The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Vanilla Ice Wants to Do What?

Episode Date: July 31, 2023

Stugotz is filling in at WFAN later this week, and we get to the bottom of whether they asked him to fill in or if he asked them. We also wish Stu a happy belated birthday and analyze Aaron Rodgers defense of Nathaniel Hackett from Sean Payton. Then, money on cooking shows, Temu, Triple Gs and Triple D, Billy’s Yellow Balloon, Mystery Seeds, and Lil' Jon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. This is the Dunluba Tarshall with this 2GOTS podcast. Now for those of you that have heard our most recent segment with Mandogrew, so you've learned that 2GOT two gods is gonna be on WFAN Thursday and Friday this week filling in for boomer. Yeah, Thursday and Friday congrats to you I'm excited for it's gonna be fun. I learned about this through Barrett sports media, right? Which was an interesting way to learn. Yeah, I guess we're it takes a built we're doing the it takes a village approach to replacing Chris weddingham or former executive producer.

But generally, I'm known to be someone that's kind of, kind of has say, when it comes to schedule and likes to know when people are in and what not. And usually our power dynamic is such that, you do what you want to do, but I'm at least alerted. So this was a very interesting way to learn that you weren't gonna be here on Thursday and Friday.

You would have liked to heard it for me is what you're doing. I would have, but I have a feeling you're not going to me because you know how it's gonna land with me. Right, right. And you're just going to, I think you found that if you just go directly with Dan to Dan on some of these things, it'll be fine. So I was talking to Dan and it came up that.

It's easier. Yeah. I learned that WFAN had kindly asked you to do this. And as a favor to WFAN because I were repeatedly asking you to do this, you decided to help them out and go on WFAN, which is a dream of yours. Oh yeah, I've been on WFAN before. I did a show on a Sunday night and was many, many years ago.

And I had a blast, but I love that station. I grew up listening to that station. I love Mike and the mad dog and Greg Giannotti's become, become a good friend. So he reached out to me personally and he asked me to do it. Yeah, okay. So you know who doesn't think that Greg?

Oh, yeah, because here's the quote from that Barrett sports media article. Yeah, because I knew that you were gonna angle it as they've been asking you. And I'm familiar with your work. There's no way it's happening like that. There were some telling quotes in that article. Yeah, so quote, that's Sugats is always sniffing around

here when things are open. Gianatti claimed that earlier this month, the day the newspaper article came out with Craig leaving, I got a text message from Sioux God's asking if I was close with Chris Oliveira. Sioux God said because they cut a big deal over there at Metal Arc Media, he's making a lot of money

and he could have worked here for free. That's a little too far, Gianatti, free. Yeah. And you would say that though in a phone call. I could hear it. Yeah, I did say. Yeah. Here's another telling quote. He's a New Yorker. He loves WFAN. He loves us. He wishes he was here too. He's always been begging me to come

in the booth with us. You're always begging them to go on. Yes. You position it as they asked you. Well, he did ask me. So I will tell you this story, Mike. That's he is he is saying that you asked him. Well, I have the tax, but it doesn't matter. Here's the story. He and I were supposed to do a show a few years ago, right when we left ESPN and my mom passed away. And so therefore we were unable to do the show. And to his credit, he said, listen, it's never going to be you and boomer. It's why he said never going to be you and boomer. He just said that. He doesn't think boomer likes me.

Okay. Why would he think that? I have no idea. Do you think he knows that? He probably knows that, yes. If anybody would know that, it'd be him. Yes. And so he said, so to his credit, okay, he came back to me

a couple of years later, he saw an opening, boomers taking a last minute vacation here, and he said, hey, you want to fill in next week, to which I said, sure. And that's how we landed where we are today. I will tell you this, hey, you want to fill in next week to which I said, sure. And that's how we landed where we are today. I will tell you this, Mike, he asked me to do Monday, Thursday, Friday at a respect for this show and the job that actually does pay me and pays me very well. It's interesting how you're framing that.

