The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: We Need Shrimp

Episode Date: May 14, 2025

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shadow show. shadowing it. shadowing it. I should probably ask Billy this question directly, but I'm afraid to talk to him now that he's got this empowering Wednesday, and it's gone to his head a little bit. Oh, ha ha ha ha.

Um, but I will ask the rest of you instead of Billy, because I don't want to look him in the eye, how long have Billy and I worked together? Do you guys want to take a guess? 15. Is it more or less than 15 years? 15 sounds about right. Before including internship, I don't know.

I think 15 is about right. Billy, do you have an exact number? Is this Price is Right? I just, do you know, is what I'm saying? Yeah, it started in 2010, so 15 years. All right, wow, they all got exactly. I have an excellent memory anything 790 related. Really? All right.

What'd I wear my first day as an intern? All right, now you're being a dick. Oh! I do wanna take the opportunity to say we had an original production director over at 790 David Starr and I found out last week that he passed away so thoughts and prayers to his family. I'm sorry to bring the vibes down but 790 holds a special place in our heart and Dave Starr was a big part of that station. I did not know that I'm learning that now. I texted you.

I don't mean, whoa. I texted you and Sugots. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Texted you and Sugots. That's bad. Marty Schottenheimer too. Whoa, whoa. Thought it was big enough news

to let you guys know personally. And I thought it was weird that neither you or Sugots responded to that. I guess you guys weren't big Dave Star guys. I don't think you can really start a sentence where everyone's laughing, saying not to bring down the vibes, but someone you know died. And you're informing me of that because I didn't see it on the text.

I was waiting for an organic place. While we were laughing? Well, he mentioned 790. That was organic. The door opened for him. You gotta walk through it. I'm matching. You guys are talking about Tyrese Halliburr and I'm like, Dan, David Starr died. And we never talk about 790, so that was our one opportunity.

The window was so shut. Zazz, how you feeling about the David Starr news? Yeah, I was a little bit bummed when I saw it a few days ago. Yeah, I was really bummed. I was actually texting with Hawkebob. He was a nice guy. I was texting with Hawkebob.

He was a nice guy. He loved his son. There was a promo, like when we first got the dolphins, it was like highly inappropriate that he made. Because David Starr would always like do this thing where he would like want a pop culture reference in the middle of it, like no matter what. So there's a disembodied voice,

like celebrating the dolphins partnership going, excuse me while I whip this out. And it was not Hawk's job at the time, certainly wasn't mine, and we had that pull because it was so inappropriate. Did you hear the Todd Castleberry news? No. Alive and well.

Oh, that's tremendous. Dan, did you hear that one? I was gonna make a joke. Whoa, you stumbled onto another wild Billy Wednesday. Hold on to your hats, partners. It's about to go wild. I've worked for 15 years with Billy Gill and he has never said what he came in here today and said to me boldly. just not in any way fearful, emboldened,

I think, by the fact that a meme came in screaming at me, yelling, remember Dan when you thought the thunder were done after game one? And also he did. And he also threw in, what's this moment you keep talking about? Like everyone's a little stronger on Wednesdays,

but Billy said to me after yesterday's show, it wasn't good morning, it was you were an asshole yesterday to Chris and his father. I said kind of. Okay, that softens it. But you've never called me an asshole to my face before. I didn't say you were one, I said you kind of acted like one.

Exhibited the behaviors of an asshole. Yeah, that doesn't mean you are one. Chris, did you feel that way? You know, like I said yesterday, I feel nothing anymore. But I did receive a lot of texts yesterday. Really? Of people just being like, you good, man? It was rough.

What's going on there? Wasn't a fan of it. See, I struggle with this now that I've been in here more. I'm trying, I'm still trying to understand what's really happening feelings-wise? Are feelings getting hurt? Is it performative? Like I'm still struggling with the line

between what's real and what's not. And you don't wanna bite the hand that feeds. Well let's start with Tony and Billy don't like each other. That one's real. Yeah. I don't think we should be telling people what is real and what is not real as people, for example,

wonder about the whereabouts of Stugatz. And I kind of wish that was a bit, but I don't understand why Stugatz was on the schedule four days this week and hasn't gotten here yet. He's still in Newark. My gain. Well, this is what's happening right now. This is what's happening.

