore. You have to click another tab, which is not convenient. It's not on your main screen. And I saw a story the other day that,

and you can tell, by the way, if you're, I don't think anyone here is pretty active on threads. Ruy, I've seen you try to get into threads a little bit. The user experience there hasn't been super fun over the last year because there hasn't been a lot of engagement. However, recently I've noticed more people engaging. And it does harken back to a time maybe nine years ago

where watching the NBA, you were watching two screens at the exact same time. You had your phone out, you were communicating with your fans, you were engaging. And engagement, true engagement seems to be gone right now Hock And you know you have a huge social media presence It does it it just that's my point it

only Yes threads is a little like the reason I think I don't use threads as much as it feels a little too personal Like it feels too communal and I'm like I haven't had a communal social media experience in a long time Is it because everybody knows you're here because you didn't like Twitter and so like be nice So I was forced into it kind of a thing. Like if you remember like the sign up for threads Yeah, it's tethered to your IG. So it was like it made you do a bunch of things You didn't say that you were okay with so immediately I like took a step back So I kind of stayed off it. But when I first got on there it was like

Me again a kid that I went to middle school with Someone who lived down the street that we got into a fight when I was in 10th grade It's your IG follows cuz it's your eye and it was like oh this person also was on your defunct Facebook from 15 years ago And I was like okay hold on I gotta I gotta I gotta take a step back here I'm good on this one you you got gotta do threads like Chase Daniel does threads, where he'll just be like, who likes the color orange? And then that's it, and it just puts out questions and things just for engagement, like, huh?

Water coloring, what do you guys think? It's like, wait, what? I'm so happy you mentioned Chase Daniel, because yeah, he's a threads pioneer. He's been chippin' away for the full year now. Really? And now the engagement's kinda caught up to him. I still don't, the engagement to me

doesn't feel ultra genuine and Threads also is prioritizing an algo in which like your front page is stuff that you've been searching out and not necessarily people you follow. And I do miss the ability to just watch a game with people that I follow because they're super entertaining on social media, on certain sports, and that feeling has been gone for several years now.

Just take me back to 2011 Twitter. I just want that experience again. Heat Twitter was a thing, and I used to make, I had friends and I would meet them outside and play basketball with them because of how entertaining and the common thread, if you will, of liking the Miami Heat, that's gone now. I'm not making social media friends.

Such an easy decision to just jump on there and make a comment and just feel like, even though, in my case, whatever, six figures worth of followers, who knows how many of those were real, everybody's listening and it's just like, well, there's no real pressure. It just feels like I'm just having a chat.

Now it feels like I have to say the perfect thing if I'm gonna get on there at all. I haven't even been on for a while, I deactivated it years ago, but even on threads. I'm still not gonna get on there and just say some random stuff and that's gonna be the beginning of my engagement. It's gotta be perfect, you gotta feel like

you're walking on eggshells to like not offend anybody with your opinion. So I've sort of downgraded to instead of needing to discuss it on social media. Sounds like it sucks. You just discuss it on a group chat instead. Is this a platform problem or is this an age problem? Not like an age of how old we are,

but how long we've been on social media. This is the next stage of after 10 years of basically giving the people hits, man. It's like music. It's like we were just putting out the art and people were loving it and then the younger kids came up and the hits weren't as frequent

and we're like, man, we gotta send the right tweet. This mumble rap sucks. I'm trying to fit in with what's cool now. I'm gonna stream and play video games. Like Kaisenet. Yeah, that's actually the new engagement community where people are making friends. The mumble rappers of the internet.

Yeah, and they're blowing up and it's a huge. It's kind of the wave right now though. It is. That's what the mumble rap is, man. It's a huge economy. It might be us. I don't wanna sound like, man, I like Twitter's first album I don't want to sound like that yeah and I don't think I do because everyone knows look

it's not even called the same thing it's changed so much that Twitter in 2011 wasn't perfect it had a lot of issues but that's just how bad by comparison hell Grok is a Nazi now I mean I feel like I feel like I'm looking at a still, bro. Really? It feels like if you sub out everything you're saying about Twitter for like hip hop or punk rock, if you sub it out, it will fit the same way you're talking about it. Yeah, I-

