The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: Just The Kind Of Guy I Am

Episode Date: February 10, 2025

Dan begins The Big Suey with a discussion on the impact of Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl Halftime Show while adding the context of the performance coming in front of President Trump at this time in Amer...ica. Then, Stugotz claims he'd give out money to random strangers if he won thousands of dollars at a slot machine, Tom Brady's $500,000+ timepiece, and Jessica's New Orleans themed Super Bowl party. Plus, what do the Chiefs do now? Would they be considered frauds if they were any other team in the NFL? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:43 Welcome to the Big Sui, presented by DraftKings. 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 going to 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?
Starting point is 00:01:06 I've done it. And now, here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face, and the habitual liar. This episode of the Dan LeBittard Show with Stu Gots is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. Do you know how giant a sports day has to be for it to just sort of swallow. Yeah, Aaron Rodgers isn't
Starting point is 00:01:26 going to be a jet anymore. And Debo has asked for a trade out of San Francisco. Like the news just shrinks in the face of what this giant American celebration is that has everybody feeling a touch hungover today. It is weird and honestly it is where sports does a pretty good job of connecting people even if they're divided. The idea that America still gathers around the television for a thing and that that thing meets expectations which are giant, meets giant expectations, even if the game's not any good. The game isn't exactly incidental because of the importance of crowning a champion in that particular sport, but seeing what it is that America does in terms of celebrating the punctuation on a game it associates with more than any of the others and having in the middle of it, because they did take out of the
Starting point is 00:02:33 end zone, I won't forget this part as everything changes in America over the last four years and you've seen the backlash and the blacklash to everything that happened post George Floyd, including all of these giant corporations running away hiding scared of the president of the United States. To see Kendrick Lamar as the halftime show when you know some of this story right Jay-Z feels like he was purchased during this to be the halftime entertainment and a lot of people were critical of a lot of different things that didn't change about football when Jay-Z was put in charge of that show. And now- I mean, wait, you're going to have to clarify the purchase thing.
Starting point is 00:03:13 Like, he is a partner of the NFL. No, I'm saying that Jay-Z got a lot of criticism for going in and doing business at that particular time and it could look like he was being used whether he knew it or not in order to be a halftime symbol for here. We're going to give actual power to people and over the halftime show you will see that power displayed by Jay-Z with the artists that he chooses. Yeah but without Jay-Z making that deal you wouldn't have had Kendrick yesterday and you wouldn't have had the halftime show in LA a couple years ago you wouldn't have had Kendrick yesterday. And you wouldn't have had the halftime show in LA a couple years ago, you wouldn't have had Rihanna a couple years ago.
Starting point is 00:03:47 Would we have had Maroon 5? Probably. We would have had Maroon 5, more than likely. I think you're assuming that I'm entering this critically. I am not. The halftime show as a celebration becomes a success story in the middle of the commerce of it. I don't believe Kendrick is paid for that.
Starting point is 00:04:05 I believe this is such a uniquely American giant thing that I believe all the artists get is a production budget. And what Kendrick Lamar did with that production budget was put together an amazing show, but also in the middle of the celebration. Bought a lot of carpet. I can tell that a spectacularly black show as well like in in the middle of the halftime
Starting point is 00:04:29 celebration where it is that the seismic moment in the middle of it is you're waiting to see whether this Grammy-winning artist who's won the rap beef for all time and the in making Drake the biggest loser there's ever been in a rap beef in the middle of it he's got Serena Williams crip walking when Serena Williams is great as controversy during her career was celebrating at the Tennis Country Club with that dance. Her being from Compton and all of us recognizing Serena because of the tennis skirt you couldn't even see her face. It happened so fast. It happened so fast. To have that in the middle of the Super Bowl celebration,
Starting point is 00:05:05 Billy, you assume I came here to criticize. No, that's an evolution of the halftime show that doesn't quite end racism in the end zone, the way that they took it out with the stencils. But you can at least feel good about the entertainment because I think everybody was applauding everything that the artist Kendrick Lamar is, correct? Like, because he is a real artist.
Starting point is 00:05:24 Like, J. Cole was wise to step away from everything that was happening there. Kendrick Lamar has been a lyricist and an artist and stands for something. Like, he's not neutral, he's not benign. That's a really cool halftime moment to have where it meets the expectations and is wrapped in Apple+,
Starting point is 00:05:42 and you see this giant thing coming to life. How much does Serena Williams hate Drake? Yeah. And Drake, like all of this, kind of played himself with it, but there is a cultural significance of Serena Williams who lost a sister to a drive-by in Compton doing the Crip Walk at the Super Bowl halftime show to get one over on Drake.