Zazzalow's like, I'm on a heater, man. Like, I can't believe Stugatz is leaving the seat open. No, no, we's happening right here. This is what's happening. Zazzlo's like, I'm on a heater, man. Like, I can't believe Stugance is leaving the seat open. No, no, we were talking back here. It's been a weird couple of days on the show and Chris asked aloud, like, what do you think Zazz is thinking these last few days? And Billy just picks his head up from his papers and he goes, cha-ching.

Again, wives love money. I gotta go into work tomorrow morning. Again, with this, with all people love money saslow That's true. It's not it's not just wives husbands also money's great. That's true love money. Yeah, that's true Really, we're the show now that plays a cash register tribute to Dave star Love that and his son too. Why don't you find me? He did love his son And his son too. Why don't you find me, he did love his son. He really did.

Say that, like that's some type of weird. I don't know what you're saying. Why does that sound so, no, but he really loved his kid. It's true. Every time you see him, like he was so proud. Like I don't want this to come off. You don't get a reward for that. It's not a, like it's a qualification.

Can I get top five people that love their sons? Joe Biden. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, that's a good one, that's a good one. That's a good answer. That's a good answer. Greg Cody. Greg Cody. Too soon.

There is nothing, there is nothing that will make Greg Cody angrier and he gets, this is a place that he will get emotional faster and with more claws than in defense of his two children. Let me ask a question. Is that Greg Cody loves his son so much he'll defend them like mama bear,

or is that Greg Cody taking offense as Greg Cody that you would make fun of anything that belongs to Greg Cody? That's a good question on the depths of his narcissism, but I've seen it happen enough that he will rise to the vigorous defense of his son when his son behaves as greg cody would and so when i say too harshly

an indictment of chris cody that's basically just an umbrella for my executive producer doesn't return my phone calls so it's just a it's just an umbrella to stroke it's an umbrella complaint that i't always I couldn't get a hold of him When he was my assistant, I have some trouble reaching him now that I that he's in the acting role as executive producer And so I just didn't say that but I don't know how you can object to that I texted you the other day that Dave star died nothing Do you have that filtered?

Let me let me just come to the defense of Chris Cody. There are many people who could complain about people getting back to each other. The one person who probably can't is Dan Levatard. Dan, today you chastised me and Izzy for not responding to your question in an email. I wish there were three responses to that question in the same email on the same day,

which was days ago. Yeah, you know, I did miss that. That is true and that's fair. I'm under a lot of different stuff now. But the thing I had requested from you and Izzy, you guys didn't actually, like all you said is, yeah, we answered your questions by telling you we weren't gonna send any of the things you asked for.

Yes, because we explained why they were unnecessary. It's an answer. It is an answer, but it's not it's not a completion. It's not the right answer. It's not the completion of the task, right. It's just to tell me no I can't do that isn't really completing what it is that I've requested. Dan, it's like you said hey let's bake a cake. We said fine. He said you know we really need shrimp. And like Dan, our response was I don't think we need's bake a cake. We said, fine. He said, you know what we really need? Shrimp. And I'm like, Dan, our response was, I don't think we need shrimp for a cake. And you're like, I haven't heard back.

Are we doing the shrimp or not? Grab cake. He's giving the shrimp some thought, some more thought. Circling back on the shrimp. Do you guys have any thoughts on the ravaging the Pacers just gave the Cleveland Cavaliers? Because I said yesterday the Pacers can beat the Cleveland Cavaliers because I said yesterday the Pacers can beat anybody and that's not true they can't beat OKC

but playing that style of basketball on I mean on any game they can be good enough to beat you but doing this to Cleveland right because I didn't actually write off OKC though I want to hear your thoughts on this I mean I'm just respecting the best player in the world and probably not respecting OKC's defense enough because I have so rarely seen Jokic look like he looked in games three and four and Denver was still in those games but I'm not writing off anybody I'm just I'm just respecting the best player in the world. You kind of wrote him off Dan you sounded every alarm because they lost game one.

And I said, Dan, it's the playoffs. This happens all the time. All they gotta do is win one in Denver, we're back at square one. And that's exactly what Oklahoma City did. And now they won one up ahead on game five. And now all they gotta do is win one and win the whole thing because the playoffs, Dan,

it's a dance. It's not just like, here we go, boom, boom, all right, we're done. You go, you say, may I? And then they say, ay, you may? And then you grab the hand, and then you waltz, and then you do a little twirl, and a little dip, and now we're cha-chaing a little bit.

