The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Mike Schur's 2024 Meadowlark Observations
Mon, 16 Dec 2024
Mike Schur joins us to celebrate Dan's birthday and brings along his 2024 Meadowlark Observations. Stugotz is back, the Celtics won the title and we're celebrating our 20th Anniversary with a 45-part series talking about ourselves. Plus, Mike Schur tried to buy the baseball Aaron Judge dropped in Game 5 of the World Series and David Samson is still trying to get his phone number. Then, we analyze the video of Mark Gastineau confronting Brett Favre about giving the single season sack record to Michael Strahan. Plus, Billy wants to break down which interceptions were on Tua Tagovailoa and which interceptions were on Tyreek Hill and Lucy walks us through the Tik Tok Drama of the Week. Team Chickenfry or Team Grace? Also, Jeremy has another Christmas song that isn't really a Christmas song. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast. This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast.
Stugatz, I have to skip past some of the football stuff that there's just not enough time for today. So I'm sorry. I've got no time for Dan Campbell. If you want to kick an onside kick down 10 against Buffalo, I'm fine with it. Whatever you want to do, you're going to play more recklessly than everyone else. OK, I'm good.
As long as we know that when the playoffs come, you're going to keep playing the same way. You're not going to get scared.
I hate that rule. You shouldn't have to announce an onside kick. The element of surprise is what makes an onside kick.
I know, and safety is what they're going for there. And guess what? You cannot be safe around football. It's one of the problems. It's why everyone's broken and now everyone's worried today about Patrick Mahomes. It's why that eye gouge looks like that when Miles Garrett is flopping. The other thing I wanted to talk about that we will not have time to get to. Holy s***, Tampa Bay.
Seems like it'd be hard to get 7-7 in that league when you require Mike Evans giving you all of that to do that at the Chargers. And we're not even going to talk about Baker Mayfield and Hall of Famer Mike Evans. Thousand-yard season every season. No one can stop him ever, Mike Evans.
Yeah, we're not going to talk about any of this. We're not going to actually talk about any of this. We're not going to talk about Mike Evans. We're not going to talk about Baker Mayfield. We're not going to talk about how the athletes are bigger, stronger, faster than they've ever been before. We're not going to talk about any of that, Dan.
We're going to talk about something else, which is that it's your birthday today.
Yay! You're not dead.
You're not dead.
I'm not good at birthdays. The bucks are eight and six, by the way. Oh, I'm sorry.
We're going to talk about how it's your birthday, and also we're going to talk about how it's the end of 2024. And as a fan of the show and as a fan of Meadowlark Media, I, Mike Schur, have made some observations.
It is time for Mike Schur to share his game notes. No one in the media will tell you what happened better than my voice.
Mike Schur.
What a great honor.
2024 Meadowlark Media Observations. Wow. Is brought to you by the world champion Boston Celtics.
Oh, God.
That's right. The Celtics bought this sponsorship space just to piss off Mike Ryan one more time before the year ends. Look, what do you want me to do? The Celtics swooped in and bought this sponsorship to this segment just to piss you off one more time.
It's my birthday. I don't understand. Dan!
He was supposed to be the savior of New York City. The Big Apple was desperate for him to lead their fated franchise back to glory. But his body was too old and broken down. And instead of focusing on his job, he was off doing hallucinogenic drugs and making documentaries about himself. But dammit, I still have faith that he can return to his old MVP self.
Because this is one champion you can never count out. And Dan... Make no mistake about it. Just like that. Stu Gatz is back. Yes. Yes.
StuGatzBook.com. Yes.
WFAN's loss is Metal Ark's loss, I guess. Haven't had a chance to read Stu Gatz's book yet. But then again, neither has Stu Gatz.
Yep.
It's time for a 2024 Miami Heat roundup.
Oh, boy.
Coach Spoh. Bubble fraud. Good one without LeBron. What? Hey, this is my metal arc observations. You have your metal arc observations. I have mine. Tyler Hero. Do it in the playoffs. Jeremy Taché. Just shush. Just shush. Just stop talking for like two minutes. I literally beg you. Also, I had a great time on the pitch clock. Please have me back.
