Hour 2: Happy Anniversary To The Montgomery Riverboat Brawl
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I want to ask the group about something because over the last couple of years, Roy has poured his heart and soul into a project that matters a lot to me and matters a lot to metal arc media, but I'm not sure how much it matters to Stu gots to Billy and to Mike, the hockey show, uh, not the hockey show. That is a different project that we've poured a lot into every Friday. Uh,

Every Friday, sometimes. Every Friday, even during the offseason? Yes, even in the offseason. What's happening right now? Nothing. Every Friday, sometimes, is what it was. When did it graduate to more often than every Friday? Every Friday. When did that happen?

Well, it's really happened throughout the entire season. It's the post-game show after Panthers games that's off and on. That's where I was confused. It does seem like you're hitting your stride in the offseason. Your consistency now is like you're nailing it, but the season's over. Yeah, well, it was free agency, trades, the draft, that sort of thing. That's what we were doing during the offseason. Cool, but now...

But that's not the show that I care deeply about. At this point, yes. Describe your own show as filler? Well, during the offseason. Take the offseason off. Roy has not done a great job of promoting his team. I haven't done a great job. That's an option. Tony's not doing an MMA hangout if there isn't a card.

Again, not the show that I wanted to talk about. Roy, the way that this has been promoted over there. I mean, they won the championship and it would be a great time to soar into the sky. The promotion has not been great on this, but that's not what I wanted to talk about. The other project that Roy has poured himself into a great deal is producing Because Miami, which is...

on Fridays and very polarizing for reasons that I understand. And I will tell you, and this was a conscious choice, a choice that was made. I know that every time because Miami airs, we lose listeners and we lose viewers. That is a choice that,

that I am making personally because I believe in what Billy Corbin is doing. Odd choice to make in a contract here. Thank you, Dan. Thank you. No, no, no. Look, this is what Stugatz is saying. It's easier and it's better to sit these things out. Play the hits, my man. But yes, that is the best and truest way to sell out is, yes, play the hits, my man.

But Roy and Billy Corbin have been doing important work over there, informed work over there, passionate work over there. And I would just urge you, uh,

uh to get yourself more informed with because miami uh billy i'm not sure that billy gill mike and tony and stugatz are on our side here roy but i ride with you i ride you are actively costing costing us listeners and i ride with you thank you dan i'm glad to be associated with a show that's uh

Making us lose listeners. Yeah, I appreciate that. I ride with the customers. I do. Of course you do. I mean, why wouldn't you? There are good songs on Because Miami. I catch those. I follow it. What's that word? Tangentially? Tangentially, yes. Excellent songs on Because Miami. They're doing some of the best music we do. We've got Taylor out here singing about John Olery. Hey, that's a banger. And you take that back. That's the best song we've created in quite some time. Maybe ever. And we did a musical that hit number one.

Billy, do you have that there? We can play it again if they want to hear some more John Olerud. But you don't dispute that the music is better on Because Miami than it is on our show lately, no? No, but it also is like not casting is wide and net. You have to know a lot about local Miami politics. Whereas everyone knows about the 2001 Seattle Mariners. John Olerud's like hard hat. That's...

That's stuff that people know. And we're losing listeners, so we're not necessarily listening to the song because they're not listening anymore. That's right. It happens, but Billy Corbin is going to be on the right side of everything, and he's going to lose. I think he's on the left side of everything. Yeah? No, I think he's in the middle. Ha ha ha!

He is not in the middle. Oh, leaning left. I couldn't even muster a laugh because my gallbladder got in the way. He cannot be called in the middle. The middle is moved and it's moved far away from wherever it is Billy Corbin. Exactly. The middle has moved and that's where he is right now. Down the middle Billy Corbin. That's what they call him.

What happened with the sin and Olympians getting sick and having their entire hopes derailed because they brought back their sickness to the relay team because you can't swim in a river of shit. Yeah, well, I think you called it. We were all a little worried about that one athlete saying,

tested positive for E. coli after they swam in the river. And that's really unfortunate because they had another event, a team event, and their entire team is now disqualified because of this case of E. coli. There was also another image of a triathlete emerging from the water and immediately yakking. Huh.

