The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: Can't Spell Margarita Without the Rita

Episode Date: December 19, 2023

The crew continues to watch Greg fry his turkey, and it's a truly a sight to behold. Pablo Torre is here to discuss Eric Adams and his bizarre comments on New York, why Domonique Foxworth should be the president, and to preview his new PTFO with Smush Parker. Then, Mike fell in love with bowl games all over again because of the Famous Toastery Bowl, and men generally feel they're younger than they are. Plus, Ron Magill is here to chat about the Cesta Cyclones recent loss, relieve Lucy of her dog-based guilt, and tell us about the white alligator. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. Welcome to the big suite presented by Giraffe King. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Levitard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants, just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries

that if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys. I've done it. And now, here's the marching man to nowhere, that face and the habitual liar. I have to admit it, I am sad to admit it, but when I just saw the fried turkey emerge from, it's broiler, it looked really good.

It looked the correct color of brown. Greg Cody might be victorious here. Look at him, how happy he is in the parking garage, working hard near the flames. He is stirring the oil. We haven't checked in much with Roy. I mean, yeah, Roy, we'll check in with him in a week, see if he's finished and if he's had enough time,

you know, he's taking his time. But before we, before we do any of that, Pablo Torrey joins us from New York and I want to get his expert opinion here on some sound produced by Eric Adams, the mayor of New York. He seems a little bit loopy. He says a lot of funny things that are unintentionally funny. And here he is being asked a question about describing New York in one word. Mr. Mayor, we've come to the end of what was a very eventful 2023, right? So when you look

at the totality of the year, if you had to describe it and the stuff to do in one word, what would that word be and tell me why? New York, this is a place where every day you wake up, you could experience everything from a plane crashing into outtraced center to a person who's celebrating a new business that's open. This is a very, very complicated city,

and that's why this is a great city on the globe. An amazingly terrible answer. You do wake up. I mean, some of us do, yes. And- He was asked for one word, just for the record there, and he started with New York, and then proceeded to say about 35 more words. Well, I didn't think it could get any words after he was asked for a word gave to and then the

first thing he says, you can wake up any morning and this is one of the things that makes the city incredible. 9-11's happened. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm in this place, Dan, where I have to check how funny I find all of these politicians because I know there is this large argument that I should not find Eric Adams hilarious because he does real things that affect real people with real policies. And yet I just laugh at that. I think to myself, this is part of, in a weird way, Eric Adams's real answer is New York's a great city because New York has mayors like me, a total maniac, who you, New Yorkers, somehow tolerate and find a way to laugh at despite the fact that I materially make your life worse.

Is he popular? How is he viewed in the city? No, I wouldn't say he's popular. I would say this is, I like that I'm now local. I'm like a man on the street now. Eric Adams, he has, he's got problems, but he makes me feel safer. I think that's what people in New York would say. Like he's a cop, he's there to increase security, he seems to do that, but in reality, all of that seems to be smoking mirrors,

and he's an insane person. He's an insane person who was trailed by a series of insane lies that are George Centocyan George Santocian in a way. He claimed to live in New York, but really was living in New Jersey. He brought the local news to a weird tour of his home, which clearly was set up for a sad TV shoot. He claims to be a vegan or a vegetarian,

but clearly eats meat. He's at nightclubs all the time at 2.30 a.m. and when he's asked about it, he's like, the city needs to see their mayor. And I'm like, yeah, that's a good answer. I mean, in so far, you can have an answer for why you're totally irresponsible. And then there's like those serious stuff that he messes up routinely. So no, not popular, but definitely an insane person.

I keep saying some form of we get the leadership that we deserve uh... can you explain to me what it is that you want from leadership because at at bare minimum i want the people who are leading us with maximum power to be smarter than i am or smarter than the average person yeah the the the real trick of who i want to be a political um leader right now is that i want someone who is who I want to be a political leader right now is that I want someone who is not deeply thirsty to be a political leader right now. Like the guy that I want to be president of the United States, Stan, which will be no surprise to anybody who I think has heard, we talk about him is Dominique Foxworth.

I want Dominique Foxworth to be president or at least senator because he doesn't want to do it. He's overqualified he actually has principles and he's concerned about whether this is even a thing that he would enjoy and those are the qualities i want where the guy who is supposed to like you know take the lives of millions into his hands so no wild political ambition you distrust anyone in this climate who has wild political ambition it's the catch-22, right?