He's the only other person I know who likes baseball. The Miami Heat are floating Jimmy Butler trade rumors again. Hey, does anyone want to pay a 36-year-old clubhouse poison $52 million next year? That's a tempting offer, Pat, but I'll pass. Unfortunately for Stugatz, the only team I can imagine falling for that is the New York Jets. The New York Jets might sign Jimmy Butler. Miami Hurricanes.
The rare top flight blue blood football program to make an appearance in the Pop-Tarts Bowl. Hey, you know what the H in hurricane stands for, Dan? I do not. It stands for... They ended up in the Pop-Tarts Bowl. The trophy is a football that actually totes Pop-Tarts. That's where Mike Ryan's blue blood top flight program ended up.
He bought his way in the Pop-Tart Bowl.
Bought his way right into the goddamn Pop-Tarts Bowl. It's a prestigious bowl, Mike. It is. All right. Here come the Rockets. Shout out to Jessica Spatana. Notre Dame football made the playoff. Notre Dame women's basketball just beat UConn. Top five program. Steelers are the team no one wants to play in the playoffs.
And the rest of you jamokes, meanwhile, just root for a bunch of awful loser teams. And she has to sit there every week and listen to you talk about how the Dolphins have a 2% chance to get the seventh seed of the Colts finished with three straight ties.
It is. It's a version of hell. In the mix. She just shot us double birds and I deserved them. Yeah. She doesn't get to celebrate her teams because we're too busy celebrating our six and eights around here.
That's right. She has the patience of Job, that woman. Lucy Rodin somehow convinced Meadowlark to pay her to travel all over the country and go to college football games. I couldn't convince Meadowlark to host my not-for-profit baseball podcast on their podcasting network. How did she do it?
Do you know anybody at Texas?
Hey, I have another Meadowlark media drinking game. We all do a shot of whiskey every time David Sampson says de minimis. Oh, the cost is de minimis. Oh, the overall expenditure is de minimis. It's really de minimis. No, it's de minimis. You know what the D in David Sampson stands for, Dan?
He wants to get a hold of you so badly. He wants your private telephone number.
He asked me for it.
He thinks he can win you over. He's won Chris Cody over. Chris Cody's come over to the dark side. He says he likes David Sampson now.
I don't feel good about it, but these feelings, they just... He's nice.
I'll ask you again. He's de minimis. No, it stands for don't ever give him my phone number. Oh, okay. Good guess, though.
He has still not gotten it. He is frustrated. He says we're Metal Ark teammates. You say you guys have not even renewed my not-for-profit podcast.
That's right. We're not teammates. Because of business people like him. Hey, Dan Levitard is 56 years old today, everyone. And I'll tell you something else. He doesn't look a day... Under 56 years old. Dan Levitard. Do it at 57.
You made Jessica cover her face in shame with that joke. She's laughing so genuinely at the fact that I don't look a day over 56. Because the last four years, a day under 56.
Because the last four years have aged me 70 years. I'm running this goddamn company.
You went right from 44 to 56. You quantum leaped.
Oh, my God.
Top five handsomest men who are 56 years old. Oh, wow. Number five, Will Smith. Number four, Aaron Eckhart. Number three, Daniel Craig. Number two, Hugh Jackman. What? And the number one handsomest 56-year-old man, Timothy Oliphant. I guess Dan didn't make the list. Metal Ark Media in a contract year. Trying to make a good impression on DraftKings. Hey, I know what'll seal the deal.
More Tony's Top 5. Ha ha ha ha!
nothing makes a company want to give you tens of millions of dollars like sending a guy to do a pointless remote from a random spot in south florida on a three-second radio lag saying you know i don't entirely trust nick sirianni hey hey you can't get analysis like that just anywhere only at meadowlark media why do you not why is that joke lost on you but you don't get the show on me
It's not lost on me. Currently at DraftKings, Metal Ark Media is plus 380 to get a new contract from DraftKings.
