The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: The Poddies (feat. David Samson and Pablo Torre)

Episode Date: January 31, 2025

As soon as our EP is done getting his elbows lotioned by our makeup artist, we'll kick off the show. Meadowlark Media is being showered with awards, but it's caused some infighting at the company. Andrew Hawkins criticizes Stugotz's win for "Best American Football Podcast," and David Samson and Pablo Torre join the show because David is furious about Pablo's victory over him. Then, Billy Gil is headed to Georgia for Billy Gil Day in Cartersville, but Andrew Hawkins is unimpressed once again. Does ChatGPT know Hawk has HIS own day or is it racially biased? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. Hey Spotify, this is Javi. My biggest passion is music. And it's not just sounds and instruments. It's more than that to me. It's a world full of harmonies with chillers. From streaming to shopping, it's on Prime. From streaming to shopping, it's on Prime. There are so many ways in this company that things are upside down. For example, Andrew Hawkins just told me

that he did something at the dollar store and while he was telling me this, Chris Cody, child of nepotism, was getting his elbows lotioned by the makeup woman. And I'm like, this place doesn't work correctly, but that's not the greatest example I have of it. I've heard all my life, and maybe Andrew, you've lived this, I've lived this recently, more money, more problems.

Mm, to preach. But I've never heard of more awards, more problems. Our company is winning all sorts of awards. Like we crushed these podcast awards and everyone at the company's fighting over them. Wow. What podcast awards? Well, first of all, the biggest winner,

I mean, these are the most prestigious of the podcast awards is the answer to your question. The very most prestigious of the awards. They call them the potties I don't know the name, but they're just known as the most prestigious awards and stugat Beat everybody in the football category and no one's happy for him. He beat everybody be chanit sharp He beat Schefter. He beat every every every football name, he beat the Tomahawk podcast. Wow. Mina.

Mina, Lenny. Diana Rossini. Everybody. How is this possible? Shana Sharp, the Kelseys, he beat everybody. Demand a recount. Real quick question. So you say the podcast awards, but there's not a name.

What is the name? I'm looking at all the- Let's go with the potties. The potties, yeah. Okay. The name is Best American football podcast. Oh, okay That's the bet. I don't know if there's a football podcast. That's not American That's better than this one. I doubt it the American football pod best American football podcast

It's the sports podcast awards But I believe they're sports podcast or kind of as a diminutive the potties Like you would think when somebody like in our company wins an award like this, you'd see emails of, congrats, congrats, no it's like, they stuffed the ballot, this is bullshit. I can't believe the emails and the Slack channels that I've been reading the last few days.

Because it's Dugats, right, let's be clear, this isn't like metal art people eating each other, right? It's, we don't trust Dugats. We think there's fraud. Don't do we, don't do we, I think this is deserving, I think it's creative. You trust to God's we think we don't do we I think this is deserving I think it's creative you know I don't trust to God you go I do trust that he's got the best American football podcast okay I don't trust that I don't trust this the potty's sports podcast Awards the spas the potties is Sports podcast awards, the spas.

The potties. Is what we're calling it, the spas. Again, you guys wanna argue about the name instead of celebrating the accomplishment. I like spas. It's real hater behavior. I put it on the poll, Juju, do you like spas? Let me just ask you, would you rather imagine,

or do you imagine Stugats to be at a spa or on the pod? You know what, let's actually not put that poll out there with the whole Justin Tucker stuff going on. Yeah, smarter. Look, I love Stugats. Don't know if he has the best American football podcast. He does. I'm a big football guy.

Don't know if you know that about him. The way this is measured is he just got announced as having the best American football podcast, so therefore he has the best american football podcast but from the spas not from the you guys are making fun of this it's from the most prestigious of the pod giving organizations the award-winning organizations the body who is on the committee could we get a little research i need insight are you guys got questions i'd like to celebrate first with balloons with an acceptance speech with

