The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Mark Needs a Vacation

Episode Date: March 3, 2025

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I was just confused by all of it. Also confusing, the way the last segment ended, I feel like Jessica applied some of the fairest criticism ever applied at this show when she asked aloud, why did Billy get choked there with as annoying as Mike was for the last hour of our show? And she's totally right about that. It's inarguable that Mike Ryan should have been choked out

John Cena style during the last hour. You're trying to open the door back out? No, I'm not. No, don't do it, man. I do not want it open anymore. If you're talking about John Cena, I need to choke out. No, thank you. Thank you for all of your work.

You reference the STFU. Okay. Which is like an STF, only he adds a you at the end to make it seem like he's saying FU Okay, thank you for all his original No, no, my is the FI but then they change it my attitude my husband come on Mike Mike, please stop Why is like TV PG or something right? Mark The cat so you can bring back the FU listen to me Billy. Let's play the FI you montage Mark Listen to me Billy, let's play the FIU montage Give me some sweetener here Billy over the weekend evidently did some more calling of FIU baseball

Let's just get to as much of that sound as we can please You know what they say Cory numbers sometimes lie sometimes lie. I always go numbers never lie except when they do. Yeah, okay Write that down. I had to look up to see which was his first name and his last name if I'm going to be honest with you. It's one of those situations. Last name is always a crowd pleaser, but either way, you work with Brooks in there. It's got my stamp of approval at least. Really?

Cory Brooks, Billy Gill with you here on ESPN+, that is in tight to Craig. Forgot your last name was Brooks. I was going to ask you if you were going to name a child Brooks at some you're gonna name a child Brooks at some point but Brooks Brooks is a bit redundant. Yeah. FIU taking on the Hurricanes at Lone Depot Park. It's a big one Corey. That's all I got on that. More to come Tuesday. More to come. Yeah. And Rick Ross was doing his parts. Wow, the boss. Which upon further review, he has a lot of songs where he's not a huge part of the vocals.

Huh, that's supposed to mean. He's a great collaborator. Okay, well. Disagree? I'm not saying that he's not a great collaborator. I don't know if I would just describe him as a collaborator. Hopefully Rick Ross is not listening tonight. I can hope he is. That'd be pretty cool.

It would be, but... I don't know if the boss is someone that you want to be messing with. I think you're bolstering my point here. Well, here's the thing. Go on. I think you can argue DJ Khaled is a collaborator, right? I would absolutely argue that. Even DJ Khaled's song, DJ Khaled just gives like the beats, right?

He doesn't add anything. I wouldn't go that far. Well, I didn't. I take that back. Now who's the one who's out here slinging mud? I didn't mean that. Right into the glow of Castellano for the first out, here's Fred. Sorry, Khaled.

That's worse than what I said. Yeah, if you're listening, Khaled, I'm sorry. Any games with Solana yet? Quite a few. Yeah? How's that been? Great. Who do you like more, me or him?

Very different broadcasters. Oh. Very different. In what sense? Solana. Mm-hmm. Obviously having his role with the Miami Heat and Pre-Heat. Wants to bring a very analytical approach to the game.

Yeah. Whereas you and I are, well the first word in ESPN is entertainment, and that's a little more the bent that you bring to the table. Wow, okay, well, I promise you that for the next game I'm bringing you nothing but analytics. I look forward to that. You will not.

My urologist is not a fan of my high protein diet. They've said less burgers, less steak, please. That's tough. Yeah, but you wanna beat the please. That's tough. Yeah. But you want to beat the stones. That's what you got to do. Kidney stones. The Rolling Stones come for us all.

Yeah. Rolling Stone catches no moss, Corey. Ah! I don't know if you knew that. That's why you're quicker than me. Billy? There's a lot of context missing in a lot of those clips, if I'm going to be honest with you.

