The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: We Reject Height Supremacy

Episode Date: August 1, 2023

Brad Williams has a bone to pick with Hugh Grant after he was cast as an Oompa Loompa in the new Wonka movie. This leads the crew to casting for the Seven Dwarves and who their true leader is. Mopey? Grumpy? Doc? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

your listening to draft games network so there's a complicated issue going on right now in my community and by that of course i mean not medians not comedians actors not that one not the not the strike white people well no no not that we need a uh.... White people. Oh, no, no, not that one either. Dwarfs. A complicated issue in that-

Dwarf. Technically, I got dwarfism, a condraplasia, characterized by large head protruding large buttocks and small limbs. Yeah. Is that what A-Rod's supposed to swing down at? In his balance, I'm just trying to piece it together because I was watching his display. I have that video on my social media, A-Rod, describing a batting stance.

He's like, and you just want to punch down, like you're punching a little person. And then... In his offense, if he goes toddler, that lands differently too. I mean, it probably gains him favor in some markets. But... You could have said chopping down like a tree

or something like that, but no, a very vivid picture of punching bread with a little person. By the way, my response about throwing a dart, like you have to have your fingers and you got a jab forward, like you're jabbing a steroid-filled syringe into a rod's ass.

That got flagged by social media. Oh man, taking off. But him punching a little person, that's fine. I actually learned this and working for your radio companies. Nothing can go into the ass. Ah, yeah. Really? On the ass is fine.

It's the SEC, I believe, right? They don't want things going in and out. It's a security exchange commission. I don't know what that means. Eastern Conference? It's the FCC. FCC Security Exchange Commission. I don't know what I thought about that. Eastern Conference? It's the FCC. FCC, I forgot. It's been so long.

I'll tell you about the case. I'm not talking about arbitrage. I'm talking about arbitrage. I'm talking about arbitrage. Yeah. Any time something's going in or out of an ass, and I don't know why I'm doing this motion with my hands right now, I'm talking like Donald Trump is saying. You do your Trump hands right now, in and out of hand.

In the hands you're going in the ass. There's small hands I get in the ash. Very good. Hey, you do another president. All right. I got two, two presidents. One good, one bad. I'll let you pick which one. He also does a tapped. Tap.

Got it. Sounds bad. Jowls going. Let's try to say, complicated get things going on in the little people community. There's a Willy Wonka prequel coming out. And Timothy Shalameh plays Wonka. Shout out to Gene Wilder. Hashtag not my Wonka, Timothy Shalameh. Shalameh is in a beef with Travis Scott right now.

Really? Yeah, Travis. What are they beaving about? Kylie. Kylie Jenner, because Timothy has been linked to Kylie, who has children with Travis Scott. And while this was all conjecture and gossip sites saying they were seen out, Travis Scott just gave it real credence by having a go at Timothy Shalame

in one of the bars in his rap songs. Boy, I sound older while I'm sitting in this show too. It's happened as bars. Yeah. It's something, it's a part of his hip, one of his hip and hip hop and he's on. Yeah. But so if you look at the preview for the Wanka Prequel,

the Upa Loompas are present. There is one Upa Loalupa played by Hugh Grant for comedic effect it seemed in the trailer. Yes. And they have him shrunken down via CGI. Now this is a complicated issue for the little people because obviously- Are we sure it's CGI?

Ha ha ha ha ha. Obviously it's like when the movie comes out, now Oopalumpa is sort of a fantastical stereotype, and people say that about little people all the time. And so it's kind of unfortunate, but at the same time, when they have a movie, and they now have this part, and now they're not casting dwarves,

now we're kind of upset that we're not getting the roles, we're playing both sides. And, but I can say that the reason why we're upset is because there's not a lot of roles out there so you if there is a plethora of roles for little people to do we'd be like are that's that like now we don't care about the oompa lumpas but the fact there's not and now our roles are going to average size people

uh... there's a lot of war factors that are that are getting work now because you grant us doing orange face i i i i saw are they doing a live action snow white dwarf factors that aren't that aren't getting work. No, because you grant us doing orange face. I I saw aren't they doing a live action snow white. Yeah, and With one dwarf. They're supposed to be seven which one famously, but there's one in the in the new light. I Sleepy. Oh, no, they can't it can't be dopey if there's only one dwarf. It can't be dope. No, it can't be doc Happy how about happy? Hey, I got him. No, it's grumpy.

