The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: How Long is Too Long?

Episode Date: February 6, 2024

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I won. Here we are talking about the bounty house. I know, I'm still very hungry, but it's probably good white shirt, wings, me, right the entrance to radio road, not a winning formula. You only talk to anyone about this bounty house. It's the greatest thing ever. Why is your obsession with the bounty house? So because I have come to so many radio rows

and so many radio rows and so many Super Bowls, I've never seen a house with a second floor at radio row. Like a set, okay? It's an actual house. I mean, it's impressive Billy. It is, come on. It's the two levels that he likes.

I feel like we've seen, I feel like in 2020 we were getting ridiculous and then it got scaled back to like 2021. It was like the weird Tampa year where everything was like on Zoom. And then there was LA and now we're getting back to like how ridiculous It was like the weird Tampa year where everything was on Zoom. And then there was LA. And now we're getting back to like, how ridiculous can we be with some of these sets?

I feel like so then next year someone in New Orleans has to dynamite and make a basement. I've got a second story. Imagine a radio row basement. Can I make a prediction? Next year, New Orleans, there's going to be a set that has a balcony with someone throwing beads off of.

No doubt. Oh, that's the one. Did you just call Bill? That was Bill. That was a Bill idea right there. That should be our set though, right? Like we should. I was going to say, any show should be doing.

It should be going from a balcony on Bourbon Street. That feels like destiny. That's a great call by you, Billy. I know. Sounds expensive, though. I'm sorry. I meant Bill. Why did you mean Bill?

I don't know where that came from. I've never called it Bill in my entire life. It was a Bill idea. That was a Bill idea. Are you enjoying Vegas so far? Yes, so far, so good. I'm like 18 hours in, and I haven't gotten drunk enough to affect my job yet at this point, right?

Which is in the next couple of days. That's where the real challenge starts. If you take work out of, what's the perfect amount of time to visit Las Vegas? 48 hours. You don't want to hear any longer than that. I've gotten burned out like 24, 36 hours in. I got to be honest. 48's the max. 48's the max, right. Like we're going to do any more than that. By the fifth day, I will feel like I've been here for 42 hours too long. Yeah, you got to pace yourself.

You're going to be here until Friday or Saturday. I know, but I'm going the better early. It's like it's weird. It was a weird feeling to get in the first night I got in and young me when it went out to like four in the morning. Well, I was just going to say, Stu gots for you coming to this place where you can smoke indoors, there's like there's all so many things that you love in here, I wasn't sure if this was going to turn you back

into the old you or not. Well, it hasn't. So I was what I was. You've been here like 20 hours. Well, I got here two nights ago. And so what I'm saying is I went right to bed. Old me would have stayed out till 3.34 in the morning. Sure.

Like I went right to bed. You told me that yesterday you got stuck in a high stakes blackjack game. That was night two. That was night two. That was night two. I said the first night, Billy. The still. The story was that he was asking the dealer to hand him losing cards so that he could leave. So last night I got myself stuck into a, I was in a high stakes blackjack table. I wanted to go to bed but I kept winning. It was such a great shoot and I'm sitting there going to the dealer

Hey, can you stop giving me aces? I can't split these anymore. I get another split double combination here that hits Listen, it was so much money. I didn't want to leave it in my hotel room. It's sitting in my backpack right over there Bring it I didn't want to leave it in my hotel room. It's sitting in my backpack right over there. I'm not even sure. That's a lot. Billy, I swear. Don't bring it. Billy. What? Don't just do a five of me. Hold on.

Oh, wow. Wait, Billy. You guys talk. I'm going to get the money. Hold on. So you're going to bring over a backpack just filled with a bunch of cash. What is the payoff for this?

I have no idea. All I know is my dad just threw $5 over the top of this because he's eavesdropping on this. And he thinks he's going to get this back ever. He's never going to see this again. This doesn't buy you half a bottle of water. There's his hand, but so that's what are you doing? You're just going to show people a bunch of cash that you have. I wonder if it do you think it's in cash or chips? This seems

like it seems like a lot of things. It's a category. Oh God, that's a lot. Oh, wow. Oh my gosh. That's the kind of run I was on. Oh, wow. Holy crap. Oh my God. Oh my God. There's more in there. Ah! Ah!

Two guys, this looks like a heist. It was an epic run. It was. Billy counting it right now as we speak. It's... Wow. This is 2300. Yep.

Oh my... That's just the hundreds. Then we get into the... Holy crap. Billy, I had a run. Give it $2, Bill. I know. I know. I, that's just the hundreds. Then we get into the Holy Billy. I had a run. You have a $2 bill. Well, I know. I know. I saved that.

