The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Just A Dude Looking Up

Episode Date: October 9, 2024

Today's Cast: Dan, David, Chris, Roy, Mike, Jess. There is no cursing on today's show because there are children are in the studio, and even though he has a child, Chris cannot help himself. The Florida Panthers raised their banner to the rafters of Amerant Bank Arena last night and Roy and Chris were there to take it all in. They share their reaction to this iconic moment in franchise history as well as the news that Carter Verhaeghe has extended his contract for eights years with the Panthers. Plus, Roy finally saw the Stanley Cup! Also, what is the dance Uma Thurman did in Pulp Fiction called? Does David Samson like photo booths? And what's up with airline food? Help out Hurricane Milton victims with food on the frontlines: Give what you can to World Central Kitchen at Donate.WCK.org/LeBatard Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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do you realize, LeBittard, that you guys did an entire three hour show yesterday on the opening of the hockey season and you did not talk about the defending champion Florida Panthers did not even mention it at any point and then we do nothing personal and When we were done with nothing personal I look at David Sampson I say do you realize that we just did a show today after the opening of the NHL season and you didn't mention Hockey at all. I was waiting for Roy Bellamy to get here to celebrate his reign as defending champion and now finally Roy is here because hockey

cannot be celebrated around here until Roy is a part of it. Fantastic night last night man. Watching that banner go up. Oh, I got my picture with the Stanley Cup yesterday. It was fantastic. Everyone has had a picture with the Stanley Cup except me. I need to get it. My seats, I have great seats,

season tickets three years running, right behind the goal that they scored twice on. Look at me, Louis. The banner was raised the exact opposite end of the arena, so I had a terrible view of the banner being raised. I saw it for like 10 seconds and then it was gone. And I was just like, I guess it, I hope it looks good, cause I can't see it.

Well, the most important thing is the opening 10 seconds coming out of the box. That's the most important thing. How did you guys enjoy the presentation? I don't know if any of you saw it personally, the ring in the box that they were, I saw some video of it, we should put it up on the screen when we start the show.

How did you guys feel about the presentation of all of that? Watching their reactions when they opened that box, seeing that video, there was a video monitor in the ring box, and watching their reaction, seeing the ring, that was priceless. One time I just want a player to be underwhelmed by it, like they opened the box and they're just like, meh. Well that would be Alexander Barkov,

he's underwhelmed by everything, he doesn't celebrate or anything. David Sampson is with us here today. You guys remember, have you guys seen the Marlins World Series ring that they got? It's the gaudiest, most ridiculously bejeweled thing that I have ever seen. It's half the size of David Sampson's hand.

I'm a small guy. It's not half the size of a player's hand. Well, that makes sense sense given the former owner, who's an art dealer, really, so he should know about art. Of course he's gonna be gaudy. Every ring, is there a ring that's not gaudy? No, yours is especially gaudy. Even by the standards of ridiculous,

bejeweled championship nonsense, the Marlins championship ring is as big as any I've ever seen. David really ushered in an era of impracticality when it came to these rings. Because since then, everyone's like, well, we can't let the Marlins franchise have a bigger ring than us as a joke of a franchise. Can't allow that.

So everyone's just trying to outsize it when you can't wear these things anymore. The Heat Ring is huge. It's not as big as the Marlins ring. It is. You guys spent more on rings than you did on your outfield. This is the Don LeBattor Show with the Stugats Podcast. Today's episode is sponsored by DraftKings.

Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings and all it has to offer throughout the show. DraftKings, Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings and all it has to offer throughout the show. DraftKings, the crown is yours. I am looking at the championship ring of David Sampson. I've never seen a ring that goes over the knuckle. Like, that's not something that I've ever noticed before. How much did each of those rings cost? I don't know how many you guys had made. I don't know what they're worth. We didn't give it to every season ticket holder, which the Panthers did, which is amazing. If you're a 30 year season ticket holder, you got a ring.

So that's pretty cool. We didn't do that. So we did make a bunch of rings, but not like that. That's the A ring. I don't know if the Panthers had different levels of rings. Were you able to bend your finger with that ring? Did I hurt my finger? Were you able to binge a finger with that ring? Did I hurt my finger? Were you able to binge it all the way?

No. Did you hurt it? It's over the knuckle. You didn't answer my question. How much does each of those rings cost? The reason why it's over my knuckle is that I have very small fingers. You're not going to answer my question?

