The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Michaelangelos Don't Grow On Trees

Episode Date: October 28, 2024

Today's cast: Dan, Stu, Roy, Lucy, Billy, Mike, Jessica. What a weekend, huh? Where do we even start? First, Dan and the crew go to one of the all-time moments in World Series history as Freddie Freeman walked off Game 1 with a grand slam. Then, we get to the Jayden Daniels Hail Mary that won the game for the Washington Commanders. Plus, we touch on Tony Hinchcliffe's comments about Puerto Rico at yesterday's Donald Trump rally at Madison Square Garden. Also, the Jets are a laughing stock, and the Dolphins aren't much better. And who does that Dwyane Wade statue outside the Kaseya Center actually look like? Because it definitely doesn't look like Dwyane Wade...unless you look at it from the right angle at the perfect time of day and the sun is hitting it just right. Right, Jeremy? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Diageo America's Inc. New York, New York Shadow show shadow show shadow show shadow show shadow show Shadow show shadow in it. I don't think it's fair or right what we've done to Billy and Stu got here I don't think it's fair or right what we've done to Billy and Stu Gottier. They are just finishing God Bless Football and they're pinballing and careening in here. I just saw Billy rummaging around in his book bag trying to grab some of his breakfast pudding,

but there's no time to put nourishment in your mouth. You've got to get to the next show. What's in that bag, Mike? I know, yeah, he just walked out. I wouldn't touch that bag. That's a dangerous game, man. What do you guys think is in that bag, Mike? I know, yeah, he just walked out for a... I wouldn't touch that bag. That's a dangerous game, man. What do you guys think is in that bag? What is breakfast pudding?

Oh, I just imagined. Oatmeal? I imagine that Billy has a tapioca from an old folks home. Stove for stovetop pudding? Yeah. Billy, what is in that book bag of yours? I was just saying how unfair it is

to make you guys go straight from God Bless Football, which is, I don't think we do Presses anymore, but if there were presses still it would be hot off the presses in moment Because billions do gods get their football content out faster than everybody on Monday morning. What's in your bookbag? What's in my book bag? Yeah, I said there was I said things Yes, but I said your life searching around for breakfast pudding Is there any anything strange in your in your book bag anything that we would identify as strange? Well, I mean, it's all normal to me. So it's strange is relative right my laptop is in there

I have a notebook in there Let's see breakfast pudding medicine main compartment is well. Yeah medicine of course something happened. I have an IFB here Which is weird I use this on a plane and I thought that they were gonna think that I was up to something nefarious because I forgot my headphones on my last flight. So that was odd. I have stress, well let me not put that out there because I don't know the sponsorship situation.

It's all on the up and up. Oh, I have this, if you want this. So do you guys remember that we spoke to Greg Cody who told us about someone who was on the Greg Cody show with Greg Cody who walked or scaled Mount Kilimanjaro who was dealing with an ailment, multiple sclerosis, MS. I met that person and he gave me a card with a QR code so I could go donate.

So I still have that, met him. Now Matt Pennelly, his name is the guy who can, he goes by, so if you want, and you can see this, scan this code. You can't see it, we're not on video yet. Oh yeah, that's right. This is just shadowed. He's careening, Dan.

I'm trying to help multiple sclerosis, you guys are not, it would appear. I think multiple sclerosis is a little higher than ailment. I think ailment doesn't, I don't think that's the correct way to describe. As you mentioned, I was coming in here and we somehow have a shortage of headphones so I had to go get my headphones from the other studio

after we already started because I took them over there so that Lucy, Lucy's on God is full today, Lucy could use them so then I had to go back and get them and then while I was doing that, I was being asked to rummage through my personal effects. So, you know, I had to then scramble. My brain was a little scattered at the moment.

And poor Matt Pennelly, we knew that he scaled Mount Kilimanjaro, but I didn't remember exactly what disease he had. So I was trying to buy time while I was reading. I was trying to read the card. Also cancer. Survived that. So Dan, you're saying that we're not giving MS enough credit by calling it an ailment. Merely an ailment. It's like a cold. I'm saying that Billy used the wrong phrasing while filibustering. That when he went from ailment to muscular

sclerosis, I got a little bit. Multiple sclerosis That's a fine. Yeah, I'm sorry Yeah, yeah big one my bad. You made it just one sclerosis. Yes You made an ailment though You made an ailment. It's more than an ailment This is the Dan LeBattor show with the StuGuts podcast Today's episode is sponsored by DraftKings. Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings and all it has to offer throughout the show. DraftKings, the crown is yours. My God, there was way too much in this weekend.

Cortez delivers. Freeman hits the ball right field. She is gone! Gibby meets Freddie. ball right field she is gone gibby meet freddy game one of the world series that feels like it was a month ago. of time now steps up fires heads towards the end zone He went over to Albury! Touchdown! Touchdown! Oh yeah! Whoa!

