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Stugats
So the basketball and the hockey is now going to be a limit. Little limited on a nightly basis now as both of the sports are heading into their conference championships. We're not going to have multiple games every night, but there is something going on tomorrow night in addition to the basketball and hockey on Netflix. Mike Ryan, do you get Netflix?
Dan LeBatard
I do.
Stugats
Roy, you get Netflix?
Dan LeBatard
I don't.
Stugats
Chris, you get Netflix?
Chris
I do.
Stugats
Tony, get Netflix.
Tony
You already know.
Stugats
Dave, you get Netflix. Do I get Netflix too? And tomorrow night? Well, I'll give you my password. And tomorrow night you got the the the MVP card right? And it's Ron. What are you laughing at?
Tony
The password Roy doesn't have Netflix is crazy.
Stugats
I'll get my password. Sigh.
Dan LeBatard
I the only reason I have Netflix is because they ventured into live sporting events.
Stugats
Is that true?
Dan LeBatard
That's the only reason I don't like Netflix shows. They're not for me.
Stugats
Do you have every streamer now?
Dan LeBatard
I with I was the last holdout, the last streaming platform that was holding out on was Netflix. Everything else. I have to have everything because I'm a soccer fan. I cannot follow that sport without every other streamer.
Stugats
Dave, do you have every streamer?
Chris
Pretty close. Although we do do the thing of, like, we like that series, and so we turn it on for a few months.
Stugats
Give me the free three months. Right. And you watch the show. That's good move.
Chris
We play that game. Yeah, we get. We get a little thrifty here. I just have to say very quickly, without derailing anything. My wife heard me through the wal, was very upset that I declared that she thought that Drake had won the back and forth. Oh, Kendrick Lamar. She said, how dare you misrepresent me? You have to correct that. It's out in public. I think that Kendrick Lamar clearly won. He humiliated him, and everybody thinks he's cooler, except apparently for Tony.
Tony
I'm on the right side of history on this one.
Dan LeBatard
No, you're not. That's a west coast. That's a west coast bias, though, from the Danishek household.
Stugats
So as I was saying, tomorrow night on Netflix, you got the. The first ever uf, not ufc, first ever MMA card, MMA live event on Netflix. The first thing I want to ask before I get into the things that I do have an opinion about as far as tomorrow night goes, is this overall, like, is this a good card? Is this going to be a good show?
Tony
Card's gonna be fun. There's gonna be a bunch of scraps on it. I think the Mike Perry, Nate Diaz fight is going to be super cool.
Stugats
It's gonna be Nate Diaz. Every time I see him, you know, you're looking to promote the fight.
Dan LeBatard
He.
Stugats
He's bored out of his mind.
Tony
I mean, he. Like, he's also stone out of his mind, too. That also kind of, like, makes things a little bit even made. Made Ariel Hawani hold the blunt the other day. Like, I don't.
Dan LeBatard
I don't want to.
Tony
I don't want to hold this.
Stugats
I saw at the. The open practice sessions, he was just smoking a blunt and shadow boxing, and he was, like, trying to, like, shadow
Chris
box the guy with the camera.
Tony
That's Nate, though. Like, and that's why him and Mike Perry's gonna be an electric fight. That's what I called it. A un Backyard scrap. Like two uncles fighting at a barbecue. I love that.
Stugats
I love how much Nate Diaz loves his brother.
Chris
Yeah, he.
Dan LeBatard
He.
Stugats
He thinks. Yeah, for the video team here, it's just. That was the open season yesterday. He's, like, attacking the camera guy while Smoking a blunt. He's just. It's a joint. Oh, he's. He's trying to take down the camera guy. Definitely a joint. I love how much he loves his brother. Like, he claims his brother is the greatest MMA fighter of all time, right?
Dan LeBatard
Yeah.
Stugats
Which is obviously a ridiculous thing to
Tony
say, but again, you got to step up for your bro. Keep it 10 toes down.
Stugats
I like how tight they are, so go ahead.
Tony
No, so that. That fight's going to be fun. The return of Francis and Ganu, after all the stuff that he's been through between leaving the ufc, between personal tragedy, between the boxing and now coming back, it'll be cool to see Francis and Ganu back into the Octagon one more time. I don't know what his future looks like as far as where he's going to be fighting with PFL or with another MVP card, but that guy, when he steps into the Octagon, it's like, oh, my God, anything can happen. He's literally the hardest puncher that we've ever seen in modern heavyweight history.
Stugats
But the headliner is absolutely. Rousey and Carano for sure.
Tony
For sure. It's been. It's been deemed the headliner for the card. You can watch us on YouTube at 8pm MMA Hangouts, presented by Netflix for this card. So we'll be watching through from 8pm through the end of the fights, which will be fun.
