The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Okay, Junior

Episode Date: April 9, 2024

Today's cast: Dan, Stugotz, Greg, Billy, Chris, Jessica, Jeremy, and Mike. Will this crew be able to properly celebrate one of the greatest Men's College Basketball teams of all-time? Tune in to find out! Then, the show turns into PTI, Chris and Stu reveal a surprise-that-will-never-be for Greg, and Pitbull does Jimmy Buffett. Plus, we listen to the best sound from yesterday's celebration of the eclipse, and Greg has an innate belief in retail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to DraftKings Network. This is the Don LeVittor 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. I don't think that I have ever felt quite this way after watching any kind of championship game, Stugats, where the numbers mathematically, empirically make it

so that this Yukon team is one of the best we've ever seen. In one game sample sizes, they never play a close game. They win by an average margin of victory, larger than anyone in the history of the tournament. 22 and a half points a game. And what I am telling you and the audience stubbornly is I refuse to remember this as one of the best teams

to ever play college basketball. Even though they're insisting upon it. They absolutely deserve the credit because, I'll tell you why, Stu Gotts, I have been so contaminated by the need for my games to be entertaining and to have storylines not even necessarily Pros because that's one thing to got you know when you're watching a team that has four pros on it the last team to go Back to back the University of Florida. You knew you were watching pros that those guys

Horford and joking Noah that you knew you were watching pros. They had three lottery picks on that team So yes, I understand what you're saying or a brewer was on that team to and while you watch them you knew it and the the whole thing is a little bit diluted right because it's so many one and dons but i think i'm doing something unfair that's not a right that's not the correct way to celebrate a championship but because it's such a foregone conclusion because we've been talking for two years oh yeah we know Dan Hurley is great Jessica says Jessica described Dan Hurley's vibe as rancid. I mean he's got weird vibes like not not not a nice guy. Aggressive energy. He's crazy. I have told you that

Adrian Wojnarowski wrote about his high school exploits in New Jersey. Dan Hurley has always been a crazy motivating general of I am excellent at coaching and I will go into a high school gym and make my team through sheer force of rage better than your team. Sounds like Jersey. I mean, don't stare down, Edie. That last Jersey. I mean don't stare down Edie.

That last night, I mean I said it yesterday, just his vibe is weird, he's staring down the player, it's like dude I get it, you're intense, but just back off a little. I think Chris is the one who tainted my opinion by saying he wanted Dan Hurley to get served some humble pie yesterday, and then I was watching the game with a little lens of like,

where's Chris coming from? And immediately he was like, huh, yeah. Kind of like where's Chris coming from and immediately was like huh yeah Kind of just weird energy from this guy I don't think we're doing this correctly after a team wins a championship back-to-back for the first time in 17 years I actually think that you are it's a great take It's a hot tape because Dan this team is vastly different than last year's team So you're right about that Florida team those guys came back. They did it again. They didn't go to the NBA. Eventually they did. This is an entirely different team.

I don't feel good about myself for taking a championship and feeling that way about it. It feels disrespectful, but I can't control the way that I feel. And I felt like the championship in that sport for Yukon was a foregone conclusion. And they made it a foregone conclusion. And yet I'm not extending them the respect never

thought they were gonna lose any of the games were giant favorites in all the games didn't play any close games and I'm not extending them the respect that I should you control that you know I mean I know but I can't control the way that I feel right well Greg what do you you do? You just what are you doing? I'm a little disconcerted because I'm wearing my my My solar eclipse glasses and clips in eclipse and when you when you're not looking at the Sun, it's pitch black So I'm like a blind man right now, but to Dan's point. They're not even a consensus Pick going into next season to win again duke is in most

uh... uh... polls obscene their co-favorites you got into okay there they're back-to-back champions hard stop i think the south carolina women are much better position to be a dynasty then you can't go what about what about what happened last night before because of plenty of people are doing that to women's basketball today and yesterday it was nice numbers a nineteen million that's a but they're not going to do it again next year like why are we doing that i'm talking about what just

happened why are you talking about next year okay okay produce a flawed team okay it was a boring game uh... he's a great player i don't know that a boring game. ED's a great player. I don't know that anybody else on that team is a great player. They have no bench. Their entire bench scored two points last night. Everybody is overworked because they have no bench.