I said, I can't do Monday. I got to do Thursday and Friday only out of respect for your job. Yeah, of course. I mean, I'm off Thursdays and we don't work out Friday. I still kind of feel like your positioning this is you're doing like everyone in active altruism that you're doing everyone including this kind of favor by by taking part in this dream of yours. Uh, yeah. I mean, I feel like I am doing a lot of followers here. How many follow up since you couldn't make the original

commitment? Have you sent a still available to go? It's been mostly a one-way conversation since then. This is a strange article. It's rare that somebody gets announced doing a show and the quotes are, he's been begging us to do this. Yeah. Or use an odd, even for them, like why are they,

like you would think they wouldn't want to build you up. They're basically saying it in article. All right, Stu's host thing, he's been begging us so we're giving. Well, I think boomer probably was like, why is Stu, we just made fun of that guy. He's been begging us. So we're giving well. I think boomer probably was like why is Stu We just made fun of that guy. He thought Aaron Rogers was Jake going Why is that the guy you're having filling in for me? I'm boomer size it. They should have just said that's August

I think that's what they're doing. I think that's what they did And he's not insulted by it in the leaves as he shouldn't be he gets a little trip to New York Yeah, he gets to do something he enjoys doing 100% leave us for a couple days Yeah, I mean I like this whole deal where I've arrived I'm just kind of floating around I'm going to Lake Tahoe I'm doing I know you do, but I'm going to Tahoe I'm in New York for a live God bless football event I wish Billy was there with me. I was listening back to WFA and I mean this is great This is the way the end of my career should be. I don't want to put anybody out. So you can just tell me to back off if you'd like, but paint manning and Rodger could now became Justin Tuck real quick. Yeah, get

it. What last week you mentioned two Hall of Famers in the commissioner that you were doing this with. And then I see a photo of just all Notre Dame guys. And you, I wasn't happy about it. I got to be on, I went there thinking, Peyton Larry Fitzgerald and it turned to Justin Tuck who was a great guy, by the way. I mean, I enjoyed doing it with him, but I was expecting Larry in that beautiful S.

You're right, though, this is how the end of your career should be. It's also how the middle of my career should be. So I will also be going to New York City. You had a very flattering, you and Billy had a very flattering, awful announcing article written about you. You've really turned this jaco on thing. You've Billy Ghost wrote it.

I saw that article and can I be honest? I did nothing that was flattering. If I was yo would not have shared that article. Well, I did. I did not. I was like, this is kind of embarrassing. I thought it was a supremely flattering. So you read it. I mean, I did. I didn't know. I was like, this is kind of embarrassed. I thought it was a supremely flattering. So you read it.

I did read it and I thought, I don't know if I'd be sharing this. Wait, so what's going on here? Because Billy's saying not flattering. You're saying it was extremely flattering. Yeah, because it elevated. But maybe Billy thinks highly, more highly of you than I do. It's not bad. Billy knows how the sausage is made.

The lower of you. So I thought it elevated you and he thought it'd graded you. It kind of diminished whatever structure Billy is trying to implement with God bless. That's a whole thing that we need to, that's on my to-do list on my returns is implementing a structure because I hate to tell you, Ron say at four o'clock is not something

he wants me to do. So, penguin to feed a penguin. I'm about having tomorrow four o'clock, that's a legendary dodgeger third baseman. Yeah. Yeah. We need to kind of set some parameters in some recording windows. Yeah.

Things have gotten slightly out of control and it's only going to get worse during football season. And then you're not going to be here again this week for two days. So we have to figure out a recording time for that and what they were doing. Right. And what are the designated days? Because God bless football, we're not going to reveal all the plans

for this football season, but it's a rocket ship. It's on the launch pad. It's about to soar across the sky right now. And that's one of the days, the days that he's filling in on WFAN. That's designated for him to actually concentrate on this structure you're trying to establish for God bless football. I mean, doing morning drive, I'll be done by 10 a.m.

I told Billy, I'll be ready by 10 30, 11 30, the latest is what I said, depending on the hotel that I get. But you have a flight also. Well, that's Friday though. Yeah, but there's a, there's a hall of fame you want Thursday. Oh, that's right. We got to react to the game on Friday.

Tricky situation. Yeah. What do I do? You were also considering going to the hall of fame. I was considering going to the hall of fame. It is rare that two jets go into the Hall of Fame. But did you get either of them in? I did not. No, just because that's why he's not going. Yeah, so Darrell Revis, who's the other jet? Joe Clecko. Joe Clecko is going in and it's almost going. Joe and Joe Thomas and Zach Thomas, which I was considering going up there.