Dan LeBatard
Tony, this is the first time that you've done an MMA hangout for a non ufc.
Tony
Non UFC event.
Stugats
Oh, cool.
Tony
Exactly. So it'll be the first one, and what a better one to do it on Netflix with. With a very fun card. I'm interested to see how the Gina Carano and Ronda Rousey fight goes, because, like we talked about, both women have been out of the sport for a decade and almost two decades. They're looking good. They look fit, they look slim. They look like they're ready for a fight.
Stugats
Tony, they look like models out there.
Dan LeBatard
I know.
Chris
Yeah.
Dan LeBatard
This is a very different camp than they're used to.
Stugats
It's. It's like. I don't know if strange is the right word. I don't know if you saw Dave, but they came out, they're doing the poses and everything, and. And the two of them come out, they look like models. They are in unbelievable shape, and they're both. They're wearing these sexy dresses. They're wearing dresses for changing.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah. Shift in the paradigm a little bit. I kind of like their approach to Rhonda has been, you know, pretty out there with some quotes in the lead up to this fight. She's not pulling punches there for both fighters. I don't think I can remember a fight where they came in this light.
Tony
Yeah, it's. And usually what you're doing, you're bulking during the. The camp, and then you cut to try and make weight and everything, and it feels like they're kind of hovering where they don't really have to cut weight. And that's one thing that's super important in at least the ufc when you're going up and you're probably weight a weight level above where you're actually fighting. So you got to cut a bunch of weight to make your weight. Right now, it doesn't look like there's any weight cut happening whatsoever for anybody.
Stugats
Rousey looks the slimmest. I've, you know, slimmest fittest, however you want to put it that I've ever seen. And Gina Carano, who has not fought in 17 years. All right, that's crazy. I would have to guess that there's never been a mixed Martial arts fight with someone who has gone 17 years between fights.
Dan LeBatard
I remember there was a card at the LA Coliseum. It was Brock Lesnar's first ever MMA fight, and I ordered the pay per view because I was curious to watch Brock Lesnar fight. And Royce Gracie was on that card, and he was fighting a professional fight. So I'll look it up. This may not be as unprecedented as you think.
Stugats
Well, Gina Carano. Yeah, go ahead, Dave.
Chris
I'm just curious about what you mentioned. So, promotionally, they're there, they're trying to, like, sort of sex them up is basically what you're saying. Well, no, we're not putting him in dresses and everything.
Dan LeBatard
We're not trying to say that. Yeah, no, we're actively trying to not say that.
Stugats
Yeah, we're not trying to say that. I just.
Dan LeBatard
We're trying to be as careful as we can to not say that, and.
Chris
Well, you just said they came out in dresses and put them out. I mean, if that's what they're doing.
Dan LeBatard
No, that's exactly. Yeah, that's exactly what we said. But we didn't say what you're alleging we said because we tried to not.
Chris
I got you.
Dan LeBatard
I guess. So I am not gonna. I'm not gonna hop on the microphone and be accused of objectifying anybody unless it's a man there.
Chris
So they're not gonna. They're not gonna like League of Their Own. It like, yeah, you guys can fight, but you have to wear dresses while you do it.
Dan LeBatard
These two ladies are definitely in a league of their own when it comes to the promotion of this fight. It's not something that we're used to.
Chris
Yeah.
Dan LeBatard
And I think that's by design, and I think it's effective.
Stugats
Yeah, I would say you're probably right. It's probably completely by design because I've never seen anything like that before.
Tony
Ladies are fighting at 145, so women's featherweight division, so probably not having to cut a ton of weight because they're probably both around that mark.
Stugats
Well. And Gina Carano, I don'. Remember what she looked like when she was fighting, but I know what she like. She's an actress, too, and I know what she looked like when she was in Deadpool, but we don't have that conversation. I think she won.
Tony
She'll be back.
Stugats
I remember what she looked like in Deadpool, and she was. I mean, she looked strong.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah. Gladiator strong.
Stugats
Yeah. Yeah. And she does not look like that now. I'm interested in the fight. I'm always interested every time Ronda Rousey fights, and I am going in with incredibly low expectations. I. I think it's going to be a total shit show, really.
Dan LeBatard
I think this card's going to play out. I'm pumped.
Stugats
I'm saying that fight, not the card.
Dan LeBatard
Okay.
Stugats
Possibly.
