The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: We Taught Mina Kimes How To Do TV

Episode Date: March 5, 2025

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Baby, you light up my world like nobody else do it. It's the biggest thing on earth. And when you smile at the ground, it ain't hard to tell that you don't know. Oh, you don't know you're beautiful. All right, he had it. Told ya. He did have it.

The Kentucky fraud chickens are no longer undefeated. Holy eyebrows. I don't think that that's very nice. There's no need to come after. Mike Ryan was asking me a couple weeks ago. What's going on with my eyebrows? Well Saw an old picture of myself. That's that's the au natural right there. You sing so sensually I want you to know that all the time. No wonder your wife is actually really hot. Yep Thank you, Jessica Shia LaBeouf ladies and gentlemen the I see that I'll take it

But from holes even Stevens. Oh, yeah, or holes either from North Luigi browse You thread bro, please bro The question I have a look at me Luigi. I was gonna play but the power went out So the thing the soundboard has short circuited can we can we play the video please of the power going out at the end of reality because this has happened during Dan Patrick as well we are having trouble keeping the lights on at metal arc media religiously all the time time our pal. Oh, lights out. There's a radio. There we go. That was amazing. So you're worried about my camera angle and now you guys can't keep the lights.

Jessica was having a whole lot of Jessica. That was a Jessica cam and you were both scared and then horrified by the. I mean, it was terrifying, dad. This building makes weird noises and then sometimes the power just suddenly goes out and the lights, when the lights came back, they were brighter than the lights are right now. I was blinded. And it was, as he was saying, I watch it religiously. Vroom, vroom.

We were smote. So I don't know, cause I wasn't here the last time this happened, but I know that the lights went out out there too. Like everything went out for just a second other than the Zoom connection. I guess the internet stayed on. We have backups here.

That's why we were able to stay on YouTube, the whole building lost power for a time, but thank you to our tech team. Robert and I came. Thank you for failing though. Yes. Failed it first. That's the metal art way. We fixed the problem.

We fixed the problem that we created. We messed up. It wasn't our fault the power went out. You're blaming Robert and GQ for the whole building losing power? Well, I mean, it didn't happen at the clue. I can see it in GQ. Bob never let the lights go out. I'll tell you that.

That's true. Bob Cobb. What was his name? Bob Hobb something? Cobb something? Bob Cobbler. Bob Cobbler. He's always working on that. He's always in Buffalo working on that barn. I wonder how that barn's doing. Bob's not in Buffalo in a barn. He's Greg in White Lotus, right? He took our money. I think Jessica has like an HR claim just based on the ISO shots that they take of her all the time. Because like the power going out just having the shot on Jessica with like bright lights while she's confused and maybe terrified. The part I don't get is why don't we ever have the camera on her when she's sneezing though because that's what I'm always asking for and it's never on her then. No Jason only cuts to me when I'm taking a large bite of a sandwich yawning at a very

bad moment. We all yawn okay when I'm like looking at my phone in the middle of something Billy looks at his phone all day, all day. Whoa! Never when I'm looking at my phone in the middle of something, Billy looks at his phone all day, all day. Never cuts to Billy looking at his phone. They also cut to you apparently when you turn into a vampire because the lights are on. I heard you hiss. It was strange. It was a love story.

But it was very bright. Yes, an eternal love story. Nosferatu, I will always swear by it. I still don't understand why Jessica doesn't get that I was joking on that. Why'd she turn on me here? I mean, I was trying to support her on an HR claim. I'm in hard money!

Jeez. The thing that I wanted to ask you guys, and I make actually this request of the people in the sports media who cover the sports media, go make ESPN answer why that show's being canceled. Somebody ask the questions for why. I just, I'm curious. I'd like to know why Around the Horn is being let go.

