The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: The Wheel of Topics

Episode Date: June 24, 2024

We turn to the wheel of topics for one last-ditch effort to turn around the mood as we barrel towards Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final. Our first attempt is with a video of an umpire falling over like Ric Flair after taking a bat to the dome. Shouldn't we have checked on this guy before running this? Then we go quick fire through the situation between FSU and the ACC, Jon Rahm complaining about LIV Golf, climate protesters at the Traveler's Championship. Do they make you want to pollute more? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. A tweeter writes in, Dan, I'm afraid the utopia of freedom and creativity you aspire to and have now created is rearing its eminent dark side. The arguing and anger daily isn't entertaining at this point. At LeBotard Show is where you reach us with your criticism. I would simply say to you, sir, that this is a difficult time. Everybody is a little bit emotional and when you ratchet up the stakes to people who have cared about sports all their lives and make it so that the stakes are so high that you're terrified going into the game and you know

that the joy is the highest joy and the fear you have is of America and North America laughing at you. The stakes have broken people here and we're eight hours from a game being played and everyone here is already broken. But the great thing about sports is the athletes are more courageous than their fan bases and so the athletes can do things that the fans can't do otherwise the fans would be out there making millions of dollars skating around on razor blades and these people have trained all their lives for this moment and so you can doubt them and they will get to laugh at you afterward

when they say nobody believed in us and it will be so not even our own fans believed in us because if we then went down one nothing tonight our fans are like it's over the game is over and so we did it ourselves we didn't need anybody it's why those locker rooms are so tight they don't actually believe that that fan love is anything other than conditional. You will love us when we make you feel good. You will yell things at your television when we don't.

Two nothing, it's over, not one. You said one nothing. I said one nothing, I'll go up to the concession stand to pull my trick out of my sleeve. Or they can lose and succumb to what is the most pressure-filled moment in their entire professional lives. Because there has never been a game seven attached with this much pressure for a hockey team

in the modern age ever. And it would be totally human for them to succumb. I hope what you're saying is right. It would be superhuman for them to overcome it. They need to muster up a super human effort tonight. It feels because if I'm feeling this like this, and I care this much about laundry, I can't imagine someone that has been training for this moment, their entire lives on frozen ponds. I can't imagine what they're feeling.

No, but here's the thing though. There is a difference here between, you're not rooting for laundry. A lot of people around here are just interested in sports be sports, entertain me. Like this is the gladiator spectacle, it doesn't matter who the gladiators are. I'm gonna say that tonight's game is going to do a giant number four hockey because the casuals

are going to appear who just like sports. You're gonna get a whole bunch of eyes that you wouldn't normally get around hockey, because it's just people who want stakes attached to March Madness. Every game means something. I wanna tune in and see what everyone's

going to be talking about. I don't even care about hockey. I think their numbers are gonna double tonight on what they would normally do where they're at three million and they're doing basically Reese against Caitlin Clark numbers that top out at about three million.

I think that you are gonna get closer to five million people tonight who end up watching something because they just wanna be around dramatic consequences in sports. Who doesn't like those? who end up watching something because they just want to be around dramatic consequences in sports who doesn't like those and Billy I think you just want your television to go up in flames what I want your tell I think you want in the fire in my house I want that I think you want everything to go up in flames I

think you're gonna throw your head back in laughter I'm the most confident one here thinking that they can win tonight I know you guys are afraid of Chris, if one nothing is two nothing. By the way, two nothing, most dangerous lead in hockey. I don't know if you're aware of that. So I don't sweat two nothing. You guys do. Why don't you have faith in this team?

Believe in this team. We got here, we got to this point. Yeah, there's some bumps in the road, some hiccups, but every journey has some bumps in the road. And here we are, about to arrive at the destination Are we here? We not I don't understand. I want to show you here That's acting like we're showing up at Wally world and it's closed I want to show someone a bump on the head not a bump in the road I want to show you some video that Zack Harper accuses the referee of look

I'm sorry the umpire of looking like Rick Flair here. It's a giant home run that involves a bat toss after the home run, a pimped out trot, and the aluminum bat hits the umpire in the head. And watch the umpire's reaction. It's really Ric Flair-y. It's just a cartoonish pass out situation when he gets hit in the head with the knob I get hit with the knob not the barrel obviously I wouldn't want to get hit in the knob

But I yeah, I mean the knob hits them not the barrel Oh my god, that's like a skipping a rock on a lake You know a quick but it's a real stagger and the umpire does wander around like take like four steps And then see okay, and then falls on his on his back. Is he okay? It's a good question, Mike. I'm going to assume that he did not die. But there's going to be- Space runner interference there. Can we find out if this person's okay?