Dan LeBatard
I don't know where their cardio is, and these were two bigger fighters, so it's probably. When your main concern is the cardio, it's probably a wise choice that they've cut so much weight for. For this fight, but I think this is going to go better than the Jake Paul Mike Tyson circus, which had an entertainment value. Netflix seems to do interesting things with their combat sports broadcast, so I'm curious to see how MMA is separated from that. By the way, while we're on the topic of Netflix, I don't know if you guys got into it when I was away, but have you seen the Jake Paul news?
Stugats
He might not fight again.
Dan LeBatard
Jake Paul, like, I think I want to give Jake Paul a lot of credit because everybody's fear about this fight was like, look, if this is on the up and up, Jake Paul can die in this fight. And while there are certain portions of the Internet that think this is overstated because it's setting up a narrative about a comeback fight or whatever, his jaw got destroyed, and that's a big deal for a fighter. He might, in taking that fight and being brave enough to take it, he might have legitimately ended his boxing Career such that it was. Now maybe he goes back and is a little bit wiser about choosing his opponents. I'm sure that's fine. Curious to see if he shows up to this event because he's apparently been blackballed from the UFC events because having rival is his deal. He actually volunteered that he can't even watch his brother compete in the WWE because of the parent company. Really? Yeah. Because you know that's bad blood right there.
Stugats
So he's blackballed because he's a competing promotion.
Dan LeBatard
Yes.
Tony
And probably other things too.
Stugats
Yeah.
Dan LeBatard
I mean he takes shots at Dana specifically. He has one of the former UFC high ranking employees matchmaking over there. So there's a lot of bad blood there. I kind of get it. But I do think that Jake Paul and this may surprise him in the audience. I want to give him credit for taking that that fight because he legit got rocked. He legit might have ended his career in doing well.
Stugats
Yeah, like wouldn't one of the things that someone would have said going into the Jake Paul Anthony Joshua fight was if you take this fight, this guy will end your career. And that's literally played out what might be happening.
Dan LeBatard
It played out. It wasn't just fight hype, it was legit. Jake Paul risked life and limb and his career. He may never fight again.
Chris
Isn't that good ultimately for the sport of boxing legitimately? Doesn't that, you know, I think not for Jake Paul. I understand it's not. But ultimately it is kind of good for the show. Jake Paul, obviously he's a self promoter and that's why he got into the ring and the reason he took his risk. But in the same way, I feel like in game interviews of players diminish the drama. Like, what are we doing here? I thought that, that this is way too intense. They're singularly focused on the task at hand. Now they're playing grab ass with a sideline reporter while the game's going on. It diminishes that. I think Jake Paul surviving in the ring is bad for boxing. What you want to say is see what happens. See what happens. You think you can mess around and get in here with us? You can't. You can't compete with us. You want the, you want the vibe of like, man, these guys are different.
Dan LeBatard
Put me down for two non meager defenses of Jake Paul. I think competition is great. I think it's great for all combat sports.
Stugats
I like the Paul brothers. I'll just say it. I like them.
Dan LeBatard
I look, they, they've Done some good things with their cards. They've given fighters opportunities, especially in women's combat sports.
Stugats
Yep.
Dan LeBatard
I, I don't think it's a bad thing to try to break up UFC's monopoly of combat sports, especially when it comes to the labor rights of the people actually doing the fighting.
Stugats
They're very, very pro fighter.
Chris
Yeah, very.
Dan LeBatard
And you can say a lot of things, a lot of things about Jake Paul. I do think he knows the world of boxing. I do think he knows and picks the right boxers to put a spotlight on that aren't getting a fair shot. Ultimately, you can have whatever issue you have with the circus, headline attraction, and I get that. I get all of that, trust me. But he brings people into the tent. And the circus is not just Jake Paul. There are reputable fighters there that are itching for a chance. They that have become stars, that have made money because of Jake Paul.
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Dan LeBatard
Chris, Cody, when you come over to my house and we put on the games, I got basketball, I got baseball going on. But what do I lay out for you and the boys for entertainment and drinking?
Chris
Miller Line.
Dan LeBatard
Uh huh. Those beautiful white cans or on draft or the bottle if you prefer.
Stugats
Oh, when you Open that with the
Dan LeBatard
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Chris
I know it well.
Tony
It's usually when I show up, everybody goes crazy.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah. You usually take all the credit for it, but it's because Tony usually walks in with Cuervo. Walking like this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cuervo is a thing that turns hanging out into this is the night.
Tony
It has that effect on people.
Dan LeBatard
It does. You usually take the credit for it, but again, it's the Cuervo effect. It's like that moment in a big game where everyone in the crowd just starts standing up, hooting and hollering. Keep it Cuervo.
Chris
Keep it cuervo, baby.
