The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: The Corporate Cleansing

Episode Date: April 14, 2025

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You guys know that I have been dabbling in Mortality thoughts which come with some legacy thoughts and as I look at uh, ESPN right now on sportsman- like the morning show on ESPN radio. I wonder if our legacy right now is on the bottom part of the screen where they are graphically showing what the people are talking about. And the segment is called I'm over it with an exclamation point. And then it just says producer Pat Costello shares what he's fed up with today. I want to tune in.

Is that our legacy? Producers fed up with things. Producers getting microphones to say that they are fed up. I don't even understand actually the phrase fed up. Is it just that you've had so much food that it is now pouring out of your mouth and you're vomiting because you can't keep it down anymore? Is that why, and how people get fed up?

Or is it something with the slaughtering of chickens? Like what, how do people? The slaughtering of chickens? I don't, I don't, look, Roy, I don't understand what's happening in the world. I was told the other day that at these Minecraft movies, teenagers are coming in with live chickens, and I'm like what that's not all They're doing damn How are people allowed in put it on the pole at LeBata show should you be allowed into the movie theater with a live chicken?

Also, they carry salmonella, and then if you touch your mouth or your face you're gonna get sick It's a bad idea. Don't carry chickens into a movie theater life It's sick. It's a bad idea. Don't carry chickens into a movie theater. Life principle words, if I've ever heard them. Emotional support chicken. It's my advice. Don't bring a live chicken to a movie theater. I see that you guys are desperately looking up Fed Up, the origins of Fed Up.

I found it, but there was a couple words that I had to make sure that I was locked in on to come to air and actually say them. So, Fed Up originates from falconry, man, where the bird of prey has been overly fed, no longer is willing to fly and hunt. I'm seeing that it's British slang from around 1900, evolving from the phrase, like, fed up to the back teeth.

So that's not helpful, so I'll keep reading. Well, I'm looking straight at you, and I'm saying, like, you are the one I'm looking at, and I'm like, hmm, producers who are overly fed and don't wanna work anymore, huh? I'm looking right in the mirror, for sure. I'm not fed to my back teeth though. I've seen you hit that bacon

and those sausages over there. I've seen you fed to the back teeth. We keep the baking industry going around here. No one eats bacon like this place. I need to talk to you guys about some things on and off camera. About bacon? Well, they wanna cut the food budget.

What? Yeah, and I'm like. Well, who does? That's an important distinction, Samson. David Samson. Porque no taquine y no come. Of course, if everybody has 18,000 jelly beans in a bag, oh no, it's great, bring your own jelly beans.

No, I don't want that, Dave, sorry. In general, I gotta get a grip on Sampson because he's just careening all over the place. And I'm happy to say that I have gotten a grip on Sampson because I have brought in my big friend, corporate cleanser, John Amici, who is very expensive, to try and get a hold of whatever it is the consequences are of the decisions that David Sampson is getting very close to

so that I can find some happy medium between nobody around here will wear costumes when I tell them to and don't take away their food. And that friend discount? What's the deal with that? Yeah, you hired a corporate therapist because we didn't want to wear costumes, got it. That's exactly right. And you hired David because we eat a lot of bacon. That's exactly right.

This is the Dan Leventor Show with the StuGuts Podcast. The other thing about bringing in corporate cleanser John Amici in here in an emergency to get David Sampson away from your bacon is that John Amici getting in and out of this country now is something that feels more dangerous to him than going to Dubai and so he is really coming in as a hero's gesture here for his friend in order to make sure that the food gets protected because David Sampson is trying to take away the food. I got an idea how about this how about instead of what you're gonna pay John you pay it to me I'll go around I'll do it I'll make sure everything goes no no not cheaper same rate I'm doing the same thing, baby

Will you actually wear one of the costumes? Well, no, but see this is this the reason John Amici is here because I am the founder of this company Allegedly powerful and I can't get any of you to for our customers Paid grid of death punishments that make the show better. And symbolically, that is something I need help with. I'm just picturing it, what am I here for? For costumes? What's happening with this? That's pretty good.

