The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: A Beard Can Change Everything

Episode Date: April 19, 2024

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All right, local audience that comes here for some hockey talk. Here's a hockey segment for you. And it's all like menu items. You don't dig hockey. I get it. You should. Hockey playoffs are about to start. Dude, the next two weeks you can make yard just because of how how many games we get you can make your with the first round the best

I'd like the second round because you got the quality matchups, and it's still volume But this is so good But if you're if you're thinking of giving hockey a try these next couple weeks is the best and all the matchups outside of maybe For one in Washington, New York where the expectation is the Rangers kind of march on through there. All of these are really good. And even last night. I don't know, the Stars and Golden Knights, that matchup's pretty, it's not a great matchup.

I don't think that's gonna last too long. What a take, what a take. As a- You only said there was one matchup that- No, I, yeah, because I'm super in the Stars Golden Knights. Puck Boys. Super into it, but I'm sure you get into it in Puck Boys. And I want to talk hockey in this segment.

By the way, I told you, I live the gimmick. I got three tickets to Sunday's Game 1, 1230, and bringing the daughter. Also, having a kid, as we all know, expensive proposition. More expensive when you want to start going to these sporting events. But then I do the cost analysis. Well, I'll have to get a sitter and all that. Thankfully, I have the Game Time app, so I'm not surprised by any hidden fees.

So I can just see and do the cost analysis live there with my wife. If you want to go to any of these spectacular hockey playoff games, except for the ones in Dallas and Las Vegas where just Roy's apparently out on, I want to find out why. The defending Stanley Cup champions? You have no faith in them? Against the top seed in the West. Dallas is just the better team. Dallas does look good. Yeah, but Dallas is the better team and Vegas

is- So were the Bruins last year. But Mark Stone is also coming back and they're overwhelming. Hurtle is finding his footing. They're a totally different team. Anyways, if you, like Roy, don't feel the need to go to that series, maybe you want to find another series. I think Boston, Toronto could be a fun one. Download the Game Time app. Create an account. Use code DAN for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Last-minute tickets. The closer you get to the event, oftentimes the lower the ticket price is. So if you have the freedom and mobility in your life

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where there has a lower price, Game Time will match it even more. So download the game time app, that is code D-A-N on your first purchase. I've been told by several people who've been shopping for tickets, they've done that and they've appreciated the $20 off. You're not into Dallas Vegas, which is wild to me.

Crazy. Wild. I know, Billy, you're gonna be watching that one. I'm gonna be watching. Let's talk- Jonathan Marshash shot, 69 points, huh? Marsh's show. That one. Honestly, they're kicking them to the curb. That Vegas Golden Night team, that franchise,

they don't hold back. What the difficult conversation that we're having about Jimmy Butler, Vegas has a way of just getting rid of guys and moving on to the next one because they also find ways to manipulate the salary cap that I'm not a huge fan of. But you want to say that Vegas isn't a good team. And by the way, Aiden Hill, I would have appreciated you struggling like this against us. No, I'm just saying that the stars are just that much better than the Go to Nice.

I think the stars go through too, but I mean, you went to that building in Vegas. Yeah. Atmosphere is going to get them through? I think atmosphere helps make it a more difficult series. I do. It seemed as though last night people were trying to duck Edmonton, by the way, as you were out here touting Dallas, which I also personally rate, and the future on them too. It felt like the Kings and the Knights were trading off opportunities to avoid Edmonton. Well, the Kings probably won't last long in that series either.

I mean, I can't imagine. I'm a five. Kings are going to drag games into the mud. Yeah. It, the Kings probably won't last long in that series either. I mean, I think I'm a five. Kings are going to drag games into the mud. Yeah. It's the NHL playoffs, man. You don't know who's going to get goalied. All these series feel like they can be long. Let's talk about Florida. I imagine you and David Dwork do that.