I have a conflict. I can't be going to Canton. I'm going to Paris and said, which is an excellent dichotomy of cities. I almost was't be going to Canton I'm going to Paris and said which is an excellent dichotomy of cities I almost was talked in to go in the can Playing three exhibitions going not just going to Paris going to be can also Athens as well, so How did these Paris games happen because Notre Dame is playing South Carolina in November and Paris also for the women's basketball team. Yes. So every four years the NCAA allows for group trips abroad for certain programs. So the men's basketball team is actually going throughout France at the same time.

They're doing Paris and Nice. But something about hanging out with Jim Laranaga on Omaha Beach didn't necessarily connect with me as having like cocktails potentially as Myers ordering dinner. She seems pretty fun. It's a different vibe. It's a different vibe. So I can't recall other European games off the top of my head, but also, you know, their exhibition. I'm very sorry. Yeah, their exhibitions. And also I've learned a lot from Stugots and this is me laying the foundation for my daughter Julia to be recruited by the University my Amy program in about 15 years. Make sure you tell her not to play running back. Yeah, no, definitely not playing right. Safety. Yeah. And when it comes to NIL deals, we're gonna be a little bit more discerning. A little bit more discerning. That's good actually. I'm happy to hear that. So Stugots help free trip. By the way, no. Oh, no free trip. that's a good one no I only have access to this trip through being

a golden cane and additionally you pay for the trip but it's all organized whole god interpols gonna start investigating life wallet next so so my I mean now laws have changed within the state and there's NIL reps on the team that are there to help broker and make sure that all these NIL deals are within compliance. And I'm the whale when I go into this room because I'm the only person in this room that has had an NIL deal with a previous player. We had an NIL deal that I negotiated with the compliance office last year for Destiny Harden. So I was the very first firm hand handshake at that

luncheon. We had a luncheon last week to prepare for our meeting. Don't let him skate, which is what has happened this year. Yeah, because he's just kind of letting me know. Sorry, I got to talk. I got to talk in talking about myself. I know me so well. Go back home. I'm doing these two days on WFA. Did you ask anyone? It was supposed to be three. I did not ask Mike. I know I know how that goes.

No, you just told Dan they asked me and thank you for only doing two. Yeah, you're welcome. It is we should commend you on that. Thank you for being here today. You're today because you are in New York this weekend. They saw right. So I had to fly home. I could have just stayed there. How are you?

Blue home to the show today. Do the show tomorrow. Do the show Wednesday. Hop on a bird Wednesday after the show? Do a couple with Gio and WFA and the mornings and then back home? Why do you sit still? You're poor dog.

It's a genuine question, though. Right. Yeah, watch it, Danny. How many weekends? I bet you can count them on one hand. Weekends that you've been at your home. Your wife must love this. Stayed in town in the last six months.

In the last six months, how many weekends have you been in South Florida? I know there was one recently because you had a cute date couples weekend where you watch Sebastian at the hard rock. Yeah, that was the only weekend. In the last six months. You're done with you every few months

and just be like, who is this guy? You watch this, Vinnie. My dog doesn't care. My dog is just happy to hop into someone's car, get some AC, and then go to another house where there's another dog. So does love cars. I know.

My dog loves jumping into a car. My dog would live in the car. Like, your dog does live in the car. It's a good point. You live in the delta lounge, I think. And the MX one. Is this gonna calm down because you said now that the dead was done, which they've started a new band, correct? I think that would the MX one is just going to calm down because you said now that the dead was done,

which, which they've started a new band. Correct. I think that was fake news. Really? Yeah, I think it came yet. The dead reckoning thing. Yeah, I don't know. I don't think that's real. It's a very credible reporter, whoever put it out there. He is. He's like the Adam Schefter music reporting. Let me get this. Let me get this out there, though. Even if that's on how credible the person was,

followed by whoever put that out there. Let me, let me get this out there though. Even if that's on how incredible the person was, followed by whoever put that out there. Let me put this. My extended to me, Billy. Let me put this out there. If it's not dead reckoning, there's going to be another cash grab by a deading company. Don't sell them short.