He's talking about a ball go! That's like a grand slam! And that's the end of the World Series! Yes, baby! Oh, popped up in the air! Rides into the arms of Noah Brown! Jayden Daniels extended the play over and over and over! Walk-off touchdown! And not to ruin it, then there's the casual racism of the 1936 Nazi rallies at Madison Square Garden featuring Dr. Phil in Hulk Hogan.

A lot going on. Like, I don't know if you guys know this, but there's literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now yeah I think it's called Puerto Rico Stu gots I'm not a prude about these things I uh don't actually mind a little bit of isms in my comedy but it's got to be the premise not the point like it can't be racism is the only point. Make it clever, make it funny. This guy was funny. Tony Hinchcliffe was funny at the time Brady wrote, but that's lazy on top of being racist. Make racism funny?

Yeah. I mean, it can be. It can be on occasion. If it's clever, it can be. Dave Chappelle actually did that funny, during Chappelle's shows run. Obviously with the trans stuff, I mean that's a little bit different. But you may raise to some funny. Speaking of funny, the Wade statue. That was funny and we'll get to that in a second.

But Jessica just wants to laugh at a bunch of teams this weekend, because I don't know which is the one that you laugh at the most, Jessica. I mean the ending of the Bears game, starting with the Bears decision to try to hand it off to an offensive lineman when they were down in the game, just really busting the playbook wide open in a must-win situation. The Jets was also pretty funny.

I would posit the Dolphins game might have been up there as well. It was just a fun, funny weekend for the haters. I don't know which one is the funniest from among those three, because I would say the Dolphins are slightly soothed by the fact that you can then laugh at the Jets, but the Jets have one sort of brain-scrambled quarterback, but in the middle of the Dolphin game,

the thing that stood out to me is really, we're cheering Tua, because he can run 13 yards in the open field in a way that makes us all feel kind of scared and relieved when he slides. Like does that feel safe for the second half of the season to treat him a bit like the equipment manager getting into the game in a high school basketball game because he's the coach's son? It was a weird moment. Probably an unnecessary moment. It's weird. I'm imagining and assuming that the standing ovations will

go away for a guy who just slid, right? That will go away after this week. But it was interesting. Billy and I were discussing this during God Bless Football. It's just hard to watch, too. And I think what's at play there, he wants to play. That's his decision. I'm not trying to tell him to do otherwise. I just if there is a next injury, I don't want to be there to see it. I don't want to see it. That's all. And so it is going to be interesting. You say that's all but it's it's. Dan, I'm torn watching him play football. I know he wants to. I know he loves it. I know how much it means to him. I am applying my own personal stuff to this. I don't want to be around the next time it happens It's a gross admission right because like I and I was telling Stu gots earlier like I

Was excited the two was coming back the offense immediately looked like a different offense the team looked like a team that you know We thought they could be they end up losing the game and I like to us I want to it to play however Going up to it and while at the beginning of the game and losing the game and I like to us. I want to play. However, going up to it at the beginning of the game and throughout the game, I was kind of wincing because I don't want to see it happen again. I'm watching that and I think I have this right when I say it's about as close to God's as you're going to feel watching Make-A-Wish kids participate in professional sports. Like I know it's an extreme example,

but you're scared and with pity and you're moved as well. It's also inspirational because you're like, oh look, he's testing the limits. I think that's a bad example. Like I don't think it's like watching Make-A-Wish kids play. He belongs there, he's a good player. I'm saying the feeling. I'm saying the feeling. I'm saying the feeling around it. I'm not saying, I'm saying where you're rooting for him and you're also saying, oh and

you're inspired and you're worried. It's a whole combination of things and I'm saying, I'm not saying it's that. I'm saying it's about the closest thing in professional sports that you'll ever see To it when you're paying someone fifty million dollars a year to quarterback your team You're breathing a sigh of relief and you're giving him a standing ovation for merely sliding and because he didn't get hurt like so I do I kind of understand it's both inspiration and pity Right. I'm asking him to do all I'm begging him to do is make a basic football play Slide yeah, all I'm asking him to do, all I'm begging him to do, is make a basic football play. Slide. All I'm asking him to do is win a Super Bowl.

I don't think that's unreasonable. Come back and you're going to pay $50 million. Win a Super Bowl. That's it. That's simple. That you want to see. That's all I'm asking. Let's talk for a second about what Jessica was saying about the Jets, because Aaron Rogers

gave you the drive to give you the lead in Foxborough. You're a touchdown, look at the smile on Jessica's face. You're a touchdown favorite at New England. Drake May gets hurt with another concussion that we won't talk about and that brings in Brissette. And I don't know, how did you feel at that point, Stugats? Were you happy to see Brissette or were you scared of Brissette?

