The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: The Line Between Loathsome and Hateful

Episode Date: March 11, 2024

Today's Cast: Dan, Stugotz, David Samson, Billy, Jessica, and Jeremy. How many pushups did John Cena do before his naked appearance at the Oscars? Dan is very obviously crushed over the state of boxing as a lover of the sweet science. We guide him delicately through his emotions as we discuss Jake Paul and Mike Tyson and UFC 299. Then, Women's College Basketball was at its best over the weekend including buzzer beaters and a fight worthy of breaking out the hierarchy of escalating tensions. Jessica leads us through the weekend that was. Plus, Adnan Virk stops by as he and David recap their Oscars Watch Party and break down the biggest moments of the night. Also, everyone feels old, all 8 month olds are idiots, and LeBron James wishes us a Happy International Women's Day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to DraftKings. Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings and all it has to offer throughout the show. DraftKings, the crown is yours. John Cena did a hundred push-ups before going out there last night, right? You can't, you can't, no matter what your body looks like, you can't go out there cold that naked and not do the push-ups. Put it on the pole please, Juju, at Levitard Show. Did John Cena do a hundred push-ups. Put it on the pole, please, Juju, at Labetard Show. Did John Cena do 100 push-ups before going on stage yesterday? Tricep dips, too, and some crunches.

You would think that there was a lot of exercise, I would think. We will talk some, Adnan will be here in a little bit, and David Samson as well. We are a little bit depleted here. Thank you to everyone who participated last night. It was a lot of fun, and it was really nice to see that we could keep the audience for seven hours of that nonsense

You're welcome very nice of you Thanks to everybody except for Stu gots who and Billy I watched What'd you think what were your thoughts? I? Felt bad for you Because for years we heard about your popcorn and how great the popcorn recipe was And you came in and you seemed very excited you sauntered it across the red carpet You presented everybody with your homemade popcorn that has a secret recipe And the first words that I heard in regards to your popcorn was this tastes weird. Yeah, and I said that's not that's not good Yeah, Dan's confidence that was Lucy who then ate three boxes of the popcorn

I noticed now she may have done that simply getting used to She may have simply been doing that to be you know, whatever the the student who gives the teacher an apple Because I think she might have been being nice But she did eat three buckets of it. But Billy, you felt bad for Dan because Dan set the bar very high on the pop court and there were expectations headed into that, you know? Yeah, no, and we've heard for a long time and then he came in and I was like, oh, this is going to kill him.

Well, unfortunately we're going to have to get a group. Jessica is the only one here from last night. I was here Dan I gave my Terry Rose your analysis after the heat you showed up. Yes much later I guess one once the popcorn had gone bad Once I thought I'd been out for four hours or six hours heard a lot of that needs butter Yeah, a lot of people like butter with their popcorn. That's not how it does it. I mean,? I mean, I'm allergic to butter. I can't have it that way. I can't have butter on things.

We will get the opinions of the group when the group is here. The group is not here today. So the thing that I wanted to get into from the weekend, those two guys, because at the end of last week, and this is an interesting thing to me, what is happening in the fighting sports where you have the tension of the business of it is the worst. The employees in the fighting sports are disposable and they are labor that gets exploited by people making money. But we're at an inflection point where many of these people know that they have their own brands, their own power,

and that they can exist as their own pay-per-view forces outside of the sport. Floyd Mayweather taught them that. You've heard me say one of the great, whether he can read or not, and I don't know whether he can read the contracts or not because 50 Cent and others have accused him of being illiterate.

Great businessman. Well, just pioneers. It's beyond great businessman. It's well beyond that. It's a decade, two decades ahead of everybody on business and on owning all your own stuff. But what ends up happening, and we'll get to Jake Paul and Tyson in a second, you can play that video now of Tyson outside in New York walking with a cane, Stugans, because Jake Paul is fighting a 57-year-old fighter. They told me is going to be an underdog in this fight,

and I can't imagine why or how that would be even walking with a cane, because Jake Paul has not fought someone who's an actual boxer like this. But how happy were you when the New York Post aggregated your take while you were wearing a Willy Wonka costume? A giant victory for me. It's one of the great, it's one of the great

happinesses at this point in my career. It's one of the few things that can stir genuine emotion from me. Every comment was like, what the hell is this guy wearing? Why does he look like Willy Wonka? For me, it's Joe Mallor. It is wonderful that I would say publicly, it's not just that I'm wearing a costume

while being aggregated, it's the specifics of calling him an idiot while I'm dressed that way. Like an idiot. Yes, thank you, Jessica. That's what I was saying. I'm hoping that he responds at some point to the costume and wonders how it is that this idiot, meaning me, can be calling him an idiot.

