The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: The People Are The People

Episode Date: July 17, 2024

Today's cast: Dan, Stugotz, Chris, Billy, Jeremy, Lucy, and Tony. 80s Royals, 90s Blue Jays, Iowa receivers. Dan is waiting for the crew to set up a showdown between Nolan Ryan and Billy Gil after seeing him at last night's MLB All-Star Game. Then, Lucy is dog-sitting Willow, but Willow doesn't seem to respect Lucy at all, and it leads us to a conversation on how dogs would wear pants. Plus, how are you affected when you really care about something, you want it, and can't afford it? Also, Fishing Garrett, snake hunters, a billboard in Johannesburg, and velocity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. What's the matter with you? What? You come in here today. Yeah. And with everything going on in the world, you say to me, I still got my all time Big East team, if you want it. Never got to it yesterday. Yeah, a lot of stuff to talk about.

And, and, you say to me, you just say to me, with a giant smile on your face, because no one is pleased more by your jokes than you are. Of course. Larry Gura is what you say to me. It is a good name. It's a good name comedically to throw at the audience from eighties Royals baseball. I was listing eighties Royals baseball players yesterday and it was a flurry and it was good. And I

got all the names I've wanted to get in. You lose Lucy and all of our young people, even Jeremy dorks out on all baseball things. He doesn't know who Larry Gura is. Larry Gura is a classic number two, number three starter for the Royals in the 80s. That guy, he might have a 4.5 ERA, but he'd still get you 15 wins. That's who he is, Larry Gura.

Do you want to do, Billy, do you want to do 90s Blue Jays? Because I really felt like we left a whole lot of stuff on the table yesterday talking about 90s Blue Jays. I mean, I don't want to force it. If we get to 90s Blue Jays, we get to it, you know? Once he said Lloyd Mosby, though, like, Lloyd Mosby got it. I ended the game.

You didn't end the game. Because we could, I mean, Kelly Gruber's pretty good. Not bad, Rance Molonyx. There's something mean, Kelly Gruber's pretty good, like we could go. Not bad, Rance Molinick. There's something about this particular. That's a good one, thank you. This particular game though, I don't need to know the name. If Stugats is in his groove and he's playing it right,

if it's just a funny sounding name, it hits for me. Not the same for young people though, there's something happening here generationally. You do realize that you and Billy and Mike, you're the Danettes now, right? You're adult human beings. You're not children anymore laughing at all the same silly stuff.

Lucy's got no time. The funny names don't do anything for her. You guys could be making up every single one of these names. I would have no idea. I'm okay with that. I don't know a lot of the names that they were saying. I want to be a good ally here, but I don't know. I know how to bring this to Lucy.

Lucy, just start naming Iowa receivers from like 10 years ago. Oh God, they weren't very good. Come on, it's not fun for you? You have to name one. Crony Martin Manley. Ah. Marvin McKnight.

Those are close. Daryl Johnson Guglianos. Oh! It's fun, right? Let's see, it's fun. I just realized that Billy's been faking his way through this game since the beginning. I thought this was the wheelhouse we all had

was 90s Blue Jays. Not like 92, I mean, I don't want to spoiler, you guys are older than me. So like, I just, I have like 20 years on me here. But you've been faking your way through the most popular game on occasion. No, I'll say the names I know, like Crime Dog, Fred McGriff, John Oliver,

like I know these names, you know? Those are good Yeah, it was a great, but you don't feel you don't feel strong in this map and a bird It's a fun game. You play the game right there. He's married to Laura Lucy Wow, we have Lucy This is the has been for a long time here and everywhere throughout the world the great connector of men Just being able to name random athletes from 30 and 40 years ago. If you want to play this game with us,

you would be the historic first woman to correctly play this game with us. My brother's roommate, Greg. Greg's on the football team, shout out Greg. Wow. He needs a last name. Shout out Greg. I don't know Greg's last name. Like I don't know who Ozzie Virgil is. Oh, that's a good one. It needs a last name. I don't know Greg. Like I

don't know who Ozzie Virgil is. Oh, that's a good one. It's a great one. That is a good one but did he play for the Blue Jays? Yeah, it was a DH 1990. Braves too though I think. I thought he was a white sock. Huh? Interesting. Larry Garrow once had 18 wins with a 4.2 ERA. I mean that's who he is. Go check out how Rick Helling one time had 20 wins with an ERA over five. That name I know. This is the Don LeBattor Show with the Stugatz Podcast.

