The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: The Great Cioppino

Episode Date: February 4, 2026

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This is the Dan Levator show with the Stucats podcast. Hi and hello, my fellow football Americans, at your old pal Dave Damasek at Super Bowl 60 Media Night. Some people here are going to answer. questions. Other people are going to ask questions. Which one am I? Let's find out. Do you think that Tom Brady wants to see you win a Super Bowl becoming the second Patriots QB to win one? That's a good question. I think it's something you have to ask him. Do you think it's weird that the New England Patriots are named after the revolutionary soldiers

who beat back the Brits? But now when the Patriots honor the best players they've ever had, what do they give them? A red coat. That's weird, isn't it? Does that make Seattle now? America's team. Yeah, I don't know the whole history behind, you know, the Patriots, the Red Coats. But that's weird, right? We beat the Brits and they're wearing red coats. I think they're announcing something about themselves. Oh, so you're saying they represent the Brits.

Yeah, okay. That's what it says like they're telling us. Oh. And you're saying since we, you know, wear Navy, we's the America's team. And the last team you were on proved fraudulent. They're not America's team. Is it the Seahawks now? Well, that's something for.

American answer. Let's start a poll. We're getting the ball down the field. The clock's ticking down. I'm going to run out under the field in the second here to try and win the Super Bowl. You haven't given time to thinking that one through? You know if the moment happens, it happens. But yeah, I'm just trying to keep it all the same. If it does happen now that we've had this conversation, will you think of me? First off, let's talk about the mustache. What went into it? Yeah, yeah. I've never grown a mustache in my life. I really can't, as you can tell. No, yeah, I can tell. I was going to say as much. Got into the season. We lost. I shaved it. We won. I'm like, you know what? I'm just going to keep this a winning, losing thing. And Sam Darnold and the boys just decided to win a lot of football

games in a row. And so that's why I still have it. You would like to play in the Super Bowl, right? Yeah, maybe let me hand it off a couple times. Drew Locke says that he would like to take a few snaps in the Super Bowl. Can you make that happen despite the fact that the guy can't even grow a decent mustache. Oh man, that's your opinion. I think his mustache looks great. Coach, given the hearsuit quality of your starting quarterback and never mind, the what quality of them? The hair suit, the beard, that red beard that he wears. Harry. All right. Do you throw a touchdown in the Super Bowl? Will you do this? Like twist your mustache, like ha ha ha ha ha. I don't know if I can really reach through the helmet too easy.

Stefan, have you seen a picture of yourself getting off the plane the other day? Yeah. Man, you look crazy. You think so? Yeah, I mean, I don't think I could pull that look off. Yeah, it was like some Archive Chanel, some old Jack Moose boots, like some stuff that you probably not even interested in. No, I'm interested. I just couldn't pull it off. It's all guys let you hold the next outfit. Is this a must-win game?

A must-win game. A must-win game. Every time we go out is a must-win game. Is this a must-win game? Is every game a must-win game? Every game is a must-win game. It's a must-win game? I think you just ask that yourself and see what you want me to say that

Dave, is this a must-win game? I think it is. It's the super. There we go. What is great thing? There we go. Exactly same thing you just said. We did it.

Ask questions. You just saw me do that. I hope you enjoyed it. I certainly did. Damashik out. Hey, that's my bit. He's wonderful. Football America.

Yammering now, but wonderful. It was great. The looks to find. Diggs gave him. Like if we, if we went back, see at some point if you can freeze. You looked and say. Stefan Diggs looked away, wouldn't make eye contact, didn't want to talk to Dameshack anymore, was being polite. Damashchek insulted some people to their face, to their mustachioed face.

And he made Mike McDonald interesting, which is hard to do. I've got a couple of things that I want to get to with you guys. But the first thing I want to do, give me the stat of the day music. because I've got, from John Smolz, I've got an excellent stat of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day. Does everyone here know Tony Gwynn? None of you are old. young enough to not know Tony Gwyn and what a great hitter he was. I don't know if the modern analytics would make him a less great hitter because he didn't hit for power and he didn't walk a

ton, but he had a ton of plate discipline. This stat of the day comes from John Smoltz. You'd agree John Smoltz pretty great, right? Pretty great, as is Gwen. Yeah. We'll have that in one second, Dan. All right. So John Smoltz has a stat of the day where I'm not totally positive, but I think that among the pitchers that he's talking about facing Tony Gwynn, I think John Smoltz might be the least impressive of the pitchers and the stat that he's going to give you of opposing Tony Gwyn.