That's pretty good. No, that was not a good. It was good. It was Austin Powers. Bloody hell, who throws the shoe? It was very subdued Austin Powers. Yes, well I will say, in Chris Cody's defense, because he is willing to make himself vulnerable subdued Austin Powers. Yes, well I will say in Chris Cody's defense

because he is willing to make himself vulnerable in some of the places that cause critique. Impersonations, if you're not confident in them, will immediately result in all of us seizing on what Jess did while not doing a better British impersonation. Oh please, I do plenty of impersonations. Also, Jeremy wore a ton of costumes last year,

he didn't get a raise, so what's the incentive for wearing costumes around here, Dano? To make the show better, Jessica Oh. All right, Tony. Jess O. Detective Tony. First off, if we're looking, if we're pointing fingers, I wore my costumes when I lost. I did my thing.

I was Jerry Seinfeld. It was a matrix. I did 1,000 different costumes. You did not do 1,000 different costumes. My guess is that you have some ode. And again, my frustration, I know everyone at this company is laughing about this at me, but again, the reason we do what I have always believed

is a bad bucket of death segment is so that we get the payoff of the punishments. When you deny the audience the punishments of the payoff, we're now doing a bad segment that makes the show worse and we're not paying our penalties in the way that the show is made worse. And so, symbolically, John Amici has rushed through danger in order to come here, save your bacon,

literally save your bacon, and see if we can get anyone in here to just, you know just take care of the customer. Because the customer kinda keeps us in business. You gotta look like me. I'm not gonna criticize that impersonation. You know who it was though, right? What's up with all these? Yeah, I'm gonna ask who that is.

No, no, you don't have to. What's up with all these costumes? What's up with all these costumes? The other thing that I will do in defense of Jessica, because we all do it, it probably was a terrible impersonation, but I also can't do one that's better. And the risk around here in leaving yourself vulnerable

on song or impersonations is that everyone will pounce on you. And so it deters anyone from actually wanting to take the risk of doing the impersonation. So Corporate Cleanser is in town to see if he can make everything around here better. A couple of people who are not here right now, I'm surprised by one of them because I thought for sure that Stugatz would be here today to talk about Rory McElroy, to call him either Rory McElroy or make him black by calling him Rory

McLeRoy but he is not here today and he will be here tomorrow. I don't know if he's home celebrating that golf had a moment yesterday. It's hard for golf to come by moments. Hell, Tony wandered over today slapping his forehead saying I get it now. I get the Masters, I get golf. I get Masters week Chris have you been trying to talk to Tony about Masters week? Have you been trying to convince him because yesterday sold it? I'm skeptical of Tony because he came in now. I get it. I get it with the Masters I'm interested to hear his take because it feels like there's gonna be a pinch of sarcasm in it No, there's no picture sarcasm. I was watching obviously we had an incredible game last game of the day in the NBA last yesterday

We had Clippers versus Dubs, which was incredible get to that later But as that game finished, I was like, you know what? Let me go check out what's going on over at the massive I put I put on CBS. We've got Rory coming down. We've got Justin Rose, you know practicing and they're going to him The thing is here's the here's the ticket, Dan. Here's what I realized, oh, I get it. I had the baby on top of me. She's sleeping, she's taking a nap. I kind of wake up from a little bit of a nap myself.

Sunday Masters is great for that, by the way. All of a sudden? The early-hoes Sunday Masters, put it on the poll at Leviton Show. Early-hoes Sunday Masters, good for a nap? All of a sudden, my daughter's asleep. I kind of wake up from a little bit of a slumber after the post overtime game.

And I'm like, oh, I get it. This is nice, relaxing. Look at Justin Rose practicing. He's hoping he's got one more shot. Oh no, Rory's got one putt to sink. If he makes it, he's got the green jacket. He's got the career grand slam. It's over.