So walk me through the timeline here. Remember, there was a protest that everybody in France was going to go shit in the river, right? That was a thing. That is correct. And there was a great deal of security that prevented that from happening, especially the day of the opening ceremony. It's a notoriously dirty river, I imagine? Yes, and it's gotten dirty over the last few years of all the things we do to the earth. Okay, so this dates back to like the dates of the catacomb.

quite honestly. Like they've been polluting this one for a while. But the IOC was like, you know what we're going to do? Triathlon. We're going to have the people swim in the dirty water and then keep going. So that's a conscientious thought that everybody had and was like, you go with it, Mike? Billy? Roy? Everybody good? Okay, let's do that. Yeah. And if you watch Under Paris, this Netflix foreign film, like that's a part. Yeah, that's the one with the shark where that's also a big moment where Mayer's like, I feel good about this triathlete.

that we're going to have. But this shark that is adapted and it's made itself pregnant just feasts on them. What a final act this film has. Did they get the sharks out for the Olympics? No sharks out for the Olympics. Remember there was a real life beluga whale that was in that river. That happened a few years ago. That went viral.

It was not as cute as a shark. Is it a shit shark? It's a shit shark? No, no, they didn't talk about the contamination in the river. They were wondering how a shark could live in that water, but the shark evolved because of climate change. So why can't they just do all of these swimming things in Tahiti where the surfing is?

It's an excellent question. Well, why a river? I mean, jumping in any river is a dangerous game, is it not? Rivers are dangerous. I'm not a freshwater man. I feel like rivers and lakes are fine. Rivers and lakes are kind of on the edge there. I mean... I've got to have so much trust in the body of water that is relatively stagnant.

That's why I only bathe in Lake Tahoe. It's the only one. What was the country? Was it Brazil that got out of the water vomiting? Like what was the country that got their relay hopes dashed by the fact that one swimmer got sick or one decathlete got sick? Like what was the event? We're talking about two separate things. Now, I imagine the person with E. coli definitely did throw up. But in that moment, immediately getting out of the water, I don't think this is the same athlete or crack staff is on it. How?

hard is it to switch like a relay person in swimming where they wear goggles and like the you know the cap on their head I feel like you just sub someone in right who's gonna know well exactly right no one's gonna know well informed of the Brazilian swim team you know

whatever it is. Canadian team, by the way. Switch someone out. Why can't you swap someone out? I'd try that before I just give up. Like, I'd rather get disqualified for getting caught cheating than just not even trying. Wouldn't you? Triathlete Tyler Mislachuk threw up 10 times after swimming in the Seine River. 10 times. Wow. Huh.

It's insane. That'll get you dehydrated pretty quick. Do you have the John Olerud song, please, so that I can just play Taylor again singing about John Olerud as our crew claims that our music is better than Because Miami's. Saturday morning, woke up for the game and put on my M's hat. Got in my car and raced to the park. A season to remember.

Garcia and Moyer, best staff in the land Boone's bat brought the heat Piniella just got ejected again Cameron's in the outfield, no balls hit the ground Kasehiro, Suzuki in for the save Ichiro is on the bases, yeah he's flying around Edgar Martinez is a fan-fafe At first it shone Ola Roode

Wearing a helmet in the field too. At first it's John O'LeRoot. We'll lose to the Yankees anyway. Lose to the Yankees. Lose to them anyway. Lose to the Yankees. Yeah, no matter where we play. Lose to the Yankees. Damn, this is blasphemy. At first it's John O'LeRoot.

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Don Levitard. Tristan Schultz. Stugatz. Tristan Schultz. This is the Don Levitard Show with the Stugatz.

