The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: The Day Journalism Died (feat. Ron Magill)

Episode Date: March 4, 2025

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oh but if it has some gluten, then I think I may die I'll shoot my integrity straight into the sky Bangin' Panthers drums as a Cuban-born guy Panthers drums as a Cuban-born guy That's the best thing Jeremy's ever made. Please make that the lane for the rest of your career, Jeremy. Please, just mock me and the selling of my soul in song. You like him so much better when he's not here.

And when he's just making funny things. The pie and the gluten and the dye, that was a good... I thought the pie was kind of cheap. I mean, eating pie, I thought it could have gone a little higher. Put the gluten and then you die. Yeah. Because you fart. Well, that's not how that eat pie. Oh, but if it has some gluten, then I think I may die.

I'll shoot my integrity straight into the sky, banging Panthers drums as a Cuban-born guy. See, that's good. That it starts with... Panthers drums as a Cuban-born guy. I do like him a lot more when he's not here, it's true. We all do. There was an update, Dan, on the whole Speakeasy situation.

So it turns out that we had two different employees who went to support you. And they reached out to the people that were at the Speakeasy with you and said, Hey, we'd like to go join you. And they were turned away. They said no, it's pretty exclusive here You're not getting in and who were they that never got to me Well, no, it didn't get to you But there was some gatekeeping being done by your handlers staff that was in the speakeasy with you journey people away It's a job. Well rhyme with Schwentz. No, he was one of the people turned away. Yeah. Yeah, that's what He wasn't the one doing the turning away.

Four seasons. It was a four season situation. You have good people around you. You don't want to be surrounded by that kind of riff raff. And last picture I saw of Ethan, he was dressed like a total tool at the Panthers, to be honest. Imagine him walking in with overalls, with vertical stripes.

No one about hip hop. No, so special. Guys were on Zubas overalls. Where my boys at? Zubas. Good talent in here. So hold on a second. So wait, so wait, so wait, so wait.

Ethan and Fuentes? Yeah. They went to support, I mean, Dan, I think you'd take the support you can get. No, no, wait, no, no. I asked for different support. The support that I wanted there didn't wish to support. Well no, we knew what was going to happen.

Well no, it wouldn't have happened now. No, you would have made the cut Billy. Billy, you would have had a smoke old fashioned. I'm not a speakeasy guy. I'm a man of the people. People say VIP treatment, I say no thank you. Alright, go away. I'm a GA guy. Right on.

Look, Jessica gets to wherever she wants, you know, around Wrigley Field because she knows Boogchambe like, no, Billy, you would have gotten in. You would have gotten in. Billy? Billy. What do I do? I tell Fuentes and Ethan, you guys gotta stay up in the GA's? No, no.

I can't say that. Billy, this is what I would tell you. Billy, this is what I would tell you, okay? If you think I burned my integrity to ground here this i i just want to be clear about this if he's been dress the way he does walks into that room and is representing me i'd burn the whole company to the ground

just be clear on that so yes i do have good people if that's what they prevented me at a door coming out and seeing you think dress like that but i broke and coming in representing me and my company because he gets to go to the top of the food chain because Greg Cody can Turn down my invitation. This is special when he's 10 minutes away. Are we playing today rammer? I Anticipated being turned away. That's why I didn't show up saying that's what I'm saying Yeah, I don't like you talking down to employees of this company. I Bad look just eat. Yes, but Ethan is fine.. Just Ethan. No, dude. But Ethan is fine. I don't think Ethan's really, is he an employee?

Do we pay him? What does he do? I don't know, man. Does anyone talk to him? Just because. They just hang. You pick on the employees that don't get benefits the most. I don't like that.

He's not picking on them. His people are. Yeah, no. I would have let Ethan in. If it was up to me, door would be wide open. Saloon doors, that's my policy. Ethan doesn't get paid, he just gets to be in all the group chats

gets paid in vibes So when you say picking on him, I understand how you would come by that appraisal Anyone wearing a jersey two times too big walking into that room Representing the company because Billy would have Billy also would have dressed like a clown It would have been a Marley's it would have been a Marlins hat and a Dolphins shirt billy would have billy also would address like a clown it would have been a moral use it would have been a marlin's hat any dolphins shirt and it would have been uh... also something that would have been inappropriate in there but so what if co both cody's would have dressed inappropriately to yeah out of nowhere in a great go to show t-shirt

for sale on my merch store but you do you could have you didn't i know i a a again i i was concerned I would have been turned away at the door and that'd have been hell to pay. I'm proud of you, Dan. You're definitely proving Jessica wrong. The second she called you out for talking down to just one employee, you decided to talk down to a bunch of them. All of them.

