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Happy Friday, everybody. It is the Dan Levitard Show with Stu Gatz. Without Dan or Stu Gatz, I'm Mike.

And it is Olympic Opening Ceremony Day. And this is actually pretty exciting because when you think about it, this is the first one of these in quite a while for us to experience. You kind of forget that there were athletes that worked their asses off and had an entire Olympics canceled. And for some athletes, that was their window.

So when maybe think about that, it's a bit of a buzzkill when you watch today's opening ceremonies in which there was a field hockey player I saw that cut off a part of his finger. He had a part of his finger amputated because if it stayed on, it would have prevented him from playing in the Olympics. So he's just like, no, chop that off. Ronnie Lott style. Put in a bowl of chili and then sue.

Who did that? Some person did that. All right. So it's the Olympic opening ceremony. Watch Mystery Crate. You'll find out more. I have been watching Mystery Crate. So in my office where I have my PS5, I've been playing like most people my age had been really playing CFB 25 a lot.

And the default channel on that TV is DKN. So when I'm done playing the game, automatically DraftKings Network pops up on the TV. And throughout the weekends, they re-air Mystery Crate a lot. And I do love the recent trend of Mystery Crate existing as if Mike never listens to it. That's apparently very clear. Mystery Crate is talk about Mike as if he's never going to know anything.

what is happening on this show. We talk about a lot of people. Yeah, that's generally the whole idea. We like the idea of no one listening. No one's listening to this. Well, when we did play back a clip from Mystery Crate one time, you did not enjoy it. I'm not going to say that I listen to every episode, but now, because of CFB25, I'm able to follow along. So I saw last week's episode in which it was revealed that I spoiled the surprise episode

baby shower. Well, we blame, I mean, we were not blaming you for that though. You honestly were too hard on my point. So here's the deal for the people that didn't listen to Mystery Crate.

There was a surprise baby shower. The whole office was alerted to it with a text message that said in big letters, big bold letters, surprise. So I had kind of, I guess I'm making excuses, but I had a lot of texts and I just basically prioritized the link. So I got a present for a friend that was having the baby shower and

And that's kind of the last I thought of it. And then it was the day of and I remembered, oh, I have a haircut appointment. Now, could I have canceled the haircut appointment and prioritize the baby shower? Yeah. But the baby shower was at 245. And...

Got to make it 1 p.m. I'm just hanging around the office for 90 minutes. I could be doing so much in that time. I could be getting a haircut, for example. So I wanted to explain to the person that, hey, I'm not going to make this. And I...

I was unsure as to whether or not it was a surprise. Now, this is 100% my mistake. I could have just gone back to the text message and I just decided to ask someone in the office, Mike Fuentes, hey, I'm like 99% sure this isn't a surprise.

a surprise, but can you confirm that for me? And he's like, I'm like 100% sure. And that's fine. I asked somebody else. I thought enough to ask somebody else. I should have thought enough to just check the original text message or ask somebody different, but it's not Fuentes' fault. It's mine. But then there was an entire Mystery Crate episode dedicated to it talking about

me in ways that weren't flattering and I just was uneasy. It was no one else's fault but mine. Big man. Big man. You gotta admit that when you're wrong. So what's on Mystery Crate this week for the people?

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! We bring the boom to you! Oh, those guys. We bring the boom! I got them. No, I'm kidding. We just talk about them. They did a video with Tua. Yeah. We got Greg, though. We played it. Yeah, we have Greg on the second half of Mystery Crate this week. But yeah, we're kind of obsessed with Big AJ and what is it? Well, AJ and Big Justice. There you go.

Maybe I'll get around to watching Mystery Crate, although I am into the Olympics. I'm going to be watching the opening ceremonies today because they're doing it on the river. This is the first time they've done this parade of athletes on a body of water. It's a boat parade.

Coco and LeBron are flag bearers for our nation, correct? So I'm excited about this. It's happening at 1.30 for the live version. I'm going to catch the live version, but this is a bit awkward for some folks in that I've been watching the Olympics for a good three days now.

And I had noticed on the TVs that the Rugby 7 quarterfinals were going on. So we're going to have a situation in which semifinals are set. Can you imagine if you're one of these countries that was just eliminated in the quarterfinals? New Zealand just got eliminated. Obviously a very good nation in rugby. There's this whole ceremony. And now the games can begin. And now New Zealand's rugby team. And they're all sad. So what are we watching now?

for today because we've known from previous opening ceremonies there's the possibility for viral moments. There was the oiled-up flag bearer from like eight years ago. Some people just love the production aspects. I remember the Beijing opening ceremonies were kind of awe-inspiring. So what does everybody...