Starting point is 00:06:04 I mean, that was- Because they dated. Yeah, yeah, and like he kinda mentioned her in a song. I don't think there was a single, it was, correct me if I'm wrong, the entire cast of that halftime performance was African American. Oh, I don't know, but is that right?
Starting point is 00:06:21 I believe so. It may have been, but I- I know there were a lot of people looking for a white. I mean, this one, the division when it came to this one, it was all too predictable, went down party lines. I thought it wasn't exactly subtle. I mean, when you have an American flag that is comprised of guys who are dancing as Crips
Starting point is 00:06:42 in Bloods forming together, all black individuals forming an American flag. Like you're not exactly going for subtlety, hell, Sam Jackson was Uncle Sam. So I understand why people who are an ideologically politically aligned feel threatened, and that is where the problem is. Is that this isn't overtly political.
Starting point is 00:07:05 They're not making you feel less than. Their appearance is just making you feel uncomfortable. You're telling on yourself. All right, let's examine this part though, right? Because the news is happening fast and things are getting normalized and things are being tested through, the Constitution is being tested
Starting point is 00:07:21 through acts that are unconstitutional. And we'll see what happens with the courts as in the first couple of weeks of America being in this new state invite a President that appears to have been bought as a puppet by Elon Musk to stay out of prison lords over the entertainment booing Taylor Swift Because the American president is now in power, lording over all of this and is is welcome here because he's not
Starting point is 00:07:54 only stayed out of prison successfully, he's now climbed to the top of the food chain on power and Bezos and Musk and all of these people and the NFL bowed before him once. They respect the power, they have the power, they're using the power because it seems like the office is now just dismantling government where we're in a situation over the last 14 days where I'm watching, just buried in the news stream,
Starting point is 00:08:19 wait a minute, really, we're doing camps in Guantanamo? Lawless camps? Like America's good with that, and it's just one of 10 items. They've spoken to it, like, see Bannon, I think, spoke to the Wall Street Journal of flooding the zone. There's just so much that you can't seize on one thing because everything is happening all at once.
Starting point is 00:08:38 But strategically, okay, to have as the 10th item, and I understand, once you've gotten to the point where the rhetoric is, well, we'll just turn Gaza into the Riviera, that's how we'll solve it, we'll displace those people. Once that's the conversation this early, and people want to celebrate the excess and the gluttony, and they want to get lost in sports,
Starting point is 00:08:58 and don't tell me about Kaepernick, and don't tell me about end racism, wasn't that a fun halftime show? It was so artistic in the middle of that. It was so much more peaceful than the ways we did it when at the beginning of this run in Kansas City, the players held hands three years ago, four years ago, and we booed Unity.
Starting point is 00:09:13 Like that stadium was booing the Kansas City Chiefs just holding hands on the idea of Unity. The progress through all of that in football gets to the more peaceful time where Patrick Mahomes, people enjoyed watching that lose yesterday, Patrick Mahomes had a real power when he got Gadel to apologize for all the stuff that happened with Kaepernick but we're in a new age now with new people in power and you will see the corporations bend to the whims of this man because the NFL has already showed you that they're scared of him
Starting point is 00:09:50 The NFL and its owners align with him politically and so What you're watching happen in the middle of all this creates a great deal of unrest for me Obviously to see in the middle of the excess that, yeah, we're gonna take a temporary departure from camps. Like, camps is the 10th news item. Like, and we're gonna be good with that. So anyway, I'm sorry for-
Starting point is 00:10:15 I'm trying to follow. It was the audio mixing for me in the song selection at the start, made it hard to get in. Like, when he has the bar at the start, like, he picked the right time but the wrong guy, I'm like, all right, what are we getting into? And then we're like, oh, it's a bit of a slow burn
Starting point is 00:10:29 and the audio mixing just isn't great. Where are you with giving me details about Harry Connick Jr. that will either prove or disprove that Chris Cody is either wrong or just spectacularly disrespectful? I don't think he gets to be right here. Well, it's just, I don't, it was, it was a part just forly disrespectful. I don't think he gets to be right here. Well, it's just, I don't, it was a part just for New Orleans. It was a celebration of New Orleans music,
Starting point is 00:10:51 and they put out a bunch of luminaries, and Harry Connick Jr. was tickling the ivories and being MC, that makes sense. Anytime I've seen it, Harry Connick Jr.'s been the face of New Orleans music scene for a very long time at all these award shows. There's been hurricanes that have hit the area and Harry Connick Jr. has done a lot of great work and he's usually, when they want to do something super New Orleans that speaks to the city's character and strength, he's one of the first calls that they make.