Billy? We also got into a whole Adam and Eve situation. Oh, situation. Yeah. Oh, wow. I don't know. I didn't make the cut Billy yeah as a Broadcaster mm-hmm. You are brave There is no one occupying the lane of purposely awkward and of purposely awkward and perfect pacing for baseball,

where you're even slower than the game on how you're doing a podcast during the play-by-play. Listen, respectfully, and he's a Hall of Famer, baseball moved way too fast for Dave Van Horn. That guy was slow, okay? That has nothing to do with this, and I don't know why I'm taking shots at Dave Van Horn, DVH here at the end, but. It's a Hall of Famer. He is a Hall of Famer. I said that on the front of Hall of Famer, but yeah like Greg

I Couple couple notes. I probably would have put a bed underneath that montage I should keep it moving cuz I was you know I could understand how the audience is like why would I listen to this but if you like that good news tomorrow University of Miami FIU football or or baseball, sorry. I got distracted. I'm kinda early for that.

I'm watching here on First Take. First Take is talking about The Rock and John Cena again. Oh, don't do this. Don't do this. Slow day in sports. So anyways, tomorrow, if you guys are saying, hey, I wanna listen to some FIU and some UM baseball, you can go check it out at Marlins Park

and you can listen, I'll be on the broadcast again. So I think we're gonna be, will you be there? Yeah, I got season tickets Are you gonna be cut FIU? Okay, pause up if you're covering it Greg feel free to drop by the booth I'd be happy to bring you into the booth for you know couple innings or whatever It's gonna be on YouTube people can interact with us this time minor penalty two minutes for lying I think I saw him on Friday. Thank you. I'm there. You're not a season ticket holder.

That's not true. Get out of here. See? He knows. How would he know that unless he was one? I like the role that you're occupying there, Billy, as awkward announcer. I'm not trying to do that. People keep telling me they like these roles that you're here and you're not this guy that's bringing analytics and you're saying awkward. I'm just trying to go in and punch the clock, call the game. Why is it very different from Solano who has Tony's endorsement in being better than you at this? Why is it so different? Why are they saying it's such a different broadcast when Solano comes there with his sports coat and his tie and tries to give a real sports cast and you're in there talking about gibberish.

Well okay for gibberish is very offensive. There was context missing in what was played. Thank you there was context. I was watching there was context missing about the urologist. Exactly right they were talking about how the players are now eating more burgers and steak because they have a high protein diet and I said my urologist was mad at me for having a high protein diet. What does that guy know? Just kind of throwing it out there because you know some people may be listening to the broadcast for medical advice for whatever reason and I want you know to have them know that yes a high protein diet is great but sometimes it's not the best thing for you

given you know each person, each body, body's a temple Dan, but each temple is different. And some temples need certain things to run And some temples need certain things to run, and some temples need other things to run. And if you put the wrong things in your temple, then your temple might shut down, and you don't want your temple to shut down, so I'm just kinda putting that out there. And this whole, these people,

everybody's trying to turn me and Solana against each other. I'm not trying to feud with anyone, I'm not trying to do anything. No one said one was better than the other, just that they were different. And that's fine, that's fine. But if I need to go out there and I need to be talking about launch angles,

and I need to be talking about spin rate, and this and that. Well, that's what Solana's doing in the sports code. He's doing it as if he's broadcasting for a future job with a tie, and you're out there being lax with your Marlins cap and your dolphin shirt. No, lax is a different sport.

Lax is a different sport, thank you. That's what Stegatz is doing. Cody does those sports too. So that's not different. No lax is different. That's what you doing. Cody does those sports too So that's not that's not what I was that's not what I was doing. I go there dressed in a polo shirt I go there wearing pants like that's like why do you keep pointing at the television called Cory Cody? I saw that I saw that you don't need a vacation first take I saw has on First take I saw our laughs He's back after that emotional goodbye to the network two weeks ago.

And I saw that Ocho Cinko's on there. Is that the first time he's on there? Finally Shannon Sharp has gotten him on there too. Some love for club Shayshay. Yeah, they were just talking about John Cena's heel turn and they were showing very graphic images of Cody Rhodes laying in a pool of his own blood. Not since the Bay of Pigs have I seen a Massachusetts man

leave a Cuban man hung out to die. He's right about that. Cody is in the other room again. Cody, what thoughts do you have from the other room, from the penalty box? Cody is here? No, I want to talk to Greg Cody. Billy, Mark needs a vacation. And I've got a couple of other things that I need to go to.