I was scared of the cage event. I gotta be honest with you. Yeah, and so I told you, I gave you that great stat. I think it was four games into the season where Kirk Cousins threw for 506 yards in a game and the Patriots hadn't thrown for that much in four games in all four of their games. That is a really limited Patriots team

and you get the drive from Aaron Rodgers that you want to go to. It's the rare time where the Jets get to 22 points and then all of a sudden your defense gives up very quickly a Touchdown drives that feels like it ends the jet season It has Aaron Rodgers talking about being lonely in the darkness and and you've got Mike Greenberg also talking You saw what happened with him on Twitter, right? He's melted down. I did not see what happened to greedy, no.

In a season filled with embarrassing performances, that was the worst. In a history filled with horrible seasons, this may be the worst. The Jets of 2024 are one of the truly colossal failures in recent sports memory, and it only gets worse from here. They have detections in three days. What a month for Devante Adams. He lost to the Steelers twice and then lost to

the Patriots. The only thing that can give the Dolphins fan solace is the Jets fan is the suffering of the Jets fan. You know what, Dan? It's just they've lost five straight. They haven't won since they fired Robert Sala. Robert Salla is now an offensive, he's consulting the offense in Green Bay. It's such a slap in the face to the New York Jets. And it's such a great move by the Green Bay Packers.

Aaron's not playing well. They haven't scored 30 points. It's not enough. And I blame it all on him. I don't care. It's not Salla. It's not the defense. It is Aaron Rodgers.

Don't tell me to embrace the darkness. I've been in the darkness for 40 years. You're supposed to lead me out of the darkness. This is the darkest it's ever been in 40 years because the expectations were so high for this football team and they should have been. I don't want to hear Aaron Rodgers tell me hey embrace the darkness. We all got to embrace it. No, leave me out of the damn darkness. Sorry. Can I, I know it was a good rant. That was solid. Can I, can I go back a second to Sala being like a sort of analyst assistant with the Packers because one of my favorite stories is the story about Brian Kelly that Rob Dymfroski wrote for ESPN about when they were grad assistants at Central Michigan under Brian Kelly. I'm going to read this to you, Dan, because these guys are trauma

bonded. It says, Green Bay, Wisconsin. On a winter night in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, Matt LaFleur and Robert Sala thought they were invited to a party at the home of their boss, Central Michigan University football coach Brian Kelly. Turns out they weren't on the guest list. They were on the worker list. We shoveled the snow and parked all the cars, Sala said. Then at the end of the night, we had to go get the cars again.

And then they went back to the tiny apartment they shared as grad assistants and stood around their kitchen table, one without any chairs. We decided that when we were in that position, we were never gonna treat people the way we got treated, Salah said. Just so, like, if they win the Super Bowl,

I don't think the Packers will win the Super Bowl, I'll just start that. But I am rooting for it now, because this would be such a hilarious story. Do I have this wrong when I ask of the witching hour, which was great yesterday, that the only thing that actually had ask of the witching hour, which was great yesterday, that the only thing that actually had stakes in the witching hour,

I'm gonna have to look at it, because the witching hour was fantastic, but Green Bay was the only good team in there, was it not? We had a whole. The Ravens. Yes, okay, thank you. Yeah, Jameis.

Justin Tucker. Jameis goes for 20 points. The Browns had not had 20 points in a game. He goes for 300 yards. Deshaun Watson had not had 300 yards in a game. That one is a bit baffling to me in that you've gotta make that move sooner, Stugatz, if you're watching these guys in practice every day,

and Jamis is that clearly better than everything Deshaun Watson has been. Well, think about the Browns. Their record has been good with anyone else at quarterback other than Deshaun Watson. They had Joe Flacco, he led them to the playoffs, and yesterday it was Jamis Winston. It's crazy.

Falcons also might have locked up the NFC South yesterday, Dan, during the witching hour. That division has never locked up, I mean. No, but now- Someone's gonna win it because someone has to win it. Yeah, but two wins over the Bucs, I mean, the driver's seat, and we can't debate that. I think it's also like, it's notable that the Browns

didn't choose this. They had to do this because Watson is out for the year now. Like, he would have started this game had he not torn his Achilles. They would have just lost it. What were your guys' thoughts on Miles Garrett showing up to the game, having done several hours of makeup clearly before the game, so that he would look

somewhat like Arnold Schwarzenegger, but not really? Play with the makeup. Put a helmet on and play with the makeup. That's something you don't do when you're one in six, right? I mean, he does it every year, like Halloween's his thing. They're not normally that bad. I'm not gonna fault someone for being spooky, Dan. This was Halloween weekend.

I think a lot of people were caught off guard by this being Halloween weekend because they thought Halloween weekend was next weekend. But next weekend's November. This was Halloween weekend. So this was his chance to show everyone how much he loves Halloween. I feel like the rule for Halloween weekend,

if you go to the game like that, is no matter the outcome, you need to leave the game dressed exactly the same, right? Like, it worked out, they won, but had they lost, like, you need to go through all the makeup again and leave like a sad boy in the exact same outfit. Did you guys think it was, it was a lot of effort, but did you think that it looked like Schwarzenegger?

