The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: The Pizza Hut Chandeliers
Episode Date: August 12, 2024The new Taco Bell burger sends the crew down a path toward the Sizzler, Long John Silver's, Pizza Hut, and the popularity of Outback Steakhouse in Brazil. Then, Kevin Durant finds happiness with Team ...USA, and Nikola Jokic celebrates the bronze medal with more passion than the NBA Title. Plus, it's time for Stugotz's Weekend Observations including his Top 5 Athletes Who Connote a State Capital, Top 5 Athletes Who Connote Winning, and Top 5 Athletes Who Connote Losing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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This is the Don LeBattor Show with the StuGuts Podcast.
The Levitore Show with the Stugatz Podcast. I feel like I have aired Stugatz in not getting to this before now, but I have read over the
course of the weekend and people expected us to start the show with it today that Taco
Bell has added a burger.
Wow.
There's been a burger.
Oh, Chris Cody's face is, he's not here for the Taco a burger. Wow. There has been a burger. Oh, Chris Cody's face, he's not here
for the Taco Bell burger.
It doesn't look like from his face.
I'm with Chris, like, you know, stay in your lane.
I go to Taco Bell, I want tacos.
I don't want a burger.
I go to Burger King when I want a burger.
I'm not gonna doubt T-Bizzle
because they don't really disappoint me ever.
Their fries, if you've had, like, you would think,
oh, the fries, the tacos, they're pretty good.
So I'm not gonna doubt them, I will try it,
but I will say, you sang Burger from Taco Bell,
it does make, it makes me go, ooh.
Like the way earlier, it made me go, hmm.
Like things from the weekend that I've heard,
they make me go, hmm.
That's what this is.
Put it on the poll, at LeBotard Show,
which would you like less, a Burger from Taco Bell or a Taco from Burger King at LeBittard Show, which would you like less, a burger from Taco Bell or a taco from Burger King
at LeBittard Show?
I'm not gonna doubt T-Bizzle as well
because McDonald's had some mighty wings,
some hot wings for like a limited time
and those jokers were slammin'.
What year was that?
Think it was 2020 maybe, pandemic.
But you go to McDonald's for burgers, chicken chicken nuggets perhaps wings if it's on the menu
You would not order a taco from McDonald's you would not wings. I don't think you go there for wings
I try him out. Okay, but I mean wait, what's weirder? Why are tacos any weird? I'm not trying to taco from McDonald's
I got that
But why would you say you go to McDonald's possibly for chicken wings, but not tacos? That's where you're drawing the line
I'm just saying if I go to McDonald's I'm going through the drive-thru and there are some new menu items
And one of them is chicken wings
Perhaps I will try it because they have a long-standing history McDonald's does of delivering great chicken
And so perhaps I would try it. It's an addition to the menu. I would not try a taco
No, the McChicken is fantastic.
Chicken nuggets are great.
I don't care what's in it.
I'm good with it.
I'm right there with you.
But this is a practice that is followed by Jack in the Box.
They do tacos.
They have other dishes that they have in there.
And it's like the most normal thing.
But Jack in the Box feels like a real grab bag.
So the burger I'm looking here is more of like a sloppy Joe
than it is a burger.
It's like the-
Oh, a ground beef burger?
I am in on this.
Yeah, it's like a ground beef burger,
like Picadillo, like a sloppy Joe.
Taco meat.
Yeah.
I'm in on this.
Does that, okay, but what are they calling it?
Are they calling it a sloppy Joe
or are they calling it a burger?
I'm seeing the Bell beefer,
but I don't know if that can be true.
Let's give a salute to the brother around the world,
whoever you are, who probably made these all the time
in the back break room for Taco Bell,
and ain't getting no damn credit for this.
Salute to you, brother.
Exactly right.
Because a Sloppy Joe is not a burger, right?
Put it on the poll at the Levitard Show.
It's not.
It's not.
It's not.
It's not even close.
It is a Sloppy Joe.
It's not a burger.
A burger has to be a patty.