I know where Billy stands on this. Where do I stand? You think the Panthers are done. Oh, yeah, that's true. Yeah. I was just looking up keegan colosar What kind of problems he's gonna bring to Dallas? Obviously Florida Panther fans have PTSD with Vasilevsky Yeah, it's a bit of a different Tampa Bay Lightning team all the the role players have are now there were guys that were on those

Teams are beat Florida They were playing lesser roles that have elevated their game the Hagels the Sorelles of the world Paul's of the world their points their Britain Point is always kind of been good but even he's elevated a little bit more being the recipient of a lot of Kutarov assists Kutarov always tends to show up against really good teams Stamkos he's still there this is probably the last go-around, although we've said that for a couple of years with Tampa. Defensively, they have Headman and they've worked.

That's it. And Sokichev's coming back. They've worked in a bunch of new names. So what I'm saying is the Lightning team is a bit different from when you last faced them, but the boogie men that were on those teams are still kind of there. And for Florida, yeah, you got Bob, you got Barkov,

you have the 38th best player in the playoffs according to ESPN.com, you're in the heck, Vlad. Duh. Coming back. How's, yeah, we'll talk about that. We'll talk about that, listen, in a brief moment. But Matthew Kachuck, who, by the way, very heartwarming to see, he got engaged.

He got engaged yesterday. And I saw people liken this to World War II soldiers before they went off getting married, before they, while they knew they were gonna storm the beaches of Normandy, just locking that down beforehand. Good comparison. Considering the injuries last year, it is sort of like that.

Matthew Kachak actually had a really surprising quote because Alexander Barkov is a pretty low-key guy that we need to find a Silas for. Barkov apparently drives like a maniac. This is courtesy of Matthew Kachak. We were gonna invite Barky to this, but he's too fast of a driver. He's still driving like a lunatic.

Oh yeah. Usually the European guys have a heavy foot. Somebody was telling me he made it from Boca to the airport in like seven minutes. Yes, I would. What should that drive be? 35. He's got like a purple car Yes. What should that drive be? 35. He's got like a purple car though, like now, like a Viper.

But I don't know cars at all, but like, I don't know. He pulls it off. Since we're talking about racing, who's leading the team in speeding tickets? It's probably got to be Barkey, which sucks because over in Finland, don't you get dinged on like what you make? He got a huge one. He got like a Solani one, like a $50,000 ticket. So King of Solani's gotten two that have been over $50,000.

It's based on your salary. Yeah, you can't get caught speeding in a golf cart. I guess that's lucky for me. You can get caught in a golf cart doing other things, as former head coaches have found out here, of the Florida Panthers. So what do you think is going to happen in this series against Tampa?

The series price has gone up, coincidentally. If you check Trap King's sports book, I think it started at minus 170. It's at minus 180, I've've seen recently so either the public's jumping on Florida or the odds makers are changing their tune on this one a bit yeah the Panthers are far deeper team they have better metrics a bit of the best in the league defensively the high scoring team to get great five on five numbers yeah great five on five that's the key for me. You gotta stay out of the penalty box.

Because Tampa has the best foul play in the league. Kuturov. Kuturov plays a style that isn't like Nathan McKinnon, where it just jumps off the screen. He kind of stays off the periphery. Remember when Hubertou had like 110 points? He would just kind of like quarterback things from one end of the rink.

Kuturov just finds these incredible passing lanes where you don't think there are, and he's just amazing on that special teams. If you give them a man advantage, you'll pick you apart. Their power play is better than Edmonton's? They're the best in the league. That is crazy. Yeah, because Edmonton had the greatest power play that I'd probably ever seen,

which is probably why they were trying to avoid Edmonton last night between the Kings and Knights. But you think that Florida's gonna win this series yes in five in five five I got it going cats in five. Oh gentlemen sweep. I think we might have a game seven I think it's gonna be scary. I think we do it, but I think it's gonna be you know You're gonna get goalie at least like two games Yeah, maybe you survive one of those games because Bob is also out there goal goaling them But you're definitely gonna get goalie My wife got mad at me last night

because at like 3 a.m. I just woke up in the middle of the night, 88! That's amazing! Yeah. I mean, they got players at haunt, and right now you gotta hand it to them, they're daddy, and you gotta prove to them that they're not daddy anymore. Well, the Panthers are gonna close the book

on this Lightning Era, this series. That's why I'm excited. Close the book on the Lightning Era entirely. It's over. It's over for that team. It's over. The Lightning are kind of at where the heat are, where if they lose this series. That's why I'm excited. Close the book on the Lightning era entirely. Wow. It's over. It's over for that team. It's over. The Lightning are kind of at where the Heat are, where if they lose this series, there probably will be a reset.

