The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: Does The Pope S*** In The Woods?

Episode Date: August 9, 2024

Charlotte Wilder is here to make the decision on what was more satisfying between Team USA Basketball's win and Noah Lyles' loss. She also discusses patriotism, New England Patriots-ism, and why Steve Kerr might just help the Celtics win another title as Mike delivers his "Top 5 Rivals of Team USA." Then, Jessica and Mike break down what factors actually impact young QBs, and the rest of the crew chats about the influence Tom Brady, Nick Saban, and Bill Belichick can have in the media. Plus, Boeing might be trapping astronauts in space, the pivotal moments of Interstellar, watching movies ON WEED, and the Shipping Container watches the "Breaking" competition live on the show. Also, Mike wishes Dan would leave the outrageous Heat conjecture to people like him and Jeremy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBattard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not gonna apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there.

That hasn't happened to you guys? I've done it. And now, here's the marching band to nowhere, Fat Face and the Habitual Liar. This segment with our dear friend Charlotte Wilder is presented by LinkedIn Jobs. I can't hear them. Oh, there you go.

That's awesome. We're off to a rip-roaring start. That's awesome. So this segment, where Charlotte Wilder cannot hear us, is now presented by LinkedIn Jobs. That is, I could not write better comedy. That is great. And something more us.

Yeah, it's perfect. She's like, she's putting it in her ears. She's shaking her head. Honestly, Charlotte, you're just here so I could read that billboard. So like, we did it. Oh, you got it. Now I can hear you.

Hey! Well, thank you, LinkedIn Jobs. Appreciate it. Charlotte Wilder is presented by LinkedIn Jobs. It's our co-host, or my co-host, not our, my co-host on Oddball, Charlotte Wilder. And she's got her patriotic USA basketball Dream Team shirt. It's our co-host, more my co-host, not our, my co-host on Oddball, Charlotte Wilder. And she's got her patriotic USA basketball dream team shirt.

And Charlotte, let me ask you this. Yes. Maybe I'm alone on this, but maybe you're with me. More satisfying, Team USA's win or Noah Lyle's loss? Ooh. Team USA's win, Team USA's win. Team USA's win. Obviously you're gonna say No Liles loss,

but I have to say, if you have COVID, like having recently had COVID twice, watching that guy run, I was like, this guy has COVID. Like the way he doubled over at the end, I was like, oh, that's me after just like walking a block. For No Liles, it's like coming in third in the 200, but no USA win. I mean, is that are you saying no allows loss is more? No, I while no allows loss brought me no shortage of delight.

Team USA winning the way they won was I said that that's the most invested I've ever been in a USA basketball game rooting for a TV USA. And I won't lie. A lot of it is because of Noah Lyles I was like we can't lose we just can't lose We this now the mission has changed from we got to get go to like we just can't we can't we can't be what? No, Lyles was absolutely not right? We cannot have the other hand the only way this victory lab works is like we've got to win gold and so yeah You watch that game,

and Charlotte, I wanna know from your perspective, watching that game, what emotions went through you as you're watching LeBron and Steph Curry together being the ones to propel the victory. It was like, it was hard to comprehend. It was hard to comprehend because like, I think I really, I had a lot of dad energy watching that game because, you know,

I was standing up like clapping at the TV, like getting very, very nervous saying like, gotta get a stop here boys, defense wins gold. And then for Steph, for LeBron first of all, to just take total control of the game and the huddle. Like you knew that he was the leadership there. And then Steph Steph, for LeBron, first of all, to just take total control of the game and the huddle, like you knew that he was the leadership there. And then Steph to have the game that we've been waiting for him to all have, it felt scripted,

which is sort of the easiest thing you could say about that. But I felt so patriotic. I was like, I think I'm gonna go like join a union at an apple pie factory and then like sign up for private healthcare just for fun. That's how patriotic. I was like, I don't know what this feels like. I was gonna put on Cowboy Carter

and pretend to smoke American spirits. And I was like, what is happening? Who am I right now? You don't have to cosplay being American. Though you kinda are right now with the sweater. You know? It's a great of are right now with the sweater. You know? It's a great sweater. It's a great sweater.

You're from Boston. You kind of kicked off this whole thing for us. You don't have to cosplay being an American. You had the tea party and whatnot. That's something I would like to address. Someone in Philly, oh, it was the, not to get political, but Josh Shapiro at the rally in Philly kept saying, you know, we are where America was founded.

And I felt like, I was like, my Boston sports fandom has destroyed my brain to the point where I was sitting there and I was like, did it? I was like, I don't know, feels pretty Boston to me. And then I was like, oh God, this is, it's a sickness. No, the Philadelphia Tea Party definitely was a thing. Right, come on. Party definitely was a thing.

Right, come on. Everyone knows it was Miami. Charlie and me do a great job on oddball. I'm curious to know your answer to this because I'm kinda half kidding with this question, but after Spain, is Noah Lyles the greatest rival for USA basketball in their history? No, because, no, because, listen, here's the thing.