But Greg, what do you have from the other room? I'm being told that you have something. Greg Cody Rhodes. No, I don't. But Greg, what do you have from the other room? I'm being told that you have something. Greg Cody Rhodes. No, I don't. I'm still mesmerized by Billy's performance on the air. It's unlike any other I've heard when he's broadcasting FIU baseball. I think what you need though,

you need to pipe in a little fake crowd noise because it's very, very quiet. It needed something. It needed some production. It needed some help. That's production. It needed some help. That's fine. Well, we'll take note. I mean, during the game, you hear the sounds,

you hear the birds, you hear the ambiance, you hear everything going on. I like that you're slowing it down. That you're slow, hey world, slow down. Billy Gill's broadcasting and not every silence has to be filled with someone's yammering, someone's gas bag. Well, this also, as you should know,

is on ESPN Plus, so it's video, so it's different. And when we would do the Marlin Spring training games, which by the way, full disclosure, doesn't seem like it's gonna happen again, because. Why? Well, because Kyle got a promotion, and now he's the TV guy, and then guess what happens? Yeah, I love Kyle too,

except Kyle got what he needed out of us, and now he's moved on to television. Not even a call, not a text, nothing from Kyle. That's how it happens. We're here to talk about Chris Cody's wife like that. Just threw us to the curb. We haven't heard from Kyle Siloff, so you know, love Kyle, but screw you.

Yeah, hell with Kyle. Thank you, Greg, he gets it. Greg's a journalist. He's never gonna invite us on again, which is perfectly fine. So that is now- To hell with Kyle? Did I say that?

He's right about that. That's your daughter-in-law. I left him out to dry. I am in a group chat with him. Well, no, Kyle left me out to dry. You never brought this up. That's what I'm saying. You left him out to dry.

Exactly right. You've had every opportunity to bring this up in a group chat that you run with him and you haven't. Well, because I wouldn't do this in public. So they cancel our last spring training game because of rain, which we could have played through, but cancel and said, okay, we'll reschedule this. And then we got rain.

It was like a torrential statewide downpour that day. Okay, well anyways. So we ended up doing a regular season game, which we were told maybe we'd do a regular season game. That didn't happen. And now I can catch a hint. Oh, that's a broken pump. No, wait a minute.

I'm not gonna be invited. We didn't do spring training this year because now he's a big TV man about town and he's not gonna invite us on the television network. I understand that and I don't have the relationship with the radio guys. So FIU says, you know what? FIU put me on TV, ESPN Plus.

And that's why this is all a long answer just to say that's why it's a different pace than when me and Chris would do the radio calls because television, you have the visual there so you don't have to paint every picture. The pictures are there painted, so you're just adding a little accent here and there. You know what I mean?

I like that Mike Ryan said of how you use the F and the U that you can tell Kyle right now, hey, F-I-U. You can tell him what they, you have said on this show that your friendships can be bought and this one sounds like it's over because Kyle in the group chat has moved on to television and left you in the rear view mirror in a way that has a broken promise

as the punctuation to your relationship. No, it's not, as far as I'm concerned, our friendship is still exactly as it was, which I don't actually know the nature of our friendship to begin with, But as far as I'm concerned. How long would we have to pay you to never speak to him ever again? To Kyle?

Buck and a half. I don't think he wants to speak to me ever again. I don't think it's for me to say. I think that Kyle Siloff has, he's made that choice for you. Exactly right. It's not. That was a stray buck and a half from another room.

Kyle's friendship to you is worth a buck and a half as assessed by Greg Cody from the other room with a surgical strike you are no longer friends with Kyle. No, I like Kyle He has a cat. Okay, that doesn't make you friends or doesn't mean you like him him. Yeah cat He saw the Northern Lights once on vacation Extraneous information don't need Well, that's Extraneous information, don't need this story. It's missing context. Well, those clips were missing context. People were thinking I'm just a crazy person rambling about things that have no meaning.

Those were all connected to certain things that we were talking about. But lacking that context, you don't know. Now Mike's calling Kyle. Is the CVS bag because you have another kidney stone? What's that? We never revealed what was in the CVS bag that Tony said had Pepto-Bismol in it. I didn't say Pepto-Bismol in it. Can I tell you what it is? I didn't say Pepto-Bismol,

I said something that could maybe keep things out. Or perhaps Imodium. No, I was trying to be considerate of my coworkers because this morning on the car ride in, I had a cough that I haven't had that was somewhat uncontrollable and I said I don't wanna be coughing in the workplace getting people potentially sick.