Is it that good? Are you sure? Really? That sounds like value to me. Checked it this morning. I would have been sure that was a longer shot than that. Knowing the innards of the business, having some insider trading information that Tony's top five isn't good enough.
The Dan Levitard Show with Stu Gatz. Celebrating their 20th anniversary with a 45-part audio documentary about itself. Hey, you know what people want? Us talking about us for a thousand hours.
They've wanted it for 20 years. Levitard, that's what we do around here.
The Dan Levitard Show with Stu Gatz. The Stu Gatz is strong in you.
Yes.
Dan Lembichardt show with Stu Gatz. 20 years old. Too young to go to a bar. But too old for former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz. What happened there? What happened? In all seriousness, Metal Ark Media had a great 2024. And anyone who says differently can go straight to hell. And when you get there, say hello to Parakeet Cortez for me. And tell Parakeet to say hello to Jimmy Butler for me.
And tell Butler to say hello to David Samson for me. And tell Samson to go back to Parakeet Cortez and tell him to go straight to hell. That's right. Even though Parakeet is already in hell in this scenario, I still want Samson to go tell him to go straight to hell. And then tell Parakeet Cortez to say hello to Art Bryles.
Please, this has escalated to an unreasonable place. Please. He wants David to hammer it home. It is the rhetoric of violence. It's the rhetoric of violence. You're threatening in nature. You're being a bully. You're a soft Hollywood liberal elite. Please stop threatening de minimis David Sampson. You know what?
You go to hell, too. You go to hell, too. Yeah. And when you get there, yeah, that's right, on your 56th birthday, you go to hell and say hello to Art Bryles. Those are the Meadowlark Media 2024. Thank you. Happy birthday!
Happy birthday! You're not dead. You're not dead.
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The Miami Heat and all their fans. and Heat Culture, and Jeremy Taché, and Coach Spoh, and Bam Adebayo, and the corpse of Kevin Love can all go to hell. Stoogatz. And when they get there, say hello to Parakeet Cortez for me. And then tell Parakeet to say hello to Art Bryles.
This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stoogatz.
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A wonderful gift. Thank you. I appreciate it, Mike Schur. Before you leave here, I did want to get your thoughts on the Aaron Judge baseball that was dropped in center field during the World Series. It went for $43,510 at auction. And I've got to assume that was purchased by a Red Sox fan, correct?
It has to be purchased by someone who is an enemy of the Yankees, has a lot of money to spend, and wants a good joke, correct?
I mean, I bid on it. I'll tell you that much. I dropped out way before it got to where it got to, but I did bid on it. So, yeah, it's possible it's a Red Sox fan. My guess, though, would be that it's probably like the Guggenheim family that owns the Dodgers who want to put it on display in Dodger Stadium. That would be my actual guess.
But, yeah, a whole lot of Red Sox fans sent me texts saying like, hey, look, look what you can buy. And a whole lot of Red Sox fans I know were bidding on it.
Do you have any cool memorabilia or anything that you want out there? So David Sampson bought sunglasses owned by David Bowie, I believe. And Elton John. Do you have anything like that, or are you normal? It wasn't George Michael? Oh, yeah, George Michael.
I'm sure he has David Bowie, too. I'm more normal, although I do have some. I have some 2004. This bat behind me is a David Ortiz bat from the 2004 season. So I have stuff like that. That was actually a gift. My friend Drew got that for me as a present. But I do have some stuff like that. I'm not, like, fetishistic about, like... someone's sunglasses. Like I, you know, like I, I like David Bowie.
I wouldn't buy a pair of David Bowie's sunglasses at an auction. I do buy some baseball stuff as like, uh, you know, stuff that's meaningful to me, mostly Red Sox stuff from 2004.
Is there anything David Sampson can do to build a bridge to a relationship with you?
Yeah, sure. He can change his entire view of the world and how it operates.