That's how I do business around here. And now I'm gonna call you out because by your logic of last football season, shouldn't Cam Ward be number one on the Miami player Mount Rushmore? Wow. What say you? I mean in terms of an individual performance in one season nobody has ever been better doing a thing in South Florida. Ricky Williams led the league in rushing one year we don't have best in the league. LeBron was better. I like this this is a new Mount Rushmore. I thought you were doing four people. Yeah, but LeBron wasn't on it before.

There's no way that Cam Ward's individual season was better than at least three of LeBron's seasons down here. I'm doing a different game. I'm doing just one season. Let's do a single season. Marino 84. Single season Mount Rushmore. Cody Ross had a year. Cody Screw. Dwyane Wade 09? Dwayne Wade, 09? Dwayne Wade, 09, the one that Kobe took his,

what would have been his MVP? All right, let's go. Pavel Burry in there? Pavel Russian Rocket, you bet your ass. Back to back 50 goal seasons. Giancarlo Stanton? No, there we go. He guesses no.

If he would have got 60 though, he would have been in for sure. That one difference, 59 to 60 is. Dantro Willis, that's a better season than Stan said. He didn't even win a Cy Young. Manu last year, or spring 2022 season. Yeah, 2022 Manu for sure. Manu, 2020. Manu Genoble is right.

Craig. Nobody, it's true. He's right. Craig, it's, Steve Martin. Craig, come on. Hubertou. Hubertow. Hubertow? Hubertow, like four years ago, had Hoopy for heart.

Like Hubertow had a great year in terms of points. Statistically, better than what, his is a different game. Like the Chuck makes more of an impact on him. Bubble Jimmy has to be considered. Well, the problem that happened, now you're gonna get into Restrepo's. Chris Cody senior year at Plantation High School.

Oh my god, South Plantation, that's a fine. You guys see Rastrepos being some special teams coaches. I think I was like... What's that about? Honorable mention, all county, I believe. Yeah you were. Damn right you were. I should have been 13.

If you do individual games, remember there's that game where Cody slams paces drugs. So that one might be in there. What about Billy Senior pole vaulting season?aces drugs. Yeah. So that one might be in there. That was big. What about Billy's senior pole vaulting season? I was all dead. Just that one photo. Willie Burton. That's one game. Well, that's a new game that we're doing.

Yeah. Best individual games. Oh wow. Best individual quarter or period? Me and Juju playing pickleball against Roy and Chris. That was embarrassing. Dan, what's the best individual game you've ever seen in South Florida sports history?

Yeah. What was the Panthers game where ever seen in South Florida sports history? Yeah. What was the Panthers game where we were chanting, we want 10? Yeah. Okay, we're not talking about stakes though. You're just talking about one individual performance where someone is doing something that we haven't seen before. You're just in awe. Yeah.

If we're talking stakes, Lehman made a great ribeye Sunday. I'd like to put that into contention. Okay, put that down. Nothing like a great ribeye. Different moment. Sunday I'd like to put that into contention. I will say, look, Jimmy Butler's game five performance staving off elimination against the Los Angeles Lakers who were wearing the Kobe jersey. Is that the tired photo where he's like, yeah that's a yeah, game five. In basketball it can't be anything other than LeBron game six in Boston. That's true. That's

not in Miami though. Photos though, the Wade LeBron meme with in Boston. Yep, that's true. Well, that's not in Miami though. We're doing photos though, the Wade LeBron meme with the dunk and the Jimmy Butler one. Those are two in a row. No, no, no, that's images. That's a different game. Okay, look, let me tell you something. I'm gonna seize on something because the bubble did not happen in Miami either.

That's what I'm asking. So like, are these, no. But it was in Florida. No, but we're just doing moments. Are the moments having to be in Miami? And do they have to be by the home team? Because the Shohei Otani's 50-50 game count, that was in Miami classic Billy, but he was a visitor classic Billy I'm just asking no best individual performances for the home team

Also, Mike the Rock beat John Cena to WrestleMania here. That was electric. Mm-hmm. Don't talk about John Cena again, please Oh my god. I just remembered what he did. What do he do? Well, he turned on, my whole thing is, all right, so I've had 48 hours to process this, right? John Cena turns, we outlined his motivations, we get that, he's chasing 18, he doesn't have it anymore, so he needs the extra help. What's in it for Travis Scott? I don't know.

What's in it Travis Scott? What's in it for you? And the reports are, from Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer that Cody Rhodes suffered a pop dear drum and a black eye at the hands of one Travis Scott. What's his problem with Cody Rhodes? Why doesn't he like the American Nightmare? What's in it for him because he's already reached the top of the rap game? Yeah.