So I went to the CVS, I was talking to my wife, I was like I think I'm gonna need to stop and get something because I have this cough that's coming on. And she said, okay, but make sure that you buy the name brand because I know you, you usually go and buy the, you usually go and you buy the generic one, just like don't do that, buy the name brand, buy like a Mucinex and then you'll actually get better.

Don't buy the like off-brand medicine. And I bought the off-brand medicine. $5 cheaper. I'm not a sucker. Exactly right. Why am I gonna go and buy Robitussin when I can just buy Waltussin or Tussin? Like I'm not gonna pay five extra dollars

because I want a Nike swoosh on my medicine. Get out of here. It's the same exact thing. Put it on the poll please. I'm no health expert, but people seem sicker, yes or no, at Levitard Show. I think sicknesses are lasting a little longer. I think everybody's got a little bit more of a cold

than they used to have. It seems like we're walking around, all of us just a little bit sicker. But Billy's here on behalf of Brand Products to tell you, here's $5 that you can save on, if you're sicker, this might make you feel better, the savings, not necessarily the medicine. It's exactly the same.

If I'm gonna be sick and rather be sick with five dollars in my pocket, then giving you an extra five dollars is because, here's where my conflict was this morning, and I don't know why we're talking about this, here's where my conflict was this morning. This would be entirely your fault. This says maximum strength,

and I don't feel like I need, like I could get average strength. If average strength was something that they sold on medicine, I could just do, I didn't realize until, no, I didn't notice right now that it said maximum strength. I was trying to avoid that,

because I was like, I feel a little under the weather, but not maximum under the weather, so I don't want wanna over medicate. But- You take half of a dose? No, because they're liquid gels. Liquid gels ruin that.

Before, you could just cut a pill in half. You say, you know what? I only have a little bit of a fever. I'm gonna cut this Tylenol three quarters and I'll be good. Toss an aspirin there, take it down with a gin, and I'm good to go, right? Not with liquid gels. You try to cut a liquid gel in half,

and you make a mess everywhere. You can't, exactly right, you can't do that. Liquid gels, and liquid gels, they mark up the prices on. You get the exact same medication if it's just like in a pill tablet form for like three dollars less for the exact same medication. This is just like because it looks cutesy wootsy and you can see through it.

What the hell do I care if I can see through it? Well is it faster acting if it's liquid? No, I don't think so. I think it's just it looks cooler. So they're like, let me sell you on the cool looking thing. It's a ginormous pill. Oh, I can swallow this thing like nothing. I can take horse pills if I had to.

Tell you what right now. Billy, you're not gonna show up to the house with that medicine though, right? Because your wife already told you buy the name brand one and you bought the off brand one. She did tell me don't get the, she said get the name brand one. This is why she's not your friend.

Well, here's the thing about it too though. She can't show up with that. I have it at home and you won't believe this but every day I'm prepared for these scenarios and every day I have medicine on me just in case I'm not feeling well except today. So I have Musinex at home. I have Musinex DM at home. I have all of the Musinexes at home. The maximum, the minimum, the average strengths, all of those. I have them at home. I have Mucinex DM at home. I have all of the Mucinexes at home, the maximum, the minimum, the average strengths, all of those, I have them at home. I've got good news for you. Yeah. Liquid gels do work quicker.

Do they? I'm feeling better. That's a scam. I'm with Tony. It's fine. Traditional tablets or capsules need to break down before the body can absorb the medication. That's why I sometimes go ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch- It'll take longer. And I smash them up and then I put them in a piece of ham and then I eat it like a dog. Yeah. And then fast acting.

