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Chapter 1: What happened during the recent NASCAR race featuring Kevin Magnussen?
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I know everybody was so bummed that I was on vacation watching soccer because they wanted a recap of the first ever street race in San Diego. That's right. They race at a naval base. How America is that? But the real fireworks came after the race. Guys, are you familiar with Kevin Magnusson? Yep. Yes. He sounds like a weightlifter, but he's a Formula One driver. That's his core discipline.
And he raced in this race. A lot of big names were. Jimmy Johnson was racing. Believe it or not, the former coach of the Dallas Cowboys. Yeah, he was there. Didn't do well. But Kevin Magnuson was there, and this was a great moment between American NASCAR fans. Like, all right, let's see what you can do, F1 guy. He actually pulled off a pretty fast lap.
But Noah Gregson is a NASCAR driver, and Shades of Talladega Nights, the fight between Sacha Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell's character, Noah Gregson took issue with the European Formula One driver because of how he was driving on the track, and they had this testy exchange. Hey, Greg, what the f***? What's your problem?
You guys come over here. I'm off in the corner. What's your problem? I'm down with this. I'm down with this. I'm down with this.
Noah backed down there a little bit once Kev was like, wait, are we really doing this? Yeah, the guy on the left seemed like a dick in that spot. He's all up in his face, and all he's doing is repeating himself. You know, step up or get out of here.
I like Noah. He's been very good about cameo. Always get him to tell people to pay off their chugs. Big Noah guy. But, yeah, I think he kind of backed down there.
Yeah. Do something, player. This race was eventful. SVG was a huge favorite in this race. Stan Van Gundy? Stan Van Gundy. Jimmy Johnson, former Cowboys coach, all in this race. Shane Van Ginsberg is one of the greatest road course drivers ever, if not the greatest.
And I, listen, I assumed he was going to win, but Austin Hill, who's now taking over for the recently tragically passed Kyle Busch, made a kind of a rookie mistake on the track and took out Connor Zilich.
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Chapter 2: How did Kevin Magnussen's performance lead to a confrontation with a NASCAR driver?
To the famous bar from Top Gun. Yeah? Yeah. Show the image on the screen.
This had to be a moment.
Nice. Yeah. So, and by the way, SVG, you got another road course here coming up. So I imagine, I think it's Sonoma. I imagine he's going to be all right and win another road course race, provided that there aren't any other idiots on the track.
And for every lap, keep it fun. Keep it Cuervo. Thank you for presenting, Gearhead.
Thank you, Cuervo. Guys, I gotta show you something. Dave, I don't know if you saw this yet, alright? But there's a video that has gone viral on Twitter. You know, sometimes videos go viral on Twitter. And there's a video that went viral, it's going viral on Twitter right now, of this woman. She went hiking, and she's hiking with her dog. Looks like a German Shepherd, I think.
I'm gonna play the video for you here, and we can kind of all experience it together if you haven't seen it yet. And on this hike, she runs into a brown grizzly bear. Now, from what I understand, before we hit play on the video, the black grizzly bears are a lot less dangerous, I believe, than the brown grizzly bear, right?
the the one like correct me if i'm wrong here the black one you're not even sure there is such a thing but i keep cooking the black you play dead you're yeah you're supposed to like like make yourself small and just kind of free yeah but there isn't a black grizzly bear you just mean black bears in general oh all right whatever man yeah black grizzly no the grizzly bear is famously brown okay fine and and the brown grizzly bear all right man you know
There has to be some facts. All right. You just can't go unchecked. Thank you. I mean, it just seems also like unnecessary distinctions. Like we go to this. It's a woman. It's a bear. It's a dog. Well, no, no, no, no, no. There's a major distinction. No, no, no. Unnecessary distinction for this conversation. And you were just really nailing. I let it slide a bunch of times.
You're really nailing this black brown thing a lot unnecessarily. A bear is a bear. I don't think that's true. Ask Romigil. They have different temperaments. I don't think that's true. The white ones? No, but Zaslos are wrong.
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Chapter 3: What incredible encounter did a woman have while hiking with her dog?
Making weird voices. The bear's getting closer and closer now. It's kind of deciding what they want to do. She's kind of doing what Ron said, yeah. And now the bear's kind of creeping pretty close. And now the bear's really close. Hey! Hey! Stop it! And now it's on its hind legs, which is really scary. Stop!
Enough! No! Hey! Hey!
Stop!
