Hour 2: The Olympic Sport Correspondent Draft
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We're going to get to this Wyatt Yeager in a second because he tried to speed off and flee a whale breaching. We're not so sure about that. I think he was going back. I know what someone who is about to dip looks like. I saw that. Okay, well, we're accusing him of being a fleer. Let's play that video. Let's just show that video again of a whale breaching in New Hampshire yesterday. Just totally horrifying. And there he is. There's Wyatt. See ya.

He looks like I just noticed Wyatt has a line in the water and has to make the quick decision. Watch his hand. I'm telling you, that's a U-turn. That's a U-turn there, guys. Okay. We're going to find out from him. He will have answers. He's joining us from the same dock where he and his 16-year-old brother Colin launched their boat before the accident that we've seen here. Wyatt, thank you for joining us. We appreciate it. Can you take us through what happened here? How weird this was?

Yeah, this was actually crazy. So we got there, we saw this whale, started making its way over, and it was feeding on those pogies, the baitfish. And it started breaching a few times, and then all of a sudden it breached up super high and hit the boat and flipped him over. And so what was happening with the person who's on that boat? Do you know that person? No.

No, we didn't know them, but we went over and picked them up and talked to them. You're a hero, Zach! We got them. You're a hero! Well, there were about five or ten other boats there. Who was first? You? Who was there first?

We were there first. Oh, you're the hero. Wow. So you immediately turned around to go check on them? Yep. Yep. Yep. Were you worried that, wait, is this a rogue whale? Is this whale going to do this again? Honestly, looking back at the video, it kind of should have crossed my mind, but it didn't cross my mind in the moment. You went into hero mode.

Yeah, well, I was pretty scared, like, for them and just scared, like, what just happened. But I kind of had a duty to just go help them. That is how heroes do interviews right there. That is, you don't think about yourself. You just go into heroism mode. Can you tell us, the people who were on the boat, tell us what condition they were in, how scared they were, what level of surprise they were under?

They, yeah, it was, this was kind of crazy to me too, that they were fine. They were like, they were kind of laughing, like smiling, like, wow, that was, that was pretty cool. Like they, they were obviously a little bit shooken up because I don't think anyone can just walk away from that totally fine. But, but they were, they were in good spirits. They,

They thought it was pretty cool, and they were just happy to be alive. How long were they in the water? They said under a minute. I'd say it's hard for me to remember, but between a minute and two minutes, I'd say. Their boat was capsized, right? How did we get it back to normal? When me and my brother were heading in, we saw a rescue team. I think they...

I think they went under the boat and filled up some, uh, some buoys or something and flipped it over and then towed it back in. I'm not exactly sure on the process, but I think that's what they did. Is the boat now fine? The boat that was capsized is now usable the next day? Um, other than the motor, the motor got, got a little bit crushed. Um,

but other than that yeah the boat is pretty much perfectly fine you know the internet these days there were people theorizing that oh this whale exacted some revenge because they were too close to it and there were probably signs that this whale was agitated to you were there any signs that this was a possibility with this whale no i wouldn't say so it was just simply it was feeding on the fish um

We, looking back at it, we all could have maybe been like a little bit farther back, but we're trying to stay on the edge of the school of fish for other boaters, like other fishermen too. But I don't think it was, it was just a crazy mistake. You catch anything good that day? How'd they bite you? Oh yeah. They were insane. Best I've ever had. Whoa. What'd you get?

I got a 49 inch striper. It was probably about 50 pounds. And then we caught some other like in between 35 and 45 striper. Hell yeah. Were you pissed that this ruined your day? Like now you have to go take this dummy in because his boat got knocked over by a whale? No. Uh,

We could have totally gone back out like 10 minutes after. We dropped them off with their friend and we were debating. It didn't ruin our day at all. We could have went back out if we wanted to. This was the best fishing day of your life? Yeah. I caught the best fish I have and

My brother caught the coolest video. Okay, so you're saying it's not just that you remember the fishing. You are also enjoying this hero's lap that you get to take all of a sudden. Look at you doing interviews. It's beaming. So you have a fish story. You have an amazing day, and every fisherman wants a story like this. Yeah, I mean—

I would say so, yeah, just because everyone was okay. The whale was okay. The boat was okay. It was a pretty cool experience looking back at it. And the fishing was great. It was a great experience.