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Stugats! Yeah. La Carreta is a place where the best of the celebrations has to be the 97 Marlins celebration because it was Levante and... Well, when Fidel died the first time. This is the Don Leventhal Show with the Stugats! that's. Well this is what I was going to say. You're alleging, just to be clear, to recap, that savings are actually samings that you

would prefer $5 off for average strength, that you would make the trade of don't give me maximum strength, save me five dollars, give me average strength, I'll take the savings, it's all the savings. Well no, yes and no. So my argument was I didn't realize this was maximum strength when I got it. I was trying to avoid the maximum strength because I didn't feel maximum sick. Now if something is generic or name-brand and the generic is five dollars cheaper, I'm always gonna go with I didn't feel maximum sick. Now, if something is generic or name brand and the generic is $5 cheaper, I'm always gonna go with the generic

because I'm gonna be sick regardless, so I'd rather be sick with $5 than feel sick without the $5. Now, again, if they had average strength that was $2 off, I would do that and I would risk it and I'd see, hey, you know, guess what, I feel just the same, it's a whole thing. But the reason again that I got this

instead of the name brand is because I have the name brand at home. I don't need to keep buying the same name brand. I assume these go bad. You know what happened the other day? You're not gonna believe this, Dan. You know what happened to me the other day? I had to throw away an entire 32 ounce Heinz ketchup.

You know why? Because I went to BJ's and I said, I'm gonna buy a three pack of 32 ounce Heinz Ketchup's. And I did this like two years ago. And I didn't realize that my ketchup consumption as I'm getting older is really slowing down. I'm not using ketchup like I used to. I thought, there's no doubt in my mind.

I'm gonna burn. I don't know. I guess I'm maturing. I just thought before I put ketchup on anything, I thought ketchup was nature's nectar. I loved ketchup. I would eat it with anything. Put some plain Lay's potato chips,

they could use some ketchup. Heinz 57, I love it. So I had to throw away a bottle and a half of Heinz ketchup because it expired. I had no idea they even expired. And I was pushing it as far as I could go. That sucker expired on January 5th, 2020, 25. And I said, you know, it's March 5th, we're still okay.

Oh, you're good. Put it on the poll, please, at LeBotardShow. Have you matured if you've exchanged ketchup for ham and medicine? Ham and medicine sandwiches at LeBotardShow. There are a number of things that I wanna get to that I regret asking Mark about at all. The fact that you guys

said that greg is not a hall of famer jessica you feel like you've been loudest of all questioning whether or not uh... greg cody is a hall of famer i think i was the quietest about that i think mike was the loudest cuz he's just he's always he was first and he was loudest yes uh... but but i believe that the disdain on your face for judging him a Hall of Famer, you're the one to mention it most recently that he's not a Hall of Famer. No, I said he was. I said Hall of Famer like Greg.

And I was the loudest. Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody is getting more and more popular. With the legend and Hall of Famer, Greg Cody, what do you have to promote on this front? Well, this is our big fifth anniversary show. Our first show ever was March 2nd, 2020. We're five years old. We're celebrating by revealing the top 100 countdown of all time greatest guests.

And it's been fun. It's been controversial. People are eating it up. We're doing good traffic, unusually good traffic and so you know Billy why are you laughing at that? There's a big fight around here because everyone thinks they're ranked too low. There are big fights in-house about who should be ranked higher and Greg... Oh no I don't care. Well you might not care but it's not everyone else. Izzy was thrilled with his ranking. Jeremy was

furious with his. You're allowed not to care and other people are allowed other people are allowed to have feelings that are not just yours. I learned I was on the show through this countdown. Okay that's great. I didn't remember you were on the show either. It's great that you're above it. Why'd you give me a three then huh? Okay it's great that you're above it. Why'd you give me a three then, huh? Okay. It's great that you're above it. You got a three? You got the breakdown of what you got? I got a three.

Whoa. From Greg. Mike didn't want any. Got a three. He may want to pretend that he doesn't remember me on the show, but he gave me a three. Okay. You are not supposed to reveal that.

Could have been a one. Wait a minute. A one is the worst. A three is average strength and five is maximum strength. Mike got a three if he got A three from you that means he's not gonna be in the top ten, right? That's a fair comment. Yeah, but it was easy to deduce that I at least got a three given where I was ranked Yeah, Claire was on the show. What number did you give her?