There is zero chance. OK, let me see if I just kick you out here right off of the top because you're here. Minor penalty two minutes, asshole. You guys are very emotional I imagine for Banner Night last night. You again kicked the holy hell out of Boston. You kind of boston's daddy now boston's gonna say the panthers are our daddy uh... the only banner night that i remember in the history of south florida was

the heat winning the title of chichelle with shakil anneal and dwayne wade and then losing at home by forty to luau Dang when they opened the season. I'm not used to teams just putting a bookmark in the season and continuing the next year with the same feel good that they already gave you. How magical was that last night? It was spectacular, man. I mean, we've been waiting 30 years for this thing.

So to see that banner go up, pretty white one with a border on on it, yeah it was beautiful. I don't know if I was expecting like game seven energy. I don't wanna say I was underwhelmed, but like when the players came out, maybe because we had already cheered so much during the video, I was like, why aren't we giving them more?

I felt almost underwhelmed by the fans. I'm not, I just think it was weird because it's been a long summer of celebration. So maybe we were like celebrated out, but it just, maybe we were just like in awe, but I was expecting more energy from the fans. Were you like Jessica when she drank so much that she passed out and then got up again and drank so much that you get tired and hung over because you've been celebrating? I got to be honest, the season kind of snuck up on me because they've been celebrating. I gotta be honest, the season kinda snuck up on me because they've been celebrating. The last one ended, the last one just ended

minutes ago it feels like, and they've been celebrating since with the Stanley Cup in the ocean over here in Finland. Luongo's eating spaghetti out of it. Wait a second, the season already started? Oh for crying out, it started on Friday. On Friday? What day is it today?

Wednesday? Wednesday. You kidding me? I think the most interesting part of the actual game though was Boston going after Kachuk. Cause obviously in that series, Kachuk and Pasternak had the infamous fight where they're thinking that Kachuk got a few extra shots in and they just were like, we're gonna have penalties,

we're going after him. And he didn't give into them. Cause they wanted to, their bruisers went after him and he basically was like, I'm not fighting you. I'll fight Pasternak, but you can keep getting penalties on me, I'm not fighting you. Yeah, he'll fight Pasternak. That's usually the book on Kachuck.

And in that great Amazon series, he says, I want to be known as the least favorite guy to go up against. So he'll revel in that, but he's not gonna fight their bruisers, no way. That's not a winning proposition. Pasta? He'll take that every day. Professional irritant, Kachuck is the kind of player

that you love to have on your team and everybody else hates. But when he's on your side, he is somebody that just irritates everybody else. I think last night was a little weird, midway through the second period too, when you realize, okay, we got yet another celebrationway through the second period too when you realize okay We got the yet another celebration out of the way and then you realize oh, this is just game one You're just two months removed from living and dying with every rush up and down the ice

With every face off having a legacy on the line when your most recent game from being either champions or the team that blew the biggest lead in in professional sports history when your most recent game from being either champions or the team that blew the biggest lead in professional sports history. So it's gonna take a while for us to ratchet that back up now that we've been there before. Yeah, but they get off to a huge jump. I mean, it was 4-1 at the end of the first period. Like, they weren't playing around, man.

Let's not forget that the Panthers lost three out of four to end last season, so they really were coming out of a slump here, if you really think about it. Okay. You're saying basically that last night is the Bloody Mary that you have the morning after the hangover. You've had way too much the night before,

and now you're just easing into the next day. Hair of the dog. We needed some hair of the dog, see how this fourth line stuck out, and they did. Greer, you're sexy. You're sexy, Greer. Yeah, because you get to know these guys and you become really emotionally invested in guys like Ryan Lombard and Nick Cousins.

Guys that, you know, I don't want to besmirch their careers, but they're journeymen. And you work yourself up into a frenzy while they're here and they become icons, like how are we going to be able to replace this guy? And you realize you have a pretty good general manager. What you guys really need is some manufactured adversity. And what I've seen so far this NHL preseason is everyone's picking Edmonton to win the Stanley Cup again.

No one's giving the Panthers any credit or any chance of repeating. And what you need to do is wear that like a chip on your shoulder and be angry when the season starts. And instead too complacent, too happy with just one. Hemanton is pretty good, though. Very good.

Very good all season. They're the favorite, correct? They're gonna be the betting favorite. Overwhelming favorite in terms of like, prognosticators picking them. Also coming off a heater. Yeah, look, they won three out of the last four. Yeah, yeah, that's true.