With a call that will show the inner office turmoil in fact just start this is gross Yeah, so just start the show don't play the call just start the show so I can get to the car We getting balloons from this is the down laboratoryBattor Show with the Stugatz Podcast. Andrew, can you help me because Samson wants to come on and talk about the awards and the voting. Pablo wants to come on to talk about the awards and the voting. Billy and Stugats don't need to come on, aren't even here today, aren't even here to accept their award. They're used to this, they've won it before. Do I allow Pablo and Sampson to soil what should be a happy day around here by just getting in the way of things? Yes, you should. It should be soiled on. I think I'm excited. I'm excited for the awards Congratulations to gosh can I start by saying that although I'm not starting I kind of went in a different direction already

But I want to say Congratulation, I do have questions about what the hell we're talking about. This is not how award ceremonies work though where it's like congratulations But I have an assortment of questions. That's not that that's the- That is exactly how the Golden Globes work. Or if you're Kanye West, that's how it works. It's the antithesis of award giving and receiving to just ask questions in the middle of it. I just wanna know how happy I should be. Very!

Why? Because he won the Best American Podcast! You guys, I've been on this show so many times. Not a single time have I come on here and been introduced as a Cambria County Sports Hall of Famer. That's true. You've never associated Hall of Fame with my name. That's correct. You know why? Because it matters who the hell is calling you a Hall of Famer. No it doesn't. So I'm all for awards. Okay, if that's the case, I don't ever want to show up here

without being described as a hall of famer i am more interested in the american and best american football podcast is that best american football podcast or is that best american football podcast meaning is there a greek football podcast that's way better stegatsas but it's it's completely meaners is that is that you have to perhaps? You have to make that correction because the rest of the world doesn't care

about our American football. But then, you're making an assumption that the American here is signifying that it's American football, the sport, as opposed to American football podcast. Yeah, he was in the category with. There might be a Canadian football podcast. They probably had Shaysha and Black American.

Best African American. Yeah, okay. Now we're getting down to somewhere. Now this is starting to come together. No, no, no, this is not MetalArk celebrating Stugatsa's achievement. And furthermore, I will tell you, we have a great deal of in-house tension.

Pablo also won an award. David Samp finished thirty's matter he's matt which one thirty-five low okay because uh... still got his after david samson finished thirty's mad about it uh... but and and we had to do some reporting some the journalism is falling apart but a metal art or still doing the occasional journalism we've got sort of uh... uh... tape or that we shouldn't have we've got mike i need your help here of christopher per Christopher pollard

lawyer has looked into this or not because i don't think we're allowed to play this and we have to protect the producers i don't think the producer knows that we were uh... recording him and so we're gonna have to distort his voice on stuff we found out that Pablo has done in order to win awards. I don't think that covers you legally but go ahead. Okay I think that preface covers me legally see if you can distort that real quick we have found we've got a whistleblower in the

in the business who has sent us audio that he or she recorded of a producer of Pablo's. I can't. F*** Pablo. No, I know, it's not just me. He's got four producers. Yeah, four. Four producers and then two editors. Just for Emmy submissions. And then the other, you know, 25 producers working on some story about, you know, funerals, God knows what, spreading ashes, Mark Zuckerberg, who knows what the hell he wants to talk about. 75 producers on the show. Can we like, you know with soccer they like,

moan out players to other teams, can we loan a producer to David Hampson? Poor guy has two people maybe? I got an idea. Pablo Torre finds out whether he could be a parent. Go home. Stop trying to like, win awards. It's just, it's ridiculous.

No, I'm telling you, there's an entire spreadsheet shot by shot for best host sizzle reel. And I'm like, my God, we're going to spend 45 minutes on just this one thing. What we could be doing is maybe loaning a producer at David Sampson. David Sampson has two producers. It's ridiculous, yeah. Now I got to get back. I got gotta get back, I gotta get back. It's Pablo time. No.

Samson has one producer, he doesn't have two producers, and Pablo does indeed have four producers and two editors just for Emmy submissions. That is factual, I've seen the budgets. I thought when that audio started playing, it was Shannon Sharps. Thought it was Dan. I'm like, woo. I think we distorted it Sharps. I thought it was Dan. I'm like, whoa.