It's lucky. Well, there might be value in the $2 bill. You should be telling people that you're walking around with this much cash. Well, I just did. Billy, I just told everyone. Yeah, this is not a good idea. If I see any of you snooping around my bag,

if you see Stu gots around the strip, rob him. Look, you just made five bucks. My dad just contributed $5. Listen, do you know how much money your dad is making this week? Oh my God. Yeah. That's why I told him you're never getting that $5 back. What is he going on his tour? And what I mean by his tours is media, his radio road tour, where he goes down

one side of the aisle and he promotes diabetes medication, then comes down the other side of the aisle and promotes like beef jerky. Oh, it's been my father's ability to juggle seemingly opposing brands all in the name of the almighty dollar is unparalleled. I would argue it for a man in two radio Hall of Fame's who has so much to his name. This should be the most impressive thing on his resume each and every year. He's probably already doing it now. He's probably, I think at some point he just wanders around a new brand to walk up. Like if he stands over by the bounty house long enough,

they're gonna have a sling of paper towels. They're gonna quickly pick him up. Yeah, that's what he does. That's what they do. He looks great by the way. I know I hate it. Why? Why do you hate it?

Because I have to sit next to him and do the shows every day. Imagine your 61 year old father being skinnier and having more hair than you. And now he bit my style on the beard and that looks better because he's got the gray beer. Yeah. Imagine your dad being 82 when being those things as well because that's what I'm dealing with. I saw like a cartoon or something of your dad the other day. There's like an animated version of your dad. Do you know what I'm talking about? I think it's like a graphic, but he did him dirty. He was too gray and too white. Yeah. He looked a little too old. Again, again, all I get anytime a picture of my dad gets posted are, oh my god, dad thirst tweets and all like Mina Kimes and L Duncan and Katie Nolan all in

the replies. So yeah, whoever the animator was, thank you. God bless you for doing the Lord's work and taking him down a peg. Would it be weird, this is a strange path to take, would it be weird if one of your friends became your mom? Yes. Like a step mom? Absolutely, it'd be weird. How would it not be weird?

Did you just kill my mom? I didn't, look, I didn't kill anyone. Wait, take this like my mom. Take this picture for a second. Wait a second, okay. Well, not paint it for a second. Well, one of his friends becomes a step mom. I don't know how it happens. I didn't kill anyone. I'm just saying. Wait, take this like my mom. Take this picture for a second. Wait a second, okay? We'll not paint it for a second. Well, one of his friends becomes a stepmom. I don't know how it happens. I didn't create this situation.

So like Kyle Rudolph becomes... Oh. Is that dad? He means one of my female friends. Oh, he just missed his friends a second ago. It could be either way, and that's totally fine, but no, I would at that point no longer have that friend and then no longer have that dad.

Yeah, no, be out on that. Right, really? out on that. I was told what if on the flip side, one of your guy friends becomes your step dad? Oh, that'd be even worse. OK, that'd be by far. Which one of your guy friends would you most want to be your step dad, though? If you had to choose. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, yeah, I can't blow. None of my friends, none of them are fit to join my family. I was told you on the Dan Patrick show. Yes, you revealed something to me right before we started this, which

was they have gift bags. Oh, do they have gift bags? Oh my God. Tell me about it. Gift cards for hundreds of dollars of meat, bottles of bourbon and whiskey. We're going to go out there and try and get a little bit of hundreds of dollars of meat, bottles of bourbon and whiskey. We're going to go out there and try and, Stu, guys, you wanted me to call him out on Super Bowl Saturday. Yes, because he came up. I was blinded by all the gifts. Right. So I'm disappointed in you because I came up with that idea, Super Bowl Saturday. We've talked about it on our show for years. Dan Patrick says it becomes big news, you know? So I was hoping my friend would call out on it.

I listen, I, you were blinded by gifts. I got a bag full of Kings, Hawaiian rules and I was off the running. Oh, you know what? I would have shut my mouth. I would have been distracted too. We have John Taffer coming on. You told me, uh, you told me you wanted him to rip you for some reason. That's what he does. He goes in, he finds out what your flaws are. He tears you down and then he builds you back up. That's half a process. Would you like me to call him over right now? The DanLibetard show with Stugatz is sponsored by BetterHelp.