They ran out of gas. Or UConn is exceptional. Yeah, have they? UConn is exceptional, but I did not think Purdue was a really great final. But Dan touted the margin of victory. It's absurd to say this. Their closest game in the last two years was the final four game against Miami.

Miami got blown out in that game. That was a boat race. We're proud of that, aren't you? I mean, at this point, I want to hang a banner. But for whatever reason. Jeremy just cashed the under on minutes until Mike brought up the Miami-UConn game. I texted Jess before the show and I said,

how soon is, I set the over under at four and a half minutes before Mike made Yukon's win about Miami. I'm honestly not trying to put us over because we got creamed in that game and that was a game that was watched by a few people and for that to be the toughest test in the last two years says way more about Yukon, but they got blue blood prestige, they've won many national titles in our lifetimes,

where they've been in the conversation to for most, if not all of my life. And yet a team goes back to back in an era where it's especially hard to do that. I would like to push back some on the one and one because that's changing a little bit. You still got COVID guys hanging around. You got guys in their mid 20s playing in this. But the last two years of the tournament has been a total flat track for this Connecticut team and I could not be more bored by it. The reason I'm saying the one and done thing is that's one of the reasons

when I think of overwhelming pro talent I think of Kentucky and I think of Kentucky being undone by one and done. That they can't go deeper in the tournament with teams that I'm more likely to look at and say that's one of the best teams that i have ever seen uh... what you know what more you're starting to come around well greg cody has done something here i don't think is fair you go back to back championships you're almost immediately a dynasty like you win them back to back for the first time in seventeen years

that almost just about cement you as a dynasty and what you're doing then they have six since 1999 they have six championships since 1999 with three different coaches I mean only Alabama football the Lakers and the Patriots have won six championships it's 1999 you got is one of those two guys you cannot tell the history of college basketball men's and women's without going through stores, Connecticut Like they don't have any preordained right to be that good at men and women's basketball and they are that good But the other thing I want to push back on on Greg Cody when he talks about to Purdue that I don't think he's allowed To do you can't go no bench on me when Purdue's got the best player in the sport

When they've got the player of the year in the sport, you can tell me it's a flawed team, but they've got a guy who even in that game almost went for 40 because he's an unstoppable force. I know, but so did Iowa the day before. Both of these finals were very parallel. Iowa had the best player in that game and South Carolina had the best team by far. Iowa's bench scored zero. They were outscored 37 to nothing and if you don't think that matters, it does. Iowa had three players play all 40 minutes. South Carolina had two players play 30 minutes. Iowa was gassed at the end while Don Staley was raising the championship trophy with about three minutes left. You're much better when you

take the glasses off. The UConn run isn't just about the final. They've been playing deep teams too. There's all sorts of different roster constructions and it hasn't mattered. They're a hot knife going through butter. Right, but when it comes to the final, both Purdue and Iowa proved to be very flawed teams with one great player, but not necessarily a great team. That's not taken away from UConn. I'm just saying last night was a big disappointment to me because it was not a game.

It was chalked the entire way from the beginning of the game. I'm not a betting man. Sorry, DraftKings, but UConn would have been an easy bet for me to cover six and a half. Easy bet. Okay, that's well said today after the game I said I'm not kidding when listen hey I read these things like a book okay right afterwards look no no my wife will will vouch for this when I would jumped out to attend nothing lead right and she's a fangirl and she's given off it's all Iowa today vibe said South Carolina was better. I said South Carolina is gonna win by 10.

I did the same thing. I mean, what are we doing? PTI. What we're doing is PTI. Ask his wife. I'm telling them. There's an old guy saying that he had it. He's right.