I'm not. And the thing is, you've just taken two weeks off from seeing the dead. And you do look better. Thank you. You do. Now you haven't established a very high bar for yourself recently, but look at yourself

in that monitor. You've lost at least five pounds. It's least. Colors are returning to your face. Yep. Even your hair looks a little darker. I think you're gonna make it this morning. Wait, your hair did look a little darker

in that photo with Justin Tuck. So you got, oh my god, you're dying your hair. Shhh. Don Lebatard. I just heard a song that had Frank Sinatra singing from the window to the wall to the sweat drop off my balls. Two I'm saying here All these females crossing And oh skits, kid god damn Oh blue eyes Congratulations on your shoe in Omnation This is the Don Lebatar Show

With this two gods Happy belated birthday to two gods by the way you. What are you now? 63? 51. Happy birthday, still. Thank you. You look great for 63. What'd you do? That is fun. But 51. What'd you do for your birthday? I was in New York, Billy. Yeah, nice. I felt all your birthday wishes. I everyone on the show sent me a happy birthday. I did. I was I was getting to that by everyone. I mean Roy. I love really. Yes. Well, really had last year. I made you a card. I didn't know you did. Yeah.

Yeah. But it was a big birthday. I was avoiding you. It was the big 5.0. How many times did you get happy birthday sung to you? Yeah. Uh, none. Really? Yeah. That's sad. Yeah. I don't like birthdays. Really? I don't know. I feel like I'm getting older, Billy. I needed song once.

I don't want it song more than once. Right. Like, I don't want to do two things where I have to have it. It's like, sing it one time. That's it. Did you get a nice gift? Did your wife get you anything? Anything fun?

She got me actually. Yes, she did hold on. Let me find it here. It's in my back back. She did. I'm being serious. You just tell us yeah Gummies it's important. Well, yeah, we got I'm gonna pull out like your middle finger now or something

Why do you have zip ties on your bag? I don't you know what I traveled so much I thank you. Yes, that's what I was getting to I am being serious. She purchased because we were traveling Some candy at one of the stores in the airport, and she also got me this. The mics gonna be very excited. I think, well, y'all, hold on.

Wait, hold on a second. The big gift you got for your birth that was candy from the airport. So she forgot to get you. And then I fell fantasy pretty. I thought it was gonna be Phil Seale's pre-gift. She was solely scrambling. She forgot your pre-gift.

She did, she did. Somebody just went to Walgreens. And if you really love me, it's a Phil Seale College football preview. Yeah, see, is that the went to Walgreens. And if you really love me, it's a Phil Steel College football preview. Yeah, see, is that the athletic? They have a print. I guess. I'm not gonna go against the model.

Yeah, I thought they were trying to. Well, the athletic is working. So this is free and printed. Totally against the athletic model. Yeah. What do you have? It's free. Well, it's not free.

It's free to have. 6.95 or something like that. They have McCaffery number one running back position seems fun. Spoiler alert. Yeah, I got to I got to get to Don't get away the goods for free. Where do they got Robinson going and running back? Oh, he's good. Nice. Yeah, Brian Robinson or also he's a John Robinson Eccler going third. Third, wow, who's two? Jefferson. Okay, what does it say about Aaron Rogers? Where's Kenny Pickett in there? Kenny Pickett, let me get the quarterback.

He's the start scrolling. You're a pickett guy or a field guy. You got to pick one. No, I don't have to pick one. Are you a field guy or are you a pick a guy? I'm a pick a guy. Yeah. Now, you did form a union once.

They have tracks. They have fields right number six. Hey. Number six. And that's five spots ahead of Arab Rodgers. About that. So I'm going to use the on-ramp to discuss Arab Rodgers because we saw something in the news cycle over the weekend that we haven't seen and quite some time you don't see coaches go at coaches

the way that Sean Peyton went at Nathaniel Hackett over the weekend. He said flatly, it might have been the worst coaching job ever. And we knew this as people that weren't coaches. So it's good to have the coast sign from a Hall of Famer in Sean Peyton, but you don't see that ever now you know and errone rogers who has been aligned with the nathanae hackett in the past was his offensive coordinator in green bayonis now his offensive coordinator in

new york had a strong defense yeah i love nathanae hackett and those comments were very surprising. For a coach to do that to another coach. My left hat goes deep. We had some great years together in Green Bay, Captain Touch, Love Him and his family. He's an incredible family man, incredible dad, and on the field, you know, he's arguably my favorite coach I've ever had in the NFL just his approach to it how he makes it fun how he cares about the guys just how he goes about his business with respect with leadership with

honesty with integrity and it made me feel bad that someone who's accomplished a lot in the league is that insecure that they have to take another man down to set themselves up for some sort of easy fall. If it doesn't go well for that team this year, I thought it was way out of line and appropriate and I think he needs to keep my coach's names out of his mouth. My favorite reaction to that was Sean Peyton saying I had one of those moments where I still had my fox hat on and not my coaching hat on. So you think he has little hats like that? He is, it's Pfizer. It's a Fox Viser and I will tell you this.