It's gotta be grumpy. It's goby or grumpy. Who's it? Who's the most milktoe stwarf? Milktoe. Doc. Doc? Doc, nobody likes Doc.

Yeah, he's got to be Doc. Yeah, his name's only one of the best. And never to not offend anybody. Yeah, but so there's, so now they've recast that as seven magical beings One being a dwarf. I'm pretty sure of when else is has a magical power than the dwarves that you're Is that flattering is being a magical being one of seven? I mean is that flattering? I don't think so Who's a dwarf being played by Scarlett Johansson? Why is there a doc like did they just stop getting creative? They're like all right. We got six these dopey grumpy. Why just stop getting creative? They're like, all right, we got six of these dopey.

It's grumpy. Why not docky? They're just like dock. We got no, anyone other ideas? What other things could they be? Well, he takes care of the other six. This one could be dock. They're like nailed it.

Good meeting everyone. Let's get lunch. But the seven other magical creatures, are they gonna have the same names and fall in line with the characters? Is there gonna be a sleepy magical? And what is a magical? There's just gonna be a sleepy elf. I have no idea. And they're going to be a sleepy magical. And what is a magical? There's just going to be a sleepy elf.

I have no idea and they're all being played by, I'm, I'm glad they're being played by people of different races and different genders. That's fine. But now, once again, dwarves are being knocked out of that role as well. So now we just have really nothing to go on. Is it Doc the leader? A better doc is the leader. I mean, he's got a medical degree. Is this the hardest one? Is it Doc the leader? I'd better be. I mean, he's got a medical degree. Is this the hardest one? Yeah. Is it for Doctor?

Oh, it's wait. They had a leader? What? What do you think of that? Yeah, Doc. I thought they were like, they were, I thought the seven doors were your classic ensemble. That wasn't, no, Doc was their leader.

Are we looking at merchandising? No, it's probably, I'm like, this is an ensemble. There's no leader. No, I think he's a union rep at the very He was in charge of the group. I think Wikipedia lists him as the leader. What yeah The dog why are you celebrating the leader of the seven dwarves dark wears glasses and mixes up his words That's it. Is he the only one that wears glasses? I thought no, I think happy wore glasses too

I should I should be the go-to expert on this. Yeah, I'm not but I should So are you upset or offended? I think this means with C.G. Yeah, you need to start going after some normal size rolls Okay, so do a nine-month remake Crazy yeah normal rolls No, it's not how we do it. There there was one time I audition for an average size role. That's what we say. A five foot 10 size role. Yeah. No, no. I was not written. Yeah. So Spud Web can't go before it. Anyway. But so I went for this role that was not written for dwarf. I think I did a good audition. At the end of the audition,

all the cast and directors looked me and said, Hey, great job. But just so you know, we're really looking for more of a minority candidate. And I was like, dwarf? Not enough? Not, not, not, not, not magical. Maybe the killer. I guarantee you, when people see me on the street, no one just goes, eh, another white guy.

I can only see his leg. There's other things that come first. You're not looking with white privilege? Apparently not. I can see you as like the killer in the next scream. Oh yeah, just slash it at Keyle's tendons. But part of the scream, part of the scream thing, well, we're using CGI to make you five foot 10.

Because what I'm saying is if you're your actual height, the suspense on who the killer might be, it could be a door open. Yeah, door open. They came with fans and I'm like, I saw that guy earlier in the movie. I'm pretty sure I know who the killer might be. It could be a door open. Yeah, door open. They came up fans and I'm like, I saw that guy earlier in the movie. I'm pretty sure I know who the killer is. Dwarves have to be very careful in terms of like, we can't commit crimes.