I went to, I literally, again, as I belabor this point, I went to college with Vivek Ramaswami. I believe I broke the news while filling in for you on your show, some of the things that he would do. And that is the person who, in all of his attention seeking and all of his hunger and thirst to just be that guy, that's the opposite of what I want to select for. And right now in politics, you're seeing the melding of the fragmented media economy

with the political system, and you're seeing people who are really good at gaming traffic get traction as a politician. And I want the person who is hesitant to be in public at this point, to want to be a politician, which is why it's incumbent upon people that I know my friends for me to bully them and to, hey, can you like save the Republic? Maybe, can you like do a miserable job that actually should feel miserable if you have principles? Because it's hard and it should be unglamorous

and it does involve like real consequences for people. Or you can do this. And so, you know. Pablo Torrey finds out was voted by the Big Leab, the best sports podcast that there is, but God bless football and nothing personal. Yeah. Billy, what do you want to tell people

about how they are coming to rival Pablo Torrey finds out because he was not nominated as opposed to nothing personal and god bless football for what well i don't think that we're rivaling pablo tory we're not competing yes we're not figuring anything out we've won twice already pablo's won one so pablo is trying to catch up to us we were nominated for a third time for sports podcasts awards for best american football podcast and david sampson's nothing personal with david sampson was nominated for best baseball podcast and David Samson's nothing personal with David Samson was nominated

for Best Baseball Podcast and Best Sports Business Podcast. So this is a fan voting thing, so you can go and you can vote and then maybe a couple more trophies and then maybe there'll be a newsletter about us one day within the company, but probably not. Where can they vote? Just a mention. Where's the voting? I'll put out a link because it's a sports podcast awards you can Google that but we'll put out

I'm not was I not nominated for that. No you weren't that what I'm learning now Yeah, this is fan vote like we don't care about what the experts we I don't care what they have to say about my podcast or Billy's podcast I care about what the fans have to say you actually had you have to submit the podcast and then it gets goes through to the fan voting phase. So like there's a selection process. These are the awards they got through to the fans to decide the winner. Can I award a Greg Cody, the award for a person who looks most like a Grand Theft Auto 6 NPC that I've ever seen? He does.

Like, this is, I don't know Dan if you've done a good enough job explaining for the listeners what he looks like because beyond the barefootedness beyond the fact he has his giant apron and a t-shirt and this like he's it's like he's he's literally in an abandoned garage. But the thing I am focused on the most is his hat. Like what's a deal with that? Uh yeah, two-hander Cincinnati Lou. We gave an acceptance speech before on the hat. He said it's his cooking hat. I didn't get it. He said it's his cooking hat. I didn't get it.

No, it's the team valor is calmly like his horse. That's their team. Yeah, but he said he likes to wear it when he cooks when he fries at bird. That's what he told me. And Christopher said that he looks cool. His father looks cool for the first time, but Pablo, you are right. He looks like a cliched sort of stereotypical street merchant in a video game who you just drive by as an extra who's standing outside of a delicatessen looking to commit a crime.

Yes, he's yelling things indescribably and like removing the turkey from the brine and it looks actually shockingly good to your point, I agree. When going up there to cover this, I saw that this floor is under construction, so it looks like he's snuck into this floor and should not even be there. Like there shouldn't be humans on this floor doing this. He looks like a moor lock, like a mole person. He also has the quality and skin color of someone who's embalmed.

Can we show his feet? It's the feet that really make it. All right, let's go down, please. And he's still barefooted. Foot, foot, foot. Let's suck. John Reade, if you can make yourself useful there. There it is ladies and gentlemen. I touched those feet. We encourage you, youcuteyoutube.com slash at Levitard show. Yeah! It's where it is that you find the art. You got it. You, wow. Offering, so Pobletory finds out, it's gotten very popular.

It's a podcast, the quality is very good. Before we get to what it is you're doing on the next Pobletory finds out, what commentary do you have on what we were discussing about John Oliver and Elon Musk? Oh yeah, it's that anybody who says the word woke unironically and has since like maybe 2020 is scamming you on the internet.

