The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Not Bitter at All

Episode Date: January 9, 2024

Jimmy Kimmel's monologue attempted to take down Aaron Rodgers for insinuating Kimmel was on the Epstein List, but was it funny? Dan, Stu, Greg and the Shipping Container dissect the details of the Pat McAfee, ESPN, Disney, Rodgers, and Kimmel dynamics all while Dan looks...familiar. Dan also tries to have the crew guess the most jealous he's been in his professional career while Stugotz says he's attracted to Dan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffeine's Network. This is a record number of appearances for Greg Cody in five days on our show. He has never been around our show so much. He has never been as insanely angry during our show as he was when we were bothering him on deadline during the watch party. I'm happy that Greg Cody is here today because we have not gotten his thoughts on how crushing a loss this is. I have heard

him say that if they win in Kansas City the season is a success. If they don't, it's not. So this is basically the Super Bowl. What we thought was going to be the Super Bowl for the dolphins was going to be the Super Bowl. But instead what he's saying is the dolphins play in the Super Bowl in their next game. Yes, you got to draw the line somewhere. And for me, the season is a success if they win their first playoff game since 2000. You can't call it a failure if they break that long uh... negative streak but do you think they'll do it i mean i mean i haven't

you know he's gonna pick the doll i have no no no i i would twice bitten uh... one shy or whatever that expression is uh... i i pick them to lose the ball tomorrow i did pick them to beat bop what is the expression what is the expression not that ited it. What is the expression? Not that. I think it's once bitten twice shy. Correct. Great song by who sings that song? White Lion.

What's the name of that? What? Oh, it's a great song. Anyway. Ian Hunter. Great white. Great white. By the way, yesterday he was also complaining about the lack of promotion we did for the column

during that watch party. He was saying, hey, average downloads for it, didn't really get the bump he was saying. You know, I wasn't complaining, it was just a comment. You know, it was a... How did you feel about the column? Because we were bothering you the entire time. I've watched the one clip of him getting angry

about all of the views that it has. Because I'm delighted by how happy winning him was during it. I am thrilled at how enraged your father was. I loved what good producing you did when your father got enraged and you just snuck in with paint the picture. Paint the scene. I hate that phrase, first of all.

I hate you. Well, you were at the games. I wanted you to paint the scene first. I was in a, that's the best press box I've ever been in. It was just beautiful. The size. They renovated it for the scene first. That was in a, that's the best press box I've ever been in. It was just beautiful. The size. They renovated it for the big game. They did.

Yeah, it was the size of a closet and yet it seemed so roomy. I hate the phrase paint the picture. There is a pressure that comes with that, right? Yeah, paint the picture. Where do my rimbrant, you know, off on the fly, you want me to paint a picture? Video, do me a favor, please. Just grab from our Twitter account just that clip by itself I just want to play it again because I did really enjoy

It is super rare. I don't know how you guys feel about the chuckle fest that are just general pregame shows where the laughter Doesn't seem sincere. There are these some of these pregame shows have genuine love But you don't just lose it laughing. Laughing where no one can continue with the work they're doing because you have to finish laughing. That's not something that happens. I wish it happened more on television.

They do it for 20 years. Understood, but I think it's a bit rare. And one of the things, we were just talking about this a second ago because i was asking for the jimmy kimmel clips from last night which made me side with air and rogers uh... i mean you got seven minutes you got seven minutes with ten writers and you got days to do it it's got to be not education shaming. Like it's got to be

banger after banger. You got a team of writers. You're at the top of Disney. You're fighting with someone who's now paid like you, not Aaron Rogers. He's paid better than you. Pat McAfee, you're fighting in house. That's got to be killer. Like that's, or does it have to be vetted by lawyers and then can't be killer? I mean, I guess there are certain, um, when I was watching that day and I was wondering, did this have trouble going through legal and internal review because it, I found myself getting mad as I watched it because it was on the clip came out during the national championship game. And so it was eight minutes of not a single laugh. And I got to imagine it got diluted somehow.

He's been off for several weeks. How is that the best shot? Well, this is one of the things that I wanted to say about that. We don't want to play it because it, I didn't think it was funny and I thought it was boring. And I don't want to eat up eight minutes of show just playing this. But what I did find interesting about the reaction

is I did see political leanings just appear there all of a sudden with this is a hysterical take down, just cause it to take down. And I thought to myself, as I was watching this, you realize that the people who don't like Kimmel to begin with or side with Aaron Rogers or are just different politically entirely on this.