Why is he attacking the WWE Champion? Yeah. the rap game. Why is he attacking the WWE champion? Forgive me for not having any more interest in this. I appreciate all the efforts that you had yesterday. It's the nicest anyone's ever opted out of that. Forgive me for not having any interest in this. I need to be very careful how I talk to you here. Is that what Greg said yesterday about the Panthers game? I am done with the heel turn.

And I've been told, this has been, as you guys know, becoming a video company, doing all of that in front of you, trying to figure out video when we're just a bunch of fools doing this stupid thing every day has been challenging in a number of different ways. doing this stupid thing every day has been challenging in a number of different ways. And one of the ways it's been challenging is turning things around quickly, like getting something. I'm still waiting from whatever Amin and Tony made at All-Star Game in Cleveland four years ago. Like I just don't understand where things

go. And so yesterday I put a lot of pressure on McGill's kid because we support nepotism around here vigorously. And McGill's kid came in here and did he annoy everybody? Cause you guys said he was talkative. All you said he was talkative. Dude, the guy didn't say a word all day. Very quiet. He was so nice.

I think he was too afraid to even ask me to do whatever he was doing. Same exact thing. I was, we had a thing where I was sitting there for like an hour and a half after we were done and I was just kind of waiting around for him to just be like, okay, it's your turn now. And I saw him packing up all the equipment.

I'm like, so, like, I mean, I will help with whatever you need. So then we came and did a thing and then I felt like I was inconvenienced because he unpacked some of his stuff to do the interview for the bit. But like, I think he just didn't want to bother anyone to ask him for anything.

He bothered Tony. That was, I think Tony wanted to be bothered. Lamar Smith against Colts. I was actually thinking of that one. Sorry, so right, the fourth one's the most difficult. I've got game five, Jimmy Butler in the bubble the bubble game six LeBron at Boston saving the blueprint Game six Josh Beckett at Yankee Stadium on short rest. There has to be a non championship Edition though because championship games trump all the other ones. What about Leon? Let is a moment. That is a moment

That's a different game. Yeah Individual games with no stakes attached, LeBron while wearing the mask against the Charlotte Bobcats. And then they banned the mask. Remember, Chris Chambers had 15 catches in a game in 05. Not even close. That's not up there with Lamar Smith. Best play, Ray Allen, corner three. What about the Miami's last game

when they had the perfect season? That was in Miami. What about the Miami's last game when they had the perfect season? That was in Miami. What about the play where they didn't have a completely defeated season? Who was it that did the? Ericl. Was it Camerio? Camerio, yeah.

Former Greg Cody show host. What was the bigger play? Didn't make the top 100. Bigger individual play. Matthew Kachuck at the at the death Sending the Florida Panthers into the Stanley Cup final and certainly Eastern Conference final to complete the sweep That's news to Rod Brendan more. I understand that buzzer beater a buzzer beater at the death or The Panthers just freezing the puck on the board

Great yeah, that was terrific. So which one are you going with? I'll go with the board. Really? Over a Kachak? That is an underrated play in hockey. Guys, but forgive me. I mean, did anyone mention, you know, winning the World Series Game 7 in extra innings?

That's why it's different categories. Championship category is different. That's some of the best games that ever happened down here. I thought that was moments too though. You've got the... I feel like you're missing several orange bowls. Yeah. All of Moreno is missing from here. D. Gordon's home run also. Nebraska failing for two. The win streak, right? All of Moreno is missing here.

Games, Emilio Bonifacio's opening day. That was a great one. I would put Merino's comeback game. You're really good at this. Thank you. When you're trying to be helpful, like you contribute a lot. Thank you.

I think. How about Bob Save? Oh, Bob Save. The save that was a board line against the lightning. Yeah. Yeah. The save. The bobbery.

Bob Save would be a great name for a closer. Yeah, it would. The, all of these, the last, that's excellent. Yes, everyone agrees with that. There is no disagreement. Someone with the last name Save, they're on that. Very simple, yes, that's excellent work by you. Yes, if the closer comes out of the pen

and his name is Bob Save, yes, that'd be a good name for a closer. Excellent work by both of you, working on the high end of the comedy ladder. Al Closer. That was better I think. Put it on the poll at Leviton Show. Better name for your last reliever. Bob Save. Al Closer. Go ahead. Have at it. I'm happy that Billy and Greg can work here just shaving up that prime rim of comedy for what?

What it is that we should name the clothes so the save surname is derived from old French So it have to be a Frenchman. I'll bear I always felt bad that the that there was I Felt bad that there was a picture named Bob walk. I thought that was unfortunate for him. Yeah, I felt bad that there was a pitcher named Bob Walk. I thought that was unfortunate for him. Yeah, I remember that. Pittsburgh Pirates. It's a terrible name for him to have. Bob Walk, I only remember him

because that's a terrible name for him to have. It's like if you're a quarterback, your name's Tommy Interception. That's right. Yeah, I think, I think the, didn't the Reds have someone named Balfour? Yeah. Which was like ball four.