Thank you, Mike. Good talking to you. Might take a minute. Appreciate your time. Man on the Inside on Netflix is still a giant. It's still a juggernaut. Is Netflix giving you any information of what a Hollywood titan you are?
Literally while I was doing my Meadowlark Media Observations, it was announced that it's been picked up for season two. So it's good timing. I can announce that now here officially.
Look at that. Some breaking news. You sound excited about it. Yes, look how excited he sounds about, yes, another year of work in a difficult Hollywood. Gets old after a while, right, Mike? Making people laugh.
Yeah.
The burden of carrying around Ted Danson in his late 70s. It's all very hard to do. That he would take time out to write for our show is a genuine birthday gift. Thank you, sir, as is your friendship. Nice seeing you.
Happy birthday, Dan. Congratulations on another great year, everybody. Yes, thank you.
Thank you, Mike. You're not dead.
Thank you. I'm not dead. Can you guys get for me? It's great. It's a heartwarming tale. It's got a dark underbelly, but my birthday. You're not yet dead, but we're careening dangerously down the path. You look not a day under 56. Can you guys get for me? Speaking of that, speaking of sad people limping through their retirements, I want to show you some video.
that I don't know how Stugatz felt about it, but I will ask the group, how should you feel about Mark Gastineau used to own the record for sacks in a season in the NFL, and then Michael Strahan broke that record in a game where a lot of people suspected that Brett Favre gave Michael Strahan the sack by just rolling into him on a fake handoff that should have been a handoff and just rolling into Strahan and giving away Mark Gastineau's sack record.
It should be noted that Favre and Strahan had had, before that sack, a long friendship throughout the NFL, throughout their careers.
And the play looked suspicious. It's just weird for Brett Favre not to try to get around somebody. Just flopped out right in front of Strahan. And Gastineau, is this a card show they're at? We've all seen... Man, oh man, Stugatz, it's kind of strange to see that Aaron Rodgers, everything he's become publicly, has been sort of a short-circuiting of who he used to be publicly in five years.
Brett Favre in retirement has torn asunder everything he used to be thought of by America when on Monday night he played a heroic football game after suffering and grieving the death of his late father. And everything since then has been like,
pain addiction and stealing from mississippi and uh you know texting your penis to a woman like it's all been it's been bad yeah it's been 15 years of terrible and so here they are just signing to make money i guess and i is gaston are working on a documentary is he working on a 30 for 30 is this why he's being followed around this is part
of a preview for the 30 for 30.
So there's a 30 for 30 that ESPN is doing on the sack exchange, not on the jet, just on the sack exchange, Gaston O'Lyons, Abdul Salam, that crew. And so this is part of that. This is him at a memorabilia show. Brett Favre happens to be.
So let you guys tell me how you just feel about this, because I recoiled with a certain it wasn't even the awkwardness. It just the whole thing made me sad.
I thought we met a long time ago. At least I saw you. Right. How you doing? When you fell down for him. I'm going to get my sack back. I'm going to get my sack back, dude. You probably would hurt me. Well, I don't care. You hurt me. You hurt me. You hear me? Yeah, I hear you. You really hurt me. You hurt me, Brett. We got to get back to this, Brett. I'm sorry.
That's good work by that card guy. His handler there doing some good teamwork. Excellent handling. I don't think this is going well.
Hey, Brett, we got to get out of here. Let's go. It's my job now to handle. I'm the handler.
What does he mean by I want to get my sack back? Did he want Brett to let him sack him right there?
He wants the record back. He feels like the record is his, and it was given to Michael Strahan by Brett Favre. He almost says it in a way like, if you let me sack you right now, we'll be good.
What's that?
I had the same impression as Chris, but I was thinking he would make Brett Favre lie down and then get back up and be unsacked from Strahan.
I wish that Brett Favre hadn't been the combination of both awkwardly mortified and not knowing if this person in front of him was serious to have had the comedic timing to be like, okay, and then just fold it out at his knees. Here, I'll let you sack me here among these Packer helmets.