There's never enough time here, Stugatz, to talk about all the things I want to talk about with this man. Kamala's VP pick, the Olympics, three-on-three basketball, road to Rickwood. I want to talk about all of them, but Roy Wood, I need to talk about something else here before anything else. We need to, as a show, celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Montgomery Riverboat Brawl. I believe it to be one of

the funniest videos that has ever existed in the history of people communicating. Poor, lowly Alabama black riverboat captain attacked by drunk white people who refused to move their boat so that the riverboat could take its proper parking space at the dock.

a 501 ass whooping turned into a 40 on five ass whooping in reverse. They turned it around like the bills at halftime with Frank Wright taking them down the field down, was it 38, 35? I don't know, you remember that ass whooping. - Yes, yes. - Listen, this is one of the seminal moments in black history that if not for anti-CRT legislation would be in the history books for the children to study.

for years to come. But this is also about healing, Dan Lepotard, because on the same day as the anniversary of these white people getting stomped out, Kamala Harris is set to name a white man as her vice president. Now, we don't know which white man, but we do know it's a white man. You think that's a coincidence that she's going to announce the white man right at the same time as the anniversary of the riverboat ass whooping? She's bringing the country together, man.

We do know it's going to be a white man. Put it on the poll, please, Juju, at Levitard Show. Is the Montgomery Riverboat Brawl one of the seminal moments in black history? Please just roll that video over everything that we're saying here because I have not been able to talk to Roy about this. But what is your favorite part? Because the

The part that I remember that made me laugh the most was when a black guy jumped into the water and swam toward the fight. A teenager! That kid was 16 years old, Dan Levitard, and you know how hard you have to work to get sneakers as a teenager. And he ruined them.

in exchange for swimming to help somebody else, man. That was a wonderful, wonderful. What's funny is that the city of Montgomery won't acknowledge it because they won't put a plaque up or nothing. They just, oh, no, that did not happen. Come on, no, we've got to put up a plaque. How do we do that? How do we do that as a show? How do we figure out a way to get a plaque put up there? Or a bronze chair. Oh, boy. I like that better. I like the chair.

That's a much better suggestion. Do we have the power to do this? I mean, every week John Oliver is doing something ridiculous on Sundays where he spends an enormous amount of money to put something stupid somewhere. Do we have the ability? Do you have the power to help us do this?

I can make some couple of calls. I am friends with Mayor Stephen Reed of Montgomery, and I'll talk to the old mayor offline. Let's not call him cold turkey right now. OK. And I wish we could see what they have up their sleeve. I think it's just one of those funny moments where I don't think anybody knew. If you showed that video to anybody and asked them to guess what would happen next, they would not be able to guess what happens next.

That's one of the many reasons that it is funny. We've just seen people dumped into the water. He's got shows this month in Denver, New York, New Jersey, all over the place. He is still out there hustling. RoyWoodJr.com is where you go. The website is RoyWoodJr.com. He's taping a new special for Hulu next month in D.C., and we've told you Road to Rickwood is very good. It's the podcast on civil rights and baseball with NPR because he does –

some very serious work around the comedy that has some depth to it. Do you have anything for us on what you want from Kamala's VP pick? Can I just say that I don't think anybody on earth is prepared for the level of vetting that happens on

Is it me or was it just like last week, the week of secrets? Like every VP has done something that you don't like or they voted wrong on the thing that you support and

a week before that they were all the perfect white man. And now we didn't find out RFK is taking dead animals and putting them in the park and taking selfies with them or whatever the hell that was about. We found out that the second gentleman cheated in the first marriage. Wow.

We're just not talking about this. That's what happens during a VP vetting. They find everybody's secrets, man. Hold on. Everybody's trying to throw shade. Tell me about this RFK thing. So part of what I heard was that he saw a bear on the road that had been killed as roadkill and he got it for meat and he was going to put it in his fridge, but then he had to get out of town and you can continue the story from there. It's absurd. As far as I understand, as the team, as far as I understand, he took the bear into Central Park

Did he take a picture with it? Did he take a picture of the-- you lost me at put roadkill in car. At that point, I'm like, you can't be president. At no point-- unless you're from West Virginia, maybe Eastern, like, Appalachia, all right, y'all eat roadkill. Like, that's an understood thing there. But if you just-- yeah, man, I saw a dead bear. I was like, man, let me put this thing in the car.