This is how this thing goes, unless you're the Cleveland Cavaliers, in which case, someone just kicked you in your ass out the door, named Indiana. Well, what's the indictment of this? Because Cleveland will go down as someone no one will believe in next year because of what happened last year and what happened this year. But those four players that they have are hell of a core.

I will say though that what you're presently watching is the hardening of the Pacers over the playoffs where last year they were a thing to be feared and they had all sorts of win probabilities over the Celtics where they should have won like three of the playoff games late Were probable to win and blew all of them. This feels like a different team to me. Do I have this wrong? It's just a 50 win team and I don't know in today's game when the players are talking about Halliburton being overrated I'm watching a player and I'm like that's not overrated. Yeah, but we know what that pull like that It's a that's a popularity contest. That, but we know what that poll, like that, that's a popularity contest. That's the players telling you, we don't like that guy.

That's exactly what that is. I mean, number two is Rudy Gobert. We don't like that guy. Zazz, this is my favorite part about this. Yesterday after the Pacers win, LeBron tweets out stuff that like, LMAO, oh, we're all these lames who think he's overrated now. And that immediately let me know, LeBon was one of the ones who voted he's one of the

guys I think collectively we have one overriding thought from last night's Cleveland Cavaliers elimination and it was this sound courtesy of Turner a group text message was sent out to every single Cavalier player from Max Struce. Struce said simply, if you don't believe, then don't show up for work. What was he from three? He was 0 for 9 from the field. Wow. So how many threes did he hit?

He was 0 for 6 from three. Zero points. I'd rather not believe and make a shot. So I guess he didn't believe is that show up Is that straight from the Jimmy Butler playbook the don't show up to work thing It's like the friend that's like we're gonna rage all night and then at happy hour after three Long Islands is done That's max does max choose think about that at any point like late in the game. He's sitting on the bench like Damn, I know TNT said that I sent that text message

and I'm sitting here, oh for. Zazz, that's the crazy part. Sending that text message, not a big deal. It's a team, you gotta fire up the team however you want. It's the telling Jared Greenberg, hey Jared, this is what I sent the team by the way. Yeah, we're gonna get on an I-boy. God, I look like such a dumbass now.

I think that was like the last bit of culture oozing out of him. He's like, I gotta inspire the group. He took Duncan Robinson's job because when he's 0 for 9, he knows he's making the 10th one. Like, he doesn't mind 0 for 9. Like they kept putting- What I loved about Max. Well, that's, I mean, the reason he,

the reason that he made $50 million is because, yes, throw me the ball, I will always shoot it. I'm gonna continue to space the floor this way. I think that happens. I wish, though, that we had a segment somewhere in sports where we had so much access that instead of all the stories that we get about, oh, he told me in the dugout he was gonna hit a home run before he went up there.

This story, where a guy tries to fire up his team and then goes 0 for 9 and has nothing to do with the reason they won the basketball game. Well everything to do with why they lost the basketball game. The top ten is littered with Jimmy Butler. Jimmy Butler just said all sorts of nonsense and by the way, he was allowed to get away with it because he'd done enough in the playoffs, but he said all sorts of crazy things. Even though I'm wearing this jersey, let me throw out Patrick Ewing also was one who gave a lot of guarantees that never came true except for one time he said, see you on Sunday and

then they actually played game seven on Sunday. Other than that, there's a lot of Patrick Ewing guarantees that didn't get made. There has been nothing more diluted in sports than the public guarantee someone makes because words mean nothing. But you mentioned Jimmy Butler and you mentioned the vagaries and variances of the playoffs. Last round I was saying Jimmy Butler won the whole thing with the Heat. Tonight's a pretty big one for Jimmy Butler. The thing's going to fall on his head here if he... They need him to be playoff Jimmy and my question to you is legitimately can he this is literally why they got him not to win not to win a series without

steph curry it's can you win us ag game can you win us ag game so that steph curry can return to the lineup like this is this is why they got him tonight from series to series though because if his season ends tonight, I was saying last round Jimmy got it right, the Heat got it wrong. If you can do that 16 times, if he can stay healthy 16 times, you fast forward from 7