Only they've had the ultimate success in that they've lifted their championship, where they would have just made it to the dance. But I'm with you. Stamkos is probably gone. And they've navigated to the best of their ability, their salary cap situation. Well, with Stamkos, he wanted an extension.

The team wouldn't give it to him, and he went out. So I don't know what's gonna happen in the off season. He's not looking good for that, but he's still on the team. Maybe he'll help on the power play, and that'd be it. Jess, have you adopted the Florida Panthers? I feel like that clip, finding out that Bob is an insane driver. Or Barkov. No, no, it's Barkov.

Or Barkov. Yeah. But Bob would- Bob's an insane driver. No, no, it's Barkhov. Yeah. Close. But Bob would... Bob's our goalie. Yeah. Bob wouldn't be as shocking. Barkhov is pretty shocking.

I thought you were talking about Bob the whole time. No. It makes me like them even less. Really? Because the driving around here is bad enough, knowing that a member of the Panthers contributes to the... I mean, he said... Broward County.

He said Boca. That's basically the whole thing. I assume he's talking about the Fort Lauderdale Airport from Boca? Yeah. Yeah, not the West Palm Beach one. Yeah, I mean, come on What are we doing? Every every driving that every team has a lunatic driver Roy's ours Please stop doing yeah puck. Well, no, you please stop doing these up driving like that I you're the reason why I take the train these days Not a lunatic driver, especially in this town in this state. No, you're just a byproduct of the crazy town I don't want to miss it. Miss represent. You're not a lunatic driver. You have a lead foot like you drive quick

Yeah, it sounded like you completely miss represented me a lunatic lead foot and tomato tomato. You have had multiple accidents tomato potato It's like an inner fart and an outer fart you hit Billy once in the park. We don't need to relive that Hey, it's Mike and I know you were hoping for an update on those fishtail palms in my backyard. Well, have I got news for you. I actually got lighting installed and I can change it with an app. Beautiful fishtail palms lit up red. Depending on my mood. If my hockey team wins, we light those suckers red. Anyways, I like being outside. I like looking at those fishtail palms. You love hearing about it. But what's in my hand other than my app changing the lighting?

A Miller Lite is in my hand. That's right, because I know when the Miller Lite is in my hand, I make a good time Miller time. I take that first sip, I know immediately I made the right call. Nothing goes with my fishtail palms quite like a Miller Lite. It makes everything so much better. And I'm going to have some people over, I'm going to toss them that beautiful white can, they're going to say, heck yeah, and they're going to have that first sip and know, just like me, that they made the right call. So much better and I'm gonna have some people over I'm gonna toss him that beautiful white camp They're gonna say heck

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I love her I love her She's a fool Stugatz Every Cup game And at what? This is the Don Lebatard show with the Stugatz Music This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats. I'm gonna do our audience a service again of telling them what exactly we're gonna

cover in this segment so they can just hit 30 if they're not feeling it and this one's probably a dicey proposition. We're gonna continue the hockey conversation. I'm gonna plug the merch store and we're gonna talk about motorsports with Jess briefly, alright Alright and maybe some other things like Grimes being a terrible DJ. But I want to give the merch place a shout out because they actually turned around these World Raw 3 shirts quickly. So hopefully you can have your World Raw 3, colon our group chat has a good feeling about the Panthers this time out,

in time for this series to end, because Chris Cody thinks it's gonna be a longer one. Roy, I wanna pin you down on this Golden Knights thing. They had a really good deadline, they're getting Mark Stone back. They're really, really deep. That's an overwhelming team. Aiden Hill hasn't been the same guy.