I think we distorted it too much. I think we protected the identity of the producer a little too much. I ceased on the cadence. I can't see. Refuse to believe Stu got to have a better football podcast than Mina. Did you have a lot of situations, Andrew,

where people in your locker room weren't happy for the successes of others? Yeah, no, that's valid. You played in Cleveland, there wasn't much success for you guys. Yeah, the other teams, we were jealous of the other teams' success. No, this is around the conversation of Cam Newton

saying he wouldn't trade his MVP for a Super Bowl, and everyone was like, oh my gosh, I can't believe you would say that. And I'm like, I kinda can. I mean, I think that that makes sense. So Stu gots getting his personal achievement over Metalark winning the best podcast company. You know what, we should celebrate it.

Because personal achievement is okay. And I don't like the war that's going on against personal achievement. Well, let's talk about what it is that Cam said, I mean, because we had this conversation the other day and Amin said the reasons... the reasons for motivations among athletes the top one is winning i'm sorry the top one is money yes and then the second one he was saying is

winning and i was saying that his third one which is being the reason for winning is closer to money than people understand it so when cam is saying i'd rather'd rather be MVP and have an enduring legacy, of that one year I was the best in the sport, then my team was the best in the sport, I understand both how he comes by that appraisal and why fans would crush him as the selfish, the selfish black athlete for having that appraisal.

The original version of this question is, would you rather be Charles Barkley or Robert Ory? That was the genesis of this whole question in sports debate. Would you rather be Charles Barkley, MVP of the league, top 75 all time, Hall of Famer, or would you rather be Robert Ory with seven rings and Robert Ory shut the book on that one by saying,

I'd rather be Charles Barkley than Robert Ory. What are you kidding? To legitimately say, almost every night I stepped on the floor I was the best player in the gym, in the world, in the building. That is a feeling that very few get to feel versus, yes, Robert Ory won championships, yes, he was a contributor,

not just like kind of riding the pine. It's like, it wasn't because of me, not like Barkley, you know? It's the greatest American spin is what this is. And I'm not against team sports, I'm not against team success. Like that is the goal. The goal is to do both, to be the best in the world and also let the fact that you are so good at what you do

create a champion in your entire team. But nobody in America is going to work their whole life at something, a passion, and be like, I'd rather do it for my company. That's the thing that people miss, is that athletes really, I mean, yes, we all want to win the championship, because again, it's another signal

that we're the best at something. But when you distill it down, it's you working for your company. And you're not gonna change, you trade your company's success for your own legacy. You know why you hardly ever hear about MVP trophies being sold on eBay? Yo, that's such a great-

That's such a good point. That is so true. You know why, think about that. Why you've never heard, oh, this MVP is hard on money, and they're selling their MVP trophy. I mean, Cam has been a little transparent recently about his financial issues, but I guess my best guess would be because they, MVPs typically make a lot more money.

Bingo, right? Because it's a lot harder for an MVP to run out of money than it is somebody who was a part of a 70 person roster with the ring. Again, this is not an indictment on championships for organizations and teams. That's what this is all about. But for the athletes as well, like, yeah, it makes,

I don't like the fact that it's like a, it's a bad thing to feel like you're the best in the world. Like Josh Allen is another good example. If he does win an MVP, it's like, oh, you shouldn't be happy about that. What the hell are you talking about? You dream about this stuff since you're four years old. Yes, yes, you should be trying to win a Super Bowl, Josh,

but if you win an MVP, feel good about it. I want to bring up a couple of things here. I thought about some of that for about 10 years when Ricky Williams' Heisman was in my father's garage and I would go in there and he eventually sold that Heisman. But your point overall is well taken on the best player in the world, once you get that trophy, you don't often see that sold. But I wanted to ask you if you were interested particularly in the differences between how it is Lamar

Jackson was criticized after a Mark Andrews drop versus the soft cushion of I feel so bad for him that Josh Allen fell on when Kincaid dropped the ball like was that something that you noticed how the the differences there were obvious? Yes I'm sure I noticed it. I don't know if I really like doubt in, it's what I expected. The Mark Andrews catch was probably 10x easier than the Dalton Kincaid catch.

I don't even like the fact that people act like that was an easy catch for Dalton Kincaid, it wasn't. It was an incredible play by Josh to give him a play, and it was a harder degree of difficulty than the Lamar throw and it's like people will nitpick about anything but regardless, maybe I don't feel a way about it because with Lamar, I know how hard Lamar is on himself. Like Lamar has been so consistent in his approach to the game, and I've spent time around him, and it is not fake at all. He genuinely only gives a damn about a Super Bowl.