I think a loyal audience deserves at least the question being asked. Can I do some reckless speculation? Sure, well, but the thing doesn't work because I don't have the sounder here so you're gonna have to wait until Chris Cody because my soundboard has gone completely off and I don't have any access to any sound so we're gonna have to wait until you're good. Are you ready Chris Cody? Time to throw away all journalistic credibility and get reckless. Here is something we like to

call reckless speculation. You're good. Thank you. You know, without the you're good, it's just a sounder and then I'm maybe I'm putting myself at risk. Reckless speculation. It's because there aren't enough athletes on the show. If you watch ESPN shows more and more, it's like how can we get closer to an entirely athlete cast and slash or Stephen A. Smith. Point of the two. If you're not all athletes and slash or Stephen A. Smith, then you can't do a show on ESPN.

PTI, your days are numbered. Whoa. PTI's days are numbered. Whoa, be careful, Amin. I don't, what are you looking, Billy? You're just saying, oh, mortality, okay, good. I see it in your eyes. I didn't say that.

I saw it in your eyes. I saw. I mean, you had a host who was hiding in his attic for four years. You know, you never chose between Jimmy Johnson and Pat Riley. You never did. That's true, Amin.

One's gotta go. Thank you for being a journalist here. Which one, Dan-o? I'll do it tomorrow, because I never got to do anything that I wanted to do with Pat Riley and Jimmy Johnson. Now you guys took the show from me and wouldn't let me have it back. Well, no, you guys started talking about the Warriors

for 40 minutes for some reason. Nope, he started with ice cream and cookies. That's where we started. You guys are gonna blame this on me when we spent 20 minutes on White Lotus, and you're gonna blame it on me. That was the best 20 minutes of the day. I can give you 20 more! If we spent 20 minutes on White Lotus, and you're gonna blame it on me. That was the best 20 minutes of the day.

That's a good one. I can give you 20 more. If we wanna get into fan theories, Dan. Patrick Schwarzenegger, douche. Why do they keep showing the weird relationship between him and his brother? Where do we think that ends up? Who's the weird one?

Is it him or is it the brother? They're both weird. Him, cause he's the older one, I think. The younger one, like. He's finding himself. Yeah, like, I don't one. I think the younger one, like. He's finding himself. Yeah, like, I don't know. If you grow up with a brother like that, maybe that's why you're a little weird.

Why are you feuding with Mina Kimes? I'm not feuding with Mina Kimes. I just called her an ingrate, that's all. Aggressive? That's not, that's not feuding. Why did you call Mina an ingrate? Well, I saw, look, I come across these things, right, on the internet, and they make me go, huh.

And so I don't know if you guys saw this. Do you guys see what Mina said? I don't know what she said. I don't know why she's feuding with you. I don't know why you're feuding with her. I don't know why she's an ingrate. She's not feuding with me, I'm not feuding with her, but this is a quote from Mina Kimes. The show that gave me the confidence to even believe someone like me could do TV.

Pardonne Moi, Around the Horn. The only reason she was on Around the Horn was because of a little program called The Dan Levitard Show with Stugatz and another little program called Highly Questionable. That's not true. That is true. No, it's not They found her on around the horn and then booked her on this show. She was on that show first But we gave her the confidence. Is that true? I don't even know. Same with Sarah Spain and Pablo. I don't even I don't I actually think that I think that Mina and Pablo were called as as business journalist and as, in Pablo's case, as Sports Illustrated researcher. I believe that we had them on first.

I don't know. I thought so, though. I think so, too. Those two, not any of the others. Now I'm gonna do some reporting, BRB. And by the way, let's play this out. Billy Gill, Mark, whatever your name is, let's play it out.

Let's just assume she was on Around the Horn First. You know what she was on Around the Horn before she came on this show here? Forgettable. Excuse me though. She came on this show and Dan and Stu got coached her up on how to give takes. I'm seeing that Mina Kimes made her first appearance

on Around the Horn on March 30th, 2017. So let's see if we can. Pablo was on Around the Horn first, October 2012. Look, I can't talk about Pablo because he didn't tweet out the show that gave me the confidence. Is it not up to Mina to decide what show gave her the confidence?

It's not up to her because we put in so much work and development here. This is the training ground. This is where the Crucible was experienced. I don't know what happens with crucibles. They burn them. They don't burn crucibles. At crucibles, it's sort of crossroads.