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It's not delivery. It's DeGiorno. But presented by DraftKingsportsbook, an official sports betting partner of the NFL. Download the DraftKingsportsbook app today and use code Dan for a special offer when you sign up. That's code Dan only at Draft King Sportsbook. And we're back together. Yes, we are. Yep. Joined by a legend. A legend. Yes. Some people throw football. So I throw food for a living. I love the hat by the way. Oh, thank you. This is from Tafer's Tabern. Yeah. Well, of course it is a big T right on the front of it

Especially branded hat for you. Absolutely buddy. Cool. Is this huh? It's great. Yeah, it's great. You love the Super Bowl Don't you I love the Super Bowl? You know, I met my wife at Super Bowl 30 Really back when I was on the NFL advisory board really back in those years I don't know if you guys knew that my connection to Sunday ticket you guys even aware of that We yeah, we've had john a bunch over the years that we know your connection yeah because of that i went to super bowl twenty nine and thirty those are the years that we're working on right i'm at my wife at super bowl thirty so finish that story like how how'd you meet

the so interesting so so we met at a restaurant prior to uh... on friday night then saturday you know what these events have the players association event have the nfl event, the owners event. So I'm going to all those events and at every place I went, my wife, Nicole, was there. Not only was she there, but she was standing in the same spot I was. It was like a fluke. So after the second day I invited her to dinner, we had dinner together with a bunch of other friends to join us and she comes. And then when I'm leaving Phoenix and I'm on the escalator going to the departure section the airport she's on the escalator Wow so it was a really strange thing.

Right. Yeah. And so what'd you say when you saw her like what? So and then she was going to Chicago I lived in Chicago at the time and and it was just meant to be and it just evolved and that was now what 28 years ago. It's funny that you mentioned marriage because we, I was unaware of this and they were telling us this before, everybody knows you from bar rescue amongst other things,

but you also did a show called Marriage Rescue that lasted, I want to say I was told like eight or nine episodes. 12 actually. 12 episodes. 12 episodes and when we did marriage rescue, it rated the same as bar rescue it did well actually and same network same companies all that so in my contract that year I was given a choice

for the last 10 episodes of the season I could do bar rescue or marriage rescue and I chose bar rescue because bar rescue I go to a town for a week so I'll spend a week on a road per episode in marriage rescue I was gone like 14 weeks in a resort. And so it was a really hard show to make. So there's no definitive date on how on saving a marriage essentially is what you're saying. And I was gone for months at a time, not coming home for a week and going out for a week and coming home. And so just for my own convenience sake, we walked away from it. How many marriages did you actually save of the 12 you did, I guess? out for a week coming home and so just for my own convenience sake we walked away from it.

How many marriages did you actually save of the 12 you did I guess? We did 12 and I think 11. Well last I checked but 11. Okay. So 11 of 12? You know when you force people directly, you know don't bullshit me. This is what it is man. Right.

Take your socks off the floor if that's what she's freaking out about. Pick up the freaking socks. Right. So when you're really direct with people you can accomplish a lot what do you feel like you know you did it I don't want to say selflessly but it was too much for you to do is too many weeks away do you feel like you ever look around you're like you know what and I stuck to this I could have saved so many more marriages yeah but I say bars and I have a marriage you see more important I mean that's true yes true and how many failing bars created the And I said, the jobs. And if a marriage is more important, I mean, you know. Yeah, I think, you know, I look at all the jobs that I've saved. That's true.

Yeah, that's true. And how many failing bars created the failing marriage? So I'm going to say 30% of the bar rescues we do. There's a wife at home or a husband at home who's not happy. So you're saving both. And the house is on the line. Yeah, so, yeah. Can we have y'all next week and possibly you could save mine and Dan's marriage? I mean is that guys? That's a big challenge

What's the bar that you've saved that you're proudest of there's a bunch You know the ones that I'm probably proudest with the family ones is one called characters in North Carolina that we did It became Moonrunners. That's about ten years spirits on bourbon is Bourbon is a famous one that we did. There's a few here in town, Champaigne's, a Nevada brewing company here in Vegas that we've done. So yeah, there's a bunch. There's a bunch. John, you have moments, I don't know if you're aware of this, that will go social. It'll be old moments that you've had and then they'll come up every couple of years. One of the famous one is you telling people the proper way to pour a beer, where everybody thinks that you pour a beer, you have it kind of slanted so that you don't get all of the, you know, fizz or whatever in the top of the

beer. We have a beer here and they've asked us if you could do this to show us the proper way to pour a beer. So I would need two bottles of beer? Two bottles. Two bottles. Okay. We need a second beer. And I need two glasses. Okay. And I need some paper towel rolled up. We bottles. Okay. We need a second beer. And I need two glasses. Okay.

And I need some paper towel rolled up. We have one. Well, bounty we can get for you. That's easy. I need a piece of paper towel here. I need a paper towel. A piece of paper towel. When I, as we're, as we're waiting for the paper towel, if I told you when you were sitting on that advisory board, yes, that one day there would be a Super Bowl in Las Vegas. That would have blown me away, you know. It's the craziest thing. Those were the days that Jacksonville was putting together that franchise. Right. And they were trying to get that expansion franchise.