And then put it in Central Park and spin this thing politically. Like, no, man, you can't do that. Put it on the poll, please, Juju, at Levitard Show. Is it okay to run for president if you're from West Virginia and put roadkill in the car? Because that's the only place that you're allowing it.

I had not heard of the idea of bear meat has just been killed by a car, but he never got to refrigerate it. He never got to actually eat the meat. He dumped it in Central Park. Well, didn't dump it. Did he dump it? He staged it. He staged like he was trying to scare cyclists with it. He wasn't just dumping it. Yeah, not before taking a photo with it. And I guess in this whole plan to salvage the bear meat, he forgot that he was traveling that day and realized, I can't take this bear cart.

I mean, Roy, it's never been this dumb. The whole thing has never been this dumb. Drew Unger had a tweet that said, I can't believe Cheryl Hines is now more embarrassed of her real-life husband than her TV husband. Ha ha ha.

Don't you just miss sex scandals being what politicians did wrong? Put it on the poll, Juju. Don't you just miss... Sure, the Kennedys do. ...banged somebody who wasn't supposed to bang, was it Marilyn Monroe or Lewinsky? And now it's like, because of all this digging and all this deep dive stuff and then finding J.D. Vance's old social media posts, now we're finding out way too much. I know we're supposed to know about a politician as a person and how they vote, but I don't...

I don't even know all that. You know what? You're so right about this, though. He has desecrated the Kennedy day more nowhere than in trading the sex scandal for a roadkill scandal. Don't tell him short. He has a sex scandal and a harassment scandal. That's out there, too. And he took a very curious approach to it. He's like, more stuff is coming out.

You gotta keep the scandal simple. That's why you got to respect Hunter Biden. That's old-school scandal-type behavior right there, bro. That's just drugs and sex. Like, it's like, "Okay, fine." He's not taking dead animals to the park to try and scare people on cycles.

Have you been enjoying the Olympics? You're the host on Peacock of a new competition show called The Other Games. It features events like swirling, dirty, what is it, ball busters, extreme flip cup. Yeah, we're the bootleg Olympics. We're all the events that didn't get approved by the IOC, but it's still a good watch. I've had a good time. Do you guys feel like the Olympic shit river is an important part of the competition? Like, I kind of like the element of...

of death, like E. coli poisoning, because it levels the playing field. It's an X factor that you can't account for in any shape, form, or fashion. I almost feel like we need an environmental disaster integrated into every game. That's why L.A. is going to be perfect for the summer games. What we got right now in L.A., the fourth largest wildfire in history. Run the bikes through it!

We're in the mountains. Yeah, we do need to raise the stakes. You held that smoke, baby. We'll see if you win now. You saw that American who won the cycling the other day. She hit that Super Mario boost in the last like half a mile and won so big nobody else was in the picture.

Put her in the Big Bear Mountains, North of Cali, with the smoke coming down her lungs. Do it through the flames. They got to do the triathlon in the LA River, that four-inch canal that the Terminator was chasing John Connor through. Oh, my God.

Just everybody scraped up with concrete scars. You have it right, though. Raise the stakes with E. coli. Raise the stakes. It's a shame that the athletes aren't all getting a fair share, a fair shake in the water because of the whole environmental stuff that they tried to fix. But I think what we've learned in this is that you can't say the water's dirty today and clean tomorrow and dirty today and dirty tomorrow. You know how you take a dump?

And then you flush that dump. And then there's still particles from the previous flush in the clean water. That's what the river is like. I feel like that's what they're doing in Paris. Like, they dump it, and then they go, all right, it's good. It's like, nah, man, they're still...

there's still particles, remnants, remnants. You got a double flush before you tell me to get back in the water, baby. And they not double flushing in Paris. And that's the problem. Do you have any climate change, uh, events that you're thinking of particularly, or you just want like, what are you adding sports to the Olympics? No, I don't want to add sports. I just want to add the element of environmental change so that we can see just how, you know, what we almost had it with FIFA. Uh,

Was it Dubai where it was like 120 degrees, but they covered every stadium like a coward? So I think 2028 LA is a prime opportunity to show people just how much the world is ending. A dry LA river for all water events. I like that.