One of the things that I believe that you can get excited about here, because as I mentioned, the Shaquille O'Neal banner night that immediately started the next season with the season failing and flailing because Shaq was gone soon thereafter. We've had a couple of Marlins championships that the team gets traded away

immediately after winning the championship. The fact that they signed Carter Verhege for eight years, that they're telling you right now, no, we're going to keep this core together and we're going to try and build what Tampa built with the Lightning. I just can't help but stop there on Tampa and Lightning because I've been Milton obsessed for the last Couple of days that I we're gonna do a hurricane Donation relief donation today hoping that you guys help us help Preemptively what it is that's headed toward Tampa

But Florida is the Panthers are clearly trying to build what's already been built as a hockey state somehow clearly trying to build what's already been built as a hockey state somehow that wins more than Canada does because Carter Verhage for eight years signing him up, that's not what we're used to, stable management with the Panthers. You talked about the 30 years of season ticket holders, they've lived through nothing but 30 years of instability before now. And the signing bonus is such that his base salary for the first year of the deal is $1 million. You're not used to this being a franchise that people in their primes would go and take a discount for.

Some guys older in their careers in years previous would come down here, know that it's back into the retirement tour and just wanna play golf with their off days. But to have guys like Verhage and Forsling, guys that could really cash in in an open market, realize that not only is this a great market to provide all those other things off the field

and balance and a little bit more anonymity, but also this is a place where you could put your roots down and win. That's brand new for this franchise. I saw that they are giving the ring to any season ticket holder member that's been with the team for 30 years. If you've been a 30-year season ticket holder, which is probably... Did you not hear David Sampson already say that?

Oh, no, I didn't. You did. You're the executive producer of the show. You're staring right at him. You know what? You can get out of here, too. Like, he just got done saying that. I don't understand how it is that you wouldn't just. Stand to be fair. We've got a major penalty, five minutes derailing. I wouldn't. Amazing. I don't know about that.

What do you mean you don't know about that? He's still. There's a lot of stuff going on right now. Okay, can we tell people what the office is like today? There's so many children here. There's so many children here, and we have to be very careful to not use curse words in front of them,

except I know for a fact Chris Cody's daughter has already heard every bad word. There's other children here too. Well you know his wife swears like a sailor. It's okay. Whoa throwing Christie on the bus. We have to be careful today. There's a lot of moving pieces in this office. School's out. No one in Broward or Miami's at school today or tomorrow and so today's a little bit of metal arch daycare. It makes it impossible to listen to your teammate

who's speaking right in your face that just told you moments ago that they gave away rings to 30 year season ticket holders, he's the executive producer of the show sitting in the seat, he can't listen. He's like a fighter pilot, he's like David Blatt while in the seat of a fighter plane how rare is it for that to give rings to your 30-year I've not heard of that before to somebody seven of them oh is that there can't be that many I change my mind then is that are you making up that can't be many when you consider everything

I was in there I was in the event And there were a lot of people in there. Yeah, how many? They had their fingers sized up and everything. I don't know, maybe close to 150, probably. 150? That's pretty impressive. For 30 years? Yeah.

How rare is it for a organization to value its most valued customers that way? Do you realize? I obviously know that if they've been with you for 30 years, they are valued customers that way. Do you realize, I obviously know, that if they've been with you for 30 years, they are now customers for life. But you buy people for eternity that way. You buy generations of fandom by doing something like that

where you're just valuing, look, you're more of a fan than the rest of our fans. Everybody else here gathered around and they came later than you. That is a huge, nice, and symbolic way to value your most treasured fans. Do we know whether it was the A ring? I was gonna say.

That's what I was about to ask. It was probably lower tier. I've heard of- Less precious metal. I believe it was replica. I've heard of like, I think the Cubs gave out like 10,000 replica rings when they won the World Series. So did we.