What are we doing? We're rolling up the paper towel here. So what I want to show you... He doesn't mess around, Billy. This isn't necessarily the proper way to pour a beer. Okay. I'm showing you the extremes of what you do when you do it too much one way or another. Okay. So here's the premise. Okay. The premise is if you take a beer out of a bottle or can and you pour it into a glass, slowly versus quickly. Right. Now a

lot of people that are rookie bartenders are so scared of too much head, they pour the beer like this, right? Yep. Really slow. I gotta be honest, that's how I do it. And your hair's getting gray, right? And I mean, this is the way they pour that beer. Yeah. Then the guy's a more experienced bartender. You know, he'll fill the cup more like this, put the beer next to it and give it to you

that way. Now what happens? If you drink that beer when you put it in your stomach, nothing happens. But if you take this beer and put it in your stomach, look what happens. Wow. I didn't know my stomach was made of papercloth. So I'm simply showing you. I'm simply showing you.

If you pour it faster, you can drink more. See, when you pour it slow like this and it bubbles like that in your gut, you're going to drink less beer, aren't you? You're bloated. Yeah, but you feel like you're drinking more beer at the time, you know? But neither of those is exactly correct. The middle is where you wanna be, of course.

But it's a point. So if you drink straight out of the can or straight out of the bottle, you're bloating the hell out of yourself. If you pour it into a glass in theory, that second can would go down a lot easier. I love how passionate you are about everything. Seriously. It's interesting, isn't it?

Yeah, it is. What else can you teach us? I can teach you a whole bunch of things. You know, there's a, you know, when I met with Matt. What an open-ended question that was, by the way. When I sat with Matt, and Matt was the founder of DraftKings, of course, one of the founders was in that podcast a few weeks ago. And we were talking about DraftKings and, you know, what makes it unique is a product category and the fact that I can change each game and, you know, redraft and, and, you know, I love all those aspects of it.

But, you know, I'm a bar guy. And to me, anything that causes people to stay in a bar, I'm going to make money on. Sure. So to think that now you can do this while you're sitting in my bar drinking that beer is crazy It's amazing for both of us. Yes, and the combination of the two industries together is really really special Do you like to gamble? I like to gamble. Yeah, I'm not a sports betting guy as much as I am a table gambler What's your what's your game of choice? I'm a blackjack guy really read all the books So, you know, I'll follow the rules Do you really follow the rule like you never play by gut?

I've read all the books so I'll follow the rules. Do you really follow the rule? Like you never play by gut. Like if you're sitting at the end of the table, everyone's relying on you. You have a 16, you're not supposed to hit because the dealer's a five, but you feel like hitting. Are you gonna hit? No.

You should. I mean, it's your choice, it's your money. I always sit. Do you see how much money I had laying all over this table? That was me being selfish. So I'll normally take the last two seats at the table. And play this. You'll take them to yourself.

I'll take the last two. And you'll play the last two. Yes. OK, at one time. At one time. You're a baller. And that's how I play. You're a baller. So you control the entire table.

Well, I control the last two seats, I'm sure. Have you ever done it? Like, have you ever made a decision while occupying one of those last two seats that pissed off an entire table? Yes. But I'll tell you a funny story. Years ago, I'm in Vegas. Because there's a responsibility that I'll tell you a funny story years ago. I'm in Vegas is a responsibility that comes with the last two seats years ago. I'm in Vegas and I

won like six grand one night, right? And I go up to my room and I'm leaving the next morning. And I wanted to buy my wife this like tennis bracelet was like $20,000. So I said to myself, you know, I'm gonna go downstairs. I'm just gonna bet the whole 6,000 two or three times. Either I'm gonna lose it. I'm gonna get to 20 and I'm gonna buy this bracelet. So I go downstairs, you know, I dropped three of the 6,000 on the bet. She deals me in the hand, I get two aces. I split the two aces, put down the other 3,000 dollars. Ramo, I mean, both hands. Wow. Right. So literally in four hands, I had 22, 23,000 dollars, I got up from the table, walked across the street to the jewelry store, brought the diamond tennis bracelet, and went home. But one of my greatest gaming stories is years ago a friend of mine says you got to come to Florida and go to highlight with me

