The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Taylor Swift for President

Episode Date: January 31, 2024

Fox News is trying to take down Taylor Swift on behalf of [checks notes] climate change? What? Dan is flabbergasted by the weaponization of Taylor. Is the rest of the crew? Then, Kendrick Perkins believes the Heat need to trade Jimmy Butler, Stugotz sexually harasses Tony, Billy becomes friends with Cam Newton, Billy and Stu plan a trip with Flavor Flav, and the worst public bathrooms. Plus, David Samson stops by to discuss pooping while running marathons and defiling the bathroom of a military member, the Orioles change in ownership, the Super Bowl in Vegas, PGA and LIV, and his review of Nicolas Cage's "Dream Scenario." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe Kings Network. This is the Don Lebatore Show with the Stugatz Podcast. I can be blissfully naive, Stugatz, about a number of different things. Ignoring, really. At 55 years old, I would say it's a little strange, some of the places that I can be naive. One of them that comes to mind immediately. I don't know how many of the people who were there

in 2016, when we're watching Trump being inaugurated. I remember at the Clevelander looking at the faces and all of us what was happening was not fear. There was no one in that room who was doing fear. It was sort of laughing at the absurdity of a reality television host being named the president of the company. And the only reason I bring this up now... The country, that's a fine. The country. Excuse me, I'm not...

You know what? Given how... Yes, I should have said country, but given how much we're dealing with capitalism and what this country has been turned into, we can call it the United States of America as a company, LLC. So... But I remember the faces, do gots, in the room, and I was one of them, just sort of laughing at the absurdity of that. And what I'm about to show you now is because so many of the things since then not only

have confused me, but I've wildly underestimated how things that I think might be funny or silly or pop culture nonsense can then morph into something that's dangerous. And so over the last seven or eight years, I feel like sometimes I don't even have the language for how it is that you get introduced to QAnon. I don't even, like when you don't know anything about anything and you're just being shown things that represent an underbelly of white grievance that is now a platform that you can run on to try and trample aggressively trample minorities and women. But I bring all of this up to say that even by the standards of the last seven years getting hit in the

face with a fish for seven years, this on Fox News is something that I still am surprised by and don't understand. We have had enough of Taylor Swift for now. She shouldn't be liberal. She should be a total conservative given what, given everything. The Pentagon's Psyop unit pitched NATO on turning Taylor Swift into an asset. Yesterday, she flew private from New York City to Baltimore. Yet she constantly talks about climate change.

So just please don't believe everything Taylor Swift says. We're all begging you. I think she should just stick to her singing and let her love life be what it is. The New York Times just speculated she's a lesbian. A new poll shows 18% of voters are likely to vote for whichever candidate Taylor Swift endorses.

Oh. Biden effectively has Taylor Swift as his VP. Single posts of hers led to 35,000 new registrants. That's arguably more power than the president. She's sharing links. And her boyfriend Travis Kelty, sponsored by Pfizer. What's her stance on policy? Economic policy?

Foreign policy? Should we ask Taylor Swift to have her sponsor run? Don't get involved. Don't get involved in politics. What's her stance on policy? Economic policy? Foreign policy? I don't think that'll be a... So don't get involved. Don't get involved in politics. We don't want to see you there. I asked this question with no... Lots of digest there. No sarcasm.

Whoa! What are we doing? Her greatest crime is that she's fallen in love with a tight end. Well, the private jet, I mean. I love the one that was just like, she should be, she should just be a Republican. I don't know why she isn't. She's a lesbian. Can anyone help me please understand what we're doing?

Well, Dan, she is a woman. Yes. And that that's it. That's all you need to know. OK. So is it that she's empowering young women to be stronger? And that is something that we don't want around our football. Yep.

Christian Youscek will allow you and will give you licensing deal and some logos, but that's as comfortable as it gets for us. We need to get the girls out of here. We don't, we need our caveman football. I need to be, is that what's happening? We just need, we need our sports room, the theater room to be something that doesn't have women in it.

It's just, everyone looks like Bert Kreischer. Yeah, that's a big part of it. I think something that they actually mentioned on the video is Taylor Swift does have a lot of power and she will tweet out links of like register to vote and people will listen to what she says and she is more liberally aligned in her political views. So it's always easy to be on a woman in sports.

It's really easy. Why are you surprised by this? I mean, why? Why are you surprised? Stugatz, come on. Why are you surprised that Fox News is covering this like that? This is what I'm telling you, okay? Because it's not just Fox News.