I mean. Not even close to a burger. A Sloppy Joe Joe. It's not a burger burger has to be a patty. I mean not even close
A sloppy Joe is not even close to a burger. It's got all of the properties of a burger
Except the meat is mushy instead of a patty. It's like a third cousin
It's got okay, but it's got all of the same properties except for the one
You're out here. Not even close a French chef could call it a deconstructed burger
Have you guys oh wow sorry I gotta interrupt you with this a few a few locations offered a
Bell beefers surf and turf deluxe which is a combo which is fried shrimp
Tuna and the beef all together
and the beef all together. What do you mean tuna?
Fried shrimp.
I'm just reading.
I put a long John Silver.
Which added fried shrimp and a scoop of tuna
on top of the beefers, lettuce, and cheese.
Disgusting.
For that reason, I am out.
Long John Silver.
Long John Silver is where Stugat said
he was going for his fried shrimp.
All of Stugat's thoughts are stuck in 1990.
No, no, no, they're still doing so no
Oh, yeah, they all are they were they they wrapped a NASCAR like a couple races ago
Captain D's
Apologize when's the last time you were at long John Silver's the last time I was in the mood for fried shrimp. I mean
It's been a while
You you doing a word association with fried shrimp and Long John Silver's. I was fishing for the seafood of fast food, you know what I'm saying? That's what I was
fishing for and I came up with Long John Silver's. That or Red Lobster. Red Lobster, that's not
fair to them. They're not fast food. I don't drive through Red Lobster. I mean, sit down. It's a sit down dinner.
Red Lobster is, I guess, more bankrupt
than today's Long John Silver.
I just don't think that any of us think of Taco Bell
and Surf and Turf.
That is not Sloppy Joe's, not Surf and Turf.
I'll go.
The way you guys reacted to Burger,
I would go that way with surf and turf at Taco Bell.
That seems dangerous, that seems like salmonella,
that seems like not a good idea.
The tuna is just terrible.
Where do they even get tuna from?
The scoop of tuna.
Like where, it's Taco Bell.
Anyway, you can fry anything up,
but like all right, I trust you,
you're not gonna screw up the fried shrimp, but the tuna, you can fry anything up. Like, all right, I trust you. You're not going to screw up the fried shrimp.
But the tuna, this could be dicey.
There is not one Long John Silver's in Miami-Dade County.
Well, is there one in Florida?
Yes.
There's one at Broward in 441.
Broward keeping Long John Silver's alive.
Miami-Dade said, nah.
You don't wrap a NASCAR with Long John Silver's
if there isn't Long John Silver in the state of Florida.
It would be weird if you're really odd.
I just can't believe that Long John Silver
is still a thing, I really can't.
I mean, just, I think we can all agree,
fish, fast food, bad idea.
Really, why, the Filet-O-Fish rocks.
And I'm sure there was a Sugats over there
that would have been like,
I don't think I want fish from McDonald's.
Well, they knocked it out the park, didn't they?
It was a legacy menu item.
Yep.
You can get away with it as an item.
I'm talking about as the foundation of your business.
A freezer full of fish, fast food, bad idea.
Just all bad.
That's why Stugatz can only summon Long John Silver
and Red Lobster as his seafood habits
because you need fish prepared properly.
It's dangerous.
You wanna hear a sentence that's a real sentence
that you never thought you would hear before?
Me and Mike went to the Sizzler for lunch.
Yes.
I've got nothing bad to say about the Sizzler.
Nothing.
Is their salad bar still a kick-ass bargain?
There's salad bar?
There isn't salad in this thing.
Not a salad was seen.
It was really like a taco stand slash chili stand.
I made nachos.
It was a nacho bar.
That's why it has always been the greatest
of the salad bars.
That is the reason.
There was more ice cream than lettuce.
That is why it's my favorite salad bar
and has been since childhood.
My parents, both of whom have been overweight
all their lives, called it throughout my childhood
the greatest salad bar in the world
You want your hard-boiled egg with a little gray in it come on over
Tell you know it's good
little bruising of the yoke
Put it on the pole, please juju is sizzler giving you a hard-boiled egg that has a little gray in it
We enjoyed our time at the sizzler. Don't knock sizzler. Don't knock it if you haven't tried it in the last 25 years.