Like, and that's what makes him an anomaly. He has never talked about being an MVP, being the best in the league. I'm sure that stuff is in the back of his mind, but even in his personal conversations that I've been around and a witness to, all he cares about is winning a Super Bowl. And that's because I think he grew up here in South Florida,

and that's also all the youth football players here care about. Like when I play with kids from South Florida in the NFL, they don't talk about college. They talk about when they were playing against Pompano or Tamarack, or, and it's like a point of pride that I never understood it till I got here. So for Lamar Truly the Super Bowl does represent something else and he's gonna be that hard critical in himself, too

Pablo and David Sampson are here just before we get to that Not only did Robert Ori say what a means said he said Charles Barkley also came on with us and said I'd rather have my Career than Robert Ori's but Robert's saying and after winning that many championships it did end the debate on this show that they told her when you come into the you you always want to win a championship but you are you also because you want to bet about how he's always going to be clear on the best of all time you know you know you never want to have to be we've got everything we want

you know also uh... you either be hall of famer you know even though he never won a championship he's got everything really what you know all star either be Hall of Famer you know he's a great sports cast so you know I want to take you know Charles Kerr you know I want to take Charles Kerr because you can't take anything away from because you didn't win championship you know the concept of the Ouroboros a snake that eats its own tail that was me quoting Robert Ory which I did not realize happened on this show that's correct so here is David Sampson. He was shaking his head throughout that sound. He is here to tell us that second place is the first loser, third place is the second loser. I was telling him how proud I was that he has America's third best baseball podcast.

He did not want to hear about how he should be proud today of having America's third best baseball podcast. David, welcome. Thank you very much. Thank you, Dan. That's very nice of you to say that you are proud. We did have the number one best baseball podcast last year and the number one best business podcast last year. All nothing personal. And then somehow we got medal art this year and Pablo took over the sports business category and was recognized as having the best sports business podcast, except that's the one I'm on called The Sporting Class.

And Nothing Personal now is the third best baseball podcast. I'm here to tell you that that makes me a loser. There's nothing to be proud of. And I'm thrilled to death with everything I've won. But yesterday I was not a winner. Pablo? Is this your way of saying thanks for winning two first place awards at the sports podcast awards?

Is this why I'm being called in? Hi, hi. I don't know why anyone's mad at me, frankly. So what's going on? It's you've got a lot of producers and they, uh, they, they spend their days, uh, making Emmy nominations, filling out forms. So this is actually a helpful moment, I guess, to clarify. Um, the award I won, um, first of all, Samson's, I guess mad that the JPEG on the award for Sporty Class was my show logo.

Sorry that the JPEG is not David Sampson's face, I guess. I will apologize for that. I'm not going to apologize for the producers on my show. The award that I won was Best Sports Documentary Podcast. I don't know if you guys know what a documentary is, but it's not you call someone after they call, to expect congratulations after dropping off their daughter at school, to yell at them.

It's an award that you get for having high degree of difficulty episodes you produce every week. So cool, cool, cool, cool party I just walked into. David, please tell me what your objection is to metal art. Go ahead. I just understand what Pablo is trying to do when I'm aware of the resources that are given to Pablo to help him win.

The fact is that he's got groups of people who do nothing but make sure that he's nominated and wins awards. And that's fine, Pablo. And you can look at the structure of what you do and you can have your Pablo Torre finds out. But how many times do you ask that I am helpful to do the sporting class everyone and that wins, but then it's your thumbnail that does it.

And then you're the one who's tagged. So you didn't win just one gold medal, you won two gold medals. I did, I did. A big part of this I think is that David Sampson, who is very good on the sporting class, an episode that I host, not coincidentally, is he has no idea how the internet works. So David was mad at me yesterday for like tagging John skipper, but the

wrong john skipper on Instagram, he sent me a screenshot of john's Twitter account to point out that I clearly tagged the wrong one, not knowing that Twitter and Instagram or X and Instagram are two separate platforms. So when David says you have all these producers, I think he literally means sometimes you have someone else who understands what the internet is. And in this case, that no, no Pablo, I actually don't tell me what I mean. Don't tell me what I mean, Pablo. What I mean is you actually you've got myriad people working

because Metal Art gives you all these people to do all this stuff, and it's me and Coca. That's it. Oh, by the way, we do it every day. And it takes me weeks to do one show. Oh, but it's very in-depth because you find out crap. So I'm walking this way to New York, and I can maybe find some like actual

metaphorical comparison points like right here is a very fancy restaurant. It's like best in class like incredible elevated French food. And over there somewhere is like a hot dog stand. And I'm feeling at the French restaurant. That's great. That's great. Pablo, wait a second. You're calling what we do a hot dog stand. I love hot dogs. It's just not best documentary at the sports podcast award.

