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Tony Says The Justin Herbert Experiment Is OVER | Hour 3

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Tony Says The Justin Herbert Experiment Is OVER | Hour 3

The Down Laboratory Show, in partnership with Draft King, features a lively discussion about upcoming movies and sports topics. A central focus is on the new Brad Pitt film *Dog Soldier*, which blends star power with a dog-soldier narrative, expected to attract wide viewership. The host and guests emphasize that the film’s appeal hinges on audience reassurance—specifically, that the dog will not die or be shown defecating. Despite speculation and audience skepticism, the producers have confirmed the dog’s safety and the absence of bathroom scenes, addressing key concerns that could otherwise deter viewers. The conversation also touches on other films, including a zombie remake with a canine actor, and a broader cultural reflection on how people emotionally connect with animals in media. The segment is framed with humor and self-awareness, including a nostalgic reference to classic dog movies like *Old Yeller* and *Lassie*. In a separate sports segment, the show humorously notes a trumpet malfunction during a baseball celebration and discusses the emotional impact of such moments. Ultimately, the discussion combines entertainment, audience psychology, and real-world reactions to highlight how even small details shape public perception and viewer engagement.

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You are listening to The Down Laboratory Show in partnership with the Draft King Sports Act, now live in all 50 states. (upbeat music) - We're gonna go out to Tony here in a second and get his top five, but I believe there are going to be a couple of movies here that in the next couple of months are gonna be very popular movies that I think are really going to get a lot of viewership we played the trailer to one of them, which is just instead of a shark movie and I can't believe how many shark movies still get made. Somebody's finally making a whale movie. - Yes, and Josh Brolin is in it, I think. - Whale fall. - I think a lot of people are gonna watch the idea of just being in a whale's mouth. How do they recreate that in theaters? But the other movie that I think is using a bit of a cheat code in order to absolutely get a demo that will go to that movie that is underserved still in the movies, but you can make the argument that the dog movie is as popular as the shark movie. - Oh, Dan, have you seen previous this new Brad Pitt movie with the dog? They're like soldiers. - You put a huge star in the movie and also Brad Pitt and people will go to a dog movie that is just a relationship between a famous person like Brad Pitt and his dog. - The dog's a soldier. - This is gonna be a movie that a lot of people are, I believe it's gonna be very popular movie. - Here's the thing though, Dan, I'm not gonna see this movie unless, unless I need an assurance. Matter of fact, I need a guarantee. Someone involved in the movie needs to come out and guarantee me that that dog does not die. If that dog is gonna die, you have none of my money. I will not spend a second watching that movie. I won't go near that movie. I need someone, I need the director, I need the executive producer, I need the studio to release a statement that says that dog will not be hurt. - Well, it's gonna be hurt for sure. - For sure it's going to be hurt. - In one of the trailers last night, I believe it was during the game, I believe they literally had the line. We need to get this dog in Oscar nomination. - That would be great. - Can we, I want to fight for this. We need to get that dog nominated. - Here's what I can promise about that movie. It's a heroic dog, right? - It's a soldier. - They will never show that dog taking a crap. Even though everybody knows that all dogs crap relentlessly, that German Shepherd will never be shown doing his business. - All right, put both of these things on the poll, please @lebittartshow, is the dog going to die in the Brad Pitt movie and will the dog in the Brad Pitt movie ever be shown going to the bathroom? - We're taking a crap, as I said. - And also will the dog get nominated for an Oscar? - A QK. - A QK, yeah. - A QK, yeah. - I might say. - I would like to see this movie. I will not spend a second on my time, unless I have a guarantee. - Do you think it's going to die? Do you think the dog is going to die? - I don't know, I've seen it. - No, but what, but your best guess, right? The dog's the soldier. For sure, the dog is gonna be injured at some point. The dog is gonna do amazing things. There's actually scenes in the movie where the dog is wearing a cast on its leg. - The dog for sure is gonna get hurt, but you generally speaking, okay? This was true of the movie Seven, I think most famously, where Brad Pitt was insisting for those who don't want that movie spoiled. Seven, one of the great movies of my lifetime, also one of the darkest movies I've ever seen, and Brad Pitt only agreed to do the movie. If contractually they promised him that the studios weren't gonna make it a happier ending at the end because they tried. They tried from a thousand different ways to not have that be the ending. - What else would they have done? - The ending was so dark, but he knew the studios. People don't want to go to the movies and leave with that kind of feelings as, you don't generally sell a movie to the masses that is dark and has a horrible ending and has everyone leaving the theater sad. Those movies don't tend to