The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Post-Postgame Show: Pablo Torre Cameowashes George Santos

Episode Date: December 8, 2023

We have an excerpt of today's Share & Tell on Pablo Torre Finds Out with Pablo Torre, Mina Kimes, and Dan Le Batard. Pablo pays for a cameo from George Santos for Mina and Dan, and it launches them into a debate on what Santos represents in modern American politics and celebrity. Here's the question: Is George Santos funny? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. This is not an ad. I keep on having to say this. This is an excerpt from today's episode of Pablo Torei finds out which you can only get on the Pablo Torei finds out feed. We have our own feed. I don't want a big. But come on, we're over there.

Stuff is happening. What you're going to get here though is me and Meena and Dan, I think you, you, you like Meena, you like, well, I don't know if you like Dan anymore, but he's there. Um, but yes, this is Sharon Tell. Please enjoy this sample. I want to say thank you to both of you guys. It's the holiday season. Mina has a child. Dan, I feel like one of his kids now working in metal arc media. And I thought that I would usher in the first topic of today's show by giving both of you this special gift. Hi, Dan and Mina. So, Pablo tells me congratulations are in order. Mina, congrats on the newborn son. I love babies and I hope that you guys

cherish this little new one and, you know, just have a blast and be great parents. And, whoa, Dan, congrats on founding Metal Arc Media, which means that this expensive ass cameo is work expend. Well, I guess you all achieved your dream. So go see Hawks. I saw I saw that on John Oliver. I hadn't seen the story before that he was holding a baby and someone asked him is holding a baby and someone asked him, is that your baby and the response was the most sinister of responses, which is

not yet, it's not my baby. That man is such a threat to democracy as a general symbol that they will soon be stealing our babies while we're laughing. It isn't acute what a liar he is. Let's give him some more money. That's right. Is it easier to laugh at him now that he's not in Congress, though, and that he's not actually like a present threat to him. So like, or is it, um, is there a word like there's sports

washing, eco washing? There should be like a cameo washing, cameo washing him when we laugh at him and say, dance, dance, monkey dance, you know, which is basically what came to this. Oh, but it is Pablo, it's offensive. This man has a broken cameo. He's one of the most popular ever because everybody wants to treat him as a joke, but he's ultimately cashed in on all the lives.

I paid him, you paid him $400 for that. This is the stop. This is exactly the story that I wanted to talk about is how I'm supposed to feel about how much I love the fact that yes We paid George Santos We don't love that fact one of us loves that fact one other of us does not love that fact So I don't want to be funding that man, so and I don't want to be funding a minute that price Get us a discount at least.

Make the price a joke. Make that the funny joke. So, I want to point out a couple of facts about the video that we just played. Number one for people who are not watching on YouTube or the DraftKings Network, he's just sitting in his car, like knocking this out. I requested this, he got back to me in an hour.

So, he's just not turning through. Not trying, it's an ATM, of course back to me in an hour. So he's just not turning through this. Not trying, just, it's an ATM, of course, to buy more bow talks. He is Stu Gotts at the highest elevated form of politics. Well, the second fact is that in his Stu Gottsy and way of just being very familiar, he assumed that you guys are the parents of Mina's child. I don't know if you clock that.

He was congratulating Dan on Mina's child. I don't know if you clock that. He was congratulating Dan on Mina's son. So there is just that fact of the matter. You know, well, and metal, I mean, it can be argued that metal arc was birthed somewhere around the three of us. The idea of metal arc right here, the birth of it is somewhere around just empower creatives to be themselves and they'll figure it out. And he's better than all of us at cameo. None of us will make as much money as he does at cameo. What I'm about to say is probably going to make this mood in this zoom profoundly uncomfortable.

But just seeing Pablo in between me and Dan, I do feel like if we had a son, it might look like Pablo. Like if you did one of those face matchups. Now it's really uncomfortable. Yes, she's absolutely right about that. In fact, you need to do that face match app so that people can see it will be Pablo. You would be, you would be, yes, it's uncomfortable,

but she's not wrong. She's just my face. You're saying we gotta get into special software. You're just, it's just my face. No, no, it's not just your face. I'm gonna not make that like heart attack. No, just wait, our face is for me to get this special software. You're just, it's just my face. No, no, it's not just your, no, it's not just your face. I'm gonna knock it out. No, just wait. Our hers is from the image.

Pablo, hers is her face. This is why it's not just your face. Hers is thin and radiant. Mine is red and bloated. When you combine them, we get your very full face. It's full. I'm also Asian. It's not just sweet full.