They have this two-headed mediocre monster between the pipes right now. But Dallas, they've got some fully formed players and some really exciting young players, but some young players that maybe could deal with some suffering. That is a reigning Stanley Cup champion. To just say that this one's got to be quick. You know more about puck than I do, but I'm just expecting a bit of a grinder here. I mean, the Golden Knights are expecting a bit of a grinder here. I mean, the Golden Knights are definitely a much different team from the beginning of the season when they won 11 straight, and obviously they had to deal with the 8-in-Hill

injury. I mean, that pretty much sent them into a spiral. They barely got into the playoffs. And he hasn't recaptured that form. No. No. I mean, if he gets... He could probably steal a couple of games. This could probably last until six. Mark Sohn is such a galvanizing presence on that team to have him back. That's not a little deal. And Hurdle has looked good. Took him a little bit to get online over there.

And with Sohn coming back, you imagine Hurdle might, I don't know what line he's going to end up playing in. Marcissus is kind of not taking the news that he's likely on the way out. Well, he's been a little bit lost, but you got Eichel you got more to show you got Mark So you got the hand if it like you got really good players over there, then do it what pick them I? Think when the conference no to win the so here's here's where I'm sitting I'm in long game preseason on the LA Kings to win the Sanley Cup, so I'm going to ride that one out. Oh, wow.

Crazy. Yeah, I'm in a long game there. I don't think that they're going to do it now as president of the Constitution. It's a really weird team. They spread the wealth on that team. But at their best, they drag games into the mud. And they're actually pretty deep.

Lines three through four there are going to be good. If we're going off of recent, recent form, and I'm really excited for the Avalanche series, because the Jets have owned the Avalanche. That's going to be a close series, man. It should be. They got the much better goalie. They got really difficult checking lines.

You have, I think that the class of McCarr and McKinnon, Miko Reintanen and company, that's going to end up being the difference, but that's a really good Winnipeg Jets team that's going to end up being the difference, but that's a really good Winnipeg Jets team that's playing really good puck at this moment. That's my sneaky bet. I have a bet for them to win the conference because of their goalie. I think they could have the good goalie. Yeah, he's the best goalie in the league right now, so that's going to be really difficult.

It's a great NHL postseason, really difficult matchups. I'd be worried if I'm a Vancouver Canucks fan because they play the type of style that'd get plucked and Andrew Burnett has kind of figured out how to play a playoff style. That would be your upset. Yeah, probably. Well, it's not even that big of an upset if you look at the odds.

They're kind of, the book is out on this Vancouver Canucks team that that's not how you win playing playoff hockey. You would think that you'd be able to turn to ESPN for guidance on what to watch. If I'm just a casual sports fan, I may be pulling up ESPN.com slash NHL and reading some of their articles. And they put together a list of the top 50 players in the NHL playoffs. And they lost me with number one. Number one is Austin Matthews. Wonderful player, American player, great story.

69 goals this season. Fun to watch. player, great story. 69 goals this season. Fun to watch. No McDavid. It was actually brutal to watch them play the last two games and him get like double digit shots on goal. I mean, they tried, they desperately tried to get him to play the last two games, man. I loved that, seeing him not get it.

You wanted him to get it? I was glad to see him not get it. Honestly, against Florida, I was glad. The reactions from Sheldon Keefe, their head man all season long, he was weird about it. In the last two games, like, Austin Matthews, to me, I don't know if other outlets picked up on this, he looked visibly upset when other players on his team scored. When they had a delayed penalty call and the extra attacker came on and he didn't get that

goal and he had to realize that I'm not going to get two minutes to get this goal. He was goal hunting and now that they're in the playoffs they can play their game but they're going up against a real daddy. It's been how many days since they beat Boston? It's been like it's been a while. They haven't won a series against Boston in ages. Yeah especially that comeback a couple years ago. Yeah. Heartbreaking. It seems Reimer. Yeah, that was bad. I think, and this is who I believe should win the hard trophy, Nathan McKinnon. To me, the best player in the league this year. I had the hot take last week that for me, he surpassed McDavid.

