Hour 2: The Venmo Divorce Settlement

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Speaker 2 This is the Don Levatar Show with the Stugats Podcast.

Speaker 2 Stugats, you see yesterday, the AP released their first preseason top 25 poll. Exciting.
That's what I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 So, because the coaches poll came out like last week, get the hell out of here. These coaches, they don't know anything.
They don't know anything. They don't know anything.
All right.

Speaker 2 But the AP poll, that's where it's at. And I got to tell you, I feel like it kind of dropped the ball, the AP.
Mike? Big poll or not a big poll? They let us down. That's a big poll.
They let us down.

Speaker 2 They did, right? Average-sized poll. So on, Miami opens the season against Notre Dame.
That is a top 10 matchup, officially. Any other season.
That's a big game.

Speaker 2 Any other season, this would be the talk of the town. You got a top 10 matchup to open the season.
Week one is loaded.

Speaker 2 Week one, you have the Ohio State Buckeyes reigning defending national champions, hosting the Texas Longhorns. I'm going to be there.

Speaker 2 Everyone assumed we're coming out the gates week one of the college football season. It's a final league Corso headgear of his career.
Out the gates, noon.

Speaker 2 We get number one versus number two. That's what the coach's poll told you.
To start the season. Mm-hmm.
And the AP took that away from us.

Speaker 5 Screwed it up.

Speaker 4 He's got to go Brutus, right? Didn't he go Brutus on his first pick ever? He's got to go Brutus. I mean, like,

Speaker 7 I hate that it's that predictable.

Speaker 2 I think he should go Texas. I think

Speaker 2 I think you show some guts, all right? You show some guts and you go with the longhorn helmets, okay? You're on the road there. You got the sea of people.
You got all the buck ups.

Speaker 2 Everyone expects Brutus. I do something very similar because I host college football tailgate for ESPN Radio.
We travel, me and Amber Wilson, we travel the entire country for ESPN Rio campus tour.

Speaker 2 We're in Columbus, all right, for week number one. And from the Airstream studio, at the end, we give our picks.
And I got the foam fingers, you know. I'm not scared.

Speaker 2 There'll be a whole crowd of people in front of me. Foam fingers have one finger up, not a football.
That's right. Most but people love a visual gag on audio property.
But that's right.

Speaker 2 That's why I do it. And there will be a sea of Buckeye fans in front of me because I don't know if you know the game's in Columbus.

Speaker 2 But if I want to pick Texas, I'm not giving away who I'm picking yet. I would never give it away.
I tell you at the end of the show, all right?

Speaker 2 But if I want to pick Texas, I'll pick the road team right in front of your face. You can't be scared.
I would never be scared. All right.
I got guts. So, Corso, I hope he shows some guts.

Speaker 2 If he believes. that Texas is going to win, put on that longhorn helmet.
Show a little guts.

Speaker 2 So he had a bunch of options for his final headgear a lot of people theorize hey maybe he's a proud seminole got alabama there alabama over there that's a good one but it's where it all began columbus ohio that's cool and what would have made things perfect is if it were number one versus number two but the associated press cares not for our storylines and they put a team with a quarterback that failed to complete a single pass, a pass to a wide receiver in a big-time bowl game.

Speaker 2 Why is Penn State number two over Texas? Texas opens a season against a national champion. Let's start the season number one versus number two.

Speaker 2 Here's another question about the polls that make zero sense to me. Who's number one again?

Speaker 2 The Buckeyes. Is it the Buckeyes? Yeah.
I thought it was Texas.

Speaker 2 Oh, no, it's Texas.

Speaker 2 Texas. Yes, sorry.
Well, then I screwed all of that. No, no, you didn't.

Speaker 2 Who's number one again? It's Texas. Texas.

Speaker 2 Who's favored in the matchup between Texas and Ohio? I think it's Columbus. But then make them number one then.
Just go ahead and make Ohio State the number one team if they open at home.

Speaker 2 But the idea is like if you were on a neutral field, what team's better? Yeah. But it's the preseason.
You already know the schedule. Might as well make it make sense.

Speaker 2 You're going to have the number one team as an underdog in the first game of the season where you're creating these rankings out of thin air. Make it make sense.
Make the number one team the favorite.

Speaker 2 So as it turns out, number three is favorite over number one. Well, number three is number one, right? Yeah, minus two and a half on that line.

Speaker 2 I have top five polls if you guys want them.

Speaker 2 Wow.

Speaker 2 Number five, foul poll.

Speaker 2 Do you ever wonder maybe it should be called fair poll? No. I mean, the ball hits it.
It's fair. It's not foul.
That's a good point. It's a fair point.

Speaker 2 Do you like when the fair/slash foul polls are like a drawing of something? Like sometimes it's a pencil? No. No? Yeah, me neither.
What's number four? Marcine Gortat, the Polish hammer.