It's a good day, definitely. But I'm just glad everyone was okay. That is an important part to say. You've got that part of the Heroes interview right. You've got it down. It's a good thing that no one was hurt here. My fishing day would have been ruined if somebody's father had died. How many people did you send a video to before you posted it on social media? Um...

We, I sent it to my family group chat and then I sent it to some of my friends. And then we, we actually, we tried to sell the video because the people in the boat were like, you guys should totally sell that video. So we're like looking into that. It didn't really work out. So we just posted it on our stories. And then I think,

Someone got a hold of it. Take me through some of the negotiations and the sad offers you got. Did you call TMZ? How did the sales portion of this go before you abandoned it? What was the asking price? We were lost. We had no clue anything about this whole process. We started calling up just the local news because we had no idea who would want this. We had no idea what we were doing. What's the pitch? Do you say, we have a video? Do you want to buy it? $20. $20.

Yeah, it was pretty much like that. We got this cool video if you guys want it. Yeah, your negotiation needs some work. Can you tell us about the good responses that you got from some of the people you did send it to before you tried to sell it for $20? My friends were going crazy. They were like, what just happened? They were...

They were very confused. Laughing their asses off. Yeah. Yeah. When they heard everyone was okay, like it was just...

Because everyone's first reaction was, is everyone okay? But yeah, it was pretty funny. Is it okay to laugh at this now? It's because no one has actually died in the making of this video. Wyatt, thank you for being on with us. You're an American hero. We appreciate your work. Thank you, Wyatt. I apologize for doubting your heroism. We apologize to you for thinking that you were immediately fleeing. You looked like you were scared. You did. You didn't look like a hero jumping into action. You looked like someone fleeing a crime.

Yeah, well, it's all good. It is all good. No one was hurt in the making of this video except for Wyatt's feelings because he tried to sell it and it was pathetic. The way that all of that... And that 150 Yamaha. Yes, and then the motor of the 150 Yamaha. Thank you, Wyatt. Appreciate the time, sir. Are you regretting not coming up with a catchphrase afterwards? Like, if you would have said Hak Tua, you could have, like, won millions. Yes, you could have. Yeah, no, I mean, honestly, I...

I kind of hate all the, I wouldn't say I hate the attention, but it's cool. Doing an interview. Looked at the camera, said, we're having a whale of a day. I'm not, I'm happy with how it turned out. I'm very happy. Because no one was hurt. Right. Because no one was hurt. Exactly. Thank you, Wyatt. Thank you, Wyatt. Beer's on me next time when you're of age. Wyatt and LeBron, both uncomfortable with praise.

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All right, guys. Well, Olympic time happening right now. Obviously, the games are started. The opening ceremony is yet to be done. So we're still trying to figure that part out. But I'm going to go into the Olympic canoeing slalom. A very important exercise. We've got... What?

Tony, I'm going to need your energy to be just a little quicker, a little faster here, and some of your word choices to be a little bit better. Let my boy cook. Adam Burgess from Great Britain. He is plus 900 in the canoeing slalom for this year. We're locking in.

Adam Burgess. The spread. Against the spread. That is a future. We can't do this this poorly. We can't. We're in a contract year. We have to do better than this. Mike, over to you. I got this. All right. I did a lot of prep on this. Zach Eflin. He's a pitcher. He pitches for Tampa Bay. Yes, he does. Yeah, he's coming off a bad start. And so I looked at who he's playing today. It's Toronto Blue Jays. Last time he pitched against them.

Didn't turn out so good. So let's keep with that trend. I'm going to take the Blue Jays. Only minus 180 in some books for plus one and a half. Against the spread. All right, Dan, last week on Against the Spread, me and the blacksmiths told you pound that steel. Take Justin's steel. He can't miss. He's been hot. He's had two great back-to-back starts. And guess what? He missed. But you know what happens with the blacksmiths?