Replica rings, that's a giveaway. Lab grown diamonds. And then there's different Series. So did we. Replica rings, that's a giveaway. Lab-grown diamonds. And then there's different levels. They still sparkle. The B ring is not actual diamonds, it's circonia. Cubic, sarconia. Cubic, sarconia. Actually, you know, the rings are the same as

what the staff is getting. Not the players, but the staff. What if you have a lower tier? Why are we doing this? A little lab-grown diamond won't hurt anybody or anybody look they do not deserve the guy who took The same ring is the guy who played with a torn spleen like it's okay to give them the same ring as the staff honestly, though If you paid this team money for 30 years I say I say they're worth tier one should have a better ring

What's the grace period? What if you're like 28 years? You're like, I've been here. You're like, oh, come on. 28 years, I have the Ville Pelton in Jersey. You move here from Ontario like a month into the season and you're like, come on. I'm sorry, 29 years, can't do it.

My child saw the Richard Zednick highlight, come on. Callous Greshdans. Did I just hear Chris Cody, who did not serve five minutes, I might add, for not listening to the show, did I hear him just allege that the fan who has been here for 30 years rooting for the Panthers deserves a better ring than Barkov? 30 years, dude.

Woof. Those were rough times. I think he's right, honestly. They should get the most blood diamond that there is, according to Mike They should at least get this year free you get the crappier ring and you just get this next season completely free Thank you for your 30 years. This is not the general entitlement at Metal Arc You get a thing that no other team gets but you want it to be better

You think it should be better than the thing that they got? I may have done the math wrong weren't they in the Stanley Cup in 1996 yes, and then weren't they in the Stanley Cup in 1996? Yes. And then weren't they in the Stanley Cup last year? Yeah. So they've had three Stanley Cups. That's once every 10 years. Appearances, yes. Yeah.

That seems pretty good to me. You're acting as though that they've gone through the worst world for 30 years. Well, they've been in the playoffs 15 times. We sound like that because we know what we're talking about. This franchise has been an embarrassment. You want to highlight relatively two outliers in the history of the franchise, that's fine.

They were terrible. They'd be in the conversation right there with the Marlins. It's like worst franchise in sports. I was here for it, but you have to look over the 30-year period. I love that they're getting rewarded. I think it's an amazing thing, and Vinny Viola is unreal. They were bookends. Like they came out hot to start their franchise and then it was doldrums for essentially 22 years of just terrible hockey. There was a

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We've been terrified of this team forever. And I think there's a different energy where the Panthers, they want the lightning. Stugats. I want t-shirts made for this Panther run. What could be this Panther run? Our Panther group chat, we're not afraid of the lightning. That's a tagline for World Rawr 3.

This is the Don LeBathardt Show with the Stugats. Let's figure out what is the correct success rate here because David would have you believe, when you say Mike, they're an embarrassment like the Marlins, David would say the Marlins won two titles and it's really hard to win titles. And I don't think that David would look at the Marlins history and say that that is a history of futility because they've won two titles. And when you phrase it the way that he just phrased it, which is three Stanley Cup appearances once every 10 years, my guess is on average most teams don't do that.

That most franchises do not get to the Stanley Cup once every 10 years for the entirety of their existence. Okay, let's do it this way. Over the course of their first 29 years, they had one Stanley Cup victory. You can't do that. They had one victory in the Stanley Cup over the course of 29 years.

If we want to play that game, that sounds crappy. They don't win playoff games. They get to the playoffs and not win a single game. They get to the playoffs and be swept. They famously went over a decade between series wins in the postseason. I think we can also just examine how the rest of the hockey world views the Florida Panthers

and how players in free agency view the Florida Panthers, which is that they don't. Up until recently. Except for now. We have not been able to, and this is the last holdout on this, because Mike and Chris and Roy are Panther fans and have been Panther fans for a long time and have endured all of that losing But they have not been able to get Miami Tony Dade County Tony Hispanic Tony they have not been able to lure the Hispanic Dade County fan who's all about basketball and football and baseball and so Tony has to sit here in the middle of what? Is genuine revelry we got a banner night in South Florida last night genuine joy I saw the picture

of Chris Cody staring in awe in the stands from the seats that he's got that are better than everyone else is and he's had for 3 years as a season ticket holder staring at the jumbotron in genuine childlike wonder and awe and also just generally looking hungry and confused In the middle in the middle seriously, there's nothing in this Dude looking up how am I hungry? How do you see hungry? I don't see hunger Just see a dude looking on another chip. The funny thing is is I was hungry damn it. Oh