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Woo! Don Lebertard! You know what a razor is, Dan? I do not know, I don't know what a Motorola razor is. You don't? No. I bet you you had one. I did not have one.

Really? Let's walk through your phone history. What kind of phones have you had? I never had a Motorola razor. I did not have a Motorola razor. What was your first phone? Ooh. Not a Motorola razor.

A telegraph machine? After that. The Motorola razor, Dan, was the one that was really, really thin. That it flipped over, but it was as thin as a razor blade. That's why they called it the razor. What is a telegraph machine? I don't know. They had one in down Nabi. Stugats. The Titanic stop has sunken.

Stop. John Jacob Astor. Stop. Is missing. Stop. You think that was my phone? You think that my first phone was the Titanic's emergency signal? This is the Don LeVatar show with the Stugats. So listen to this, okay, so Ron McGill's on with us now and I want to play some animal video for him but I am told this was a high degree of difficulty here. We put his son on some pressure and this is unfair. It's not edited or anything. I would want someone to look at this. I would want somebody to apply our comedic sensibilities.

I would want somebody before it gets into our hands and we air it for it to be sharpened. But now we have it and it's just gonna be Sean McGill representing our funny. I don't know how comfortable I am with that unedited. Let's do a slow burn here. We're gonna get to that in a few minutes. First, let's do the animal videos videos build up to this video with Sean

Do you want to get Ron McGill involved in your top four? I have a top four Yeah, this is a new top four the top four is called. Oh, man. You saved our bacon Wow These are the top four Mount Rushmore nominees of sports performances down here in South Florida where oh man you saved our bacon Yeah, so number four LeBron game six at Boston Rushmores congratulations to him it did there are three better than that number two Nigel Pack against Drake people forget about the the final for run we almost didn't make it past Drake but Nigel Pax saved our bacon. Pudge the block at the plate. The ball. You saved our bacon.

And then Ray Allen, you promptly saved our bacon. That was a big shot. Ray Allen, come on, I was waiting for that one. Big shot. Thank you, Ron. Ron McGill joins us now and I've been talking about this for years and Ron has answered this question but now we have video to show Ron and it's a humpback whale. I'm not gonna say swallowing a kayaker because that's not exactly the right word if it were swallowed but this I fear this all the time. This is just a mistake. You laugh, Ron. This doesn't seem funny.

This is, this is why I fear that right there is why I fear the deep sea because it's not a home field advantage for me. Let's think about it, Dan. If we got that on film with you, you would be a multi-billionaire. That would have gotten so many hits. So many, I mean, these people are famous now because this whale has made them famous. He said, this whale said, you know what, I'm gonna help you out.

I know your dad's filming here. Let me give you something to film. Boom, let that go viral. And now you're instant celebrities. Your life is cush for the rest of it. Wait, so the person filming that is like related to the guy getting swallowed? We don't have the audio.

Is it horrific? Is he like, oh no, son. It's his father. And you'll notice as the whale grabs him, camera doesn't even flinch doesn't even flinch It's a setup whale was in on it. I don't know if it was a setup I will tell you that it does demonstrate that it was a mistake the whale realized it was a mistake and said oh gosh No, I don't want this and spit him right out. So the guy kind of lived the Pinocchio dream there for just a few seconds Do you know if they're ever being a death in that situation?

I do know there being a death with a kayaker many years ago that wasn't swallowed but the whale breached on top of him and you know unfortunately caused his death. Well I'm afraid of that as well. If a whale breaches in the wrong spot and lands on you that's not survivable Right. I mean it's survivable Most people would tell you if a whale grabs you put you in his mouth and brings you underwater That wouldn't be survivable either and this guy yet swam away. So it's survivable, but it's certainly you know gonna be iffy I I don't know if you guys have considered this but with

whale watching I've always wondered isn't that somewhat dangerous like if the whale breaches and decides to hit the boat not that you would want yeah but when they're often breaching aren't these things somewhat unpredictable? Yes and no. They're incredibly intelligent animals they are aware of their surroundings you know a whale could possibly get carried away because And no, Dan, they're incredibly intelligent animals. They are aware of their surroundings. A whale could possibly get carried away because sometimes they breach in sequence, one, two, three, and they're enjoying it so much

for whatever reason they're doing it that they don't realize, oh, the third one, there's a kayak there or there's a boat there. We've seen that happen on a couple of occasions. It is extremely rare though, Dan. Think of it many times, millions and millions of times that people have gone out whale watching through the decades and that's, you know, maybe happened a handful of times.