seed to of course, Steph and Jimmy can beat anybody four of seven games if jimmy is right but part of the bet that miami was making on jimmy is we can't get him on the court all the time he's not going to keep staying healthy at thirty five because that kind of mileage they're still talking bridges and is an iron man and they're still talking about the but a running people into the ground uh... jimmy butler however it is that science has changed aging, there's a lot of mileage on those odometers and the pump fakes were starting last playoff when

he had to get shot up I don't know how many times in order to get to the, to try and get into later rounds. Well, I mean, he does have that injury that he sustained against Houston, so we don't know what he's dealing with, but again at this time of year, everybody's hurt. That's what I would say. You can't say he's hurt, everybody's hurt. That's what I would say. You can't say he's hurt, everyone's hurt. But Dan, it is curious. To me, it's not that he's not having these amazing games.

It's that he's looking very reticent, right? He gets in the lane without even looking at the rim. They even mentioned it on the broadcast last game. Why didn't he shoot that? Yeah, he's driving looking to pass, looking for someone else to give the ball. Like here, Kerry Payton III, you shoot instead of me. Or just even initiating the contact and going through it.

Some of that is Rudy Gobert, but even when Gobert's off the floor, he's not looking aggressive and it's weird. But here's the thing, Dan, if he comes out tonight has forty in the win and that's that comes back next game all the spread but my question to you is legitimately can he write because uh... when we talked yesterday about yannis

and which was amazing the way you guys talk about like always not in his prime like what are you talking about he had the best year of his career is like any worse that he was of like a year or two ago? No, okay, this is his prime. Usually in basketball, the prime isn't at 30. You just look at it. That's where the, you wanna know where the prime is?

You look, oh, look at that. Oh yeah, that's its prime. Fair enough, is it sustainable with his frame? I mean, if anybody's been built to carry that kind of mass at that size, it's Giannis. His nickname is Freak, but his game, he doesn't have a consistent shot. His game is power on the inside,

and he's gonna be north of 30. I do think it's fair to question, how long can he be that? But the reason, okay, so yes, we mentioned that he had his best year. I was just saying, we're headed into the 30 thirties and still i was saying you trade everything for him almost no matter who you are in the reason is the same reason that the celtics are unlikely to be able to rally against the

next because you need a guy breaks down everything the defense is going to do and you can build around that it's the it's the most important thing that you would need from a player that is a centerpiece is somebody who is such a physical force that he can wreck everything you're trying to do on defense and it doesn't matter if Max Struse is playing for Cleveland or the Heat or whatever you can find four guys who can shoot around it. I'm sorry you said

who would rally against the Knicks? Boston. That's perfect. That's perfect. That's perfect. That's perfect. That's perfect. That's perfect. That's perfect.

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That's perfect. That's perfect. That's perfect. That's door of the place. They are so toes. Like rally North Carolina. The Panthers are playing tonight against the Maple Leafs. Woo! And the Knicks and Celtics get the sound. Oh wow. Really? Go New York, go New York, go! Wow.

Oh, I am going, I'm gonna be there front row at this funeral. Bing bong. Jim Dolan's throwing basketballs to fans outside. Hey kid, you want the game four ball? Hey man. I don't want that building to have a second of hope. Bing bong.

I just want them to get in their seats and not have a reason to stand up beyond the tip. I'm not sure. I've been watching this series just like you guys have been, but I'm not sure you've been watching the Knicks all season if you're confident that they can't lose the next two games. No, no, no, they're gonna go down 20 and then the game starts, you understand?

Then the Knicks start playing a little bit. The Knicks can very easily lose twice to the remains of this Boston. That's right, because Derek White is one of the greatest players I've ever seen with my own eyes. I had this take yesterday. In games that I have watched with my own eyes, Derek White is a top 100 player

in the history of the NBA. What about games with other people's eyes? Other people's eyes, I can't speak to that. Derrick White two years ago sent me to a place I have never been as a sports fan. I hate betting against this guy. Every time I bet against this guy, he's amazing. He hits all the props.