They're feeding their carnivores. This is what I'm telling you. It's easy for you to play the result and tell me why are you surprised when we were in that room in 2016, because I remember the faces in that room at the Cleveland are watching Trump inaugurated. Yes. If I had told you then, you're not going to believe it. But in 2024, Taylor Swift's going to get weaponized.

You would not have said to me that that was going to happen. You wouldn't have. I agree with you then. But after four years of Trump, and now, I guess, three more years of Trump. I'm not surprised by anything I'm just not I think you have a great show. I watch it a lot All right, Stu gots is unsurprising he endorsed you Danny You ready to return the favor endorsement Daniel Dan you're not listening. I said at the time if you told me this Yes, I would be shocked but today. I'm not that shot

But it happens every election cycle. Like they villainize and weaponize whatever celebrity endorses any candidate. She's a woman. You mentioned that. That Biden Swift card though, that'd be a powerhouse. Would it win?

Thank you guys. In a largely audio medium, Tony and Chris shrugging their shoulders helps us not at all. I mean, I'm not a huge political guy, but it looked good. If you got the demographics, you know, you get the young generation, you get the old generation. It looks like there's a lot of people in there. Let's be real. Taylor would probably become president at some point, right? Put it on the poll, please, at Levitag Show.

Whisper it. Can Taylor Swift become president at some point? I'm just saying, if she was running as vice president. Harpy to what? It's a big election for both VP candidates. It really is. Both VP candidates are just kind of holding their hands together like, this could be all mine soon.

Get for me, please, the sounds The sounds to God's because the Miami Heat here are in a stretch where they have not scored 110 points in the last 10 games. And that in an offensive league where Luke is putting up 73 over here. Everybody's scoring like crazy. They're talking again about we got to

fix this. There's too much scoring now. We're overdosing on scoring. This is the heat's longest streak in more than two years of not being able to get to 110 points in a basketball game. And Kendrick Perkins has been beating this particular drum for a while now. He quieted it down when they got to the finals last year. It went away for a while, but now he's back to do what Kendrick Perkins is hired to do by ESPN, things like this.

I'm worried about the Miami Heat, and here's one for you right here, Malika. It's time for the Miami Heat and Jimmy Butler to go their separate ways. And I believe that the Miami Heat need to do right by Jimmy and trade him to a team that actually could compete for a title this season.

And Jimmy need to accept that. For the simple fact, when you look at their roster right now, right, you have a veteran, old Kevin Love, Jimmy Butler is 34 years of age, everyone else is 30 years in young. Gabbam is 26, you know, Hawquist, Junior is what 22, I think Tyler Hero is 24, like at the end of the day this heat team is not gonna have a magical run again and so we don't know how much we gonna see, how much time we're gonna have to see playoff Jimmy and we want to see playoff Jimmy. He's

just not gonna be, it's just not gonna be with the heat. And so I feel like it's time for them to partway. What are your thoughts there, Stugatz? I think that's ridiculous. First off, they don't owe Jimmy Butler anything. Secondly, Eric Spolstra, Pat Riley, they still think this team can win. They still think this team can compete because that's how they are. I mean, and they have proof of it. They did it last year.

They limped in last year. They got a, you know, a couple of wins and then got rolling and then got all the way to the NBA finals as an eight seed. So- It hasn't looked like this in three years, maybe four years. I understand that.

It's been a long time since it looked like what the last seven games have been. And I don't think what Kendrick Perkins is saying there is absurd, but only because within the next three years at some point you're gonna have to start thinking that way. That's a onerous contract late. And these guys, do-guys, don't age the way

that you think they do you see LeBron in a uniform now you see his body size he looks a little bit slower but the numbers make it look like he's still LeBron and then what happens oh look they're bad offensively and they're mediocre defensively why because they've got the oldest player in the league running around out there and you think he was LeBron but he's not anymore. And I think that becomes hard to discern to the common eye on someone like Jimmy Butler. There are a lot of miles on that body

and he's not built like LeBron James. They have used up a lot of Jimmy Butler bandwidth. I understand that, but this is not Jimmy's decision. Like you're asking me, what do the heat think of what Kendrick Perkins has to say? I think Eric Spulcher and Riley are sitting there going, that's ridiculous, we still think we can win with this group, we're not getting rid of Jimmy Butler.