Speaker 1 That's a good one.

Speaker 2 Number three, Cooper Flag.

Speaker 2 Flagpole, Mike. Thank you.
Number two, Bill Pollyon.

Speaker 2 Number two, huh? You mean you thought Lamar Jackson? Number one, a staple. I mean, Dick Pohl.
Ah, yes.

Speaker 2 Dick. Those are my top five polls.
Number one for life. Dick Paul.

Speaker 2 I mean, Penn State screwed it up, coming at number two. Does anyone believe Penn State? No one.
Second best team in the country.

Speaker 2 Drew Ryler's tall. Come on.
James Franklin. He's still there.
Come on. It's enough.

Speaker 2 We all know how to playoffs last year. Not the biggest story, though, in college football from yesterday.
The biggest story is brand new starting quarterback, QB1 at Oklahoma.

Speaker 2 John Matier, who was at Washington State last year, and I was a fan, really fun player to watch. He's now at Oklahoma.
He's in hot water because people found his Venmo transactions.

Speaker 2 And his Venmo transactions were public at the time and he had Venmo transactions, two different ones that I saw. One, sports gambling,

Speaker 2 and the other one was sports gambling, USC versus UCLA. Hold on, like, did he put that in the notes? That was, yeah, that was the title of the transaction.

Speaker 2 This was when John Matier would have been a freshman in college,

Speaker 2 obviously, very much against the rules. Now, Oklahoma has come out and said they believe that John Matier has not gambled on sports.

Speaker 2 This led to a bunch of internet sleuthing in which people were going through other quarterbacks' transactions to see if they were public and some embarrassing stuff was there.

Speaker 2 Some quarterbacks got wise as soon as this story broke and deleted all their transactions, said everything to private to make sure that there would be no sleuthing.

Speaker 2 People, the young generation, and I've never gotten this when it comes to Venmo.

Speaker 2 I never know, I don't need to know what you're paying for. I don't know.
You're a sociopath if you have your Venmo transactions public. It's weird.
Sugats, you have your Venmo transactions public.

Speaker 2 I know.

Speaker 2 Stop that.

Speaker 2 I thought you closed it for me. I mean, stop that.
But people were going around and I have friends that do this. They like to make the Venmo transaction a joke.
You know, they buy around.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I've done that. Yeah, yeah.
Thanks for the drugs, stuff like that. Right.
Sans context, no one knows that you're just Josh and your boys, right?

Speaker 2 Now people are going to your transactions, and if you put an eight-ball emoji, they're not going to assume billiards.

Speaker 2 What's your worst non-joke? one of those? The one that made you go private? Because I've got one and I've also got one of a friend who I'll just say it because it doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 It was a couple that got divorced and it was a very simple divorce settlement. So simple that the payments were made via Venmo.

Speaker 2 That's a tough way to...

Speaker 2 And wait, wait, wait. And it just said one slash 24 of the first.

Speaker 2 So it clearly had to split it up within 20 and you see and it's just so funny It's like watching a reality show on your Venmo and when that 24th month hit boy did I celebrate well I I paid attention to it when signal gate was happening people were starting to go through government officials who who didn't know that they didn't have their transaction set to private I I fix that stuff real quick because I don't need someone prying around any of that

Speaker 2 independent of whether or not I josh somebody and make a transaction, you know, that's not actually accurate and just making a joke about it. Stu, you'd appreciate this.

Speaker 2 What made me go to private is when I first got on to Venmo and I sent Anthony some money.

Speaker 2 I was on a road trip, and when I got back home, this is like when I first started smoking weed, like in my mid-30s, right? And so I was like, ooh, I don't have a device with which to smoke it at home.

Speaker 2 It broke, and I sent him some money and said, Hey, go buy me a little small glass pipe for when I get home. And he responded via text, you know, these are public.
And I was like, oh, shit.

Speaker 2 I learned, you know, I was told, hey, this is public. You should turn this off because I didn't know how it worked where I was doing a couple of transactions for like sponsors on my podcast.

Speaker 2 You know, it's, I don't want anyone to know what I charge and that kind of deal, you know? So I was told, hey, you got to turn it off. They were sending their payments to you via Venmo.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah. And like, again, I don't want everyone to be able to see what I charge for sponsorship.
So what do we believe here, though? I mean, sports gambling USC UCLA is pretty specific.

Speaker 2 He could be joking. That would be the defense because people do tend to joke occasionally with this app.
But what kind of investigation are we doing now?

Speaker 2 Because you can't be gambling if you're a quarter. You can't be gambling if you're a college football athlete.

Speaker 2 Don't you have to believe that he is, maybe he's stupid, but don't you have to believe that he is smart enough not to joke like that? Because how do these things get found out?