This was the crossroads. I don't know what does happen with crucibles. Something that, whatever happens with crucibles, her crucible happened here, right? I was there. I saw Dan tell her, Mina, you've got to just be more relaxed. I saw Stu got to say, Mina, you gotta just be more relaxed. I saw Stu got to say, Mina, this is how you deliver a hot take, you're doing it, you're doing this meandering

nuance thing, it's gotta be definitive and declarative. And then I saw her go back to around the horn and kill it. You know why? Because she's a talent, she's a great talent. But every talent needs coaching. I know Dan Leventhal doesn't believe in coaching. I believe in coaching, I believe in molding,ing I believe in shaping and I believe all those things happen here in the 305 on 305 day no less no one has even mentioned it we're losing recipes what's happening

with this show you guys are just letting everyone just take our shit across generations because the women aren't cooking anymore. Pablo said he was on Around the Horn first and on 2012. Also, the crucible's about the Salem witch trials, but it's an allegory for McCarthyism, I believe. Thank you. Oh, that was a good movie. We got to the bottom of the saving the bacon yesterday

to the welfare. Who saved it? Well, so let me get it. I texted Dan the explanation, because he was texting us hours later. Mike Ryan said that Ed Reed saved their bacon at Boston College, and he also said Purple Shirt Guy is a South Florida forever moment,

Mount Rushmore on saving the bacon. But I asked Billy what, I didn't understand, that I missed it. I'm getting old, I've lost a step. I didn't understand the phrase saving the bacon. Do any of you know the origins of the phrase of what it means to save someone's bacon? I've heard of bringing home the bacon.

I've never heard of saving the bacon. So while I was getting ready for the FIU-UM game yesterday, I did some research and I sent it to Dan, but I'm assuming he brought it up because he wants me to explain to the class. So it goes back to the time before refrigerators were readily available to every house. So you'd have one person per block

that would keep things cold for people, thus they'd save the bacon. Well that's not, that can't be real. They had ice boxes, right? I see an interview with Mina on our show a year and a half before her first Around the Horn. Say it again Chris, for the haters in the back! I see an interview with Mina on our show a year and a half before her first Around the Horn appearance. Say it again, Chris, for the haters in the back! I see an interview with Mina times a year and a half

before she was with... Fire up the victory lap right now. Okay, victory lap, I mean, I think he's right. I texted Mina, I'm awaiting confirmation. And I'm gonna say, I think we've got it wrong on Pablo. I don't think Pablo was on Around the Horn before he was on here, because I believe he was a researcher still at Sports Illustrated or only had written his very first article

at Sports Illustrated. We will get the victory lap for Amin Elhassen but where are you Billy? Because I've been wanting to get all show to whatever it is your cheese conundrum is because I don't know what your cheese conundrum is. We were supposed to go over it with Samson and for some reason it got away from us. What is your cheese conundrum? I was hoping to ask David about the cheese conundrum that I have just because he's someone that would answer this.

Now, I have in my hand that I took out of my pocket a piece of cheese. You see this cheese? Ooh, a Baybell. A Baybell. What would you call this type of cheese? It's the cheese that has like the wax around it that you have to like peel off. A small circular thing of cheese. A wheel of cheese that is covered by a red plastic so it

it looks like almost a ball. Yeah well it has like it's wax casing around it or whatever it is that you take off and and then around that, it has a plastic wrapper. Now, here's the part that's disgusting, and this is where I have the conundrum, and as you can see, I haven't made a decision yet, but I'm holding it, so it's still disgusting. I dropped this piece of cheese in the garage on my way in, fell on the floor less than five seconds,

four seconds, I counted, one, two, three, four, and then I grabbed it, so I was deciding, what do I do with this? And then I have to decide, do I throw this away, because who would eat a piece of cheese that fell on the floor in the garage at Bayside while you're going to walk in? Oh, but no, but wait a minute,

it's covered in the red wrapping. Well, that's the thing, it has two layers of security. So I was going to throw it away, and then I thought to myself, there's not one, but two layers of security, there's the thing it has two layers of security So I was going to throw it away, and then I thought to myself. There's not one but two layers of security There's the plastic around it And then there's the wax around it because how can you say I'm gonna eat a piece of cheese that fell on the floor of a garage? People urinate in there. That's the thing Now I have hands from other people's peepee that was on the floor that probably touched this. Wash your hands, but the covering, it's not even the paper that's protecting you there.