In the best run that they've had in the playoffs, which was this past season as a play-in team all the way to the finals, we saw Jimmy be great in three straight series, and then the wheels kind of fell off, right? The body betrayed him, they didn't have enough gas to make it and win the entire thing. You look at the next two years, 48 million on the cap, 52 million on the cap in two years.

Like, we want to get under all the aprons, or we got a thousand aprons that we got to get under for the salary cap. Like, it might be time to start saying, you know what? Wow. Hmm, maybe. Tony, I'm going to tell you again to go sit in the penalty box because of how much you manhandle that microphone. I've asked you several times to stop making love to the microphone every time you speak. That's a little aggressive. It falls down, Dan. You've now lapsed into total sexual harassment. You have now, there is Tony out.

Two minutes. Get out of here. So the victim of sexual harassment has been kicked out of the room to be clear. Yes, thank you. I'm good. Billy, do you rule with an iron fist over human resources as well? Because I HR. I'm still trying to get in contact with a witch. I can't take on all of that. Winning on Valentine's Day is easy. It's flowers. Don't forget the flowers. trying to get in contact with a witch I can't take on all of that. That's 1-800-Flowers-dot-com-slash-dan. No purchase necessary. Ends at 11.59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on February 4th, 2024.

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I've always admired that about you, you are and you have no problems whatsoever professing your love Well, thank you is I got a new wife now. You know me and Bianca didn't make it So I moved on we moved on it was for the better for both of us still gots Things just got a little awkward there So let me be the first on this show to congratulate you on the new wife Vance Congratulations on on feeling whole feeling complete, you know Let's talk tailgating. Yeah Don't be those don't feel awkward buddy

I appreciate you soothing me in this regard, but I already feel terribly awkward. And then my teammate comes to my defense with not a question, but just a healthy congratulations. And the further pointing out of that awkwardness because he's always good for me in those spots. I'm also thinking of divorce, Vince, after many, many years, 18 years,

with a partner who does things like that to you. This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats. ["The Stugats"] God bless football continues to thrive. Billy is claiming that he has become friends with Cam Newton. Cam loved Billy. Seriously, I think Radio Row. Cam said he's leaving a seat open for Billy Gill. He's leaving him a hat. He's leaving him a cigar.

This is exciting. Yeah. I don't think any of that's actually going to happen, though. I think I'll go up to Cam and he's just going to keep walking in his hand over so we'll be like a wall of people in between me and him. On the, is it on the latest God bless football or the one about to come out? Because you guys were telling me you've also befriended

Flavor Flav that Stugatz is trying to negotiate with him to see if he'll go to Radio Row with Stugatz and be hype man for Greg Cody's book, The Pride of a Lion. What is coming out with Flavor Flav or has it already come out? So we a Lion. What is coming out with flavor flavor? Has it already come out? So we have an episode that is coming out today. Dan, we were very excited.

We got ahead and we thought, you know what? The Super Bowl is coming. What do people want to hear? Because there's this probal week. The probal week is kind of slow. What do you want to hear? Do you want to hear us recap the game? What do you want to do?

So we're like, you know what? Let's get celebrity fans of teams that could go to the Super Bowl. So we reached out and we booked two celebrity fans and we had them locked in last week and we thought, wow, this is great. We're gonna have a Raven celebrity fan and we're gonna have a Lion celebrity fan. And they can preview their team going to the Super Bowl. And then both of those teams lost.

So we have celebrity fans. We have Duff Goldman, the celebrity baker. And we have Flavor Flav have duff goldman the celebrity baker and we have what a get there And we have flavor Flav. Thank you. Duff became very good Here's the thing Dan that you need to understand they both went Well, it's coming out today and Stu gots love duff until he talked to flavor Flav and then flavor Flav was the more recent person He talked to so he loved flavor Flav more Yes

But as you as you know with celebrities to guys just started asking for a bunch of questions and he somehow made a bunch of favors. A bunch of favors and I believe that he promised Duff that he was going to start a band with him and Austin Eckler because they both play instruments and Flavor Flav. One thing led to another. He invited us to stay at his house and now he's going to come to Radio Row with us and yeah, he may be walking around. We invited him to Radio Row. He invited us to stay at his house five bedrooms Let's hear it. Maybe you head out to radio row. We hang out with you a little bit Let's do that

We're gonna be at the Draft King stage yeah, we'll see you there. Yeah, we want to have you on again man. This is exciting Let's go. All right, I'm all in and if I need a place to stay, I can crash at your place. Is that cool? OK, I got five rooms at my crib. Oh, that's awesome. Oh my god. And we're trying to make it to Grand Beach, but they want us out by Friday.