They're looking at this and saying, this is not funny in any way. Kimmel's not funny. That's what they're saying as they watch this because they're skewed, but I wanted that to be funny. I was rooting for that to be funny. Same and it wasn't funny. The education shaming was lame. The only decent joke was that the only A's he got on his report card.

Even that. Both in Aaron, but that wasn't even very funny. And I can already tell you what Aaron Rogers is going to say in response. He's going to say that Kimmel doesn't know what he's talking about. I'm not a Trump supporter. They all group us together. He's going to ask how much Pfizer's paying him. He's going to make jokes about the vaccine and go all the way back to the

beginning, then he's gonna claim he's part of the media elite. You can take a shot every time you hear one of those phrases that comes up online because that's all Aaron Rogers does is he just regresses. No, but this is part of why this argument gets so poisonous though and has been dishonest. If you can't look at this stuff and separate yourself in a discerning fashion From your belief system and watch just objectively funny because you're not gonna be outraged What you should be watching here is a man who hosted the Oscars Multiple times this man is great at pressurized funny had the shot of his lifetime here This is but this is about more than that. This is, he was deeply offended by this

and to make light of this situation kind of undercuts what's been going on politically behind the scenes. I understood, Mike, but deeply offended is getting in the way of all funny right now. From every angle deeply offended is affecting all of funny. Sometimes with comedians when you have when you're thinking too much it's never going

to be as funny. Chris Rock had a year, a year plus on Will Smith came out and did something was funny. Also pressurized. Yeah, it's not. It's not. It's also there are several things happening behind the scenes that could offer as a diluter to the funny. I know you want uncensored funny here, but I saw that and it was clearly washed out by suits.

And this is something that I think is fascinating when you get into corporate interests and entertainment dilution and where we're headed where it's gonna be Apple and Amazon making all of these choices and they're gonna go through what doesn't executives and they're gonna go through what doesn't lawyers and are we gonna make sure that we want to be this honest here and I'm listening now right now in my car when Netflix is a joke is all I've got on. And you mentioned some of what it is that we're talking about when you say Chris Rock, because I listen to that special,

and as I'm listening to it, just driving around, I'm like, man, he knows he's on the high wire here where everyone's watching, and he's repeating himself, and he's live, and he's choking, because this one is so personal. So he just keeps saying, bitch and bitch and bitch at Will Smith. And what I'm thinking to myself is this was so embarrassing for Chris Rock that he cannot find the place to hit the right notes on funny because it hurt him too much.

And you're telling me the same thing is true here of Kimmel, which I get, of course, if you're accused of pedophilia and that's the move, and you have kids and you're telling me the same thing is true here of Kimmel which I get of course if you're accused of pedophilia and that's the move and you have kids and you're deeply offended and now you're going straight to Iger and saying McAfee and Aaron Rogers can't do that to me can they and then now everything's running through Iger's office on whatever Kimmel's monologue is it because he's got a fight with the guy at ESPN that they just paid $17 million a year and doesn't care about their constructs. Well, we have a clip.

It's just under two minutes, so you can make your decisions for yourself. I think we've offered enough qualifiers years to why it might not be funny. Someone in our audience might find it funny. Here it is. He decided to insinuate that I am a pedophile. This is how these nuts do it now. You don't like Trump, you're a pedophile. It's their go-to move.

And it shows you how much they actually care about pedophilia. But here's the thing, I spent years doing sports. I've seen guys like him before. Aaron Rodgers has a very high opinion of himself because he had success on the football field. He believes himself to be an extraordinary being. He genuinely thinks that because God gave him the ability to throw a ball, he's smarter than everyone else.

The idea that his brain is just average is unfathomable to him. We learned during COVID somehow he knows more about science than scientists. A guy who went to community college, then got into Cal on a football scholarship and didn't graduate. Someone who never spent a minute studying the human body is an expert in the field of immunology. He just put on a magic helmet and that G made him a genius. It's... Aaron got two A's on his report card. They were both in the word Aaron, okay?

And can you imagine... that this hamster-brained man thinks he knows what the government is up to because he's a quarterback doing research on YouTube and listening to podcasts. I looked it up. This is actually thing. It's called the Dunning Kruger Effect. The Dunning Kruger Effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities. In other words, Aaron Rogers is too arrogant to know how ignorant he is.