The wax is protecting you. Clean your pee pee hands and just unwrap it, the wax, man. You could drop that in almost anything. You could drop that practically in a toilet and still be okay with that wax. I don't know about that. I don't know if this is like watertight seal, but like the question is, is I don't,

that's what we're saying, right? But I know if I then eat this piece of cheese, people will then say no, you can't, like it fell on the floor of a garage, you should have thrown it away. Hold on. But there's so many starving people in the world, Dave. I don't think you should throw that away,

and I think the wax protects you. I think the paper protects you, but I think the wax protects you. We're gonna go to a mean in a second here. He is getting ready in the other room. And oh, he looks like he's ready. Okay, I think we're gonna let him get a little bit tired before we go to the victory lap. I'm not gonna get tired, Dan. By the way, the victory lap is brought to you by me for being right! Okay, Mina claims over text to mean that she went on around the horn at this around the same time she came on the lebatard show not around the same time

a year and a half Chris proved it well Chris proves it was on with us a year and a half before her first year and a half ladies and gentlemen she was dreaming about around the horn when we were putting in all the work now I will say I will say only erupt the victory know man, I'm doing my victory lap. Hey, hey, you know what you learned here? How not to dab up Poppy. Remember that? Remember that was a thing?

We did that! America didn't know your personality until that Mina. Oh, oh, I learned how to do TV on Around the Horn. Pshaw, pshaw I say! Oh, oh, pshaw I say while sprinting. The sound of him running. No one's ever committed to that. This is how it should have been done from the beginning. This is how Dan wants it, you know what?

Yes! We're doing something new, Dan. Yes. I hear your complaints. We're following your lead and not for the disrespect of the Dan Levitard show and Dan Levitard. We're doing things the Dan way. He wants me to sprint and be out of breath and spit when they talk.

Guess what? I'm doing it right now because this is the victory lap. I was right. Dan was right. Mina capitulate at once. Back to you guys. This is what Dan's always wanted right here. So good this way.

He's pulling up his pants. My pants are falling down. Just don't pan down. You'll see my crotch. He's pulling down his pants. And he's unreasonably angry. It's only he was in a costume. Billy, what's wrong with your cheese?

I ate the cheese. And I regret it not because it fell in the floor ate the cheese and I regret it, not because it fell in the floor of the garage, but because it's been in my pocket for four hours and it was warm and not good. I thought we were gonna get to this a lot sooner and I didn't put it in the fridge and it was bad cheese. What is happening with you

and your shadow show contention, Billy, that Jeff Konine is Dwyane Wade. I don't think that- This is crazy what Billy was doing. No, no. We're just having a conversation out there, like a regular sports conversation, and everybody was like screaming at me.

I feel like ridiculous. The setup was somebody compared Jeff Konine to Donnis Haslam, legends of these teams who are known more for what they meant to the teams more than what they actually did on the field. And then Billy of course had to do the Billy thing and say no, Jeff Konine is not. No, you're telling the story bad.

Okay, go on. This is what happened. You guys were talking about Jeff Konine and is he like, it was really who's. Eudonnis Haslem. Yeah, who's the Marlins like Dwayne Wade? You guys were talking about Jeff Konine and is he like it was really Donnas Haslam Who's yeah, who's the Marlins like Dwayne Wade and then someone's like I guess it's Jeff Konine And then like Jeremy's like, oh are you saying something bad about my Dwayne never not never say anything This is also not the right not Jeff Konine So then they were saying like no, he's not even on Dwayne Wade's level. Like, Jeff Konine played for a million teams and were like, well, well, some kind of Dwayne

Wade a little bit there. You're the one who said all of those things. And then they were like, well, Jeff Konine was never an All-Star or an MVP. I was like, he was actually an All-Star game MVP. And wait a minute, so was Dwayne Wade, an All-Star game MVP. And Jeff Konine won two championships with the Marlins, and Dwayne Wade won an All-Star game MVP, and Jeff Konine won two championships with the Marlins, and Dwayne Wade won three with the Heat. I was like, their careers are actually pretty paralleled.