Oh boy, okay. So I go to our language. Yes. So I go down to Florida and I go to ha Daniel highlight Yes, we're familiar. Yeah, I go to Daniel. I had never played the game before You know I the guys are throwing a ball against the wall and it's sort of like we're crossing handball Yeah, I'm thinking and so I decide I'm gonna bet a trifecta right and I bet my birth date on a game eight or whatever the hell it was and I bet I don't know 160 dollars something like that and I won over 8,000 dollars wow so my buddy who I went over 8,000. They take me in the back room. They pay the taxes there. Right. They take the taxes out. So I left with a check on that, but forget

it for $5,300. They netted you down at Daniel Highlight. Really? Yes. So my friend, my friend who went with me. That is so Daniel Highlight. So my friend who went with me, who goes there all the time, has frickin run took me I won the first time it destroyed our friendship. We never hung out again because of that he hated me. Wow. For that win that night. I think John's half or Billy should rescue Highlight. How about that? Yeah. How about you show. Highlight could use some rescuing. It could make it a lot more fun. You're right. I think there's like I don't know five front tons left in America or something like that. I don't I don't if you even that. Is that too

much? Yeah. Well you guys go and bet and play. I don't know if even that's much. Yeah. Well, you guys go and bet and play. Well, they have. We own a team. Yeah. Down at there's a magic city casino. They now have like a highlight league. I think it's called the World Highlight League or something like that. But they've brought in like celebrity investors. So like Pitbull will have a team now. You don't, it has them of the heat will have a team.

Or hey, Mosfidal, I believe has a team that you have. See, fighter, I need a team. You should get a team. Yes. Yes. What? We may be the guys that could get you a team or a must be doll. I believe has a team that you have see fighter. I need a team man. You should get a team. Yes. Yes. We may be the guys that could get you a team if you want to highlight. I would be interested in that. That'd be a lot of fun. I like this. I'm going to I'm going to connect these dots. I like him saving. Highlight. I do come at the rescuing high. We may as a show lose assess the cyclones as all they're going to be taff or cyclones. But you know what? You want a team? I'm going to get on it.

I say to hell with the balls, they should be throwing beer cans. You're right. You're right. Tell us about the upcoming season here at Bar Rescue. Wow, guys. I'm three episodes away from 250 episodes. Wow.

Congratulations, man. My business is unheard of. That's awesome. So this season's tough, man. You know, last year, I was kinder and nicer. Everybody had an excuse with COVID. You know, it was pretty valid. Their wallets were thin. They had been through it.

This year, you know what? That doesn't carry anymore, man. That's BS. So this year, you know, if you're not making money, it's your own freaking fault. So I'm all over them. It's an intense season. It's your own fault.

Oh, yeah. So it's an intense one. Get out. If you're failing today, you'll be the laziest ignorant. One of the two. And I got to figure out which of the two is and I'm gonna go at you either way okay John let me ask you something before you go because we were talking about this we've talked about memes why have you seen the memes that says that

you're always trying to look around invisible objects are you familiar with this no I'm not yeah so they'll say that you're just always kind of looking like this around things that may or may not actually be there you've not caught on to this no really I'm not big on looking at things that aren't there though. I must tell you. Well, no, you're looking around them. They're not there. You know, so I'm probably reading over customer to see a bartender making a drink. Yeah. You know, I'm reading between two tables to see what's going on in the table in the bed. Yeah. You know, I'm in a middle kind of guy. I'll be in equally to the

left. Billy, it's a bar. You gotta leave. You gotta look past things. You know, you got to get an angle. You got to create. You got to look past things. You got to get an angle. You got to create, you OK? I was unaware of that. I'm known for looking at nothing. You're known from looking around things that aren't there, that you look around, or you're just like, all of a sudden, this will be here, and then it'll be here,

and then your face will just appear looking around. Yeah, but at a bar, there's so many things you have to kind of find your path. It's kind of like radio row here. That's right. There's a lot in your way. All right. Well, we appreciate this. It's always it's always great talking to you I got 250 episodes man crazy. That is amazing. Congratulations to you guys enjoy the rest of your week here. Enjoy your week Thank you, sir. Okay. See you at the front talking to you guys. I'm a little worried about your gambling losses, right?

Well, no, I hold each other's while Let's rescue highlight together. Okay. Take, guys. All right. Thank you, John. The Dan LeBertard Show with Stu Gotts is brought to you by Bear Aspirant, the official sponsor of Fans Hearts. We're presented by DraftKings Sportsbook, an official sports betting partner of the NFL. Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app today and use code Dan for a special offer when you sign up. That's code Dan, only at DraftKings Sportsbook app today and use code Dan for a special offer when you sign up.

That's code Dan, only at DraftKings Sportsbook. Billy, were you thinking what I was thinking during John Taffer, who we love, by the way, he is fantastic, a great guest, but I had no idea what was going on with the beer and had to pour it. I'm glad you asked that. I was confused. You look confused. I know I was confused.

I didn't know what was going on. So John Taffer we had on and you just heard it obviously. And one of the things that we wanted to talk to him about and something that we went out of our way to figure out how to make happen was the beer trick that he's talked about in the proper way to pour beer. And then we had to kind of go behind the scenes and figure out how are we going to get a beer in here? How is the beer going to be closed?