Do you have it ready, Chris, or you don't have it ready yet? Tony Gwyn was such a spectacular hitter, and it's funny because, like, Luis Arias has some of those types of stats now in modern baseball, where he doesn't strike out, but all he does is hit singles, and they don't value him. But the difference between what Arias can do and what Tony Gwyn could do, it's a massive gulf. It's just that Arias is considered that in today's game, because Tony Gwyn was that special.

Isn't there some crazy stat where, like, he never would strike out swing? striking, strike three. Yeah, well, that's the stat I'm waiting for Chris to get, for some reason he doesn't have it, even though I asked him for it a while ago. I'll let you know when we have it. I'm looking it up right now. Tony Gwyn's 338 career batting average. It's only tied for 22nd all time, but all of the 22 players equal or ahead of him are like old timers. Mike, are you smirking because of how much Chris is cursing right now and feeling it and you're have, I don't like how much you enjoy being out of that executive director

chair. I don't like the smile that climbs across your face as you see. Chris is sinking into sewage. You saw what Damashik just did with the bit where he stood up and then sank. That's my bit. I feel like Chris Cody, you know what I'm going to do to make this even harder for you, Chris? I'm going to do

something else. Minor penalty two minutes for leaking confidence. Just between me and you, Chris. I was smiling at your dismay, though I usually do revel in that. I was still laughing at the DeMarcus Lawrence, Dave Damashek interaction and the look on his face that I've had several times every time that Dave starts cooking on something. I'd like to relive that at some point, but I don't have a lot of faith in the video right now. Yeah, we can get back to that because

there were some really funny things in there, but Chris, you're going to have to leave for leaking confidence. You can just hit the button, play the John Smolt's video 90 seconds late and leave, and I want you guys to listen to how amazing this stat is from John Smols. How'd you do against Tony Gwynning your career? Not good. I still think the greatest stat in the history of sports. Maddox, Glaven, Pedro Martinez, and me. I want to say, faced him over 330 times.

We struck out over 12,000 batters combined. We struck him out three times. Pedro and Greg Maddox zero. Glaven got him twice. I don't even remember getting once. He struck out less than one year than guys strike out in a week. That's amazing. The last part.

So awesome. The stat he gave, I don't know, Glaven probably wasn't the pitcher, Smoltz was, but maybe I have that wrong. He just gave you Maddox, Smoltz, Glaven, and Pedro Martinez, who struck out combined more than 12,000 batters, faced him 330 times. Two of those pitchers never got him to strike out. Glaven got him twice just because he's left-handed and Gwyn is left-handed, and Smoltz can't remember. the time that he got him. Yes, that's the correct response to that stat. You said it well.

That is perfectly said. Don't say anything else. Good player. Zaz is going to bet the castle here in a second. We've also got an ugly dog winning the Westminster Dog Show, and I want to get to something happening at the Washington Post. But before I do that, I have been told that Chris Cody is accusing Greg Cody at his Super Bowl party of trying to do too much

with something that he is cooking. What are you doing for your Super Bowl party? What plans does Greg Cody have around the Super Bowl? We did a good job on that, burp. Good stuff, pal. Keep it moving. I didn't even know he knew about this. We haven't even discussed it.

How is this possible? I am in honor of the Super Bowl being in the greater San Francisco area. even though it's 45 miles from the stadium, ridiculous in and of itself. I am making Chipino, the San Francisco favorite, the seafood stew. And it's a specialty of mine. Love making it. And I'm going to grace my guests with such a dish. Did you think about going rice errone?

No. That's a San Francisco treat. Yeah, no, I'm not big on rice. He's doing too much. You're doing too much. Why? Super Bowl party, chicken wings, nachos, chips and salsa. Like, that's all you need.