Again, put it in perspective. You're much more in danger of driving your car home by being smashed by another car than you are being smashed by a whale while whale watching. This segment is presented by LinkedIn jobs. Post your job for free at linkedin.com slash DLS. Terms and conditions apply. We are waiting for this Sean McGill video.

Ron, how do you feel about all of this? This is kind of a bad spot I'm putting you in by making you judge. It kind of is, Dan. It kind of is. I mean, I'm his dad first more than anything. I'll try to give you an honest opinion. I think he's a gifted artist.

I think he can do things very well and hopefully he did so for you here, but I'm sure he's a gifted artist. I think he can do things very well and hopefully he did so for you here, but I'm sure he was a little nervous. I mean, going out and shooting this very momentous occasion, which was historic in a sense. And here you got this guy doing his rookie shoot for the Dan Leventart show, which is like getting to the top of the mountain and then all of a sudden you fall off. You don't want to do that. So we'll see what happens. But I have confidence that he could do a good job.

I know what he's capable of. He's helped me win multiple awards in some of the videos that he's done for me. So hopefully he's done the same for you. But again, I'm nervous. I'm a little apprehensive. I'm hoping for the best as my son. But at the same time, he's gotta come up to the plate and produce or bye bye.

You're also doing this to Ron on a very special day. Ron, I wanna be the first to wish you and your wife Rhonda a happy anniversary. My wife's name is Rita, and it is a happy anniversary. Thank you so much. 36 years, that feels like it was just yesterday. Why are you guys laughing? What kind of cynical screw up did you guys do back there?

He called you, he called me. It was an honest mistake, bro. He called Rita Rhonda. It was a mistake, I know. How heartfelt is, how? I'm the only one that's wished him a happy anniversary here, just for the record. Yeah, but you.

Actually, actually, actually, the entire Levitard Show did it online, which I was very flattered by and very moved by. I didn't think they would ever pay attention to anything about me, but this was a flattered by and very moved by. I didn't think they would ever pay attention to anything about me. But this was a very moving thing to see the little happy anniversary from the Dan Leventhal Show on Twitter or whatever they call it now. On a brighter note, Ron, how often do people's pets eat them when they die?

Yeah. Not very often. Like dogs are domesticated, right? So like they don't have a taste for human flesh. Or you were a hungry dog would you just naturally go towards the dead body in your home if your owner died? If you're going to starve it's certainly a possibility I mean we've known humans that have done that. Think about those poor soccer players up in the Andes you know if it's a matter of life and death and the the death is you know you eating it is not going to do anything negative towards eating it, and it might possibly save your life, then that makes a big difference. So yes, I don't think

it's impossible to think that a dog would do that if it was starving, and especially if the person has been dead for a while, because that decaying process becomes it makes it more palatable for something like a dog. Put it on the poll please at Levitard show would Willow eat Jessica if Jessica died near her at Levitard show. What kind of dog is Willow? She's actually a rescue from Puerto Rico she's like a mix of a bunch of different dogs because there's a lot of great dogs there. God bless you Jessica. God bless you. That tells me a lot about you. God bless you. God bless you Ron. We're gonna have a God bless off. God bless football. Ron, I just wanna stop you for just a second here.

Camera, please just zone in here on Greg Cody's face, please get real close on Greg Cody's face, okay? Please don't. Greg, no, there's a reason I'm doing this. Go ahead. You look tan, Greg. Thank you. You look tan.

It's called makeup. He looks more embalmed than tan I would say, but I just I want a close-up on Greg Cody's face for this reason okay. I want you to simply make the natural face that I just saw you make when Ron McGill referred to what I did last night at that hockey game as a a momentous occasion historic innocence ike i can't recall what face i made but it had to be one filled with incurred in in incredulous wonder that you would place uh... lebatard clowning himself in front of america among a momentous occasion it's just uh...

he'll never live it so you're not gonna make the face. Thanks. I don't know what face I made You know who can beating the drum. That's it. That's a privilege. That's an honor. Yeah, okay Yeah, for a job. Ron you should do that. Have you been asked? No Stanley Cup champions man, you know, you're in the our betters Hall of Fame They should I can't believe you haven't been asked to bang the drum slowly You know and you would have no moral qualms about it like he should have had. That guy, former journalist, literally cheerleading for the Florida Panthers. He'll never live it down.

Dolph Van Danny, some are saying. Dolph Van Danny, exactly. We're in a big funny orange hat with sequins on it. I legitimately asked them to introduce me as and fan Dan Did they give you the jersey Dan did you get to keep the jersey I did Wow I asked them to introduce me as and former journalist and Alleged journalist either one of those they did they would not yeah they did not momentous historic in a sense says Ron that that false attempt

at dimming your your legacy is very transparent that the honor the honor was that I was my parents were born in another country that's what the honor was I didn't do much of it no but, but you're of repute. No, it's just being Hispanic. Ron, you're next. When next time they need a Hispanic person. For Vamo Scatos night, that's only once a year. Yeah. All right, so next year. I mean, who would you nominate locally in terms of- Ron McGill's up there. Ron McGill's the luminary. I love that picture behind Mike there. That picture's intense. That's a great shot. After Ron, straight him. I would have done Don Francisco if he's still around.