We can pray for a fire. Not an inferno. I don't want people to die, but just something enough to just hit them lungs really hard. Remember when you smoked a cigar the wrong way for the first time? You want that for a couple of miles on the incline, too. And if not, if there's no fire, we can do a controlled burn. We got professionals. We know how to

Make fire. Make it more challenging. We deserve this. We did it to ourselves. Gators in the water, also for water events, but I haven't figured out how to not kill the swimmers in the earlier heats. What is the dirty dishcus that the other games does on Peacock? What is the dirty dishcus? Yo, man, so many of these games, you remember Wipeout?

which was basically a remake of MXC. That's literally what it is. Like Kevin Hart and his Heartbeat Productions company put together a show where we just got influencers and random people to literally just throw themselves up against walls to jump and run and just do all types of insanity, man.

The three-on-three basketball interesting to you? Or are you only interested in the big basketball team? How are we drafting these people? And I'm not trying to hate on whoever. Like, why isn't Jalen Brown? Why is the NBA players not involved? Why are the big three? The big three champion should represent America in three-on-three. It's a good point. Jimmer for debt? Like, why are we doing better than that? Shooter. But, again, I have to say.

I think I have a delineation here. The NBA players don't play outside. That's the biggest thing. All three on three basketballs played outside. NBA players don't play on hardtop, don't play outside. That's the difference.

But didn't they all play outside when they were poor? You can't channel poor again? At one point, you're right, Roy. I'm with you, Roy. I'd rather have Jalen Brown playing on a hard court outside for the first time than a Berry brother that I just learned existed. You know how hard it is to just learn that Rick Berry had another son? And then see him get dunked on by somebody from a country you can't pronounce.

I like three on three. I do think that as Americans, the Olympics, we aren't willing to concede that they are other countries and they know how to do the thing too. They've been watching YouTube tutorials. They're good now. It's okay to lose if you're an American. It's not the end of the world. Also, I do respect that the American ping pong team, you see what they did, right?

I saw like the Chinese keep winning ping pong and then America basically did the reverse of what all the basketball teams do. Like all the basketball, like so many black Canadians all of a sudden on Canada's team. I didn't know all these black people were black Canadians. And then Americans were like, okay, well we're going to get us some Asian Americans who've learned ping pong straight from the source and then put them on the American team and that's how we're going to compete. That's like, we're basically in some sort of weird,

international transfer portal with countries. That's really what the Olympics is now. It's like, okay, you're black until we need you. And then we need you to come over here for a little while. Would you mind being Cape Veridian for a little while?

You say it's okay to lose as Americans, but the first thing you're doing is saying, hey, why isn't Jalen Brown playing for us in three-on-three? Because we're losing 21-6 to the Dutch. It's okay to lose. I didn't say it's okay to start 15th seeded. How deep do we go? Who said, who?

Who did they lose to to qualify? I'm not saying put a bunch of scrubs on the roster with respect to Rick Barry and Fredette. I'm just saying if there are better people who are available and free, put Steven Jackson. You think Steven Jackson won't foul out and play hard?

outside, anytime, anybody. We're talking about the same man that takes softball serious and he never did that professionally. Yeah, he ran you off. He ran you off celebrity softball forever. I just, I don't know, man. I just think with certain sports, it would be cool to have the washed up American or the recently retired American who used to do the thing professionally, you know, but like, I'm not, I'm not over here sad because we, we didn't win, uh,

kayak slalom, whatever the hell that was. It's basketball. That's Tony's sport, isn't it? Jess, I don't remember her last name, but she had a 360 on 14 that she went into the water and spun out one gold. Incredible. But what Roy is saying is we should never lose in basketball to anyone.

That's what he's saying, essentially, right? But it's getting harder now because all the blacks are entering the transfer portal and claiming other countries now. So I don't know how much longer we can do this. Before we get you out of here, we haven't done your semi-sure bet of the week. Did you have any thoughts on Noah Lyles and that race? And can we tie it in any way to your semi-sure bet of the week? Or are we not doing that this week? Congratulations to Noah Lyles for shutting up Twitter. They were waiting to jump on that boy. And that boy won by...