Yeah, but I think Noah Lyles thinks of, well, actually, that's a great question. I feel like Noah Lyles actually did very successfully get into the heads of Team USA. I think I saw this tweet where it was like a dog in a car looking straight ahead and then a dog in another car with his head out the window and it was like a dog in a car looking straight ahead and then a dog in another car with his head out the window and it was like, Team USA staring at Noel Lyles in the lunchroom and I was like, well, first of all,

Noel Lyles isn't probably gonna be in the lunchroom cause he has COVID but I think he's up there. I think that dude really, look, if he gave us any motivation at all, then like, thank you, great. Charlotte, he's absolutely up there. He's on the medal stand, he got the bronze though. It's Argentina.

I actually just, I already worked out a top five enemies of Team USA basketball. Enemies of the state. Enemies of the state? Oh yeah? Yeah, so we can begin with number five. Roy, do you have, Tony Scott I believe, do you have the fanfare over there?

Yes I do. All right, so number five is Canada. This has not even really played out on the on the court just yet, but Canada's got some real hoopers, as you know. They're coming online and this is a budding rivalry, which is why they're at number five. But number four, Argentina. Famous subsets in international basketball. They had a really good team in their heyday.

Number three is with the bronze medal, Noah Lyles. Yeah. Okay. Number two, the media. Ooh. Yeah. There was a whole redeemed team because of the narratives that the media pushed forward and that was really

their driving force, shutting the media up, shutting fans up They a lot of times fans talk shit, and it just gets projected on the media, too But sometimes the media does too and so we're the silver medalist and number one is Spain Number five Canada like I didn't like that Puerto Rico should have slipped into the top five there. What are you doing? They had the one moment, but- Gassiano? But look, I'm in some weird,

because of my Kyle Lowry takes, I'm in some weird Canadian basketball vortex, and they feel like they're coming to take CONCACAF. They got beat by France. Charlotte, I gotta ask you, one of the most glaring things about that game yesterday was Jason Tatum, DPCD. How did you, how did you feel not seeing your boy get even a whiff of the court?

Look, my, my professional answer, I want it to be whatever it takes to win. I trust Steve Kerr with everything in my bones. Like we, we've got an amazing squad out there. This is generation torch passing. Like this is stuff we won't see again, maybe ever. If so, it'll be decades. And then the Boston, that broken part of my brain that I was telling you about,

that part's like watching, you know, Drew miss a couple shots or Derek White not be as effective. And I'm like, oh, if only there were somebody else who has already won a gold medal. And then I'm like, wait a second, this actually could be good for the Celtics. If I'm like, I'm doing the the wind horse. I'm like, if Jaylen Brown is really that pissed about not being on Team USA and now Jason Tatum is also pissed about not playing as his mother suggested because she tweeted that he was not hurt and what is going on is unnecessary,

then maybe the Celtics are going to come back and be even better next year and win another title. And there won't be any of this like, you know, championship hangover. Also, can I just say if Joe Missoula were there, this dude would already have like infiltrated, he would be a CIA sleeper agent for the US already. He'd be watching like the hunt for red October, like Patriots Day. He'd be watching, he'd be watching Save It Private, Private Right. And then he'd be like, guys, American Pie 2, like, you know, I just so, I, all respect to Steve Kerr,

but I am like, I don't know what's happening. Do you know what's happening to me? Why is he not playing? What's going on? Better players are playing. Truth hurts sometimes. Charlotte, I want to commend you right now because you haven't forced Joe Milton into this conversation, but I saw some highlights. Did you look at DC and look off that safety?

That was pretty electric over there. And Colin Cowhert had the take like last week that don't be surprised if Joe Milton's a starter. I'm like, ah, it's Colin. He's just doing a thing. And I saw the dude play. He's going to be right. Joe Milton's a starter, I'm like, ah, it's Colin. He's just doing a thing. And I saw the dude play. He's gonna be right, Joe Milton's good.

Joe Milton, someone that I know a lot about for sure, and have a lot of opinions on. Definitely, I'm with you, Mike. Charlotte, you're totally, this is defensible. The football season starts after the Olympics. We've already acknowledged this. Football's back, baby. We're all locked into the Olympics last night,

not watching the Patriots. Thank you, thank you, Jess. Charlotte, you had the greatest quarterback of all time for so long, and you became quarterback starved. That whole fan base became quarterback starved in record time. Joe Milton presents hope. Just like ex-search Joe Milton,

because he had some highlights last night. Look, Mike, it's not that I don't believe you, it's that I'm too busy, like, you know, trying to not buy property, that's how patriotic I am. Like, I'm watching Cindy McLaughlin, McLaughlin-LeBronia, that is a hard word to say, shout out to the announcer for, yeah, names are hard. I'm watching Quincy Hall dig deep, come back.

I'm watching Cole Hawker come from behind. I'm watching, I am so Olympic-pilled. I was watching Olympic sailing. I was watching Olympic kayak cross. I can tell you about the Australians and how their two sisters kayaking against each other. Like, we've got, I don't have room for Joel Milton. I can't.

Charlotte, he was spinning around 20 yards behind the line of scrimmage, looking off the safety against each other, like, we've got, I don't have room for Joel Milton. Charlotte, he was spinning around 20 yards behind the line of scrimmage, looking off the safety and throwing door sounds. I know, this is electric. I'll go look up highlights, that sounds pretty good. Charlotte, I won't lie when they say, how about Joel Milton, I was like,

was he the guy in the steeplechase? Like, I hadn't noticed. Oh my God, steeplechase. Charlotte, are you watching steeplechase and wondering, are their feet wet? Are they running with wet feet? Okay. Thank God you brought this up, Jess.