Like nobody who intends the word sincerely is saying it anymore because it's been co-opted in a way that lots of terms, by the way. Like I think there are lots of terms that have been co-opted so successfully by the other side of things in bad faith ways that we should just stop using them. Like white privilege to me is like once a descriptive term that was useful no longer because it's

just a conversation under because it connotes all of these things that people have campaigned on against. And so, um, woke is that way. And the thing about John Oliver and Elon is that what makes me laugh the most is that what is most cutting, I think, to like the Elon simps, is that John Oliver is just like, this guy isn't cool. The way that he described him in that piece was he looked like a more unfu-able version of Billy Zane's character

in Titanic, which I think we could all appreciate. Chris? I have a child. Cody. What's on Pablo Torey finds out, that was, look, you mailed that one in, Chris. Like, that's one of your, it's one of your signature phrases. Because there is an F word sent and said,

and Billy tapped me, and I thought Billy was tapping me to do Billy Zayn, but he was like, F word. And then, so right before I said, I have a child, I looked over, I was like, F word, but Dan wants me to talk right now. So I have to do, I have a child. Is that better? Barely.

The joke might have been that Billy Zayn in this version did not have a child because of his unbelievable aspect, but I digress. I don't have a child. We have less than a minute left. Why should people find, the public, or he finds out? Yeah, so today we have a sit-down interview with a guy that I've been obsessed with for a very long time, a guy who's named me Ring of Bell in your brain, and that guy is Smush

Parker. And I've been thinking about Smush Parker because last Friday, there was this report that show Hayo Tani was convinced to join the Dodgers because he got this posthumous message from the late great Kobe Bryant. And it moved him and it was the thing that closed the deal. And it's this mythology I realized about Kobe still, even more so now, in death than ever. And Smush Parker happens to be the one brave voice in NBA history, really,

to have shared a back court with Kobe Bryant and said, quote, it was overrated. And Kobe Bryant has basically made fun of Smush Parker. He had been making fun of him for years, called him the worst, basically did to Smush Parker what his name suggests, he got smushed. And so Smush Parker now, beyond having a whole life that I find fascinating, is doing something crazy

in his last act. He is trying to become the fourth NBA player ever in retirement to become an NBA referee. And so he is a guy who contains multitudes. He comes clean on all the stuff about Kobe and beyond. He's at the malloc at the palace. He's bringing up the ball at Auburn Hills when that was happening.

He's like this forced gump character. But he says things with a truth telling aspect that you just don't hear elsewhere because he is like from the underclass. He is metaphorically speaking, the guy next to Greg Cody under the bridge in the annals of NBA history. And he says things that the people above

never want to hear and he actually says them. So please listen. He treated Kobe treated Smush very poorly uh... thank you Pablo uh... we will talk to you soon thank you sir thanks guys done lebertard it's been a lot of the crew

oh man that that's my out out trope that's uh... you know as my casket is being lowered jesus's, you know, as my casket is being lowered, Jesus, you know, I'll have been cremated a week before, but we'll do the casket thing just for show. And as my casket is being lowered, well, we have to casket, yeah, it'll be easy, you know. Just for show, we're gonna do it. Well, what's the redundancy there? You know, I mean, we're gonna put on a public display.

Yeah, naturally. Still gots. What do you do with the ashes? You're going to a lolliproos. Exactly, maybe we'll throw them over my wife or throw them overboard. I would assume. I'm just making with her new husband.

This is the Don Lebertar Show with a Stugats. I am deeply, deeply uncomfortable right now. We've got the bare feet of Greg Cody around some wires, around some flames. I will tell you, Stugots, and I think this is universal, universal truth. I'm about to express that most of the men listening to this, Greg Cody included, always think they're younger than they actually are.

Every single male listening to this does not think he is the age that he actually is. Greg Cody is one of the worst culprits when it comes to this stuff. So I'm afraid he's going to trip over a wire, break his hip, and then catch fire. Greg Cody, where are we in the proceedings? I'm getting a lot of tweets here saying along, you know, among other things, why is he preparing Turkey and what appears to be well for lack of a better word, a dungeon of some sort. And then Billy Gill, this is directed to you. He, uh, Greg handled a raw turkey, touched the mic and then handed it to you. Wash your hands or you will get Salmonilla.