I don't have anything bad to say about the Sizzler.
I will not blaspheme against the Sizzler.
I'm here for all things Sizzler salad bar,
or as I like to call it, chocolate fountain.
What they also forgot to mention was it was in Utah.
It was not here in Florida.
We weren't even, we were headed to an Applebee's.
And then as we were driving to the Applebee's,
I was like, make a right, make a right.
Is this real?
Is this a mirage?
No, it's a Sizzler.
And I've always like, my relationship with Sizzler now
is like driving past a building and being like,
that used to be a Sizzler.
The Anthony's coal file on Kendall.
It used to be a Sizzler, come on's Coal File in Kendall. That used to be a Sizzler, huh?
Put it on the poll as well, Juju.
Did that used to be a Sizzler at Leviton?
Kendall 127, that was right there.
This is South Florida's replete.
This is replete.
South Florida, I don't think there are.
How many functioning Sizzlers are there in South Florida?
Dude, not in South Florida, I don't think.
Not in South Florida.
Like, I didn't know it was still around until I stepped in one.
Had there been people there,
they all would have looked at us oddly too.
But no, also like pizza huts do this to me.
I think I'm pretty sure down in Westchester,
there's a former pizza hut
that's now like a real estate office.
Mm.
That happens all over South Florida as well.
As of 2020, there was one Sizzler restaurant
in the state of florida
kiss me
one sizzler and there are you're learning
one sizzler in all of florida
that's what it says here
that seems impossible so you're telling me there more i'd like to be stunned me
today
kiss me there are more long john silvers in florida yeah then sizzler and what are
on the pole as well just needs to be two and that lebatard show yeah that's it
at lebatard show put it on the pole
what do you do
what do you believe to be more of in south florida
long john silvers
or sizzler cuz i think sizzler is going to come back there is people are gonna
assume that they're
more Sizzler's.
I'll tell you this, last year, 2023, US sales only, Long John Silver's did $328 million.
One of their best years ever.
I mean, check it out, longjohnsilvers.com.
Go ahead and tell me how much Sizzler did last year in sales, because I am surprised
that it's $328 million.
Yeah, you think there are a lot of sizzlers
in Rio de Janeiro?
You never know.
Outback is massive in Brazil.
Yeah, Outback is like the number one restaurant in Brazil.
1000%.
It's not a joke.
It's a word association now.
Brazil, not even.
Outback.
Yeah, not even wax.
Outback.
Okay.
I believe you, that's not a Sizzler though.
Outback.
There are a number of American things that get-
We're just keeping you informed.
I was surprised in Beijing
at the number of American things all over Beijing.
Starbucks is kicking ass in Beijing.
US sales Sizzler, $204 million.
Oh, look at this.
So Long John Silver's kicks the ass of the Sizzler.
And the Sizzler consistency is key.
Each and every hot wing I got from the bar
had the black stuff in it.
Like just that black stuff you don't want in your hot wings.
Oh my god, consistency.
Pizza Hut, how is Pizza Hut?
They're bringing the buffets back.
They're fighting.
Fighting.
They're fighting.
Yeah.
That's what I thought.
Sneakily, they're beta testing,
bringing the salad bar back,
making the Pizza Hut a dine-in experience,
because I can speak for anybody.
The pan pizza, after you take your book it,
pin over to get stamped.
The one on 104th Street.
Dude, like the pan pizza from dining in a Pizza Hut,
slaps way harder than anything
they could ever do with delivery.
Absolutely.
It's after a little league baseball game we're going to pizza hut.
Oh my parents will hit up the salad bar and I'll get that pan pizza.
Bring that back Jack.
That is all I did throughout my childhood.
That was the greatest of delicacies when dad would take us over to the pizza hut.
But I did not have pizza hut still in the game fighting with a dine-in experience.
That is not something that I,
your pizza better be pretty damn good
if you're trying to lure people out of the convenience
of hey, just bring that to me over here.
You're telling me it's better there
and they don't have a way to deliver that same pizza?
Pay and Pizza is so much better at Pizza Hut.
They just went away from the dine-in model, but now-
They're zagging when everybody else is zigging.