The guy is incredible. He's a good defender He hits big shots. He stops the best guy when whenever there's a switch and someone tries to take advantage of his size He's incredible. He hits all the props when you don't bet on them It's an important distinction because when you do bet on them then at those are the two point there's nobody I have ever feared more Betting against outside of maybe Patrick Mahomes Then then Derek White it's crazy crazy how good this guy is. Wait, so in the pantheon it's Patrick Mahomes won,

number two, Derek White. I'm still stuck on the complete and obvious lie that Mike Ryan's gonna have a sound on the next game tonight. It is a lie. You got me. Get the hell out of here. Get those chickens ready. I said that for a fact.

Oh wow, delayed chickens. Yo, chicken time. You got me Speaking of chickens Roy has been nothing I'm a chicken! Yeah! Good job! Hand up. I'll admit it when I'm wrong. I was wrong there. I lied. Speaking of chickens, Roy has been nothing. Chicken? Nothing. Zazz needs some work on the chicken. He's figuring it out.

He's trying to figure out how all this stuff works. Imagine how disorienting it is. You sit in the seat, you're just hanging out and all of a sudden everyone's talking like a chicken. He doesn't know how to do an and all of a sudden everyone's talking like a chicken. He doesn't know how to do an impersonation of a chicken, so he explains just obviously, like all the bad impersonations, I'm a chicken. I told you, I'm still trying to figure out

if and how angry Greg Cody was yesterday. He was angry. He was bothered, and he does vigorously defend his son. We will see if he comes in tomorrow. He's also asking for a raise. Or you're an asshole. One of the things. Well, why does it have to be either or?

Why can't it be that I'm an asshole and he's asking for a raise? Those are not mutually exclusive. And by the way, like this part's not a joke, right? Zadzlo is, I don't want to speak for him here. Go on. But he marvels at Greg Cody's lack of self-awareness. Well, you guys have listened to Oral History and you know that the origins of this show were once just a dream.

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So this is what I'm saying they're always real and you're always left to wonder is he serious or is this performative it's i've i'd told greg yesterday when he left i told him greg how is it after all this time twenty years well that's what i'm saying how do you not understand that your angry is funny and there's nothing like it in like jackass did some of this when they, you know, it's a kid bothering his father. It's funny.

And Greg mad? There's nothing funnier than Greg actually mad and forgetting that we're doing a show together. Like that was my thought when I left to go home yesterday was how after all these years of Greg appearing on this show, am I still in the same room where Dan is telling Cody how much he loves him and appreciates him? Please don't be angry.

Well, so here's, let's take people behind the scene on when the cast members don't know what's bit and what's real. What I'm telling you with Greg Cody, whether it's the hard network out or him getting mad, all that's real. Greg doesn't know that we're bleeping with it. Greg does this show as serious sports radio person who has no idea. He does not think that Billy is agreeing with him because Billy is, you

know, somebody who's doing show. I'm agreeing with him because he's right. Okay. You said don't explain things. Yeah, what's happening? What are you doing? Don't tell people what's real and what's not. I feel like if I did what you just did, you would be like, kill him.

The curtain is there for some reason. Thank you guys. You are absolutely right to correct me on that. Sometimes I don't know when we're doing show and when we're not doing show. I'm glad you said it. Because when I came in here today and Billy said I was an asshole.

Kind of, I said. To think to say to your boss, man. I said, well, no, there was more of a conversation. There was more of a conversation. You're in portions. I caught portions of it. And Dan was like, why didn't we talk about it after the show yesterday?

And Billy kindly reminded him, you left early. You're not. There's a lot of context for this thing in this conversation. Also. I'm being presented in a way. I just caught portions. Chris kissed me in the mouth after Dan left and I'll just say that.

Also, why is there no shrimp on this cake? Did you guys know that Mountain Dew makes a mango flavor? Oh. What do you mean? Hold on, hold on a second. There's more to this story. Exclusively for Little Caesars. Huh.

I was shocked. I had someone send me a cameo and they're like, can you say happy birthday to my husband, also we'd like you to try the Mountain Dew mango flavor from Little Caesars. And I was like, okay. Like I'll go do that, like how much is it? I went and you know, I found a deal where you could get

like these Little Caesar's puffs where it's basically a little muffin pizza which is delicious and those are like $4.99 for four. And this is a special where it's $4.99 plus this mango rush. I was like, that's a free mango rush, I can do this and I can taste it. So I went, if you put the image up again, like you can see this can is also specifically designed

for Little Caesar's, there's little LCs like hidden in it all over the place. And it says Little Caesar's, look at the top, that's LCs at the top. Anyways, so. They've done this before by the way. I went and I tried this mango rush as I was requested to. I gotta tell you, delicious.