Princess Claire, I don't recall that she made the top one Recall that she made the top one Dad made it Wow but Claire I don't believe did first Dan thought you had a son and now Craig's leaving you out of the top 100 You had a son I could be wrong princess Claire may have made the top 100 on the top 100 Not to give anything away, but Dan sort of had a disappointing, in fact, Dan, used an expletive when we called him to congratulate him on where he had ranked. He used an expletive because he happened to have ranked one spot below Gary the Bag Rosenfeld, which I can say. But Gary is like a Greg Cody show Hall of Famer once we institute the Hall of Fame.

Yeah, you can't say that. We have established, you can't call someone a Hall of Famer if there isn't. Yeah, but the PFPI Hall of Fame is going to happen. Greg's Lobos too have a great shot, in my opinion, to be a first ballot Hall of Famer there. So we'll see. I can't control fate.

Did you announce all 100 of your guests? Because last time time we spoke you said you weren't sure how you're gonna Do it no we did we we went from a hundred? To number one wow we did have an An omission that I'm embarrassed about that. I can't even reveal it. No you have to now We're already there you got to give the people something. If we're gonna promote your thing this much, give us the embarrassing omission. Come on. Should I do it?

The list is flawed. I don't think you should. Tell us what it rhymes with. Yeah, just come on, Greg. Come on. Uncle Schmick. Okay. Everybody's gonna play defense against me

being able to do this correctly today. Uncle Schmick didn't make it, Dan. Everyone's okay. Well, ask him also. Dan, I don't know if you remember this, but he teased it last time. No, no, let's actively play defense against the good things. Let's do that.

Yeah, okay. The Heat should have tried playing defense last night. That's a good point. Or down 20. 19 point lead, blow it. That team blows some leads doesn't it? If they protected all of their double digit leads, they'd be second in the conference

in like 25 games over 500. They can't score late. They cannot score late. Who do we blame? They don't have enough offense. Well, who do we blame for that? There is no one to blame except the architect that makes it because we know that Spolstra is not the problem

and we know that the architecture is the problem the team is not good enough. How does it feel knowing Taylor was at the Knicks Heat game last night in Miami chanting MVP at Jalen Brunson? That's what happened last night the New York Knicks came into town and won for the eighth time in ten games against the Miami Heat and have surpassed the Miami Heat. You could hear it on the broadcast. All of the voices that matter He has Brunson going to his weakness, his right hand but he was too physical

so that's why Brunson's at the line for two Have you ever heard a Nick crowd louder than this in Miami? We know they love to pack this place but they are boisterous tonight Ha! Ha ha! Fun know they love to pack this place but they are boisterous tonight fun the announcer voice who we know though we know the mix love the boy is just a heap broadcast I just did it was funny what those are he broadcast her voice yeah my generic broadcast I think that's Lee's college roommate doing the play-by-play for the Knicks.

Lee's college roommate was Eric Reid? Have you ever heard a Knick crowd louder than this in Miami? We know they love to pack this place, but they are boisterous tonight. They are boisterous tonight. Fun. I'd love to do a whole game in my worst possible announcer's voice. You should try that Billy. I think you'd run out of breath. Come by tomorrow Greg. I think you'd run out of breath if we did it just for the last ten minutes of this show. Do you want to try it? Do you want to try to just talk in your pukey broadcaster voice

the rest of the way? If I had anything left to say I would. Alright, let's do it. You be my co-host as just pukey broadcaster man. I have an assortment of things to go to. The first thing I need to go to is I need the listeners of this show who like to be around some good parties that we throw around here in Miami to save the date for what it is that I'm putting up on the screen here. We're going to have a couple of weeks of buildup into what it is that this is, but can you guys tell me what you think this is I don't know who around here knows what because Precious Little has been set up about this event but we're gonna have a party that's gonna reveal itself in parts

over the next week we will give you more information but we're asking you to save April 13th as the date if you want you guys said earlier in the show that I use my father and have done it too much for too many years and may do it again tonight when it comes to banging the drums slowly at the Panther game but my father is coming out of retirement and he is going to be a part of something that remains a mystery till now but do you know what you're asking to be saving the date on April 13th do you or anyone else in the data the NFL draft? Is it?

It is not. Okay. It's pretty close. Okay. I think it's the 24th. So Matt is not close. Oh, well, you know, that kind of thing. Okay, you just stay in that voice.