I saw that, I chlorox wiped my phone and everything else, and I was using a lot of hands, Sandy, so hopefully I'm okay. You can't get Salmonilla from a turkey, different species. Greg Cody, put it on the pole, can you get Salmonilla from a turkey at Levitard show? Greg Cody, update us on where it is that we we are sir. How close are you to done? Talk dad Greg Cody that please Greg

You guys are going in and out. I'm having a lot of trouble hearing you. All right, just give us an update and get back down here Please and don't catch fire. Just tell us where we are pull it out and get back down here. It's very close to being done. Wow. We expect to pull it out for real in about less than five minutes possibly three minutes and then we'll be resting it cutting it bringing it downstairs the whole bit. Okay and how you're gonna cut it in the garage. No no we're gonna cut it in the garage. No, no, we're gonna cut it in the kitchen. Okay, good, good. Good choice. How are you feeling about how it looks?

It looks crispy and it looks wonderful. How are you feeling? I feel great. It looks wonderful, honestly. If it tastes as good as it looks, I'll be a happy man. It looks great. We had a little bit of a calamity with the oil. We've been working extra hard to keep it in the green zone where it should be.

At about 340 to 350. Alarm's going off. Time to take it out. I'm real happy. I'll tell you this Dan, from not something to balance it from. I'll tell you this Dan, from my time up there with Greg off Mike, he kept saying that it was trending a little high the oil. So does Greg think that that's going to impact the bird at all?

He can't hear. No, he's doing a famous test where you see how if the wing is going to easily break off, you know it's done. Yeah, the turkey tells me when it's done. You want the legs, you want the two legs to have a visual indication of breaking away from the body on their own. And I may be a minute or two away from that. Wow. But it's very close to being done. This guy is an expert. The turkey talks to him.

Yes, we will wait for this payoff. We will linger around the dungeon. Billy, are there any more details from being up there that you can give us? It seemed a little Spartan up there and dungeoning. It appears to be an active construction site so if there's you know some dust particles or whatever on the turkey that you get don't be surprised because there's active construction going on right around the corner from where Greg is at the moment. He also looks like someone who has just kind of taken over that floor and maybe spends extra time there. We will check in with Roy here shortly to find out where he is.

Greg, that is not a flat surface that you have placed your phone on. That seems it's always got it's not a great place to put your phone. Can you give us Greg? You'll cut in while I'm talking here and give us our pay off. Whenever it is that we're going to get our payoff Greg, yes please? Yeah, we're about two minutes from lifting. Okay, we have lift off in two minutes. All right, in the meantime, uh, exciting. Stugots, uh, did his waddle swagger today and told everyone who would listen six and one

in bull games. I'm six and one against the spread in bull games had no business winning that Western Kentucky bet he made yesterday, but I want it. He was down I think 35 to seven or 28 seven, right, and he did win it. Now give us all of the information that went into that bet that you have on Western Kentucky. Well, the Hill toppers, Dan, you know, they don't get off to quick starts. They usually finish strong, and that's why it was banking on them to fall down 35 to seven and come back late in the second half and, you know, bring it home and overtime. That's what the hill toppers have been doing the entire year. They win close games, they win at the end, and they lead the nation in wins and

overtime. How about that? I mean, and I got today, Dan. Oh, do I have a big one today? The Scooters coffee bowl, I believe it's scooters, and I have the thundering herd of Marshall. Uh-oh, plus 13. I'm gonna write that down. You should've been one. Red hot. Dan, did you watch the famous Toastery bowl yesterday?

I did not. What I saw was I was laughing when Old Dominion went up, six and seven Old Dominion when they went up 28 to seven. Oh, yeah, the the tops had a tough start They were they were turning it over at the beginning of that game. It was a very sloppy top But they did figure it out as the game went along. They brought in a true freshman quarterback Veltcamp Yep

And you know as a Miami hurricane spans I just go go over a three star quarterback white, who is also a white guy. So I fell in love. They have a lot of talent over there. There are two different approaches to the game, Dan. The old Dominion coach said, Hey, if you're entering the transfer portal, if you want to get out of here, you're not playing in this bowl game. Whereas Western Kentucky said coaches, I don't care if you're leaving. You want to play in this bowl game, put on some pads and let's get her done. And it was amazing to see Western Kentucky show so much resilience.