And the chandeliers in Pizza Hut
Oh my god
So fancy the good fight your literacy literacy is down because they stopped the book at program tie in with Pizza Hut
The chandeliers at Pizza Hut height of opulence
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Don LeBretard, surely every time you're watching this you recognize that your
wife is laughing that she married
she married larry dana i'd i'd do it for you
he is one of the great characters in the history of television in my humble
opinion
and uh... and to my credit
uh... my personal in my humble opinion followed by to my credit to my
credit is amazing my personal just It's amazing. My personality does predate Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Stugats!
Oh wow.
I'm not going to say Larry David patterned himself after me.
Alright put it on the poll please Jude.
You did Greg Cody copyright being an asshole long before Larry David.
This is the Dunn Lebatar Show with the Stugarts. All-Star game and it became very loud around basketball. Why we can't get these guys to care.
To see Jokic clearly enjoy winning a bronze medal more
than he seemed to enjoy winning a championship.
And to see Kevin Durant after they beat Serbia,
say to a room full of his teammates,
we'll remember this, this comeback
for the rest of our lives
to see the greatest care in a way they didn't at the All-Star game when they
were celebrating what was a regional sport compared to how it is you're
playing it now against the world I was legitimately surprised that the care
level was in a place where I was watching Kevin Durant and Jokic be more joyous
Then I've seen them be while while conquering. What is the Americanized version of that sport?
Well, you mentioned the the all-star game and the issues with that
I sincerely hope Adam Silver watched these Olympics took that all in saw how cared, and is going to take a note from the NHL.
We talked about this briefly last week, but they're doing the Four Nations as opposed to the All-Star game,
which they've constantly changed the format and it's
unrecognizable from what it used to be and the hockey players,
they care more than the NBA players have seemingly about this and they're just deciding this little break in the middle of the season,
we're gonna wrap ourselves in these flags and
we're going to go for it.
I really hope the NBA decides to do something like that and international
basketball. It's not the easiest thing to follow.
FIBA has a ton of different competitions.
If you have another marquee event outside of the world championships and,
and the Olympics that can get people talking about national team basketball,
I think that would be great for the game.
They cared and it was very cool to see them care.
They're also playing many of them in their last Olympics,
presumably LeBron James, Steph Curry, Kevin Durant,
not gonna play again, but it was really cool to see him care.
I would guess, Dan, I have no idea of knowing obviously,
that whether it's Jokic or whether it's any guy on the US team, they would trade that gold in for an NBA championship, I would guess Dan, I have no idea of knowing obviously, that whether it's Jokic or whether it's any guy
on the US team, they would trade that gold in
for an NBA championship, I would guess.
Okay, and you've been wanting to do that show
since last week.
I'm not trying to do a show, I'm just saying,
I would guess most of those guys would.
LeBron would trade it in for a fifth.
Perhaps, but what I was watching from a Kevin Durant
who I would say has sort of been ransacked into,
if not a bitterness, a fighting of the internet mentality that has made Kevin Durant seem
less joyous than usually people who love basketball the way that he loves basketball are.
The last ten years of
watching kevin duran is to watch him love this sport and like next to
nothing that surrounds it because of how people behave as if they know more or
care more about the sport than he does it's been weird to see one of the
greatest i've ever seen like ground down fighting the internet in the modern age
in a way that makes him not seem unhappy
because he's happy when he's playing basketball like clearly he loves to who
that's not up for dispute
but the rest of it he can do without it was like we had kalaus camp along with
us last week he says the same thing that ray lewis says
sunday's you get for free you're paying me for all the bullshit from monday to
saturday like
all the meetings all the bullshit from Monday to Saturday. Like all the meetings, all the garbage, but I love playing.
For it to be so pure that Kevin Durant is saying he's going to remember that for the
rest of his life, when I'm sitting here telling you, I watched it, I'm not going to remember
the comeback against Serbia for the rest of my life.
That's not something that impacted me the way that it impacted Kevin Durant.
I found it interesting when it's a guy, well okay, he's done everything he's won everything there's
no feeling in that sport that he has not felt right no wrong this feeling was
different for him play that.
I mean I think that's a little bit of a like that.