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Starting point is 00:12:14 haven't you been to all of them too? It sounded like you were speaking aloud, my bad. Totally on me. 100% on me. Stugats. But that goes without saying. That it couldn't have% on me. Stugats! But that goes without saying. Right. That it couldn't have happened without me. Well, he didn't say it.
Starting point is 00:12:30 He said it off the air again. Greg, why? Greg, my apologies. Greg, why? Greg. Yeah. Greg. He apologized.
Starting point is 00:12:38 Greg. Sincerely. This is the Don LeBattar Show with the Stugats! Speaking of character and strength, I wanted to play a video for you guys and I don't know how many of you have seen it or heard anything about this, okay? I have not seen it. I don't know all of the stories of Stugats on Radio Row. I just know some of them. The words that have gotten back to me, careening.
Starting point is 00:13:03 Just careening through the week. Just talking to anybody who would talk to him. Everybody's got a microphone in his face, delighted to be interviewed. Just humming nonstop, Billy you can speak to this better than I can because I was not watching him and I don't know how tired you are from chasing him around. Do you know the video I'm about to play here of Stugatz?
Starting point is 00:13:21 The Draft Kings, the publicity team caught up with St gots at a casino and was talking to him about or caught up with him on Radio Rome was talked to him about slots and he gave an answer do you know this video I have not seen this all right let's let's just react in real time all of us here to Stu gots being asked what he would do if he won a giant jackpot on the slots. I'd like to think of myself as a guy if I won the jackpot on a slot machine, I'd just be handing out money. It's just the way I am. If I won 50k that person's definitely getting $5,000. Right? $5,000. So I still met out $45,000 jackpot Who's the person he's giving it to? It's a slot machine. None of it makes sense. It's just the guy I am?
Starting point is 00:14:30 Santa Claus of handing out cash? Is that guy, is that what you assume Stu got to be? I had to watch this multiple times because I'm like, is he doing a thing where he's being sarcastic and he's looking at the camera? Like I, no, no, this is like genuine. He's like, it's the kind of guy I am. If I won 50K, I would just start handing out $5,000.
Starting point is 00:14:45 So he's out here handing out $100 bills like MC Hammer, I guess, right? Or like Joker in Batman 89. Maybe in the last 72 hours, he's completely changed the guy that he is. You considered that? We can ask him when he shows up. That kind of feels like the old Stu.
Starting point is 00:15:02 and ask him when he shows up. That kind of feels like the old Stu. Um, just, just the kind of guy I am. I wanted to like scream. Well, I just would tell it. Tell me what's happening there. It lies. Yeah. But what, what is, is he trying? Who's he trying to fool?
Starting point is 00:15:22 Like Taylor and it's working forgive me for stammering all over it but I'm I'm genuinely confused as to what's the play there like is it to make DraftKings think he's a charitable fellow who gives out money by the hundreds like who who's the audience he's he's lying for is it just the pleasure of the lie because I saw another one of these where they asked him about blackjack where he did his Stu gots thing the pleasure of the lie because I saw another one of these where they asked him about Blackjack where he did his two gods thing of I play how I want I don't give a shit where I was like That's the two gods. I know he's playing like that's the hits right there, baby
Starting point is 00:15:52 And then the next one he's this like earnest. Oh, I'd start you kid 550k I would I would hand it out to anyone who needs it. That's the kind of guy I am and I'm like what happened between those two videos getting back to Tom Brady's watch if If you guys were being paid Like that would you do it? 750,000 strong for a watch All right, so most people that have fancy wrist wear The watch is kind of in line with the salary that they make and I think you'd be kind of shocked that
Starting point is 00:16:35 Relative to his net worth that that's what the normal. Oh, I know I understand the Rolex would be I understand the fashion choice That's being made there. I've just never been comfortable with with the idea of wearing a watch of any kind other than that thing that you guys made fun of me for for the grandfather, the pocket watch I had. I mean, I love my peace. It meant a lot to me. It signified a mile marker and people feel certain ways about it. Your peace?