But Grand Beach is on Saturday, so we're looking for a place to crash Friday night. Yeah. Yeah. Austin Eckler is not really going to invite us. Hey, at least if you stay at my crib, you ain't got to worry about checkout. That's right. A flave, I'm gonna take you up on this offer. We're coming to your house again.

Hey, like my boy Bob Barker said, come on down. I'm really torn here. I am because I love Flavor Flav. I love public enemy. But Stugatz is so cringy with just asking these people for things that it makes me wildly uncomfortable. You wanna join us? And then lying about going. Then saying he's gonna go and then Flavor Flav

will be trying to reach him and Stugatz is like, sorry buddy, I'm stuck at a Craps table, can't get there. Lucy, what familiarity do you have with Flavor Flav? I've heard of him. Yeah. Okay, so not even Flavor of Love, The Dating Show, would be the most recent of things I think that would be the pop culture things.

Nope. Okay, I don't imagine that you guys have imagined what Flavor Flaves House looks like. Huh. Five bedrooms. Staying there, I think, put it on the pole please at LeBertard Show, is staying at Flavor Flaves House risky?

Whoa. What does that supposed to mean? I'm just, I'm leaving it open. I'm leaving it open. I think that you might have an idea of what that is. And I saw the reality show that represents the single worst moment I've ever seen on television when somebody was dating f*** on one of the steps. We've all been there.

Have we? Gotta go, gotta go. Have we? She did it discreetly. Have we all Gotta go, gotta go. Have we? She had, she did it discreetly. Have we all, alright, put her on the pole. That's all we got one day through. Put it on the pole at Levitard show. Have you ever left the date to public on the floor? Then you side of your house.

No, well, I have. This is the worst part about doing. I've been there. I don't think we've all been there I think many people look there are two type of people in the world people who will in a public restroom and people who will not and If you're willing to public bathroom restroom You will also not be able to control your bowels on occasion drink too much white wine parking lot

But that's amazing. But if you're someone who can not put it on the pole at LeBatart Show, can you use a gas station bathroom? Can you go number two in a gas station bathroom? The worst of all the bathrooms you just named. Well, but okay, which one would you want me to go with? Because I, anyway. Let's go with a rest stop. Well, but I think most okay rest stops are different. Yeah, are they those are a step

Oh, like I just you went to like I gotta go to a key this key that I don't want to touch you named The worst yes of all the public bathroom. I mean an airport bathroom is pro. I'd rather do an airport Any day of the week do a gas station gas station, dude. You have solids. You have solids. You were at a shell bathroom. Guys, the difference is. That wooden key. At a gas station, you have one choice, one toilet, that's it.

When you go to like a rest stop or the airport, you have multiple stalls to choose from. But then everybody's taking next to you. No, but you open up. It's just a row of sh** sh** sh** sh** sh** is a lot higher at a rest stop. Like what am I doing? Oh, the guy next to me, I got you fast for me. There's a chunk. Like what am I doing? Oh the guy next to me I can pass me there.

There's a chunk, a chunk. I'm glad that you're in my stall with that toe. I see your toes. Oh get that toe back up there. No, not Fort Drum. Have you been to Fort Drum lately? Oh, they reno'd it, yeah. The Taj Mahal of rest stops on the turnpike.

Really? It used to be Fort Pierce. That used to be the place that you stop Fort Drum. Now you're like you know what? I can do the extra 25 minutes and get up to Fort Drum because, oh. Oh. Chris Cody, do you think that when people lined up

from here to Jacksonville to work for Metal Arc Media, that they imagined a video room that at present is screaming at each other, find Chris Cody's toe in the bathroom stall? Find. They're scurrying. Find the toe of Chris Cody. I can hear the panic.