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Finds a clearest day by Chewdallan. Stugats. Number eight. He got three. He's Chris Cooner on the line. He's seeing. VCC Don Limita show with his Stugats. What I would say to you is right at the center of that, you will find a lot of the division and the discourse

in America where it goes wrong. Because Jimmy Kimmel telling a whole lot of people who are on Aaron Rogers side, how dumb Aaron Rogers is, is typical Hollywood liberal elite condescension that has this country on the cusp of what feels like civil war. Yeah, it's obvious that he was deeply offended.

He felt slandered. Yeah, I'm surprised a lawsuit might not come out of this. But that sounded like a laugh track. There was so much laughter for stuff that wasn't even funny. I think the way to play that, if I'm Kimmel, is two minutes of dismissive funny, not eight minutes of way too serious. But Disney on ESPN Crime is a good thing.

Oh no. We're talking about it right now. I mean, yes, if you use on all those social clips, But Disney on ESPN crime is a good thing. Oh no. Yeah, we're talking about it right now. No, no, that's not good. I mean, yes. The views on all those social clips are crushing, and I am so into what Aaron Rogers says today. Like, I'm tuning into all this.

Like, my dad's not wrong, and that everyone was listening to what Kimmel said last night, and everyone is going to be watching Pat McAfee. They share this in common. I mean, they do. Of course, Disney will win here, but the funny in it the actual funny is stumbling into the victories in the streaming age because this this is why i say you would like they pay a rhodes of million dollars they're not

stumbling into it they're paying in with the intention of him going viral and he does weekly mike disney's not paying a rangers anything pat mac a fee is paying a rangers pat mac a fee it's a alright it's an allotted budget for pat mac a fee show uh... no but this this parts important this it this part matters the renegade spaceship of the McAfee is being rented by Disney and ESPN because they need it and him more than he needs them. He tore up a contract that was worth more than ours, which is an industry changer. Torred up to go get their reach.

They have these problems now and they've never been a company that's equipped for these problems because they don't want the talent to have the power to make these problems because the way the ESPN spaceship works is, just get us from sports center to sports center to sports center to game without headlines for Disney that make a mess.

Get us there safely. Please, just without politics without anything. My Greenberg, please, just get us to the next show. This is what's worked for many years. To the next greenie show. Well, you don't think there's a sea change because, you know, one business they removed from calling an upper executive a rat, Pat McAfee's front and center on their college football playoff coverage.

That's not something anyone's ever been able to get away with. That's the sea change. And now it rises up to Kimmel and Iger. And now Iger has to deal with Jimmy Kimmel being so pissed off and personally offended. Hey, I'm going to send my team of writers at this, okay? For days. Yeah, let's check with the lawyers on that. I really think what was hanging over it. And in that two-minute

clip of Jimmy Kimmel, I actually found it funny or the second pass because I'm- No, it's not funny. It's eight minutes. It's the two minutes by itself that makes it funny. Precisely. And I think just the specter of Jimmy Kimmel himself threatening a lawsuit on social media means that Jimmy Kimmel handcuffed himself Because if he starts joking about it He is then giving your errogers and pat McAfee's show license to make fun of it And when he the dismount on that is Nor is it trash talk pat McAfee so he's not absolving pat a blame

So when that is the point he wants to hammer home, he can't necessarily be lighthearted because he is trying to project how seriously he took that allegation. Understood, Mike. You're leading a late night talk show. Make me a bicycle clown, you're supposed to be funny. I lose all credibility if I start making jokes about that when the gambit in all of this was me being offended.

I know I start having more fun with it than pattern rogers. I like that, but that's where the funny goes to die. My point is the Jimmy Kimmel. That's also where your argument goes to die, damn. What's mine? Because behind the scenes, this is a political power play and he's sending emails and correspondence via agents and whatnot because he is deeply offended by this. If he just undoes everything with a joke, then the last two weeks have been nonsense. emails and correspondence via agents and whatnot because he is deeply offended by this. If he just undoes everything with a joke, then the last two weeks have been nonsense.

But he's got several writers to allow him to navigate that, however it needs to be navigated and what ends up happening. That Disney and ESPN you would understand why they're trying to avoid it. Is Jimmy Kimmel is using the first eight minutes of that giant platform when people are tuning in and that is good for business. They wanna hear what Jimmy has to say about this and people don't tune in to late night television anymore as appointment stuff.