What is this dish you're making? It's Chapino. Bring it. Doing too much. Okay, don't eat it then. I'll eat it all. Put it on the poll, please. At LeBatar Show, do you know what Chapino is?

Because it's legitimately something I've never heard of. This is the first time I'm hearing of Chapino. It's a seafood zoo. It's spelled C-I-O-P-I-N-O. And it's very, very, very, we've been vacationing. It's a great culinary city. We've vacationed in San Fran and eaten. is chepino and it's wonderful.

It looks gross. It looks incredible. Greg, I was invited over to a friend's house for like chicken wings in the bad bunny concert, but when bad bunny's not performing, we're going to be in the same area. Can I drive over to your place to be able to come over and have some chepina? It sounds like Christopher is saying there'll be plenty left over. I'm legitimately, I'm not kidding. I'm coming over to have chepina. Greg Cody is an exceptional chef even though he is 0 and 3 or 0 in cooking competitions around here.

And it's still reeling from losing to Mike Ryan, who I did. Reeling in the years. I legitimately had not any knowledge that Mike Ryan could or did cook or liked cooking until he defeated you with an amazing coconut Thai soup. And you are winless in the cooking competitions around here. Chris, have you not heard of Chepino, though? Has your father not made it before? Because your father, I trust your father when it comes to cooking. He knows what good food tastes like.

Andy knows how to make it. Oh, I'm not doubting that it'll be delicious, and I'll eat it. It's just doesn't give off. I don't hear that when he's like, hey, you coming over Sunday? No, tell me you got chicken wings. Tell me what dips you got. All I need is seven dips. Okay, we're going to have all that.

Four chicken wings, that's all I need. Somebody's going to buy wings. We're going to have dip. We're going to have tuna dip and this and that and the other. But the king of the culinary presentation will be Chiappino in honor of the host city. That's the issue. Super Bowl Sunday is not about. Look at me Louis dishes.

It's about let the game, let the commercials do the work. I disagree. I don't need some groundbreaking dish on Super Bowl Sunday. That's for the next Sunday. Look at me, Louie. No, there's four things that are important about a Super Bowl. The game, the commercials, Bad Bunny, and Greg's Chiappino. Not necessarily in that order.

Chepino is about as obscure a dish as you can go with. Like if I were to say, hey, make me laugh with a, word that describes food throughout the history of time that someone is having at their Super Bowl party, if someone said Chapino, I'd say that's a nominee for about the funniest thing that you could say comedically as a word to describe something that doesn't belong in a Super Bowl party. Like, that does seem, when he says you're doing too much, it seems wildly extravagant for something that's easier than that. You stifle burps the way I do after a meal because you're just eating too many burgers and chips

and garbage. Yeah. It's not because that's why my lower body looked the way that it did when I was doing that video in the other room. It's because the Super Bowl party will get you in terms of making the gastrointestinal experience something that is rumbling. You would not even try Chapino, correct, Zaz? I'm not about that. It's a pricey meal. It's a pricey dish.

But I guarantee you all of your listeners in and around San Francisco are nodding like Bobbiads because, yeah, they're making Chapino. too. It's going to be wonderful. No, come on. Zaz, get out of here to go bet the castle, because that's a good. What Zaz is about to do, easy, perfect Super Bowl dish.

So good. Like perfect. What Zaz is about to do, you can't do a lot better as a Super Bowl dish than I can have three bites of burger whenever I want. You show up with a tray of White Castle burgers

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checks and balances on power. I know many of you listening to this are tired of about how much I care about journalism and holding truth to power on things that you see happening in America where the billionaires cannot be trusted to do the right thing. And billionaires are taking over newspapers and billionaires are doing things with newspapers that are just simply wrong, flagrantly immoral and against all of the principles of journalism I grew up loving. All my life, until recently, there has been a clean and noble separation of the money and the people making editorial decisions. But what is presently happening at the Washington Post owned by Jeff Bezos, who can just fart a few millions to give Melania a documentary