I have so many takes on the steeplechase. First of all, I was watching this and I was like, this is definitely some leftover weird stuff from like England. I was like, this should not be here. There is no need to run through a puddle and then just have your feet wet. And I was like, this feels like it was like horse adjacent or like people were

in the woods. And then I looked up and you know what? It was steeple to steeple. It was people in England running from church to church being like, how fast can you get there? And you know what? A lot of bogs in England so they all had to go through water. And then for some reason we're still doing this. I'm like, it's 2024. No disrespect to the steeple chase runners. I think it is very impressive, but like, what if we got rid of the puddle? But you're forgetting something very important,

which is this is the church. This is the steeple. Open the door. No, no. We're the people! No, man, why? No? It's 2024.

Are we not allowed to do that? No, we're just not going to church anymore. Oh, I was like, oh no, how is this problematic now? Charlotte. Wait, here's one. I have one. Can I show you? Statistically.

Here's the church, here's the steeple. Open the doors and hear all the worms hanging from the ceiling. What? Is this the Olympics cafeteria? Are you my grandfather? She's Charlotte Wilder. Sorry for the good content.

Charlotte used to say all the time, instead of does a bear shit in the woods or is the Pope Catholic, does a bear shit in the woods or is the Pope Catholic does the Pope shit in the woods? Are you my grandfather? Break dancing. I told you I have dad energy. Have you not said that on Oddball yet?

My bad for exposing that. No, that's a new one. Breaking starts in five minutes I believe. So speaking of things that is 2024, this might be our one shot at glory. Breaking begins in five minutes. I can't wait. Well, you can go ahead and watch that right now.

Charlotte Wilder, oddball, Every Day But Monday. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you guys. Look at those fireworks. Summer's the best time to run the way you want. Dial it up with new challenges and programs and bring your workouts with you to make the most of outside sunny days. There's no better way to do that than with Peloton. With Peloton take advantage of how beautiful it is outside right now.

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I don't know if you took the opportunity during the break. I texted Charlotte these highlights waiting to hear back, but dude was dynamite last night. He was incredible, but we did say in the last segment, yo, football starts after the Olympics are over, which is true, Jess, except for one exception. This is how exceptions work, except for one of those. Hard knocks.

I'm not missing hard knocks. I watch hard, I only watch, by the way, hard knocks training camp. Don't give me no offshoots. The OG? I don't like these offshoots. I don't care for them. Salute to you guys still keeping up with that.

For real? I'm out on the concept. And now we're living in a day and age where if anything, like, you have to trudge through so much bad stuff to get to the goods, and the goods always end up on social media. So, that's how I follow it. Just on the clips that end up on social.

No, man, I need to have Liv Schreiber narrate everything for me. Just in this voice right here. All-timer. Love his voice. But one of the things that happened in Hard Knocks in this season or this edition, they're following the Chicago Bears.

And I wanted to ask just this. They're doing a lot of mythology building for Caleb Williams, like a lot. And most of it is like, okay, there's excitement. He's the number one overall pick and he's obviously such a great career at USC. But when they did the Ray Clay Bulls intro with the Alan Parsons Project music,

and we talked about this yesterday with Dan, that that song means something. Once upon a time it was Alan Parsons' project. It does not- It's the Bulls song. It's specifically Michael Jordan's song. It is the Bulls song, It's specifically Michael Jordan's song. It is the Bulls song,

because I think they still use it in intros. Yeah, they do. But there's that video that goes viral every now and then of Michael Jordan and the Mediterranean and the clubs playing Alan Porras' project and he's loving it. So Jess, as an avowed Bears fan sometimes? Sometimes?

Or disavowed. You're more Steelers. Steelers, but she does the whole My NFC team is right so to peel back the curtain I hope I don't get sent to the penalty box for this But the year that the Bears made it to the playoffs the Steelers were having like a really brutal season So I decided on Charlotte and my podcast that I was Going to then be a Bears fan and just pretended to go all in on the Bears and then it kind of stuck for a while And now that I was going to then be a Bears fan and just pretended to go all in on the Bears. And then it kind of stuck for a while. And now that I'm here,

it's like a whole bit that I have like 50 teams. So I've just stuck with that. End of pulling back the curtain. Where are you on college rivals like being really important players for your pro teams? Cause I never really gave a shit about that stuff. When I was a Browns fan, everyone had to take on Braylon Edwards

and no one liked him because he was a Michigan guy. To have a USC quarterback, quarterback in the Bears, I don't know if you feel some kind of way about that. It is interesting. So there's obviously like Chicago is a huge Notre Dame fan area and a lot of Notre Dame Chicago fans watched the most recent USC Notre Dame game, which was one of Caleb Williams' worst games in college. And we're like, oh God, oh no, is this going to be a bust? We're terrified. But I do think that, for the most part, Bears fans are very excited about the Bears having not only Caleb Williams, but Roma Dunze, and just generally having a better offense this season. And the fact that they kind of like made, made very un-Bears-y moves to get rid of Justin Fields

and kind of like, you know, not sink too much into that before, while having the first pick and just seems like- I forgot the Justin Fields narrative around your fandom too. I know, it's crazy, right? I feel like most Bears fans are very excited and so mean to your point about the song, which gives every Chicago fan gooseys immediately.