At least on Pardon the Interruption, you could go back to the previous day's show and see that they did indeed say it. The show that Greg Cody is doing is Ask My Wife. Can I do a PTI for a second? I mean, I PTI on the Greg Cody show podcast as well the reason why it's so disappointing is because no one stayed awake For the ending it's just as late. It's just late. Can we just all admit very close very late They wait for the ending so it feels a little deflated. I was happy It was a blowout now the nine to nine time, that was the longest 20 minutes of my life.

I mean, start the game. Thank you. And it's different than, I saw some people like, well the game doesn't end any later than you know, Monday Night Football or Sunday Night Football. I was like, yeah, but it starts so much later that I have nothing to do between 8 o'clock Eastern and 920 other than get tired. Right. And 920 doesn't even mean 920.

920 means 934 or something. They never start on time. If I go to a concert that says 8pm on the ticket, I want that drum beating at 8pm. I don't want to wait 35 minutes to see the opening act. If you want to start at 920, lift the ball into the air at 920 sharp. Imagine if New Year's Eve sometimes is celebrated at 1207 or 1211. Depending on what time the year decided to show up. Insane. Nailed it, nailed the example, Billy.

Well done. If Purdue had a bigger drum, they would have won. I don't like that after that game and after the winning of a championship, we are now the show that comes in complaining about how late games start. We've been that show. Come on, man.

I just don't like it. I don't, I, I, it's fine. We've been that show and I don't like that we are that show, that the analysis of the game is I couldn't watch it. I was too tired. I'm too tired at nine o'clock to watch a sporting event. I would have stuck around if they gave me a reason to. First half was great.

It was old school basketball. You had big man versus big man. You had pick and rolls. You had points in the paint. I mean, it was fantastic. I loved it. Oh, it was great. You had pick and roll.

I enjoyed watching Gene Katie. Beginning to think he was wearing a hair piece when he was coaching. That game did make me nostalgic for basketball that I watched growing up with two giant men who can't move getting abused in the pick and roll. It made me nostalgic for 830 p.m. That's fair.

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I was probably like that kind of thing. Something? Okay no, the home run call was that kind of swing, that kind of thing. Stugatz. Oh it's a good call. Thank you and plus it doesn't matter who's hitting it like you're not tailing it to a particular name. Correct. You know all that you know, you don't gotta do that. You just have to do a generic call. Up, up, and away. That kind of swing, that kind of thing. This is the Don Lebathor show with the Stugats. ["DON LEBATHOR"]

Greg Cody mentioned concerts. And I don't know if Greg Cody knows this because I was just informed before the show of something that I believe you do not know. Your son had a tremendous surprise planned for you with Stugance this week that he could not execute because you were going to that Jimmy Buffett cover band concert in Los Angeles or Las Vegas, where is it? I mean, cover bands are a cool way to call Paul McCartney. Sir Paul McCartney and Pitbull.

I wouldn't call it a cover band concert. And Aaron Rodgers. But to your point, yeah, it's in LA, we're leaving tomorrow morning, and what was the surprise? I missed oh boy We were gonna go to the Masters with you. Yeah Chris was gonna take you to the Masters. Are you serious? Yeah me my dad you and Christopher Yeah, see that's easy to say when it doesn't know we had that's exactly right We had conference calls we had conference calls Chris was on them. I speak Stu Gotz, this is happening.

I was on a meeting with a guy at the Masters, he's like, yeah, come on down. Are you serious? Yeah, we'll take care of you. Our friend Charlie from the Double Eagle Club, he was ready to set you up, he had passes for you for the entire weekend, part three tournament as well. Chris was gonna take it because he knows

it's a bucket list item for you and he wanted to take you. So, a year from now, Greg, clear your April out, okay? Okay. Just clear the calendar. Greg looks hurt and Jessica whispered in my ears that was happening, this is cruel what they're doing to him right now. Cruel. No, I didn't mean to look hurt but what I probably looked was a little bit emotional because that's a very nice thing that you organized. And I can't, Stu Gotz, I don't wanna take all the credit.