Cause I thought it looked slightly like Schwarzenegger if the grading curve is Dwyane Wade statue looking like Dwyane Wade. Because Dwyane Wade statue did not look like Dwyane Wade. This was yesterday, Stu Gottz. So during the dolphin game, I felt bad for Tim Bowens yesterday. Tim Bowens is allowed finally into... It's an odd day to feel bad for him. Well, I'm about to tell you, he was allowed into the dolphin ring of honor yesterday, and it's just sort of done at

halftime. You've played a decade, okay, as a defensive tackle, giving your body to bad dolphin teams, and then they honor you while everyone's at concessions. And there's some crappy halftime band playing. And meanwhile, at the same time, Dwayne Wade, there wasn't even a heat game last night. It's just a celebration of Dwayne Wade outside of the arena that is an event all its own that's independent of the game

so that we can celebrate Dwayne Wade. And then they release his statue and Dwayne is very proud of it. And Dwayne says that he was involved in every detail of it. And I just can't believe it doesn't look anything like him. It looks like BJ Penn. It does not look like Dwayne Wade. Who does it look more like?

Does it look like Dwayne Wade or does it look like Bautista? More, I'm asking. Bautista? It looks more like Dana White than it looks like Dwayne Wade. Lawrence Fishburne, trying to get Neo through the matrix. Lawrence Fishburne is excellent, Roy.

I told you I'd take care of that Wade statue. You did say over my dead body, if he ever plays a play for Cleveland, and you did, you ruined the- I did. You ruined the- Guys, come on. Lucy, do you have any opinion on whether that looks like- First of all, that's Dwayne weight 30 pounds overweight

Like that's a that's a heavy. That's a well. It's a heavy face. I know heavy faces I I'm confused that like the actual how you like make a statue is it something that you chip down or is it something you build up? Huh, well, it's bra if it's marble you chip it down bronze. I think you you I Don't know You got in there with such you got in there with such statue expert I'm trying to help no one else is helping I was waiting for you to soar in the sky with give us an assort I'm gonna make a sword I can tell you a statue. I haven't gotten to that show yet You were saying Lucy. Well, how do you make a sword? Oh my gosh, what do you want to make it out of?

I don't know, what are my options? Old car springs we could do, we just put it in the, put it in the oven there, we melt it down. I actually went to a blacksmithing class I got on Groupon. That is so cool. Very hot, yeah, I felt lightheaded, like I had a headache for hours after

because of how hot it was and the smell, but it's fine, I have a little hook that I can hang my keys from. If you guys wanna see it, I'll try to bring it in. Let me look for it. I'll bring it tomorrow, don't worry. You guys think I'm being mean by pointing out that the statue, not since Ronaldo's statue,

we made, for years, we made fun of the Ronaldo statue because the Ronaldo statue, Stu Gatz, is the worst of these that I have seen where it looked a bit deformed, the Ronaldo statue did. And this is not that, but I think the consensus, as soon as that's unveiled, is it also doesn't look like Dwayne Wade, right? There wasn't anyone but Dwayne saying,

that's beautiful, I love it. And Jeremy. Yeah, the media puppets were out yesterday saying, that's beautiful, I love it. And Jeremy. Yeah, the media puppets were out yesterday saying, oh, up close, if you look at it in the right light, it looks just like him. That was embarrassing. It was embarrassing. It's one of those things that apparently you have to get

right up to, to see it. You know what you don't have to worry about? Pretty much any other statue ever. You don't have to say that. Why have we gotten so much worse at making statues? It's weird, we're not making statues like we used to. No, I mean Michelangelo's don? I don't think we have. We're not making statues like we used to, you know. I mean, Michelangelo's don't grow on trees. Thank you.

We're not making them like we used to. I've seen good sports statues. I feel like that's why this one stands out, because this has been the first really bad one in a while. And I do feel actually really bad, because I saw the artists were speaking at a press conference after, and I felt bad, and Dwyane Wade really liked it.

And the whole thing makes me deeply sad, and Dwayne Wade really liked it. And I just, the whole thing makes me deeply sad because it just doesn't look, it's not a bad statue. It's not like you could tell they're very skilled, but it just doesn't look like him at all. It's a bad ugly statue. It is. And they embarrass the franchise.