I think that Hard Knocks knows that to really have like a good season, you have to get Bears fans locked in, and this is a kind of like nostalgia that Bears fans wanna see. Yeah, but at the same time, we do know that teams have some editorial control on some of this stuff. I'm surprised the Bears were like, yeah, that'll be fun. But again, you're putting a massive level of expectation.

And it's crazy because that same episode, Nick Saban talks about the number one thing that kills quarterbacks in the NFL is the expectations. You guys have these outsized expectations on them, and then it's impossible to live up to. I'm like, oh, you mean doing the Michael Jordan intro for a guy who hasn't played a snap? For sure.

I get what you're saying. I agree. I mean, there are tons of expectations on him and on the Bears in general this season when I, I mean, the Bears just need to win like seven games for it to be like, wow, we've, we've made some improvements guys. We didn't blow like a bunch of fourth quarter leads that we had and our offense looks better.

But the expectation of course goes from like, oh, you have the first overall pick. Well, he better be in the Superbowl then. And that I don't our offense looks better. But the expectation of course goes from like, oh you have the first overall pick, well you better be in the Super Bowl then. And that I don't think is very realistic. I don't purport to know more about ball than Nick Saban at all. And he has experience in the pros and in college. But I don't think that's the number one killer

of quarterbacks. I think it's things like O-line and coaching. And it's so on brand for Nick Saban to not, to put it on like media than what it is coaching, but if your quarterback can't overcome an intangible, which is just, people expect him to be good. That doesn't come from a bad place. That's not coming from a hateful place.

That's not even adversity. Like people are hoping, they're hoping that this guy can do it because they have faith in him. That is such a nonsensical take for me, but all respect to the graded. Nonsensical. Yeah, it doesn't make any sense. It's coaching in its own line, like tangible things that affect young quarterbacks. I thought David Carr was going to be really good and he got

behind one of the worst lines in pro football history and it totally ruined him. Yeah, I think that Nick Saban probably would agree with you, but he is probably doing a thing because there's cameras on and he's making a profound point that's gonna be on television. I think, but based on his history as a head coach, he obviously put a lot into the other position groups in his team recruiting wise.

It wasn't just about getting a quarterback. I think I'm already gearing up to be annoyed by Nick Saban's takes because I know his agenda with all of it. What's his agenda? He's anti-NIL, if you saw when he spoke. I just- Real heel turn there.

Yeah, he just, he wants things to go back to when the network protected him. The good old boy network when he was, when he just had all these advantages that he may or may not have known of. Like that's the thing over there. Like there's a whole system to keep things separate from the head coach back in the day that he was really excelling. So

I'm not alleging anything there, but I just, I don't think he's doing things in good faith, and I'm pretty clear of his agenda. And he's going to be, him along with Bill Belichick, are going to be the most visible and most vocal of these new people in the media sphere and I think that we should apply a fair amount of scrutiny in trying to figure out where they're coming from. Are you saying that Nick Saban has a Pete Coach Pete Bell happy situation going on where they got all the shit going on and he doesn't know about it? I just look I appreciate having all-time grades in the media space that we didn't have before.

These are, they're breathing new life into, especially football media, which I think was in desperate need of some new blood. Nick Saban, Bill Belichick, Tom Brady, you're going to the very tippy top of the industry. These are all time goats. Those are three guys that are pretty, you have consensus. Those are the greatest that ever do it. And they're fresh from,

from the game. It's not like they've just been sitting around from the, uh, on the couch and are detached, but I am a little concerned at how much weight their voices in particular are going to carry. And in Nick Saban's case, how much it carries with politicians that are actually going to be voting on legislation and potentially giving the NCAA safe harbor status. They don't know these players that come in. Like you

bring the Cavender twins in there to speak to them. That's all fine and dandy. They know Nick Saban. So what he says matters. And when he says something that I don't necessarily agree with, I get bummed out because there isn't anyone out there with the same exact weight that can counterbalance that. Do we think? Brady or Belichick or Sabren or whoever is going to be doing games is going to try to out Tony Romo Tony Romo with like Calling what's next because Brady's obviously seen it all done it all Belichick the same thing are they gonna be like yeah Watch the a slant here from the X receiver and watch him go over the top

You know what's crazy Tony Tony, is that part of it is Romo does that, but part of it is he sounds like he's so happy. He's electric. This is Romo year one, like he's a different dude now. He doesn't do the predictive analysis all that much, he's a little bit further away from the game. Right.

And he also doesn't sound as happy. Well, I mean, I think part of it is when you're in it, when you're in it, those scouting reports are still fresh. Yeah. You're doing a bit that I don't know. I don't know, Jim. You just say Jim, I don't know. You just say Jim.

That was a toy, Jim. I think that that's missed out on it. Watch your safety. When Romo first got going, there was a novelty in someone being that close to the game that those scouting reports are still fresh in his mind. And I don't think it's a coincidence that,

especially when you read the reports out there, that he's not actively studying and network execs had to talk to him about his preparation. I do think that that was a huge part of why Roma was so electric at the start. But for Tom Brady, I kinda just wanna hear his stories. Like if something's happening in a game that reminds him of something,

because who has the wealth of knowledge at that position that Tom Brady has, he will mention a game and a situation that you'll remember because Tom Brady was always playing in prime time games and games that were super important and super bowl, so I would just love to hear the Tom Brady nostalgia tour for first couple of years.