Looking out for today. Am I the only person that is in on this? I just got a text from my wife. Like, are we recording the opening ceremonies? Are we watching it live? I'm into this. My wife is working from home today, like to watch this. I'm going home after this. We're going to watch the ceremonies. Yes. And I am super excited about it. I'm a little skeptical of this boat thing though. I like 3000 people sauntering into a stadium.

Okay, that's more my speed. You like watching people walk around a track. That's what I like. It is interesting. Like you said, there's, I think, 94 boats and 10,000 athletes, and they're all going down the Seine, and they're passing all these famous French landmarks, and then they're going to end up right by the Eiffel Tower at the end. And I read, we talked yesterday about how the dancers were going on strike. I read this morning they reached an agreement. The dancers will be there. Dodged a bullet.

They made an agreement with the dancers union. So I'm very excited for this. I agree with Chris. I do actually, in all earnestness, like watching them kind of walk around because you get a good view of all the different fits, which I think is like the highlight of the opening ceremony. Yeah, with a boat, it's going to be hard. Are these like pontoons? Am I going to be able to see like head to toe? I need someone to just do a twirl for me. That's what I'm saying. Does everyone just do a twirl and we'll be good? Well, who's calling the opening ceremonies? Got to be Tariqo.

I know he's going to be hosting the 7.30 primetime re-air of it, but I don't know who's doing the one. It's like five hours long. What does Snoop Dogg do? What does he have to do with the Olympics? He's one of the torchbearers. Yeah, but he was doing stuff with Hoda. I think they're also a part of this. I don't know. We'll find out. I think someone saw the idea of Snoop Dogg calling stuff, and they were like, let's implement that somehow. But we already have an Olympic scandal before the opening ceremonies.

that we have to get to. Now, calling it an Olympic scandal isn't necessarily on the up and up because this is a Canadian soccer scandal that apparently dates back years, but it is a tale of espionage, Billy. Are you aware that the Canadian soccer teams, both men and women,

They've been using drones to spy on their opponents for apparently years now. I didn't know it was years. I was made aware of this with the Internet and the Olympics kicking the coach out of the Olympics. I guess I think the Federation and the coach and then the Olympics just like remove the coach. So I'm not sure what drones are involved and they were spying on New Zealand, I believe. Was it?

Was it the Federation or the Olympics that kicked the women's national team manager out? I think they sent her home. The team or the Federation sent her home, but I'm not 100% sure. I know right after the scandal broke, two assistants were sent home, and it seemed like maybe they were trying to preempt a bigger punishment by being like, all right, we got them out of here. But then as more reporting came out that this is something that has been going on prior to these Olympic Games and in fact may go back

through several Olympic cycles, it obviously appeared like it was a much, much bigger issue. And so Canada played, the women's team played New Zealand yesterday. They won two to one. Yeah, they did. And they're the defending gold medalists. They beat the U.S. in the last Olympics. So this is a very, very big scandal because Canada tends to do very well at the Olympics. And there are, I think, maybe the eighth,

highest ranked team in women's soccer. I can't remember off the top of my head what their ranking is, but they're good. They're a very good team. Don't get too excited about that win because they might have them come back on and play the final three minutes tomorrow. We're going to get to that briefly. We didn't talk about that. We didn't talk about that on main show, so we got to talk about that. Jeremy, who made the call? The Canadian Olympic Committee made that call to remove her, so it was their decision, not the general Olympic Committee. This is more of a soccer scandal than anything. Maybe the fact that there's an Olympic Federation involved. They have

some more sway. This is a terrible distraction for everything. There is an American that is managing the men's national team and he has been, since he got that job, doing it from a high horse.

taking all sorts of shots at the U.S. Soccer Federation. And I wonder, he's going to be asked, now he's a relatively new hire, but he's going to be asked how much he knew about this because this has been a practice that has been going on for both, allegedly, the men's and women's national team programs for quite a while. So I'm curious to know what Jesse Marsh says. But soccer always has these bonker scandals around it. But even in the world of soccer, I saw something so shady and sicko-ish

That I'd never seen before, and that is saying a lot, because I watch CONCACAF Champions League, folks. Like, I've got fanatis. Like, I am all over the place. I know Liga Amequis. I know all the Comnebol domestic leagues, and I had seen something that I never saw in my entire life, and that was the Olympic soccer game between Argentina and Morocco. I never bet on soccer. Yeah.