You know that that is.
I like this that's what this about.
Coming up as one of the other side of the world like this
Start USA chance our section start USA especially tonight. So we got to celebrate
You know me I know we want to win a goal but celebrate the small moments to
Bring you the closer right guarantee everybody they'll never forget about this night.
Everybody here will remember this night for the rest of their lives.
That's how special this is.
Because we came back and we show how together we were in that fourth quarter.
It was incredible.
Let's show as well and play as well, Jokic celebrating.
Again, this is the bronze medal.
Like he won the championship as the big star on the nuggets
and this is the bronze medal.
Look how happy he is.
["Joy to the World"]
This is mostly B-roll in a different language
for the audio audience, but.
Joy translates, Dan.
Yes, well, drinking and singing in chorus with your brothers. And beers with the boys always translate in any language, Stan. Yes, well, drinking and singing in chorus
with your brothers.
Having beers with the boys always translates
in any language, baby.
Mike is so right, you don't need to explain joy.
I mean, you just know it when you see it.
Unless they're German.
Good point.
And sometimes French.
I am also noticing for the first time in this video
that of the dozens of people there,
for some reason, Jokic is the only shirtless one.
Everyone else has kept their shirt on.
He's decided to take his shirt off.
And I will again say, Stugac, that as I look at that,
if you had asked me at any point outside of the 50s,
if that could dominate basketball,
I would say no, that will never be something
that can dominate
basketball. Looks like me with my shirt off in the club. It's not you, it looks like me
with the shirt off in the club. But that's what's going on here, I think to
answer your question about why does he seem more joyous, he look at what he's
surrounded by. He's surrounded by his homies, his friends, he comes over here
and plays with the people they signed for the contract. Like when I come to Miami,
I go out sometimes to have a good time,
but if I was to ever go out with Mike or Tony,
bro, we are living the spotlight,
but damn if we gotta go, as long as we understand,
brother, we got room to celebrate.
Those are his boys is what you're saying.
Doing it with your boys feels better
than doing it with a bunch of people
that you just happened to play with.
Bingo, nailed it.
I'm really happy about the general Olympic experience.
It wasn't too long ago where we were all complaining,
like this is boring, the stars just don't wanna do it,
we're not sending our best guys.
And Team USA, especially in this country,
did a really great job of engaging those talents,
building a really good, strong program,
and making it something that was a desirable thing
for these superstars and the rest of the world they always cared. There were international
competitions in which you thought the main reason the United States didn't win is because they
didn't care as much and it's really refreshing to see people care this much about this competition,
the Olympics, the way that they do all of them. I was watching a jump off over the weekend.
It was happening in between the US women's national team
gold medal and the gold medal basketball game for the men's.
There was a high jump competition.
As I understand it, the CV was on mute,
but it was being explained to me.
They tied.
They could have split the gold medal,
meaning they each get a gold medal.
They decided, no, let's have a jump off
where there is one clear winner and one silver medalist.
And it was the US against New Zealand.
New Zealand, I think, actually ended up winning the gold.
And I was wondering, like, why do you not like
the other person?
Because that would be the reason,
that would be my motivation.
I'm not splitting this with him.
F you!
Didn't US end tied with gold medals
with another country in the total medal now?
Yeah, with China.
So that means if we would have just taken that tie,
we would have won it?
Yeah, it would have been 40 and a half.
It's a good tie.
Good telling you guys.
We had more medals.
But to like what Mike is saying,
that's why I agree with Greeny.
That Steph Curry shot was the greatest shot in US history
because all these other shots happened
while the America is watching,
your team is watching,
and Utah is watching versus Chicago or some shit.
Nah, the entire world was sitting there
waiting for us to fail.
Can you imagine all these shows today if we would've lost?
Steph Curry saved us.
The number that that game pulled in was insane.
I saw people saying like 22 million on average
watched that game.
That's just like, those are numbers
that you cannot even comprehend.
And I thought the broadcast was also pretty enjoyable.
Throughout the entire Olympics,
maybe it's because I'm just coming from,
I have to hear Reggie Miller on every game,
mad respect, incredible, but come on.
I'm at my wits end with this.