You miss once, you keep pounding that steel. You don't miss again. And today, Justin Steele takes on the Brewers in their minus one and a half. Pound that steel. Justin Steele against the spread. Can I redo mine? Because what happened was I didn't know Chris was going to throw it to me. He threw it to me. I was on the canoeing slalom. So it was tough. I like Tyler Glass now, by the way, tonight. With the Dodgers? Bonus spread.

I like Tyler Glass now against the Giants. In a contract year, we cannot be betting canoeing.

It's an Olympics year. What are we supposed to do? It lined up perfectly. The stars have aligned. Where you should see is on this. It's also a slalom. That's not a spread. That was a future. So he cleaned it up. Future is the spread. All right. Thank you for nothing. We have to do better over the course of the next year for DraftKings. We have a very good deal with DraftKings that is about to expire, and it is something that we should protect and honor.

honor better than we just did there stammering our way through that segment the way that you guys did. I said three things and we're all right. Yeah. Zach Eflin, name right. He's a Ray. Got that right. They're playing the Blue Jays. You bet the Blue Jays though they can't score against anybody in your house. Well, apparently they can score against Zach Eflin.

I want to spin the wheel. We have a lot of issues that we have not gotten to. And Zaslo, I need you to pick from these topics on the wheel. We have an emotional Jim Leland. We have Greg Cody inexplicably ripping Michael Phelps yesterday. We have Taylor Walls of the Rays, the aforementioned Rays, doing a Donald Trump celebration. We have Alpha Brain.

Mike Ryan can't stop taking to try and improve his brain power. We have some ACC news. We have Lionel Messi and we have something that Jim Harbaugh has said about Lamar Jackson. So let's spin the wheel and have Zaz tell us where it is that that wheel has landed. What subject? Oh, Greg Cove.

Greg Cody, Michael Phelps conversation. Yes, I like it. Okay, so yesterday on the show out of nowhere, trying to up his notoriety after taking out Conor McDavid during the Stanley Cup final and making the NHL final about himself.

Greg Cody said, objected to a list of top 100 athletes by saying your number one athlete on that list cannot be an athlete that we care about or actually said that we can give a shit about that we don't give a shit about except for two weeks out of every four years. Totally agree.

Totally agree. That's a fair point that he made there, but that's not even the point that I would make. The point that I'm making is Michael Phelps is the greatest athlete since the year 2000. You're telling me you put Michael Phelps right here in front of me and right here is LeBron James and I'm supposed to go with Michael Phelps? Greatest athlete? No, no, no.

I don't like that at all. More dominant, like more distance between him and the nearest competitor than whatever the distance would be between LeBron and the nearest competitor. But here's also the thing. Michael Phelps, there's not another swimmer trying to prevent him from being great at swimming. Everything LeBron James is trying to accomplish, there are other guys trying to prevent him from doing that, right?

Well, all the other swimmers are trying to prevent Michael Phelps from finishing before they do. No, they're all trying to be fastest, but they're not in Michael Phelps' lane and pushing him out of the way and making him go slow. They're not tugging on his leg and not allowing him to touch the wall. They're not pushing him under the water so that he drowns and doesn't finish. All of that's happening to someone like LeBron.

Chris Cody, is Michael Phelps the greatest at anything to hang up on our show when we had him on and we tried to just ask him questions about whether or not he was using his fame in order to accrue things and he was taking our interview very seriously. Do you go into the nightclub with these Kellogg's products and just drop them on the floor with your face on them?

Sorry, I think we have to head to the next interview. Thank you very much for your time. All right, Michael, good talking to you. I didn't even get to ask. I didn't say it. I was ridiculous.

What did he call you at the end of it? Mike, you're wincing. I see you wincing there at the memory of that. Everything's a joke to these guys. Oh, they're so irreverent. That's how we became Zippy and the Juice. No one respects the Olympics. By the way, can I give you guys an Olympic update? While everybody was focusing on the corruption and saber fencing...