Stugats
Don LeBatard, can I tell you something? I don't know. It was maybe like a month ago, and I decided to watch Pitch Clock, and I told Jeremy Stugats. This is a good show you're doing. This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats. Yeah, I. I like Paul brothers. Everything you just said about Jake Paul and Logan Paul. Look, everybody knows at this point I'm a huge pro wrestling guy, and Logan Paul is a fantastic, fantastic professional wrestler. He's really good at it.
Chris
Dave, I also think if you're an MMA fan and you want it to become bigger than it already is, I think you do want somebody to emerge to sort of push back at Dana White. I mean, Dana White, whether He wants it to go this way or not, is turning it into. He's steering it hard into a certain demographic, or maybe he's just acknowledging the fact that it never is going to be mainstream. That it is. It belongs to that demographic. And maybe in that way, as commissioner of this sport, you know, I always think about, like, Gary Bettman, they wanted to. They want hockey to make it in the Sunbelt, and it's been, you know, fits and starts for 20 years. And you guys have benefited from it ultimately, but, man, it seemed for long stretches, they're like, are you sure you want to try to mainstream this sport? It might just be better off as a fringy provincial sport, Canada and colder places. But if you want MMA to get bigger, not smaller, then I think you do want the Paul brothers involved with it, because Dana White is, like I say, intentionally or otherwise, steering it in a direction where only a sliver of the population is going to care about it.
Dan LeBatard
Yesterday I had the controversial remarks that I like watching people fight for money. I'm going to maintain that take. But also, without this card, I'd not be watching mma. I haven't been watching the UFC as much lately, and it's because of the star power kind of lacking a little bit, and maybe some other things. But in this card, I'm getting a dream fight. Yeah, maybe it's 15 years too late, but it's a fight that every mixed martial arts fan wanted to see. I'm getting a backyard barbecue fight between two guys that are going to come out swinging, and I'm getting the return of the heaviest punching heavyweight, the most menacing heavyweight that we've seen, maybe ever. I mean, Brock Lesnar was pretty scary, but Ngannou is. Got the bonafides, got the punching power, and he is returning to mixed martial arts, returning to the Octagon. I think that is a huge deal for mixed martial arts. And this could be the seed of something that finally challenges. Look, we've well chronicled the challenges that are facing the UFC and their attempts to try to be something for everybody. Netflix is starting from scratch here. They can actually achieve that.
Stugats
Look, It's. It's been 10 years since Rousey fought most of Rousey's fights, which, by the way, she only fought eight times in ufc. Now, she was in another promotion before ufc, but it's not like she was. Had this long, huge UFC career. She. She was 6 and 2, losing her last two fights, and then she, you know, was a huge sore loser, and she left, and she refuses to talk about it. And essentially the same thing happened with wwe where she was like a huge sore loser. She doesn't like the way things went and she left and she doesn't want to talk about.
Dan LeBatard
She doesn't leave places well, and she burns bridges. There's plenty of bad things that you could say about Ronda Rousey, but, you know, it's combat sports. You check a lot of that at the door, unfortunately.
Stugats
Well, so some of the bad things that she said, she's been really critical in this lead up to this fight of UFC, but, like, critical of TKO's UFC because TKO was not the parent company yet when she was fighting for them. So she's been extremely critical of ufc. And Hamza Shimaev, who just recently lost to Sean Strickland last weekend, I guess, decided to respond to some of Rousey's comments calling her ungrateful toward ufc. And so here's Ronda Rousey now coming back at Khamzat.
Tony
I asked you on Monday how you
Dan LeBatard
felt about some critics out there who are hearing you talk about fighter pay, hearing you talk about the sport, about
Tony
the UFC fighters like Khamzat Chimaev, who was on camera criticizing, saying that you're
Dan LeBatard
essentially biting the hand that fed you
Tony
back in the day, that you're coming across as ungrateful for everything that they did for you. What is your response to those people?
Stugats
Well, I would want to make something abundantly clear, and that's that I owe
Chris
Dana and the Fertittas immensely and I would be caught dead before you ever heard me say a bad thing about any of them.
Stugats
But my loyalty is to. To them and not the company they sold. And I do not owe TKO's UFC a damn thing.
Chris
And Cleflib Lincoln is just hating because
Stugats
at his press conference for his fight,
Chris
people are asking about me and my fight because no one gives a shit about his ineffectual wrestle.
Stugats
And people are actually, they can't stop
Chris
talking about this fight because it's so stacked.
Stugats
And they're actually excited to see me fight because unlike kumquat, I have 100% finish rate. Unlike kumquat. Is that true, Tony? Are they inefficient wrestle fests?
Tony
I mean, I mean, look, clef lip link, cleft lipped link.
Dan LeBatard
Explain that one for me.