Like, Dwayne Wade is kind of Jeff Konine. So insulting. If you have Wade over here, and you have Eudonnis Haslem over here, and you have Jeff Konine in the middle, Jeff Konine is more towards the Eudonnis Haslem. He's not, like, he's known, he's popular with the fan base, but he was never the best player on his team.

He's more thought of as like a leader, a franchise great, but not for what he did on the field. Just kind of like, you know, being a good team guy. I don't think Jeff Konine is the greatest baseball player ever, just to be clear on this. I'm just saying. Who's a better heat player of all time than Dwyane Wade? Like how can you- LeBron James.

Oh, stop this. I mean, we can name a player or two that we can argue about as it relates to Dwyane Wade. We can name a lot of players who were better in all of the seasons than Jeff Konine was. I'm saying their careers had a lot of parallels is what I was saying and I was being so, how could you even put a coach,

heat, Dwyane Wade, all the keys under the doormat. It's specifically because you said. Parallels is what I was saying and I was being so how could you Wait, oh the keys under the dormitory specifically because you said me and stereo Jeff. Konine is Not you Donis haslem Jeff. Konine is Dwayne Wade came out of your mouth was Jeff. Konine Yeah, we drove. Yeah, we didn't there, we ended up there after we were comparing all of the things. You start connecting the dots and then you see the picture of the dog.

The only difference between Jeff Konine and Eudonnis Haslem is like one all-star game for Jeff Konine. Without Jeff Konine making that one all-star game, he would be Eudonnis Haslem. That's this is, I hate this. I like Billy looking at his usual suspect's cork board and making the connections between Jeff Kona

and Dwayne Wade. But what is this spectrum that we speak of between Dwayne Wade and Udonis Haslam? Like the spectrum that Chris Cody is objecting to. Because Haslam is, I think this is looking at any franchise and going career legends, right? Career legends for a franchise. And the Dwayne Wade side of it is

also the most excellent player on the floor. And the Udonis Haslem side is the other side of what it is to be a career legend. Leadership being your most important part of what is giving you that. Popular with fans. And if we're making a sliding scale from excellence to popularity,

probably gonna put Conan a little closer to the popularity side. sliding scale from excellence to popularity, probably gonna put Konine a little closer to the popularity side, and that's not a knock against Jeff Konine the player. Dan, I'm gonna tell you right now, you love feuds. Right now, this show that you've lost control of, that I will help you get control back of. Get the reins. This show's about the feud with Udonis Hazelman.

That's a feud. That's crazy, on 305 day, which insane like I don't know why I'm saying Donis has him was a great player you keep going on a great player no way wait is the greatest player no I know what you say well you keep keeping up also for this Dwayne way that Dan told us earlier And I quote he's a liar liar Are you guys putting me in a spot to be have Jeff Coneye and you Donis has Lamad at me and Dwayne Wade? Cuz Dan called him a liar earlier said he made up that cookie thing just to make Pat Riley look bad who may or may not have something else going on We'll never know if you fight any of my dad rather be mad at you, too

And now you're really in that I can't have because that means Alonzo morning's mad at you I don't know what's true on the joint Dwayne Wade thing I'm just telling you that the heat are saying that that's not true from every orifice and angle of every part of the organization They're saying that Dwayne's story is not true. The Jeff Konine and Dwayne Wade comparison is not that crazy. It's just a normal sports conversation that was going on out there.