What happened on the pitch in soccer was an outrage today between Argentina and Morocco. A damn crime. Ridiculous. 16 minutes of extra time was added at the end of the game to allow Argentina to score and tie the game and have it end at a tie. Daddy needed that tie. 16 minutes of extra time. How's that possible? I don't know how it's possible. I kept asking in the group chat because I was doing the show, was there a water break that I missed? I didn't see a VAR. How is there 16 minutes? Also, the...

The finishing sequence of that game was incredible. It was three out of five booms. Boom!

You bet that they wouldn't lose? I bet midway through the game when Argentina was down and they're the better side, I bet to tie. And then I was like, oh, crap, they're going. And then I saw 15 minutes. I was like, let's go. What? That was Pearl Jam. That was Zaslow's phone. You owe $5, Zaslow. Is that giving a fly? Where's your money? Wow, did I beat Shazam? Was it giving a fly? It was. Woo!

Pearl Jam? That is so much. It is! Bones! That is so on brand. Zaslow's phone playing some Pearl Jam. I couldn't have constructed a hypothetical.

Did you do that on purpose? No. You would pick the yellow lead better? Speaking of the Olympics, are we going to do our draft on who is covering what sports? Because we really do. We're headed into a period here of a couple of weeks where we need to get up to...

up to date on what's happening in the Olympics. I'm selecting break dancing. I want that to be the sport that I am covering. But how are we going to do this draft? Do we have an order? Well, it just started. Dan was first. Zaslo, you're next. Yeah, apparently the guy whose name's on the show says, I'm taking this first. That's fine. And then you can figure out how you're doing. So I get to cover whatever sport I want. Yes, and we'll check in with you. Yeah. I'm going wrestling.

I mean, the U.S. has got a squad. Cody Rhodes, Roman Reigns, Randy Orton. RKO. You're going to actually be our wrestling correspondent. We're going to go for a minute of coverage. We're going to do this the way that we do the F1 minute with Jessica that we didn't get this week that we should have gotten yesterday. It wasn't even the bus race. Who's picking next in our draft? I'll go next. I'm going to take beach volleyball.

Damn. See how Chase Budinger is doing. Damn. You also have the best vista. Oh man, you see that thing? Dude, it's incredible. I was gonna go there. That's a good pick. Looks like I'm next because of against the spread. I'm gonna take canoe slalom. Wow. You left canoe sprint out there, huh?

It's good value. Just in case. What is canoe slalom? You know how slalom on skis you're going through the things? You're just canoeing. There's obstacles. Where sprint is like you just go as fast as possible. Are you guys looking forward to discovering some of the sports? Because every year at this time, all of a sudden, someone gets real excited about handball or badminton or something where they weren't excited before. And then they see it and they're like, oh, that's more interesting than I thought it was. Yeah.

Man, I'm really frustrated at this board. You guys have made some good picks. All right. I'm going to go with a light lift. I mean, how can I break down weightlifting? Well, one guy just lifted more than the other. Good form, I guess. He didn't pee himself. Some guy shit himself. Yeah, so I'm going to go weightlifting. You say that, Chris. I'm in a group chat that follows weightlifting, so I'm an outsource of work for me. I've told you the story before, Chris, of how it is that I became someone aware of the nation of Cutter.

Just knowing that it existed, I'd never heard of it, how to spell it, anything. At an Olympics I was at where Cutler was trying to legitimize itself by buying a bunch of Bulgarian weightlifters who were on steroids, all of whom were fleeing the Olympic village with diarrhea because of the amount of diuretics they were taken to get around the cheating. But they helped.

launder the money for Qatar so it is now the giant Olympic country that you now know because they bought a bunch of Bulgarian weightlifters. This may be a controversial take for someone that is known to cover the sport as I do, but I'm good with steroids and weightlifting more.

Put it on the poll, please, Juju, at Levitard Show. Are you more okay with steroids and weightlifting than you are in other sports with your sliding scale of moralities? I was really alarmed by the rest of you having zero interest in Pablo giving you the cheating information that an Olympic sport is totally corrupt through Putin. He was giving you the veggies.

We were giving you the french fries. It's a dance for everybody that wasn't into fencing and match fixing and oligarchs. We were there with the non-sex beds. We're more worried about Pablo, to be honest. He's risking it all for saber fencing.