Damn, as my mom said, he won by his bottom lip. I'm not sure if I can tell that joke in public. I'm not even sure if y'all can laugh at it. I don't know. It's too late. I'm already there. It's too late. Here's the thing. When America wins the gold in the 100-meter dash, men or women, the Chicago Cubs have won the next day.

Moneyline Chicago Cubs. Also, hang on, hang on. Cubs always win the next day, and the Twins always win the next day. And the Twins winning streak goes all the way back to 1984. We're talking Carl Lewis, Evelyn Ashford level, LA Olympics 84. So the day after we win goal in the 100, Cubs and Twins win. Here's the problem, Levittar. Cubs and Twins are playing each other. Oh, wow. Something has to give. Ian Happ's got a shoulder. Here's your tiebreaker.

Here's your tiebreaker for tonight's game. Last year, August 5th, same day as the boat brawl, the Cubs won and the Twins won. But the Twins won by 12 runs. Therefore, the Twins are traditionally more of an offensive powerhouse when we're remembering a recent Southern race war.

Twins for the win. Guaranteed semi-sure bet for today. Bet everything you want. Take your kid's retirement. Take your kid's college education. My kids don't have retirement. Have you been watching the markets? Oh, yeah. That's a whole – we have to talk about that. For the first time since 2021, Top Shot has outperformed the stock market. What?

I'm putting on, I'm investing all my kids stuff in skee-ball tickets. Here's some tickets. Go buy something for yourself, Dave and Buster's. Yeah, that's the Simmy Show bet, bro. Give me the twins today. And later this week when the U.S., if we get gold in the 200.

Give me the Cubs always going to extra innings. Anytime the United States gets a gold in the 100 and the 200, the Cubs go to extra innings. The Cubs are playing the White Sox later this week. The White Sox, I don't know if you heard, 20-game losing streak. Yeah, they're really bad. Really bad. Probably should pick the Cubs. They do. It's all Cubs week. It's twins right now. And then when the Cubs go to play the White Sox, you go Cubs over Sox and extra innings.

That is the Semi-Sure Bet of the Week. Get tickets at Roy. And apologies to everybody who lost money on my bet last time I was on. That's my bet. It was Semi-Sure. You didn't say it was a sure bet. It was just a semi-sure. You said to bet everything on his Semi-Sure bet. Also, buy some tickets. RoyWoodJr.com. Thank you, sir. We appreciate the time. See y'all.

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Don Levatard. Sub 500 seasons, it's been lonely. Now the best players on our side.

Been losing and losing for much too long. But now we're back with New York Pride. Stugatz. Jalen. You've got us on our feet. Jalen. We're gonna win the East. Jalen. Without Randall, we're still doing fine. This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz. Stugatz.

Roy, the other Roy, the other black Roy that we have around here, he is objecting pretty, I'm not going to say violently, but he's upset about us giving Taylor status as a better music maker than some of the stuff that's on Because Miami. He has called Dave his reinforcements. Dave turns these into video and

These are not being seen because we lose listeners and viewers all the time with Because Miami, but the songs and the videos are extraordinary. They're exceptional. And Roy has asked Dave to send him three. Is this your bronze, silver, and gold medal of favorite Because Miami songs? No, we're just going to play them at random because I know that all of them are better than Taylor's soul. Play the first one. Okay. Okay.

Endorsed by the Dems of Miami-Dade where they're obviously comfy with more of the same freaking bozos. B-O-Z-O bozos. A baker's dozen vying for this thing, but they only interviewed two out of 13 and picked Covo. Please don't vote for Covo. There are no Mariners in this song. Yep, one nothing Taylor.

Eight minutes left on that. Oh, Jesus. All right, let's fade that one out if there are eight minutes left on that. That is one vote for Taylor over Because Miami there. Everyone agrees on that? Not even close. It was a weak start. All right, so this is the best of what we're doing on Because Miami, sent by Dave himself. Number two here. Let's see what we've got. What it's like passing away. And if you advocate for fundamental human rights, then you don't.