Obviously they both wanted to go as well. No, I- Well we did, of course. Yeah. You were gonna be an appendage on this. It's like when I bought my dad for Father's Day in Atari. I was 34 years old. Stu Gotz is like, hey, you wanna bring your dad to the Masters?

I was like, more than anything in the world. Cause I wanna go to the Masters. Two years ago, I took my dad there. He had a great time, and I remember when I got home, Christopher said, I would love to take my dad there, he would love to go, and so this was the year we were going to do it. But there's always next year. A tradition unlike any other. The Masters? No, nepotism. I sort of wish you'd told me that before I'd bought these multi-thousand dollar tickets to a concert in LA, but we're going to have fun there too.

Well, which one though would you prefer? If you could only do one, I'm curious for an honest answer. If I had placed both of them in front of you a month ago, because you love Jimmy Buffett, you've said that you wanted your last show here for Jimmy Buffett to come in here and sing a song during it yeah uh... to be your final act of of your life that's right just your career right your career and your life that that's why i sang that song in las vegas is because it meant so much to me

uh... that's a difficult question to answer as far as the event goes i'd rather see this once in a lifetime concert okay i i have been to Augusta. I did cover one Master's way back in 1998. But going with your son is different. But that makes the answer different. And then my wife's listening to this thinking, well, you're going with me, why does my son outrank me? It would have been a wonderful father-son experience, and I am already looking forward to it next year.

So you didn't really answer the question though. Well, some questions It would have been a wonderful father-son experience, and I am already looking forward to it next year. You didn't really answer the question though. Well, some questions aren't yes or no, black or white. Some questions have a little bit of nuance to them. And so do the answers. Happy wife. Yeah, you got that right. But what a wonderful gesture.

On the Greg Cody Show podcast, the biggest criticism we get is how mean Christopher is to me, and so this is the antidote. This is the real truth about our relationship. Juju, put it on the poll. What's better, seeing Pitbull as Jimmy Buffett or going to the Masters with your son? So once in a lifetime opportunity. You're never going to see Pitbull do Jimmy Buffett ever again.

Right, the Masters every year, you know? Pitbull is the outlier on that bill, by the way. They were listening to all the acts, and I'm like, Pitbull? Yeah, I'm surprised by him. Mr. Worldwide. What's that? He's worldwide, yeah, I get it.

Mr. Worldwide. He's worldwide, I got it. Mr. 305, even though about a dozen other people have already used that nickname before him, including Yudonis Haslem to a degree. I think you'll be surprised by the show that Pitbull will put on tomorrow, Greg. What's he gonna do? What song is he gonna cover? Well, I mean, I don't know what song he's gonna cover, but if he does his original music,

you're gonna love it. Well, no, no, no. I believe they're all doing Jimmy Buffett music. Cheeseburger in paradise then. Hamburguesa con queso, en paradiso. Okay. I wanna talk for a second here because we've got like real division, genuine division all over

when it comes to the eclipse because I'm watching yesterday the reaction of people and I found myself the people that were so enthusiastic about gathering and sharing on social media that they were wearing their glasses I found myself losing enthusiasm for something I had enthusiasm for just because so many people were gathering around wanting to show you their enthusiasm for it. And I was told that we have video of anchors that are losing it emotionally talking about

the eclipse. Charles Barkley had a big night yesterday where he got a lot of attention for a lot of different things. There's a Barkley blimp now that I want to talk about. So great. And Barkley killed the Eclipse people, crushed them. Didn't like anything that was going on with the Eclipse. And Ernie Johnson said, don't hate on the Eclipse.

And he said, I'm going to hate on the Eclipse anyway. But let's play for the audience, because Jessica, you were consumed by all of this, right? You were eating it up. Yes, and everyone who got to actually see the eclipse was like, this is the most magical and cool thing I've ever seen. And everyone who didn't was just being a hater.