And these people act like it's blasphemy and how could you even have a conversation? I don't recognize you today in a lot of ways and it's Wild Billy Wednesday. And so that's one of the things that's unpredictable about Wednesdays here. Because you also were somebody who was telling us today, and this isn't how I think of you generally,

sort of motivationally, inspirationally, you were telling us to dream big, to dare to dream big. And I don't know what the inspiration was for you trying to tell all of us as sort of a slogan on behalf of Caring It Metal Art to dare to dream big. Well, that was just because I was thinking back to when we were at Radio Row and we had an interview with Matthew Barry, who you know spoke to Jay-Z,

but it wasn't about the time that he was interviewing Jay-Z. So we were talking to him actually about being like a big Jimmy Buffett fan and being a Parrothead fan. And then one thing led to another. And I don't know exactly what part of the clip was, but he told us of a dream that he had. And that dream came from an experience that he had

when he was at a Margaritaville resort. And- There's a lot you don't know about that, Barry. I know. Quite the onion. The Flow Rider was great. I literally looked into like how much would it cost to get one in my backyard?

And then it's like then it's crazy expensive. So I was like, it's well over seven figures. Yeah. Over? What? Yes, yes, yes. Wow. They told me it's one five to two.

And I'm like, really? What? Yeah. So I was like, never mind. Wait, you're going to put it in your yard? Yeah, my backyard. I love this. Matt, I swear, I thought you were going to say, so I got one.

No. No, no, no. It's hard to justify. No, no, come on. No, but I thought it could have to say, so I got one. No. No, no, no. It's hard to justify. No, no, wait, come on. No, but I thought, like, you know, could it cost maybe a little bit more than a pool? You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know, kind of thing. And like, I don't know. You were thinking the $70,000 ranch, right? Yeah, that's right. Exactly. I thought, like, you know. Finance it a little bit. Yeah, you know, is that right?

You can kind of explain that away. Yeah, yeah. Just like. Over a million dollars. I mean, I have five kids. You know what I mean? You're always looking for, you know, at the tiny way, whatever, don't matter. So Flowrider, for those of you who don't know,

is like a surfing simulator that they have like on cruise ships and stuff like that. So it's like a wave machine, essentially, where you can like surf. And he has the dream, or had the dream, of putting one and installing one in his backyard until he found out it was almost $2.5 million. And I said, you know what?

Well, some people see this story and they think it's ridiculous. Dream big, Matthew Barry. I hope you get that contract where you can put a two million dollar surfing simulator in your backyard. And I feel like we should all aspire to dream that big. I think all of us thought he meant Flowrider, the recording artist.

Oh, that's 100%. Like out of Bar Mitzvah. I feel like you get Flowrider for like 75 grand. No way. No way? You spin my head round, round, round, round. Dude, Flo Rida Mount Rushmore of treadmill performers. You listen to Flo Rida on a treadmill? My house. Oh my god.

Oh, I thought you were meant like performers on a treadmill like that band, OK GO, that did the whole video on this treadmill. Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo. Yeah. The Dan Levitard Show with Stu Gotz is sponsored by BetterHelp.

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cold shots of Jägermeister. Damn that's cold! And remember to check Jägermeister out at DraftKingsXJägermeister.com. Drink responsibly Jägermeister Liqueur 35% alcohol by volume imported by Mass Jägermeister US. White Plains New York. Darn Lebertard. Again, started on the breakfast flan. Oh man, I've been singing the song to myself all morning while I'm, breakfast flan. Stugats. Have you never heard the breakfast flan song?

No, hit me with it. Okay, I wish I had some breakfast flan. Da da da da da da da da da. Breakfast flan. Da da da da da da da da da da. Breakfast, Flaunt. Da da da da da da da da da da. Where can I find a breakfast like that? Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da. Da da da da da da da da.

This is the Don LeBretard Show with the Stoogats. As part of our 20 year anniversary celebration, we're letting you look behind the scenes, behind the bit. Here is Highly Questionable with Poppy, which I'm assuming is going to have that ingrate mean of kind in it. This is. This is behind the bit. This is behind the bit. This is behind the bit.

We take you back to a better time in the show's history, a time at least for me where I was happiest because we were at ESPN. ["Spy Up"] And like this is the true story of how it is that highly questionable came to be. I'm not even making this up. This is exactly how it happened.