It's kind of like the Sean McVeigh thing, where he can go back to a certain play on a drive, on a game. All right, game six against Washington. We did X, Y, and Z, and we played this. Maybe Brady has that kind of recall. But to Tony Romo, when he first started, I remember one of the games that it really stood out

was Pat's Chiefs when Brady. When Brady beat my homes. When he's like, he was watching Gronk on a scene here because the safety is doing this and the corner is doing that linebackers not going to pay attention to him. And it exactly happened. It was a monster place. I think they got a first down like a third and 15 or something. And Romo called it exactly. And we're like, holy shit, this guy's really good. Yeah.

That was one of the singular greatest moments for a color broadcaster. That AFC championship game. As soon as you started going, I was like, AFC championship game at Kansas city. He was so locked in, but he was so close to the game. And hopefully I think Romo made some improvements over the course of last year. Do you think he thinks about that call like years later later now he's like, man remember that time when I, oh man. That's why he doesn't study. I was cooking, I had it going. He has a weird legacy in that word association.

He wasn't even a starting quarterback, but most people remember like the botched snap in that playoff game, and that's usually where my mind goes. But now it's Tony Romo the broadcaster and it's specifically that AFC Championship game with bad lighting and Mahomes never getting to touch the ball there and just how locked in Tony Romo was. I do kind of miss that but I'm excited for what Tom Brady is going to bring. I don't know if he's going to be good

in the ways of predictive analysis and for year year one, I don't really care. For year one, I just want the novelty of having the greatest of all time out there. I hope he's like LeBron and that you could tell LeBron, hey, do you remember this play that G.R. Smith had? Like, oh yeah, it was the third quarter we were playing at the Knicks and we were up, like LeBron can recite to you the situation, the score,

who was on the floor, all those things. I hope Tom Brady has that going because I wanna hear, like you, I wanna hear stories. I don't care as much, like, oh, calling it as cool as a novelty, but even if you keep getting it right, it's not as cool as telling me, man, there's one time we went into the locker room

and I told Gronk, you better da-da-da-da-da. Like, those are the stories that we all feed off of. Yeah, if the Cowboys are down big on Thanksgiving, and he's going to tell you about the Falcon Super Bowl, and things that he saw out there. And it's just, he's not been the most media friendly guy. So I know he has his show with Jim Gray, but to have him go into detail

on the biggest broadcast of the week, which is always that late afternoon game on Sundays, that's pretty cool. Or someone's chewing out a teammate on the sideline and he can tell us, man, that video, remember that one that went viral of me yelling at so and so? This is actually what happened. That's what I was upset about. Or if a tight end kills somebody. Yeah. A lot has changed over the years, audience,

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They'll play D and show threes As they chase the Nats for the sixth seed These five words in his head Scream, are we winning games yet? This is the Don LeBathard Show with the Stugats. Speaking of killing somebody, Boeing, huh? Not a great year for Boeing. They haven't killed anybody quite yet when it comes to this astronaut situation, but this is pretty bad. Yeah, this Boeing, I don't know if you guys

have been following this Boeing spacecraft. It's a Starliner spacecraft that went up into space a couple months ago, maybe a month ago. To the ISS, yeah. I think it was in June, actually, so a couple months ago. This is from the New York Times. As of like three days ago,

the situation seems to have gotten worse and there's two astronauts up there right now. And this is what Kenneth Chang of the New York Times wrote. For weeks NASA has downplayed problems experienced by Starliner, a Boeing spacecraft that took two astronauts to the ISS in June. But on Wednesday NASA officials admitted the issues might be more serious than first thought

and the astronauts might not return on the Boeing vehicle after all. The agency is exploring backup options for the astronauts to instead hitch a ride back to Earth on a spacecraft built by Boeing's competitor, SpaceX. The astronauts stay in orbit, which was supposed to be as short as eight days, could be extended into next year.

To February. Dog, ain't nobody trying to be up in space for like eight months or whatever. It depends on your relationship with your family, I guess. Look, there's a lot of other places I can go that's not space. This is gonna ruin the tour. What tour? The three hour tour.

The space tour. This is, yeah. The literal world tour. Yeah, they were gonna be there for eight days and then February, I don't know how one prepares for that. But Mike Fuentes, which is where I get a lot of my information from, says one of the astronauts oddly sounds kind of psyched about it. Oh, that's interesting.

I mean, I hope that they're not super depressed about it. I know this is probably something that they prep for in case something does go wrong. But this is also a huge issue for Boeing, which is now apparently they've spent $1.5 billion on this and they're writing off another $125 million of unplanned costs spent on this program. I just hate the fact that these guys are going to get saved by Elon Musk in SpaceX. That sucks.

He's got to do it. Well, nothing has happened yet yet so we can't celebrate. But also Roy, it's like almost like, yo I want USA to win gold, but does that mean I have to root for Noah Lyle? So shit. Shit. So how long was the first original mission supposed to be?