Because of Roa's, this is a good question you've just posed, Tony. It's something to ponder. Would you prefer the privacy of a gas station bathroom or you got 10 next to each other, right next to each other? Give me clean. I can be right next to someone. As long as, if I feel like it's not disgusting,

I'm good with it. It's an intimate act. I need more privacy unless I've had too much wine white wine and I'm doing it in a parking lot But when you're at a gas station bathroom, and you only have the one stall there are people waiting for you So then they not really cuz no one piece of those things like I feel like You're a monster if you go if I see you waiting at a show bathroom I don't know I gotta go I know we need to do we need to separate the bathrooms one for just peers one for just So if you go in there, you know what I'm women and men so we all in the same I like how let's switch it up. We all go in this like women and men go in the same bathroom But this is one for P and this one's for poop. I'm with you, Tony. David Sampson, you would agree.

He's going to join us. You guys would agree. There's no way he ever goes in public. No. Correct? He's a germaphobe. No. Yeah, he'd rather pee in his pants.

Yes. And so if I gave, I want to, am I being someone who is completely out of touch with what it is that I'm talking about when I say that I think airport bathroom and gas station bathroom are in the same family of not pleasant. Like it's not a big difference. I don't even know if you're gonna put someone between, put an experience between those two, what are you doing? Air plane bathroom?

An airplane bathroom is pretty unpleasant. Yeah. I don't know, there's something about that that I just cause like- It's tight man. You've been sitting for a couple hours. It's like a nice moment of just like, I don't know there's something about that that I just cuz like it's tight You've been sit you've been sitting for a couple hours. It's like a nice moment of just like I'm alone right now I haven't been alone for a couple hours. I sometimes just like stay in there I stretch up like I like even though there's not a lot of room to stretch

I do like this motion then just kind of look in the mirror check the face out just be like how we looking You know this is Dan This is sub six foot privilege right here because you and I when we get into those bathrooms They're really uncomfortable. It is tight. That's I mean it's tight on the sides But I'm comfortable in there But if we're trying to make some sort of order here Dan, I think rest stop and airport those are above gas station and below gas station is 7-11 Really? Yes Really? Oh, yeah, this the 7-11. Oh

I don't care that they serve gas either. It's a different kind of gas station. You know what's a sneaky good public bathroom is a movie theater bathroom. Yes. Not a lot of, not a lot of, and there's the tow. Oh, for the record this is not my tow. How about stadium bathroom? Stadia, oh that's just above gas station.

Oh no, that's terrible. That's terrible. Just above. That is above, barely a gas station bathroom. but that's the next worst above 7-11 7-11 I put that into the just gas station like that's the same category mistake Let me ask you guys something about the stadium bathrooms because I remember in the old orange Bowl when you just brought back sort of a visceral memory of me that just singed my eyebrows and made me back away from the microphone because one of the more unpleasant things

I ever saw in childhood was being in the orange bowl and seeing what looked like a cattle trough, just a bunch of people urinating into one cocktail glass of horror in the center of a room where it's just sort of hard to explain. I don't think we do it anywhere in civilized America this way anymore, but I'm talking about hundreds of people just at the same single center of the room, terrible trough. Is that done anywhere in modern society anymore? The total trough is that done anywhere in modern society anymore the total trough urinal just you brought it up and there was alarm sounding Dan like you can't

bring that up anymore like it's it's banned from the universe it is the most barbaric thing that they've done to human beings right there when did that get eliminated when when did it when did it stop Billy when's the last time you were at a group trough urinal where you've just got- When was the urinal, when was the individual urinal invented? That's probably when we're talking here, I'll look it up. No, it's not when we're talking, the original urinal.

These things require some privacy, I think. Ah! I don't mind it, I'm never gonna see these people again. He's done this before, he's a confident peer. I don't care, I'm never gonna see these people again. You wanna take a gander, be my guest, whatever. It's not the gander. No pictures please, that's where the line is.

The last, no pictures please. I was at the Panthers game a couple weeks ago, and I was at a urinal full of people, and I did a thing where I like scratched my left shoulder with my chin. It kind of looked, the guy to my right looked at me as if I was trying to peek over. No, I was not getting, I was just trying to itch my chin. What's your bullshit face?

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and try to point out what they did wrong. But in this case, the employee was enough levels below where I was that I did not do the firing, but I had it done within moments of discovery. I'm just like firing people. It's just absurd. It's absurd. Stugats. I'm talking about people who I fire who deserve it, who have done something that actively requires me to fire them. It is my unadulterated pleasure to do so.