Starting point is 00:16:59 Yeah, my wrist peace. Jessica, I do believe that people who are watch aficionados would tell you. They say peace? Well no, that this is a statement that you're. It's a time piece. That you're absolutely, you want to make the statement that's three quarters of a million dollars on your wrist.
Starting point is 00:17:17 Whatever that statement is. It's just not something I would ever understand. That seems. I would say relative to the net worth, I'm making a much larger statement. Talk about Mike's watch, is what I think he wants you to do. That's what I wanna do. What's your flex?
Starting point is 00:17:29 He wants you to ask about his watch. You got like a gold popcorn bowl or something? The reason I bring up the entire thing. It was an ugly watch. A gold popcorn bowl, is that what you just said? Yeah, he won an MTV Movie Award. The reason that I bring all of it up was to stick my toe in the water here of offering people who cannot be trusted here.
Starting point is 00:17:49 I have a very nice watch. Of vulnerability. What percentage of your net worth is it? Probably more than Tom Brady's. Wow. That's more of a statement than Tom's. I'm making a much larger statement. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:00 Day in and day out. He just, he wants us to ask him about his peace. Ask him about his peace. Yeah, I know he does. Fluted bezel. And I'm wants us to ask him about his piece. Ask him about his piece. Yeah, I know he does. Fluted bezel. And I'm not going to ask him. Jubilee bracelet, because that's how Ric Flair wore it. And that's what matters.
Starting point is 00:18:12 Styling and profiling. My discomfort is such that my wife got me for, as a gift recently, a nice watch. I don't know anything about them. And it was, I don't know, I'm going to say it six months ago and I probably insult her by not wearing it but I am not comfortable wearing an expensive watch. It feels too showy to me and so when you go $750,000 on the most watched game on television you're showing that to me I don't understand it. Like and it's not even it's not even judging it
Starting point is 00:18:43 although obviously it sounds like that. There's something about me that makes me not confident enough to want to throw that in everybody's face. Why's that? He's got cuffs over it. I would venture to say it's probably not even his most expensive watch.
Starting point is 00:18:57 You imagine his watch collection has tons of watches that are over $800,000. Dan, this is why people think rich people should pay more taxes. It's one of the many reasons. has tons of watches that are over $800,000. Dan, this is why people think rich people should pay more taxes. It's one of the many reasons. There's so many people that go to bed hungry overnight, but Tom Brady's got an $800,000 watch.
Starting point is 00:19:13 And so I can't say any of this, though, without appearing judgmental, but I'm really speaking to a vulnerability here where I can't come to, like, my wife has given me a gift. My wife is an extraordinarily thoughtful gift giver She is known by everybody as a thoughtful gift giver So what she's given me is a watch that if you believe in the idea that these things give off your personality Or speak of to who you are or you're making some sort of statement about who you are to people with what you're wearing
Starting point is 00:19:40 On your wrist. This is who she imagines me to be. I do not imagine myself to be that. Hold on, who's making more of a statement? Tom Brady who has the expensive watch and wears it, or Dan who has the expensive watches and doesn't wear them? Because he feels bad about it. Yeah. That's a good question. Yeah, one of them is a confident person,
Starting point is 00:20:00 and one of them is me. So I found this. But both are rich. This partnership that Tom Brady had with Sotheby's. And his watch collection's ridiculous. This is what he decided, hey, I need to do some spring cleaning. There's like three different watches in here
Starting point is 00:20:15 that are up to half a million dollars. He probably doesn't even have to. I don't know, I would love to know what some of these deals are, because I don't know if Eugene Levy gets some sort of. Gets paid in pizza. Some sort of pizza deal, or who was it? Oh, I wondered if Harrison Ford in the Jeep commercial.