Today's episode is sponsored by DraftKings. Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings and all it has to offer throughout the show. DraftKings. Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings than all it has to offer throughout the show. DraftKings, the crown is yours. I remember Stugance a long time ago at ESPN talking to somebody who was affiliated with one of my very early radio shows that I did Sunday mornings, very early. I love that show. 7am, lonely show.

Nobody wants that time slot, but I wanted it because it was on like 500 stations because nobody else wanted to broadcast it that hour on a Sunday. Many years later, I took that slot over with Mike Gullick Jr. I mean, how about that? Passing of the torch. It's a slot with a lot of reach. And when I was doing it in the morning at that time, I remember feeling very lonely talking to this person affiliated with the show and I'm you guys are gonna recognize some of this because I was arguing so much with this person off-air about how baseball was better than football, how much I enjoyed baseball more than football. He was ahead of the curve. He This was before football was even as

popular as what it is now. It was something different then. Right around then I think American Gladiators was doing a better number on television than football was. Not too much longer after that. He also had a gambling problem. I lent him way too much money. football will feed, will feed the attention of baseball was too slow and that's something that happened to football with fantasy leagues and everything else. It exploded into I only have to invest my one Sunday 16 weeks I can handle that and then football exploded. But the reason I tell you this story is because recently you know I've been watching raised baseball all of last year I really do love what baseball has become they fixed a lot of the problems I still don't care about the all-star game

however having seen baseball go from the medicine of steroids to chicks love the long ball and home runs home runs home runs are all that matter. Paul Skeens, thank you for making me fall in love again with the power arm. The Dwight Gooden, the one guy, the one guy nobody can hit. These are so rare. Now keep in mind, pitching is totally unnatural for the human body. All of them are gonna break.

Skeens will break too, and it'll be unfortunate. But for now. But for now. Everyone except Nolan Ryan I mean that's correct yes Billy thank you Stu gots for bringing it back to that you're welcome I I want to get you to Nolan Ryan because we call I want to get to Nolan Ryan after seeing him walk out to the mound yesterday I was oh I was chomping at the bits chipping at the bits we've done this before I don't remember what the answer was I was ready for him I was chomping at the bits, champing at the bits. We've done this before, I don't remember what the answer was.

I was ready for him. I was ready for the Ryan Express last night. When I saw him out there, I was actually screen recording my TV, my screen. I don't know how the kids do it these days, so I was just holding up my phone with video recording and I was gonna send it to you. And I was gonna tell you, I was waiting for him.

Because I saw him a little slow, the Ryan Express, walking out to the mound. So I was waiting to see because I saw him a little slow the right Express walking out to the mound So I was waiting to see that pitch and then I didn't get it cuz they gave it to Adrian Beltre to throw out that First pitch, but I was so ready to send you a video to tell you I can I can foul tip this cuz that that was the challenge You know what he can do that. Thank you. He can do anything that he sets his mind to he's such an incredible athlete I don't know nothing could stop Billy Gill. Nothing, nothing. Even if it's something from 16 years ago that he was a Division I athlete on. When are we going, I say this in the most loving way possible

to whoever is responsible for this, when are we gonna fix that microphone for you so that it stops jostling when you have to touch it, that one middle microphone? I fixed it. Okay. Well, he just has to sit down like a normal human being, but he wants to do this McAfee thing where he's standing the Whole show to show off his traps or whatever. We've been here. We've been standing on this show for

Yeah, you guys did standing first yeah I've been standing in the back row of this show for like nine years. I stood in the corner of the clevelander There was literally no chair. I had to stand so that's how you learned how to do this I'll miss those days the entire time you used to not have a microphone well Tony I just supported you man I'm afraid to say that Billy is not supportive I want it Tony was how dare you sir you're not supportive of Tony you said yesterday what do you mean how dare you you said yesterday if someone tells me not to come to something I'm not coming. Because I'm a

team player I was asked not to participate so I said you know what I won't participate. Billy is not supporting the Tony show. The Tony show is tomorrow? Today. Today 7pm. 7pm today, tonight presented by DraftKings Dano. What is it? What do you mean what is it? It needs a new name. What is that supposed to mean? It's just Tony showing up. It's the Tony show. It's perfect.

They're watching Back to the Future 2. It's perfect. We're not watching Back to the Future 2. Oh, this one is just cosplay? No, this one is Back to the Future 2 themed as far as the movie poster, whatever, because we're going back to the future. We're going to be playing retro PS2 games

from back in the day that we used to play as kids. So we're going to be doing that. We're going to be playing retro PS2 games from back in the day that we used to play as kids. So we're going to be doing that. We're going to be doing a lightning best ball draft presented by DraftKings, which is going to be exciting. There's a lot of stuff to do on the Tony show, but that's why it's the perfect name, because we don't know what's going to happen until we actually do it.