Taylor. That was very early. No Kaz Sasaki yet. I'm giving it a shot. John Allred might make an appearance here. There we go. Debuting is nine now. Oh, no. DeSantis. Another eight minutes left on that one, too. There's Mike Cameron. How much more time is there on this one, Billy? It feels like endless. He said he picked these at random. He probably should have.

Vetted them more. Well, I asked Roy to get the very best of what it is because Miami does music. Oh, it sounds the same but louder. Yes, these are the best. I mean, those aren't the best. These aren't the best, though. I've heard. I thought Edgar Martinez was better than this. So what is our third one here? What is our third nominee? Billy is delighted that Taylor is somehow winning this. He's up 2-0. I mean, he's won. Wow.

Love the song choice. Great song choice. Can we play the real song? I'm super rich, so you can't be mean to me. Public or in private, surely where people can see you mean to me. Cause that hurts my feelings. See, and this is so something. Oh, this is a John Ruiz song. And be threatened.

This one's good, right? But they are more obscure subject matter. Yeah.

That people tune out. More obscure than the 2001 Seattle Mariners and their collapse to the Yankees in the playoffs. I know. I'm not saying that that one is... The song needed to be written, though. Max Hulme's obscure. When I was gone last week, I got a text from Taylor that was just a link to the song. He's like, I think I'm going to write a song about the 2001 Mariners. I was like, okay, let me know. And then he sent it to me, and I'm like, did they play that on the show? And he's like, yeah. And I'm like...

How did they manage to set that up? How did this come up? I just came in here and Chris Cody and Mike Ryan are leaning on each other, falling on the floor laughing because Taylor's made a song that's so awful that they love it. Awful? It's a good song.

Edgar Martinez. It's up 3-0 right now. 3-0! You can take issue with the vocal performance, but the song choice is very strong. The lyrics are strong. The subject matter, A+. How could you rhyme John Olerud with rude? Genius. Exactly. The vocals, though, is what makes it charming. I don't want it to be too professional, too good. I want it to be tailored. Something's to be said for a lo-fi approach. Mm-hmm.

Stugatz, you do a pretty good job of overcoming all things that you are with this aforementioned charm you speak of. Charming. Thank you. You are charming and we love you in spite of yourself. But the criticism is pouring in because you have dared to go after Simone Biles, which is a bit sacrilegious, saying that she needs to not hop.

While landing on the dismount. Right. And somebody writes in Stugatz once again, proving himself to be the dumbest, least informed, most useless person in the room would be true for just about any room. Give this man airtime. And it is a crime against journalism, television, radio waves and human hearing.

And it's based on a rabid outpouring that is headed your way because you've dared to be the one media voice anywhere nationally or internationally to be criticizing Simone Biles. I mean, on the front end, I said she's great, perhaps the greatest Olympic champion we've ever had, perhaps the greatest gymnast that we've ever seen, but in that

particular moment on the vault, I prefer my landings to be stuck. She did not stick the landings. The girl who got the silver stuck the landings. I don't care about twirls and height and all that. Stick the landing. That's part of it. That's all I said. The woman... And to be accurate, he wasn't alone.

What do you mean he wasn't alone? It wasn't the lone voice. Thank you. He was definitely like a two-man dance. Well, Billy encourages Stugatz's worst behavior. What did I do? What do you mean? You did. You fanned flames. What do you mean, what did you do? You fanned flames. I remember praising Michael Phelps. I remember praising, what was the other guy?

You fanned flames. This is what happens, Billy. For those who don't see behind the curtain, you come back from vacation and you push Dugatz into the street is what you do. That's what you do emotionally. In fairness to Billy, I came up with a Biles take on my own. I'm fine with it. I'm totally comfortable. You want to come after me? Come after me. We're not allowed to say a bad thing about Simone Biles. Please. I've said a million great things about her. One bad

That's all you remember? It wasn't. Excuse me. I think this is revisionist history because I don't remember it this way at all. I don't remember Stugatz criticizing Simone Biles. I remember him defending the art of gymnastics. Thank you.

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