I thought D Wade was super refreshing
to have his perspective because he was an all time great,
but he's around still an era
that you can consider contemporary.
So you have that perspective.
I thought he brought out the best in Noah Eagle.
And I really think that we were all in amazement
as Steph Curry was doing those things
that I didn't really catch it in the moment.
And a great call you kind of catch in the moment. So I'll talk out of both sides of my mouth here. But revisiting what Steph Curry was doing those things that I didn't really catch it in the moment and a great call you kind of catch in the
Moment so I'll talk out of both sides of my mouth here
But revisiting what Steph Curry did because I was in a bar that was super loud no way Eagle killed that call
He was awesome there when Steph Curry was going off. I thought he brought it
Laughed a little too hard at D Wade's jokes too many times
That's where you were headed and I agree with you. Wasn't that funny?
He said, a golden dagger.
I said, a tear.
Golden dagger?
That's great.
I think the French, I saw this clip, like I don't even know if it's a French broadcast
and as someone that doesn't like misinformation, but there was an international broadcast that
said the devil named Curry did it to us again.
A lot has changed over the years listening to audience.
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Lightning, this is a different team.
You're a Panther group chat though.
No, I think, no, but dude, you're so wrong on that.
We've been terrified of this team forever,
and I think there's a different energy where the Panthers,
they want the Lightning.
Stugats.
I want t-shirts made for this Panther run,
what could be this Panther run our Panther group chat
We're not afraid of the light. That's a tagline for world Rar 3
This is the Don LeVatar show with the StuGuts time now for StuGuts weekend observations
It is time for StuGuts to share his game notes
No one in the media will tell you what happened better than my voice too.
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Din, the wait is over.
It's been months since the last whistle blew.
But now the pads are on.
Rookies are out to prove
themselves. Veterans sharpening their skills. Quarterbacks that
make you go hmm. Position battles. Old faces. New places.
And Dan, just like that. Make no mistake about it. Preseason
football is back.
Excited? I was not excited. No. You are now though, right? No,
not really. That 2017 commander's late. Somewhere, Pat
McAfee is wondering why Asia Wilson is allowed to say bitch,
but he can't.
Soccer in America, if you want something done right. Really, this is a lesson for all of America in all things,
not just soccer.
Leave it to the women.
That's right. Yeah.
We'd all be better off.
We would. Yes, but you wouldn't have what happened in NASCAR.
You'd be denied that.
That picture of Steph Curry shot over Victor Wembenyama.
Hey, France, hang that in one of your fancy shmancy museums.
You didn't want to say the Louvre.
I did not want to say the Louvre.
I didn't know how to say I was not confident. That's the same. That's the one. Hang that one say the Lou I did not want to say the Lou I did not say I was not confident
The one hang that one in the Lou you wanted to go fancy shmancy he was afraid of the word museum
Do I was did it say Lou?
Yeah
He was scared of so many of the things
Put it on the pole please, Juju.
Does art scare Stu Gantz?
You did rob us of hang that in the lavery.
I wasn't sure I thought it was that.
Hang that in the louvre would have been great.
If I catch a foul ball in a baseball game.
Wrong set.
I'm not giving the ball to a little
kid. I caught it. It's my foul
ball. You know what the F in
foul ball stands for Dan? That
kid. I'm not giving him my ball.
I mean, no, that's not right.
That's not how you should behave
with the kid. You don't give the
kid a ball because he's a kid.
Okay. But you don't catch the ball if
you want the ball you don't say bleep that kid either uh you're right i wouldn't say it you did
say it well i was just making a joke yeah finfowl ball yeah yeah together yeah i'm actually saying
this yeah right yeah i'm not sure you believe me no Steph Curry generally don't you're talking clutch
American hero create a three dollar bill and put Steph on it
That's a good idea. That is a good idea. Yeah, put it on the pole. Should we put Steph Curry on a three dollar bill?
Larry Bird would like to have a word
He can have his word
When it's done, we'll just keep moving on with
the $3 bill with Steph Curry. Buying things $3 at a time. He could be on the back like of the
of the of the bill like laying on his back from the court watching Steph Curry
shoot a three. Only if we give Steph the $4 bill. Do not put him waving that towel though.