Stu, I've been a little frustrated because of how slowly we move as a company. Adam McKay does want to do something with Tony and Juju. This is not it. It's not the Tony show? No, this is not it, which isn't to say that this won't work. Tony's trying to, I don't know, how do you make bones in a business?

Why is that an expression? I think it's calcium, you drink milk. You make your bones in a business. Tony's trying to make his bones in this business. And before he gets to Adam McKay, he's gotta create the Tony show pilot that soars into the sky and becomes something else later on. But what's it going to be, Tony?

Because I remember the first time you did the Tony show, it was just gonna be sort of like the Truman show, Jim Carrey, we're gonna watch you sleep. And I'm like, you have to entertain the people. You need to do something for them. And entertain, we did. You did. For 27rey, we're gonna watch you sleep. And I'm like, you have to entertain the people. You need to do something for them. And entertain, we did. You did. For 27 hours, we entertained everybody.

People loved it. People loved it, people watched us sleep. It was an incredible show. This one is the grownup version. This is step two of the Tony show. We're gonna be doing something different with different people, with different devices. It's very exciting.

Making one's bones originated in organized crime. It's from the Godfather. It's basically the amount of people you kill, the more people you killed, the higher you went up in the family. You know? So yes, I understand what the making of bones is. I just don't understand the origin of why it is

we're using bones to, is it because they're killing people? To climb in the company. Yeah. So the more people you kill. Your body's made of bones. Okay, so're killing people? To climb in the company. Yeah. So the more people you kill. Your body's made of bones. Okay, so it's not making your bodies in the business. It's the number of people you end so that all that's left of them is bones.

Essentially. It's like your body count with hooking up. Yeah. Whoa. Isn't that what the kids say these days? What's your body count? You said that a little aggressively. Are you feeling yourself after this sex advice person

that was on with us? Are you feeling yourself? That interview made me uncomfortable. Just me personally. It was a good interview but I just didn't love it because everyone is asking for a friend and I was the friend. I have learned, Stugatz, something about Lucy and Jessica's friendship that delights me because both of them have found Miami as it is not as

warm as the temperature when you're talking about the people. The people are different. The people are the people. I mean thank you Stugatsva for offering nothing but noise. Miami is Miami. He is right about that. Yes he is right it's indisputable the people are the people but uh... lucy and jessica have found uh... miami's people to be less than warm so i was delighted to hear that jessica has found a reliable person that she trusts to take care of willow when she's out of town unfortunately that person is lucy who cannot manage this situation

at all she's having a great deal of trouble with a disrespectful spoiled and entitled Do not speak about her that way. That is my best friend. You're talking about my willow or Lucy I mean, it's tough because Lucy Lucy Lucy Go sit in the penalty box for two minutes go sit in the penalty box for two minutes. Yeah, you said Lucy You said Lucy get instead of Jessica. You said Lucy, get out of here. I just want someone to remember my name. Yeah.

I mean, I was just saying that she normally rents a dog for a day. It's different when you have to have that thing over your house 24-7. This is how I feel about children. This is exactly when people are surprised that I'm good with children. I'm like, I love renting them.

It's the ownership part that's a problem for me in terms of responsibility. I love you, don't have kids, please, please. It's a lot, don't. Be content with being a godfather. Yeah. That's good. Collect your bones as the godfather. I've collected so many bones.

I am godfather to so many people. You guys were mentioning the mafia. This is how my friends extort me because they know I have money. Hey Dan, you wanna be the Godfather? The Dan Lebatard Show with Stu Gotz is sponsored by BetterHelp. The impact of social media on mental health

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Okay, very good. This is the Don Lebatard show with the Stugats. Even though you're officially not, I tell Rachel and Emma all the time you are their godfather. They're waiting for a check. I mean anything. Venmo, something. It's funny. So Lucy's got no control of the situation. Okay, you're exaggerating. Willow is- Lucy, Lucy, I'm not exaggerating. You told me she dragged you. Lucy- You are not there. Lucy, you told me she dragged you to an ice cream store

and you couldn't get her to stop. You told me that. That has happened several times. And it's super cute though. So here is the situation with Willow. She is a great dog. She really is. And I wouldn't lie about that, cause I'm honest, like my dog, Kinnick,

at my dad's house, not a great dog. Love him, he bit my grandma, so not the best dog. That's okay, she's cool, he's cool, I'm still a big fan. But Willow, great dog, she's very well behaved, but she can tell that I am like not an alpha. Like she can tell that I'm not. She doesn't respect me. Like she can tell that I'm not. She doesn't, she doesn't respect me. And, and it's,