And my kids will be like, who listens to that? But are your kids super necks? My kids are like, who's on Twitter, bro? That's an old person platform. That's what my kids and his friends would say. say should've been there when the heat were around in 2011 Bro, it's like man Millie the Carter three are you serious? Wasn't a white t-shirt in stock when the Rockets were courting Deandre Jordan

Yeah, essentially kidnapped him. Locked him in his home? Dude, those are where were you type of moments. Those were huge social media moments and those moments are kind of gone now. You know what I just realized based on this exchange here is it used to be where I went to Twitter because everything that I wanted to know,

I was like, what am I missing? Now I want to avoid it because I don't want to know shit like Rob Gronkowski is a Nazi now. Again, now that that's not necessarily true. It's Grock. Right. I'm glad I know, this needs a clarification.

The former Patriots tight end is not a Nazi. The AI that is inside the app X is now a Nazi. But the fact that I even have to discern what you just said. Gronk is not a Nazi. I don't want to have to deal with that. But there are a lot of truths that I would find out there that I'm just like, man, I didn't want to know that.

Especially about Rob Gronkowski, that was a turd. That was quite the turd. I hope not because they did a documentary on him. I believe it was on Disney Plus called Becoming and they had like a player for each one. Becoming of what? Just Becoming, it was just that. It wasn't Becoming of Nazi.

But they did have me as one of the guys that are talking about Rob growing up and all this. And every time, I mean I'm in there like six times, like you know, when he was a kid, his mom, they put him in every sport because he just wouldn't sit still. And as I'm saying all this stuff, I'm like, I've met this dude twice.

And I am one of the main voices in his Disney Plus documentary. Was he confused by this? Has he reached out? I hope so. I'd literally just showed my kids the other day and they're like, you know Rob Gronkowski? I'm like, not that well.

I went to a training camp with him. We sat at the lunch table once when I was with the Patriots for six weeks. And then we did a podcast together. Then the Spectrum was trying to get you out. I think I was available and they needed a football voice. But here we are. But I did not know the information

that Izzy just talked about. Now I'm like, wow, I got to go redo all those interviews. I do think the expansion of group chats has also taken me away from the social media experience. Although I feel like social media has pushed me away from the experience. I do like getting to know strangers and getting their takes on experience. Although I feel like social media's pushed me away from the experience. I do like getting to know strangers and getting their takes on it, but I do.

Just not in person. No, not in person. But that's why social media is perfect, because I don't actually have to get to know these people in real life and have that awkward small chat. Don't talk to him. I just get straight, I just get a pure cut. Look, I follow you for golf takes.

Give me the golf takes. Give me the hit I'm looking for. Yeah, but now you're right. I do gravitate to the group chats, especially the way that I do group chats where everything is essentially siloed so you get people that if I want to talk tennis, I'm not getting a catch-all chat. I'm getting a pure Bolivian cut of tennis.

I didn't know what to do the other day when Messi had the brace in the first half. And I was like, hey, look how happy I am. I didn't know where to go with that chat. There's an MLS chat. There's an MLS chat. Invite me please. You want in?

It's Liga and Mekis as well, but we got leagues coming up. I got so many friends that I've never met and we've been close friends for a decade because of Twitter. Really? You have such great takes, man. I just, we vibe.

Everything you say I agree with and vice versa. The jokes hit the right way. The wits. You're just saying in general. Who's the best friend that you've ever met that you met on social media and vice versa. The jokes hit the right way. The wits. You're just saying in general. Who's the best friend that you've ever met that you met on social media and then you became real friends in real life?

I don't know, man. Did that ever happen? Not really. Let's all go around, our best social media friend. You go first, Mike, because you clearly have an answer for that. No, no, no, I gotta think about it a little bit. When he Twitter was a thing,

I'd play pickup basketball with a lot of the Heat Twitter guys, they'd come to my birthdays, you know, like Mr. Bill and Alf Slim and Alf. I never really played basketball with Alf. But I think the Heat Twitter people I became genuine friends with, and we would hang out, and you'd go watch games, like you'd put out, hey, let's all meet up for this game.