Speaker 2 It's because a lot of money goes to something suspicious, right? So if you're just putting down regular old bets within a game that you're playing or teams that a lot of people bet on,

Speaker 2 Your only way you're going to get caught really is if you label it in your Venmo transactions. I don't think he's that dumb.
This was research though.

Speaker 2 This was apparently when he was a freshman in college. So someone...
Do we know what the money was?

Speaker 2 Let me see if that was put out there. But I've just seen the screen caps of sports gambling, sports gambling, USC, UCLA.
That's a great question. Saz, do we care if it is just...
It's a $200 million.

Speaker 2 No, the reason I ask him is because I think that could help us know if it's real or if it was a joke.

Speaker 2 Right, because if he was joking around and it was actually for Sody pops, you're not spending $500.

Speaker 2 But what's a unit to a guy that wasn't... Remember, he just took over.
He took over for Cam Ward at Washington State last year. He wasn't playing at this point.
He wasn't getting NIL.

Speaker 2 But to Izzy's question, if it is real and it's a $25 bet, do we really care? I mean. Well, no, we don't care.
I don't think any of us individually

Speaker 2 ever care. But should we? Like, nobody's going to influence the result of...
Let me rephrase. Most people wouldn't try to influence the result of a bet over $20, right? You're just doing it.

Speaker 2 Hey, if I happen to get my, you know, three touchdowns today, I'm going to go home to an extra hundred bucks. Right.

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This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

Speaker 2 Speaking of privacy, did you guys see this? I was told this, I think it was like two days ago, two or three days ago, a new feature was, this is a PSA I'm doing right now, all right?

Speaker 2 Because I'll bet a lot of people listening or watching, they don't know this. I'm gonna help you out right now, alright? You don't even need to thank me.
I'm doing out of the goodness of my own heart.

Speaker 2 Where Instagram, apparently, there's a new feature where they have a... There's maps where you click on the map and you could see the

Speaker 2 direct location your friends on Instagram are currently at. A buddy of mine texts me a few days ago, hey man, a new feature came out on Instagram today.

Speaker 2 I'm on it right now and I could see exactly where you are. And I went and looked and I was like, yep, that's my home.
That's where I am. It doesn't matter what you post.

Speaker 2 You know exactly, like if I'm posting a random picture from five months ago and I put on the location, hey, this is in Italy, it's still going to be a different thing. No, this is a different feature.

Speaker 2 No, when you click on the direct messages on Instagram,

Speaker 2 there's a map. And you click on the map and you could see on it where all,

Speaker 2 if it's on, you could see where all your friends are located to like the foot where they at. You could see their moments.
Do you want to to see that?

Speaker 2 Do you want to see that? Do you want your friends knowing exactly where you are? It seems weird. It's creepy.
I'm with my kids. This is my home.
No. You know what's weird?

Speaker 2 That's what I find weird is the friends, and this is a young thing. The friends that all share their locations all the time.
Like, that's, it's too much.

Speaker 2 I accidentally share a location with somebody in our hockey chat. And so it's really only two people that I share locations with.
It's Anthony, and it's this Bright Side Mike.

Speaker 2 And I have no interest in knowing where Bright Side Mike is 24 hours of the day. Look at this.
Look Look at Billy and Jeremy are feverishly on their phones right now.

Speaker 2 Yep, they're trying to turn it off. You should.
I don't know how you do it. I mean, I'll show you, I guess.
I'm still drawing the log out of Venmo.

Speaker 2 Why do these apps do that? Like, why would they think that I want everyone to know literally where I am? Not the city where I am, but my home. That I understand that question.

Speaker 2 I mean, Instagram is often used. The most common application is users telling the world where they are.
But not to the address. Not to the address, but people tag people.
I mean,

Speaker 2 you can find out exactly where the Clips concert is tonight. Forget when they're Stu Gots.
They're like, they're all feverish.

Speaker 2 It's so hard.

Speaker 7 Like it has to be somewhere in your life.

Speaker 2 Right, but there's a nurse location.

Speaker 1 I'm not sure if there's any location within settings.

Speaker 2 I just asked Taylor to do it. Right, but there are some times where people want to actually post that, then they have to, where they are.

Speaker 2 You know how you can geotag certain places if you're at a bar or something. Did you click on the globe there, Chris?

Speaker 2 yes i just got it you go to the messages up top you click on see right there right there i could show for people looking on on the screen there see you got the people here and you click on the globe which says map and then on the top right you click on that little settings thing and you could turn your specific location off but like i'm looking at it right now and i'm looking at the map of the country and it's like there's a bunch of people look stuck there's a bunch of people just in florida look at it right there i could see where they are yeah i don't like it i could see where these people are located right now in the state of Florida.

Speaker 2 It's kind of shady.

Speaker 1 This is really upsetting.

Speaker 2 Right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm not happy about this at all.