That's why the eight minute clip came out well before his show aired because that's how late night primarily exists now. And so they will be able to profit off it. They will be able to change. I don't know which part of my argument you think is going to die here. This is wonderful and fascinating as content,

but when I say we arrive at it by accident, it's because when they put these ingredients together at a place that they've never allowed this kind of thing They've avoided all precedents and the McAfee precedents are now he has actual power to call out a shadow president By name embarrass him and then come on the air the day of the national championship and say again bleep off I'm here to do it my way. I'm not changing for my audience. You empower him He's pretty rad while wearing a cowboy hat you're very maverick it with several people wearing a cowboy hat when he wore long sleeves on whatever was the next

day of him having to navigate oh now all the suits are in my ear trying to screw up everything i'm here to do they hired rush limbaugh to do a thing rush limbaugh left weeks later because he was rush limbaugh they've hired pack mac aee to be a professional wrestler and rescue the idea they don't know how to make this stuff on their own. They don't know how to make the dangerous stuff on their own. They don't know how to make the most honest stuff

on their own. They don't look to, when they acquire Pac McAfee, they know of the danger, but they don't look to acquire the dangerous thing. They look to acquire the digital video property that makes them an industry leader because that's how Disney does things. Let's just buy the thing that makes us a leader. I disagree with you on they know the danger. I disagree. I don't know why. They've had to practice for many years of not

having anything to do with the danger. You saw how we got clipped anytime. We got it close to anything that would have been more interesting but up until recently has the mac a fysh up in that dangerous up until recently has it in that dangerous it's not that it's dangerous to got look he isn't every man he speaks for everybody especially middle America when he goes on television and tells his boss by name bleep off speaks for all the middle America who that's frustrated how many people do you think listening to this are happy at work how what percentage of people listening or listening to conversations anywhere are happy at work

10 percent I think more I I think 40. 40. 40. No, nothing so. In America? Yeah. And she's much of guys without real jobs weighing in on the work force. I don't know.

Who am I to know? I wear shorts most of the time. 40% of America is driving to work with a smile on their face up in the, you're whistling. I'd make the arse. Restresses pull bare of the arse. I miss the whistle.

I would make the art dresses pole bearer the other I miss the whistle I Would make the argument Tempts right outside a little colder. Yeah, when the sleeves go on the whistles the whistles clicking That's pretty good. It's the first time you tried it in this studio Wow, Dan you want to give it a go? I can't whistle you cannot what wow That's pretty good. That's the first time you tried it in this studio. Wow. Dan, you want to give it a go? I can't whistle. You cannot? What?

Wow. That explains a lot. Put it on the pole, please, Jude. Do you mistrust people who do not know how to whistle? Or do you learn a lot? Or does it explain a lot about a person if they don't know how to whistle? What does it explain to you?

Jess pieces are starting to come together. You know what I mean? No, like you to explain it. Well a Whistler would get it Real quick to like real whistlers. No, I got it real quick to just put a bow on everything So you're hoping for just you want Max Funny all around and you care not if Jimmy Kimmel just totally undoes his argument, which is a principled one because you don't come out and threaten a lawsuit on social media and invoke your family.

If it wasn't deeply personal, you don't mind if he undercuts his own argument, just in name of funny. No, what I would say to you is because this is an interesting place in comedy right now. We're Norm McDonnell, the late Norm McDonnell. Like, Shripelle is trying to channel him as he walks on this tight rope at the very beginning of his latest special, as he's making another trans, he's starting to get with trans and then goes to disabled in handicap, first 10 minutes, and he's channeling Norm as he does it

because he was a deep, deep respecter of norm. What I want people to notice, the only part I want them to notice about all of this, because Norm McDonald said, what we have today is a bunch of comedians who want to be smart and said, a funny, he was talking about Bill Mar and John Oliver and Colbert and John Stewart. Like, do you want to be funny or do you want to be

the smartest guy should pedal to as a philosopher a sermonizer do you want to be funny or do you want to be the smartest guy because everyone seems to be going to a smartest guy smartest guy i kind of like funny kimmel is the original host of the man show is where he started the man show and then a whole lot of shit about comedy and america changed and the the guys who were winning in late night