Noah Lyles leaving in a wheelchair and announcing he has COVID seconds after losing
the 200 meters where he was a massive favorite.
Noah, the StuGOTs is strong in you.
Also, heady play.
Noah Lyles saying he was insulted to get invited
to an Anthony Edwards Adidas event. Hey, Noah Lyles saying he was insulted to get invited to an Anthony Edwards Adidas event
Hey, Noah Lyles shut up. The only thing Noah Lyles runs better than the 100 is his mouth
Noah newsflash
We'll go back to pretending we care about your sport in four years
You guys do believe him on kovat right you do believe him
I mean say I believe that he had it
because there's tests to back that up.
But I'm saying you believe that that was the reason
that the race that he was favored to win,
that that happened.
He lost the heat too, but not the movie,
I'm excited about that, but he lost the heat prior to,
and he doesn't lose heats.
I mean, I could be talked into that. He's also asthmatic mean, I could be talked into that.
He's also asthmatic.
So I could be talking to that.
That seems like that would all slow you down.
But if he won though,
Zagack.
How does that work?
Are we still in the wheelchair with asthma
or are we running around the stadium even more?
He may argue different, but I'd bet my life on it.
You are not in that wheelchair.
If you win, you go to the wheelchair
and announce you have COVID still, don't you? It makes it seem more heroic. You tell people you have COVID. He are not in that wheelchair. No, if you win, you go to the wheelchair and announce you have COVID still, don't you?
It makes it seem more heroic.
You tell people you have COVID, he probably ditches the wheelchair.
Mike Greenberg said Steph Curry's shot was the most memorable shot in basketball history.
It wasn't. Top five shots in basketball history. Number five, Michael Jordan's buzzer beater versus Georgetown in the 82 National Championship game.
Number four, Michael Jordan's shot and shrug in the 92 finals.
Number three, any of Jordan's shots from the flu game.
Number two, Michael Jordan's shots from the flu game.
Number two, Michael Jordan's shot over Craig Elo.
And number one, Michael Jordan's game winner over Byron Russell.
I also don't know which shot Greeny is talking about.
Because to me it was like the display of shots
Like there wasn't like a singular one. Yeah, I guess the dagger that the
Last one rolling to his right with a double team coming to him
I think is the one he's talking about but it can be the photograph of wemba nyama
Like it can be that one too Carson Wentz is a chief
that one too Carson Wentz is a chief Oh huh surprised me huh yeah mm-hmm best job at sports backing up that guy
did you see Hollywood Brown's injury by the way what I'm a cheese like he's
hospitalized you may miss the start of the season shoulder injury your concern
was appropriate though I'm at the moment does it matter they have my homes I?
Mean I feel bad for Hollywood Brown. I don't want anyone to be in the Super Bowl
Doesn't matter doesn't matter like it feels so bad. They treated away to Reek Hill once you Super Bowl
I'm always I always go to funerals. Hey, I'm sorry for your lost condolences doesn't matter though. Does it really matter?
They have my homes doesn't matter though. Does it really matter? They have my homes does it matter?
You're saying sir and
Concerned he's on the fourth best player in the league Hollywood Brown if JJ McCarthy can keep playing
The Raiders third stringers. I like his chances
Maybe go hmm. No he did I gotta be honest with you.
Drew Holliday won a gold medal and did so quietly.
Hell, he does everything quietly.
I had no idea he was on the team.
Man, the bar that I was at was chaining Drew Essay.
And he's a Celtic.
I thought I started that, I started, that's mine.
You can't have that.
And I was the one that started Drew Essay
and you'll be happy to know that the people listened
and they liked it.
It appears all Jazz Chisholm needed was fans.
And a short porch.
That's it, you're right.
Headline, one Soto deal could complicate
Yankees ability to retain Clay Holmes.
That's like saying, if I buy a Ferrari, I might not be able to drive my Honda Civic anymore.
Clay Holmes is a Honda Civic?
Yes. Soto Ferrari.
Who cares if it complicates the Clay Holmes deal?
Honestly, who cares?