This is going on. It was at 9 a.m. a couple of days ago. Morocco goes up 2-0 over Argentina, which, as you know, most dangerous lead in sports. Argentina, Claus gets one back. And then, for whatever reason, for reasons that are still unclear to me,

There was like 16 minutes of stoppage time added to this game. In the middle of all this, Chris Cody, when it was 2-1, you placed a live wager on Argentina to equalize and for the game to end in a draw. Plus 240. I was like, you know what? I got a feeling here Argentina is going to bring it back. And then we get to extra time, stoppage time, and it's like 11 minutes in. And I'm like, okay, I lose. What a bad bet. It was a great game. Everyone around here knew I had the bet. They're like, Chris, they

They scored, and I'm going crazy, and I'm celebrating high five people. And then three hours later, they're like, we're going to play these final three minutes over again. Yeah, so let me get to apparently. I was unsure if they even had VAR for soccer in the Olympics, and I learned that they did by them, as Chris mentioned, bringing both teams back to the pitch because an hour and 15 minutes after the final whistle blew, the official said, actually, that equalizing goal was offside.

That is, I think it stands to reason to say, that is far too long. And at that point, we've all seen bad calls in soccer. You just kind of live with it. But they demanded that the teams return to the pitch, and they added three minutes for Argentina to get an equalizer goal that, for Chris's money, had already cashed.

And so money goes out of his account. The game ends 2-1. Morocco wins. I had never, ever seen anything like that before. And I thought that is going to be the soccer scandal for the Olympics. Nope. Here comes the Canadian and men's women's national team, which, as Jess alluded to, Canada's really good on the field.

on the women's side and on the men's side they went a hell of a lot further than the US team did in Copa America they were semi-finalists they played in that third place game so this is a bad look for a team that's all of a sudden gotten really good and so you start asking yourself you know wind horse fingers why is that

Could it be espionage? So we have that to look forward to. We've got fits to look forward to. We've got teams, several nations that have long since been eliminated having to walk an opening ceremony. It's grand opening, grand closing for them. I'm super in on the Olympics. The app is...

In particular, this is not a paid endorsement. The app is incredible. If you want to follow along, because many people are excited. This is the first Summer Olympics in quite some time that we can get behind, and it's a normal, well, it's a manageable time difference. You can follow along on that app and see literally every event, get alerts on them, and you can find out Peacock's doing a tremendous job with their coverage. So I'm really in on that. There's quite a few shooting events going on.

going on today, right before. Some people are getting some shots in before the opening ceremony. So I am super in on this. When do the real Olympic event starts? And I say that, and I know it's coded, and people are going to be pissed off about that, but the track and field, the swimming, the gymnastics, the people that become superstars because of this event, that's usually later on, right? Yeah.

Well, for me, it starts when the U.S. Women's National Team plays. I know that's not what you meant, but that feels like the official, like the U.S. Women's National Team has a lot of pressure to do well in this tournament. And so that's been something that I've been looking forward to seeing in this Olympics, how they're going to play under their new manager, Emma Hayes. And so far, so good. They beat Zambia yesterday 3-0. That was kind of disappointing, actually. Okay.

Well, okay, so let's talk about it. So the first half, I thought they started out missing a lot of chances, which has kind of been their story over the last several games, maybe spanning even into last year. But they were quality chances, and then they ended up scoring three goals in pretty quick succession. Then Zambia had a player get a red card, so they were playing down a man, and...

In the second half, the U.S. subbed off a few other strikers. Sophia Smith came out with an injury. Hopefully she's okay. You look bad. I don't know. You never know with soccer players. But how did they not score again? As someone that had the minus four. Now I see where you're coming from.

I thought it was fine. I really did think that there's probably some takeaways and some lessons you can learn going into the next game, but that was the result that they wanted. They wanted to be able to finish those chances, and they did. Mallory Swanson had two goals in the span of 70 seconds. I don't know what more you can ask for from her. It was odd. They played really well for about 17 minutes and exceptionally well for a seven-minute stretch, and then they had a player advantage, and they just decided, no, Mike's good.