have a broad appeal 'cause that's not why people go to the movies. It's not why most people watch the movies. I love dark movies. - Now, according to IMDB, the producers and the director have explicitly confirmed. - Go on. - What he's worried about. Do you want me to tell you? - Yeah, yes, I need a guarantee. - I guess it's technically a spoiler alert. - Okay, hold on, hold on. - I've got a spoiler alert. - Spoiler alert here, just real quick. Before, you know what? I'm gonna give some people so much time on this spoiler. Let's go to Tony's top five and we'll come back to finding out. I'm gonna give them plenty of time. - I'm worse 'cause now they don't know when to come back. - That's fine, that means they have to stay there and watch Tony. Let's go and do Tony's top five. (rock music) - Hey, Dano, really quick, Zaz, I saw the trailer for that. I think the movie's called Dog Soldier. - Yeah, it's called Dog Soldier. - Dog Soldier, yeah, I'm excited for Dog Soldier. - What is it, if it's not Dog Soldier, what's it called? - No, you got it, it's Dog Soldier. - Dog Soldier, okay. I mean, that's a good movie. That's a good name for a movie. - All right, Tony's top five presented by season two of the hit Paramount Plus TV show Mobland. - So good, such a good show. - So the first episode of season two. - I haven't seen it yet. I'm waiting for my wife to get back from it. I'm not allowed to watch until my wife gets ready. - Wait, where about Tom Hardy? - I didn't hear about Tom Hardy and what a great job he's doing. From the underworld of Guy Richie Mobland's starring, the aforementioned Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosdon and Helen Mirren returns. It's already streaming. It returns September 18th. It is streaming now everywhere on Paramount Plus, let Chaos reign. Dan, you ready? - Yes. - All right, and number five, El Patelito, the quick hit, Borgheria in prime time. Little stat here that I saw over the weekend. Daniel Jones holds a one and 16 career record in prime time starts, representing the worst winning percentage, 0.0625. I'm on quarterbacks with at least 10 prime time stocks. So he's replaced Kirk Cousins as the guy who can't win the game everybody's watching. I didn't even realize it. - One and 16 in prime time starts. - A strong start to the top five this week. I'm finally learning something I didn't know. Last week, Patrick Mahomes, he told us was good and he had three other obvious observations. That's an excellent start to this, don't you? - Good ass, yes. All right, number four, we head back to the T.S. C.S. W.S.A. That means the Tony Snell cross sport, Winsprint, or Dan, we had more members join the team. Cole Comet, 0 for 0, Jerry Judy, 0 for 0, Marvin Harris and junior Mazda, Marv, 0 for 0, and Dolphins, wide receiver Chris Bell, 0 for 0, a full complimentary of snaps and you did nothing but run Winsprint's all day, congrats to those guys. - Tony, I don't think Cole Comet is worthy of being in this game. - This needs to be someone you're actually expecting something from. - But he ran a full complimentary of snaps. They played 13 person all the entire game. Like, he didn't catch a pass. At least Colston Loveland, who's on the list also, caught a pass, one pass for three yards. Like, he absolutely belongs to be on there. - Cut a touch on week one. You gotta tell me he didn't, he expected something out of him, he got nothing, zero. Marvin Harris and junior by the way, dates over, over. When you're on this list, it's done. - Number three. I'm gonna whisper this one. Dana, you ready? - I am, but you said Pat Delito was number five. What was number four in terms of the Cuban food? - Number four, la totale. That's what that was, la totale. - Any number three? - Number three, la empanada, the deep dive. Brock Perty is absolutely dealing. - Very quietly, I'm gonna read you some stats then because there are so many stats about Brock Perty. I'm just gonna read you a couple of them. Since 2023, Brock Perty ranks first in yards per pass attempt, first in success rate, first in expected points added, per drop back and per play, third in pass rating, fourth in completion, percentage over expectation. Very quietly having any leap, two to three years, this past weekend, against the dolphins, we put up the spray chart. Two in completions that neither of them were his fault by the way, 99.7%, or excuse me, 99.7 total QBR, week two ranked fourth out of 200, excuse me, 2,359 qualifying QB games, fourth out of almost 2,400 QB games in the NFL. So insane for Brock Perty what he's doing. La croqueta, the hot take. It's, I'm sad to say it. Jaden Daniels is the next RG3. - Oh wow. - He's RG3 2.0 and I feel really bad saying it because of the injuries and whatever, but we had the recipe already. RG3 incredible rookie year, one rookie of the year. Jaden Daniels the same thing, next year gets hurt. The year after that gets hurt. And now we're in flux in this organization. We don't know if he's gonna stay healthy for a long time. Can you sign them to a big deal after his rookie deal is done? Has he proved enough to you? I don't know. Like I'm very worried about Jaden Daniels' health. And a lot of stuff surrounding him is just weird. Like his whole relationship with his mom is odd the way that she's kind of structuring his stuff going forward, the whole stuff with LSU. Like there was just a lot of odd things that are starting to remind me a little bit of the RG3. So that was unfortunate, but I think I had to bring that to the masses as the hot take. - Well, one of the things there that was interesting about everything that was