Starting point is 00:20:32 I imagine they just gave him a Jeep, right? Like he gets a couple of Jeeps out of that deal. And then he gave it to his son-in-law. Right, something like that is probably, wouldn't you imagine? Wait, were you thinking he's gonna keep one of them, Chris? No, I just think like, if you're Harrison Ford and you get a Jeep, you look at your family,
Starting point is 00:20:47 who needs a Jeep? Kyle needs a Jeep. Why does it always Kyle? You text them, hey Kyle. That was a long commercial, the Harrison Ford one. He got at least five Jeeps for that one. I imagine that Tom Brady probably has a lot of very expensive watches that were free
Starting point is 00:21:03 that he didn't have to pay for it all because he's just Tom Brady. Well, then whoever his timepiece partner is, they should be upset that he doesn't have exclusivity because this is a very deep and vast and varied watch collection that he decided to sell for auction. People don't understand, like they think being nice to a rich person is going to benefit them in some way. We don't know who gave Tom Brady these watches for free. And it probably cost them a lot.
Starting point is 00:21:29 They just had to eat that cost to be friends with Tom Brady. Tom Brady doesn't even remember their name or mention it ever. So what was the point of giving him that watch for free? But if they gave us one of those watches, we would remember. Oh, he's singing for the mountaintops. It would be great.
Starting point is 00:21:40 Matt Hill that I was gonna die on. Apprenticing for that, yeah. There's roughly two dozen watches on this Sotheby's auction. He's auctioning them? Yeah, that he was auctioning. I don't like that. And there was at least one.
Starting point is 00:21:52 Give it away. Put it in a UNICEF box, you know what I mean? What does he need to auction a watch off for if you're Tom Brady? You've got enough. There's at least one available for auction that is priced higher than the one that he was wearing for the broadcast. Wow.
Starting point is 00:22:02 We should buy it. Dan? Figure out the bit later. Yeah, that's a good idea, broadcast. We should buy it. Dan? We'll figure out the bit later. Yeah, that's a good idea, Billy. Oh, we're never gonna go back to the Super Bowl, Billy. That is a good idea, Billy. What are the highlights? I saw that Stugatz is now in makeup.
Starting point is 00:22:14 They are working hard in another room. Can you guys, can the video crew get a live shot of Stugatz in the other room getting ready in an emergency? He has flown in an emergency, God bless football, to bail us out, to bail out God bless football. Let's get the video up in the other room so that we can see Stugatz. Look at it. A heroic Stugatz has arrived on a red eye from Chicago. Again, that tube could not have smelled good the day after the Super Bowl, and he is going to come in here with all fresh takes. These are not takes that are going to appear
Starting point is 00:22:47 on God Bless Football. That's just Billy and Mikey. Later for the TV. And what? Oh, so this was not a red eye. He went in the morning. Red eye, he would have been here on time. He was flying in from Chicago.
Starting point is 00:22:58 Yeah, but Dan famously kind of, he lumps the Midwest in together, so really he could have been anywhere in that, he could have been in Toronto. You know what, I'm sorry. I was told by Carl that it was a red eye and I just didn't, I didn't double check. There isn't a flight that he's on
Starting point is 00:23:13 that his eyes aren't red, all right. He's gonna come in here in just a few moments. Roy, how are you feeling physically today? Are you, did you do, did you do, did you do Super Bowl? Yes, you, Roy. What other Roy would I be talking to? I mean, playing Roy's out there. I don't know, Dan.
Starting point is 00:23:30 There are. What do you mean, you are? I'm just surprised you went to me. That's all. That's why I said, what, me? He said me? Roy, what are your thoughts on Harry Connick Jr.? He's a good performer.
Starting point is 00:23:40 He turned into a good actor. Oh, you're with me. No, you're with me. We don't know what, but. You're playing nice. If Roy doesn't Oh, you're with me, no, you're with me. We don't know what, but. You're playing nice. Roy doesn't even appreciate this era of gentlemen, Dan. I mean. I'm looking at these Brady watches.
Starting point is 00:23:52 What a racket this guy has, huh? So like it says pre-sale estimate, like 5,000 to $10,000 for this watch. Final sale price, $42,000. So everything just gets that it was on Tom Brady's wrist, maybe at one point in time price. I'm probably good, by the way, Dan, thanks for asking. This is like that episode of Seinfeld,
Starting point is 00:24:12 where they're going around, and it's like, this was John Voight's car, and it was another John Voight. Jabba Chamberlain used to tell us that, when he was on GovZest, Jabba Chamberlain would tell us that the baseball players had a racket where they'd get the car leased for free for a year or two, and then just sign the dashboard
Starting point is 00:24:32 at the end of their lease. And then the dealer would go off an auction like, this was Aaron Judge's car. Look, it's autographed by him. And they'd pay way more than whatever the leasing option was that they were getting it for free. Wow. Funny that you mention that because David Samson spent money on Bono's sunglasses
Starting point is 00:24:46 and I'm hoping that there was like an error in accounting and it's actually Steve Bono. It was, or Chaz. I realize, okay, that Roy goes long stretches without speaking. But for me to say on our program, Roy and then a question,
Starting point is 00:25:13 and for him to respond genuinely surprised with me is one of the most amazing things I've ever heard on our show. Yeah, yeah, I agree. I agree with you. I was asking you how you felt and if you ate poorly during the Super Bowl. No, I don't believe I ate poorly. I ordered some food from Anthony's Cold Fire Pizza.