He missed it. Oh my God, we got a one hole playoff. I was locked in Dan. I get it now next Masters. I'm gonna be in I can't believe the roller coaster that was that route Rory tried so hard to Rory He tried like he wins it and there's some randomness involved with this. He gets to win congratulations It's the great story In fact, I would tell you now how many open stories are left in golf that could feel like that one because it's pretty cool When someone cares like that when you see someone who's a decorated champion

You have to understand for all the criticism of Rory McIlroy not winning over the last decade He has made a wildly lucrative great career. He is exceptional at golf He's one of the most popular golfers that there are He's one of the most popular golfers that there are But he had a hole on his resume that he was carrying around in a way that hurt him that didn't feel Complete and so I want to talk about that with you guys and I also want to talk about that Clippers Warriors game because that was a lot of fun and no one no one wants to play the Clippers. That team is dangerous and that team has the legitimate chance if they stay healthy. I said this last year of the Clippers they're better this year. If that team stays healthy they have the

chance to be the single most surprising champion in NBA history after trading Paul George. But before we get to that, Greg Cody is also not here today because he is finally having that procedure done for whatever that thing is over his belly button, which I want to have brought in here. Please, Chris, tell me that you have told your father that he has to bring it with him after surgery to put in a glass case to see if we could top

what I believe to be the greatest achievement in this show's history, which is getting thousands of people to walk in a line like a pilgrimage toward a glass case that had Greg Cody's toenail in it. I mean, there's a little bit of confusion here. And we don't think he's getting something removed. We think he's getting a body part pushed back in. And then they're putting it essentially like a netting

to like a wiring that will keep it pushed back essentially. I would like for you to please make sure that he gets some sort of remnant heirloom something. Dan says cut something out of Greg, we need a bit. Physical flesh, not just a bit. I need to conquer the single greatest achievement in this show's history by doing something even more disgusting and a waste of the platform and power than having a pilgrimage of thousands of people to see a toenail, to see this thing

that grew above Greg Cody's stomach. Can we please go to what I believe was the greatest moment that we had during 24 hours of freedom? When we did a bunch of programming with every talented person in our universe for 24 hours And I don't think there was any programming better than what we showed at 4 a.m After Adam McKay and Neil Brennan has spent a couple of hours reviewing Neil Brennan's movie We got to see Greg Cody with a doctor in Indiana, Chris, a doctor who was up at four or three in the morning to do this examination from afar. Yeah, but first I want to describe it to you so you're not too shocked.

My navel is a small round circle like the kid in Home Alone. And then above my navel is what looks like a broad wide nose. I have a nose above my navel. Now, can I show it to you and you tell me what's wrong with me? Let me ask you a couple of questions first. How long have you had this? Can you remember? My whole life. Like I can not remember not having it.

Okay. And does it come and go or is it always there? It's always there. And as Mike Ryan can tell you, it's uncomfortably squishy. Like I feel like if I pricked it, pus or something would come out of it. I honestly expected it to be a little bit more gelatinous But it's liquidy closer to water than hair gel. Yeah, I would agree with that Water more than hair gel. Okay. Yeah, if you want to show it to me, that's fine. Okay Move your See why was riding on it? Yeah, I've never seen that. Let's all like the camera zoom in on it.

Like stay still, Dad. There you go. All right. There is Dr. R. R. R. R.

R. R. R. R. Okay. It looks like one of those Easter islands. Does it go in? It does. Ooh, that looks, ooh, oh that hurts when you do that stop here it's wishing oh

He's a beach Wow What's your yeah, what's your assessment? so What I think is going on Let him finish his answer, please sit down proceed dr. Robert So what I think you have going on is what's called a peri umbilical hernia So you can sit down if you want that That doctor, the look on his face seemed to me like he was questioning why it is he had gotten into medicine and how much he knew about medicine because of what he was experiencing there.

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We don't know. That's a big game for the Knicks. We have absolutely no idea how Boston will play. I don't know who they'll play, who they won't play. Stugats. Okay. All right. That's fine.