Yes. We talked about this, it's kind of crazy because we had this discussion for years, right? When they announced they were gonna do a statue, it was what moment were they gonna do, and we all guessed this was gonna be the moment, and then we debated the jersey that he was going to be wearing in the moment,

because the moment that they are capturing, is he's not wearing the correct jersey, they just went with an old Miami Heat jersey. He's not wearing the correct face. Well, he was wearing an El Heat jersey when he did that, and we were discussing, are you really gonna honor him with like an Off Jersey like a Hispanic heritage Jersey that they made just to sell and they decided no, we're not gonna do that We're just gonna make up the moment in our heads guys. I'm looking at this and I just realized I've been trying to figure out for about

12 hours it haunted my sleep What does this look like? What am I trying to place his face? And it is Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool after he's been tortured. Where his face looks like the skin has been pulled off of it. Close my eyes during that scene.

It seems like none of us saw that. Yeah. Okay, for those of you who have seen it, tell me that I am wrong because- You're not wrong. Oh, wow. It looks- Now that I'm seeing it.

I was trying to think of bald and somewhat scarred and a little inflated from whatever it is that the last few hours had done to his face. So is it true that the Heat front office was largely surprised by this because Wade had been really taking lead on this statue thing? There's no way. And so the unveiling wasn't actually for Wade.

Wade had been working with the artist the entire time. The unveiling was really for many of the Heat front office people in attendance. So they were surprised by this. And disappointed. You know what? If Mike were in charge of his own ceremony on this front, surprised by this. And disappointed. You know what? If Mike were in charge of his own ceremony on this front, this would be a wonderful way

for Dwayne Wade to punctuate laughing at the franchise at the end if he was just, this is Mike's sense of humor of watch this guys, I'm going to put a statue outside of the arena that doesn't look anything like me, that looks like Antoine Walker. I'm a little concerned and I need to tread lightly here because sometimes I say things that I think are funny that I don't actually care about. So I tweeted over the weekend about Freddie Freeman's grand slam.

And I was like, guys remember when he was pretending that they forced him to sign with the Dodgers because they were going back to Atlanta and he didn't wanna get booed. And now all of a sudden he's happy to be a Dodger and we all just pretend that didn't happen. And I wanted the Dodgers to win the game, I thought it was a great moment.

I just tweeted it out not even thinking about it, and then people were like, typical Yankees fan, you're such an idiot bro. And they were all like coming after me, and I was like, whoa guys, it was just a joke, right? So like I'm treading very lightly with this Dwayne Wade statue. Just say it.

Because I don't, look, I've been, I'm thankful for Dwayne Wade and everything he's done for The Heat over the years. However, people have said that I've been critical of Dwayne Wade for simply stating that he played for the Cavaliers and the Bulls, and they said I'm a hater. I don't think those happened.

Well, okay, so, here's the thing, and I'm worried about The Heat, Dan, and this is coming from a place of worry, and I'd like to share with you guys because I feel like everyone else is not worried but I'm worried. The Heat are in, and you guys are gonna not like this, the Heat are getting close to like Marlins territory

of celebrating the past and I'm a little worried because I feel like the Heat, we're doing this a little bit too quickly. Like we're doing the Jersey retirements too close to each other, we're doing the Wade, we're doing the Bosch, then we're doing the Pat Riley Court, and then we did the Dwayne Wade. I heard they might do a Haslam statue too. Okay well we're doing, well okay so that was my concern. Not that that UD is gonna get a statue, we've talked about that and then people said I was disrespectful with that statue, which we don't need to

relitigate. But here's here's what I'm worried about. I think after the street name and the statue, if we don't do a UD statue, we only have one move left. And that's retiring LeBron's jersey, which they're gonna do, obviously, right? But we've done this so close together that we're masking the not really winning very much situation and we're running out of cards to continue the masking.

Now we're gonna have to start celebrating the five year anniversary of the unveiling of the statue and stuff like that. That's not what the culture's supposed to be about. We need to be spacing out these things more. Look, Dwayne Wade's young. What was the rush? We didn't need to do this right now.

We could've waited another five years and then you cover yourselves for five years if things don't work out with Jimmy or whatever. Five years from now, now boom we have a statue forget about what's going on on the court but we're running out of those we've got Rachel Nichols trying to get in here but she can't get in here because Jeremy has taken up the entirety of the makeup room he's turned it again into the spin room I'm sure he doesn't like that you've ignored their win at

Charlotte a big win over the weekend at Charlotte Don't know how it got buried by all the news items from the weekend. Let's go check in with Jeremy in the spin room He's been in there for 10 minutes. Do you have a counterpoint to the Wade statue situation that we're mocking? Yeah, Dan the uh, oh God the more sweat coming off the instructor today It's really not great But you know the the details on the statue are really what matters, Dan. When you look at his parents' names being on each heel, you know, there's so much going on with the look of it.

And if you look at the signature knee pads, the detail on the knee pads is really spectacular. I'm really blown away by what these incredible artists were able to accomplish with the same people who built the Jordan statue and the Kobe statue. Dwayne waited there as every part of this detail. This guy knows what I'm talking about. It was really special to see,

and Dwayne was super excited about it. They just turned his face a little bit to the left, you wouldn't have noticed how big the jawline was. But really, that's only the flaw, Dan. The only flaw. Thank you, Jeremy. Appreciate all your work from the spin room. Mike is right about statues, though.