There is additional pressure after that video came out, oh Jake Paul, you can't lose to that guy. I mean, you can't lose to a guy limping around with a cane. You can't do it. If I'm Tyson, I keep setting the bar lower and lower. You, if he keeps setting the bar lower and lower at his age, he won't be able to get under the bar. He won't be able to get up from being under the bar. But before we get to that, because I'm not sure if a UFC fight in America has ever sold a stadium

out of that size, Jerry Jones' stadium. I know I could do it in Brazil and Japan and in Spain. I mean, maybe some fights in America can, but I don't know if American fights have had a crowd of the size that Jake Paul and Tyson will do. But the thing that I wanted to talk about from the weekend, Stugans, and it's a slow sports time, and I feel like it's slid under the radar and should not have. And the only reason that it's slid under the radar is because Anthony Joshua did to Inganu what Tyson Fury should have done to Inganu, knocked him out coldly in the second

round because one of them is a professional boxer and the other is not. And Anthony Joshua made it look very easy because Anthony Joshua was one of the greatest fighters in the sport and in the heavyweight division. But to me, the great accomplishment of the last year in sports is in Ghanu getting out from under his $600,000 payday to God. It's the last one he got at UFC, getting to real freedom and making in two fights a lot more than he ever would have made as the heavyweight champion of MMA.

And to me, the big surprise was that he lasted 10 rounds with and knocked down Tyson Fury. I can't believe that that's something I saw happen because Jake Paul is a good boxer for someone who's not an actual boxer Like this is the space that he occupies where he impresses people because they're like oh he can box a little bit Yeah, he can box a little bit and he's going to the to to the guy box a little bit and he's going to the guy who was the menace at the height of that division and even though he's 57 years old, do you remember how he fought? Yeah, of course. But I mean, you remember the style of how he fought.

Yes. He's going to go right at Jake Paul because Stamman is going to be an issue at 57. In a boxing ring, I believe those are the longest three minutes anybody can experience. Has to be a quick knockout for Mike. Yes, it has to be. Yeah. Oh.

You know, Mike Tyson's walking around with a cane now and I'm just wondering, should we start calling him Michael Cain? Oh, geez. Get out. Yep. Wonder staff today. The half, I mean, what happened there? Out. Yep. Wonder staff today. What happened there? Out.

By the way, Canelo Alvarez and Billy Joe Saunders had a match in AT&T Stadium that had 73,000 people at it in 2021. So. Oh no, I'm sorry. I didn't mean boxing. I meant MMA is what I what I meant And they're there I can canelo fights in Mexico and elsewhere when I said Japan in Spain and Brazil It's because I was talking about I don't know if MMA and and I don't know if you can get

70 80 90,000 people how how many how many people does Jerry Jones's stadium hold because I don't know I know me it was that AT&T stadium. I don't know the names of stadiums, Because I don't know, I know, what is that, AT&T stadium? I don't know the names of stadiums and I don't know the sizes of stadiums. I just know that if you're in Texas and you're Jerry Jones, my guess is that you wanted to show everybody how big your ego is. It holds like over 80,000 people.

It's pretty massive. It's like 82,000 people. Well, no, and then you have like boxing configurations where you have everybody on the floor. With Standing Room only, it gets up like 82,000 people. Well, no, and then you have like boxing configurations where you have everybody on the floor. With Standing Room only, it gets up to 105,000 people if they want it to. The reason, and of course, I'm inflating the words to try and get aggregated while I'm in a Willy Wonka costume,

but the reason that I'm calling Jake Paul an idiot is just because I think he's going to lose the fight. Obviously, as a business move It's brilliant, and it's not idiotic. It's exactly it's the gods his star was Disappating because he wasn't on the rise fighting better and better challengers anymore. He had lost and this This particular thing is just the freak show of go ahead and throw somebody out there who's going to fill a stadium for you. And also some of the showtime stuff that he was doing had lost its luster.