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Holy shit, that was a shitty sales job. This is the Don LeBathard Show with the Stugats. Mike Ryan has now returned. How was your corporate cleansing? Did it feel good? It's fine, Dan. I don't think I'm fully cleansed. Okay, let's keep working on that. We'll see whether Amici can cleanse everybody or not Yeah, still grinding still chopping. I love that Greg Cody said he does not remember not having it He does remember however seeing a Will Chamberlain game He never saw because nobody did Sylvania TV there Dan black and white. Yeah, he mentioned that Pablo's really mad at all of us Did I miss the Rory conversation? We talked about it for a moment? We'll get to it in a second

You were corporate cleansing was the Rory conversation just three minutes long no no we're gonna get to it We're gonna get we're still setting the table, okay, and we're gonna sit down and eat I'm in on the Masters by the way. Yeah, how could you not be thank you? But the Masters is the kind well I mean golf in general is kind of thing where when it's boring, it's really boring. It's very, you just kind of nap through it and you don't miss anything.

But when it's good, like Sunday, it is so good. And this was like one of this and the Tigers 2019 Masters, probably the two best Masters Sundays of my lifetime. And I don't know, I didn't think the Tiger one could be beat, I don't think it was beat, but I think this comes pretty dang close. And I will get to that, even though Mike needs obviously a little more corporate cleansing to arrive late and say,

did you guys already talk about something we've talked about? So we'll get him some more corporate cleansing. But you were saying, Jessica, about Pablo being really mad? Well, because he did an entire episode about Wilt Chamberlain's 100 point game, that we all admitted we didn't listen to, mad? Well, because he did an entire episode about Wilt Chamberlain's 100 point game that we all admitted we didn't listen to, especially Greg Cody because he claimed that he watched it

on his TV in Florida when it was famously not televised. So yeah, I think we sort of failed our program there. I disagree, I disagree. I think that Pablo can make his wonderful things and run around with his rhythmic gymnastics Ribbon and then go over there and you know spend time with Joe Scarborough as starts Joe Scarborough tries to make him the model minority on MSNBC that makes it okay for him to go to the White House and Pablo needs to just do his job and not complain about what we're doing around here and damn

I agree with that. We're fine here funding his projects and his fun and he can be mad that occasionally we're not listening to them because Greg Cody surprises us by remembering something he shouldn't and couldn't remember. And he can do his job and we will do our job. Sounds like corporate cleansing maybe we should move everything up a few hours. I've got to do corporate cleansing too. I'm not immune from corporate cleansing. John Amici is, I'm not immune from corporate cleansing. John Amici is telling me a bunch of things I don't want to hear either. I wasn't aware that we were making that content, but now I'm locked in. Thank you. Well, if you'd

gotten here on time, you would have known again. You told me I could take as long as I need. Another reason we need some corporate cleansing around here, uh, because we shouldn't have to stop in the middle of what it is that we're doing to answer your questions on things We've already done you could do the second part with me because I stepped in and said I can do what I mean She's doing pay me the same amount of money. We'll do it. So me and you go have a beer later I mean talk about it on that corporate Michael bit before we can run it back No, this is detective Tony though. No, this is therapist Tony different pilot. No therapist is Billy So the Simpsons are the best of the cartoon shows, right? Like, South Park famously hates Family Guy

in a way that is public and really delightful because South Park is looking at Family Guy and being like, stand for something. How about you stop just making jokes all the time and just take a stand, Seth MacFarlane, quit doing jazz hands, and they don't mind telling you so. Like, Seth MacFarlane has had a wildly successful career, and the South Park guys are like,

nah, don't like you, you're meaningless. You don't do important things. But Simpsons is the gold standard, correct? Simpson, even though, like, you're either, put it on the pole, Juju, this is a good question, actually. Just put Simpsons or South Park, choose. You gotta choose between them because they're different people.