I think you did it in a way that was disrespectful to Willow and it should have been disrespectful to me. Yeah, you should have been more demeaning towards Lucy. Because I'm not an alpha and Willow doesn't respect me and she shouldn't respect me. And so she thinks she can get away with a lot of stuff, and most of it is just every time we go for a walk, she's super excited, she'll get on her little, she's prancing, I'm like,

yeah, she's got all this energy, that's great. And then she immediately takes me to this ice cream shop and just parks it. Like, we'll just sit there. It's 105 degrees outside, and I am using all my strength to pull Willow to get her to move, because she will not leave this Ice cream shop and most of the time we go for a walk show in the morning

So it's like 7 a.m And she is just stuck outside this ice cream shop and people walk by and it's kind of embarrassing because they're I'm like having to drag Her and they're like, haha. Looks like somebody doesn't want to leave and I'm like she just wants the ice cream She just wants it and she's good. I bought it for her of course Well, that's why she does it and that's why she doesn't respect you and I'll do it again Yes, and that's why you will never have control of this dog and the pup cup is clearly an addiction There's always that guy out there that when that happens the dog is walking you he says or she says who's walking who? Right happens all the time. I say it all the time.

Yeah. Yeah. It's like the funny dad joke, but it's usually like 100 degrees out, and I just wanna go inside, and I feel like I'm gonna pass out, so they'll hit me with like, who is walking who, and I'm like, shut up!

Yeah, it's one of the great illusions, dog ownership, that you own them and you're not in their service, but my dog has never picked up my shit. That's a good point, do you shit on the street? That'd be weird, yeah, sidewalking. It would be weird. Which part, the shitting on the street or the dog picking it up?

All of it. It would be weird, that's good commentary. I don't think dogs should tie the baggies, Dan. I think that's part of the problem. It's hard, because they have that thumb thing, but it's like halfway up their arm for whatever reason. Why do they have that there? I thought it was like an elbow.

Really? You know what's funny about this? This is, I just had this conversation, okay? Dog thumbs in the middle of their forum, because like, what a coincidence. No, no, but elbows, what middle of their forum? Because like, what a coincidence. Well, no, but elbows, what do you call somebody? An elbow?

Do you call it an elbow or a knee? When a warthog, a warthog has, this is funny, so because the animal is being preyed on in the animal kingdom, over time, the survival evolution of the animal makes it so its head and shoulders and neck are super thick to not get bitten in an exposed area and the warthog has to to eat it sort of puts down its feet so that it is eating on what you would call either its elbows or its knees but is it the

elbows because the warthog's not walking on two legs. Those are all legs, so they all have to be knees, correct? This is the classic, would a dog wear jeans the four leg way or the two leg way? Yep. The classic? Yeah, it's a classic. If a dog would wear jeans, how would it wear the jeans?

On the top legs or on the four front legs? Since the dawn of mankind. Tonight on The Tony Show, presented by DraftKings You've never thought about it Dan How a dog would wear pants? I have not because a dog would clearly have to shorten the pants to walk the way a dog always has a dog Walking on thank you diagram on the screen right now. Would it wear him on all fours, or would it wear it behind,

with the butt sticking out with the little tail? Go through all your material for tonight now. I feel like people put pants on their dogs though. It's a thing that, when you have those little floofy dogs, people like to dress them up. One time, my dog would not stop peeing everywhere, so we put a diaper on, which I feel like is kinda like pants.

And it was not. I do with my kid. Yeah, it wasn't the bottom. So I feel like the pants have to go on the back, right? You would think. I've never asked dogs, so we don't know which they prefer. We know they don't like shoes.

This is one of your rental dogs though, right? No, this was my actual dog. It was my little dog. Her name was Happy, and she was the meanest dog ever. What's going on with your rental dogs? What's the latest with this good work you've been doing? I haven't been doing it much lately. Not because I'm a bad person but because I'm busy. The Miami shelter was overflowing a few weeks ago so they were actually really really desperate for people to come take dogs out, ideally adopt the dogs.