We'll win this game by three. And I could have used more. I'm sorry they didn't give you the extra goal. Thank you for apologizing. I am sorry about that. I am super excited, though, about Emma Hayes. I think they knocked that hire out of the park. It is the...

Top tier higher that I wanted to run that program and they did that and I only hope that on the men's side Which has gone quiet a little bit I hope that the men's side can do something maybe not equally as impressive because I don't think you can go to the very cream of the crop on the men's side but Do something that will impress I'm looking here at the overall schedule and when we can start seeing some medals dished out swimming gets going tomorrow Tomorrow and from tomorrow the next like nine days is like all of swimming. Um

We got judo starts tomorrow. We got some fencing starts tomorrow, diving, cycling, road. So there's some... - I love diving. Diving is crazy. When you see like the POV angle of how high up they are when they're doing it, that one like baffles me. That is one sport where I, if you put just your average Joe in there, they are going to hurt themselves immediately. They are going to belly flop so hard and injure themselves.

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Don Libetard. I think I'd like to know when I'm going to die because I sort of romanticize the idea of living like you were dying when you're on a countdown clock. Imagine all the life experiences. I could go skydiving or Rocky Mountain climbing. Stoogatz. Roy brings up a point, though. Roy does bring up a point. You might be risking paralysis. That's totally true.

Just totally trampled my bed. But Mike, what if God forbid it says you're going to die in like a week? What if it says a week though? Like, or two days or a month? I don't want to know that. Well, then you just love deeper and speak sweeter and give forgiveness to those that you've been denying. Someday I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying. Do you have more or is that it? No, thank you guys for letting me go through that smoothly. This is the Dan Levitas show with the Stugats.

So we'll transition out of Olympics, but you can tell most of us are excited. Most of us like the big Olympic scandals and we like the fashion and all that. Breaking, you're going to have to wait until August 9th and 10th for break dancing. Oh, that sucks. For meddling, at least, in those categories. All right. Well, we have that to look forward to. And Dan will inform us because he has that. He has that beat. We need Roy to pick his sports. I think, Jess, did you lock down yours? We traded for beach volleyball, if I recall. I picked the boxing and field hockey.

Boxing is always a great... I don't know how they do it. Those boxers just like, yeah. Professional fighters go... I know that they don't have the headgear, but it takes them like, all right, we'll have a fight and then I need several months to recover.

Boxing is just like, yeah, I'll have seven matches in like four days. Let's do it. I'm curious to know your reporting on that front. Wait, who did you pick, Roy? Boxing and field hockey. Oh, okay. So tell us about the amputation. Apparently it was an Australian player. And instead of like an uncertain recovery, he was like, yeah, just cut it off. Cut it off. They cut it off.

I think under his first knuckle. Do you have anything to add to that report? Well, you heard it here first on the Dan Levitar show, which still got Olympic coverage. You heard it somewhere else first, and then we said it second. Well, you heard it here second, maybe even third. Who knows? Put in some calls, chase that story. You did say something to me before the show.

uh, that I want to talk about a little bit because we're seeing all these players and, uh, Jess, did you see the, uh, BR's open ice account did a Caliposo video, Caliposo, this veteran Islanders legend, Sabres legend at the end of his career, finally wins a cup with the, uh, Florida Panthers is like a fourth liner. Cool story. He revealed that, um,

He watched a Batman franchise, kind of like, you know how Missoula watches a town every day? He watched a Batman movie every day for each round he was in. So for the first round, he watched the 1989 version of Batman. Then for the second round, he watched Batman Begins. Then for the third round, he watched Dark Knight. So this was like as a little treat?

No, it was like, it was a theme for him, especially with the Dark Knight Rises. And not just because he said, I'm not wearing hockey pads. That's not the scene that he was talking about. A government fake. But his body had been broken over time and Dark Knight Rises was like the theme for the very end of it. But-

The video was put out on recorded around his day with the cup. And this is like a traditional sports radio topic. But right before we went live, Roy was genuinely curious. What would you do with a cup if you had a day with a cup? And I want to go around the horn and find out what everybody would do with the cup, because this is the first time any of us had ever had to consider this. So, Roy, what would you do with a cup? I'll do one of those TikTok videos where you're mixing all the alcohol in it. And then finally, you put it ever clear in it.