And in the end of that game, I flipped over to ESPN Plus to watch a bunch of kids do snow angels on top of toast. That was stale. They loved this. This really meant something to them and it made me fall in love with bowl games all over again. Amazing to you, but not amazing if you've been watching the Hill Toppers all season. I'm telling you, they get down big in the first half. They always come back. That

was a quick hook for Turner, help me. I mean, they don't always come back. They lost like five or six times. Well, five times they didn't come back. You're right. They also have an NFL receiver. They came out to play three plays on the drive and then decided that's enough of that. I'm going to the NFL. I NFL take my pads off here anything else from the toastery bowl worth mentioning of any kind of i'm getting what right now that yes the turkey is ready all right let's go let's go to breaking news let's do this let's get the uh... they'll touch the headphones yes the headphone drop drop the hanger you drop the hanger that is used all the drop yes

it's on the floor now he's bending over where the flames are. The hanger does not touch anything. Don't worry about that. We'll touch it. We're about to have liftoff. It's touching the turkey now. Guys, liftoff, why are you using the mitt on the microphone? Your mitt is on the wrong hand, Greg.

No, it isn't. No, it isn't. You'll find out why. It should be Dan. Wow, looking back for training right now. Is anyone helping you? Draining it. It's beautiful. Beautiful. Brown in order to you. Incredible. A festive bird. Where are you gonna put it? Are you gonna drop it? I'll carry it. Just put it on the floor. Oh, no, okay. He's got a pen. Still got your surprise that we don't trust him.

Oh, you're surprised. No, but I'm telling you, when it comes to this, I've never seen him more confident, more organized. Like, is a different person around a fried bird. Look at how close his foot is to the fire. He's not paying attention to all the things that need to be paid attention to. Greg, how satisfied are we with this word?

It looks great, Mike. If it tastes as good as it looks, I'll be a very happy guy. It looks terrific. I'm about to tent it with foil before I carry it down. Let it rest. It's got to open off. Like any other meat, it's got to rest for about 15 minutes. It's crotchess right over the protein. I want to ignore what Billy said. Righty-tidy on the propane tank. Let's just go righty-tidy. You are straddling the propane tank. Everything you're doing looks I thought it I thought those were flames climbing and not aluminum just being pulled out of the wrapper. All right we will see that when it

comes down and we will check in with we will take on. Turn the tank off Greg. Turn ever got a guy. I'm about to dance. Yes he's got it. I'm about to I can't do everything at once. Yeah. Doing the best I can. Bird comes first. I'm about to Dan. Yes, he's got it. I'm about to. I can't do everything at once. Yeah. Doing the best I can. Bird comes first. I'm simply trying to make sure he doesn't explode. I'm just trying to do it. I pleasure watching that old man Turk off.

Where's Roy? We're going to catch up with him. He's almost done turking off. Yes, we will catch up with him in just a second. I just, basically, all I want to do is make sure that we get out of this Situation with video live of him alive There's a lot of oil stains on that back splash which is also a concrete grudge a lot of About

We told him to turn it off the apron a little bit caught on the propane that exactly what I'm scared of he's okay. He turned it off and he crushed this though. Yeah, it's great Well, we'll see I fully expect Roy's hotel room to be covered in flames fully engulfed Again, I I simply like to revisit What I believe to be something that is outside the realm of my comprehension, which is Roy claiming with a straight face that he did not have time for the Turk-off to get exactly the turkey that he wanted to be preparing so that he can make excuses on the front end of why he's going to lose this

turk off because I believe he is going to lose. And he's going to blame it on a series of preparation techniques, all of which were under his complete control. I mean, man, when it comes to birds, so it is peak season. Could be a supply chain issue. He didn't go to the butcher and said, we found out yesterday. That he only had a week when he had more than a week. I mean, he's claiming it's a week. It was more than a week ago that we started the planning

for the Turk off. And Greg Cody, who never has a back in my day, is wildly unprepared for all things that we do professionally. Greg Cody just crushed it. Greg Cody's got no excuses. He did that expertly. He did not set fire to anything. All his own shit.

He did not, you know, we were afraid. He was gonna try and do it in this room and we were afraid that that would be something that would make all of us catch fire. And so he did it on the 11th floor under construction and he succeeded right? I'm none of us doubt that that will be a great tasting bird. It was like Jalen herds traveling not with the team like we can't all get we can't all die

So if something bad's gonna happen go away from us. It's gotta be televised upstairs if we have the viral calamity of an old man Catch his fire which was at risk there fact, it seemed more dangerous than the pepper. I don't know that we've vetted... Stepping over the ice. I don't know that we've vetted any of that. Is that a microphone? All of it. Lying a phone on like a cylinder.