Those are, you have to choose a side here. You can't like both of them equally. I do like them both. I don't like them equally. I like South Park more, but South Park also being a cable show could get away with more than Simpsons, which starting in the early 90s was on network television,

appealing to certain family aspects that South Park didn't have to. I'm really excited that South Park is coming back, given everything that's going on in the teaser. 27 years, 28 years? The teaser that they dropped is really South Park getting back to pop culture commentary satire. So I'm really excited about that.

I'm more of a South Park guy. I never really was a Family Guy guy, even though it was pretty funny. There was that South Park episode where they basically accused their writers of that being a bunch of manatees that would just randomly pick different balls floating up in a tank to do their sketch.

And I thought they did that very smartly, but I'm a South Park guy. At Levitard Show, choose Simpsons or South Park. Is it indeed 27, 28 years? Because both of those shows I don't think that people understand. We have gotten crawling on our knees to 20 years. How hard it is to keep that ball up in the air over all of the things that can happen over 30 years, to continually and consistently make content that stands out. One of the things, somebody else who is doing that, who I have actually admired the run of his show as I've lost admiration for some of the things that he has done most recently, Bill Maher traded everything to sit at a table with Trump,

just because he wants the power of being next to Bob, Kid Bob and Trump. And so Bill Maher now tries to normalize Donald Trump because Donald Trump invited him to his house to have dinner and Keith Obermann among others others, is saying, quote, I've known Bill since 1978. He was a shameless opportunist with no real principles then and he remains so.

This is so he can keep his HBO show. This is something that's happening and it's one of the reasons that I wanted us to have freedom in 2024 with the microphones. Like when my friend John Amici comes to this country and is legitimately scared more than coming to Dubai because he's gay and black and because this country seems more hostile than it has been in a long time, when that person is scared, some of the things happening while you laugh at dinner with Donald Trump are, and while Pablo's Scarborough from Morning Joe goes to

the White House and normalizes some of the shit by saying well he's human he laughs he laughs but he's a pathological liar because now he's putting out on his health certificate that he's 6'3", 224 pounds. I'm gonna say that again. Donald Trump is telling us that he's 6'3", 224 pounds. Can you guys just roll some athletes that are 6'3", 224 pounds or roughly thereabouts? And I know muscle weighs more than fat, but it doesn't weigh this much more than fat. Are you suggesting that Donald Trump might be lying? Pathological liar. We put up there 6 3 225. That's wrong. It's 224. Like he went out of his way. They're not going to believe 225. Let me make

it a little more detailed. 225 sounds too clean. They're not going to believe that. Let me give you that little extra detail that pathological liars need to have.3", 224 pounds. Why do you have to lie about that? Now I understand a lot of people lie about their height and weight. To make it official though, like why, how can, it has to be because it's pathological, right? It has to be because like Stugatz,

there's more fun in lying than there is in telling the truth. Well, I mean, if he's gonna lie about other things, it stands to reason he would not be fully forthcoming with the thing that most everyone lies about. They're heightened. I know, but putting it on, just making it official when it's just asinine, where it's a lie that can be checked by your eye.

Like, most of the lies don't get checked by the eye. I gotta tell you, they've, this, keep your eye on the ball though, this is just like the Gulf of America thing. That's why that placard's still in that office, to just rile you up and get your focus over there. You want to get your focus on the weight and, height and weight, you won't worry about how, are we terrifying laptops or are we not? Are we terrifying the battery inside? Is there a message? Are we all on message or are we just pausing, unpausing again? So I really, it's not the first time he's lied about his height and weight. It's just the most recent time.