And as a certified hater, I get it. But I was very, I will admit, I was very jealous of everyone that got to actually see the eclipse. And you could see it on, I turned on network news for the first time in like probably my entire life to watch the like wraparound actually see the eclipse. And you could see it on, I turned on network news for the first time in probably my entire life to watch the wraparound coverage of the eclipse.

And everyone was crying. All the anchors, all the meteorologists, Robin Roberts, everyone was going crazy because they said this was the coolest thing they've ever seen. Where did everyone get the eclipse glasses from? Because everyone had them yesterday. Did you buy them at a store?

Did you know? Because my daughter came home from school with two of them then I went up and I looked at the Sun and was told the eclipse happened an hour ago you missed it you're just staring at the Sun but where did everyone get these glasses well I I bought mine through Amazon I was just gonna buy one for myself because I didn't think any you did it with preparation you did it ahead of time I can't you are not a preparer this way no but but for this I was I wasn't gonna miss it and so anyway I wanted to buy one even see it here no you could you could see a 47% eclipse we saw

approximately half of a total eclipse here and I had a great view of it there was a little bit of cloud cover but but the clouds dissipated quickly and at about 3 o 2 p.m. The best viewing time in South, Florida I had a beautiful view of the eclipse and it was it was an emotional thing because when the moon is crossing the Sun It's like a three or four times in a lifetime. It's not gonna happen again until 2044 And you know, I'm not liking my odds your last to make the next one. Whoa, it's your last projected one It's my last projected one. so I wasn't gonna miss it. Well, I have a bit of pushback on that

because it's the last one that went over the US and one won't go over the US until 2044. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. But if you want to see an eclipse and you have the means, you can see another eclipse. That's fair. You could travel to see one if you'd want to, but he doesn't care.

I'm being jingoistic. I'm not gonna fly around the world and see an eclipse, but if I can go in my front yard and go like this, then I will. If it's in your backyard, yes. It will literally be over Miami in 2045, I think it is. He doesn't like it. That's a stretch.

Right, I'm just saying, that's why people in South, hopefully we'll be around. We'll all be here. I don't like any of our own. Speak to yourself., like hopefully we'll be around. I don't know. I don't like any of us. Speak to yourself. Maybe Miami won't even be around. Miami? A little shot underwater or something.

Wait a minute. Leviton and I will be long gone. I can't speak for a redhead. Maybe. You and Dan? Yeah, sorry, Dan. I apologize, Dan, to break it to you. I'm surprised as a Buffett fan, Greg,

that you wanted to watch the eclipse yesterday. The sun killed Jimmy. Oh, that's true. You know, I hadn't put two together. Yeah, the irony of that. Billy, Jesus Christ. Yeah. You're pretending? Wait a minute.

It's a fact. Billy, hold on a second. Rare is the occasion that you're so amused by yourself that you have to put your hand over your mouth so I can't see that you're laughing. Like, you're pretending like you said something you shouldn't have said while delighting in the fact that you, you just.

I did know such, I know where you were going with that. I didn't know such thing. It was the sun. Okay. Why did Greg start answering that earnestly is what I wanna know. Greg, why did you kill me before I was 75 is why I wanna know.

Oh really? How did you, I thought you were like 60. How'd I make it? I mean. I'm kidding. I know that. like 60. How'd I make it? I mean I'm kidding. Why are you having yourself dying before 90? I you know I guess I'm not that optimistic. You're going over? He's going with the odds. He's liking the 100 to 1 bet. That's what he's doing. Putting down two on me making 90. That's not a bad investment. Is it the 30 beers a day that is the reason

that you're worried about not making it to 90? I tell you, my mother, who's, by the way, Ruth, who won Cody would have been 105 years old today. Who won? You've got good genes. Your parents both lasted into their 90s. Right, yeah. Did any of them pass out at Battle Court Highlight?

Because that was a bit of a red flag for me. Or fall into a bush. I'm locked in on that under, but God bless. Okay. At any rate, I loved the solar eclipse. I did. It meant something to me. Where can we get bets that would allow you to walk?