It's at eight days. Eight days, so if they're gonna be there eight months, how do they have the food and like the sustenance, do they like ship it in, like how does that work? Well initially the reports were that you can't say docked for more than 45 days anyway So I'm not an astronaut or NASA scientist. I don't know No, I don't know you think with the Costco and go like the bucket of food that doesn't I think they went yeah, they went to Costco. They got the the $80 bucket

They took it up there with them So I think I was looking for mine at my local Costco and they must have gotten all the ones at my local Costco Cuz there's none there. I I just love the idea of that conversation like hey guys. Yeah, this is Houston Like so it's gonna take months Sorry, say eight what eight? No, I didn't I said eight eight what was that Capcom months months of what?

And NASA and Boeing apparently are adamant that they're not stranded. They're just like, they're not stranded. That's what they would say if they were stranded, which makes me worried. How would you describe it? It's not like they can go outside for a walk. If someone tells me you're gonna be there about a week.

Well, they actually could go outside for a walk. There's a space walk. Do you trust it? Would you do a space walk if you're already be there about a week. Well, they actually could go outside for a walk. There's a space walk. Do you trust it? Would you do a space walk if you're already up there? Well, the ISS, as I understand it, needed a lot of upkeep. So there's a real chance to spin this into a positive. Well, there are people that stay up there

for months at a time, so it is, it is stocked for a certain amount of astronauts, I believe. How weird must those people be? It's a little different when you're going there. When you know you're staying. Yeah, I'm going there for a long stay versus? It's a little different when you're going there. When you know you're staying? Yeah, I'm going there for a long stay versus like, oh this is cool. Wasn't there just like a weird like Russian dude that was on the ISS that had been there

for a while? No, that's, oh that's on the internet. That's a movie, isn't it? Yeah. I love when we do these segments too, because you know there's like a total like NASA expert that listens to this show. Yeah, I'll get him. Oh, that dork.

Mike! And they're like furiously tweeting at us like you There's 75 years worth of food on the International Space Station you morons yes, there's Tang from like the 60s up there I don't still good by the way. I'm tang was never good. Oh, I'm saying. It's still good Oh, yeah, drink it cuz it's up there. OK, yeah. The expiration dates are different. It's like what if the military time and interstellar situation where they come back and like their children are all super old. Oh, man, I was explaining interstellar to our team two mornings ago because I forget who someone said they hadn't seen.

Lewis had never seen it. And I was like, all right, let me tell you about interstellar. So Matthew McConaughey and Timothee Chalamet is a little baby. And then he goes to space and then he turns into Casey Affleck. You will not believe what happens next. I saw it start to finish for the first time last week. Really? Yeah, I had only seen like bits and pieces.

And I'm a big Nolan guy and it's just one of those movies that I never got around to. Wait, you've never seen it before? I had never seen it start to finish. I'd only seen it in parts and I missed a lot. Apparently I didn't see a lot of the parts. Tears were streaming down my face. Which random parts have you seen?

That's a better game. You know, like when that drone is flying over them and I'd seen that part before. That's like the first act. I don't know, you catch bits and pieces. I don't know. But you saw the parts where they were still on Earth? I'm not here to relitigate the past

and apologize for not seeing it. I saw it last week, okay? Tears were streaming down my face though, because it's like a real good Girl Dad movie, I guess, and my heart was breaking. I feel like Mike just saw the parts that had the music that everyone uses. The Cornfield Chase song, yeah.

I was familiar with the memes that came from it, but no, incredible movie. I think it might be Nolan's best. I think it's one of my favorite movies of all time, but it's just surprising to me that that was what you saw, because if you saw it in theaters when it came out, there is a twist in the middle of the movie. I think we can break it.

Yeah, are we allowed to? Yeah, it's 10 years old. I'm surprised that that wasn't the scene that you had only seen, because that was the big like, holy shit, it's Matt Damon. But. Oh.

I was surprised, I didn't see Matt Damon in it. I was like, oh, he's in this, cool. That's a good secret. And then he's an asshole, like oh man. Oh my god, he's evil. Yeah. Yeah, that sucked. It's getting re-released in theaters

for the 10 year anniversary. I heard. I'm not falling for that shit. Really? I'm not falling for it. I like doing that. Oh, it's gonna get, let me guess, let me guess. It's gonna get re-released in 70 millimeter IMAX? I didn't experience it that way.

So I saw it on my home screen, which you know, is pretty solid. I'm just saying when they say we're gonna re-release it and it's Christopher Nolan, I guarantee they're gonna try and tell me that I need to watch it in 70 millimeter IMAX because that's the old. In 4DX. There is one element that you're missing here, me, and that I need to watch it in 70 millimeter IMAX because that's the- In 4DX.

I don't think- there is one element that you're missing here, I mean, that I don't think that you're applying, which actually says more about you and good for you. But you know, there's a lot of people that, you know, still listen to the Led Zeppelin shit laser shows for reasons. Like there's gonna be people going to the movie theater tripping balls, is what I'm saying. They have a Bad Bunny laser show at the Frost Museum. I went to the radio head once,

I've heard Karma Police a lot, but have you heard it on Weed? I heard, I went to an outdoor screening of The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, with an orchestra playing the music live underneath the movie, That was crazy. I was supposed to do one of those and then I had like a highlight conflict,

but I was supposed to do that for the Batman, because the score, the Robert Pattinson one, the score to it is pretty solid, and it was just a watch along in the movie. It was at the night center or something like that, where they would just have a live orchestra. I've always kind of been on that, ain't on that idea, but only if I'm on weed.