she doesn't deserve that's just terrible because every one of these billionaires is protecting their money and running scared of this goof that we have running our country. The Washington Post just eliminated its sports section. The layoffs have begun at the Washington Post run by Jeff Bezos. Bezos. The business of journalism is so bad that Jeff Bezos, who can waste millions of dollars doing a favor for Donald Trump and making a shit documentary about the first lady, has just begun its layoffs, and it is legitimately brutal to watch. The executive editor Matt Murray says that they're going to treat sports like a cultural

phenomenon. So that means maybe a guy climbing a skyscraper? Greg? Yeah, they were going to send a whole team of journalists to the Winter Olympics in Italy. Now I think they're sending two or three people. They're also not sending anyone to spring training for a team that was a champion a few years ago in baseball, the Washington National. Yeah, well, this is also the death of the newspaper is the sub-story there. But you're right. I mean, when the billionaires start buying the media, then the media is no longer independent. it's depressing. The whole state of freedom of the press is depressing, you know, and I think when Trump first came

into office, one of the first things he successfully did was say, that's a lie. The media is lying. You know, what is truth anymore? And it trickles down. And Bezos, yeah, I'm depressed by the whole thing, to be honest with you. For those of you who do not care about any of what it is that we are presently talking about, this has been something, obviously, that I've cared about unreasonably most of my life, and it has worked for me to care about it.

But I'm watching an assortment of things that are wildly sad. And I want to just ask the group, because this has been confusing to me over my lifetime, the regard for journalists and media is so poisoned that I wonder why it is when I'm saying this that more Americans don't care about the importance of or understand the importance of freedom of the press. do you guys understand why it is that more Americans don't care more passionately about why it is? It's important to make sure that you can tell the truth. Just tell the truth. I understand that people think the media is biased. I understand how you come about those opinions.

But the way that those things get broadcast when vetted through lawyers is much more responsible than the way that most things now get into your information system. So therefore, more credible because it's more responsible. I understand that social media has changed the game, that most people get their news through Instagram. And I also understand, though it breaks my heart, that most people don't actually care that legitimate journalists have to get things vetted responsibly

so that what they're giving you is closer to, to fact and not disinformation and not defamatory. And most people listening this also don't make a distinction between what the Washington Post has been the entirety of our lives and Instagram and Facebook. But this newspaper is one of the five best there's ever been. And this sports section is one of the five best there's ever been. And Jeff Bezos can't afford to keep it alive. Like, the media's already dead.

We just haven't gotten around to announcing it. He can't afford to keep it. Of course he can. He's choosing not to. And that's a major distinction. Yeah. Also, the sad reality of all these things going by the wayside is that there isn't a marketplace for them.

Well, it's also the benefits of the multi-billionaires, right? Like, if they're unchecked on the decisions that they make, that's the benefit of journalism and journalists. It's the reason that Donald Trump, from the day he showed up, started saying everything is fake news. Because if you can blur the lines on what's real, what's not, what's a fact, what's fiction, everything is opinion. Nothing matters. And now these things go by the wayside as you rely on TikTokers. And what's sad is that Jeff Bezos can afford not only to keep the Washington Post staff intact, but to increase it and make the Washington Post stronger than it's

ever been and be the beacon of freedom of the press in this country. He had, without even touching his wallet, he could do that, but he chooses not. Okay, so I am just curious, before we get to Zaslo here and he bets the castle, I am just curious when I ask this question because I don't know the answer to it, the question I'm about to ask. I really don't. When you see institutions that have been journalistically credible, the entire of your lifetime, like, for example, 60 Minutes and CBS, run scared from a president who can

file lawsuits and then just win nuisance lawsuits because the media doesn't want those problems. Why don't more people care that an institution as reputable as CBS has clearly gotten contaminated by this in a way that's irrefutable and, or not. also morally wrong according to what have always been America's principles on freedom, why wouldn't that one land? If the Washington Post, which discovered Watergate, doesn't land, why wouldn't CBS as one of the institutions that is best represented the idea of, we're going to do this credibly and does it with old people? Why wouldn't that one land when it gets contaminated from the inside on biases and corruption and everything that's happening in America as it regards to money.

But I think it does land with about 50% of the country and the other 50% either doesn't care or is not informed as to the changes that are happening. And then there's a portion of that, 50% that actually like the changes that are being made. And I understand what Jeremy said about billionaires wanting unchecked power. Yes, absolutely. The news division especially. They also like money. And if there was money to be made in covering sports, trust me that a capitalist like Jeff Bezos would find the way to do so.