Like how are we going to make this happen? Yes. And you know, we made that part happen. Like Mike Fuentes and Danny and it was a great idea. But friend and security guards and we don't need to get into the details, but we arranged it. It happened. Then once we were learning the proper way to pour the beer, I was super confused. I was watching it. I was going along with him, but like, I have no idea exactly what he was talking about. I didn't know which one actually looked better or worse than the other one. They looked different to me. The one that he was saying was better looked foamy. I was confused by that.

I was confused by that. But he was saying foamy is better. I was confused by that. Yeah, Chris is off this off over here. Heck, you understand what he's saying. We don't get it. What do you mean? Oh, it's next level. Come explain it to us if you don't

mind. Okay. I don't know what any of this is set up for you to. Is it? I don't know. Yeah. Can I talk? No, it's off. Okay. Here I am. Okay. When you pour the beer terribly, all the head comes up, that is the gas is releasing. So even though it looks like a crappy pour, whereas when you pour it good

and you don't see any bubbles, all that explosion happens in your belly. But when you put the paper towel and you started going like this, then it became- That's what happens in your belly. Yeah, but that's what happened with the one that was not done. It was very confusing.

But your whole life bartenders have been pouring beer sideways, so you have no foam. Because they want to fill you up. They don't want... Wait, why would they fill you up? They wouldn't want to fill you up. They want you to keep drinking. I thought you had a grasp on it.

See what we're saying? I do have a grasp on it. I just don't understand the business of it. You're as confused as we are. Good. At least we're not alone. All right. See you later. Oh, here you go. I'll stay.

All right, man. Wait, no. Why don't you pull up a chair? We're going to talk to Ventriloquist. All right, fine. I'll take an elevator down. That's not... That has nothing to do with it. All right, I'll stay. I'll stay. All right, Bob. Wait, no. Why don't you pull up a chair? We're going to talk to Ventriloquist. All right, fine. I'll take an elevator down. That's not, that has nothing to do with it. I'll stay.

He asked you to pull up a chair. He didn't ask you to go down a floor. Yeah, no. He just sit down over there. We're going to bring over Ventriloquist. I'll pop a squat. Yeah, what? I don't know, but that's...

Wait, who are we talking to next? We're going to talk to Ventriloquist. We're going to talk to a dummy. You know, it's going to be a whole nice thing. Talk to Winston. All right, another dummy on the set. A couple of dummies cutting it up. Looking forward to that.

That's what not you. That's what radio row is all about. Super Bowl week is all about. We're going to talk to a puppet next. You know, when in Rome? We're in Las Vegas. When in Vegas? Stugatz Las Vegas. When in Vegas? Stugatz?

Yes. I'm excited. I know you are, Billy. This is what we come to Radio Row for. This is it. This is what Super Bowl Week is all about. We're here. We got here early in the week, but we're here. Yes, we've arrived. We're joined by Terry Fader and Winston.

Yes, good to be here. Thank you for having me. Very excited. Yeah. Thanks for doing this. It's a pleasure. The other talk to the hand before. No, no, you mean, oh yeah, puppet. Yeah, I'm trying to turtle here.

Turtle. Yeah. Terry Winston, there was a lot of people that told me growing up, you know what, Billy? You're never going to do it. You're never going to mount to anything you're never gonna talk to ventriloquist in the turtle at the super bowl today you guys

helped me prove those people wrong and everybody wants to talk to a turtle at the super bowl no one cares about talking to other interlocutors though that's where you were wrong how many interviews has Winston done today oh my gosh gosh, we've done, I don't know. We lost count. Really? Yeah. Yeah.

I just know Terry's hand is really sweaty and his fingernails need to clip them. How'd you get into this lot of work if you don't mind me asking Terry? I found a book in my school library. I was 10 years old. Right. And there was a book by Paul Winchek called, Intriloquism for Fun and Profit. It looked like fun. I was 10 years old. And there was a book by Paul Winchek called Intriloquism for Fun and Profit. And it looked like fun, 10 years old. And when I realized I could make money doing this,

man, that was it. 10 year old making money playing with puppets. Better than playing with himself. So like, are you guys friends? Like, how would you describe this relationship? What's the nature of this relationship? Me and Winston. Yeah, yeah, well I'm the red winner

right he's the breadwinner he's the guy that makes all the money but yeah we like each other yeah he likes me I don't like him I was gonna say Winston, Winston this is a time, this is a safe place if you wanna say anything about it I just wanna let you know Winston you're good with me here just considering what his hand is, hashtag me too

what's the financial split between you and Winston? He gets a... I get 100%. I share a little with Terry. So I don't mind because, listen, he's the one who won America's Got Talent with. Crying. He should have held out after that.