I'll make it formally against the spread. Wow. Okay. I'll make it formally on against the spread How long do you expect to last Oh gosh, this is morbid. Please stop And it could also age very poorly like tomorrow I mean 2000 to 45 seems a long ways away. I'm worried about him making a cross-country track I don't want to jinx myself, so I don't wanna answer that question, but I have plenty things going on, believe me, that require a long range planning.

Some odds on Miami and some odds on Greg. Which one? Last long. Hmm. Put it on the poll, Juju. Which is going to live longer, Greg, Cody, or Miami? This will age really poorly, depending on what kind of hurricane season we get this year

or how bumpy this flight is. It makes it a good question. Please tell me you have an air bus. I don't know why I'm doing this. I'm sitting next to Billy. It's bad. It's true, flying always makes me nervous. Can you play the video please of, I don't know if this is Robin Roberts and what it

is that Jessica was watching or other anchors who were getting emotional watching the eclipse so it's getting it's like the night it's like dawn right now what a strange feeling this is this is such a magical moment you you feel it in every sense, in every cell of your body because it's like somebody turned the lights out. Oh my God! Did you see it? Oh my God! You've been amazing! I cannot believe we're seeing this right now! It has been cloud cover all day! How lucky are we? It's a miracle. It's incredible.

No way. It's like, this, I cannot tell you, the timing of this is absolutely amazing. Look at this, do you see the corona? Yes! See the sparkling lights? It's so cool. The cloud cover almost makes it.

There are two different types of people in the world the people who react that way and people who mock the people who react that way. Normal people. How lucky are we? Um-her. That's me. You guys don't understand in the swath of total eclipse there were six or seven major cities in the swath of total eclipses. One was Indianapolis. People filled the Indianapolis 500 stadium

racetrack. 50,000 plus people to watch this eclipse. It means something. I gave, I couldn't, I didn't have enough glasses. I had five of these glasses. I gave away, I gave away three of them instantly and i didn't mean to i just can't what what that means you have two left what do you mean you didn't mean to i mean i thought i was buying a five pack because i had to because i couldn't buy an individual i thought there would be four just left there for eternity i gave to my housekeepers i gave one to sam across the street

the whole staff of housekeepers wait You brought that one like this? Wait, they're forcing you to buy a five pack? Oh yeah. That is genius. Well, they're super cheap. They're like three bucks each. You know, I spent $15.95 to get a five pack. They're delivered on Sunday in a tiny little envelope that weighs about two ounces.

It's a beautiful thing. Really. I mean, I, again, Christopher's naysaying, Christopher's yelling at me on my own podcast. How lucky are we? No, it's true. He's trying to, he called me on my own podcast, he called me full of shit, claiming that I'm faking interest in the solar eclipse. Well, you do do this.

You love to just get excited about everything. Okay, Junior, I had to school you and explain to you. He was going to take you to Augusta, I mean. When I was 17 years old, Alan Sherry and I used to haunt the Buhler Planetarium, okay, we'd put on our headphones, which were playing like Dark Side of the Moon or something, and they had this beautiful solar system show,

and it was entrancing, they did that once a month at the Buhler, and I loved it. What were you on? Hey, yeah, the memoryueller and and I what were you on the memory fades but it was a wonderful thing he knew and improved that level that show with the Stugas gamble on by DraftKings Don LeBattard teammates can't shoot from three now they're gonna see a different Jimmy Now he's just, just playing Nickelback in the locker room and

Stugats They'll play D and show threes As they chase the Nats for the sixth seed These five words in his head Scream, are we winning games yet? This is the Dan LeBattatar Show with the Stugats. Juju, please put it on the poll and I acknowledge on the front end that this isn't the correct way to do the celebration of a championship. But I was legitimately confused by my own reaction

and the inability to control what I was doing that I felt like was unfair. So put on the pole please at LeBittard Show. Will anyone remember this Yukon basketball team as the greatest in the history of college basketball because it just won the difficult tournament by an average margin of victory larger than any team before it and if i was trying to measure those things that's a way i would measure it how much better were you than all of your surrounding competition in a random tournament how did you eliminate the randomness by being a giant favorite in all the games

and then at the end of it we're not going to regard you even though you only lost three games is one of the best teams ever but three losses might be part of its two dots because you expect zero losses or one loss when you're looking at greatest teams ever it's not even just pro prospects it's could anybody beat them but in the tournament nobody comes close to beating them uh... alabama was close in the first half of the semi-final game and then UConn pulled away and won by double digits.