We're going to have a party. It's funny because the way that it started, I thought you were just going to do a dance around it. Me too. I don't dance. You're like one of the TikTok bartenders. You're making a concoction. Yep, exactly. You don't ever dance? No, I don't dance. Why? Not at weddings? I'm not a dancer. I'm pretty sure at my wedding at one point you were on the outskirts with your wife. I was dragged into that one. Were you swaying your hips? There was no hip swaying, no. So you would just drink? Yes, you

You wouldn't take it anywhere. You would just keep it at your house and you would just. He would make content with it. Isn't that the answer that you want? Well, I don't think he's actually making a TikTok. I think he's just doing it for myself. Yeah. All right. Chris, what would you do with the cup? I would copy everything Matthew Kachuk did. I would just take it to the Atlantic Ocean. I'd go to Elbow Room. I'd want to take a nap with it. Just like a good old fashioned nap. He took it to schools, fire departments, police departments. I do hate the ocean, but you know.

Exceptions can be made. Yeah, I would definitely drink out of it. That sounds like someone else's idea. An ice cream sundae. I'd get an ice cream sundae in there at some point. What do you want to do with a cup? An ice cream sundae. That one's mine. Skip the beach. Barbecue in that thing. Did you guys see...

Luongo when he got the cup, which I don't understand why he got the cup before a bunch of players, but that's a whole other story. This was after they had won it. He's going to have an assigned day with it. He shouldn't. That dinner seemed like it was a front office dinner. That Italian spot where they were all there. There was a thing where he was eating pasta out of it.

He looked grossed out by it. Well, but if you find the picture and put up the picture, it was fake. Like, there was a bowl inside of it. He was eating out of a bowl. Yeah, no, I don't like that. Oh, yeah, that was bullshit. Because you should have to scrub that marinara sauce stain outside of the inside of the cup like the rest of us do with our chocolate. So when Roy is making a drink, he's making a drink inside of a bowl inside of the cup? Like, what is that? Who cares? They often have, like, plastic wrappings, too. It's just like a fancy candelabra. Like, who gives a shit? Ooh.

Good word. Jesus Christ. So dismissive. What the hell, man? Dirty the cup. Put it in the cup. Put the ice cream and the banana split in the cup. Exactly right. What else? Peanuts? If they'll let me, I'll do that. Wait, Billy, you wouldn't actually want that. There have been babies baptized in that thing. Well, were they actually or were they baptized in something inside the cup? That's the thing. Probably with plastic wrap in it.

Now this is like a whole, this isn't real. We're not actually doing things with the cup. The cup is just like, you know, wrapping for what we're doing. While we're on the subject, do we even think that was the real cup? That's a good question too.

Because he has multiple cups. That one was the real one in that it had a bunch of dents. We have this video here. We're looking here. If you watch him when he finally eats it, he eats like one piece of pasta. He's like gross. There's a bowl in there. I'm telling you, though, he's gross. You see the bowl, the hidden bowl? Watch this little bite that he takes here. He bites like one noodle off the fork. He also has to say...

No matter what. He barely bites it. He did the thing where he put the fork in his mouth, but then he spit out the rest of it. It was hot. He ate this like he was an actor who had to do 12 takes. Have you ever seen in a movie they take really small bites? Roy called it. Dude, there is so much steam coming out of that pasta, and he just realized, shit, I'm not going to make this person holding the cell phone wait. Blow on it a little. That's not cool for content. Yeah.

The hesitation that you see is like, I'm going to burn my entire mouth. There's nothing uncool about the hockey player. Exactly right. He's been through worse. He wears a mask. Tony, what would you do with the cup? Obviously, you guys know the grand importance of the cup for me, specifically. I've seen a bunch of other people with their Tony Calabo shirts, and I was told since I like to wear XXLs that that's an issue. I saw Big Show wearing one. Yeah, he's got one. Yeah. Where's my XXL? I got you.

You have to pay him. He doesn't give them for free. He has to pay him $45. I gave him the plug. I'm not paying for this shirt. He keeps saying that I got you. I got you. You don't have me. I'll drop you one off at the house today. How about that? Did you see they sent bars to a cease and desist on their shirts. You got to be careful, buddy. I told you. I think I'll be all right. I said don't play with fire, and you said they aren't going to do anything to me. Just watch out. I'll be all right. I'll drop you one off at the house today. How about that? Okay, cool. He's getting one for free. You're making everyone else pay for that. I'm the plug.

Yeah, but they make pennies compared to you and they have to pay $45 for a shirt? I'm the plug! I'm the plug! What are you doing? I'm just trying to figure out why they have to pay. What are you trying to do?