We good? I think he took it the way that we did because he does say, I think you'd hurt me. He thought that Gastineau was making a joke of, I'd like to sack you right now. Like, oh man, you'd hurt me. And then the handler stepped in and did his job.
I told you, Stugatz, that I saw on one of these, I don't know whether it was Rich and Shameless or one of these things that you watch when you need 24 minutes of empty calories. I saw the promoter for Mark Gastineau's boxing career.
Richie Parker, I believe was his name, and how he tried to become Don King by, among other things, poisoning one of Gastineau's opponents because that opponent was clearly going to beat Gastineau and ruin Gastineau's chance of being the big white hope in boxing after the sack exchange. It is an amazing story. And Gastineau is mad that Favre gave Strayed a sack?
While his manager was out here killing his opponents or trying to kill them with poison, allegedly. What are you shrugging your shoulders about, Lucy?
Allegedly.
You can understand that, though, from Gastineau, right? That's all he has. Mark Gastineau had the sack record. He has nothing else. That's what he has. And he feels like Brett Favre gave it to Michael Strahan.
I understand. Even though TJ Watt broke the record.
I understand getting your identity from your work. I understand getting your identity from your one great achievement. But yes, it made me sad to see Mark Gastineau limp through his retirement to want Brett Favre to fix that for him. Right.
I think I feel uncomfortable by the whole video, right? I don't like Brett Favre as a person. This record happened way before I was born and Strahan broke it when I was, I don't know, 10. So I don't have any connection with it. So just watching it, both of them are sad and unhappy and it just makes me uncomfortable.
There's a lot of sadness there. You heard it? It's Gastineau limping around. I feel bad for him. It's Brett Favre's presence. And they're at a memorabilia show.
That part is just like, you hear me, man? Yeah. You hear the words I'm saying? Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Sad. And you don't even know.
You hurt me.
I want that sack back. But when he says, you hear me, are you wondering whether he's just asking Brett? Hello, Brett. Brett, do your ear at our age. You hear me?
Can you hear me?
How's your hearing, huh? He's like, yeah, man, I hear you. It's like my father.
I feel bad. Yeah. Now I feel bad. Yeah, it's rough. But I also, I don't know. Yeah.
Well put.
Jess. You broke the record.
I feel bad, too. Like, I don't want to make fun of Mark Gasnow. Like, I don't want to say he looks like an Elvis impersonator. Like, these are things you don't want to say. Right. Lucy. You feel bad.
Lucy, you can't break character like that. You can't sneeze because... No, I was giggling at what Billy said.
I didn't say it.
Also, just so you know, this is an audio medium, too, so that wasn't very helpful for our listeners. Play another Christmas song.
You better watch out, you better just slide. You better not tackle, I think you might die. Two, will you please get down? Two, will you please get down? Two, will you please just get down? He's throwing a pick not just once or twice, but three times in a must-win game, Jesus Christ. Sue, will you please get down? Sue, will you please get down? Sue, will you please just get down?
Josh Allen's winning non-stop. He's the best we've ever seen. And Dan once thought he wasn't good. All that take was just obscene. It might be worse than two gods on the cheap. Oh, you better watch out. You better not try to tackle anyone. Tua, please don't die. Tua, will you please get down? Tua, will you please get down? Tua, will you please just get down? Come on, Tua. Wow. Good job, Jeremy.
Was that Castano singing? Thank you. Not good enough? Not a Christmas song. Not a Christmas song. Come on. Keep going to work. I want Scott Frosty the Snowman. Someone already did it.
It's a layup.
It had a little more boss in it, a little more Springsteen. Not Christmas. That's what's supposed to happen.
It's a Springsteen version. A little more Gastineau.
Keep working on it. That was my internal monologue, though, watching the Dolphins play. It wasn't as Christmassy. It was more horrific. It was more blood-curdling screams of anguish that had no holiday spirit in them. It's just like, Tua, get down. It's not worth it. You've got 12 points. Tua, you're on the road. You're playing Houston on a bike. You're not winning this one.