happening on Sunday is that was legitimately in the first half before he got injured. the first time since he got injured, then I saw the same legs that he had when he was running well and running through a secondary and was just a step faster legitimately a step faster than everybody who was trying to tackle him and it lasted less than a half and then they go for it three times on the goal line they're going for it until in a panic on 4th and short because they have no time left he injures his arm instead of his legs like that was brutal to watch. It's a really weird first three first three years of his career and I just I don't know if that elbow is going to be structurally sound like any time he falls on it and tries to brace himself it comes out of place like that is not normal like is he going to play with a big grunk cash member grunk had that like huge sleeve like brace that he would play with is he going to have to play with that like I don't know but to me you need to be able to brace yourself with your off hand and if it's going to pop out of place your elbow pop out of place every time like that's an issue but at least we got this from that moment oh shit oh no greatest thing he's ever said to a microphone outside of piss missile of course he el numero uno el confecito the definitive take of the week I don't want I'm upset to say this Dan but the Justin Herbert experiment is over really it's over it's over it's over you can't say it on my odd yes I can absolutely say because I said it earlier this week on my sub stack check out 10 day 20 dot sub stack dot com I called this a now or never year for Justin Herbert and I'm getting to the point now where it's going to be a never like if he doesn't do it this year with all the things that he has going in his in a positive direction is it over is it not over because I thought you said it's over it's over it's over it's over I was saying after week one that it's a now or never season and now I'm saying it's never it's never going to happen for Justin Herbert like you can have the coaching you can have the players on offense you can have the offensive line you can have the defense you can have all these things he's had it all in his career and yet has not found success whatsoever in any part of it it is over like I don't want to hear about Justin Herbert anymore I don't want to say oh he's got a great he can have a great arm he's not going to do anything they're not going to win a playoff game they're not going to get to the playoffs like this experiment is done they might as well start looking for new QB because all he's going to do is put up lousy stats that have no bearing on any sort of like a real marker for his play as a QB like it's it's over I'm done I'm done with Justin Herbert give me all the Herbert overs this week imagine setting your makeup then forgetting it's even theirs meet new groupie setting missed from Maybelline New York gel to miss technology locks in your look for up to 24 hours with flexible all day comfy grip no tightness no stickiness no residue just plump Dewey hydrated skin that still feels like your skin try new groupie setting missed from Maybelline New York maybe it's Maybelline down levitar I want to address Tony and all men who would wear that shirt in public great Cody don't do it this is the down levitar show so thank you Tony I appreciate that top five let's examine this for a second though how many teams in the NFL do you believe I'd like a number here and I'd like you guys to think about what I'm about to ask you if Justin Herbert became available today would replace their quarterback with Justin Herbert how many how many give me I love this question give me and because I think Tony's crazy and that's a wild overreaction I think the skill players are very limited with the chargers and I believe and this is not a defense of Justin Herbert it's not because I understand anybody who's questioning him and I understand anyone who objects to the number of apologists that he has but last season I saw that guy have to play between behind an offensive line that made him play a style of football running the football all the time because he was in a panic running away from people that made me wonder whether they were going to keep him healthy because the offensive line was so bad last year and now his skill guys are also very limited I have nine nine teams would take Herbert if he was available right now no I was doing it the other way how many wouldn't take him because I think a lot of teams would replace their present quarterback situation with just let's do some Matthew Dan there's 32 teams but let's take let's make it 31 because the team he's currently on as a chargers they wouldn't they already have him you know what I'm saying so 31 minus the nine that I said let's make it easier actually if you do 30 30 minus nine teams are in 31 minus nine so 30 minus nine's 21 but let's add the team that I took away just for mathematics purposes so 30 minus nine is 21 plus the one from 31 is 22 and that's how many would or wouldn't I got that's how many wouldn't yeah 22 22 that can't be right that's what you're telling me is that Justin Herbert is a bottom of the league quarterback no it just means that some teams have their guys who they are invested in and they wouldn't they wouldn't get rid of them to take Justin Herbert it would be a double digit number of teams that would trade for him in an instant and I can list all the teams I mean it's very simple the jets the teams at one of them or wouldn't want him aren't because wouldn't want him we came up with 