Had it not? Like hadn't there been claims of like super shitty ratings on the last couple of things that he had done because it was just like he was a YouTube pioneer and now that has slowed considerably even though it's still very strong and the ascent of Jake Paul as a pay-per-view draw was going to head into the toilet but this rescues it. Is this going to be his largest viewed thing because of the fact that it's on Netflix? And it's Tyson.

I think Tyson. Because the MMA guys, he was fighting washed up MMA guys who weren't boxers and didn't have any real punching power. There was no real punching power. That he was physically stronger than all of the people he's fighting against. And he's bigger than all of them. And again, no punching power.

It's the right opponent at the right time for Jay Paul. And sadly, and this is a sad state of affairs for boxing, this is the matchup that gets me most excited. This is a matchup that will get me to my TV, only to see if Mike Tyson can still do it. Okay, so forgive me because he cannot, Stugans. He fought when he was fighting another fighter. He fought old Roy Jones Jr., and that was just sad.

But this gets me to where it is that I was headed with the conversation, which is, I think Stu Gatz is more like people around this fight than people who love boxing and love MMA. I believe this shift in the sport to the circus freaks, to Conor McGregor fights Floyd Mayweather, and even though it's no good as a boxing spectacle, I think we've crossed over into just be famous.

The way to do it in boxing now is either be, in boxing or fighting or MMA is be famous, be loud, be someone who gets our attention with things other than boxing, other than fighting. Like this is, and I don't want to be precious about this, but there's a certain contamination to it that has almost next to nothing to do with sport. No, it has everything to do with seeing

an aging Mike Tyson climb back in the ring. Dan, there are no stars in that sport. There are no stars that are going to get me the fringe boxing fan to go watch a boxing match. There are. But Mike Tyson brings me back to a time. It's not about Jake Paul. It's about Mike Tyson. But it's also about your general laziness. And well, of course, and your need

for for spectacle and this I might need for star power I'm I'm not complaining about this I'm really not it may sound like it but I have embraced the idea that yeah that you should give the customer whatever it is the customer wants I am though pretty amazed that what the customer wants is always now this thing in fighting. That if you are MMA or boxing, you're going to be niche, but you're never going to have one of those spectacle nights unless you do the Circus Freak Act. But if you're a boxing fan, and you are, Dan, you love boxing, I understand why this would

upset you. I know you're saying you're not complaining, but I don't care if boxing fans complain. They have every right to complain. It's a gimmick fight, and I'm interested in it. I'm not complaining. I'm just pointing out to people that it has now happened, and in a way that surprises me, it is no longer about sport in fighting.

It's about entertainment. It is about business and fame. It's business and fame, and then sport is down the list on whether you're going to have, you have to remember, Stu guys, once upon a time in America when Ali was king, the heavyweight boxing knight was the biggest knight in sports. It's been dead for a long time, but now you can't even recreate it unless you make it. Not about sports, and only about the fame. You're saying it's a cheap ploy for attention

in a world craving for some credibility, almost like dressing up as Willy Wonka. One could say that. It's aggregated by a New York Post article. Dan is a lover of the sweet science, and he's upset, he's not gonna say it. I'm not upset. I mean, you're Larry Merchant, we all know this.

I'm not. You do sound upset. That they're all merchants, that all of them are merchants now. No, because I will watch this and I want to see Tyson harm Jake Paul. And I think that, and I think that he will. You sound pretty upset, Dan. Sounds personal at this point. Self-broken. I mean, Dan. Sounds personal at this point.

Self broken, I mean. How is that upset? Tell him. He didn't say physically harm, maybe like damage is broken. Emotionally. Emotionally, hurt him emotionally. Break him before he ever gets to the ring.