Speaker 2 My buddy, I texted him back. I go, good looking out because I don't know about this kind of stuff.
And it came out, and then I looked online. I was like, you know, how do you turn it off?

Speaker 2 And it said, you know, today, whatever, it was like August 6th, a new feature came out on Instagram. I was like, holy shit.

Speaker 1 I also appreciate you waiting until we're not on the live show to tell us all of this so that that way.

Speaker 2 Oh, that was good looking out by me, too, right? Well done. To give us all plenty of time to turn the setting off after the show.
Cool.

Speaker 1 It won't get published right away, and that way nobody's going to have to.

Speaker 2 Did you figure it out yet? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 It's pretty simple.

Speaker 7 Take care of mine.

Speaker 2 And you could see all the people who you could see, I don't know, like ex-girlfriends or something. Where is this globe you speak of?

Speaker 2 At the top of your DMs. Turn off Stugatsu so people can't find out where Taylor is.
Where it shows notes.

Speaker 2 Here. Can you help me out? Yeah, yeah.
Help my brother out. That's all.
Let's go. All right, let's see.
Where's your Instagram? I have no idea.

Speaker 2 Where's my Instagram? I think here it is. All right, here it is.
It says Matt. And so

Speaker 2 click on

Speaker 2 his direct message.

Speaker 2 Thank you.

Speaker 2 Yep, there you go. That was helpful.

Speaker 2 Hmm. Stugats, you may have like a super old version of Instagram.
I don't think you have the map. Great.

Speaker 2 That's a good thing.

Speaker 2 It's a really old version. You're all right.
You don't use that very often. Did you call me Playa? Yeah, of course.
Why not?

Speaker 2 There you go.

Speaker 2 All right. So I'm glad I was able to help you guys.
There you have it. I am currently not sharing my location.
Never was, but thank you for the freakout moments.

Speaker 2 Okay. Well, I mean, I was sharing my location when I was told.
That was not cool. All of a sudden, someone shows up at my door.
Hey, Zaszlo, I know where you live now because of Instagram.

Speaker 2 Screw that, man. Jeremy, look.
Stuats, look how confused. He's really upset.

Speaker 1 I'm trying to help Mike Ryan right now, but he has a slightly outdated version of Instagram. So I'm trying to figure out how it is.

Speaker 1 Is that the case? Oh, there you are. No, there is.

Speaker 1 Hold on. Let's see.
Let's see. I can help you from here.
All right.

Speaker 2 So we're going to swipe up here on Maps. Now you're at Maps.
I did a good thing, though, I believe.

Speaker 1 You and your friends on Map.

Speaker 2 I mean, a good thing. They had radio perhaps.
Good news.

Speaker 2 what are you talking about this is fantastic it's very informative there's people at home hopefully they're not driving and trying to listen to this and trying to adjust their people driving freaking out now they want to turn this as well yours was still on yeah i know exactly where brian the beast london is right now get at where

Speaker 1 but that's the thing is you share your location with with an app like this because hey if you're trying to post like hey i was at for example if i'll post something from a marlins game hey i'm at lone depot park and so i'm adding that location and it's going to be like, oh, can we access your location?

Speaker 1 Because, and you might say yes, because you want to make sure you're clicking on the right thing there.

Speaker 1 And then all of a sudden, your location is part of this app, not thinking that all of a sudden every single person that follows you is going to be

Speaker 2 community,

Speaker 2 to the pinpoint of the address, where you are within the building. It's horrifying.
Wow, Bradside Mike is in Canada. Niagara Falls.
We actually don't know which one.

Speaker 2 We're all done. So glad I was able to help you guys.
Let me take your mind off of this very troubling situation. Jeremy, we did a top five yesterday.

Speaker 2 Mike Ryan did a top five yesterday of greatest movie opening scenes.

Speaker 2 You have. Cliffhanger.
You have. Oh, that's a good one.
What happened? Was it on there? Was it even on there? No, I'll lie. I just did a scene that was on there.

Speaker 2 Honestly, it should have cracked the top five. I made a mistake.
You're absolutely wrong. When you hear the name Cliffhanger, you don't think great opening scene.
Yes, that's what made the movie.

Speaker 2 That's strange, right? Yes, I do.

Speaker 2 Greatest opening scene in the world. I never think of a great cliffhanger, but maybe that's just me.
The final 90 minutes awful, though. Matt, stop being so literal.

Speaker 2 But Jeremy has his own version. Tell us what it is.

Speaker 1 It's the top five animated movie opening scenes because mentioned in Mike's was up, which is all time.

Speaker 2 Profoundly sad.

Speaker 1 Truly one of the saddest things I've ever seen. And I've realized in going through this, a lot more of them are sad than are necessarily uplifting.
No OLIs. So starting with number five, Tarzan.