I, one of my... There's so many things I can do. The mid-night. Down the microphone. Look at that shot. The bare feet. The phone. Down the mid on the mic, on the penis shaped pillar.

Who is, who is just an obstacle course of triggers? You do realize, right? Like if he had caught fire in a live calamity that might fire along the internet, all of us would have been in retrospect. Well, yeah, of course, of course, that's what happened when we tried that. That's a week's net notice. Don Lebatard. well yeah of course of course that's what happened when we try that at least that notice

done lebertard if you law but thirty mile an hour fastball to a major leager of course they're gonna hit a home run the worst major leager in baseball is gonna hit ten or twelve home runs under that format being pitched that way to be throwing curve balls no it? It's a fake event. It's like not even real. Stugats. Dad, you had a shoot in the roll. Ha ha ha ha ha. Okay.

Ah! Those were my deck shoes of longstanding. Real event in the real shoes, right? Exactly. No, no, no, no. I am with you, Greg. What's wrong with that? He got me on that one.

VCC Don't Liberty Show Show with this two cats. I have in front of me the best-selling book done by Greg Cody and Ron McGill, the pride of a lion. You can get it now. Many of you have already pre-ordered it, but it is a legitimate best-seller in a number of different categories thanks to our audience, which obviously supports Ron McGill, one of the more popular people we've ever had around here. And Greg Cody, also popular. Roy, less popular. Roy is in the kitchen now, and we didn't get the payoff of Roy pulling the turkey out

of the oven. We spent a lot of money to have him up there with cameras and whatnot. Now he's in the eating area With Greg Cody. We got no dramatic payoff. We also never saw him put in the turkey We never saw him with a turkey at any point The only turkey references couldn't go to his butcher and it's not his turkey So we don't know that Roy actually cooked anything. That's correct. Roy terrible at television and not helpful in this regard at all So far failing the tur Turk off is gonna lose

But gave us a turkey to Turk off with that's right. Yeah, that were great, but that we haven't seen yet right no I guess there's an error mystery around it now, but you say he's gonna lose it all gets down to the taste It doesn't matter what you do before it matters how the turkey takes he's losing. I have hope it Well, no doubt. I wanted to be a ham losing i have hope it i know that i wanted to be a ham ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha with Roy Bellamy, you've really kicked his ass so far. Well, we overcame the calamities to produce what I hope is a good bird, a good bird to eat, so it's all good. Thanks for nothing. Yeah, thanks, I'm glad I went to you.

Okay, let's pull out of that and let's just do Ron McGill. I'm glad you guys were ready with the proper energy there to do a televised thing, excellent work, as always. Dan, you mentioned the pride of the lion. And we have a giveaway for the pride of a lion. Beginning today, December 19th through next Tuesday, December 26th, when you purchase a copy of the pride of a lion on Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble.com,

leave your honest review of the book and you'll automatically be entered for your shot to win a holiday gift basket from mango publishing no gag reviews I'm being told just honest reviews only and you must actually be able to verify your purchase winner will be notified next Wednesday. Ron McGill the last time I saw him was genuinely despondent. I don't believe I've ever seen him quite so sad. Your Cestocyclone's lost an ability to get $50,000 for your substantive endowment on Friday.

Yeah, you were crushed. You were crushed and you looked at where you were misery to be driving home with your wife, lovely wife Rita, who had plenty to drink. No, no, yeah, she did have plenty of drinks. She was happy. You were drinking either that. So you went to bottle it to Cuba.