Yes! Had you right where he wanted you. Exactly. Winston, how did you decide you wanted to get into this line of work? I didn't really have much choice. Terry stuck his hand up me, that was it. That's how it works with Vintrol Aguisto. Right, forced him into it, huh? That's right. Dare you, Terry. Against Winston, how do you feel about this? Hashtag me too. Winston, how do you feel about Taylor Swift just controlling the NFL season? Oh, I love Taylor Swift.

Yeah, he does. Yeah, I'm going to name another new artist called Turtle Slow. Oh, well, Taylor Swift, Turtle Slow. Yeah, I got it. That's good. Turtle Slow. That'll be the turtle version of Taylor Swift. Billy, you're not beaming like you were at the beginning of this. What do you mean? the the the the the the turtle version of taylor's with billy you're not being like you are

the beginning of the what do you mean i don't know i'm just it was just not for me to do it so i'm excited about this is what's in a big football fan only out of course is terry big football i am i'm actually a huge football fan i grew up in dallas and the dallas cabell fan right right there is so now i'm a huge uh... uh... readers fan but i really do just love football i watch every sunday

it all day i just watch every game that i possibly can i just adore watching the game and i can't wait uh... even though i don't have a uh... any skin in the game this week i'm just excited to watch the football uh... game on sunday it's gonna be a blast are you surprised that there's a super bowl in vegas this soon i am yet actually all of us are so but then i was kind of surprised that it was in Dallas right after the new stadium was built. So it's been kind of cool though to see it in different places and it's exciting for Vegas to have the Super Bowl. It's funny, Chris

was telling me before, he forgot that the Raiders play in Las Vegas. He's like, why are there so many Raiders stations here? Yeah, Oakland really showed out. Exactly. Yeah, we love the raiders. Yeah. And we like the nights, too. Yeah, we like that. All of these these pro sports that are coming to Vegas just makes the city is already exciting and it's just becoming kind of the mecca for everything. You were telling us that you have like you have to get out of here after

after this interview that you're getting on a bird that you have you have engagement you have this is crazy I do have a very very busy schedule I I work four to five nights a week in Las Vegas doing the New York New York casino that's where I'm at you can see me there all the time but then on the weekends I fly out I just did Fort Pierce Florida last weekend I'm doing Idaho in the. So I try to tour as often as I can, but I perform here in Vegas all the time. Is there any celebrities that you have performed in front of? Many, yeah.

I've had Adam Sandler. I've had so many others. Who else? Dana Carvey and Mel Gibson came to the show. And so you've had a lot of celebrities come out. Winston, you have any celebrity crushes out there other other animals in the industry like who do you like turtle slow you do like that I do love Taylor Swift

I'm a big fan and Justin Bieber and stuff like that I thought maybe Miss Piggy or something like some other animals you know of course and actually Kermit the Frog is one of my heroes when I was on America's Got Talent they asked who would you like to perform with my first choice was Kermit the Frog is one of my heroes. When I was on America's Got Talent, they asked who would you like to perform with? My first choice was Kermit the Frog and we got to perform. Winston doesn't like when you talk about Kermit. Yeah, I get it. I get it.

I get it. I don't mind. Listen, listen, check this out. Check this out. Hold out. Hi, Kermit. You're Frog here. Oh, oh, oh, oh, wow, wow.

We're good friends. Does Winston do any other impressions? Yeah, I can do, uh, He'll the world, make it a better place For you and for me and the entire human race That's Michael Jackson, in case you didn't know Beautiful, right It's acting like Winston, just singing Michael Jackson, though Exactly

Are you ever just looking for a little alone time? What? No, I never get alone time anytime I'm talking He's standing next to me. Not sure why I feel like I just feel like Winston just would like to be alone sometimes Who what I don't know be it just yeah, my alone time looks like this. Yeah. Oh That is nice Pretty much yet Terry do you ever look for a long time?

When you're a ventriloquist you're never alone right promise you that uh... amazing so much so it was a meltdown simon just walk into a show well he did he was doing the uh... a movie called the beaver right and it it was a huge flop it didn't work but he was playing a guy that had a puppet on his hand and so he actually came with his son and saw me in las vegas really so we could watch a uh... someone who works with puppets he was trying to get ready for his role he was yeah interesting I got to talk to him backstage but yeah we've had quite a few

celebrities come to show it's a lot of fun at Sandler just cut like did they announce when they're showing up do they tell you they do a great amount okay nice you know so so so many other people I just might be related he's related to right yeah my wife that that's great through marriage yes yes we've had a lot of them j leno yeah we've had a lot of really comes to the show very interesting uh... it's it's not a show like i'm not saying i wouldn't be interested in seeing that show i'm surprised so many big-time celebrities have come out to see

you yeah they have it's uh... uh... it's just different i'm really what a weird statement a lot of really a lot of people think of in trilliqu statement. A lot of people don't think of Intriloquist, but I'm much more than just of Intriloquist. So it's not like going to see a guy with puppets. We do impressions. We do tons of impressions. We do tons of singing. It's really kind of an all-around and company-sync show.