22 let my dad cook I'm counting okay jets dolphins browns Steelers Colts Titans I want to say the Raiders but we don't know about Mendoza yet no the Raiders would not know they would I feel like they would okay giants commanders Vikings Vikings for sure I don't know which one of these panthers I lost track I don't know which some of these you've said I don't agree maybe the Saints no no they wouldn't not the same maybe no no the Saints wouldn't because they've now got value at quarterback they've got chicken quarterback buckeneers Falcons Cardinals as you got 13 you through a bunch of me there's a few maybe we don't think that the Texans would trade CJ Stroud right now for Justin Herbert we don't think we don't think that even I don't know you how would Green Bay feel about Jordan love for Justin Herbert how would how would now you've gone too far the point is the Sam Darnold a huge market Superbowl Winter Sam don't know there's questions doing there Seattle's taking right yeah I thought about Denver now Greg which teams wouldn't take him all the others I don't believe that there are 10 teams that would not take Justin Herbert instead of the quarterback that they presently have although I'd have to do some contract math on that because if you do have someone who's comparable to Herbert but is a lot cheaper than Herbert then you absolutely take value there if the drop-off isn't terrible but Bryce Young is an interesting one to throw out there because I believe that Bryce Young has more help than the chargers have but ostensibly Herbert has in coaching both as his coordinator and as his coach he has ostensibly more stability than a great many quarterbacks would have with the backing of how the perceived excellence of the coaches are say what you will about McDaniel but people will salute him for knowing offense there's no dispute about that and everyone thinks that Harbaugh is good at his job I just sound like a Herbert apologist when a lot of times in that sport you fall in love with the arm this goes back to like Jeff George and it's beginning to feel like Herbert has a little bit of Jeff George in him in the way that he's perceived by people who think that he simply cannot win even though wins are not a quarterback stat. They aren't until they are right because then you look across the league and it's like everybody else can do what they need to do late in the season into the playoffs except Justin Herbert who anytime he does get into the playoffs does nothing right like is it a change of scenery does he need to leave Los Angeles and go to somewhere else we'll take him down here right like Kevin O'Connell would drive through like the Amazon Rainforest with bald tires with a lion strap to his back to try to get him put on the pole would Kevin O'Connell drive through the Amazon Rainforest with a lion strap to his back all tires to get Justin Herbert at Lebitard show literally you guys want this spoiler not yet to dog soldier let's have it let's have it at the end of the segment we'll tease it till the end of the segment there will be a spoiler we will find out whether the dog dies and I what are your guesses here on I'm going to assume okay the old Yeller as a movie is more than 50 years old correct it's a lot longer than that 50s of 70s and okay I how how do you know what you're wearing how old is old Yeller how old is that is that the 50s it's not the 60s or the 70s I'm not sure like 300 years ago 1957 I would also mention the most heroic dog of all time lassie okay lassie was born in 1954 lived 20 years you know very I don't know about that most heroic dog ever lassie I don't think so balto went through the idea rod to try and help the kid who needed the the medicine lassie lassie was the original hero how about chance in homeward bound yeah that was a tearjerker but lassie with June Lockhart as lassies mom in black and white lassie should be on the top of a mountain somebody would whistle should come a running lassie was uh you look this up because nobody in here is old enough to remember lassie probably except maybe Dan but probably not but lassie was the heroic dog of all time lassie out heroes, whatever this shepherd is, in the new Fallotan movie here. Guarantee of that. Lassie can be the leader of dogs I don't care about. Wow, that's a disrespectful. Okay, yeah, there he is. Look at that. People, people used to say I looked like that kid. When I was that kid's age, I looked just like that kid. Not the dog, the one on the left. How do you know the exact year that Lassie was? Why do you know that? Because that was the year I was born. So I cataloged things that happened in 1954 and Lassie debuted in 1954. I don't really, naturally, I was in the cradle. So, or if not, my mother's wound. You guys really attacked me for saying it was 50 years when it was 72 years. You guys really, like, you came after me very strong on that. It's been 20 years. The whole generation. So Old Yeller dies, spoiler alert. Old Yeller dies and it's incredibly sad and it's what I associate with sad dog movies. I actually don't know Lassie story. So Lassie lives. I'm assuming Lassie does not die. Lassie is not a spoiler alert. I mean, I don't want to say that for those of you re-watching all the old 57-year-old episodes. No, to my knowledge, Lassie never dies. So what's your guess on dog soldier, though? The aforementioned dog soldier. Good name. Your best guess is that let's take out. Before we give this spoiler at the end of the segment, I want you to guess, yes or no, Greg, the dog dies. No. Tony, yes or no, the dog dies. No. Roy, yes or no. Yes. Jeremy, yes