If you look at a statue, you need to know who it is automatically. When I look at the Rocky statue, I know who that is. I mean. Statue has one job. One job. I gotta recognize you when I see it. It's your only job. None of the other stuff matters. Like I guess the second job is to stay together,

not physically fall apart. Yeah, I guess that's two jobs. I was thinking this morning, cause I read Jeremy's tweets yesterday. I was like, maybe I'll walk by the statue on my way into work because it's right across the street, right? Maybe I'll walk by and look at it up close in person and maybe I'll change my mind.

And then I thought about it again and I was like, no. Jeremy's just wrong. He's in the spin zone for a reason. He's just trying so hard to make it work. And it's just not, Dan, it's just not him. His jawline is enormous. When I walk past the Statue of Liberty, there's no questioning who that person is.

It's Lady Liberty. How'd you end up on Liberty Island? I'm just saying. When I walk past it, when I see it, you know, when I fly over it. Who is the Statue of Liberty supposed to be? Lady Liberty. I mean...

When I saw the Statue of Liberty, for the first time, I was thoroughly unimpressed. Really? Yeah, because like... It's pretty small. It's so small from far away. for the first time I was thoroughly unimpressed. Really? Yeah. It's pretty small. It's so small from far away I got there and I was like I was a kid going to New York

for the first time like oh my gosh I've seen all these pictures it's gonna be great and I'm looking I'm like that's it over there? That's a little ant what is this? Interesting. So you got more muscular. Mm-hmm I have lost 10 pounds. Have you?

Yeah using my Peloton. I've had the Peloton in my house, so my daughter, she wanted me to get a Peloton. I did. She used it a couple of times. Yeah, great endorsement. But once she left to college and the Peloton was just sitting there in my office

and it wasn't being used, I said, you know what? I gotta use this. And I have lost 10 to 12 pounds, Billy. So I started using Peloton as a bike, obviously that's like what they're known for. But recently I discovered all of the other classes that they have. They have like a series of weightlifting classes, they have programs, which for me the programs is great because I don't have to think about what I'm doing.

If not I just go and I pick a class at random and I don't know that I'm actually accomplishing anything. I would like some recommendations on classes because I keep going to the same class. Okay. It's the Grateful Dead class by the way. You do like a four week core program with Emma Lovewell. I would recommend that one. Anyone can do that, any level starts out you know easy The Grateful Dead class, by the way. You do like a four week core program with Emma Lovewell. I would recommend that one. Anyone can do that.

Any level starts out easy, and then you work your way up. And then there's like a core program two that you can do after a core program one, if you want to do that. Yeah, if you graduate. Wait a second. You have to graduate course one to get to course two, the harder course?

Well, you can start a course two if you want. But I eased my way in. I did course one first. Then you can do some strength classes with Andy. Love a strength class with Andy. He really puts me through it. I get up and I'm like a sweaty mess and I'm kind of disgusting and I love it. You know the thing about Peloton, Stugats?

What? Peloton coaches, they walk the walk. Really? Yeah. Do they talk the talk? They have sub three hour marathon runner coaches. They have military trained athlete coaches, former college basketball player coaches, and so many other well-rounded coaches on their team. All this experience really shows in their classes. You're never short of

challenging. You can do some resistance band classes. I got some resistance bands lately. You're my teacher. Am I? Yeah. You know, no I'm not. Well I just go with the program so that I don't have to think because I don't know I don't know what I'm doing. Anyways, what's the like Mr. Olymp, right? Is that what it's called? Yes. The one where you go and you're like lifting Tony Atlas. Giant boulders.

Yeah. Hey, we should talk to Magnus again. That's Mr. Olympia. Yeah. Yes. What did I say? Olympus. Did I?

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All right, we got to go back out there. That was big. Wake him up. Uh oh. He doesn't want to be bothered anymore. Now it's getting tense because he didn't need that as a result. He needs something that happens. You can see him mother-effing at it. Can we bother you right now? Turn on your microphone, Greg. My microphone's on. Stugats.

Paint the scene. Paint the scene is I gotta go to work. Good night. This is the Don LeVatarardt show with the Stugats Stugats Tango and Cash Can you guys in video please find for me the villain in Tango and Cash which is the Jack Palance it no not Thank you That's the best villain the Tango and cash villain famous for having the exaggerated jawline it is the biggest jawline i have ever seen in the movies i am pretty sure that person was only signed for that part because of his

jawline does that look at jessica does that look like the duane wade statue and can i send you out live to the duwyane Wade statue across the street to get a investigated report? Mike has spent the whole morning investigating whether Freddie Freeman's teeth are real. He has spent the entire morning doing that. We know that they're fake and that they've been fake for quite some time. If you just look at a rookie picture to what his teeth look like now. But I think that he recently upsized already existing veneers because that was crazy. It was insane. I saw a walk-off grand slam hit by teeth. That's all I saw. Teeth rounding second. Teeth rounding third.