So that he's as sad as you are about this. But if Mike Tyson wins, Dan, that doesn't mean boxing's coming back. That's correct. I don't know if you're aware of that. You sound upset by this and you think that you want to become and you want to hurt Jake Paul

to restore the glory days of boxing, but that's not gonna happen. There's a cool lead on Miami Beach if you want to go look at the glory days. You know what, forgive me. I must have communicated this poorly. I had trouble with communication. I don't want Mike Tyson to restore boxing and hurt Jake Paul to signal a victory.

Yes, if you let me get through it, I'll explain to you what it is that I meant. I do not want him to restore boxing or hurt Jake Paul to restore the place of boxers in the universe in that time in the 1970s when boxing was king. I want him to hurt Jake Paul because he's Jake Paul. All right, I'm there with you then. This potentially is the last great fight, right? I mean, what do you do after Tyson? Hold on, put a costume and then say that again. Stugatz here, did you know that according

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Don Lebatard! This is largely performance, but we need to establish him on some reasonable note. Everybody wants to join us! I'm so sorry! Please don't take the top everyone with a story where he pleads more than you do. Stugats! I always like leaving a hand on high. I hate the chicken.

Because he's so vulnerable, I just unfairly fade down the chicken. He just leaves him by himself. This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats. I thought Stugats, I know a lot of people are talking today in college basketball about the fight between South Carolina and LSU, but I thought the biggest story of the weekend involving South Carolina women's basketball wasn't that game. It was the one before that where they remained undefeated because, and forgive me, I do not know the name of the woman

who had never before made a three in a in a game and out of nowhere they lever open at the end of the game. South Carolina is going to lose for the first time in two years in a regular season game. You make the correct play by leaving her open and she banks in a three. She steps back. She could have tied the game with a two, but she steps back to make her first three, to bank in her first three.

And South Carolina ends up remaining the new Yukon, Stugots, because nobody can beat them, but Tennessee had them beaten. The bank was open, huh? New con. If you see the clip, you can see Don Staley in the background too, telling her when the last inbound pass is coming in, if you get the shot,

take it. Basically coaching her, telling her, giving her some confidence, because she's not a perimeter shooter. This is a player who is six, seven, never shoots from outside ever. This is her first three, like you said. So she's completely unguarded there.

She's just wide open and she banks it in and wins the game. And Tennessee players, their coach, like, despondent. Kelly Harper, like, can't believe what she just saw. It was such a crazy finish only to be outdone then in the SEC championship game on Sunday with the LSU game. What she couldn't believe is that she hit a three, right? The Tennessee coach, because that's the play you want.

Like you'll take that shot. That's the shot she wanted in that situation. She was giving her the shots. Basically, yeah. Right, and there was a second left on the clock. Like the fact that she even got it off that quickly too, everything about it was just unbelievable when you watched it live. It was so crazy.

Oh, but it's not just that though, right? Because that by itself is ridiculous, right? Because the shot, it felt like it was off the top of the backboard. I don't even know how it banked in. It was a terrible shot, and it banked right in. But the part we're leaving out is that Tennessee was up 73-71 with three seconds left and had two free throws and missed them both. So they could have gone up four and ended the game and ended two years of South Carolina winning, Stugatz, without losing and instead missed two free

throws and then get your heart broken that way. Remember, you guys made fun of me last week because something happened in hockey and I was describing how I felt that feeling before where you make a couple of mistakes and now you're trailing the play and the thing that you feared happening most. you've already imagined worst case scenario fears because you're the one responsible for it and then you watch it happen. If you've missed those two free throws and now you're getting back on defense and committing the foul, all of that is happening in slow motion. They're imbounding the ball like you're watching and you're like, I know I missed those two

free throws. I could have ended this game with those two free throws and the rest of what you're watching is you can't sleep for three days after that. And as a Tennessee fan too, like you've seen this game before, like the Tennessee is a really good team, but they have these games when they're, when they're playing teams ranked ahead of them where they're so close, but they can't close it out.

