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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
An eccentric inventor who barely has enough money to keep a roof over his two kids' heads. Are we tracking so far, Meech? 100%. Buys a car that's a beat-up motor car and transforms it into a dream machine that can fly, float, and it seems to even think for itself. Correct.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
Okay, so we're at the day at the seashore with the car, which is called Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, spawns an elaborate adventure in the land of Bulgaria as the Potts clan and candy heiress Truly Scrumptious tries to rescue Grandpa Potts from his kidnappers, Baron and Baroness Bomberst.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
Oh, no. The way his eyes rolled off.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
John, as you can see, I'm just being told what to do. Look down there, John. Look down there. People look like, you can't even see people from there. Houses look like ants. My neck could have been snapped off.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
Imagine the show we would have had. Imagine the show we would have had. My neck snaps off. Okay.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
Because if I told you I never miss, you know it would be a lie. But if I tell you I rarely miss, all of a sudden it's like, oh, wait, he can shoot. Hold on. The thing that happened here.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
The creepy child catcher, which is what he referenced to Stephen A. Smith, entices young Jeremy and Jemima Potts.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
It's a lot of names.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
What year is this?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
He's not talking to women. He's talking to the boys.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
I haven't seen it, but I saw the clip of him on ayahuasca talking about the caterpillar and the butterfly. Giggling. It made me feel incredibly sad, right? Because this is supposed to be, for some people, an awakening and enlightening experience. For other people, it does a lot of harm, right?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
It depends on your body chemistry, on how you react to whatever it is that you're ingesting that you don't always know exactly what's in there, right? So when you look at him having that experience, like, man, that should be not on camera. That should be something for you to experience because you made that decision to do that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
With a legend, Dan.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
A lot of Rickys out there in Miami.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
Remember the head on the shoulder thing? The guy told me. Meech, if a guy tells you, okay, let me put you through the scenario, Meech. You wouldn't be able to skydive, I'm very sorry, but that's just the rules. Name the game, you know? So, you get on this tiny plane, right? And obviously you know me, I'm a big guy, so it's kind of tight in that tiny plane. You have to sit, like, on a bench.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
I'm already disputing the first part of this, but go on. But for a tiny plane, is what I'm saying. Okay, yes. For a tiny plane. Relative to a tiny plane. Exactly. So you have to sit on a bench, right? And then you kind of swivel up. as you move forward, as people start jumping out of the plane.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
There's a guy who is attached to me, obviously, because I'm not jumping by myself, who's like, I'm trying to give a good comp, like Ethan, have you seen Ethan outside? He weighs about like, he's about 5'6". Yeah, he's a spider monkey. About 103 pounds. A howler monkey. So I've got this guy on my back, And I'm like, how are you going to help me do anything?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
Because it's a little, you know, I need to be able to make things happen. So he tells me in broken English, hey, when we're about to jump out of the plane, make sure that you put your neck back. Because if you go out, your neck can snap off. It's the last thing I want is to die, you know, 25,000 feet up in the air.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
But again, Dan, you're looking down at 20,000 feet of just air and you're hoping that this guy who is small and frail
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
can be able to do the things you're trusting him with your life a stranger a stranger a guy i met 30 seconds ago that's just strapped to my back now size of ethan exactly the size of ethan so can we bring anything here by the way like ethan is this a universal measurement no he i mean he was the the talk of the town yesterday bright side i don't know what we're talking about
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
That was way too easy. So imagine, I'm here like this, right? I'm scooting through this tiny plane where I have to be like this, right? So I'm scooting through, scooting through. All of a sudden, he tells me, hey, listen, to make sure. Come on, Ethan.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
No, no, no, continue. Continue. Continue. Okay, so he tells me, listen, you're going to look out that side of the plane. There's going to be 15,000 feet of just air. Make sure that you nestle your neck back into the part of the neck.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
The neck, right, to make sure that your head doesn't snap forward and then something happens. You pass out or worse, right? And when I hear or worse, I'm like, okay, man, I got to figure it out. So as my legs are dangling outside of this tiny plane, I do what I was told to do. You nestled. I went like this and just nestled into the back of Meech.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
So Chitty Chitty, I've never seen the movie. I've heard the reference to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, but I didn't really know what it was. And apparently, this is the synopsis of the story so I can read it so I can see what the movie's about, obviously. When a poor guy named Caracactus Potts. Caracatus. Caracatus, okay. Caracatus Potts. It says cactus at the end.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Aaron Rodgers Enigma And Tony's Nestling
441 Powerline Road. Second down to nine.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
No, it's yes. I have a split lip right here. I was running across the street last night and I face planted and it was a bloody mess and I don't mean it in the John Amici way. What happened? I just described what happened.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
The thing was going down nine, eight, seven. Yeah, a little jaywalk action.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
A little jaywalk action going. But, yes, there was... There was, earlier in the day, and this terrified me, and I learned a lot of things, by the way. I'm talking to my sister on the phone, and out of the corner of my eye, I see some movement on the balcony, and I'm like, oh, you know, usually birds are up there. And I take a look, and I'm like, that's a big bird.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
And I looked at it, and it was like, that's a vulture. Like, I know that look. Dark feathers, naked neck and head, that's a vulture. And it just sat there. It was just kind of contemplating, and then it turned around and looked at me. It's like, why is your face bleeding? Well, this is before. It's early in the day.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
Except he did it with an accent so his friends didn't realize. Oh, so it's really terrible? No, it's a bloody mess. There it is on the screen right there. Dude, it's huge. And it just sat there. And by the way, that's like a 20 second recording. It was there for a strong 15 minutes.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