or no. No. Chris, well, you know the answer. Zaz, yes or no. I don't know. Okay. Yes. We're going to find out together by the end of the segment. Before we do that, though, the Arizona Diamondbacks were celebrating their 25-year anniversary of winning the World Series. And I was not aware that a trumpet could crap out during the national anthem. Now, this guy, like you said, they're celebrating 25 years. This guy did game seven where they won with the Luis Gonzalez walkoff hit. Like this guy, they're bringing him back 25 years. He's an accomplished trumpet, trumpeter, trumpeter. He's an accomplished trumpeter. Now, what would happen here? You have to say to yourself, what would happen if his trumpet malfunctions in the middle of the national anthem? Let's see what happened. Through the perilous fight. Oh, my God. That's an ad-lib. That's an ad-lib. That's an American hero. What a voice. Oh, get this guy on our show. Let me I want to say that was some quick thinking. I have not seen that kind of thinking during an anthem since Mo Cheeks. That poor girl fell apart while singing the anthem. Forgot the words and Mo Cheeks came over and put his arm around her and started singing with her. That was amazing ad-lib and what a voice. Yeah. Voice of an angel. What a voice. Why didn't you have thought he would have gone to the imaginary trumpet? That's why you're not the one doing it. Just bring it home that way. Yeah. I just want to get the cassou out. Oh, a spare kazoo. You know, that's the way you do it. If you're an accomplished trumpeter, you have a hand trumpet too. You don't just have, you have all the trumpets. That was a hand trumpet. It's sort of like an air guitar except with their hands. You want someone to do the national anthem with an imaginary trumpet? He's great. He's doing a trumpet to start. You got to close with the trumpet. That's right. You got to close with the imaginary trumpet. Bad job, by him. I want to play that again just because it is just if you're not watching this. The sound of the mouth function. Yes, as an audio, okay. Him fiddling. Him fiddling. He looks at it like what's wrong with this? And then he tries to start back up. Yeah, but the sound, the sound of the trumpet falling apart as an audio would lead, I think, to blanket panic among just about everyone in the world who's doing this because you trust your instrument. You're in front of a lot of people. You're celebrating a 25-year anniversary. You're not expecting your trumpet to fart and conco. I mean, Chris wouldn't have panicked. He has his imaginary trumpet. That's right. That wouldn't have gone disastrously at all if instead of as an angelic voice, he had just thrown his head back and played the hand trumpet. That wouldn't be- He wouldn't have looked like an insane person. Let's play that again. Just so good. Yeah, really no hesitation. Perfect time made first. Holy shit. Crouch it. Beautiful. You got to support him there. He's not even trying to run through it. He's performing. I'm telling you though, that crowd goes nuts if he starts bringing it home with that hand trumpet. They actually went and supported him pretty well given that they all witnessed what happened there and they all heard the- That was that sound. It's just total panic. You can all imagine being in the center of that and being like, "I trust this instrument so much. I've played it since I was a child. I've had this instrument since Old Yeller was wandering the earth before he died tragically in a movie 70 years ago that Dan thought was 50 years ago. And the panic that had to have swept over him when he realized in those two seconds, everyone's watching me. They're expecting me to produce wonderful noise with how it is that I blow into this instrument. Oh my god, I'm going to surprise them with how angelic my voice is and I'm going to pick up the lyric exactly where I was in the song. And this requires him to know the song and its lyrics, which I do not expect from someone playing the trumpet. I expect that person to know the notes. I'm not sure that that person knows the words. Put it on the poll at Lebitar Show. If your trumpet broke down, could you finish precisely the words of the national anthem? You really seem to have zeroed in on how that trumpet sounded very close to the panic situation. Down Lebitar. And you do eat but all the time, correct? Great Cody. Oh yeah, I just had some a couple of weeks ago. This is Lebitar Show. All right, Chris, give us with proper spoiler warning to everybody in the audience. What is the name of that actual movie? Dog soldier. Dog soldier? Yeah. Heart of the beast. Oh wait, that's that can't be what it's called. Heart of the beast. Are you guys in agreement with me that that movie is going to do well because I mean, a Brad Pitt movie is always going to do well. I still think that he's one of the few movie stars who will still get people to the theater. Speaking of Brad Pitt movies, did you see it just dropped yesterday, the trailer for the adventures of Cliff Booth? That's going to be fun. That's that's the spin off character from once upon a time in Hollywood. That's going to be a fun movie. And this one's going up against primetime this weekend, the Chris Hansen movie. He's also doing World Wide Z. He's doing a remake of the zombie movie as well. But I just think you've got a bit of a cheat code if you go Brad Pitt and a dog because you need a star for that movie. And once you have Brad Pitt in the tent and you have a dog, I really think a lot of people are going to watch this world wide Z the cousin of worldwide West. What was worldwide