He's still here, yeah. Why not do him? Chilean, right? I know, but sometimes he commutes back and forth unless he stopped doing that. Fly him over. Mike, I know. I know, I know.

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Build your support system with BetterHelp. Visit betterhelp.com slash D-L- B today to get 10% off your first month. That's better help. H E L P dot com slash D L B I am mortified to say that it wasn't, but like 10 years ago that I didn't even realize that I went one time to Ron McGill zoo wearing accidentally my mother's shirt. Stugats! Not realizing that I had buttoned it. That's impossible. It's not impossible. It was one of the most airheaded things. It seems ridiculous. For everybody involved I was much leaner

at the time. Yeah. I don't want to make my mother... That's impossible. 280, that's also impossible. This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats. I want to do this here now with Ron, even though it is awkward, okay? We have not edited it, we have not seen it, but Sean McGill has done the nearly impossible. In the last 24 hours, he has quickly turned something around. We will all watch it together here, and then Ron McGill will give us his honest assessment. This is a pressurized moment for you, Ron. This is...

I'm not comfortable with it at all, Dan. I'm not gonna lie to you, I'm not comfortable with it at all. This is terrible, what I've done, but I am not a shit-ster. Let me see what we have here. Greg, please don't do that. We're on the air.

Thank you, professional broadcaster. My cancer doesn't feel like pandering. It feels like pandering. It's just a Hispanic night they're having and they need somebody Hispanic. Don't think of it as pandering. Think of it as panthering. Don't pander. Panther.

Look, I understand that this is breaking you apart, but this is nothing but an honor. Greg Cody is right when he says he'll be able to make fun of me for all time as being more of a homer than him. He's not wrong about that. Is this how you go about every decision? Do you overthink everything like this? And why don't you tell me to pretend like he's not here? You gave me a microphone.

I'm scared of this. I don't want to do any of this. I think it's something that's going to go very poorly for me rhythmically. I trust you. I think Dan is really overthinking this. I mean, it's not that much of a big deal. I mean, he's representing the show. He's trying to build a relationship with the Panthers.

And besides, if anything goes wrong for me here, I got to back door him with the team. I don't totally know if this is an HR violation or not, but I kind of want to bring anarchy to these proceedings. So I do think it will be funny if at the last minute we swap out Cuban-born Dan Levitard for Cuban-born stunt double Danny. Uh, Cuban-born, I want to ask him how he got here. Is your Spanish any good? It's stunt Spanish.

Vamos gatos! And that was pretty good. You do it now. All right. You do it. Vamos g right. You do it. Vamos, Carlos. Do you speak Spanish? Try to.

Would you be willing to do that? Even though I think it's a conflict and I wouldn't tell human resources about this because I'm putting you in a bad spot. I mean, we got to do what we got to do. I think Dan struggles from a little bit of performance anxiety if it's not exactly on his terms. So as we saw from the Coca-Cola video, if you haven't seen it, it's embarrassing. They had one guy clap.

He's not much of like, he doesn't incite enthusiasm. Dan is more of like a fly under the radar, kind of keep it cool, keep it casual. When it comes to firing up 20,000 fans at a stadium, I don't know if he's 100% built to do that. So his performance is gonna be subpar. He's gonna put, he's gonna want it to be good, but I don't think it's gonna be good.

They asked if I'd go and I said maybe, and then I got torn because of the journalism of it. Right, yeah. No, that's a double-edged sword for you. I get that. Dan's journalistic integrity. I mean, I think that's been gone for a while. I think the moment, the moment his journalistic integrity ended was when he came out in a Speedo that

one time at the Clevelander with Charles Barkley. I think that's where it probably died, if you want me to be honest. So it's been a long time since he's had any journalistic integrity. Respect to him though. Roy, do you have any opinions on how this is going to go tonight? It's going to be interesting. Oh yeah, if he does this, he's going to be a sellout. That's what everybody's going to say. And it pays more to be a sellout than it is to be an actual journalist. So maybe you should give up on that.