He's going to end up getting pushed out of a window. We'll be like, damn, that's crazy. That happens a lot. You've got to fix those damn windows over there. It's not the hill you would expect a journalist to want to die on. Well, it ain't going to be a hill. It's going to be a window sill. It's definitely a window. You land on a hill. It's always a window. You can land on a wall. He's got a shot if he lands on a hill. Just got to make sure we tell his story. Billy, what are you going to end up covering? I'm going to do trampoline.

Is this a snake draft? Do I now go again? You should. That's true. No, I think we're just covering. I'm not covering multiple sports. Well, why not? It's two each. Didn't you go to Barcelona? I'm covering breakdancing and only breakdancing. Why? Well, does that mean you also get pop and locks?

What else are you guys covering? Is the guy that goes, Jesus Christ! Is he in this? You're next. I missed the cut. No, it's a snake. No, it's a snake trap. Final pick. Wait, hold on a second. Stugatz isn't here. Jesus Christ! I'm going to go flag football.

It's not available. There's confusion. We got this from Olympics.com, not to do a Sue Godspin. It's not until 2026. It's an Olympic sport, but not in this one, so sorry. All right. Well, then I'm obviously going to go with modern pentathlon. Okay. That goes without saying. I know what that is, but tell the group. Damn. Well, I mean, there's regular and then there's modern. I'm doing modern. There's old-fashioned pentathlon. I'm more of a Greco-Roman pentathlon. Don't ask me about the regular because I'm only going to do modern. Yeah.

I'm gonna go with Equestrian. What happened to the Snake Draft? There's no order. There's chaos here. Dan just picked one. Yeah, but Dan gave up his second pick. You better be serious about this. If there's a break in competition that you're not on, I'm gonna be really disappointed considering you had first pick. I'm going with my second pick, Artistic Swimming.

Wow, I can't believe you guys left me rhythmic gymnastics, but you did. What is artistic swimming? You got it. He's going to find out. No, think about what artistic swimming is. It's like a 1940s musical. Synchronized swimming? It can be whatever you want it to be. No, it is synchronized. It better be. It's synchronized, but do not call it synchronized swimming. It's in the eye of the beholder. Thank you. Yeah, I'm doing rhythmic gymnastics, which I hope is like a ribbon. I like my two sports.

Are you guys aware that I've tried to do synchronized swimming with the U.S. women's team? What does that mean? That I have been in a pool in Atlanta while they were doing what they were doing, and I was trying to do it with them. Invited or as a creeper?

You just saw them and you dove in. You jumped in the pool? I saw a video of a dude doing that. I saw a video of a dude doing that at Montreal Canadiens practice. He just hopped on the rink and took a couple shots at Jose Theodore. I was overcome with inspiration. I was just walking by to the commissary and I saw that they were practicing and I'm like, I'll join whether I'm invited or not. And I just put on my Speedo and ran out there. You think it's like a rookie of the year situation? Who the hell is that?

He's incredible. He's amazing. I assure you that's not what it was. I actually did. Was that a snort somewhere that I heard? I actually kicked one of the girls in the face accidentally while trying to execute a spin. Yeah, that happened. Billy, what is the second sport you're taking? I think I'm going to do sport climbing. What is that? It's sport climbing. It's like rock climbing. Hopefully it's more parkour. I think it's speed. Speed.

I think it's speed rock climbing. I like him. Big fan of his. You guys have no idea the sports you're selecting. Well, yeah. Well, this is also like a cultural... This is like the ones we knew. Yeah, this is a cultural exchange. We're in this to learn. So you're going to teach us over the course of coming weeks, like I'm going to teach you about breakdance. B-boys and B-girls. Okay. And there's still... You get another one, Dan. There's still more sports. We'll have Jess pick a couple. Like, we're going to have my dad pick a couple. So we're good. Yeah, because this went really well.

I didn't feel like it did. It was something that I regretted almost immediately after we started. You just decided, I'm only having one sport. Why don't you do BMX freestyle, Dan? Because I'm not following multiple. I'm not going to follow multiple sports here because I'm not interested. I'm putting you down for boxing. You have a good experience with that. I'm putting you down for boxing. Dan Sugar. Cubans are good at that historically. I'm good at sugar. That I am good at.