Dan is Latino. There's a little,'m also Asian. Don't call it sleep full. Dan is Latino. There's a little, that is what Pablo is for. Torrey, Pablo is for, you, Pablo Torrey is a Spanish name. It's a Spanish name. Three very ethnically confusing people hanging out together, wondering what we all look like if we crossbred is a nightmare of the party that George Santos does represent incidentally bring it back and I do want to bring it back to George Santos which is somehow more comfortable than the previous conversation we were just having for me personally because I I was thinking me into your point like

he's just he makes me laugh and point like he's just, he makes me laugh. And, and he's a congressman from New York state. And so I believe there are people, real people whose lives were made worse materially by the fact that he was the most flagrant liar in the history of American politics by certain standards. And yet his salary as a congressman, which is generously speaking, let's say six figures, he's made more than six figures in three days just doing this. And so what I'm left with is the idea of I would 100 million percent watch a George Santos reality show. I would do that.

I challenge you to say that you wouldn't. I will also point out that he, the reason I would watch it is because he used our American political system in a way that totally degrades it, but is legitimately something that makes me laugh out loud. And is he, he's trumping in that way, where I'm just like tipping my cap and also consuming the content

and also on some level, aspirationally mourning democracy, but mostly enjoying it for now. I mean, there are aspects of this that feel novel and in their aspects of this that are very much not new. In fact, we had a vice president candidate who part laid her run into a reality show. Sarah Bayland, like that happened. So the idea of that politicians are entering this space

and maybe I'm not talking about her intentions, but what happens next is fame, it's lurid, it's reality TV, whatever, that's not new. The direct to consumer nature of Santos, what he's doing, that is new. This is something we talked about. Actually, when we talked about only fans, there's some kind of parallels here, which is what people pay for this. Do they want this? That feels new. And then, of course, he is extreme. I mean, he literally is, I think the first person expel from Congress in quite some time,

the nature of what he's doing feels very new in the sense of like he has a specific type of celebrity that has overtaken the American entertainment sector. So naturally, one of those celebrities would make it to the highest, you know, uh, uh, halls of the land or whatever, which is that he is famous for, um, wanting to be famous, basically. Yes. Can you guys help me with part of this because I don't want to be a scold. Nobody wants this. It's much easier to laugh than the fear for the fall of democracy.

But when, uh, mean, it says those things are not new, she's absolutely right. And obviously capitalism is not new. But what feels new to me that he's an avatar for is just keep leaning into the shameless. You can topple the rules, you can topple the integrity of the offices, you can topple and gerrymandered district lines. You can accrue real power if your superpower is just, I can absorb any form of shameless and then monetize it. Like, I'd prefer to laugh at that. It's more comfortable to just be like, isn't this funny, but like symbolically,

it's not funny given where the country is, given where the world is. Well, also textually, it's not funny on the level of I'm looking at the Justice.gov website and reminding myself. So what what did George Santos do allegedly? And it's like, oh, he was charged with conspiracy, wire, fraud, fall statements, falsification of records, aggravated identity theft and credit card fraud. I'm like, okay, that's bad. Counterpoint. There is this video of him, proto cameo, sort of um, where he roots on the Metz. Hey guys, today is opening day as a good old Metz fan. I know you guys aren't gonna be playing

until April 6th back home, but in good old fashion, let's go, Metz! He's not entirely in on why he's funny, right? And so it's this line of, he is a clown and he's also beclowning us. But mostly, the entertainment value to me is, he doesn't totally get why I'm laughing. And the more that he is going to become self-aware, the less funny it is. But for the time being, I'm like thirsty,

like avatar for the utter desperation, for attention in the attention economy, it's, it's farcical and funny to me. And I'm trying to train myself to realize it probably has peaked. Like this might be, probably is like, self-stock in George Santos right now is kind of where I'm leading at this point, Mina. Yeah, it feels temporary.

And that's, I think, part of the reason why I'm maybe not as horrified or nervous about him. But again, you know, you can point to other political figures who I probably would have said the same thing about about and I was wrong. But, you know, this feels like a 15 minutes situation. For the reason you said, too, I think because of the like very specific nature of why it's so funny, doesn't feel like I can't last. But, Meena, if I may, I did, I mean, in Pablo, they viewed his show with this particular shame of mine. I was laughing at all of these same things about Trump and also pointing out, and this one's important to me,

also pointing out, hey, he's not actually funny. He's only unintentionally funny. Like, he's not a comedian, but his base thinks he's funny. And so what it then becomes is me liberal elite laughing at Trump as he takes the country from me because I'm laughing at him and how dummy is because he's not actually clever enough to be funny, but his constituency is like, nah, he makes you look like a fool. He's funnier than you are. He is funny. Wait, Meena is grinning devilishly and I don't know a lot. So what does nicknames are kind of funny?