I don't know how to react. By the way, a bit high in the zone. That kid shouldn't have swung at that. There were so many videos we played on highly questionable that ended up years later, we had to take them out of circulation because there was the report very late hey that spider-man who was doing a somersault landed on his face at a kid's birthday party he's no longer with us I remember that one classic let's spin the wheel here of issues this what's on the wheel of issues stuff that we haven't gotten to today. It's JJ Reddick, it's USA, Bolivia, it's ACC and FSU, it's Twisters, it's astronauts getting

stuck, and it's a Twilight Zone episode from 1983. Mike, what did that land on? It landed on the ACC and FSU. Are you sure, Billy? Is that what it landed on? Yes. It's hard to see from here. Small font. I can't feel my fingers.

What happened? I'm just like so in a bad place right now. Why? Because I'm a fan, I care. And I've been on a show that's just been weaponizing that against me. Again with this? Well, it's true. It's true. What about the ACC? Oh, so. In a busy day, he also got served today. I mean. I'm not sure what is going to happen with the the ACC, but the chatter around Florida State leaving this conference, no matter what, and then just taking its chances with the whole, but the chatter around Florida State leaving this conference, no matter what,

and then just taking its chances with the whole strategy of you know what, we're outta here, they may not actually have their rights to it. That has only grown, and so is the confidence from people affiliated with FSU, they'll tell you that they have their landing spot figured out, I've heard conflicting things. I've heard-

You sound empty. Yeah, what's going on? You're reporting sounds sort of hollowed out. spot figured out I've heard conflicting things and sound empty You're reporting your reporting sounds sort of hollowed out like this is like he doesn't want to be talking about Why are we making him talk about you? I'm right now. I I didn't make him It's what the wheel as he asked me what it landed on that's what it landed on we shouldn't be doing this I haven't laid on something else pick someone else. Okay, cuz Spin the wheel again because he's too sad to do it. What if it lands on it again? Well you'll tell me. JJ Reddick, USA, Bolivia, again ACC, FSU.

Twisters! Oh look Hot Ones is for sale that I didn't see the first time. Another Russell Crowe exorcism movie. Oh Travis Kelcey danced at a Taylor Swift concert as well and the Twilight Zone movie. What did it end up landing on? The Wheel Grow would happen. Yeah, there was stuff I didn't see on the lawn.

Looks like Bolivia, I think it says. USA Bolivia? You know what it says. Okay, well, let's see. Anyone have thoughts on that? Ha ha ha. Is this a friendly, is this a real one? I think I see a climate, spin it again, spin it again. I think I see a climate, spin it again, spin it again.

I think I see something climate related on the blue right there. What did it land on, Billy? It landed on space. Oh, astronauts getting stuck. How about it? So if astronauts stuck, what's going on? Well, how did astronauts get stuck? Oh, look, it landed on climate protesters.

Do they make you want to pollute more? They kind of make me want to a little bit. And by the way, it's against what they're doing, but it also, I pollute more than they have more things to protest right so it's good for them No, it is a little odd of they had two tours to pick from oh yeah to protest climate And they decided against the Saudi one yeah What do you think Scheffler's thought was when he saw the cops like swarming the green? I think there was like a moment of like what I was thinking about this morning That there were so many ways to chef for

Scheffler to handle all of that situation I wish he hadn't handled it as scared and respectfully as he did but for the first time in recorded history there are two Golf tours going on and one of them is specifically backed by Saudi Arabia That's correct, and yet the climate protesters went at the PGA now. I'm sure they've got quite the carbon footprint And we have here one of the slowest tackles in human history where it's just a cop and the guys like jogging and it's just God, it's just it is I have found I know you guys make fun of me because of how often on the weekends I'm talking you guys do this one to climate scientists, but when they talk about protesting and civilly and peacefully protesting a lot

of times what they're talking about is not being able to curry public favor because so many things like this happen where traffic is an inconvenience or Billy doesn't want your Billy suddenly wants to litter when he didn't because well more opportunity for them to protestors John Rom get it Why is he so angry all the time at these live events? Yeah? Well, there's no protesters there. He's mad at a drone flying around like John cash the checks and just smile buddy They're what this is all about their whole thing was like golf, but louder And he's like why is this golf so loud?

There was a dog barking before Bryson shot. What is happening with this loud golf? Why is there loud golf? Well, it's the entire business plan. Tony, you're going to be watching tonight, and you don't care about this. I'm going to be locked in. I'm going to be absolutely locked in.

He's wearing a hat. More than a panther's hat. Look at this. You and Billy are both going to be gathered around the television and Chris, do you feel, I wanna know this. I don't feel at all actually the last few days. You don't feel anything?

Since 11. But do you think that Tony and Billy are rooting to laugh at you or to celebrate with you? I think both of them at the end of the day are rooting for the Panthers. I do. Definitely Tony. I'm 50-50. What do you mean?

Which is why we couldn't have a watch party, Dan.