That's fine. Pablo, we're good here. We're good here, Dan, because you now know, at least now we know what we're dealing with is that Pablo and is he so highfalutin, he is so condescending toward nothing personal and toward what we do and it just manifested itself with a description and a comparison that should make you as nauseous as that hot dog. Hmm.

Look at all these wins I've had Pablo. You don't see me out there with all medals and rings every single day. Those are credentials by the way. You got some credentials hanging. This is sad. No, by the way, Sloan Sports Analytics credential.

Where are we in life where David Sampson has become the every man who's railing against the elite? What are you wearing? How many rings do you have there? You won one World Series, yet you're wearing three of the same World Series championship ring. Please give those players their rings. Which corpse did you raid to get those rings?

He's the one buying the rings off of Ethan. Trying to alter history, you only won one title. It's three of the same kind of ring. Hold on, Mikey, this is the All-Star Game Ring, which is really cool. Wait, so you got a ring for hosting an All-Star game? All-Stars get a ring every year. If you're an All-Star, you get a ring. And this is a ring that was for being a 2017 All-Star.

And I did get one because we hosted it. This is the Marlins World Series ring, but I have several. Can I get a cup of coffee? And do you have like the third place baseball podcast? Oh, sir. Just the black coffee, I'm sorry. You're actually a hardworking person. Just ball, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Do you mind if I just, can you say hello to my friends here? Okay, there it is. Hello, sir. This is the second place baseball. Come on. He's great. David, what are your problems with Metal Ark?

Are they just related to giving Pablo more support than you? No, I think that we have a weird. Thank you, sir. Pablo, can you use yourself when you're engaging with the general riffraff, please? He just congratulated me, so I just wanted to tell him, you know, thank you.

Yeah, we caught all that. Oh, okay. You were saying, Sam? Thought I'd make sure. The problem, Pablo trying to be popular by befriending his coffee man in the cart on the street, who has no idea who he is. None.

Honestly guys, I'm walking around here like Belle in Beauty of the Beast. People are popping out of their windows to say hello. Like a guy with a baguette just rolled by. It's incredible. Let's let Pablo go and let's make no mention of the fact that he stole the sporting class from me. I was doing that with Samson and Skipper beforehand.

Congratulations to Pablo and, how do you do this? Push maybe. I just broke it. I was congratulating, our confetti poppers don't really work particularly well. There it is. That feels like a metaphor. Congratulations to Pablo for his big win in the whatever categories they were.

Pull or push, what is it? There's tape on it. Congrats to Samson. And congrats to the All-Star Game. That's amazing. David, thank you for being on with us, and congratulations. You should be happy about third place.

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That's why everything around here is misspelled. We got a bad batch of balloons. Dan, I just want to point to Chris Cody, who's trying to get the popper to work and he's using some methods that, oh, there it is. Yeah. He was using some methods. I was like, careful, we're on camera.

If we were Mason Cameron, we would have been like, that's crazy. That's crazy. Yeah. Hey, yo, Chris, what are you doing? I actually appreciate that in that instance, when I was feeling really vulnerable, trying to pull, push, not knowing how a confetti cannon works, thinking it was my fault, and then I looked around the room

and all of you were struggling with the confetti cannons. I don't even know if those are confetti cannons. I think they're just containers of confetti. Mine just opened up and spilled out slowly. Yes, that's... This company, what I learned, has just a tone issue. Okay, they're not nice to each other, tone, mean. I'm finding the entire company with the Venmo fine bucket

It's brought to you by Venmo everybody owes five dollars at the entire company for this tone with these awards I don't like it. We should be celebrating each other five dollar Venmo tone fine for everyone I'm owed $30 for winning who that is everyone everyone. Okay. Here's the thing though This no one's respecting this bucket and you as I'm I'm proud of you for being a leader trying to make people Trying to enforce the rules, but you just made an edict and no one reached for their phones I will again be the only one paying this fine. I'm owed look take it out of my thirty dollars That is owed to me for guys. You're doing this. I'm so fed up with I take offense Do you say no one respects the Venmo

fine bucket. I highly respect it. We got a QR code. We scan it. We enter it in. It takes two seconds to put the money in. I've been contributing. I thought everybody else was.