No, but he's losing weight now. He was 240 before when he was lying about his weight. Now he's 224. Just please roll that again, please. Roll and roll as many athletes as you can find over the course of the, uh, no. He is getting a lot of golf in though. So, I mean, even more than the last time. So I, I doesn't, maybe it does look a little bit better. Anyway. He looks good. No, he doesn't. He looks terrible. You may or may not know this, but 20 years ago, the origins of this very show

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A lot of stoo gods. A lot of walks, but I'm on base When it comes to sex a lot of other other dudes they can be Giambi You know your role you play. I know my role. This is the Don LeBattard show with the stoo gods Rory McElroy ends up showing us something that we are desperate to see from our athletes which and golfers show us that you care as much as we do. Show us that it means something to you after not winning a major tournament in 10 years and this one being the hole on your resume. It is really rare to see someone that happy putting on the green jacket at the country club because they are pretty staid about their emotions there. When Jessica mentions Tiger and the Masters, I think I could say to the entirety of the audience, one snapshot, all time, golf, give it to me.

And it's Tiger chasing a putt at the Masters to the hole and then showing you the emotion of that robot that you know that has been like groomed since birth to be a robot that doesn't have a lot of public emotion. If you give me one snapshot on golf, not this century, ever, the one I'm going with is Tiger following a putt to the hole, pointing at it, and then just coming through with the emotion of it.

And then yesterday I felt something similar with the way that Rory put on that jacket, caring about having that jacket more than anybody watching. Yeah, the image of him falling to his knees. That's an all time golf photo. There are so many great photos of that and each time I flip through the photos,

I'm like, ah, this is the one, this is the one. And they just keep getting better and better. And it was really cool for him to win that. And I must admit, I wasn't a big, roary guy. I wanted to see, I guess it played out perfectly because I didn't really know how badly I wanted to see him have that moment. I just knew that I wanted to see him overcome adversity.

And for a while there on the front nine, it looked like he wasn't going to have to because he had been dominating so much. For him to falter the way that he did, which was so on brand and replicate so many of the great collapses that he's had in his career, and still overcome with great shots, it meant so much because of how it had to go down

for him to really conquer those demons in profound ways. And it was high drama. I mean, you got people hooting and hollering for golf at bars, it's crazy. Well, thank you for saying that because put it on the pole please, Juju at LeBittard Show, did Rory try to Rory? Because I would have liked somebody great

to really be putting pressure on him to see how that would have gone. Like one of the greats. I would have liked for him to not be able to falter because somebody was coming after him like that. But when you mention sounds from bars regarding golf, this is something that I do all the time and have been doing it since my wife and I met

because she does not care about sports and we live over a sports bar so there are a variety of noises that come from the sports bar and depending on both the schedule and the sound she'll say and what's that and i'll be like that's premier league

or whatever because of what time of day it is yesterday for the first time and I'm saying she has asked me this hundreds of times and it's always football or that's a championship college basketball game or that's a that's a playoff game in college football yesterday for the first time we're walking the dog and the bar explodes and she's like what's that and I'm like golf and she's like no it isn't the first time you've ever responded with golf right correct you've never been able to say that's golf never it's it she didn't believe me she did not believe me because what was then

happening is the sound that you do not hear in any other sport except soccer, which is, oh, on a putt. You don't hear that during a football game. It's rare when that sport delivers in that way. It was the first playoff since 2017, and it was shaping up to be such a dramatic Sunday, and Bryson was gonna be that guy. A potential all-time great chasing Rory

and being the obstacle. And Bryson had his meltdown, and you thought, okay, well, Rory's just gonna be consistent the entire time, and that's how he's going to put all these criticisms to bed. But I kinda wanna see him have to deal with it. I wanna see him make a pressure-filled putt. I wanna see him miss a pressure-filled put. I want to see him miss a pressure filled putt

and then come back and hit great shots and nail a pressure filled putt. And Rose had the day that he had, it was kind of weird because he was out on the range. You would have loved for the pairing and that additional pressure to be like literally right on top of him. But man, that was just majestic.

That was a great, great tournament the entire time. That was a great final round, especially the back nine. I'm so happy that it played out the way that it did. And it is pretty rare. There are no upset golf fans. Even if you're a live golf guy, even if you hate Rory, you understand what that story meant. There is not a single person that even casually follows golf that isn't super overjoyed for Rory McElroy. And I'm so happy Rory met that moment with the emotion that everybody watching attached to it because he was very clearly wearing it.