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I put my Memphis Tiger football program first. In life, I basically cleared out my calendar for a month because of this game. I'd been finessing it and preparing my family for it. And last night, I had an incredible night. It was almost better than release night, if you can imagine. It was our first offseason in CFB 25.

Approximately nine coaches got together and we hammered out our offseason recruiting. Same place? Signing day. No, all on a party, like remotely. Some people had PSPs for remote play. Like it's hard with these dynasties. It's hard to get nine people on the same schedule. You're probably running into that with your thing. We have 25 people in the league that we do with Charles McDonald, our buddy. And we just got to week zero. We're recruiting the hell out of the ball. LSU is coming out of the gates hot, by the way.

But you're still in week zero. We're still in week zero, yeah. I haven't played a game yet. I'm in year two. But part of the sacrifice that I'm making in doing this is –

I'm missing out on summer concert season. There were plenty of concerts down here that I saw videos of that wasn't a money thing. It was like, I got to be there for my Memphis Tiger program and my fellow coaches. But Zach Bryan was in town. Those shows always look super fun. Missy Elliott, Busta Rhymes, Timbaland were at a show together. And out of curiosity, I always check the Game Time app to see what the prices would be because of that lowest price guarantee. And

Man, I almost abandoned my Memphis Tigers football program because the prices were so damn good. And while I was confident that GameTime had the lowest price in the secondary ticket marketplace, even if there was a lower price out there, I have the low price guarantee with GameTime, where if there is a price out there that is lower, GameTime will match it 110%.

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I saw Ekblad was there, I saw Matthew Kachuk was there, and I saw Carter Verhage was there. The photo that I saw, no one cared to tell Carter Verhage that his fly was down. You know who else was there? Who else was there? Boom! Mystery Crate. Alright. Mystery Crate. Well, Tua was there too. Yeah? You like those guys. Love them. Can't stop watching them. The greatest of all time, probably, on the internet.

Double chocolate chunk chocolate cookie. Chicken bake. We bring the bowl. Do you think it's already fallen apart for Hawk to a Girl? She's like, come on. Kind of seems like there's a whole sad economy to this. And Hawk to a Girl, she waited two weeks to get the right representation. And she had a formal rollout. She did that Barstool interview. She appeared at a Zach Bryan show. But it was almost as if...

yeah, the two weeks that you were trying to really maximize your monetization for this, like that's actually when you should have shrunk. And then people are hearing interviews with her and they're realizing, oh, there's, she just said that really funny thing that one time. Like, why are we asking her about politics? Is she just... She's a normal person. And it's not, she seems lovely, by the way, but it's not, the fact that she is

It's not going the way that maybe she thought it was. It has nothing to do with her. It has everything to do with us. We made her convinced that there was an economy around this. And I understand why she got agents. Ten years ago, she would have been on Ellen. I'm just saying. Ellen's...

There is Ellen could have helped launch batter like that. Viral fame has has the window has gotten even smaller. I think that was the chain of more people, but the window smaller. That was a chain of events in that you go viral and then you go to Ellen and then there's no step to.

There's no step two for a Hawk to a girl. So do you think that the Boom guys have a more sustainable fame than Hawk to a girl? Because they at least put out new videos. Like, what is Hawk to a girl going to do for her second act? Yeah, they go around and taste restaurants, but they're always, oh! I just want to see. You got to work in some dooms or else I know where you're going here. Well, remember, Big Justice has called out Baby Gronk in Athletic Feats. He's also with the Rizzler.

There's a lot of stuff with Big Justice. And he has his baseball career too. I need meme culture constantly explained to me because I'm aging out of this stuff and also I got blinders on. My main focus is bringing the Memphis Tigers to prominence. So I bring in my

resident young person, Jeremy Tashay, who tried this out a couple of days ago and he put up like a TikTok video and I was left kind of in bewilderment wondering what was so entertaining about it. But apparently I had seen it again after that and I saw the numbers on it. The Kamala Harris remixing is doing buku things, buku numbers. I was just like, I

I don't get it, but maybe I'm at that age. But here's resident young person Jeremy Taché to walk me through meme culture yet again. Jeremy, what are we tackling today? Well, today we're going to keep it going in the launch pad from the videos I introduced earlier in the week about Kamala Harris and Brat Suburbs. Where does Big Justice play into this? Big Justice, unfortunately, doesn't play in yet, but I imagine... Doom! ...a big deal.