He never said anything that interesting when he was working at Fox. Okay. So let me please. Yeah, I don't need to get a word from that. I would have seen that Fox hat on more often actually. My who is Sean Peyton? To criticize Nathaniel Hacking. I'll take my podcast off.

Do you want my podcasting head on while I answer those? A Super Bowl winning coach? He's lying and ate in the post season. Do it without your reels. Exactly. I do anything without your reels. And the only reason he got brees is because Dr. Canal, misdiagnosed, don't they call pepper?

I don't want to hear about it. I'm serious. You could make an argument out of Super Bowl winning head coaches, Sean Payton. It's pretty overrated when you look at all the times he's lost as a considerable favorite in the playoff. He's 98 in the post season. He's a great regular season coach. His regular season record, winning percentage is amongst the best in NFL.

He's just get done dirty by one of the worst calls we've ever seen in that sport. Yes. But you have your own issues in a very tough division. Russell Wilson is playing himself out of the hall of fame. Like, worry about your team, worry about that division. Don't worry about Nathaniel Hackett in the New York Jets. And he didn't apologize. He didn't apologize to Nathaniel Hackett.

He just said, as Jess pointed out, I had my fox hat on, which is ridiculous. And Roger's defensive Nathaniel Hackett was admirable. It was honest. I mean, he- It was necessary also. He also said, like, keep my coaches name out of your mouth, which is pretty shocking, but here's my take on it. And I am not a coach.

I only know what I know from what I've seen in the sport. But I'm asking you guys a genuine honest question. When Aaron Rodgers says Nathaniel Hackett's the best coach he's ever had, does Aaron Rodgers actually know what a good coach is? Because if you look at his career, and you look at his head coaches, and you look at his offensive coordinators, and anytime they've been separated from Aaron Rodgers, the best one is Mike McCarthy, who I think we have consensus here is not very good

Despite winning this Super Bowl. He's had Joe Philbin. He's had Nathaniel Hackett who Pushed Freddie Kitchens out of the way for most disastrous head coaching stint. We've seen in the modern era Does he know what a good coach is because he has been so talented? There's actually a complimentary in Rogers. I don't mean to call him Dits here or anything like that. He has been so good. His performance has been so superlative that he is really elevated. Some people that have failed and failed repeatedly and massively without him. So I ask you, genuinely, when Er Rogers says Nathaniel Hackett's the best coach he's ever had, does he know what a good coach is? It's a fair question. I will tell you.

I mean, Jeff Tetford is another person, even though he came with the summer putt, was someone that was elevated and just done nothing since when Hackett was his coach, those two seasons back to back MVP's, he had 85 touchdowns and nine interceptions. Jeff Tetford had Martian Lynch, Aaron Rogers, and maybe Dishon Jackson a little bit after that. He had a lot of talent. He had a next and nothing with it. He won the holiday ball in 2006.

He beat Miami in it, I think. But he doesn't know good coaching. And it's been to a detriment. He only has one super bowl title, not through the work of his own. Granted, he's on maybe if you hyperanalyze and not even hyperanalyze, just analyze. You can see, you can make a solid argument that Aaron Rogers now on a downward trajectory. But is Mike McCarthy saying better fingers?

All right. Thank you for that. Totally dropped in. Honestly, I thought those are in Rogers. The guys Gary Jones wouldn't fire to get Sean Payton, by the way. Huh? If Aaron Rogers had a coach as good as Sean Payton, who I'm conceding is also in the conversation. He'd have a single super bowl like he does now. You had it. It was Drew Briggs.

You were all in on a quarterback. You couldn't recognize apart from Jake Cohen. Jeff Tedford, Pac-10 coach of the year, two times. Because he had air rangers. It was during that time. Yeah. And a little after. Mountain West coach of the year in 2017,

he's the high coach at Fresno State now, by the way. What is, well, Fresno, feisty, cover machines, you're right. I only watch him on mute. Otherwise, I would have known my boy, Jeff Tedford was over there. It's always a 10 o'clock option before Hawaii. Oh, that's, it's the step before the rainbow. Yeah. What is, who is the best example of having success apart from Aaron Rogers, not player-wise,

as you may get an argument that it's the Montet Adams with the year that he had last year. But the coach that was around, that was around him that left because they were promoted because he elevated their stature within the game. Who is the best part of that tree? It's, I'm just doing a sports media thing. I'm not in a locker room. I gotta do some Googles.