Z? So what is the name of the old war Z? Oh, that's my bad. Yeah, man. World Wide Web. Calvin Williams. Give us the spoiler here, Chris. So Odin is what his the character in the movie is called. He's actually played by a canine actor named Uber. Fun name for an actor. Like UBER. Is that not confusing for the dog? The dog understands, hey, you're acting. This is your actor name. This is your character name. The dog gets that. Yeah, the dogs are smart. The producers and director have explicitly confirmed because they've said that this is all they've been asked about since announcing the film. They have confirmed that no, the dog does not die. Okay. Okay. Which I feel like it's fairly obvious because they would never confirm just so you know, he definitely does die. I mean, people knew with Marley and me, and as a result, I will never watch. He didn't know before it came out. Yeah, absolutely. It was a book. Of course you know, I didn't know it was a book. Read a book of it. It's just tanked. Did you guys are in dog books? I believe that we just helped that movie get more viewers because I think a lot of people would be like, I'll see you now. If the dog's dying, I don't want to watch that. Really? I mean, I've had a weird reaction. I'm embarrassed by what I'm about to admit here, but and I don't know if this happens to anybody else. I'm obviously a dog lover. When I have seen a video of, say, for example, a boat is going down in the ocean that has a dog on it and humans. I don't care about the humans at all. It's. He stole your thunder there, but he didn't care less you just went fly. I had to I had to I say it's a human's bolt Whatever. I mean not only did he steal it from me He took the take further than I was gonna take it because I do care about the human I don't get I don't care about the humans and I'm embarrassed to admit that as much as I worry about the dog Because I feel like the humans while panic can Fend for themselves in a smarter. What are you talking about? I'm not a doggy pedophore for years I'm not I'm not saying that this is a correct reaction to have I know it's a controversial take But not as controversial as that you were gonna say the same thing as me I was gonna I wasn't gonna say it as strongly as you I was gonna say that I end up caring more about the dog Then I do about the humans and I'm embarrassed by that, but you just said you don't care about the humans at all not even close to embarrassed That was like a Leroy Jenkins situation where you were like setting something up and Zazzle is like all right boys. Let's do this Roy hug your dog like I do he's too big and unwieldy and he's got sandpaper paws and he doesn't know how to use them So I love my dog more than you do I got to be careful about that also You're somebody who covers, you know sports and then goes and does video covered in dog hair and don't notice Proud that you're covered in dog hair. You not proudly you were embarrassed when people started telling you how disgusting your shirt was And that you needed a lint brush. You were embarrassed by that. No, no, it's fine. I was fine with it I wear it as a coat of of honor coat of arms. Greg coat of arms Nothing wrong with a lint brush, but Dan while we're one while we're talking Dogs and did you see what happened to Jaime Hakez? I wanted like maybe start a segment at some point called the Dan Levitard of the day Jaime Hakez was in Milwaukee trying to bring his dog into some restaurant, and this is what happened Hi He didn't wave at me. I don't want to wave at you Have you ever had that happen, Dan, where someone's like giving you crap for bringing your dog somewhere? I don't take him everywhere, although I have taken him to Whole Foods once and you guys made fun of me of taking him to Whole Foods But I'm gonna brunch in Milwaukee. Those people don't know that that's Jaime Hakez. Oh very obviously. He hasn't played a game for them yet They have no idea that that's an NBA player for their team now Why while I do fall into the don't bring your dog a lot of places team? I thought that was an aggressive approach I thought that was a little little strong. You could tell that some of Moses have been flowing You could tell I could tell by the vibe and the music and you know some of the words choices said that there might have been a brunch for the couple of Moses Greg Cody Yesterday on the show I was remiss in having whatever it was 44 observations one that did not make the cut Yesterday was Morgan Freeman really old So old days I was watching. I was like, oh my god. He's cooked That's meaner than I would have said yeah, probably right But another thing I said in my NFL observations a week ago It might be time to take the keys away from Terry Bradshaw on just the highlights I wasn't taking anything else away from him But how about this moment on Fox this weekend with Terry Bradshaw and Grunk? The Arizona carnels as well Jacobi brush set this guy has been quietly one of the most decent quarterbacks in the NFL He has been producing. There's no doubt about that and his favorite target is Trey McBride who to me is the best Titan in the NFL right now You can't argue now. You can't argue that this is gonna be a close game But Seattle will be in control the whole time and we'll win. What about McBride? I mean, that's we just said oh I'm Using your guy let's talk about the Jags the Broncos you seem a little bit desperate right now. Howie Thank you Kurt solid transition there What a tepid analysis from Grunk to say that Brassette is quietly one of the most decent Bradshaw the second shittiest commentary there