He can go McCarron, McDavid, number two. Then we can start talking about Austin Matthews a little bit. But they really lost me on this list when they pulled up number 38 and it was Aaron Echblad. Well, he's coming off of injury though. I mean that's probably why they're so low. What I'm angry about is... So low? Yeah, that's super high for Aaron Echblad.

Like three years ago? Cool. Yeah, I'll meet you there. He's barely in the top 38 on the Panthers. Can you even count on Aaron Echblad? Aaron Echblad, at his best right now, is maybe the third best defenseman for the Florida Panthers. Which is why I'm so angry they left off Gustav Forsling. Who's?

They didn't even give Forsling honorable mention. I'm gonna pull a perk. They're not watching the game. That guy, not watching the game. No, they're not. And there's a lot of hockey stuff. I'm not gonna allege AI, but I read a Bleacher Report preview

back when everyone assumed that the Leafs were playing the Panthers. That read like AI just because they picked the wrong goalie as our top line goalie. They said Salars was our number one goalie. Did they just sort by goals against average? Well, he's been the best backup goalie in the league. We can say that. And if Bob shows what he's shown in previous years, I do trust Bob a little

bit more, but if he's at all shaky, and we've had some good backup goalies down here in Florida dating back to Juan and Reimer over Luongo and Alex Lyon helping carry the Panthers into the the postseason last year to the point where he might have actually, you didn't know who goalie number one was. If Bob runs into it and he's getting out goalie by Vasilevski, you got a pretty good backup hand in Salars and he's been my favorite out of that lot. Right now, I'm saying let's give Bob a leash

because I think he's earned it. Yes. If he has a bad game, I think my tone might change. Well, Bob's. If he gives us a six then yes, sure. Bob's gonna be a Vezina finalist, right? He's not gonna win it, but no, he's not gonna win it Seems like we can develop goalies, huh? Like is this like a skill we have? Except for Spencer Knight, who's got admittedly other stuff going on. Yeah, this is a great sports weekend. I'm so excited

Fantastic you have the NBA playoffs NHL playoffs. Way to stifle that burp. Thank you. Excuse me. Might have been a throat thing. It was an inner fart. I heard that YouTube TV is letting you do NHL playoff, NBA playoff, multi-views this weekend. Really? That is. They started it last week. Clutch.

Yeah. Hugely clutch. We're one step closer to choose your own, which is, I don't think they've done that yet. We also have a big motorsports weekend, Smetty. I know you're the Formula One voice I as you know noted NASCAR gearhead could not be more excited for Talladega and With pitbull in it running track house, which has been a very successful racing team

Well, everything this guy touches turns to gold So you're not you're not doing the bit we are well Formula One calling it. Dye a-ga? I want to call it da-la-day-ga. Oh! Because if people wins it, we make it da-la-day-ga. I'll get into tal-a-day-ga in a moment. But Max Verstappen, how will he overcome this? Didn't qualify in the top three. Well, so the Chinese Grand Prix sprint qualifying was this morning, and I didn't get to watch

it because it was on at 4 a.m. So far this year, most of the races have been in the middle of the night so actually when Formula One comes to Miami which is the next race after the next race it will be in our time zone so I feel like that will be the official beginning of the American Formula. I'm low-key excited for this Chinese one because I can actually watch this one because I'll be home at that time I'll be like cracked out on something. Oh god. So. They haven't raced in China since the new regulation set. They haven't raced there in years

because of COVID and everything and all the regulate shutdowns and everything. So there's not a lot of data on like what the track is and there's also weather this weekend. So I don't know. I'm not too worried about Max Verstappen, but yeah. There was rain this morning. I think he'll pull through.

Although he recently did not win a race. rain this morning. I think he'll pull through, although he recently did not win a race, I saw that. Yeah, he had a malfunction and DNF'd. He DNF'd, which is coming back soon. Yes, I actually have a call about it today. That's fantastic. Like I said, official hard launch of Formula One season. Is Miami.