Tony
Yeah, so Hamza Chimaev has a cleft lip that they fixed. So he's got like a bit of like a scar here. And he also has like the Dagestani, Chechnya, Muslim Russian beard that has just the Beard with no mustache.
Dan LeBatard
You got that Netflix writing, no doubt.
Tony
Yeah, yeah, they probably slid that one to her. They're like, here, if you ever talk about Hamza, read this one. It's a bar, but yeah, it's. It's not ineffectual. Like he's. He was one of the highest prospects and one of the best fighters until this past weekend where Sean dominated him. But that's. That's the fight game, right? Like, you step into the octagon, you close the doors, and anything can happen. She does have 100% finish rate because she also got finished.
Stugats
That's right. Even in her losses, she has 100% finish rate. So I'm into it. I'm a watch tomorrow night that's on Netflix. But also make sure you tune in to Tony. Say it again, Tony.
Tony
8:00pm on the Levitard Show YouTube channel, presented by Netflix MMA. Hang out. We'll be hanging out 8:00pm to the end of the card. So we'll give you a nice little pregame show. The card starts at nine. We'll start at eight. Getting everything ready here, here.
Stugats
So why are you doing that again? So here is something that we've been talking about for really the last week, and that's these. The Waymos and I love this. The driverless cars within 10 years. Tony believes within five years, we will not be driving as human beings anymore. It's going to be driverless cars, which is crazy. But I saw before we get to the video that Chris saw yesterday, I saw a video a few days ago. I think it was in Dallas. I saw a video a few days ago where it was caught on camera. A Waymo just completely blowing the stoplight at a busy intersection, making a left into oncoming traffic. And it's like, that's scary.
Dan LeBatard
Are you hopping out if you're in
Stugats
that Waymo hopping out to move, like, I gotta get out of here. It's making a left at an intersection into oncoming traffic. It just straight up blows the stop sign. And apparently, like the Waymo customer service said, the light on the stoplight, the way the sun was reflecting off, it was very confusing what color the light was. Okay, well, that can't be the excuse when I'm in an eight car pileup because there's no driver in this car. Go ahead, Chris.
Dan LeBatard
This is a news report from Atlanta, where a neighborhood has just been bombarded with in the morning, like between 7 and 8, they just. And like Waymos without passengers in it.
Stugats
It's almost been happening on multiple days or Is this just one day, multiple
Dan LeBatard
days where it just seems like this is where the waymos are hanging out in between gigs? Apparently so. Here's the news report. It explains it all. But Atlanta people, this neighborhood, not happy with Waymo. Waymo after Waymo after Waymo enter this dead end street usually early in the morning. I think yesterday morning we had 50 cars that came through. Between six and seven neighbors on battle view drive started seeing the autonomous driverless cars two months ago. But the groupings and large number of waymos just started circling in and out in the last couple weeks. They even shared video with us when neighbors used this little guy to put him right out here in the street to block the waymos from getting into the cul de sac. And you can imagine what happened next.
Chris
And we had at one point, eight
Dan LeBatard
waymos that were stuck trying to figure out how to turn around. The waymos are empty and not picking anyone up. Parents are worried, not only calling it excessive, but dangerous.
Stugats
So they put these little kids are
Dan LeBatard
playing signs in the middle of the street. And it caused this like backup of just. If you weren't watching us, there's 10 cars, 10 Waymos they can't reverse. So it's just.
Stugats
They're trying to do seven point turns to try and get out of the road.
Dan LeBatard
But I like this neighborhood. Taking it in their own hands of like, no, no, this is not your. Just little drive around area.
Stugats
Now why before they put the cones there, which then created essentially a. A traffic jam, why were the way mos all being directed to this cul de sac?
Dan LeBatard
I don't think it's explained why this was the area. Maybe they're near an airport where they just need. They have all these waymos that are
Stugats
available to pick people up.
Dan LeBatard
Where do you go when you don't have a call? Do you just go and park somewhere?
Stugats
No, in Atlanta, apparently they just go
Dan LeBatard
to this neighborhood and circle around.
Stugats
That's creepy to me, man. Whether.
Chris
Whether or not Tony is correct about where we're headed in five years or in 20 years, what is the advantage in 20, 26 of putting yourself into one of those cars? I'm so. To be like one of those people who's like, let's burn the. Who's at the stake. Like, they're a witch. But what, what. Why are you putting yourself into the experiment right now? It's sort of like the people who want credit for like, look, I'll eat the. The hottest wing that they got in the shop. Look, I ate the hot wing. And everybody's like, who gives a crap? Good for you. The people who it's almost like a a thing people brag about. Like I went in a waymo good for you. You put your life in peril with with a ghost driver. No thank you. Let me know how it all turns out. If they're still going and and they aren't driving through stop signs and stop lights and showing up in Atlanta where they're not wanted, then I'll get in. For the time being, I'll continue to drive myself.