Okay, just save the date, that's all we're gonna tell you. We'll break that out in pieces. The SOD. The other thing I wanted to get to is the funny thing that just happened in the back of the room I wish Chris Cody were here because he would be able to Explain to me how annoying this is that his father does this Greg Cody uses his phone the voice He uses the voice activation to send his texts and what he just sent us a text as

I'm having trouble Finding anyone who might want to go for tonight's great honor at the panther game what he just said into his phone to somebody is No, sweet tonight Period that's the text he just voiced into his phone And I think that's Greg Cody canceling on being a part of what it is we're doing tonight because he just learned that there will not be a suite involved in what we're doing tonight. Who did you just send that voice text to? I sent it to Christopher. I was sold a bill of goods. You came too cheap. You're gonna negotiate a better deal with the Florida Panthers. You see how you can't do it for a whole game? I'm doing it right now.

No, you've fallen apart on Broadcaster Voice. No, I'm doing it right now. You couldn't do it for two and a half minutes. So where are you sitting? I don't know. I have a pretty good idea of where they're gonna put you. How many people are in your crew? It is gonna be four of us.

We've got four tickets, but I was asking who wanted them, and it didn't seem like anybody wanted them. What was it? I have a pretty good idea of where they're gonna put you, and that is, you may see Marino. Wow. In the end, you are where the VIPs go. I don't think that's what people-

How much are the tickets, Dan? I once saw Shane McMahon there. Roy, you saw what happened in the eating area moments ago. What just happened? Explain to the audience what just happened as Billy howled with laughter and then walked away from everything that was happening. Well, you're gonna sit in a different area,

but the Panthers have gifted us four tickets. Those tickets are not gonna be near where you're gonna be sitting. Where you're gonna be sitting? Get the smoked Old Fashioned. It's legendary. I wanted to give tickets to a group of people who wanted them.

Nobody seemed to want them. That's not exactly what happened. This is the first that I'm learning. Legendary I wanted to give tickets to a group of people who wanted them nobody said That's not exactly what happened No, well you you're lucky because what we got was do you want to come watch me bang the drum? Hmm cuz I have the opportunity for you to pay thirty seven dollars to go watch me pick the drum and we're like No, did he extend this invite to anyone Anyone that was willing to pay $37. Yeah, everything goes. $37 bucks. Yeah, it was like, I could choose two of you, and the rest of you can come.

Just don't sit with the emperor. Plus parking. You have to drive to sunrise and pay $37. I have to rent a Lexus so I get free parking. Oh, you can come with me. Exactly right. You can come with me. Billy, I have a Lexus.

They don't do that anymore. They don't do that anymore? And then I have to start figuring out like morally, am I okay, like I know there's signs, but morally, am I okay parking at Sawgrass and walking across the street or is that like a situation? It's far too, it's a far one. Thank you.

Just gets it. Okay, that's the Rainforest Cafe. Exactly right. Pull up some zebra legs. I've always, you know, I've always thought that, right? Cause it says like this parking is reserved for customers only, right? And like they have that, the hard rock too. So if I were to go into Walmart and buy a Snickers

bar and then put my receipt on the console of my car, I could not get towed because I was a customer of Walmart. Now granted, I have spent four hours at a football game as a result and I had free parking. But I was a customer of Walmart. You see my receipt right here. I bought a Snickers bar, correct How would that hold up in court? Well, I think they have people out there spotting to see who's who's crossing the street Yeah, but if I but I was a customer it depends if the judge is the guy from the Cal game who knows Dan Yeah, Dan's maybe you'll put in a favor Greg can I have your phone for a second? No. No, can I have it for a second? I'd like to hear or see what it is the back and forth with your son was when you said no suite tonight.

Did he answer? No, he didn't. That's what I was looking for. He's afraid of me, obviously, because he sold me a bill of goods. He told me the Levitard Show's gonna have its own suite, which, you know, reads open bar, if I'm being honest. But you should have a, Dan Marino had a suite

when he banged the drum. Look, I am not responsible for any of the details on this i haven't even decided if i'm doing a little bit of your business to negotiate a better deal off now for four free tickets where they're gonna put you do the drum just so you can hang out in this uh... this area i have to be able to eat any of it mike i heard as a she i don't know if this is allowed to go on air dance so i may have pop out but i i

saw a draft of what the know if this is allowed to go on air, Dan, so I make a pow pow, but I saw a draft of what the intro for Dan is supposed to be. Do you wanna hear the intro? No, well, hold on. Yes, I do wanna hear the intro, but the reason I wanna hear the intro is because I have not agreed to anything. I am looking to make a mockery where I can of this.