Speaker 1 In Tarzan, you see both the gorilla families and Tarzan's family go through a similar feeling of loss. But what it does is it introduces you to Phil Collins on the soundtrack.

Speaker 1 And that's the most important part:

Speaker 1 you hear one of these songs and you're like, oh, we're off to an unbelievable start.

Speaker 1 Number four, and this is tied four because it comes from the same series, Shrek and Shrek 2.

Speaker 5 Is that when he's bathing?

Speaker 1 That's the first one is when he's bathing, and you're getting the title sequence, and he's like hitting out mud, and all of it says Mike Myers.

Speaker 2 And then

Speaker 5 that's what you get.

Speaker 1 And then you get accidentally in love by the Counting Crows to start Shrek 2 during their honeymoon.

Speaker 2 Oh my God.

Speaker 1 Accidentally in love.

Speaker 2 Very underrated song.

Speaker 2 Number three, The Lion King.

Speaker 2 Of course, it's a classic.

Speaker 2 Yep, that note. You gotta keep going.
Let's go for it.

Speaker 2 Well, go all out.

Speaker 1 Number two, this is another wholly depressing one. Finding Nemo.

Speaker 2 Disney Ryder is huge on death.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you got to kill somebody right at the beginning. Normally it's a parent.

Speaker 2 Oh, that's right. The mother dies.
The mother dies finding Nemo. Yep.

Speaker 1 And by the way, all of the kids outside of Nemo, remember, there's an attack from what I think is a barracuda, if I look back at it.

Speaker 2 That's right. The body count on that one was huge.
I mean,

Speaker 1 it's near 100.

Speaker 2 Was Bambi's mom dying the first scene?

Speaker 1 I don't know if that's the opening scene, which is why I didn't include it.

Speaker 2 It would have been a a good one.

Speaker 1 And then, of course, number one is up.

Speaker 5 I mean, there's no debate.

Speaker 1 I know it was in the spirit of the top five, and that was already there, but it has to be number one.

Speaker 2 More of the five that you gave there are super sad. Yeah.

Speaker 1 No, most of them are. I came to realize.
As I was going through my list, I was realizing almost every single animated movie starts with tragedy.

Speaker 4 Getting a good look into Jeremy here.

Speaker 2 What about the Lego movie? Didn't they do the everything is awesome at the very beginning? That's the best.

Speaker 1 Nah, but come on. Let's be real.
Which ones are better?

Speaker 2 All right.

Speaker 2 So we brought out the big guns today when we heard that taylor swift is going to be on the the new heights podcast that's why stu gotts is here he made the drive and stu gots is with us but i'll be perfectly honest with you i don't know what the hell is going on with this taylor swift like can somebody explain to me what the whole to-do was last night what she so she's gonna be on this travis kelcey and jason kelsey podcast and what like it came out

Speaker 2 put out a teaser but it came out like 12 12 a.m on 8 12 which is today That's right. There's some kind of numbers.
It's 12th album.

Speaker 2 So the 12th album.

Speaker 1 So that's what that's all about. She's really into teasing everything with numbers.
So her number is 13. I believe her birthday is on the 13th.
That's always everything is tied together.

Speaker 1 You end up in the Taylor Swift algorithm and you grow to learn that there is no greater.

Speaker 2 My algorithm is all swift. I got to tell you.

Speaker 1 It's a big deal.

Speaker 1 So she's announcing, seemingly, a new album

Speaker 1 on this podcast. My assumption is that 12 albums, huh? She'll be revealing all of the details of it.
Everyone is very excited because they got the color scheme of what this album will be.

Speaker 1 I believe it's called The Life of a Showgirl.

Speaker 6 That's exciting.

Speaker 1 And for, yeah, hey, look, Taylor Swift fans dive into every single detail. I've already seen people

Speaker 1 discussing that the colors of the album seem to be the way that copper begins versus where it gets when it's oxidized, and thus to show that it's the wearing of a career. And

Speaker 2 there's a lot of stuff here.

Speaker 1 No, look, I sort of feel the same way.

Speaker 2 And at this point, how do you know all of this?

Speaker 1 I told you, I ended up in the Taylor Swift algorithm because I like Taylor Swift's music. Like, I do like her music.

Speaker 1 I'm a little, um, I'm intrigued to see what this album is because I, at this point, I have not been,

Speaker 1 I am not nearly as in on all things Taylor Taylor Swift as I once was

Speaker 2 um

Speaker 1 you know I I wouldn't say it but I think some people would say that it feels like over the last few years some of that's some of what she's been doing has felt like a cash grab um you know I wouldn't say it but it sort of feels like if you knew you were negotiating for the rights to be your your own masters to come back that putting out the Taylor's version and constantly making people pay money to access your music early only to release it later and then release really long albums so that you could sort of

Speaker 1 game how the streaming processes work to move your way up the charts. And some people would say that that's, you know, maybe an issue.
But you're not saying.