Stugats
I like driving. Me too.
Tony
That's why I'm sad then. Five to 10 years, they're not going to want us on the road anymore.
Stugats
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Stugats
Don LeBatard. I've never stepped foot on that campus. If you told me right now your life depends on it. Go to Santa Fe University and just take a picture.
Dan LeBatard
Stugats.
Stugats
I would die. I don't know where it is. This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats. I told you we got something to watch tomorrow night on Netflix with the Rousey Carano fight. But also this weekend, I don't know if you saw. This is the series finale of the Amazon show the Boys. You guys know that show, right? I think it's the sixth season and the Boys is ending. The finale is this weekend. It's a very, very popular show which comes from a very popular comic that they have brought to life. And I gotta be honest here, I've tried several times, like I've watched, I think the first three plus seasons of the Boys. I've tried several times to get into this show. I keep starting and stopping and starting and stopping and I can't stick with it. And you would think someone like me, I love superhero movies. I love Marvel. I love D.C. star Wars. Yes, it was George Lucas's birthday. Star Wars. Okay. I love these kind of movies. You would think that I would love whatever, man. You would think that I would love the Boys and Dave. I. It doesn't hold me. I can't stay with it. And, and it had me thinking, like, this is one of the rare shows that you would think is up my alley, that a lot of people really love. And I just, I don't get it. Like, do you have a show like that that you would see? Like, wow, everyone likes this show. I gave a try and just. I can't do it.
Chris
It's not for me, definitely. Well, first of all, I've never seen an episode of Murder She Wrote. I never saw Simon and Simon and they were popular long running shows, but the one currently that I think people would think like, oh, you must watch that show, Family Guy. Never seen an episode. Why? Because I've taken a stern posture against it. Because I'm a Simpsons loyalist.
Stugats
Really? You think you're betraying the Simpsons if you watch Family Guy?
Chris
Well, I don't think Family Guy exists without the Simpsons. And that's a straight line. But yeah, no, I feel like the Simpson I. I've seen enough clips, and I've heard people do the impersonations, and I, I. The Stewie is a thing. I know all that, but that's about the extent of what I know. A family Guy.
Stugats
Have you ever say, have you ever seen Euphoria?
Chris
Homer and company never have seen an episode. Now, I assume that that's one of those ones that ain't. I. I was like the people who like our contemporaries. As you. I'm sure you know guys like this, like, fam. A Full House. They bellyache about Full House. Like, it's so. Have you ever seen Full House? It's not funny. It's like, they don't make it for you, man. It's for little kids. Same thing. Euphoria. Like, I don't think I'm supposed to be watching it. People would find me a creep if I were. Right.
Dan LeBatard
I'm presently rewatching Full House with my daughter. We only got a dozen episodes left. I'm enjoying the hell out of it.
Chris
Well, that's nice, because you're a girl, dad.
Dan LeBatard
That's why. Yeah, that's right. Very special bond. Although it's like one of the. My dad had and I had very few things in common. It was wrestling, going to movies, and we would watch Full House together. So it's like a weird thing that I'm handing on down.
Stugats
Full House was the show that you and your father would watch together.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah, because he would have me on Tuesdays, and it was on tv, and we loved.
Stugats
We and my father. The show that we used to watch.
Dan LeBatard
Dad hat.
Stugats
Me and my father, the show we used to watch every week, we would never miss Martin.
Dan LeBatard
Martin was a great show. Good choice. Good choice. There is a gaping hole when it comes to TV syndication. The original binge watching. I miss it. I used to be a Family Guy fan, and not unlike the Drake, Kendrick Lamar discussion that we were having, south park did an episode in which they totally took out the writing process. Basically, it was just a bunch of manatees grabbing random balls in an aquarium and putting together a Family Guy storyline. And I stopped watching Family Guy after that. I'm like, they absolutely murdered them.
Tony
I like the thought of Dave being like, I'm a creep if I watch Euphoria. And everybody's like, yeah, you know what that's about, right? Because what I know of Euphoria, I'm like, who's. Who is this for?
Dan LeBatard
Yeah, well, not. Not for us is the answer. But to answer Zaz's original question, I gave the Wire a The Wire. Everyone says the Wire.
Stugats
You can't. You couldn't get into it.