It tastes like carbonated mango juice, except it's not as creamy and rich or whatever. But then I got to thinking, who on earth thought I like Little Caesars, but I like this better with mango soda? Because that's the only place that it's available. That's all, just a thought. It seems like the kind of colorful, sugary excess

that you would find at Little Caesars, because what do I want with my cheese? Just a candy drink that's carbonated and tastes like mango. I don't put it on the poll at Le Bataille show because I think everyone wints the same way. Does mango Mountain Dew sound good to you? Because the sound of it does not sound good. We all winced.

You know what always surprises? Mango with heat. Like a spicy mango flavor profile. does not sound good, we all winced. You know what always surprises? Mango with heat. Like a spicy mango flavor profile. That is very, it's savory and sweet and spicy. So, hold up a second. You said though you got this request on Cameo, you're on Cameo?

Yeah, yeah. Okay, this is very interesting to me because I'm very interested in how much you charge for your Cameo. Well. Are you trying to leverage? No, no, what I'm saying is, I set up like half a cameo profile months ago,

and then it got to the place where I have to put how much money I request to do this, and like, I don't know what to put, so I've never finished the profile. Dad, this is what you need to do. You need to torch the profile you have already. It's done. You need to start a new profile off of my referral. No, no, no, no. Because then you get boosted, right?

Because then all of my cameo people see your cameo stuff. So then you get boosted and then this is what you do. You set the price, but then you do a price drop immediately. Say if you get in now, get in now, then it goes to this price. That's your real price. The price that you put, that's a fake price, but then the sale price is the real price. You're gonna wanna write that down. Okay, that's an interesting strategy, and I will do that. But let's get back to the part that's most important to me.

How much money am I supposed to charge? Like, what are you charging? Before we answer that question, just real quick. Dan's on Cameo 2. I am not. I have rarely been more embarrassed than the first thing that happened when we left ESPN is everyone here started panhandling on Cameo. No, that was after

we left ESPN. It was second time. I don't know why I made a principal stand. I was like, I'm not going to take part in this Gold Rush. And you guys made so much money. So much money. Christmas was fun. But Zaslow just got here, and so he's asking you for tips. How does he greedily take advantage of the audience immediately? He waited about 10 days before asking. You're going to fit right in here, buddy. That's what that chair does right there.

Dan, you say take advantage of the audience. I say provide not just a service, memories. Memories forever. You know how many birthdays I've wished? I don't wish happy birthday to my friends, but I'll do it on Cameo. You know why? Because it means something to the people who request it. They want to hear Obama say happy birthday to their best friend or their brother or their sister. Why would I deny them of that, Dan? Stop your Cameo advertising. No, it's slash Darth Amin. Go ahead look me up. Zaz here's a deal because you're

asking for like a price point. If I'm gonna be honest with you we're a little bit past the boom of cameo so like when we got in it was like peak cameo and I like Mike held off for a couple of days because I was like, I don't know if this, I was like, I don't know if I'm the right personality tone, I don't know if I'm gonna be a fit for Cameo, I don't know if I'm a person. That's how I feel, I don't know. Billy's honestly perfect for Cameo.

People ended up liking what I was doing, but I waited a couple days and then famously announced that I joined Cameo on January 6th as they were storming the Capitol because I didn't know what was going on. You could hear that full story of Mystery Crave from a couple of weeks ago if you'd like. So it was actually kind of around when we left. January 6th as they were storming the capital because I didn't know what was going on. You could hear that full story of Mystery Crate from a couple weeks ago if you'd like.

So it was actually kind of around when we left ESPN. Yeah, it was. It was like first thing everybody did because we weren't allowed to at ESPN. So anywho, I set a price and then at the time, again, it was like the boom of Cameo and they send you like you have a Cameo rep and the rep was like you might want to up your price.

Like significantly because you're meeting a demand and he wanted me to triple my price. I was like, I'm not gonna do that. I'll pay like five dollars and that's it. But at the boom, it was like 30 cameos a day that I had to do and they would call me in the morning like, hey, you have all these, do you gotta do it? You gotta do all this stuff.