This is news to me. It's just Greg Cody that's not. Everyone else is paying. I mean, do you think that Hawkins is paying? Because I don't believe that Hawkins is paid a fine yet I don't think I've ever been I don't think he's been fine. You just got fine $5 He just he just you were the one asking when we're celebrating awards. You're like I have questions You did real dismissively. Hey real happy for you. Congratulations. But however, let me bring my an assortment of

Questions to now there's a war on clarity. That's the thing, right? You can't even have real context of what the hell you're celebrating. These are the most prestigious awards. It's all you need to know. Okay, well, I don't say congratulations unless I'm impressed. And I need to have context to be impressed. I do not think he has a better football podcast

than Mena Kimes. So let's all continue to do the mental gymnastics to figure out how this happened. That's all I'm asking. I got Hawkins getting up on that stage as Stu Gatz is accepting the award and saying, hold on, hold on, I just wanna say, Mina Kimes is one of the greatest podcasts of all time.

Shrugging and wandering off the stage with a bottle of gas. Again, Mina Kimes not one of the greatest football podcasts of all time. Sir best. That's for that. Okay, so. It's Nightcap. I mean, you could be.

Is Nightcap, hold on, is that Shannon Sharpen, Chad? You could be bummed that Anatomy of a Fall didn't win Best Picture, but that doesn't make it Best Picture. Fair enough, I stand corrected or I sit corrected. It is one of the best, but it's not the best. The best is Stugats. The best is Billy. Billy couldn't receive the award are you guys aware what billy's

doing because i'd love that anarchist billy is doing this quietly because he's the only one in the company who would do this quietly he is going has gone to cartageville georgia to celebrate the incorrect anniversary date of billy gil day it's supposed to be the five year anniversary, but it's not actually, but he made the plans and they're doing it. So Billy Gill Day is in Cartersville, Georgia today. He's flying with his family for the weekend

to celebrate Billy Gill Day. No one else at this company would do it quietly. He can't pick up his award for producing the best American football podcast. Because he's celebrating his own day What is the population in this town? I want more information on Cartersville, please I'd like to know more as he continues to question the accolades of others. See if I should be impressed you He got a day look you you just made it so that your Hall of Fame was not impressive and I would say all the

Hall of Fame you get into a Hall of Fame, you've done something. You've never said that to me. I'm telling you right now. I prompted you to give me that. Well, because I didn't know you were in any Hall of Fames. You played for the Browns. You should assume. I'm seeing the population in Cartersville is 24,937.

Okay. You wanna diminish that? I'm just saying, just get the look at me Louie button ready. What do you mean look at me Louie button? He says, he says, warm it up. Look at me Louie. Wait, wait, that's not the end of the day. He didn't say press it.

He said get it warmed up. It's nice and hot now. There's an Andrew Hawkins day. That's all I'm saying. There it is. Now you can hit it. Where? Hit it, please.

Look at me Louie. Donstown, Pennsylvania. Located in Cambria County. I'm just. Is it bigger than Cartersville? Is that bigger than Cartersville? It's not. I think we're at roughly a 17,000 person population.

So admittedly a less impressive day than Billy Gills. And you didn't do it quietly. You felt the need to tell us right there. I'm just letting you know that's where my bar is. Okay, so he's done better than your bar, but he did it quietly. I admire the way that he did that. There's no way any of you would have done that that quietly.