We've seen this game for many years before you, Tua.
The whole thing's haunted. He's throwing a pick not just once or twice, but three times in a must-win game, Jesus Christ.
It's Tyreek Hill's fault, clearly.
That's what the investigation showed.
You said the investigation showed that Tyreek Hill is washed.
No.
That's what you said. No, no, no. You didn't say that. You blamed it on Tyreek Hill. I don't. Do we actually know? It would be great to know today if all three interceptions were Tyreek Hilt's fault.
According to at CK Parrott, they were.
You're throwing it to your best player in the vicinity of your best player. And even though Stingley's the one intercepting the ball with one great play and another that didn't even have to be great because you were confused as to why it is that Tua was confused because you've gotten used to his historic accuracy.
How is it, and I'm no NFL player. I will never, I'm not going to pretend to be.
But your body feels like one.
Thank you for clarifying. 15 weeks in, it feels like it. I'd never even be a punt returner. But how is it that we're still not on the same page so often? Like, it still seems to happen a lot where the Dolphins just aren't on the same page and something seems like an open interception. And they're like, well, it wasn't to his fault. It was someone wasn't where they're supposed to be.
It's like, we're three years into this now.
They do have a lot of pages, confusing pages, probably more so than other offenses.
You know who normally gets people on the same page? Coaches.
The thing that you guys do, though, that makes it a little bit hard here, right? Because I, in some ways, do marvel at how our crew of people would go if right now you just threw us on a field and told us, hey, you got 24 seconds to do anything.
No, no, no.
Wait, no, no. The thing I want to say to you, when Aaron Rodgers goes to Lazard and you see that when Devontae Adams is out there and he's got his timing, oh, that looks a little different. That looks a little different than what I saw at the beginning of the season. Oh, if I give those guys reps, they seem to have over thousands of throws, something that not everyone has.
Tyreek Hill and Tua should have that by now. But when I watched the Dolphin offense... It is so precise, and what they're trying to do is, I need the most accurate quarterback ever to throw this within 2.1 seconds, going through his three reads, and make sure he doesn't get concussed.
And this timing has to be perfect, because otherwise, wait until you see what it looks like with every other quarterback. So this is how we're doing. It has to be perfect, and up, three throws are bad. Three throws from the most accurate quarterback ever. Terrible game. Horseshit game, Tua. Thank you. Tua, will you please get down?
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I just texted my best friend Hannah and asked her who she thinks is going to win tonight. And she has never watched a hockey game this entire season. She's picking the Rangers. And she's an astrophysicist. She's real smart.
I'll text Joey. Dan, you know what I found out about Hannah today? An anagram.
You said Anna or Hannah?
Hannah.
Okay, I don't know. Anna too, depending on how you spell it. Even though there's two N's, it's also an anagram. Same with one N, Anna. Anagrams are fun. Race car. A Hanagram.
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That was my garbage player that I got for like $3 so that I could get all the good players for the rest of the monies that we had there. Dan, who was your roster? We'll go over that after. I didn't do it this week.
Really? Why?
I did do it the week before, but I never checked my record the week before. Oh, you got to. Do it for next week now so you don't forget. It's fun. Fun time had a while. Last week I was finished in 59th place. I had 185 points. This week would have gotten me in the money. But it didn't because I had the likes of Alan Lazard getting me zero points.
I had Mac Hollins getting me 1.7 because he can't just run into a straight line into the end zone when he has, you know, a head of steam ahead of him. And then I had Derrick Henry get me 6.7 points. Disgraceful. But guess what? I'm coming back next week stronger than ever. And next week, I will finish.
I'm not going to give you a place because then I don't do it and you guys are like, you're an idiot. You say every week you're going to win. So you'll finish. I will finish. All right. And that's an accomplishment. Good. Santa Claus is coming. DKNG.co. Yes, Jess. Super Bowl licks.
Yes. Santa Claus is coming. Lucy, can you please tell me about this TikTok drama that you're saying you want to start a new segment every week, TikTok drama of the week.