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Joe Chestnuts of fraud. He's on fire. He called Connor McDavid overrated before the show. What the hell was that, Greg? Yeah, no. I love it. Stugats. Roy, let me explain it to you.

And not that you need to, you know more about hockey. And this is coming from a guy that's watched Connor play six times. Right. If that. This is the Don Lebetar show with a Stugat. Let's segue. To Zazlo now. Look at Tony, rummaging around.

He's just gotten back from Key Biscan. and he's rummaging around in the background. What did you just find there? Did you find some of the pork? What did he find? Did he find some empanadas? I have heard, before we get to Zaslo, I've heard some people complaining about,

but our lunch and our breakfast, I've heard some people complaining, but every time I look over there, I see somebody trying to steal food and putting it into their pockets and absconding with some of the free food. Let's do Zaslo's betting the castle now. Get us started, Zaslo.

What is the bet that you're offering here on behalf of the delicious and scrumptious and amazing White Castle. I'm very good. Tony, get out of the way. I'm very glad to be doing this again. White Castle, classic cheese sliders. I'm very, very excited for this.

It tastes so good. So you may remember the last time I did this, my bet the castle didn't go so hot, so I'm going to make up for it today, and I'm going to give you guys a winner. You ready for this? No, I'm not. I'm going to remind people that the first and only time Zaz has done this.

He said to take the Nets plus 11 and a half. They then lost by 50 against the Knicks. You always want to buy the hook, Dan. And they scored all of 66 points in an NBA basketball game. It's like impossible. If you're going to lose, lose big. It was staggering how bad your bet was. Let's do this now.

Give us a better bet than you did last time, please. All right. Well, you know, we've been talking about James Hardin the James Hardin trade yesterday. This is one of my favorite things. James Hardin was traded to the Cavaliers, but the Cavs, they're at the Clippers tonight. Do you think Hardin went to Cleveland? No, he probably stayed there and he's waiting for his new team. And guess what? We're going to take his new team tonight. Even though he's not playing yet, we're going to take the Cavaliers. They are giving two and a half points tonight. This is a clipper team that's all out of sorts. I think the Cavaliers are going to have some extra juice to them tonight. So I like the Cavaliers giving two and a half. I know Evan Mobley's out. I don't care. All right. You can't trust that Kauai Leonard. So we're going to go with the Cavaliers giving two and a half in L.A. tonight.

Okay, but I believe you're supposed to give that take while the burger is cooking and then eat the burger. as the punctuation on the take. At least it's the way that you did it last time. Now you've given us the take and you're ready to do this. You're ready to do all of this. Okay. Here we go. Yes, it's great.

It's just. Oh. It's so good. I love it. I mean that second one. Bet the castle is presented to you by White Castle. Hunger says eat. Craving say eat this.

And with White Castle's 100% beef, grilled onions, melted cheese, and steamy buns that hold it all together. How can you not crave thy castle? I don't believe, Chris, that that burgle burger will last until you get over there. I believe that you're going to have a good... Tony's over there.

And it's already gone. And it's gone. It just disappeared. He just disappeared. He burgled the burger. Been burgled. Yeah. Who wouldn't want to burgle the burger?

Those are just amazing. Like, you can't make enough of those. It's why my lower half of my body looked the way that it did in that video that I did earlier. I'm going to add those to my Super Bowl menu. They go good with Chepino. I can't believe you're doing Chepino. That makes no sense.

So look at me. It takes all the sense in the world. How often do you respect the host city with your culinary? Is this normal? Oh, yeah. You do this every year as part of what you do? You take a culinary tour of the host city? If the game was in Foxborough, I'd probably serve lobster rolls.

Oh, that's great. Maybe clam chowderalli chocolates laid out for the 10 views. See, it's look at me. Like, it should be about the game and the commercials. He's like, look what I can do. So does he make a jumballio when it's in New Orleans? Does he do this every year? Yes.

You have a good party. You have a good party. Yeah, I think so. What makes a good party is the host caring. You know what? And this doesn't replace the usual. The usual is chicken wings and dip and all that. We have all that.