It has since cooled down. But a piece of advice that I will give you as someone who is still pretty active on the cameo and still gets videos and had to do some and I had to do the mountain do one, and that was one that was expired. If you join, you gotta do them. Because we have some people here who have joined recently,

we have Mike Fuentes, I saw him join cameo for some reason. What? Yeah. I don't know why he joined cameo. No, no way. It's a plague around here. It's just a plague. People get here and they're just like, how do I find places where there are money? Can we get back to that?

Or there are dollars. Well, this is the piece of advice I would tell you. Jeremy also recently joined Cameo. Oh, Jeremy. I'm already getting the request of Jeremy didn't fulfill my request. Can you send my husband or whatever a Cameo because it expired and he didn't do it.

I've made so much business off of Chris Cody, Stu Gotz, and Jeremy not doing their cameos, it's incredible. So do it, and if you expire, as a show of good will and good faith, because you let it expire, you do it for free. It's an option, you gotta do it for free. If you ask them to rebook. Why would I let it expire?

It just, sometimes you're a busy man. Stu Gotz lets them, yes, they're, It happens sometimes. So this is why I'm embarrassed by some of the things that happen around here, because some people can be so gluttonous that they can even turn down the money because they can't get around to it because there are too many requests,

and that happens with Stugots and others. But the part that was problematic when we left the s p n wasn't just that we immediately started panhandling in a way that greg cody objects to when he leaves the five-star michelin restaurant in a panhandlers outside he doesn't want to be panhandled and he's the most i think it was that it made what you guys just did now where you did you did that the subtle advertising for your cameos, for days you guys were talking about this in a way that contaminated our show,

and now he's done it in the middle of the hockey playoff. He's done it in the middle of the basketball playoff. He's like, hey, how do I find more money? No, what we were doing was we were alerting the masses that we were now offering them unique experiences, personalized experiences for them, their friends, their family, et cetera. Also, the maximum number of stars a Michelin restaurant can receive is three, Dan.

Okay, I'm sorry, yes, I erred there, I got it wrong. Well, this is supposed to be your wheelhouse, though. Food, yes, thank you, stop biting the hand. Three stars sounds bad. Like if someone says we're a three star restaurant, I'm like, should be five, should be ten. I just don't know when I'm gonna have another opportunity to be on a heater like this.

I feel like this could be the time to finally complete my cameo profile. And you have yet to tell me one thing I want to know. $250 for your cameos. How much do you do? Time out. I do like 45. You guys just steamrolled.

Wow, Billy wins. It's Billy's day. They steamrolled a good joke. That's one of the best jokes you've ever done. Thank you. I appreciate it Billy I won't even repeat it Billy didn't even hear it. I'm trying to help out Zazz though here We need to get back to sports You also have to know Zazz they like they took a nice chunk out of it And if someone books it on an Apple product, oh good lord

You're basically doing that for free 50 bucks put 50 bucks you get 75 how much does Jeremy do? I think his was like 15, which he was like, I'm not gonna be able to do all of these that I'm getting. He's a busy man. We need to get back to sports. It's an interesting time in sports. I wanted to talk about how the Michelin star became so valued.

It's a crazy story. It is a crazy story. You can put it for later in the show because we should have got to it yesterday, but I don't wanna leave the local hour and get to Hank Azarian's star talking next. It's a pretty enormous Panther game tonight And I know that Roy and Zazz and Chris pretend to not be afraid because you've got the better team

But this is terrifying. No, no, I'm afraid it's best of three in Toronto And that place is dying like this if they knock off the Panthers you guys know that this will be a fan base that is feeling As good as it's ever felt I shouldn't say afraid I I'm very confident But I am gonna be on the verge of projectile vomit the entire 60 minutes like I'm going to have super anxiety And odds are the entire game, but Dan If the Panthers score the first goal tonight That crowds gonna get tight this feels like a seven game series to me And I don't know what that means for the night.

They're gonna play a seven game after the Panthers have already clinched it in six? I think that this goes seven. Unprecedented! That's what I feel strongly about. I think this is a seven game series. Unprecedented! So it would be, put it on the poll at Leviton Show,

is it unprecedented to win in seven after you've lost in six? That is what, Zaslow, the Homer train around here, I'm embarrassed for Zaslow on this behalf. Do you understand how hard it is to be more of a Homer than Greg Cody, Parakeet Cortez, and Mike Ryan about our local sports teams? You never think the local team is going to lose. You have never in 20 years watching you do this, do you go into a night

predicting the locals are going to lose tonight? I know they're going to lose. Okay, but you know what it is? It's that this Panther team, every single year, they were six points back of eighth. Every single year, they were six points out of the final playoff spot. We had that game in hand though. And now, and now. It was an eight year run, man. It was an eight year run. Every year, six points back.