Guys, I need to break into coverage here. I'm watching live breaking right now. Oh! It's outdoors! Yes, it's outdoors in like a stage. It's at Plaza La Concord. It's where they had the 3X3 and the skateboarding competitions.

It's Logistics versus Dr. Ray Gunn. Really? Are they going with stage names? Oh, that's awesome. Oh, they're serving each other. That's Dr. Ray Gunn right there in the Australian. Oh, no. Guys, they're serving each other.

I did not know. Look at her go. I thought it was going to be like Olympics. I mean, like gymnastics where it's like you have... You do a floor routine. You do your routine. I did not realize that they... Oh, you got to do the whole stance and stuff.

There was a New York Times daily episode this morning about how breaking became part of the Olympics, which I only got to listen to like half of it. So I don't think I can reiterate the entire history, but highly recommend people listen to that. I'm going to say right now, I'm disappointed that we did not get to watch first before we interviewed B-Boy Ronnie yesterday, because I would have asked as a judge, I'm gonna say right now, I'm disappointed that we did not get to watch first

before we interviewed B-Boy Ronnie yesterday, because I would have asked, as a judge, do you get scored on your body language when you're not dancing, when you're the one who's watching the other? Yeah, like you get scored on. Have you seen that Michael Jackson impersonators? One Michael Jackson impersonator.

Watching the other, yes. Like in the caption is, does he think he's him? It's just like a fake Michael Jackson. Like very pleased though. Yeah, and when he watched this on mute, like the soundtrack in my mind is a lot of Jemone, like a lot of Michael Jackson sounds. What is, I don't like this move whatsoever.

Dr. Ray Gun's signature move, man. It looked like she used her head as a mop. She took out the ray gun. Oh, I said, oh! She just did the cobra thing from dodgeball. I don't know what's going on, because I can't see the TV from here. Jess, you're missing it.

I'm staring into a light. And the fashion choices here. This is Team USA against Australia. The Australian breaker, B-Girl, she's wearing a tracksuit that is in Team National. All the bunny moves, I love that one. But Team USA is going with like khaki cargo pants and like a really cute shirt. I'm gonna say this right now by the way, Team USA.

Showing the belly button, but it's a long sleeve. I think it has a collar, really bold choice. Fashion forward. I can't get a good look at logistics with Team USA's competitors face, but I'm gonna assume this is our Filipino American who is competing for us. That is the most advantage that this melting pot

of a country has ever given us. Filipino and Filipino Americans in breaking. Dude, I didn't wanna make it awkward yesterday with B-Boy Ronnie, but I'm like, come on, man. Like, there's no chance we're losing. If she's out there, we're not gonna lose this. We gotta have a spelling bee at the next Olympics, too. Oh my God.

Can we do that? Can we make that a Winter Olympic? I've always been, I understand what makes a sport a winter sport, but you can make a spelling bee a winter sport. You gotta be inside, it's cold out. Let's just make that a Winter Olympic sport, spelling bee. Are we allowed to do, I mean, you can't even do play by play, right?

Who's gonna be out here like, hey, you guys described this move that Dr. Reagan. She's doing a scorpion right now, here we go. So I can't hear the music, and to me, it kinda looks like the Aussie is embarrassing herself. It looks like we're winning, by the way. I think, of course we're winning. Roy did you sunglasses.

Yeah. Of course we're winning. Also, I like to think the music is so much on Kondalite. It's actually Hans Zimmer. That movie is a tear-jerker, Mike. The end gets me every. When McConaughey is sobbing in the, oh. So you cried to it, too?

Oh my god, of course. Right. That might be the only Nolan movie I've actually cried during that. Oh, look at that. Gotta hug it out. Guess what just happened. Respect. So I didn't know what was happening to me during Interstellar, look at that. Gotta hug it out. Guess what just happened. Respect.

So I didn't know what was happening to me during Interstellar and I just assumed like, when this came out, I mean, I didn't have Juliet, like would I be crying as much? Because I do get more emotional since I've had Juliet because I'm viewing things through that prism. And I was wondering, would I be crying, would I get this connection between the father and daughter

if I didn't have one of my own? Because that's the way the man's brain works. Not to take away from your very touching moment, but man, they just showed the replay of logistics after she had just nailed the score as she does the wipe the sweat and out, man. She killed it. And yes, you're right, Jess, this Australia.

And there's Snoop watching them. I get that Snoop's there, but you know who needs to be there? Fat Man Scoop. If Fat Man Scoop were there, this would be a real cipher. Fat Man Scoop, croak, croak, croak. I can't do his voice. I wish I could.

No one can, that's why he's Fat Man Scoop. China, Italy, Japan, and Morocco is group C in breaking. It really sucks that this is exclusive to Paris and it's not gonna be in LA. It really sucks that this is exclusive to Paris and it's not gonna be in LA. How can it not be in LA? Well, imagine like some lifetime softball and baseball player wondering where the hell that is.