It's Soto! Taylor. Who cares if it complicates the Clay Holmes deal? Honestly, who cares?
It's Soto.
Taylor.
He's very good.
I mean, I don't know.
Taylor?
No.
He wrote that.
Not Taylor, Soto.
Congratulations to Kevin Durant
for adding a fourth gold medal
to his otherwise empty trophy case.
StuGott'sBook.com.
You know what I'm saying Curtis Samuel is a bill
Twins are placing a statue of Joe Maurer
Outside target field that statue can only go up if the plaque with it
mentions he was 0-10 in playoff games.
What happened?
Why would they do that?
Why not?
The truth?
Yeah, but.
I mean, why not?
You put the career highlights on the plaque,
but 0-10 in playoff games.
Why not?
Over.
Spencer Rattler.
He could sling it.
You agree that? I found him very disappointing at Oklahoma.
I wanted so much more from him.
Did you really?
Yes.
from him. Did you really? Yes. Okay. If a heat player even looks at another superstar, this
show assumes it means they want to come to Miami. Doing it with
Anthony Edwards now. It's embarrassing. He's not coming
here, but I think he's coming here. I mean, that's where
we're at. All I said it was something to watch. That's all I said.
Watch the arbitration in Minnesota.
With heat graphics behind you.
Well, but all I said is that it's interesting to watch what happens with the sale of the timber wool.
It's embarrassing.
Yeah, you mentioned that.
Taylor, stop embarrassing yourself.
Okay.
Stop embarrassing yourself. Okay.
USA Gymnastics is requesting the ruling be revised
and are submitting new video growing the inquiry
was filed in time.
What?
I have no idea.
It's about Jordan Childs.
I skipped one.
It's my bad.
It's on me.
It's not on Taylor.
I totally skipped one because one led right into the other
and I skipped it.
You're not even writing your own observation.
No, I'm writing the good
ones inquiry Boston Scout is a ramp top five athletes whose name canota state
capital or well-known city about this oh I Wilbert Montgomery Mike Lansing Lincoln Kennedy Gary Trent and DJ Dallas Trent
also works it doesn't have to be Trenton Trent also worked. Alan How's it spelled? Rollie? But it's Raleigh. Raleigh fingers. Knots!
Lift it up, I mean he's not wrong. He's not wrong.
In Knots.
Thank you.
Number three, Mitch Richmond.
Number two, Joe Juneau.
Number one, Juan Pierre.
Pierre, South Dakota. Number one one Pierre One what pier south dakota, thank you put number one us state capital jp. I mean
Who would be your number one it's my list not one that I have to scan my brain be like is that a city
Pierre know your state capitals. What happened toau cuz I was Alaska okay, but it's
still there Juneau
At least the list petered out do you know honestly on upon reflection Raleigh fingers
should have been number one
Perhaps Antonio Gibson is a patriot.
Shocking?
Dan, you know what the C in Caleb Williams stands for?
I do not. Canton.
Canton.
John Champion, great name for an Olympic broadcaster.
John Champion, top five people in sports
that can note winning.
OLI, Shane Victorino.
Number five, Ian Gold.
Number four, Bill Ring.
Number three, Champ Bailey.
Number two, Randy Wynn.
And number one, Michael Jordan.
Top five athletes that cannot losing.
Number five, people in sports, Adam Silver.
Wait a minute, that's not losing.
That's the second place.
Silver.
You're on the metal stand.
Yeah, but gold is on a higher metal stand.
Number four, Tank Johnson.
Number three, JP Lawson. Number two, Ernie Els. Another good list. Number one, the Jets.
Jalen Hurts. What? Some advice. Switch over to the fart sound. Come on, fart sound. Don't look over your shoulder. Mason Rudolph is a Tennessee Titan. So is Tony Pollard. So is Calvin Ridley.
Titans worth keeping an eye on. He looks good. Frank Gore Jr. Seven carries carries 21 yards. Perfect. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Draymond Green is more deserving of a gold medal than Jason Tatum. Warriors fans,
I get it. Rooting for Steph Curry was fun as hell. Speaking of hell,
Arp Riles, Dan, those are the weekend observations.
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