boom in the polls is what everyone will be looking for. I like your shirt, by the way. I like your general outfit. The tank top underneath the bowling shirt, that shit works. Thanks, man. I really appreciate that. Well, Kamala Harris, the big question was, is Kamala Harris brat? And CharlieXEX confirmed it herself. Kamala Harris is brat is what was tweeted. He's not a whiteboard for the audio audience. There's a whiteboard. I'm connecting all these things together. You just circled Kamala Harris' name. You're telling me it's not brat? It's brat. I

I thought we were talking about brats this whole time. Brat summer. Brat summer. That's the key here. Charlie XCX. The boom guys should do brat summer. Brat summer for Charlie XCX is the theme. And what was happening originally is Gen Z was creating these memes all on their own. My general concern is Kamala Harris and her campaign and all of the Democrats have...

have kind of embraced this a little too much and started to create this content themselves. You gotta leave it to the kids or else it will become corny. Should they call themselves Demo Brats for the election cycle? See, this is what I'm worried about. Please do not call yourselves Demo Brats. That is going to be a problem. Let the kids do it themselves. But you have Kamala Harris as brat. You have Charlie XCX. Now, the question with Charlie XCX is,

is will she be doing a remix with Chapel Roan? That's sort of the rumor mill going on right now on social media. There's also meme culture going on around Kamala's campaign and the song Feminine Aminon by Chapel Roan calling it a Kamala-naminon. And when you move over to the Republican side of things... That was very well done to not trip up on that. You have J.D. Vance. And the rumor around J.D. Vance is that he f***ed

Yeah, I saw that. I saw all these funny videos of him lussing after a couch. I'm like, why does everybody think that J.D. Vance wants to sleep on this couch? So there was a tweet, I believe on July 17th, that insinuated that in J.D. Vance's book, Hillbilly Elegy, there was a passage about his coming-of-age story in which he admits to having sex with a latex glove inside out between sexes.

couch cushions when he was a younger person. That's the tweet. And that tweet went so viral that all over TikTok, there were people creating videos, romantic songs with images of JD Vance and then a leather couch and then JD Vance and then a couch cushion. And that was sort of the general vibe. So it became so popular that

Yeah, like how would they know?

wasn't true. So my question is, if this keeps going, will JD Vance have to say, no, I did not have sectional relations? Will he say, it was just a one night stand? Or will he just say, I'm so fucking tired of this? But he also has been going viral for saying that any woman...

That has not had a child in this country should not really be participating in politics. He's had some really rough and just honestly scary rhetoric, but he referred to them as childless cat ladies. Now I can think of a very important person in pop culture who is childless and also a cat lady. That would be Taylor Swift.

Now, we obviously know that Taylor Swift's public endorsement of Kamala Harris is going to be really important to get voters on the side of the Democrats to potentially even swing an election if she can motivate her voters. But

The thing that no one's talking about that might cause some concern. The link between Charlie XCX and Taylor Swift. Now, what is it? Charlie XCX engaged to George Daniel, the drummer of the 1975. Who's the lead singer of the 1975? Well, that, ladies and gentlemen, Mattie Healy.

Taylor Swift's controversial ex-boyfriend. So will the bad blood between Taylor Swift and Maddie Healy potentially also cause bad blood between Charlie XCX and Taylor Swift and in turn maybe leave the sour taste in the mouth of Taylor Swift regarding Kamala Harris embracing Charlie XCX? These are the questions we'll have to answer over the next few months in pop culture and meme culture.

Okay, wait, so you're telling me we need to get Charli XCX to break up with her boyfriend to get Taylor Swift to endorse Kamala Harris to get the Swifties to register to vote and vote for Kamala Harris because then they'll have something in common.

Or, Charlie XCX and Taylor Swift will need to work it out on the remix. That's really the only other option. I understood very little of that. You weren't supposed to. The only note is, you gotta end on the high note of sofa puns. It was really well done. Thanks. I really appreciate it. You lost Tony with the whole brat worse thing. So it's not brats? It's brats. Brat.

I'm out. Brat summer? Yeah, I'm out. It wasn't for you. I enjoyed it. Jeremy, not only are you our meme culture correspondent, but you're also my personal baseball correspondent. So stay right there or come right in here. But I got more questions for you as we've got... My Mariners made a big trade. Flip the whiteboard, Jeremy. Yeah, flip the whiteboard or something because my Mariners made a big trade that I'm excited about. So the Mariners are like...