He was smiling a lot. That was an amazing baseball moments, Dugats. And not just because you got to enjoy New York suffering, which is one of the great sports treats anyone can have. Well then everyone had a weekend. Yeah, and just because you opened up a window for New York, Aaron Rodgers has gone 30 games without throwing for 300 yards in December of 2021. Let's play for the people what Mike Francesa's analysis was because this is how Jets fans

are just generally feeling today. The whole time they're coming down a field, you know if you score you need a two point play. You're gonna be up five. And you get a delay of game. That's substantive rage from a man at that age. That's the Pope. The other great thing for Jets haters

was that the Jets no longer even have the best Hail Mary of the season because the Commander's Hail Mary was so much more enjoyable and funny and fun to watch. And I mean, the Hail Mary for the Jets was kind of the highlight of the season, right? So you got halftime at the Bills game in primetime and now you don't even have that.

Nope, we have nothing. They had the rally, right? So you got halftime at the Bills game in prime time, and now you don't even have that. Nope, we have nothing. They had the rally, they had the late drive against the Titans to win the game early in the season. How pathetic is that in retrospect? To make them two and one. I said it was the greatest quarterbacking game in New York Jets history. Remember, you guys were all jacked up

when you acquired Devontae Adams. That was the high point of the season because you come off that loss, and you're like, what do we gotta do? We got Devontae, we That was the high point of the season because you come off that loss and you're like, what do we gotta do? We got Devontae, we're back. Mike, were we right? Yeah, we've been right.

I don't know how long I'm gonna do this, but I'm guessing two days from now, like Wednesday, headed into Thursday, I'll talk myself into the Jets beating the Texans and salvaging the season. I can't stand them. They do this to you. The stats on the Jaden Daniels,

Hail Mary, were interesting. He scrambled a total of 40.7 yards. Yep. And the play took 13 seconds. He held the ball for 13 seconds before he threw it. He creates his own time. It's like Lamar Jackson, you know? He can create time.

He's the perfect guy to try to pull one of those plays off. I was shocked that they pulled it off, but what a great game. And I'm not certain Jaden Daniels, and I'm serious. You can talk about Jared Goff and some other guys. He might be the MVP. We've done this a couple of different times with like five different MVPs. Another person who plays like that, it's a thrill to watch him play even when they're bad. Kyler Murray plays like that. It's just a thrill to watch a quarterback moving around like that and Stugats I believe. We're right in the middle of what the crossroads look like between if running backs are disposable and we can just

move them around and we need to find money under the salary cap how about we find a quarterback who is also a running back and try to make uh... what lamar jackson does or what kylor murray does and that goes up against the kirk cousins model or the jared goff model which i want to talk about because you got the the detroit lions yesterday had thirty five points in jared goff had thrown for twenty eight yards at the time yeah they can beat you a lot of different ways the Lions can. Yesterday was with special teams.

But I wanna talk for a second about Man Campbell, a coach that we made fun of a long time down here. We mocked him. And something that he did that floored me and that is sort of, I believe, the opposite of what just about everyone in that league that preaches toughness but actually doesn't show toughness when it comes time to be criticized. I credited Sean McVeigh for a long time because of the real and substantive leadership confidence of being in your 30s

Signing Jared Goff to a long-term deal and then moving off it in a year because you realized you could get better that is not common to believe something in your early thirties yet is the right thing to do and move off it that quickly he traded jared goff and none of us thought none of us thought the detroit lions were doing anything smart by absorbing the contract of a quarterback that he discarded after watching him lose 13 to three to Brady in the Super Bowl. We thought McVeigh was right, period,

and that McVeigh knew what he was doing because a young man winning the championship thereafter with Stafford made it feel like Goff wasn't actually going to be a good quarterback at value. Just to hammer home that point, they had a young quarterback fresh off a Super Bowl and he didn't feel like it was enough to win a Super Bowl. He moved off Jared Goff after giving him the big contract he did not stubbornly stay with what he

thought was a mistake when he could upgrade. No one can criticize then going to Stafford because it is and was an upgrade and they won the Super Bowl but what Campbell was doing was give me Stafford Younger. Give me Younger Stafford. And none of us saw that. None of us saw that Goff could be this if you surrounded him. By that and now we have just like every week we're having a different conversation about who's the MVP of the league. Is it Lamar Jackson?

Is it Jared Goff? Who else do you want? Jaden Daniels. Is it Jaden Daniels? We've also been doing this one a lot. Who's the best team in the league? And you've got an undefeated Chiefs team, and you were making it the Ravens.