Speaker 2 I'm not saying

Speaker 2 some people. I would add this.

Speaker 1 This Kelsey podcast, what's it called?

Speaker 2 New Heights? New Heights.

Speaker 2 I have a little bit of a rivalry with New Heights because I was up for, I forget the podcast award, one of the potties.

Speaker 2 And it was a sports podcast for

Speaker 2 my Four Years of Heat Podcast. And they were in the same category.
and of course they won it.

Speaker 2 And of course, they're going to win every damn sports podcast award because they have Taylor Swift on the podcast. Stick to sports, people.

Speaker 2 If you're going to do the Taylor Swift thing, an entirely different category. Pop music podcast, fine.
But if this thing wins another sports podcast for having Taylor Swift on there, it's cheating.

Speaker 2 I'm calling for a single record for podcast downloads. That's like Evergreen.
Not a sports podcast.

Speaker 1 She's going to be announcing details of her new album on there.

Speaker 1 And some people would say that going on the New Heights podcast, which is her boyfriend's podcast, and, you know, using that as an opportunity to get them some more downloads.

Speaker 1 You know, some people would say that that just plays into all of the very capitalistic nature of what she's been doing over the last few years.

Speaker 1 And that even the artistry has potentially suffered because when you're releasing these really long albums that don't really seem to have any editing there to sort of pare things down and make sure you're getting the best 12 or 13 songs,

Speaker 1 well, some people would say that that's just the cash grab that was being intimated before. I would would never, I would never say that.

Speaker 1 There is nothing, nothing wrong with anything that Taylor Swift ever does.

Speaker 1 But some people would say that, you know,

Speaker 2 go on. I didn't think you mean this long.
Right. Was Jaws on Mike's list? Jaws? Yeah, I was.

Speaker 1 Your family would get a lot of joy.

Speaker 2 OLI for Jaws. That was Jeremy lamenting the lack of an editor, I believe.

Speaker 1 I am literally this show's editor.

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Speaker 2 Don Lebatard.

Speaker 2 It sounds to me like everybody could use a hug because a hug is always the right size. Stugats.
All I have put in my body today

Speaker 2 is three cups of coffee and an entire cup of coffee.

Speaker 2 Don't let him fool you.

Speaker 5 He said in the break that he's jittery.

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Speaker 2 I couldn't name you

Speaker 2 four Taylor Swift songs.

Speaker 5 Oh, shut up. You could.

Speaker 2 There's no song.

Speaker 2 Yeah, but if they played,

Speaker 2 you would recognize them, but he doesn't know the title.

Speaker 5 No, but if they played, you would know what they were.

Speaker 1 You look guilty as sin right now.

Speaker 2 If they played that, like, if they played the song, would I know it's Taylor Swift?

Speaker 5 No, like, if, no, no, no. Like, if they played the Taylor Swift song, I'd be like, I know that song.
Right. You don't know it's her.
You don't know.

Speaker 2 That's not the name of the song. I don't know.

Speaker 1 Maybe, maybe like five now when you try to think of one a blank space goes into your head

Speaker 2 i mean i know shake it off you don't like participate in society you're just not gonna come across i just i i have the music that i like i have the music that i like and i listen to

Speaker 2 yeah give me give me that 90s grunge pearl jam alice and chains sound garden nirvana what else do i need give me zeppelin

Speaker 2 You almost forgot the in-chains part. Well, I didn't want it to.
I was going to say Alice, you know, but

Speaker 2 I don't want it to go over your head. Like, I want to be inclusive.
If I just say Alice, it's kind of exclusive. I don't want to give all that impression.

Speaker 2 Did you ever think that they were called Allison chains?

Speaker 2 I did.

Speaker 4 I saw a sad project being advertised at a local casino recently.

Speaker 5 The Joe Perry Project. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Oh, he's done it.

Speaker 2 That seems fun. Oh, he's done it before?

Speaker 4 My bad.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I think he's been doing that for a while.

Speaker 7 I just saw it as, oh, Steven Tyler doesn't want to do it anymore.

Speaker 5 So now we're calling it the Joe Perry Project.

Speaker 2 It was just a funny funny title. I think they're coming to Hard Rock Live.
Yeah, they are. That's where.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 That's the casino that I wasn't saying.

Speaker 2 Do you think they play Aerosmith songs?

Speaker 2 I don't know.

Speaker 7 It has another, and then at the bottom, it's like with this guy from Aerosmith and this guy from, what was the band?

Speaker 1 I think it was.

Speaker 2 Aerosmith. The Black Keys or something, or the Crows, some other guy.
Keys, Crows. Yeah, yeah.
It has to be Crows. Yes, yeah.
The Crows.