Also with Chelsea, because when I worked with the club, I kind of had to be super engaging on social media and reach out to a lot of the supporters clubs. So I'd go around the country and make a lot of friends with supporter clubs. I'm in WhatsApp groups with all of them. So I actually enjoyed that. That forced me to come out of my shell a little bit.

So I made a fair amount of friends on social media. And also, it's great for networking. You may not have best best friends. Actually, no. Master Tess Fadzi is someone that of friends on social media. And also it's great for networking. You may not have best, best friends. Actually, no, Master Tespasi is someone that I met on social media. He's like, hey, let me come by the studio. I'm in town and we became great friends. A lot of my good friends I've met through networking

on social media and then just build that relationship out after just casually meeting them. Kind of like LinkedIn. I think that's more of why it's hard to think of it because you might not even remember some of the friends you have that your first interaction was on social media or that you were following each other for a certain amount.

Like Kaz, I don't know if you know Kaz. Me and Kaz, we would tweet damn near every day for like years before we actually met and then we've worked together and we hang out and it's cool to see those people that were like Twitter friends, now they're like at the top of the sports media game. Yeah, exactly.

Kaz was a Twitter friend of mine, and then I went to Wally Mania and met with him. Great dude. Great dude, great dude. I don't really see that happening these days. I don't know how many new friends I'm making on social media. I don't even know if I trust social media

to make friends anymore, just considering the very recent turn it's taken. We do sound old. We do sound old. I was gonna say, as we continue to talk, we sound even older. We're harkening back to a different time. And today, the atmosphere out there in the bullpen was a little older.

We were listening to clips. It was Roy's birthday. We were talking about going to movie theaters. Wait a second. So me thinking that Rob Gronkowski is a Nazi makes me sound old? A little bit, yeah. Not knowing what Grok is.

Right. Not knowing what Grok is and assuming it was the Hall of Fame tight end. Given the recent- It's probably the oldest thing that probably happened today. Given the fairly recent history around New England Patriots tight ends, I mean, you can't totally discount it. I see the pathway. I see how the brain got there. Serial killer, Nazi, believable.

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we're not afraid of the lightning. That's a tagline for World Rawr 3. This is the Don LeBathardt Show with the StuGards. ["The Magic of the Cinema"] Billy was talking about how he went to the movie theater the other day. I still like going to the movies. The magic of the cinema is still something very real.

I just watched this Jaws documentary and I was, what? I just, I'm sorry, I saw a clip about movie theaters and it's like, it doesn't make any sense. The amount of space in these theaters, when you look at it from the outside, it just looks like a regular building. When you look at it, it's these massive auditoriums. It's like, how does it fit? It's the same concept of like a regular building. When you walk in, it's these massive auditoriums. It's like, how does it fit?

It's the same concept of a city bus. It's like, you're on the same lanes as my car, but yet there's people walking from one side of the bus to the other. How do they fit in the same lanes as my little car? I saw this clip too. You look at a movie theater and you think, that building has to fit what, four or five?

You walk in, there's like 18 theaters. It's like, how is there 18 theaters in this just box-shaped building? Well have you seen like the Google Earth things of like the Disney rides where you're like walking and like oh the haunted mansion's just like a little house and it's like no, it's this massive like warehouse that's behind all these trees, you just don't see any of it.

Oh that makes sense, they hide it, okay. Yeah, Guardians of the Galaxy though, they can't hide that one. That was massive. It's humongous, and it looks humongous from the outside, but there are a lot of great examples. A very small facade in the front. Well, they're built out, most amusement parks now

are former retrofitted studios, and they're all supposed to have kind of facades and then expand it on the inside. But Billy, you went to the movie theater, what movie did you go see in the movie theater? I went to see Mission Impossible. Oh, on the biggest screen possible? The way it was intended Billy you went to the movie theater. What what movie did you go see in the movie theater? I would see Mission Impossible. Oh on the screen possible I went on IMAX. I went to the most available screen possible at 11 a.m. Standard yeah, I mean bigger than the screen of my house, which is how I was gonna see it

So the biggest screen possible to me that day. Yeah, it was kind of depressing honestly the movie theater really I remember 11 a.m. Weekday Well, no, but like it was depressing and that like I season why I think you got the deal in the tickets Well, I went I used to go in I it was seriously just me and my wife in the theater It's just two of us. It was like our own screening. I almost wanted to tell him like hey like Why don't we just skip this and just get it started? We're the only people here. What's our we don't need 30 minutes of like? I get it started. We're the only people here. I'm sure it can get what started. We don't need 30 minutes of previews. I get it. I'll get the pop afternoon delight

with the wipe at the theater. I don't need foreplay. I like going into the theater with nobody there. I didn't mind it. But there's no video games anymore. There was no arcades. There was nothing. You look forward to that sad movie theater arcade.