Tony you have not yet been lured in you you were not lured in. The way that last season ended is as memorable and as magical as any season has ever ended in South Florida from going up 3-0 to being terrified to winning the last game in the last moments by a goal. That's as wonderful a season conclusion as there's ever been in South Florida. I was super in on that Stanley Cup run like when they got to the Stanley Cup remember I told you guys last last year hey when they get to a certain point I'm gonna lock in and then I watched games like 1 3 5 but I was locked in on game 7 for sure because they had a lot of stuff riding on it me and the guys at daily had a lot of things riding on that game 7 by the way

you're lucky you should be thanking me because i bet oilers clearing the way clearing the Way for my jinx to reverse and then the panthers win the game you should get a loss of 100 bucks i just bet I put 100 bucks on the oilers and all of a sudden panthers win is it locked in when you're watching Every other game thank you it is not i think that is I had something to do that what the game to game for game six I was doing things so you unlocked it last night you were watching baseball because I was exciting Dodgers pods it's a good series man We will get to baseball later in the show But when it comes to best endings to a season in South Florida history, there's the Edgar rent area game seven

You've got the bottom of the inning, you're finishing the season with a hit and a run. That's the best way a season has ever ended in South Florida. You don't often get the buzzer beater, you get a victory, but in terms of the tension continuing to escalate, is the way the Panther season ended in second place because you went from, you're up 3-0, it's tied 3-3, the nation's going to laugh at you,

and then at the end you're barely breathing because it's a one goal game the entire time and you're terrified throughout the third period. Don't you have to say the Dolphins finishing their undefeated season? I think he's just going for, I think what Dan is doing, just dramatic finishes because Renteria hits that ball, council crosses home and boom,

that is the final act of this entire series. Where the final act of the Panthers Stanley Cup win is them freezing the puck for 13 seconds in the corner of the boards. And I don't really remember the final play of the perfect season Super Bowl, but I'm sure it was, you know, just a clock management play. I do remember the LeBron jumper, that late icing jumper.

That elbow jumper. I mean, that was kind of a big moment. The game was close. So you're being micro. Like, you're thinking about Jordan getting rid of Elo and hitting a series with a shot. What I'm doing is obviously a winner-take-all game, a game seven that you win under any circumstances

is an enormous game. And you rarely get the buzzer beater of Edgar Renteria has the hit the game is over the season is over there's one team that's a winner forever there's one team that's a loser forever I'm going through all the University of Miami championships in my head they lost one like that Ohio State has one like that at their expense but I can't remember something feeling quite like that at their expense, but I can't remember something feeling quite like that Panther season ended and because it ended at the end of a very long season, the hockey season legitimately snuck up on me because it got here. I'm not used to it getting here

that fast. Yeah, you've never had such a short off season. These last two years, the off seasons for hockey just fly by because generally your seasons have been over in April. That's a lot of time that that post season, it's a lot of time, it's a lot of stress that makes that time really slow down. A lot of alcohol.

Yeah, you age so much during the NHL post season because of just intake. Well, it's only two months between the end of the Stanley Cup final and the new season, so it's short already. So having the Panthers actually win, like I'm not ready to start this season yet. Now you're ready, Roy.

What are we talking about, Roy? It's not just the Panthers, quite honestly. I was so happy. We had a full day of puck, a triple header that started at 1.30 p.m. Pacific time in Seattle. It was just, it was great. There were like, how many seats are in the Delta Center

for hockey? However many that there are, there are probably just 1,400 people that can actually watch the end to end game in Utah. That's going to be such a tricky place for teams to play. But it's amazing to have this sport back. And I would love for Tony to come over to the sport, but I don't think the sport can do much better than it

has to win Tony over over the last two years. It may just not be for him. That's cool. I'm here. In June. Tony, don't do it, because they're not not gonna win the Stanley Cup finals that many more times like you missed the chance I think it's don't do it now. I figure I was right on board It was actually cut a lot of my doing actually the one thing we know is that the Panthers are a less good-looking

Team because Brandon Montour is now on Seattle. He was playing there yesterday and damn he looks good in that choice He's so good-looking That's all I have on that. Excellent. Stenland too. That is what you looked like. A Nordic god. I did not look like Brandon Montour. Let's put that back up on the screen again. See how hungry I look. The picture of Chris Cody looking up at the screen. That is how he looks longingly at Brandon Montour when he's out. That's the whole crew. I see the people behind me, my friends, our season ticket. We got our whole crew the people behind me my friends our season ticket We got our whole crew we get fist pumps going before the game me watching my hot pocket in the microwave when I'm stoned

No, that's a what's-his-name at the what was the kawaii Leonard that was kawaii Leonard at Clippers media day Let's get that for the audience, please the The Kawhi Leonard at Media Day going around spinning. Do you guys ever do this? Because I'm tempted by it, and I have done it a couple of times. I'm ashamed to admit, you guys would laugh at me if you've ever seen me do it. The spinning photograph thing that people take. You haven't done that, Dan.