I did. I don't know. Now we release the texts. Now we release the texts. Fair enough. Go look at that. There's a giant Wikipedia page for just the nicknames and there's a lot of deep cuts and ones that haven't made it to the mainstream.

Sloppy Steve for Steve Van and is objectively pretty accurate. Or, um, oh God. There's some real bangers on it. No, you can find, they're actually not sure if I, if I want to coast sign the ones I find most hilarious. Meatball Ron was good. Yes, it was better. But he tried out to sanctimonious first and it felt flat. And then he stuck

with it. Yeah, me ball Ron is funny. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to point out though, um, wacky omorosa. I'm like, yeah, I can't really dispute that. Um, I should point out that in spent a lot of time on that one. Did he you? Wacky, I'm a Rosa, didn't you? Worked it, workshoped that around the White House for a little while. None of them are like particularly clever also. Like, but no, he connects there, guys. I'm serious about this part of it. You understand why the liberal elites who aren't running around with guns are laughing at this stuff while it's connecting with others

and those others are feeling laughed at by not just people who are making them feel intellectually inferior, but also look like us. And they've got a leader who's telling them these people are dangerous, these people who are laughing at you, they're the rapists, they're the people from other countries who want to take your country. And to them, it's not a joke, to them, it's not like not like to them. It's like no, let me go grab my gun. This guy's got my back

Danny Downer That's a good one. I I Danny darkness. Yes Damn yeah I'm trying to think one for me and a hold on. Don't let's workshop this. We can't, we can't let her win this game. We want to know. She always wins though. And what would we go? What would we go?

What would we go? Some maladjusted Mina. So that we just like just maladjusted Mina. That's if I was trying to harm her, if I was trying to cut her something. Messy, Messy, Messy Mina describes what her texts are actually like, but not actually like her as an organized person.

Hold on. That's how you're gonna segue to the private life discussion. Oh, oh, oh, oh, wait, wait, wait, oh. Meena, Meena the Meena. Meena, Meena. Hold your, oh, oh, my God, Pablo, do you know how much money we would make if we got on cameo Minas real feelings about some people in the industry I believe that if Mino were to do that she could at least charge as much as

Brian Cox Hi, I'm Brian Cox. I play Logan Roy and and if you want me, I will tell you to f*** off and a very uncertain manner. So Brian Cox, 689 bucks, Dan, that's the market rate for one of the great stage actors, Thessbian. Thessbian's of all time. You know, that winning is cameo, by the way, because there's a great, sorry, there's something I'm not a shwari friend of mine.

Did a great article for the Times about the rise and fall during the pandemic. They were valued at like a billion dollars and had 400 employees. Now they have, they had to fire like the best majority of their staff. The, and it's because they couldn't get a listers to do it. Oh, hold on, counterpoint. I believe that disgraced former NBA referee Tim Donoghie is an a-lister. Hey Noah, what's happening? Former NBA basketball referee Tim Donoghie here to wish you congratulations for getting

that chose certificate. I know it's been a big thing for you to do. And you got it done my friend. So congratulations. And I know Vegas bumped up the odds of you getting laid up the plus 4,000. All the best. And hopefully your buddy Alex will help you get that taken care of. Oh my God. That was a showed certificate. I got it. yes. The showed certificate. Well, we got that. I hope MetalLark wasn't paying for any of the other videos that you showed there.

Tim Donigui luckily is only $40. So, you know, a real bargain. That's why you don't want to be on cameo because you're basically like you're revealing how popular you are. Your own value is horrifying to me. Mina, the meaning would kill at cameo. Like if she was just offering not just her

reading what you want, but her giving you embargoed secret thoughts on how she really feels about certain people. That would kill. You're making me sound like such a hater. I am not that much of a hater. No,'s that's that was a mandatious Mina just that Dacious me miserable Mina is what Trump would call me if we were debating. Yes, that's right miserable Mina again Like I would be like well actually here's a bunch of facts to the

Ladies and gentlemen Miss Romina am I right? And then probably go wild. And you would see me melt just into a puddle on stage. So, this is Pablo just me and you again, by the way. Did you like that? Do you want more? If so, you know where to get it. Pablo Torea finds out, has a podcast,

feed a YouTube channel, all of that. Apparently the big lead called us the Best Sports Podcast of 2023. Yeah, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna challenge that. So for the rest of today's episode, and there is more, there's Stugots! Stugots tease. He's in there too. Go to our channel, wherever you get. The sh** that you say you like. wherever you get the sh** that you say you like.