That bear's really, it's scary watching this, right? Go away!
Go!
Enough!
Enough!
Hey!
She's very brave.
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Chapter 4: What are the best practices for dealing with bear encounters?
The ultimate duty. In my mind, the dog could be fast enough to get away from the bear. No, it's not. You're denying it. You're denying the dog its instinct to do the thing. You're saying, hey, dog, don't be a dog. But I got to know. Like, sometimes the dog doesn't know any better. You got to know better. The dog's going to die. Dog serves no chance against that bear. We're in the wild.
Which one of you, you or the dog, thinks that they know better in this situation? The dog knows better. I got to protect the dog. Go do your thing, dog. Yeah. Go, dog. No, I got to protect the dog. And I'm going to do what we do. We drive. I'm driving, you're dogging. Perfect. I'm so uncomfortable with the whole situation there. Tell your story. No one's happy about sacrificing the dog.
We're literally in a life or death situation. I appreciate that Chris at least admits it now. It's a sacrifice. The word sacrifice is not a sacrifice. It's a sacrifice. It's not a sacrifice. I don't know, man. I don't like it. I don't like the way you're talking either.
The dog gets in the line of fire. That's what he's born to do. Y'all and your dogs, man. I don't get it.
You know, people eat bear. I heard it's a great question a few years ago. Why are we not eating? Why are we wasting this beast, the flesh of this beast? And then I was corrected. No, no. People in certain parts of the world do eat bear. That's what the woman should have said. If you don't leave now, I'm going to eat you. She deserves the MVP, though. Let's honor her.
She knew to make those noises and stuff. Zaslow, you wouldn't know it. I wouldn't know to go... That that would have some impact. It's sort of like... Castaway... I don't like Castaway for a number of reasons. The movie, we can deep dive it at a later date. But specifically here, I don't like the idea that he knows how to start a fire and everything.
I think it's a much more intriguing film if it's Zaslow in that spot. Or Damoshek. How do you make your way on a deserted island? You don't. I think that's a more entertaining picture. Can I just jump in for a second and say that whenever you throw a topic to someone, it's like you're flipping a coin. And in your mind, you're like, all right, they can go this way or that way.
When you throw something to Damoshek, it is like it's rolling seven die. Like it could go anywhere. And it's so exciting. It adds a thrill to the show where it's like I'll say anything to him. Castaway? Yeah, you can eat bear. You go to Castaway. You can go to the... Hanks is, you know, he's deserted on this island. And then he has to get by how he does, like people do in prison.
He has to get by with the volleyball, and he does what he does, and that's that. But he survives. He somehow impossibly escapes this island. And he makes his way back to civilization. And then he goes to visit the woman to whom he was engaged. And within 90 seconds, she's like, you missed the Titans. They almost won. the Super Bowl. Hey, lady, I almost died on an island.
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Chapter 5: What insights were shared about the upcoming MLB CBA negotiations?
Keep in mind, the biological clock, Helen Hunt, up there. She wanted to have a family, clearly. Well, do the math on this. Okay. His plane crashes, right? So he's gone. Now, we assume that he died with the rest of the crew there. So, what, six months? Because now, she, again, they lived together. They had a funeral. No. And they have, right.
And the baby, if I remember correctly, maybe a year old. It's not a brand new baby. It's not like a month old baby. It's at least six months old. So you can back into that. Like, she was with Chris Noth within a year. Within a year. Well, I mean, my guess is...
Chapter 6: What proposals are on the table for the MLB CBA negotiations?
My guess is that a traumatic experience like that makes you value your time and things that maybe you have put off in the past. You would say, I'm not putting this off anymore. I'm not going to waste time thinking about what's going to be when it's going to be. I'm going to do the things that I've always wanted to have a family right now. Let her grieve the way she wants to grieve.
Be just the judgment. You don't have more judgment. Tom Hanks, it didn't take him long to find that volleyball, did it? I... You're not judging him with that volleyball. But this isn't about Helen Hunt. It's about Tom Hanks and what he went through, and she should be able to relate to that.
Instead, like I say, she opens her front door, which, by the way, she's standing at the front door in the middle of the night when Hanks shows up there. Her husband...
and her new child are sleeping upstairs and she's down there waiting on him to crack the door open and like i say instead of here oh my god what did you do how did you survive all that i can't imagine well yeah how did you what did you eat day to day to sustain life no she's launching into a story about you missed the super bowl we have a team here now in in nashville did you hear it's a good point or memphis
We have a football team. We came up just one yard short. Do you know who Kevin Dyson is? Oh, I guess you don't know who Kevin Dyson is because you were on that island. But he almost scored. What the hell is wrong with you, lady? I was trying to cling to life so I could get back to you and you're telling me about the football game. Some people love ball, some people don't.