Speaker 2 Keys are just two dudes that really eat into the Black Keys lineup.

Speaker 2 All right, so this Taylor Swift thing is happening tonight or it's it's tomorrow?

Speaker 1 Seemingly tomorrow,

Speaker 1 she's going to go on, right, the 13th, as I was mentioning, 13, of course, her number.

Speaker 1 Look,

Speaker 1 this is going to be a big deal. And it seems like she's working with some of the producers that made some of her like biggest hits from several years ago in Max Martin and Shellback.

Speaker 1 And Max Martin's been making hits for years and years and years and years and years.

Speaker 2 One of the greatest producers.

Speaker 1 Basically, all the music from the late 90s, early 2000s that we were talking about with the boy bands,

Speaker 1 you know, a few weeks ago. He's been the producer on that and then everything since.
Still out there. It's been a long time since they've made music together.

Speaker 1 She's primarily worked with Aaron Desner of the National and Jack Antonoff.

Speaker 2 Oh, thank God. We got away from him.

Speaker 1 And so they've made great music together, but at this point, I think she wants to go back. If you look at the life of a showgirl or whatever they're calling it.

Speaker 2 All right.

Speaker 2 This is just me talking about the girl. I think I'm driving Zaz advocate.
I'm calling it on the Taylor Swift stuff, guys.

Speaker 2 Bye, Zaz. Love you too.

Speaker 2 That's actually a good plan. Zaz's plan was to say, hey, let let me pitch something to Jeremy.
He'll work out the clock and I can just go home right now. Right, no one will notice.

Speaker 2 Jeremy, how much more did you have left on that?

Speaker 2 Please don't.

Speaker 2 No, I don't want it. I just want to know how much more you had left.

Speaker 1 Not much. Probably two sentences.
That's normally how it goes.

Speaker 2 Thank you. Is there any chance that Travis proposes to Taylor Swift? On the pod? I wonder if that would actually already happen and there would be a reveal.

Speaker 6 That would be the least romantic way it ever happened.

Speaker 2 Worse than a stadium?

Speaker 1 That would be worse than a stadium.

Speaker 2 I don't think so. At least romantic ways.

Speaker 5 If he does it at a stadium, it's a game after a game on a field. It's not like he's doing it at a stadium during the Panthers.
But if he did the final game.

Speaker 4 I think that would be better if he did it at a Panthers game, like the camera goes to him and gets down on one knee. Then doing it on his podcast.

Speaker 2 He's not the only one that plays stadiums. I mean, I think that...

Speaker 2 Proposing on a podcast to me, I'm not saying it's a great way of doing it, but proposing at a hockey game is the worst way of doing it.

Speaker 2 I thought he was saying at one of his games, which I would be like, well, if I'm the coach, I'm not happy about that. Like, Travis, you seem a little distracted.

Speaker 2 You're about to like propose at the commercial break in the second quarter, but you're saying at a different sporting event.

Speaker 7 Well, Mike was saying at her concert, essentially.

Speaker 2 I mean, whatever happened doing this in an Olive Garden.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you know, make a reservation, you play a little secret game with the Matrix D, and

Speaker 2 you know, maybe put the ring on top of one of the breadsticks as they come in.

Speaker 2 You have to put it in the breadsticks. That was a clap.
No. What?

Speaker 2 Inside the breadstick? That happened.

Speaker 4 On Modern Family, that happened next to Cam and Mitchell, and it did not go well.

Speaker 1 You know, I barely spoke today.

Speaker 2 But when you did,

Speaker 2 you really spoke. But when you did.
Sitting here. It lingered.
Did not feel that way.

Speaker 5 What'd you want to talk about that we didn't get to? It's not Taylor Swift related.

Speaker 2 It's a big week for the Marlins, huh?

Speaker 2 Boy, I'll talk to Billy about that. You're doing something online, right?

Speaker 4 I'm doing something.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I'll be on a podcast.

Speaker 2 There's inviting me. So, is it a live watch along? Or

Speaker 5 I think so, based on how it was presented. I wasn't sure.

Speaker 2 I know that they didn't. Mike seems to know more than Billy does.

Speaker 2 I was asking if you guys. I'm not the one on the podcast.
Yeah, guys. All right.

Speaker 2 So, where are the Marlins now? Because I follow it through you guys. I know that they had that huge series, one of the bigger regular season series in their franchise history.

Speaker 2 They swept the Yankees, and then they had an opportunity to keep the momentum going against the Astros. They did not.
So, why is it a big week for the Marlins now? Are they still in contention?

Speaker 5 Well, they had a very bad series against the Braves, five-game series against the Braves, lost four out of five.

Speaker 2 They're a five-game series, huh?

Speaker 5 Yeah, so they have now a series against the Guardians. Guardians are hot now.
You don't want to be facing the Guardians right now.