It's really hot outside, people are dumping their dogs left and right, which is really, really messed up, and if you do that and you're a bad person, I'm gonna find you and I'm gonna make you feel really bad about it. But you can still go do the Rent-A-Dog, which is not the name of the program, but go do a PawVenture, where you get to take a dog out

for a day, it's a free thing to do, it's a super awesome program. There's very little you need to do to sign up, which is a little scary, but honestly it's no barrier to entry. That's exactly what we want. So you just go to their website, search up Miami-Dade Shelter PawVenture, then you type in your little name and you say, I'll pick this dog up at this time, then and then you go and they give you a cute little binder and you scroll through and you get to pick whatever dog you want to take out. I would agree with you and I am somebody who rescued a dog who was so wild

that it was like having a wild horse in the home for a very long time because what has happened in South Florida and there are a lot of dogs just that people can't afford anymore and they just dump them either in the Everglades or the Redlands area, and so those dogs live essentially like wild dogs until someone picks them up or they die of starvation because they can't make it in the wild.

And they got me to thinking, Stugatz, about the video that we just saw here locally, what desperation will look like when you don't have the money to afford a dog and you have to do something that's that kind of cruel. Forgive me for the wandering on this, but go pa medica. One of the things that I noticed in the chaos of what that experience was, Stugatz, is that the ticket prices weren't in any way affordable, okay? So the least expensive ticket to get in was $2,100.

Okay, the average price is $4,000 to that game. So there were 27 arrests made and there were 7,000 extra people inside the stadium because it's a giant, giant thing. And the passion around soccer, I mean, I know we have it with football, but I don't really think that America understands how the rest of the world links up for its identity with its country's soccer team. So when desperate people can't afford things, they might overrun security. Now I'm not obviously exonerating anybody

for this kind of lunacy you should pay, but when we're living in America where you see that the Republican party is actively trying to just change all the rules, don't like them, so I'm just gonna change them all. These laws don't apply to me. I'm not going to prison, immunity. So that the party of money can continue to empower money

and create a situation where we have even more desperation than we have now. And it's not as cute as a soccer game. Now it's for food or for water or for money. What's it gonna look like when it's not as cute as a soccer game and what you actually have is the manifestation of the prophecy? Of fear that they're promising you which is the desperate brown and black people are gonna take all of your shit We need to build a wall go get your guns

But also some people are just bad dog owners. It's not money. They just don't realize it's a lot of responsibilities They just dump their dogs. I don't think they get dropped in the Everglades either. I haven't seen too many Maltese Well, if they do they probably get eaten by pythons So I would say that sure get not off in the ever that's true that and turtles So people don't realize how long turtles live and how big turtles get your rules are a pain in the ass goldfish, too They get huge in the wild those you flushed on the toilet a lot of homeless dogs in Hialeah I mean, that's where I got Finny. There were a ton of homeless dogs.

I'm serious. They're just roaming around Hialeah. I mean, that's where I got Finny. You're just walking around Hialeah picking up dogs? I'm just telling you, there's someone who does this for a living that I know, and that's where I adopted Finny from, and they had a bunch of dogs from Hialeah.

That's all I'm saying. Not the Everglades. Do you guys follow that guy on TikTok who goes into the Everglades, and then he goes in with his bare feet. He never wears shoes. Fishing Garrett. Yeah. And then he just picks up snakes. He's incredible. And goes yoink. It's the craziest

thing I've ever seen. This guy lives life on the edge. To answer your question, Dan, the thought of that, the look of that, it's gonna be, it's gonna be hard for people to watch. It's gonna be tough. It's gonna be difficult. But I understand

the desperation when you need to feed yourself and feed your family, okay? If you can't afford to feed yourself, you people to watch. It's gonna be tough. It's gonna be difficult. But I understand the desperation when you need to feed yourself and feed your family. Okay? If you can't afford a ticket to a soccer game, you don't need to go to such extreme measures to try to get yourself into a soccer game. Food, I understand. Water, I understand. Money, I understand. A soccer game? Come on. Totally true. I'm just giving you the example of when you really care about something and you want it and you can't afford it Yeah It you haven't been desperate about money in a long time

It doesn't make you want it all the more what happens when it's a fight over the stuff that makes us all Allowed to live it's what going to happen with closed borders. You don't want people from other countries in here because you have the stuff. You have the stuff and you don't want to share it. What do you think it's going to look like? It's what's being fomented this week, Stugatz, at this carnival of lunacy that is passing for some sort of sanity as again I tell you they're trying to change all the rules of democracy so that they don't apply to the people who are there and Rudy Giuliani can fall down all the time

until he dies instead of just gets old taking stuff from people so he can have it and other people who don't look like him can't like that's what we're doing it's the present exercise this is where we've gotten and it's the desperate people are now also in the unhappy angry poor and white side Blaming Biden for it Blame blaming the and it's not it's not by me. It's that rich companies have bought all of these people They're all bought all of them every one of them is bought. They're so interested in power. And so of course, you're right Every one of them is bought. They're so interested in power. And so, of course, you're right that they shouldn't do that for a soccer game. But it's not just soccer tickets that are unaffordable.