We've only got like a month left before they get rid of the app. Oh.
In our endless pursuit for trying to strive to get younger as a show, what is the TikTok drama of the week?
So I'm going to present this drama to you all, and then you will pick, based off of the information that I've shared with you, what side you were on.
Okay.
So the two parties are Breonna Chicken Fry and Grace O'Malley.
Oh, boy.
So Brianna Chicken Fry dated Zach Bryan, who's a country singer. Do not get that confused with Luke Bryan, who's also a country singer.
Or Luke Combs.
And don't get it confused with Zach Brown, who's also a country singer, who sang a song called Chicken Fried. They're separate. So Zach Bryan and Brianna Chicken Fry were dating. They just recently broke up, and it was nasty. Okay, Brianna came out and was like, he's the worst, he was horrible to me, and it sounds like he was pretty terrible.
She and Dave Portnoy formed one of the most popular podcasts in America, at least in part, talking about all this.
Yes, and Josh Richards is on that podcast as well. Grace O'Malley is Brianna Chicken Bride's best friend of 15 years. And it's clear that they had some problems between Zach and Brian because Grace didn't like Zach because Zach was not a very good guy. And it's very clear that Grace called that correctly. So last week, Brianna and Grace had a podcast together.
And Brianna posed something being like, hey, guys, Plan Brie is coming back, but it's going to come back in a different way. It's called Plan Brie? That's their podcast.
Great name. I get it.
And then Grace O'Malley came out and said, because they were on the podcast together, I didn't know that our podcast was coming back without me.
She learned on the internet.
You didn't tell me. She learned on the internet. So she went on her Instagram story and said, I was blindsided. Best friends for 15 years and you don't tell me that. Also, Brianna Chicken Fry had to sleep overnight before with all the people who worked on Plan Brie and had all of them unfollow Grace on Instagram. I know. It's crazy.
And then, oh my goodness, Brianna goes on her podcast with Dave Portnoy and does a tell all where she just shits on her friend for like 45 minutes being like, I gave her everything. I got her this job. I, you know, had her, you know, move in with me. I've done all of these things for her and she never supports me online. And it's always everybody loves Grace and they all hate me.
And Grace has been silent about the whole matter. Except for she said one thing, because she does stand-up now, where she was like, I feel like we're going through a divorce. A divorce of 15 years, and we're letting the kids decide who they want to live with. Because all the fans are now picking sides between the two of them, and Grace hasn't spoken publicly. But it is...
hot goss everybody is talking about it online we don't know are you team chicken fry or o'malley chicken fry also not her real last name just in case you don't say what's the origin of chicken it doesn't say it on her her birth certificate but i think grace's name is really great the question that they're really asking here is what do you do when your best friend doesn't like who you're dating
Well, can I can I add to the story? Can I please can I put an extra piece of evidence here? The breakup that was in question was also made public on Instagram and Chicken Fry said that she was not expecting it and was blindsided by said breakup and then went and did the same thing to Grace.
the very same thing and now Brianna's been on her podcast she's been crying and she's like Grace doesn't stand up for me online I know she hated Zach but like I never brought Zach around but it seems like she did bring Zach around and she even said that Zach and Grace got in a fight at her birthday party
It's time for us all to pick. Let's do who you got.
Team Brianna Chicken Fry or Team Grace O'Malley?
It's not secret ballots. This was Zach Bryan, right? Yes.
But they're broken up. He went on Raya the day after they broke up. And that's how everybody found out. And Raya is a celebrity dating app.
And Morgan Wallen's the one that threw the chair.
And Morgan Wallen threw the chair, and Zach Bryan got really mad at Rihanna Chicken Fry for singing Morgan Wallen's song in front of her.
Is Morgan really going to jail for seven days? Did I see that? It's like a rehab or something for seven days. That's a cup of coffee. It's probably good for him.
Chris Cody, do you think that we have anywhere in our library the one time that we explored this question? Because I thought it was a fairly amazing— We did this already? We did. Something like this.