Do we ever move to the left hand? Does the hand ever start to hurt? Yeah. Well, it doesn't start to hurt. It doesn't, but I do double puppets sometimes. We'll have a Kenny I'm not Kenny a Willie Nelson will sing on this hand and then I'll have Fernando Francisco singing the part where they Know all the girls that I love before can we put Chris on your left leg here? Sure?

Where's he gonna put his hand? I don't know. I'll give you three guests I love the idea of you talking to Winston though I don't care as long as he's learned a glove I don't know what are you supposed to do here I think you should I don't know I mean I think we should try to do it just shove his hand up your back I don't either I'm a little confused I did that's not this is inappropriate we actually though I do have a mask right and it's a very common thing for ventriloquist to do a mask where i put i i can actually make the mouth move so really can turn people into a human puppet

uh... yes quite fun yes so this is i'm learning a lot are you really have what's your best impression uh... probably michael jackson that's my buddy also do uh... lovely tender lovely sleep never let me go

we can do uh... uh... al alvis pressley as well so we do a lot of different impressions we have a ball uh... jiu-jitsu staring at us he's judging us on the whole of the mess i don't know what he's doing uh... who does uh... what do you think it's gonna win the game there he just started curiosity we know we've been saying, I think the chiefs are going to win and I think the 49ers are going to win. It's a win-win. It's a win-win.

The ventriloquist gets to choose two teams. I feel like you guys should make some sort of bet. Yeah. Well, I don't know. I got all the money. I'll have to loan Terry something. That's true. He got all the money. I'll have to loan Terry something. Yeah, that's true. He makes all the money. I like the idea of a bet. You guys should... It's a good idea. But you have no money, Terry.

Right. He's your larger boy. How long did they accept that from the turtle? You never know. We appreciate you doing this. Where are you headed after this? Well, I've got a show tonight at New York New York casino I got I'm gonna be doing that through Wednesday I actually have the weekend off thank goodness because that means I get to go watch the game which is awesome and then next week I'm watching it

at the game you going to it no I'm gonna be just watching it at home nice I'm gonna stay home I do I love the crowd I like being in front of crowds yeah he is Winston's going not me yeah yeah he has the crowds. I like being in front of crowds. Winston's going not me. He has the money. I'm on the helmet. There you go. Where'd he go? Get back here. Like in the privacy of your own home,

do you and Winston have conversations? Only when I'm rehearsing. If I'm rehearsing a new bit, I will pick up a puppet and they come home with me. How does your wife feel about winston uh... she's okay yeah i make all the money so you know how the girls are can't women are not going to complain about uh... puppet that makes money uh...

uh... this was fun that so what if people are interested in finding out how they could see you uh... work in a uh... work in a check you go to terry fader dot com uh... and you can get tickets online there or just go to New York, New York Casino. They have a box office. And I just tell people, you can follow me on my socials. We do a different song every single week and this week is spectacular. If you haven't seen it, I did We Are The World with 19 Puppets.

And I did the entire song without moving my lips and I did 19 impressions. You got to see it. And I have puppets of like Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, Cindy Lauper, all of them. So I wish they were all here. That would have been great. Thank you so much for joining us, Terry. Like, we really appreciate everything. And your puppets ever like one. Now you're doing it. I wanted you on his leg to do it. No, I'm being the very, veryist. That's right. If you ever need to put his hand up, you're backside. If you ever need to take a week off, I'm available to cover for you. Not terrible, Billy. I'm talking about... He's mocking me now. But not terrible for my first try.

What if Winston's actually the ventriloquist here? Wait a minute. And Terry's the puppet. Oh my goodness. I'm confused. Yeah. Yeah. Depends on what drug you're on. Where does one of you start and the other one end? Oh.

Thank you for joining us, man. This is awesome. How many people called you Darth Vader growing up? Oh, man, I was a kid, man. That was my nickname. Star Wars came out. I was 12. And so all the kids like darth fader i thought it was cool so i'm not one of the complaint i thought there was a better story behind that

no that was it all right we appreciate you doing this we really do thanks for having thank you sir you're welcome have fun at your show tonight and uh... enjoy the super bowl man thank you we will have a wall thank you very thank you winston you're welcome