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Le Batard & Friends - Mystery Crate

Episode Three Hundred - Sixty Eight: Drafting Captains for Mystery Crate

Le Batard & Friends - Mystery Crate

Meadowlark Media

Sports

4.96.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

A new era of Mystery Crate officially begins — and it starts the only way we know how: arguing about the cold open, bullying each other’s “sexy voice,” and accidentally creating a year-long competition that will absolutely ruin friendships.In this episode, we introduce Zas Storytime (Z-Storytime?), where Zas takes us back to old sports lore — including the day Glenn Rice dropped 56 and Zas basically chose basketball over Passover (no regrets). Then it gets even weirder: the infamous Bar Mitzvah shirt story (and the hunt for the legendary tank top continues).Plus: Punch the Monkey returns to the group chat thanks to a wild Christian Bale clip, the crew debates WWE and Elimination Chamber, and someone makes the case that Tom Brady vs Logan Paul might actually be a thing (Vegas energy!).And because the internet demanded it: we break down the viral McDonald’s CEO vs Burger King CEO burger bite videos — including the most timid bite in fast-food history and why calling a burger an “excellent product” is a red flag.Finally, the big moment: we pick captains for the brand-new Mystery Crate team competition — a season-long format with drafts, trades, and enough petty scorekeeping to power the show for months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

A fun show today for Mr. Crate.

0:02.2

We have Zaz's Storytime.

0:05.3

Is that how you pronounce it?

0:06.1

We're working on it.

0:06.8

We're working on it. Zaz's Storytime. A brand new era for Mystery Crate. We're going to pick teams. We're going to pick captains. We're going to do something special. And a whole bunch of new stuff on the Burr King versus McDonald's Feud Plus Punch The Monkey. Let's start the show.

0:22.1

That has to be an all-time bad cold open.

0:24.6

Yeah, the monkey. Let's start the show. That has to be an all-time bad cold open. Yeah, the intro has to be louder, too. I feel like it's not loud enough. What? You stop producing the show and all you have is critiques. I'm fucking going to hell over here. It's like the fire at Summer Hall. It's crazy. And then you. What's up? You, I mean, the cold open, you're supposed to hook people in.

0:39.0

You're just like, we say words today.

0:41.0

Let's start the shit.

0:41.6

Yeah, and you know what?

0:42.6

I was like, last week's was meaner, but it was a better cold open. Yeah. Yeah. Everyone's a dork. I'm trying to be nice. And all of a sudden now, now you guys don't want me to be nice.

0:50.9

Now you know, there should have been some more oomph to it.

0:55.2

Yeah, I feel like...

0:56.2

Well, we'll restart it.

0:56.8

Well, because I feel like we're starting like... you guys don't want me to be nice. Now you don't have to be a meme. I think you got to, you know, there should have been some more umph to it.

0:55.5

Okay, let's restart.

0:56.8

Well, because I feel like we're starting like a new era. Bring the bumper back up. You're right. You know, I don't like this new era stuff. You know, I don't like that. The era's already done. No, I don't like that. I don't like that because, you know, it's like, oh, new era, oh, everything's so much nicer.

1:10.5

All of a sudden, somebody else gets control now there's like a million volunteers out of the woodwork, you know, Zaz shows up on. Hey, I'm available. Lewis isn't going home early anymore. All these things are going home. Excuse me. All of a sudden, everybody wants to help. Maybe Rose is nicer. All right. Bring back the bumper. We'll do the cold open again.

1:27.9

We'll keep it in the show.

1:44.9

We're leaving this all in. Three. Open and start. All right. Today, a new era of mystery crate begins. We got dorks on the Zoom. We got people in here that want to actually do the show. Let's start it. Yeah. Oh, I have fired up. See? Okay, so that one was better, but I think you could have just ended it with like, a new area of mystery crate begins and then play the music. Yeah. Okay. Now let's have Jeremy. One more time. Jeremy, why don't you do one more time? All right. Let's do it. Ready? Yeah. Three, two, one. A new era of mystery crate begins now.

2:06.0

That one kind of sucked because you're a little too close to the camera.

2:09.2

You seem like you were trying to talk like in your sexy voice.

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