Wait, who did you— Chicken Fryer or O'Malley?
I don't have that image. Has that changed? I will give you guys an answer to that question in a second, but I'm going the way back machine. Choose wisely. So one time, I don't know why this was, we were at Dania Highline and a group of men came to us seeking some sort of advice about a friend they had who was marrying a woman that none of them liked.
And they were asking us, how do we go about telling our friend that we don't like the woman that he's married and that it's a bad decision all of us agree on this how do we go about doing this and so I didn't know how to answer that question. But the next day we had on a guest on our show who joined us and said as if he'd been waiting for the question all his life. This is what you do.
You get all the friends together. You select one friend. You send one friend in to say it one time and one time only to your friend. It's the only time that you mention it on behalf of all of your friends. You get in and out. You select the best friend to do it. That answer was coming from Lamar Odom, who surely was getting all that advice about the Kardashians. and ignored it. I'm guessing.
I can't believe that Lamar Odom was the person who had considered this particular thing when he ended up, not months later, entrapped by this. But I choose Chicken Fry because you know I like a... Well, who did Lamar have?
No, Chicken Fry was the wrong answer. He should have chosen O'Malley. I think he got the people confused.
I chose O'Malley.
Good choice.
You've distracted me with a chicken fry. You understand that?
No, he wants fried chicken, Lucy. You misunderstood.
That's correct.
But that's not her real last name.
That's right.
That's not legal.
You don't know why we're calling her chicken fryer. You do know why she has one of the most popular podcasts in America with Portnoy.
Yeah, so she was like a TikTok influencer. So she got really, really big on TikTok. She was pretty funny, did like relatable content. Then she got hired by Barstool and she's been like kind of their shining star for the last few years. She's brought a huge audience. And so when she got to Barstool, she wanted to do her podcast with her best friend, Grace. So Grace came with her.
But now she's like, I gave Grace everything. And she's like, not even grateful. But then she went on another podcast this week with Alex Earl and said, Zach Bryan did a few nice things for me. And then he would always throw them back in my face. Like, you don't want to be around someone like that. But she did that to Grace.
She's doing exactly what she got mad at Zach for doing.
Braxton Barrett's girlfriend, Alex Earl? Yeah. What? We're all connected.
I did not realize we were going to get another Berrius reference today.
What are we going to do without TikTok, Dan? I'm screwed.
Lucy, seriously, people who are addicted, the most addicted to TikTok, are very worried about the fact that they'll hand over all of their information to China in exchange for being able to continue feeding the addiction.
So the problem is, is that there's someone in this room to blame. My Instagram reels aren't very good because somebody keeps sending me Christian influencer videos and it's ruined my algorithm.
Roy. Roy. Keep my name out your mouth. Stu? Jeremy?
Stu Gatz.
It was Stu Gatz. What an upset that Stu Gatz was sending you TikToks and Instagram videos on Christian influencers.
You say that we're supposed to not be okay with China just taking all of our information, but if they want it, they're going to get it anyways, right? So I might as well consent and still keep TikTok. Why are we okay with America taking it? Well, that's what I'm saying. If they're going to have it, at least let me have TikTok out of this. I trust in either government.
China, I'm Team Grace.
Now you know.
I wonder who China's team is.
I read a memoir by a former Notre Dame president, Father Hesburgh, that was written in 1991, where he wrote that, hey, by the way, everyone already has all of our data. This was in the 90s. They were like, the ship sailed on privacy. He wrote that in the 90s.
I don't know if this applies or not.
Because I read a book.
I read like three books a week. Three a week? A week? Three books a week?
Not your life? It sounds painful.
It's not the reading of the book. It was the subject matter 30 years ago by Father... Hesburgh. The name drop of Father Hesburgh that I didn't think... I thought it was the weakest use ever of the Look at Me, Louis.
I don't know him personally.
I did go to his funeral, though.
He's not alive. He's not alive.
Zach Ryan went to Grace's grandma's funeral. What?
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