Right, we have to. There needs to be a good coach. You don't have to do Googles like that with guys like Peyton Manning and guys like, hell, you don't even have to do that with a guy like Drew Breeze. We've seen the coordinators around him get elevated. Why do we struggle so much with Aaron Rogers?

Considering the level that he played, I mean, we can name several great offensive coordinators that have had coaching jobs that have disappointed that have separated themselves from Patrick Mahomes. But geez, like, when Aaron, I might actually genuinely believe Aaron Rogers when he says that's the best coach I've ever had because it is and it's Nathaniel Hackett. It's Nathaniel Hackett. Yeah. What I'm saying is Aaron Rogers should have more

super balls because of the coaching he's received. Butterfinger. Don Le let it hard. Kiss me where you bruise me. Kiss me on that flashy part. Really? Yeah, really. Kiss me on that flashy part. Taste me, not touch me. Taste me on that flashy part. Wow, Rose.

Stugats. Rose? I'm talking about the cladder, Riz. I'm talking about the cladder, Riz. I'm talking about the cladder, Riz. Yes, I am. Now we're out here riffin. Oh. And I'm gonna try to Billy is back because a few weeks ago I was watching Top Chef with Charlotte and we were talking about the fact that we were watching an old season

and looking at all the stuff and you know in the beginning of the episode they tell you what the people are gonna win when they win Top Chef and we were like hmm so the prize was the same 15 years ago when they started Top Chef that it is now and then Lehman my boyfriend was like you know on Chopped they give out $10,000 to the winner of Chopped. And adjusted for inflation, Chopped has had like 30 seasons. Like, you'd think over the span of the last decade, it would have gone up by now. And I wanted to talk about this on the show,

but Billy, you're the only other person here that I think watches reality competition cooking shows as much as I do. Why have they been so stingy with their prize handouts on these reality cooking shows? I don't know, is the answer, because I don't have any say in that, but it is a good point by you.

But you should. No, because I think like shows like Survivor 2, don't they still just give away like a million dollars at the end of the year? Like just the prizes in general on shows has not grown that much, I don't think. But these are working professionals on chopped and top chef. They're actually losing money.

No. And agree that you're doing shows. I don't know if they're losing that. You're not losing money. It's good exposure. It's great. It's like, yeah, just get on Shark Tank. If you make a deal or not, it doesn't matter.

Everyone's just gonna go to your website the next day and buy out all of your inventory. My IG algorithm is all people that pitched on Shark Tank and I don't know how they can license that footage, but they're like, hey just buy this. I'm actually in a really great algorithm right now, where it's all these crazy innovative, crazy innovative ads that can make my life easy. Now sometimes it's just a stool that charges your phone And I don't need that but yesterday I got an IG ad for you know those like tailgate chairs It was six connected to one you see the guy that stands there and he goes

Yeah, I got a guy's good at that. I bought it. Did you really? Yeah, yeah Yeah, it's a lot. It's a launch, Harry. It's like $200 bucks or something. It's like $110. Wow. Yeah, it's a great deal. And it's either, either this guy's really strong

or it's a really light chair. Because the way this guy is able to flick the whole thing out with ease is pretty impressive. There is no way to get it for $2 on T-Moo. I'm telling you. What is T-Moo? Are you haven't seen these ads? It's like T-E-M-U.

Tell me T-Moo Salani's the pitchman for this first series. And the ass of it. You know what'd be funny if it's Paul Korea? Mm. Wikipedia, by the way, is telling me that the prize for Top Chef has gone up throughout the years. Really? That it was 100,000 for the first five seasons,

then up to 125 in this past season. It was a quarter mill. So that's wiki, though. So maybe it has, well, Charlotte, defend yourself. I've never watched Top Chef. It seems like something that I would really like, and I know that there's a lot of big Top Chef stands out there. Do you like more baking or cooking shows?

Give me the kids bake off, that's what I like. Oh, I love kids, a junior, oh my God, they cry sometimes, it's so funny. But I started watching it like a couple of weeks ago, because I was like, I think I wanna get into this. And then after like three episodes, I'm like, I just, I don't know if I have top chef in me. But to answer your question,

I will watch any reality cooking competition show even the stupid ones, like even like triple Gs, which at times is incredibly silly. I will watch all of it. Is it cake? Do you watch that one? Actually no, I don't. Because those ones are based off of meme internet trends. I don't think they have the stamina to keep up

with my interest levels, right? Do you watch summer baking championship? Always. Does it have Jesse Palmer? Does it have to be competition? What a career by him. He's had a great career. You're right.