What you're doing here is you are abdicating the last vestige of your journalism integrity by not only figuratively, but literally cheerleading for one of the local themes. You might as well be on the payroll. I don't think he's thought of as a journalist per se. He's a former journalist who's now in the business of entertaining on a famously famous popular podcast. And I think it's a long time ago that he wrote for the Miami Herald and you know I don't know it's not like people are going to go wow he's

a journalist banging the drum for the Panthers I don't think anybody thinks that they just think hey he's a he's another one of these famous guys that got to bang the drum. I'm trying to figure out if I can do this, if I can thread the needle on making this something that is fun and funny and makes fun of the idea of that. Dan's selling out his journalism career here, but he's doing it with a wink. I don't think we can thread that needle.

Oh, he has to go through with it. If he already brought it up, I'm gonna make him go through through it. He has to. If not, I'll do it. I'll do the drums. I think Dan over thinks everything. He doesn't make a decision on it on his own. He also doesn't follow the sport. If he followed the sport and these defending Stanley Cup champions, he would know that this is a huge honor that they don't just do this before every game that the best I know he was really high up top their list. It's nothing but an honor. Dan is up there. He's definitely in like the

top ten. I mean, I'm I'm guessing maybe like, I don't know, Jose Canseco is too busy or like Gloria Estefan had something to do. Andy Garcia, who we had on the show or on South Beach Sessions was filming or something. Jamaican Paul is probably busy. Yeah, I mean, Dan is like top 15 for sure. The guy that created Illa Canaria could probably do it.

The lady that works at Caravisito at Sergio's, he's definitely top 20 for sure. I think he should be fine, but he also seemed kind of nervous about it. Like he was definitely getting in his own head about what it is that he has to do today. I don't know why he's making it seem like it's a burden and he doesn't want to do it.

I don't know if he wants us to like beg him to do it or be like, yeah, you really have to do it. But like, this is a cool thing. And for some reason he's making it seem like this is a chore for him. I don't quite understand it. The Panthers are honoring me by charging four of my employees, $37 plus service tax to come watch me bang a drum. I don't know how much that service tax is for, and I don't know how far away from me they're going to be with $37 seats as champions.

Will they even be able to see where I am? This might just be a negotiation for him. So like he's not thrilled that he only got four tickets so he's pretending to not want to do it. So then they come back and give him a suite and then everything will be fine. It may be. They're not gonna be able to see me. It'd be squint hard enough. If we pay $37 plus service which is a great fee actually. It is pretty good.

$37 not bad. It's a pretty good deal for Stanley Cup winners. I know to get in the building it is a pretty good fee but they don't want to pay anything. What should be more valuable to you? Four tickets in an exclusive suite or 20, 25 people in a regular suite? Four tickets in the exclusive suite. Yeah, because then you're there with luminaries. You're there with like owners potentially. In a suite you're just having-

You're not there with your friends from the show. No, who wants to be with Ethan having chicken tenders when you could be with like Vinny Viola? If I go tonight, there is no chance that I get any employees to come support me during this great honor other than two employees. I will have any two employees I want for two tickets, but no other employees will come

unless they get the two tickets. Yeah, pretty much. Let me explain to you how exclusive this place is that we're in. My wife has just told that they only have 30 members that are allowed in this speak easy and in order to get in They give you an actual cats Paul Immediately freshly cut off of a human I'm sorry a live cat not a human cat that would be totally like a live cat a live cat I did not mean a human cat and in would be totally different. We do treat our cats like humans. A live cat. A live cat.

I did not mean a human cat. And in order to get in here, the fob, if there was a little blood on it, we had to put a cat's paw up to a device. The sensor. And then it led us in to a world of free shrimp, shrimp and salmon. This is Lauren. This is my teacher here. My wife, God bless her, just said, is this the drum you're gonna be using tonight?

She just asked me, is this the actual drum? I think it's a little larger than this. Let's go, show me how to do it. Alright, so you're basically starting the Let's Go Panthers chant. We're gonna imagine this is the large drum. Let's go panthers, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. So who's saying let's go panthers? The crowd. Okay, so they're gonna be cued.

I don't have to do it with them. You're starting it. So once we are going live on camera, I'm gonna tell you to turn around. The minute you turn around, you start banging the drum. Okay, and how many times do I do it? You do it up to three to four times. If the crowd is really going, five.

All right, so if I've succeeded, if I get them to five. All right so if I've succeeded if I get them to five all right ready ready no that's not the right way to do it you're gonna give me my cue and I'm just gonna go let's go Panthers let's go I want you right next no one's ever been as ready for this as I am. She asked me the whole way here. Explain the honor to me. All four hours trying to get here. I'm like, well, I'm gonna beat on a drum. And as far as honors go, I said to her on the way,

it's kinder of an honor, but it's also an obligation. And so she called it, in honor of Chris Cody, an honor but it's also an obligation and so she called it in honor of Chris Cody an honor obligation. I think I know I call it an honor gation. An honor gation? An honor gation. I like honor obligation but she's good at correcting me. This is very nice what the Panthers have done for me. They've put my name on it that ensures that I will never ever wear it outside and frankly if I'm honest, I don't want to say this to anybody out loud because they've been very kind. I will never wear this jersey. I am not someone who has ever in my life as an adult worn a jersey like this and don't have a childhood memory that involves wearing a jersey like this.