Were the guys who left behind Jimmy Fallon because he couldn't do politics Colbert could do politics Jimmy Kimmel could do politics Fallon host of the tonight show the jewel of all of television Decorated everything Johnny Carson did because he couldn't keep up on the funny and he couldn't keep up on the politics you're really disappointed at jimmy kimmel it is writers i'm no i miss god in anger i mean i personally is taking out jimmy foulard

right now i'm not a foulard too but i mean i heard said something totally irresponsible i mean he did i obviously side going into that monologue. I obviously side with Jimmy Kimmel. Obviously, because you're a lib, because I'm trying to be the super wakist for clicks. Look at me, desperately trying to go viral one day in a costume. The issue with comedy at this point

when it comes to serious topics, like you say Chappelle. I mean, Chappelle is doing it awfully. He's doing a terrible job. He's not channeling Norm McDonald. He's just taking down people for no reason, punching down. Jimmy Kimmel's put into position here where, like Mike said, this is a very serious topic. And a lot of the time that is where funny dies. Like, there's not often a way to be funny and we saw it with Saturday Night Live when they trivialized what was going on with Donald Trump and then at the last moment tried to go,

oh shit, we messed this up because we made too many jokes undercutting the serious nature of it. They tried to go back and, you know, when you talk about ESPN not being equipped or wanting to handle what's going on with the politics side of it, they tried to go back. And you know, when you talk about ESPN, not being equipped or wanting to handle what's going on with the politics side of it and the way they've done it in the past, this is a different end of the political spectrum, Dan.

More sports fans are okay with what's being said by Rodgers, by McAfee, than the average sports fan. I mean, Jeremy, I have put, I've put this in front of the audience in front of everybody They told me at the end what the focus group show they showed SEC football like get all this other shit out of here get all of it out of here SEC football Skipper runs the company now. I could have asked for some of the things that McAfee has I failed to do so i was an idiot i didn't bother him i just wanted to be left alone

i just wanted to be left alone and now they've got a situation on their hands that's delightfully artfully comedic everybody involved down lebert hard i think larry fits jerald's on the green right there stoo gots that's how fun to repair how do you think that there is a Stougats. That's all funds are repair Alphonse or bear has a great ass. This is the down lebertar show with the stougats Was I too indignant there Mike? Yes, was it off-putting? Yes.

You really kimmeled it. I find so fascinating, like just so fascinating, what is happening in media, in sports media, because God, do I smile yesterday because I saw a meme of Ocho Sinko in the background looking as Shannon Sharp and Stephen A. Smith, like jostled with each other and Ocho Sinko had a longing look on his face like he too wanted to be on first take. But Unk is with Stephen A and they were enjoying themselves.

Shannon Sharp, I believe, had an interview that now is up to like 40 million views, three hours with cat Williams. The industry is changing. It's super interesting. Like because a behemoth like ESPN needs a Shannon Sharp or a McAfee. And I've told you before that Stephen A. Smith is plotting his exit in front of your eyes. He's advertising for the stuff he's doing away from ESPN for hours a day. It's brilliant.

I wish I had been smart enough to do it that way. I wish I had been less emotional because the only time I felt jealousy and any of this, in any of the last couple of really hard years, is when I just saw, because I've been through lawyers, and I've been through the bullshit of all that vetting, is when I, this is the fact, so God, I'm not kidding you when I tell you, like professionally,

I have made the life that I've wanted that looks a lot like what I want somehow. So I do not. With me, huh? With you. Yeah. With you and Cody. Yeah, thank you.

You're welcome. Against all odds. Great song. I have done this. I heard Abacab the other day. I thought of you in some way. Yeah. Still bags.

I miss Genesis. Abacab is good. We've now referenced songs from 1975 and 1984 on the Slow Glower. The only time I've been jealous. I'm a cab is good. We've now referenced songs from 1975 and 1984 on the local hour. The only time I've been jealous. I'm a till guy. I really am. And like better than Peter.

And Peter's got one of the best voices ever. I mean, in your eyes to this day, you put in your eyes. That's a great sing along. So the Tarzan soundtrack. But for Genesis, it was just, it was just right. I have a cab. Oh, don't do that. Don't, don't do that.

Yeah, they went a little poppy. They were prog rock before, but it was the right move for them. Does anyone want to guess? Why don't we play this game? All of you guessed the first time I've been jealous in 30 years. First time professionally jealous in 30 years. Man, I've been jealous quite a bit.