I don't think anyone's going to argue with you because there are totally different teams. I think what people are going to start to do is put UConn in that same conversation as the Blue Bloods, as Kentucky, North Carolina, Duke, teams like that. But they belong there anyway, don't they? They should be there, yes. But they belong there. If they lose last night, should be there, yes. But they belong there. If they lose last night, they still belong there. They still have five since 1999.

And who are the greatest players in the history of UConn? I associate Ben Gordon with Championship UConn. When I associate, like, who were their pros? Ray Allen, correct? Yeah, Ray Allen. Like, when you think of- Kemba. Kemba Walker, Richard Hamilton.

Rip. Elamin. Not. Jake Voskull. I associate Jake Voskull, but not as a great pro. Jake Voskull is not. I mean, it's different. He had a pro career, I think, for like, what,

six, seven years, but Jake Voskull's in that conversation, just like Khalid Elamin. Hashim Thabe Thabeep. He was gonna be so good he was terrible. Shabazz is one of those players they've Big East basketball some some a couple of undersized guards that get hot at the right time for them. Can you guys play the juxtaposition please to the emotion of the anchors who are all over television swooning like Greg Cody. I am legitimately surprised that Greg Cody, I don't know, Chris, how surprised are you by this? That your father meticulously planned?

First of all, you went to Amazon just out of curiosity, and I don't mean to insult you, but I'm just surprised that you can order something from Amazon yourself. Is that something that you did yourself? That's a, yeah, that's a fairly recent phenomenon with me. I would say in the last two years, whether it's Christmas shopping or what have you, I mostly buy from Amazon. Now I'm not proud to say it, but I ordered these things.

And Amazon delivery is so quick. Amazon Prime delivers the next day. Why are you not proud to say you're ashamed that you ordered things from Amazon, that Amazon has basically made it so that things are so convenient that all of us are doing? He's embracing technology. That's why he's not proud.

Well, I'm not proud because I have an innate belief in retail. Part of me wants to keep retail alive. You have an innate belief in retail. He's a mom and pop shop type of guy. guy yeah part of me would want to seek out the local store that's selling worse things but the fact of the matter is it's more difficult to find a local store around you selling these than it is to just punch a bunch of buttons on Amazon and and the next day that's right there is

why Bezos is one of the richest men in the world, right there. That's the secret of his formula. If someone were to ask him, how did you do it? It would be that. Everyone would agree with my dad. Yeah, ideally I'd like to go go shopping. Push a button. I genuinely believe in the principle of commerce

and retail and mom and pop right up until my laziness grabs me by the balls and makes me just go over there and order on Amazon But there are certain things that I would still rather buy in a store shoes come to mind I don't trust buying dress shoes through Amazon gotta try them on you gotta try them on and and so that's an example of some You know I'll go to my local Tom McCann store Try on a dozen pair of shoes and then walk out with the cheapest I can find. You know, so Amazon will not have my business. There can't be a Tom McCann store.

There can't be a local Tom McCann store. Yes, there is. Billy, can you look up for me if there's one Tom McCann store anywhere on earth? I'm with Greg. I'm a brick and mortar girlie. I still love shopping in person so I can like feel the quality or try something on. But I did want to say one of my favorite things watching the eclipse coverage yesterday was

the eclipse went over Carbondale, Illinois, I believe, and they were showing people there on ABC News. And when they had, they were in the path of totality. And when the moon was fully over the sun, it was pitch black and everyone was like freaking out and screaming, crying, whatever, and then the sun started coming back out through and everyone started booing and it was so funny

because they were booing the sun. It works hard. Tom McCann stores became Foot Action by 1997. And are there any Foot Action stores left? That I will find now foot action I'm still stunned though Chris. Are you surprised that your father? went through the preparation of buying on the internet

Five eclipse glasses because he couldn't find a place that sold them individually correct and plan this and are you also surprised? Anyone in the group that Greg Cody has not won on a print journalist salary but two housekeepers? Staff. They're a husband and wife team. Legacy print journalism though. I'm not surprised because my dad, he loves to be in what everyone's talking about.