But I have something else that is at the top of the heap of what we're offering. That's all. You go the extra mile. Thank you. Extra mile and a half. A couple of miles. Then he's spending the whole first quarter, assessing everyone eating his dish.

Yeah, he wants to make sure. you enjoy it and then give him proper things because he's a bit of an egomaniac. What can you get about this? If you don't say, Greg this is really good, he starts like huffing and puffing around the whole joint. Why else do you do anything? Why else do you do anything good

for anybody else? Thank you, Mike. You need to be able to hear people say, hey man, you did that good thing. Thank you. Preach. That's right. No, he's right. Mike's nailed that. What a bullseye he just hit, that guy. No, he's right. You got a compliment. We don't do good things out of the kindness of our

around these parts. If you like it, tell me. That's all. I do it for fanfare. Thank you. Put it on the poll, please. At Lebitard show. Do you only do good things to have people tell you you've done something good?

I need the credit. That's not the way I think of... Oh, yeah. You've got to have credit. Kindness and charitable acts. Thank me. Seriously, I'm the only one honest enough to say it. If I make a Sunday meal and we're two-thirds through the meal and nobody has said anything yet...

You say something out loud. You literally will say like, oh, geez, no compliments. You should be appreciative. No, I try not to say it. Does he actually say? Wow, no compliments? If he doesn't hear multiple, this is really good. He wants to go around.

Everyone has to say what the rock star of the dishes. That's the great Cody game. You know, I like to pick something. He always picks the most obscure thing. Like, these sauteed onions on the side are really the rock star of the dish. It's never the main dish. Well, you know, you can compliment whatever you want. give me a little compliment.

Greg, he's going to miss it when you're gone. Thank you. When all he has is a tray of lukewarm popcorn chicken from Publix. He's so right. He is going to miss the time, effort, and care you put it into the Super Bowl. You know, the inheritance he gets will offset that a little bit. The inheritance joke. Here we go.

Can you please tell us, put us next to your family. I don't know how often you do the family meal where you cook something elaborate, but please put us at that dinner to. and tell me like how this goes, like some of the conflict that has arisen from you wanting a compliment and realizing you're not going to get one. And is it indeed, like if they know that you need it and they're denying it, it must be because the food's not as good as they'd like it to be, right? Well, here's the thing. A couple of Sundays ago, I had the whole crowd over and I served chicken francis. It was fabulous. It was. Now, I served with it, spaghetti, with

sort of a garlic butter sauce, didn't love my garlic butter sauce. It was okay, didn't love it. But the chicken francis itself, I thought was top notch. And so we're halfway through the meal, nobody's saying anything. Maybe people are just too busy eating. I don't even think that's true. I feel like we complimented that meal. Well, let's get, let him get through what he's saying here. I mean, you know, maybe the compliment was a little bit tardy, but, you know, eventually it came. Well, what would be tardy? Like, at what point in the meal do you want the compliments to start raining in? Within the first five minutes. Oh, wow.

Yeah. The meal starts where younger son Michael has to read the menu. My dad writes a menu and younger son Michael reads it for the whole table. It's a tradition. And then we eat. Always the younger son. And midway. My daughter has started doing it as she's learned to read.

Wow, it's like their version of Passover. Passing a book. I was just saying the same thing. Good reader. Yeah. And then as the meal goes on, yeah, 10 minutes in, if he doesn't hear compliments, he starts huffing and puffing and puffing. Dianu. I huff and puff privately, you know.

Is it disappointing? Yes. What you've got to do is show appreciate. in all walks of life, right? Show appreciation. That's all I'm asking for, because I'm on my hind legs for hours at a time

putting together an elaborate Sunday meal. Yeah, all for you to thank me, profusely, preferably for 10 minutes, and then we go around the room. Like a kangaroo in the kitchen. Put it on the poll at Levitard show. Do human beings have hind legs? Because this suggests that the rest of the time

you're walking around on all fours and then you get up to cook your chicken friends, By the way, keeping someone in your pouch? Yeah, that's right. An interesting fact I learned on the Greg Cody show last week. This was a three-facts jack thing. And McGill, if he were here, would acknowledge this as truth. Animals over time have evolved, and here's an example.