Starting point is 00:25:37 It had some wings, some dry, rubber wings. That was very good. Had a couple of pizzas with Anita and Claren. That was it. So, yeah. No drinking. a couple of pizzas with Anita and Claire, and that was it. So yeah, no drinking. A couple of pizzas. Yeah. Okay.
Starting point is 00:25:50 What did Claire think? Claire loved the pizza. She was a fan of that. She did not have an opinion about the halftime show. She was ushered to bed. Urshered to bed. The Dan LeBataert Show with Stu Gotz is sponsored by BetterHelp.
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Starting point is 00:29:19 if anyone wants to try it. It was shockingly very tasty. I'm not eating for two more days. Why do you say shockingly? You generally have great successes baking. Like when you have a lot you don't you lack confidence making these things? Well it was a yeasted dough so I don't normally make things of that nature with my gluten-free problems because it's very hard to stretch dough without gluten but I said let's just roll the dice and see what happens.
Starting point is 00:29:45 I used the gluten-free King Arthur flour in their recipe with the whole blog and everything, and it came out of the oven split in half. You could see the filling coming out, but once you put the frosting on, no one knew the difference. Is your mouth watering while you talk about it? Yes.
Starting point is 00:29:59 It sounds like it. Would you like to try? It's gluten-free, Dan. Yes, I would like to. It's not dairy-free, though. Yes, oh no, can't do it then. Aw, man. Come on, live a little. Yeah, no, can't do it then. Oh, man. Come on.
Starting point is 00:30:06 Live a little. Yeah, have ice cream in the second quarter and eat it with a chicken wing. Dip a chicken wing in it. Can you guys explain something to me? Because I don't understand. Something sweet. Okay, okay, I'm gonna go down this path with you
Starting point is 00:30:16 because you guys are telling me, yes, this is what the drugs do. They make me- Can we bring Stugatz in for this discussion? He'd get us. He'll be here in a second. Like, Jesus, he gets us. Okay, so he'll be here in a second. Stugatz in for this discussion, he'd get us. He'll be here in a second. Like, Jesus, he gets us. Okay, so he'll be here in a second.
Starting point is 00:30:26 Stugatz will be here with all his takes and perhaps he can explain the munchies to us as well. But when I see, for example, that Cincinnati famously has Skyline Chili and now there is a Skyline Chili ice cream and I don't understand that, right? Now maybe, all ice cream's good, right? There's no such thing as bad ice cream, is there? To be specific, this was a pistachio gelato.
Starting point is 00:30:47 What? Why did you say that? It just happened. Why did you just say that? Clarifying on it, it wasn't ice cream, it was gelato. Why'd you say it like that? It was a Skyline pistachio gelato? I just said it, all right?
Starting point is 00:31:00 Let me be. No. But you, what did you just do? Were you trying to give us a pistachio? You're one of the Super Mario Brothers. Were you Giada for a second? Was that Italian you were going for there? I think, I was just trying to flare up my gelato.
Starting point is 00:31:16 You did it again, huh? He's not totally confident on whether he can do this or not. Wait, this was a Skyline thing? At least we're not stopping down and focusing on it. It's a silly thing. So they decided to, Skyline Chili decided to make a partnership with an ice cream but call it gelato?
Starting point is 00:31:32 No, that is, no. I'm trying to follow. Oh, so. There is cinnamon in Skyline Chili. Yeah. And a Kelsey Super Bowl ring, too. People enjoyed him losing yesterday, right? I think that's why they were booing Taylor Swift.