He's going with his whole family for the weekend. I have sources up there. There's no way you could guess who it was. He says, my source tells me that there's a town hall ceremony planned this afternoon, and then afterwards bowling with Billy. Oh wow. Hawk, I'm sorry, I asked Chat Cheap ET,

when is Andrew Hawkins' day? And they said that there is no official Andrew Hawkins' day. I was like, please clarify, was he honored with his own day? This is the answer. As of now, there is no official day recognized by any governmental or official body as Andrew Hawkins' day. The designation of October 20th as Andrew Hawkins Day is a personal initiative by Andrew Hawkins himself, so I celebrated informally on social media.

Holy shit. Oh my god. I have a declaration from Mayor Trigonia for October 20th 2011 for Andrew Hawkins Day. My family celebrates that every year. Apparently, according to Advanced Computers, it is a personal initiative celebrated by you yourself informally on social media. This is shocking to have happen on live television. This is so embarrassing for them. It has an official government seal on it.

The internet's not backing you up, Al. This is the part of the movie where we realize the character that they wanted us to believe was the fraud, Stugats. It's not him, actually. The call is coming from inside the building. Wow, of course. You've gotta provide proof before the end of the show.

The black guy is the fraud. Look, look. I should've seen this coming. He's calling you with a computer or something. I should've seen it coming a mile away. Are you saying? The black guy is the scam artist. Is AI racially biased? Is that what you're saying? coming. I'm gonna be scowling you with a computer or something. I should have seen it coming a mile away. Are you saying that- The black guy is a scam artist. Is AI racially biased?

Is that what you're saying? Yes. I pressed it. I think everybody knows that AI is racially biased. It said at first it was like no, but then it had the very cutting remark of a personal initiative by Andrew Hawkins himself. Like what in the hell is that AI?

Why couldn't they, first off, if it was a personal achievement, why would they make the decision not to even acknowledge it? And then when you click like are you sure that i said there's this thing he makes up on social media but i'm not even when i act like it's a real i can't i can't make what i'm about to say up because i can't believe that this is happening on live television mike

who what was the name of the coach before nick saban who lost his job over a resume error on his way to alabama and there were stories not confirmed that uh... during uh... during moments that were private he would yell roll tide in intimate situations i was never able to prove that but i'm forgetting the name of the coach it wasn't only re was not george o'leary did lie on his resume but there was another coach, an Alabama coach, Mike Price?

Yes, so he lied on his resume and his career fell apart and we just saw something that is gonna demand proof from Andrew Hawkins or his career's gonna be in trouble, that he's been talking about Andrew Hawkins day to everyone who will listen and computers are accusing him of making the whole thing up. Well, this is how we make AI stronger because AI has been wrong before,

and I've had to correct it. AI is racist, man. And I'm not talking Allen Iverson. No, DEI is racist. This is ridiculous. Now I'm scrambling through my files to try to- You're gonna have to prove this in the next couple of hours, because this has the potential to be explosive

and career damaging. Because it's already happened, it's gonna get aggregated now, it's gonna be a whole thing where Andrew Hawkins is a liar and a promising and wonderful media career look I found an article and I'm gonna look at this finally. Oh, we've got documentation. Well, where's the seal? I don't see it right there bottom left. That's not a seal that could we zoom in on the seal? But it's not a real seal that is just that's just a printout man. No, we got it. We got a zoom in on the seal please? That is not a real seal. That is just a printout, man. No, we gotta zoom in on the embossed seal. There it is.

From Mayor Thomas Trigonia in Johnstown on behalf of our city council and all of our citizens, extend to Andrew this expression of our esteem and our very best wishes and thanks to him and his family. Andrew Hawkins Day, mayor of that city. Are we willing to take that as proof? Does Andrew Hawkins get to do a victor? Does he get to do a victor?

Are we willing to take a government proclamation with a, this doesn't feel a little racially biased. Judges? I, uh. All right. All right, that is not a real seal. That is, okay. This is a real seal.

This is clearly a real seal right here. That is not a real seal. That is the real seal. This is clearly a real seal right here. That is not a real seal. The only racially seal that you're going to accept. Wow. Big news. Chat GPT has capitulated. All right. I sent it the article.

Congratulations. I need to apologize. Congratulations. Look at that. The apology is never as loud as the accusation. I surmise that he did indeed have his own official day. And it's not celebrated by himself. I'm suing Chat GPT. No, but you're going to get to take a victory lap right now. We're going to go into the other room. I surmise that he did indeed have his own official day. And it's not celebrated by himself. That's right.