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Oh, it's slurring again. Okay. The connection is bad again, unfortunately. Back to Magnus. Okay, back to Magnus for Magnus. And this is going about as well as it could go. Thank you, Billy, again, for laughing in my face. Stugatz. Magnus. Can you guys hear me? Yes, we can hear you. Hello? Yes, sir, action. Hello? Action. Man, I'm really sorry. This is literally the worst way to ever do this. This is burning my heart that this is happening. But if you could hear me.

Just understand I'm sorry. This is the Dan Levatar Show with the Stukats.

Can you guys explain to me, because I have not been able to lure Billy into a discussion on what it is that's actually going on with Messi and Inter-Miami. Mike Ryan continues to be interested in this soccer team for a lot of different reasons that don't have to do with Messi. You're a season ticket holder, are you not? I am. I'm an inaugural season ticket holder, Inter-Miami. Yes, I'm taking a backseat.

bath this last week. Because I sell all my tickets. I don't go to the games. I don't want to go to the games. I want to make that money. Matter of fact, I have a friend who I used to split the tickets with. He didn't want to do it with me again this year because the ticket price went up so much. Mike Ryan knows about that. But I'm like, nah, I'm in it to win it. I think I'm going to make some money here. And I would sell all the tickets for two, three, sometimes four times the amount. I'd send my buddy a gif of the million dollar man laughing. Ha ha ha ha!

Who you're covering this year for the Olympics? The who? Well, so now the last week, I can't get... You don't know the million dollar man, Virgil? What is he laughing about? Come on. Everybody's got price! He's so rich. He's so much richer than everybody that he just laughs at people because he has more money than they do. Everybody's got price!

So I haven't been able to sell my tickets recently. I had to go last week. I didn't want to go. I had to go. You did messy. Yeah, well, that's the whole point. That's why I can't give them away. Well, they're playing really well. I know people want to see messy. There's plenty of stars on the team. This team seems to be really, really, really good. They're running away with the supporters. So why won't anyone buy my tickets?

Well, because they want to see Messi. That's the draw. But they begin the League's Cup, which I know a lot of people poked holes in how much it meant because it was an inaugural version of the competition. For people like me that follow both Liga and MECIs and MLS, this is a dream competition where you get to see all these matchups and see who goes head-to-head. But I do think that Inter-Miami have...

really navigated this messy stuff quite well is because their manager, Tata Martino, has shown he came into the league with quite the pedigree, having succeeded within the league but also abroad, and he knows how to navigate seasons that have a lot of cup competitions, and you're seeing just that. Here in Miami, it's super deep.

Zaz is a season ticket holder and he literally got up and left while I was speaking. He did and he said moments ago I had to go to an Inter-Miami game as if he was obligated and then seconds later he had to go.

He left the room in the middle of what it is that we're doing. He hit us with, I got to jump on a meeting. Yeah, I'm going to my first Inter-Miami match of the season on Saturday. I'm not paying for it. MLS is inviting me, but I'm going to get to see what my old seats look like now, and it'll be kind of sad. Sorry. I hit the wrong button there. No.

I'm excited for this competition, and I don't know how many people will watch it without Messi in it because it did feel like an event last year. I do feel like people were tuning in out of the curiosity to see Messi in that shirt for the first time, but it's a damn good competition.

Is there any particular reason that you made the distinction of I didn't pay for tickets, I didn't do anything? Because the tickets are really expensive. Other than get invited by MLS. Yeah, because I stopped being a season ticket holder because I got priced out. Same. It'd be weird if I all of a sudden just bought tickets again. It's not just a principled stand. It's an economic stand. I can't go to these games for the seats that I got used to.

I don't want to pal around in the upper deck with folks. So you were really making a distinction in the event that someone called you out on the inconsistency of you got priced out on tickets, you decided to not support the franchise anymore with your dollars because you got priced out, and you were basically filing that as a countermeasure against future criticism for going to a game? I'm not sure how much criticism I would get. I genuinely don't think people care at all.