Dan LeBatard
Oh, and I gave. The first season is very tough. But, dude, I went. I extended midway through the second season, and I know, like, I stopped right before everyone says, oh, really? That's good. If I got to give you a season and a half. No, not for me. I don't get it. I understand. It's well made. I know it has its fans. Yuck. For me, it was the Bear. I've worked in. I've worked in restaurants. I can let you know it's not that intense. Yeah, dude, the Bear. I like the first episode of the Bear. I like the second episode of the Bear. Third episode of the Bear. I'm like, is there more to this? Then the 11th episode of the Bear rolled around, and I said, I'm out.
Stugats
I love the Bear.
Dan LeBatard
Unnecessary stress.
Stugats
I love the Bear. And I don't like the way you're speaking about it.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah, patty melt. Patty melt. Where's the.
Stugats
I need the pepper for the patty melt.
Dan LeBatard
I'm hiding the pepper for the patty melt.
Stugats
You have to yell cousin in the middle of that stupid.
Tony
Somebody smoking a cigarette somewhere.
Dan LeBatard
Yes, Chef. Yes, Chef. Yes, Chef. Where's the pepper? I hit it because I hate you. Oh, corner. Yeah.
Chris
Too much with it. Too much with the chef honorific behind. You know, I'll go. I'll go Doctor. I'll go Senator. I'll. I'll.
Stugats
I'll.
Chris
I'll probably go even coach. But chef is where I draw the line. I'm not calling you chef. I'm calling you Gary.
Stugats
I do find it interesting that all of them are referred to as chef. Like, they can't all be chef.
Tony
The sous chef, you got the main chef.
Stugats
All chef, apparently. Me and my father, we never miss Martin. I think it was Thursday nights. I think it was Thursday night. We loved that show.
Dan LeBatard
You remember when it was before New York Undercover? Oh, yeah. New York Undercover. What a. What a show. I don't really watch shows all that much anymore. It's just sports or movies from the 90s. Back to back. Nights I watch Jade and Fire in the Sky.
Stugats
Oh, I told you, Jade. I told you. A part of my triple feature, sneaking in movies when I was 15 years old. Jade Linda Fiorentino.
Shabba
Come on.
Dan LeBatard
I'm gonna go back and listen to the cinephobe episode that those guys did on Jade because I. I can't stop thinking about this. This car chase scene.
Stugats
Was it good?
Dan LeBatard
There's a car. Well, I've seen this Documentary on William Friedkin, the director of Jade and famously the Exorcist. And he's just a terror to work for. Seemed to be a horrible human being. And I didn't know that he directed Jade. There is, I'm not lying to you, a 12 minute car chase here that I think for most of the car chase tops out at 9 mph and they're going through the streets of Chinatown in the Bay Area. And there is one part where Angie Everhart gets hit by a car. And I've never seen someone fly so far in a movie. It's Must Watch and Fire in the Sky. Great abduction scene.
Stugats
Oh, you watch Fire in the sky
Dan LeBatard
for the first time. I was always scared to watch it because they would take out print ads in comic books when I was growing up and it had a very iconic print ad of the dude caught up in the tractor beam. Right. And I saw that, that film and wow, incredible.
Stugats
I remember when Fire in the sky came out. I was young, obviously. That movie was scary to me.
Dan LeBatard
It was scary. That abduction scene is legit scared. Now, the pacing does not work for today because you don't see one of the, the aliens until like 90 minutes into this thing. But Dave, I'm curious your thoughts as someone that it was of high school and college age in the 90s. Jade and fire in the Sky.
Chris
How say you saw Jade in the theater? That's how old a man I am. Also, I talking about what we've missed and everybody else seems to love is. I actually just last night started to watch it because somebody in Miami said to me, really? You've never seen any of the John Wick movies? And I said I should correct that. I should check these out. I watched the first hour of it. Consider me underwhelmed. What so far, I'm gonna, I'm gonna stick with it. It's fine. He's a killing machine. I get it. Great. How many different times do we need to see him shoot a guy up close, turn the gun up, shoot him from under the chin. Like just basically Keanu Reeves shooting guys with the gun pointed at him from extreme angles. But you know, it also occurs to me with the rewatching of old movies that I was flipping the dial and what did I land on every time I say it? I'm gonna watch Hun Red October. It's one of those movies that if wherever it is in the movie, end up sitting there watching it. And I realized it has now surpassed for me this isn't a qualitative assessment for me, I don't like Hunt for Red October more than I like Shawshank, but I've officially now seen Hunt for Red October more than I've seen Shawshank. Because for all the complaints that I helped perpetuate, like, is Shawshank Redemption ever not on the cable dial all of a sudden? The last couple of years, it hasn't been on very much in Hunt for Red October has surpassed it in terms of total watches. How say you?