And like this was a game where they had them the entire game and all South Carolina only needed two to take it to overtime and somehow they get the three point shot and score and end up in the entire game. And South Carolina only needed two to take it to overtime. And somehow they get the three-point shot and score and end up in the championship game again. It was just like absolutely crazy. This weekend was one of the best women's basketball weekends of probably the entire year so far. The four conference championship games

and like the power conferences yesterday, starting with the Iowa-Nebraska game going to overtime, Notre Dame won the ACC, then the South Carolina LSU game, and then USC-Stanford all back-to-back-to-back, kind of overlapping, which was a bummer. I wish they had like spaced them out better, but absolutely incredible day of basketball. Was there anything good or interesting in the commentary beyond South Carolina and LSU really don't like each other? South Carolina is better than LSU and... Well, they're better than everyone.

Yeah, but LSU, well, I mean, LSU's... They're very good. LSU won the national championship. I know, I'm aware. So, okay, but like, so they might be better than everybody, but LSU was right there with them. And was there anything interesting in the commentary that you heard about the fight?

Because tensions escalating to a place where these two teams obviously don't like each other because they're competing for the top of the sport and have been for a couple of years, any good commentary? Well, I mean, I thought what was interesting from my perspective was, with the last time these teams played, it was actually that game that we were talking about,

rated higher than the, I think it was a Celtics Heat game, that Thursday night game. The game really swung in like the last couple minutes. So what I was looking forward to at the end of this game was there's two minutes left. LSU had been trailing most of the game. South Carolina kept making shots to keep a lead ahead of them, but with two minutes left, I was like, okay, is this game going to have a similar kind of swing where LSU now gets back in it and can somehow win it. But then this happens. So basically, an LSU player committed an intentional foul on a South Carolina player, and then there was a bit of like, I wouldn't, I don't even know if you can call it a fight, like no one threw any punches, it was more of a skirmish, a scuffle, if you will, but then an NBA fight. Camilla Cardoso, who's a player, the one who's six foot seven with,

she's, I don't know if you can see her on the video, but anyway, she comes in right there, pushes the LSU player who fouled her teammate, and then everyone gets up off the benches, except for one USC player. And if you clear the bench area, it's an automatic ejection plus Camilla Cardoso got ejected for fighting. So now she's going to miss the first game of the NCAA tournament, which USC will be a one seed, so they're going to play a 16. So probably won't impact them too much, but initially the broadcast team said that all of the players who got ejected, which was both benches plus Camilla Cardoso would be out for the first game of the NCAA tournament. And that would have been insane

because only five players were left on each team, although South Carolina had like one player who didn't get off the bench area. So they would have had to have a sub. We're gonna need to identify though exactly what this fight was and how to describe it because we have an escalating list of tensions. We'll get you, we're gonna get you guys the escalating list of tensions. We'll get you, we're gonna get you guys

the escalating list of tensions. We have an official list that has been created. So you guys choose. I have it here, there's a lot. Yeah, I know, but choose, and you're going top to bottom, bottom to top, what are you doing here? Okay, so this is the least chicanery.

Okay, so go to- I would say it's more than chicanery. Well, but hold on, let it- Would you say it's hijinks? Let him get through. I'd say there were hijinks throughout the game and escalated into whatever this is. Okay, I don't want commentary off of each one

because there are many of them. Well, we're trying to figure out. We need to list them. We'll pick one. I don't need commentary on each one. I know there are hundreds of them. I feel like the process is important. Yeah.

Okay, but you just tell us when we're in the area. Was it closer to Skull Duggery or shenanigans? I'd say it's more than just shenanigans. It was larger than a tiff, a spatter, or a coral though, right? Yes. Yeah. Worth than Tom Fulery. Yeah.

We mentioned skirmish, but did it escalate to a fracas? I feel like it's in that region. Really? That feels... Less than Hullabaloo? Or Balihu? It's in that region. Less than Hullabaloo or Balihoo. It's in that region. Was it quite at the level of a dustup? Yeah, I would say it's about there. Well, we have to get to you saying no, though.