Starting point is 00:31:44 I think all the Eagles fans saw her and booed her. I don't think they were like, hey, she endorsed Kamala Harris. The crazy thing is, so like Super Bowls, everyone that's ever been to one, I've never been to one, has told me it's actually not the greatest game atmosphere. I've been to a few. It is sometimes very boring. Well, you went to the Rams Patriots one that was bad.
Starting point is 00:32:03 I've been to good ones too, but that one was very, very good. That was also the Maroon 5 Super Bowl. Look at me, Louis. I think it came across on the broadcast that that atmosphere at the game looked really fun and my buddy Master was at the game and I texted him and he's like, I'm shocked at how crazy this atmosphere was. It was decidedly Pro Eagles. Granted, by midway through the second quarter,
Starting point is 00:32:26 they were the only fans making noise at that game. But I was really stunned at how many Eagles fans got their way into what is essentially a corporate event. Oh, it's not just a corporate event. I mean, we've been on this ride here for a little bit with Diana Rusini as she's making decisions between things she wants to do because she wants to do them and for her career and her husband the eagles fan
Starting point is 00:32:48 feeling like uh... he's living through a time i i will speak to this today because it's going to get obnoxious over the next week philadelphia fans are annoying they are loud uh... they are proud uh... it is uh... crazed and rabid fan base uh... that prides itself on yeah mark walberg will be an eagle is a crazed and rabid fan base that prides itself on, yeah, Mark Wahlberg will be an eagle as a walk-on in the movie because we're the town for Rocky and we're the town where athletic grit becomes representative of who our people are, who our city is. They are a source of
Starting point is 00:33:20 great, great regional pride, this team. To have it be the one that wins among the spaceships with just punching you in the face, just physically dominating you, dragging Patrick Mahomes up and down the field because they were just physically overwhelming on everybody. Everybody dies at their doorstep this year, and it's a physical beating that they're taking from a defensive line in an offensive line that is just stronger than yours
Starting point is 00:33:51 the the kansas city chiefs come in with that pedigree and if they had not been the candidate kansas city chiefs with that quarterback we'd be calling that team an epic and historic fraud for all time this season based on the season they had beating caroline over here by three points and everyone and going down and winning all these one score games and then when they ran into a juggernaut oh shit they just got dragged up and down the field by a football team that's been not playing close games yeah but I guess it did be Buffalo and I know that they were at home there but I'm with you if any other team that didn't have the success of Kansas City had attached to it
Starting point is 00:34:28 entered this Superbowl and went out that way, they'd be called a huge fraud. They'd be looked at as the Kerry Collins giants or as the Stan Humphries Chargers. The Grossman, the Rex Grossman Bears. Yeah, where they become a punchline, but I think everyone kind of understands the greatness there. You mentioned like the physicality. There was one moment in that game where it was very telling to me
Starting point is 00:34:47 because Patrick Mahomes is Josh Allen levels when it comes to the officials and trying to get calls the entire time. When he fumbled, he very clearly got hit in the head. Both hands went to the head. It is a textbook call. I have never seen Patrick Mahomes not get up and complain about what just happened there.
Starting point is 00:35:05 He didn't at all. He kind of conceded, not just the game, but also conceded, I don't think I wanna be out here. Well, let's talk about this part for a second, okay? Because this part, as we make these people superhuman or unhuman, as Tom Brady likes to call them, the size and scope of all of this, America's biggest game and the pressure it puts on athletes, Patrick Mahomes,
Starting point is 00:35:30 whatever he imagined his life would be at Texas Tech, I imagine a whole bunch of stuff has come into it, most of it wildly positive. His record in postseason games has such extraordinary success that when they weren't getting calls they complained about it up and down in that one game became cry babies it was ugly was like an ugly lack of dignity from a champion and we all seized on it and noticed it in that game yesterday there were a few calls early that helped the Eagles like those were bad calls questionable calls there was one that went against the Chiefs as well.