When I was a kid Park ride or whatever right like I walked in There was nothing there and now there's like a space where they like sell you merchandise for the movies that are out Yeah, like you buy t-shirts of the movies or like glasses or whatever and I was like this is a total I haven't been in four years to a movie theater. So it's very take it back You don't like to waste your money and take something home. You want to just give it. Yeah, exactly Yeah, I've got spill a hundred percent. You're sneaking candy in right? Oh, of course, I mean Off the record the door off the record. Yeah, we're not gonna tell them I didn't sneak anything in like minus 7

That's yeah, I inspect the purse before she went in no Take anything by the way, they don't care. They don't care. You can literally take it. I'll take a lot I did the like the last time or the time before I went I went in like with a McDonald's bag, like and I opened it up and I was like eating a Big Mac while I was watching a movie. You can bring your own water, you can bring your own, so you can bring anything you want. No, this time I- They are literally happy you're just there.

I bought all the food this time. You're here to watch the movie? Come on. It was at 11 and I knew this was like a two and a half, two hour 40 minute movie, so I knew it's gonna be lunchtime if I don't eat during this. So we went and we got, you know, something know Something you get angry like chicken fingers to the popcorn Big coat and cove it. I took my family to the drive-in a bunch of time

Yeah, I know cove it wasn't a thing here in Florida, but in LA that it was okay in LA for like five years Still locked there wasn't a single car on the highway So the drive-in movies were like sold out, bro We went to see Space Jam and it was like the cars were social distance But it was a cool experience because I hadn't been to a drive-in since I was four I've never been to a drive-in. Yeah, it's cool bro. It wants during coven you back up. You let the back seat out We got the blankets and pillows. We brought our own popcorn. It's pretty dope few minutes few minutes later, Chris is like, oh, there's a movie on. A few minutes.

Ah, man. What'd you think of the Mission Impossible movie? I loved it. Amazing. I mean, I know a lot of people. That implies your wife didn't. No, she said some of the stuff could've been a little bit shorter.

I loved it, though. Also, I knew going in, I'm not gonna look at my phone, am I gonna do anything, so I just got basically three hours unbothered. What? Three hours unbothered in a movie theater, the wife said, some things could've been shorter, I got you buddy, I'm picking up with you drop really. Good for you.

Good for you. Yeah. I was a little frustrated with this Mission Impossible movie. Now there is no such thing as a bad Mission Impossible movie, but I do think considering the high water mark of Fallout. I was told the second one was not great. The second one is pro- The second one was still a fun movie,

but it's the worst of the Mission Impossible movies. I think this is probably third from the bottom, which doesn't make it a bad movie. This movie was incredible. This was some of the most amazing- The sub scene was incredible. The sub scene, it's basically- The airplane scene.

Submarine or sub sandwich. I'm so happy you did that Tony take because follow up I'm pretty sure they just went into this pitch meeting for the sequel like we need this sub stunt and I got an idea for an airplane stunt I'm in around this question what are you gonna see the movie I don't know I have to start with number one right you think oh you is doing a death-defying stunt around a submarine sandwich fight scene and jersey mics?

I can imagine a giant submarine sandwich, yeah, absolutely. You ever try to swim through mayonnaise? It's like quicksand, I would imagine. Light on the mayo. But it felt like, granted, those two stunts in particular, the one that Tony mentioned, they are awe-inspiring. They're some of the most incredible things ever caught on camera, ever, truly.

What Tom Cruise does with that airplane is- Insane. It truly is. And you're on the edge of your seat for that, but what I loved about the Mission Impossible movies prior to was you had great action sequences and you also had a story. And I feel like with these last two,

even though they were on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence, the face, the human face behind it, it was a bad villain, probably the worst villain in the history of the franchise. I felt wanting more, which is not something that Tom Cruise really leaves me feeling when I leave a movie theater. Tony says there was a John Voight sighting and that'll get me in any time. which is not something that Tom Cruise really leaves me feeling when I leave a movie theater.