A cup of coffee is not affordable anymore. You can't buy a home in this city. Like, nobody can buy property in this city anymore unless you're hugely rich. Not even in what you're saying, Hialeah, which I keep saying to people. I can't believe it's the fifth least affordable housing market in the United States. My father grew up there, that's just factories and mud. That's not Miami.

That's something that pretends to be Miami, and at its core, has the most Hispanic poverty stuff that you will find anywhere in Miami, including dogs roaming around in the street like Finney. How did you get Finney and Hialeah? I don't believe that. I went to a place, a plantation, that, you know, they find homeless dogs,

and I adopted Finnegan. I'm skeptical about that. Sounds like you went to a place that steals dogs. That's where I live. That's not what I did. They do a very nice thing. They give the dogs a home until an owner comes in and picks the dog.

I mean... You ever think about how crazy it is that we have a town down here just called Plantation, and we have no issue with it? It's a very nice thing. They give the dogs a home until an owner comes in and picks the dog. I mean. You ever think about how crazy it is that we have a town down here just called Plantation and we have no issue with it? First time I said that to Dominique, he's like, where do you live? I'm like, in Plantation.

He like looked at me and I was like, oh. Yeah, I just tell people Bort Lauderdale. It's still the masters. I think it's time to change that. I'm gonna start a petition. Has Finney ever react like if someone says Rufus or something and you're like, why does he respond to that name?

And it's because Finney was dognapped. No, not that I can recall at least, but. I do the same thing by the way. Even up in Parkland, I say I'm from Fort Lauderdale. It's weird. I don't know why. Well, but they're doing it for a different reason. I understand why they're doing it.

I'm just saying I live in Parkland, I still say Fort Lauderdale. That's because you can't help yourself from lying at every point when you don't need to. People don't know where Parkland is. They don't know Coral Springs. They know Fort Lauderdale. If I'm speaking to someone from Florida, then I might tell them Parkland if I were you.

But if I'm speaking to someone who's not from Florida, it's Fort Lauderdale. And if I'm speaking to someone where I'm not sure that they're even going to know Fort Lauderdale, then I'm just from Miami. Thank you. That's a tell. Someone says I'm from South Florida You know, they're from Broward. Yeah, that's true Now you just say Miami. You're exactly right. That is true, isn't it? We want people to think it's my association I think Boca too. Like if you're up there, you'll say South Florida. Yeah You see if you say Boca, I assume you're 80 Yeah, you see if you say Bokeh, I assume you're 80

Or Jewish put it on the pole at LeBittard show if someone says they're from Bokeh. Do you assume they're 80? Do you guys know what Bokeh Raton means any of you in the room who aren't Hispanic Well, I'm Hispanic. So I'm not gonna answer the question, but you do know you do know rat's mouth, right? Yeah I know something in Spanish guys. I'm Cuban Alright everybody it's finally here best ball week at draft Kings my favorite time of the year and draft Kings best ball millionaire contest is the biggest fantasy contest ever at DraftKings. A $15 million dollar guaranteed prize pool with two millionaires being crowned. DraftKings is offering everyone a DraftOne Get One special. Your $20 entry fee scores you a bonus ticket. It's best while we hear DraftKings and download the DraftKings app

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We're going to talk about the Stugats. We're going to talk about the Stugats. We're going to talk about the Stugats. We're going to talk about the Stugats. We're going to join us here in a little while, but there appear to be a couple of things that people think are factually incorrect about what it is that we're talking about. One of the things that you guys said is that dogs don't get dropped off in the Everglades because as Tony said, a Maltese isn't going to get dropped off in the Everglades because as Tony said, a Maltese isn't going to be dropped off in the Everglades. But if you don't care about an animal enough to dump it off in the Redlands

because it will probably die, you're not going a whole lot further to just dump it in a swamp because you don't want the responsibility or the cost any more in your life. I am always guilty around here, Stugats. The audience gets very upset with me because I think Miami and South Florida have an assortment of things that the rest of the United States does not have, things that are unique to Miami. Right before I left, I was telling all of

the the room, I don't believe a lot of places in the country have what we do at 11 and at space The clubs that stay up all night and you guys gave me a number of cities that do have all night things And I assure you those cities aren't filled with thousands of people doing that all night on drugs That's only happening here and Vegas and I don't think anywhere else in the United States where What you gave me some shitty cities there that stay up all night or have certain places. How dare you call Minneapolis a shitty city, Dan. It's just absolutely not something that's happening over the United States where you've got all over thousands of people

at 6 a.m. spilling out of a club on drugs. New Orleans. Yes, yes, that's a good one. New York, yeah. I don't know if, I don't actually. Definitely I've done it. I don't know if, I don't actually. Definitely, I've done it. I don't know if New Orleans. My hometown.