I mean, the room's a go guy? That's exactly right. That's the thing. You watch him and you're like, holy crap. How did this guy who was a great at football doing all of these things? How do I become a host of a cooking show? Yeah, that's what I want.

That's what I want to do. I don't even want to be a host. I want to be a judge. I don't want to be a judge. I don't even have to have to eat the food. I don't care about the food. But the shows you like are the only competition shows. I love the drive in,

diner, and dive show? To be true. Yeah, it's a great show. It's not a competition show though. No, but it's Guy Fieri. Right. You know, he's an entertaining guy. Fieri.

Or used to be. Although, yeah, now the internet is torn because there were photos of him at an MMA fight. He shook Trump saying. Donald Trump, that was all over the internet. And I don't know. I guess I need more information before I decide. Jury is out.

Do you know? I mean, if it's like a former president walks up to you and you give him a handshake and- Who walked up to who? It's a boring question. I don't know what I would do in that situation. Like, I probably would be like, I don't want to. It's head-buttum.

I don't want to get arrested. I did not say that. Chris Cody said that. I attended a wedding at a Trump resort. And it was like one of that I couldn't get out of. I was mad conflicted the entire time. I played 18. It's a loose-lose situation for Guy and Andy.

And I think his rep seemed to be writing it out. They haven't addressed it as far as I've seen. He's been someone that I think people on both sides of the I like I think he's on our side. I think he's you know what I mean is lose lose for him if Trump walks up to him at an MMA fight. Like you can't cold shoulder the guy. You're famous. That's going to be a headline. I feel like you can. Duff Gold and was looking old. Was my take away. Some are big stuff. Wait, Billy is so right about this site, Mike, you're gonna freak out. Shane Falco jerseys, they're selling for like 12 bucks. You got seven left.

You got to say off the site. You have a computer. No, I'm telling you. Yeah, you now have a computer. I heard that it worked. From someone who ordered on there, I heard that it worked. Also one time, and this was like a strange thing, and I was told that it was like some sort of scam that I wasn't it worked. From someone who ordered on there, I heard that it worked. Also one time, and this was like a strange thing, and I was told that it was like some sort of scam

that I wasn't aware of. One time in the mail, I just received a yellow balloon deflated in an envelope to my home address from China. And I was like, what the hell is this? And my wife was like, why did you order one yellow balloon? And I was like, I absolutely did not. Seems like something you would order one yellow balloon and i was like i absolutely did not seems like something you would order no but it's but i was told that it was some sort of situation where like i get mailed something and then people got

that seeds billy no you guys don't remember that i don't ever anthrax that was scared yeah i remember that i thought everything was i remember the seed thing vaguely but i need to follow along this balloon story a little bit more what is it supposed to be i think that it was some sort of i don't know thing vaguely, but I need to follow you along this balloon story a little bit more. What is it supposed to be? I think that it was some sort of, I don't know, monetary crime where it was like showing

that there was this person receiving this and then this company who ever sent it to me, then had it in their books that they mailed a package to the US to like a valid thing. I don't know how they got my information, but why the yellow balloon? I don't, I think it was just to have something in the envelope in case someone checked it. Who has yellow balloon, it's just lying on it. Whoever sent it to me from China, I don't know, man. I didn't order it.

It's so many questions. You can buy a soft for $2. Like that's crazy. That seems saw cost like 40 bucks. Right. What was the seed thing again? I remember during 2020, people got sent mystery seeds. And the Department of Agriculture, I believe,

was like, please don't plant the seeds. These could be invasive. Yeah, and that's the last I heard of them. Perfect time to send mystery seeds, because there was a lot of other stuff going on 2020. No, we've been paying attention to that. And everyone was trying to start their own gardens. I feel like I need to backtrack a little bit

on my Guy Fieri commentary. I don't think I was hard enough on him. I do not condone his actions. I am saying as if I were his publicist, it's a loose loose situation. Right, I went to a UFC event in which Donald Trump was there and I boot him loudly

and I made sure he looked at me when I gave him the finger. But then you played his golf course. No, no, I did that well before. Okay, yeah, this was before his direction, right, I did that well before. Okay. Yeah, this was before. Is that the important, right? I played golf course before interaction. Okay. Well, I mean, then.