So this is the crazy part. So I tagged the show and I tagged Ron McGill because I was like, oh, get Ron on this. I found out that Ron is out of town, right? Do you know how I found out? Because Ron's son responded to me. Yes, Sean McGill, which I thought he was lying to me. He was like, I'm Sean McGill.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
So Sean McGill runs Only in Dade. I was like, wow. All these worlds are colliding while this buzzard is on me down.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
Yeah, I gathered myself quickly and did the, oh, you know, wave. Thank you, guys, for not hitting me. And then after I got on the sidewalk, that's when I really started to realize, oh, my God, I'm a tomato can.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
Well, I'm here working, so. Well, thank you for your service. I feel like I'm adding to the show. I did the whole bloody joke with Don and Nietzsche.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
I am forever in the side of if someone's hurt, they're hurt, right? If someone's injured, they're injured. I'm not going to get mad at Grant Hill for not having the career I thought he should have had because he got hurt or Penny Hardaway or Brandon Roy or now Joel Embiid. Now, there are times where it's like you are making decisions in your life that are – linked to why you're hurt.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
For example, Zion Williamson and his weight. We'll take people like that to task more, but Joel Embiid, this is his third facial injury. He's had orbital bone surgery twice, and now this is a sinus fracture. That's not his fault. He's getting hit in the face. It's just bad luck. Now, to what Stephen A. was saying about the Olympics, this is the interesting thing.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
So Embiid gets hurt last year, and by all accounts, he should have just stayed hurt. but he was rushing to come back. And everyone was saying, why is he rushing to come back for a playoff run that's not gonna go anywhere? Because the real goal was to come back for the Olympics.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
He wanted to play in the Olympics, win a gold medal, because that's a great resume builder for someone who wants to be a Hall of Famer one day, right? But he understood, if I come back for the Olympics, but not for the playoffs, Philadelphia will turn on me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
So I need to come back to show, hey guys, I tried, I gave it my all, which he did, but obviously, that did not help the situation, because he probably came back too early, and we saw with the Bell's palsy and all the other stuff, right? So then he goes to the Olympics, He did not look like himself. He had a couple of good games. He had a lot of stinkers because, again, not 100%.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
So now he's come back from the Olympics. He should have been resting this whole time. He's not ready for the start of the season. And this is the part where I think the Sixers failed. Because rather than be up front and say, all right, came back from the Olympics. This dude is not right. We're going to shut him down and try and get him ready by Christmas or whatever.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
They said everything's fine until day one of camp. And he's like, oh, yeah, he's out. And that's what kind of turned the ire of everybody. Okay, this guy's picking and choosing when he wants to play and when he doesn't.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
So it's I'm sorry, John. No, no, you go. It's just because. Why was Joel Embiid hurt last year? Do we know why? Do you remember why? What happened? At the end, he's got the Bell's palsy. I'm not talking about the Bell's palsy. I'm talking about the injury that he recovered quickly to get back to give us Bell's palsy later. Was it the meniscus? It was the meniscus. Do you remember what happened?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
I'm talking about the injury he recovered from in order to play against the Knicks in the playoffs. He got hurt. Because he was on a maintenance plan because his knee was not good. His meniscus was not good. And they're trying to say, hey, how can we get him out there but not jeopardize him? And then he missed the Nuggets game.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
And even though he plays historically, every time he plays Jokic, he plays really well. Everyone said you're ducking Jokic. Everyone said that. So he comes back against Golden State when he shouldn't have played, and everyone's watching that game. And I know multiple people who were at that game. They were like, this guy doesn't look right. This guy doesn't look right.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
And boom, that's where he ruptures his meniscus.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
No, no, it's easy. Maintenance plan.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
Maintenance plan.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
So the thing when it comes to what John is talking about is, The human body is not meant to be that big, and also doing all these incredible things, like moving that fast, jumping that high, stopping.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
It's possible with a massive cost. There's a price to that, and it happens not when we're watching. It happens years later, and there are so many people who, quite frankly, they've popped their quags, as John said. I mean, like Jason Collier. You could talk about Sean Rooks. These are guys that were... Sean Rooks is the one I always think about.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
Sean Rooks, he played in the NBA, and then he was an assistant coach, I believe, with the Sixers. This is a guy who ate good, didn't smoke, didn't drink, worked out all the time. And then every year, as a member of the coaching staff, you get a full physical. That's part of what we do on opening day at camp. This guy dropped dead. Why?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
Because the human heart was not meant to pump that much blood to that far of an extremity all the time, and his heart just gave out, even though he did everything right. So, yes, when guys are hurt, particularly big guys, allow them that grace.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
And then you're making a good point. How can you tell without being inside and having that information? But I think what Mike is trying to impress upon you is that We're not comparing them to us. We're comparing them to their peer group. In the same way when I say such and such is a bad basketball player. I'm not saying compared to people on the street.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
I'm saying compared to the best basketball players in the world.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
he's dork oh man that's great that's great thank you very much what dork is an unusual creature are we are we disagreeing on that not not necessarily no we're not disagreeing on that i wish i could have joined in on that shot but um where were you dry i'm dry right now oh nobody's more annoying nobody's more annoying than the guy who can't stop telling you he's dry yes
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
You remember that play where Ron Autist had where he was celebrating the basket and then he immediately elbowed James Harden? That's what Matthew Kachuk did to Marc-Andre Fleury after he scored.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
He had a goal taken away from him.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
I missed a hockey stick shot. I saw you imbibing that and indulging that. Yeah.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
I do. You're dry. You're dry. Yeah, well... Come on now, don't do this to me. Why would you walk into that? Minor penalty, two minutes for boring.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
I said if I wasn't dry, I would. But I never mentioned the word dry, and I said, I'll count. You said dry seven times in the last ten seconds.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Are The Titans Soft? Feat. John Amaechi
What an honor to introduce Greg Cody to something alcoholic.