It may not have been visible as he's walking down 16, 17. You can pick up on that, but the emotional release of that moment was an all time payout. And then afterwards he just admits, oh, first hole, nervous. What other sports do you get that where it's just, he double bogeys the first hole and it's just clear

that this all-time great athlete is just nervous. And then he overcomes it, goes on a stretch, gets the lead, and then on 13 double bogeys, hits it in the water. The role, I can't remember in any golf round, usually in golf, you're either hot for a whole round, like the back and forth of choking, getting hot, choking again, getting hot was just, and I admit, I went into this, I was rooting against Rory.

Just because I've always kind of been indifferent on Rory, and I think that the storyline of him needing a Masters was really all golf has at the moment. So I was like almost nervous for golf, almost rooting for the storyline to continue, but you see the emotion and I flipped. I was like happy for him. Like Mike said, nobody's watching that.

Even if you're rooting against Rory, you get how long he's been, 11 chances to get the fourth major. And every other golfer that has five, all the majors has done it in three chances or less. 11 tries it took him, just brutal. You were rooting against Rory? I was, but not in a way, not like anti,

I don't dislike Rory, I just wanted to see. Who did you want to win on Sunday, Bryson? I had money on Oberg. Oh yeah, that's tough. I had pretty much everybody but Rory. I was betting for Rory to collapse and lost a ton. I guess if you're betting it's not different than rooting against him.

This may come as a shock. I also like Bryson DeChambeau despite him doing a lot of things that would. It doesn't really come as a shock. What? I don't think that comes as a shock. Really? No. Bryson has kind of done work to.

Corporate cleanser. His image has flipped a little bit. Like I know that he still has the Liv stuff, but Bryson with his YouTube channel, I feel like the high fives, it was funny Bryson, cause he is riding the, hey, I'll talk to fans, cause Rory famously doesn't even look at fans.

So Bryson was very excited with the high fiving fans, until he went in, until he went six over the first four holes. And you could see him just being like, oh, I still gotta do this high-five thing even though I'm choking. It was interesting though that Rory ended up playing against Rose who was ahead of him

because when that happened, like it felt like it, like you said Chris, it would have been easier if Bryson was having this bad round. Rory started off sluggish, but then started playing better, and he just sort of coasted home. But Justin Rose had the round of his life on Sunday, and it took it to the playoff. And I thought that made it even more interesting.

And so then Rory goes into the playoff against someone who's won a major, but has lost in a playoff before, who he's friends with, who he knows really well. And so it just made it a really interesting dynamic at the end that it was those two playing for the Masters win against one another instead of Bryson who had sort of lost it early in the first half of the day.

I would have thought that if it was Bryson versus Rory, I think Rory's head is in a different place. I think the fact that it was Justin Rose, he's friends with Justin Rose. I actually think that helped Rory. I feel like if it was somebody like Bryson, then we might have seen Rory get in his head again. It's the only way it could have maybe been

a little bit better. No, it could have been better if Scheffler was chasing him, or if one of these giants was chasing him. Scheffler had a good final round, but the only way that it could have been better for me is if the person that was applying the pressure was paired with him, and they're going shot for shot. That was what the whole appeal was.

That's what it was looking like. Oh man, Bryson and Rory have been going shot for shot. That was what the whole appeal was. That's what it was looking like. Oh man, Bryson and Rory have been going shot for shot this entire tournament. Hopefully they deliver on Sunday. Bryson didn't hold up his end of the deal because that's an additional pressure. Now you're gonna try to have to make this putt with Bryson DeChambeau over your shoulder.