Starting point is 00:36:05 But when Mike speaks to what he's talking about there, it's really rare for you to be watching a football game. Because when you're talking about 24 yards in the first half for Patrick Mahomes, like that's an uncommon kind of strangling we're talking about there. It was 13 first downs in the first half to one. But it's not just ball control. It's what i'm about to say about where it is that
Starting point is 00:36:28 all your nose how to win can go flying out in the most pressurized situations because this guy comes back from ten except he knows that this felt early the way tampa did where it's like well they're getting here fast there are therefore of them if there are four of them and now my receivers aren't i recall anymore
Starting point is 00:36:50 it's a bunch of these guys and when i get it to d and rey hopkins he's so at the end of his career that the andre hopkins may never have had that drop before in his entire career a man who has more tackles than drops because he does not drop the football the embers of their skill position players that have been eaten up by the salary cap because you think you can do it every time with Mahomes when he comes back into the pocket he can't just step up into the middle of it and run through your defense Wow Patrick Mahomes ends up
Starting point is 00:37:21 looking totally mortal and scared I don't think he was actually scared, but wherever it is that the feet are on, wait a minute, it's three and out and three and out, now I'm remembering all season, this has been I've got to get six yards on third and five, I can't do it against this team. I just threw it to Kelsey twice, what was that? What was that?
Starting point is 00:37:38 I thought I had Kelsey, they know Kelsey's my only option and they're getting here awfully fast. I just never have seen Patrick Mahomes just kind of admit through the lack of something that I can't do this. I can't come back in this one. Even in that Tampa Super Bowl, he's still diving around and releasing a ball just this far off the ground, trying his hardest and still not giving up. And last night, I mean, I think he even went out there and threw an absolute beauty to Xavier Worthy
Starting point is 00:38:06 after the fact, because it's his job, he asked you. But him not complaining about that flag was just respectful of his opponent in that, man, you guys got us today. And also just, this kinda hurts, I don't think I wanna take, I think at that point he had like four straight negative plays. And he was just over it.
Starting point is 00:38:23 It's really hard to do the analysis on a good team losing in the Super Bowl. Like we saw them all season. We were like this chief's team is flawed and eventually it will catch up to them. But it didn't until the Super Bowl. And now it's kind of like, well, what do they really need to like blow the whole thing up? Like, I don't think so. They made it all the way to the Super Bowl, but they clearly were outmatched
Starting point is 00:38:43 in this game in the trenches. So what do you do now? You've already tried to put a lot into your offensive line. I guess you need to do even more. But at the end of the day, they still made it all the way to the Super Bowl. So, and they have Patrick Mahomes. There's not a whole lot you would trade for that.
Starting point is 00:38:57 It can't be though. It can't be to go from your two halves away from a three-peat, something that's never been done in the sport to do you blow it up because that that was that obvious in that game but this is how obvious it was and it's worth noting in terms of the differences between what the Chiefs were when they beat the Eagles and what the Eagles are now in the space age where they've got the biggest strongest guys up front
Starting point is 00:39:26 do you realize that in this game that we're watching after you guys have told me and we understand how we came upon the premise even los vegas money said this was so now i'm an andy reid a smarter at this stuff and spags is smarter in this stuff and the quarterback doesn't make any mistakes and he knows how to win these people know how to win yes they do spagg sure shit know how to win stopping seqon barkley because i haven't seen it all season the problem is
Starting point is 00:39:52 they have too much on offense you stop their run game and what happens jailer hurts is playing quarterback an entirely different sport the patrick mahomes is because it is just sit back there and run around and he's got these receivers that are actually good because he's got two number ones and you saved money at quarterback there and that's where it is that the the Eagles run down the throat of the dynasty and and take it over with a cement mixer because this is not a subtle object like you stop their MVP and what and what they've
Starting point is 00:40:23 got Goddard didn't do anything in that game. Goddard hit you for 120 in a game because they're just overwhelming. Well, and it's strange to say in a game where you give up 40 points, but like that was not on Spags. One of them was a pick six. No, exactly. The field position battle was ridiculous. Patrick Mahomes was giving them the ball in like the five yard line. All they had to do was rush it in to score. So Spags didn't have a bad game even though the Eagles scored 40 points. Right, it was the Chiefs offense. There's also field goals left and right.
Starting point is 00:40:52 Yeah, right, and like they couldn't scheme the offense around the fact that the Eagles were getting pressure with four on the front the entire game. Those two things there is no answer for. When, i'm telling you i'm not we analyzed the holy hell out of this sport but when the disparity on offensive and defensive lines is that overt that everyone eating a chicken
Starting point is 00:41:15 wing after ice cream can see it like where it whether you're on the munchies or not you're just watching the sport you're like all kept i know what kansas city is i know their mythology. Oh, it's 24 nothing. They're not going to do anything in the second half. Like they're not, there are no adjustments to this. They could talk about it at halftime, but there are no adjustments to Fangio's sitting up there. He could be eating.
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