Tony says there was a John Voight sighting and that'll get me in any time. Oh, they also, they wanted to wrap the entire franchise together, almost in an annoying fashion in a contrived way, but I kind of saw, they were rewarding legacy fans and there was a lot of nostalgia pops if you either did a very recent re-watch of all the films leading up to that one or you're a huge franchise fan.

I mean to have the the administrator that was in the original Mission Impossible during the suspension scene to have him show up and whoa his character arc gets revived spoiler alert. He still had a job? Well no,'ll find out. Buddy, you'll figure out where he was. There were kind of punitive measures for. Very punitive. Yeah. Draconian measures, if you would say. Yeah, yeah.

To Chris's point, when John Voight shows up on the screen, you know he knows something that has not been revealed yet. So I'm like, okay, there's something there. He made Ray Donovan. Ray Donovan was made by him. Yes, yes, there you go. I never watch Ray Donovan. Mickey. Yeah, tell. Ray Donovan was made by him. Yes, yes, there you go. I never watched Ray Donovan. Mickey.

Yeah, me neither. I didn't finish it. I didn't get through the end of it. The first couple seasons were great. First couple seasons are great of Ray Donovan. John Vo was an MFer. Yeah, I still like the Mission Impossible movie. Again, this is just me grating on the curve

of Mission Impossible films, which are all awesome. No such thing as a bad Mission Impossible movie. But if we we're ranking them you'd hope they go all out for this one And they certainly did when it came to stunts the airplane stunt to me is probably the most impressive stunt They've ever had but it's not the best scene. It's not Remotely the best scene. It's not the most it might be memorable because it's truly death-defying But for example, I like the bathroom fight scene and fall out more way more. That was a great. Kick in my ass. Do you mind? No, that's a liar. Liar. Oh, sorry. It's gonna suck Yeah, he doesn't want to die of natural like when Tom Cruise dies of natural cause it's gonna be so lame

Yeah, if you are in a bathroom fight and somebody puts your head in the toilet Do you just pretend to be dead? Has there ever fight? Has there ever been a bathroom fight, and somebody puts your head in the toilet. Do you just pretend to be dead? And lose the fight? Has there ever been a bathroom fight without that? I feel like that has to happen somewhere in a bathroom fight. That's the part when you're watching, it's like, oh, end the fight, please, because that would just do it for me.

I'm like, all right, you got me, I'm dead. Is the fight not already over, if you got to the point where your head's in the toilet? Yeah. Have you not, like, I mean, you might die, but I'm just saying. You're almost literally rubbing it in. Is that worse than getting thrown in a lake?

Yeah, being thrown into a pond I usually thought would be a fight ender until this week. Although did you see the picture of the guy? He looks fine. He's proud. We gotta get that guy. Proud? He did, he posted a picture, the guy that got his ass beat,

only one leg, he's like, only a black eye, that's all I got. He was like. Oh, that was him. Yeah. Wow, he kinda looks like, in the face anyway, he looks like he could fight, all I got. He was like, oh, that was him. Yeah, well, he kind of looks like, in the face anyway, he looks like he could fight. But I actually thought that was the enforcer showing that,

but obviously, why would he have a black eye? He didn't get touched. No, that was not the enforcer. That was, we should, I wanna get, I don't want the guy, I don't want the guy who got thrown in the lake, I want his friend. I got it all on record? No, no, no, the guy that tries to stay

in between the whole time. The guy that gets shoved? The guy in white shirt right here, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, what the hell, We got it all on record. It's a little bit of a flop, but after seeing your friend get thrown into a pond. Oh, man. His head is flopping all over the place. And you know that guy who said, we got it all on record, is one of those guys that thinks

he can do radio for four hours, and he can't even think of the right sentence. The toss gets me. The toss gets me every time. That wobble before he got tossed was funny, man. The slight bounce after the toss. He wanted it to end, too, and he was like, man, I can't stop walking towards him because I started this, and I just want help.