Like that's coming back in LA. Yeah, I was listening to a podcast where they were talking about how they decide like what's in the Olympics. And so for example, baseball and softball not being part of this Olympics is cause France doesn't have like all of these venues available so if you have to have like a purpose-built venue and it costs a lot of money that would be one reason why

your sport might not be in the Olympics but since the United States especially California has venues where they can play it'll be back in 2028. Now is breaking not going to be there because it was just like a provisionary or like a probationary thing this time Yeah, it's definitely not gonna be in LA which I think we should really revisit because they're gonna see the social metrics on this and I Guarantee you nothing is gonna pop like this sport dude. My kids were like, when is it breaking? When is it breaking? I'm like the kids aren't your kids for two weeks. I've been wondering. Where's the breaking?

I mean, it's this is, I'm surprised, man. Maybe you're right, maybe they just didn't think it would be that big of a deal, and now watching it, I'm watching it right now, Japan versus Italy is about to go off, I won't lie, Italy looks a little bit like a poser. I'm going with Japan here, I think Japan's definitely got an advantage, I like doing expert analysis

of something I've never watched in my life. Do they have their own DJs there? Cause it looks like two different DJs, but is it their DJ? No. It's a really innovative setup too, because like the background looks like an old school boombox. This is leaning into like some of the more entertainment

aspects of this. The production value of this is incredible. And I won't lie. I thought it was going to be indoors knowing it's outdoors. I like it even more. I like like the natural sunlight coming in. I like that they've got a little dome, so even if it rains, the playing surface is protected,

even though some of the crowd is gonna get to it. That's a camera shot that I was hoping for, because they have this round stage, so it's perfect for the e-red carpet coverage with the cam. If someone does a crazy break-in move, like you can just have this camera take the 360. Mike, I'm gonna tell you right now, if they're scoring on your body language

as you watch your competitor, Italy's already lost, man. I mean, not one black person yet. Well, you know, again, I give it up to my Filipino and Filipina brothers and sisters. They are, they have inherited the mantle of the best breakers. I mean, Roy, to be fair, you're asking a lot of Japan. Yeah, that is true. We want a DEI.

Yes, yes, we do. Yes, DEI. Let's go. Got a bone to pick with you. Me? And Dan, but Dan's not here. The Anthony Edwards segment that you guys did yesterday, which is like being referred to as the Anthony Edwards heat segment, and that is exactly my issue with it, because it's not. It wasn't. That's not an Anthony Edwards

report. That's not a Miami Heat report, and as someone that is a Heat homer and wants a Heat to finally capture one of these whales, you're acting against the best interest of doing that. When you put this stuff out so prematurely, there are so many things that need to fall into place before we even have a conversation about merely Anthony Edwards, let alone the destination. To me, that story that Dan did some genuine reporting on and you filled in some of the spaces, that's a Minnesota Timberwolves ownership story. And I don't think we can ignore like who that benefits either. So to me, there's a clear agenda with this story that doesn't make it any less Newsy whatsoever, but I think that people are seizing on the sexier aspects of this when to me That's all pie in the sky and so many things have to happen. I

so The way I described this is is so many dominoes that needed to fall and it starts with Glenn Taylor Prevailing right Glenn Terry needs to prevail and then Tim Connelly needs to say I will not work with Glenn Taylor prevailing, right? Glenn Taylor needs to prevail, and then Tim Connelly needs to say, I will not work for Glenn Taylor, and then he needs to be able to get out of his contract, right, and then Anthony Edwards needs to say, well, because my GM is quitting, or my President of Basketball Operations is quitting,

I don't wanna be here anymore. To hell with my coach, to hell with my teammates, to hell with my own confidence in myself to be able to overcome anything, right, as a great player. And then he needs to say, I want to go to Miami. And then Minnesota needs to be okay with him going to Miami. So a lot of dominoes, and many of them are large dominoes,

that I just don't see toppling. Having said all that, of course, Mike, it's a lot more interesting for this show if he's going to Miami as opposed to, oh, he might go to Milwaukee for, you know, in a Damien Lillard package. Nobody cares about that. I get all of that.

And what I would say is, let Jeremy do that. Yeah. Like, let me do that. Let me run with those bones. But for Dan to like start out, like Dan's got the nuts here. I'm gonna, I know I shouldn't, but I'm gonna expose this. We were talking about this and Jeremy said,

no, it's ridiculous. It's absolutely, that's not gonna happen. Anthony Edwards is not getting traded to Miami. Kevin Durant's getting traded to Miami. Hey, we got the whale, hey! Look, I love Anthony Edwards as a player. Would love for him to be here in Miami, but I was already disappointed at how people were seasoned on that, and I already did my best to try to deflate the heat portions of this

thing because I think that muddies the water so much for Miami. Maybe I have post-traumatic stress from how the Damien Lillard pursuit went, knowing now that I truly believe there's a conspiracy against the Miami Heat. And the media just does its bidding for this conspiracy and tries to devalue the assets. The assets are another couple of dominoes. Yes, Nick Saban. The media is to blame for all of this. Well, as someone that's in the media, I have to combat our own show, because I think that that's hurting Miami, and it plays into something that I think is a fair criticism of Miami Heat fans, that any time a superstar is out there,

the Miami Heat always have to be first in line and feel like it's their birthright to be in this conversation. This has, in my mind, this has nothing to do with the Miami Heat whatsoever. Jeremy has already mapped out trades to Miami through the next six seasons. Well I can't wait for Jeremy to come back and just get to that whiteboard. He's definitely going to do that. I wanted to bring up one thing before we go open the

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