New Orleans has a lot of, does New Orleans stay up all night with a place that's got thousands of people in it? I guess Bourbon Street would be that. Regardless, we do have something in the Everglades that I don't believe happens anywhere in the United States, which is we have a snake problem. It's a giant snake problem so much that there are hunters who go out there and get paid

for just eliminating some of the snakes that should not be in the Everglades. And Lucy, what is this video that we're watching now that you you provided because you just learned about this the other day? So this is Fish and Garrett. I talked about him a little bit in the last segment. He is based here, I believe, somewhere in South Florida, but I don't know what South Florida means after all you guys just said, so whatever, in this general vicinity.

And his whole thing is that he like is trying to find a 20-foot python. So this crazy-ass guy just goes in the Everglades barefoot all the time looking for these pythons and then will just stick his hand into the water, pick up the snake and go yoink. So if there's a way that we could play this with the sound because he'll tell you what animals are there and you'll hear him yoink. Well, why don't we just get him as a guest to talk about some of this stuff because South Florida has a number of these unusual people. I met one of them

who has to, is it Burmese pythons, has to kill them and just puts a bullet in their head. Yeah. They actually sell licenses where you can go out and get a license and go kill these pythons because they're so invasive, they kill all the other animals. Like there's a lot of small rodents. I think Ron has talked about it. Small rodents, even up to things like mid-size that the pythons just kill because there's so many of them. I feel like that's taking the easy path.

Just putting a bullet in its head. I mean, come on, catch the snake. I mean, you're a snake catcher. Don't bring a gun. I mean, the snake doesn't have a gun. Seriously, it's cheating. Stugats, you called 911 on a fraud. I did, but I'm not, listen, I don't do this for a living.

I'm not catching frauds for a living. You can't be the Monday morning quarterback on how to kill a snake when you called 911 on a fraud. But I'm seeing all these snake hunters going into the Everglades and they're doing it with their hands. This guy's bringing a gun it's cheating the loyal upset the woman also catches them with her hands and puts bullet in their head after she catches them yes ross i'm saying you don't just walk up to a snake with a gun and shoot it and

they're called nine one one so the cops can come and shoot it and he'll call nine one one so the cops can come and shoot it up cheating billy i'd do want to i don't want this to be another thing that we talk about and don't do okay because i was told upon return from edmonton we had a number of different ways and angles to get a billboard in edmonton we thought ameen said i've got, you guys are amateurs. Edmonton shut us down from every angle.

We put up a couple of billboards in South Florida that had no impact whatsoever, and I was told we were very close. We almost executed the joke of me seeing a billboard in Johannesburg on my way from the airport because Metal Lark put one there just for me. Just for me to see in the airport. I was told we were very close to executing that joke, but didn't execute that one either What if you were looking the other way and didn't see it? I?

Think they would have probably had to get my wife involved there probably would have been some sort of I wouldn't inside job Would have involved some more planning But maybe not what the metal Menelark does it. Maybe Menelark thinks that all of the acreage I would have just had to be focused, and I'd be like, why is there a Conor McDavid billboard in Johannesburg?

He'll see it. The way we do it, the way we communicate around here. But I want to get you in front of Nolan Ryan so that you guys understand how you consistently underestimate how much better these people are. He's 77 years old. I know, you've mentioned that before. And you are not the athlete that you think hitting a curve ball.

He barely could walk out to the mound yesterday. Okay, and you are not the athlete that you think you are. I believe, now I may have this wrong, but I want to execute it. Instead of just talking about it, I want want and Nolan Ryan is not going to come here I want to get you to wherever Nolan Ryan is and see if you really can hit what you think you can hit Because again the power arm Stu gots To me, it's the best thing in the sport It's the most unique thing in the sport name the guys Stu Stugats, all time that have really been fallen in love with because

they just throw harder than everybody else. It's not because it's not just Nolan Ryan, it's all of the closers throughout time that used to come in for an inning and throw a hundred miles an hour and make us confused how Mariano Rivera could do it not throwing a hundred miles an hour and make us confused how Mariano Rivera could do it not throwing 100 miles an hour. You know Paul Skeens last night wasn't the rookie who was throwing the hardest in the All-Star game. Mason Miller, the closer for the A's, threw a pitch 103.6 miles per hour.