Not prehistoric, but in long ago time, the penguin, the little cute little penguin was six foot eight and weighed almost 300 pounds. It was the size of a power forward in the NBA. The penguin. That can't be true. Yes, it's absolutely true. Put it on the poll. Did you know that the penguin was once the size of a power forward in the NBA? 6-8.

That's horrifying. That's scary. It is. James Cook was the last 100-yard rusher against the Seahawks. It was week eight of last season. See how hard was that? Let him cook. This stat from the Washington Post and this quote from what we were talking about.

on the Washington Post. Marty Barron, the former boss of me and Greg Cody, says, quote, this ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations. The Washington Post says it's basically cutting a third of its staff. So one out of every three Washington Post staffers are being laid off. And, Mike, you were right to correct me when you said, no, Bezos can afford it. I was wrong, obviously, in saying that he can't afford it, but he's getting out of the running of the Washington Post because it costs him a about $100 million of year in losses. And Peter Baker of the New York Times says Jeff Bezos's wealth in 2024 was $194 billion.

In 2025 billion. His wealth today is $249 billion. So it's increased $55.4 billion. He obviously can afford $100 million loss. I assume that the Prime documentary division and all the stuff that Prime is doing in streaming is losing a ton of money because I don't imagine that many people outside of their Amazon subscription for other things are actually going to prime

for much of the movie and creative content. I mean, the corruption is so transparent what's going on, be it Bezos acquiring a reputable journalistic entity or you said Trump was winning lawsuits. No, he's not. He's settling in what are clear backroom deals to make sure his friends control these media companies that give them favorable coverage.

That is what's happening. and they install other lackeys to carry water. Now, luckily for us, a good amount of the population sees this for what it is, and the midterms are coming up. Unfortunately, there's some other loss holes that won't learn their lesson until history teaches them one. Damn, Prime Video has a bunch of great stuff on it. Fallout's incredible.

Have you seen Fallout? No. New Jack Ryan's coming out, too. Really fun. Really good. I have trouble finding anything I like on Prime. Among all of them, it's, to me, weaker than the others. Batista Mamoa didn't get you hooked in on whatever.

Dude, I started watching that. It's called something wreckage or wrecking team. Yeah, something. It was bad. It was bad. You didn't watch Linus? It was like, Linus, good show. It was like Chad Chippy T had a bunch of prompts entered in by Jason Momoa to make him look cool.

The wrecking crew. That's what it was. It's somewhere down there. I mean, I'm halfway through it. Mamoa and Batista like you. Oh, that's what? That got me in. I'll watch it.

Finn Batista, though. Yeah, he's not the ass kicker. I'm sure he'll get there, but I don't know if I can. Karen of. I watched Nuremberg yesterday. How's that? I want to watch that. Dude, Rami Malick and Michael Shannon sharing a scene. It's as creepy as it sounds. He can't be

put in anything anymore. Stop putting Rami Malik and stuff. In this movie, the only time that it's bad is when he's trying to be a cool guy or riz up some chick. It's just like this person is way too strange. You know about that Riz? He's just an odd person. He should

only play like villains. Jeremy? That's my two cents. Would you do me the favor of looking up for me what it is that Amazon is reportedly losing in the content business? Because it's my last stop among the streaming services when I... I like all the streamers. You should too. You own a content company. We try to sell dogs to everybody.

Shape up. Did you see my lower half of my body in that video that we made before shaping up? I didn't see it. I want to see it. I was excited for that. Yeah, let's stream that. No. I heard the Panacea thing that he said, very good.

I was sitting there like, yeah, Dan, hell yeah, fastball, dude. Paint the black. Melania? Oh, sounds like a John Mullaney Netflix special. It's Melania. I'm still hurting. Let's get it together. Yeah, I'm still hurting on that one.

Can you believe the first lady? Get me the numbers on Amazon. And before we get to Katie Nolan and Mad Dog Russo, I need you guys to find me the picture of the ugly dog that won the Westminster Dog show so that I could do that with, uh, with Katie Nolan, but Mad Dog Russo is next.