It must've been, it felt like 27 years of that. We did a decade of radio on, hey, they're four points out. With a game in hand. Roy, get the table. Yeah. Oh man. Rostislav Olez is returning this week.

Ha ha ha ha. And now look where we live. But you should be, Roy, you can't do bravado right now. This is, even if you're the champions, and even if you know you got the best team, this is a difficult spot, and hockey can happen, and you can lose in that building to their backup goalie. Maybe Lee's a shook man, what are you talking about?

Hold on a second, their backup goalie, like Joseph Wall in the game of his life. Yeah, is Wall playing? I know Stellaris was back on the ice. I would absolutely stick with Wall if I was Toronto. Yeah, he was really good. No doubt. We were getting goalie that game.

Yup, yup. Absolutely goalie. He was incredible, but at the same time, did you see the Stanley Cup champs? I mean, that was Panther hockey. That back incredible, but at the same time, did you see the Stanley Cup champs? I mean, that was Panther hockey! That back, baby! Come on now! Way better than the CPR line. You remember Vili Peltonen? So one of the Panthers owners went crazy on Twitter.

Oh my God. Yeah. He's done that before. That's not even the first time? No, he's always been an idiot on social media about that stuff. Next level idiot. Yeah. No, he's been a next an idiot on social media about that stuff. He's a next level idiot. Yeah, no, he's been like a next level idiot on that front. He's very outspoken, very conservative, very public about his beliefs. Hold on, Dutch. Like there was no, I was not even, like I looked at the interaction. It was just out of the blue.

Yeah. I mean, it wasn't out of the blue I don't use baited. Yeah, he was totally baited. He took the bait hook line and sinker Yeah And if you pay attention to hockey and if you pay attention to the Panthers like the reason why like this is known amongst like Hardcore Panther fans that this is a bit. I didn't know this actually no He's he's been a problem before and he pops off on social media He had a minority owner like this as well many years ago. You have to be careful with the minority owners who have public opinions because they're just

rich people who don't actually have the power of the toy. Are you talking about Jared Kushner's brother? Because that was avoided in the Pat Riley presser. I didn't see them answering questions about how Jared Kushner's brother acquired a stake in the Miami Heat. We just move it a little. So you're saying the principal owner of the Panthers has done this before?

Minority, minority, minority, minority. He's the second in charge. I think he's a CFO. No, he's a big deal. OK, so has there been any repercussions in the past? Not for this one yet, in the past? No. Maybe internally?

Not from the NHL. Not from the NHL. And he's been suspended indefinitely, which is the right call from the league. I don't know if there have been internal actions. Again, he's got a sizable stake in the Florida Panthers. There's only so many people that can tell him to do something over there. I mean, I kind of feel like we've seen owners

get squeezed out for stuff that's like that, no, throughout all sports. Minority owners usually aren't valuable enough to keep around with something like this. But indefinite suspension from the league, it's pretty significant. Yeah, I mean, he did multiple things wrong in one tweet. It was just like, it's not something that you see

from an executive in sports. Right, right. You want to give me the Wild Billy Wednesday sound here because I have a question here. Wild Billy Wednesday. Woo hoo! That I need transitionally to. It's a strange transition.

Yeah, well I needed something. I have to do with this past story. I needed something softer. Yes, I'm still getting used to Wild Billy Wednesday. Mango soda? I mean, can you answer for me this question? I fear that I'm asking a stupid question. Mike Ryan corrected me on this last week.

I think I referred to a goaltender as a goalkeeper or a goalkeeper as a goaltender. I mean, do you know the difference between those two things? Not just like, of course we can just say goalie, but one who tends and one who keeps. Do you know the actual difference of that because I don't yeah ones for hockey ones for soccer nope That wasn't that hard not hard pretty easy ones attendee ones to keep chicken tender chicken keeper Then it's like a center in basketball and a center in hockey a center in hockey spelled re Senate center basketballs the honor of the theater

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