This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugas. ["Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy"] David Sampson, his podcast is nothing personal. There is a ton of good stuff on it. He also does a fairly regular podcast with John Skipper and Pablo Torre about sports business that is better than anything I've heard ever in the history of sports business. We've got some business stuff to get to with David,

but he is a noted germaphobe, so let's ask him some of the questions that we were talking about before. In your life, the number of times that you have pooped outside of your specified intimate areas like your either your hotel or your home anywhere else, number of times ever. A countless because of during runs, during long runs, I've had a pullover in backyards of people's homes or on the side of the streets or in the woods. Absolutely, when you're a runner, you know it.

If you know, you know. Airports, when you travel a lot, I spend my life in stadiums. I built my own bathroom at Marlins Park Private that then became Jeter's bathroom. But what I do in airports is that I always go to the handicap stall where it's its own door and you're alone. And that's my first choice.

My second choice is that I go to a bathroom that's closed for cleaning, whether it's the male or the female bathroom, and I go in there and I say to the cleaner, I'm so sorry I have an emergency, and that works 100% of the time, and then you're alone in there. So I won't sit in a row.

Lucy, your mouth is hanging open because of how he violates the female bathroom. You just go into, how often are you going into the woman's bathroom? How many times? Remember, not with women there. It's, you know, they put a yellow triangle down to stay closed for cleaning.

That's the only time I would do that. If the men's room, if there's no individual stall that I can go to, and I mean individual, not, I mean like its own door, then if the women's room is being cleaned and there's no one there, I'll knock and I'll say, hey, but I plan my poops because I have a stomach problem. So I rarely am caught, so to speak, with my pants down.

What's your process when you do have to poop in public? Like, I imagine you are going through crazy to clean, going through crazy extents. So nothing goes on the floor. I have to check to see whether there's a hook first for any sort of jacket. I put towels, paper towels on the floor where my pants could by by chance touch

and then I have layers of stuff on the actual toilet and one across the front and so I really don't touch anything and then I clean everything including hands etc. before I even leave the stall. What's the oddest place you poop while running a marathon? Uh, this is a true story. I actually went inside someone's house on the route and they weren't there and I clogged the toilet too. When I am defending my life with Albert Brooks, this is when I will be sent right to hell because I won't use a porta potty. And it was right before the New York Marathon,

and where you are staged is a army base. And I actually went into someone's house who was in the army. It was a veteran? Oh, my God. No, no, an active army like general. Well, thank you for your service. Thank you for your service. Thank you for your service. Lucy, you're more than fine.

And it ended up clogging and it flooded and I ran. I didn't leave a note and I think about it to this day, that poor person coming back after volunteering for the New York Marathon and what I left that person with. You couldn't waterboard that information out of me. Oh my God. Well, he didn't want to give it up. I gotta be honest.

Hey, I've heard that story before. He has told it before, but that's as long as I've ever heard him pause before answering a question. Because the shame, I saw the shame rush right back over his face because a general came home from a hard day's work protecting our country for people like you He comes home

What what communist Master bathroom Why? the master bathroom. Oh my God. Why? Why? Because it was nicer. What do you mean why?

You were scoping out the bedrooms of the General's house? This is an uncommon horror. Here's the other thing, by the way. If that General comes home at that moment, there's going to be a big story. I thought about that, which is why I left the door open so I could hear if anyone were coming into the house. I did think about that.

That would have helped you against a trained military man. You didn't want to get caught with his pants though. I want you to know that I have no shame for things that I've done in the business world. Things met some shame in my personal life, more than I should maybe, but that moment of my life, Lucy, you'd be proud to know it's the lowest of the low. It's what I don't want to have brought back up

any time in my future. I'm not even remotely proud of that at all. David, the Baltimore Orioles have sold for $1.7, something billion dollars. The Orioles are sold for 1.7 something billion dollars The Orioles are selling at a good time because that franchise has been dreadful for this entire century Except for last year now. They've got a great young. It's not true. I mean they've been pretty bad David They've they've been one of what you're gonna know? Go back, if you just said century, they had a great run in the 2000s. No, this, okay, the last 20, the last quarter century,

