Dan begins The Big Suey with a discussion on the impact of Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl Halftime Show while adding the context of the performance coming in front of President Trump at this time in America. Then, Stugotz claims he'd give out money to random strangers if he won thousands of dollars at a slot machine, Tom Brady's $500,000+ timepiece, and Jessica's New Orleans themed Super Bowl party. Plus, what do the Chiefs do now? Would they be considered frauds if they were any other team in the NFL? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the main theme of today's Big Suey episode?
Welcome to the Big Sui, presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Levitard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys?
I've done it. And now, here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face, and the habitual liar.
This episode of the Dan Levitz Art Show with Stu Gatz is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours.
Chapter 2: How did Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl Halftime Show impact America?
Do you know how giant a sports day has to be for it to just sort of swallow? Yeah, Aaron Rodgers isn't going to be a Jet anymore. And Debo has asked for a trade out of San Francisco. The news just shrinks in the face of what this giant American celebration is that has everybody feeling a touch hungover today. It is weird.
And honestly, it is where sports does a pretty good job of connecting people, even if they're divided. The idea that America still gathers around the television for a thing and that that thing meets expectations which are giant, meets giant expectations, even if the game's not any good.
The game isn't exactly incidental because of the importance of crowning a champion in that particular sport, but... seeing what it is that America does in terms of celebrating the punctuation on a game it associates with more than any of the others and having in the middle of it Because they did take out of the end zone.
I won't forget this part as everything changes in America over the last four years. And you've seen the backlash and the backlash to everything that happened post-George Floyd, including all of these giant corporations running away, hiding, scared of the president of the United States. To see Kendrick Lamar as the halftime show when you know some of this story, right?
Jay-Z feels like he was purchased during this to be the halftime entertainment. And a lot of people were critical of a lot of different things that didn't change about football when Jay-Z was put in charge of that show.
And now the way you're going to have to clarify the purchase thing, like he is a partner of the NFL.
No, I'm saying that Jay-Z got a lot of criticism for going in and doing business at that particular time. And it could look like he was being used, whether he knew it or not, in order to be a halftime symbol for here. We're going to give actual power to people. And over the halftime show, you will see that power displayed by Jay-Z with the artists that he chooses.
Yeah, but without Jay-Z making that deal, you wouldn't have had Kendrick yesterday. And you wouldn't have had the halftime show in L.A. a couple years ago. You wouldn't have had Rihanna a couple years ago. Would we have had Maroon 5? Probably. We would have had Maroon 5, more than likely.
I think you're assuming that I'm entering this critically. I am not. The halftime show as a celebration becomes a success story in the middle of the commerce of it. I don't believe Kendrick is paid for that.
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Chapter 3: Why would Stugotz give away money from a slot machine win?
careening just careening through the week just talking to anybody who would talk to him everybody's got a microphone in his face delighted to be interviewed just humming nonstop billy you can speak to this better than i can because i was not watching him and i don't know how tired you are from chasing him around. Do you know the video I'm about to play here of Stugatz?
The DraftKings, the publicity team, caught up with Stugatz at a casino and was talking to him about, or caught up with him on Radio Rome, was talking to him about slots. And he gave an answer. Do you know this video?
I have not seen this.
All right, let's just react in real time, all of us here, to Stugatz being asked what he would do if he won a giant jackpot on the slot.
$5,000.
So I still net out $45,000. Jackpot.
Yo, chicken thigh.
He said, I'm that kind of guy. He said, it's just the kind of guy I am. I'll give away $5,000. You're not that kind of guy. He's full of shit. That's what he is. That's the kind of guy you are. Who's the person he's giving it to? It's a slot machine. None of it makes sense.
It's just the guy I am. Santa Claus of handing out cash? Is that what you assume Stu Gantz could be?
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Chapter 4: What is the significance of Tom Brady's expensive watch?
That kind of feels like the old Stu.
Just the kind of guy I am.
I wanted to scream.
Tell me what's happening there.
Lies. Yeah, but what is... Is he trying... Who's he trying to fool?
Taylor.
And it's working. Forgive me for stammering all over it, but I'm genuinely confused as to what's the play there. Like, is it to make DraftKings think he's a charitable fellow who gives out money by the hundreds? Like, who's the audience he's lying for? Or is it just the pleasure of the lie?
Because I saw another one of these where they asked him about blackjack. where he did his Stugatz thing of, I play how I want, I don't give a shit, where I was like, that's the Stugatz I know. He's playing, like, that's the hits right there, baby. And then the next one, he's this, like, earnest, oh, I'd start, 550K, I would hand it out to anyone who needs it. That's the kind of guy I am.
And I'm like, what happened between those two videos?
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Chapter 5: Why does Dan Le Batard feel uncomfortable wearing expensive watches?
Yeah.
My discomfort is such that my wife got me for, as a gift recently, a nice watch. I don't know anything about them. And it was, I don't know, I'm going to say it was six months ago. And I probably insult her by not wearing it, but I am not comfortable. wearing an expensive watch. It feels too showy to me. And so when you go $750,000 on the most watched game on television, you're showing that.
To me, I don't understand it. And it's not even judging it, although obviously it sounds like that. There's something about me that makes me not confident enough to want to throw that in everybody's face.
Well, he's not. He's got cuffs over it. I would venture to say it's probably not even his most expensive watch.
You imagine his watch collection has tons of watches that are over $800,000.
Dan, this is why people think rich people should pay more taxes.
It's one of the many reasons.
There's so many people that go to bed hungry every night, but Tom Brady's got an $800,000 watch.
And so I can't say any of this, though, without appearing judgmental. But I'm really speaking to a vulnerability here where I can't come to like my wife has given me a gift. My wife is an extraordinarily thoughtful gift giver. She is known by everybody as a thoughtful gift giver. So what she's given me.
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