The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: The Land of Lincoln

Episode Date: July 1, 2024

It's fireworks week with July 4th on Thursday. Abe Lincoln's wax statue has melted into an...unfortunate pose. And Kyle Shanahan's mustache: good or bad? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. Prime Day is coming July 16th and 17th. With epic deals exclusively for Prime members, you'll feel like a winner. Behind door number three is Amazing Deals! Shop deals on electronics, home, and more this Prime Day. Jess, for the 4th of July, I'm actually headed to the land of Lincoln. Illinois. Illinois.

Or Nebraska. Yeah. I read that they're not gonna be doing 4th of July fireworks on the lake. I read that too, but normally they do a big thing at Navy Pier, so I don't know why that is the case. So I don't know how this would stand because it's America, Jack.

You need to have fireworks in Chicago on the 4th of July. The reasoning in the article, I read it a couple weeks ago and I assumed Coolerheads would prevail. The reasoning that they did is, on summers, during the summer, we do our fireworks on Wednesdays and Saturday. It would be madness to all of a sudden

have a Thursday fireworks session. That's strange. Also, big fireworks are illegal in Illinois, so you actually have to drive to Indiana. There's a huge warehouse off of I-80, I think it's I-80, when you're going east towards Indiana that has 20,000 square feet of fireworks. And it's like last stop for fireworks.

Exactly. Oh man, that's funny. Arizona, you know, it's like wild, wild west. Oh, breaking news. What do we got? The Cavender twins have been signed by Under Armour to a three-year endorsement deal. Back to you, Mike.

It's tricky for an Adidas school, but good on the rock. How's that going to work? Appreciate that. It ain't going to work on the rock. How's that gonna work? Appreciate that. It ain't gonna work on the court. I'll tell you that. I'm very, very jealous you're going to Chicago though. The land of Lincoln.

I was just there. The weather was so much better than Miami. I'm not sure how good the street race is gonna be, but it's basically music festival meets NASCAR race. And last year, I think it completely got flooded out the day after. They've had bad luck. The last month of watching NASCAR has been rough because the rain has really impacted these races.

But back to the Lincoln thread, there was this one thing that I saw on social media a couple weeks ago. Apparently there was a wax statue of Abraham Lincoln. And I just assume this is to prove a point. This is like an environmentalist. You put a wax statue out there, you're hoping that it melts really quickly and you could say something about global warming? Actually, I don't think that was the intent, but that is kind of what ended up happening.

So it was like a 3,000 pound wax statue of Abe Lincoln that was outside of an elementary school in DC. And it melted really fast because they had a heat wave there and ended up looking like Abe Lincoln's head was thrown backwards in a moment of pleasure and delight. And I can't think of another way to describe it. I've got a way to describe it. Hock-tua.

Panic to box. But it also looks like he almost got decapitated by an assassin that decided to seize on this moment. Well that is kinda sorta what happened to him. Too soon. Like a little close. sorta what happened to him. Too soon. Like a little close. Get him out of here. Too soon.

Get me out of here. I mean who established as a, like who, it's flawed logic, let's have a wax statue. Outside. Outside. Well so the artist apparently was like, we knew it was gonna melt, we thought it would kind of like melt like a candle, but instead it melted in this very suggestive way

It had a 1.2 Chance of melting this way and it did it. I kind of wish it was made out of butter It'd be delicious. I can't believe it's not butter Okay, yeah, you gotta leave no actually No, actually, that's a good one. That's a good one. That's a good one. Come on. What?

Oh, man. It's like you can't come up with that in a writer's room. You tried. Thank you. Or maybe you would try hard for like 30 minutes and then come up with that. Do you guys remember the Caitlin Clark butter sculpture? No. Man, that was great.

I still think that Lucy should have to do that for some sort of video bit. She should have to carve a butter sculpture of Caitlin Clark. I think she'd be down for that. I think so too. Yeah. It doesn't even have to carve a butter sculpture of Caitlin Clark. I think she'd be down for that. I think so too. Yeah, it doesn't even have to be Caitlin Clark. I remember Fabio on the Can't Believe It's Not Butter commercial. Yeah.