It's insane. He's unhittable and nobody knows who he is. I think Stugatz knew that he wasn't a Metal Arch employee though. I did. I got that one right. Yeah, congratulations. Stu Gotts, I've told the story before of Mike Lowell, World Series MVP, saying what the difference between 92 and 96 is.

92 and 96, where it's like 92, okay, I'm okay, okay, 96. Whoa, whoa, now make it 104. Right, it's crazy, it's crazy. You're talking about what you're yearning for is the Goose Gossage, right? The guy who just comes in and gives you 92 right down the middle. I mean. Jeremy, I'm not yearning for 92 down the middle. I'm yearning for- But back then, that was it. That was it. Go look up for me, Goose Gossage famously, threw out his back sneezing because physically, that's what he looked like.

Like Sammy Sosa. He looked like somebody who should throw out their back sneezing because the act of a sneeze, not even his formidable back could take all the power coming from inside his body and handle the sneeze. The back was gonna break. Go and look up how hard he was throwing at his maximum because he was a flame thrower and my guess is

that he's 12 miles an hour slower throwing a fastball than Skeen. I just remember how impressed I was when Matt Lindstrom threw like 94. I was like, he's the best. Calling my friends, I'm like, hey, you see this guy, Matt Lindstrom? Like 96 he hit last night.

And everyone hit him too. Like he had an ERA of four hit last night. And everyone hit him too. Like he had an ERA of four the entire time. Everyone could hit him. I thought Lindstrom got even higher into the 90s. He might've. Do you think I have this wrong though on Billy? How do you feel about the power arm?

Goose Gossage on the Hall of Fame website says he had a 100 mile per hour fastball. But I feel like that was also at the Times, was like, what'd that look like? Ah, it was 100. Put that down. This says he threw a 103 mile an hour fastball during the 1978 All-Star game.

I don't see that happening. He didn't do it. Yeah. And who has it, Babe Ruth hit a ball like 6,000 feet? Okay, please, get out of here. Maybe I've got it wrong, Stu Gotz. I did not think that Goose Gossage threw 103 miles an hour, but maybe I simply have it wrong

because I thought that what it is that we're watching right now, that outside of Nolan Ryan and hell, and then who, Orlando Hernandez, or what is it? No, it's not Orlando Hernandez. No, it's not El Duque. It's. Keira?

Francisco. No, I'm gonna forget, it's gonna be. Leon. No, none of these people throw 100 miles an hour. Not even close. Who is the? Michael Tejera. I'm sorry, Aroldis Chapman.

I was just. Ah, there he is. We got there, we got there, we keep talking. Just looking for a cue in. You guys were just throwing, hey, Fernandez, hey, Fernandez We got there, we got there, we keep talking. Just looking for a cue in. You guys were just going for, hey Fernandez, hey Fernandez. I had a Rodriguez in there. Yeah.

I'm getting self-conscious about this. Let me ask you this based on what it is that just happened in the last segment. How should I handle as a Latin show the way I say Copa America? Because I used to get annoyed on television all the time when the news people were doing English and then to show Me they knew Spanish they would go los sandanistas and I mean like say it in English

Copa America, how am I supposed to say that without sounding like a good? No, but people notice and say why is he Copa America you want to say like that that sounds a starchy then I got a starchy guy. No one cares. Just say Super Bowl You want to say it like that? That sounds a starchy, Dan. You're not a starchy guy. No one cares. Just say Super Bowl. 50 days to the NFL. How about that, Dan? Crazy. You excited? 50 days until the NFL? Oh my god. I wanted to talk about baseball. You're going to do it the same way that the person who

had a gambling problem did it to me in the 30s by pulling me off of baseball to talk about football? What is considered, we were having this discussion out in the bullpen area here, what is considered, how hard do you have to throw to be a crafty pitcher? Because I maintain you cannot be a crafty pitcher if you're throwing in the 90s. You have to be a guy who's mid 80s, 85, 86, you top out at 87. There's one guy in the big leagues right now who throws in the 80s.

You can be, 91 can be crafty, Stugats. 91? I think you're topping out at the very hardest pitch you've ever thrown in your life is 93. You occasionally top out during a game at 92. You're living between 88 and 90 for the most part. If you're a crafty lefty, you can only be a crafty lefty. You can't be a crafty righty.

A crafty righty or a miner. Kyle Hendricks. Kyle Hendricks. When I think crafty, though, I think like Tom Glavitt. That's who I think of. Wasn't Greg Maddux crafty?