I thought you loved ball. It's pretty clear to me that you don't appreciate that the most important thing is ball. Like, he got home, and you know what he wants to do? One yard short. Exactly. Well, not one yard short. You said they got a baby. All fair points. Hello, listeners. I know you know this, but the cup? Yeah, it's taken over the U.S. And only DraftKings Sports has you fully covered.
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Dan Levitar. Can I tell you something? I don't know, maybe like a month ago. And I decided to watch Pitch Clock. And I told Jeremy. Jonathan Saslow. This is a good show you're doing. This is the Dan Levitar show.
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Chapter 7: How does the MLB's proposed salary cap affect players?
MLB PA's proposal to eliminate the qualifying offer system. But what they said is they proposed a historic increase to the minimum salary, a $1 million minimum for all players with at least two years of service and for zero and one year players who accrue a full year of service. And so what they're trying to do is show you and it's true. the minimum would go up.
But with that cap, you put them in a really different space. There is a quote from Bruce Meyer, who's the interim head of the MLBPA, and he said, I'll tell you with all honesty, I have never seen this degree of unity at this point among agents and players.
I think, honestly, the league has done us a favor because their proposals are, in fact, so obviously and extremely bad for players at all levels that it's actually been a benefit for our unity. Anybody who's banking on Major League Baseball players cracking, it's never happened. It's not going to happen. And that's why we're the only ones who don't have a salary cap.
Yeah, I mean, is there any reason to believe that this is going to be the negotiation where the players finally agree to a salary cap? I mean, they have been adamant for literally ever that they are not going to agree to a salary cap.
Yeah, I mean, I think there's reason to believe it because the leverage continues to shift in the favor of big business and in this country and in sports in particular. And also, I do think that the players, the unity and the strength of the players hasn't been tested in modern Major League Baseball. So it'll be interesting to see if they've managed to maintain that solidarity and commitment.
Please cut me off if I get boring, because this is something I get really passionate about. And all the CBAs that I've been a part of and all the CBA negotiations that I've watched and all the things that I've read about labor unions, we always end up in the same place.
And I think all union leaders and people involved in unions will sell to you that we're going to be able to beat them by using this special tactic. We'll beat them in court or we'll beat them by turning the public against them. Or I have this trick maneuver.
i'll out negotiate them in the room ultimately what it comes down to is are you willing to say no are you willing to take the pain and the sacrifice of not working to get what it is that you want baseball's been willing to do that many times they'll be tested again and we'll find out and the worst part about it is maybe the players win maybe the owners win but if the fight goes all the way to the end obviously it's us who loses and ultimately
baseball as a product because it just felt like it got fun again that's the thing like last week like everybody everybody these last couple of years because of some of the changes that they've made to pace of play and strategy no no i'm disgusted by the two of them back there i'm disgusted with the two everybody's so bored yeah especially yeah you tony and you mike ryan
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of the MLB's recent managerial changes?
Pluck that shot. Let me hear you say the floor. Rid of Panthers. P-A-N-T-H-R-S. The floor. Rid of Panthers. P-A-N-T-H-R-S. The floor. We're the Panthers, P-A-N-T-H-R-S. The fuck? We're the Panthers, P-A-N-T-H-R-S. Every time that you shoot that puck, my man, gunner, he don't give a fuck. So I am a hella fuck girl. I am a hella fuck girl.
Every time that you shoot that puck, my man, gunner, he don't give a fuck. Cause I am a hella fuck girl. I am a hella fuck girl.
He's going to love when we play that for him. Oh, yeah. For sure. When he gets traded here, it's the first thing we do, right? Jeremy made a bop. It's good. It's a bop. Thank you. It's a really good job there, Jeremy. How about that? I ain't no hella buck, girl.
You sound really surprised.
Yeah, that one was good.
Yeah.
That one was good. Normally terrible. I mean, it's just a vibe, man. It's a vibe.
Yeah, creativity. It's fine. Panthers. P-A-N-T-H-R-S. It's fine. It's okay. How would you read that? Panthers.
Yeah, that's why I said it. I didn't say it's not okay.
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