A big shove, a big shove. Less than Armageddon. The LSU player who got shoved, according to the broadcast, her brother jumped onto the court. so that led to an even further Agree to disagree. Did the gloves come off where their fisticuffs? No, no, we're definitely So we didn't get to kerfuffle not a kerfuffle or hubbub no hurly burly or Berlier wasn't a slobby I think it was a hubba I think I think what did we reach Donnie Brooke what do you mean it's the list Don Lebatard David Samson weirdo because he was not he was not the fun substitute teacher who wheel

out a TV and play a VHS tape Armageddon in science class he was the weird one who would eat an egg salad sandwich while clipping his toenails into the trash can and ranting about Ronald Reagan. Stugots! The guy kept talking about how his ass was smooth smoother than a newborn's cheek he wouldn't stop bragging about his bare buttocks to me. This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats. ["The Stugats"] We generally do not do very much with the Oscars, largely skip right past all of the award shows,

but Adnan Burke and David Sampson did something giant with the Oscars last night. It was a lot of fun. Our audience really enjoyed it. They really enjoyed it. The least enjoyable part of it was David Sampson getting more of his picks right than anybody he was competing against and only 49 people on all of the internet did better than him. But well, we'll talk to David about that in a second, but Adnan, if you have to choose from the following, Al Pacino apparently screwing everything up

at the end of the night. The memorial video tribute at the end, using the stepbrothers music from the Catalina Wine Mixer. Ryan Gosling as Ken or John Cena. Like what was the single? You can only pick one thing. The standout thing from last night is blank.

You're saying a positive sense or negative sense? Any sense is going negative. Anything. I'm going to say positive. I'm going to stay with Nicholas Cage when he went out there. My favorite moment was when previous award winners were honoring nominees and Nick Cage we all know is about his wacky sick head. Some show our audience loves Nick Cage and he spoke to one of my favorite actors in Paul G. Motties and Paul in the holdovers you wore a soft contact lens which made you blind in one eye. What I've done so, hell yes.

I have a whole ovation starting going nuts, and he said, but great job by you, and killer job as always. I also liked when Tim Robbins went out, was addressing Robert De Niro. He mistakenly said, in your Academy Award-winning performance in Killers of the Flower Moon, crowds started laughing, because I mean,

Academy Award-nominated, you should win this though. So I just love that concept of bringing about previous award winners to be there. As for a man, Pacino, who I adore. You're supposed to say, and the nominees are, and they have the nice little crawl of the nominees, but who cares? We all knew it was gonna be Oppenheimer anyways,

so Al just skipped to that, and opens the envelope, cause yeah, Oppenheimer. So I give Pacino credit, he wanted to get Abbot Elementary on the year on time, and we just cut through the fluff. Way to go, Al. He also, he didn't say the winner is Oppenheimer. He said, I see Oppenheimer.

And then everyone was like, what does, there was like a pause before applause because no one knew what it meant. Who ah? I think Adnan's bearing the lead. I think what bothered him the most was being here seven hours and then at the end he lost to me. I think that is the true takeaway from last night.

I'll say this, nobody rides a line between loathsome and hateful like David Sampson. I mean, there's, it is remarkable, Stu, the way he can do it. I mean, it doesn't seem like the same thing. That doesn't seem like a line. I'm not sure what a line that is. But I have to give credit where credit is due.

My man ran a half marathon yesterday. It's amazing. And then was able to finish first in the pool. He was ahead of me, he was ahead of Ben Lines, who pitched this entire idea, so Ben now has me with egg on my face. But I think ultimately, I give credit to David on this. When everybody else is zicking, you got a zag.

And we both lost in Beth's live action short film, because we went live, excuse me, a best animated short film, we both put letter to a pig and David looked at me and goes Holocaust film, I go exactly. But he picked it on sound, which was an inspired choice. He went zone of interest whereas all the rest of us went Oppenheimer and he also should have used the same logic which is Holocaust film.

So I gave him credit cause that was a pretty good call by him and a gutsy pick. David, did Pacino air in, I mean, that's a very dramatic moment. Everybody's waiting around. Oh, who cares? Exactly, Stu's right. I mean, the winner is,

that's the way we have to do it. No, the nominees are. The nominees are, who cares? Everyone knew who was winning the award at that point. Way to go, Stu. You give the moment to the nominee. Yeah, the Al's moment. The important thing is for the other nine shows

to get one more mentioned. So Ben Lyons pointed this out during the show that you were watching last night, Stu, during your travels on Positive. Yep, great show. Because we saw the number of people watching and it kept going plus one, which I think was you. You're welcome. Thank you.