I need to have a CD of doing that. The Brian Kelly? What is it? Yeah, but what is that thing called? It's a bit of- The 360 camera. The 360 camera that's a bit of a turntable situation that you stand on and you make crazy faces.

Is it, what are you laughing at? It's a tourist trap. Understood. On the streets of New York. I love calling it the Brian Kelly. It forever changed that 360 camera. Usually it was reserved for red carpets, and then Brian Kelly took the damn thing.

Can you guys put up on the screen please, the ebullience, the general joy of Kawhi Leonard as he spins around. I haven't seen that. He knows you have to keep eye contact, right? No, Photoshop Chris Cody looking up at that, and that's Chris watching his Hot Pocket in the microwave moving stone.

They will not regret putting that in front of a green screen. There is no one in basketball funnier doing that because he gives off more general joylessness than Kawhi Leonard looking over his right shoulder and left shoulder as he spins around on the 360 camera. Don't you think his knee was hurting? It always is.

That's why it looks so joyous. He's now out two weeks. I imagine they tell him before this, hey, make this your own. Like really do whatever you want here. Own it. Own it. I want to keep watching this.

Can we just play this on a loop for the rest of the day? That's a great producing decision right there. That's good for a PIP. The person behind the camera. Picture Dan doing it. The person behind the camera is like, love it, Kawhi. Love it. Yep.

Give me more. Nice. Great. So Dan, what's your move? Oh, you point at the camera. You love it kawaii love it. Yep. Give me more nice Dan What's your move? Oh you point at the camera you got a point do you follow it? Yes, I've done it a couple of times only a couple Am I the one least likely in our group to do this sort of thing to just give off joy at taking photographs? Yes, you gotta do the Rizler in that spot grab the chin Maybe I think you're the most likely because you're the only one who's ever done it. Have you guys not done it? No one here has done it?

I've done it, I've done it. At weddings, you know, usually. But it feels like you're just doing it at random places. Highlye has it sometimes. Or wherever they have it. Yeah. I've done it at Highlye. I think I'm the least likely in that whenever I see it,

I'm like, no thank you. Not for me. Won't do this. At weddings, I have done it, you know, wearing a feather boa and wacky glasses. Yes. Classic. Now it's starting to make more sense, you and wacky glasses. Yes. Classic.

Now it's starting to make more sense, you and your cosplaying. I mean, this is what the thing is. Do you think this is an industry that is succeeding? Do you think that the inventor of the 360 camera is living in a mansion somewhere because he or she came up with this wonderful idea? Just on you.

Just for recruiting. Just on you. Just for recruiting visits alone. Mike, you missed it last week. Dan was super upset because he got the golden helmet of life, so he's not gonna be able to dress up for three weeks at least. Oh, dude, I'm sorry.

The sadness behind his eyes, we could all tell back here. What you guys go to at a photo booth at a wedding, I usually go oversized glasses and then like the sign that says grooms crew or something like that. What you guys usually go with? It's very important if you you know me and this is gonna be a true test of the love Do I would I ever do that? Would you ever do that as partners that sounded weird would you ever take a picture? I know I went to the bucket It's out of a bucket

Yeah, you realize it about miss you've got all the kids, all the kids you can't curse in front of, they're all doing the photos and they're all, there's the feathers, there's the glasses. Oversized glasses, that's a hit. I've got you with the wipes, wiping down the stuff and then taking part. I will take the picture

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Remember how the run spark was sparked last year. Stugats. He called them a bunch of peas and bees. He did the thing again, called them a bunch of peas and bees and then boom, five unanswered. You win the division. This is the Don LeBattar Show with the Stugats. What is, it didn't sound like you were the straight man the way that you talked about us as partners a moment ago, but what is the circumstance under which you would acknowledge my germaphobia goes too far?