That's right. Anyway, the bottom line is it was just a, you know, it was kind of $50,000. Just a lot of money. What that kind of done for conservation is incredible. At the end of the day, the guys played really hard. They're a great group of guys. I mean, can buy you a man. No, you know, boy, no, these are great guys. They really took it to the end. You know, they're in the finals. They made it to the Super Bowl, you know, Bueno, these are great guys. They really took it to the end, you know, they're in the finals. They made it to the Super Bowl. You know, a lot of other teams can't say that. So I've got to be very proud of what they did getting to the point that they got into. But, you know, at the end of the day, you got Udana's Haslum. You got all

these guys that look like a bunch of Adonis is out there. They won. They all ripped off their shirts like they're in freaking doing, you know, whatever that magic mic stuff. And, you know, yeah, there was shirtlessness, Ray Lewis and Udonis Haslam were celebrating their victory. And I was proud. For years, we've been trying to keep high a lie alive. We did it at Dania. There's only, this is the only place where they're still playing high lie in the United States. And that crowd was big and energetic. That was not a, that was not a small crowd. No, no, it was packed standing room only. It was packed people screaming, people getting very happy. I mean, you know, when you have you, you take off the shirt and slide on the champagne along the, a highlight court like he's, you know, doing a dance.

I mean, that gets us a big thing. Ron, I want to bring in Lucy here to tell you what it is that she did with a dog this weekend. It was very kind what she did. We made her feel bad about it. And there was a plot twist at the end when she returned the dog. So Lucy, tell Ron what you did. Ron, I need your support here because everyone has been very mean to me about me participating in the Paw Venture program with the Miami-Dade Shelter. So on Friday, I took a dog out of the shelter for the day and we went on walks and we went to the park and we just had a fun little day together.

And then once the day was over, I went and turned her back to the shelter because I am not in a space where I can have a dog. For a YouTube audience, she is on the screen right now. Her name is Dolly. She was the best dog. And I really thought that I was doing a bad thing because of how mean everyone here was to me. So when I was dropping her off, I started crying because I felt so bad. But then when we got back to the shelter, she ran away from me and wanted nothing to do

with me. So can you please tell me that I didn't do anything wrong? You didn't do anything wrong. You did everything right. You fostered that dog. You gave that dog an afternoon of happiness away from the shelter. I mean, at the end, she was happy to go back to dogs, very social animals. So all the other dogs in the social group there, she's back with her family,

so to speak. But that afternoon off was, it was like a snow day, so to speak. Where you're away from school, you're having fun, you gave her a lot of love, you did the right thing. You should be very proud of yourself. And the rest of you guys should be ashamed of yourself for making her feel bad. Thank you. What is the most social of the animals, Ron? Dogs are very social. I mean, dogs are incredibly social. More so than cats, of course.

But, you know, I mean, if you're thinking domestic, why'd you got to think dogs? I mean, wild-wise, you got to think of animals like mere cats, very, very social, very structured, the painted dogs, the wild dogs of Africa, very social. Lions, of course, the pride of a lion will tell you how social they are, how family bonded they can be. So there's a lot of social animals, birds can be very social depending on what species they are. Social animals are not uncommon. Rob, when you rent a dog though, aren't you providing that dog with false hope?

She rented a dog for a day. It's rent a dog. She fostered a dog. There's a difference. Okay, when you foster a dog for a day, are you not giving the dog false hope? No, you're giving the dog a great time. You know, when you bring your family to Disney World for a day,

are you giving them false hope? They're gonna be a Disney World every day, no? I'm gonna be with them later though. Right. I'm gonna be with them when they get home. Right, I'm not dropping them off at the end of the day. Are you giving them false hopes? They're going to be a Disney world every day? No, I'm going to be with them later though. Right. I'm going to be with them. I'm not at home. Right. I'm not dropping them off at the end of the day. I mean, there are days where I wish I could, but I'm not. Whether friends, it's like they went on a field trip. You know, when your, when your kid goes on a field trip at school, do they expect to be the field trips? No, they come home back to their family of their kids. And that's what's happening. That dog

got back. And that's why Lucy said it ran away because they ran to see it's friends. Oh, let me tell you about the great day I had with my foster parent who's very nice and very thoughtful to do that for me. Suppose to you guys, they were probably watching a football game and drinking. Not as much as your wife, though. I own a dog. I would say, I would say of us to God, one of the things that I'm enjoying about this, is he really does have the dog doing the process of how one fosters, which is if this person takes me out for six hours, this is my forever friend, correct?

Like, you have the dog understanding how the fostering application process works, and then having a hope, wait a minute, this is my big chance to have a different life as opposed to I Go back to the facility at 6 p.m. And that's when they give me the bits the Kibble and bits Which is the only reason the dog was running back in that way It wasn't running in that way to be back with its friends. It was time to eat and And be back where it is that it's normal instead of with that weird lady, it took me all over. We are like that. That's not right, Dan.