Speaker 5 And they have another series right after that against the Red Sox. And then they have the Cardinals, and they have the Blue Jays, and they have the Braves again.
Seems like a tough stretch.

Speaker 2 Big month.

Speaker 5 Yeah, what I was saying yesterday, and I don't think Jeremy agrees with me on this, is I said,

Speaker 5 this is a nice run for the Marlins, but this week seems like the end of the road in terms of the playoff chances.

Speaker 5 Maybe not, but maybe, maybe so, because they went from getting right back to 500 from being 16 games under 500 to back to four games under 500 again.

Speaker 1 I wouldn't disagree with you on that. This is a huge week for them.
They have six games against two of the better teams in baseball right now in terms of the Guardians and the Red Sox.

Speaker 1 And if they can come out of that,

Speaker 1 basically with a 500 record for the week, you'd feel pretty good. They lost four out of five to the Braves from Thursday to Sunday, and they remained six games back of the Mets.

Speaker 1 They didn't lose any ground for that final wildcard spot because the Mets have been falling apart on their own. One of the teams ahead of them in the wildcard is the St.

Speaker 1 Louis Cardinals, who they'll get in their first series back at home after the Red Sox and the Guardians.

Speaker 1 So if they can find a way to play some good baseball this week, they're in the position where, hey, it went about as poorly as you could have imagined after that huge win against the Yankees by losing two out of three against the Astros and losing four out of five against the Braves.

Speaker 1 But they lost no ground from where they were at the start of the week. And with six games back and seven games to go against them, they did it against you.

Speaker 2 They have a chance. It did so.

Speaker 2 It seems like Billy is saying the season is over and Jeremy wants to agree with him, but he's not agreeing with him.

Speaker 1 Oh, well, I mean, the thing is, is am I the reporter for the nine games at home after this stretch? Yes. Do I want people to watch? Yeah.

Speaker 5 I mean,

Speaker 5 it's been a great run. You should support the team, but realistically, it's incredible that they got back to 500 when being 16 games under 500.

Speaker 5 But like, if you're going to actually make the playoffs, you got to be like 10 or more games over 500, probably.

Speaker 5 And to get there, you'd have to play 26 games over 500 to get to that point where it doesn't.

Speaker 2 Which is not happening. Well, yeah.

Speaker 5 I mean, what they've done has been very impressive.

Speaker 5 However, it seems like, you know, you win a couple, you lose a couple, you're just then hovering around 500, which ultimately won't be enough probably to get into the playoffs.

Speaker 5 So it's not to discount what they've done so far. It was an incredible run.
They just got off to such a bad start that they kind of shot themselves in the foot.

Speaker 2 Also, was the Yankee thing a bit of fool's gold because they are not playing well?

Speaker 2 No, I mean,

Speaker 5 it's a chippy team that fights back. They're in every game.
The Yankees are struggling right now. They had a horrific start to their newly acquired closer, who pooped all over the bed.
But, you know,

Speaker 5 maybe the Marlins get hot here but even if they go what would you have to do to get back to 500 in the next six games they go four and two

Speaker 2 there'd be two they're at 500 yeah they're still yeah no two games below 500 right yeah i did math wrong you have to go five and one to get back to 500 before they get all

Speaker 2 so close you were almost with me too

Speaker 2 and that math who cares i corrected it quickly though this football season baby Everyone's 0-0. So much easier with the records, you know? Oh, so easy.
That tricky 17th game sometimes.

Speaker 2 I forget about it. Right.
It really changed. Although it made, you know, Friday, I celebrated Jeff Fisher Day.
Did you? Because it was 8-8. Ah.

Speaker 2 We're not making Jeff Fisher's anymore. He's got that all to himself.
Oh, Mike Tomlin. You can't go 8-8 anymore.
You're right. You can go 8-8-1.
Right. But you can't go 8-8 anymore.

Speaker 2 That's going to be Jeff Fisher's forever. You know, you always got to ask an 8-8 baby if they were born in 88 because then it might be the most special person ever.
Really?

Speaker 2 You have to ask? You have to. I mean,

Speaker 2 what's the next question question when you say, what's your birthday? August 8th, of course.

Speaker 2 When they say 94, you're kind of like, loser? Yeah. That does nothing for me.
Are you guys believing in the Brewers again?

Speaker 2 You know, I've been thinking about this. This franchise is a joke.
I'm glad that you asked.

Speaker 4 Danilo Galinare, born on 8888.

Speaker 2 Oh, he's the one. He's the one.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 You ever talked to him? You ever asked him that question? I've never asked.

Speaker 2 Did you know he was a former number one pick in the draft?

Speaker 2 Jeremy, do you believe in the Brewers?

Speaker 2 Sure.

Speaker 2 What about the brew crew? That was tight, Jeremy.

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