It was critical. Speaking to all our guys out there like, we got Stu, baby! And it's not enough talk of past lives, not enough talk of some of the other nominees, and you wanna give them that moment in the sun for being a best picture nomination. And Al Pacino just blew it.

The problem is you keep sending octogenarians out there. That's what you're gonna get. If you say so. I had a moment last night where I fully realized that I'm starting to become washed up, and it was when the Oscars wrapped, and they had that cut to the clip of messy the dog peeing on Matt Damon's Hollywood star and I was like wow I just found this Jimmy Kimmel Matt Damon beef thing funny holy shit I am officially entering my

30s. Jessica feeling old is something that I was not I didn't have it on the bingo card but there are any number of things around here all the time that are making us feel old, and I want to do a daily segment that recognizes this. Let's begin with whatever you've got today, Jeremy, to make us all feel old. So outside of Jackson Holiday, Matt Holiday's son being like the best player in spring training,

not named Juan Soto, and his other son being a number one overall prospect as well. I bring you news that class of 2025 wide receiver, Eugene Hilton Jr. Is down to seven schools. Yep, that's the son of T.Y. Hilton. He played like two years ago.

T.Y. Hilton's kid getting ready to go to college. We're so old. Yeah We can do this every day. We're gonna do it every day Did you know that Charles Johnson's son has been a professional football player for multiple years? What CJ? Yeah, CJ. Did you know no idea? He's he's played for the Broncos for two years. I grew up on the same street I grew up. I lived on the same street years I grew up on the same street I grew up I lived on the same street implantation is Charles Johnson and it was the most awkward part of my career is the day we traded Charles Johnson and I saw him on the street which was

horrible and he had little boys and it blew my mind I didn't realize because I don't live on the street anymore but your old and Charles Johnson is old T. Y. Hilton and Jessica are not old. Yeah, but, oh, didn't there. Well, Jess is kind of old, I mean. Didn't there. I mean, she's not aged, I mean. She's getting into her 30s. T.Y. Hilton. She goes to bed at nine, I mean. T.Y. Hilton also ended up at FIU because his son, like he put his West Virginia hat on

and FIU hat on and his son crawled to the FIU hat and that's how he chose FIU over West Virginia. Really? Yeah, and now his son didn't choose FIU. Would you trust your kids with doing that? Oh, I don't trust my kids with anything. My kids are idiots. T.Y. Hilton played for the Cowboys in 2022. David, what do you make of Elon Musk saying on...

Listen, let's get back to Oppenheimer, come on. How does he know your kids are idiots this early? Are they testing badly like in the school? No, they're, well, I mean, the two-year-old and the eight-month-old. So, when you know you know, dude. The eight-month-old's an idiot? Well, compared to me.

He's just adventurous. Put it on the poll, Juju, at LeBatard show, are all two-month-olds and eight-month-olds idiot. Idiots, what do you make, David, of Elon Musk saying, because I didn't think that this was pervasive last night, but maybe I have it wrong. Winning an Oscar now just means you won the woke contest. No. Winning an Oscar means that your rate has increased when you do your next project. But what's happening there? But what's happening there? That Hollywood is liberal? That is, that's huge news.

That hadn't happened. That is all because of Trump. It's only the last four years that Hollywood's been liberal. So I totally understand that comment. It's absurd. What happened last night that wins the woke Olympics? Jonathan Glazer won the Oscar for best international feature film for the zone of interest.

And in his speech, he mentioned the occupation in Gaza. So if you wanna see talk politics, he said my film was about genocide, there's also cruelty taking place right now in the world, we hope for a ceasefire. And 20 Days in Marriott Poll won, which is a film about what's happening in Ukraine, and the winner said I would take back this award

for all the lives that have been lost in Ukraine. So maybe Elon Musk does the- What, Woody? Yeah, that's true. You're questioning that. I don't think he would. It's big. It is so big to win that category.

What are you talking about? What are you talking about? What are you suffering? What are you doing? What are you doing? Go sit in the penalty box. Why is it necessary? Go sit in the penalty box.