Like we can. Actually, no one, like, you know how seven and elevens have the height. They have the measurement if someone's running out. If you've ever noticed that leaving a convenience store, they actually have a bar for five foot six foot beyond. We have the measurements, if someone's running out, if you've ever noticed that leaving a convenience store, they actually have a bar for five foot, six foot, and I'm four foot four, so you have no idea.

Yeah, two foot nine, four foot eight, we don't know. So Doc is the only one that's not an adjective, okay, because they need to dock the leader to stand out. They want to dock to stand out. It does the opposite. He doesn't, he just blends into a dopey, happy, grumpy. Like they all stand out. Well, dopey can't be the leader.

He doesn't talk. But he's cute. That's true. But he's the one that, if you just say, like, association is just pointing, like, he's the one that's the most famous, I would say. I'd say grumpy. Grumpy.

It's those two. They're looking at merchandising metrics. Grumpy. It's grumpy. I see a lot. Yeah. His dad's like to wear grumpy shirts. I see a lot of grumpy shirts and it's always weird if like I'm at a sandwich shop and some guy wearing a grumpy shirt looks up and sees me. He's just like crap.

I'm loving having you run into that. Quite a few. I live in Orange County. So it's like there's a lot of, there's a lot of Disney stuff there. So people just like, oh, I'm grumpy today. Then I'm just like, hey, I'm Brad.

I'm just trying to live my life. I'm just trying to live my life. Thanks, Cartoon characters. You should direct your agent to only go for the same roles that Hugh Grant's going for. Just so he has a reckoning every time. Coming for you, Hugh. Coming for you. The normal rules. Yeah, the normal rules that Hugh Grant's going for, just so he has a reckoning every time. Coming for you, Hugh.

Coming for you. The normal rules. Yeah, the normal rules that Hugh Grant takes. Not the fun size roles that you're used to. No. The normal size roles. No. What's your take on fun size?

I mean, I named my first special fun size, which is now streaming on Amazon Prime. Yeah. So is Dragonfly Jones in it? Dragonfly Jones. Then we can't promote it. Can't promote it. Sorry, can't promote it. Sorry. It's can't promote my dates The improv can't promote my tour 24 on this show. Yeah, have dragonfly Jones Brad I like you starting segments therefore you can avoid now by starting the segments tragic news leading into your voice I like this idea to do thank you

Neural I start all segments I like this idea, Stu. Thank you. New rule. High start-all segments. It is a talking point. Is it Peter, the gentleman from Game of Thrones? Peter Dinklitz. Peter Dinklitz. We call him God. Yeah, he's, because he's gotten rules that weren't originally written for non-510s.

Yeah, we call you guys reachers. Yeah, reachers. Yeah, so he's transcended. Yes. And he's waited, waited into these waters. Yes, he was one of the ones that actually kind of caused the snow white thing to happen because he was on the Mark Maren podcast

and he made a comment like, oh, we're doing this dwarf thing again and haven't I done enough for my people and like He is a true Thespian yeah, he was that basically trained But he didn't think you Peter For my people the other thing about but he'd hurt the cause he kind of did because not all like now He's taking jobs away from the dwarf actors and not all of us have game of thrones money dink Okay, by the way dink sounds like an eighth dwarf is not like now he's taking jobs away from the dwarf actors and not all of us have game of thrones money. Dink. Okay.

By the way, dink sounds like an eighth dwarf. Dinky. Dinky. That's how I'll see him if I ever made it. We're going to be really messed up as if he takes the one dwarf role and boxes everybody out. How dare you, dinklitch. I'm see any negative action and words I have towards peered English is just jealousy

It's simply jealousy the guys and everything like he's the dwarf actor if they made a movie and called the Brad William story It would be starring Peter Dinklage Call me elf one more time He started off as the elf guy and now he's taking away Door for rolls from other dwarves. Yeah, classic rolls. He's a Height Supremacist. I don't know about you guys, but I reject Height Supremacy. I do.

I stand against it. Here, here. You're my brother. You're my brother.