It is much too extreme. I am being ridiculous here. When you're on an airplane and something hits the tray and you're willing to eat it still. The tray of an airplane because it's used By many people you will not I'm I'm asking you. What is the thing that you will? Absolutely not do that others would look at you and say that's ridiculously extreme in this first-class traveler, too That's a that's a David Samson problem Coach ain't feeding us back there the one that comes off the seat. Yeah, but that's what I'm talking

That's there to hold my phone. You're like all right here. Go ahead I mean your biscotti cookies not hitting your tray here's some bland cookie You can't touch they throw it at your head back there You just throw it at you in first class with Dan eating beans on the way home from Vegas guys Yeah, you rich folks always eating your beans When did they stop giving real food on airplanes you guys have heard me talk about once upon a time, they served prime rib on airplanes and it used to be a luxurious experience in the sky.

When they dress up? Depends on, I think 9-11, like everything changed about air travel and people kind of see it's like, oh, we can't send these meals out there because there's silverware attached. And then they just used it, like the pandemic did too. Oh, this is a,

an opportunity for us to learn the lessons of what benefits us financially and just make the overall experience less, less pleasurable for the consumer. I don't consider myself all that mean though. Maybe you do, but there's been something that's brand new that didn't exist throughout the beginning of my whole life, which is I get on a plane now, and about 20% of the time There's an announcement that there's an allergy on board and you can't eat something

So they won't serve I don't know if any that happens to you all the time. Well, you fly private. No that Happen in commercial it clearly wouldn't happen What do you mean? There's an allergy on the plane that flight attendant gets on says, we have someone on the plane who's allergic to peanuts. So we will not be serving peanuts. And if you brought peanuts or peanut butter, please leave it in your bag. And this happens to you often? I would say it happens 20% of flights I'm on.

Wow. 20%? Delta, American. I fly a decent amount. I've heard of it happening, but it's never happened to me. So the question is, how do you react to that? Because I carry peanuts, and I carry snacks like that. So I always ask, my first question is what row are they in?

I don't think a peanut allergy is something that someone's gonna break out in rash in 16C because you've got peanuts in first class. No it can be. Some people can have like extremely severe allergies and if you open it in 16B and then the, you know, it gets sucked up into the ventilation and it goes back to 22F, they can have a reaction.

So they're overly cautious. But here's the thing, you might as well leave the peanuts in your backpack because think of the chances that they have a reaction and then you have to get your flight diverted. That would be a tremendous pain in the ass just to eat one of the crappiest legumes that we have, the peanut.

It is a great point. and when I measure that difference, that's why I need to know the row they're in. Because if they're far away from me, then I'm still eating the peanuts. Put it on the poll, please, at Levitard Show. Is the peanut the crappiest legume we have? And can you look up for me, please? I don't believe that what you guys are saying is accurate,

that a peanut allergy is so bad that someone in 16Cg by eating a peanut can give the allergy to someone who's in first class I've never heard of such a thing I'm also learning during this segment I did not realize the cutthroat commercial cynicism of what Mike Ryan had said which is that after 9-eleven the airlines took that opportunity to not just take away our silverware, but to just cheapen across the board in a way that throws the biscotti cookies at you

instead of giving you a proper meal wherever it is that you are. I hadn't even realized that that was the thing that they did. It feels a bit like a shell game on capitalism in which, wait a minute, you took terrorism and you decided to make my cookie crap here. Yeah, that's what they did with the pandemic. Your hotel stay is less clean now.

Enjoy. Let us know if you need your shit cleaned. If not, we're not coming. They're not biscotties though, they're biscoff cookies. Oh, okay. They don't own the Ravens? Damn it, I cursed. There was one rule today.

I didn't hear that part either. Chris Cody, Chris Cody makes a lot of. That's not a curse word in my house, if you've heard my wife. She curses like a sailor I just heard while you were in the penalty box moments ago. Your daughter is wandering around here. We've got a few children, we've got a dog, correct?

How many other, I was expecting fewer people today. I was not expecting, I was expecting a skeletal crew today instead of this burgeoning. A plumpest crew today, Dan. Overabundance of talkers. You offered free hotel stays, free food, and bring the whole family. Why would you expect fewer people and not more people?