No, but it just happened recently. I was jealous last night. Who would it be? It was in a box with Michael Jordan. How was my gator? Yeah, that was that was pretty cool. Travis Scott, Derek, Jeter, Michael Jordan in there and Stephen A. walks into that luxury box and he's like the man of the out. He was the one in the middle. High five and Jeter, going down to fans. That was my favorite part of the whole night. A couple of times was jealous of Stu Gotts when he got to pick on college game day. I rewatched that segment yesterday just because I was missing COVID. I don't want to be rude, but you have to be

the crappiest celebrity ever on there. Oh no doubt. No, there have been some bad ones. Well listen, the camera crew woke up that morning. They thought they were going to A-Rod and J-Lo's house, and they ended up at mine. So I thought you delivered. There's been some bad ones, and you are certainly one of those, but it was of a time. I mean, Corsow was in his back patio. Man, lockdown was certainly great. I threw it up the term party.

I guess maybe being able to call out executives, I disagree with with seemingly having impunity with it is certainly a little bit of envy roiled up inside me. Mine goes higher than that. Mine goes to in some of this stuff that we've done where people heard me, whether they thought it was, let me hear some more guesses. I, let me hear some more guesses.

I'd like to hear some more guesses. I guess what is the category, the most jealous you've been? This is, I don't generally do jealous on Burgundy. Dress in full costume. Will Ferrell playing Ron Burgundy decided to sit in on the damn Patrick show for a year.

That's a good one, but I was happy for both of them. And I thought that was super cool. And in fact, made fun of Adam McKay because Will Ferrell and Adam McKay created Funny or Die. And Funny or Die is a huge inspiration for me. And Dan Patrick got the funding and I got the die because McKay won't shut up about climate change and he's going crazy. I thought you meant your general appearance. Is anyone checked on him this year? I don't die anything, Mike. And I question your expertise here.

I gotta be honest, I'm mildly attracted to you today. I mean, you look great. Just mildly. Yes. I would guess, if I'm gonna take a serious guess, why would he be mildly attracted to me today? Because you have to look. I mean, that's a beautiful jacket suit,

whatever the hell you call it. The pocket square, especially. You have, the pocket square is kicking my ass, but you watch as a little loose. You have two buttons unbuttoned. You know, it got some nice chest hair working. The watch. What would you think, Greg?

I would think, honestly, if I'm being honest, when you saw a punter in a tank top get the deal that he got. I would think that had to make you a little bit. No, no, no, no. When McAfee gets the food delivered to him on game day every like around 1130 they have like some food come up on set. I'm really stunned that you guys don't know the answer. When Rodgers tells McAfee loves him every Tuesday. That one hurts a little bit. He loves the way he does. No, no, look, I've, what's funny is there is a voicemail somewhere at me calling Aaron.

There is a voicemail somewhere. Hey, I don't know what the deal is with McAfee, but if you're looking for another place to be, we would love to have you. That's a fettic. Yeah, so embarrassing. We can give you 200 per week. I'm so proud of you. Man, that is desperate.

That is so sad. You did that. The second hand in barrage now is just for you. Now I'm fully attracted. Why would you do that? Oh, Whistler would never. That's a good voicemail right there. Surprise, it wasn't a group text with Mike.

Like Mike, make this happen. I hope Aaron Rogers can play, still has it and can play it on the Macafee show. That would delight me. Well, thank God you braced me in the audience and the event that that happened. But I know you guys pulled it out of me. It has nothing to do with these things.

Oh, terrible. Look. This is the God's honest truth, because I'm not kidding you when, because I had this conversation with Skipper just the other day, and our stuff is too niche. I'd like to actually talk to Skipper publicly about, he used to say there were only two people at the company who had his telephone number, because there's a big distance between where the billions and the billions are, and the daily running of a company in Bristol,

Connecticut. There's a big, big gulf there. He said, the two people who had the number were me in Simmons, and that I was the only one who didn't use it. Because I was never asking him for anything, because all I wanted was what we had at the Cleveland Der. That's all I wanted to do with our professional lives. Simmons wore that number out, huh?

I don't know. That's it. This is a little jealous of Shannon Sharp getting all those views with Cat Williams when all Shannon had to do was just chill there and drink alcohol. Damn, that was a good time. I'm giving you my grief and tears on South Beach Session,

my maximum vulnerability. I'm selling out in every way. I got a ride there and I got 14,000 views. We didn't really pump up the gift that you gave him. I would have thought that someone would have picked up on that gift. We clipped that. We clipped that gift and let's play it ourselves.