My father loses his job and at 57, 58, being the provider, loses his identity, shows up at the office, all his shit is in a garbage can. That's it. His career is over. It's done. Now he's spiraling at home and my mom doesn't know what to do with him and the guy who identifies as a provider can't just be puttering around doing nothing with no identity, not knowing what to do. So, the idea of putting him on the television show was how

do I get my father who needs some rigid patterns, who needs some scheduling, who's been going to work every day from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.? What can I do to make sure that my parents are good and that retirement for them isn't me or my family having to pick up a whole bunch of pieces because my father's going a little bit crazy. And so that was a gift to him and the contrivance and work in television that I didn't even particularly want to do necessarily, just in order to make sure that our family wasn't destroyed because my father would have gone a little bit nuts retiring that way. Then you did a show together at ESPN. Can you tell us how that came about? I thought that, well, what is he talking about? Well, you know, I thought that he was joking. I said, well, you know, I couldn't believe it. I never believed it until I was on the

set. I thought that the show was going to last for about four to six weeks. I said, Thinny, this thing is so hard to work. It's a terrible idea. Clearly a terrible idea. It'll never work. A man who doesn't know that much about sports doing the hosting of the show in his second language. How could it possibly fail?

Yeah, I figure, you know, it's going to explode like a big bomb after six weeks. Yeah, four to six weeks is what he gave it. Great confidence in his son. He must have figured he's... Terrible idea. My son has terrible judgment. Everybody calls you poppy. What is that like where everybody's calling you poppy that are not your children? Well, I mean, you know, it was something that I was not really expecting. I guess that this issue to call me Papi, that's not a solo. Don Salo is a very difficult name to spell. So I said, Papi, okay, I'll take it.

If they want to call me Papi, fine, you know? As soon as we are doing the show, I didn't mind at all. If there is a legacy that I could choose for our show, it would look a lot like that, that people on the street would call him in Spanish, the word for father. If that's all you give me from that show,

that's a pretty cool thing to have. Have you been recognized on the street? Yes, yes. And now, not that much, not that much. He's a has-been, he's a has-been. He used to have some A-list celebrity, but then he left ESPN, and now all of a sudden, occasionally he gets half a tuna sandwich,

but there aren't that many people recognizing him anymore. It was a good tuna sandwich. It was a good tuna sandwich. Highly questionable, how many funny beats? Created by me, by The Handshake Beat. Hell of a segment. Ah! Great. Ah! Great.

Ah! I got him. It got a little, you got a little. Ah! I got him, I got him, I got him. Give me a big hand, Joe. Ah, I got him. Give me five.

Oh, no! Ah, I got him. He's a rookie. He's a rookie. Great job, buddy. Oh, thanks. No! No!

Great job. Ah, I got him, I got him. Ah! No! No! Rachel. No! I got hit, I got hit! Oh, you! No! No! No!

I can't, oh. Oh, no! No! No! No! No! No! It's always the same prank.

My father only had one prank. He would stick his hand out and then do this. That was it. It wasn't the height of comedic genius. It was not ingenuity. It was not Disney originality the way you think of it. It wasn't the height of comedic genius. It was not ingenuity. It was not Disney originality the way you think of it. It was one move. He's a one trick phony.

One trick pony. That's what I did. One trick phony is what I just made him. And then, of course, there was my classic banana fun bit. I saved the show with this. Was there something with a banana? Oh, the banana. Yeah, the banana too. I came up with that one. Was there something with a banana? Oh, the banana. Yeah, the banana, too.

I came up with that one. That was my original one. That's right. The banana phone is a poppy original. My father one day, what is it that you did? For some reason, you pretended that the banana, the fake fruit on the set was ringing and you answered the phone.

Ring, ring, ring. Let's go. Hello? Hey, Dan, how are Let's go. Hello? Hey, Dan, how are you, buddy? Everything good? Yeah, the show went very well, yeah. Easy and Frank, yeah, they are doing the show with me. These guys are pretty good, yeah.