Well, it was there for a weekend. I mean, what are you supposed to do? I mean, I could be principled and say, I wouldn't go. Was this the one in South Florida? What in Rome? I should have been able to say it, but I was in the wedding party.

Give you a little insight into my family dynamic and how fun Barbecue's are. I'll tell you this much, there's an article in the Atlantic about the mystery seeds and how it's a scam and why it is that the company sends it to you and then it proves something because there's a tracking number and blah, blah, blah.

But it's like 18 pages long. So if you want to look it up, just Google it and you could get the answers because I'm not reading all this. I did get a golf ball from that wedding and it was like. Biggest golf ball you've ever got. It's the best golf ball, great golf ball.

But it had like the wedding date and also it says where the golf balls were from because if you play a teen during that, whatever, they give you them. And Jeremy was golfing in Tahoe and he asked me for a ball and we were on like a course at a bunch of water hazards. I'm like, use this one, please pal. Jeremy took it.

He knew well. Wow. How many balls did he put in the drink? He put it in the drink. I was like, it's all good. You don't want to own me one. It's all good. Well, our producer Cynthia is saying that she definitely got mystery seeds in the mail.

So. See, it needs. It's a thing that happened. And I thought it was like a widespread thing that we all remembered, but I guess maybe just me and Cynthia. Back to these shows, I don't like the themed like competition. Oh, I love a good theme. Like my wife was watching HGT, which I love all the HGTV shows, but she was watching like

Barbie House because Barbie's in the news. So it's like a competition who can do the best Barbie design house? Like Halloween. I don't like the baking of Halloween bake off just give me a standard bake off Halloween bake off. I don't like the I love Halloween bake off and I love Christmas bake off and I love spring championship bake off. Yeah, and summer summer. I'm actually all the big off have a theme now that I know.. Yeah, you just start to break a marriage and bake off. You just want to bake off. There's no such big off. There's no such big off.

You just want to make a mutual themed bake off. Like they all have a theme. Just give me Duff, chowin' down on this brownie and saying it's too dry. That's all. Give me your best stuff. What can you bake? How well can you bake it?

Yeah, Carla Hall, who was on top chef. I started watching a show. Well, it's the second season, so I restarted watching the show because I started watching season two. Lil' John wants to do what? And it's a Lil Jon home makeover show and it's incredible. How does that get you to prove it? I don't think you said it the right way.

How am I supposed to say it? You know, it's like it. It's a what? Yeah, he's good. The rich is out to who there he is. Well, okay, so here's the thing. Here's why I wanted to talk about this because I don't want you guys to kind of watch one show and watch it in the wrong order

and then be turned off from the other one. Lil Jon's home makeover show is great. I love it. He has great ideas. He really cares about the whole process. He goes in, he's very involved. Now, friend of the show Big Boy, he has an RV makeover show.

But he's rarely on the show. He was in like the first, it's called, I'll tell you what, it's called now. Look, it's on Hulu. So anyways, I rarely on the show. He was in like the first, it's called, I'll tell you what it's called now, I'll tell you what it's called now, it's on Hulu. So anyways, I started watching the show and it's more like his assistant started the company and he's also like a financial backer in the company and he basically just shows up like the second to last day

and he's like, you're gonna do all of that? We have one day left and then he shows up at the end and then occasionally there's a phone call on the drive in the car, but he's not as hands on as a little John is so I feel like if you're gonna invest your time in one rapper makeover show you do little John what the Nellie says one well he didn't get arrested for stealing stuff from one of the houses what yeah I have to do the lights want to do what steal the stuff from the house allegedly classic vanilla yeah it's a right Billy in this segment I declared that I have to realize wants to do what? Deal the stuff from the house. Allegedly. Classic vanilla.

Yeah. It's a right, Billy. In this segment, I declared that top chef has not increased their prize winnings with inflation, which was incorrect. Defended Guy Fieri, backtracked on defending Guy Fieri. This has probably been my weakest segment in a while. Vanilla ice accepted a plea deal in the Florida burn-up case. Damn it.

I was really hoping you'd debate him. No, it would have really saved me. In a while vanilla ice accepted a plea deal in the Florida bird with a paste damn it I was really hoping you debate know what have really saved me