They've already made a mockery of it. And so when they ask me how I want to be introduced because because it's Vamos Gatos night, how Hispanic do you want to be? My answer was I want to be introduced as being from the Gulf of America. That's up. But that doesn't have to be counterintuitive, though being Hispanic. You're not from, you were not, you were born in New Jersey. I know, but I want to come across as publicly, I want to make a political stand if I'm going to sell my journalism. I know, but I want to come across as publicly, I want to make a political stand if I'm going to sell my journalism. And so what I had sent to them is that I

want to be introduced as from the Gulf of America, Dan Leviton. Shouldn't it be Gulf of Mexico then? Wouldn't that be the stance? No, I want to do it their way. I don't want to do Gulf of Mexico. I want to do it Gulf of America. I mean, I would rescind the invitation immediately.

Well, I don't know what they're going to do. Like Like what? You're gonna go out of your way to inject politics into this? Yes, yes. That's correct because it's such a silly thing. That's correct. No, it's pandering. Now it's a silly thing. It's pandering. It's not a great honor that they... Thank you. It's a great honor that they reserve for all-time greats, like the greatest ever, to do their things. But okay. But it's silly.

Everybody else had a sweet except Levitard. He's in a sweet. He's in the creme de la creme sweet. Yeah. Just everybody else is in. We have to pay $37 to see him. He's in the sweet. What is that?

So here is, I don't know, that was your invitation. That's quite the discount by the way for Tinkle. If we're gonna be fair, Dan, like you would invite everyone to pay to come to your birthday party every year So this is I'm starting to notice a pattern here. You know what I mean? Wait actually? Here's what yeah, Moss. So here's what I learned. This is this is what the description was

Cuban-born Miami native radio podcast and TV host Dan Lebatard Now Cuban-born, what do they mean by that? Yeah, what do they mean by that? Jersey City? I wasn't born in Cuba. Like why would they put Cuban? You are Cuban born in that you're you're 100% Cuban, right? I'm Cuban American. So you're Cuban American born. That's right. But that's not how you say that. Just like Cody Rhodes. That is not a Cuban American dream. Was he busy tonight or? Yeah, he's on. He had to have been asked first. Wow. It has to be a long list of people that were asked first, I would assume.

You think they asked Mark Cuban? That would be a great way. That, he would be Cuban born. He would be more Cuban born than I would be. Ha ha ha ha. Who was writing was that, and how is it that you could look at me in a straight face and say that you think I'm trying to charge you?

$37 to come to this game I'm just saying when Kristen came around and said if you guys want to go anyone's welcome to come We said okay great as you said $37 and that's less less convenience fees, which is like But that's what the Panthers are doing and does that mean those are good seats or bad seats? I can't imagine they're great Well, I I know that they're upper deck Binoculars to see you in a suite That's not my choosing on that that's how the Panthers do this No, they don't know normally when you bang a drum, they give you a suite. Thank you negotiate the right deal

He's going Michael. Merida was not in the upper deck seeing his dad downstairs Yeah, you know what I mean Mike and footy were downstairs in the suite. I don't want to do any of this Like I simply don't want to do it. How how has it become something that charges people who work here? $37 plus they're basically taking on They're making me drive all the way up there to charge our employees $150 to not be able to eat with me? They're giving you four free tickets. You did get four.

They're not free! Yours are. Yours are. Yours are. And in this place, top shelf. But no, those are the tickets that I was trying to give away! No, but you can't just... They're not going to let Mike Malley go into where you're going. Yeah, Malley's not going to.

Malley! You're going to have like Ethan Badowski show up with you thinking that he can have some of this sushi. I have two tickets. I have two tickets. It's me and my wife and two tickets. Yeah, so four tickets in all. Ethan might actually be the only person who would go.

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