Go sit out there. He's tired. He's punch-drunk. Man, he's been working a lot. He's running. What an excuse. I mean, just get out of here Just go out. Go sit excuse the rest of the time

Well, Jessica said while I was asking them that question was I should win the woke Olympics because I was up until the end of That night. I also shadowed to the Oscars early start time early finish time What a choice best thing they've done in years, wrapping it up before 10.30 Eastern on the day of daylight saving spring forward. Everyone was tired, I didn't know what time it was, my dog didn't know what time it was, I woke up this morning, it was dark out, I wanted a puke. Thank you to the Oscars for having me early.

They were rushing through it Adnan. They didn't need to, I mean, they go too slow sometimes, but they were in a big rush at the end, and that's when the payoffs are. Yeah, it's normally about a three and a half hour show. So to Jess's point, historically, for years, it's always started eight o'clock each, and they move it up an hour to seven,

thinking it'll end by 10.30. So by that logic, they did get out early. They were done by 10.22, and they didn't need to play the music off now for costume designer and production designer. Now that I look back, they had more time. And again, if Al had just said here's the nominees we would have had a little bit more time but again if you want Oscar

moments if you love movies I think you still appreciate what happened and again Oppenheimer Chris Van Olin is that rare filmmaker really cool moment Spielberg presented best director to him Chris Van Olin's like today's Spielberg a guy that makes movies that make a ton of money but it's also loved by the critics so it was pretty cool moment feel like Christopher Nolan and that gives me an excuse to get Jess to do Bane What do you mean? I am Bane Women's basketball in the a-block what a choice

Who would have thought the women's game would get more attention than the men's what a time I'm now quoting John Reed I'm now quoting John Reed in a production meeting. Billy had mentioned that there was something about International Women's Day that was bothering him and I wanted to see it. That is what you said. That is what you said. That's what you said. That's what you said. That's what you said.

We were all there. That's how that went. That's how that went. He's right. Explain your... Allshoods. Let's hear that went. He's right. Explain your shit. All sorts. Let's hear it Bill. Okay, well then explain yourself. Explain what your complaint was

about International Women's Day. And let me just show the audience this first of all, because guys get for me please the video of LeBron James this weekend that everyone was delighting over because Kurt Rammus' wife, I believe her name is Linda. And Jeannie Buss were pawing at LeBron James

in a way that made me think everybody had been drinking. I thought everybody had been, I don't know what time of day it was. A lot of touching at Bysyps. Yeah, there's a lot of touching, and LeBron James, lip readers have now gathered and realized that the way that he won this moment is by just saying, first of all,

happy International Women's Day. And just look at this, what he gets after that is just coquettish snuggling from all the parties involved. Billy, what was your objection to International Women's Day? I have no objection to International Women's Day. That's not what happened. Billy, you had an objection. No, this video played.

Tell the truth. This video played. And what I said was, on that day, I went to farm stores, which is like a local, you know, little drive-up convenience store where they overcharge you for everything. And I went and I bought a pizza next door, and I wanted to have soda with the pizza,

so I asked for a soda, which for a two liter soda there, was like $4, which is like ridiculous because it's a drive up convenience store. And then they asked me on the way out, would you like to buy an orchid for International Women's Day for $13? And I said, no, I would not. I would like a soda and that's it.

This isn't like a dollar for charity. You're now asking me for $13 extra for an orchid I didn't ask for. And that's all I said about International Women's Day. That was it. That was my entire comment. You said women were gouging you. I didn't say that.

They're always out for your money. Calling at you. The store was trying to gouge you. Was it up sell? I didn't say any of those things. I did say though that this is an international holiday and I asked Jeremy when this stated back to because I wasn't familiar with the origins of this holiday

But I said it was incredible that there's no world peace, but every nation in the world celebrates International Women's Day That's what I said Hmm. Do you not think it's he cleaned it up? I think that's fair. Why are we giving women just a day? I Mean seriously, they deserve a month. They deserve a year. Why are we just giving them a day? Where you going? Where you going Stu? Where you going Stu? Save the whales.

Hey the teachers, support the troops. I mean, save the whales. You're a simp. Ha ha ha ha. Stu gots here. Did you know that according to FBI property crime data, most home breakings happen in broad daylight? As the days get longer this spring, protect your home with Simply Safe.

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