They lose now at Cleveland. Now a whole lot of people today after yesterday, after seeing that the hottest duo in the league in week eight is Mason Rudolph to Calvin Ridley in the first half. As we're watching. Calvin really had a game yesterday. He did. He had a first quarter, had a game. But now we're looking at the Detroit game yesterday They did a good first quarter had a game

But we're now we're looking at the Detroit Lions after what they did to Dallas The way that they can score 40 and 50 points and beat you have have 35 points when their quarterback has thrown for 29 yards A lot of people are looking at the Lions is the best team in the league. They're plus 100 So they're the best team in the NFL, not named the Kansas City Chiefs who are undefeated. Last week it was Baltimore, this week it's Detroit, next week it might be Buffalo. I have no idea. But they're only six to choose from. Yeah, but for right now it is the Lions. I would say the Lions, you can make an argument, the Lions are the best team in the NFL, even with the Kansas City Chiefs involved in that discussion. Well, you keep wanting to take it away from the Chiefs.

Well, that's you, not me. No, you keep doing it. You did it with the Ravens. The Ravens lost to the Chiefs, and the Chiefs are undefeated, and you keep wanting to take it away from the Chiefs. Every week, I don't come in here and do that. You do that. Right. I mean, something's a little off, is it not? At 7-0, you're not convinced they're going to win the Super Bowl, are you? Oh, no. I mean, you asked me!

Stu got the minor penalty, two minutes for Chief's talk. That was incredible. Yeah. But he has a point. The Raiders, you mean people like the Raiders? I know they're a division rival, but they're the Raiders. Been a tricky team for them. That's true.

I mean, they beat them last year. Especially against the Sprats. And the end of the season. The Chiefs are bored, so bored that Patrick Mahomes was saying that he remembered. This was a revenge game for the Raiders in the off season doing a Kermit the Frog Muppets Puppet. He said, I'll handle that situation

when it needs to be handled is what Mahomes said. I don't want that dude threatening me. Also, you guys did the thing where you just looked at the top of the standings and you forgot that San Francisco's probably gonna get healthy at the right time again. Don't take a Dallas victory to mean very much. I take any victory where they're able to survive

those injuries as a good thing for San Francisco who just needs to get into the tournament and hopefully they can get the offensive player of the year back and add some depth and health to their wide receiver position but they're gonna be there in that conversation provided that they survive this meanwhile on the other side of the token why hasn't Mike McCarthy been fired yet a good question what is this token what is this token that you speak of? It's the same thing as a coin.

The flip side of the coin, flip side of the token. When's the last time you saw a token? At an arcade? Oh, the ACC one with the guy where you could see his butthole. It's all legal tender. The Dallas Cowboys today are in disarray. If you're not going to fire him today,

when are you going to fire him? I guarantee you someone's getting fired. Probably is gonna be the dude that hosts the Jerry Jones show. Who else could it be? It could be, it's either, the only sacrificial lamb that will work for Cowboys fans today is McCarthy, correct? McCarthy replaced by Belichick.

They can do the thing where they make a big splashy trade, I guess, and get people excited to wash off this loss. But it kind of felt like everything was falling down around McCarthy and he needed that result and he didn't get the results. It's not like things were going well for San Francisco. Both teams kind of needed that one. If Mike McCarthy can't win that one,

which one is he going to win? Are you guys with me on what happened to the Dolphins yesterday to make them fall to the bottom of the standings? The only soothing being that you can now laugh at the Jets too. But they're still in second, technically. The Bills are what, three and a half games up? They're two and five with the Bills. The Bills are three and a half games up, they're two and five with the Bills, the Bills are three and a half games up and go to Seattle and do something the Dolphins are not capable of doing, something that the Dolphins couldn't do.

The Dolphins are at home. My discomfort with the idea of Tua playing under these circumstances, this team's not good enough. You're not going to rally when you've lost the easy part of your, you're two and five in the easy part of your schedule. You've had home games, you're losing at home to Jack, you're beating Jacksonville barely at home

and you're losing to Arizona at home. You're losing to the Titans, you're losing to the Colts, you're not losing to the good teams in the league. All of those are without your quarterback though. But all you well you lost to the Bills with your quarterback at home and you lost to Arizona yesterday with your quarterback. That was on a defense so that was bad you had two receivers get over a hundred yards receiving yesterday. Yesterday was a defensive loss do you disagree with that? Well if that's a defensive loss then how is Stugat blaming Aaron Rodgers for what

happened to the Jets yesterday when the Jets allowed a drive all the way down the field at the end after Aaron Rodgers had given them the lead? Because he got Rob Salah fired. You see? So it's Aaron Rodgers fault. You don't get it. He pushed Rob out the door.

And now he has to watch him potentially have a victory parade at Lambeau.