It's a different kind of pressure and it's the only way that you could have framed it a little bit cooler. I believe there are other ways to have framed it cooler by just making it something that didn't allow him to Rory because he was still Rorying and not paying for it because he was compensating but there could have been someone out there making him pay for that like yeah yeah somebody who's better at golf than he is even though he's exceptional at golf. Yeah he fell back to the tide. There were guys that had great rounds, Scheffler among them, but it was just,

they had to make up too much ground there. So like, I hear you, I don't disagree. I'd much rather Scottie Scheffler be standing over his shoulder, but the distance between them heading into the final round was such that it was Bryson. That was supposed to be the guy that held up his end of the deal and he didn't.

I also think that him having some pretty bad shots actually made for a better final round because then he had to make some of the literally like the best shots of his life to win it. And like putting he put the pressure on himself by choking a couple times but then it turned around and it was like Chris said it was like one hole you're like Jesus Christ man like that's that was your blowing it. And then the next hole is like holy shit that was incredible I don't know how we put it through the trees and got it that close to the pin let's play some sound so that

you can hear in his own words what the emotion was for Rory McIlroy but you know there's talking about it and actually doing it and yeah today was today was difficult I was unbelievably nervous this morning. Um, really nervous on the first hole. Um, as you witnessed with the double, but as I said, that sort of calmed me down and you know, I was able to bounce back and show, you know, that resilience that I've talked about a lot. And, um, yeah, no, look, it was, it was a heavy weight to carry and you know, thankfully I don't have to carry it and it frees me up and You know, I know I'm coming back here every year, which is lovely.

I read some stories about as I do every year what an economic insanity the Masters is like There are people there who pay for their mortgages by just being being air being being their homes for the week just being being Airbnb in their homes for the week. One of the things that golf does extraordinarily well put up the emotion again of Rory just walking through here where the entire story that goes back decades you can actually see on his face do you realize how incredible the access is here because all throughout sports contractually there are all sorts of interviews, sideline interviews, let's talk to this person now, it's all manufactured nothing. Look at this as the access where you can you are closer to this human being than anyone in the world as he feels the best

things he's ever felt at golf and one of the reasons this tournament is this is because of how sacred the televising of it is and nance is whispering the whole time that he's talking about oh the production knocked it out the park that was just such a well produced moment in time and the afterglow was just delivering and made it that much better i remember remember the celebration more than the tremendous day of golf and it was awesome. This is the last event where, obviously because they banned cell phones, people still wave their hats like this, right?

When they're celebrating. What's another event where people are waving their caps in the air? Horse racing, they still do it, right? I've never seen it. Yeah, I think at the Kentucky Derby, it's still part of the- People wave their caps?

Yeah, it's still part of it. Oh man. Can we shout out the camera guy walking backwards with Rory through this because I'm telling you this is there's a lot of hills This is not an easy walk to walk backwards He did it for like shout out to his grip who probably has a hand on the back Coiling saying go this way go that way do me a favor Please video and I will wait and filibuster for you to do this because the best camera work that I saw this weekend before this is when somebody on Twitter sent out what they called the best camera work they've ever seen of a diver being attacked by an

octopus. Please find that video so that we can play it here but in the interim can you find me an artificial intelligence stugots? This is part of what I'm working with John Amici on, seeing what we can do to improve our corporate culture around here. Can we get some stugots talking about talking about what it is that he witnessed yesterday? Because I'm assuming that most people want to hear Master's Week, Dan-O, from what from stugots. And also I want to put some bets in for tomorrow on whether when stugots gets here tomorrow, how many times he will call him McLaRoy instead of McElroy,

because he's got a weird golf dyslexia that only applies to Rory. The screen right now, this is the cameraman walking with his guy behind him, guiding him where to go. Shout out to both of them. The grips, they never get the credit they deserve. Shout out to the grips. Oh, Dan, grips, they never get the credit they deserve. Shout out to the grips. Oh Dan, I thought you'd never get to me.

Masters week. Rory, congrats, congrats Mackleroy. You finally did it. Now do it again next year and do it without a playoff. Playoffs. Best words in sports. Top five best words in golf number five

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