When DNF comes back, and Miami. And when the time zones normalize. DNF is a bad thing. Did not finish. But then why did you guys name the podcast DNF comes back and Miami when the time zones normalize DNF is a bad thing Did not finish but then why did you guys name the podcast DNF? Well as you can see Tony sometimes it should be DNS Did not start No, DNC didn't know I know I know you guys are locked in But we're trying to we're trying to spruce up the presentation a little bit and all that stuff takes time But I'm excited to we're trying to spruce up the presentation a little bit and all that stuff takes time But i'm excited to see push Chris

I'm excited to see what you guys do for formula one week down here in miami, but talladega Now for casual sports fans, they may know talladega's reputation is the most dangerous track because it's a super speedway It's one of two restrictor plate races. It's one giant oval Yeah, a lot of left turns but you have essentially what becomes like 200 mile per hour traffic jams And it is famous for the big one It's a very dangerous track. It's a very dangerous race betting on this one is Essentially take three drivers and you hope for the best It is super dangerous and people essentially tune in to see a lot of cars crash

It's going to be that dangerous. And at the center of it all is Pitbull, Mondo, guiding track house racing, a huge successful effort. I'm wondering if Pitbull has been enough to draw, because I know that Billy has actually gone to a Daytona 500 before. Are you a track house racing guy? Sure.

When is the race? It's Sunday? Sunday at 3.30. Wasn't he supposed to perform at the Daytona 500 and then rain kept pushing it back? The weather sucks. How weird is it that in Dubai they force it to rain? Not that that's related to what we're talking about.

Seedlings, have you guys read about these things? No. Yeah, they create artificial rain because of the climate. Really? Yeah, they can essentially impregnate clouds and force them to rain. Have you not seen the flooding over there, Mike? Well, that's a whole thing.

I don't know if that's what caused that. Yeah, but was that the, yeah, but that wasn't artificial rain that caused the flooding, was it? Yeah. It was? Yeah, they had a huge storm, and that's what the issue was.

I don't think that is confirmed, though. No, yeah, that part I don't know that's confirmed, but it is confirmed that they do create artificial rain. So if they create artificial rain, and then it rains so much that it's uncontrollable, can we not kind of put the pieces together that there was an uncontrollable rain that they created that flooded the entire city?

So you think it was an intentional amount of rain that they created. But isn't us creating rain climate change? Technically, yes. Now you're asking the right question. You mentioned the ranch. More of an extreme weather. You mentioned a dirty, dangerous track,

and that would get me into racing. If there was a track that had a slippery section. Chris, there's several. Oh, you mean like a Mario Kart track. Intensely dangerous. Like Rainbow Road. Banana peels. Total shells.

Big craters in the middle of the roadway. Crazy amount of rain. Taylor Swift new album. How are these things all connected I wonder. What is the name of that Taylor Swift album? The Tortured Poets Department. Stupid. Sounds whack.

If I'm dead poet society I'm suing. The whole point. I'm suing. I mean not to get sued but. It'll probably help their sales what the dead poet society it's a that's not what you think it is Don LeBretard! Sub 500 seasons it's been lonely

Now the best player is on our side Been losing and losing for much too long But now we're back with New York pride Stugats Jalen You've got us on our feet Jalen We're gonna win the East

Jalen Without Randall we're still doing fine This is the Don LeBathardt Show with the Stugarts I'm sure by now you have seen the image of Mark Zuckerberg that has made the rounds on social media A glow up for Zuck Looks really good and it turned out to be a fake. And it only faked out guys

because Jess knew this was a fake from the moment she saw it. And I think I know what's going on here, but Jess, you weren't at all fooled. It looks so fake. Where would this facial hair have come from? This man has had no facial hair and does not look like he is the ability

to grow facial hair. He doesn't need, look, we just made fake clouds. He doesn't need to grow it. I understand you're doing a hair transplant. He can make a beard. It looks very edited. I saw someone call him, he went from Mr. Steal Your Data to Mr. Steal Your Girl.

I think what happened here with so many guys getting fooled because this was an altered image, is guys, your data to Mr. Steel, your girl. I think what happened here with so many guys getting fooled, because this was an altered image, is guys, and I say this as someone that's just recovering from a bad shave, guys put a lot of value on a beard. Oh, yeah. And we all saw that, and we're like, look. Look at the difference a beard makes.