Even if I don't actually believe that he's as interested as he says he is, he loves to buy the glasses. You posted a picture on social, I'm sure, with you wearing your glasses. It doesn't make sense. Well that's of course. Doesn't wanna be left out.

No, no, that's of course. Well these are the people who were bothering me yesterday. These are the people, all of them gathering around. Look at me, I too have glasses. I tried to warn you, man. I mean, seriously, that thing is for losers. I'm with Barclay. All right, well let's play the sound of Barley here doing the opposite of Iceland getting emotional about an eclipse

Well y'all some of them losers standing outside watching that today losers We've all seen darkness before stop it not in the daylight Hate on the eclipse? Yo, listen, I saw a loser standing watching your blip. How about that? They were outside. Have you seen Chucks' blip? So I've seen that.

So you're not a fan? Well, I'm not going to sit outside like an idiot and wait on the darkness. Did you not wait on your blip? I could have waited. It's going to be dark when we go outside. Can I ask you a check? Did you ask your family to wait on the darkness. Did you not wait? I could have waited. It's going to be dark. We go outside. Did you ask your family to wait on your blip? Outside? I was trying to get my grandson to watch. We're talking about, Hey, the eclipse gonna happen again.

I ain't gonna have another blip. Let's go ahead and put up on the screen. Uh, Greg Cody, self-involved, let's awash in his narcissism Here is Greg Cody trying to get in on the action from that backyard pool where he often shampoos his hair That's a beautiful photo by my wife. It's a save Haiti t-shirt by the way not to get into serious politics We're not gonna get into it Clarifying it was I thought of want people to look at the shirt. Thank you for clarifying. I thought it was fairly understated.

I guess the question I have is why does this person not follow Greg Cote or the Greg Cote Show? Because both follow options are available. That's a great question, Billy. Wow. What does that mean? What was your staff doing when you took that picture? My what?

You made your wife take the picture instead of your staff of housekeepers. Oh yeah, they weren't there at the time. Are you having trouble hearing today? Well, I got my headphones on. The eclipse, Dan. Yeah, it was an eclipse yesterday. They only come on Thursday.

The eclipse, right. Can't hear the headphones. I like the visual of Greg living at like Downton Abbey. Like a downstairs. Yeah, Downton Abbey. That was the guest house you just saw in that photo. What are you talking about? What are you staring at me for?

Because I said, are you having trouble hearing? And you said, I've got my headphones on which help you hear. Okay, well, I didn't know whether you were talking, you know, into the air or through headphones. I thought the best coverage of the eclipse, this, I believe, you know, I am somebody who likes to under promise and over deliver. I believe that we're about to show you the single best coverage anywhere in the world yesterday of the eclipse. Of course, this comes courtesy of Mark Schlereth. Hey guys, your boy Stink here. Welcome into another edition of Man 101.

I'm standing outside here on a spectacular day in Denver, Colorado, just enjoying this solar eclipse thing. And I gotta tell you, it's amazing. Let me see if I can get a shot of this, because it is incredible. Now make sure if you go outside, protect your eyes, because that's important. Let's see if we can get this.

Man 101, welcome. Man 101, welcome. Man 101, welcome. Put up a middle finger. Classic stage. Right by the sun, there's just a gnarled middle finger. He won the eclipse. He did.

He did. He did. He did. He really did. It was perfectly done, complete with man 101, you're welcome. His signature call. He really needs to become an action hero in the movies. And that has to be his signature line line when someone dies under a middle finger.

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