Well, because of Hurricane Milton. I thought that people were very worried about traveling in South Florida today. No, that's tomorrow for me. I think the worry starts in the afternoon. So if we get out of here at a decent time, we should all be okay. But yes, you did offer people to bring their families

and stay here, and it appears that some people have taken you up on that offer. Yeah, I was expecting the weather to get bad this afternoon and into the evening, but yet my bowling league is still happening. So, I don't know, we're either gonna forfeit tonight or drive through some rain. Put on the screen for me, please,

the what we are now calling the Brian Kelly camera so that we can enjoy that as I tell the people that we're trying to raise some money here for victims of Hurricane Milton and global communities that are in need through World Central Kitchen. It is a great organization. They provide food to the front lines. Despite what you may have heard about Asheville because there is a lot of misinformation out there, some of it being spewed by our former president, there are more than 3,500 people on the ground in and around Asheville,

and more than two million meals have been given out. Give what you can here. You can donate at donate.wck.org slash lebatard. Donate at wck.org slash lebatard. This Brian Kelly thing will never not be funny, correct? This is something that no one has ever done this worse than he is doing it. For the audio audience, one more time,

donate dot WCK dot org slash Lebatard. Yes, donate dot WCK dot org slash Lebatard. We'll keep giving that out over the course of the show. When I see him, I can just now picture you doing the same thing that he's doing. But a lot taller. Yeah, but like the little yaddy AI where you could put anybody in there, like doing the mic thing where he comes out to the crowd. Now my mind is just doing that, but just to you.

So you're like doing this move. And the lovite, back in the day, you guys remember that? Bonnie used to do lovite. Brian Kelly brought it back. What, the Uma Thurman dance? I have it as Uma Thurman night. I don't know what is called. Is that the wat to see back in the 50s? What is the name of the dance? What is the name of the dance from the 50s that does? Yes, it's the pulp fiction if you're doing it from the 90s. I wasn't around in the 50s

I know but it was invented It was invented as a dance at a sock hop in the 50s and it it's got a name, and I don't know what the name of, I know you guys are laughing at the Watusi, I don't know what the hell the Watusi is either, but this, the doing the two fingers around the eyes in a way that suggests, like Brian Kelly, that you see me because you're so cool that you can drag like, like.

That's an L. Dan, you nailed it. It's the Batusi. Well, he said Watusi. He said Watusi. Oh, it's the butt. Damn it. God, I'm leaving. Yeah, just leave.

He said damn it, too. You've been unusually bad over the course of these 36 minutes, but can you get me, what the hell is the Batusi? I don't know what the Batusi is. It appears that this is the Watusi, some combination of this and then like a little step a little shoulder and then a Gritty Dan, oh my god, that's a great people invented the gritty. I

Still don't know the name of the dance. That is the Uma Thurman from Pulp Fiction. That's the name. There it is, the best gritty. Batusi. The Batusi. B-A-T-U-S-I. It's performed making a horizontal V sign with one's index finger and middle fingers

of both hands and drawing them across in front of the eyes. If you're not watching what we're doing, it's how you kind of smear eye black on if you were a baseball player under your eyes is how you would do it. With your fingers spread? I'm just trying to help people visually. I'm not saying that that's exactly how you would do it,

but you've got two fingers spread and it's a ridiculous dance and Brian Kelly shouldn't have done it. You guys have me doing that because there isn't a circumstance under which I can imagine myself doing that. Not even in- Little shimmy shake on the shoulders the cameras go around like oh watch this one hey watch this one you have me with gathering people around yes I do the whole wedding party hey everybody gather around look at look what I'm doing I'm shaking my shoulders and I'm gonna do the Uma Thurman from

Pulp Fiction. Do you keep the photos put them on your fridge? What do you do with them? You guys keep, yes, my wife does this, but you guys keep calling it the Uma Thurman and I'm not sure why you're not calling it the John Travolta. Like wasn't, I remember John Travolta doing that more than Uma Thurman doing it when they were dancing in the diner in Pulp Fiction. Well Dan took Tudetango. Uma. In this case Tudib two to tango. Uma. In this case, two to patusi. Oprah.

Uma. What? Oh, David Letterman. Yeah, that was a, he did that at the Oscars. He was trying to compare the two. Uma, Oprah? He did that several times. My day just got made.

Without Roy, that would have been rough. Yeah, that would have been a toss. You're so lucky. I'm not sure what to say. He could have hit the showers quickly, David. Roy just has the mind of someone who has watched and internalized every single clip that has ever been on television,

including every commercial for the last 60 years. You're very lucky he was here today. He has a useless skill. Until it's useful. David Sampson, I think, is the record holder around here of saying the thing that all of us just stare at silently in an audio medium. It's terrible.

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