It's a weird combination of maybe arguably greatest pitching staff of the modern era, but also just terrible bats. And they needed to do something. And they brought in a player yesterday whose name not only did I know, but I've known for a couple of years. And my Mariners group chat was on fire. There were four texts that I woke up to this morning in that bad boy. Lower volume than some of the other ones. Jeremy...

What can you tell us about the big trade yesterday and what big trades might be around the corner as we are approaching the MLB trade deadline? Yeah, there's a few big moves that have already been made. You just mentioned Randy Rosarena from the Tampa Bay Rays.

to the Seattle Mariners desperate for a bat and if you look at a Rosarena's numbers this year they don't look all that impressive he's only hitting 213 as a batting average his OPS is not that high but since June 1st his OPS is over 900 and I think he has seven homers and nine stolen bases in that span he's also I believe got the third highest playoff OPS of any hitter ever

behind Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in the history of Major League Baseball. So he's a major postseason performer. The Mariners are desperate for bats. It seems like a really good move for them. They gave up a pitcher that they really liked in their farm system, but you mentioned...

Their pitching is young and their pitching is deep. They were linked to Jazz Chisholm a little bit. They were. This would kind of maybe take them out of that? Well, the Jazz Chisholm stuff is really interesting because the national media reports around jazz have kind of been using what feels like some coded language. In baseball? Yeah, shocker, right? But jazz...

the Yankees apparently are not interested in Jazz because he has a strong personality. And there was another report that says he's too focused on his brand. And then there was another report, I believe it was from Jeff Passan, that said not just the fears about his ability to stay healthy, but his brashness have turned off some teams. And it's really confusing. I understand the coded language, but I think

The brashness stuff around Jazz, I think he would admit that he's brash and he doesn't really care about that. But that's also not a problem in a major league clubhouse. Look, the Marlins... Well, it's reportedly been a problem before. Well, it was a problem with three players on a team that was bad and most of that team took his side when that breakup happened. Billy, are you ready to break up with Jazz? I mean, I'd also say this team is worse than that team. As it stands right now. Which is why they should make the move. The Marlins made a trade...

Yesterday, didn't they?

Feels like a really good move for A.J. Puck, and they still have Tanner Scott and other relievers that they can move as well. Well, real quick, briefly, where are you on this? It's very clearly a rebuild. There's nothing that you can do to stop it. What are you just hoping for here, Billy? I'm kind of disappointed the way the whole—

jazz thing has played out because I assume that what the Marlins will get in exchange for jazz is not going to be anything comparable to Zach Gallin which is the way unfortunately you have to kind of judge this is you traded a guy that ends up being an all-star pitcher for jazz who at the moment hasn't lived up to expectations that

we had for him or maybe he even has for him. He definitely didn't shy away from those. His expectations for himself, I think, are higher than the fans' expectations are for him, right? And he hasn't lived up to that. And it seems as though the market for him is not going to be as plentiful or bountiful as you were hoping that it might be. So...

You're kind of taking a loss on this one, which seems to be a theme in a lot of these trades. Capitulation station for the Miami Marlins. That's the part that's interesting about how the national media has been reporting this, right? Because you have all these different leaks that suggest all these different things about personality. And you wonder if the market would be bigger if those things weren't there or if they're sort of trying to suppress value. Because look...

He's been good as of late, by the way. He's been really good as of late. Not that that necessarily is going to change things, but you may find a desperate team that now over the past years is like, oh, he's getting hot at the right time. The Mariners would have been that desperate team and said they picked Rosa Reina. That also might be about the package. There's still a couple days, right? Someone may get desperate, and then you may get a better deal than you're anticipating. But also, this is a big time if you're a Marlins fan in kind of seeing what Bendix can do, right? Because the Arias trade...

they told us was the best option out there at the time. And that, uh,

didn't seem to be a great haul. One of the players isn't even with the organization anymore. So we'll see what they do at this deadline. Wait, Jeremy, lay out for Chris to finally fire off this sound because Chris and timing with sound has been a bit of an adventure since he started sitting in that chair. Who did the Mariners acquire? There's a guy who hits his name, Randy Rosarena. Every time he takes a swing, it is a thing. It's cosa buena. Run and run the bases. He's as fast as a hyena. Oh,

Rosarena. I promise you in the next segment, we will not ask David Samson about jazz chism. It's like on my list of don't do's.

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