No, but you're gonna get to take a victory lap. Right now, we're gonna go into the other room, we're gonna give Andrew Hawkins the stage, we're gonna give him the platform to say whatever he wants. He has been discriminated against by computers and by me. He was indeed questioned, but now we have an official proclamation from a mayor of some sort.

And I again will ask the group, are any of you surprised that Billy Gill is doing this this weekend? He doesn't want to leave his home to interact with people. Like, I don't, he advocated for house arrest the other day as a better way of living. And he has gotten up, taken his family quietly to celebrate himself on a day.

And I think it's because he needs to be away from us where things are not celebrated together Wait, oh, it's our fault I think he wants to be in a place where people will celebrate who he is and his achievements Metal arc is not that place for the record. There was no hesitation from chat GPT When when I asked about Billy Gilday, it knew it right away. Can you give me more information on both Billy Gildea and Cartersville? I'd like to know about this city that he was in. I wanted to send people with him, but he wanted to do it more quietly.

He wanted to do it more humbly, and so I wanted the content of it. He did not want to share the content. I'm sure it'll be his private brand management. Was it he wanted to do it quietly and humbly, or he just didn't want any of us around some information for you the mayor of Cartersville used to be a co-host of the lower after hours podcast I don't believe that is right what you're doing there you're undermining Billy Gill's day as the one

who said facts you want facts about this I said I wanted facts about Cartersville facts that undermine this particular event. Not undermining it, it's just a fact. It's a historic city with a rich and cultural natural heritage. It's got the Savoy Automobile Museum there. The first outdoor painted Coca-Cola wall advertisement was in Cartersville, Georgia. There's gotta be something about slavery in there. It's actually some plantations.

Or something. It's the home of Sam P. Jones. We actually have good news regarding racism. The Attorney general under Ulysses S. Grant, Amos Ackerman, was from Cartersville and spearheaded the federal prosecution of members of the Klu Klux Klan. So from Cartersville, getting rid of KKK members. That's really exciting. And Atlanta, you get your drinking water from Cartersville. So there's that. So congratulations to Billy Gill. This is Billy Gill Day. This is officially throughout the land Billy Gill Day. He's got America's best football podcast, took out Shannon Sharp, took out everybody, took out everybody. And everybody, everybody

who's talking about football, no one's doing it better than Billy and whatever Gronkowski is on their show. And now we go out to Andrew Hawkins and here it is. Here is his victory lap. Congratulations, Andrew I'm sorry. I called you a Bit of a phoning. It's okay I forgive you Shout out to Peloton as I'm taking my victory lap through God's country also known as Johnstown, Pennsylvania population of roughly 19,000 as I sit here over top as Johnstown, Pennsylvania, population of roughly 19,000.

As I sit here over top, as Johnstown, Pennsylvania's favorite son, the home of also Jack Ham, who does not have his own day. I actually don't know, but I'm sure if you check chat TBT, Mike, they would say he has seven days because he is not black. And they won't discredit it without the proclamation and official seal. Shout out to Billy Gill, okay, for your day. Because now that I see that the way this company approaches people who have, through their esteemed accomplishments, had their own holiday in their honor, I now understand that I was mistaken for trying to find out the population of your city. It is an incredible honor. Congrats to you and your family,

and congrats on your big spa, your spa award. Your potty award. Congrats on using the potty, Billy. I'm very proud of you. Shout out to Peloton, and most importantly, and I'll end with this, shout out to me, right? Everybody, look at me, Louis, baby. All right, but you're not really running.

You were fake running. No, I'm running you're not running That's a very smooth runner. I won't lie. I'm watching you and I'm waiting to hear the voice cha-cha real smooth Turn again, this is how I run to the left Victory lap is brought to you by peloton find your, find your power with Peloton. You were bored mind dancing. Freeze, girls. You were hands crossed. There is no official jack-ham day.

We're not too tired. Why does no one understand that the whole payoff on this bit is you're winded while you're talking? Why does no one understand that? I've been running for four minutes. What took you so long to come to me? Well, now, ciao, real smooth now. It's crazy. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, howdy, listener. Why don't you sit down here next to me? Let's have a fireside conversation in the winter.

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