His hair was amazing. Do you remember when he killed that bird with his face? Yeah, on the roller coaster. I do remember that. The butter sculpture that I'm looking at of Caitlin Clark, it looks like the kind of thing that your cousin would see on her. On her twine tour.

That's a throwback of a reference. The twine tour, oh my god. Do you know about that Mike? No. Oh, you missed out. That statue look like Rose. Oh, that sure does. She's probably happy about that too.

As Sam Reinhardt found out, it's wedding season. I somehow had a July wedding in South Florida. Don't do that. I would strongly vote against that. I was young and tried to devise my wedding around when it was a quieter moment in the sports calendar. I would have thought it was because it's cheaper probably, right? No, no, no. No?

No, like certainly not. I think July is like prime wedding time in most of the country. In Miami? Probably not Miami. That's what I'm saying. I think the season in Miami is like winter and spring. It was a huge regret and we did it at the church that her family built down here. It was at a beautiful Greek Orthodox church.

They forgot to run the AAC the night before and so it was really bad, really hot in there, really sweaty. Oh, Suga's made a save on Cynthia's dress as well. Save the wedding, Suga saved the wedding there. But Sam Reinhardt found out wedding season can pop its head up during these summer months. What is this video of Kyle Shanahan? Well, it's just a still image of him at Christian McCaffrey's wedding, and he appears to have new facial hair. He has a mustache. Oh, boy.

No. That's a good look. That's not a good look. That is a really good look. I like it, bro. He looks presidential. He does. I mean, I think he kind of looks like Pat Riley in this photo.

Am I crazy for that? No. No? You know, Pat Ryan and Aaron Rodgers together? Mixed together. Can we zoom in anyway? Any way that we can do that? Cause he's got the salt and pepper stash.

Yeah, you know what he looks like? He looks like an accountant who's here to tell you that, tell the mob boss that I can't hide these expenses. I think he looks like Andy Garcia. He looks like Jeremy Strong. He does look like Jeremy Strong. A bit of Jeremy Strong. And the round glasses, too. He has a great idea for his dad to turn down.

He looks like Jeff Rimmer. Fits for him, too. Yeah, it kind of does. Honest tea. He looks more distinguished with a mustache. This is a really- I like this look. This is a strong argument for the mustache.

It changes his face in a good way. Are you guys impressed by the mustache or that his hair is slicked back real good? Well that is impressed by that. That's what's giving me Riley. He's not wearing a flat brim snapback. Also, how do we feel about Kittle's high pony? We now need to scroll over.

I do like a good top bun, let's see that. Me three, I'd love a good top bun. Yeah, can we scroll over to George Kittle, see if he's rocking top bun or oh That is that's just that's not a top bun. That's just a high pony in the back that's given that appearance Yeah, that's handsome for a wedding like if you're kiddo less. I mean we can't you can't get better than that and then Jeremy Tashay behind them

Big youth is that your wife? I'm gonna find him. That's the youth, big youth. His wife is still. Who is that? Is that Bossa? Kyle Yustchak. Oh, Yustchak. His wife is tearing the game to pieces.

Oh, thank God it's not Yustchak. Fashion lines she got going on. Yeah, I think she's got some NHL exclusives, NFL exclusives that people are. Hell yeah. Yeah, she's gonna be licensed now. That's gonna be cool. Do you think he keeps it for the season, the stash?

I hope so. That sash, I trust that sash. He should just fade the sides of his hair during the season and he will be like, through the roof. Dangerous game for a white guy with slicked back hair to shave the sides. And a mustache. Yeah. And a mustache should shift.

Andrew Schultz is killing that look. Hm. Oh. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. He keeps leaning into that more and more. Like harsh fade too. Not even like Straight leaning right?