Stugats
I mean, you know how hard me and my dad laughed the first time Shanae Nay came on the screen. You know, Martin played Shanayna.
Chris
He.
Stugats
He was the actor. He was playing Shanae.
Dan LeBatard
What?
Stugats
And Broman. You know about Broman.
Dan LeBatard
Bro man in Rewatch. I didn't notice this initially, but you know that Jesse Katsopoulos cousin that came over from Greece, that was also John Stamos.
Chris
Really?
Stugats
Does it hit you a little bit different now when Aunt Becky comes on screen?
Dan LeBatard
Say what? Say what?
Stugats
You know what I'm talking about.
Dan LeBatard
She does what?
Stugats
Colleges, the money.
Dan LeBatard
What'd you just do with your hand? She looks tremendous.
Stugats
Yeah.
Dan LeBatard
Fighting shape. Netflix fighting shape.
Stugats
A little bit shady though, these days, you know, A little bit shady.
Chris
Anyway, I've seen every episode of MASH against my will or otherwise. It was the only thing to Mike's point. You know, syndicated sitcoms. I vaguely recall Gomer Pyles being fed those at a very young age. But then MASH took over and it wasn't just one episode. Much like you see Seinfeld or Friends episodes rerun back to back. That's what filled my TV after school mash. I had to endure the transition from Trapper John into Beach, that whole thing.
Dan LeBatard
You know, that complete overhaul summer vacations in Miami meant that during a stretch of the day, Nickelodeon turns to Nick Jr. And you're too mature for that. So you go around the dial and you settle in on in the Heat of the Night on wsvm.
Stugats
Oh, what a show. What a show.
Dan LeBatard
You know why? Like they kept showing in the Heat of the night on Channel 7. They showed this show well into like the 20 teens.
Stugats
Yep.
Dan LeBatard
And it's because SVN, the parent company, owned the redistribution rights to that series. So they were self dealing and they kept that in Matlock on the air forever.
Stugats
What a movie. In the Heat of the Night. Come on, the Original Dave. You know what I'm talking about.
Dan LeBatard
Sidney Podier.
Stugats
It's any party.
Chris
It was, right? Yeah, yeah. Very strong.
Dan LeBatard
What happened though?
Chris
Speaking of rerun half hours after hours, Red Shoe Diaries oh, yeah, I know.
Dan LeBatard
I know.
Stugats
Zazlow, Avid viewer. An avid viewer, of course. Pants on.
Dan LeBatard
All right.
Stugats
You don't need to say it so loud, but. Yes, I like your diaries.
Dan LeBatard
More of a paradise guy on the E. Channel.
Stugats
Yes, of course.
Chris
The story lines, the important storylines, the scenarios that. What was his name? Zoltan.
Stugats
Who's.
Chris
Who's Red Shoe Diaries? Were they. There was always. There was always a name in front of them. They belonged to some guy. I don't know who it was, but it was like Zoltan's Red Shoe Diaries. And then they always laid out these scenarios on a train or from outer space or who knows what. Like, I'm gonna have to go down to the planet Earth to experience what this thing sex is about. And all that backstory, fascinating stuff week after week. Rachel died.
Stugats
Dave, you know about those Taxi Cab Confessions?
Chris
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Now you're talking. Watching those as well.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah.
Chris
House. Dream on, Brian. Ben.
Dan LeBatard
Ben, you know about that Air Force Amy. Don't know what it was. Is a smell of Soprano.
Chris
Not too hard of a chuckle from Dave. She's on it.
Dan LeBatard
We like to have fun.
Stugats
Oh, man. You never got into the Wire. That's.
Chris
That's.
Dan LeBatard
No. But I would stick around for the after hours program and no doubt, man,
Stugats
I did a re. Binge about a year or two ago of Martin holds up, man. Yeah, still really funny.
Dan LeBatard
I. I watch all these things back. The movies from the 90s and Full House too. And I'm like, man, that's one generation when they say, you know, we had it made. The Internet was even like, early Internet was still exciting and not weaponized against us. The 90s, man, what a time.
Stugats
90s are the best out the best.
Chris
ALF sucked, though.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah. Easy. Big alf guy. I remember my first time getting in a cab in Vegas. Just kind of like looking over my shoulder like, am I in it?
Stugats
You were hoping.
Chris
Driver to the Bunny Ranch.
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Anticipation and Skepticism Over the Card (04:04-09:50)
Promotion & Objectification Concerns (06:22-08:57)
Conversation About Fighters' Physical Readiness
Jake Paul's Injury and Career Impact (10:23-12:17)
Fighter Autonomy & UFC Monopoly (13:14-13:42)
Stugotz Affirms Support (13:23)
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