Huh? Yeah, you want to talk to Frank? All right, hold on for a second. Yeah, you're Frank. I got him, I got him, I got him! Oh! Ha ha ha ha! I thought he wanted to talk to me.

Yeah, we were stuck and they needed something different, so I grab it, I put it on my ear and say, Juanito, what's going on, buddy? That's right. How you doing today? You got my numbers for today? That's right. His bookie, his bookie would call him on the banana phone.

The important part of that though is what my father said at the beginning. We were stuck one day. We were stuck. And I had to go to the magic treasure chest of comedy. There was a banana there and I made it a telephone. It was true. It was true. It was true.

We were stuck. Everybody froze on the set and I came to the rescue. That's right. So heroic he should have been on a white stallion. Yeah, that was a hell of a show, right? It was a good show. That was a hell of a game, see or no. It was.

My father's favorite, si or no. That's right. On Fox Sports Detroit, Nuggets at Pistons. Oh, our old friend JaVale McGee. My father saw him in a Whole Foods down here in South Florida, went and met him and was all excited. I'm your biggest fan. And JaVale McGee had no interest in my father

and doesn't know who my father is and doesn't care who my father is. Let's see JaVale McGee. Seven and a half and five and a half already has eight points. Oh, JaVale, you've got to make that. Hold on, I don't think you appreciate what just happened here. He tried to dunk on his teammate. And he almost did! Brian Shaw, tune his Brian Shaw shot!

Mamadi, are you intrigued? I'm not especially intrigued, but I do feel like every now and then tuning in to watch the Pistons to see if Stan's got a smile on his face. Is Stan smiling yet? No, never. Papi, are you intrigued? Oh, see, see, I'm very intrigued because I always thought that Javel McGee was my favorite player in the NBA

until I met him here in South Beach. I didn't recognize me, now I think that he's a mother- He carried the show for eight years in the middle of ESPN's lineup, just by saying see. I, whenever I say no, couple of times in about 10 years, everything came to a stop.

Everything fell apart. Everyone got confused. The producers and everybody, right? Yes. And also, Papi, it made the show wonderfully Hispanic. Did you have any feelings or thoughts on that? I felt that there was a large follow on the show. There were Spanish speaking people, you know.

They were attracted, I guess, to my figure. As an old man, maybe a grandfather, used to get letters expressing their liking of the show because of me, my accent, the way I talk, my mannerism. So it was very rewarding that way. I changed my tone of voice on the show, you know. Old red light poppy would turn it on when he needed to. Coming up on my son's TV show.

That's right. Coming up on my son's TV show. It sounds like my son's Stevie's show. My son's Stevie's show. Well, that's the idea. I know, I understand. It's not like I'm not familiar with your work. My father actually didn't name me Luis Orgonzalo,

even though he was going to name me Luis Orgonzalo, because he didn't want me to suffer the racism I might suffer in this country from having a name like that. So he called me Dan instead, a very American name. And then the irony was that when ESPN needed to lock in that unicorn Hispanic demo, his son Dan wasn't Hispanic enough. So he needed to get a cartoon Latin accent

to be next to him on television so they could play see or know and feel more Hispanic. That's a nice shirt, puppy. Is that a new shirt? Did you get that for here? No, your mother bought it for me. It's a good shirt. She probably paid top dollar.

Cha-ching. I never spend that kind of money, but your mother does, so. Is this silk? I don't know. Rayon? I don't know. I always enjoy doing the show

because I had an opportunity to work with Dan and that's a father's dream to be able to work with the son on a national TV show. And I like it because people, they got to know Dan, not the guy that is writing columns or that he's talking on the radio that sounds stuck up. Not the asshole, not the guy who's an asshole. He wanted to show him a different side of Dan.

That's right, because Dan is a nice guy. And people sometimes, most of the time, they used to get your own impression of Dan. But when Dan began working with me on the TV show, then they got to know the real Dan. He was there to help me. My father from the very beginning said that his only goal there was to help me. And in that respect, he did. Howdy folks, it's Mike Ryan.

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