That's not right. You should really be complimenting her. You should be elevating her on all your social media platforms about the heart that the people on the damn libertartist do got to have. That's what you should be doing. I do want to get behind this

and I want to do more of it to help dogs in Miami. There are plenty of them that need the help. but I want to go first here to show you some photos of Steven Segal. They need help forever, not just for a day. That's correct, but a day is better than nothing and Lucy gave the dog that, but I wanted to show you Steven Segal and Dubai at a zoo, for aicking with a lot of animals, and he is wearing right there the outfit that I like to call my pandemic wear, where it's just you gained a lot of weight and you're just putting some sort of bed sheet on you because it is comfortable. Ron, what do you make of these photos here of Steven Segal playing tug-of-war with the animals, with a lion, and fooling around feeding a bottle to a tiger.

His hair looks great. It's just a very bad message, so to speak. I mean, these people look at this and go, oh, yeah, I want to play with a lion. I want to do this with a lion. You know, and then Mr. Macho Steven Seagal, I'm in here with the big cats. I'm fearless. I'm going to do tug of war with the big cat. I'm going to give it a little bottle because I'm the dominant one here. You know, listen, this is a guy who's got a little bit of a complex. He's gained some weights and he's trying to get some relevance in, you know, when I've been done with my career type of mood. I don't think that's the only thing that's in the world. I don't think both of us had to take him out there as gaining weight. I at least filed it under. I did the same thing during the pandemic

and then just put a series of curtains and drapes on myself. I will say, Dan, you are looking very, very fit. I was when you walked in the highlight, I just went, well, what happened to that? He's been working out. Are all of you wearing sweatpants now? Did you guys all break out the sweat pants? Because it's 50 degrees here, and you don't know what fits and you need something a little bit elastic around the waist?

jeans regrettably for me. Yep, jeans for me. Two-snob? Me too. Yeah, at least favorite game. Well, second least favorite game behind does the suit silt fit. Do these jeans silt fit. Let's show Ron another photo here.

Ron, tell me, I'm told that this is one of eight. There are only eight in the world, the white alligator. The white alligator in the world. This is at the Orlando Zoo. It seems like a baby. Does that mean that this was just born? That a white alligator was just born? That hatched out.

It just hatched out. It's a genetic mutation. It's called a leucistic alligator. It's not an albino, because there are more albino alligators. Albino, the eyes would be pink. Okay, Lucistic means that it retains some pigment in the eye, but the rest of the year, the body is white.

And it's just a very rare genetic mutation. And I don't know if there's only eight in the world, but I know there's only a handful. There's certainly not a lot of them. There were some very famous ones that were at the autobahn zoo for a long time. We had one here at Zoo Miami years ago that was kind of on a tour,

you know, a traveling tour to zoos around the country. It looks like white chocolate. They look like they're made out of white chocolate when you look at them. What is the rarest animal you have ever seen in the wild? There was adjacent Williams there for you. Yeah, it's the rarest animal. Window close.

Is it a snow leopard or something else? I've never seen a snow leopard in the wild. It's one of my dreams to see one in the wild. There were herstads, it's gonna sound anti-climatic to you. It's called the Panamanian Golden Frog. They are now believed to be extinct in the wild. I spent days going up and down a hill mountain in Montsoon, Raine trying to find one to photograph,

but I finally found one and I photographed it. It's a beautiful little frog, but it's just a frog. It's not like a snow leopard. Is it your proudest photograph? Do you have a photograph that you waited the longest for that you regard as your greatest feat of persistence? I don't know if I have a greatest photograph of greatest. My favorite photograph of all is there's the Panamanian Golden Pro. Look at that. My favorite, my favorite photograph of all is actually a photograph in the book Pride of Alliance. The photograph when, when Kashifa goes to comfort quasi after a quasi almost got killed by his stepdad. Spoiler alert. That photograph is just, to me, is my favorite photograph of over a million photographs that I've taken.

That photograph when I took it, I remember Bobby the tears. He is an exceptional photographer. How often does that happen? Give me a number, Ron. A number of times you've taken a photograph that brought you to tears. Less than five. Yeah, I mentioned. And he's an exceptional photographer.

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