This will never get worn by me. I'm a professional journalist. Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. Please welcome Generation Cuban, Latin Native, racial-poor, sexist, and gay-host, Dan Thumbadong. Woo! Let's go, Dan Thumbadong! Let's go, Dan Thumbadong!

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that he'd like to make here in the speakeasy of the Panthers VIP area. Yeah, March 3rd, 2025, the day that journalism died. It's over. It's over right here. He's laid down his sword. That's it.

Dan Chioti has finally arrested. That's it, has sold his soul in order to beat on a drum for seven seconds. Sold my entire career. It was well worth it. It was! It was worth it. So cool. seconds sold my entire career I'm mortified by much of that there so have at it Greg go ahead ah it was a great video hell of an edit it was a great video I'm gonna say that the production the interviews were all great you know a lot of me got left on the cutting room floor not a great decision there but you know like I keep saying

you know you did you know you you dug your own grave you know people will never forget the image of you in a panthers jersey bang in a drum and uh... you know but you know you have wanted that you embrace it uh... not really i don't feel like i've embraced it was a soft and i don't feel like i've embraced out uh... ron what is your final assessment and i'm a bad judge on this because it cuts a little close to the bone of embarrassed by much of what is on there so like which which itself is what makes it good if it cuts you you to the bone, it makes it good.

Now on a technical aspect, there were a couple of focus issues I had there with it, but I noticed the focus issues were just on you. And I also, you know, that crap that they do zooming in and out, that seems to be a new thing with this new generation, but it also was done with you. And it seemed to show the chaos going on in your brain at the time.

So from an introspective perspective, I think that's probably what he's trying to translate there is that one ron dan dan's confused here he's he's not focused he doesn't know what he's thinking about where the great interviews with tony and with my can with gragan with right those are solid interviews the cameras still solid they're very confident every time we were going to you and the whole thing about you talking to make a person all of you all got a lot that that that's the house but that was very special i thought the highlight was an apparently drunk dan levitard referring

to a human cat that's just it will never happen at that that did that did work out really well and and quite frankly that as a musician myself you're beating of the drums sucked yeah but i don't know if it's pretty well i don't like, you're like, it looked like you were having like a seizure. It wasn't, it wasn't in rhythm. It was, it was, you didn't wait for them to finish saying, let's go Panthers.

They would go, let's go Panthers. You're like, too quick. Come on, Dan. No Meg White. I'll tell you that. Uh, Ron, uh, you, you're the person i think that they were very gentle with me talking about how proud they were but it's at least in part because they had very low expectations for me as i did for myself so uh...

i exceeded very low expectations but i don't think you're wrong i don't think it was very good but you're you're you're you're with them was not what it should have been you look angry you look at your eyes were, beating at the panther instead of smiling and happy and joyous because we're about to go out there and win this. I love the end of the scream where you kind of voice crack

and kind of. Yeah, that was good, I like that. There is a really cute moment and it's right after your first couple of strikes of the drum because you're worried that people aren't gonna recognize you, people aren't gonna be into what you're doing. They're gonna boo. So you after your first bum bum bum bum bum you look up and you hear the crowd say let's go Panthers and

you give like a quick scan and then you get really into it it's really cute. That's why your second one was your worst because you got like lost in the moment briefly. You're like oh man. The second one really kind of was terrible. It was off key. And the other thing- Oh! Yes, please, Ron, continue. Weren't you supposed to yell, let's go Panthers before you beat the drum first? That's what I thought the direction was that she gave you in the speakeasy.

No, no, no, in the speakeasy she said, you hit it first and then they'll say, let's go Panthers. But he's unsure about this, how that workflow goes. So after he hits the drum the first time, he's vulnerable, as vulnerable as he's been and he looks Directly in front of him sees people go on. Let's go Panthers. He scans. It's really cute. Look at this moment right here You force that fifth round as well, you know, you forced that. No, he was told. I know, but by then the the the Let's Go Panthers was petering out, you know, it became sad at the end if I'm being very honest.

That's like Carson inviting the comic to the desk. He got he got blessed like go ahead, go for five. That means what he was doing was cooking. OK. But at the end of the day, I got to tell you the video I thought was really good. I thought it was very reflective of what the show is. The guys did great interviews. Yeah, Sean did a great job one one know for you as a parent though. Very mouthy kid. Yeah See you later Ron. Good talking to you. Bye. Bye. Thank you guys The day and Levitard show with Stu gots is sponsored by better help

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