Certainly in this office about Inter-Miami, but it's legit. I got priced out, and I'm sad about it. It's not like I stopped following the team. Like Zaz, a founding season, the first time I was changing my baby, I fielded a call.

from a ticket rep. I'm like, I'll be with you in one second. These tickets are really important to me because I think Messi's going to be here. So I'm bummed that I'm not a season ticket holder anymore and that I got priced out, but I'm happy that the team is still winning and navigating this Messi injury quite well. Do you have the group, do you have an opinion on the local sports fan who buys tickets the way Stugatz bought tickets to the 2010 Miami Heat, or

only with the intention of profiting off of every ticket and with no intention whatsoever at any point of going to the game, so much so that he just spat at us a form of, I had to go to the game as if he was given some sort of incarceration sentence. I have so much regret because this is such a much better tie-in to game time than grilling.

Really had to reach for that one. Tony, you're getting a lot of support. I still say, Juju, please put it on the poll. Better grilling experience, propane or charcoal? Because while I am nobody's idea of a cook, I was just under the certainty that charcoal was better. But a lot of people are agreeing with you, Tony, that the grill is indeed a dad purchase. Thank you. Billy, I'm sorry. It's a dad purchase after you already had it.

After you already have children. You wouldn't say, I made a dad purchase before your child was born. It's a barbecue while you're still trying to get your child set up. It's a griddle. It's not a barbecue. It's a griddle. But no, anything can be anything. I can have a dad purchase be a grill. What does it matter to you? I'm kind of surprised you didn't go with judo or karate for your draft picks. Don't you cover MMA? Yeah. It's one of the A's in MMA.

No, it's not. It's one of the M and A's. Well, it's actually all three. It's not one of the R's. When you mix them all up, you gotta mix them all up. But these are like, it's like a deconstructed mixed martial arts. It's weird. After taking Alpha Pratt, I have the sudden urge to watch judo.

A sudden urge? I don't think you'll like judo very much as a visual experience. Well, I'm familiar. I like the meme of the Brazilian jiu-jitsu guy when someone breaks into his house. I like that. He's already on his back. He's already on his back. You can't get back on the ground with somebody who knows jiu-jitsu. So I am now reconciling publicly with the fact that I thought I was on the Alpha Brain brand that wasn't the Joe Rogan-endorsed Alpha Brain. But Tony...

It's not his endorse. It's his. It's his. It's his company. And I've already purchased one of his jeans after seeing him kick a heavy punching bag with it. I'm like, wow, those jeans look incredible if I ever learn how to kick like that. And now that I'm on AlphaBrain, I actually think I might be able to kick like that and also shrink maybe a foot and a half.

How's the Alpha Brain experience going for you? So I didn't, the first day that I took it, I actually felt kind of foggy. But then I realized I was on the boat all day doing some day drinking, getting a lot of sun the previous day. So that might have been it. The second day I was trying it, I felt like I had a decent day on the show. I was saying words and not stumbling over myself.

I picked up my daughter. I started cooking food. I made an incredible meal. I was putting clothes away. And I called my grandma in a moment that I 100% would have forgotten to call her in. And I was doing all these things at the exact same time. I realized this is probably the alpha brain. So yesterday I played sports for the first time on Alpha Brain. Guys...

This should be illegal. My reaction time was that of a cat. A 39-year-old cat, but a cat. Much better than creaky old Mike that can't actually get around to certain things. I actually stopped like a four-game losing streak out there. I'm the oldest guy in my game by like a good eight years. After three days, you have felt the effects. This sounds like a paid advertisement. This sounds like an endorsement for Joe Rogan's Alpha Brain. And also, have you even considered...

that the Biden ticket should be, you know, it's a little bit fraudulent. A lot of people donated to Joe Biden and not Kamala Harris. Nobody actually voted for her. I've been told that Pete Rose is shaving and he's next. A lot has changed over the years, audience, as you've been so kind in pointing out, my shirt size has changed over the years. Look, I started this show as a 19 year old boy. Now I'm a 38 year old dad. But

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