It was a great gift. The FJ. I don't think we should play that, but if you want clicks, hold on a second. Don't play that. Don't play it. Let's just play the clip from the watch party that I want to go back to because I asked for it earlier and I know I've

hijacked things here today and I also know that people are good and tired of me talking about some of this stuff but the thing that I was actually jealous of is that McAfee and Aaron Rogers and Kimmel had taken the heights of the fight in America to Iger and Disney with that as the cause versus what what I wanted and was trying to do there. But what Skipper told me the other day is it wouldn't have worked. Like even if I had asked, if I'd requested, hey, can we just do big, big things all the time? He was running the company. You also didn't want to do big things. I didn't think to ask.

Like, for Pat, he gave voice to this yesterday. He's thankful for the relationship with the ESPN and part of why he tore up a contract that was seemingly more lucrative Or at least reported to be more lucrative was he wanted to have the credibility of being able to broadcast live From the college football playoff final to be where game day is to be on the sidelines having an alternate broadcast For these games ESPN and their rights package affords him a credibility that he couldn't do, despite being an ind- that he couldn't have, despite being an industry leader independently. I can swear to you guys, I root for everything he's doing.

He bet on himself, he retired as a punter, he's shown Shannon Sharp, hey, look how much money's over here. Seven figures in every field he tries his hand in. It's a dynamite story. He also, you didn't want those types of things either. But we're going to surca for the furtic, we're making a huge deal out of you covering the Super Bowl. And it's purposely on Fremont Street. Because, because, man, I have not wanted, I don't want to explain our stuff to everybody, but I've spent two years explaining to people, including people who work at our company, what this tries to be.

I'm surprised that all of you went to the stupid jealous things, like the superficial things, as if I couldn't have- I'm super jealous of when Pat said all these cool places because I'd like to do more of it even though it's a massive undertaking I'm happy that we're doing a mass Vegas by the way reserve your tickets now and just to the audience right now blown away by the early I'm gonna fight through this one. No, blown away by the audience. Sorry I got to pay that.

Why only $2? I thought I kind of kept it in a little bit. I thought they were all Drive I thought call it a reference. I call my shot But blown away if I may finish my point blown away by the early RSVPs we internally We had a number that we hoped for early on we know it's difficult We don't know what teams are playing there, and our audience came through tenfold. We surpassed our internal expectations by ten times. And if you want to be a part of that, so much so that you're helping us expand a footprint and do more cool things over at Circa Swim with our partners over there, and we couldn't

be more happy. Go to CircaLosVegas.com slash stadium-swim slash dan Dan dash love it. Our dash show four ways to get in on what we're doing. I'm here. I'm around the website. It looks or on social media. We'll just have a link that you can do that. Yeah, go to at levitar show and our social channel. I'm waiting.

We should take deposits by the way. Guys, it's our SPPs. I mean, I understand it's a mouthful. Not ridden the nink. I gotta read that line. It's okay. I gotta read that line. Get it, Mike understand it's a mouthful. Not ridden the nink. I got to read that later. It's okay. I don't read that later. But let's do it. Let's do it that way. All right, but let's do a better job of that by next segment, getting Greg Cody's computer and having him try to keep up with you and try to log on using exactly what it is that you're saying to execute it that well. I want

to see how many times he asks you go back, slow down. I want to see if Greg Cody can get an RSVP to what it is that we're doing. And well, wait a second, we'll get the camera here to do it. Damn, my larger point wasn't just to get a contractually obliged liner out of the way. It was also to say that, you know, want the same exact things that Pat did.

You had the opportunity to do some of the way. It was also to say that, you know, want the same exact things that Pat did. You had the opportunity to do some of that stuff and we did from the conference of our Cleveland or studio, like we just weren't about that life. You weren't flying around every weekend to the big college football game of the week. That's not what you do. You were doing with Pat McIntyre. I wanted.

But yet somehow, I'm almost hurt, legitimately hurt that you guys guessed on my jealousy, people who know me, things that are only through your own eyes. Like that floors me that all of you would know that little about me to answer that question, that poorly. I was gonna guess when we got you on Holland on God Bless Football. Yeah. The big one, I think.

Hell of a guard return. Hell of a guard. I am jealous of the Tahoe trips to God's football. Oh. Yeah. The big one. Nighty's. The big one. I am jealous of the Tahoe trips to God's estate. Yeah.