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The podcast discusses the upcoming Brad Pitt-led movie *Dog Soldier*, highlighting its potential popularity due to the star power and emotional appeal of a dog-soldier relationship.
  2. A major audience concern is whether the dog will die in the film, with listeners demanding a guarantee from the producers or director that the dog will not be harmed or killed.
  3. The producers have confirmed that the dog will not die, and they’ve also emphasized that no scenes of the dog defecating will be shown, despite knowing dogs do so constantly.

Summary:

The Down Laboratory Show, in partnership with Draft King, features a lively discussion about upcoming movies and sports topics. A central focus is on the new Brad Pitt film *Dog Soldier*, which blends star power with a dog-soldier narrative, expected to attract wide viewership. The host and guests emphasize that the film’s appeal hinges on audience reassurance—specifically, that the dog will not die or be shown defecating.

Despite speculation and audience skepticism, the producers have confirmed the dog’s safety and the absence of bathroom scenes, addressing key concerns that could otherwise deter viewers. The conversation also touches on other films, including a zombie remake with a canine actor, and a broader cultural reflection on how people emotionally connect with animals in media. The segment is framed with humor and self-awareness, including a nostalgic reference to classic dog movies like *Old Yeller* and *Lassie*.

In a separate sports segment, the show humorously notes a trumpet malfunction during a baseball celebration and discusses the emotional impact of such moments. Ultimately, the discussion combines entertainment, audience psychology, and real-world reactions to highlight how even small details shape public perception and viewer engagement.

FAQs

No, the producers and director have explicitly confirmed that the dog does not die in the movie.

No, the movie has a promise that the dog will never be shown doing its business, even though it's known that dogs do this in real life.

The show humorously suggests the dog might be nominated, jokingly calling it a 'QK' (a play on 'Oscar'), but no official confirmation was given.

The movie is titled 'Dog Soldier,' featuring Brad Pitt and a soldier-like dog.

Many viewers are passionate about animal welfare, and the fear of a dog dying in a film is a strong emotional trigger that influences their viewing decisions.

Yes, viewers have requested a guarantee from the studio that the dog will not be hurt, and the producers have confirmed the dog's safety in the film.

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