I feel like they've been pretty bad, regardless. Let's see, we'll look it up, but $1.72 billion. That's nothing. How much of a surprise was it that it sold and what did you think of the number? I was shocked at the number. I expected to get a call from Jeffrey, you know, with a, I can't believe that we got Jeter and Sherman

to pay 1.2 seven years ago for the Marlins. And now the Orioles are only valued at 1.725. It is not a good number for Major League Baseball at all. They cannot be happy with this transaction. It's a step transaction, which means that this hedge fund, a private equity guy named David, who is about to be an octogenarian himself, by the way, that doesn't happen until Peter Angelos actually croaks. He only is a limited partner. That's all this announcement is. He's giving money to the Angelos, is letting them take some cash out of the team getting 40% of the team. But he doesn't get the whole thing until Peter

dies. I thought Peter had been dead for half a decade. He's hanging in there, but very much like Bernie not involved at all. Total dimensions very sad. The family has been fighting there have been lawsuits. So none of it's a surprise except for the number which is really really low think about what the NBA franchise Is recently sold or the NFL franchise is recently sold it really puts MLB in third place and valuations And that's not good. I wanted to talk to you about the ticket prices at the Super Bowl Stugats I don't know if you saw this I I saw this the other day. The most affordable seat, end zone, upper deck, more than $8,000. The worst seat that there is. I am stunned, though I should not be, that the Super Bowl and football are in Vegas,

because that's something I couldn't have guessed possible eight years ago. David, what do you make of what a great market this is for this event? No, I actually just think they're trying to prey on insecure people who want to spend money when they needlessly really don't have to right now. Go back to the F1 in Vegas, when those tickets first became available,

there were all these packages announced, for a million dollars, you can be near the paddock and have two nights plus a cocktail dog and party. That's what the Super Bowl tickets are right now. They're at their highest. If you're able to hang in there, go to Vegas, play crafts with Stu, have fun.

The prices will go down as game time approaches. You just have to be prepared to wait. And it's not like it's Indianapolis or a city where there may not be other great things to do, I love Indianapolis. In Vegas you can go without a ticket and if you don't get a ticket you get to still watch the game at a book and have a great time. So many other options so I think that these are artificially inflated and I think you'd be foolish to buy a ticket right now. I hope Metal Arc has not bought tickets for any of the employees to go to the game

at those numbers. Damn bought it for all of the employees to go to the game at those numbers. Damn bought it for all of us. Yeah. It was a celebration. It's a sweet one. Unreal. What a waste. PGA, live update, anything interesting there?

Yeah, there's a call going on right now live at 9.35 Eastern. Jay Monahan is the best. There's a tournament in LA or in California right now. So there's a bunch of players there at 6.30 in the morning, but he's doing calls trying to get ahead of the news that they're bringing in all this money. It's not the live merger. It's like a sponsorship deal only,

but he's trying to not repeat the mistakes of the past where Tiger Woods and Rory McElroy were not informed of the live merger. So he's doing these calls right now, literally. So the players hear about John Henry and there is Saudi money coming into PGA and how great it's going to be. But this is not newsworthy at all. It is them basically selling shares of their entity in order to bring money in

to increase purses and make it more palatable for players to stay at PGA versus run to live. We have two minutes left. Your choice on what we talk about, whether it's Skydance buying Paramount or whether it is your movie review. The Skydance is a much longer conversation I'd love to have with all of you about the consolidation and we may talk about it on the next sporting class. I'd like to review a movie for people to see because we spend time and Mike Ryan's not

here today, but we spend time going through all the crap that Nicolas Cage does, the most prolific movie star that I've ever seen. There's always a new movie of his. He's in one called Dream Scenario. And if you're not going to watch Butcher know, Butcher's crossing and Pig was good but all the other stuff that he's been doing, please watch dream scenario and know number one that's his real hair. He changes his hair, shaves his head, grows his hair in weird ways in order to get into character and he gets to choose what his character is like and I want you to imagine what it would be

to have Nicolas Cage in your dreams every night where you cannot escape him and that they're bad dreams. It's the biggest nightmare ever, but a great performance by Nicholas Cage. I give him credit for taking all of these movies, for doing all of them, and every once in a while, a clock is right. God, I just mixed my metaphors. What is it? You can lead a blind nut to a squirrel?

Whatever the expression is. You nailed the dismount. My father likes to say, but you know, that's the way the cookie bounces. But he's doing it in his second language. So it's somewhat forgivable. That movie was a very creative choice. It was good because many reasons,

but Nicholas Cage doesn't often play a total schlub who disgusts you. And he was a schlub and wildly unpleasant. David, thank you for being on with us. We will talk to you again next week, sir. All right, take care. You liked that movie, huh? You liked it Chris I actually haven't seen it, but everyone Adnan loved it and I want to see it Adnan and Samson United That's his real hair