Look how much more handsome he is with a beard. But as you can see right now on the screen, the original image with the doctored, they did much more handsome he is with a beard. But as you can see right now on the screen, the original image with the doctored, they did much more than the beard, but our feeble little man brains just saw a beard and automatically assumed that's why he looks so much like himself. I have quite literally zero,

what almost feels like a receding jawline when I don't have a beard. I am a butt ugly lunatic when I don't have a beard. And I consider myself to be a relatively handsome man. I'm not saying I don't feel good about myself. But I need to have the beard. If I don't have the beard, you would not want to look at me. It's a disaster without the beard.

Come in Monday. I won't do it. No, I won't. I haven't been fully clean shaven, but for maybe one time since high school. You grow a good beard. Thank you. And it helps.

It transforms. It changes my whole face. I was unfortunately clean shaven for a wedding and there was a lot of photos of this and then I just look back in horror seeing my clean shaven face. It's not terrible, it's not terrible. I like beard bets.

Cause Chris wanted to make a bet earlier this year. I feel like the next bet should be a beard bet. Beard bet. I won't participate. Why? That should have been what we bet the Nick won't participate. Beard bet. Why? That should have been what we bet the Nick Batum foul on. Oh, damn it.

Too late. Is there anything that you're willing to bet your beard on? God, it would take so much for me to be willing to shave. Like to come onto this show without a beard. Because Chris Cody shaved his beard for a Dollar Shave Club activation, and he took it like a champ. Oh, those are my favorite memes of Chris though. Do we have that somewhere? Can we find that in a minute?

Chris, come here, let's make an X. It's the first day of XFL. Alright, Mike, sure. It'd haunt me for the rest of my life. Mike, sure. I hate that picture. Please don't put it up if we can find it. We have to find it. You know, hey, by the way, come on out to Magic City for the Magic City front-on and battle court. I think this is our final Friday game.

We're not making playoffs. Much like the Miami Heat. Is my team on right now? Much like the Miami Heat, we're at a crossroads. This Tony, this turncoat Tony over here is a Wall Warriors guy. Wall Warriors guy, yeah. Is there time for a change?

He does one interview with Julen and over here, he's got woode. He did two interviews with Cyclone. I was like, dude, my guy. I do like Julin. Julin's a nice guy. They got a nice team. Many, too.

Different ownership, so we don't hate them as much. Ah, legend. Yeah, maybe I'll be a Wall Warriors guy. Yeah. We might be Wall Warriors guys, too. Yeah, no, we're a huge inflection point for the psych-asses here. There is clean-shaven Chris Cody.

If you didn't have the beanie, if you didn't have the beanie, it would have been hell. This is almost as good as the picture you posted on your Instagram last week of your sunburned face. That was classic. Very peachy. Yeah, but also surprising. You have some definition there. I don't show the belly button, though,

if you notice in that picture. Well, that's another bet that we got. Look, we've talked about this for a little bit, and I think you have the confidence now. I'm not showing you my belly button. If, what kind of hockey bet can we make? Beard bet. Beard bet.

Belly button bet. It's not happening. Alright, we're going to go in the lab. You said clouds earlier. Clouds? Hey, it's Mike, and I know you were hoping for an update on those fishtail palms in my backyard. Well, have I got news for you.

I actually got lighting installed and I can change it with an app. Beautiful fishtail palms lit up red. Depending on my mood. If my hockey team wins, we light those suckers red. Anyways, I like being outside. I like looking at those fishtail palms. You love hearing about it. But what's in my hand other than my app changing the lighting?

A Miller light is in my hand. That's right app change in the lighting a Miller light is in my hand That's right, because I know when the Miller light is in my hand. I make a good time Miller time I take that first step. I know immediately I made the right call Nothing goes with my fishtail palms quite like a Miller light. It makes everything so much better And I'm gonna have some people over I'm gonna toss them that beautiful white camp They're gonna say heck Yeah, and they're gonna have that first step and know, just like me, that they made the right call. Times change, but you can always enjoy the great taste of Miller Lite. Tastes like Miller time.

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